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"Like the other voices in the game, the Samus recordings were all handled by Nintendo. [...] Looking at the filenames from my ProTools sessions, the actress in question does have the initials "JH". Could it be Jennifer Hale…? While I can't confirm with utter certainty, I can say with 90% certainty that it probably is. However, to add to the mystery, I used a different actress for the death scream as I wanted a voice with a higher register for the game over screen. An actress with the initials of "VM". Maybe the internet sleuths can figure this one out."
—Metroid Prime audio lead Clark Wen on the voice(s) of Samus Arannote
This item provides examples of two or more actors playing the same character within the same work.
Sometimes this is because the character does something that's supposed to change their voice in-universe (like using a voice modulator, changing form, being a Voice Changeling that is able to perfectly mimic another character's voice). Other times this is simply a practical matter, such as the usual voice actor not being able to say a line in a particular way, fluently speak a foreign language, becoming unavailable to record any more lines due to business or, in more severe cases, the original voice actor dying before they could complete all of their lines and having to hire another voice actor to do the rest.
In older movies, this would also happen with live-action works dubbed in other languages, where one character would have two voice actors to fill all their lines. This was mostly done when the character only had two scenes that were far apart from each other, making it more difficult to tell that their voice had slightly changed. Due to higher quality control with dubbing and the importance in vocal consistency with live-action characters, you'll never see this happen in the present day, and studios will only hire voice actors that will be able to fulfill all of their role.
Related to The Other Darrin but this applies to characters whose speaking voice is different in the same work rather than in between movies or episodes. Also related to Cast as a Mask, where a character's disguise or alter ego has a different voice actor. This is the inverse of Acting for Two.
Super-Trope to Non-Singing Voice, Non-Dubbed Grunts, and Time-Shifted Actor.
Contrast Multiple Languages, Same Voice Actor.
Not to be confused with Voice of the Legion, where one character speaks with two or more voices in unison to indicate they are a Hive Mind.
Examples:
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Advertising
- In the A Sneak Peek at Pokémon promotional VHS, Dexter the Pokédex is voiced by normal actor Nicholas James Tate up until the Nintendo Power segment, at which point Ted Lewis suddenly takes over for the remainder.
- Maxwell the Pig from the GEICO commercials has two separate voice actors, when he's saying "whee!" it's provided by a woman and his speaking voice is done by a man, widely believed to be Jonathan Maxwell.
Anime & Manga
- In Bleach, in pretty much every dub Yoruichi is voiced by a male actor while in cat form, and by a female in human form, in order to set up The Reveal of her true gender.
- Digimon:
- While the Japanese version typically kept the same voice actor for all of each Digimon’s forms, the English dubs of Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02 would often have different actors voicing the different forms. Out of the twelve partner Digimon between the two series, the only ones to keep the same actors for every form were Gabumon and Gatomon. Later series would generally follow the Japanese version in having one actor for all the forms, with occasional exceptions.
- Digimon Adventure 02: Though DNA Digivolution was technically introduced in Digimon: The Movie with Omnimon, it became more prominent with Paildramon, Silphymon, and Shakkoumon, and all three's voices are the ones of their component Digimon speaking simultaneously, a trend continued with the biomerged forms in Digimon Tamers. In fact, Imperialdramon even uses the plural first-person pronoun "we" when introducing himself (before the Digimon Analyzer segment, where he uses "I" while alternating both voices).
Imperialdramon: So, guys, be honest. How do we look?- In the English dub of Digimon Data Squad, Yggdrasil had three voice actors, Mona Marshall in its 2-9000WZ form, Jonathan David Cook in its 7D6 form, and Mari Devon as its Core form. (The original simply had one voice for all three forms.)
- In the Dragon Ball series, fusions are voiced by the voices of their constituents talking in unison (for example, Gogeta is voiced by both Sean Schemmel and Chris Sabat). This is true of both the Japanese and English dubs, and most other international dubs as well.
- In Mob Psycho 100, the leader of the 7th Division of Claw is voiced by two actors, one of which is female, while the other one is male. Lampshaded by one of the characters who says that he actually thought that Ishiguro was a girl, and justified, due to the voice distortion Ishiguro's mask creates.
- In the English dub of Naruto, the two halves of Zetsu are voiced by different actors. (In the original Japanese he only has one for both.)
- Done by necessity in Discotek Media's release of Ninja Senshi Tobikage; they did the best they could to find the old English dub, but despite their best efforts, a few seconds were still missing. They made up for that part of the dub by dubbing those scenes themselves, using voice actors who imitated the originals as best they could.
