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I can't believe Charles Martinet is transitioning
Say it ain't so my fellow plumbers, say it ain't so...
He couldn't take it anymorio
OP here, I'm trans btw. Not sure if that matters :3
I guess Mario will never be reel now... so long, Charles Martinet.
shut the frick up lmao thanks for the laugh man, fricking mondays
Mario is over?
It's Mariover
Time for AI to step in
This.
It's obviously AI and his role as "ambassador" will be to provide the data for them to generate accurate voices in the future.
Pretty sure Nintendo already recorded his voice preparing for AI, i remember reading something about him recording a dictionary for Nintendo almost a decade ago
if this unironically happens i will pray someone firebombs their hq
>AI is... le bad
ok NPC_wojak_meme
It's ok when Nintendo does it. Seriously, Nintendo is going to do this and be praised for it.
I don't see the problem.
This is a unique situation in that it's the most renowned game character ever and he's universally known around the globe with that voice.
This isn't replacing VA's with bots, this is preserving a global treasure that we'll never see the likes of again.
His voice is already preserved. Pick up any of the games he's been in.
>yipee wahaa bing bing wahoo
>treasure
Tendies are beyond delusional.
So what wild opinion did Martinet have that made Nintendo kill him?
he had the wild opinion of "i'm fricking old and i'm having trouble doing some of the voices now"
what a chud
>replacing him with some soulless inhouse nip
yeah not buying wonder anymore
>2023
>Nintendo fricking ABANDONNED Mario FOR GOOD
He was so right, bro.
I'm fine with this. My creed is that voice acting isn't important to enjoy a game, and while Charles Martinet is a talented actor, this is still a video game, and voice acting isn't really necessary. Mario, as a strong video game character, doesn't need it.
anon thats not how it works with iconic roles though, you can't just randomly change shit without pissing literally everyone off.
charles martinet is 67, he will likely die in your lifetime and they would have to change the voice actor anyways. "Mario Ambassador" is probably some bullshit job where he gets to retire while still being on Ninty's payroll, and good for him.
And Mayumi Tanaka is 68, still killing it as Luffy
Meanwhile all Charles has to do is say yohoo and wahoo
Charles Martinet will be securing a trade deal between Mario and Iran
well thats depressing as frick.
yeah man
frick. we’re all just getting older.
Mario should have Japanese voice as well. Maybe Koyasu?
Anon wtf, they'd never change the Japanese VA.
Those are irreplaceable.
>Brooklin
>Japanese voice
>not Sugita as Mario
lmao, I just pictured mario finding some ridiculous excuse for some stupid mistake he did, or trying to slack off in his original mario voice
Cast the same guy who voices Sonic in Japan as Mario in the new games for extra autism
>Kingu Koopa... Ore wo Superu-ah Mario aniki sama. Wahoo!
So long, gay Bowser
>as far back as Super Mario 64
didn't he voice Mario first in Mario's Game Gallery which came out a year earlier
true, but nobody knows that game
>Mario games with voice acting from now on
>Chris Pratt voicing Mario in the movie won't change anything! We swear!
Nintendo are the biggest homosexual israelite Black folk of video games. Miyamoto's death can't come soon enough.
>American mongoloid thinks his voice actor, which isn't even the original one, just one of MANY voice actors across the globe, matters in the slightest
Your moronation never ceases to surprise me
lel this homosexual unironically believes Nintendo will start wasting millions on Chris Pratt to voice one or two lines in videogames.
100% seriously this
why the frick is everything Nintendo says always a lie
they are the biggest asiatic israelites
People were saying Pratt was going to voice Mario in the games from now on, that's fricking delusional.
Pratt voicing Mario in the movie has nothing to do with using a new random voice actor in the games. Unless you care to explain the correlation between the two.
Martinet is old as frick, he already stopped doing Wario because he physically couldn't do it anymore.
I think we even heard the new voice in the recent Nintendo direct https://youtu.be/z4kkqicAeG0?si=SAbrk39t1gyCaEAf 0:35 in this video, Charle’s role in Wario Ware Gold was so good too
oh god that's bad...
it really is fricking mariover
Isn't that just the announcer doing an impression?
It's most likely the Wonder trailer where we can hear the new voice.
That’s what I was thinking too, hard to say. https://youtu.be/G2JXQhqCVC0?si=MK1WCohZV1CGSAhO Skip to 0:42 on this and listen to the voice clips here, I think these all sound like Charles still.
>0:32
It unironically sounds like Vinesauce, Wtf.
F
His range as Wario was really impressive.
Best of luck to him
So this is how video games die.
The writing was on the wall decades ago.
A decade ago he put in an absolutely amazing voice job ass Paarthurnax.
Although if he can't do mario anymore I don't think there's any hope of him reprising his role by the time elder scrolls 6 comes out, maybe if they record his lines now
Isn’t this a good thing for him though? They will give him one final big paycheque to do one last tour or whatever and never do Mario again. Why else would be in a video with Miyamoto if he wasn’t getting paid lol. They’re probably getting fed up with him doing tiktoks and cameo as Mario and paid him to stop.
>Mario, Luigi, Waluigi, and Wario will be soulless now
>Waluigi
>soul
You're too young to be here
Waluigi has been around for 23 years. That's longer than most posters.
Wario is souless since they stopped making Wario Land games
>Wario
He doesn't get games so who cares.
Good, now we can go back to the good mario voice
Anon... I...
What about the VAs in the SMB3 & World cartoons?
>have fun!
charles what the frick
no
> What about the VAs in the SMB3 & World cartoons?
