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9	* Japan seems to like giving female voice actors to male characters who originally sounded more masculine when dubbing foreign games, perhaps to make them sound cuter and more childish. Such examples include ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'', Ratchet from ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'', and Daxter from ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter''.
10	** While Spyro was voiced by [[Creator/AkikoYajima a woman]] in the first two games, he is voiced by a male actor in ''Skylanders'' and ''Crash Team Racing''.
11	* Roger L. Jackson voices ''every'' character in ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesGrimm'', including women and children, combining this trope with ActingForTwo.
12	* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' occasionally when you fight large groups of British soldiers you will hear female grunts and screams coming from them, or it could be a case of women masquerading as men so they can fight for their country.
13	* Most boys in the ''VideoGame/BackyardSports'' series, with the exceptions of Achmed, Amir, Marky, Pablo, Ricky, and a few of the pros, are voiced by women.
14	* Cortex from ''VideoGame/CrashTwinsanity'' was voiced by Debi Derryberry in a flashback to his school days. His appearance as a baby in ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'' is an aversion.
15	* In ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'', [[TheDragon King Dice]] gets a {{Creepy Jazz\|Music}} VillainSong by Alana Bridgewater; she gives King Dice an awesome Music/LouisArmstrong growl full of EvilSoundsDeep and EvilSoundsRaspy. Also, we have [[AttentionWhore Sally Stageplay]], who is voiced by [[https://twitter.com/LukeLandVO/status/913782792386887680 the same man]] who [[ActingForTwo also voiced Werner Werman]].
16	* Laharl from ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'' was voiced by a woman in both the Japanese (Creator/KaoriMizuhashi) and English (Creator/BarbaraGoodson) voiceovers.
17	** Averted with Taro, but only in the Japanese voiceovers, where he's voiced by Creator/HiroShimono. For the English voice overs, he's voiced by Creator/WendeeLee, [[ActingForTwo who also provides Rozalin's English voice overs]].
18	** [[VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice Mao's]] Japanese VA is Creator/HiromiHirata.
19	* In ''VideoGame/{{Divekick}}'', female ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' pastiche Kung Pao is voiced by Mike [=DeBonis=]. However, Kung's spoken dialogue is nothing but {{Kiai}}s, so the dissonance isn't noticeable.
20	* In the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'', the female Red Dragon is voiced by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_(actor) Peter]], who also provides the voice of Caim under his real name, Shinnosuke Ikehata.
21	* Speaking of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', [[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 Ness]] and Franchise/{{Kirby}} [[Creator/MakikoOhmoto are also voiced by the same woman]].
22	* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' has Dogmeat, a male dog, voiced by River, a female dog.
23	* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', David Anthony Pizzuto voices Lily Bowen, a hulking, schizophrenic Nightkin grandma with NoIndoorVoice. Creator/FredTatasciore voices the insane female Nightkin Tabitha.
24	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': Child Tidus is voiced by Creator/CreeSummer and the child Fayth who became [[spoiler:Bahamut]] is voiced by Debi Derryberry.
25	* An unusual example that incorporates VocalEvolution can be found in Jason Spisak's performance as [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Bartz]] between the two ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' games.[[note]]For context, Bartz is a DittoFighter who mixes and matches the moves of his allies, owing to his status as a 'mime' character. On top of this, he takes on a different tone of voice whenever he uses certain attacks; for instance, he uses a more gruff tone when copying one of Squall's moves, and takes on a more gallant register when copying the Warrior of Light or Cecil[[/note]] His voice holds a slightly deeper tone in the first game than in the prequel, which means that, while slightly jarring given that all of the cutscenes from the first game were reused in ''Duodecim'' (alongside his new battle lines), he gets the voices of the newly-added female characters down to a startling degree of accuracy when mimicking their attacks.
26	* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''...
27	** Played straight with the Japanese voices for Ricken, voiced by Creator/YukiMasuda, and Henry, voiced by Creator/AkemiOkamura (who also voiced Emmeryn in the Japanese version) respectively. Averted for the English dub, as Ricken was voiced by Creator/YuriLowenthal, while Henry was voiced by Creator/BrycePapenbrook.
28	** In BOTH the English and Japanese versions, Libra was voiced by female voice actresses Megumi Yamato (who also voiced Kjelle in the Japanese version) and Creator/CindyRobinson (who also voiced Aversa in the English version).
29	** {{Averted\|Trope}} by [[PlayerCharacter the Avatar]]. There are more than one prospect voices to choose from when you're customising a male Avatar's looks and builds, with said build including an AdorablyPrecociousChild... but ''none'' of these voices are by women. (In Japanese, we have Yoshimasa Hosoya and Tohru Ookawa; in English there's David Vincent, Christopher Corey Smith or Brandon Karrer).
