Need a good voice for a
Jerkass? Hire this guy.
Troy Baker is a voice actor from Texas whose forte seems to be playing
assholes, be they heroic or villainous. On the other hand, though, he's also good at playing
comedic characters, even though some of them
just might end up being the former when provoked.
Recently he has been doing voiceover work in California and with this change his forte has switched to playing
Magnificent Bastards. If he voices a character like this, expect a character voiced by
Johnny Yong Bosch to oppose him. Also seems to like playing a
Fake Brit, generally either the
Evil Brit or
The Mean Brit *
- Terrance Brooke, as well as additional voices, in Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Lt. Col. Frank Archer in Fullmetal Alchemist
- Schneizel el Britannia in Code Geass
- Sol Badguy in Guilty Gear 2: Overture
- Jin Kariya in Bleach
- Action Bastard in Shin Chan
- Abel Nightroad in Trinity Blood (Who is the nicest guy in the world)
- Kouga Gennosuke in Basilisk
- Yuri Lowell in Tales of Vesperia
- Kanji Tatsumi in Persona 4
- November 11 in Darker than Black
- Excalibur in Soul Eater
- Snow Villiers in Final Fantasy XIII
- Zuuma in Slayers Revolution
- Yun in Mana Khemia 2 Fall of Alchemy
- Akatsuki Kain in Vampire Knight
- Van Kleiss and Biowulf in Generator Rex
- Kazkis Proxy in Ergo Proxy
- Madarao and Kaguro in Kekkaishi
- Markus Vaughn in Trauma Center
- Yamato and Pain in Naruto
- Random Army Rangers in Modern Warfare 2
- Jetfire in Transformers: War for Cybertron, really playing against type; he was also Zeta Prime.
- Makoto Kawazu in Desert Punk
- Mitsunari Ishida in Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes (Where half of his lines are packed with subtext and the other half screamed at the top of his lungs. It's glorious.)
- Espio the Chameleon in Sonic the Hedgehog (2010-current)
- Vincent Brooks in Catherine
- Logan Thackeray in Guild Wars 2
- Two-Face and Robin in Batman: Arkham City
- Booker DeWitt in Bioshock Infinite
- Alec Mason in Red Faction: Guerilla
- One of the voices for The Boss in Saints Row 3
- Appropriately, as Sgt. Matt Baker in Brothers in Arms
- Lord Valvatorez in Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten, where he really puts those chords to good use.
- James in the Xbox 360/PS3 version of Silent Hill 2
- Nova in Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3
- Zenith in Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Whirlwind, Clay Quartermain, Grey Gargoyle, Blizzard, Ulik, Faradei, Groot, and Michael Korvac in Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes
- Kai Leng in Mass Effect 3
- Siris in Infinity Blade
- Pyrrhon, and Arlon in Kid Icarus: Uprising
- Migrant AC, Zodiac #3 and the second computer voice in Armored Core 5
Tropes Associated With Troy Baker
- Adorkable
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
- Cloudcuckoolander: Excalibur definitely counts.
- Mr. Fanservice: Admit it, he's very cute.
- As of now, he has a core fan club
of 35 people, only three of whom are male. - He also tends to play these characters, regardless of whether they're assholes or not.
- Evil Sounds Deep - Disaster averted 'cause the man's got range.
- Heterosexual Life Partners - Lately with writer/musician Brian Foster Kane.
- Large Ham: Hammy? HAMMY?! I prefer the term sardiny
- Man of a Thousand Voices: as expected from a veteran Funimation voice actor residing in LA.
- Mean Character, Nice Actor
- Nerds Are Sexy
- Nice Hat
- Older than They Look - He's 35.
- One of Us - A few days after this TV Tropes page was posted on TB's official Facebook fanpage, he mentioned at a convention the similarities between Ganryu and Kariya, and his PTSD whenever he sees JYB. Coincidence?
- Playing Against Type - Shadow Kanji. Actual YouTube comment: "Why, Troy Baker, why?"
- If flamboyance could count as against type, then Eikichi probably counts too.
- His performance as Korvac seems to draw mostly from feelings of paranoia and fear.
- Snow Villiers is a famous example.
- Promoted Fanboy
- Self-Deprecation
- Shout Out - If you meet him at a convention, ask him for one of these. Dare you. Double dare you.
- Surreal Humor - That, or he's a bona fide Cloudcuckoolander.
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