Sonic the Hedgehog - Unvoiced Characters Headcanon Voices

[@headcanonvoices9794]

Happy Holidays! Here's my extended thoughts on the cast: Mighty - Alejandro Saab: Mighty's got a youthful flare to him that'd prevent him from sounding too deep, I think, but a lower, bro-y, tough guy voice works well for him, and Saab has shown that really well in recent years. If life were nicer I'd also love to see the late great Billy Kametz tackle the role, too. Ray - Antony Del Rio: Ray has a lot of youthful whimsy, and I wrestled with whether or not he'd have a femme voice or not, but I feel that might make him too similar to characters like Charmy. Del Rio, most famous for Pit in Kid Icarus Uprising, has the youthful energy I want from him but still has a unique voice profile you don't get much of in this franchise. Fang/Nack - Tony Oliver: Funny enough, my first plan was Ben Diskin! But he just got cast as Black Doom in Shadow Gens and I have a no double casting rule. I tried a few out that I think could do awesome - SungWon Cho's higher registers was a close one, and I could easily imagine double casting Diskin or even Sam Riegel for the role - but I had an epiphany where Lupin III made too much sense to play Fang, so Tony Oliver was decided. I know some people headcanon him as Australian, but I didn't see definitive proof he was supposed to have an accent, so I decided to go easy on myself given my lack of knowledge of Australian VAs (with one exception you'll see...). Bean - Michael Sinterniklaas: Very easy choice. Bean is chaotic, Sinterniklaas had the exact vibe I wanted in the Osomatsu-san dub. Easiest choice all list. Bark - Mark Whitten: The first in a line of many annoying choices I had to make is the character that doesn't talk. I didn't find any evidence he was mute, just quiet, so I elected to go unconventional and looked through fighting game grunts until I found one I thought fit, and Mark Whitten had that perfect calm but intense vibe I wanted. If Bark does talk, I think he should have a softer voice, so it works out for me. Honey - Faye Mata: I tend to default to Faye on a lot of cat-like characters for some reason, she just has that sound to her, and I had a voice clip that fit the vibe perfectly already. Pretty easy choice. Mecha - Chris Guerrero: While I never grew up with SMBZ, I knew that he sounded very intimidating in it, so I wanted to match that energy with a deep, bassy voice. Guerrero was an easy option on that front, and he's very capable of the expected menace of the character but also the pathos we see from him in the Scrapnik Island comics. Apparently SMBZ Mecha was Cooler's voice, and Guerrero voiced Cooler in TeamFourStar's parodies, so I guess this works out better than I realized! Witchchart - Barbara Goodson: This group gave me a ton of trouble because they're so minor but they're in the comics voiced in two separate continuities, so I figured I'd include them. Witchcart herself was easy - Barbara Goodson's role as Rita Repulsa makes her a favorite for old witches and her recent run as Turbo Granny in DanDaDan made her easy to think of off the bat. Rhyming not included. Bearanger, Hocke-Wulf, and Carrotia - Eric Bauza, David Errigo Jr., and Marieve Herington: For the Witchcarters I went outside my usual comfort zone a tad and looked at western animation, primarily Looney Tunes alumni that could still reasonably appear in a modern Studiopolis-led recording project. I ended up looking at the newest Tiny Toons show and picked out three notable actors who were known for comedy cartoons but also showed up in anime or game dubs that you'd expect the Sonic series to have actors from! Eric is a ton of modern Looney Toons voices including Bugs himself, David is the most current voice of Ferb in Phineas and Ferb (as well as Ranma in the new Ranma 1/2, amusingly), and Marieve is an anime and game veteran (One Punch Man, Danganronpa) who is maybe most known now for Tilly in Big City Greens. Some cartoony voices for cartoony characters! The Battle Kukkus - Alexander "Octopimp" Gross, Brandon Winckler, and Joe Ochman: The other difficult group from the Game Gear games that have too much comic relevance to ignore. Less detail went into casting them, just vibes - Gross did a great over the top villain voice in Pokemon Masters that I think fits the Great Kukku really well, Winckler can do that youthful egotistical vibe really well, and when I saw Ochman voiced a manic evil scientist in one show I thought it'd be a pretty great fit and I was right. I was told they might be Russian but, again, I found no proof their dialogue was accented, so I once again ignored it for my own sake! Emerl/Gemerl - Lucien Dodge: I grew up with Battle so I was excited for this one. I wanted the same actor for them but in different tones - more hotblooded, "shonen" for Emerl, and more brotherly, deep, or even butler-y for Gemerl. Lucien Dodge ended up beign my go-to - ironically I remembered he voiced a robot after making the choice, so that was easy, but Gemerl took a bit more searching for a deeper role, eventually landing on his later work in the Fate/ franchise to show his lower range. I wasn't sure if people would see the vision, though, so the metallic reverb I added to the robots this time I think gets my idea across a bit better. Shade - Rebeka Thomas: I don't have strong feelings on Shade, admittedly. I have way more Echidnas to cast in an inevitable next Sonic project and she's in a weird spot legally. But I know she's very serious, and I think she looks cool - Thomas was a pretty solid fit for that vibe based on how I've used her in the past, so it felt fitting! Marine - Aimee Smith: This one DOES have a written out accent so I didn't think I could ignore it! Luckily there's a prominent Australian actress on the scene with Aimee Smith, and while I struggled to find a role that fit the tone of Marine (like her role in Freedom Planet might) that also showed her accent, thankfully Arknights and its accents abound bailed me out for this clip. Heavy King and the Hard-Boiled Heavies - Jalen K. Cassell: The way my heart sank when I learned these guys do in fact talk in the comics. Please forgive me for not individually casting them all (if I did maybe I'd do a tokusatsu reference? Iunno) but their faces are just too similar for me to easily distinguish them. For now I'll cast King as Cassell, who can do a hammy villain voice that fits a king, and also I think could change their voice enough to fit five different robots well, even if they're different genders. Sorry for being a bit lazy with this one but I do think the actor has the chops for it! "Barry" - Casey Mongillo: I included the gag visual novel, yes. Barry being very genderless is important to me and Casey's a great actor for ambiguous voices and for playing any gender easily. The Conductor - Michael Sorich: He's a pleasant old man and Sorich plays those well, pretty straightforward. I didn't cast his wife since she's only in an ending and a comic but I think a Rachel Robinson or Valerie Arem would be solid there. The Train - Christian LaMonte: This was the point where my friends thought I was insane for being particular about it. I imagined a high but masc voice, something a bit butlery, and I ended up on LaMonte for that! I think my attention to sticking with my own arbitrary rules and not just using Microsoft Sam for this one will be the death of me. Trip - Dani Chambers: The most recent addition to this list! Trip's super cute and youthful and Dani's a long-time favorite of mine now for those kinds of roles, she was my first instinct and I felt happy with the results!