30	** And [[LateArrivalSpoiler now that we can talk about it without spoiling too much]], {{subverted\|Trope}} with "Marth", who is voiced by a woman in both versions [[SamusIsAGirl because "he" is also a woman]]; namely, Chrom's daughter, Lucina.
31	* ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'': Girlfriend is voiced by Kawai Sprite, [[DescendedCreator the game's male composer]] (although he used Neptune, Reason's pitch and formant shifter, to achieve the voice, as with the other character's voices).
32	* The voice acting cast of the [[RomanceGame otome]] focused ''[[http://www.p-reve.com/goes/ Goes!]]'' is all female despite most of the cast being male (only the heroine is female and she doesn’t have a voice). This is also the first Otome game that features an all-female voice cast.
33	* In ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven'', several young male characters such as Koichi and Narancia are voiced by women. Mostly averted in the anime with a few exceptions like Hayato and Emporio. In Koichi's and Narancia's cases, Creator/RomiPark and Creator/YukoSanpei were replaced by Creator/YuukiKaji and Creator/DaikiYamashita, respectively.
34	* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' and ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' have Creator/MinamiTakayama as the voice of Pit, as well as Creator/LaniMinella in the English version of ''Brawl''. Averted with ''Uprising'''s English dub and the dub of ''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U'' and ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', which cast Antony Del Rio as Pit (he was in his twenties at the time, but has a very youthful voice).
35	* ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}'' is voiced by Kumiko Watanabe, except for the English voices of the Wii remake of the first game, in which he is voiced by Eric Stitt (see the "Exceptions" section).
36	* Link in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' is voiced by a woman whenever he's under 12-years-old. In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'', it was Creator/FujikoTakimoto. This continued until ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'', when she was replaced by Sachi Matsumoto, whose lines were reused in most subsequent games. Sachi passed on the baton to Yūki Kodaira in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks Spirit Tracks]]'', who is slightly more pleasant to listen to most time, but her (slightly too high-pitched) voice can get annoying when Link takes a lot of damage in a short-time span. In a RealLife case of MeaningfulName, ''Yūki'' is Japanese for "Courage", the attribute most commonly associated with Link. In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds A Link Between Worlds]]'', he's voiced by Creator/MitsukiSaiga, despite appearing a bit older. Adult Link is always voiced by males. Of course, "voiced" is a bit of a stretch, since Link doesn't actually talk beyond [[VoiceGrunting a few grunts]] and "Come On!".
37	* ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'':
38	** Some of the male Goonies have female voice actors.
39	** Like in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', Creator/MichaelJFox voices Marty's future daughter Marlene.
40	** Nonbinary actor Creator/KaitlynRobrock voices Abby Yates.
41	* The main character of ''VideoGame/LocoRoco'' is supposedly male, and voiced by young actress Melody Chubak and [[NonSingingVoice Alex Yamato Flaherty]].
42	* Surprisingly averted in the first ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends'' game, in which Mega Man was voiced by a 14-year-old boy. Played straight in the sequel, in which he had the same actress as [[Anime/SailorMoon Sailor Jupiter]] (Susan Roman).
43	** On the other side of the Pacific, Rock Volnutt shares [[Creator/MayumiTanaka the actress]] of [[Manga/OnePiece Luffy]].
44	* In ''VideoGame/MegaMan8'', the titular character was voiced by a girl/woman in both English and Japanese. The same actress (Ruth Shiraishi) from the English version went on to voice X in ''VideoGame/MegaManX4''; which is the reverse take on this trope, since he is voiced by a man (Kentaro Ito) in the Japanese version.
45	* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', [[spoiler:Raiden's son, John,]] is voiced by Creator/JenniferHale, who also voices Naomi Hunter and Emma Emmerich.
46	* In ''VideoGame/MySims'', [[ActingForTwo there's only a few voice types that characters can have]]. As a result, a few characters have this; for example, {{Goth}} Boy shares his voice type with Yuki and Poppy, and Annie Radd has Buddy's voice type.
47	* ''VideoGame/NamuAmidaButsuUtena'' has an all-male cast, so even the resident [[TheSmurfettePrinciple smurfette]] [[GirlyGirl Ashuku Nyorai]] (who [[AmbiguousGenderIdentity may or may not be trans]]) is voiced by Creator/YuusukeKobayashi, a male actor.
48	* ''VideoGame/OracleOfTao'' has most characters played by females, with the exception of one bit part (Bakamaru). God and Estheriel is voiced by actresses, but both roles are androgynous, since angels are [[NoBiologicalSex generally considered sexless]]. On the other hand, Nevras is actually cast this way, which is possibly ironic, since the character is a WholesomeCrossdresser in the game. There is also a scene in the ending where the actress playing Nevras is doing this ''and'' playing an older character without it [[LarynxDissonance sounding weird]].
49	* Ma-San, a female character from the ''VideoGame/PaRappaTheRapper'' series, is voiced by Ryu Watabe.
