Mario VA Charles Martinet Also "Not Involved" With WarioWare: Move It!

I figured as much. It'll always be a bit hollow not hearing Martinet ham it up as Wario anymore, especially since he's of my all time favorite characters.

At the same time though, If the voice of Wario in that Move It trailer is who I think it is though, I might be kind of okay with that.

Please don’t be AI.

@Anti-Matter

Said nobody ever.

I really will miss this man’s voice, I will be fine with whoever voices these characters next of course, but I will still miss him, I wish luck to all the voice actors voicing these characters forward!

@Anti-Matter What are you talking about? “Better Mario personality”? Martinet is Mario’s personality. Anyone who replicates his voice will surely be good, but it’ll be nearly impossible to deliver as much energy and enthusiasm as he ever did.

@Anti-Matter Charles Martinet is Mario! So I’m not sure how another voice actor is supposed to be a better Mario personality, when whatever voice actor that’s going to replace him, will definitely be replicating his voice.

@N00BiSH Who do you think it is?

It's quite clear from that first trailer it wasn't Martinet doing Wario's voice. Unlike the Mario voice from Wonder which is spot-on, this feels like it has some way to go before matching Charles' performance.

@EaglyBird I have never seen king of the hill, but he died? I didn’t hear about it ): (and by I never seen it I mean I never watched an episode, I have heard and seen clips of his voice)

@EaglyBird That’s terrible, from what I’ve seen I thought he was amazing, and hilarious, it’s sad to hear he passed. May he R.I.P.

Nintendo as we know it is dying. Iwata has been dead for almost 10 years now--as crazy as that is to believe. Reggie is retired. Kit, Krysta, and many of the other Treehouse staff have left. One of the lead character designers behind games like Star Fox, F-Zero, and Majora's Mask has sought employment elsewhere. And now Charles is stepping down as the role of Mario. It's only a matter of time before the likes of Miyamoto and Tezuka either retire or pass on. I know that's a morbid and depressing thought, but deep down, we've all thought about it.

It's inevitable.

All we can do is hope their successors are able to fill the massive shoes that have been left before them. It won't be easy. But even with many of those key figures gone. Nintendo is still managing to be more successful than ever. Hopefully they're training the future generations right, to preserve Nintendo's legacy for decades to come. At this point in time, I'm not too concerned, though. I think Nintendo still has a bright future ahead.

@PikaPhantom I'm not 100% certain, but I think that's Maurice LaMarche(The Brain, Father, Calculon). The way that voice clip sounded, I was remined of the voice LaMarche used for gruffer characters, as shown the following examples:

Obviously I don't want Wario to sound like Lrrr and Sam exactly, but I'm not against LaMarche using that voice with more Wario-like inflections, you get me? If done right, I feel like we could get a different take that doesn't feel too out of character for Wario.

@Anti-Matter Bro this is the worst joke I've EVER heard!!!!! Be funny next time!!!!

Mario and Luigi are probably about to start talking in the games (only reason who I think this is happening)

Wario’s voice sounded decent in the trailer, I’m sad it isn’t going to be Charles but hopefully the VA will do a good impression of Wario! On the other hand I hope there’s full voice acting this time unlike GiT. Also funny how there’s always replies to a nonexistent Anti-Matter comment on my end

Wario's "Excellent" did sound somewhat different in that trailer. It's surprising how none of us even suspected anything.

@Eel Some people said that it was the Direct announcer doing a Wario impression, but that's clearly just denial.

Man I didn’t even notice warios voice was different in this trailer, I think I thought it was the announcer a little bit, but now I know that was just cope.

Edit: I had to edit out an embarrassing typo.

Am I the only one with no interest in voice actors?

Love games - own several hundred to a few thousand.

Never cared.

Charles who? Oh Mario 64 voice guy. Cool game and ok?

@HotGoomba @Snatcher
I personally prefer Chris Pratt voice as Mario than Charles Martinet, after watching Super Mario 2023 movie.
Don't blame me for liking Chris Pratt voice over than Charles Martinet voice.
Kudos for the new voice actor for upcoming Mario games, whoever he is.