They’re both dead too, anon
so the rumors about mario's VA being replaced was true
he's dead
Sorry anon, but he did drugs and went to hell.
All before he died, too.
Is that Ron Jeremy?
Both him and the guy who played Luigi in that show are dead now, I do agree that he was the best Mario voice
>dead
He's pretty old, but should that matter when it comes to voice acting? Or maybe it's the fact that his voice role is higher-pitched that it becomes a problem. Either way, it's a shame, and hopefully the new voice will do as good of a job
>but should that matter when it comes to voice acting?
People's voices do change. And maybe not a problem for Martinet specifically but a lot of VAs have to stop doing shouty roles when they get older.
Yeah, definitely don't want a Scrooge McDuck situation. Charles' voice started cracking with Galaxy.
>Meanwhile Goku's VA is an old lady and hasn't changed since the 90s
That's gonna be rough when it finally happens. They tied up his whole damn family in her. Even fricking Bardock.
Everyone except Raditz.
Honestly wonder if the reason we haven't had an anime continueation was because they didn't want to recast the main character in the middle of it and they're just waiting for her to retire/croak.
She's been preparing successors for years IIRC. The moment she can't do it anymore Toei has replacements.
Nah she definitely sounds different, she just somehow never strained herself too hard going AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA all the time
And she's terrible at it now, proving the original point.
She sounds exactly the same as she did in DBZ, maybe just a bit more shrill.
Lmao not even close. She sounds fricking awful in super compared the the raw power she used to put out
Even crazier, she's been doing it since the mid-80s, ironically just a bit after Mario hit the NES.
>Sub Dragonball
I like subs 99% of the time but I dont understand the appeal of it for Dragonball of all things
having these buff men sound like old japanese women is fricking jarring
Dragon ball is the series that made me swear off dubs, I watched all of OG DB dubbed but shortly after watching the fight against Vegeta I learnt about how they butchered Goku's reason for letting Vegeta live and never watched a dubbed anime on my own again except a couple times I failed to make it to a subbed showing of a movie, one of which was a dragon ball movie.
I'm not as strict on it in vidya as I am for animation but I would say I play games in the original language more often than not, I played the witcher in polish
funnily enough I copied this post from an earlier post I made today
>record some lines in 1995
>they get reused in every game for almost 30 years
>people start spazzing out because miyamoto and tomodachis finally decide to get some new voices and recordings
Chuck has had roles in actual titles where he could actually do some voices and acting. I don't think it's that much of a blow to no longer hear the same tired recordings of WAHOO YIPEEE WAHAAA OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW IT'SA ME MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARIO
Which is actually a stupid idea. It made sense to hire her for dragonball since you aren't going to hire actual children to voice child characters, but it's nothing but jap VA autism that decided Ka-Carrot as an adult man needed to be voiced by an old lady.
>hollywood gets away with "AI" voicing and CGI-displaying dead people all the time
>all the controversy and uproar over "AI" art/voices/music/etc. only comes up when the average joe has access to use it for his own means
Really makes you think.
when nozawa dies, dragon ball will die with her. there is no possible way dragon ball can continue in any medium besides manga without her character voices.
it's amazing how resiliant japanese voice actors and singers are. ichiro mizuki sang at the mazinger 50th anniversary chair-bound with terminal lung cancer, for example.
Nozawa herself has been training successors to impersonate her Goku and Family voices, you are over yourself to think a multimillion franchise like Dragonball will just stop once Nozawa is gone, sure Japan will definitely declare official mourning once she passes away, but you can bet that after everyone is done crying one of her disciples will step up to voice Goku and Family in whatever new game, commercial, special, etc.
She literally trained understudies
The day she days, they have a VA ready. This isn't like Colonel Campbell
and they are possibly waiting for her to die to keep the super anime going
I don't think its his voice. I went to a convention he was at and he kept making loud Mario noises to get people to come over to his empty line. It was just like the bing bing wahoo memes. Any time someone would come over he would yell out a catchphrase loud so everyone would look at him. He also wore a mask and wouldnt take it off for the $70 pictures he was charging people for.
I think Frank Welker might be the bar to clear. I don't think ANYONE will EVER top his record voicing a single character.
And, yeah, you can hear his voice get older but he took good care of it and competently voices Fred even into this decade. If anything Scooby is going to damage his voice more than Fred ever did.
Meanwhile Billy West's age is really coming through on Fry and Farnsworth on the current Futurama episodes.
Didn't Frank say that G1 Megatron really kills his voice?
He stopped voicing G1 megatron to be more like his TF prime voice
I've accepted new voices for Shaggy, Scooby, and obviously the girls multiple times throughout my life, but Frank just IS Fred. I don't know how I'll be able to cope when he's done. The only replacement I can think of is Prinze Jr.
I still think it was ludicrous they stuntcast Fred in Scoob! (who was it, I want to say Zac Effron) then had Frank voice Scooby anyway.
Because the character he was voicing for twenty goddamn years before he ever took on Scooby is somehow not going to work here. But, OH NO, can't have anyone but Frank voicing Scooby, no sir.
>I think Frank Welker might be the bar to clear. I don't think ANYONE will EVER top his record voicing a single character.
According to him Fred is his normal voice with a lot of coffee. The irony his voice as deeper at the start.
Even Frank's voice, I feel is starting to give out, I watched the trailer for the new Krypto crossover movie and Fred sounded a bit off to me
Finally, someone posted it
WRONG!
