Hey, It's That Voice! - Television Tropes & Idioms

alt title(s): Hey Its That Voice

Both portrayed by the same actress (es).

"Hey everybody, look at me! I'm Seto Kaiba! I have a dragon fetish and I sound like Brock from Pokémon!"

—Yami, Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series

Shana: That's strange, but Taiga Aisaka is somehow no stranger to me... but why I have that feeling, I don't know.

Protagonist: Maybe because your voices seem similiar...

—Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus

So, you're sitting down, watching an animated superhero beat the snot out of a villain. The villain reels back and snarls "Is that all you've got?" at the hero. Hey... wait a second! You know that voice! It's [that character] from [that show] you love so much! And the hero, he's sounding a little familiar too...

This is the voice-actor version of Hey, It's That Guy!. While most of this trope is composed of animated examples, a few live-action versions exist.

This can be a little harder to spot than the guy on the live action show. You lose all the visual cues, and people don't always use the same "voice" when voice acting. It can also depend on the individual actor, their range, the number of things you've heard them in, and last but not least how much attention you're paying to recognizing them. If you watch enough animation, you will find your ear becoming better attuned to picking people out, even when they change their voice.

Often results in fun in the form of a voice-actor version of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon", connecting disparate characters via a chain of common voice actors. In the case of anime, this get even more complicated when playing with both Japanese and American actors.

Possible result of Pigeon Holed Voice Actor. If it happens within the show itself, it might result in a character Talking To Himself. Taken to an extreme with Actor Allusion.

Compare You Look Familiar, You Might Remember Me From. Inverse of The Other Darrin.

In an effort to avoid redundancies and give this trope some semblance of order, all voice actors have been alphabetized by their last names. If you know a voice that is not on here please add it in the appropriate place. Check IMDB

or The Other Wiki

if you don't know the name of the voice. If you want to mention a program that has multiple recognizable voices, mention it on that program or game's page. Also, some of the really big common examples of this have their own pages, to wit Megumi Hayashibara, Takehito Koyasu, Kotono Mitsuishi, Kikuko Inoue, Tomokazu Seki, Megumi Ogata, and so on. And please remember that this is for instances where a voice actor's voice is recognizable, not their resumes.

Instances of foreign dubs go to the bottom of the page.

Examples

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Don Adams

Don Adams of Get Smart fame provided the voice for the remarkably similar title character Inspector Gadget. When I found this out as a child, I was overjoyed.
- Adams' credits also include voicing Tennessee Tuxedo, another character the not-so-young might remember from their youth.

Pamela Segall Adlon

Pamela Segall Adlon is pretty much who you go to if you need a gravelly voice for a pre-pubescent boy. Bobby Hill of King of the Hill, Otto from Time Squad, Milo from The Oblongs, Shinra from Final Fantasies X and X-2, Spinelli from Recess, Andy from Squirrel Boy (and, while we're on that, Kurtwood Smith would probably count, too)... I could go on, but it'd probably take up the page.

Lori Alan

Metal Gear Solid 3 has The Boss, voiced by Lori Alan, who's much more recognizable for her work in various TV commercials, such as Sears and JCPenney. This troper gets nostalgic visions of pillows and bed linens every time she opens her mouth, which could be a bit narmy when she's telling you how to grab someone by surprise and take them down with an extra-violent handshake.
- She also voiced Pearl from SpongeBob SquarePants and Diane Simmons (as well as various bit parts) in Family Guy.

J. Grant Albrecht

Although Crypto sounds like Jack Nicholson, he doesn't voice him. The End does.

Alan Alda

Listening to the audiobook edition of World War Z, one may be surprised during the credits to realize that "That guy who sounds like Alan Alda" actually is Alan Alda.

Yuu Asakawa

Yuu Asakawa 's fairly deep voice is pretty recognizable, especially as the fairly quiet, occasionally badass servant spirit Rider, and the fairly quiet, occasionally badass schoolgirl Sakaki. Or Chou'un Shiryuu, who is not using her eyes too much like Rider.
- Or if you want her in 'alluring, seductive mode', look no further than two of GONZO's mecha anime, she is the voice of both 'seductress' blonde with either giant boobs to squeeze your head or outfit so sexy it hurts: Mizuki Tachibana and Jura Basil Elden
- And let's not forget the tsundere samurai girl Motoko.
- You can also hear her sing anything in both English and Japanese as Megurine Luka.

Ed Asner

Ed Asner, who upon entering the field of voice acting has managed to appear in Freakazoid!, The Boondocks, Batman: The Animated Series, Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Gargoyles, Captain Planet and The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, all essentially voicing the exact same character: Ed Asner.
- ...and Granny Goodness in Justice League. Who's still essentially Ed Asner.
  - And now Pixar's Up.
He's also Master Vrook.

Eleanor Audley

How has no one mentioned Eleanor Audley? You know her as The Wicked Stepmother and Maleficent.

Greg Ayres

This trope must happen a lot with Greg Ayres. As an adult actor that just happens to have a naturally high voice, if ADV Films has a boy (or child-like male) they need to be filled (particularly if it'd be a challenging role for an actual child)? Chances are he will play it. In fact, he's so well known for playing these sorts of roles that he tends to encounter disbelief when he says he's the gravelly-voiced Hideki in Nerima Daikon Brothers.

Jim Backus

The first time this happened for this troper was when his four-year-old brain tried to wrap around the "fact" that Mr Magoo and Thurston Howell III of Gilligan's Island were the same person—-when your vision is bad and you've got paragnosia, voices are most of how you identify people and other persons.

Diedrich Bader

Batman is Hoss Delgado and Oswald.
He also played the much more toned down Zee in The Zeta Project.

Christian Bale

This troper couldn't help but exclaim halfway through the dub version of Howl's Moving Castle: "Howl is Batman!"
- This Troper saw both movies on the same day.
  - Yeah, well, try watching the green slime scene, then Newsies, then Dark Knight. I cannot take Batman seriously anymore.
  - Then you my friend need to meet Patrick Bateman.
- Christian Bale also played Jesus in a TV movie. Think about that for a minute.
  - You mean Batman died for my sins?! I'M SORRY BATMAN!
- Don't forget, he was also in The Prestige with Hugh Jackman.
- Make that "Howl is John Connor!"

Dee Bradley Baker

Speaking of American Dad, turns out Klaus is voiced by Viewtiful Joe.
- And Gravemind. Yes, a talking German goldfish is voiced by the same guy that voiced the Hive Mind of the most horrible thing in the galaxy.
  - Who, on the other hand, also voiced a semi-aquatic egg-laying mammal of ACSHUN!

Troy Baker

The very moment this troper heard Troy Baker as Schneizel el Britannia, the first thing that came to mind was Colonel Frank Archer.
This Troper choked on he drink when she realizes that Gennosuke was also Father Abel Nightroad.
- This troper can't vouch for how similar they sound (having never played Bleach: Shattered Blade), but finds it rather interesting that Li Xingke's English VA is apparently the same one that played Grimmjow Jaegerjacques.
Yuri Lowell from Tales Of Vesperia has the same VA as Markus Vaughn from Trauma Center and Matt Baker (fittingly enough, because tha VA's name is Troy Baker) from the Brothers in Arms series.

(Long) John William Baldry

This troper watched Reboot and was surprised to hear Dr. Robotnik's voice coming out of Gavin Capacitor's mouth...both are voiced by the late Long John Baldry, and both also happen to be Large Hams who sport long red mustaches.
- I guess he did give himself a prrromotion!
- There's another joke we could make here, but it would just be in bad taste. So don't you dare make it, you...you...DOUBLE USER.

Dante Basco

Dante Basco voiced Zuko and Jake Long, fueling shipping fantasies everywhere.
- Ru...fi...O!

Michael Bell

Michael Bell, who plays Raziel in Legacy Of Kain has also done the voicework for The Fear, Peter Jacob, Haer'Dalis, amongst many many other roles.
- Two I have to mention, one live action : Animated : Lance of the Lion Voltron ; Live : The amoral souvenir selling chopper pilot in a MASH episode 'Souvenirs'. Hearing his voice on that ep drove this troper crazy til he made the connection.

H. Jon Benjamim

H. Jon Benjamin as Coach McGuirk, Carl, a giant moth monster (man),The Devil, a can of vegetables, even an omnipotent master who hides in a necromancer's daughter's closet...

Jeff Bennett

This guy is in goddamn everything. Among his many credits are The Batman, Dave the Barbarian, Freakazoid!, Gargoyles, Johnny Bravo and The Spectacular Spiderman. In Gargoyles alone This Troper is fairly confident he played just about every incidental character that wasn't a woman.

Jodi Benson

If you're one of the rare people who watched the '90s Spider-Man cartoon BEFORE Disney's The Little Mermaid, you're not going to be able to NOT think Ariel fell in love with Spidey. She even has red hair!
- Jodi Benson also voiced Millenia in the RPG Grandia 2: A sassy (and demonic) redhead with a taste for men.

Paul Bettany

Silas? What are you doing working with Tony Stark? (Paul Bettany did both Silas and Jarvis).

Amy Birnbaum

Of particular note here might be the voice actress Amy Birnbaum. If nothing else, she's definitely not typecasting herself, having played many varying types of character. Her list to date includes Tea Gardner in Yu-Gi-Oh, Lilly in Shaman King, several characters in Sonic X including anime-exclusive character Cosmo, Stella in Winx Club, Scarlett and the Baroness in GI Joe Sigma 6 and probably a few others we're not aware of.

Mel Blanc

If you've watched a lot of Looney Tunes shorts you could pick up Mel Blanc's voice almost anywhere, for example Private Snafu, Secret Squirrel, and Heathcliff sound like Bugs Bunny, Mr. Spacely sounds like Yosemite Sam, Barney Rubble sounds like Hugo the Abominable Snowman and Hula Hoop sounds like Marvin the Martian.
In addition to being the voice of just about ALL the classic Warner Bros. animated characters (except the ones voiced by June Foray), he was Barney Rubble, Mr. Spaceley, Heathcliff (the cat), Twiki the robot, Tucker the mouse, Speed Buggy, Jack Benny's famous Maxwell car, the Monkees' car, Private Snafu, and dozens more.

BRIAN BLESSED!

The game may not have been great, and the actor could've been missed due to his uncharacteristic un-hammy performance; but the Admiral in Warhammer 40,000 Firewarrior was voiced by BRIAN BLESSED.

Steven Blum

Despite working under several different aliases, David Lucas / Steven Jay Blum / Spike Spiegel's voice is always recognizable when voicing adult male character (though he does have a significant range outside of that).
- Exception: Leeron.
- It's JP sounding much more suggestive than he should.
  - Or Jamie, but even shriller (Monkey thing!)
- Leeron aside, this troper has had repeated notable experiences with Hey Its That Voice humbly deemed "Blum Moments", tending to not expect it: Strait Jacket, Code Geass, the Street Fighter Alpha movie, Wolverine... he also just had to pull a Spike in his farewell to Toonami.
- Since Blum does so many kinds of voice acting, it's always weird to hear Spike or Todoh try to sell me something in a TV comercial.
Steve Blum is the voice for Captain Bartlett in Ace Combat 5. So, essentially, you're flying wingman for Spike Spiegel...
- He's also in a number of anime series (This troper has ID'd a naval officer in Ghost in the Shell and a random merc in Trigun) and as the commander in Company of Heroes and Star Wars: Empire at War. A quick browse of his IMDB page shows that he has been rather busy over the years...
  - It's a rarity these days to find an anime or game without Blum's voice acting, that's how prolific he is. Off the top of this Troper's head, he also voices at least 5 characters in the .Hack games (both series) and Daelan Red Tiger in the original Neverwinter Nights campaign. She also did a facepalm upon recognizing him as the voice of Wolverine in the original X-Men Legends game.
- This troper, out of nostalgia, popped in the original Rugrats game for the PS 1 when his friends came over. When I was playing the final level as Reptar, the reporter voiceover sounded oddly familiar. Checked the credits, saw Steve Blum, laughter ensued.

Tom Bodett

Tom Bodett is somewhat known as a radio personality, very well known as the voice of Motel 6 commercials ("We'll leave the light on for ya."), and also the narrator of several Animaniacs segments ("Good Idea, Bad Idea", "Mime Time", and The Movie, Wakko's Wish).

Powers Boothe

Powers Boothe played the visionary genius Gorilla Grodd on Justice League, then was an ambitious politician on 24. It's funny to hear Grodd trying to govern the country.

David Boreanaz

This troper thought Leon Squall in Kingdom Hearts sounded awfully damn familiar and couldn't figure out why. It got to the point where it was driving me nuts, so I looked it up on Wikipedia and was all Hey! No wonder- it's Booth and Angel!
He also did the voice for Hal "Green Lantern" Jordan in 2008's Justice League The New Frontier.

Johnny Yong Bosch

Ichigo Kurosaki, Vash the Stampede, Itsuki Koizumi, and Lelouch Lamperouge are all voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch, the main differences being they are angry, goofy, calm, and... a strange combination of the first and third, respectively. You might also remember him from his live-action role of Adam Park.
- Let's not forget Kiba, Renton Thurston, Nero (whom he also did the mocap for), Kaneda, Rossiu, Shuusuke Fuji, and Emil. The last one is a weird case, in that he usually sounds like Renton, except when he's using the power of Ratatosk; then he sounds like Ichigo/Lelouch.
  - The constantly suffering Albert de Morcerf from Gankutsuou and Adachi from Persona 4. He also provides the voice bits for the Main character.
  - He's also the voice of Rush Sykes.
- And maggot-obsessed Reiji from Gate Keepers.
On the subject of Valkyrie Profile 2, HOW has NO ONE noticed Ichigo playing the role as a villain?
Go watch an episode of Trigun in the English version. Pay attention to Vash's voice. Then go play any of the three .hack//GU games, again in English. Surprise! Johnny Yong Bosch is there as well, playing another gun-toting, lovable character named Kuhn. The resemblance between the two is actually almost eeire.
He also played Archer and PJ in Ace Combat 5 and Zero respectively. They actually sound the same in both roles.
Strangely enough in Persona4, this troper can recognize the usually cheerful Guy Cecil from TalesoftheAbyss in Adachi, yet the sister of this troper can see that darker and rougher side of the former in the Protagonist.

