Character that the voice actor voices that you think is weird

We all have our moments on finding a voice actor we know and love. But aside from a cartoon character being voiced by a voice actor. Some of them often times make the viewer ask why they are voicing that character. If the character is different from what he or she normally does. So what are characters, that are voiced by the voice actors that you think is weird? like out of place type of things.

One of my friends thought it was weird that Sonic Satam Robotnik was voiced by Winnie the pooh.

edited 30th Oct '10 1:29:51 PM by Playedforkeeps

I'm pretty sure this is the trope Playing Against Type.

Having said that, my example would be Breach from Generator Rex. Her voice actor is the same person who plays Starfire from Teen Titans.

I had the misfortune of reading the Invader Zim scripts before I actually saw any of the episodes. Thus, based on the characterizations of Zim, GIR and Dib I had already had ideas about what they would sound like. And when I saw the episodes, I hated all of their voices. Zim's was too high, GIR sounded like a constipated monkey on crystal meth and Dib was...actually not that bad.

Ever since I finished the series, I have retracted my original preconceptions.

^ I love Zim and Dib's voices. Gir's... I could do without.

I can see what you mean, though. I read a couple of the scripts for the unaired episodes, and it's a little hard to hear Zim's voice while reading.

I think what threw me off guard, initially, was how much of Zim's voice sounded like it was done by a female. When I initially read The Nightmare Begins I was thinking someone with like a Kelsey Grammar voice.

Note: I had never seen an episode of Angry Beavers before.

Neither have I, actually. My brother used to love it. I never saw the point and watched Sponge Bob instead. xD

I kind of see what you mean. But do you mean the way Zim sounds when he's screaming, or when he's talking normally?

And I personally thought his voice changed a lot over the course of the series. I watched four episodes today (Gir Goes Crazy and Stuff, Bolognius Maximus, and... um... I forget) but his voice definitely wasn't the same in all of them. Of course, I haven't seen The Nightmare Begins forever, so...

I'll extrapolate but keep in mind that this was my old thoughts and that I now absolutely can't think of Zim's voice any other way.

The first time I actually heard Zim's voice was during an AMV someone had created on Google Video (this was before Youtube was popular/ created). It was a clip from Bad Bad Rubber Piggy when he was explaining the "Hunter Destoyer Machine, capable to targeting the Dib human in the past" to GIR, and I was really thrown off by it. Zim first off did not sound like the Mad Scientist I always imagined him, and instead sounded too much like an extremely angsty screaming woman. And GIR. I thought GIR's voice was horrible, way too high pitched and distorted- like if one of the Chipmunks swallowed a broken tape recorder. I almost didn't want to watch the show because of this.

Mark Figgedyfraggen Hamill playing Skips in Regular Show. I love RS, but the voice seems too easy to immitate to get such a star to play.

edited 16th Nov '10 10:28:53 PM by Smartyarse

It still kind of blows my mind that Brenda Morgenstern is Marge Simpson.

^^ Mark Hamill as the Joker is pretty much the only voice acting realization that ever truly surprised me. Year later, I still can hardly watch Star Wars and BTAS side by side and reconcile the two.

It's pretty easy to tell Mark Hamill's voice acting from show to show, though. It's just that few of them sound like they could belong to Luke Skywalker.

edited 19th Nov '10 12:46:20 AM by KnownUnknown

Well, people who watched BTAS for the first time are bound to be surprised when they find out who voices the Joker...

I don't know if this is whether I should put this opinion. Its still western animation, just an animated film. I thought Matthew Broderick playing the Titualr mouse in Tale of Desperaux was weird. All I was thinking was 'you are not a mouse, you are a lion. silly Matthew'.

On the subject of Regular Show, Jeff Bennett as High-Five Ghost is an interesting choice to me. HFG has said maybe three short lines so far, and there's such a "warble" effect that it sounds absolutely nothing like Bennett. And it just seems all the stranger that they'd use an A-list VA for a character who hardly talks, and then assign unknown quantities such as William Saylers and Sam Marin to more prominent roles.

Also, I liked Zim's voice just fine. But I'm amazed that Richard Horvitz can produce a voice even higher-pitched and more frenetic than his Daggett voice. Dib's voice seemed to change somewhat throughout the show. I've heard times where it sounded like it was pitched up a little and/or there was a "thickness" to his tone not present elsewhere.

And now, Tim Curry is The Joker in the newest episode of Batman The Brave And The Bold! Well, it sounds like it, has the same distinct voice. Wait, he's voiced by Jeff Bennett.

edited 19th Nov '10 4:59:15 PM by MrW

Besides, as I mentioned on another thread, Tom Kenny voicing Rabbit from Winnie The Pooh...freaking Squidward as Professor Membrane. Most of the time, when I find out two characters on two different shows are voiced by the same VA, I can watch them side by side and be like "oh, yeah, I totally see that." Not this time. To this day Roger Bumpass's vocal range confuses the hell out of me.

When I discovered that Azula was the same cute little voice that was Emily Elisabeth, I shat bricks.

Uncle Phil is The 80's Shredder.

edited 22nd Nov '10 11:56:44 AM by Scisless

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Mr. Krabs is Two-Face from Batman TAS and Kurgan from Highlander. Wat?

Zatch Bell (the dub, since I'm using that name, obviously) is Jimmy friggin' Neutron!

edited 14th Feb '11 9:37:17 PM by FreezairForALimitedTime

Seconded, along with ANYONE in the Sonic The Hedgehog franchise (save Eggman's Sonic Adventure and Sat AM counterparts and Tails's cartoon versions) and HOLY FRICK ALADDIN AS ATLAS WITH TSUKASA AS KENICHI.

Brendan Fraser voicing Taz in Looney Tunes: Back in Action. He does a good job but it's kind of odd thinking of the guy from The Mummy movies and Encino Man voicing a famous cartoon character that only growls.

THAT is the oddest case of Talking To Himself I've seen in a while.

12 years and I still find it surprising that the same guy who voices Homer Simpson can also sing in perfect pitch as the Robot Devil.Then again, I'm also surprised that the same man voices Grampa, Barney, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, Hans Moleman, Sideshow Mel, Itchy, Kodos, the Squeaky Voiced Teen and Gil.

I wasn't 100% shocked by Mark Hamill's Joker - he'd previously played The Trickster on the live-action Flash. But a funny story about his role : When 'Mask Of The Phantasm' came out, Siskel and Ebert reviewed it, liked it more than they did 'Returns' - but hated 'whoever they got to do the voice of the Joker'. I wonder if anyone ever told them.

Clancy Brown's many roles—especially Krabs—throws me off as a Highlander fan. The fact that Richard 'Bull' Moll played both the nervous Harvey Dent and the scary Two-Face (not to mention playing the first Immie to ever face both Connor and Duncan in the HL Pilot) is another one.