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kataangiscanon · 5 months
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PETITION FOR RECAST THE VOICE ACTOR PLAYING AANG
Thank You to my Amazing and Beautiful Bestie!!! @azulamakesmeblank who helped me with this petition. Love ya!!
To all fellow ATLA fans,
Regardless of your favorite ship or character in our fandom, if you've ever felt the pain of the people of Palestine, I urge you to support this petition. We cannot allow a Zionist to voice our beloved character, Avatar Aang, a survivor of genocide.
Let's come together and sign this petition to make a difference. Together, we can ensure that we all get to enjoy the Adult Gang movie we've been eagerly waiting for.
Sign now and let's make a change!
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azulamakesmeblank · 5 months
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RECAST THE VOICE ACTOR PLAYING AANG
Myself and my friend @kataangiscanon created this petition together to demand that the voice actor (Eric Nam) playinh Aang in the animated ATLA movie, set for release in January 2026, is RECAST.
Casting someone who sides with the Israeli occupation and the genocide of the Palestinian people to play a genocide survivor is hypocritical and insulting. Not only to Aang as a character but to ATLA as a whole and everything the show represents.
We as a fandom cannot stand by a do nothing.
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low-budget-korra · 2 years
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Let's talk about Avatar Studios
And what the hell is going on
1) I already talk about the risks of a new Avatar following up Korra so I won't go much further on this here. The problem is this new show already have to face 3 problems
1. Technology. Like, if it really will be 100 years after Korra, makes sense that the Technology will evolve a lot but more technology also means less mystic shit and the fandom love the mystic shit in the Avatar World.
Transform Avatar in some sfi looking show can be bite the ass of Bryke. A lot of fans already complain about Tlok modern world because there's less mystical stuff because of it, now imagine a Avatar where the technology evolve during 100 years.
2. Repetition. For the technology not evolve this much, something have to happen to the world, something that Korra wasn't able to prevent. So then we would have Roku - Aang arc all over again. The children of the Krew will be important to this new Avatar? It's tlok all over again. We will have modern sociological and political discussions? It's tlok all over again. We will have the classic hero journey, where he have to beat the bad guy at the end of the show? It's tla all over again
3. Characters. Tla characters are hella charismatic and the structure of their show help each one of them to develop. Tlok characters were able to sold themselves just with charisma since the storytelling structure of Tlok didn't allow the show to focus on each of them so their development is more off screen. The characters of the new show will have to match the charisma of the previous shows and not sound repetitive. I don't wanna look to a character and think to myself "oh, this is just like Katara". If they want to give us a new show, then give us truly new characters.
2) As a lesbian Poc I understand, respect and agree with the choice of bring more diversity to Avatar Studios but recast the cast is a wrong decision storytelling wise and c'mon...Dante did a stellar job as Zuko (just like the rest of the cast with their respective characters) so if he wasn't half asian he would get recast too? They were all also responsible to give life to your beloved characters, I wouldn't discard them like that.
Storytelling wise, each actor brings something new to a character, this can be good or bad. What if the interpretation of the new cast feels too different for the fandom to buy it? It's more than just a voice. Think about the Joker, James Bond, Superman....all have multiple actors playing the character and every actor brought something new with them, and because of that some are loved like Ledger and Daniel Craig and some are hated like Jared Leto.
Also, I don't want the new cast to just imitate the og cast, that would be disrespectful to their talent. They should simply just keep the cast if the actors wanted to go back and voice their characters and with the new upcoming movies and tv show, then they would search only for native and asian actors to play the new characters.
3) They are taking too much unnecessary risks because a new Avatar will divide the fandom just like Tlok did in 2012 and the fandom can also don't vibe with the new cast work(and I didn't even coment on the rumors they can change the animation style). Both of these things can flop Avatar Studios projects especially in a world were they have to compete with Rick and Morty and Arcane among other young adults cartoons.
So their job is to please the fans and please the main audience that can become a fan after the new projects, but too much changes can make the old fans go away, we saw that happen before with other franchises. And again, they will have to compete for audience with excellent Young adults cartoons
They should do the safe, conquer the fandom first and then start to taking risks and expand the show to newer audience. If they tried to please both all at once, they can ended up pleasing no one
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chery1bery1 · 5 months
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A thread of actors/musicians that support Israel.
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Jen Cohn
She is well known for voicing many characters such as Pharah from Overwatch, Ursa (Zuko’s mom) from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Miss Champlain from Wordgirl, and many other roles. On a TikTok and YouTube livestream when many watchers commented “free palestine”, her response to them was “Yes, free Palestine from Hamas.”
There are also more quotes from Cohn such as her response to a comment about wanting a new Pharah voice actor along with the Palestine flag emoji, “That is not a very ‘values of Overwatch’ thing to say” which caused anger from many fans. Cohn has also stated that “Hamas is a terrorist organization, there are so many articles and videos of Gazans risking their lives by speaking out and begging to be free of their terrorist government.”
A change.org petition to call for a voice recast can be signed from this link here.
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(Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist nationalist group that controlled the Gazan strip for 20 years and is labeled as a terrorist group by many countries. It took over the Gazan strip after an election between a political party called Fatah in 2006. On October 7th of 2023, the IDF’s attack on Gaza was followed from a series of many other attacks in Israel from Hamas but there were other conflicts between Israel and other groups before 10/07.)
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Deedee Magno Hall
Hall is well known for voicing Pearl, a character from the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe along with other live action roles for other studios. Although she never stated anything about Israel or Hamas, one of the posts she liked on Twitter was from Mark Hamill, “America stands with Israel ✊ #ALWAYS” which spread on the platform, receiving backlash from SU fans.
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Eric Nam
Eric is a K-pop/R&B singer and songwriter based in South Korea who wrote songs under B2M Entertainment. He had many tours over the years as a musician and even acted in television. In a tweet by @DiscussingFilm on April 11, it was announced that he had been cast as adult Aang for the Avatar: The Last Airbender movie set to release around 2025-2026.
