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  • Shozo Iizuka
    • In most series, anime or toku Shozo Iizuka does villain work using a similar tone and voice. Especially apparent in the Space Sheriff Trilogy, where he voices all 3 of the Big Bads, but in Gavan, only for 10 eps before he came down with bronchitis and called in Takeshi Watabe. In Sharivan, voice effects are applied to him whenever Psycho speaks.
  • Asami Imai
    • Will forever be Chihaya Kisaragi, her most popular character. It doesn't help that she has a very distinctive singing voice and did a lot of singing for that part: any time she sings a song, this trope is very likely to come into effect.
      • I suppose she broke away from it. I mean, look at Tsubaki Yayoi...
      • Kurisu Makise is now her role that's competing with Chihaya as Imagine's best known.
  • Jeremy Irons** In National Geographic's The Last Lions, Uncle Scar is telling us a (long, involved and sleepy) bedtime story.[1]
  • Roger L. Jackson
    • The title character in American McGee's Grimm considers cats to be ideal pets, since his voice actor, Roger L. Jackson, previously voiced a feline of the Cheshire variety. Grimm also is a complete and total fanboy for the fairytale figure, GodFather Death...
    • And speaking of American McGee's Grimm, he does every single voice in the game. That guy has an impressive vocal range.
    • Not to mention that he's Mojo Jojo.
      • Oh yes, so that's why when Keldorn Firecam is yelling his righteous yells of justice, it sounded like Mojo Jojo having a Heel Face Turn and goes on hammy justice.
    • And Butch of the Rowdyruff Boys.
    • In the Sam and Max episodic games, if a character has a deep voice, it's Roger L. Jackson. He's voiced Abe Lincoln, Baby Jimmy Hoffa, Satan, Sexy Peepers...
    • What about the movie role that put him on the map: The Killer's phone voice in Scream
  • Tony Jay
    • Happens within the Legacy of Kain series, where the late Tony Jay played at least three different characters (four if you include the demon possessing one of them), using more or less the same voice.
    • Of course Tony Jay has what some would describe as the "perfect" bad guy voice... so you can expect to hear him cast in a generic bad guy role for tons of other videogames and animated shows. Of course, he was ReBoot‍'‍s Megabyte!
    • Nor should we overlook his contribution as the suavely sinister industrialist-financier incarnation of Shere Khan in Tale Spin.
    • Let's not forget Dr. Lipschitz in Rugrats. Cue me imagining the child psychologist singing "Hellfire."
    • As much as she loved Tony Jay in all his roles, his most memorable performance to this troper was in this series of commercials.
      • Taken offline. Tony Jay often credited with the line, "behold the power of cheese," actually spoken by Roscoe Lee Browne. However, he did narrate a couple Mazda commercials, saying "Mazda Six-Two-Six!" like a villain arming his superweapon.
    • Arguably the king of this trope in English-language voice acting.
    • This troper once heard Tony Jay in a radio commercial for Nabob Coffee. BEST. COFFEE COMMERCIAL. EVER.
    • Not forgetting the nefarious Chairface Chippendale
    • "I shall write my name across the face of the moon! GIMME A C!"
    • The narrator of the modernized incarnation of The Bard's Tale.
    • Of the above mentioned examples, two of Tony's characters, namely Chairface Chippendale and the Elder God, were essentially faceless. This made it very, very easy to picture any of his other characters whenever he spoke.
    • This troper has trouble taking that guy seriously after hearing him in Secret Squirrel. He was a much sillier character than usual.
    • "On the clearest of nights, when the winds of the Etherium were calm and peaceful..." Exactly Frollo's voice!
    • He was also the Lamp Seller, the Arch Druid, and Captain Salidin in King's Quest VI Heir Today Gone Tomorrow.
    • He was Anubis on Gargoyles, aka DEATH.
  • James Earl Jones
    • James Earl Jones has an instantly recognizable voice whether he's playing a lion, a Galactic Overlord, or doing the station identification for CNN. Or even an immortal magical rock.
    • For a time, Jones was also the official voice of phone company Verizon (and before the merger, Bell Atlantic), which meant that Darth Vader thanked you for using Verizon every time you made a long-distance call.
    • His Spanish counterpart, Constantino Romero, has been dubbing movies for decades and is instantly recognisable as the voice of the aforementioned James Earl Jones (and Vader), Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood, among dozens of other Hollywood stars.
      • Wow, that would add surrealness to Conan the Barbarian.
      • In that movie Romero only dubbed Thulsa Doom, but he's dubbed Arnie in the three Terminator films.
    • This is referenced in The Simpsons in "Round Springfield". Bleedin' Gums Murphy, dies and later gives a speech to Lisa via a cloud (itself a reference to The Lion King), with the three characters above chiming in at the end.
    • Also played with in Kung Pow with the Mufasa parody.
    • In Stargate SG-1, he gives his voice to one of the bad guys of the first-season episode "Thor's Hammer"... It gets odd when you can't shake the feeling that Col. O'neill and Teal'c are talking to Darth Vader.
  • Mika Kanai
    • It can be very creepy when watching Code Geass when the voice of Kaguya was Satoko "NI-NIIII" Houjou. Turns out Mika Kanai also plays Chikorita and Bayleef and Mimette and Wapiko...
    • She also played Vanilla in Galaxy Angel. Vanilla and Satoko sound very, very similar.
    • This Troper just started watching the Three-Tails Arc in Naruto Shippuuden. I thought at first that Yuukimaru's voice sounded familiar. It was only when he started screaming (in pain from being hooked up to a device designed to use his chakra to summon the Three-Tailed Beast) that he recognized Satoko's voice. 'Cause... come on... everyone screams in pain/fear in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. Is it sad that this troper only recognized Satoko's voice when it was in distress/pain?
