Not quite as easy to notice, but if you listen hard enough you can hear little bits of some of his other voices in Rundas from Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
He's Ayame Sohma in Fruits Basket, and you can hear it when he goes low. Other than that, it's NOT his usual role!
Kuwabara from YuYu Hakusho, with the most distinctive voice ever...but also the ridiculously sexily-voiced Raizen, from the same anime.
His voice as Giroro in Keroro Gunso is basically his Piccolo voice. It's even lampshaded a few times.
Katey Sagal
Peg Bundy has provided the voices for Leela and Spinelli's Mom on Recess, among others.
That voice however is similar with Rie Kugimiya's small-girl voice, so one may mistake that Rie Kugimiya's character is voiced by Chiwa Saito, and vice versa.
Just think about hearing Yusuke's voice and then listening to Shin Mouri. I still look funny at my dvds.
And don't forget he was also the voice of Mello! How's that for mind-screwy?
Akira Sasanuma
Fans will be pleased to note that there is one similarity between Austria-san and Link, the Hero of Twilight; they both share the same seiyuu, the one and only Akira Sasanuma.
Reyvateil has the same distinct Tsundere voice as Houjo Reikaand the characters even have the same name. Also, quite notable are Shinku (who is also very Tsundere) as well as Velvet, who has the same voice, but much less Tsun.
She also voiced X-Chara Diamond. The normal Diamond, on the other hand, was voiced by Kanae Ito, the same voice actress as Amu— Oh great, Talking to Himself again?!
Cammy from Street Fighter IV. Also, after hearing Carl's Japanese voice in BlazBlue, you could definitely hear Sawashiro Miyuki in his voice.
Milanor's voice comes out of Kanbaru Suruga's mouth. They have the exact same pitch and occasionally the same speech patterns. One is an idiot thief. The other is a card-carrying yandere lesbian/BL fangirl/lolicon/possible troll.
He also reprises his role as Lucario in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, making it obligatory to shout "Kame-hame-HA!" whenever the player executes a Final Smash.
Sadly, we all wish that was the case. Lucario's VA in Brawl and the main anime is Bill Rogers, current voice of Brock.
Thrasher on the 80's G.I. Joe, but best known as the voice of Peter Parker/Spider-Man in his own solo, hardly-seen syndie show, the pre-cursor to Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. On an episode of Alice, Mel, dressed in a hero costume for a party, accidentally thwarts a bank robber played by Schwartz. You didn't even have to guess.
Not only did he write and narrate the openings and closings of every episode of The Twilight Zone, he also narrated the opening of Phantom of the Paradise. So, even if you think that he can't act or write, he can introduce the HELL out of stuff.
Watching Adventure Time after playing FEAR3 can be a little eerie, due to the fact that the voice actor for Finn also played the child version of PaxtonFettel.
And her voice for Mikuru is her Orihime voice, except about five times more timid. (According to maths, this means Mikuru Voice = ((Hinata Voice) + (3(older)))/(5(timid)). )
While Future Mikuru sounds like a more confident Orihime.
Reading that Stephanie Sheh does the voice for both Hinata and Naruto's Sexy Jutsu was rather amusing
She also voiced Kin.
The fact that she voices Kyrie is also amusing, since it means her love interest is Ichigo.
What is just freaking weird is any scene in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, where Mikuru is being inappropriately touched by Haruhi, so any of them. It sounds for all the world like Hinata is being molested by Tatsuki from Bleach.
Stephanie Sheh sounds quite similar in her voice acting for Dub!Orihime in Bleach and Dub!Hinata in Naruto, and the similarity is especially noticeable in that Orihime and post-timeskip Hinata have similar appearances, both struggle with issues of self-confidence, and both are in love with the main character of their respective series.
Oddly enough, on my first viewing of Haruhi Suzumiya, this led to an inversion of the trope. I heard Mikuru speak and went "Holy crap, it's Tsukasa! Just a bit more timid." While Tsukasa's VAis in Haruhi Suzumiya, she voices Yuki.Stephanie Sheh actually has a major part in Lucky Star - as AkiraKogami (!). (Who, come to think of it, sounds like Mikuru being really, really cutesy. But only when being kawaii. Her Grumpy Bear personality sounds nothing like her.)