[@yeoldeseawitch]

Could you do the (non-canon) archie comics characters too? Like sally, rotor, antoine, bunnie, nicole, uncle chuck, ben muttski, etc?

[@tanglethelemurfan101]

Can you do whisper and tangle or Sally and the freedom fighters next?

[@headcanonvoices9794]

@@yeoldeseawitch Planning to, just need to finish reading the thing first.

[@headcanonvoices9794]

@@tanglethelemurfan101 I have an IDW video on the channel! Archie will be a future project, still have a way to go reading it.

[@sirkingpinmonroe4439]

As a fan of Michael Sinsterniklaas, casting him as Bean is just 👌👌

[@ScapeVEVO]

Love that Emerl and Gemerl were voiced by the same person, but with different inflections and tones, and they talked differently too. Made from the same outline, but ultimately different people.

[@bobalinx8762]

Tonight he dines on monkey soup.

[@twaggytheatricks4960]

Emerl: "Is that a robophobic remark?!" Okay, yes. Absolute _yes._ 😂

[@Silverhedgehoj]

Wait, danganronpa reference 💀

[@canaldojao3419]

Idk if it was intentional or not, but we all know Mecha Sonic uses Andrew Chandle's Cooler voice, and you casting Guerrero is funny cuz he voiced Cooler in DBZ abridged

[@tavionmcneil64]

Cooler always comes back around to Mecha Sonic

[@somegoodsoup7008]

*I'LL CRUSH YOU!!!!!!!*

[@aroacegoblinyt]

Nah but DBZA Cooler for Mecha totally works because I can totally see him slamming Sonic into the ground like "IMMA PLANT ME A DUMBASS TREE!"

[@pantyosashu8137]

@@aroacegoblinyt ENJOY YOUR BEANS!

That was in Mario Bros Z.

[@DION3ON]

Was Ray's VA the same as Pit from Kid Icarus? It fits him really well

[@NeonLightsYT1]

Yep!