  • Casey Kasem
    • The voice of America's Top (whatever) Countdown, Casey Kasem, also gave voice to:
    • Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers in the Scooby Doo franchise
    • Flakey Fakem in an episode of Tiny Toon Adventures
    • Cliffjumper in the Transformers cartoon
    • Robin (Dick Grayson) in all incarnations of Superfriends cartoons.
      • This is the character he's voiced the second longest after Shaggy. And it's his own natural voice. When this troper first heard America's Top 40, he wondered, "What's Robin doing on the radio?"
    • Meriadoc Brandybuck in the animated Return of the King.
    • Mark in Battle of the Planets aka G-Force.
    • Alexander Cabot III in Josie and the Pussy Cats.
    • A handful of characters in one episode of The Batman/Superman Hour (but not Robin this time).
    • An announcer at the Rugrats in Paris movie.
    • The bumpers for NBC's Saturday morning shows in the 1985-86 season.
  • David Kaufman
    • This troper watched Freakazoid! for the first time since she was a youngster, and the minute Dexter Douglas first spoke, she thought "Danny Phantom?!" Apparently, David Kaufman must like voicing losers who turn into superheroes.
    • Don't forget Jimmy Olson from Superman the Animated Series.
    • This troper, in addition to hearing Danny in Freakazoid!, also can't help but hear him instead of Aldrin or Kaufman's narration during several commercials. Perhaps Danny's overshadowed all these people.
    • It had a reverse effect on this troper- He heard Danny and thought "Marty?!"
  • Brandon Keener
    • Go look up any clips of Keener's live-action roles on YouTube (He's Just Not That Into You, Raising the Bar, and commercials for Geico and Budweiser, for one) and you'll be hard-pressed to find a comment made within the last 5 months that doesn't have anything to do with Garrus Vakarian. Just try.
    • Or for that matter the 'Causeway' mini-campaign in Company of Heroes. Hey, I didn't know Garrus fought in World War Two! And, appropriately enough, in the 'Normandy' campaign!
    • He also had a two-minute scene in The Pacific as a West Point graduate who missed the war. It was a particularly memorable scene too.
  • Garrison Keiller
    • Garrison Keillor of A Prairie Home Companion is instantly recognizable whenever he steps into another voiceover role, such as his ads for Honda UK.
  • Tom Kenny
    • From Transformers Animated. Tom Kenny generally has a very wide range, but it's still somewhat noticeable when he voices Starscream that it's also SpongeBob SquarePants due to them both being high-pitched and grating. Oddly enough, it works... probably since the original Starscream's voice (Mr. Latta, noted below) was also high-pitched and grating.
    • While he sounds a bit like Spongebob he sounds a lot like the Penguin in The Batman.
      • Speaking of Transformers and Kenny, Wheelie in Revenge of the Fallen definitively sounds like a modified SpongeBob.
    • A particularly specific example: In an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob, voiced by Tom Kenny, becomes "normalized", and affects a new "normal" voice; one nearly identical to the voice used by Tom Kenny for one-shot character Adlai Atkins on Futurama, who also has a penchant for normalcy.
    • This "50's narrator-ish" voice was also used as many of the automated machines in Idiocracy.
    • In the prom episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, Heffer says, "Go wreck someone else's prom!"
    • Can you believe that the person who voices Spongebob is the same one who voices Hal Gibson?
      • Can you believe that the person who voices Spongebob and Patchy the Pirate are THE SAME PERSON?
    • On the other hand, the voice he used for Spongebob is almost exactly the same as the one he used for Carl in Johnny Bravo.
    • What no Powerpuff Girls mention? Tom Kenny voices the Mayor and the Narrator.
    • Why wouldn't he be versatile? Plastic Man can expand!
    • How can Dog be versatile when he's joined to his brother?
    • He appears to use an identical voice for SpongeBob's dad and Wally from Mission Hill. If you've seen the show, you'll know that some of the things Wally's said would be both creepy and hilarious coming from SpongeBob's old man.
    • Rabbit in the new Pooh movie. This is either going to be really good, or really bad.
  • Daniel Dae Kim
    • Jin from Lost puts his DHARMA security guard training to good use on the streets of Stilwater as Saints lieutenant Johnny Gat.
  • Eartha Kitt
    • We would like to take a moment of silence to honor the loss of Eartha Kitt aka Yzma, Catwoman and Vexus. RIP.
  • Katsuyuki Konishi
    • When I first heard Wataru Kurozuma open his mouth, I half-expected him to break into a Kamina speech. Their voices are absolutely identical.
    • Ever heard Altair speak in Japanese? Hell YES he's voiced by Kamina in the dub!
  • Yuka Komatsu
    • Can you believe that in the Japanese dub of Avatar, Neytiri sounds just like Cure Passion? That's because they're both voiced by Yuka Komatsu. If you don't believe me, check this commercial (it's at 00:42).
  • Natsuko Kuwatani
    • This Troper immediately recognized Yue's voice in Mahou Sensei Negima, but couldn't remember from where. Looking it up, it turns out she's also Suiseiseki, although they don't sound too much alike. Listening to Yue's first line again, it's clear: it ends in "desu".
    • Even more obvious in Haruhi-chan; Achakura using an umbrella to open a door is a reference to Rozen Maiden.
  • Maurice LaMarche
    • Best known for being The Brain, 89% of Maurice LaMarche's voice work sounds like he's doing an impression of Orson Welles (whom he's DIRECTLY impersonated at least four times), so it's very distinctive whenever it's heard.
    • This also means that Father is voiced by the Brain?
    • Note that he is almost completely unrecognizable as The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight, but quite recognizable as Morbo and Kif Kroker on Futurama, among many others.