@StarPoint
But maybe I have different perception about Charles Martinet voice.
Might be unpopular opinion but hey...
Everybody is different.

@traceman
Just because I have different opinion, it doesn't mean I am a bad guy here.
Take a note, I didn't grew up by N64 and GameCube so I have less attachment with Charles Martinet voice as Mario so I still neutral with him after I got introduced from Wii for the Mario games, but still...
Everybody have different perception including their attachment.
Since I have less attachment with Charles Martinet, when he departured from Mario voice, I didn't really feel sad as I rarely played my Mario games despite I still have interest to collect and play certain Mario games.
Again, that's because I grew up by 3rd party games than 1st party Nintendo games so I have different attachment level.

@Hero-of-WiiU
Chris Pratt for Mario voice in Super Mario movie said hello.

I wonder if Super Mario RPG will have voice acting of any kind?

@Anti-Matter I understand that you in massive (as large you can imagine) quotation marks Wasn't attached to charles Martinet but the majority of us were. Also let's keep the movie separate from the games all because Chris worked for Mario in the movie dose'nt mean it'll work in the games.

oh that explain why Wario excelente on WarioWare Move It, sounded so weird

I'm still hoping Wario's voice in the trailer was just a placeholder (please?).

@N00BiSH I can really hear that now that you say it. Be very interesting if it is him who is Wario.

@Giancarlothomaz With hindsight...it is very obvious, but it passed me by completely at the time! Didn't think about it. Whereas in Mario Wonder, I didn't really understand why some were so sure that it was not Charles! Be interesting to go back and watch that one too now.

@luckyseven Yeah, I don't understand why so many people don't just outright block the guy, given that all the stuff he says is contrarian to be contrarian.

On another related note, it really feels like the end of an era. Charles was basically the voice of Mario for the entirety of my life, and it's going to feel so weird hearing an entirely different voice come from all of these characters I grew up loving. Here's to hoping they'll manage to fill his shoes all the same.

@VoidofLight I already got blocked by him a while ago but I’m glad I can’t see his comments. Like one of the earlier commenters said, there’s no point in trying to argue with someone won’t change their mind. Good riddance to him
On the other hand, I totally agree with you. I’m not a huge fan of Mario but I still have attachment to the series along with the characters Charles voiced. I’ll miss his voice for Mario, Luigi, Wario and Waluigi since they’re all iconic for me. As I stated earlier I’m hoping Wario’s voice in Move It is good but it’ll still feel off to me

Wario will be harder to cast than Mario as Martinet has said more as Wario with more inflection and emotion than Mario’s quips. Wario has been pretty much narrating his own games. Luigi is somewhere between the two.

I'm sure there will be pushback whatever Nintendo do. There always is (sigh.) I thought Mario sounded fine in the trailer for Wonder. So I'm just going to wish whoever the new voice actor is good luck and wish Charles Martinet bon voyage on his new adventures as Mario Ambassador.

If they use A.I and can nail the voice, it would certainly alievate that same weirdness of hearing Bugs Bunny without Mel Blanc. It will be interesting to see if they get differnt people to do all the different voices.

We'll see. The end of an era is the dawn of a new one. I wonder (no pun intended) which direction they will take Mario.

@Not_Soos everyone is always “dying” from the moment we’re born.

Change happens. People get older, retire, die etc. the general principles live on and there is continuity. Especially with very large organisations like Nintendo.

Wow what are they gonna tell us next Miyamoto is retiring? I'm really starting to feel old all the sudden. As a Nintendo fan since the Beginning when they were just making arcade games I'm starting to worry about where they will go from here. Are all my favorite Nintendo franchises just gonna slip into obscurity and be forgotten in the next 10 years?

@luckyseven Even if he has you blocked, you can still view his comments. It only stops him from seeing your posts. Which means you must have him blocked too, so that you both can't view each others.

I've noticed the voice was 'off' in Wonder and Move It since hearing them in the Direct. People were clinging onto the idea that Charles voice was aging or there was a different voice direction being asked of him. Turns out the heighten sense of hearing crowd were right after all.