You know what's wild? Sango is almost every Barbie you could see in a movie. Even a cutesy bratty girl who turned Ax Crazy after losing her family.
Sango's also Wanda Maximoff. And Inuyasha is her brother, Pietro. Miroku? He's Cyclops. Kagome is Nightcrawler's girlfriend, Amanda Sefton. Sesshomaru is even Professor X. Both shows were so much more fun after realizing this.
She was also one of the 12 little girls in two straight lines. Try to digest that, and then digest the fact that she's Barbie. Your head will explode!
And while he may not have been as annoying as his turian counterpart, the salarian councillor was still a credit to obstructive bureaucrats everywhere.
He was also Fai Dan. So stop asking him why the colonists of Zhu's Hope are so weird!!!
He also played a Nox in Stargate SG-1's first season. Although both his Quark role and this one are live-action, they are both aliens with elaborate costumes and makeup, and so he is rather hard to recognize (although it's possible if you know who he is).
When one plays the ClannadVisual Novel, it might be shocking to discover that Kappei is having a hard time performing menial tasks, knowing that he shares the same seiyuu with Hayate Ayasaki.
He also has a very short, uncredited cameo as the voice of Mattie's lawyer in the Coen Brothers' version of True Grit.
Michael Sinterniklaas
For maximum WTF value watch a clip of the (short-lived) dub of GaoGaiGar and you'll probably wonder if Guy will ever spontaneously shout Go Team Venture!".
Everyone who's watched that might get that same deja vu when watching Slayers Revolution, as he's confirmed to be voicing Xellos.
A Running Gag in the TV sitcom Herman's Head involved office worker Louise (played by Yeardley Smith) being told by someone she was talking to on the phone that she sounded exactly like "that Lisa Simpson character".
In Transformers Animated, the minor supervillain Professor Princess sounds like an even more grating version of Lil from Rugrats.
I don't care how she tries to disguise it, either with a Russian accent (as in Captain Planet) or a British accent (as in The Replacements or Dial M For Monkey), I know Kath Soucie's voice ANYWHERE. Okay, it is a little bit difficult to tell Phil and Lil from Nerissa...
Imagine the surprise when watching Code Geass R2 on the [adult swim] website, when Rolo had the voice of Shinji come out of his mouth.
It's kind of distracting since when he's introduced Lelouch sounded like Renton (as opposed to his usual, mostly adult sounding voice) when he's introduced, and since Rolo sounds like Shinji it makes Lelouch sound younger than him.
I was more surprised to hear murderous tykebomb Yandere Rolo sharing a voice with HanataroYamada, of all people.
Spike...and half of Evangelion's cast, are in Gunsmith Cats.
I SWEAR he voiced Milanor in Yggdra Union. The character may be more butch than Spike's standard fare, but just listen to him when he's yelling. I'd recognize that scream anywhere.
Spike seems to be all about the mechas: first, Evangelion, then Code Geass R2, and now Steambot Chronicles.
Recently played a Saburo Togusa of Durarara!!, a character that actually doesn't sound like Shinji for once. Oh, also Papillon
What? No mention of Arakune??? You failed me Internet.
He opted out of mechas and turned to cyborgs in the Battle Angel OVA of the Battle Angel Alita franchise. He played Yugo/Hugo, a maintenance worker for Dr. Ido.
And now Hubert from Tales Of Graces. Basically acts (and sounds) just like all of the arrogant young men above with the added bonuses of Tsundere and Adorkable.
Ben Stein
Ben Stein is well-known for his dull, drab monotone voice. So dull, in fact, that it's interesting, bringing mathematical paradox to mind. Among the roles in which he's alternately amused the audience/bored them to tears:
On Duckman, Stein plays Duckman's psychiatrist neighbor, who just happens to be named...Ben Stein.
On Animaniacs, Stein tormented the Warners as Francis "Pip" Pumphandle, a man prone to telling very long, very dull anecdotes in a monotone voice while following the Warners everywhere, no matter where they tried to run.
On The Fairly Oddparents, Stein voiced the incredibly dull and boring Pixies, a race of Obstructive Bureaucrats who wanted to make Fairy World as drab and lifeless as they were.