This post received backlash from ATLA fans due to posts regarding his involvement with Zionists and support for Israel such as liking a pro-Israel instagram post,
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The companies Dive Studios and Mindset (both co-founded by Eric and also his brothers) having investor companies supporting Israel along with Mindset’s strategic investor Scooter Braun also supporting Israel as well as a history of working with celebrities that are pro-Israel, and the fact that he removed Malaysia and The Philippines off of his “House On A Hill” tour list due to backlash by many Malaysian fans for the aforementioned instagram post (Malaysia is against people supporting Israel and is very pro-Palestine.), ignoring the backlash but posted a statement regarding his neutral opinion on the Gaza genocide where the reason was that he “made the difficult decision to cancel the show” in Malaysia.
You can sign the recast petition here
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Noah Schnapp
Schnapp is another well known actor who played characters such as Charlie Brown from the Peanuts Movie by the now-defunct Blue Sky Studios, and Will Byers from Netflix’s Stranger Things.
In a TikTok video, Noah Schnapp is seen sitting and filming with people holding “Zionism is Sexy” stickers, the line “You either stand with Israel or you stand with terrorism.”, along with liking a post that mocked Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as well as his visit to Israel. This had many fans call for a boycott against the 5th Season of Stranger Things or for Noah to be fired from playing Will Byers.
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Jeremy Shada
Jeremy is also another well known actor and had many roles like the Cookie Run franchise as Gingerbrave, Adventure Time as Finn the Human, Voltron: Legendary Defender as Lance, Julie and the Phantoms as Reggie Peters, and some others. Many fans were not happy to see that he has been pro-Israel due to an instagram post liked by Shada and so some Finn and Gingerbrave fan art with the Palestine flag were made.
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Tara Strong
Tara is the one of the most well known voice actor in the animation industry and had been widely loved for playing many famous characters such as Bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls, Raven from Teen Titans (and the reboot), Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Timmy Turner from The Fairly Oddparents, Ilana from Sym-Bionic Titan, and so many other characters she’d played in.
Recently, she was fired from playing the character Bill the Orphan in an adult-animated series called Boxtown due to her negative responses to the Palestinian genocide. She said in a tweet, “Just found out on twitter! This is what happens when you help fans get shows made I guess. Fired for being Jewish. Glad I helped you get your kickstarter money. Please lose my email address & pray for my family in Israel and in Gaza. & #prayforpeace.” Bandit Mill Animation however, has stated this was due to Tara’s controversial tweets.
Speaking of, there are many tweets by Strong that prove this point such as liking posts that are against Islamic people, being pissed off that the BLM movement didn’t stand for a genocide, claiming the IDF doesn’t rape/harm any civilians, making a post with the hashtag #IStandWithIsrael, hiding a reply of the death count between Palestinians and Israeli people, and even more situations outside the Palestinian movement like being an anti-vaxxer, supporting PETA, supporting and directing an “eco-friendly” NFT movie project called Ornamental, supporting Autism Speaks (an organization that claims to “cure” autism.), being in a video where Tara was verbally abusing an Uber driver that was an immigrant along with Rena Sofer by saying “We are Americans, we were born here.”, did nothing when Greg Cipes called asexuality a phase to an asexual in a FMA game he hosted, being racist in response to a news clip of MEMRI (Which is a non-profit organization founded by Yigal Carmon, an Israeli military intelligence officer. MEMRI has been claimed to mistranslate clips so Palestinians would viewed in a bad light.), had a little girl who had a brain tumor pass away due to bronies donating to a charity where the money was instead of real medicine, it was put into “alternative treatments”, AND retweeted Ben 10 incest back in 2012-13.
Tara Strong has really destroyed her own reputation as a voice actor and it’s really upsetting that a famous woman who voiced pretty much everyone’s childhood have such negative ways when dealing with topics like these. The fact that there are STILL fans defending her actions is just depressing to see what she had become.
I have a picture limit that only goes for 10 images, so here’s a lightning round of more people.
Jerry Seinfeld, who voiced Barry B. Benson from the Bee Movie and had his own semi-fictional show named after his last name visited Israel into the IDF military base nicknamed “Camp Shoot-A-Palestinian” (I’M NOT FUCKING JOKING) and played target practice with pictures of REAL Palestinians, made a few pro-Israel posts on his instagram, and more.
Selena Gomez, played Alex Russo from Wizards of Waverly Place, Mavis from the Hotel Transylvania franchise, and many other roles has many posts regarding support to Israel such as liking Amy Schumer’s pro-Israel posts on Instagram, was VERY pissed off when fans asked her for Palestinian support, and lying about the beauty company Rare Beauty supporting Gaza even though the CEO is a Zionist which resulted in the donation money going a Zionist organization called Magen David Adom.
Scarlett Johansson had worked with companies that support Israel over the years along with a couple of posts that are pro-Israel.
Kim Dongyoung, who is a member of a few South-Korean bands as Doyoung like NCT and it’s other sub-units has lost over 800,000 instagram followers because of a McDonalds Korea promotion he was in even though he had donated to World Food Program Korea (a company that started to donate food to Gaza back in December of 2023.).
Taika Watiti, who played Blackbeard from Our Flag Means Death has liked Instagram posts of Gal Godot’s suppport for Israel, went on a big rant about his response to people addressing his silence on Palestinians because of people not knowing about Māori issues on the Marc Macron podcast (Many, Many Māori people are pro-Palestinian.)
Sarah J Maas, author of The Assassin’s Blade, Crescent City, and A Court of Thorns and Roses, is a Zionist that has spoken about her “love for Israel”, said that she was proud of her family members that had been involved with the IDF and its military bases and went on a trip to Israel.
Con O’Neill, who plays Izzy Hands from the show Our Flag Means Death has a liked post by Eve Barlow with the lines of “coming out as a Zionist is harder than coming out as gay”.
Keanu Reeves is another well known actor that appeared in The Matrix franchise as Neo, The Day the Earth Stood Still as Klaatu, Cyberpunk 2077 as Johnny Silverhand, and many other movies. He said that he wanted to make a John Wick movie that take place in Israel with IDF soldiers that trained for stunts, went to a party that was hosted by a former arms dealer during the 2014 Gaza war, and visited Israel several times along with meeting Netanyahu.
