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Voices of the NPCs

Alasdair

By Alasdair,
Posted on: 2009-11-12 20:48 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Nemesis's Japanese voice would be Norio Wakamoto

And randomly, anyone who could be played by Yuri Lowenthal?

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I don't know how many of you are old enough, but I hear Mr. Bocor with the voice of that guy who was shilling for Jamaica in the old travel commercials.
Do you mean Geoffrey Holder, of the 7-up ads campaign? (And he also appeared as Punjab in the 1982 version of ANNIE, if memory serves...)

Yes, he'd make a fantastic Mr. Bocor.

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Sister Psyche - Milla Jovovich (using her regular Western accent, not Lelu. :P). I've always thought Milla's voice sounded way too old for her.
This, a thousand times over.

I hear my hometown hero, Michael Rosenbaum, when I read Synapse's text.

 

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To me, everyone is voiced by Tony Jay.

That's why I've been playing for five years.

 

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Do you mean Geoffrey Holder, of the 7-up ads campaign? (And he also appeared as Punjab in the 1982 version of ANNIE, if memory serves...)

Yes, he'd make a fantastic Mr. Bocor.

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Yeah.

That's him.

Peter Cullen's "Optimus Prime" voice is who I hear as Statesman.

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This, a thousand times over.

I hear my hometown hero, Michael Rosenbaum, when I read Synapse's text.
Except Michael is famous for voicing another speedster in JLU animation. You know, scarlet costume, yellow lightning?

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Do you mean Geoffrey Holder, of the 7-up ads campaign? (And he also appeared as Punjab in the 1982 version of ANNIE, if memory serves...)

Yes, he'd make a fantastic Mr. Bocor.

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Interesting for the fact that Geoffrey actually played a hard-to-kill creepy Voodoo bad guy with a skull mask not unlike Mr. Bocor... Baron Samedi from Live and Let Die. The Baron could have used a better tailor, but the similarities are there.

 

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Lord Recluse is voiced by the late great Mike Kleinhenz, especially his performance as Lucifer in LADY DEATH.
But...Recluse already HAS a voice. It's on the old cinematic trailers and the screens in Grandeville. And it is AWESOME.

Hmmm, I can't think of any others off the top of my head...tired. Although it's a tad tempting to make Christian Bale (Aka Batman) play Manticore

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But...Recluse already HAS a voice. It's on the old cinematic trailers and the screens in Grandeville. And it is AWESOME.

Hmmm, I can't think of any others off the top of my head...tired. Although it's a tad tempting to make Christian Bale (Aka Batman) play Manticore
I want to hear Manticore bite off Synapse's head for superspeeding into his fight scene.

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Crimson - Michael Madsen, without the long, bad@$$ pauses for smoking

Mark IV - Paul Bettany (the voice of Tony Stark's computer in Iron Man)

Detective Freitag -John Ashton, "Taggert" from Beverly Hills Cop

W.M. Deitrich - Michelle Pfeiffer, but mean.

 

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Superhero genres always have room for "heavies" like Tony Jay (rest in peace, ya magnificant thespian!), Ron Perlman, Clancy Brown and Keith David.

Hire Jennifer Hale. She'll cover five or six of the heroines at least. Come to think of it, I'd like to see what she'd do with Ghost Widow. She gave a calm and knowing voice to Insa (sp?), the consort of Dr. Fate. Now, with more menace...

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For Fusionette, I remember a blonde comedienne from years ago who made her schtick around her high-pitched voice, sounding as if she'd inhaled helium, playing the 'dumb blonde' routine to the hilt -- "I didn't mean to sleep with your brother... he tricked me!" in a voice almost so high only dogs would hear it...

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For no reason I hear Mr. Bocor sounding like Fat Tony. As an alternative, Keith David has the chops.
I always associated Tony Todd's voice with Mr. Bocor.

 

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For me, I always imagine Mr. Bocor having a cajun accent.
Bocor is the only one I ever get a voice for.... and an urge to get a drink. I've heard that voice for him from the first time I saw him.

Edit: Looks like D_R mentioned him as well...

 

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I thought all the characters were already voiced by Gordon Freeman?

When I see Nemesis talking, I can sort of envision him with Christopher Lee's voice as he is a powerful old dude... though, whether the armour fuzzes it up with a bit of static could change that. Luminary and Nightstar I can imagine having GLaDOS' voice, woman-shaped androids just NEED a voice like that. A less metallic Dalek tone for the Rikti... maybe?

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Frank Oz should do the Rikti voices. They all sound like Yoda.

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Nemesis's Japanese voice would be Norio Wakamoto
Hah, that was my first thought when read the OP.

Of course, now every time I run into a Fake Nemesis I'm going to be imagining it shouting
"RRRRRRREEEEEEEERRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUCCCCCC CCHHHHHHHHH!!"

 

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Dr. Aeon always sounds like Vizzini from the Princess Bride.

 

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Dr. Aeon always sounds like Vizzini from the Princess Bride.
Actually, I'd have had Vizzini voicing Vernon von Grun. "Laugh with me! Nyahahahahahahaha-" *thud*

BTW, had a fun conversation with our esteemed Dr. Aeon the other day - when I asked him who he thought should voice Aeon, his remark was "Dr. Aeon sounds like Antonio Banderas... at least, that's what HE thinks he sounds like."

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See, I think there are some powerful acting voices out there that haven't been mentioned yet.

  • Morgan Freeman has a fantastic voice. And after seeing him in Wanted, I could easily see him as a villain. Also, he could easily play the hero living under the burden of a dark past. Listen to him in Shawshank Redemption, as well, and you'll know what I mean.
  • Patrick Stewart -- British, polished, commanding. And yet, somehow vulnerable when necessary. I *could* see him as Montague Castanella.
  • John Lithgow - Easily a bumbling villainous mastermind. Come on. Who can't see Lord Farquaad trying to take over the world?
  • Craig T. Nelson - Voice of Mr. Incredible. Again, come on. The guy played an ICONIC hero for the modern, yuppified generation.
  • Holly Hunter - Elastagirl! Stressed, trying to hold it together, with a strong sense of duty to her family and the world at large. Another fine performance.
  • Leonard Nimoy - I've always thought the guy just had one of those voices. I'm not sure where or how you'd use it, but man would it be cool. Perhaps as a character like Citadel.
And for what it's worth, I see Samuel L. Jackson as a far better Crimson than a BABs.

 

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I like to imagine Hardcase having Ralph Wiggum's voice. Such a weenie.

 

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Dr. Vahzilok - Colin Clive: the original Dr. Frankenstein; just imagine him saying, "It's alive!"

Lord Recluse - Michael Ironsides: voice of Darkseid, another ultimate villain

Positron - Kelsey Grammer: from the Beast to Frasier to Sideshow Bob, the guy knows how to play geniuses

 

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I always imagined Christopher Walken as Montague Castanella.

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