History Creator / SteveBlum

* ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' (sequel): Joseph "Super Joe" Gibson

Steven Jay Blum (born April 29, 1960 in Santa Monica, UsefulNotes/{{California}}; pronounced "Bloom") is well known for his ''incredibly'' versatile range. He can play just about any role from heroes, to villains, even to the just plain weird. One of his most famous roles is Spike Spiegel from ''Anime/CowboyBebop''. He is also known for working with Creator/WendeeLee and Creator/NolanNorth. He's equally known for having a ludicrous number of roles in the ''same'' work at times, with some video games having him voice so many extras that it seems as if you have stepped into some bizarre world populated almost entirely with Steve Blums. Despite this, he is probably most well known for his extremely deep and instantly recognizable normal voice.

* IronyAsSheIsCast: A twisted example as Blum is Jewish -- and one of his Marvel roles was the ComicBook/RedSkull, an actual Nazi.

* GutturalGrowler: What got him a lot of attention and popularity. He also talks like this in RealLife. Taken to its limit in ''Saints Row: The Third'', where the Zombie voice option is just him making Tazmanian Devil-like noises.
** His role as General Romeski in ''VideoGame/Battlezone1998'' is higher pitched than what you expect from Blum, but he still maintains the same growl though it could also be the high-pass filter of the radio.

* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'': [[VideoGame/SkylandersGiants Chop Chop]], [[VideoGame/SkylandersTrapTeam Enigma]], [[VideoGame/SkylandersSpyrosAdventure Auric]],.

* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'': [[VideoGame/SkylandersGiants Chop Chop]], [[VideoGame/SkylandersSpyrosAdventure Auric]], [[VideoGame/SkylandersTrapTeam Enigma]]

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Contra}} Neo Contra]]'': Master Contra

* ''VideoGame/TheDig'': Ludger Brink, Cocytan Leader, Borneo Space Observer

** ''VideoGame/GhostRecon'' and ''VideoGame/EndWar'': Scott Mitchell

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': Zeb Orrelios, others

* DoingItForTheArt: The reason he still does anime dubbing, even though it pays nothing compared to doing video games and western animation. Despite being a union-only member, anime is how he entered the voice acting business (as opposed to his other fellow union-only voice actors like Creator/JamesArnoldTaylor and Creator/NolanNorth who entered the voice acting businesses ''other'' than anime).

** His role as General Romeski in ''VideoGame/Battlezone1998'' is higher pitched than what you expect from Steven but he still maintains the same growl though it could also be the high-pass filter of the radio.

** He grew up a fan of monster movies including the ''Film/{{Critters}}'' series and worked as a production assistant on Newline Cinema, he later provided the voices of the Crites for Critters Attack!.

* StarMakingRole: [[Anime/CowboyBebop Spike Spiegel]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MonkieKid'': Demon Bull King

* RatedMForManly: A lot of his roles are uber manly paragons such as Wolverine, Ares and Batman.
** Also [[AFatherToHisMen the Father figure to his initiates]], such as [[VideoGame/DawnOfWarII Cyrus]] & [[VideoGame/{{Valorant}} Brimstone]].

He officially holds the Literature/{{Guinness World Record|s}} for being the [[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=62393280&l=a550f11c0f&id=152361198170316 most prolific video game voice actor,]] having 261 credited appearances as of May 10, 2012. A few of the characters he has voiced are found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhI4Ho9qEnw here.]] Notably he played a few characters in ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} III'', and later played 3 of TheHorde player races, as well as multiple [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]], in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. [[note]]He did not reprise any of his roles from ''III'', though archived recordings of Rexxar were used as his quotes for a while, and he ''did'' [[RoleReprise voice him]] in ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm''.[[/note]]

* ''[[Film/MissionImpossible Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma]]'': Ethan Hunt

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73B-iDaNog&t=0m37s He is rather uncomfortable]] with working on anything hentai, as he came across a scene that was so offensive that [[NoJustNoReaction he left the studio immediately]].