Rick Riordan, the author of the Percy Jackson books made a very lengthy blog post stating the Israel-Palestine conflict with lines such as “the Israeli government’s brutal retaliation against the entire population of Gaza has reached genocidal proportions.” & “This means security and support for Israel, yes.”
You can find a LOT MORE celebrities/actors (that aren’t included in this post) that support Israel/ had signed Zionist letters along with people who support Palestine here👇
If you follow any of the people that are on this post, including the ones I’ve shared above, UNFOLLOW THEM. Do not go to any place that includes that person and boycott any artist that remains silent/supports Israel.
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seasideoranges · 5 months
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praying to the gods above that they recast aangs voice actor for the new movie… Steven Yeun is right there!
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coconutsaiyan · 5 months
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joslincox · 18 days
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Children Voicing Children in Cartoons
101 Dalmatian Street: A large majority of the Puppies are voiced by actual children.
Abby Hatcher: Many of the Fuzzlies and human child characters are voiced by kids.
Adventure Time:
Twelve-year-old Finn is voiced by Jeremy Shada, who was 12 when recording first began. Time passes over the show's history, so Finn's voice deepened with his voice actor's... until a certain point, since Finn definitely does not sound anything like Lance at this point.
In Alma's Way, some of the child characters are voiced by children.
In Alice's Wonderland Bakery, Alice, Fergie, Hattie, and Rosa are all voiced by child actors.
The Amazing World of Gumball has all three Watterson children voiced by actual kids in some point or another:
Gumball and Darwin are 12 and 10, respectively, and were initially cast by actors about the same age. After three years of production, during which both had their voices noticeably deepen, they were recast by actors who were four years younger at the beginning of the third season. About three years later, both characters had their voices changed again partway into the fifth season. Finally, Darwin's voice actor changed again early in the sixth season, less than a year later. Their voice changes always happen in the middle of an episode, much to the characters' confusion.
Anais was also cast with a child voice actor, albeit one who started five years older than the character, because finding an actual 4-year-old who can talk like a Child Prodigy would be extremely difficult. Since her voice hasn't changed as much, the same voice actress has played Anais well into her teens.
In Amphibia, Sprig is voiced by Justin Felbinger, who was 17 at the time of the show's premiere.
Animaniacs: Skippy Squirrel was voiced by Nathan Ruegger, the then-preteen son of show writer Tom Ruegger. As he started going through puberty near the end of the show, his voice was noticeably electronically altered to attempt to maintain his prepubescent tone.
The Flame was voiced by Nate's younger brother, Luke, who would also voice Loud Kiddington in Histeria!.
The semi-recurring character of Little Blue Bird was voiced by Nate and Luke's younger brother, Cody, who would go on to voice Big Fat Baby in Histeria!.
Also, the Randy Beaman Kid was voiced by Colin Wells, the then-preteen son of writer/producer Deanna Oliver.
Arthur: Numerous young male characters have been voiced by actual boys, including the title character. Oddly enough, D.W. has always been voiced by pre-pubescent young boys as well. Arthur, D.W., The Brain, George, the Tibble Twins and several other younger boy characters have been recast numerous times throughout the show's 24-year run. An exception goes to Buster, whose voice actor Daniel Brochu was 26 years old when the show began.
Avatar: The Last Airbender:
Aang is voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen, who was twelve at the time of the show's start. Another main character, Toph Bei Fong, is voiced by Jessie Flower, who turned twelve the same year her character was introduced. Any other kids their age or younger are voiced by children of the same gender and approximate age, and most teenagers are played by same gender voice actors that are usually at least a bit older (for instance, Katara is 14 and is voiced by Mae Whitman, who was 15 years old at the time, and Sokka is 15 and is voiced by Jack DeSena, who was 18 when the show started). The exceptions are Suki and Zuko, whose voice actors Jennie Kwan and Dante Basco were in their 30s.
An interview reveals that the series creators "really wanted" a real kid to play Aang, rather than Cross-Dressing Voices, and that as Eisen's voice has been deepening, the show's sound people have been artificially pitching it up, without the creators even noticing.
Atomic Betty: The titular character was voiced by an actual girl around her age, Tajja Isen. Averted with other child characters however, who are all voiced by adults.
In virtually all Animated Adaptations of Babar, the title character's four children, Pom, Flora, Alexander, and Isabelle, are all voiced by actual kids. Likewise, stories set during Babar's childhood have him voiced by an actual kid too, along with Celeste (who was voiced by a young Tara Strong in the first 2 seasons of the Nelvana series) and Arthur. Same goes with the kids in the Sequel Series Babar and the Adventures of Badou.
Beetlejuice: Then 14-year-old Alyson Court voiced Lydia, who was not much younger. Court had also voiced other child characters during this time, such as Veronica Lodge on The New Archies. Fellow Canadian voice artist Tara Charendoff (today Tara Strong) was 15 when she voiced Beetlejuice characters Claire Brewster and Bertha, but she can still knock a child character voice out of the park today.
Court also voiced Emily Elizabeth in the 80's Clifford the Big Red Dog Direct to Video specials in one of her first voice-acting roles.
The Berenstain Bears (2003): Brother and Sister are voiced by kids. While Sister kept her voice throughout that show's run, Brother went through two voice actors, one of them being Michael Cera.
The child characters of Bluey are voiced by children of the program's production crew and are not credited as voice performers.
The Boondocks: Jazmine DuBois was voiced by Gabriela Soleil, who was about 10 years old (same age as her character) when the show began.
The child characters in Bubble Guppies, as well as some of the animals, are voiced by actual kids.
In the German dub of the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny" actual children voiced the child versions of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, who in the original version were voiced by the then 72-year-old Mel Blanc.
The eponymous character of Caillou, as well as his little sister Rosie, have both been voiced by children, with Caillou's voice always being provided by girls.
Captain Flamingo: Some of the child characters including Lizbeth, Max, Rutger, Owen-Only, Tabitha and Thor were all voiced by actual children. Averted with the rest, including the title character himself, who are voiced by adults.
Charlie, Lola and all the characters on Charlie and Lola are voiced by actual children. Although the children refer to adults, even asking them questions, no adult voices are ever heard.