50	* Most of the male cast with voices in ''VideoGame/{{Patapon}}'' (like general Gong) have female voice actors.
51	* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', Morgana, a male cat, is voiced by Creator/IkueOtani in Japanese and by Creator/CassandraLeeMorris in English.
52	* Luke in the North American versions of the ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' games (except for ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsPhoenixWrightAceAttorney'') and [[VideoGame/Mother3 Lucas]] and [[VideoGame/KidIcarus Pit]] in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'' are voiced by Creator/LaniMinella -- the same woman who voiced [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Rouge the Bat]], until she was replaced by Caren Manuel (who herself was eventually replaced by Creator/KarenStrassman).
53	** That same voice actress also voiced one of the male characters in ''VideoGame/EvilZone'' on the [=PS1=]. She also voiced pretty much every female character, but considering the game was from the late 90s, you probably could have guessed that on your own.
54	** She also plays four of the seven [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Koopalings]] (Lemmy, Larry, Wendy, and Morton), only one of which is a girl. Most impressive is that she voices Morton, who has a deep, gruff voice and sounds NOTHING like a girl.
55	** She also did all of the English voices (excluding NonDubbedGrunts, that is) in ''VideoGame/{{Astal}}'', including the title character and even the BigBad Gerado (where her voice was slowed down to give it the bass effect). The Japanese version averted this with Gerado, but still adhered to this trope in part by casting Creator/AiOrikasa as the title character.
56	* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'':
57	** Dogen (Nika Futterman), Elton (Christina Pucelli), J.T. (Jeannie Elias), Maloof (Brett Pels), Nils (Colleen O'Shaughnessey), Quentin (Sherrie Jackson), Vernon (Faith Abrahams) and [[spoiler:Little Oly]] (Amber Hood) are all boys voiced by adult women.
58	** Linda, the Hideous Hulking Lungfish of Lake Oblongata and Bonita Soleil are both female characters played by men, creating a case of intentional LarynxDissonance. It's justified in the case of Linda because she's a mutant lungfish, but Creator/StephenStanton as Bonita doesn't even try to do a falsetto.
59	* Jack from ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2 '' is voiced by a woman throughout the main story as a 4-year old. However he’s voiced by an actual kid after the eight-year long TimeSkip in the PlayableEpilogue.
60	* The ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'' has the male ([[{{Bishonen}} but feminine]]) Ranmaru Mori voiced by Naomi Shindo in the Japanese version of the series, with Wendi Jewers and Creator/TaraPlatt in the English dubs of 2 and 3, respectively. Averted in the first game's English dub, where Tony Oliver does his voice.
61	* In ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'', Otomo Sorin is voiced by a woman in the English version likely due to his status as a SissyVillain.
62	** In Japanese, UsefulNotes/UesugiKenshin is voiced by Creator/RomiPark. This could be a subversion of the trope, though, considering that there are theories that the real-life Kenshin may have actually been a woman.
63	* Of the few times the roles have been reversed, in ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsFromTheNewWorld'', the MegaNeko Mao is voiced by a man. (In the English version, it's the same actor as Frank.)
64	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
65	** Sonic's sidekick Tails has been voiced by a young boy in most of his earlier appearances... and as of ''Anime/SonicX'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'', he has been voiced by women to avoid any further voice changes (Tails has had a '''lot''' over the years), and they took it well. His voice was done by Amy Palant from ''Shadow the Hedgehog'' to ''[[VideoGame/SegaSuperstars Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing]]''. His voice was done by Creator/KateHiggins as of ''VideoGame/SonicColors'', which has been generally been received as more boyish and an improvement over Amy Palant's voice. Starting with ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'', Tails is now voiced by Creator/ColleenOShaughnessey, who also voices Charmy. Tails has been voiced by the female Creator/RyoHirohashi in Japanese starting with ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes''; he was voiced by two young boys in the Dreamcast games.
66	** Charmy also fits here, having been voiced by a female in ''every'' voiced incarnation of him (In English, Emily Corkery in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', Creator/AmyBirnbaum in ''Anime/SonicX'' onwards, and most recently, the aformentioned Creator/ColleenOShaughnessey).
67	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''
68	** Starting with the Platform/NintendoGameCube era, Toad has shared a voice actress with Princess Peach and Toadette (The first one being Creator/JenTaylor and the current one being Samantha Kelly). Before that, Toad was voiced by a Nintendo employee named Tomoko Maruno for the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/MarioKart64'', the first three games of the ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' series and ''VideoGame/MarioKartSuperCircuit''. Some time between Jen Taylor giving up her roles and Samantha Kelly replacing her, a woman named Kelsey Hutchison filled in as a temporary voice actress for Toad for the first two ''VideoGame/MarioStrikers'' games.