- In Ōkami-san's anime adaptation, Liszt is usually voiced by Hirofumi Nojima but switches to Satomi Sato when in disguise as "the Mysterious Beauty".
- Since the very premise of Ranma ½ is Ranma changing between male and female all the time, there have been different voice actors for each gender in every anime version and dub.note
- Similar to the one above, in the English dub of Rosario + Vampire, Moka is voiced by two voice actresses based on her Split Personality (Alexis Tipton for Outer Moka and Colleen Clinkenbeard for Inner Moka). Both sides are voiced by the same VA in the original Japanese.
Asian Animation
- Stitch & Ai: In the English version, Meiying was voiced primarily by Cherami Leigh in most episodes, but was voiced by Xanthe Huynh in the seventh episode "Dragon Parade". However, the show used the same English end credits for all episodes, which led to both Leigh and Huynh being credited as the character for every episode, even the ones where the character did not appear at all.
Fan Works
- Five Nights at Chuck E. Cheese’s: In-game, Chuck E. Cheese is voiced by Munjobee, but the Extras menu uses an actual Pizza Time Theatre showtape, specifically the Madame Oink showtape from 1978, where he is voiced by John Widelock.
- Friday Night Funkin' - Childhood Memories: In the tutorial, Face is voiced by BEC Enterprises. However, in the cancelled song "Friendly Battle", his chromatics are sampled from his original voice actor, Chris Phillips.
- In Scootertrix the Abridged:
- Cris Galvez normally provides the voice of Princess Luna, but Luna's evil alter ego Nightmare Moon is voiced by head writer Jack Getschman.
- Trixie has the power to change her voice at will, so her main voice is provided by James Gonzolez (in the first half of the series) and Greg Hoffman (in the second half), while she briefly switches to alternate voices by Jacob Goodey, Vic Bell, and Jack Getschman.
Films — Animation
- The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad: Ichabod Crane's singing and voiceover thoughts are provided by Bing Crosby, but his scream when a tree branch catches on his pants and his hysterical laughter in the cemetery scene are provided by Pinto Colvig.
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire: Jim Varney died while recording dialogue for Cookie, so Steven Barr voiced him in the scene near the end where he says goodbye to Milo.
- Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker: Young Tim Drake was voiced by Matthew Valencia as usual, but after his horrific transformation into "Joker Junior", he doesn't speak and only laughs. Said laughs were provided by casting director Andrea Romano, presumably because Valencia couldn't pull it off.
- Brave, for some reason, features both Sally Kinghorn and Eilidh Fraser as Maudie.
- Brother Bear has the elderly Denahi as the narrator in the prologue voiced by Oscar Kawagley, with Harold Gould translating what Denahi was saying as he begins to narrate the movie's plot as a simultaneous voice over.
- The Croods: A New Age: Gran is still primarily voiced by Cloris Leachman, but some of her lines are done by Artemis Pebdani, who would fully voice the character in The Croods: Family Tree.
- Fantasia: Some releases that use the extended introductions by Deems Taylor have sections of dialogue redubbed by Corey Burton, due to said sections not having the original audio available at the time of those releases.
- Fun and Fancy Free: For Mickey and the Beanstalk, Walt Disney recorded dialogue for Mickey when it was in production prior to the project being put on hold due to World War II. When production resumed after the war, sound effects wizard Jimmy MacDonald, who had become Mickey's voice by then, finished the mouse's lines.
- In A Goofy Movie, during the scene where Goofy takes pictures of a toddler girl, most of her lines were done by Brittany Alyse Smith, an actual little girl. However, during the part where Pete takes the stuffed deer away from her, her crying and begging him to give it back were done by Elizabeth Daily, presumably because Smith couldn't cry convincingly.
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney): Laverne, the female gargoyle, is primarily voiced by actress Mary Wickes throughout the film. Wickes passed away from surgery complications before she could attend her final recording session, so as a result, a few of her lines are instead voiced by Jane Withers. Withers would go on to voice Laverne full-time in the direct-to-video sequel and some video games.
- Jetsons: The Movie:
- After Janet Waldo, the normal voice of Judy Jetson, recorded all her dialogue for the film, Executive Meddling had pop singer Tiffany, who was to be just Judy's singing voice, be her speaking voice as well and re-record over her lines. Despite that, one of Waldo's lines was kept in, which was most likely an oversight.
