Sonic the Hedgehog's voice actor is leaving the role after 10 years of work

Dust2dust · Jan 28, 2021

Sad, but just imagine if Charles Martinet would do the same! :wtf:

RyRyIV · Jan 28, 2021

While I never truly got used to his voice, he definitely defined a new generation for the character. Personally, Jason Griffith will always be Sonic to me in terms of the games.

Going forward, I'd honestly love to see Sega bring on Ben Schwartz full time. His energy and performance brought life to the character in the film, and I think he could do wonders for the games as well.

MikaDubbz · Jan 28, 2021

Dust2dust said:
Sad, but just imagine if Charles Martinet would do the same!

Charles seems really happy to be the voice of Mario. I get the suspicion he would never want to leave the role.

Quarions · Jan 28, 2021

RyRyIV said:
While I never truly got used to his voice, he definitely defined a new generation for the character. Personally, Jason Griffith will always be Sonic to me in terms of the games.

Going forward, I'd honestly love to see Sega bring on Ben Schwartz full time. His energy and performance brought life to the character in the film, and I think he could do wonders for the games as well.

+100000000

WaffleRaccoon · Jan 28, 2021

Though he wasn't the best, he was still a good voice actor. It's sad to see him go.

Tom Bombadildo · Jan 28, 2021

Jaleel White is the only Sonic VA that matters ;O;

I always preferred Griffith though, probably just because I mostly grew up with his VA more than anything. Never really liked Sonic VAs after him, but hey good luck to the guy on his other projects.

Deleted member 546149 · Jan 28, 2021

Oh well.

SANIC · Jan 28, 2021

RyRyIV said:
While I never truly got used to his voice, he definitely defined a new generation for the character. Personally, Jason Griffith will always be Sonic to me in terms of the games.

Going forward, I'd honestly love to see Sega bring on Ben Schwartz full time. His energy and performance brought life to the character in the film, and I think he could do wonders for the games as well.

Honestly I hate Ben Schwartz as game sonic. Movie sonic worked because he was basically an ADHD kid who just happened to be sonic, but it definitely didn't feel like Sonic. Sonic should be a lot more grounded when it comes to his voice, which is why I never liked Jaleel White

shaunj66 · Jan 28, 2021

Hopefully he'll go back to being a mute.

WiiHomebrew+Snes · Jan 28, 2021

MikaDubbz said:
Charles seems really happy to be the voice of Mario. I get the suspicion he would never want to leave the role.

also Mario doesn’t say all that much, so if Nintendo and Charles Martinet agree to it they can just use his voice clips without making any new ones. Or record a big backlog of stuff.

RedoLane · Jan 28, 2021

I'm willing to wager they'll choose Ben Schwartz as the next voice actor. He really nailed it in the Sonic movie.

MaxiBash · Jan 28, 2021

Even Mike Pollock was surprised. Maybe we'll get Ben Schwartz Sonic in Sonic games now?

Jayro · Jan 28, 2021

Good, give the role back to Jaleel White. He's the only Sonic voice actor that's worthy in my opinion.

supergamer368 · Jan 28, 2021

He was my personal favorite Sonic VA

I hope the new one does a good job too!

Jokey_Carrot · Jan 28, 2021

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CloudStrife190100 · Jan 28, 2021

I've not played anything sonic related since the good old days of the dreamcast. Back when the games were actually decent

MikaDubbz · Jan 28, 2021

WiiHomebrew+Snes said:
also Mario doesn’t say all that much, so if Nintendo and Charles Martinet agree to it they can just use his voice clips without making any new ones. Or record a big backlog of stuff.

That may soon change though. That Illumination Mario film is on the way. I suppose it's possible they could make it more of a visual spectacle with little talking, but I imagine we'll hear a fair share more of Mario in the movie.

Julie_Pilgrim · Jan 28, 2021

Wonder who the next voice actor is gonna be

WiiHomebrew+Snes · Jan 28, 2021

MikaDubbz said:
That may soon change though. That Illumination Mario film is on the way. I suppose it's possible they could make it more of a visual spectacle with little talking, but I imagine we'll hear a fair share more of Mario in the movie.

I doubt it’ll be much of a precedent; Mario basically has to talk for movies and TV shows, and the only games where he says more then his basic set of vernacular afaik are Hotel Mario and the educational games which weren’t really trying to be mainline Mario games.

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