69	** Ever since his debut in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'', Bowser Jr. has always been voiced by a female voice actress, the first one being Dolores Rogers and the current one being Caety Sagoian.
70	** Starting with ''Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour'' Birdo is voiced by Kazumi Totaka, who also voices Yoshi.
71	** Starting with ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder'', Princess Daisy is voiced by non-binary voice actor Giselle Fernandez.
72	* The voices of all of the playable Inklings and Octolings in the ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' series is provided by Yuki Tsujii. This means he not only voices the boys, but the girls as well (including their iconic "Woomy!" and "Veemo!" exclamations).
73	* Slippy from ''VideoGame/StarFox'' was voiced by a female in ''VideoGame/StarFox64'', the first game in the series that had voice acting. Not only did that voice help his [[TheScrappy scrappiness]], it also caused quite a few people to think that he ''is'' female, or at least make jokes about it. Female voice actress Kyoko Tonguu voiced him in all of the Japanese versions, though, and her cutsey voice for him actually made him popular in Japanese.
74	* ''VideoGame/StrangerOfParadiseFinalFantasyOrigin'' has an early boss that the player fights: [[spoiler:the "Chaos Advent" is voiced by Creator/ChrisSabat, the voice of Garland in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy''. In truth, however, the Chaos Advent is actually a young woman named Neon, voiced by Alejandra Reynoso: the "Chaos Advent" was a form Neon took on in her own attempt to save the world from the threat of Chaos.]]
75	* ''VideoGame/TailConcerto'''s male protagonist Waffle Ryebread is voiced by Creator/LaniMinella. She also voices Panta, a minor character who helps Waffle with saving his data.
76	** Even in the original Japanese version, Panta is voiced by the female actress {{Creator/Tarako}}.
77	* Creator/ColleenOShaughnessey plays Genis, a 12-year-old boy, in the English-language adaptation of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''. In the sequel, the 14-year-old Genis is voiced by the still-female Tara Sands.
78	** In the Japanese version, Genius is spoken by Creator/AiOrikasa. BigBad [[spoiler: Mithos]] is spoken by Creator/MinamiTakayama in Japanese and Creator/BrianneSiddall in English.
79	* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' Ion/Sync/Florian are voiced by Creator/IkueOtani (Creator/YumikoKobayashi for the anime) in the Japanese version and by Creator/ErinFitzgerald in the English version.
80	** Mieu as well (Miki Maruyama in Japanese, Creator/SandyFox in English) to the point that he was [[ViewerGenderConfusion mistakingly labeled as a girl]] at first.
81	* Every arc in the ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'' has consistently had at least 1 playable male member of the main cast be voiced by a female voice actress in Japanese, even into adulthood:
82	** The [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky Liberl arc]] had [[Creator/MitsukiSaiga Joshua Bright]], who stands out from later examples by being the arc's male lead. It doesn't help that he's [[DudeLooksLikeALady pretty enough]] to convincingly [[DraggedIntoDrag pass as a girl]], much to his chagrin.
83	** The [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure Crossbell arc]] had [[Creator/JunkoMinagawa Wazy Hemisphere]]. In his case, some [=NPCs=] have actually questioned his gender, which he finds amusing.
84	** The [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Erebonia arc]] had [[Creator/RyokoShiraishi Elliot Craig]].
85	** The [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsThroughDaybreak Calvard arc]] had [[Creator/MutsumiTamura Quatre Salision]]. During his first meeting the protagonist, he's questioned as to whether he's a boy or a girl, and he's not happy with this.
86	* In ''VideoGame/TriangleStrategy'', the English dub has Creator/XantheHuynh as Narve and Rosie Day as Quahaug.
87	* The child narrator from ''VideoGame/UncleAlbertsAdventures'' is voiced by a Marie Viennot Sanchis, but the official ''Uncle Albert'' website calls the child Uncle Albert's grandnephew, meaning he's a boy.
88	* Creator/MaddieBlaustein, mentioned above in the ''Pokémon'' entry, also provided the voices of four ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile'' characters: the deviant, nerdy StalkerWithACrush Lezard Valeth, noble {{bishonen}} Lawfer, undead king Barbarossa and BigGuy Arngrim.
89	* The Wii U game ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'' has female voice actors voicing the younger males. The 14-year-old Wonder Green is voiced by Kari Wahlgren, while Debi Derryberry voices elementary student Luka Alan Smithee, as well as young Will Wedgewood during the flashbacks of [[TearJerker his father's death]].
90	* The ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' series has Jr. as a notable example, quite obviously voiced by a woman (Creator/BrianneSiddall, to be exact, who voices a lot of young boys in English dubs of various anime series).
91	* SeriesMascot Jibanyan from ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'' is voiced by a woman in most languages (except Italian) despite being a tom cat. Several other Yo-kai are voiced by women as well, though Whisper (the second most important Yo-kai) averts this.

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