- George O'Hanlon and Mel Blanc, the voices of George Jetson and Mr. Spacely respectively, both died during production, so Jeff Bergman filled in for lines they had yet to record.
- Some of Astro's dialogue is done by Frank Welker instead of Don Messick.
- The Lion King (1994): Jeremy Irons sang as Scar through most of the "Be Prepared" number, but after he threw out his voice during recording, Jim Cummings sang the rest of the song for him.
- In Meet the Robinsons, child actor Daniel Hansen recorded all of his lines as Lewis, the film's lead. Then at one point, the script went through some changes and they needed him to re-record some lines. Unfortunately, Hansen's voice had broken and he didn't sound the same. So Jordan Fry was brought on. The result is that both Hansen and Fry voice the character at different points in the film. Luckily, this isn't obvious.
- Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie:
- John Fiedler, the voice of Piglet, died during production, so his current voice, Travis Oates, performed the rest of his dialogue.
- Nikita Hopkins voices Roo in the same film, though his occasional stand-in Jimmy Bennett provides some lines as well.
- In Quest for Camelot, when Bladebeak is a regular rooster, his sounds are done by Frank Welker, but when Ruber fuses him with an axe, his speaking voice is done by Jaleel White.
- In Scared Shrekless, Donkey is voiced by Dean Edwards instead of Eddie Murphy. Despite this, some of Donkey's screams are archived recordings of Murphy.
- SCOOB! had Muttley voiced by his current regular voice actor Billy West, while his laughs use archive audio of the late Don Messick, his original voice actor.
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Snow White is voiced by Adriana Caselotti, but her screams as she runs in terror through the forest were provided by Thelma Hubbard, who also voiced the character (speaking only) in the film's original Spanish dub.
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Bowser is voiced by Jack Black, while some of his grunts and roars use archive audio of Kenny James from the games.
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie: In the trailers, Yoshi is voiced by Donald Glover, though a few archive audio voice clips of Kazumi Totaka from the games can be heard.
- The Sword in the Stone: Wart/Arthur had three different voices: one prepubescent, one with an obvious crack, and one at a post-crack stage. The sudden switches between them can be a bit jarring to say the least.
- Tarzan in the Disney film is voiced by Tony Goldwyn while his signature yell is done by BRIAN BLESSED.
- In TMNT, Mako Iwamatsu, who voiced Splinter, died on July 20, 2006, prompting Greg Baldwin to finish his dialogue.
- Toy Story 2: Jessie is normally voiced by Joan Cusack but her yodel was done by Mary Kay Bergman. Cusack did her own yodeling in Toy Story 3 due to Bergman's suicide a few weeks before Toy Story 2 came out.
- Trolls Band Together: The Kismet Trolls' dialogue is provided by Justin Timberlake (Branch)'s old *NSYNC bandmates (JC Chasez as Hype, Joey Fatone as Ablaze, Chris Kirkpatrick as Trickee, and Lance Bass as Boom) but their whistling when they arrive for the ending concert is an archival recording from Shellback from "Better Place" which they performnote .
- Yellow Submarine: Peter Batten was originally George's voice, but after he was arrested on military desertion charges, Paul Angelis (Ringo, Chief Blue Meanie) replaced him.
Films — Live-Action
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked: Simon is voiced by Matthew Grey Gubler normally, while Alan Tudyk takes over during the time he becomes "Simone" from the spider bite.
- Anger Management: When Nate is screaming, "You gotta dunk that shit!", that's Adam Sandler dubbing over Jonathan Loughran because Loughran was too unintelligible, even when trying to dub it himself in ADR.
- In Equilibrium, John Preston's wife Viviana is arrested for sense offense and taken to the Hall of Justice for judgment. The latter was filmed first with actress Alexa Summer to be used as archival footage. However, when it came time to film her arrest, Alexa was nowhere to be found, so a new actress, Maria Pia Calzone, was cast. So the film has two credits for the same character — Calzone is "Viviana Preston", and Summer is "Preston's Wife". It's not especially noticeable because the archive footage is so low-resolution that her face is too muddy for details.
- Gremlins:
- While Howie Mandel was the voice of Gizmo, his singing was done by an unidentified young woman who was part of the choir.
- Frank Welker did the voice of the gremlin leader Stripe, although a few lines were done by Michael Winslow.
- In the sequel, the Brain gremlin starts out voiced by Frank Welker, but after he drinks the brain serum and gains human intelligence, he's voiced by Tony Randall. His voice switches back to Welker during his death scene, hinting that he's lost his intelligence after being electrocuted.