Chris Britton

Soichiro Yagami is voiced by Chris Britton, who also voiced Mr. Sinister in the 90s animated X Men series.

Andrea Browen

And on the topic of FFVII, here's a wierd internal one: In Advent Children there is a random little girl voiced by Andrea Browen, those who have played 'Crisis Core will reconize her as Aerith's new VA.

Clancy Brown

Clancy Brown you may recognize as Lex Luthor.
- Or the prison guard from The Shawshank Redemption...
- Or the Kurgan.
- Or Mr. Krabs.
- Or Long Feng. Or the Dark Dragon.
He's also the voice of Raiden in Mortal Kombat Defenders Of The Realm - a role that was played by Christopher Lambert in The Movie.
- And Captain George Stacy.
- And Captain Black, Ratzo, and Melvin the Moose.
- And in a double shot, he voiced Career Sergeant Zim in the Starship Troopers animated series Roughnecks, *after* playing the role live in Verhoeven's film.
  - This troper found it ~~funny~~ disturbing that Mr. Freeze in The Batman was Clancy Brown, while the Penguin was Tom Kenny. So essentially, in one episode, SpongeBob was arguing with Mr. Krabs.
- He was also the voice of Doctor Neo Cortex from Crash Bandicoot 2 to Crash Nitro Kart.

Steve Burton

Understandably, all the Final Fantasy VII characters in Kingdom Hearts II are voiced by their Advent Children VA's. However, Steve Burton is an inversion, since he was also Cloud's VA in KH1 before his role in AC. The chronology might be dodgy, but it's possible he was cast as Cloud in AC because of his work in Kingdom Hearts.
Considering the voice he uses for Cloud is his real voice, it's a bit... distracting every time Burton talks on General Hosiptal

Pat Cashman

Does anybody recognize the voice of the Super Smash Bros Brawl announcer? That is Pat Cashman, who is best known as the narrator / camera voice in Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Dan Castellaneta

Try watching the Genie in the series Spin Off of Disney's Aladdin and NOT think of Homer Simpson.
- Also the titular character in the Earthworm Jim animated series.

Toran Caudell

King Bob and Wolfgang are the same person.

Christine Cavanaugh

As long as we're on the subject of Sonic the Hedgehog, Christine Cavanaugh's divine drawl as Bunnie was pretty darn evident in her turn as Rugrats' Chuckie, just for starters. The only reason we don't hear more of her is her retirement a few years back.
- She also guest starred on The X-Files.

Daveigh Chase

Demonic Creepy Child Samara is also the naive Chihiro and slightly Heroic Sociopath -ic Lilo - within the same year no less.

Isshin Chiba

If you ever wonder why Tekken's Jin has such a familiar Evil Laugh, you've probably played the Jojos Bizarre Adventure arcade fighter: both are voiced by Chiba Isshin, who is so good that he pulled off the Kiai without any modification.

Cameron Clarke

Cameron Clarke, most famous for his role as Liquid Snake in Metal Gear Solid, voices so many characters in so many games that it's slightly surprising to play an RPG without hearing his voice somewhere along the line. Hell, he is this trope.
- He works okay as an elf, but a dragon? Not so much.
  - As a Turtle on the other hand, he's perfect.
  - And as a smarmy Sith arbiter, hoo boy.
  - Too bad his role as Simba in Kingdom Hearts wasn't too great.
- This troper had considerable trouble taking Andrei Ulmeyda in Killer7 seriously at first...because he was a black man with an afro and a bright yellow shirt who spoke in the exact same tone of voice as Liquid. That may have been intentional, though.
- When you hear Juji Kabane's voice in Gungrave: Overdose, you're hearing an angrier, slightly Blood Knight-y Kratos. This troper was sad when Juji didn't yell, "JUDGEMENT!" or "Don't overdo it—FIRST AID!"
- And let's not forget that he's the Geohound Ryudo in Grandia II.
- This Troper believes that Cam Clarke is to Tales games as barrels and crates are to first-person shooters.
- He voices both the Big Bad and the leader of The Big Damn Cavalry in the second Veggie Tales flick, The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything. Which lead to very strange images in This Troper's head seeing his own Blood Elf taunting Larry the Cucumber. It doesn't help that he does the exact same intonation between all three roles.
- He's also Simba in many versions after the first film.
- Not forgetting he fought the Eternal Darkness as Anthony.
- Or romanced the Spirit Monk as Sky.
- Or the father of everyone's favorite Blind Earthbender.

Kevin Clash

This troper was recently watching clips of the show Dinosaurs on Youtube, and was shocked to realize that the baby (of "Not the Mama!" fame) had the same voice as Elmo.
- That's Kevin Clash, who's done tons of other Muppet work, including an attempt at Sam The Eagle in one of the recent TV movies.

Greg Cipes

Beast Boy, Chiro and Numbuh 1's future son. What do all these three boys have in common?

Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert (yes, that Stephen Colbert) gets around a bit. In addition to a few animated segments on The Daily Show and the Tek Jansen cartoons on The Colbert Report, he voices Ace of The Ambiguously Gay Duo, several characters in Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law, has guest-starred in The Venture Brothers and American Dad, and (naturally) The Simpsons (as lawyer Colby Krause).
- And now the unnamed President in Monsters Vs Aliens, who may or may not be his Colbert Report character in a hypothetical future.

Gary Cole

Kim Possible's dad. Harvey Birdman, and Mr. Lundberg.

Townsend Coleman

Sentinel Prime on Transformers Animated is voiced by Townsend Coleman, better known to many veteran cartoon viewers as The Tick. Obviously they know all about it, as Sentinel is blue, super-strong, somewhat dim, prone to odd turns-of-phrase, and has an epic chin (The animators even admitted that they hadn't even designed Sentinel until they found out Coleman was voicing him). Unlike Tick, however, Sentinel is an insufferable jerk and Optimus Prime's old rival from the academy.

Christopher Collins (Latta)

From the original series, Starscream was voiced by Chris Latta, who was also the voice of Cobra Commander in GI Joe.

Jeffrey Combs

Besides numerous roles in horror movies and several Star Trek series, he has lent his voice to The Question in Justice League Unlimited (the ultimate conspiracy theorist — "The plastic tips at the ends of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister!" — as well as Huntress' boy toy), and before that he filled in as the Scarecrow in The New Batman Adventures (the tail end of Batman The Animated Series).

Justin Cook

This Troper noted that Justin Cook lent his distinctive vocal cords to an episode of Fullmetal Alchemist. It was really, really hard not to think of Yusuke Urameshi that whole time.
- This troper, who heard Jusin Cook as Dietrich from Trinity Blood first, keeps expecting Yusuke to suddenly go insane and try to destroy the world.
  - This troper had the same reaction when she heard Hatsuharu speak for the first time.
  - Apparently, Chiba (his character in BECK) actually calls out a guy named Yusuke, this troper started laughing immediately
  - On the other hand, he voiced Bellamy for One Piece and this troper swears everyone who didn't know it was him thought it was Brian Drummond.

Danny Cooksey

Danny Cooksey. First he's a kid millionaire, then a former child star, later a softie barbarian and now Jack Spicer.
- Speaking of Jack, he worked for Wuya AND Santana Of The Dead.
  - Also Stoop Kid, though this troper still just calls him Budnick.

Peter Cullen

Peter Cullen has not only voiced Optimus Prime since the '80s — during most of that time, he also provided the voice of Eeyore in Disney's various Pooh offerings. Once you're aware of that, you soon realize that the only difference is one of attitude, not timbre.
"Thanks for noticing me," said the forty-foot robot.
Speaking of Knight Rider, the voice of KITT's Evil Twin KARR was provided by none other than Peter Cullen, an actor who would later become very well known for voicing another vehicle of radically different morality.
Not to mention helping out another giant robot who needed a narrator, and then a commander for its second incarnation. "From Days Of Long Ago...From Uncharted Regions Of The Galaxy...Comes A Legend...The Legend Of...Voltron, Defender Of The Universe." To use the vehicle analogy again, that intro is like the supremely cool hood ornament on a sweet set of wheels.
- Cullen was not only the narrator, but also voiced Coran in the Golion series (Lion Voltron) and Commander Hawkins in the Dairugger series (Vehicle Voltron)
Cullen also did most of the commercials for Toonami, and still announces for Cartoon Network from time to time.

Jim Cummings

Jim Cummings, who plays Minsc in Baldurs Gate, also did Darkwing Duck.
- Let's not forget his time as a hunny-loving bear (and Tigger, too, after Paul Winchell retired).
There's Darkwing Duck plus his Evil Twin Negaduck and annoying neighbor Herb Muddlefoot; Winnie The Pooh ; Monterey Jack, Fat Cat, and Professor Nimnul in Chip And Dale Rescue Rangers; Louie and Don Karnage in Tale Spin, Razoul the Captain of the guards in Aladdin; the laughing hyena Ed in The Lion King; Bonkers and his pal Lucky Piquel; Pete in Goof Troop, Mickey's Three Musketeers, and House Of Mouse, as well as the Big Bad Wolf in the latter; the Tasmanian Devil in recent years; Fuzzy Lumpkins in Powerpuff Girls, the Shredder in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Dr. Robotnik in the darker Sonic The Hedgehog cartoon... Check the list; you know this guy's voice.
- Cummings does a lot of work on Codename: Kids Next Door, as well. One of his roles is even an affectionate parody of Minsc: an office worker-turned-berserker named Moosk.
  - One of his most tapped impressions is Sterling Holloway; in addition to Holloway characters Pooh and Kaa (in Jungle Cubs and The Jungle Book 2), he's also been used in Animaniacs as a narrator of "touching, heartfelt stories."
The top of this page mentions playing a voice-actor version of the Six Degrees game. Since Jim Cummings played Steele opposite Kevin Bacon's Balto, you can play the original version as well.

Tim Curry

Tim Curry has played his fair share of animated villains. You may recognise his distinctive laugh from such films as Fern Gully and The Pebble and the Penguin.
- Don't forget Professor Calamitous and Nigel Thornberry (Nigel Thornberry is one of the few characters Tim Curry provided the voice for who happened to be a good guy.)
Tim Curry, again, has been in almost any kids' cartoon you care to name. Most obviously The Wild Thornberrys or Hey Arnold, The Little Mermaid, Gargoyles, Captain Planet, and the Rugrats movie, to pick a random half-dozen.
For those who don't watch cartoons and decide to check them out, you will not stop imagining any of said characters above in fishnets, corsets, and heels as you watch.

Jim Dale

Harry Potter fans will probably recognize the distinctive voice of Jim Dale, who has done the American audiobooks of the series and also lent his voice to various DVD extras. This Troper was a little surprised to find his voice on Pushing Daisies.

Tim Daly

A rare live action/animated crossover. This troper has a hard time watching Tim Daly in Private Practice without thinking "hey, it's Superman! He'll save the day!"

William Daniels

William Daniels, best known to tropers below a certain age as Mr. Feeney on Boy Meets World and to tropers above a certain age as Dr. Craig on St. Elsewhere was not credited for his role as the voice of KITT in Knight Rider. This troper didn't make the connection until hearing him in the even earlier 1776.

Keith David

The Arbiter is a Black Starship Captain, and Goliath.
- And Okkotonushi the boar-god...at least in the dubbed version.
- As well as an intergalactic Imam named... Imam.
The voice of his guest villain character in Justice League episodes "Hearts and Minds" could be mistaken for Goliath's (ignoring the evilness)...
- Yeah... as in... hell... spawn...
- This troper was watching a documentary in history class. Five minutes in, she went 'Holy crap! The narrator's Goliath!' Made it much more entertaining, I assure you.
  - Keith David also wants to know if you're username ladiesman217 (Barricade, the Decepticon police car).

Eddie Deezen

Ned the Buenos Natchos Manager from Kim Possible, is the exact same voice as the fast food manager in first season of Chuck.
- Not to mention Mandark, and the Know-It-All from The Polar Express. This troper began to age rapidly when he realized that, to kids from here on in, he will be better (and perhaps only) known as the Know-It-All than either Mandark or especially, The Primal Nerd from Grease.

Dana Delaney

The voice for Wing Commander Academy character Gwen "Archer" Bowman was provided by Dana Delaney.

Grey DeLisle

This troper actually pointed at the screen at that point and shouted "OMG, it's Azula! This Random Asari diplomat must be trying to trick me somehow!". He laughed muchly when it turned out he was right.
Jacqueline Natla is voiced by Grey Delisle in both Tomb Raider "Anniversary" and "Underworld". Natla, especially in "Underworld", sounds exactly like Azula.
This troper did a double-take the first time she heard Azula talk, she never expected the voice actress for Mandy and Vicky to show up on Avatar The Last Airbender.
And don't forget that she's also the current Daphne...and Frankie!
And Sam!
Who is, creepily enough, also Emily Elizabeth Howard on Clifford the Big Red Dog.
And also Betty Brant. Which made this troper whimper and curl into the fetal position when she found out, because Azula scares her. I can't hear Betty's voice anymore without having...issues.
She's the Wasp in the Ultimate Avengers movies too.
Not to mention Lizzie and the titular character on Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!
Don't forget her roles as Riley and Brandon.
Or Kimiko.
She's also Fire. I guess she isn't worried about being typecast as a flame wielding lady.
Or a loony. This troper was being chewed out by Therese Voreman when he suddenly realized she sounded awfully familiar. Especially considering what you later find out about her
And now she's Scarlet from the GI Joe: Resolute series.
Azula's voice, is Viconia. And Nalia. And Raelis Shai. And Illasera. The Baldurs Gate people got their money's worth from her.
Various roles in the Knights Of The Old Republic and Neverwinter Nights series as well.

Jack DeSana

Though his appearance was brief, when This Troper heard Jimmy Olson (Jack DeSana) on The Batman he immediately thought "WTF, Sokka?"

John DiMaggio

Dr. Drakken, and his cousin Motor Ed. Bender.
- Also the voice of Wakka and Kimahri Ronso in Final Fantasy X. Yeah. Go clean up your pants.
  - Not to mention Marcus Fenix, The Scotsman, and Gonza. Would this make John DiMaggio one of the best people ever?
  - Radda Radda! (Translation: Oh, hell yeah!)
This guy immediately recognized the voice of the Rhino in the Spider-Man 2 video game (the suprisingly good one of the movie) as being DiMaggio at first hearing on the basis that it is basically a lower-pitched Bender.
He was also freakin Toy Man in ''Superman: Doomsday''.

