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** Played straight with Robot Santa. On Robot Santa's first episode ("An X-Mas Story"), John Goodman ([[Hey, It's That Guy!|Dan from]] ''Roseanne'' or Linda Tripp on many a Monica Lewinsky-based political sketch on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'') voiced Robot Santa. The second time Robot Santa appeared ("A Tale of Two Santas"), Goodman wasn't available, so John DiMaggio was cast.
** Also played straight and mixed in with [[What Could Have Been]] with Zapp Brannigan. Originally, Phil Hartman was supposed to voice Zapp Brannigan when ''Futurama'' was in its pre-production phase. When Hartman was murdered by his wife, Billy West was cast instead.
* ''[[The Fairly
** The series did this with Chester and AJ (Chester was originally voiced by [[Malcolm in the Middle|Frankie Muniz]]). This became particularly jarring when they once did an episode about a past episode from Chester and AJ's perspective. And, surprisingly, this was NEVER [[Lampshaded]].
** Timmy himself is also subject to this -- he was voiced by [[Mary Kay Bergman]] in the original shorts, but when Bergman committed suicide in the late 1990s, [[Tara Strong]] took over as his voice in the regular series. She even redubbed his lines in the original shorts when they were shown as episodes of the show. (The original versions can be seen on the DVD releases, though).
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** Kristen Wiig (also from ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'') as Lola Bunny (she was originally voiced by [[Kath Soucie]] in ''[[Space Jam]]'').
* The voices for ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby Doo]]'' have gone through a large roundabout over the years.
** Daphne was the first Scooby-Doo character to be recast. Her original voice actress, Stefanianna Christopherson, left the show before the end of the first season of the original series (17 episodes) to move to New York to get married, and opted not to reprise her role for the second season. The role was recast with Heather North (the then roommate of Nicole Jaffe, the voice of Velma). North continued to voice Daphne in all media until 1998 (with the exception of [[A Pup Named Scooby
** Velma was originally Nicole Jaffe up until the 1976 series, "The Scooby-Doo Show" in which she declined to reprise her role, and the character went to Pat Stevens, who voiced Velma throughout the entire run of that show, as well as in the "Scooby Goes Hollywood" movie, her appearances in "[[Dynomutt Dog Wonder]]", and the first 11 episodes of "The Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show". Velma then had a ''bizarre'' recasting with Marla Frumkin, who gained a very notorious reception among fans because of her very awkward line delivery. Frumkin played Velma in the last four episodes of that series and two cameos throughout the 80s. From 1988 to 1991, Velma was voiced on ''[[A Pup Named Scooby
** Shaggy was Casey Kasem for years until he quit the role in 1998 after refusing to voice the character in a Burger King commercial (Kasem is an avid vegetarian). Billy West briefly voiced Shaggy for Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island before the role was recast again in 1999 with Scott Innes. Kasem returned to voice Shaggy in 2002, and continued to voice him until his retirement in 2009 (though Scott Menville briefly played the character in "Shaggy in Scooby-Doo Get a Clue" when Kasem played Shaggy's uncle). Since then, Matthew Lillard (who played Shaggy in the two live-action theatrical ''Scooby Doo'' movies) has been the voice of Shaggy.
** As for Scooby-Doo himself, he was voiced by the late great Don Messick until his death in 1996. Hadley Kay briefly took over the role for ads, commercials, and his guest appearances on [[Johnny Bravo]] in 1997. Scott Innes then took over the role in 1998, and voiced Scooby in all media until 2002 when Frank Welker was cast. Welker has been the official voice of Scooby ever since.
** To date, the only voice actor to ever play Fred is none other than... Frank Welker!
*** Almost. Carl Stevens played a 10-year-old Fred in [[A Pup Named Scooby
*** Not even Scrappy has been safe from this! His original voice actor, Lennie Weinrib, left the franchise shortly after the original "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show", and was replaced with Don Messick in pretty much all media until the character was written off the franchise. When Scrappy re-appeared in later media such as commercials, and his role as a villain in the live action movie, Scrappy has been voiced by Scott Innes.
* In a cross of this with [[Poor Man's Substitute]], many of the direct-to-video sequels and [[Animated Series]] derived from the Disney feature films have the famous actors being replaced (such as [[Dan Castellaneta]] for [[Robin Williams]] in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''); the one that escaped the most was ''[[Hercules (
** A brief in-series example: At one point, Mozenrath's voice actor Jonathan Brandis was unavailable, so he ended up being voiced by Jeff Bennett for one episode. Brandis returned as Mozenrath's voice in subsequent episodes.
* Played straight, parodied and [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Re Boot]]''. When Bob returns from being lost in the net in Season 3, he has a new look and a new voice actor. In Season 4, a second Bob, supposedly the User's backup, with the original look and voice shows up, and Dot notes he sounds more like the "real" Bob. She nearly marries this Bob, but {{spoiler|of course he was [[The Dragon|Megabyte]] in disguise using his new [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Trojan]] [[Shape Shifter|Horse]] [[Master of Disguise|capabilities]].}}
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* In ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]'' Spinoff ''[[Spinoff Babies|Jungle Cubs]]'', three of the main cast members voices were changed in the third season. In the first two seasons, Bagheera was voiced by Elizabeth Daily; in the third seasons, he was voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, in the first two seasons Hathi was voiced by [[Rob Paulsen]] and in the third season by Stephen Feurst, and Louie was voiced by [[Jason Marsden]] in Seasons 1 and 2 and by [[Cree Summer]] in Season 3. For Bagheera, it was explained that he was going through puberty. There was no explanation for Hathi's and Louie's changes, as Feurst only made him sound goofy, and the change for Louie was especially strange considering Marsden was still voicing Shere Khan.