- Looney Tunes: Back in Action: Bugs Bunny is voiced throughout by Joe Alaskey, but one line ("Doesn't anyone knock anymore?") was read by animation director Eric Goldberg.
- The title character in Lorenzo's Oil is played by Zach O'Malley-Greenberg speaks in the majority of the film. But some of the parts where Lorenzo was crying were voiced over by E.G. Daily.
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: In an interesting use case, in one scene the characters (and the audience) are not meant to know whether a mysterious new figure who has just appeared is someone on their side or one of their enemies. To heighten the ambiguity, Peter Jackson had both Ian McKellen and Christopher Lee record the line, then blended their voices together using digital trickery.
- In M3GAN 2.0, the android/AI M3GAN is voiced by Jenna Davis for most of her screentime and by Fryda Wolff when her AI is transferred in a Moxie toy robot.
- In Mortal Kombat (1995), Kevin Michael Richardson was the voice of Goro, though his roars and growls were done by Frank Welker.
- Space Jam: The Nerdlucks each share two voice actors—one for when they're normal aliens and one after they become the Monstars.
- Star Wars:
- While Darth Vader's voice is provided by James Earl Jones (who dubs over the physical actors), Vader's iconic breathing was recorded by sound designer Ben Burtt breathing through a scuba mask.
- In Revenge of the Sith, General Grievous is voiced by Matthew Wood, but his coughing was done by none other than George Lucas himself, who was legitimately sick at the time. Wood does the coughs himself in Grievous' later appearances and the difference between the two is evident.
- Darth Maul is a character acted by two much like Darth Vader. He is played by Ray Park in The Phantom Menace and Solo: A Star Wars Story, as well as in Star Wars: The Clone Wars via motion capture, but Peter Serafinowicz voiced him in his debut and Sam Witwer provides his voice in both of the latter appearances.
- The European French dub of The Phantom Menace has Georges Claisse voicing Senator Sheev Palpatine and Jean Michaud voicing Palpatine's Sith persona, Darh Sidious.
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?: Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) is able to perfectly imitate her sister Blanche (Joan Crawford) and uses this skill on the phone to keep Blanche captive by impersonating Blanche and undermining her calls for help. Since Davis wasn't able to imitate Crawford in truth, Crawford dubs for moments where Jane copies Blanche's voice.
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit:
- Donald Duck's dialogue is a combination of archived audio of original voice actor Clarence Nash and new lines by current voice actor Tony Anselmo.
- Baby Herman's in-character voice—consisting of babyish coos and babbles—was provided by April Winchell, who also voices his "mother". When he breaks character, his gravelly, adult, fully articulate voice is that of Lou Hirsch.
- In the film's climax, Christopher Lloyd's lines as Judge Doom's true "toon" self with an absurdly high-pitched voice were apparently dubbed over by voice actor Corey Burton, though he's not credited.
Live-Action TV
- In the Doctor Who episode "Before The Flood'', the Fisher King's speaking voice was provided by Peter Serafinowicz, but his roars were done by Corey Taylor.
- In the second season finale of Yonderland, there is a plot involving the Elders finding a tree which has fruit that grants wishes. One of Ho-Tan's wishes is to be a (cisgender) woman, and for the duration she is transformed, the actress Clare Thomson plays her instead of Laurence Rickard, her usual actor. Interestingly, though, her voice doesn't change — they recorded Laurence's lines separately and had Clare lip-sync to them.
- In the Young Sheldon season two finale "A Swedish Science Thing and the Equation for Toast", Debbie Wolowitz from The Big Bang Theory cameos at the end. Her one spoken line ("Howard, turn off that verkakte game and go to sleep!") was a combination of archived audio from the late Carol Ann Susi and new recordings of Pamela Adlon.note
Music
- A particular example happens with Gorillaz with 2-D, having two voices for the character, one for singing (Damon Albarn) and one for speaking (Nelson De Freita until 2017, being replaced by Kevin Bishop).
- The chorus of Sublime's "Doin' Time" was originally recorded by frontman Brad Nowell with the line "Doin' time, and the living's easy", as a cheeky parody of George Gershwin's song "Summertime". However, the Gershwin estate wouldn't allow the song to be released unless "doin' time" was replaced with the original's "summertime", and by then Brad Nowell had died of a heroin overdose. The band brought in Brad's friend Michael Happoldt to dub over just the words "doin' time" with "summertime", with a subtle filter effect to mask the fact that it's not Brad.