Midori Katō has been doing the voice fo4r Sazae-San since 1969 too and unlike Scooby Doo, that crap keeps getting episodes weekly with more than 8,540 episodes as of now
>but should that matter when it comes to voice acting?
Go listen to Fry in the new season of Futurama.
Should have happened many years ago
First Berlusconi, now Mario. It's a really grim year for Italy.
I guess this is the reason his friends on Twitter were saying say something nice to Charles because he's been bummed lately.
He didn't want to leave mario...
Stop making shit up.
literal end of an era
you are getting older and can do nothing about it
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mario basically only makes wahoo noises and grunts anyway. dunno why they even bothered to record more of those.
So NETLORE had it right all this time, they truly were slowly replacing him.
Cybershell may be a gay but he does do his research.
They just did the episode on the conspiracy, but the real source was another guy that was certainly right on the money with every assertion, even with the ones that tried to debunk it.
It's scary how much info some can gather with a 30 seconds trailer and a few tweets.
The schizo conspiracist in me wants to say that the movie probably had something to do with it because in hind sight there's been bubblings around this for almost a year now
I have no fricking clue why there were people who hounded her about this as if she wouldn't have a better understanding of the situation as someone both within the industry as well as someone who knows Martinet personally. It's very clear this was happening behind the scenes for a while now and people were just coping.
Video?
not a short video but here you go
Who will bing bing wahoo now?
chris pratt
I hope they hire the French voice actors from the movie instead.
BING BING WAHOO to pay respects
Nintendo isn't going to hire a Hollywood millionaire
he was so chubby back then
See
There's more of you homosexuals than I realized
Isn't he the only voice for mario?
No, there's one in every dub. I know it's hard to you guys but other countries and languages exist.
Are you sure? I can't be bothered to look it up but I thought he was the same across the board.
Can't tell if I'm being trolled but I'm going to guess yes
STOMPING KOOPAS
Kneel
Sonic won, same voice since 1998
Who cares? Mario barely even talks and literally anyone can immitate his shitty voice.
The end of an era
W-Wahoo! Bing Bing! -ACK!
>x
No more bing bing wahoos?
QUICK ANON, SUGGEST WHO WILL REPLACE CHARLES MARTINET AS THE VOICE AS MARIO?
me
but I'm specifically going to do the Lou Albano voice
I think he's too old, did you hear Mario and Wario in the Summer Direct
Chris Pratt
the fact that he's an "ambassador" instead of cutting ties completely surely means that he was just getting too old to keep up the voices, rather than some disagreement, right?
hopefully it's whoever does the best impression rather than someone attempting "something new" with it
embassador probably means they can send him do all sort of promo stuff at conventions and at the store opening without having to stop the developement of anything.
Depends, they are not idiots and know firing him is a PR disaster, so maybe they have a new vision for his voice and don’t want him voicing anymore so they just moved him to an honorary role?
You can’t really know
The dude is like 70, no sane person would have a problem with them getting rid of him. Giving him a retainer job is just respecting the fact that he's been there for like 30 years
It's just a fake job to keep him on the payroll since they figured out the backlash would be tremendous if they let him go just like that, and the old man was trying his best to not get kicked out of the role, probably, so they just let him be the face of Mario now, but not the voice.
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Why is he stepping down? Did Twitter finally got after him for his Italian stereotype?
It's okay to be racist against Italians.
Did you hear him in Mario Kart 8 and Odyssey? He's too old to do Mario's voice boe. Compare it to the GameCube era. Even his Wario voice is different now.
Honestly he hasn't sounded that great since Brawl
BIS came out a year later
Brawl's gritty Mario was Sakurai's decision
he used up all his energy in sunshine
That's why there's alternate "tired" lines for low health. They weren't originally gonna be included, they were just regular takes near the end of his sessions.
no way
Italians fall under normgroid safe racism so it couldn't be that.
Bing bing boohoo! It's MARIOVER!
>there's a farewell event with both him and miyamoto
>miyamoto is also likely to just leave
>stream ends with "thank-a you for playing-a my game"
oh god
>Not ending with "So long GAY Bowser!"
They could still use his voice in future games since all the ever fricking says is bing bing wahoo anyways.
They need someone to scream the title
They like to reuse his clips a lot anyway. People will obviously complain about the new VA but there's already a lot of difference every time they decide to record new lines.
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At least post Mario music you stupid bastard
No that's the joke
It'll never be the same again
BING BING WAHOO TO PAY RESPECTS
Remember this, any VA can and will be replaced once they get too old or died, it happened to Bugs Bunny, the first Murrican Eggman VA (Adventure 1,2 & Heroes) and it happened to every black character in FOX's cartoons after the riots, everyone can and will end up being replaced no matter what, no one is special, no one!!
My wife Daisy is so cute
>Actors gets replaced when they die.
Pretty fricked up. They should be sued for Ableism
They bring their own renditions to the characters, so they ARE special
You are special, anon.
So…this it? Nintendo is just going to reuse past voice clips and AI voice generators after this?
...or they hire a new voice actor
There are unironically thousands of people who can do Mario imitations
You could probably even do one
They been using old clips for years, that's why in Wonders, Mario sounds off as he cane back into redo lines
>Mario sounds off as he cane back into redo lines
That's clearly not him in Wonder
What this guy said
Mario barely speaks in these game outside of a few wahoos.
i doubt Nintendo will ever use AI stuff since they're so incompetent regarding tech, that and VAs in japan are much more respected
Whether or not they use AI will depend entirely on whether they are able to gain copyrights over the results. That seems unlikely, but big IP holders might be able to score exceptions if it's synthesized from a copyrightable source or if it's part of a larger work. There's no way they'll use anything that hinders their ability to send DMCAs to fans, though.
there's already a new actor in Wonder. You can hear him say "Wowie Zowie!"