[@Sly9192]

Deku

[@ChrisJohnstonVA]

@@Sly9192nope, Antony Del Rio voices Pit, Justin Briner voices Deku

[@Monkey.Man.24]

And Blue Beetle from Injustice 2

[@JahanPinkman]

Oh my god Your casting for Chris Guerrero as Mecha Sonic MK II is SUCH A DEEP CUT I LOVE IT Chris Guerrero voices Cooler in Dragon Ball Z Abridged Cooler's official Dub voice is often associated with Mecha Sonic MK II due to SMBZ and then you have Abridged cooler as Mecha Sonic MK II, I LOVE the deep cut lmao

[@headcanonvoices9794]

I didn't actually know this because I didn't watch SMBZ lol, but I knew people liked him in that and he had a deep threatening voice so Guerrero was an easy choice. Funny how it works out!

[@jordebot]

i love the snapcube barry & conductor voices a lot and there voices are my headcannon :3

[@e-nl9ym]

Alfred also oddly suits eggman, the voice just suits Eggy's facial expressions - I really cant explain why or how.

[@ThatguyUkn0wfr0mS0mewhere]

Was just about to comment this. Loves the over the top yet natural voices they gave them. Fun fact: that very stream was got me into Sonic (still learning new things about it and getting into the comics)

[@cappuccinuuz]

same!! as well as the train arm for me too, i've just gotten used to those voices and i think they're perfect lmao

[@thebadger622]

I oddly love Saltydkdan's version

[@HQtheOctoling]

0:59 THAT'S PIT FROM KID ICARUS!!! I RECOGNIZE THAT SILLY VOICE ANYWHERE

[@Wabit_]

7:40 for the longest time I’ve always imagined Emerl sounding like BladeWolf from Metal Gear Rising

[@templecatt]

I LOVE BARRY'S VOICECLAIM SO MUCH I AM GOING TO EXPLOXE

[@joeylumbley]

2:38 Bark is a man of few words so I can see it

[@fictionfan3699]

Barbara Goodson as Witchcraft works since she's the voice of Rita Repulsa. For her, it would be riding a bike.

[@gwenpolo1307]

Omg Kiibo as Emerl is perfect

[@stellaandfluffy9300]

I KNOWWWW TWO BEST BOY ROBOTS

[@alexanderevans8427]

BEST BOIZ

[@FlipSide2025]

There was this video showing wayne grayson as mighty that fit really well but this take for mighty is very good as well

[@skyler725]

Merry Christmas Eve man! Nice video as always!

[@headcanonvoices9794]

Thanks! Happy holidays!

[@erikbihari3625]

​@@headcanonvoices9794. Jessica DiCicco for honey?

[@HypeVoiceActing]

Faye as Honey is probably my favorite of all these choices. I feel like Fang and Bean could've had better choices though

[@mdalsted]

In Fang's case, if Tony Oliver can put on a southern/Texan/cowboy accent and make it work, I'd be more than alright with it! As for Bean, I don't see anything wrong with that casting choice; I think the voice clips being used are for the hyperactive brother of the Osomatsu brothers, which is appropriate, at least based on what I've seen of Bean in the comics.

[@Cheezbal470]

I always thought he had an Australian accent

[@mdalsted]

@@Cheezbal470 That could work, too, TBH.

[@novarevenant3908]

Mecha sonic sounding like ainz ooal gown from overlord is something I didn’t expect but it fits so well.

[@luckyduckyfluffy9674]

I love Mighty's headcanon voice (I like anything Mighty related)

[@duckgooseyswan]

I nearly screamed when I heard Kiibo’s voice as Emerl! I still haven’t gotten over what happened to him in Danganronpa V3.

[@Roxas2099ZX]

Emerl having K1-B0's voice fits more then it has any right to, I love it! :D

[@lonelypotato5352]

The fact that I’ve never heard of most of those characters in the middle 😭

[@headcanonvoices9794]

I can't believe you don't know the obscure Game Gear villains from Tails' Adventure and Tails' Sky Patrol, what a fake fan, smh 😔

[@PerfectYakon2219]

Kaggyfilms voicing for Mighty the Armadillo that would be crazy

[@ethanemerson4862]

I like choice for Mecha Sonic mk2! But I can already hear the early 2000’s kids saying their headcanon voice is going to be Cooler from DBZ. (SMBZ fans will get the reference)

[@JahanPinkman]

It IS cooler, Chris Guerrero voices cooler in DBZ abridged

[@headcanonvoices9794]

I never watched SMBZ but I knew I had to match that energy ha ha

[@TylenOneal239]

I could see Barry’s VA being Darrel Guilbeau. The Voice of Mikado Ryugamine from Durarara

[@TheTommygee37]

Only notes are that Marine and Fang would definitely be Australian.

