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Mark Hamill announces No More Joker

Aneko

By Aneko,
Posted on: 2011-10-19 17:09 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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Mind you, it's not the first time. Dude's like Michael Jordan with his Joker voice.

 

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No more Joker, but arkham Asylum was too good to pass up...
No more Joker, but DCUO needed that voice to make you feel like you're in the DCU
No more Joker, but Arkham City needs continuity!
No more Joker, ...

 

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Said he wasn't going to do the new game, they convinced him, but I figured it'd be his last.

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I dunno... I really hate to be cynical, but as a coworker once said to me, it seems a bit like "I'm not doing the Joker anymore... at this price". If they throw big gobs of money at him, and have a suitably interesting story, I see him coming back.

At least, I hope so. He is Joker for me now, just like I cringed when I heard the voice from Batman: Year One, because it wasn't Kevin Conroy.

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We'll always have The Trickster.

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He'll be back. Mark Hamill without Arkham is just Mmill, and no one likes that guy. Or something.

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At this point I'm pretty sure that if they wanted to they could just use tech to take what they have of his voice and synth it... that is if his concern is his voice like what i have heard before.

 

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Originally Posted by Tenzhi View Post
He'll be back. Mark Hamill without Arkham is just Mmill, and no one likes that guy. Or something.
This actually took me a few seconds to get.
Nice.

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Originally Posted by Aneko View Post
We'll always have The Trickster.
He also played Trickster in the JLU (or was it just JL?) cartoon. "Got me again, Flash!", one of my favorite lines in the series.


 

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He also played Trickster in the JLU (or was it just JL?) cartoon. "Got me again, Flash!", one of my favorite lines in the series.
That's one of my favourite single episodes in JLU (mostly because Orions superiority complex is challenged in more than one way)

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Whenever actors like Hamill say things like "I'm not going to do something I've been doing for years anymore" I pretty much always read that as an overly dramatic way of saying "I'm not going to do that AS MUCH as I used to anymore". I mean it's not like he has to work 40 hours a week to do what he does voice acting wise regardless.

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Originally Posted by Aneko View Post
We'll always have The Trickster.
Well, that and


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he has an appearance coming up on Chuck this season.

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As much as I hate to be devil's advocate, but do we really need The Joker in the next Batman: Arkham Whatever game?

Don't get me wrong, I love Mark Hamill's interpretation of the character and he really is my number one choice for being Mr. J, but I'd kinda like the character to be rested for a bit... :P

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Originally Posted by Crimson_Archer_EU View Post
As much as I hate to be devil's advocate, but do we really need The Joker in the next Batman: Arkham Whatever game?

Don't get me wrong, I love Mark Hamill's interpretation of the character and he really is my number one choice for being Mr. J, but I'd kinda like the character to be rested for a bit... :P
I don't view Hamill's interpretation as definitive. I think it's really good, perhaps one of if not the best, but his performance doesn't define Joker...

I would actually say that Sting(the wrestler) is closer to a Definitive Joker with his insane icon character that is in between Nicholson's and Ledger's

 

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stings been doing that for like just over a month now...marks been doing it for over a decade.

turn off the wrestling.

 

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I believe he's said it before.

But they can find a facsimile. Whoever does Harley Quinn in Arkahm City is close enough to Arleen Sorkin that it works out just fine (even if she is slightly higher-pitched, which I didn't think possible).

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Good interview here where he admits that he's said it before but "they wouldn't take 'no' for an answer." They also told him they might get a sound-alike and he'd have to explain to fans why he didn't want to do it.

It's so easy to be cynical and negative. I would like to take his comments at face value when he says he just wanted to leave the character on a high note. I can understand that. If I had been doing something for years and years, I would like to be remembered for doing it well and not for doing it until I sucked at it.

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Originally Posted by ChrisMoses View Post
I believe he's said it before.

But they can find a facsimile. Whoever does Harley Quinn in Arkahm City is close enough to Arleen Sorkin that it works out just fine (even if she is slightly higher-pitched, which I didn't think possible).
Higher pitched and too Joisey.

I'm sure I'll get over it, but it was kind of jarring in that first scene with Harley.

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Originally Posted by Arnabas View Post
Good interview here where he admits that he's said it before but "they wouldn't take 'no' for an answer." They also told him they might get a sound-alike and he'd have to explain to fans why he didn't want to do it.
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Originally Posted by Ramen View Post
Wonder if he's doing other characters. The Watcher from Darksider was also voiced by Hamil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stq_0dgkbO0
Great game but essentially the voice was identical.

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