Aaron Dismuke

Honda's ASIMO robot sounds an awful lot like Aaron Dismuke, the voice of Alphonse Elric in the Full Metal Alchemist series. Observe!
Only if you've watched recent convention panels would anyone be able to realize he did Chika in Ouran High School Host Club. Yeah, he's grown up quite a bit.

James Doohan

in Star Trek The Animated Series, James Doohan voiced not only his signature character of Montgomery Scott ("Scotty") but also many others, including Lieutenant Arex, Commodore Robert April in "The Counter-Clock Incident" and Agmar in "The Infinite Vulcan."

Michael Dorn

Hello? Michael Dorn? Voicing a tattoo-clad gangster who beats the crap out of everyone he sees? And getting tattooed with toxic waste? There is a god, and he likes this game.
In Fallout 2, Micheal Dorn provided the voice for Marcus the Mutant, making it eerily familiar for any Star Trek The Next Generation fans.
He also voiced Kalibak in Justice League Unlimited. Sounded exactly like Worf.
I Am Weasel.
He's also playing Mata Nui in Bionicle: The Legend Reborn.

Jason Douglas

Jason Douglas uses the same for voice for Il Palazzo as he does for Chiyo-chan's Dad.

Robert Atkin Downes

Robin Atkin Downes, Travis' VA, is practically synonymous with the US voice acting industry. Among others, you'll find him playing Faldio, Delita, Navarro (which made this troper do a double take during the credits), and numerous additional voices in countless games and cartoons.
- Another one for the record: the Medic. And he has a mighty impressive IM Bd page as well.

Brian Doyle-Murray

Brian Doyle-Murray. You know, the flying dutchman? You'll know him when you hear him.
- Hell, any character played by Brian Doyle-Murray.
- I swear, everytime that granddad in The Goode Family speaks, I can't help but think of Captain K'Nuckles.

Micahel Clarke Duncan

In Street Fighter IV, Sagat is voiced by Michael Clarke Duncan.

Greg Eagles

In the American version of Metal Gear Solid, Greg Eagles voices Peter Stillman, the DARPA chief, and Gray Fox - all with almost exactly the same voice. In the remake, Gray Fox got a new voice actor. The Japanese version did this for effect, casting three out of four clones with the same voice actor and casting the remaining clone as a voice actor who was often a 'stand-in' for the other actor, the idea being that the voice sounded the same but ever so slightly off.

David Eccles

In one episode of The Wild Thornberrys, Eliza talks to a hippo that sounds exactly like Krumm.

Susan Egan

For quite a while, whenever Disney needed a young female Deadpan Snarker, they turned to Susan Egan (for instance, as Meg in Hercules, and Lin in Spirited Away).

Paul Eiding

This troper loves replaying Diablo, so he can hear Colonel Campbell narrate it.
- He's also Grampa Max in Ben 10. Turn off the console indeed.
- This led to an odd moment in one episode which this troper isn't sure was intentional or just a very unfortunate and terrifying coincidence. It's an episode where Ben and Gwen go into a video game, and Grandpa Max, noticing that the console is on and the kids are absent, says, in an unusually deep and authoritative voice, "I thought I told you to turn the game console off!" Aaaagh!
  - It probably was intentional, considering the same director (Kris Zimmerman) handled both the Metal Gear Solid dubs and Ben 10.
  - Which would explain his line in the last episode of season 2 as Gwen ran into trouble in the Null Void: "Gwen, what's going on? GWEN!"
  - Video. NOW.
- He also voiced a character in Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage for the Dreamcast.
  - He also plays Executor Aldaris in Starcraft, Mephisto in Diablo 2, The first Zeus in God Of War, and Kang the Mad in Jade Empire amonst a myriad of other voice roles.

Gideon Emery

This Troper had a huge Squee noticing Gideon Emery was a guest star in an episode of CSI NY. Even though I had no clue what he looked like, and the accent he used was different, he was still instantly recognizable as Balthier.

Richard Epcar

When this troper heard "Daisuke Jigen" in Lupin The Third, he thought "Why is Batou of Section 9 hanging out with these crooks?" Richard Epcar voiced both roles in the English dubs, as well as many others.
- This troper was shocked to hear Richard Epcar voicing Mr. Noisy on an episode of The Mr. Men Show. Batou is for kids, too!

Bill Fagerbakke

Bulkhead from Transformers Animated is played by the same voice actor as Patrick, and it is easy to tell at certain points (especially, in this troper's opinion, when he is screaming).
- He sounds even more like Broadway from Gargoyles.
  - It's Bill Fagerbakke, best known in live action as Dauber from Coach and as Tom Cullen in the movie adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand. He seems to be the guy Hollywood looks to for playing guys who aren't all that bright but are pretty decent.
It's a brief moment in the film, but the guard who throws the first tomato in Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame has the distinct voice of Patrick Star.
- The same can be said for one of Boss's crew members in Porco Rosso.

Verna Felton

Verna Felton was another Disney voice regular. She played Flora, Aunt Sarah from Lady and the Tramp, The Queen of Hearts, Cinderella's Fairy Godmother, Winifred the Elephant, and the snobby lead elephant from Dumbo.

Keith Ferguson

Keith Ferguson may not be the most profilic VA, but he has great range. The proof? Basch Fon Rosenburg and Blooregard.

Nathan Fillion

Nathan Fillion plays a minor character in Jade Empire but is still recognizable. (Although it's not like he's done many notable things otherwise.)
- Sergeant Reynolds from Halo 3. Keep him alive until the end of the third mission, and as you reach Voi he says "Looks like we got here just in the nick of time. What do you think that makes us?" Of course, there is only one response: "Big Damn Heroes, sir!"
He's also provided voices for the DC Universe animated shows: the Vigilante in episodes of Justice League Unlimited (as well as an uncredited stint as Spy Smasher in the "Patriot Act" episode of the same show), and Steve Trevor in the 2009 animated DVD feature Wonder Woman (wherein the golden lasso of truth causes him to blurt out to Queen Hippolyta and her Amazon guards that Diana has a great rack — awkward!)

Laurence Fishburne

This troper was surprised when he suddenly placed the Silver Surfer's voice in the second Fantastic Four movie. Red or blue pill?

Cliff Fittir

This troper started laughing once he figured out that Cliff Fittir was [[Naruto Kakashi]], Allen, and Henry.

Michelle Forbes

Hey, what's Lynne Kresge/Ensign Ro/Admiral Cain doing at Black Mesa East (as Judith Mossman)?

Robert Forster

In the Justice League episode "Flashpoint", the president has a scene, and he is...Arthur Petrelli.

Rebecca Forstadt

Lynn Minmei voiced Mihoshi (from Tenchi In Tokyo onwards), Cyberdoll Rena, and Suiseiseki (minus the DESU~!)

Sandy Fox

Want small, cute, and annoying? Look no further than Sandy Fox. Performs Love Freaks, tiny girls with magical powers, hyper-mobile robot girls, and Small drop-kickable fire-shooting rodents with equal gusto. Her singing voice is no less head-splitting (but pleasant and clear as long as you turn the volume down).
- "I'm your #1 fan!!!!"

Crispin Freeman

Holland would not be bloodily tearing apart mooks with demonic wolf-headed-tentacles.
Or chasing cyber-criminals in futuristic Japan.
or eviscerating vampires.
- He does it again too.
  - Several times.
The main difference between them is the tone they take, which varies from angry (Holland), to flat (Kyon), to Extreme Doormat (Haji, Itachi).
Not to mention pure sleaze with Touga Kiryuu, Fuuma Monou, and Alucard. Really, it's more scary when imagining Kyon breaking out the Girlycard form.
On the other hand, he's also Irresponsible Captain Tylor, and Van Argiano.
He also voices Albedo (uncredited, Xenosaga), Albel Nox (Star Ocean 3), and Itachi Uchiha (Naruto). Those three roles alone scare this troper far more than any of his other roles combined.
- Albedo isn't the only creepy albino he voices. There is also the dimension-hopping certifiable Bad Ass Karasu, from the anime Noein- he lends his voice to the titular character, as well. Understandable, considering they're... pretty much the same person.
Keep in mind that he's also Jeremiah Gottwald; that should defuse the terror a bit.
Also, Alan Gabriel and the answering machine from the Cowboy Bebop movie. Yeah, I know.
He is also a dream traveling spawn of hags.
The Pigeon Holed Voice Actor aspect really comes into play when one watches the dubs of "Chobits", "I My Me Strawberry Eggs", and "Record Of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight" in succession.
He's also the Smug Snake Sakaki in Dot Hack: GU.
He is also Regal, you just don't notice because he doesn't really do anything after a while, and Regal uses a significantly more masculine voice then his other roles.
He might also be the bald, badass, sunglasses-wearing member of the Turks while he's at it.
Which makes perfect sense, considering This Troper's view of Rude is essentially Zelgadis with shades.
Not to mention Super Speed freak Straight Cougar from S-Cry-Ed - a performance which this Troper found almost as good as his stuff as Alan Gabriel and Tylor.
He's also the Badass Overlord from Makai Kingdom.
In addition, he has a role in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War as Captain Hamilton.
And he's Tsume of WolfsRain as well.
Stop throwing electricity at me, Crispin Freeman!
Kouichi Kimura and Thomas H. Norstein of Digimon Frontier and Savers/Data squad, respectively.
Hearing Kyon's voice coming out of Hideki's mouth... or Yuuichi's... or Kivat's... or Gintoki's...is an interesting experience.
- Wait, for the Kyon example: are we talking about Crispin Freeman? Because if you think those three examples are mindboggling get this: Kyon is Itachi!
Will Turner in the games Kingdom Hearts II and Pirates of the Carribean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow is...well, who else: Crispin Freeman.

Will Friedle

Will Friedle, particularly when, in a nod to his work on Batman Beyond, his Boy Meets World character Eric claimed to be Batman.
- He also provides the voice for Ron Stoppable and ended up becoming the Fearless Ferret in an episode with Adam West voicing his mentor Timothy North.
- Most recently he played Jaime Reyes who was working with with... Batman.

Jun Fukuyama

Jun Fukuyama will be indefinitely associated with one of the most Magnificent Bastards in the history of anime - Lelouch Lamperouge. Although none of his other roles has so far been ~~epic~~ FABULOUS enough to match that performance in terms of awesome, but it really hard not to think of Lulu when watching shows like Spice And Wolf and Amatsuki...
- Even when he's not Zero, he still gets a chance to use the "Zero voice". Like with Kei in Special A. Also, between Amatsuki, xxxHolic, Rental Magica, and Code Geass - that's a lot of characters with eye problems.
- Jun Fukuyama uses his "Zero voice" again on a character who doesn't have eye problems in Valkyria Chronicles, with Prince Maximillian.
  - and he gets killed by Suzaku (Takahiro Sakurai) again in Valkyria Chronicles
- Funnily enough, in the game Tales of Destiny 2, he plays the cheerful, outgoing hero Kyle...despite the fact that the character Judas (voiced by Hikaru Midorikawa) both looks and acts like Zero to the letter (though Judas is considerably more moody).
- And not to mention Hikaru Midorikawa himself is Li Xingke in Code Geass, and on both games Fukuyama's character ALWAYS met an opposition in form of... Norio Wakamoto character (Barbatos and Charles). Not to mention the fact that Xingke, aside from being a Chinese martial artist type, also has a tendency to yell Tianshi's name a lot, not unlike Tamahome.
- And Sora Kake Girl has Leopard. He is arguably a parody of Lelouch: he's just as much of a Large Ham, but he hasn't really got the Magnificent Bastard thing down.
- This troper knows he also voiced Ryan in the Japanese dub of High School Musical.

Quinton Flynn

Raiden is Quinton Flynn. This Troper wishes he could unhear his girlfriend shouting "It's AXEL!"
This troper nearly had a heart attack when she discovered that when she was playing Kingdom Hearts 2 and hearing Axel, she was also hearing Iruka (And Deidara, from his brief cameo) from Naruto. Actually, the fact that two pyromaniacs, both parts of evil organizations of men, but for one lady (among other paralells) were cast with the same actor relly makes her laugh, HARD.
Flynn also plays the far more tollerable character, [[Warcraft Kael'thas Sunstrider]]. This troper is glad that fans of Kael'thas aren't all raving loons, like those of Flynn's other well-known characters.
The only real difference between Raiden and Henry is that Henry has an Irish accent.

Sir Michael Gambon

Sir Michael Gambon voices the Big Bad wizard in Ghost Hunter. Currently Sir Michael is playing Albus Dumbledore on the big screen.

Mark Gatha

Mark Gatha. It's the reason why Megaman X can use the SHINING FINGER! attack from G Gundam. It may also be the reason why Lan is so good at netbattling. JACK IN! MEGAMAN! EXECUTE!

Tessho Genda

Tessho Genda is one of the most prolific Japanese voice actors in the business, with over 230 roles to his name. A selection: Optimus Prime, Younger Toguro, The Kyuubi, Kratos, Tigger(!), Sam Fisher, The Terminator (And all of Arnold's roles), Rocky (And all of Stallone's roles), George Costanza(!), Ben Sisko, Mace Windu, Garfield, The Robot, Foghorn Leghorn(!), Inspector Gadget *deep breath* and BATMAN. In short, Batman and Optimus Prime are the same person.
"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings... unless they killed my parents.
- Maximum good!

Grant George

Grant George does both Kilik (in 3 and 4) and Axel.
- He also does Mid-Boss (who shares Axel's role as Goldfish Poop Gang), but the voice he uses isn't the same.
This troper was a bit surprised to learn that Keiichi is Kira.

Ron Glass

Fable II has Ron Glass, known as the Preacher from Firefly.

Barbara Goodson

For players of Disgaea that haven't seen Power Rangers, Laharl might connect as Naota. "Aren't you embarrassed to say something like that?" is one of the lines that makes it clearer.