In The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion, you're pretty much sent on a world-saving quest by Captain Picard! Or as Morgan Webb put it, "When Picard says 'Quest!', I say 'How long?'"
Stewart also narrates, and sends you on a quest, in the Forgotten Realms console game Demon Stone.
Then again, Stewart does such a good job as the Emperor that it's actually easy to forget that it's him.
Stewart's stint in that role makes for an interesting case of Fridge Logic when one realizes the Emperor looked more like Patrick Stewart when he wasn't played by Patrick Stewart.
He also reprises the role of Professor X in a number of games.
He makes an interesting Great Prince of the Forest in Bambi II.
He also does commercials now such as one for Goodyear tires, and narrates the occasional documentary.
Speaking of One Piece and Dragon Ball, Sonny Strait uses a very similar voice for Usopp as he did for Krillin. Reruns of Dragon Ball Z were aired right after new episode of One Piece, so it's very easy to compare.
As the page quote lampshades, Eric Stuart has similar voices for Brock and Kaiba, as well as Gourry, though he has a completely different style when he did James, Wataki, and Meta Knight. Ironically, Yami's own VA is quite recognizable in 4Kids shows himself (especially when doing the Yami tone), because he's voiced byDAN GREEN!
Kiefer Sutherland
Jack Bauer rescues you from a Japanese POW camp in the very first mission of Call of Duty: World At War.
In an episode of Hayate the Combat Butler season 2, the cast are trapped in a dungeon. Nagi finds herself in the vicegrip of a robot, and Hayate wishes he had the power to save her. Cue dead priest Linn telling him to Image it.
Light has the same voice of Quatre of Gundam Wing. Oh, Quatre...(not to mention that insane follower Mikami's dub voice is Trowa; in the original Japanese, he's the Ohtori Kyouya to Light's Tamaki.)
Not really surprising, considering that Brad Swaile's done several notable Gundam characters, including the protagonist of the original series. And yet again, he's been tapped for more Gundam - he's the VA for Setsuna in the English dub of Gundam 00 as well...
Swaile also played Nightcrawler in X-Men Evolution. Try reconciling the fuzzy blue dude with Light Yagami.
I can top that. Brad Swaile also voices Lan from Mega Man NT Warrior. You can do a double take upon hearing that particular voice for Light, rather understandably as Lan is the ultimate personification of the Idiot Hero...not to mention twelve.
And now we have Ronove, whose relationship with Battler completely reverse the dynamic shared by Kyon and Koizumi.
And he's got white hair, an...interesting sword and gets into comical fights over food with a weird being who has no concept of proper behavior. It's not Gintoki it's Ragna the Blood Edge!
Franny's younger self is voiced by Jessie Flower, who also voices Toph on Avatar The Last Airbender. Young Franny's threats of using her martial arts skills suddenly make more sense.
You'd think Zack Saturday would behave better, knowing that Mom not only has a Flaming Sword, but those glowing green hands...not to mention that she was tough enough to take on Jerry Stiller as a dog-walking client. Not the dog owner, but as someone to be walked.
A girl who could be an older and evil version of Susie Carmichael, if not her older and evil cousin. Miranda. (Fun fact: Miranda was actually retconned as black because of her actress)
Also Maxine Gibson. Terrifingly, she also plays Mercy Graves in Superman Doomsday, there was nothing more shocking for this trooper than to see the sexy if heartless bodyguard open her mouth... and hear Maxine Gibson speaking to Lex Luthor.
She was also Numbuh 5's sister, also named Cree. It wasn't that noticeable, in that if you didn't know Cree Summers was Cree, you wouldn't think that they sounded alike.
All five of us who played Arc The Lad's sequel Twilight Of The Spirits would recognize that Cree Summer is also playing Tatjana. Odd considering Tatjana's blonde and caucasian.
And from really obscure shows: Macbeth in Project Geeker, and Chloe in the animated Sabrina.
Also does the voice of Cynder in The Legend of Spyro A New Beginning.
This Gundam fan was pretty freaked out when he realized he knew Tatewaki Kuno's seiyu from somewhere. In fact, The Other Wiki did proof he is indeed the very same as Noah Bright. Never imagined I'd ever laugh about Bright-san...