Puppet Shows
- Muppet Classic Theater: In one scene, Rizzo is voiced by Dave Goelz instead of Steve Whitmire due to the latter performing Kermit in the same scene. While it's the norm for a Muppet performer to sub for another during filming if the other is performing another character, the normal actor would usually dub the correct voice in post-production, but this didn't occur here for some reason.
Theatre
- In Jasper in Deadland, when Jasper's life flashes before his eyes, he sees Agnes appear multiple times, played by multiple actresses, allowing for her to speak in unison and/or sing in harmony with herself.
Theme Parks
- In the original version of Journey into Imagination at Epcot in Walt Disney World, Chuck McCann was not able to record all of his lines as Dreamfinder for some unknown reason. Ron Schneider, who would play the meet-and-greet version of the character for 5 years, wound up filling in for McCann during the last few scenes starting with the Science realm.
Video Games
- Happens by accident in the North American release of Ape Escape: On the Loose. The game was mostly redubbed with new voice actors, but for whatever reason, one cutscene played with the original PS1 audio instead of the new voice acting. As a bonus, the difference in performance is obvious even to someone who never played the original version.
- In Borderlands 2, Gaige has lines performed by both Luci Christian and Cherami Leigh (initially only the former was credited). Leigh's performance was meant to replace Christian's already recorded lines, but they were left in the final game by accident.
- Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc's English dub had Amanda Céline Miller voicing Toko Fukawa, and Erin Fitzgerald voicing Genocide Jack, and they both shared the role of Junko Enoshima.
- Destiny 2: Keith David was cast as Commander Zavala following Lance Reddick's death in 2023. Reddick's lines remain in the game, though, with David voicing Zavala in newer content.
- Devil May Cry: Curiously, this happens both times Dante had an evolved Devil Trigger form.
- Devil May Cry 2: With his DMC1 costume equipped, Dante's voice clips are changed from Matthew Kaminsky to Drew Combs (his voice actor from the first game), but when in his Majin Form, he's still using Matthew's voice clips. While most of them have a demonic pitch which hides this well, he's still clearly using one of Matthew's unpitched voice clips when using the laser beam attack.
- Devil May Cry 5: In the Japanese dub where he's voiced by Toshiyuki Morikawa, having Dante transform in-game into his Sin Devil Trigger form would play a voice clip done by Reuben Langdon in the English dub, albeit at a lower volume compared to what is normally heard when playing in the English dub.
- Eternal Darkness
- The game has an especially eerie example in Xel'Lotath, a Mad God whose insanity manifests in her Split Personality: one imperious and condescending, the other secretive and distrustful. Not only do Kim Mai Guest and Jennifer Hale each voice a different role, they often trade roles, sometimes even in the same scene. Combined with the expected Voice of the Legion, the effect is deeply disorienting for the player.
- It also has a straight example with Dr. Maximillian Roivas; he's voiced within his chapter of the story by Michael Bell (who coincidentally also voices Peter Jacob), and the game's infamous autopsy reports have him voiced by William Hootkins, who gives a delightfully unhinged performance as a man medically examining impossible creatures and the resulting impact on his fragile sanity.
- Final Fantasy XVI: Byron Rosfield is voiced by Stephen Critchlow, who died during recording and was subsequently replaced with Ewan Bailey.
- Fire Emblem Heroes: Bramimond has four voice actors: Wendee Lee, Yuri Lowenthal, Patrick Seitz and Ray Chase in English, and Makiko Ohmoto, Takahiro Sakurai, Kosuke Toriumi and Tatsuhisa Suzuki in Japanese. This as a nod to how he experienced Death of Personality and acts as a mirror of who he's talking to (in this case, mirroring Lyn, Eliwood, Hector, and Alfonse).
- The Toymare from Five Nights at Sonic's, has four different voice actors. Justified as he's a mix of Toy Sonic, Toy Mario, Toy Yoshi, and Taingle.
- The version of Klonoa: Door to Phantomile included in Klonoa: Phantasy Reverie series mostly uses Fujiko Takimoto's recordings as Huepow from the original PS1 version, but uses Akemi Kanda's recordings from the Wii remake for scenes that were originally pre-rendered videos on the PS1 version.
- In the Japanese voice track for Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Dwight Méndez is primarily voiced by Shuhei Matsuda, but his English lines are instead voiced by Maxwell Powers.