The Chicken Squad: Coop, Sweetie and Little Boo are voiced by kids.
Chowder: The title character, Panini, Gorgonzola, and Ceviche are all voiced by children. By the final season Chowder's voice was several times deeper than it originally had been due to his voice actor hitting puberty.
The Christmas Tree is a good example of how this can backfire. The child characters seem to be voiced by actual five- and six-year-old kids with little to no voice direction. The result is a lot of mumbling, slurring and bad acting. Bizarrely averted with one child who is clearly voiced by someone much older and sounds entirely out of place from the rest of the kids. Another one has an oddly distorted voice, possibly indicating that child was also voiced by someone older, and the voice sped up to try and hide this.
The US and UK Dubs of Chuggington both feature actual children and teenagers as the voices of the trainees as well as many other young characters.
younger than college age was voiced by a boy. Save a small bit, Tim Drake's laugh-to-crying as Joker Junior in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, which was provided by the show's voice director.
DC Super Hero Girls: Lilly Aspell voices a young Diana. Aspell was cast because she played the same role physically in the DC Extended Universe Wonder Woman films.
The kids in City of Ghosts are voiced by child actors.
Out of the mostly adult cast of Clarence, only few of the child characters were voiced by minors. The most notable example of this is Jeff, who was voiced by the then-teenaged Sean Giambrone and as such experienced a change in voice when the actor hit puberty.
Classical Baby uses appropriately aged children to voice any child characters.
On Clue Club (a 1976 Scooby-Doo expy from Hanna-Barbera), 13-year-old Dotty was voiced by then 11-year-old Tara Talboy.
Dennis the Menace: Brennan Thicke voiced the title character. He was 10 when the first season was in production and 12 during the second.
All-New Dennis the Menace stars Adam Wylie, then 9 years old, as Dennis.
Cruise Control features Walter Cronkite's grandson Peter (also 9 at the time) as Dennis.
Dink, the Little Dinosaur: Dink, Amber and Shyler were all voiced by children.
Dinosaur Train: Buddy, Don, Tiny and Shiny were all voiced by actual children. While Tiny and Shiny kept their voices throughout the show, Buddy had four voice actors and Don had two voice actors.
Chris Nee's two series, Doc McStuffins and Vampirina, have child actors also. The former's title character had two voice actresses, both of whom were 12-13 when starting out. The latter's title character is voiced by a 12-year-old girl.
Dorg Van Dango: Thirteen-year-old Dorg Van Dango is voiced by thirteen-year-old Chance Hurstfield.
Dot.: Pretty much all the child characters are voiced by actual kids, including the eponymous character.
Dragon Hunters: 10-year-old Zaza was voiced by 14-year-old Annie Bovaird.
Dragon Tales: Max, Emmy and Cassie were all children or teenagers when they were voicing their characters (although Emmy's voice actress, Andrea Libman, was an adult by the time season 3 premiered).
The Dumb Bunnies: Baby Bunny and Prissy Uppity are respectively voiced by Dustin Lauzon and Rebecca Brenner, who were still young children at the time of the show's run.
Ed, Edd n Eddy: Jimmy was voiced by Keenan Christensen, who was fourteen when the show first started. Christensen then evolved his voice into a falsetto after he hit puberty.
Elinor Wonders Why: Elinor, Olive and Ari are all three voiced by kids, along with the other younger recurring characters.
Fireman Sam: While most of the kids are voiced by adults, Peter is voiced by the preteen Arthur Smith Galiano.
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Mac is voiced by Sean Marquette, who, surprisingly, was not replaced after he had gone through puberty, but instead had his voice digitally pitched up. Though it is still obvious if one compares episodes from Season 1 to episodes afterward. Marquette had also previously been on the Nicktoon Rocket Power. This example is particularly interesting when one realizes that Mac's 13-year-old brother, Terrance, is voiced by a woman (Tara Strong) even though the character has a fairly deep voice.
Franklin: Noah Reid (9-10 years old at the time the program first starting airing) was the voice of the original Franklin Turtle for the first five seasons, as well as the films Franklin and the Green Knight: The Movie and Franklin's Magic Christmas. Cole Caplan (around 12-13) replaced him for the film Back to School with Franklin and the sixth season. Cameron Ansell (14-15) voiced the character for the film Franklin and the Turtle Lake Treasure, and finally Graeme Jokic (13-14) was brought in for the All-CGI Cartoon spinoff Franklin and Friends. Some of the other child characters on the series were voiced by children as well.
Garbage Pail Kids Cartoon: Terri Cloth, Patty Putty, Split Kit and Elliot Mess's voice actors Alyson Court, Tara Strong, Noam Zylberman and Michael Fantini were actual children when the show was produced.
Harley Quinn (2019): Robin (Damian Wayne) is voiced by Jacob Tremblay who was 12 in the first season. Robin's voice is noticeably deeper in the fourth, as Tremblay was 16 by then even though not nearly as much time has passed on the show.
CH Greenblatt's Harvey Beaks reuses this with its main trio of Harvey, Fee and Foo, as well as all the supporting kids except Dade (who is voiced by Greenblatt himself) and Princess (voiced by Andres Salaff, one of the show's writers).
On Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater, the eponymous character was voiced by the 13-year-old Tara Charendoff, who would later go on from that first role to become more widely recognized as Tara Strong.
Hey Arnold!: Most child characters were voiced by actual children (Brainy is the exception, being voiced by show creator Craig Bartlett) and most of the boys' voice actors were replaced many times over the series run:
Arnold himself had fournote . The first actor to play Arnold (Toran Caudell) was given a new recurring role after his voice dropped, as the fifth-grade bully Wolfgang. The second Arnold (Phillip Van Dyke) made two guest appearances as One Shot Characters Sandy and Ludwig.
Gerald's voice actor (Jamil Walker Smith) is an exception. There's even an episode that explains why his voice changed, "Gerald's Tonsils". Though Smith was finally replaced when Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie was made, since he was in his thirties at that point and far too old to do a child's voice.
Hilda: Bella Ramsey voices the titular eleven-year old blue-haired adventuress.