Yuko Goto

When this troper watched episode 18 of Shuffle, she was freaked out when she realized that Tomokazu Sugita voiced both Kyon and Rin. Cut to a Nightmare Fuel Imagine Spot, where she imagined that Mikuru slashed Kyon's eye with a boxcutter.
Same thing in Hayate The Combat Butler: When the Maou Queen showed up, she immediately called YukoGoto's voice on it. The Once An Episode commercial break lampshaded things even further by giving the Maou Queen that waitress costume, with the fingers over the eye, and the line "Sumeshi Beam!" (Vinegard Rice Beam!)

Alexnander Gould

It was bad enough that the adult characters in Finding Nemo were almost all Ink Suit Actors, but now every time This Troper sees little Nemo swimming off so happy on his first day of fish school, he thinks "Hello teachers, parents, step- parents, siblings, boyfriends and girlfriends of parents,.... YOU HAVE FAILED US ALL!!

Dan Green

While watching the dubbed version of Yami No Matsuei it is almost impossible to take Tsuzuki's attempts at angst seriously when every time he opens his mouth Yami from Yu-Gi-Oh pops out.
Not to mention his singing as Troubadour.
Though as Taiga you half-expect him to say something about believing in the heart of the cards.
Don't break me open and take my candy, I'm a magical pinata.
Part of the reason this troper is such a huge fan of Mewtwo is because he's voiced by the ever amazing Dan Green.
The guidance councler on Seven of Seven.

Seth Green

Your pilot in Mass Effect is Dr. Evil's son or Peter Griffin's son.

Jennifer Hale

Female Shepard
Samus Aran
Bastila Shan
Naomi Hunter
Alexandra Roivas
Junko Zane
Jennifer Hale is not only female Commander Shepherd in Mass Effect, but also Black Cat in the 90's Spider Man show and Jun in Avatar The Last Airbender.
She's also played badass (demon?) nun Prier(e) in La Pucelle.

Mark Hamill

Mark Hamill voices both Harabec and Caanon Weathers in Starsiege. He's nigh-unrecognizable as the gruff Caanon, but his performance as Harabec has plenty of "Tosche station to pick up some power converters" whine.
- Also Emperor Griffon from Dark Cloud 2/Dark Chronicle. (Not Sirus, for that is Phil and Lil.)
Mark Hamill has made a huge career out of voice acting (mainly villains, we all knew Luke was really evil anyway, right?), but if you've been exposed to one of his best known roles, The Joker on Batman The Animated Series, a few of his other roles might not be quite as obvious.
- Hamill, along with Tom Wilson and Malcolm McDowell, also provided the voice for the earlier version of the character he played in Wing Commander III, in the USA Network cartoon series Wing Commander Academy. He was also the voice of "Merlin" (Blair's fighter computer) in Wing Commander The Movie.
- Hamill and McDowell reunite in [[Metalocalypse]] as the Big Bad and his cohort respectively. Though considering the main characters destroy the world on a weekly basis, this is subject to interpetation.
Despite having a very distinct voice for Joker, Mark Hamill does use similar voices for Ozai and Senator Stampingston as shown here.
The Birthday Bandit from Teamo Supremo sounds quite like The Joker.
He also did the Hobgoblin in the 90's Spiderman cartoon, sounding like a more restrained Joker.
- His turn as Jason Macendale within the same show sounded a lot more like Mark himself, as did, ironically, his turn as The Trickster in JLU's 'Flash And Substance'. The kick of that is, of course, that playing The Trickster in the 90's Live Action Flash series is what got him the part as Joker in the DCAU (and endless games/extras) in the first place.
He also did a few voices in Time Squad, including, oddly enough, Larry 3000.

Phil Harris

Phil Harris, a popular singer, had his time in the sun at Disney, giving his iconic voice to Baloo the Bear, Thomas O'Malley (The Aristocats), and Little John.

(Miss Cleo) Youree Dell Harris

The Grand Theft Auto series has many celebrity voice actors, some more expected than others. If you ever thought Auntie Poulette, the fuckle Haitian crime boss in Vice City sounded like Miss Cleo, that's because she is Miss Cleo.

Phil Hartman

Jiji is TroyMcClure. He's the best character in the movie.

Anthony Head

The unashamedly evil Mr. Gently Benevolent of Bleak Expectations is voiced by Rupert Giles, also known as Anthony Head.

Lance Henriksen

We've gone this long and haven't mentioned Bishop being Admiral Hackett, the man in charge of the Alliance Fifth Fleet?

Kyle Hebert

Kyle Hebert seems to be rising in roles, and if you listen close you may hear him. Notably beginning with Gohan and the Dragonball Z announcer, later Bleach's Ganju and Aizen, certainly Kamina, and most recently, Ryu in StreetFighter IV media.
Kamina sounds like Kiba Inuzuka.
This troper is sure every anime fan's jaw dropped upon seeing Wario in There Will Be Brawl...

Noriko Hidaka

When the Inuyasha anime was being voice-cast in Japan, Noriko Hidaka, who voiced Kikyo, expressed worry that her scream of "Inuyasha!" would sound the same as when she called out to Ranma as Akane.
- Which says nothing about the fact that Ranma and Inuyasha are voiced by the same person in Japanese and English (Okay, so only seasons 4-7 of Ranma for English, but still).
- That person is Pietro and the other (the Japanese one) is L
  - While we're talking about L, Noriko Hidaka also voices Near, which is... weird.

Skip Hinnant

Many people who grew up watching The Electric Company were pretty shocked when they found out that cast member Skip Hinnant was the voice of Fritz The Cat. However, people who saw Fritz The Cat first may be surprised to hear him as the voice of Pogo in Pogo For President and The Easter Bunny in The Easter Bunny Is Coming To Town. Not to mention countless commercial voiceovers and appearences in the 80s and 90s. His last IMDB credit is the shoe salesman in an animated adaptation of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day... from 1989.

Aya Hirano

Aya Hirano, anyone? Though her voice work tends to change significantly depending on the anime, she will be forever recognized as the Voice of God. Even though both Haruhi and Konata were rather unusual ways of acting for her. And by usual This Troper means how she plays Lumiere, Chiko, and other similar roles.
- Which left This Troper staring at the screen, thinking, "No shit. Misa is Haruhi... wtf."
- The poetic justice when Etoh Mai was forcibly undressed left This Troper laughing uncontrollably.
- Apparently Misa sounds a little like Konata.

Ryo Hirohashi

Whenever Tamaki from Bamboo Blade speaks, this troper expects Akari and Aika from ARIA to join her, oars in hand. The deadpan delivery of her lines is just exactly the same as that of Alice Carroll, courtesy of Ryou Hirohashi.
- If you want to hear what she sounds like with emotion, watch Haibane Renmei; her first voice-acting role for an anime was Rakka. She also did Kim Aba from Area 88.
  - And Fujibayashi Kyou from Clannad.

Noboyuki Hiyama

Nobuyuki Hiyama has a habit of cropping up in excessive manly roles, as the Japanese VA for Guy Shishioh, Madarame Ikkaku, and Viral. And that's just his anime roles. Chances are, if you see a Screaming Warrior in an anime and can picture any of the above 3 saying it with no change in voice what-so-ever, it's probably Nobuyuki Hiyama doing the voice work.
Ocarina of Time Link. Yes. (Or should I say, "Yaaaaaagh!")
- The fact that Link's VA also did Siegfried Schtauffen was rather obvious in the trailer for Soul Calibur 4.
  - That was obvious in Soul Calibur II if the voices were switched to Japanese. It's kinda hard to take Nightmare seriously when Link's voice comes out of his mouth.
  - It's far easier to take it seriously when you realize that it's also Viral's voice.
Nobuyuki Hiyama even managed to make an otaku sound Hot Blooded with his work as Madarame Harunobu.
YOSHAAAAA!

Aya Hisakawa:

It's hard to miss spotting a role done by Aya Hisakawa, all thanks to the fact that she always does her Mizuno Ami voice with slight modification for character age. The only time she was confused? Kero-chan.
A lot of the voice actors from the Claymore anime are popular veteran seiyuus, which is fine and dandy. But picking the voice of tough but gentle Sailor Jupiter to voice the totally guano insane Ophelia is all kinds of wrong; that's not even getting into how Sailor Mercury's VA plays the Big Bad Priscilla.
- On that note, Nyamo admitting she doesn't know math is... weird.
- It's hard to miss spotting a role done by Aya Hisakawa, all thanks to the fact that she always does her Mizuno Ami voice with slight modification for character age. The only time she was confused? Kero-chan.
- She's also played a super popular bishounen who turns into a rat.

Bridget Hoffman

Bridget Hoffman voiced Jeri and Adult Nia, which works pretty well.
- To an extent, Miaka also applies.
- Or Raquel Casull, and Fuu Hououji, both ever so graceful...not 100% of the time, in Raquel's case.

Heather Hogan

Shiki from The World Ends With You sounds exactly like Colette from Tales Of Symphonia - both are played by Heather Hogan. Knowing this adds a bit of unintentional humor to an early line where she says that she must have tripped half a dozen times in the dark.

Megan Hollingshead

Adiane sounds like Shizune, if Shizune was a total bitch.
- This goon pegged her as Lenneth Valkyrie.
  - Or evil Nurse Joy (Shizune and Nurse Joy. How appropriate)
  - She was also Belldandy.

Sterling Holloway

Sterling Holloway is this trope for Disney movies. The man provided a voice for Winnie The Pooh, the Cheshire Cat, and Kaa, as well as minor characters in Dumbo (the stork), Bambi (Flower), and The Aristocats (Roquefort). Consider on top of that the classic short subjects he narrated, such as Peter and the Wolf (in Make Mine Music) and The Cold-Blooded Penguin (in The Three Caballeros).
- That said, if you think you're hearing him in anything from the 1980s on, it's almost certainly Jim Cummings (see above).

Youko Honna

Cure Black is used to going out at 3 in the morning and doing something stupid.

Yui Horie

Naïve Honda Tohru has been up to a lot of things. She's been the student council president, a maid in a magical world, a god, a reincarnation of Yagyu Jubei, a nun, part of an unwanted harem, a trap, part of a love dodecahedron, fighting aliens while showing off her panties and has lots of part time jobs. She also likes taiyaki and is good at rythmic gymnastics, amongst many, many other things.

Ryo Horikawa

Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Captain Falcon's VA did Vegeta in the Japanese version of Dragon Ball Z.

Richard Steven Horvitz

If you've watched enough Nickelodeon and/or Cartoon Network cartoons, Psychonauts is one long string of these. Right from the very beginning: "Hey, it's Zim!"
This troper nearly had a heart attack while absentmindedly having Thats So Raven on behind surfing the net, because she heard Invader Zim/Dagget voice, and as it turned out it was him! (He was playing the boyfriend of a fashion designer).

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Mayumi Iizuka

Miyuki = Misty. Nuff said.

Shozo Iizuka

In most series, anime or toku Shozo Iizuka does villain work using a similar tone and voice. Especially apparent in the Space Sheriff Trilogy, where he voices all 3 of the BigBads, but in Gavan, only for 10 eps before he came down with bronchitis and called in Takeshi Watabe. In Sharivan, voice effects are applied to him whenever Psycho speaks.

Yuka Imai

Yuka Imai, who was also Nabuca, Renamon, Arisa, and Wakaba.

Kikuko Inoue

I-No being voiced by the same actress as Belldandy is... weird.

Michael Ironside

In Superman The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited, he showed us that DARKSEID IS!

Shizuka Itou

When this troper watched the Puppet Butler battle Hinagiku in Hayate The Combat Butler, she half-expected Hinagiku to say, "Taka-bou, I like you."

Mitsuo Iwata

This troper noticed some similarities between Kusanagi of The King Of Fighters and Street Fighter III's Sean Matsuda. Both are Hot Blooded (literally so in Kusanagi's case), both have tan skin, and they even have a similar moveset. To top it off, they're both voiced by the same guy: Mitsuo Iwata.

Samuel L Jackson

I always though Officer Tenpenny's voice sounded familiar (Okay, I did not checked the instruction booklet), until the very last mission when he calls you a "C*ck s*cking Motherf*cker"....There it hit me in the face: Samuel L Jackson!

Roger L. Jackson

This Troper gets a kick out of the fact that the title character in American McGee's Grimm considers cats to be ideal pets, since his voice actor, Roger L. Jackson, previously voiced a feline of the Cheshire variety. Grimm also is a complete and total fanboy for the fairytale figure, GodFather Death...

Janyse Jaud

This troper was recently on a message board talking about Lady Frenzy, a character from the French animated series Botsmaster, who has a sexy voice. He posted a link to an episode like so, and another poster remarked "That's Kagura from Inu Yasha!" Indeed, as anyone who has seen the dubs for a number of anime series can attest, Janyse Jaud tends to play bombshells, especially in anime based on Rumiko Takahashi's manga. See also Hinako Ninomiya in Ranma One Half and Bottle Fairy Akemi Roppongi in Maison Ikkoku.

Tony Jay

Happens within the Legacy of Kain series, where the late Tony Jay played at least three different characters (four if you include the the demon possessing one of them), using more or less the same voice.
- Of course Tony Jay has what some would describe as the "perfect" bad guy voice... so you can expect to hear him cast in a generic bad guy role for tons of other videogames and animated shows. He'll always be Reboot's MegaByte to me!
  - Tony Jay also voiced the character Spiderus in Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends and was also in both the television series Beauty and the Beast and the Disney film version of Beauty and the Beast.
  - And as Judge Frollo in the Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Nor should we overlook his contribution as the suavely sinister industrialist-financier incarnation of Shere Khan in Tale Spin.
As much as she loved Tony Jay in all his roles, his most memorable performance to this troper was in this series of commercials.
Arguably the king of this trope in English-language voice acting.

Ashley Johnson

Gretchen, Terra, Jinmay and now a teenaged Gwen.
- Live-action: Chrissy Sweaver and Dreama Little. And Mel Gibson's daughter in What Women Want.

Wes Johnson

Speaking of Fallout, when this troper first heard Fallout 3's Mr. Burke in this gameplay video (Second from the top), he first thought "Holy crap! Lucien Lachance is back and he wants to nuke us all!"

