Who would voice your characters?

If you had your work animated, CGI'd, or made into a live action movie, who do you think would or should voice at least some of your characters based on your characters' personalities?

I'll begin with a few of mine...

• Colonel Barry Smith would be voiced by Keith David. (Samuel L Jackson is possible though)
• Master Matsui Yamanaka would be Sonny Chiba. (Hattori Hanzo in Kill Bill) Or another one who fits the Old Master type.
• The second and third books' villains Nees and Atrexis would go awesome with Norio Wakamoto.

What say you (heh seiyuu) on who would voice your stuff?

edited 27th Sep '10 1:22:09 PM by MajorTom

I dunno man, I do not know. I would love to get Neil Patrick Harris to vote the Anything That Moves character.

For me:

• This guy would make a great Gant.
• Leonard Cohen would be a good choice for Holz.
• Laura Bailey is how I always envisioned Itou speaking.

Refraining from names, so i'll put what defines them most:

• Black Knight : Maaya Sakamoto
• Yakuza Princess : Kaori Nazuka
• Onee-sama (Type 1) : Kikuko Inoue
• Knight in Sour Armor : Daisuke Ono
• Tragic Hero : Natsuko Kuwatani
• Chaste Hero : Ayako Kawasumi
• My Parents Right Or Wrong : Megumi Ogata
• Promoted To Parent : Shizuka Ito
• Showy Invincible Hero / Protagonist Killer : Kazuya Nakai

edited 27th Sep '10 2:16:47 PM by Edmania

The thing is, I don't watch a lot of non-Japanese cartoons, and when I do, I rarely remember who voices who.

I do know two things, though:

1. Scott McNeill is a fuckin' madman who must be encouraged in his bad behaviour.

2. Someone needs to hire the abridger-kings for a first-run product. Only then will the circle be complete.

I personally wonder what MasakoX's take on Llew would be like. Ooh, or if KaiserNeko could handle a romantic role like Nikolai.

I'll post a Japanese cast when I think of one.

edited 27th Sep '10 2:46:00 PM by FurikoMaru

Anyone with a sufficiently fruity upper-class British accent could voice Captain Isaac Lamarck III. Hugh Laurie's performance in Blackadder springs to mind.

edited 27th Sep '10 2:54:02 PM by AsTheAnointed

Following Edmania's example:

• The Wise Prince: Vincent Martella
• Unlucky Childhood Friend: Karen Strassman
• Colonel Badass: Liam Neeson
• Young Lady of War: Brittany Snow
• Hitman with a Heart: Steve Burton
• The Gunslinger: Spike Spencer
• Cool Big Sis: Tara Platt

• Euro: Johnny Yong Bosch
• Kyren: Spike Spencer
• Lisa: Wendee Lee
• Gilgamesh: Steve Blum
• Xavier: Troy Baker
• Sukedachi: Kirk Thornton
• Setsuka: Michelle Ruff
• Byron: Dave Wittenberg

As for villains.

• The Cyclops: Crispin Freeman
• Adrian: Travis Willingham
• Takehiko: Liam O'Brian
• Griffith: Yuri Lowenthal
• Lance: Jamieson Price

I put way too much thought into this.

edited 27th Sep '10 8:36:09 PM by toalordsothe

Who's the actor who plays Wesker in Resident Evil Afterlife?

He'll be good for a new Jake Armitage.

(Yes, I'm working on a side story.)

edited 27th Sep '10 9:12:33 PM by JackMackerel

I'll do what Edmania did.

• Brianna: Stoic Woobie, Creepy Child, Wise Beyond Their Years, Amoral Nihilist
• Drake: Chivalrous Pervert, Uncle Pennybags, Bishōnen
• Ryan: Hitman with a Heart, Aloof Big Brother, Promotion to Parent

edited 27th Sep '10 10:37:41 PM by AwesomeZombie22

Groan. See below.

edited 27th Sep '10 11:02:54 PM by Tre

Stuck in three... two.. one...