Are we forgetting about the elephant in the room?
Charles!
If only they'd paid him properly
Here lies the following character voices
>Mario
>Luigi
>Waluigi
>Wario
>Baby and metal versions of said above
>Enemies that use pitch shifted versions of marios voice like the bob-omb
>Enemies that use pitch shifted versions of marios voice like the bob-omb
They dropped this years ago. Now most enemies sound like bizarre mixes of the Koopalings and Toad.
>SO LONG GAY BOW-ACK
What did Charles Martinet do to get cancelled?
He said I-a hate Black folk.
Best of luck to whatever he does next though, hopefully he gets to branch out into more projects
Charles TRAPPED and BETRAYED by Nintendo
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>posting the gay version
What is wrong with you?
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bing bing wahoo bros we lost….
Calling it now, Charles Martinet sold the rights to his Mario voice to Nintendo and they've made an AI voice model based on existing Mario voice clips and that's what they're going to use to voice the character from here on out
Same shit happened with Darth Vader's voice in that Obi-Wan TV show, that's all AI
Best case scenario honestly. Although I would love the shitstorm if a new VA was indeed chosen.
that would be the good ending
look at
though, he's replaced and it's gonna be bad
Smart move honestly, you can't be around to do these iconic characters people love forever, this way your performance lives on pretty much forever and will only improve over time as the tech improves.
This way he still gets to voice Mario in spirit since it was all trained on his performances as Mario.
>Same shit happened with Darth Vader's voice in that Obi-Wan TV show, that's all AI
...No? Black person he's still alive, he's doing all the voice work. He signed a contract to use AI when he kicks the bucket.
https://www.avclub.com/obi-wan-kenobi-vader-voice-ai-generated-james-earl-jone-1849577418
>James Earl Jones has apparently given his permission for the voice of his iconic villain Darth Vader to become an AI-generated effect. Has already done so, in fact, for his recent “appearance” in Star Wars Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi: Although Lucasfilm was quick to note that Jones “guided” the generation of Vader’s lines in the show, the actual voice for the character was generated by an AI firm called Respeecher in Ukraine.
I remember noticing that no one complained about his voice, even the angriest Ganker chuds when I knew JEJ couldn't possibly do it clean anymore
not gonna lie, Charles is the most soulful guy out there
>as far back as Super Mario 64
INCORRECT.
Mario took a leak on you! Hee hee! That's-a going online!
So long gay
Wario…is….finished
So he's not in Wonder is he? I knew that trailer sounded different and off. End of an era
Doesn't he voice every plumber? Shit sucks man.
Is Wonder going to be his last role? I remember people saying Mario was sounding different in the trailer. Maybe he was switched out already.
He had a nice run I guess, can’t wait to see the talent that replaces him.
You just know they're going to replace him with Pratt. The SEGA tried to do that too after the Sonic movie's success, but Ben Schwartz wanted too much money.
*The SEGA suits
Pratt is way too expensive for a role that boils down to bing bing wahoo
Chris Pratt? Won.
>09:20:10
KEKAROOOO
Everyone in this thread not realizing THIS GUY is gonna replace him.
Memes aside, I doubt Nintendo is willing to pay for the voice of a top tier Hollywood actor for every fricking Mario game they release
A Holywood A-lister isn't going to be around to record for games. Chris Pratt will be too busy voicing every other animated character and starring in every other action block-buster.
Not to mention he would be like a million bucks per line.
WOWIE
ZOWIE
It was bound to happen, but I didn't think it'd happen this soon.
>inb4 he gets replaced with AI
from the man
what's a numba?
Goomba's cousin
He's saying we're all the bald kid from Kids Next Door
>woohoo
Tf this gay doesn't even know its wha hoo. No wonder he’s been replaced.
Cringe
It's Mariover
>sees fan uproar over mario movie snub
>fans seethe cause A lost actor chosen
>Charles interacts with said tweets and expresses sadness over this
>calls to rally around him begin after tweets
>nintendo sees this as a protest
>parts way with old moron noise maker
LOL all he did was make noises the whole time as mario with a few phrases. Frick this guy and frick tendies. Good riddance
Frick. It's the end of an era
>The mandate is not real, guys
As if we needed any more proof we live in the worst timeline
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Woohoo!
I already liked Charles. You don't have to sell me further on him.
Too late
>2023
>67 is not that old brah
>keep working what are you lazy?
We will never retire at this point.
Damn so Chris Pratt is the new Mario forever
Truly a clown world we’re living in right now.
James Earl Jones just signed a contract (likely for frickhuge amounts of money) for d*sney to AI clone his voice so he can always be Darth Vader for the rest of eternity.
The shittiest company in the world can do that but Nintendo can't do it for Charles Martinet? That's fricking bullshit. They WANTED him out for some reason.
Nintendo came up to him with an AI contract but Martinet started backwards long-jumping out of the conference room and said "MAMA MIA! YOU DON'T-A GET-A TO GIVE JUST-A MY VOICE DA 1-UP MUSHROOM! KILL-A YOURSELVES WAHOOOOO"
>being surprised
Have you guys actually sat down and listened to Mario's recent BING BING Wahoos? He sounds like fricking shit.
He can really only voice Wario now.
Not going to lie i agree with this. New voice doesn't even sound bad, it's a good replacement, there's more energy in it.
