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Post by kevinguy247 on Apr 7, 2010 20:08:37 GMT -5
Jimmy Neutron is voice acted by Debbie Derryberry That is such a cool name. That is SUCH a cool name!!! |
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Post by rialvestro on Apr 7, 2010 20:32:14 GMT -5
Bart Simpson's voice is done by a woman. Even though I've known this for years it only became painfully obvious when she failed to make her voice go up after Bart had been repeatedly kicked in the you know what. This was in a new episode that premiered about 2 weeks ago. Even though Bart has a female voice actor, you'd think they would of had a male voice director telling her she was doing it wrong. BTW if you really wanna talk about gender confused characters you should try looking up Care Bares or Transformers. It seems that a few of the Care Bares have had sex changes over the years for no apparent reason. And there are a few Transformers who have had sex changes as they get shipped over seas. Beast Machines Strika, Cybertron Override, and one I don't really understand is possible, BW Airrazor are appearently all male characters in Japan. Strika and Override are understandable as they don't particularly look like they were designed to be fembots but Airrazor I'm not so sure about. It's something I had heard on another site but she is obviously female in the U.S. cartoon both in design and the fact that she was in a relationship with Tigatron. I've allso recently become a fan of Full Metal Alchemist in which I spent alot of the series under the belief that Envy was a woman but as it turns out later it in the series it was pointed out that Envy was actully a man. So appearently he's a cross dresser which would exsplain the flat chest. I just thought she was a late bloomer because the character dresses in a tube top and skirt, has long hair, and sounds like a smoker but still a female smoker. And the name Envy just sounds female to me. |
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Post by Trey on Apr 8, 2010 7:21:52 GMT -5
What about Pikachu? Male for Female? I know that the voice is done by a woman  |
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Post by Ferrrrrre on Apr 8, 2010 7:40:20 GMT -5
Pikachu was also done by a women =D
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Post by halfthecarbs on Apr 8, 2010 11:38:32 GMT -5
 Mind = Blown. |
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Post by rialvestro on Apr 8, 2010 17:08:19 GMT -5
What about Pikachu? Male for Female? I know that the voice is done by a woman Technically Pikachu along with all other Pok'emon are not single characters so you're basically asking if his entire race is male or female and how can an entire race all be one gender unless they don't have male or female gender roles. So the answer is both, there are male and female Pikachus. Now if you're asking about Ash's Pikachu spicifically that's a whole different question. |
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Post by mashuga31 on Apr 8, 2010 17:25:45 GMT -5
Ash's pikachu is male.
Ever heard of male bonding?
Also Nermal off of garfield is actually a boy even though he looks and SOUNDS like a chick.
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Post by rialvestro on Apr 8, 2010 17:46:56 GMT -5
Ash's pikachu is male. Ever heard of male bonding? Also Nermal off of garfield is actually a boy even though he looks and SOUNDS like a chick. I'm almost positive that Nemal was only a boy in the live action movie. In the cartoons Nermal is a girl. Male cartoon cartoon characters are never drawn with eye lashes. I'm not sure why because in real life everyone has eye lashes but it's a cartoon where real life logic does not apply. |
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Post by mashuga31 on Apr 8, 2010 19:11:57 GMT -5
If you read the comic strip they refer to him as 'he.'
Also i'm pretty sure you could just google it.
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Post by stephen5000 on Apr 8, 2010 19:48:17 GMT -5
Ash's pikachu is male. Ever heard of male bonding? Also Nermal off of garfield is actually a boy even though he looks and SOUNDS like a chick. I'm almost positive that Nemal was only a boy in the live action movie. In the cartoons Nermal is a girl. Male cartoon cartoon characters are never drawn with eye lashes. I'm not sure why because in real life everyone has eye lashes but it's a cartoon where real life logic does not apply. Nermal was a guy. He had long eyelashes to emphasize his cuteness, since he was supposed to be a kitten. |
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Post by sarahendipity on Apr 8, 2010 20:16:54 GMT -5
My theory for the women playing male roles on cartoon shows is because the shows often have young, male characters. To capture the essence of a young boy's voice, which is still pretty high pitched, they need a woman's voice. They can't really hire young boys to sit in recording studios for hours on end to do cartoon voices.