[@headcanonvoices9794]

Marine's actress is Australian, I took that into account. Fang I keep seeing people say he'd be Australian but have never seen like...textual evidence he speaks in an Australian accent like Marine does, so I opted to ignore it and assume it's popular headcanon.

[@theinsanityphoxfoxyexe6836]

I don’t know why but I’ve always imagined bean sounding like Rob Paulson

[@ShanelSaysHappyValentine]

A lot of these match!!

[@erikbihari3625]

Always imagined Andrew Kishino for fang, doing brooklyn accent like janja, maybe even Alexander Polinsky. For bean, bounced between Eric Bauza and Greg Cipes! Your takes? Scott Manville bark.

[@pinkiemeowstic89]

It's always nice to hear what other people have to say on this matter! Here's what I've got, assuming we're only talking after Team Sonic Racing, and mainly for the characters I'm familiar with: Mighty: Zach Aguilar (Byleth🚹 from Fire Emblem) Ray: Shannon McKain (Ashe from Fire Emblem) Fang: Maurice LaMarche (Mortimer Mouse from Mickey and Friends) Bean: Daran Norris (Cosmo from the Fairly OddParents, seasons 2-8 pitch) Bark: Yongwoo Shin (Garu from Pucca Love Recipe) Honey: Celeste Henderson (Hilda from Fire Emblem Three Houses) Emerl and Gemerl: (Honestly your choices are perfect) Shade: Alexis Tipton (Lucina from Fire Emblem as of Warriors) Marine: Michelle Marie (Leaf from Pokémon Masters EX) Barry: Lizzie Freeman (OC from the Art of Murder) The Conductor: Kyle Hebert (Pryce from Pokémon Masters EX) Mirage Express: (Again, your choice seems perfect) Trip: Cristina Vee (Marnie from Pokémon Masters EX)

[@headcanonvoices9794]

Nice choices, I like 'em!

[@erikbihari3625]

Anthony Del Rio, the latest man"ate"arms from that cgi masters? His honestly what you'd imagine teenage tails sounds like. Right guys?

[@comixproviderftw_02]

3:10 “Tonight I dine on Hedgehog Soup.”

[@thekeybladeninjaturtle7380]

I had Dani Chambers in mind as Trip funnily enough

[@windshrillzz]

OH MY GODDD KAGGY FOR MIGHTYYY!!!

[@supermannygamer2003]

Mighty and ray are that duo that want to become famous

[@Silverhedgehoj]

Emerl being KiiBO is absolute peak

[@bowserbreaker2515]

Here are my headcanon voices: Mighty: Yuri Lowenthal (Ben 10) Ray: Scott Menville (Robin with a stutter) Nack: Sean Schemmel (Jin from Monkie Kid) Bean: Jess Harnell (Wakko from Animaniacs) Bark: Doesn't Talk Battle Kukku: Frank Welker (Megatron from Transformers Prime) Speedy: Bumper Robinson (Bumblebee from Transformers Animated) Emerl: David Kaye (Skurd from Ben 10 Omniverse)

[@thevalkyriemercenary9463]

Hear me out, Michael Cera as Ray the flying squirrel

[@bowserbreaker2515]

@@thevalkyriemercenary9463 Who's that?

[@thevalkyriemercenary9463]

@@bowserbreaker2515 he played and voiced scott pilgrim

[@bowserbreaker2515]

@@thevalkyriemercenary9463 I've never seen that.

[@thetruej7872]

Antony Del Rio as Ray, Michael Sinterniklaas as Bean, Faye Mata as Honey, Aimee Smith as Marine, Dani Chambers as Trip are the most perfect choices imo

[@StarFall78]

Mighty and Ray already got voices it's in their debut game, segasonic

[@noahmaybin1781]

What about the Persona 1 and 2 characters?

[@headcanonvoices9794]

Does 2 not have voice actors? If I ever play those games we'll see! I've only beaten 5 so far...

[@noahmaybin1781]

@@headcanonvoices9794, yes Persona 2 does have voice actors, though this will also apply to the P1 cast as well.

[@headcanonvoices9794]

@@noahmaybin1781 If they already have an official cast I probably won't tackle it for a video. I'm sure a reboot would bring a new cast but that's a bit TOO theoretical for me, haha.

