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->''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening This page is gettin' crazy! Let's trope!]]''

Born July 19, 1975, Reuben Christopher Langdon is an American stunt actor, {{motion capture}} actor, voice actor, actor in general and martial artist, primarily based in Los Angeles. His career started back in 1996, where he portrayed [[FunnyForeigner Mac Windy]]/[[BlowYouAway B-Fighter Yanma]] in ''Series/BFighterKabuto'' (the show adapted into ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}} Metallix'' for American audiences), the fifteenth entry in the ''Series/MetalHeroes'' {{toku}} series. Soon afterwards, Langdon would relocate to Hong Kong, where he was lucky enough to work alongside action film greats such as Creator/JackieChan.

However, it wouldn't be until 2005 that Langdon rose to prominence within the world of voice acting, where [[InkSuitActor he provided both the motion capture and voicework for]] Dante, the protagonist of the game ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening''. You may have heard of it. [[StarMakingRole And the rest, is history.]]

As such, this makes him one of five voice actors in the series with ties to the ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' franchise. (The other four would be [[Creator/DanSouthworth Daniel Southworth]] -- better known to many as [[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Eric Myers, the Quantum Ranger]] -- as Vergil in ''3'' [[note]]Coincidentally, Langdon had two minor roles in the very same season.[[/note]]; Creator/JohnnyYongBosch -- [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Adam Park, the second Black Ranger]] -- as Nero in ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry4 4]]''; T.J. Rotolo -- the first voice of [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace Dark Specter]] and a stuntman with several bit roles from ''[[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Lost Galaxy]]'' to ''[[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Wild Force]]'' -- as Credo in ''4''; and David de Lautour -- [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury RJ, the Jungle Fury Wolf Ranger]] -- as Vergil in ''[[VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry DmC]]''.)

A few more fun facts:
* He and a friend were the ones who pitched to Creator/{{Capcom}} (and a few other gaming companies) the idea to use English motion capture artists ''and'' [=VAs=] for various projects, such as the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak'' series. (By Langdon's admission, this was sometime in 2002, right after ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry2 DMC2]]'' had been released.)
* He convinced Capcom to rename the BigBad of ''[=DMC3=]'' from Hyne (pronounced "Hai-neh") to Arkham as he protested English-speaking fans would find the name unintentionally funny.
* He actually had to re-audition for his role as Dante in ''4'', as Capcom was unsure if he could pull off an older Dante.
* He, like many of the other voice actors involved with ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'', [[JustForFun/OneOfUs is an avid fan of]] ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', [[http://ugrgaming.podomatic.com/entry/2013-01-14T20_47_59-08_00 even going as far as to cite it as his favorite video game series.]] Langdon ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgkkMu0JHrI according to interviews]]) was actually a Ken player back in the day. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xG2vGg8ygc#t=18m13s According to]] Creator/TaliesinJaffe (the voice of Blanka and Adon, as well as the voice director for ''IV''), he's a good enough player that he was, at one point, ranked.

Nowadays, it seems that he's been {{pigeonholed|VoiceActor}} as [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold cocky, if not well-meaning]] badasses, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools but those are the roles that his fans deem to be the most appropriate for him]].

He is the co-founder, producer, and action director of his own motion capture company, [[http://www.for-the-cause.com/ Just Cause Productions]] [[note]]Langdon himself sometimes goes by the alias of Justin Cause[[/note]], and is also a member of the California martial arts stunt group [=ZeroGravity=]. You might have seen him performing stunts in productions such as ''Film/TheMedallion'', ''Film/SpiderMan2'', ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'', ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', and ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''; his resume as a stunt coordinator/performance capture actor reaches far beyond that. As he lived in Japan for five years, Langdon is fluent in Japanese and knows some basic Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese as well. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPq4nDT7R-c He's been featured in several Japanese commercials,]] including a famous and widely popular series of Mentos commercials (a fact that Dan Southworth has ribbed on him for at least once before in the past).

Around 2018, Langdon married Japanese expressionism artist Sui Yumeshima, news he only publicly revealed during the introduction of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' at Capcom's panel for the Tokyo Games Show that year, in which she attended while {{cosplay}}ing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7UqUhdkST0#t=18m20s as]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGNzFgaH1nw#t=18m42s Lady]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/DevilMayCry/comments/9iz5zu/can_someone_please_translate_18202030/ something that]] Hideaki Itsuno himself [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded to the audience]] and fans joyfully noted). Congratulations!

!!Notable roles by Reuben Langdon:
* [[Characters/DevilMayCryDante Dante]] in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'', ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'', ''Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries'', (''Ultimate'') ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'', ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite'', ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'', ''[[VideoGame/Teppen2019 TEPPEN]]'', and ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne [[UpdatedRerelease HD Remaster]]''
* Ken Masters in (''Super/Ultra'') ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'', ''Anime/StreetFighterIVTheTiesThatBind'', ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken'', ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'', ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', and ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''
** In a bit of [[ActorAllusion an in-joke]], he also appears in the WebVideo parody ''WebVideo/StreetFighterHigh: [[http://streetfighterhigh.blogspot.com/ The Musical]]'' as both the announcer and [[InkSuitActor as Ken himself]].
** He also plays Ken in this awesome fan-made short film, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn_HaEf62h4 Street Fighter X Tekken: The Devil Within]]'', [[TheCastShowoff getting a chance to flex some of his Japanese skill]]. Fun fact: Ryu is played by fellow ''Devil May Cry'' regular Daniel Southworth.
* UsefulNotes/DateMasamune in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara: Samurai Heroes'' (which may be a CastingGag since Masamune is often compared to Dante and both series are made by Capcom; for added humor, his main rival, UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura, is voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch, paralleling the Dante-Nero rivalry in ''[=DMC4=]'')
* Mac Windy/B-Fighter Yanma in ''Series/BFighterKabuto''
* Detective Zanda in ''Manga/{{Monster}}''
* [[DeadSidekick Steve Hewitt]] and Owens in ''VideoGame/DisasterDayOfCrisis''
* [[MauveShirt Dave Johnson]] in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' (he also did mo-cap for Chris Redfield in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica Code: Veronica]]'', ''5'' and ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 6]]'')
* A scientist in the ''Over "Quartzer"'' music video for ''Series/KamenRiderZiO''
** He also played as a mook in the pilot for ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight''.
* [[ImAHumanitarian James]] in ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs''

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