Histeria!: Loud Kiddington and Big Fat Baby were voiced by actual children.
Jackie Chan Adventures: Jade and Paco were voiced by age appropriate actors, though their voices changed significantly as the show went on.
Jake and the Never Land Pirates: Jake, Izzy and Cubby are all three voiced by kids. Throughout the series, Jake had four voice actors and Izzy and Cubby had two voice actors and actresses.
Johnny Bravo: Little Suzy was voiced by then 8-year old Mae Whitman.
Nickelodeon's KaBlam!:
The main kids in The Off-Beats segments were voiced by young children, most notably Mischa Barton as Betty-Anne Bongo. The later episodes had several of the kids' voices sounding a bit lower, including the females (who were voiced by girls). The only adult voice actors were series creator Mo Willems (who voiced September the dog and Grubby Groo) and Kevin Seal (who provided Tommy's yelling voice.)
Both Henry and June were voiced by real kids, with Noah Segan (Henry) being twelve and Julia McIlvaine (June) being nine when they began playing the two ten-year-olds in early 1996. By the second season, Henry's voice had broken, while June's voice gradually got lower as the show went on.
Like Henry and June, Loopy and Larry from Life with Loopy were also played by real kids. And like Henry, Larry's voice broke in the second season. Danielle Judovits, who voiced Loopy, was nine when she began playing the seven-year-old protagonist in the pilot ("Goldfish Heaven") when produced in 1994 and fourteen by the time production ended in 1999, causing Loopy to have a much lower voice in later episodes.
Kid Cosmic has the title character and Rosa, who are voiced by actual children, Jack Fisher and Lily Rose Silver respectively.
The Possible Twins, Jim and Tim, from Kim Possible, are both played by Shaun Fleming. He was 12 while recording season one, when the "tweebs" were 10. According to producers, Tim and Jim got a redesign and height boost in season four, either to justify Shaun's voice change or to justify a new actor. In the end, Disney went with a new actor, also a young boy: 13-year-old Spencer Fox, better known as Dash from The Incredibles. Of course, by season three, Fleming's voice had obviously broken, and no attempt was made to hide it. This had the bizarre result of the "tweebs" looking older but sounding younger than they had in the previous season.
Kim herself was voiced by Christy Carlson Romano, who was 16 at the time of casting.
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: Wolf is implied to be not much older than eleven, although her voice actress, Sydney Mikayla, was sixteen when the show premiered.
Life with Louie: Tommy is voiced by an actual child, Miko Hughes, who also played Jeremy Creek in The Town Santa Forgot.
A Little Curious: Bob the Ball was voiced by Cameron Bowen, who was 10 years old at the time of the show's premiere.
Little Einsteins had all of its main characters voiced by then-child actors. Natalia Wojcik, for instance, was eight years old during her time voicing Annie there.
In the 1980s The Little Rascals series, Scott Menville and Shavar Ross, then both 11, were Spanky's and Buckwheat's respective voice actors. The dwarf actress Patty Maloney, then 46, who had played furry male roles in the 1970s, was aptly cast as Darla Hood.
On the Llama Llama animated series, according to producer Reed Duncan,note several of the child characters are voiced by actual children. The youngest is six years old.
The Loud House: Lincoln is always voiced by a boy about his age. Suffice to say that with seven seasons and counting, the role's a casting revolving door; he's been voiced by six actors total (not counting Jackson Petty as the singing voice in "Really Loud Music") throughout the show's run. His best friend Clyde is also always voiced by boys his age, though since his voice is slightly deeper than Lincoln's, he's had four voice actors throughout the show's run instead.
Madeline: Madeline's first voice actress, Marsha Moreau, was eleven years old when she started and fourteen by the end of her tenure. Andrea Libman was also eleven when she took over the role, although she continued to voice the character until age eighteen, after which fifteen-year-old Chantal Strand replaced her. Likewise, Pepito's voice actors have all been real boys. Some of Madeline's eleven schoolmates have occasionally been voiced by adult actresses, but not always.
The Magic School Bus: All four of the boys are voiced by real boys, and all of their voices break over the course of the series.
The second Nelvana cartoon based on Rosemary Wells' books is Max and Ruby, which had an actual young child to provide the voice of Max at least twice during the show's run.
Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends: With the exception of Bounce (who is voiced by Julie Lemieux), all the young bugs are voiced by actual kids.
Mixels: Nurp (the infant half of Nurp-Naut) was voiced by very young child actor Justin Grollman, who, in supplemental work for a live-action short he was in, was revealed to only just be going into kindergarten.
Molly of Denali: All the kid characters are voiced by kid actors, though they are often somewhat older than their characters (For example, Sovereign Bill, who voices Molly, was 14 when the show premiered while Molly herself is only 10).
Moral Orel: Shapey Puppington was voiced by the creator's daughter, Tigger Stamatopoulos.
My Life as a Teenage Robot: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Jenny was voiced by an actual 16-year-old teen.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: When the series started, the Cutie Mark Crusaders were voiced by young girls. Their voice actresses hit puberty during Season 4, but the foals didn't, thus creating some Vocal Dissonance in the characters. Sweetie Belle's voice used to squeak heavily, but by Season 5 it no longer did. Season 7 finally decided to show that the CMC are aging, thus explaining their maturing voices.
In her two Season 3 appearances, Babs Seed was voiced by Brian Drummond's then teenaged daughter Brynna.
Patton Oswalt's then-nine-year-old daughter Alice voiced Wind Sprint in the Season 9 episode "Common Ground".
Pipsqueak was voiced by a child actor. He went through two voice actors: William Lawrenson in one episode and Graham Verchere in three episodes after Lawrenson's voice changed.
My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Darby, Roo and Lumpy were voiced by actual children.
A lot of Nick Jr. animated titles seem to go along with ensuring that actual children portray child characters now. The Backyardigans and Go, Diego, Go! are two of the more notable examples. The weird part is, Uniqua in the former is voiced by a girl, but has a fairly deep voice for her gender and age.
Blue's Clues: Sidetable Drawer was voiced by then five-year-old Aleshia Allen, and the voices that help Steve were also provided by children.