    • He is also the narrator in Pom Poko
    • Also did a really good job of capturing Harold Ramis' quirky mannerisms in the role of Dr. Egon Spengler in The Real Ghostbusters
    • Very recognizable in Guild Wars, but it helps that Vekk is a little guy whose entire species likes to talk about how much smarter than you they are.
  • Campbell Lane
    • First Hybrid and Bentusi, anyone? Campbell Lane really has ominous voice.
    • Considering that the two characters are essentially the same concept, extra points to the BSG writers for being such nerds.
    • Lane is also the narrator in the English dubbed version of Gundam Wing.
  • Lex Lang
    • After watching Fist of the North Star (dubbed) I heard Kenshiro and after I had to think for a while, I finally remember where I've heard that before: Goemon.
    • Speaking of the FOTNS dub, listen to Shin's voice, even for a little while. This troper was half expecting Shin to summon Manda and sic him on Ken before declaring "Bang!". And who voices him? Only a certain Steven Jay Blum.
    • Meanwhile, in ancient China, he is both an eloquent if monotone strategist and a grammar-deficient masked hooligan.
  • Denis Leary
    • It came as a surprise to learn that the smooth-talking sabre from Ice Age is the same as the temperamental Francis "Just-because-I'm-a-ladybug-automatically-makes-me-a-girl?" Ladybug from A Bugs Life.
  • Christopher Lee
    • Christopher Lee; Dracula, Saruman, Count Dooku... Ansem the Wise? Suprisingly not evil in Kingdom Hearts, though chillingly immoral to the point where there's more than a little fan speculation that DiZ is a Nobody himself....
    • One rather weird example of voice recognition will occur if you ever watch the German dub of The Last Unicorn. That King Haggard sure sounds familiar...because it's actually Christopher Lee doing the dubbing. And may I add, he's pretty damn good at it.
    • Hardly surprising—Lee speaks German, French, Spanish, and Italian fluently, and has some facility with even more languages.
      • Including the dark tongue of Mordor.
    • Death. 'Nuff said.
    • And in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, he gives an appropriately sinister voice to the Jabberwock!
  • Peggy Lee
    • Peggy Lee, also a popular singer, played a major part in the making of Lady and the Tramp. She was given three, er, four roles, too: the Siamese Cats, Mrs. Darling, and Peg.
  • Andrea Libman
    • Listen to a song from the second season of The New Adventures of Madeline where the titular character sings (this troper recommends A Crown Of Gold from Madeline and the Lost Crown). Now listen to G4 Fluttershy singing in The Cutie Mark Chronicles with your eyes closed. If you have a visual image of Madeline being lifted by a flock of butterflies, congratulations! You have realized that Madeline is Fluttershy!
      • In a TalkingToHerself moment, she is also 4G Pinkie Pie, but Pinkie Pie has Shannon Kent-Chan (A fellow Madeline alumni) as her singing voice.
    • Also, Lemon Meringue is Harmony Bear and Emmy!
    • And on another note, Fluttershy becomes even more Badass, when you consider she provided the voice of X-23.
    • And on another note, there's ReBoot's young AndrAIa.
  • John Patrick Lowrie
    • If you've played Half-Life 2 you know him as the voice of most of the male citizens: "Hey, it's Freeman! Let's follow him!" He's also John Slater in Left 4 Dead, the Sniper in Team Fortress 2, and Bruno Lawrie in the No One Lives Forever series. He also shows up in several roles in the two Suffering games; he's unmistakable as the first CO Torque meets after his escape. More surprisingly, in the first Suffering he's also the ghostly executioner Hermes and the perpetually stoned Russian prison guard Sergei.
  • Seth MacFarlane
    • Causes a lot of this on Family Guy, where in addition to his long list of major and recurring characters (below), he plays literally hundreds of one line wonders and bit parts.
    • Good luck trying not to think of American Dad whenever Johann Krauss speaks in Hellboy II.
    • Sorry, all this troper hears is Dick Rogers from Crank Yankers and Emperor Palpatine.
    • He does Peter, Stewie, Quagmire, Carter, Tom Tucker, Jake Tucker, Dr. Hartman, Seamus, and Brian on Family Guy and Stan and Roger the Alien on American Dad. The guy has a surprising voice range.
    • Although the voice of Brian is pretty much MacFarlane's normal voice.
    • Also causes a lot of Hey It's that Singing Voice, because besides singing as all the above characters, he's heard on the sound track of his own shows and sometimes others.


  • Julie Maddalena
    • A bizarre coincidence, or Actor Allusion? Julie Maddalena is the English voice of Sakuya Kumashiro and Myu. If you've seen both series, you'll know the connection.
    • She's also the Tachikomas!
    • She was also a frog for some time. They've since replaced the voice actor for the series (along with giving the series an Art Shift), but this troper will always remember her as a smart and sweet frog.
    • This troper knows her best as Dita Liebely, the future Mrs. Alien.
    • Not to mention Hikaru Shidou.
  • Mitsuako Madono
    • This Troper found it amusing that while Issei sounds nothing like Kon, Mitsuaki Madono does use practically the same voice for Kon's Image Song.
      • He also sounds exactly the same for Papillon. Characters could not be more different.
    • Strangely enough, I was surprised when I found out that Mitsuaki Madono played Prince Toma in the second Ranma ½ movie, and it was even stranger that when I found out Allesandro Juliani (Prince Toma's dub VA) played L in Death Note
  • Dave Mallow
    • The Anti-Spiral King from Gurren Lagann is a nihilistic Angemon or (more appropriately) an all-powerful Amarao. Weird. What's weirder... is that two of them are both produced by GAINAX!
    • Sounds more like MagnaAngemon with the reverb. Gate of Destiny!
      • Ever want to hear Amarao talk with a mouth full of toothpaste? Just look at Kensei!
