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Need a good voice for a [[Jerkass]]? Hire this guy.
 
[[Troy Baker]] is a voice actor from Texas whose forte seems to be playing [[Zero Percent0% Approval Rating|assholes]], be they heroic or villainous. On the other hand, though, he's also good at playing [[Plucky Comic Relief|comedic]] characters, even though some of them [[Obfuscating Stupidity|just might end up being the former when provoked]].
 
Recently he has been doing voiceover work in California and with this change his forte has switched to playing [[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent Bastards]]. If he voices a character like this, expect a character voiced by [[Johnny Yong Bosch]] to oppose him. Also seems to like playing a [[Fake Brit]], generally either the [[Evil Brit]] or [[The Mean Brit]] <ref>Kazkis Proxy and Schneizel have that [[Ambiguously Gay]] [[Evil Brit]] thing going for them; November 11 and Excalibur are actually supposed to be British and have aspects of [[The Mean Brit]].</ref>
 
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=== {{examples|Notable roles from [[Troy Baker]] ===}}
* Terrance Brooke, as well as additional voices, in ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops (Video Game)|Call of Duty Black Ops]]''
* Lt. Col. Frank Archer in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Animeanime)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]''
** {{spoiler|The second Greed}} in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Mangamanga)|Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]''
* Schneizel el Britannia in ''[[Code Geass (Anime)|Code Geass]]''
* Sol Badguy in ''[[Guilty Gear]] 2: Overture''
* Jin Kariya in ''[[Bleach]]''
** He was also Ganryu in [[The Movie]] ''Bleach: Memories of Nobody''.
* Action Bastard in ''[[ShinCrayon ChanShin-chan]]''
* Abel Nightroad in ''[[Trinity Blood]]'' (Who is [[Playing Against Type|the nicest guy in the world]])
* Kouga Gennosuke in [[Basilisk]]
* Yuri Lowell in ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]''
** [[Playing Against Type|Regal Bryant]] in ''[[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]'' (uncredited)
* Kanji Tatsumi in ''[[Persona 4]]''
** Eikichi 'Michel' Mishina in ''[[Persona 2]]''
* November 11 in ''[[Darker Thanthan Black]]''
* Excalibur in ''[[Soul Eater]]''
* [[Playing Against Type|Snow]] [[The Hero|Vill]][[The Idealist|iers]] in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]''
* Zuuma in ''[[Slayers]] Revolution''
* Yun in ''[[Mana -Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy]]''
* Akatsuki Kain in ''[[Vampire Knight]]''
* Van Kleiss and Biowulf in ''[[Generator Rex]]''
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* Yamato and Pain in ''[[Naruto]]''
* Random Army Rangers in ''[[Modern Warfare 2]]''
* [[Badass Bookworm|Jet]][[Defector From Decadence|fire]] in ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron]]'', ''really'' playing against type; he was also Zeta Prime.
* [[Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|Makoto]] [[Shout -Out|Kawazu]] in ''[[Desert Punk]]''
* Mitsunari Ishida in ''[[Sengoku Basara]]: Samurai Heroes''
* Espio the Chameleon in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' (2010-current)
* Vincent Brooks in ''[[Catherine]]''
* Logan Thackeray in ''[[Guild Wars 2]]''
* Two-Face and Robin in ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]''
* Booker DeWitt in ''[[Bio Shock Infinite (Video Game)|Bio ShockBioShock Infinite]]''
* Alec Mason in ''[[Red Faction]]: Guerilla''
* One of the voices for The Boss in ''[[Saints Row]] 3''
* [[The Danza|Appropriately]], as Sgt. Matt Baker in ''[[Brothers in Arms]]''
* Lord Valvatorez in ''[[Disgaea 4: a Promise Unforgotten (Video Game)|Disgaea 4 aA Promise Unforgotten]]'', where he really [[Large Ham|puts those chords to good use.]]
* James in the Xbox 360/PS3 version of ''[[Silent Hill 2]]''
* [[Nova (Comic Book)|Nova]] in ''Ultimate [[Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Video Game)|Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]''
* Zenith in ''[[Star WarstheWars: The Old Republic]]''
* Whirlwind, Clay Quartermain, Grey Gargoyle, Blizzard, Ulik, Faradei, Groot, and Michael Korvac in ''[[The Avengers: EarthsEarth's Mightiest Heroes (Animation)|Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes]]''
* [[Dirty Coward|Kai]] [[Complete Monster|Leng]] in ''[[Mass Effect 3 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 3]]''
* Siris in ''[[Infinity Blade]]''
* Pyrrhon, and Arlon in ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising]]''
* Migrant AC, Zodiac #3 and the second computer voice in ''[[Armored Core (Video Game)|Armored Core]] 5''
* Joel in ''[[The Last of Us]]''
 
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=== Tropes Associated With Troy Baker ===
* [[Adorkable]]
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]
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* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Whenever he plays a villain, expect them to have a deep voice.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Lately with writer/musician Brian Foster Kane.
* [[Large Ham]]: [[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten|Hammy? HAMMY?! I prefer the term sardiny]].
* [[Man of a Thousand Voices]]: As expected from a veteran Funimation voice actor residing in LA.
* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]
* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]
* [[Nice Hat]]
* [[Older Than They Look]]: He's 35, but his appearance would have you believe otherwise.
* [[One of Us]]: A few days after this [[TV Tropes]] page was posted on Troy's official Facebook fanpage, he mentioned at a convention the similarities between Ganryu and Kariya, and his PTSD whenever he sees [[Johnny Yong Bosch]]. Coincidence?
* [[Playing Against Type]]: [[Camp Gay|Shadow]] [[Persona 4|Kanji]]. Actual YouTube comment: "Why, Troy Baker, why?"
** If flamboyance could count as against type, then [[Persona 2|Eikichi]] probably qualifies too.
** His performance as [[The Avengers: EarthsEarth's Mightiest Heroes (Animation)|Michael Korvac]] seems to draw mostly from feelings of paranoia and fear.
** [[Final Fantasy XIII|Snow]] [[Final Fantasy XIII -2|Villiers]] is a famous example.
* [[Promoted Fanboy]]
* [[Self -Deprecation]]
* [[Shout -Out]]: If you meet him at a convention, ask him for one of these. [[Literal -Minded|Dare you.]] [[The Scream|Double dare you.]]
* [[Surreal Humor]]: That, or he's a bona fide [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
 
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