- Metroid:
- Metroid Prime: As revealed by audio director Clark Wen
, Nintendo hired various actresses to record grunts for Samus and sent them to Retro with the actresses' initials in the filenames. Most of the grunts he used were from files initialed "JH" (which he believes to be Jennifer Hale), but used a death scream from a file labeled "VM" (who turned out to be Vanessa Marshall). These would be recycled for the next few Prime entries.
- Metroid Dread: Samus's speaking scene was performed by Nikki García, while her enraged battle cry during the final boss was done by Holly Renaut.
- Metroid Prime: As revealed by audio director Clark Wen
- Mortal Kombat:
- Scorpion has been voiced by several different actors over the years, but his iconic "GET OVER HERE!" and "COME HERE!" lines have always been provided by series creator Ed Boon since the very first game.
- Mortal Kombat X: Karen Strassman voices Kitana in intro dialogue, taunts and the story mode, but her battle and pain noises are performed by Grey DeLisle.
- Mortal Kombat 1: Nitara is voiced by (and modeled after) Megan Fox in the story mode and pre-battle interactions, but her gameplay noises are performed by Cristina Valenzuela.
- Mr. Hopp's Playhouse: Esther is voiced by Rachel Alice in the second game while The New Girl short has Jessica Winter filling the role instead. Thus in the third game, they voice her together with each of their specific lines and pain noises as well having their voices synchronized together when threatening the Entity as Ascended Esther.
- Nioh: British sorcerer Edward Kelley speaks to William in English and is voiced by Nicholas Boulton, but whenever he needs to talk to Japanese characters, he uses telepathy, and his mental voice is provided by Hiroyuki Kinoshita.
- In Overwatch, Wrecking Ball is voiced by Dee Bradley Baker (Hammond's voice) and Jonathan Lipow (the mech's voice).
- Persona:
- In the original Persona 4 and preceding Arena game, Kanji Tatsumi and Naoto Shirogane were voiced by Troy Baker and Anna Graves, respectively. In Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Kanji and Naoto had their voice actors changed to Matthew Mercer and Valerie Arem for the dialogue and story mode, while their gameplay battle foley is recycled.
- In the Persona 4 Golden re-release, Margaret has voice lines that are provided by her original actor, Michelle Ann Dunphy, that are also mixed in with re-recorded ones that are widely assumed to be done by Karen Strassman.
- Psychonauts 2: Most of the time, Nikki Rapp does Lili Zanotto's voice. However, a mental construct of Lili in her great-uncle Bob's mind has the voice of Zehra Fazal because he hasn't seen her in person since she was very little and his mind has nothing to go off of for what she's currently like outside of the photos included in the letters her father sends him.
- Ratchet & Clank:
- Angela Cross from Going Commando is the franchise's most straight-forward example, as Kath Soucie was her primary voice while Rodger Bumpass voiced her while she was disguised.
- Ratchet was voiced by Mikey Kelley in the first installment before being replaced by James Arnold Taylor from the sequel Going Commando onwards, but Kelley's grunts and yells for when Ratchet attacks and dies were recycled all the way through to the eighth game, Quest for Booty. Starting from the ninth game, A Crack in Time, Taylor would begin providing his own grunts for the character, although strangely this trope would come back in the immediate follow-up All 4 One where a few of Kelley's recordings were interspersed with Taylor's for unknown reasons.
- In the PlayStation 4 game, both Chairman Drek and his assistant Zed retained their actors — Paul Giamatti and Andrew Cownden respectively — in clips pulled from the film the game is based on, but were replaced with Eric Bauza and Sam Riegel respectively in the game itself. This is a particularly odd example as every other character in the game either retained their film actor entirely (e.g. Cora and Elaris) or had them replaced with soundalikes who overdubbed the film clips (e.g. Victor Von Ion and Brax), and there's been no explanation given as to why Drek and Zed were the only exceptions.
- Return of the Obra Dinn: If you go in chronological order, Leonid Volkov is voiced by Russian-speaker Vadim Proskryakov in Chapter II, before being voiced by English-speaker Brent Mukai for the rest of the game.
- Saints Row IV: Cyrus Temple was voiced by Richard Epcar instead of Tim Thomerson (his actor from Saints Row: The Third) in prologue mission "Zero Saints Thirty". However, he's voiced by Thomerson in "The Girl Who Hates the 50s", Kinzie's loyalty mission, audio logs, and all homie conversations involving him.
