Relationship Voice Actor Cleanup

The main page for Relationship Voice Actor indicates that the characters involved ought to demonstrate some sort of internal relationship. For example Alice and Bob who voice close friends in Work X also voiced characters who were close friends in Work Y. Or Atsuko and Barbara, who are doing voices for Work X, happened to voice the same character in Work Y on opposite sides of the Pacific. It's a reasonably forgiving trope as long as editors put in the due diligence to explain themselves.

In practice pages with this entries are prone to severe example bloat due to it being a magnet for Entry Pimps and fan gushing. It's facing the same misuse that "He Also Voiced" aka Role Association do, i.e. an excuse to say that these voice actors also voiced other characters the editor liked, with no indication of how said characters might related to each other in either work aside from coexisting. In especially bad cases, it turns into the Long List, especially since English anime dubs tend to consist of a small number of Production Posses who see repeated use across the industry due to the limited pool of available actors.

For a bad example of this, look at Fire Emblem: Three Houses. I've already gone and cleaned up that section more than once, including adding a commented-out disclaimer to minimize further misuse. But it still sees constant shoehorns to the point of example bloat.

Edited by AlleyOop on Oct 4th 2020 at 3:03:33 PM

This trope is on the TRS docket (at least it will be eventually) and there's honestly a high chance of it being cut. I don't think cleanup will help any regardless because of how deep-seated the problems are.

Edited by Karxrida on Oct 4th 2020 at 4:38:33 AM

I'm explicitly in camp "Not A Trope, there's just a segment of the wiki with a really strange fixation on voice actors" on this one. So I'm also unsure what the point of a cleanup would be.

Cleanup isn't necessary for a trope that's likely to get cut.

From Trivia.Fire Emblem Three Houses:

• Relationship Voice Actor:
  • Japanese:
    • Female Byleth and Edelgard both voiced Lenalee Lee once, with the latter replacing the former.
    • Dimitri and Felix (Yuichi Jose) both attended the same male idol school.
    • Sylvain and Dimitri are a bald C-Class superhero and an S-Class cyborg, respectively, in the Hero Association, while the latter serves as the former's disciple. Meanwhile, Lysithea is the second most-powerful superhero in S-Class. Both Sylvain and Dimitri don't seem to get along with Lysithea though.
    • In another world, Dimitri is a college student/Otaku who was transported into a fantasy world as the Hero of the Shield of that world. He would be joined by, and subsequently betrayed by, the princess of the Melomarc Kingdom, Constance, setting him onto a journey to clear his reputation.
  • English:
    • Almost everyone from the Black Eagles house have done a voice role in Kono Suba. For the main cast, Petra and Bernadetta are Aqua and Megumin. And then comes the recurring supporting cast at times, including Ferdinand being Kyouya, Jeritza being Verdia, Hubert being the new voice of Vanir, Dorothea being Sena. Funnily enough, Edelgard was originally Darkness.^note Furthermore The corrupt nobles of Adraestia basically fits in Darkness' criteria of ideal men, so if Edelgard ended up becoming Darkness, she'd lust for these corrupt nobles instead of trying to get rid of them from Adraestia, turning Three Houses (or at least Crimson Flower) into a comedy instead of a dramatic epic! (For your information, none of the characters outside Black Eagles was voiced by a Kono Suba dub cast member, with the exception of Shamir, who also did Dorothea as stated above, and Felix (who voiced Dust).)
    • And in another universe entirely, Claude became a fighter pilot, got arrested, and ended up in a penal squadron along with some quiet guy who killed a former president and went by the callsign "Full Band" under Hanneman's command for a while. Oh! And Annette was there too!
    • Taking the cast of Cindered Shadows into account, Hapi of the Ashen Wolves and the Wolves' mentor Aelfric were once in another life a mermaid and a middle school student crushing on her.
    • Ferdinand is the Hero of the Shield while Petra is the princess with Nemesis as her father. In his journey to clear his name, Ferdinand would be joined by Bernadetta after he rescues her from slave trade and falls in love with him.
  • Cross-Language:
    • From Fate Apocrypha, Petra is basically Astolfo in English and his overly evil sadistic Master in Japanese.
    • In Japanese or English, Hubert has been some variants of Kenshiro.