James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones has an instantly recognizable voice whether he's playing a lion, a Galactic Overlord, or doing the station identification for CNN.
- For a time, Jones was also the official voice of phone company Verizon (and before the merger, Bell Atlantic), which meant that Darth Vader thanked you for using Verizon every time you made a long-distance call.
- His Spanish counterpart, Constantino Romero, has been dubbing movies for decades and is instantly recognisable as the voice of the aforementioned James Earl Jones (and Vader), Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood, among dozens of other Hollywood stars.
  - Wow, that would add surrealness to Conan The Barbarian.
  - In that movie Romero only dubbed Thulsa Doom, but he's dubbed Arnie in the three Terminator films.
- This is referenced in The Simpsons in "Round Springfield". Bleedin' Gums Murphy, dies and later gives a speech to Lisa via a cloud (itself a reference to The Lion King), with the three characters above chiming in at the end.
- Also played with in Kung Pow with the Mufasa parody.

Alessandro Juliani

Battlestar Galactica videos on You Tube have lately been blasted by reams of Death Note fans squealing about the voice of their beloved L (Alessandro Juliani to those slightly less obsessed).

Takeshi Kaga

Chariman Kaga is the voice of Golbez in the Updated Rerelease of Final Fantasy IV for the DS. He also reprises the role for Final Fantasy Dissidia.

Hiroshi Kamiya

Ever since this troper found out that the voice actor for Itoshiki Nozomu and Shinji Matou were the same, he's had many, many mental images of Shinji going, "I'm in despair!" Especially appropriate since Shinji has a lot to despair about.

Mika Kanai

It can be very creepy when watching Code Geass when the voice of Kaguya was Satoko "NI-NIIII" Houjou. Turns out Mika Kanai also plays Chikorita and Bayleef.
- She also played Vanilla in Galaxy Angel. Vanilla and Satoko sound very, very similar.

Casey Kasem

The voice of America's Top (whatever) Countdown, Casey Kasem, also gave voice to:
- Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers in the Scooby-Doo franchise
- Flakey Fakem in an espisode of Tiny Toons Adventures
- Cliffjumper in the Transformers cartoon
- Robin (Dick Grayson) in all incarnations of Super Friends cartoons.
  - This is the character he's voiced the second longest after Shaggy. And it's his own natural voice. When this troper first heard America's Top 40, he wondered, "What's Robin doing on the radio?"
- Meriadoc Brandybuck in the animated Return of the King
- Mark in Battle of the Planets aka G-Force
- Alexander Cabot III in Josie and the Pussycats cartoon
- a handful of characters in one episode of The Batman/Superman Hour (but not Robin this time)

Janice Kawaye

Janice Kawaye. Just... Janice Kawaye.

David Kaufman

This troper watched Freakazoid for the first time since she was a youngster, and the minute Dexter Douglas first spoke, she thought "Danny?!" Apparently, David Kaufman must like voicing losers who turn into superheroes.
- Don't forget Jimmy Olson from Superman the Animated Series.

David Kaye

Transformers Animated Optimus Prime is a really odd one. His best known role before that was Beast Wars Megatron. Cue the 'yesss...' He's also the voice on the Enzyte commercials, Protoman.EXE, and even has the same general voice tone as Soun Tendo.
- "Wait, why is Optimus Prime trying to sell me beer?"
  - And if none of those ring a bell, how about Sesshoumaru or Treize Khushrenada? David Kaye's voice credits go on and on.

Garrison Keiller

Garrison Keillor of A Prairie Home Companion is instantly recognizable whenever he steps into another voiceover role, such as his ads for Honda UK.

Tom Kenny

From Transformers Animated. Tom Kenny generally has a very wide range, but it's still somewhat noticeable when he voices Starscream that it's also Spongebob Squarepants due to them both being high-pitched and grating. Oddly enough, it works... probably since the original Starscream's voice (Mr. Latta, noted below) was also high-pitched and grating.
- While he sounds a bit like Spongebob he sounds a lot like the Penguin in The Batman.
A particuarly specific example: In an episode of Spongebob Squarepants, Spongebob, voiced by Tom Kenny, becomes "normalized", and affects a new "normal" voice; one nearly identical to the voice used by Tom Kenny for one-shot character Adlai Atkins on Futurama, who also has a penchant for normalcy.
- This "50's narrator-ish" voice was also used as many of the automated machines in the movie Idiocracy.
In the prom episode of Spongebob Squarepants, someone says, "Go wreck someone else's prom!" This troper shouted out "Heifer!". They're both voiced by Tom Kenny, who is, surprise surprise, Spongebob himself. (I didn't know this until much later, though.)
Can you believe that the person who voices Spongebob is the same one who voices Hal Gibson?

Eri Kitamura

Eri Kitamura's done a lot: she's been Ami Kawashima, Rin Kokonoe, Seira and Cure Berry.

Eartha Kitt

We would like to take a moment of silence to honor the loss of Eartha Kitt aka Yzma, Catwoman and Vexus. RIP.

Hidenobu Kiuchi

Hei is Tenma.

Rie Kugimiya

Obviously, there exists Shana, Louise, Nagi, and Taiga, so just shut up, shut up, and SHUT UP ALREADY!

Natsuko Kuwatani

This Troper immediately recognized Yue's voice in Mahou Sensei Negima, but couldn't remember from where. Looking it up, it turns out she's also Suiseiseki, although they don't sound too much alike. Listening to Yue's first line again, it's clear: it ends in "desu".

Maurice LaMarche

Best known for The Brain on Pinky & the Brain, 89% of Maurice LaMarche's voice work sounds like he's doing an impression of Orson Welles (who he's DIRECTLY impersonated at least four times), so it's very distinctive whenever it's heard.

Phil LaMarr

Phil LaMarr: Hermes Conrad on Futurama, The Green Lantern, John Stewart, on Justice League and Justice League Unlimited; Wilt and Jackie Khones on Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends; Static from Static Shock; Samurai Jack; Jazz from Transformers Animated, and some non-superheroes on The Spectacular Spider Man. And don't forget Vamp!
- And Samurai Jack
- And Wilt.
- Hilarious lampshading in an episode of Static Shock where Static helps out Green Lantern John Stewart take on Sinistro. Did Phil LaMarr get paid for voicing two parts?
Phil LaMarr voices both Vamp (sexy Eastern European bisexual possibly-a-vampire) from the above series, and Hermes Conrad from Futurama. The worst part is that you can hear it.
Phil had also voiced Reddas, a key character in the plot and a Guest Star Party Member in Final Fantasy XII.
A couple roles in the Knights Of The Old Republic series as well - the good gangster Gadon Thek in the first, and Captain/Major Riiken in the second. Identical to his John Stewart voice in both cases, which makes playing the games a bit hilarious at times.

Campbell Lane

First Hybrid and Bentusi, anyone? Campbell Lane really has ominous voice.
- Considering that the two characters are essentially the same concept, extra points to the BSG writers for being such nerds.

Lex Lang

After watching Fist Of The North Star (dubbed) I heard Kenshiro and after I had to think for a while, I finally remember where I've heard that before: Goemon.
- Speaking of the FOTNS dub, listen to Shin's voice, even for a little while. This troper was half expecting Shin to summon Manda and sic him on Ken before declaring "Bang!". And who voices him? Only a certain Steven Jay Blum.

Carolyn Lawrence

Hey, doesn't Cindy Vortex sound a lot like Sandy Cheeks?
- HELP ME, LEON!

Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee; Dracula, Saruman, Count Dooku... Ansem the Wise? Suprisingly not evil in Kingdom Hearts, though chillingly immoral to the point where there's more than a little fan speculation that Di Z is a Nobody himself....
One rather weird example of voice recognition will occur if you ever watch the German dub of The Last Unicorn. That King Haggard sure sounds familiar...because it's actually Christopher Lee doing the dubbing. And may I add, he's pretty damn good at it.
- Hardly surprising— Lee speaks German, French, Spanish, and Italian fluently, and has some facility with even more languages.
  - Including the dark tongue of Mordor.

Peggy Lee

Peggy Lee, also a popular singer, played a major part in the making of Lady and the Tramp. She was given three, er, four roles, too: the Siamese Cats, Mrs. Darling, and Peg.

Wendee Lee

Wendee Lee sounds the same dubbing both Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop and Angel from Big O. This became evident to this troper in any scenes she had with Roger Smith, voiced, amusingly enough, by Spike Spiegel's voice actor Steven Blum.
- This happens with those two a lot.
- One of the few kicks of the Tsukihime anime was noting how Normal Schoolgirl / Church Militant Ciel sounded like Jaded Schoolgirl / Nascent God-being Haruhi.
- As well as a miniature goddess and a surprisingly tender-hearted Bottle Fairy.
- Oddly enough, saying just Steven Jay Blum and Wendee Lee, is a good way to get somebody to watch Samurai Girl Real Bout High School
- Apparently Xianghua sounds like Haruhi...
- Takeru "T.K." Takaishi, without Steven Blum, but she was also MarineAngemon in Tamers, who's partner was Kenta, voiced by Blum.
Once you've heard one role by Wendee Lee, it's insanely easy to pick out the rest. Faye Valentine in Cowboy Bebop, Yui in Fushigi Yuugi, Tina Foster in Ai Yori Aoshi, Urd in Adventures of the Mini-Goddesses, Nel Zelpher in Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Aribeth in Neverwinter Nights, Haruhi...the list goes on and on.

George Lowe

George Lowe played Space Ghost on The Nineties Adaptation Space Ghost Coast To Coast. His Voice lasted the Show, appearing on Aqua Teen Hunger Force & The Brak Show as many other Characters.

Yuri Lowenthal

Teenage Ben or Superboy? Sasuke Uchiha, Simon, or Suzaku speaking English? Yuri Lowenthal's your man.
- Hearing Ben as Sasuke was weird enough. Watching him and thinking of Suzaku? Nearly broke my brain.
  - Finding out he also voiced the British-sounding Prince Of Persia from the recent trilogy of game shocked this troper as well.
  - and Gig.
  - He voiced Cecil Harvey, but this troper was surprised when he saw that he also voiced Solo Wing Pixy, and Strigon 12

Sherry Lynn

Sherry Lynn, the much less obscure voice of Sakura, Skuld, and the Tachikoma units.

Tress MacNeille

Tress MacNeille. If you've watched a cartoon in the past twenty years or so, you've heard her voice — a sampling of her numerous roles over the years includes Gadget Hackwrench and Chip [?!] (Rescue Rangers), Dot Warner and Hello Nurse (Animaniacs), Toast and Pepper Mills (Histeria), Babs Bunny and Rhubella Rat (Tiny Toons), Principal Skinner's mother Agnes (among several other Simpsons voices, including in the movie, where she was Lisa's boyfriend Colin), Mom and "Good Morning Earth" co-host Linda (Futurama), Lady Bane and Marzipan (Gummi Bears), Callie Briggs (SWAT Kats), Colleen (Road Rovers)...chances are, you've heard her voice.
- And yes, This Troper can confirm beyond mere cast listings that Tress did Chip in Rescue Rangers. How? Just watch this video.
If you watch Avatar The Last Airbender and hear Hama, there's a good chance you'll do a double take and go "Agnes Skinner?" To this day I'm not sure if this makes the episode more or less creepy.
Hey, look! Hoodsey from As Told By Ginger leaves calls on Minerva Mink's answering machine!

Mitsuako Madono

This Troper found it amusing that while Issei sounds nothing like Kon, Mitsuaki Madono does use practically the same voice for Kon's Image Song.
- Strangely enough, I was surprised when I found out that Mitsuaki Madono played Prince Toma in the second Ranma 1/2 movie, and it was even stranger that when I found out Allesandro Juliani (Prince Toma's dub VA) played L in [1]

Mako

The late Mako. It's really weird to think of Aku, Master Splinter, and Iroh as the same guy. Though those last two aren't much of a stretch.

Dave Mallow

The Anti-Spiral King from Gurren Lagann is a nihilistic Angemon or (more appropriately) an all-powerful Amarao. Weird.
- Sounds more like MagnaAngemon with the reverb. Gate of Destiny!

Sharon Mann (and other Code Lyoko voice actors)

In Code Lyoko, Sharon Mann plays both Jeremie and Aelita. So the Beta Couple is talking to themselves!
- By the way, the show has a limited (and obscure) voice cast, so there's a lot of Talking To Himself going on there.

Jason Marsden

Jason Marsden gets around a lot. Haku in Spirited Away, Kovu in the second Lion King, Chase Young in Xiaolin Showdown. Also Tino from The Weekenders, Richie from Static Shock, Chester and Gary from Fairly Oddparents and Max Goof. So he sort of switches from deep and sexy to sort of nerdy. He is also Rosh whose voice work is a common reason he is seen as The Scrappy...
- Adding to the list: a young Clark Kent (as well as another, unrelated reporter) in the DCAU and the annoying Dustil "Carth's Son" Onasi (and gang leader Brejik too) in Knights Of The Old Republic.

Mona Marshall

Mona Marshall is instantly recognisable whenever she is cast in the role of a Cute Shotaro Boy, Which is often.
This troper was so familiar with Marshall as Toboe in Wolf's Rain that he found it incongruous when she replaced Petrea Burchard as the voice of Ryoko in Tenchi Muyo. He can't help thinking she sounds like Toboe doing a fair-to-middling impression of Ryoko.
That may have happened because Ryoko's JP actress has done Cute Shotaro Boy roles. Genis of Tales Of Symphonia, for example.
Koushiro 'Izzy' Izumi and Ken Amada.
Hell, go watch Last Exile. The two creepy albino Guild guys are voiced by Tai and Izzy. It's quite unnerving.
Hell, Izzy and King Drasil! Jeff Nimoy claims this comparison was on purpose. Like Ichigo/Lelouch.
Feldrance of Mahoromatic is voiced by Mona Marshall, which is why he sounds like Izzy Izumi.
Also in the Pigeonholing, Ascot from Magic Knight Rayearth.
Out of mold, but the same voice was also [[X1999 Nataku]]
She used her exact same Izzy/Toboe voice for the moose kid in the pilot for the aborted The Get Along Gang CGI revival.
Dude. She's the Brave fencer, Musashi!

Charles Martinet

The Homunculus in Shadow Of Destiny is voiced by Charles Martinet, who is better known as the voice of Mario. These may be the two least similar characters in the history of video games.