George Takei
Does the warden of the Fire Nation's prison ship in episode 1x06 of Avatar The Last Airbender sound a bit like Lieutenant Sulu, by any chance? It's no coincidence; that is indeed George Takei providing his voice.
"Sulu? What are you doing on Transformers Animated?" Answer: Voicing cyber-ninja master Yoketron.
And then it goes around full circle when Yukari Tamura voices Rika Furude, whose regular cutesy voice sounds almost exactly like Mei, and her serious voice sounds almost exactly like Mai.
Mayumi Tanaka is known primarily for playing the role of various young males in shonen anime. Hearing her play possible female romance interest Kanna Kirishima in Sakura Taisen using a voice similar to plucky male hero Monkey D. Luffy is really, really weird.
And in the Digimon Savers dub, the two newcomers to the series playing main characters also had ties to Naruto: Gaomon is Might Guy and Marcus is Iruka — that is to say, Skip Stellrecht and Quinton Flynn respectively.
Listen to the voice of James Raynor's chief engineer/mechanic/new-unit-provider, Mr. Swann. If you've played Gears of War, doesn't he sound familiar? That's right, DamonBaird is the Hyperion's engineer!
Recently, she's the voice of the floor announcer for 1 vs. 100. Having Cortana ask you what the Daikatana ads said John Romero was going to make us was a priceless moment for me.
For his leads, Mr. Templeman is often typecast to play Magnificent Bastards, for which he usually employs the same voice. It's quite interesting to find out that Kain not only has a feud going with Reed Richards and a stake in the Jade Empire arena, he is also making a bid for the throne of Ferelden.
He became a quarian admiral in Mass Effect 2 and also the enormous bastard, Dr. Gavin Archer.
Bill Thompson
Don't forget about Bill Thompson! He's the voice of Smee, The White Rabbit and Mr. Dodo, King Hubert, five different parts in Lady and the Tramp (including Jock the Scottish Terrier), Ranger Woodlore from the Humphrey the Bear series, and he even got the honor of playing Scrooge McDuck in the featurette Scrooge McDuck and Money before Alan Young came along. As for a non-Disney example, Bill Thompson is also Droopy Dog and Spike/Butch at MGM!
Taranee and Trixie really couldn't be any more different (except for a few episodes in the second season), but it's pretty easy to tell that they're voiced by the same woman.
Okay, so this VA probably isn't as well known as other examples on this page, but I definitely got a deja-vu vibe while playing BlazBlue and joked that dual-gunslinger Noel Vermilion could pass for a slightly-grown-up Nanoha Takamachi.
If you watch any anime featuring a powerful, Magnificent Bastard-style villain, or Ax Crazy maniac bad guy, chances are quite high that they will be voiced by a certain Norio Wakamoto. He has voiced many villains in his time, ranging from Cell of Dragon Ball to M. Bison of Street Fighter fame, Black Shadow in the F-Zero anime, Emperor Charles Di Britannia from Code Geass and Igniz, the final boss of King Of Fighters 2001 (and at one point, Rugal).
Norio has also voiced a select few number of good guys as well, from Lando Calrissian in the Japanese dub of Star Wars to Shuren in Fist of the North Star.
Not really good or evil, but he has also voiced a cat and a [[Nichijou wooden cube]], I kid you not. Heavy dramatic voice and all.
Someone pointed out in the Moe page that Hynden Walch, who voiced Yutaka in Lucky Star, also voiced Starfire in Teen Titans, only in a much higher pitch. Just look at about 2:35 in on this...
Nia (pre-Time Skip) = Starfire (she even talks similarly). It actually works pretty well. Though after the Time Skip she has an entirely different VA.
Princess Bubblegum and Penny Sanchez sound... exactly the same. Both hail from shows from Frederator, both hail from shows starting out cartoon shorts shows, and both are (insufferable) genius female inventors. It took watching both on DVR back to back for me to figure out that they sound exactly alike.
Oh, come on — Kronk is a nice guy — until you diss his spinach puffs!
He is also your friendly chief flight attendant in the safety video on the Soarin' over California attractions at Disney's California Adventure Park and Epcot.