  • Jason Marsden
  • Mona Marshall
    • Mona Marshall is instantly recognisable whenever she is cast in the role of a little boy, which is often.
    • This troper was so familiar with Marshall as Toboe in Wolf's Rain that he found it incongruous when she replaced Petrea Burchard as the voice of Ryoko in Tenchi Muyo!. He can't help thinking she sounds like Toboe doing a fair-to-middling impression of Ryoko.
    • That may have happened because Ryoko's JP actress has done cute little boy roles. Genis of Tales of Symphonia, for example.
    • Koushiro 'Izzy' Izumi and Ken Amada.
    • Hell, go watch Last Exile. The two creepy albino Guild guys are voiced by Tai and Izzy. It's quite unnerving.
    • Hell, Izzy and King Drasil! Jeff Nimoy claims this comparison was on purpose. Like Ichigo/Lelouch.
    • Feldrance of Mahoromatic is voiced by Mona Marshall, which is why he sounds like Izzy Izumi.
    • Also in the Pigeonholing, Ascot from Magic Knight Rayearth.
    • Out of mold, but the same voice was also Nataku
    • A perfect androgynous voice I might add, for a genderless character.
    • She used her exact same Izzy/Toboe voice for the moose kid in the pilot for the aborted The Get Along Gang CGI Revival.
    • Dude. She's the Brave fencer, Musashi!
    • As mentioned above, her role as cute little boy Seere in Drakengard is instantly recognizable, but perhaps not so obvious—and considerably more brain-breaking—is the fact that she also provides the voice of Angelus, the huge, snarky red dragon in the same game.
    • This troper first got weirded out by recognising a voice from her past in Shu and recognised the aforementioned Izzy Izumi. About a month later she started Naruto and recognised Marshall as Inari (the little kid with the hat in the Wave Country, anyone? Aka Gilligan) and Young Haku.
  • Vincent Martella
    • Those with sharp ears will reconize the English voice of Final Fantasy XIII's Hope as the voice of Phineas and Ferb.
      • Forcing one scene in FFXII to hit harder for the Phineas and Ferb fans.

Hope (in Phineas' voice): Mommy? Mommy! His mother's dead. He's seeing an illusion. And he uses a more mature tone normally so...

  • Charles Martinet
    • The Homunculus in Shadow of Destiny is voiced by Charles Martinet, who is better known as the voice of Mario. These may be the two least similar characters in the history of video games.
    • He also did all the voices in Super Punch-Out!! including all the opponents, the referee (ironically) and the blond Little Mac.
  • Rick May
  • Anndi McAfee
    • This troper recently learned that Cera is Monica of Dark Cloud 2/Dark Chronicle.
  • David McCallum
    • When Doctor Paradox was telling his story in a recent Ben 10 Alien Force episode, it finally clicked for me..."Ducky?"
      • This troper just watched an episode of Alien Force today and, being a fan of NCIS, was shocked to discover what the above troper found out. There was no way of mistaking David McCallum's voice for any other.
  • Kevin McDonald
  • Julia McIlvaine
    • While not a profilific voice actress, this troper was watching MAD for the first time, and was thinking...June!?
  • Patrick McKenna
    • The more you listen to Nestor, the more he sounds like Harold. This is particularly evident when either character yells. Patrick's Two-Legs Joe voice, on the other hand, is much deeper.
  • Scott McNeil
    • In Transformers Armada and Transformers Energon, Jetfire sounds a heck of a lot like Duo Maxwell, who himself sounds suspiciously like Proto Man. The odd thing about this is that their shared voice actor, Scott McNeil, normally avoids this effect completely (see Beast Wars, where he voiced Rattrap, Waspinator, both versions of Dinobot, and Silverbolt!).
    • This troper was a fan of Beast Wars and X-Men: Evolution back when they were new. It took him several trips to The Other Wiki to learn that Badass Dinobot and Badass Wolverine are one and the same guy.
    • Still, he does seem to have a few favorite voices. In particular, if he's voicing a reptilian character, he will likely sound exactly like Dinobot. And Koga the feral wolfy guy sounded just like Evolution's Wolverine the feral wolfy guy.
    • Snarling, psychotic Lord Bale loses some of his menace when you learn he has the same voice actor as Funshine Bear.
    • How has Lord Raptor not been mentioned yet?!
    • This troper once saw part of the So Bad It's Good Street Fighter cartoon, and literally said "Rattrap, is that you?" once Ken opened his mouth.
    • And don't forget Piccolo of Dragonball Z.
    • The titular Sealed Evil in a Can in Ys: The Ark of Napishtim.
  • Scott Menville
    • Scott Menville did the voice of the main character in Dark Cloud 2.
    • He also did the voice of the main character in Tales of Symphonia.
    • THIS troper noticed on his second playthrough of Tales of Symphonia that Scott Menville also voiced one of the villagers of Isalia in one of the cutscenes. The irony? This particular villager was among the group of villagers blaming Lloyd for the attack on the village. He was essentially advocating his own exile!
    • This troper however had the horrible fortune to first hear him as Kevin French in Mission Hill. It took a long, long time to untrain that reference.
    • He also played Yaibal in FFX-2.
    • The only time this troper has heard him voice a character with anything other than the distinctive Robin voice is when he did Ma-Ti's horrendous accent in Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
    • Genome Soldier 2. A low point. Or not, if you enjoy beating, shooting and snapping the neck of Robin as often as you want.
    • An episode of Scrubs had J.D. be followed around by an imaginary guy in a rabbit costume. And when that rabbit speaks, guess who's voice comes out? Robin/Ma-Ti/Lloyd!
      • Again using his Kevin French voice.
    • He played the actor playing Sokka in "The Ember Island Players", with a voice almost identical to the one he uses for Kevin French from Mission Hill
    • This Troper knew all along that it had to be Red Herring!.