Now Luigi and Wario are the real losses here
>He will no longer voice the character but we will still use him to shill
Holy frick
The monkey paw strikes again
F
Salute to a real legend. WAHOOs will never be the same.
It's Wariover
I wonder if they're going to start putting some focus on the other characters voices now or if whoever becomes the new Mario is just going to overshadow everything?
THE DOWNFALL OF NINTENDO
Nobody got upset when they replaced Captain Lou Albano with Martinet. Get over yourself, people
>Nobody got upset when they replaced Captain Lou Albano with Martinet
Albano is fricking italian! Literally born in Italy. Andrew Dobson is just an absolute fricking moron.
SO LONG GAY MARIO
Next 3D game with the movie voices?
fake news
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So he really is stepping down
Frick, this man was...literally Mario for fricking years
It's gonna be weird to hear a non Charles Mario
I can't really imagine Mario with a different voice. I hope they don't use AI because frick AI to the ends of the earth, but I hope the next guy they get does his best to sound like Martinet.
Where are all those "Mario in Wonder totally sounds like Martinet!" gays now?
he recorded the lines months ago you know.
Probably way earlier than that too
Furina my beloved
They died
i love anime babes with white hair
I guess he was getting on the older side. not everyone can be Masako Nozawa.
>AI shills come out of the woodwork for no reason
Scabs being opportunistic shills should be of no surprise
I saw him at a con about two weeks ago. He looked exhausted honestly, but like he was enjoying some time off. He had a Mario Sunshine shirt on, a bucket hat and his super long silver hair. I wanted a pic, but his agent or whoever wanted $50 for a photo. Makes sense I guess, I just don't care that much.
Good riddance, Charles did not care for trans people. He's been contacted multiple times by to help attend in pride events but never answered back. Hopefully the next VA, will show more support for our community.
mario if he done
I heard Mario ambassador and I just imagined him sitting at the United Nations addressing international Mario affairs.
>the only talented voice actor in gaming is quitting
No more bing bing wahoo's for Charles
Wasn't he a closeted homosexual with Trump derangement syndrome? Good riddance. The new guy in the wonder trailer sounded better than any of his shitty Mario voices in the past 15 years. He hasn't voiced Mario well since the gamecube days, let's be honest.
it's been a good ride
bring in the CDI mario
agreed
There's no way that they don't have thousands of Mario voice clips in their vault. And Mario's a static franchise anyway, the new VA will be an imitator and we'll hardly notice the difference.
>No more bing bing wahoos
>Mario is now voiced by a trump supporter
>an italian with a red maga hat is voiced by a trump supporter
as it should be
Of course an obvious Gankerirgin on Twitter is also a Twitter Blue sub
I bet you're reading this right now, you homosexual
I like Twitter Blue, it lets me know who I should immediately fricking ignore.
I mean, we all know that paper Mario and super star Mario and platformer Mario are not necesary happening in the same continuity so after the movie's success I can see nintendo making "movie Mario" games in the future.
He already was
>The little soul nintendo had left completely stripped out
Yeah, time to buy a PS5.
Pour one out bros
He's practically in his 70s and Mario really doesn't have the same energy anymore
It's honestly about time
>He's practically in his 70s and Mario really doesn't have the same energy anymore
He only says 2 words.
>He only says 2 words
He literally can't even do this kind of scream for when Mario gets hurt anymore
Peter Cullen is also retiring of voicing optimus soon.
Damn, he looks like NintendoCapriSun now.
End of an era. Happy at least it seems amicable and the new person from wonder seems to be doing an okay job from the snippet we've heard.
>Retires from doing voice
>From saying Wahoo! Spagetti! Owwowwowwowwowwwwow!
Why are they even bothering to replace him? Give him some cash once in a while to record 30 min of voices and then be good for another decade.
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ftfy
...Is it true someone found a profile of him in some gay ass homosexual dating site? That's bad enough already... You think they caught him trying to diddle kids and are doing this all before shit hits the fan?
I think you’re just projecting
>...Is it true someone found a profile of him in some gay ass homosexual dating site?
the internet has known he's gay for years anon
he's old and can't bing bing that's it
No, schizo. Anyone can create a gay profile for celebrities that have thousands of their photos available online. Don't forget to take your meds sweaty
...Mario is a fricking gay?
HOW MANY MORE WILL THOSE DEGENERATES TAKE FROM US
if they wanted to distance away from him they wouldn't do special commemoration video for him with the head honcho of Nintendo..
Also who cares about Mario -- who's gonna voice Luigi in Mansion games?
>Americans in shambles that some people can retire before their 90th birthday
>retire
>still works for nintendo
>Europeans still don't realize Americans make more money than them
is chris pratt stepping in as the new official voice of mario in all games?
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Yeah, apparently Nintendo is going all-in in AI generated voices.
What the frick do they mean by Mario Ambassador?
Probably just letting him go around as "the official voice of Mario", but have him retired from the actual recording job. Basically just keeping him around for PR stuff.
He works in the Sega embassy and talks to the Sonic ambassador.
He probably will represent the character at cons and stuff, and still gets paid.
He represents Nintendo at meetings with foreign countries
>The plumber’s voice actor finally quits
Good riddance. Meanwhile Sonic still have RGS after nearly 13 years.
>Meanwhile Sonic still have RGS after nearly 13 years.
Eh, Ryan Drummond was better anyway.
>Sonic only managed to have the same voice actor for half as long as Mario
>Somehow this is a braging right.