Rik Mayall

Rik "The Young Ones" Mayall has a fairly recognizable voice. He voiced Prince Froglip, the villain of the 1992 movie The Princess and the Goblin; King Arthur in King Arthurs Disasters, a German falcon in Valiant and a germ in a Domestos advert. He also provides numerous voices for Hogs of War, including one with a Rick-style voice.

Anndi McAfee

This troper recently learned that Cera is Monica of Dark Cloud 2/Dark Chronicle.

David McCallum

When Doctor Paradox was telling his story in a recent Ben 10 Alien Force episode, it finally clicked for me..."Ducky?"

Michael Mc Connohie

This troper will forever associate Michael McConnohie with noble baddie Commander Margulis from Xeno Saga. This makes his appearances as noble baddies in Tales Of The Abyss and Star Ocean 3 seem like deja vu, and his voice is very noticeable in Haibane Renmei and as Gordon, DEFENDER OF EARTH! in very different roles.
Or that Emperor Charles is The Director in Crackdown

Kevin McDonald

Kevin McDonald uses pretty much the same voice for several animated characters, including Pleakley from Lilo and Stitch, Invader Zim's Almighty Tallest Purple, Waffle from Catscratch, and Ivan, a character who appeared in an episode of Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends...and Waffle. Splee!

Norm McDonald

Years ago, I watched an ep of something on You Tube where Norm Macdonald played some kind of psychologist that was talking to a kid that believed he was Ash Ketchum. Then I watched Fairly Odd Parents a few years later and he was Norm the Genie. That was very ironic, since on the You Tube thing, he had trouble controlling Pokemon and could some how create Pokeballs from thin air. I recognized the tone of scorn. Very hilarious.

Malcolm McDowell

Fallout 3 apparently Mr. Linderman apparently has become president. The best part is that he barely bothers with the accent. Kentucky, my ass.
- This troper would love to have heard his campaign speeches: "Vote for me, ~~Malcolm McDowell~~ John Henry Eden. Because there's plenty more bridges where that one came from."
  - ALLO DUCKIES!
A double dose in the DCAU: Arkady Duvall, AKA Ra's Al Ghul's son on Batman and Metallo on Superman and Justice League.

Roddy McDowell

This troper knew Snowball was crazy but upon closer observation realized he was Mad as a Hatter.

Seth McFarlane

Good luck trying not to think of American Dad whenever Johann Krauss speaks in Hellboy II.

Elizabeth McGlynn

Supreme Commander had a female commander voiced by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, who also does Maj. Kusanagi in Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex.

Ellen McLain

Valve has spawned some notorious WMG by using the same voice actress (Ellen McLain) for the Combine Overwatch, GLaDOS, and the Announcer.

Scott Mc Neil

In Transformers Armada and Energon, Jetfire sounds a heck of a lot like Duo Maxwell, who himself sounds suspiciously like Proto Man. The odd thing about this is that their shared voice actor, Scott McNeil, normally avoids this effect completely (see Beast Wars, where he voiced Rattrap, Waspinator, both versions of Dinobot, and Silverbolt!).
This troper was a fan of Beast Wars and X Men Evolution back when they were new. It took him several trips to The Other Wiki to learn that Badass Dinobot and Badass Wolverine are one and the same guy.
- Still, he does seem to have a few favorite voices. In particular, if he's voicing a reptilian character, he will likely sound exactly like Dinobot. And Koga the feral wolfy guy sounded just like Evolution's Wolverine the feral wolfy guy.

Scott Menville

Scott Menville did the voice of the main character in Dark Cloud 2. This troper was waiting for Max to yell, "Titans, GO!"
- He also did the voice of the main character in Tales Of Symphonia. This other troper was waiting for Lloyd to yell, "Titans, GO!"
- THIS troper noticed on his second playthrough of Tales Of Symphonia that Scott Menville also voiced one of the villagers of Isalia in one of the cutscenes. The irony? This particular villager was among the group of villagers blaming Lloyd for the attack on the village. He was essentially advocating his own exile!
- This troper however had the horrible fortune to first hear him as Kevin French in Mission Hill. It took a long, long time to untrain that reference.
- He also played Yaibal in FFX-2.
- The only time this troper has heard him voice a character with anything other than the distinctive Robin voice is when he did Ma-Ti's horrendous accent in Captain Planet.
- Genome Soldier 2. A low point. Or not, if you enjoy beating, shooting and snapping the neck of Robin as often as you want.
An episode of Scrubs had J.D. be followed around by an imaginary guy in a rabbit costume. And when that rabbit speaks, guess who's voice comes out? Robin/Ma-Ti/Lloyd!
- Again using his Kevin French voice.
This Troper has found it incredibly easy to pick out the various parts that Scott Menville does, particularly his numerous bit parts in Avatar The Last Airbender.
- He played the actor playing Sokka in "The Ember Island Players", with a voice almost identical to the one he uses for Kevin French from Mission Hill.

Don Messick

Voice actor Don Messick (RIP) was in dozens of Hanna Barbera cartoons, most notably as Ranger Smith in Yogi Bear and as Dr. Benton Quest in Jonny Quest. If you were very young and watched both shows, you started expecting Race Bannon to show up in Jellystone Park with a picnic basket.
- If this troper remembers correctly, Don also voiced Hamton in Tiny Toon Adventures.

Vic Mignogna

A minor role in Bleach for Vic Mignogna was a screaming character in the 11th squad (Ikkaku Madarame). The voice was the same as the voice used for the main character in Fullmetal Alchemist, and therefore a bit confusing to this troper.
- This troper, a fan of Vic, has learned to pick out his voice in the most minor of roles, including a Professor in Dirty Pair and as random goons in Noir.
- This troper was flabberghasted when watching the first episode of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle and could only wonder why Edward Elric in a quiet mood was voicing Fay D. Fluorite.
- There is an exception where it's almost not recognizable at all: Broly. Unfortunately, Vic has made it clear at various cons that he loses his voice for a while afterwards and so doesn't like doing him (considering that the games aren't stopping...yeah.).
- This Troper was shamed that he could not tell that he voiced Junpei of Persona 3 fame. However he could tells very quickly that he voiced Kurz Webber of Full Metal Panic! fame.
- Did we mention we can add Tamaki to that list? That was the sound of a thousand fangirls doing a group Squee, especially since the same person that was Winry plays Haruhi.
- This Troper can't believe nobody added Kensei Ma from "History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi" or Dark of "DN Angel" yet.

Shinchiro Miki

Shinichiro Miki, better known as Urahara, Lockon Stratos, Takumi Fujiwara, Kurz Weber, Batman in Gotham Knight, Shannon Casull, Leiot Steinberg, and Yoji Kudo.
- Don't forget Kojirou.
- He was also the Japanese voice of the titular character in Aladdin. Yeah.

Lara Jill Miller

Lara Jill Miller has had a bit of an illustrious voice acting career, immediately recognizable as the English dub voice Kari Kamiya from the Digimon Adventure series, the teacher in Digimon Tamers, one of the Tachikomas in Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex, Scheris Adjani from the anime S-CRY-ed, and as the eponymous Juniper Lee. Each character having essentially the same voice.
- She's also Clifford the Big Red Dog, when he's a puppy. I started laughing when I first heard that fact.

Kotono Mitsuishi

Excel's Japanese voice actress in Excel Saga also did the voice of the title character in Sailor Moon. This troper has been reassured that both characters have roughly the same personality.
- Lampshaded in the English dub, during a Sailor Moon parody, where Excel claims "No fair! I wanted that part, but it was dubbed in Canada!"
- Even more fun is the gag at the end of one episode where Hyatt, for whatever reason, starts saying lines from Omi Minami's past roles (Monica Rial's in the dub). Excel realizes this, of course. "Hey Hatchan... wrong character!"

Mamoru Miyano

This Death Note fan had a hard time thinking about anything else whenever Tamaki spoke in Ouran High School Host Club.
- This troper had the opposite problem as the original poster; he could not stop hearing Tamaki in Light and that made it so much harder to take Death Note seriously.
Watch the cutscenes from Kingdom Hearts in Japanese, then. ... Or don't. Comparing Light and Riku kind of hurts my brain.
And This Troper found it extremely difficult to avoid seeing Light behind both LA from El Cazador De La Bruja and Setsuna from Gundam 00. What with being a psycho and a Well Intentioned Extremist, respectively...
Unfortunately, this troper gets the same feel even when listening to Chaoji in D Grayman, although he is neither as smart as Light, nor as handsome as Light or Tamaki.
Also noticeable is the fact that Mamoru does the voice of Death The Kid in Soul Eater and does a fairly good job of changing from deathly serious son of the grim reaper to wacky symmetry obsessive at break neck speeds.
On a more serious note, this troper's friends got some laughs upon finding out that Ryuk's dub VA is the same one that voiced Vegeta in the Ocean dub. (Death Note is OVER NINE THOUSAND?)
Less notable example, but still... Ryuk's VA also voices Warboss Gorgutz, Boisterous Bruiser and Blood Knight of Dawn Of War in the Expansion Pack Winter Assault and Dark Crusade. Here's a clip of his voice in the game.
Not to mention also voicing Zechs/Milliardo in the English dubs of Gundam Wing and Endless Waltz, and his clone Allen from Escaflowne.
He's also the Japanese-dubbed voice of Nite Owl II.

Kaori Mizuhashi

We've got Kaori Mizuhashi, who has done Culotte, Laharl, Marona, Pram, Hanako, and Shauna.

Nana Mizuki

Speaking of Nanoha-related connections, this troper thinks the similarities between Hoshina Utau and Fate Testarossa are...a lot. Same VA? Check. Uses a lot of black clothing? Check. Blonde hair? Check. Twintails? Check! Wait, is this a Shout Out?
- It doesn't help that she is an Idol Singer and she sings Mizuki Nana's song. While Fate may not, Nanoha series always have Mizuki Nana insert songs. So...
- Not just insert songs. Every opening songs of the series is sung by this very woman. Likewise, Yukari Tamura, Nanoha's seiyuu, sings every ending songs of this series.

Yoko Mizutani

I found myself watching Kashimashi, and I couldn't help but to suddenly like clumsy teacher Namiko Tsuki. Then I said: "Wait a minute!", I did a quick search on The Other Wiki to found something I should have noticed earlier: She's Excellen Browning!! (voiced by Yuko Mizutani) That's not so obvious with other of her characters, like Ill Girl Miyuki Aiba, but Namiko is so Excellen-like, down to the goofy voice and noisy persona.

Dominic Monaghan

This Troper burst out laughing when she realized that Merry from Lord of the Rings also did the voice for Glenn/Glenda in Seed of Chucky.
- Hell WORMTONGUE of all people was voiced Chucky!!

Ricardo Montalban

And now a moment of silence for Ricardo Montalban, aka Gutierrez and Señor Senior, Sr. RIP.

Kirby Morrow

While watching Barbie and the Nutcracker with my little sister, I immediately recognized the Nutcracker Prince's voice as the guy who did Miroku on the English dub of Inuyasha!

Lorenzo Music

As a child, this troper liked Gummi Bears. Later in life, the wonders of cable television syndication introduced her to Garfield And Friends. She then started to watch another cartoon which had previously failed to interest her, The Real Ghostbusters, due to accidentally hearing a few seconds of dialogue from Peter. A few years later, she found Gummi Bears on the air again, and tuned in for nostalgia's sake. "Gee, it's been so long," mused the tropette. "I don't even remember which was my favorite gummi bear..." A few seconds later, Tummi opens his mouth and: "Oh. It must have been that one." In conclusion, Lorenzo Music.
- Speaking of which, Music also did the voice of Peter Venkman on The Real Ghostbusters, which surprised This Troper when he first heard Garfield speak. He also thought it a nice touch when, after Music's passing Bill Murray (who of course was Venkman in the movies) voiced Garfield for his movie.
- To Tropers of a certain age Lorenzo Music will always be Carlton The Doorman from Rhoda, which was his first VO part.
- Mr. Music (heh) also provided the voice for Sgt Dunder, in the Disney cartoon Tale Spin.

Yuichi Nakamura

This editor's fiancee has a massive fangirl crush on Tsukiyomi Ikuto. This editor knows his voice actor best as being Graham Acre. The looks he gets from his fiancee when he refers to Ikuto as Tsukiyomi HOWWAAAARRRD MAAASOOOOON Ikuto are increasingly hilarious.
Kafuka and Fuko DO technically share eccentric traits. Well, it took this troper to realize until certain episodes involving baseball and random Ho Yay jokes in Clannad that Tomoya (the male lead) is Tayaka Abe from Ookiku Furikabutte. Although not to the point of practically having Expy qualities, the two characters share the same sarcasm and wittiness traits as well. Does Yuichi Nakamura ever change his voice?
- What about someone as Hot Blooded as Graham "TODAY I SURPASS THE ASHURA!!!" Aker?

Joji Nakata

Hearing Kotomine's voice come out of a small catlike creature was disconcerting. Then again, Joji Nakata has a role in most parts of the Nasuverse.

Liam Neeson

This troper was thrilled to recognize ~~Qui-Gon Jinn~~ ~~Aslan~~ ~~Jean Valjean~~ Liam Neeson as the voice of the Player Character's father in Fallout 3.

Leonard Nemoy

In the fourth installment of the Civilization series, a quote is read to you whenever you have finished researching a technology... by Mr. Spock.
Spock and Galvatron have more than resurrection in common. They're both voiced by Leonard Nimoy. Possibly the most diametrically opposed characters ever played by the same guy.

Richard Newman

M. Bison wants to know if you NEED A HUG!?

Ai Nonaka

When this troper first started watching Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, he almost immediately thought "Holy crap, it's Fuko!"
- She also plays Sageusa Miko. This troper was like "So when is she gonna start calling Yurie Pink Supervisor?"

Mamiko Noto

This troper did a double take when she watched Nogizaka Haruka No Himitsu and realized that Kotomi was an otaku. The same thing happened in Girls Bravo, crossdressing voice notwithstanding.

Richard O'Brien

Laurence (the father) from Phineas And Ferb is voiced by Riff Raff.
- To make things even crazier, Brad Majors (Asshole!) plays the grandpa and Dr. Frank N Furter makes a guest appearance in one episode.
  - It's like a Rocky Horror voice reunion...in a kids' cartoon!