Blue's Clues & You!! also uses this practice, starring child actors from other current works aired on Nick Jr.. Also, Polka Dots was voiced by Gagen Graham-Arbuthnot who was still a child the time of that show's run.
Dora the Explorer has been voiced by three different girls throughout the show's 15-year run.
During the time when Piper O'Possum was the mascot of Nick Jr., she was voiced by then ten-year-old Ali Brustofski in the US.
Noddy's Toyland Adventures:
While Noddy has traditionally been voiced by women (such as Denise Bryer and Susan Sheridan) in older media and various incarnations. In the British and American dub of Make Way For Noddy, Noddy is voiced by an actual boy which extends to the UK and U.S. dubs of Toyland Detective.
In the American dub of the show that was made for The Noddy Shop, Tessie is voiced by an actual girl despite her age never being stated. This was also carried to the US/Canada dub of Make Way For Noddy where she was voiced by Jesse Vinet best known for voicing Sheegwa and Rosie.
In the 2012 Ozzy and Drix reboot, the younger version of the title characters and their girlfriends were voiced by then-teenagers Tyler James Williams, Bandon Bluter, Keke Palmer, and Selena Gomez. The main character, Hector, was also voiced by an actual teenage boy, then 17-year-old Miles Heizer.
In The Owl House, the 12-year old Gus Porter is voiced by the 15-year old Issac Ryan Brown, and his voice notably deepens by the time season 2 rolls around; his growth spurt in the show reflects this.
In The Oz Kids, the children's voice actors were in their mid-teens at the oldest and nine years old at the youngest during the videos' production.
In the German dub of Pablo the Little Red Fox, all three fox children are all voiced by 3 actual kids (Karim el Kammouchi, Johannes Wolko and Laura Loessl).
In addition of the German dub of Pablo, most of child actors are also working on other shows dubbed in German by Bavaria Film Synchron (now as FFS Synchron Munich), such as Fun with Claude, Lulu Zipadoo, etc.
The dogs and Ryder on PAW Patrol are all voiced by kids, changing from time to time. For example, Ryder, Chase and Marshall have all had three voice actors and counting.
Skye and Rubble kept their original voices throughout the first five seasons. In the sixth season, they got new voices.
Tracker was originally voiced by David Lopez, but by Season 8, he is now voiced by Mateo Carnovale.
The titular trio of PB&J Otter plus Pinch and Scootch were all voiced by kids. Butter's voice actress was young enough when the show started that she didn't know how to read yet and had to be reminded about her few lines before she had to speak them during recording.
Most PBS animated series use this for their child characters, such as Let's Go Luna!, Peg + Cat and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, the latter of which uses several of the same cast members from PAW Patrol.
All of the characters in the Peanuts animated specials (save Snoopy and Woodstock and a handful of mostly offscreen adult characters) are voiced by children, which is retained in the Hebrew dubs. The first special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, may even be the Trope Maker, seeing as how it was the first time a cartoon used actual children to voice child characters. While there were some professional child actors involved—Charlie Brown has always been voiced by a working child actor, and Peanuts alums include a young Stacy Ferguson (Sally), Jeremy Miller of Growing Pains (Linus), Taylor Lautner (Joe Agate in He's a Bully) and the likes of Noah Schnapp, Madisyn Shipman and Francesca Capaldi in The Peanuts Movie—many of the actors were non-professionals who were very young, and had to have their lines cued to them since most of them either couldn't read the scripts properly or couldn't read them at all. The stilted dialog that the characters provide later became a staple of the Peanuts specials.
Peep and the Big Wide World: Peep and Chirp were voiced by real kids, although Quack's voice was provided by the adult Jamie Watson.
Peppa Pig has had four child voice actors portray the titular character, with the third, Harley Bird, starting out the role as a child and holding onto the role long after she was a child before she retired.
Phantom Investigators: All of the kids were voiced by actual children or teenagers.
In Phineas and Ferb, Phineas was voiced by 14-year-old Vincent Martella, and Ferb being voiced by 17-year-old Thomas Brodie-Sangster. As the series progresses, Phineas' voice deepened after the first few episodes.
In Pikwik Pack, Suki, Axel, Hazel and Tibor are all four voiced by kids.
The Powerpuff Girls (2016):
In the Latin American Spanish version, Bubbles has a child voice actress.
In the English version, Bubbles is voiced by a then-13-year-old.
The Proud Family: Penny Proud, Nubia Gross, and Sticky Webb were voiced by then teenagers Kyla Pratt Creator/Raquel Lee Bolleau, and Orlando Brown. Penny’s voice notably got deeper as Pratt went through puberty.
In the shows reboot, BeBe Proud’s voice was recasted by Aiden Dodson, a 7-year-old boy with autism.
The 9-year-old cast of the primetime edition of Punky Brewster voiced their cartoon counterparts in the Saturday morning iteration.
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo: Fred, Velma and Daphne are voiced by children, while Don Messick and Casey Kasem reprise their respective roles as Scooby and Shaggy. Fred's voice actor apparently went through puberty as his voice is slightly deeper in later episodes.
Puppy Dog Pals: Bingo and Rolly are voiced by child actors. Other young characters such as Chloe, Keia, Lollie, Auggie, Mo, Darius, Grace, Buster, Leo, Roxy and Nougat, are also voiced by child actors.
In the fourth season, Bingo and Rolly got new voices by new voice actors which were named Elisha Williams & Gracen Newton after their original voice actors Issac Ryan Brown and Sam Lavagnino couldn't voice the two characters anymore due to hitting puberty.
Pupstruction: The members of the Pupstruction and Phiny's little sister Bailey are voiced by kids.
The Raccoons: Stuart Stone, who was around 10 years old when Season 5 was released, voiced two child characters from the season, Danny from the episode "Stress Test!" and Bentley after his original actor, Noam Zylberman, went through puberty.
Rainbow Fish: Rainbow, Blue and Sea Filly are voiced by pre-teen kids along with some other child fish characters.
Ready Jet Go!: Sean, Sydney, Mindy and Mitchell are all voiced by pre-teens. Sydney and Mitchell's VAs got replaced in the TV movie with younger voice actors, which is part of season 2.