How about the same guy since 1998 with no signs of stopping
I wonder why jap VAs stay with their character until their literal death, I can't believe Goku is still voiced by the same woman since the 80s
That makes your post even more moronic, since you opted to brag about RGS instead of someone who has a comparable tenure. and don't go saying "actual I'm not the same poster"
actual I'm not the same poster
It maybe a huge loss for Nintendo, but It's not ov-ACK!!
WHERE'S THE STICKY
I do wonder what they'll do?
>Archived audio
>AI
>Someone doing an impression
>Chris Pratt
>Someone doing a Chris Pratt impression
>Something resembling one of the other voices Mario has had.
>A completely new voice.
>I do wonder what they'll do?
Hire a new voice actor. He's not Japanese.
New VA who they'll pay way less money.
If Mario Wonder and the new Wario game are anything to go by, it's a new voice actor doing an impression
>special video message at a future date
Nintendo Direct unironically confirmed, it’ll be shown there
They found his gay hookup ads?
good riddance that voice was annoying as frick
I feel like a part of me just died today. F, thank you for being a central figure in my childhood Charles Martinet.
Damn
F
Doesn't he have a shit ton of voices recorded for future games?
We don’t know when Charles stepped away, for all we know this could’ve happened a while back but are only making it official now
mario has said like 10 words since 1999 who cares? do they not have enough recordings of him going 'WAAAHOOOOO'
>we live in a world where Martinet isn't going to voice Wahoo man anymore
What a way to wake up today
Sonic has had like 10 different voices and you don't see Sonic fans getting teary eyed.
Sonic fans suffer way more than changing voice actors
Sonic fans don't have time to worry about VA's changing when everything about the series they love is complete garbage.
>Sonic
That franchise is so fricking terribly mismanaged that voice acting should be the least of the fans' worries.
Instead they get violent and cry about it for years
sonic's had the same japanese voice actor since Adventure
Mamma Mia!
They were using voice clips from the fricking early 200s until recently, they probably recorded a whole bunch of new snippets that they'll be milking for another 20 years before they let him retire.
He was let go after Nintendo heard about his rampant homophobia that snuck into Super Mario 64.
bros, here is your new mario... https://simg.com/case-study/
That’s clearly Charles, anon.
why is everyone treating this like fricking 9/11? all he did was shout high-pitched squeals and stereotypical Italian gibberish.
I'm more curious who will voice Wario, since unlike Mario, Wario has full voice acting in the Warioware games.
Will he have a New York accent now?
We already heard the new guy in the Wonder trailer.
MAMA MIA IT'S A OVER
>the year is 2060
>someone makes another super mario 64 iceberg chart
>one of the entries is "mario old voice actor discrepancy"
Can we get rid of Toad's voice next? It's fricking awful.
Bring back BUP
When would Toad ever need new lines? The plumbers, sure, but all toad does is the same scream
I stepped back from shit nintendo idiots many years ago. Frick nintendo and frick the wii. Fricking buttholes can go to hell. Fricking bunch of bastards. Fricking shit company that is holding good games hostage producing shit e-waste products
can you imagine if they gave him the brooklyn voice again
People already pointed out how Mario's voice in the Wonder trailer didn't sound right, they were already speculating the voice actor changed and this announcement is proof they changed his voice actor but he's doing an impression
For me it's the gibberish from the M&L games.
Cool.
I don't really care
Cared enough to open the thread, write the response, pick out the right frog, and get the captcha
I literally don't care at all. Mario could be voiced by a troony and I would not give 1 single frick.
So irreverent and cool. Must be real hard not caring all the time, frick off
>BING BING WAHOO man finally move on to a more lucrative career
Thank god
This was a lucrative career. Guy got paid to literally do sound effects. He’s probably said max like 30 lines throughout his career at Nintendo.
I thought he died
My own favorite Martinet performances were always Luigi, specifically the lines from Mario Kart 64 and Superstar Saga.
Luigi's voice in Superstar Saga is just kino.
My favorites are always gonna be Melee Mario/Luigi, especially Luigi, I love that it’s just sped up Mario https://youtu.be/uKyMK9_sHzM?si=yD4iNktOAp5utjU2
Just in time for AI to immortalize him
Oh thats kinda sad he was a cool guy
Should've taken this opportunity to delete voices forever, not replace them.
mario if he real
mario if he meal
They fricking bond burger’d him
mario if he real
Mario if he real
mario if he seal
>Marior was skateboarding
its a shame this has become the truth
mario if he real
mario if he real
mario if he real
mario if he real
mario if he real
mario if he real
Mario if he real
Mario if he real
why
no
MOTHER FRICKER
You got me
mario if he real
Mario if he real
mario if he real
mario if he real
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mario if he real
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VA replacements are often awkward, at least at first. It'll probably be rough at first but I'm willing to see whether the next guy adapts quickly. Really I just hope this was a mutual decision and not the result of some PR idiot saying, "people will get CoNfUsEd if they don't sound more like the movie version!"
Bye-bye Mario….
Damn, I can't believe Charles Martinet is dead, guys.
I want to become a Mario Ambassador too wtf.
and Mario yelled... Wahoo...
they're going to hire the real mario
Who is?
Mario
>Luigi is over
Now it's Toru Furuya's time. He was the original voice from Mario in Japan (he even voiced him in a satellaview game) before Charles Martinet was chosen.
Will Yoshi ever get new sounds that isn't the godawful Yoshi Story shit
Oh frick. So Mario's future is either a soulless impersonator or manmade AI horror?
so what happened in 2 years to make him not do this?
Money
Probably his family.
He's strating to drop dead.