** Notably, the special "Born to Be Wild" (featuring the characters in their adult forms) uses the cast's ''[[Tale Spin]]'' voice actors (with [[Jim Cummings]] [[Talking to Himself|providing most of the remainder of the cast]]). Tony Jay also voices Shere Khan in '''The Jungle Book 2''.
* Dakota Fanning replaced Daveigh Chase for ''[[Lilo and Stitch]] 2: Stitch Has a Glitch''. This was due to the fact Chase was working on ''[[Lilo
* [[Disney Fairies]]: In ''Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure'' and the following movie, the role of Fawn will be played by Angela Bartys. She was originally voiced by America "[[Ugly Betty]]" Ferrera.
* A rather sad example on the ''[[Justice League]]'' cartoon. When Livewire briefly showed up as part of the Secret Society of Supervillains they replaced her original voice actress, the inimitable [[Tank Girl|Lori Petty]], who is [[Fetish Fuel|basically the auditory equivalent of a long, wet kiss]], with some stand-in who sounded more like she was trying to do Harley Quinn & not quite getting it. Which is probably why they wisely chose not to give her too many lines.
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* In ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'''s second season, Penny's voice changed from [[Cree Summer]] to Holly Berger. Mona Marshall also voiced Penny in the pilot episode "Gadget in Winterland".
* All the voice actors from the original short, with the exception of John DiMaggio, were replaced when ''[[Adventure Time]]'' made the leap to full-fledged series. But the most interesting example is that Finn's voice actor (Zack Shada) was replaced by his younger brother Jeremy, because the elder had hit puberty.
* ''[[Totally Spies!]]''
** Alex was voiced by Katie Leigh for the first 52 episodes and Katie Griffin for the later 87 episodes, the new movie, and her appearances on the Amazing Spiez.
** Jerry went from Jess Harnell to Adrian Truss at the same time Alex's voice was also replaced.
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* Hanna-Barbera's ''[[The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan]]'' initially used Asian-American actors to voice the kids, but when they were hard to understand most of them (with the exceptions of Robert Ito and Brian Tochi) were replaced by WASPs like [[Jodie Foster]] (yes, ''the'' Jodie Foster).
* In one of his very rare excursions into television, [[Tom Cruise]] voiced [[Captain Planet]] initially, but when he was unavailable to do more episodes he was replaced by David Coburn; the episodes done by Cruise have never been shown. Many of the big name cast members whose voices were heard were also eventually dropped, like [[Meg Ryan]] (the original voice of Dr. Blight, replaced by Mary Kay Bergman).
* In ''[[Recess]]'', most of the child characters were done by children, and all of the main six kids (save for Spinelli) were all done by kids. While the boys all kept their voices even after their actors went through puberty (except Gus, whose voice never broke), T.J. had to be replaced ''three'' times, because even after his voice actor went through puberty, the voice didn't work for his character anymore. Ross Malinger played him in the 1996 pilot (re-made into the first episode) and all of Season 1, Andy Lawrence (Joey Lawrence's younger brother) played him from Season 2 until the end of the show, and Myles Jeffery played him in the two direct-to-video movies released two years after the series ended, any further projects (station IDs for [[Disney Channel]]/[[Toon Disney]], etc) as well as the ''[[Lilo
** Also, T.J.'s older sister, Becky, was played by [[Sabrina the Teenage Witch|Melissa Joan Hart]] in the movie. In ''Taking the Fifth Grade'', she's replaced with [[Tara Strong]].
* This happened in ''[[Sabrina the Animated Series]]'' when it became ''Sabrina's Secret Life''. Emily Hart (Melissa Joan Hart (the live-action Sabrina)'s younger sister) played her in the regular series, only to be replaced by [[Baby Looney Tunes|Britt McKillip]] for the spin-off. Nick Bakay was replaced by [[Maurice LaMarche]] as the voice of Salem, and Hilda and Zelda got replaced as well. The only character without a voice switch was Harvey, whose voice actor continued doing his voice, but made his voice a little lower. The changes were due to Bunea Vista and Melissa Joan Hart no longer producing (as well as pre-production companies [[Eek!
* In ''Here Comes Garfield'', the first [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]'', Sandy Kenyon voiced Jon Arbuckle. [[One-Book Author|Thom Huge]], an associate and friend of ''Garfield'' cartoonist Jim Davis, took over the role for all other ''Garfield'' specials and the TV series ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' (where he also voiced [[U.S. Acres|Roy Rooster]] and several other characters). Jon is now voiced by Wally Wingert in the CGI ''Garfield'' films and ''[[The Garfield Show]]''.
** The first VA for Garfield was Scott Beach, done for a cat food commercial. Lorenzo Music voiced him from ''Here Comes Garfield'' through the end of ''Garfield and Friends'', and for subsequent appearances until his 2001 death. [[Frank Welker]] took over for all subsequent animated appearances, and [[Bill Murray]] voiced him in [[The Movie]].
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