- All-Star Cast:
- The voice actors of Smite wouldn't look out of place in a Funimation dub. And even better? They brought in Kevin Sorbo to voice Retro Hercules.
- Some of the more famous voice actors were brought in for one or two roles, such as Kyle Hebertnote , Sonny Straitnote and even old classics like Wayne Graysonnote and Veronica Taylornote .
- HiRezKama seemed to indicate voice actors are chosen by Hi-Rez Studios' own request and potentially from knowing the actor's work elsewhere
, so it's probable a bit of Promoted Fanboy may have occurred at times when they made casting decisions.
- Casting Gag: The Brazilian dub had a few, such as Athena and Hades being the same from Saint Seiya, and Sun Wukong getting the voice of his famous Expy Son Goku.
- Colbert Bump: Amongst the Meso-American myths, it's usually the Aztec deities that are most known. Interest regarding the Mayan deities rose with how this game included the Mayan Pantheon instead; for instance, most people would know of Quetzacoatl more than Kukulkan beforehand.
- The Danza: Thanks to a case of The Other Darrin (as mentioned below), Jenny Wakeman is voiced by Jenny Yokobori.
- Disowned Adaptation: Invader Zim's canonical and union-affliated voice actor Richard Steven Horvitz was unpleased with Hi-Rez hiring solely non-union actors and consequently recasting his character on that fact.
- Distanced from Current Events: In 2021, Isis was renamed Eset due to fears of demonetization of community content, as the previous name is also a common acronym for a terrorist group.
- In Memoriam: The Conquest map contains two: a Greek statue◊ modeled after and commemorated to David "Allied" Hance, a professional player who passed away in 2017, and a finch in memory of John Finch, a caster who passed away in 2021.
- Milestone Celebration: To celebrate reaching the 10 million player mark, Hi-Rez ushered the return of Hercules' pre-remodel skin with a new voice by none other than Kevin Sorbo (who played Hercules in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys), and made him unlockable by only winning ten matches during the month of August 2015.
- The first two gods released for Smite's 10-year anniversary were added specifically to Promote to Playable two characters deeply ingrained in the game's history. The first, Surtr, has been Conquest mode's strongest Superboss since open beta, with his design and kit heavily referencing his many in-game versions over the years. The second, Martichoras, is the realization of the Manticore, a Training mode dummy from closed beta that had become a fan favorite, even getting an April Fool's God Reveal in 2016.
- No Dub for You:
- Just like with Quantum Break, the Steam version of the game doesn't have dubs in other languages besides the original English. This is especially relevant for the Spanish language version, since it was probably done to prevent a Flame War between Latin American and Spaniard players. This was later subverted, as the Latin American Spanish dub was removed entirely for unexplained reasons and it's only now available as a DLC.
- Averted in Brazil... and then played straight, as the dubbing was removed in 2018. For two more years, those who already had downloaded the local VA kept it, new players at most need to install patches to get what was available up to the cancellation. Now it's downright impossible to play the game with the old files.
- Not Quite Starring: When the band Slipknot had exclusive skins, only Alessandro Venturella and Michael Pfaff were voiced by themselves.
- The Other Darrin:
- Ao Kuang's old voice actor, Kent Williams, was replaced by Kaiji Tang during his rework.
- Similarly, Loki's old voice actor, Ashley Wood, was replaced by Alex Ross.
- After Scott Freeman was arrested for possession of child porn, Nick Landis took over for future Thanatos skins.
- Since Smite is a non-union productionnote , most of the crossover characters are not voiced by their regular actors; a fact affecting the unionized Nickelodeon the hardest:
- Aang and Zuko aren't voiced by their original voice actors from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zach Tyler Eisen and Dante Basco, the former having long since abandoned voice acting (and hit puberty). They were replaced by Jaxson McBride and Stephen Fu, respectively. In a broader sense, McBride also replaces Benjamin Helms, who last voiced the character in Nicktoons MLB. Azula was similarly recast, going from Grey DeLisle to Megan Shipman. Iroh is voiced by Corey Yee instead of Greg Baldwin, who last played him in Book Three of the original series and in The Legend of Korra.
- The five Nickelodeon characters that joined Smite in 2022 are all voiced by different actors instead of their original/current ones—also making this the first time that Rocko, Zim, and Jenny Wakeman aren't voiced by their original actors. Matt Cowlrick takes over the role of Rocko from Carlos Alazraqui, Powdered Toast Man is played by Michael Berger rather than David Kaye (who last voiced the character earlier in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl), and Sean Chiplock plays Danny Phantom rather than David Kaufman. Andrew Russell takes over Richard Steven Horvitz's role as Zim, and Jenny Yokobori succeeds Janice Kawaye in the role of Jenny.
- In a case similar to their crossover appearance in Injustice 2, one of the ways that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cast in this game is established as incarnations unique to Smite's world within The Multiverse of Turtles is by all being voiced by actors who have never performed in any prior TMNT media. That said, the Turtles also have alternate skins explicitly based on their 1987 cartoon selves, and Matthew Curtis (Leo), Nick Landis (Mikey), Mark Whitten (Raph) and Landon McDonald (Don) obviously aren't Cam Clarke, Townsend Coleman, Rob Paulsen and Barry Gordon respectively. Raph also has a third skin of his Mirage incarnation, still voiced by Whitten rather than his Turtles Forever voice actor Sean Schemmel.
- And for a non-Nickelodeon case, Hopper and Eleven from Stranger Things are voiced by Brent Mukai and Charlie Ann Duncan instead of their original screen actors, David Harbour and Millie Bobby Brown respectively.