Oh my God... He's GOD.
we have to ATTACK him
Martinet can want whatever but Nintendo still needs him to actually do a voice they're happy with.
His sexuality being revealed
What he wants is not necessarily what Nintendo wants, and people change their opinion once reality hits, age caught up with his ability to do all the Bing, Bings and Wahoos.
He still has this "Mario Ambassador" role anyways, he will probably entertain a few lines at Cons that he still voicing Mario until he drops dead remains true.
>We have enough of your voice stored. You're no longer needed. Goodbye.
HOLY SHIT IT ALL MAKES SENSE
AAAAAAAAAA
A legit end of an era.
>Link and Mario cross dress in their games now
>Charles is done
>Miyamoto is 70 and lost the magic long ago
Darkest timeline for tendies
Hello, my name is Charles Martinet, and I'm the voice of Mario.
Mario + Rabbids 2 is the last game Martinet recorded for I think; that said, most of Charles' voice acting in recent games is repurposed from older stuff. For example, I know most of the Mario lines in Battle League are straight out of Mario Kart 8.
Actually Wonder will be the last time we here from Martinet.
Wonder how this board will react when he retires.
When he retires, I retire.
Who is he?
Hideo Kojima, the creator of Resident Evil.
Couldn't retire sooner, fricking mandate hack.
Daisy is now in a damn mainline Mario game and you're still crying about mandates?
>now
oh nonononono
You're on fricking crack if you think that's enough.
Still pretending Odyssey, Luigi's Mansion 3, and now Wonder don't exist? Paper Mariogays sure are stubborn.
ignore mandate schizos the Paper Mario gays are too far gone and up Arlo's ass
>STILL seething
>implying mario losing its edge isn't a result of him having less influence over the years
Miyamoto never wanted Mario to be overly "kiddie" and sterile, it's why he banned the peace sign and why a lot of key renders of him in the 2000s have him looking all serious.
>and why a lot of key renders of him in the 2000s have him looking all serious.
Wasn't that an American thing?
miyamoto retired like decade ago
and stopped making games like 15 years ago
Ganker likes to be edgelords and pretend he's a George Lucas type hack, but when he dies it will probably be one of the saddest days for the entire industry. He's arguably the most important dev who ever lived in terms of sheer influence and understanding game design. If SMB1 or Mario 64 never happened the entire industry would probably look completely different. 3D games would probably all be as clunky as the original Tomb Raiders if Miyamoto didn't write the book on how characters should control in a 3D space.
>he's a George Lucas type hack
Where have you been? After the Disney movies turned about to be shit all the contrarians here think Lucas is an unappreciated kino genious.
he basically already has. He just "oversees" a few projects here and there and spends the rest of his time doing whatever the frick old jap men do
Celebrate. Like most boomer Japs he's holding back the company
Miyamoto saw the reaction to the chris pratt shit and decided to punish charles for it
Is this guy a gay or something? I bet he got caught with a child or a very young man.
It's time.
He does the cartoon Marios much better.
God, Vinny is so cute.
Hard to believe he's nearing his 40s
>Charles you sound like fricking shit get out
its over
You guys do know that @NintendoAmerica is a troll account, right? They've been publishing fake news to trick people for years.
You moron
That's the official Nintendo account
>I think you're nuts. You don't leave a steady job for some crazy dream. And the worst part? You're bringing your brother down with you.
this literally proved he could have done a calmer mario voice himself but they wanted big name VA's
The voice he did for Mario's dad is literally just mellow Wario
Mario rarely says much. They surely have enough "wahoo's" and "here we go's" recorded at this point to use for eternity.
It's over, Chris Pratt really stole the spot from our wholesome grandpa Martinet, someone who doesn't even know you can't stomp koopas in the original Mario...
Nintendo should bring back the gruff Brooklyn Mario voice
The world would be a better place if we all strived to be like Charles
It's incredible that he's been doing it for this long. Just look at how many voice actors Sonic has had and he's not even as old as Mario.
They'll have no issue finding someone who can wahoo. Voice actors are practicing their Mario, Luigi, Wario and Waluigi as we speak.
It's his time.
>man can actually cat
>nobody cares unless it's childish bing bing wahoos
>>man can actually cat
GMS
This fricking huge, Charles is like the voice of Mario! I can't imagine anyone else taking over the voice roles of Mario, Luigi, Wario and Waluigi! But then again they do have like a massive catalog of games they can pull voice clips from! So long Charles, enjoy your retirement!
I get that he's old, but honestly how much work is it voicing Mario? He probably has recording equipment in his home. So he does, what, 10 minutes in front of the microphone in his living room saying "let's a go!" and has finished his recording for another game?
>Sage in name field
newbie begone.
>implying newbies even know what sage is.
Mario is fricking dead!!!
Nintendo should hire Vinesauce vinny to play mario and luigi with his perfect voices.
Mario if he dead
>nintendo should hire this person
>nintendo should hire that person
You dumb homosexuals, the new voice actor has already been hired
Yeah but like, it's fun
Snake situation? Crisp Rrat is the new Mario voice now?
Mario
I figured this was coming with Wonder having a different sounding Mario and Chris Pratt bringing a different newer voice to Mario (probably done to get people okay with a new Mario voice), hope Charles does a good job at finding a new replacement Mario who sounds similar enough, and here's hoping he still gets roles. That being said, what happens to Luigi, Wario and Waluigi?
>what happens to Luigi, Wario and Waluigi?
Did Luigi speak in the trailer? It could still be Martinet.
What was going on behind the scenes? He was too passionate about Mario to step down like this.
