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Gianni Matragrano (born April 14, 1993) is an American voice actor living in Canada who has done a wide range of works, primarily within the Anime and Video Game spheres. His most notable roles in the latter are as imposing Disc One Final Bosses in First Person Shooters, a recurrence that he has taken note of.
He also has a YouTube channel, found here, where he uses his voice acting talents to make memes and support various charity groups. Though the characters he imitates vary wildly in range, his most frequent voices are those of Duke Nukem and Columbo.
Notable roles:
- AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline as Gregory Cartland
- ANTONBLAST as Satan
- Anonymous Agony as Gabriel Romero
- Arte as Leo and the narrator
- Battlerite as Ezmo and Thorn
- Big the Pet Cat as Big the Cat
- Black Reliquary as Ghoul Mother
- Bloodborne Kart as the trailer announcer
- Blood West as the totem
- Civvie 11:
- B.J. Blazkowicz in the video on Wolfenstein 3-D
- The narrator and himself in the videos for Nightmare Reaper and The Fortress Of Dr Radiaki
- Steve Blum in the video for Quake IV
- Himself and Zane Lofton in Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer
- A Couple of Cuckoos as Youhei Umino
- Cryptid Crush as Mothman
- DEATH BATTLE!:
- Lex Luthor in Iron Man VS Lex Luthor and Lex Luthor VS Doctor Doom
- Sweet Tooth/Needles Kane in Joker VS Sweet Tooth
- Nathan Drake in Lara Croft VS Nathan Drake
- Batman in Batman VS Iron Man
- Shao Kahn in Akuma VS Shao Kahn
- Satoru Gojo in Satoru Gojo VS Makima
- Duke Nukem Forever 2001: Restoration Project as Duke Nukem
- Endoparasitic as Cynte
- Evil West as Agent Addams
- Fallout: The Frontier as Brooks, Anthony, and Preacher
- Fashion Police Squad as the final boss, Turn Coat
- Fistful of Frags as the vigilante and ranger
- Fortune's Run as Z'tar
- Gamecade as incidentals
- Genshin Impact as Boyang, Derafsh, Makesh, Shanghua and Takuma
- GHOSTBLEED: The Bio Horror as the narrator
- Gloomwood as the huntsmen
- Guilty Gear -STRIVE-: The Board Game as advertisement narrator
- Half-Life: Zero Viscosity as Violently Enthusiastic Arena Announcer, Glaive 6 and The G-Man
- Hero Inside as Hot Button 81
- Kyle Is Famous as the narrator
- Lovely★Complex as Kuniumi Maitake
- MADNESS: Project Nexus as 2BDamned, and The Magiturge
- MandaloreGaming:
- Marathon 2 and Infinity as Durandal
- Pathways into Darkness as the skeletons
- Max0r's Incorrect Summaries:
- Senator Armstrong in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
- Melina and Maliketh in Elden Ring
- Gabriel in ULTRAKILL
- My Friendly Neighborhood as the Curtain
- Nightmare Reaper as the Doctor
- Open Fortress as the Arena Master and Vigilante
- Paladins as Corrupted Atlas
- Penance as the Priest and The Blood Dragon
- Postal 4: No Regerts as the Doomsday Cult leader and dam foreman
- Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition as the remake's alternate enemies
- Quake Champions: Doom Edition as The Intruder (DUSK Dude)
- Selaco as the Juggernaut
- Serious Sam 4: Siberian Mayhem as Igor Ledov
- Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer as a bunch of rats
- SMITE as Sylvanus using the Mind Flayer skin
- Stuart K. Reilly's Working Man Games:
- Duke Nukem in The OTHER Duke Nukem Games
- Captain Claw in Claw
- Team Four Star's videos:
- Old Joseph Joestar in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders in X Minutes
- Kibito in Buu Bits
- Thermae Romae Novae as Ceionius
- Trepang2 as the Horizon CEO, Patriarch and cultists
- Tribe Nine as Hyakutaro Senju
- Turbo Overkill as Maw
- ULTRAKILL as Gabriel
- Vertigo 2 as Officer 13
- Viscerafest as Crommune
- Vita Carnis as Alpha Team Leader
Tropes:
- Anachronism Stew: Played for Laughs in many of his videos, particularly the Columbo ones, such as "Columbo in... 'Backward Liability'," where he dissects Ken Franklin's alibi that he was at home playing his Playstation 3 during the time of the murder, which came out 35 years after the parodied episode came out.
- Meme Acknowledgment: Gianni is a self-professed memelord, and has voice acted for various memes — naturally including his role as Gabriel in various meme compilations regarding that game.Gianni!Gabriel: Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me—" SIX DOLLAR SRIMP SPECIAL!!!
- Star-Making Role: His role as Archangel Gabriel in ULTRAKILL is when he really started getting attention.