[@noahmaybin1781]

@@headcanonvoices9794, well, I want you to do it in case it doesn't happen anyway. Besides, the first two games came out years ago.

[@boykingelias]

i think ray and nack are my two favorite picks!! if you did an archie video is it possible to put elias and geoffrey in it.. i never see those two in any videos like these.

[@Hey-Its-Dingo]

Casey Mongillo perfectly captures Barry's "microwave kid" energy. lol

[@brolytriplethreat]

Okay im gonna look this up later but is the actor you used for Ray also Pit in Kid Icarus Uprising because i swear Edit: YES!

[@Eggrobogaming77]

My headcannon voice fo bean is Nathan Vetterlein (scout tf2) and that’s all i have to say

[@sagefrost_dragon8742]

Alejandro Saab would work so well for mighty! And it would be another character I love he voices alongside The six eared Macaque from Lego Monkie kid

[@thegamerator10]

If I close my eyes during Emerl’s entry, I just hear Dust with a metallic filter.

[@headcanonvoices9794]

I almost used Dust for Gemerl, I just struggled to find audio that didn't have music blaring over it

[@MastodonMann]

0:46 we can take these WHAT NOW?!

[@AshZucchini8168]

Oh yea, I forgot that Fighting Vipers (which Honey is technically from) doesn’t have voices like Virtua Fighter does. Weird.

[@DarkCloudVA2]

Honestly? Not bad Especially with Kaggy as Mighty

[@donstarplayz]

Fang should be Australian

[@corey5613]

I know metal sonic has a voice, but I think he’d sound like withered Bonnie from fnaf: ucn.

[@ClassicSonicLover]

If you can’t get Antony for the role, I think Robin’s VC from Teen Titans & TTG (Teen Titans Go) would essentially be the same, just with a little differences sprinkled here and there.

[@GlyphAnim]

the witchcarters are perfect

[@sdg1]

Ray being actual pit is somehow not surprising at all

[@shreddarcheese9809]

I personally would've put Sniper TF2 as Fang's VA but this guy works too (And uhh and Heavy TF2 for Bark)

[@solbadguy7771]

Mark Whitten as Bark is a pretty great choice but I would’ve used his clips from when he voiced Alex in Street Fighter 5

[@headcanonvoices9794]

That was my first reference, they just weren't what I needed for the clip

[@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario]

Yeah I don’t really see Tony as fang, with a tooth like that there’s no way he doesn’t have a lisp, besides it’s a little too high

[@headcanonvoices9794]

Tony's got a solid range and can do a lisp or go a bit lower. I never cast with the example being the "exact" voice per se, but a close enough approximation to what I'm looking for. I knew I wanted a voice similar to this and of the ones I compared I just thought Tony's was closest.

[@Neo1990sonic]

My head canon for fangs voice is someone like a higher pitch version of Edward Bosco or someone with a country voice

[@munklock6098]

I didn't know that I must need Fang with the voice of Lupin the third

[@superfighter064]

3:11 oh ohhhh that’s clever. I get it.

[@SuperFreddy64-mp5ew]

I want a 3D Solo Tails Game with Professor Pickle and The Battle Bird Armada back!

[@sonicdihedgehog1]

Nice. Really Nice.

[@alexr1592]

Antony del Rio is a good choice for Ray, although Alex Cazares would be great if we still wanted him to sound more child like, but older than Tails or Charmy. Ogie Banks or Zeno Robinson would be my first thoughts for Mighty. Don't ask me why, its just a feeling. For Bean, obviously Jet's current voice (Michael Yurchak) would've been best suited for Bean instead, but maybe Todd Haberkorn would do fine.

[@cinnamon9859]

Idk if it's just me but Bean looks like the type of person to sound like woody woodpecker idk why😭 I think headcanon that the Robotic type characters would either use Text to Speech or speak in morse code

[@headcanonvoices9794]

Text to speech style is valid, though most robots in the series have generally had human actors so I wanted to stay consistent with that

[@noahmaybin1781]

Also, who are the characters the voices are sourced from?

[@headcanonvoices9794]

I don't tend to write down the character names because they're just, whoever I can find, but you can usually pinpoint it between the actor and the source

[@TrinBluePhoenix]

TRIP AS RHYME?????????? 🥺 OHHHHHH MY GOD. OH MY GODDDDDDDDDD

[@paulmiller1049]

Gotta say Trip having Rhyme's voise is kinda cute.

