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  • A LOT of "American" cartoons over the years have had the voice recording done in Canada (originally Toronto, nowadays Vancouver) due to lower costs. Since Vancouver in particular is so close to the American border, there is little to no difference accent-wise between a Vancouverite and, say, someone from Seattle (the cities are less than 150 miles apart). Given how ubiquitous this is in animation, if we tried to list every single instance of Canadians voicing American cartoon characters, we'd be here all day (and many Canadian voice actors were born overseas: for example, Richard Ian Cox was born in Wales, and Scott McNeil was born in Australia). This can still come into play, however, when a Canadian voice actor is asked to play an American character from a specific region, like the South.
  • Anthony LaPaglia also did the voice of a Noo Yawk/Noo Joisey mafia-type skua in Happy Feet; Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman put on Southern accents as Elvis Memphis and Marilyn Monroe Norma Jean.
  • Rattrap in Transformers: Beast Wars has an American accent but an Australian voice actor (Scott McNeil) who lives in Canada.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is a unique case, as America (or humans, for that matter) do not exist in universe, but their accents do. Of the mane cast (all voiced by Canadians, by the way):
    • Applejack (voiced by Ashleigh Ball) has a distinct Southern drawl.
    • Rainbow Dash (also voiced by Ball) sounds vaguely like she's from the Bronx.
    • Twilight Sparkle (voiced by Tara Strongnote ) bears a Midwestern accent. As do Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy (voiced by Andrea Libman).
    • Rarity (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) uses a thick Tidewater accent.

      It should be noted that much of the show's voice cast operates from Vancouver.
    • Speaking of My Little Pony, British actress Emily Blunt gives Tempest an American accent for the film, My Little Pony: The Movie (2017)
      • Meanwhile, Sia, who is Australian, voices her character, Songbird Serenade, with an American accent as well.
  • English actor Phil Hayes originally voiced Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog's Scratch with a New York-style accent. In fact, every major character in the series (except for Sonic) has a Canadian or British actor.
    • Which makes sense since the series was recorded in Vancouver (except for Jaleel White, who is an American based in LA).
    • In fact, the only actor in the show besides White who doesn't fit this is the late Long John Baldry, who never made any attempt to hide his English accent when playing Robotnik.
  • The English dub of Kaeloo was made in Australia, but is meant to feel like it was made in America, so all English voice actors are Australians speaking with American accents. This is especially obvious with Mr. Cat's weird tendency to slip into an Australian accent from time to time.
  • Alan Rickman guest stars on an episode of King of the Hill, playing the part of the "king" of the local Renaissance Faire, of course using his own English accent. At the end of the episode he drops that to reveal his "real" voice, which is a terrible attempt at a Texas accent.
  • The X-Men have always been explicitly based in New York (just like the rest of the Marvel Universe). But the earliest animated adaptations were recorded in Canada.
    • In the 1990s X-Men: The Animated Series, most American characters – such as Cyclops, Jean Grey, or Jubilee – are voiced by Canadian actors. Professor X is voiced by an Englishman, and Rogue (who is meant to be from Louisiana) is voiced by Lenore Zann, an Australian raised in Canada who spent time in LA before moving back to Canada.
    • This is also true for the 2000's-era X-Men: Evolution, which was also recorded in Vancouver. There, Rogue is played by Canadian Meghan Black and Professor Xavier again sounds English (clearly modeled after the very English Patrick Stewart).
  • Tara Strong, who is Canadian by birth but lives in L.A., in all kinds of roles both female and male, such as Batgirl in Gotham Knights, Bubbles in The Powerpuff Girls (1998), Raven in Teen Titans, both Timmy Turner and Poof in The Fairly OddParents!, Ben Tennyson in Ben 10, and both Princess Clara and Toot Blaustein in Drawn Together.
  • As opposed to his awful accent in Black Hawk Down, Jason Isaacs does a pretty convincing American accent as Admiral Zhao. For a character with a Chinese name from a Japanese influenced part of a fantasy world where America doesn't exist. Go figure.
  • Parodied on The Simpsons episode "Burns' Heir"note  where Mr. Burns hires fake Americans to play the Simpsons family and Burns got the famously Cockney Michael Caine (voiced by Dan Castallaneta) to play Homer (though that's more of a joke on Caine taking on roles just to get paid) while Lisa is voiced by a bald male midget from Estonia (and is the same one that would later be seen on the episode "Radioactive Man" as Milhouse's stunt double).
  • In The Amazing World of Gumball, with the exception of the Watterson kids and some characters played by Sandra Dickinsonnote  and Dan Russell (American voice actors currently living in London), every character on the show is played by a British actor doing an American accent.
  • In Spider-Man (1967), most of the American characters were voiced by Canadian actors.
  • In the late 1940s, Walt Disney, too busy to voice Mickey Mouse anymore, handed the duties of voicing the character to the Disney Studios' resident sound effects man James MacDonald, who was born in Scotland but moved to America when he was only six months old.
    • Along the same lines, in the newest Mickey Mouse series of 2013, Mickey is voiced by Canadian-born Chris Diamantopoulos, rather than his usual voice actor (American) Bret Iwan, who was given the role after (American) Wayne Allwine died in 2009.
    • Also Disney-related: the late Alan Young (Canadian) was Mickey's voice on the original Mickey's Christmas Carol record (he was also Scrooge, but you knew that).
  • All the voice actors in Dude, That's My Ghost! are British.
  • Count Duckula from the Cosgrove Hall TV Series of the same name is voiced by British actor, David Jason.
  • Speaking of Cosgrove Hall, we have Rocky and Bella from Avenger Penguins who are voiced by British voice actors, Rob Rackshaw and Jimmy Hibbert. Marlon and several female characters averted this trope as they're voiced by Michael Mc Shane (who is American) and Lorelei King (who is American born British) respectively.
  • In Richard Williams' anti-smoking ads featuring Superman, Superman and Jimmy Olsen are voiced by British actors.
  • The French cartoon Wakfu was dubbed into English, featuring Manchester native Ross Grant using an American accent to voice Sir Percedal.
  • The entire voice cast on I Got a Rocket are Australian. Jamie Oxenbould, however, voices the main kid, Vinnie Q, in his native accent.
  • The majority of the voice actors in Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat are either Canadian or were Asians living in Canada at the time (some of the voice actors are American though).
  • Toad Patrol has a Canadian cast, with the exception of Long John Baldry who was British-born.
  • In Baby Sharks Big Show, English actor Luke Youngblood voices American-accented William.
  • The Secret Show: Victor Volt, who is American, is voiced by the Canadian-British Alan Marriott.
  • Parodied in American Dad! episode "She Swill Survive". At the end of the episode, Stan and Hayley's Animated Actors give a speech to the viewers. Hayley's "actress" Kate Fagan, speaks with an Australian accent when out of character.

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