Random: People Are Convinced Charles Martinet Isn't In Super Mario Bros. Wonder

I'm pretty sure it's Chris Pratt in those clips.

I honestly wondered the same thing when I watched the clip. But to be fair, Mario looks a little different than we’ve been use to so maybe that’s playing a trick on us. I still think it’s Charles voice. And honestly by this point, Nintendo should have his audio prerecorded and ready to go for any Mario game they plan to make, obviously giving him royalties and such. That at least would be the smart idea…..

The Wario voice sounds like how he did in Warioware Gold and Get It Together though
Mario sounds a little off but we haven't heard new voice clips for him in a mainline game since Mario Odyssey which could've been recorded as late as 2016.

I personally prefer Chris Pratt voice as Mario than Charles Martinet after watching the movie.

Here we go again..

@jump “He’s so cool.”

Twitter just being twitter lmao.

When I heard the voice, my immediate impression was that they got a bunch of fresh voice lines and his voice has changed some, or they got a new person altogether. So maybe it's still him, but the sound is definitely different.

I think what happened, and I will admit to being fallible here because I also said this after first watch, is that the flower voice gets blended in. So the flower will like moan or something when Mario jumps. But then I watched it twice more, I think it's martinet. The flower is pretty annoying.

In concern for Wario’s voice in Warioware, it sounds like they used Wario’s Japanese voice actor in the footage. Wario was recasted in the Japanese Warioware games, since the later games have more dialogue. My guess is that the clip is either placeholder or Japanese footage.

@RupeeClock Exactly! That's what I was going to say.

Charles Martiner has gotten old(er). That's it...

It does make one WONDER...

I'd rather AI than Charles 'Ligger' Martinet.

Jeez these people really are chronically online, aren't they?

@PokemonDMG Nods in approval Proper dadjoke, bravo!

@TheBigK Chronically Online…… holy crap…. I’ve been on the internet since Windows 3.1.1 and AOL2.0 were things….. Chronically online aptly describes me…. 😂😂😂

Sounds like Mario & Wario to me.

Wario does sound noticeably different.

But Mario sounds as Martinet as ever.

I think the voice sounds the same imo.

He sounds slightly higher pitches, but that's perhaps a newer creative direction rather than a recast.

I honestly thought it wasn’t him at first when the trailer first played and that just added to my not so good first impression of the game.

But I am all aboard this game now and honestly it could just be Charles Martinet somewhat changing the pitch of Mario’s voice just like the way the pitch of 2D Mario is changing with this game.

He sounds different, but I strongly believe that that's still Charles Martinet's voice. This article is right, people do love to complain over the dumbest things.

He sounded a little different for his Mario Movie "do the voice" cameo, and it was higher pitch in his Bowsers Fury lines too. I think its just trending higher pitch, maybe thats the direction hes getting or its pitched up slightly. But it sounds similar to me. Heck, go back and listen to his original lines from MARIO 64 and it sounds off, kind of just like this

I think they're going for a lighter tone, so they made Mario sound more high pitched, but otherwise it's the same. Unless those mushrooms have something to do with it.

For Mario, he sounds slighly different to me, but still sounds like Charles Martinet to me.

I'm expecting so.

Nowadays Martinet is Wario only if you put the game in english.Ever since WarioWare gold on 3DS,all the characters have voice acting in multiple languages.Been listening to Wario in my native language(italian) for a few years by now.

IMO it's just typical twitter nonsense. People know VA stuff can whip up controversy/attention easily from Bayo 3 and the Mario Movie.

@PokemonDMG i see what you did there xD

Its Charles Martinet. We have just gotten use to hearing the same Mario voice clips reused in so many previous games, this is the first time in a while that we got new voice clips from Martinet in a Mario game since Odyssey Im pretty sure.

Voice sounded different to me but I just figured it’s new equipment and the game making the voice more prominent, like they really want you to constantly hear the flower so they had to put more emphasis on Mario as well.

If you’re playing Mario games for the voice acting you may want to reconsider your choice of hobby though.

if anything, it was actually luigi that sounded different to me. we only got two split-second voice clips for him but that doesn’t sound like the usual charles luigi voice

Mario sounded fine, the Wario, yeah but Charles's speaking Wario is pretty different compared to his older voice lines for Wario.

I bet we'll see him tweet about it at some point to clear up any confusion.

Tbh I'm more concern about Yoshi's voice. You cannont simply replace Kazumi Totaka's 25+ years of PEAK character sound design.