@Not_Soos well its definitely been a period of transition since the switch its not like this is the first time it has happened and of course important Nintendo figures have retired,left the company or sadly passed away. Likes of Howard Lincoln, Howard Phillips, Minoru Arakawa, Gunpei Yokoi ,Hiroshi Yamauchi, then even second parties/affiliates have departed likes of Rare.

If you grew up with them being the faces of the brand etc the likes of Reggie etc coming in at first had same feeling.

Nintendo and its main figures have changed a number of times in my lifetime ( Shigeru Miyamoto been the only constant big presence) and he will leave massive shoes to fill( its not the company is dead or dying its more like going from one era to another.

Wahoooo.
Your number one.

So many questions as of yet regarding who will voice these characters now, if they will do so long term like Charles, if it will be multiple people or again one person, why exactly Charles stops now, etc.

I wonder if Charles will have a segment in an upcoming Direct noting his departure?

why does he need to be "involved" at all? By the same token, and why would they need to use AI?

they have even better, more accurate voice reproduction technology already: they've recorded his voice! Mario has 10 things he says, wario has like 4 😂 and that's how it should be! honestly im surprised Charles has even been "involved" in alot of the games he "voiced" characters for. ✌️

@-wc-
Mmm wario has said a lot more at least in the nintendo directs when introducing games. I havent played new warioware(s) so cant say how much in-game voicing is involved.

For mario, idk anything about AI but I'm not sure about the recordings either. Certain mainline games could take a slightly different direction with how much mario talks. I am absolutely NOT talking about full on in depth dialogues or whatever, but even in certain cut scenes (I think luigis mansion 3 had some) they may need mario to say something, whether that be the same minimal expressions or add a bit more. And future sports games, Mario's gotta yell 'touch-a-down!' at some point

I hope they cancel wario ware as well, need some damn wario land

@CammyUnofficial

"Certain mainline games could take a slightly different direction with how much mario talks. I am absolutely NOT talking about full on in depth dialogues or whatever,"

I'm pretty convinced that this transition is a bellwether for some additional mario verbosity, and I can only hope along with you that they dont go over the top, "Mario The Movie The Videogame" with it.

honestly, if he only ever said "yeah!" "wah!" "woohoo!" "oh no!" "lets a go!" and "I'm a tired," thats already almost too much. the less voices, and generally less time spent with the player not in control of the action, the better, for the mario series, in my opinion.

Case in point: SMB3 and SMW are almost universally praised as the peak of the series, and in both of those games, mario is completely silent (besides his iconic power up/down, jumping, and dying FX,) and the player is in direct control 100 percent of the time.

how a bunch of scripted story and cutscenes could improve things is a mystery to me, but theyve spent the last 20 or so years trying to solve it for some reason. 😆

thanks for the discourse! ✌️

Another article, another ridiculous Anti-Matter take.

@HotGoomba He's not joking. I don't think he's capable of joking.

We will always have the Mario Hoops theme song.

@-wc- You forgot "Ravioli"

@Anti-Matter, we get it. You don't like Mario games or Charles. Why are you so compelled to blow up every article about him if you don't like him?

The fact I won't hear Martinet's voice coming from Mario anymore will be as difficult to accept as not hearing Carlos Iñigo's voice (the Latin American dub actor of Rocko in Rocko's Modern Life, who sadly passed away in 2017) in Static Cling.

Makes you want to know what was his last game he actually recorded for. As I’m sure Nintendo must use voice samples for the bulk of the animations and only record new for in game story footage etc.

Who actually watched that Wario Ware trailer and thought that "excellent" that wario said was done by charles. It does not even sound close or like Wario at all lmfao. I understand Super Mario Bros Wonder cuz even I thought it was charles in that game though even though its not.

But seriously I think Wario is going to be the charector that suffers the most. Most people can do a somewhat decent Mario voice but Wario it seems like only charles can do.

I know we only heard one line by the new Wario voice actor but man he sounds horrible lmfao.

After hearing him in WarioWare Gold, it was clear that doing the Wario voice consistently is quite difficult.