- Sonic the Hedgehog:
- Shadow is voiced by David Humphrey in Sonic Adventure 2. However, during the final battle, a few of his lines are voiced by Ryan Drummond, Sonic's voice actor. According to Drummond, this happened because of labor laws with the Screen Actor's Guild. An actor is paid for a full day of work no matter how long they're in the studio. And when they leave the studio, that's considered to be a full day's work. Sega had forgotten to have Humphrey record some of Shadow's lines, but since he had already left, they'd be required to pay him another full day for only a few lines. When Drummond showed up for work later that day, Sega asked him to impersonate Humphrey to save some money.
- Sonic Riders and its sequel has Eggman alternating between Mike Pollock for the cutscenes in the story mode and clips from the late Deem Bristow as a playable character.
- In the Japanese version of Sonic Unleashed (and by extension the Sonic: Night of the Werehog tie-in animated short), Sonic is voiced by Jun'ichi Kanemaru in his regular form, while Tomokazu Seki voices his Werehog form.
- The True Final Boss and Big Bad of Sonic Frontiers is voiced by both Cindy Robinson and Mike Pollock, with their lines being spoken in tandem in a Voice of the Legion-esque way.
- Shadow Generations: Shadow is normally voiced by Kirk Thornton. When he enters the world of the live-action films in the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 DLC, he takes the form of his film counterpart, complete with the voice of Keanu Reeves regardless of language.
- Shadow is voiced by David Humphrey in Sonic Adventure 2. However, during the final battle, a few of his lines are voiced by Ryan Drummond, Sonic's voice actor. According to Drummond
- In Spyro the Dragon (1998), some of the rescued dragons have different voice actors in different scenes.
- Star Wars Battlefront II (2017): Kylo Ren is voiced by Matthew Wood while masked and Roger Craig Smith while unmasked.
- Super Smash Bros.:
- In Super Smash Bros. Melee, Fox and Falco are voiced by their Japanese voice actors (Shinobu Satouchi and Hisao Egawa) during normal gameplay in all languages, but the Easter Egg conversations on Corneria and Venom were dubbed into English using their Star Fox Adventures voice actors (Steve Malpass and Ben Cullum).
- In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Zelda is voiced by Ayumi Fujimura, reprising her role from The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. Her Non-Dubbed Grunts are kept the same in all versions, but her one line of spoken dialogue in the World of Light opening cutscene was dubbed into English by Brandy Kopp.
- Tales of Vesperia has this happen to the main character Yuri in the Definitive Edition for the previously Japanese-only voiced lines from the PS3 version. For lines that were already in the Xbox 360 release, you hear Troy Baker, but for new lines and replaced lines (as to fit the new scenes and new character), you hear Grant George instead.
- Team Fortress 2 has had fan-created game modes added to the game and with them, new voice lines with a soundalike were added to the playable characters along with Grey Mann and Saxton Hale.
- This was a frequent occurrence in the Tekken series after Tekken 5; many characters were recast over the years, especially after the series began using Bilingual Dialogue with characters speaking relevant languages performed by native actors, but since battle grunts from older games kept being reused up through Tekken 7, many characters ended up being voiced by different people between pre-battle intros/cutscenes and in-battle grunts. A more straightforward example can be found with Geese Howard's appearance as a Guest Fighter in Tekken 7; Geese's usual voice actor, Kong Kuwata, provides Geese's classic in-battle lines, while Richard Epcar voices his intro, win quotes, and other lines.
- World of Warcraft:
- Arthas is voiced by Patrick Seitz in flashbacks and the final cinematic, and by Michael McConnohie as the Lich King. When Bolvar Fordring takes the Helm of Damnation, his voice switches from Carlos Larkin to McConnohie.
- McConnohie was replaced as Kel'Thuzad by an unknown actor, but his laughter was left intact.
- In the European French dub of Legion, Vincent Violette replaced Pierre Dourlens (The Burning Crusade) as Illidan Stormrage for the campaign of the entire expansion. And yet, Dourlens came back to voice Illidan for the Legion Assaults world quests, somehow.
- Worms W.M.D has two soundbanks performed by Achievement Hunter and Hat Films. Since they're groups of content creators, both banks have their lines alternate between multiple people: Michael Jones, Gavin Free, Geoff Ramsey, and Jack Patillo for Achievement Hunter; and Chris Trott, Ross Hornby, and Alex Smith for Hat Films.