Megumi Ogata

Because it resulted in an I Knew It, Megumi Ogata. Known for playing boys such as (Kurama, Yukito, Shinji) or tomboyish girls such as (Haruka), she also played the art thief Clayman in Get Backers. Having already recognized her distinctive husky voice, the second Ban mentions that nobody knows anything about Clayman, including the thief's gender, this troper thought "I see you!! You're going to be a girl for the twist!"
This troper will like to challenge the above troper to listen to Ogata in Samurai Deeper Kyo, and try to determine the two characters she voices. Yukimura Sanada is the easy one; try picking out Kosuke Anayama without the visual cue.
- Shinji Ikari IS Ring Mao. And they meet. Repeatedly. With Ring piloting a machine that's called the "Berserker".
This troper not only picked out Ogata as Masaya in Tokyo Mew Mew, but also eagerly awaited Masaya to at some point be given the opportunity to go into full Engrish mode. The series did not disappoint.
The only reason Toei's Yu-Gi-Oh anime is watchable is because hearing Yami Yugi talk like Sailor Uranus is undoubtedly awesome.
Exception! Emeraude and Maya Kitajima, anyone?

Ikue Ohtani

This troper's anime illiterate boyfriend was able to quickly recognize Chopper's voice from One Piece as that of Pikachu.
- It's also kind of hard to listen to Gash Bell without thinking "Pika pika unu!"
- Pororin Pyurarin Hanahana Pi! Amusingly, Hana-chan has a habit of donning Blush Stickers when at her damn cutest.
- Let's not forget Mitsuhiko of the Detective Boys!

Tony Oliver

The narrator from Gurren Lagann and Old Simon is Lancer.

J. Pat O'Malley

J Pat O'Malley is all over the place in the Disney canon. He's Cyril Proudbottom, Tweedledee, Tweedledum, The Walrus AND The Carpenter, Jasper, Colonel Hathi, and others. If you hear a Cockney accent in a Disney film, it's most likely O'Malley.

Lisa Ortiz:

You can easily tell that Lina Inverse is Lisa Ortiz if you have heard her Amy Rose voice.
- And her Serenity Wheeler voice.
- And her Tony Tony Chopper voice.
- And pretty darn EVERY voice she's ever done on Pokemon.
  - Lisa Ortiz's Sabrina (Abra And The Psychic Showdown) is different, however.

Colleen O'Shaughnessey

Sora! What are you doing in my Danny Phantom?!

Gary Owens

Gary Owens is the narrator of Space Quest 6. However, once you realise that he also provided the voice of one Roger Ramjet, you'll never hear it the same way again.
- Not to mention the original (pre Coast to Coast) Space Ghost.

Frank Oz

Watch The Muppet Show, and then watch The Empire Strikes Back. Frank Oz voices Yoda in a very similar manner to the way he voices Fozzie Bear. Wakka Wakka Wakka!

Jason Paige

The guy who performed Walkie-Talkie Man and Canned Heat in Elite Beat Agents was the guy who sang the Pokemon theme. Yes, I know this may not be that shocking, but still!

Mike Patton

There are many statements that Mike Patton, the same guy who voices the Infected in Left 4 Dead, also voices the anger sphere in Portal.
- Or that the Infected are actually victims of The Darkness.

Robert Patrick

If you hear Piandao, you'll probably be wondering why Sokka is taking swordsmanship lessons from the T-1000.
- Robert Patrick was also the voice of Race Bannon in the early seasons of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.

Rob Paulson

Planescape Torment becomes somewhat more interesting when you learn that Yakko Warner is your friendly neighborhood disembodied talking skull, Morte.

Ron Perlman

The Fallout series has been consistently narrated by Ron Perlman.
He also did a great job as the ultra-creepy/awesome Slade on Teen Titans. Every other voice he does sounds like a less creepy version of Slade.

Ethan Phillips

One of the colonists on Dantooine is Neelix. And not a douche.
- He also played some mercenary on Manaan in the first game. But he was a douche.

David Hyde Pierce

Niles Crane as Abe Sapien in the first Hellboy. Doug Jones got to do his own voice in the second, though.

Alexander Polinsky

When Alexander Polinsky voices Headmaster in Transformers Animated, it's hard not to think of Control Freak.

Tony Pope

Tony Pope, best known as Wreck-Gar and the voice of Furby.

Jamieson Price

Lord Genome sounds so much like Diethard Ried it's scary. He also sounds like Norb, which is just slightly less weird.
He also played Reeve Trusti who helps the player party in Final Fantasy VII , as well as playing a prominent role in it's video game sequel Dirge Of Cerberus. Among other roles, he was a Belkan Ace Pilot, a Jelly Man, the First Hokage in Naruto and the leader of a counterterrorism special forces group

Derek Stephen Prince

In Bleach, Uryu Ishida is voiced by Derek Stephen Prince who is sounds like Sasuke Uchiha. It doesn't help that Uryu looks like a cross between the two.
- For this troper, Uryu's dub voice actor's best known as Shino in Naruto.
You can tell Attenborough is voiced by the same guy as Uryu Ishida, which is pretty weird even though he does a pretty good job, since Uryu's pretty much The Stoic while Attenborough is moderately Ax Crazy (though his laugh sounds like a less evil Ken Ichijoji).
This troper wishes she could unhear Ken Ichijoji as Vexen...once she heard his voice, she wanted to cry.
Speaking of Digimon Adventure 02, Derek also voiced Veemon there. Another example of Talking To Himself.

Greg Proops

While we're on the topic of Star Wars, the podrace from The Phantom Menace is announced by Greg Proops.

John Ratzenberger

Lampshaded in the movie Cars, where one of the characters, played by John Ratzenberger (Cliff Clavin on Cheers), is watching a bunch of movies and complains that the same guy is doing all the voices, and it's because he's the one who did those characters in those movies. (P.T. Flea in A Bugs Life, Ham from Toy Story, and the Abominable Snowman from Monsters Inc.)
- It's become rather a Running Gag at Pixar for Ratzenberger to be a voice in all their films. He's their "good luck charm". Because it's Pixar, the joke never gets old.
- Cars also had cameos by NPR mechanic talk show hosts Tom and Ray Magliozzi as Rusty and Dusty Rust-Eze, even using catch phrases from their show.
- When John Lasseter produced the English adaptation of Spirited Away, he gave John Ratzenberger a role in that too.

John Rhys-Davies

John Rhys-Davies, mentioned below and known for playing a dwarf and a talking tree, also voiced the narration in the adventure/rpg hybrid Quest For Glory 4. Anyone who's played this game has probably had his "That didn't do anything!" ingrained in their memories after frustratingly clicking on every inch of screen.
- The best part is the annoyed tone he uses, like the narrator is pissed at you doing things that lead nowhere.
  - This just shows that John Rhys Davies would be an AWESOME Game Master for any Table Top RPG
- Mr. Davies also provided the voice of Prince Thrakhath nar Kiranka, in Wing Commander III.
  - Which happened to be a double shot as he was also live-acting the role of James "Paladin" Taggart at the same time.
- His voice was also a pleasant surprise in Freelancer as Tobias, who, of course, is the closest thing Freelancer's got to a Boisterous Bruiser.
John Rhys-Davies of Indiana Jones and Lord of the Rings fame plays Hades in a couple episodes of Justice League Unlimited.
- He was also Aladdin's dad Cassim in the third movie.
- And Macbeth in Gargoyles.
- And Ma-ma-ma-mamama, ma-ma-ma-mamama, MANRAY!

Monica Rial

Compare Monica Rial as vampire pseudo-catgirl Hazuki to Monica Rial as dating sim fangirl Renge....or Hyatt to Lumiere to Konoka Konoe. You're welcome.

Kevin Michael Richardson

So Jolee Bindo is a captive Earthbender, huh?
In the Grand Finale of Avatar The Last Airbender, you can easily tell that the Lion Turtle is Kevin Michael Richardson, using a similar voice as he did in Transformers Animated for Omega Supreme. However, his voice for Tyro (Haru's dad), while not quite as similar, is still noticeable.
Teen Titans series 4 leads to an interesting revelation: The voice, the glowing eyes, the omnicidal mania... Sarevok's back! Doing well for himself, isn't he?
This troper just returned from the Revenge of the Fallen midnight premiere held in his area, and immediately recognized Kevin Micheal Richardson's voice coming from the only one of the Primes that spoke before they brought Sam back to life.
He also played Lucius Fox in the Gotham Knights tie-in. And couple other guys too.
And he also played Antauri.

Alan Rickman

Speaking of King Of The Hill, this troper kept expecting King Philip (from the episode "Joust Like A Woman") to address Hank as "Mister Potter".
No mention of Joe? This troper remembers the ads for the movie kept referring to both Alan Rickman and Terry Jones.

Sam Riegel

One wonders if Shino Aburame has named any of the bugs inside him Wormmon.
- Oh, dear heavens, this happens a lot with Naruto. While watching, one will wonder if Izumo will bust out his Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu, Genma will use Zangetsu, or if Homura will start hassling someone for always losing the bounty.
- He was also Clovis. And he sounded fairly obvious in that role, too.
- He generally has two voices: smug bastard (Zaku, Clovis), and largely normal guy (Taniguchi, Shiro Emiya, Minoru Shiraishi). With Viral, he's usually the first, and sometimes the second.
- Besides the technically-inclined Shirou, he was the technically-inclined Ninja Turtle Donatello ('03 version).
  - When I heard Reid Hershel's voice, I thought he would say '''Go dance with the angels'''.

Shane Rimmer

This troper always smiles whenever she hears Shane Rimmer's voice on tv, film, internet, or wherever, mainly because she has always had this big crush on Scott Tracy from Thunderbirds, whose voice is provided by Shane, and he never puts too much variation on that voice of his. (Except when he sings of course...)

Susan Roman

This troper was horrified when she first started playing Mega Man Legends 2, only to hear Sailor Jupiter.

Michael Rosenbaum

In an episode of Justice League Unlimited where the Flash and Lex Luthor switched brains. Unlike most animation, this did not involve the characters switching voices. This gave Micheal Rosenbaum a chance to use his Smallville Lex Luthor voice (probably a Shout Out).

Michelle Ruff

Michelle Ruff, best known as Euphemia Li Britannia, Yoko, Kiki, Etna, Tsukasa, Izumi, Yuki Nagato, and Rukia.

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Christopher Sabat

Christopher Sabat of the Funimation dub gets this a lot from their dub of One Piece with Zoro, who sounds a lot like Piccolo.
- He also does the voice of The Conqueror from The Last Remnant, who... also sounds a lot like Piccolo.
- Easy enough to believe he did Shin Chan's narrator (which sounded a bit like Major Armstrong in episode 3), but then there's Yanro...

Chiwa Saito

This happens with Chiwa Saito in Samurai Seven with Komachi and in Pani Poni Dash with Rebecca Miyamoto.
- 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.

Nozomu Sasaki

Nozomu Sasaki. His best known roles? Eriol Hiiragizawa, Johan Liebert, and YUSUKE URAMESHI! This troper's overactive imagination will render Monster and Yu Yu Hakusho... difficult for a while.
- 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?

Daisuke Sakaguchi

Daisuke Sakaguchi, who also played Jacuzzi Splot and Usso Ewin.

Miyuki Sawashiro

This troper freaked out when he realized his favorite Reyvateil had the same distinct Tsundere voice as Houjo Reika and 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.
- If this troper remembers correctly, 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?!
- How could this troper forget Cammy from Street Fighter IV?! Also, after hearing Carl's Japanese voice in Blaz Blue, you could definitely hear Sawashiro Miyuki in his voice, despite the character being a Cute Shotaro Boy.

Randy Savage

OHHH YEAHH former WWE and WCW champion and Slim Jim spokesman. He's played Sasquatch in The Xs, Space Ghost's granddad in Space Ghost Coast To Coast, Master Sergeant Emily Dickinson Jones in Duck Dodgers and Rasslor in Dial M For Monkey.

Raphael Sbarge

Carth Onasi is also a biotic.
- And a total weaselly bastard on Star Trek Voyager.
- AND a certain archaeologist the Gaang runs into in the Earth Kingdom.
- AND a Republic clone, Delta-62, "Scorch." Guess what his specialty is...
- This troper referred to the character as "Carth" while playing Mass Effect because she couldn't remember the character's name but knew she recognized that voice.
- This troper did a double-take when he saw a network-run reality show where an actor would pretend to be racist against an actress to see people's reactions. Playing the part of "racist Dunkin' Donuts (TM) counter man" was none other than Carth Onasi.
- Spacebankers.

Ted Schwartz

Thrasher on the 80's GI Joe, but best known as the voice of Peter Parker / Spider Man in the 80's cartoons, including 'Amazing Friends' and his own solo, hardly-seen syndie show. 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.

David Scully

David Scully will forever be known as Sergeant Avery Johnson.

Tomokazu Seki

This troper half expected Gilgamesh to start advertising some Comiket/anime goods to Shirou.

Stephanie Sheh

This troper swears that Stephanie Sheh's voice for Orihime Inoue is just her Hinata Hyuga voice with an attempt to sound three years older.
- 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
- 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.

Kelly Sheridan

You know what's wild? Sango is almost every Barbie you could see in a movie.

Armin Shimerman

Subverted in Bio Shock: Until looking it up on imdb, this troper had absolutely no clue that Andrew Ryan was, in fact, Quark.

Kaori Shimizu

On Kaori Shimizu, when this troper watches Shinkon Gattai Godannar, she plays as the Loli Lou Roux, which obviously had her using her loli-ish voice (as shown in Serial Experiments Lain). Except when she starts her battle Kiai... whereas this troper suddenly get vibes that either Signum or Lamia possessed her and gives her some hot blood elements (of course, at that time, The Hero Goh was also doing his own Kiai, so it might not sound so obvious). Then again, that seiyuu also has Hiyori Tamura in her resume, and she sounded NOTHING like any of these mentioned roles.
- This troper was also puzzled by the casting of Ms. Shimizu as Hiyori, even though she rose to the occasion admirably. A little research shows that she also played Motoko in Fruits Basket and Keiko in Genshiken, which goes a long way towards explaining it.
- Then, taken on full throttle in Mugen no Frontier. Aschen seems to be a normal Genki Girl... but when she uses a certain move in her Genki mode... This Troper is pretty sure Shimizu Kaori uses the exact SAME voice she uses for Hiyori.
Again on Nanoha-related connections, when Signum came in, this troper thought, "I think I recall this tone of voice..." until he is reminded about Lamia Loveless from Super Robot Wars. But then, the VA uses a slightly softer tone so both the voices of Signum and Lamia are a bit distinct, while quite familiar (except when she is doing a battle cry, whereas the similarity with Lamia's voice become more obvious). But then, when Signum pulls out Sturm Falke, it was then this troper finally realized that she is one magnificent Expy of Lamia. And to add this Expying business further, as the series enters the third season, it looks like the seiyuu, Kaori Shimizu, uses exactly Lamia's voice tone (which is actually her current standard voice) as Signum's voice. Whether this means it's Executive Meddling to make the Expy-ness look more obvious, or it's a flaw in her voice-acting, this troper doesn't know.