[@sonicdihedgehog1]

Really, As Much As I Really Like These Voices, Really, Think The Likes of Fang, Bark, Bean, and Even Honey(Think she is The Best One Here)...... Kevin Michael Richardson-Fang The Sniper Rob Paulsen-Bean The Dynamite Tom Kenny-Bark The Polar bear(Slavic) Lauren Tom-Honey Bee Really...But, The Other Choices are Brilliant as Well........

[@markfrey6664]

While Lucien Dodge is not a terrible pick for Emerl, my issue comes with he'd have to be able to quickly switch inflections because Emerl switches dialects and speech patterns a lot in the midgame to reflect Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles as well as his own personality.

[@headcanonvoices9794]

It's admittedly been years since I checked out Sonic Battle so I did forget this, though Lucien Dodge is an actor with shocking range (compare his performance in Danganronpa v3 to his performance in Danganronpa 1) so I think he'd pull it off fine.

[@Kosmaco]

i would love to have tom kenny or rob paulsen as feels/max/reto the rabbit (sonics prototype) from superstars

[@possibly_ben]

kaggy jumpscare also i feel like fang should be a little more gruff

[@jrswears2231]

As much as I love Tony Oliver's Lupin III, (literally a big part of the inspiration for OC Turbo's character, my pfp), I'm not so sure it fits Fang that well. I think Keith Silverstein's play on the character would work better for him imo.

[@headcanonvoices9794]

I think Oliver would go slightly lower for a role like Fang, but I used Lupin more as an example of "roughly" what I'm looking for rather than "exactly" what I'm looking for. Silverstein would be fun too, though I have a "no double casting" rule I give myself and Silverstein is already Vector. (This actually affected my Fang casting already since I had him set for Ben Diskin until Sonic X Shadow came out)

[@jrswears2231]

@@headcanonvoices9794 Ah, I see. Well I applaud your use of the rule, makes things a lot more interesting

[@Ali-ii8il]

you forget to do heavy and bomb

[@headcanonvoices9794]

I'll be real, I genuinely forgot they talked in the comics

[@Ali-ii8il]

@@headcanonvoices9794 well yeah they did talk in the comics

[@silverthehedgehog-ub3wy]

Mighty and ray have voices in segasonic the hedgehog

[@gotMalk]

I don't know why but I always see Bean having a voice similar to Daffy Duck idk

[@kingofthebis1068]

Ray is so good

[@sethxenofightersofficialx]

Hi im seth and im making a smash bros fighting game Xenofighters Can you do a dream cast for my characters im almost done with the first 2 games for Xenofighters i have a dream cast in my head but im always in for suggestions

[@ClockwerkSamurai12]

10:20 aren’t Heavy Rider and Magician female tho??

[@headcanonvoices9794]

So I've been told, but I have a bizarre amount of thoughts about this matter: 1. I think the Heavies would have similar, overly-synthesized voices like Omega does, with just tonal differences, where the gender of the actor doesn't really matter that much to the performance itself. 2. Robots don't really have like, biological gender typically, so I don't particularly mind if a robot shaped like an egg has female pronouns but isn't voiced by a woman. 3. I genuinely did think about this enough to specifically choose a non-binary actor because my brainrot for these videos is bad enough that I find myself making those very subtle pointless casting choices even when I'm trying to save myself time. So tl;dr, yeah they are and I thought about that way longer than I probably needed to while streamlining this process! I don't know why I'm like this.

[@SheldonTBlue]

What if Metal Sonic had the voice of AUTO from Wall-E?

[@Charizardslash]

Barry's voice will forever be Penny Parker (Snapcube) to me sorry

[@Shadowfan4eva]

10:56 I think for Barry it would be much better if it was the voice of Deku from MHA

[@headcanonvoices9794]

Justin Briner would be a fun choice for sure. I like that Barry is sort of gender ambiguous and wanted to cast with that in mind. (Also, 'ey love the Teto profile pic)

[@boop6616]

Barry the quoka is saltydkdan. No one’s voice but salty’s fits barry

[@paper5424]

Can you do Archie one day?

[@headcanonvoices9794]

That's the plan, it's just. Long, lol. I think I last left off in the Iron Dominion arc?

[@paper5424]

@ then Post Archie?

[@DaveMan1K]

Claire Corlett is my personal choice for Marine (Sweetie Belle from MLP).

[@perkilatorxiii5179]

What about unvoiced Kingdom Hearts characters?

[@headcanonvoices9794]

I was going to ask who that would involve and then I remembered the mass of mobile games I've yet to touch, haha. Maybe some day, though probably not until after KH4, since it might thin the numbers a bit!

