Now leave the room and you'll find him in the corridor fixing a panel.
"A completely awesome voice actor with a voice so manly it instantly claims the virginity of all men and women who hear it." There's no doubt that Steven Jay Blum is the American equivalent of
Norio Wakamoto.
Blum is notable for his
incredibly versatile range, though his most well-known is his
Guttural Growler voice. He can play just about any role from heroes, to villains, even to the just plain weird. His most notable role is Spike Spiegel from
Cowboy Bebop, giving the show
Superlative Dubbing status (surpassing even the already famous
Koichi Yamadera. WOW!) He is the voice of TOM for the character's second, third, fourth and
fifth incarnations of
Cartoon Network's
Toonami programming block, Leeron from
Gurren Lagann, as well as the title character of
Wolverine and the X-Men. He's
worked with Wendee Lee a few times as well. He's equally known for having a ludicrous number of roles in the
same work at times, with some videogames having him voice so many extras that it seems as if you've stepped into some bizarre World of Steve Blums, which actually happens in a recent G.I. Joe animated feature.
According to
The Other Wiki, Steve Blum has also worked under a handful of known aliases, and
the page
contains many more examples of his work. Or you can go straight for the
four hundred and fifty-one roles listed on
his IMDB page.
He's shown to be good friends with
Vic Mignogna (as their con appearances and
Real Fans of Genius Videos can attest to), and regards
Wendee Lee as one too.Has a
Twitter account. In April and May of 2012 he used it to lead the charge to charge to Bring Toonami back on the air. Which was announced as successful on May 16.
A few of the characters he has voiced are found
here.
Notable roles from Steve Blum:
- Sergei in Asura's Wrath
- Joseph "Super Joe" Gibson in Bionic Commando (sequel).
- Spike Spiegel in Cowboy Bebop
- Kazuma in S Cryed
- Mugen in Samurai Champloo
- Roger Smith in The Big O
- Dhalsim in Street Fighter II V
- Gale in Digital Devil Saga
- The Thugs-4-Less Leader in Ratchet & Clank Going Commando.
- Grunt, Red Shirt Wilson, The Shadow Broker and about half the crewmen in Mass Effect 2
- Orochimaru, Zabuza, The Third Kazekage, and various minor characters in Naruto
- He's the voice of any male protagonist in Guild Wars: Prophecies and Factions, As well as Justiciar Habilon of the White Mantle.
- He's also to do the voice Rytlock Brimstone, the leader of the Charr in Guild Wars 2.
- Jericho in Tribes: Vengeance.
- Master Contra in Neo Contra
- Gene in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
- Ramon Galvez Mena in Peace Walker
- Dark Star in No More Heroes
- Walnut the Bounty Hunter in Phantom Brave
- Black War Greymon, Hawkmon's Baby forms, and all 3 of Veemon's Armor forms in Digimon Adventure 02
- Jack Cayman in MadWorld
- Sun Jian and Xiahou Yuan in Dynasty Warriors 4 & 5.
- Guan Yu in Kessen II
- Kyoshiro Tohdoh in Code Geass
- Leeron in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (betcha didn't see THAT one coming)
- Shin in Fist of the North Star
- Shizuma Kusanagi in Real Bout High School
- Has voiced Killer Croc in Batman: Arkham Asylum and Lego Batman, where he also voiced several other characters in the latter, such as The Joker, Two-Face, Batman himself, and Killer Moth.
- Do note that all characters in the latter are Speaking Simlish.
- He also voiced the majority of the nameless guards and thugs in Asylum.
- Captain Bartlett in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War.
- In Psychonauts, voiced the Tiger in Black Velvetopia and the horde of
government agents plumbers grieving widows G-men in The Milkman Conspiracy. Because of the G-men, he may well have the single largest speaking role in the game, aside from Richard Horvitz. - Makoto Shishio in Rurouni Kenshin
- Otsdarva/Maximillian Thermidor in Armored Core: For Answer
- The Laughing Man in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Father Denis in The Saboteur
- Wolverine in any Marvel Universe media from the video game X-Men Legends onwards (except for the X-Men movies, obviously)
- Jamie in Megas XLR
- Duke, Roadblock, Zartan and about half a dozen others in G.I. Joe: Resolute.