Hiro Shimono

Hiro Shimono who does voices for guys with scarves (ie. Ash and Almaz) as well as Cute Shotaro Boys with horns. Kinda funny that he shares his recent video games voices (Almaz and Emil) with a certain former Black Ranger.

Mark Silk

While playing OverLord was was quite shocked to hero the good side from Blackand White telling how it's good to be evil.
- Marc Silk has also done voices in Battalion Wars and Medi Evil II

Michael Sinterniklaas

For maximum WTF value watch a clip of the (short-lived) dub of Gao Gai Gar and you'll probably wonder if Guy will every spontaneously shout Go Team Venture!".

Jean Smart

Kim Possible's mom. Martha Logan.

Dana Snyder

When you hear Dana Snyder as Gazpacho, The Alchemist or Todd, you'll be thinking of Master Shake the entire time, largely because they all have a tendency for awkward pauses and overly dramatic deceleration indicating they're all a little out of it.

Kath Soucie

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...
- She's also Cooke in Lost Odyssey. This troper shat bricks when he finally manage to recognize (read: looked up on Wikipedia) Phil and Lil's voice after so many years.
  - She's also Cubert in Futurama, Amanda Evert in Tomb Raider, Kar-in in the remake of Lost Vikings 2...she's been around.
- Although Linka and the twins sound almost identical once you get past the Russian accent.

Daniel Southworth

The Quantum Ranger is Vergil! Quantum Power!

Spike Spencer

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 Hanataro Yamada, of all people.

Steve Staley

Steve Staley tends to do similar roles as young, arrogant men. Some of his more notable roles are Neji Hyuuga from Naruto, Kadaj from Final Fantasy: Advent Children, Toshiro Hitsugaya from Bleach, and Kamui from x1999.

Ben Stein <b> Ben Stein is well-known for his dull, drab monotone voice. 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 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.
Stein also counts as Hey Its That Guy, having played an incredibly boring teacher/authority figure in productions such as Ferris Buellers Day Off, The Wonder Years, and the film adaptation of Richie Rich that starred {{Macaulay Culkin.}} Stein is also the only person who could appear on Married With Children dressed in a chicken suit and still be able to publish serious books and articles in financial and political journals.

Patrick Stewart

In Oblivion, you're pretty much sent on a world-saving quest by Captain Picard!
- 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.

David Ogden Stiers

When this troper got into M*A*S*H in her early teens, it didn't take her too long to figure out Maj. Winchester (that is, David Ogden Stires) was actually Cogsworth from Disney's Beauty And The Beast and Gov. Radcliff in Pocahontas.

Sonny Strait

Speaking of One Piece and Dragonball, Sonny Strait uses a very similar voice for Usopp as he did for Krillin. Reruns of Dragonball Z were aired right after new episode of One Piece, so it's very easy to compare.
- Hilariously, in the manga crossover oneshot Cross Epoch, guess who Piccolo is teamed up with? Yep. Zoro.
Surefire way to realize who did Misuzu in Ouran High School Host Club? Listen to Maes Hughes squeeing over his wife and daughter.

Tara Strong

Tara Strong has done the voice of Bubbles, Timmy Turner, Raven, and Ingrid Third among many, many others. And that's not even covering the video game characters she voiced such as KAEDE and Rikku.
- That old lady from Chowder...sounds exactly like Toot Braunstein from Drawn Together, which is one of the least kid-friendly shows ever broadcasted. (Between Tara Strong and Cree Summer, this trope is arguably the funniest part of Drawn Together, considering the roles they're famous for...)

Eric Stuart

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 and Wataki. Ironically, Yami's own VA is quite recognizable in 4Kids shows himself (especially when doing the Yami tone), because he's voiced by DAN GREEN!

Brad Swaile

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...
Rock could very well be mistaken for Light.
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.
Equally weird: Mousse
The possible ultimate: Brad Swaile was the voice of Ace in My Little Pony. Reconcile that if you can.
Top this: Swaile is the voice of Maxwell from Hamtaro. Maybe one of his books is a Death Note.
Before being Lan, he dealt with another kind of artificial intelligence as Otaru in Saber Marionette J.

Tomokazu Sugita

Given the popularity of both shows on this wiki, This Troper is honestly astonished that no one else pointed out that StrikerS! Chrono is also Kyon before he did.
- What makes it more funny is that Inspector Acous is also Itsuki. That scene where they are eating cake together never fails to make me laugh.
- And then there's that extremely obvious Shout Out in Kanon 2006...
  - This troper had a fangasm when she watched the opening moments of Shuffle and heard Mikuru's voice come out of Kaede's mouth. Then she literally exploded when she heard Kyon's voice come out of Rin's.

Noriaki Sugiyama

This troper had to go look up a clip of Hector's voice in Japanese, because she read that he had the same voice actor as Shirou. They sound very similar. They act absolutely nothing alike.

Cree Summer

Cree Summer. Susie Carmichael, Aka Pella, Foxxy Love, Numbuh 5, Valerie Gray, Princess Kida, Hyena... you know this voice.
- Whoa. She also played Penny in Inspector Gadget. And Elmyra in Tiny Toon Adventures. No wonder I recognized that voice...
- Also Maxine Gibson.
- And apparently, even the Care Bears needed her help. She's the voice of Kim in the first movie and Christy in the second movie. She's certainly done a lot of stuff.
- In Transformers Animated, she is Blackarachnia.

Nicole Sullivan

Nicole Sullivan provides the voice for Shego from Kim Possible and Franny Robinson from Meet The Robinsons. Needless to say, this troper kept expecting Franny's hands to start glowing green at any moment.
- 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.
- She also does Louise in Slacker Cats and Joad of Arc in Clone High.
- This troper can't really hear Shego and not think "You know what? Nuh uh!".
- Don't forget Sullivan's role as Mira Nova on Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command...something that this troper had forgotten she'd even seen until watching Meet The Robinsons.

Hirotaka Suzuoki

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...

Yukari Tamura

While watching Clannad, one might mutter "White Devil? Is that you?" upon hearing Mei speak. Both characters were voiced by Yukari Tamura. This troper wonders if the Fan Sub's usage of "Speak of the devil" to refer to Mei in one scene was intentional or not.
- Subverted in that Mei Sunohara sounds nothing at all like Mai Kawasumi.

Atsuko Tanaka

This Troper doubts she'll ever be able to watch Black Cat again without expecting Echidna to start Beam Spamming up the place and calling Creed "Souichirou-sama".

Mayumi Tanaka

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.
- Try Koenma and KRILLIN. Now that's weird.

Rie Tanaka

Another one with the surname Tanaka. This troper wonders what would be one's face if it was noted that Chii has the same voice as Shiny Luminous.

Junko Takeuchi

Watch the original version of Digimon Frontier and listen to Takuya's voice. Then listen to Naruto's Japanese voice and WHOA!
- Hey, Cure Rouge too.
  - 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.
- and Dieter is Naruto.

James Arnold Taylor

This Troper ended up spending several minutes trying to place Tidus's voice. When she did, she nearly started shouting at her TV, reconizing him as Yggdrassil.
- Also James Arnold Taylor, plays Timon and freaking Capt. Jack Sparrow in Kingdom Hearts II.
  - And also Ratchet, in Ratchet And Clank games after the first one.

Jen Taylor

Zoey, Cortana, Toad AND Princess Peach — she was even The Other Darrin for Cate Archer — Jen Taylor has played a number of iconic characters.

Veronica Taylor

Gracie Lizzie had no interest in Dinosaur King when she first heard it. Then she caught a few seconds of the dub and did a double take when she recognized Ash from Pokemon 's voice in Max's body. That is, Veronica Taylor. The show now makes Gracie Lizzie smile for the nostalgia kick (as Veronica Taylor and the rest of the Pokemon got a case of The Other Darrin forced on them and because Gracie Lizzie hasn't watched Pokemon in ages).
Don't be surprised if you start playing Ape Escape 2 and ask yourself, "Since when did Ash change careers to chasing monkeys?"
- Maybe when Chimchar decided to play with him by stealing his hat.
Seven of Seven. The Nanas. One's Ash, another's May. Also doubles as a case of Talking To Themself.

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!

Kirk Thornton

Two Words: Kirk. Thornton. This troper has just gotten into the Gungrave anime (where he is the dubbed voice of Brandon Heat/Beyond the Grave). All I could think was....Roland? JIN??? Is that you?
Kisame Hoshigaki? Yeah, he's Don Patch. When this troper mentioned this at GameFAQs, they couldn't believe it.
This troper had a nerdgasm when he realized Jade Curtiss was AWACS Thunderhead.
- To add to the people from Ace Combat, he also played Schnee 1 in Zero and the Sgt. Mc Knight in 6.

Tony Todd

Playing through one of the early levels of Star Trek: Elite Force II, This troper suddenly heard a Vortigaunt Yelling at him.. in Klingon.

Kali Troy (Kittie)

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.

Alanna Ubach

This troper was flipping past ABC one Saturday morning and came across a short-lived kids' show called Teamo Supremo, then heard Rope Girl speak up and yelled, "That's Josie!"

Kana Ueda

This troper just started watching Hayate No Gotoku recently, and when Sakuya was introduced, the image of Rin Tohsaka doing a Boke And Tsukkomi Routine with Archer instantly came into her mind. Sakuya's got high grade Zettai Ryouiki too.
- And then I did it AGAIN when I watched Nogizaka Haruka No Himitsu and saw Nanami distract Nobunaga...

Wilmer Valderrama

Handy Manny (Disney Playhouse) is Fez!

Cristina Valenzuela

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 Blaz Blue and joked that dual-gunslinger Noel Vermilion could pass for a slightly-grown-up Nanoha Takamachi.

Norio Wakamoto

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). this troper was surprised to face Rugal in KOF 2002 and suddenly blurt out "You mean this time he's voiced by CELL?!", though kinda feels underwhelemed by his performance. But yeah, opinions and such
- 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, I kid you not. Heavy dramatic voice and all.
- Strangely enough he's also voiced both Dracula and [[Hellsing Alexander Anderson]].
While playing Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny, this troper couldn't quite figure out why the Big Bad Golba sounded so familiar...until he realized that he was expecting Golba to turn into a certain perverted yellow sphere...

Hynden Walch

Someone pointed out in the Moe Moe page that Hynden Walch, who voiced Yutaka in Lucky Star, also voiced Starfire in Teen Titans. Just look at this and 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 entirely.

Jessica Walter

Wholesome mom Fran on Dinosaurs was voiced by Jessica Walter, who became not-so-wholesome mom Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development.

David Warner

It was a shock to the system to realise Jon Irenicus is actually Chancellor Gorkon.
On the other hand, Irenicus is a nice match for the animated version of [[Batman Ra's Al-Ghul.]]

David Wenham

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...

Frank Welker

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, thats 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, Rumble/Frenzy, 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.

Billy West

This Troper noticed immediately when watching Futurama for the first time that Fry's voice sounded exactly like Doug Funnie's did (the original Doug, not the newer series).
- As a kid, this troper couldn't get over the fact that Ren And Stimpy were the same person (see above).
Detention's Emmitt Roswell sounds a lot like Phillip J. Fry.
Dr. Zoidberg's voice was lent to a Stegosaurus in the Histeria episode "The Dawn of Time".

Jaleel White

Sonic: Everything about you but yer rhymes are fat. *crash* Did I do that?

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.

Mae Whitman

Mae Whitmen voiced Katara from Avatar The Last Airbender and Rose from American Dragon Jake Long'.
- This troper kept secretly hoping that Tinkerbell would start waterbending.
  - Nah, that's Silvermist's job.
- Once he read the cast list, this troper always pictured Ann Veal reciting Avatar's opening narration.
  - Her?

Fred Willard

This troper couldn't help but notice how much Animated Swindle sounded like the Boogie Man.

Travis Willingham

After hearing him as Roy Mustang, Travis Willingham is very easy to spot as Darlton on Code Geass.
- Not much of a difference with Portgaz D. Ace either.
- Speaking of Travis Willingham, after realizing he was Roy Mustang, this troper couldn't take Takashi from Ouran High School Host Club seriously anymore, couldn't stop picturing Takashi suddenly shouting to the club "TINY MINISKIRTS!!"
- Would you expect Ragna the Bloodedge to say something like that? No? Of course not.

Mark Wing-Davey

Mark "Zaphod Beeblebrox" Wing-Davey as Judge Ghis in Final Fantasy XII.

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.
Also, it's creepy hearing James Woods in Disney's Hercules after watching Videodrome. For that matter, anything is creepy after watching Videodrome!

Koichi Yamadera

Koichi Yamadera, better known as Spike Spiegel, Ryoga Hibiki, Togusa, Ryoji Kaji, and Gyunei Guss.

Mayumi Yamaguchi

This troper finds it hard to imagine anyone played by Mayumi Yamaguchi (Lee Jenrya in Digimon Tamers, Forte from Galaxy Angel, for example) as anyone but Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist. It can be kind of jarring at times.

Keone Young

Satsuki Yukino

Mion/Shion, Satsuki Yukino is, beyond everything else Kaname Chidori and Kagome Higurashi.

Ian Ziering

Back in the late nineties, this troper watched Beverly Hills 90210, starring Ian Ziering as Steve Sanders. Fast forward to 2004, and he played Freelancer, starring Ian Ziering as Edison Trent — this time with an older, deeper voice.

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Anime dubbed in countries besides ones that speak English and Japanese