- Likewise, Rambo is voiced by Jim Foronda instead of Sylvester Stallone.
- Production Lead Time: Acknowledged with the announcement trailer for the VShojo crossover characters who were released on May 2023, the YouTube description stating their presence "whether they're rocking with VShojo or pursuing an indie career" - in real life, Nyanners, Silvervale and Veibae had left VShojo to do the latter during the preceding month.
- Role Reprise: Since Smite is a non-union production, only crossover characters from non-union properties can afford this:
- The four voice actresses for Team RWBY (Lindsay Jones as Ruby, Kara Eberle as Weiss, Arryn Zech as Blake, and Barbara Dunkelman as Yang) all returned to lend their voices to the girls, as does Jessica Nigri as Cinder.
- Janet Varney also returned to voice Korra, being one of the game's few proper union-affiliated actors.
- Owing to Hasbro's shift to non-union Transformers voice casts for fully in-house productions starting with the Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy in 2016, Jake Foushee (AKA Jake Tillman) reprises Optimus Prime from Transformers: Cyberverse, and Jason Marnocha and Frank Todaro return as Megatron and Starscream from the Prime Wars Trilogy.
- Screwed by the Lawyers: Bastet's Night Prowler skin was taken down after Warner Bros. threatened legal action due to its similarity to Catwoman. Similarly, Warner subsidiary NetherRealm Studios filed a C&D over Ravana's Eliminator skin due to its resemblance to Scorpion, causing it to be removed from the game with the patch that introduced Artio.
- Word of God: In response to backlash over Cthulhu being added to the game, Hi-Rez Studios issued a statement explaining why they decided to include him, reassuring concerned fans that this wouldn't lead to any fictional characters being added in, and stating that they had no plans to add other Great Old Ones or Outer Gods from the Cthulhu Mythos in aside from Cthulhu himself.
List of God Release Order, if you're curious who comes first
- Original 17 (May 31st 2012) :
- Agni
- Anubis
- Ao Kuang (Old)
- Arachne
- Artemis
- Bastet
- Hades
- He Bo
- Hel
- Kali
- Odin
- Ra
- Sobek
- Sun Wukong (Old)
- Vamana
- Ymir
- Zeus
- Released in 2012 (Post-Release)
- Guan Yu
- Bakasura
- Anhur
- Cupid
- Thor
- Ares
- Freya
- Loki
- Bacchus
- Xbalanque
- Released in 2013
- Hercules
- Vulcan
- Neith
- Poseidon
- Aphrodite
- Apollo
- Ne Zha
- Fenrir
- Isis
- Athena
- Hun Batz (replaces Sun Wukong)
- Chronos
- Chang'e
- Tyr
- Zhong Kui
- Thanatos
- Mercury
- Sun Wukong (new)
- Ah Muzen Cab
- Nu Wa
- Chaac
- Released in 2014
- Geb
- Nemesis
- Scylla
- Ullr
- Kumbhakarna
- Osiris
- Janus
- Rama
- Serqet
- Cabrakan
- Kukulkan (replaces Ao Kuang)
- Sylvanus
- Nox
- Ao Kuang (new)
- Awilix
- Released in 2015
- Hou Yi
- Bellona
- Medusa
- Ah Puch
- Ratatoskr
- Ravana
- Khepri
- Xing Tian
- Sol
- Chiron
- Released in 2016
- Amaterasu
- Raijin
- Skadi
- Jing Wei
- Susano
- Fafnir
- Erlang Shen
- Terra
- Izanami
- Camazotz
- Thoth
- Nike
- Released in 2017
- The Morrigan
- Kuzenbo
- Cernunnos
- Ganesha
- Da Ji
- Cu Chulainn
- Artio
- Hachiman
- Discordia
- Released in 2018
- Cerberus
- Achilles
- Chernobog
- Baron Samedi
- Pele
- Hera
- Released in 2019
- King Arthur
- Merlin
- Jormungandr
- Horus
- Set
- Olorun
- Persephone
- Yemoja
- Heimdallr
- Released in 2020
- Mulan
- Baba Yaga
- Cthulhu
- Tsukuyomi
- Danzaburou
- Released in 2021
- Tiamat
- Gilgamesh
- Morgan le Fay
- Charybdis
- Cliodhna
- Atlas
- Released in 2022
- Shiva
- Yu Huang
- Lancelot
- Ishtar
- Maui
- Released in 2023
- Surtr
- Martichoras
- Ix Chel
- Charon
- Maman Brigitte
- Bake Kujira
- Released in 2024
- Nut
List of Hellenic name changes of Gods appearing in this game
This list is to ease out mythology buffs who wants to know who's who between the Greek and Roman Gods in this game, as Greek reveal videos will use the Greek names no matter what, while Roman videos will use the Roman names too. First name is the God actually featured, second name is the alternate name from the other side.
- Ares -> Mars
- Athena -> Minerva
- Aphrodite -> Venus
- Hades -> Pluto
- Poseidon -> Neptune
- Zeus -> Jupiter
- Thanatos -> Mort
- Apollo -> Apollo
- Artemis -> Diana
- Bellona -> Enyo
- Hercules -> Heracles
- Bacchus -> Dionysus
- Terra -> Gaea
- Nox -> Nyx
- Vulcan -> Hephaestus
- Mercury -> Hermes
- Cupid -> Eros
- Discordia -> Eris
- Hera -> Juno