[@paperluigi6132]

10:26 Heavy Rider and Heavy Magician are girls, though.

[@2099Diego]

Nice

[@clarenceandgennymcneil251]

Could you do Kirby??

[@headcanonvoices9794]

I'd like to, just need more experience with the series first. I have a few under my belt but need more.

[@clarenceandgennymcneil251]

@ that’s cool. You do you.

[@draikodrko]

Mecha Sonic must be Andrew Chandler no matter what

[@headcanonvoices9794]

I tend to avoid popular fandubs for these challenges as a personal preference, but also, not gonna lie, I just don't have much experience with Chandler as an actor or with SMBZ! The comments are basically how I learned his name lol.

[@somehelluvafanboy8357]

Idt Bark should have a VA considering he barely ever talks

[@headcanonvoices9794]

It felt like a cop-out to ignore him and realistically if he did grunt he'd probably just be an actor already in the game (like how Omega's currently voiced by Sonic's actor) but I didn't wanna be lazy with a popular character lol

[@somehelluvafanboy8357]

@headcanonvoices9794 he'd literally be Terrence from Angry Birds, I just realized that 😭😭😭

[@henrybryantkidofvoices]

Digimon Fusion Hunters Digimon App Monsters Digimon Ghost Game For a English Dub

[@KOTSOSMC2002]

I like some of these, especially Mighty, but I do have some notes. The intention behind Fang and Marine is a heavy Australian voice so those need a revision here. Ray and Mighty get some grunts in SegaSonic the Hedgehog that you could probably use as the basis for their voice, although I prefer the audio you used here over what would have been more accurate. I imagine Bean would be a lot more cartoonishly squeaky. And for Gemerl and Emerl I'd go for an identical voice between the 2 but almost entirely robotic, a more generic approach, something like Omega when he's a bit faster paced in voice direction.

[@headcanonvoices9794]

Glad you liked some of them! I have been told Fang is Australian a lot, I genuinely have not seen any evidence yet that he's supposed to have an accent? I haven't read his IDW mini-series yet but I've analyzed his speech patterns and looked this up a ton and haven't found any modern evidence he's supposed to be Australian. I understand why he would be but he wasn't even associated with the fake-Australian nation of Downunda in the Archie comics from what I can find. For Marine, Aimee Smith is an Australian actress, and I believe her accent is intended to be Australian in Arknights - I'm admittedly not sure why people have told me otherwise haha. Bean I think would be more exaggerated but that's why I chose an actor with a lot of cartoon and 4Kids dub experience. The clean audio I could find isn't that crazy but the full performance in Osomatsu-san is pretty indicatively wacky. I think most of the robots would have more digitized voices than what I provided but I don't have the editing chops for that and don't really want to distort clips TOO much - I'd imagine they'd give Lucien Dodge the same general treatment in an official performance.

[@KOTSOSMC2002]

@@headcanonvoices9794 Fair enough. Regarding Fang, he had an Australian way of speaking in Archie (something Archie writers have even talked about), we've seen him say things like "mate", "govn'r" and lots of "ya" instead of "you". His speech patterns in Archie and IDW and his design clearly translate Australian inspiration. There's so cowboy-ness in the original concept art but not much in what we ended up getting. He looks and acts like an Australian hunter of wild animals you'd see in a 90s cartoon and that was the point I'm sure. Yeah Aimee Smith is Australian but the accent used in the clips isn't heavy enough, that's why I suggested it should perhaps be much heavier with more exaggeration involved. Her dialogue in Rush Adventure is insanely "oy oy streuth let's build'er this ship an' be cap'n", it's quite comedic that way.

[@headcanonvoices9794]

@@KOTSOSMC2002 Interesting, everything I saw going back through Archie didn't have much of an accent and Google told me nothing outside of people arguing if he was Australian or not, and he didn't seem to have any lore with Downunda, so I just threw my hands up with Fang and said "screw it", haha. Curious how things would go in an actual game voiceover if they'd stick with that. And admittedly I just don't aim for the exact voice - I have a disclaimer about it at the start, moreso examples of the actors than their EXACT voices they'd use. I approach this as coming up with a fan cast, rather than trying to find an exact performance that the character should sound like (I personally don't like when people fancast people based on single specific performances, haha). While I could theoretically just look through Australian characters and choose a voice that fits Marine's exaggerated accent, that feels less fun to me than finding a working actress I think could realistically be cast based on the modern VA industry (especially because I hope these videos teach people about actors they don't know). If there's a realistic actor I know CAN do the voice hypothetically, I'll just get a clip as close as possible. For cases like "the accent should be stronger", I generally just suggest stretching the imagination a bit, haha.