@dcon11 tbf Luigi shifts a lot under Charles. If you listen to N64 Luigi clips in Party/Golf/etc. especially the "Imma Luigi number one" Charles take on the character sounds absolutely different to GC onwards which is closer to a cowardly Mario.

Then I feel Luigis Mansion 2 onwards is quite different diverging in a more nasally and distinct voice.

Can’t say anything about Wario, but Mario is definitely the original voice. The thing that is throwing people off is beyond the usual catch phrase [and specific voice direction for said phrases that still sound the same] is we are getting new lines and new voice directions. That “Wonderful!” I bet is the source for throwing people off.

I’m personally glad Mario is speaking more with more varied sounds for a brand new genuine 2D Mario game.

@dew12333 What are you talking about?

No one cares what a bunch of Twitter randos think.

I know I should be used to people picking things apart and jumping to conclusions but it always surprises me...perhaps that means I still have some faith in humanity...that gets let down each time. Just wait until the game comes out. Then you can see the credits and freak out or whatever. If they used their power for good we would have solved actual issues by now.

Y’all are getting way too heated over Twitter users making an observation lmao. Mario and Wario DO sound a bit different, stop gaslighting yourselves into thinking they don’t just because “Twitter users bad” 😭

Sounds like him to me...but has reality ever stopped internet trolls?

@tobsesta99 Wario sounds different because he's got a different VA in japan that somehow made it into the western directs. But no, Mario's voice has definitely not changed VAs and that has nothing to do with Twitter users.

I think it's him. Not sure what they're hearing.

Don't know whether there's anything to it, but I really can't imagine Mario without him. I'd rather they have him create a phonetic library for his various voices or use AI to recreate them than give the job to someone else.

@link3710 I know it doesn’t. Many here seem to think so though.

Mario sounds great and it’s nice to hear some new voice clips!

Mario will now be voiced by Chris Pratt. "He's so cool."

@Nassov

This. Such Stuff happens when you are getting older.

@sForzan off topic!!! or are you trying to take the pee?
@LeJuiceCup I'm talking about my opinion. What are you really asking?

@dew12333 Well, you called the guy a name, so of course we’re going to wonder what you’re referring to with it.

Pfff…. People are getting ridiculous at this point!!!
Charles is the classic voice for Mario, yes.
It’s an excellent one, absolutely not.

@LeJuiceCup I think the ligging expression covers it really. The bloke has been living off the back for too long, and for very little input in the whole scheme of things.

I get that lots of people feel differently and hold more worth to someone speaking words but I personally don't.

@dew12333 I had to do some research in order to find out that you are calling him a freeloader. That… is a bad take. It is yours to have, but it is still bad. Voice work matters a lot, and often times the voice makes the character. The Joker, for example, has never sounded quite right ever since Mark Hamill stopped voicing him. Some voices become just as iconic as the character, whether it be Optimus Prime, Megatron, Shaggy, The Joker, Batman, Mario, and whoever else.

Now, sometimes you will get a voice actor that takes the work of a previous one and lives up to it or improves on it. Troy Baker did an alright Joker, various voice actors have done an alright shaggy, and Gary Chalk/David Kay did great a great Optimus and Megatron. Steve Blum’s Starscream Is one of the cases where a voice goes toe to toe and even exceeds some past voice actors for the role.

For as long as Martinet can do it well, he should be the voice of Mario. It would not be the same without him. Full stop.

@dew12333 my little brother beat xenoblade 3 on Easter

It doesn't sound like him.

@LeJuiceCup Hi, Sorry for being slow to reply, been a bit busy. I appreciate that you see more worth to this type of thing, but I find this acting/talking doesn't hold that much talent really. Just another elitist trade that pretends that only a small percentage of the population would be able to do what they can.
As with Charles, well he has contributed a few words for a game character that rarely even speaks, hardly Miyamoto is it. Do you think the voice could have carried the games if they ultimately were bad. And yet I have seen more images of him with press pass round his neck than I have cared to.

This article didn’t age well - I, too, was very polarized if his voice was different or not.

@MrCookieCrisps I think Nintendo were already making moves to slowly change Mario's (and Wario's) VA before they made the announcement.

@NatiaAdamo I’m more talking about the writer and many others opinion that it was still Charles Marinet

Seems like the author's hearing isn't as good as those 'folks on the internet love to argue about stuff'.

"but for goodness sake, it's definitely him"

That aged well.

I Thought He Was The Same Before! 😭

Love this article and all those comments....
So, are you still sure about what you are talking about