• Tre would be voiced by me if I ever became a voice actor. Otherwise, Jeremy Shada would probably do it. (He's Finn, if anyone was wondering.)
• Nora would most likely be Mae Whitman (Katara)
• Max, Zach Gordon (also known as Greg Heffley)
• Grassy... probably Billy West in a voice slightly higher than that of Fry's.
• Freddy and Marty, I think would probably be best if done by Vincent Martella (aka Phineas.)
• Cici, Lauren Tom. Nobody else. (Amy.)
• Piper, to complement Cici, Hynden Walch.
• Cow, Dee Bradley Baker, a là Rigby.
• The Shadow, in a weird bit of playing against type, Michael Cera.

That's all I'm going to do for now. More later, maybe.

I've never really thought what most of my characters would sound like, and even when I have I haven't thought of a particular actor. The only character that has a very definite voice is Zaran, who sounds like a girl I once knew, with the same verbal tick and unusual accent (she tends to start her sentences with "oh" and pronounces the first syllable of words as drawn out with a lot of weight put on it), exept run through a filter to get a slightly metallic, inhuman sound (if you've seen youtube videos with pop songs played in g minor, that's pretty close).

Of my Atlantia characters, I think Astra ought to be voiced by Julia Stiles (but not played by her, although they're both young blondes).

I had half a mind to make Markus Hugo Weaving, but I finally decided on Andre Sogliuzzo (aka Hakoda). Has to be a kind of quiet older-guy voice, but not a really deep one.

Tom Waits.

For all of them.

Even the little girls.

I had a lengthy discussion with my friends about this very subject. Here are the names we came up with for the Tasakeru main cast.

Hanami: Jodi Benson, Cathy Cavadini, Olivia Hack, Rachael Lillis, Lacey Chabert, Hynden Walch, Michelle Ruff

Zero: Johnny Yong Bosch, Greg Ayres, Yuri Lowenthal, Vic Mignogna, Will Friedle, Crispin Freeman

Faun: Jennifer Hale, Barbara Goodson, Grey De Lisle, Eliza Dushku, Amanda Winn Lee, Wendee Lee

Ashpaw: Kevin Michael Richardson, Keith David, Richard Newman

Drake: Kevin Conroy, Steven Jay Blum, Scott Mc Neil

edited 28th Sep '10 5:26:49 AM by FringeBenefits

Morgan Freeman. FOR EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER.

It would outsell Avatar.

• Lex Vincent: Nika Futterman
• Mike: Nolan North
  • Sara Kinmont: Hynden Walch, Grey Delisle or Arleen Sorkin (brownie points if you guess why after reading my userpage)
• Bjorn: Troy Baker
  • Angelo: Johnny Yong Bosch
  • Collech: Steven Jay Blum
  • Dianthe: Grey Delisle

edited 10th Oct '10 12:47:55 PM by NotSoBadassLongcoat

Whoever was Hiccup in How To Train Your Dragon as my geek lead, Tara Strong or Susan Egan as the superheroine he finds out, John De Lancie (aka Q) as the Big Bad (I wrote the role for him), and Nicole Sullivan as the surrogate-mom/best friend.

I don't know enough names to answer this very well, but it's been interesting to realize that I think of all but two of the human characters I've written as tenors or altos. A generic Jerk Jock in a story I wrote for school was a baritone, and a muscular, mannish-looking woman embarrassed by her own lack of feminity was a contralto, but other than that I seem to reserve deep voices for nonhuman characters. The only soprano I've written, human or nonhuman, was a Cute Ghost Girl (perhaps because she's the only truly feminine character I've ever tried to write.)

^^ Jay Baruchel.

edited 28th Sep '10 8:53:48 PM by Tre

Oh, another good voice actress for Lex Vincent: Courtenay Taylor. Well, since she's basically Jack, just with more hair and less tattoos...

Not only would The Dude himself voice Dean Donlowe, he would play him in a movie. Cause anything with Jeff Bridges in it is awesome!

In my story I have included quite a few Actor Allusions: Rie Ichimonji and Aya Saionji.

And maybe I'll look for some Pole with epic voice to do Wladislaw Mieczowitz.

I'm not sure if he has any acting talent, but if he does, Wyatt Anderson of White Wizzard would be the perfect voice for the character of Oliver Moore in my Halcyon sci-fi stories. He's got the '80s metal wail Oliver uses down perfectly.