    • He plays Egon Stetmann in StarCraft II using his Max voice. It is really apparent when he says "Just fascinating!".
    • He also played King in the Wild Cards episode of the Justice League. Given that this is in the same universe as the Teen Titans it was awkward to hear Robins voice coming out of a villain.
    • On top of that he did extra voices in a ton of video games including FFXII in which he gave one bystander the voice of Robin.
  • Don Messick
    • Voice actor Don Messick (RIP) was in dozens of Hanna-Barbera cartoons, most notably as Ranger Smith and Boo Boo in Yogi Bear and as Dr. Benton Quest and Bandit in Jonny Quest. If you were very young and watched both shows, you started expecting Race Bannon to show up in Jellystone Park with a picnic basket.
    • If this troper remembers correctly, Don also voiced Hamton in Tiny Toon Adventures.
    • And Scooby Doo!
    • And Papa Smurf.
  • Vic Mignogna
    • A minor role in Bleach for Vic Mignogna was a screaming character in the 11th squad (Ikkaku Madarame). The voice was the same as the voice used for the main character in Fullmetal Alchemist, and therefore a bit confusing to this troper.
    • This troper, a fan of Vic, has learned to pick out his voice in the most minor of roles, including a Professor in Dirty Pair and as random goons in Noir.
    • This troper was flabbergasted when watching the first episode of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle and could only wonder why Edward Elric in a quiet mood was voicing Fay D. Fluorite.
    • There is an exception where it's almost not recognizable at all: Broly. Unfortunately, Vic has made it clear at various cons that he loses his voice for a while afterwards and so doesn't like doing him (considering that the games aren't stopping...yeah.).
    • This Troper was shamed that he could not tell that he voiced Junpei of Persona 3 fame. However he could tells very quickly that he voiced Kurz Webber of Full Metal Panic! fame.
    • Did we mention we can add Tamaki to that list? That was the sound of a thousand fangirls doing a group Squee, especially since the same person that was Winry plays Haruhi.
    • How can you forget Antoinette?! He played a DOG.
    • This Troper can't believe nobody added Kensei Ma or Dark yet.
    • Neal Givens has a, shall we say, strange Scottish accent, but you'll know it's Vic when you hear him barking orders at the crew of the Zelana.
    • He also voices One-Scene Wonder Femio from Princess Tutu, which is downright hillarious. It's made all the more awesome when you realize how similar he is to Tamaki.
    • And he had a small part opposite Roy Mustang in Mushishi.
    • Recently cast as Spirit Albarn for the English dub of Soul Eater.
    • Here's a voice that nearly killed this troper due to laughter: Lacerta Misty in the English dub of Saint Seiya. I have never heard Vic Mignogna pull a voice like that ever in my life, but I guessed it due to too much watching of Fullmetal Alchemist! It's the laugh.
    • He's also Bui in Yu Yu Hakusho, in which his voice is much deeper than expected and rather nice.
      • And Uraurashima from the same show, which sounds a bit more typically "him."
    • He's also the main character, Mao, in Disgaea 3.
    • This troper has trouble finding an anime that he ISN'T in, courtesy of countless small roles in Tactics, Moeyo Ken, Kaze No Stigma, Mushishi, Darker Than Black, Spiral, Orphen, Pumpkin Scissors, D.Gray-Man... the list goes on and on. Every time this troper tries a new series, there he is.
    • Very soon, he's going to be voicing Zero from Vampire Knight
    • He's the newest voice for Omega from Sonic the Hedgehog.
    • Let's not forget a very interesting turn as Kensei of Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple.
    • He's played a pair of Mitsuhide Akechis, one good, one... not so much.
  • Lara Jill Miller
    • Lara Jill Miller has had a bit of an illustrious voice acting career, immediately recognizable as the English dub voice Kari Kamiya from the Digimon Adventure series, the teacher in Digimon Tamers, one of the Tachikomas in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Scheris Adjani from the anime S-Cry-ed, and as the eponymous Juniper Lee. Each character having essentially the same voice.
    • Gaara's student Matsuri is played by her, and sound a lot like Kari.
    • Same with Misao Kusakabe in the Lucky Star dub.
    • She's also Clifford the Big Red Dog, when he's a puppy. I started laughing when I first heard that fact.
  • Shirley Millner
    • Though she's appeared in relatively few shows compared to some other VA's on this page, her distinctive syrupy, nasal voice is instantly recognizable to fans, no matter who she plays. She has had roles in shows such as Dragon Tales and Silverwing, but this troper shall forever remember her as Hexadecimal from ReBoot.
    • Same, here. Anytime this troper watches any of her other roles, all she can think is, "AHHHHHH, HEXADECIMAL!!!".
  • Junko Minagawa
  • Kotono Mitsuishi
    • Excel's Japanese voice actress in Excel Saga also did the voice of the title character in Sailor Moon. This troper has been reassured that both characters have roughly the same personality.
    • Lampshaded in the English dub, during a Sailor Moon parody, where Excel claims "No fair! I wanted that part, but it was dubbed in Canada!"
    • Even more fun is the gag at the end of one episode where Hyatt, for whatever reason, starts saying lines from Omi Minami's past roles (Monica Rial's in the dub). Excel realizes this, of course. "Hey Hatchan... wrong character!"
    • One that goes against almost every other character she's done, and astonished it's not mentioned--Katsuragi Misato Hearing Usagi's voice in hers is... yikes.
  • Mamoru Miyano
    • This Death Note fan had a hard time thinking about anything else whenever Tamaki spoke in Ouran High School Host Club.
    • This troper had the opposite problem as the original poster; he could not stop hearing Tamaki in Light and that made it so much harder to take Death Note seriously.