Also Ed Dillinger, Sark, and the MCP (the former two live-action roles, the latter voice-only, and all those only in the original movie—reprisals of any of those roles tend to fall to Corey Burton).
The Spike TV series Deadliest Warrior is narrated by none other than David Wenham. The same David Wenham who played the narrator Dilios in 300. Yeah...
Even versatile voice actors can have this happen when they voice a lot of characters. The prolific Frank Welker is, among other roles, recognizable as Soundwave in Transformers, Darkseid in the two "Super Powers" series of Super Friends, Freddy in Scooby-Doo and Dr. Claw in Inspector Gadget.
The G1 Transformers episode "Roll For It" has a scene where Soundwave's "Excellent, Ravage!" line didn't get processed, so it sounds exactly like Dr. Claw.
And neither was it for the entirety of Revenge Of The Fallen, meaning he was pretty much Dr. Claw on a satellite. It's pretty damn effective though.
The above tropers have a talent for understatement. Frank Welker is arguably the most prolific voice actor of all times (over 90 movies, not counting TV shows). Known especially for his critter voices. Welker is listed as the number one "All Time Top 100 Stars at the Box office," not as a box office draw, but in terms of the total revenue the over 90 films he has participated in have generated. Slimer, Abu, Scooby-Doo, G1 Megatron, Mirage, Skywarp, Wheelie, Rumble/Frenzy, Scooter, Lord Nibbler (both his squeaking and talking versions), and Goddard are just some of the voices he's done. Odds are, if you've watched a cartoon in the last 40 years, you've sampled his work.
When the "critter" role on Gargoyles was being cast, another actor who was auditioning for the part said, "I'll just hold the script until Frank gets here."
And he was suggested as a cameo in the first live action Scooby Doo film, but the casting people didn't see the point, since they didn't have a clue who he actually was... Of course, when someone was needed for the creature noises, the first and only person the effects people went to was... Frank Welker!
You know you've watched way too many cartoons when you find yourself being able to recognize Welker by his animal sounds.
And speaking of Galvatron and Spock, there is one other man who has played both characters: the ever ubiquitous Frank Welker.
Dr. Zoidberg's voice was lent to a Stegosaurus in the Histeria episode "The Dawn of Time".
Red M&M, the current Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig and Woody Woodpecker, some incarnates of Stitch and Rayman, Professor Farnsworth, Zapp Brannigan, Lars Fillmore, Leo Wong, Richard Nixon's head (during two commentaries he uses Nixon's voice to say "Rubber baby buggy bumpers,") know him?
I cracked up after hearing Ellyvan during an episode of Jungle Junction since all that was missing was a Fry style wisecrack thanks to who knows how many Futurama epsiodes.
Not to mention that in Sonic Underground he did the speaking voices of all three hedgehog siblings (yes, he voiced Sonia), while their singing voices were given by different actors.
Considering how many well-known roles Dave Wittenburg is, the fact that he wasn't already mentioned surprises me...but considering that some of his roles are drastically different sounding than each other...Not everyone can make the link.
Kefka sounds an awful lot like Teddie for a few moments, doesn't he?
Heeeeey...he's a narrator on I didn't know I was pregnant and Mystery ER.
He also does the English narration for Ninja Warrior. It makes sense.
Commander Irving Vold Valeria on Wild ARMs Twilight Venom sounds like a Smug Snake!Kaoru Hanabishi. Talk about your differing personalities. Wittenberg joins another AYA alum on this series; See Michelle Ruff's entry.
Take one look at Dave Wittenberg's Wikipedia page and see how many roles he plays you actually recognize as him before reading it. I dare you.
You're telling me that Allen is the distant descendant of Sunnyside?
He also played a nameless extra of a scientist who talked to Alex Mercer during one of the Web Of Intrigue segments (specifically, the one where the real Alex mentions that he wasn't paid to feel) — I was wondering what Kakashi was doing working in the Big Applesauce. I checked the very long credits list to be sure. He's actually not listed for that one.
James Woods
CJ has to jump on board a plane and kill everyone while it's taking off? Why should he? Oh, Hades told him to. OK then.
