The best voice acting cast EVER assembled for a X-men show

[Gotham'sKnight]

I am excited about the new show. I bet they'll do great. I think wolverine on the 90's show was the best and will probably always be that to me. Does anyone remember the x-men movie? Pryde of the x-men's wolverine was so damn horrible....I still have nightmares. But any ways, I like this new guy, he's grown on me, especially since ultimate alliance where u can tell he was more comfortable and natural. In x-men legends it all seemed forced. Time and experiance is what it comes down to. That being the case I bet hell do an amazing job

 

[javphonic]

The voice cast is awesome, but they should've gotten a better voice actor for Gambit

love the multi-cultural accents represented in the series

 

[StormCrazy]

I don't know if this has been discussed before. About Emma... Does she really have a British Accent in the comics? I'm still confused if she has. Because we all know she has it in the cartoon. I actually like the fact that she has it...

 

[javphonic]

I've never read the comics, but I always assumed she was European, but apparantly she was born in Boston, Mass. (I prefer the accent aswell)

 

[TheVileOne]

Well it's not straight up British, but I always imagine Emma having a very refined and overstated tone of voice as she does in the show, but you could also suggest she went through major schooling in England as well.

 

[Dread]

Most of the cast does a good job so far. Blum of course gets a lot of props but I also like Fred Tatsciore (spelling) as Beast and most of the others. I didn't care for Gambit's VA, but he isn't a regular so I can forgive it. Emma's VA of course included. She sounds great.

And it is hard to gauge Nolan North's Cyclops. I know North is capable of some great vocal performances, but he hasn't been given much to do yet in his role as Scott. It's hard to gauge a role when all Cyke does is say 5 words or less, or sulk.

 

[Savage]

Well it's not straight up British, but I always imagine Emma having a very refined and overstated tone of voice as she does in the show, but you could also suggest she went through major schooling in England as well.

They always did say that she has this false British accent similar to Madonna's. It's just her thing. I always imagined Elizabeth Hurly's voice when I read her character in the comics. Her character in Bedazzled was just the first person that came to mind.

As for this cast, so far it's been near perfect. Gambit I'm iffy on because he slips into Jamaican every now and then.

 

[BobJM]

The cast on this show is great. Not a single complaint (except for some of Gambit's lines).

Cyclops sounded a bit...off, perhaps?...when he yelled at Magneto during their fight in Genosha, but I can hardly critique a character's voice when that line was one of very few.

Favorites:
- Beast
- Wolverine
- Emma Frost
- Rogue

 

[Slim_X]

The voices in spanish are decent, much better than the ones in Evo...though Kitty sounds exactly the same in both.

 

[TheVileOne]

During SDCC, I did interview most of the voice cast for this show, including Fred Tatasciore. His feeling was that he loved playing the Beast because he wants to be the Beast, but he's actually more like the Hulk, another character he plays in all the current animations. But I made a point to tell him that he IS Beast.

 

[Dread]

During SDCC, I did interview most of the voice cast for this show, including Fred Tatasciore. His feeling was that he loved playing the Beast because he wants to be the Beast, but he's actually more like the Hulk, another character he plays in all the current animations. But I made a point to tell him that he IS Beast.

Yeah, Fred Tatasciore's Beast is great. Besides Wolverine, he's gotten the most play so far. That said, he's also becoming the voice of the Hulk for the post 90's era, having voiced Hulk in nearly every cartoon he's appeared in since 2000. Which is also cool. Consistancy is cool.

 

[Neto Magnus]

why does Gambit sound like a black guy? His voice sounds very familiar too.

 

[javphonic]

why does Gambit sound like a black guy? His voice sounds very familiar too.

Apparantly, he's played by the guy who voiced the Jamaican ambassador from Futurama-the voice actor is Afr.American- IMO he doesn't sound Jamaican in either role

 

[Savage]

Holy crap. Gambit was voiced by Phil "Green Lantern/Samurai Jack/Hermes Conrad" Lamarr? Now there's a trip. Guy's gotta learn the difference between Cajun and Jamaican, though.