    • Watch the cutscenes from Kingdom Hearts in Japanese, then. ... Or don't. Comparing Light and Riku kind of hurts my brain.
    • And This Troper found it extremely difficult to avoid seeing Light behind both LA from El Cazador de la Bruja and Setsuna from Gundam 00. What with being a psycho and a Well-Intentioned Extremist, respectively...
    • Unfortunately, this troper gets the same feel even when listening to Chaoji in D.Gray-man, although he is neither as smart as Light, nor as handsome as Light or Tamaki.
    • Also noticeable is the fact that Mamoru does the voice of Death the Kid in Soul Eater and does a fairly good job of changing from deathly serious son of the grim reaper to wacky symmetry obsessive at break neck speeds.
    • He's also the Japanese-dubbed voice of Nite Owl II.
    • Recently, he's started voicing Ling Yao in Fullmetal Alchemist:Brotherhood.
    • And even more recently, Dento in the latest season of Pokémon, which... at least, isn't too far from his roles as Tamaki or Kida Masaomi in Durarara!!.
  • Nana Mizuki
    • Speaking of Nanoha-related connections, this troper thinks the similarities between Hoshina Utau and Fate Testarossa are...a lot. Same VA? Check. Uses a lot of black clothing? Check. Blonde hair? Check. Twintails? Check! Wait, is this a Shout-Out?
      • It doesn't help that she is an Idol Singer and she sings Mizuki Nana's song. While Fate may not, every opening songs of the Nanoha series is sung by this very woman. Likewise, Yukari Tamura, Nanoha's seiyuu, sings every ending songs of this series.
    • So Cure Blossom's voice is done by the same gal as Princess Kraehe's even if they are complete opposites? Wow.
  • Yuko Mizutani
    • I found myself watching Kashimashi, and I couldn't help but to suddenly like clumsy teacher Namiko Tsuki. Then I said: "Wait a minute!", I did a quick search on The Other Wiki to found something I should have noticed earlier: She's Excellen Browning!! (voiced by Yuko Mizutani) That's not so obvious with other of her characters, like Ill Girl Miyuki Aiba, but Namiko is so Excellen-like, down to the goofy voice and noisy persona.
  • Dominic Monaghan
    • This Troper burst out laughing when she realized that Merry from The Lord of the Rings also did the voice for Glenn/Glenda in Seed Of Chucky.
    • Hell WORMTONGUE of all people voiced Chucky!!
      • Hate to rain on your parade, but it was Billy Boyd, Pippin from Lord Of The Rings who voiced Glenn/Glenda in Seed Of Chucky.
  • Ricardo Montalban
    • And now a moment of silence for Ricardo Montalban, aka Gutierrez and Señor Senior, Sr. RIP.
    • A very brave cow in Family Guy.
    • I scared the crap out of my little sister while she was watching Kim Possible by yelling KHAAAAAAAN! at the screen when I heard Señor Senior, Sr. speak.
  • Masakazu Morita
    • This troper has fell out of her chair when she was listening to Beck and she heard Kurosaki Ichigo talking. The voices were so identical that she was really wondering why she hadn't notice before. Masaru Hyoudou is a side-character so by the time she realised his voice, he was already out of the picture...
  • Kirby Morrow
    • While watching Barbie and the Nutcracker with my little sister, I immediately recognized the Nutcracker Prince's voice as the guy who did Miroku on the English dub of Inuyasha! It's even more awesome when you realize that Barbie happens to be Sango from the same show!
    • He's also Cyclops in X-Men: Evolution.
    • Rad in Transformers Armada and Energon, and The Other Darrin for Hot Shot in Cybertron.
    • What would happen if Miroku got his hands on a Death Note? DELETE! DELETE! DELETE!!
  • Kate Mulgrew
  • Brian Doyle-Murray
    • Brian Doyle-Murray. You know, the flying dutchman? You'll know him when you hear him.
    • Hell, any character played by Brian Doyle-Murray.
    • I swear, everytime that granddad in The Goode Family speaks, I can't help but think of Captain K'Nuckles.
    • Mayor Jock Mulligan in Ghostbusters: The Video Game.
  • Lorenzo Music
    • As a child, this troper liked Adventures of the Gummi Bears. Later in life, the wonders of cable television syndication introduced her to Garfield and Friends. She then started to watch another cartoon which had previously failed to interest her, The Real Ghostbusters, due to accidentally hearing a few seconds of dialogue from Peter. A few years later, she found Gummi Bears on the air again, and tuned in for nostalgia's sake. "Gee, it's been so long," mused the tropette. "I don't even remember which was my favorite gummi bear..." A few seconds later, Tummi opens his mouth and: "Oh. It must have been that one." In conclusion, Lorenzo Music.
    • Speaking of which, Music also did the voice of Peter Venkman on The Real Ghostbusters, which surprised This Troper when he first heard Garfield speak. He also thought it a nice touch when, after Music's passing Bill Murray (who of course was Venkman in the movies) voiced Garfield for his movie.
    • To Tropers of a certain age Lorenzo Music will always be Carlton The Doorman from Rhoda, which was his first VO part.
    • Mr. Music (heh) also provided the voice for Sgt Dunder, in the Disney cartoon Tale Spin.
  • Mai Nakahara
    • Saki's big sister sounds awfully familiar in those flashbacks of hers... wait a minute, Teana? Is that you?
    • When not affected by Hinamizawa Syndrome and when not taking things/Rika home, Rena Ryuugu sounds exactly like |Nagisa Furukawa. This troper is now kept awake at night because she always imagines Rena taking the Big Dango Family home, or conversely, Nagisa having one too many bad days and suddenly screaming "USO DA!"