- Green Goblin and Chameleon in The Spectacular Spider-Man
- T.O.M. 2 and onward (1 was Sonny Strait), the narrator of Toonami.
- The Vindicare Assassin and Scout Sergeant Cyrus in Dawn of War and Dawn Of War II, respectively.
- Also from Dawn Of War II, he voices Eliphas the Inheritor and Techmarine Martellus.
- The American Commander voiceover for Company of Heroes.
- Eikichi Onizuka and a bunch of incidentals in Great Teacher Onizuka
- Vincent Valentine in Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus
- Heatblast, Vilgax, and Ghostfreak/Zs'Skayr in Ben 10
- Sid of the Vultures in Full Throttle, in a very early role
- Balladbird Lee in the Gungrave anime, Fangoram and Bunji Kugashira in Gungrave Overdose
- The badass Bangaa bounty hunter Ba'Gamnan from Final Fantasy XII
- Ares in God Of War
- Chen Shin in Planetes
- Duelo McFile in Vandread
- Captain Foley in Call of Duty and Tank Dempsey, REAL AMERICAN HERO!!!! of Call of Duty's Nazi Zombies maps.
- The generic Sabbat vampires and the Tzimisce Andrei in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.
- Jim Skylark in Gate Keepers
- Zaka, Karl Landzaat, and Nils Daerden in Valkyria Chronicles
- Alex Cunningham in IGPX Immortal Grand Prix
- A few dwarves and "ASSCHABS!" Oghren in Dragon Age.
- He's also First Enchanter Irving.
- German scientist Ludger Brink in The Dig
- Smytus (DESTROYER OF WORLDS!) in My Life as a Teenage Robot
- He also plays Cannan, The Professor, and Sellers in Xenosaga Episode III
- He was almost all of the random Marine voices in Quake IV. And this did indeed include Steve-to-Steve conversations.
- Captain Cold and Heat Wave in Batman The Brave And The Bold
- Monkey Yellow in Ape Escape 3 (and you thought Leeron was weird?)
- Schuenzeit Baren in Magna Carta 2
- Vincent in Last Exile
- Professor Nebraska in Trigun
- Barricade, Shockwave, Cliffjumper, and the Narrator in Transformers: War for Cybertron
- Collins and Moses in Blood+
- Darcia in Wolf's Rain
- Starscream in Transformers Prime
- Corporal Buzz in the 1998 BattleZone
- Brad Hawk in Urban Reign
- Jack Shepard in Lost: Via Domus
- Kyohei Kadota in Durarara!!
- Grayson Hunt in Bulletstorm
- Cliff in Dead Rising
- Lieutenant Colonel Burns in Vanquish
- Male troll Player Characters in World of Warcraft.
- Rebel Alliance engineers in Star Wars Battlefront.
- Garcia Hotspur in Shadows Of The Damned
- Yakky Doodle in Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law (and you thought Yellow Monkey was weird?...)
- Several one-shot characters (most noticeably Utopia) from Regular Show.
- Captain Marshall and Phallinx Hagar in Rage
- The Zombie voice option in Saints Row The Third.
- Andronikos Revel, Sergeant Boran, a Separatist Commander on Ord Mantell, Baron Deathmark, and many others in Star Wars: The Old Republic.
- Amon in The Legend Of Korra.
- Did some English dubbing for the Sergei Brodov film, Nomad. He was the wily Jungar shaman.
- Vault 11 citizen Harry in Fallout New Vegas.
- Heatwave in Transformers Rescue Bots.
- Jake Martinez in Tiger & Bunny.
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Also,
it's pronounced BLOOM,
bub.
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