Recess: All of the main kids were also voiced by like-gender children (apart from Spinelli, voiced by the adult Pamela Adlon Segal). Apart from TJ, who went through four actors during the show's course, the voices stayed the same throughout the show.
All of the kids on Rolie Polie Olie are voiced by real kids; Olie himself was Cole Caplan (also known for replacing Noah Reid as the title role in the final season of Franklin), while his sister Zowie was voiced by Kristen Bone (who also voiced Snail in Franklin and Maggie of Maggie and the Ferocious Beast)
Rosie's Rules: All of the young characters are voiced by children. The one exception is Crystal, who is 12 but is played by a teenager.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964): The fellow fawn Clarice was voiced by the then fifteen year-old Janis Orenstein.
The titular child character of Salty's Lighthouse was voiced by then eleven-year-old Rhys Huber.
Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat: Sheegwa the kitten was voiced by Jesse Vinet who was still a young girl at the time of the show's run.
In the 30+ year history of The Simpsons, only one kid character wasn't played by Dawson Casting or Crossdressing Voices, and that was Charlie, the orphan boy Bart befriends in the Season 21 episode "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?", who was voiced by Jordan Nagai (Russell in Up), the series' youngest guest star to date.
Both of Craig Gerber's shows, Sofia the First and Elena of Avalor, all have child characters voiced by children within the same age range, whether through replacements or whenever they first started voicing the character. For example, in the former, Ariel Winter (Sofia) and Darcy Rose Byrnes (Amber) were both 14 when the show came out, meaning they were 12-13 when recording. James has gone through three voice actors due to puberty (Zach Callison, Tyler Merna and Nicolas Cantu). The latter has Isabel voiced by Jenna Ortega, who turned 14 the year the show came out, meaning she was 12-13 when recording. The "Adventures in Vallestrella" shorts have their baby Jaquins voiced by Gia Lopez, and the sons of Craig Gerber and Sam Riegel.
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog/Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): Similar to the early video games, Tails was voiced by child voice actors Christopher Welch and Bradley Pierce respectively. In Christmas Blast, Chris Turner voiced Tails due to Welch's voice having changed already.
South Park: Kindergartners are voiced by young kids, with most of the "swearing" in these scenes actually being innocent words that are bleeped to sound like cursing. A notable example is Ike whose voice is provided by various toddler children or relatives of the production staff. This accounts for his dialogue being Baby Talk prior to Season 10. Trey Parker and Matt Stone have said finding the right voices for these roles is tough due to the "small window when children sound adorable before they sound like little assholes". Averted for the older kids, who are voiced by adults with their recordings pitched up.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Some child characters were voiced by children. In fact, some of these roles were played by the kids who sang in the show's opening theme!
The younger versions of the characters in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run were voiced by actual children.
Steven Universe: When initially cast, the voice actors for Steven (who also voices Onion), Connie and Peedee were fourteen or fifteen (only a few years older than the characters, save for Onion). However, all three characters only age about two years over the course of the series, by which point the actors reached their twenties.
Stickin' Around: The child characters were voiced by real kids, one of whom was a young Noah Reid in his first acting role. That said, Reid wasn't actually any of the main characters, with most of the others only having this series and one or two other cartoons as their only major roles (one of the more notable exceptions however is Amos Crawley as Russell).
Most of the voice actors in the 2003 incarnation of Strawberry Shortcake were children or teenagers.
SuperKitties: The titular superhero kittens are all voiced by children.
Most of the animated adaptations of Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit have actual children voicing Peter Rabbit and his sisters Mopsy, Flopsy, and Cottontail. The most notable would have to be Mopsy, Flopsy, and Cottontail who were voiced by girls in Peter Rabbit and The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends. Past adaptations would usually have Peter's sisters voiced by grown women, such as one episode of the HBO Family series HBO Storybook Musicals, while Peter was voiced by a young boy, and the Merrie Melodies short "The Country Boy", where all of the bunnies were voiced by women. An interesting case of this happens in the 2013 CGI series, Peter Rabbit, where Cottontail is voiced by a girl who is around the age of 5 or 6 because that series' version of Cottontail is a toddler.
TaleSpin used children to voice Kit, Molly and their friends. When the voice of Kit's original actor started to change, he was replaced by another child with a similar voice.
Many of the young train engine characters in Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go are voiced by actual children and young teenagers, with the young Thomas the Tank Engine having three voice actors throughout the show's run (one of them being a young Meesha Contreras). The same occurs with the UK dub as well.
3-2-1 Penguins!: Both Jason and Michelle Conrad had two child voice actors. Jason's first voice actor, Mark Marten, was around 7-9 years old. His second voice actor, Quinn Lord, was 7 years old. Michelle's first voice actress, Melissa Peterson, was around 7-9 years old. Her second voice actress, Claire Corlett, was around 7.
The Nelvana Animated Adaptation of Rosemary Wells' Timothy Goes to School book and Yoko & Friends series. It uses actual children to voice at least four characters (Timothy, Yoko, Charles, and Juanita). Lisa Yamanaka, who voices Yoko, is the most notable since she started hitting puberty at the time of the show's original run in 2000 and may have been a preteen. Lisa previously voiced Wanda Li on The Magic School Bus back in 1994 and later voiced Sherry in Resident Evil 2.
Total DramaRama: Cody and Gwen are respectively voiced by Wyatt White and Lily Bartlam, who are actual children. In the Latin American Spanish dub, strangely enough, Cody is done by a pre-teen girl Angie Mallo.
T.O.T.S.: Pip and Freddy are both voiced by child actors, as are many of the babies. Although Freddy kept the same voice actor for the entire series, Pip was recast in Season 3 due to his original voice actor going through puberty.
The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald:
Tika and Franklin are voiced by child actors (the former by Jazmine A. Corona and the latter by Alex D. Linz, who was around nine when the first video "Scared Silly" was produced).
Nearly averted with Warren Sroka's role as King Murray in Have Time, Will Travel. King Murray is blatantly a kid, but Warren Sroka was 17 when the video was originally released.
