Actors for 8-bit characters

[Dj_StarChild]

:/ I'm getting a whole lot of pain from reading these, and noting how many choices are people who would...completely fail to play the parts in a live-action scenario.

...granted, I can't imagine anyone who would. So, I'll just throw out my stock "I love the voice actors from the TLF/Meddros Animations!"

Although, If I really had my way, I'd switch Omahdon (voice of Black Mage) with me, since I'm actually much less pleasant than he, and probably less geeky too. He can be Red Mage.

[hanzo66]

Actually I love the voices in those as well, though I've always imagined Fighter to sound more "Caboose-ish".

[FluerDuMal]

I have a good one for King Steve: That guy from Napelonen Dayanamite.

[hanzo66]

Originally Posted by FluerDuMal

I have a good one for King Steve: That guy from Napelonen Dayanamite.

Which guy? There's more than one guy.

[Darkmoon]

Originally Posted by Satan's Onion

Actually, hanzo, that's a good idea for Garland, but I always imagined more or less the opposite. Like Garland in his "evil voice" sounding terrifying and evil until he stops to complain that it's hurting his throat--at which point I think he ought to sound more like, say, Dave Foley or Kevin McDonald.

This here makes me think of Rick Moranis, similar to his role as Dark Helmet in Spaceballs. Though, his voice might be better used elsewhere...

[Ugainius]

Originally Posted by Satan's Onion

Hey, I think this kinda-sorta got talked about before (it was more like "Who would voice the 8-Bit characters?"), but it was in a comic discussion thread from months back.

Anyway, Black Mage needs the voice of a dyed-in-the-wool weaselly bastard. But I personally can't quite imagine, say, Rowan Atkinson filling the role either, and he's the best weaselly bastard I know of. Just not homicidal enough, I think =P . I dunno who'd be good for this one Wait, what about someone like David Cross?

I tend to imagine Fighter in very "adult child" tones--so I'd cast Will Ferrell, on account of he does that pretty well. Barring that, Michael Palin dould do this.

Robert Llewellyn would be a very good Red Mage. Not that very many people here know who I'm talking about, but I still think so.

Thief...is hard to cast. You need someone whose every word oozes condescenscion and confidence rooted in his basic assumption of his superiority to absolutely everyone else he meets. I'm not at all sure who would work in that role, then.

And I doubt I'm the only one who does this, but whenever I read King Steve, I hear in my mind's ear Adam West, a la his turn in Family Guy.

You obviously havent seen Blackadder 2 to 4

[Satan's Onion]

I have seen all of Blackadder, but I still tend not to think of Rowan Atkinson as quite the type that BM is: someone constantly fighting the urge for mass murder. To me he's more the type who fancies he can manipulate people like pawns on a chess board and ends up failing miserably; he doesn't think of simply blowing up the board and making up his own game, like Black Mage probably would were he not limited to one Hadoken daily and/or burdened with the presence of the other Lite Warriors (like the much more successfully manipulative Thief, who might also be adequately voiced by Rowan Atkinson).

[Bisected8]

Originally Posted by Satan's Onion

I have seen all of Blackadder, but I still tend not to think of Rowan Atkinson as quite the type that BM is: someone constantly fighting the urge for mass murder. To me he's more the type who fancies he can manipulate people like pawns on a chess board and ends up failing miserably; he doesn't think of simply blowing up the board and making up his own game, like Black Mage probably would were he not limited to one Hadoken daily and/or burdened with the presence of the other Lite Warriors (like the much more successfully manipulative Thief, who might also be adequately voiced by Rowan Atkinson).

I agree here.

I'd say that the guy who played the general in Blackadder Goes Forth would be perfect for King Steve though....

[hanzo66]

General Melchett is quite warlike and unreasonably violent...


However Adam West is usually agreed on just because he fits the part of a delusional and highly unfit leader well from playing Mayor Adam West on Family Guy.