He did sound different in the Wonder trailer, though tbh I don't mind the new voice actor, he mimics Mario very well.
He's getting old and probably can't do the voice well, if Nintendo wants something more expressive it'd be really difficult
He's old and can't match Mario's energy anymore
He called Bowser gay.
He's 67. He couldn't do Wario's voice in the last Warioware for a reason.
Old age is starting to affect his voice acting, wario and waluigi sound better than ever but Mario and Luigi are slowly going downhill.
Mario's new voice actor has been confirmed to be Wharles Wartinet, an up and coming voice actor from San Jose, Walifornia. Here is his picture!
Best post in the thread.
Absolutely, I am sure most posters realize how important Miyamoto is to gaming as a whole.
Nintendo doesn't care about the purple homosexual
Thank you for playing my game!
>relegated to cameo voicing while a horribly unfitting and unmotivated Hollywood actor voiced Mario in his "non-vidya comeback" movie
Ask not for whom the bing wahoos
I hope Mario gets a black VA
>Ah yo what's up dog, is me Mario
it'sa me, black mario! we can't call goomba's "goomba's" anymore because they'a call me something worse!
newbies
i didnt have MARIO'S A Black person on hand i'm sorry
But Mario played by a black man would be funny
>this is why other Marios in spinoffs have been reusing clips
>this was the reason WarioWare Get It Together had way less Wario voice acting compared to Gold
>this is why they had him be both Mario's dad, who looked down on him but later accepted his son's feats, and Giuseppe, a kooky nobody eager to support Mario
Nintendo is now officially a soulless corporation like the others.
>now
And there are still people who doubt that they make Link speak in the rumored Zelda movie (made by Illumination) I see a lot of idiots here uploading memes and making jokes, but no one realizes that this sets a bad precedent (they literally replaced the original Mario VA )
There is literally nothing wrong with making Link speak. Every single voiced iteration of him is loved.
I DID IT
You did NOT
Plus he talks in the manga adaptations. The best way to handle Link in a movie (which they won't do) is to have him able to talk but somewhat reserved with doing so.
Lol
I mean, just because he's a meme doesn't mean he isn't loved.
>implying you don't unironically enjoy it
TUMBLING DOWN
TUMBLING DOWN
TUMBLING DOWN
Ganker are we gonna stand by and let Chrispy Ratt take the spot from our beloved Martinet?
Pratt is a known pedophile and transphobe who hates gay people, and we're just gonna let him voice our favorite red plumber from now on?! I say we take it to the streets! Who's with me?
have a nice day, concern troll
>known pedophile
He just like me.
People like you should be sent to a correctional facility!
>correctional facility
have a nice day, pedogay
Enough! you people are disgusting!
becky the sex
>Pratt is a known pedophile
homie what?
It's true, I read it on twitter
Ok can you actually explain where you heard that
Someone said it on twitter
It was from a sckizo wasn't it
It's sad but I'm too surprised it happened finally. I thought he still had some years left but his Luigi voice clips in LM3 sounded extremely old I must say, it was the first time I noticed his aging.
I really thought this was going to be a schizo theory. People have been saying this might happen since last direct based on one wario voice clip that im pretty sure is still just Martinet anyway.
Can anyone find that article where that talked about how Martinet had recorded mario saying like 800,000 different words in a single session or some shit.
I think he probably sold is voice rights to Nintendo and that was that.
With the amount of recordings they got from him it would be years before they actually have to use AI to make him say new words.
My actual concern is for Luigi, Wario and Waluigi as I doubt they have as much dialogue recorded and I would suck to have to hear them make the same noises for the rest of my life
No one will ever be able to perfectly capture his cartoony Italian voice. Am sad. RIP
when are they making mario & luigi rpg 6 :/
Never, AlphaDream's been dead for years.
So was donkey kong but then we got country returns
Also Mario Party got taken over by Nd Cube after Hudson got absorbed by Konami. The Super Mario RPG remake implies M&L6 won't be happening, at least not for a long time but if it will it'll be by a new team with maybe few returning devs. Currently the ex-AlphaDream members have scattered but keep in touch to some extent from what I recall.
homie, weren't you listening? Miyamoto killed Alphadream years ago.
>Miyamoto killed Alphadream
tanabe just can't get any credit
That's what you get for being the face of a company.
Does this mean they got one new person to do all the plumbers or will Luigi, Wario, and Waluigi ALL have new voice actors?
Working as an "ambassador" honestly sounds like more work than saying "wahoo" a few times every couple of years.
>no sticky
It's so fricking over
I hope whoever replaces him (if it's not just AI) does something closer to Martinet's MK64-Wario World era voice for Wario. I never liked the weirdly overly deep voice he's had since like Double Dash.
>overly deep
Wario and Waluigi put the most strain on his voice.
https://voca.ro/1h9PwHHa4Mll
Made a mario voice
Can i get hired ?
You sound like the type of person who would do that shitty mario impression for dorkly
The yakuza will be by your door on 10. Make up your bags.
You could get a new role as The Count
your voice is shit and you should have a nice day. Not like mine though. People mistake me for mario all the time.
https://voca.ro/1ezjdGAMBoSc
Holy shit Charles in the thread?
>page 10
nintenbros..did we lose?
Dragon Ball bros, we just keep winning...
Don't get so wienery Dragon ball chad
The day will come when she can't voice Goku anymore
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY CHILDHOOD AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
600
Who cares?
>do i fit in yet!?!?
The only place you will ever fit in is your coffin.
So long Mario!
last for daisy supremacy