  • Yuichi Nakamura
    • This editor's fiancee has a massive fangirl crush on Tsukiyomi Ikuto. This editor knows his voice actor best as being Graham Acre. The looks he gets from his fiancee when he refers to Ikuto as Tsukiyomi HOWWAAAARRRD MAAASOOOOON Ikuto are increasingly hilarious.
    • Kafuka and Fuko DO technically share eccentric traits. Well, it took this troper to realize until certain episodes involving baseball and random Ho Yay jokes in Clannad that Tomoya (the male lead) is Tayaka Abe from Ookiku Furikabutte. Although not to the point of practically having Expy qualities, the two characters share the same sarcasm and wittiness traits as well. Does Yuichi Nakamura ever change his voice?
    • What about someone as Hot-Blooded as Graham "TODAY I SURPASS THE ASHURA!!!" Aker?
    • Try someone as EVIL as Terumi Yuuki, easily summable with "Give Graham more HAMS and evil." "THIS WORLD IS NOTHING BUT LIES!! LET ME SHOW YOU JUST ONE TRUTH, ONE TRUTH THAT IS 'I AM A GIGANTIC HAM!!'"
  • Leonard Nimoy
    • In the fourth installment of the Civilization series, a quote is read to you whenever you have finished researching a technology... by Mr. Spock.
      • That isn't his first time doing voices in video games though. Remember Seaman for the Sega Dreamcast? Yep, he was the strange fish AND the narrator.
    • Spock and Galvatron have more than resurrection in common. They're both voiced by Leonard Nimoy. Possibly the most diametrically opposed characters ever played by the same guy.
    • And while watching Atlantis: The Lost Empire, one can't help but notice the King of Atlantis sounds an awful lot like Spock...
    • It seems that a character in the upcoming American release of Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep will be voiced by none other than Mr. Spock, yes THAT Mr. Spock
    • As soon as Sentinel Prime speaks, one can't help but think "Crap, it'sMaster Xehanort!" This, and Wheelie seeing the Star Trek episode "where Spock goes nuts", foreshadows Sentinel's Face Heel Turn.
  • Ai Nonaka
    • When this troper first started watching Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei, he almost immediately thought "Holy crap, it's |Fuko!"
    • She also plays Sageusa Miko. This troper was like "So when is she gonna start calling Yurie Pink Supervisor?"
    • It took this troper less than three seconds after hearing Kafuka start talking to think "Konoka-chan!". The fact that Setsuna is in this show too makes it moreso.

Also, since Skyrim was the only major release of 2011 without Nolan North in it, you should consider this mod a patch to fix that problem. You can now feel free to include Skyrim in the "Nolan North" section of your video game library, which is to say, your video game library.

  • Liam O'Brien
    • While it's quite obvious that Liam O'Brien plays a very good Dist the Runny, Lezard in Silmeria, and Cumore, all characters who have that rather demented and arrogant sounds to them, you can also hear that he's Captain Utitake and that he doesn't always make his characters sound rather...demented.
    • For the single line that Red XIII speaks, its' him.
    • ...You mean that Lezard Valeth and Dist the Runny, all insane geniuses, is actually of all people, GAARA?!?!?!?!
    • ...And Akihiko?! (Well you shoulda guessed because several of his other roles are white-haired men.)
      • He's also Levin. The two roles are a little alike: he's a fistfighting tank who battles for his sister. Except for the bit where that was all a lie, and Akihiko isn't somewhere on the wrong side of the Moral Event Horizon. Perhaps I should have mentioned that he also plays Raksha?
    • As well as being Vincent Law and Kain Highwind. It's no wonder Kain constantly feels like he's doing an emo monologue.
    • He is also Kenzo Tenma in the English dub of Monster. This Troper did a double take when she realized that Tenma is voiced by the same person who did Lloyd Asplund.
    • It's quite odd hearing an effeminate scientist, Lloyd Asplund as the evil pope, Sanctus in Devil May Cry 4.
    • And now apparently Archer has been reborn as a Ghost.
    • And before that, he was Tokugawa Ieyasu, in the most GAR form available.
    • He's Spanish fighter Miguel Caballero Rojo in Tekken 6.
    • Don't forget Caius Ballad.
  • Megumi Ogata
    • Because it resulted in an I Knew It!, Megumi Ogata. Known for playing boys (Kurama, Yukito, Shinji) or tomboyish girls (Haruka), she also played the art thief Clayman in GetBackers. Having already recognized her distinctive husky voice, the second Ban mentions that nobody knows anything about Clayman, including the thief's gender, this troper thought "I see you!! You're going to be a girl for the twist!"
    • This troper will like to challenge the above troper to listen to Ogata in Samurai Deeper Kyo, and try to determine the two characters she voices. Yukimura Sanada is the easy one; try picking out Kosuke Anayama without the visual cue.
    • Shinji Ikari IS Ring Mao. And they meet. Repeatedly. With Ring piloting a machine that's called the "Berserker".
    • This troper not only picked out Ogata as Masaya in Tokyo Mew Mew, but also eagerly awaited Masaya to at some point be given the opportunity to go into full Engrish mode. The series did not disappoint.
    • The only reason Toei's Yu-Gi-Oh! anime is watchable is because hearing Yami Yugi talk like Sailor Uranus is undoubtedly awesome.
    • Exception! Emeraude and Maya Kitajima, anyone?
  • Ikue Ohtani
    • This troper's anime illiterate boyfriend was able to quickly recognize Chopper's voice from One Piece as that of Pikachu.
    • It's also kind of hard to listen to Gash Bell without thinking "Pika pika unu!"
    • Pororin Pyurarin Hanahana Pi! Amusingly, Hana-chan has a habit of donning Blush Stickers when at her damn cutest.
    • Let's not forget Mitsuhiko of the Detective Boys!
      • I keep expecting all of these characters to break out in a spontaneous case of Ike Ike Go Go JUMP, when they're not being halfway purified by Eternal Sailor Moon...