 

[javphonic]

Holy crap. Gambit was voiced by Phil "Green Lantern/Samurai Jack/Hermes Conrad" Lamarr? Now there's a trip. Guy's gotta learn the difference between Cajun and Jamaican, though.

he ought to learn what each accent sounds like, let alone the difference

 

[Neto Magnus]

wow I didnt realize he had such of a body of work in voice acting. I thought he fell off the face of the Earth after MadTV

 

[TNC9852002]

There's not a huge difference in the history between the Cajun (Africans from Nova Scotia) and Jamaican.

They were a heavily integrated people in the 18th century in West Africa as I recall.

I knew right away that it was Phil Lamarr, arguably the hardest working man in voice acting today. I just thought of the irony in the voice casting.

-TNC

 

[javphonic]

There's not a huge difference in the history between the Cajun (Africans from Nova Scotia) and Jamaican.

They were a heavily integrated people in the 18th century in West Africa as I recall.

I knew right away that it was Phil Lamarr, arguably the hardest working man in voice acting today. I just thought of the irony in the voice casting.

-TNC

I thought Cajuns were decendants of Acadians and later repopulated with Southern Americans and had a French background, while Jamaicans were decendants of Arawak and Taino idians, whom later mixed with African slaves and were colinized by the Spanish then English, thus I doubt they're origins are similar and needless to say their accents... IMO they sound nothing alike

 

[TNC9852002]

Well, I'm just looking at the relationship they had in the 18th century during the migration to Sierra Leone and Freetown..and I never said that they sounded similar, but I am implying that they don't sound drastically different.

-TNC

 

[javphonic]

IMO, I think they do sound very different, as Jamaican's accents are influenced by the island's natives, English and Spanish, while Cajun's where influenced by the French, and French and Spanish accents sound nothing a like,


it's like saying that Southern and N.Eastern American accents are similar

 

[javphonic]

Not to turn this into a history thread, but...

Cajun accent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqfdn8_ftYQ

Jamaican accent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_JT9-cQI2s&feature=related

IMO the you can hear more of a French influence in the accent when they speak English and the voice is very chills/relaxed, whereas the Jamaican accent is much more harsh and faster paced, much like a person with a hispanic/latin accent

 

[Syncos]

There's not a huge difference in the history between the Cajun (Africans from Nova Scotia) and Jamaican.

They were a heavily integrated people in the 18th century in West Africa as I recall.

I knew right away that it was Phil Lamarr, arguably the hardest working man in voice acting today. I just thought of the irony in the voice casting.

-TNC

I thought Cajuns were decendants of Acadians and later repopulated with Southern Americans and had a French background, while Jamaicans were decendants of Arawak and Taino idians, whom later mixed with African slaves and were colinized by the Spanish then English, thus I doubt they're origins are similar and needless to say their accents... IMO they sound nothing alike

Javphonic is right. Though TNC isn't entirely wrong, just mixed up. It was the Acadians that were pushed out of Nova Scotia, they were frenchmen not Africans. Anyway, they settled in Louisiana, though there's still a pretty prodominent Acadian settlement here.

The difference between a bastardized french accent (cajun) and a jamacian accent are huge.

 

[TheVileOne]

While he's probably not my favorite version of Gambit, having a veteran thespian of film, TV, and animation like Phil LaMarr on the cast is another reason why this is the best voice acting cast for an X-men show, and possibly any animated show period .

 

[TNC9852002]

Well, I agree to disagree.

I remember what I studied.

-TNC

 

[Rac]

If anyone knows, I'd like to know who voiced these characters in the following episodes:

S01E01 - Hindsight: Part 1
Storm (Susan Dalian wasn't mentioned in the credits. Jennifer Hale?)
Pyro

S01E02 - Hindsight: Part 2
William Drake
Madeline Drake

S01E05 - Thieves Gambit
Lucius Aquilla

S01E06 - X-Calibre
Mrs. Paré
Names for these too:
Green skinned boy (in the opening)
Girl with glowing eyes (in the opening)
Glue guy ("sticky goo")

S01E08 - Time Bomb
Colonel John Wraith (No Ironside in the credits. Sounded like Tom Kane, but he wasn't in the credits either. Richard Doyle was in the credits, maybe it was him?)
Emma Frost (Kari Wahlgren uncredited work?)
Storm (Susan Dalian uncredited work?)