Line #56 Creator/DavidHayter


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[VideoGame/MetalGear David Hayter, huh?]]]]
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4	->''"I guess my first reaction to the name was: 'Well, I'm not taking my pants off, if that’s what they’re saying.' I'd been in Hollywood a few years by that time, and had been burned on the pants thing before. My second reaction was something like, 'I really hope they pay me for this.'"''
5	-->-- [[https://hg101.kontek.net/metalgear/davidhayter.htm First reaction]] to [[AccidentalInnuendo Solid Snake's]] codename.
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7	''[[VideoGame/MetalGear (Codec ringing)]]'' [[VideoGame/MetalGear Snake, you know who that is, right?]] [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Why not describe David Hayter here, since he gives your voice life?]]
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9	[[SelfDemonstratingArticle Huh... sure I guess...]] ''(ahem)''
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11	David Bryan Hayter (born February 6, 1969) is a Canadian-American actor, {{voice actor\|s}} and screenwriter. Most of his roles are in {{anime}} and video games, and he's known for his low, rough voice.
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13	He traveled around the world a lot in his childhood and had been acting since then. He studied in Japan when he was a teenager, then moved to Hollywood. He mostly worked on live-action TV in his first few years in the business but became more involved in voice acting after making a cameo in ''Series/MajorDad''.
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15	Since then, he has lent his voice to the heroes of ''VideoGame/MetalGear'', ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'', ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', ''[[Manga/YuYuHakusho YuYu Hakusho: The Movie]]'', and ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket''. He was also the screenwriter for the films ''[[Film/XMen1 X-Men]]'', ''[[Film/X2XMenUnited X2: X-Men United]]'', ''Film/TheScorpionKing'', the TV pilot ''Series/LostInOz'', and he wrote an early script for ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' which Creator/AlanMoore himself, notoriously famous for disowning his work's adaptations, praised as the closest ever translation of his work yet. Hayter will also write and direct the film of ''VideoGame/LostPlanet''.
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17	Has a Website/{{Twitter}} [[https://twitter.com/DavidBHayter account.]]
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19	!!Notable roles:
20	* ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'': Zangetsu
21	* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet'': Mishka (debut role)
22	* ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'': Lupin III ([[Creator/MangaEntertainment Manga US]]/Animaze dub)
23	* ''VideoGame/{{Deponia}} Doomsday'': Solid Rufus, a homage to his Solid Snake role.
24	* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'': Two Roman legionnaires and a guard in Angkor Thom.[[note]]He was also attached to play the lead in Precursor Games' follow-up, ''Shadow of the Eternals'', but as it did not succeed in its crowdfunding attempt, whether this will still occur is presently unknown.[[/note]]
25	* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': King Shark
26	* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'': Tamahome/Taka
27	* ''Film/GuyverDarkHero'': Sean Barker/The Guyver
28	* ''VideoGame/MarvelHeroes'': Winter Soldier
29	* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' (almost all the installments in the ''Solid'' games): Solid Snake (a.k.a. Iroquois Pliskin and Old Snake) and Naked Snake (the young Big Boss). He has also portrayed the character in live action at least once, and one story tells that he would bring a bandanna to wear during voice acting sessions for the first game.
30	** Also voiced Snake as a {{guest fighter}} in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series.
31	** Before ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', he also voiced Solid Snake Bomber and Naked Snake Bomber in in ''VideoGame/SuperBomberman R''.
32	** During re-recording for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid: [[UpdatedRerelease The Twin Snakes]]'', he gave up half his paycheck to get the entire original voice cast back together to reprise their roles. He is also only one of the few voice actors to actually beat the game, and has apparently [[WrittenByCastMember written a script for a potential movie]].
33	** Interestingly, he did ''not'' reprise his role as Snake/Big Boss in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''. Creator/HideoKojima decided to bring Creator/KieferSutherland into the highly-physical role. Kojima justified this by stating that he wanted a more emotional performance from the character, and he needed a new actor in order to sound older. Needless to say, this caused a great deal of fandom backlash (though [[EpilepticTrees some speculated]], incorrectly, that Hayter would voice a younger Solid Snake in the game). Because of this change, a DLC Sword for ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' [[NoExportForYou was not released outside of Japan]], given that Hayter had since moved onto his own projects and Sutherland would have been too expensive for a joke role. As mentioned above, Hayter wouldn't get to play the character again until 2018.
34	** In addition, Hayter portrayed [[AsHimself himself]] in one of the opening commercials prefacing ''4'' in all regions, in which he's being interviewed by Lee Meriwether portraying herself.
35	** He's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sIRnpB3Uxo set to play Snake again]] as a [[TheCameo cameo]] in the ''WebAnimation/SonicVillains'' fan film.
36	* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket'': Bernard Wiseman
37	* ''Anime/{{Moldiver}}'': Hiroshi Ozora
38	* ''VideoGame/{{Republique}}'': Daniel Zager
39	* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': ComicBook/CaptainAmerica
40	* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': The male Jedi Knight
41	* ''Manga/TheyWereEleven'': Doricas Soldam IV
42	* ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'': Bartender from Survive Bar [[spoiler: (Osamu Kashiwagi)]]
43	* ''[[Manga/YuYuHakusho YuYu Hakusho: The Movie]]'': Kurama
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45	!!Movies written and/or directed by David Hayter:
46	* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
47	** ''Film/XMen1''
48	** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' (co-written with Bryan Singer and Zak Penn)
49	* ''Series/LostInOz''
50	* ''Film/TheScorpionKing'' (co-written with Stephen Sommers and William Osborne)
51	* A tentative script for the film adaptation of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' in 2001, though not [[Film/{{Watchmen}} the final script]] (the final Screenwriter did credit his version as a primary inspiration, however). Also notable for being one of the only two screenplays of the film that Creator/AlanMoore [[ApprovalOfGod approved of]].
52	* ''VideoGame/LostPlanet''
53	* The script for a ''Comicbook/BlackWidow'' film, which was written prior to the existence of the current Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. It was cancelled after ''Film/Underworld2003'' and ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'' were released, not wanting to saturate the market with ActionGirl films.
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55	!!Tropes associated with David Hayter:
56	* ManOfAThousandVoices: While he tends to be typecasted thanks to his StarMakingRole as Snake, he has a very wide range and can portray characters of almost any age.
57	* MemeAcknowledgment: You'll know that [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Snake's ass]] is memetic when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixWybGQnPHQ David himself gets in on the meme]].
58	* TomHanksSyndrome: Early in his career, he used to voice more normal men, with higher pitched voice, and usually straightforward heroes (example: [[Manga/YuYuHakusho Kurama]], [[Manga/FushigiYuugi Tamahome]] and at [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries one point]], ComicBook/CaptainAmerica). But once he landed the role of [[VideoGame/MetalGear Solid Snake]], he's defaulted to using his dramatic deep-style of Snake and [[StarMakingRole has rarely ever looked back.]] Go on, compare his pre-Snake and post-Snake voices [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ph-zPTn0g here.]]
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60	-->''"[[TheStinger And that's all, right Snake?]] [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid ...Snake, do you copy? Snake?! SNAAAAAAKE!!]]"\
61	"Gee, I'm still here, Colonel. I'm just helping write the next ComicBook/XMen film, that's all. It would be easier, if not for the fact the clap of my ass-cheeks keeps alerting the guards!\
62	"Understood, Snake. Sorry for the confusion Good luck, and make sure to come back in one piece.\

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