[@KOTSOSMC2002]

@headcanonvoices9794 I mean, again fair enough haha. The video was fun, my notes (which I specifically chose that word to not make it sound like criticism cause I don't have any lol) is based on my personal approach which seems to be counter to yours, that being that once established I want a voice to be faithful to itself throughout its history, and if a change were to occur to happen naturally (like Frontiers Sonic by Roger, considering he's now 18+ years old and it comes right after the 6-month Forces war that saw him tortured and the world in shambles AND even closer to the Metal Virus outbreak, I don't just believe in the voice shift, I strongly prefer it).

[@headcanonvoices9794]

@@KOTSOSMC2002 I gotcha! Sorry if my responses seem rambly or insistent, I just really like discussing this stuff, ha ha. It's cool seeing different people's thought processes and approaches, I love how much conversation has come up in these comments and how different the feelings are about the topic! Love to see it, thanks for the convo!

[@arrowpride5468]

TWEWY MENTIONNNN

[@headcanonvoices9794]

I don't actually know that many of the sources I get audio from, I just search what I need to for the clip, but TWEWY is an all-timer for favorite games haha

[@heehomgee4671]

I don’t really vibe with Fang’s voice, it’s Lupin, right? I don’t think it fits him all that well, something that sounds a little grouchier would work a bit better imo. I’ve heard many fancasts based on the Sniper from TF2, and while not perfect it’s a bit better for the vibe. Also, the idea of all the Heavies being voiced by the same person with different changes sounds like a poorly thought-out idea. Heavy Magician and Heavy Rider are often referred to with female pronouns and each one of them are a bit more unique than you are making them out to be. Or I just don’t see your vision, either one.

[@headcanonvoices9794]

Thanks for the feedback! Valid, I like seeing different takes on this, though I'll explain my thoughts a bit. Fang has a lot of different interpretations I've seen (I still don't know why so many people say he's Australian lol) but I always just imagine him with a higher trickster-y voice. I don't think he'd be full Lupin per se but I think a slightly lower register version of that is what I picture for him (which, Lupin is pretty high compared to Tony Oliver's usual register, so that's not hard for him I'd think). He is one where I think there's a lot of possibilities for him, though, which is fun. And admittedly I think the Heavies would have VERY ROBOTIC VOICES, haha. I didn't edit them much but I think that they'd be closer to Omega, where the gender of the actor doesn't matter that much (though I did still think of this at least as far as casting a non-binary actor that I think has a lot of range). Honestly I think that if nothing else they wouldn't have unique voice actors and maybe just be double cast from the main cast except for maybe King, so going through the whole crew felt superfluous. Also hell yeah on the NMH avatar, one of my favorite series.

[@keebilavnder]

10:35 sad he wasn’t saltydkdan… 0/10

[@headcanonvoices9794]

I really like Salty, I just limit these videos to proper credited/professional voice actors rather than youtube playthroughs or fandubs (which hey if he wants to start seriously going into that I'd be happy)

[@K.Bbluesword]

Cooler

[@ilikethecokev2]

My personal headcanon voice for Barry is SnapCube's. The Deku-like voice she used just fits so well, in my opinion.

[@YukiKurosame]

bring back emerl

[@atlaslovesedm8704]

ok but imagine fang with this voice kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4HZkpyYr8l7b9U

[@perola_manx8824]

Ps: Fang being australian is not just a headcanon! It was actually the original intent of his creator to have him have an australian accent

[@headcanonvoices9794]

Is there a source on this? I'm totally down to believe it and am not trying to be like, pedantic about it, I just haven't found a source for it! Nothing I've looked up has given me a quote or a link to proof and it's been driving me crazy lol

[@perola_manx8824]

@headcanonvoices9794 The creator of Fang actually said it himself. You can even find the information on the Sonic Wiki Zone. As for the Kukkus, I think it just comes down to aesthetics (I mean, just read Dr. Fukurokov's name)

[@Haywire_HotRod]

Only one I would disagree with is fang the sniper( I know it’s a head cannon , so I’m just offering mine) fang always had an Australian accent in my mind. I’d have his voice be like bandit heeler .

[@headcanonvoices9794]

Valid! I just don't really imagine specific accents unless it's explicitly textual, like Marine's is.

[@Haywire_HotRod]

@ that marine one though👌👌👌👌