    • I'll raise you Dot Warner for that!
  • Olivia Olson
    • She plays both Vanessa Doofenshmirtz on Phineas and Ferb and Marceline the Vampire Queen on Adventure Time. What's frightening is the similarities between both characters. They both have more than human powers (Vanessa has martial arts skills, Marceline's a vampire who can transform into an Eldritch Abomination / One-Winged Angel), daddy issues, a penchant for the goth culture and an incredible singing voice reserved for the best songs on both programs.
  • Gary Owens
    • Gary Owens is the narrator of Space Quest 6. However, once you realise that he also provided the voice of one Roger Ramjet, you'll never hear it the same way again.
    • Not to mention the original (pre Coast to Coast) Space Ghost.
    • As well as Powdered Toast Man on The Ren and Stimpy Show.
    • He also played the announcer in Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. "And Morgul as the friendly Drelb!"
  • Frank Oz
    • Watch The Muppet Show, and then watch The Empire Strikes Back. Frank Oz voices Yoda in a very similar manner to the way he voices Fozzie Bear (and Bert). Wakka Wakka Wakka!
    • And Grover. Not so close to Miss Piggy, though.
    • It is (perhaps appropriately) a bit of a shock when one realizes that Mr. Collins from the American embassy in An American Werewolf in London sounds exactly like Bert.
    • Back on The Muppets, Oz also plays Sam the Eagle and Animal.
  • Ethan Phillips
    • One of the colonists on Dantooine is Neelix. And not a douche.
    • He also played some mercenary on Manaan in the first game. But he was a douche.
  • David Hyde Pierce
    • Niles Crane as Abe Sapien in the first Hellboy. Doug Jones got to do his own voice in the second, though.
      • Because David Hyde Pierce was blown away by Doug Jones' physical performance, what with it being fucking incredible. Pierce refused to take credit for the VO work in the first movie and insisted Jones get full credit.
  • Tara Platt
    • Gives a wonderful performance as Mitsuru Kirijo and Elizabeth in Persona 3.
    • Hmmm... Where have I heard Claves's voice before...
    • Ugh, they changed Raine's voice actor for Dawn of the New World. Wait is that Tara Platt? Ok I'm fine with it now.
      • She also voices Raine in Radiant Mythology.
  • Derek Stephen Prince
    • In Bleach, Uryu Ishida is voiced by Derek Stephen Prince who is sounds like Sasuke Uchiha. It doesn't help that Uryu looks like a cross between the two.
    • For this troper, Uryu's dub voice actor's best known as Shino in Naruto.
    • You can tell Attenborough is voiced by the same guy as Uryu Ishida, which is pretty weird even though he does a pretty good job, since Uryu's pretty much The Stoic while Attenborough is moderately Ax Crazy (though his laugh sounds like a less evil Ken Ichijoji).
    • This troper wishes she could unhear Ken Ichijoji as Vexen... once she heard his voice, she wanted to cry.
    • Hey, at least you don't hear him as Takaya. * shudder* (He sounds like Vexen, only a lot creepier.)
    • Speaking of Digimon Adventure 02, Derek also voiced Veemon there. Another example of Talking to Himself.
  • John Ratzenberger
    • Lampshaded in the movie Cars, where one of the characters, played by John Ratzenberger (Cliff Clavin on Cheers), is watching a bunch of movies and complains that the same guy is doing all the voices, and it's because he's the one who did those characters in those movies. (P.T. Flea in A Bugs Life, Ham from Toy Story, and the Abominable Snowman from Monsters, Inc..)
    • He's the Underminer! NOTHING is beneath him!
    • It's become rather a Running Gag at Pixar for Ratzenberger to be a voice in all their films. He's their "good luck charm". Because it's Pixar, the joke never gets old.
    • Cars also had cameos by NPR mechanic talk show hosts Tom and Ray Magliozzi as Rusty and Dusty Rust-Eze, even using catch phrases from their show.
    • When John Lasseter produced the English adaptation of Spirited Away, he gave John Ratzenberger a role in that too.
  • John Rhys-Davies
    • John Rhys-Davies, mentioned below and known for playing a dwarf and a talking tree, also voiced the narration in the adventure/rpg hybrid Quest for Glory 4. Anyone who's played this game has probably had his "That didn't do anything!" ingrained in their memories after frustratingly clicking on every inch of screen.
    • The best part is the annoyed tone he uses, like the narrator is pissed at you doing things that lead nowhere.
      • This just shows that John Rhys Davies would be an AWESOME Game Master for any Tabletop RPG
    • Mr. Davies also provided the voice of Prince Thrakhath nar Kiranka, in Wing Commander III.
      • Which happened to be a double shot as he was also live-acting the role of James "Paladin" Taggart at the same time.
    • His voice was also a pleasant surprise in Freelancer as Tobias, who, of course, is the closest thing Freelancer's got to a Boisterous Bruiser.
    • John Rhys-Davies of Indiana Jones and The Lord of the Rings fame plays Hades in a couple episodes of Justice League Unlimited.
    • He was also Aladdin's dad Cassim in the third movie.
    • And Macbeth in Gargoyles.
    • And Ma-ma-ma-mamama, ma-ma-ma-mamama, MANRAY!
    • Professor Arturo's not that short!
    • Watch him play a russian with a british accent in The Living Daylights.
  • Shane Rimmer
    • I always smile whenever I hear Shane Rimmer's voice on TV, film, Internet, or wherever, mainly because I have always had this big crush on Scott Tracy from Thunderbirds, whose voice is provided by Shane, and he never puts too much variation on that voice of his. (Except when he sings of course... [dead link] )
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  1. ↑ If it's an old familial tale, it goes a long way in explaining why he's such a kniving Manipulative Bastard.
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