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Post by mashuga31 on Apr 8, 2010 20:19:56 GMT -5
My theory for the women playing male roles on cartoon shows is because the shows often have young, male characters. To capture the essence of a young boy's voice, which is still pretty high pitched, they need a woman's voice. They can't really hire young boys to sit in recording studios for hours on end to do cartoon voices. Why not? Young boys like money too! |
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Post by Speckley on Apr 9, 2010 1:09:39 GMT -5
My theory for the women playing male roles on cartoon shows is because the shows often have young, male characters. To capture the essence of a young boy's voice, which is still pretty high pitched, they need a woman's voice. They can't really hire young boys to sit in recording studios for hours on end to do cartoon voices. Why not? Young boys like money too! Child labor laws aside, producers don't know how much a young boy's voice is going to change throughout the course of a show. Take Spongebob Squarepants, for example. The show has been around for more than 10 years... what if a young boy had done the voice of Spongebob for that entire time? If they had hired a 10-year-old to start off, and stuck with the same hypothetical voice actor, the "kid" would be 20 by now. His voice would have changed, possibly drastically. |
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Post by rialvestro on Apr 9, 2010 1:44:46 GMT -5
Actully you're all more or less right.
They can and have hired child actors before. I believe the cast of "Hay Arnold" was actully all children.
However they typically get women to do the voices because of a beliefe that young boys and young girls sound alike which is not entirely accurate.
Boys and Girls BOTH get deeper voices around puberty but girls don't get much deeper than they were to start out. Boys however do tend to get much deeper. (normally) Even as children before their voices change while boys may be high pitched they are still lower than the girls their age.
Because of the actual facts adult women, tend to not be much different from young boys and it's sertainly alot eaiser to find a woman to do a boys voice than to find a man who can still sound like a child.
The "normally" above was due to the fact that I am not normal. I've been a voice actor for as long as I've been able to speak and I think because of that when I reached that age where it was supose to change all it really did was screw me up so I had to learn how to manipulate my voice all over again but my normal speaking voice stayed the same. And it's weird, I've allways hated the sound of my own voice so I never really know for sure what I sound like because I allmost never use my normal speaking voice. Durring the time when my voice was cracking I was forced to talk normally for the first time rather than actully cracking.
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Post by twosidesun on Apr 9, 2010 2:12:42 GMT -5
On the topic of voiceovers of characters, Tommy from Rugrats was voiced by a woman. : O So is the english version of Naruto. So is the japanese version of naruto x) |
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Post by stephen5000 on Apr 9, 2010 2:37:06 GMT -5
That reminds me of how the cast of Peanuts was done by actual children, but they had to keep switching the actors when their voices changed.
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Post by redkneehighsocks on Apr 9, 2010 5:19:35 GMT -5
I always thought that the sonic character Tails was a girl, apparently not :l
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Post by rialvestro on Apr 16, 2010 15:52:51 GMT -5
I recently found this... www.behindthevoiceactors.com/voice-compare/Fullmetal-Alchemist/Alphonse-Elric/Aaron Dismuke was the first voice actor for Alphonse Elric in the U.S. Dub and he was most likely replaced for being too old to play a little kid anymore. Maxey Whitehead is the current Alphonse Elric in a series which currently only has 9 english Dubs out of 52 episodes allready avalible in Japan. For anyone that doesn't know Alphonse is a soul without a body so while he looks like a rather large man in a suit of armor he is actully a small child. His older brother bonded his soul to the armor after a failed attempt to bring their mother back to life. Ed Elric lost an arm and a leg trying to bring his mother back and nearly lost his brother as well. There's a constant running gag in the show that people allways think Al is the Full Metal Alchemist because he looks like he's older in the armor and people just think the armor is why he's called Full Metal but really Ed is the Full Metal Alchemist. |
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Post by paradoxasaurus on Apr 17, 2010 1:18:01 GMT -5
Really blew my mind when I found out Blue from Blues Clues was a girl. 0.0
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Post by rialvestro on Apr 17, 2010 1:21:55 GMT -5
Oh have I mentioned that all of the male Beast Wars characters transform into female animals. Pluse technically depending on the species of spider, Spider-MAN should not be able to produce webbing.  |
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