Whisker Haven Tales with the Palace Pets: All Palace Pets are voiced by children, most under 8 years old. Berry went through two voice actresses.
Some of the characters in the Nickelodeon dub of Winx Club (which was released the same year as Osmosis Jones) were voiced by teenagers, similar to Osmosis Jones, in which the title character, again, has his voice provided by a teenage boy. Particularly, Aisha is voiced by Keke Palmer, who also voiced Leah Estrogen, the latter's love interest. This practice was averted in the 4Kids and Cinelume dubs.
The Wonder Pets! are animals, but young ones and Ming-Ming in particular is specifically described as a duckling. The iconic Elmuh Fudd Syndwome exhibited by her character ("This is sewious!") is a Throw It In from the child voice actress (Danica Lee) hired to voice her not having grown out of this at the time she was cast out of hundreds of girls for this role.
Work It Out Wombats! has its' young characters all voiced by child voice actors (except for the crab triplets, who are voiced by Julie Lemieux), even if some of them are slightly older than their characters. Zeke's young voice actor, Rain Janjua discusses this in this podcast episode; Zeke is four, but Janjua was nine when the show premiered, and states that children as young as four or five could not voice Zeke because they would have trouble reading their lines.
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[Review] Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 (PS5)
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All new, all different.
After co-developing the first NASB, Fair Play Labs took over as lead developer for the sequel, with Ludosity (and several other studios) handling more minor contributions to the project. Fair Play have put a firm hand on the rudder, retooling the game in a major way while adding a substantial single player mode. But is it the better game? Well... yeah, but there's some nuance.
Load into a match and you should notice immediately that the zippy pace of NASB1 has been pulled back to more closely resemble the platform fighter that all others crib from, Smash Bros. Then examine the movesets and mechanics, and you’ll see that many of the quirks and tweaks that Ludosity had implemented have also been stripped away. We still have separate fast and strong attack buttons and aerials, but in other details, and in the game feel, NASB2 clings almost desperately to Papa Sakurai’s blueprints.
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There are some innovations. A new slime meter builds up from your actions and can be spent to power up moves, arrest your launch, or other technical tricks in addition to a Final Smash-esque super move. Hmm, actually this is a lot like Brawlout’s rage meter now that I think about it… but I think they make better use of it here, with more options available from its use.
Other big changes come in the roster. Fun choices from the first game like Toph, Sandy Cheeks, or Powdered Toast Man are gone, as well as CatDog and Oblina along with representation of their shows entirely. Unfortunately many of the new choices that replace them aren’t too exciting for me personally, apart from the excellent Angry Beavers, while Azula as a new Avatar brawler is one of a few much-needed villainous additions. Upcoming DLC will also add Zuko and Iroh, making for an oddly imbalanced preponderance of firebenders.
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It’s not just a handful of new fighters though; basically all the returning characters (of the ones I tried) feel new due to sweeping revamps to their movesets. The three that feel most similar are Garfield, Jenny, and Rocko, who were added to the original game post-launch, which points to Fair Play implementing them as part of a “lead takeover” as indicated on their website. The returning stages too have been redesigned with new layouts.
One addition that’s an unequivocal improvement is the story mode, a roguelite campaign that sees you build up perks to take into expanded “classic mode” style runs. In these, you choose paths that may have you 1v1 other fighters (unlocking them for use in this mode), bash a mob of enemy mooks drawn from the various cartoons, play minigames like break the targets pop the balloons, get powerups from shops or handouts, and finally face a boss (then repeat this three times for a complete run). There’s some variety, an addictive little loop, and a bit of fun voiced dialogue along the way, as well as more fanservice by way of NPC characters, including some of the first game’s cut fighters. It’s exactly what I wanted out of this sequel (although the actual plot is a bit Danny Phantom-heavy for my taste).
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Some of the strengths of the first game remain, of course. It still looks great, although I did notice the occasional animation error or too-frequent bit of jank. The voices are at the same high standard, with either “returning veteran” or “spot-on soundalike”, including a recast of Korra to actor of colour Jacqueline Grace Lopez, at Janet Varney’s request. Oh, they also recast Aang but that’s nothing new, this is like the tenth time it’s happened.
NASB2 leaves me with mixed feelings. It’s an extremely playable game that’s still a grand tribute to Nicktoons past, with some essential new features like the story mode… but at what cost? Fun content and a whole lot of design from the first game have been wiped away. These big shifts are interesting, in that it makes the sequel stand out significantly from its predecessor… while also validating it in a strange way. Ultimately NASB2 isn’t really replacing NASB1; by way of 2 deciding to be different, 1 stays unique and special. I think I can live with that.
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Exclusive: Avatar Aang era console RPG and world of Avatar MMORPG video games in development
I have some huge news for you today: an ATLA console RPG and an Avatar MMORPG are in development at undisclosed game studios in collaboration with Paramount’s Avatar Studios.
Not just that, but these are just two games of at least four in development, including a Square Enix mobile game announced last year, and at least one other game; and at least one of all of these games will feature the original ATLA characters recast with new Asian and Indigenous voice actors-- “voice matches” of the originals. (Just to be clear, this is for voice acting in video games, not live-action acting in the Netflix show.)
These have been in development in secret for a pretty long time now, and they’re coming... much sooner than you think, that’s all I can say. For the first one, “RPG” is a vague descriptor; it could end up overlapping with other similar action-adventure genres to varying extents-- I don’t have details on gameplay or anything like that. I’m guessing this could be where the ATLA characters could show up since based on the info I have, voice casting took place at about the right time in development-- but again, it could be in any of the video games. For the MMORPG, I don’t know what platform it’ll be on or if it’ll be related to the console game.
One last thing is I can more-or-less confirm that the reason there was no Avatar Studios movie/show info at the Paramount event this week is because it was indeed just too early. But... I think it was literally just as bit too early, that’s all I’ll say for now!
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What would you think if a new tv series featuring Aang, Zuko, and Azula came out soon that featured Azula’s redemption, but all the voice actors were recast?
If it's well written and emotionally satisfying I have no problem with a recast. A new voice for a redeemed Azula would be nice. :)
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