Charles Martinet Will Make A Special Guest Appearance At Nintendo Live 2024

Always nice to see Charles doing lovely Charles things. Wonder if he'll be discouraged from doing his Mario voice for fans now he's no longer the officially sanctioned performer? You'd hope not.

Charles Martinet is an absolute legend.

Question : Excited to hear Charles will continue to promote Mario?

Me : Not really.

Question : What do you think of the new voice?

Me : It's okay.

It was'a me, Mario!

I do still wonder how Charles feels about this whole thing, like genuinely and not under PR rules. Maybe we'll find out more at this event! Probably not too much though.

He did always seem to love to meet fans though and that's probably no different.

I find Charles and his voice work incredibly annoying. I really don't understand why so many people think he's brilliant.

I love his Luigi voice the most! I’ll certainly miss hearing it and the other voices in future games. It’s strange that most media headlines act as if he only voices Mario.

@__jamiie Because he’s Mario.

Or…. y’know, was Mario.

This hardly needs stating, but Mario as a character (voice included) is iconic. He’s possibly the oldest still-relevant video game character to even have a voice. Hearing Mario’s gleeful ‘wahoo’s bouncing around Peach’s castle in Super Mario 64 remains a landmark gaming moment for millions of people — one heralding an exciting new era for the medium. The fact he’s been performed by the same guy for a quarter of a century only cements his iconic…ness … iconicity… …the fact he is iconic.

Tell someone to ‘do the Mario voice’ and the’ll know exactly what you mean: ‘do Charles Martinet doing an Italian American plumber’. That’s the voice.

Throw in the fact that Charles had always been very openly passionate about the role and interactive with the fans, and you have all the necessary ingredients for an international treasure.

You don’t have to like something because it’s iconic, but in this case, the fact that it is iconic shouldn’t come as any surprise at all.

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

Charles martinet will always be mahrio. Legend

Nobody Mario’s like Martinet! That being said, another iconic voice (at least to me) is Cooking Mama! What ever happened to her? “Don’t worry, mama will help you!”, and then the girl who does the Kirby voice too… she gets too little recognition… and Kirby deserves more voice work in the games, or even a movie! (Don’t say a Kirby movie would suck) 😂

That's a fancy way to fire someone and leave PR things as smooth as possible.

This is exactly how Japan handles resignations. Reggie also had his share of this bullsh** back then.

That hair though....

@Maxz Just because he's instantly recognisable as the person that does the voice of Mario doesn't make his work good. It's simplistic, childish and annoying and. Technology limited things when he was first introduced in Super Mario 64 but I think Nintendo missed a trick in not developing beyond that. He and Nintendo have been getting away with the same high pitched, stereotypical crap since 1996.

I massively preferred the silent era of Mario.

@__jamiie So yeah I'm glad that this is a really unpopular opinion. I'm so thankful for Martinet's contribution to Mario 😊

@JoeyTS Fair enough. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I just really don't see his 'contribution' to be of any value at all.