Web Animation
- The titular protagonist of ENA has a split personality. Most of the time, the cheerful part has a masculine voice (in Season 1 voice actors are constantly changing), while melancholic has a feminine one, provided by Lizzie Freeman. Also in episode "Extinction Party", ENA apparently gets drunk, and her voice gets slower and deeper, which is provided by Sam Meza.
- The RWBY episode "Tea Amidst Terrible Trouble" has Roman Torchwick voiced by both Billy Kametz and Christopher Wehkamp, as Kametz passed away before recording all his lines. This coincidentally ends up working in favor of the scene, as it emphasizes the fact that the Torchwick here is just an illusion.
- The Team Fortress 2 short film Expiration Date has Nolan North subbing in for one of the Soldier's lines ("I teleported breaaaad!") because Rick May, his usual voice actor, had throat cancer and could not yell.
- Arrow from Wolf Song: The Movie is mostly voiced by user Bloodstained Fur, however, his trailer appearance and him in ultimate form are voiced by MagicOfWolf instead (as shown in the credits).
Western Animation
- The Amazing World of Gumball: Sussie's spoken dialogue is performed by one actor (which has changed several times between seasons), but her vocalizations are done by series creator Ben Bocquelet.
- In "The Vision", Alan's narration of his manifest starts with his usual voice done by Hugo Harold-Harrison, but he promptly lowers his pitch and adjusts his accent. After this point, his dictator persona is voiced by Alex Jordan.
- American Dad!: Barry is usually voiced by Eddie Kaye Thomas, but whenever he goes off his antipsychotic medication, he gains a sinister British voice provided by Craig Ferguson.
- The Cleveland Show: Donna's Auntie Momma is actually her Uncle Kevin in drag. The Auntie Momma persona is voiced by Kym Whitley, while Uncle Kevin's real voice is provided by Kevin Michael Richardson.
- Codename: Kids Next Door: For the most part, Father is voiced by Maurice LaMarche in a silky baritone. His Evil Doppelgänger—which is to say, his Good Doppelganger—is a higher-pitched dweeb voiced by Jeff Bennett, Foreshadowing that the Father we've been following sounds the same without his shadow suit on.
- DuckTales (2017):
- In the Season 1 finale "The Shadow War!", Donald Duck, normally voiced by Tony Anselmo, briefly swallows a voice modulator (or rather, gets it forced down his throat by a fed-up Gyro), and is voiced by Don Cheadle while under the effects of it, while in the episode "Louie's Eleven!" Donald in Daisy's Imagine Spot is voiced by series composer Dominic Lewis (albeit uncredited).
- In the Season 2 episode "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!", BOYD was primarily voiced by Nicolas Cantu. Due to Cantu hitting puberty during the episode's production, Noah Baird voiced the remainder of BOYD's lines for the episode, before fully taking over the role in later episodes.
- Inspector Gadget (1983):
- Dr. Claw was ordinarily voiced by Frank Welker and had some episodes where he was voiced by Don Francks instead, but both gave Dr. Claw lines in the episode "Race to the Finish".
- The 1999 direct-to-video Compilation Movie Gadget's Greatest Gadgets had this in effect for Inspector Gadget, Chief Quimby and Penny, as the Framing Device had Maurice LaMarche voice Gadget and Quimby (the former due to Gadget's original voice actor Don Adams retiring at the time and heralding LaMarche becoming Gadget's official voice actor for the direct-to-DVD films Inspector Gadget's Last Case and Inspector Gadget's Biggest Caper Ever as well as the Sequel Series Gadget and the Gadgetinis, the latter being a role reprised from the original cartoon's second season) in addition to Cree Summer reprise her role as Penny, but the credits for voice actors still acknowledged Don Adams, Dan Hennessey (Chief Quimby's voice actor in the original cartoon's first season) and Holly Berger (Penny's voice in the second season) for their work in the episodes that were included in the film.
- Looney Tunes:
- In Porky's Hare Hunt, the proto-Bugs rabbit was voiced by Mel Blanc, but the line "Of course you know, this means war!" was read by director Ben Hardaway.
- In Wideo Wabbit, Bugs' voice switches from Blanc to Daws Butler when doing his imitations of Groucho Marx and Art Carney.
- In What's Opera, Doc?, Elmer's yell of "SMOOOG!" was done by Blanc because his normal voice, Arthur Q. Bryan, couldn't say it powerfully enough.
- Blanc would occasionally do some of Elmer's screams and yells in cartoons where he is otherwise played by Bryan. One such example is Elmer's screams in "The Wacky Wabbit".
- In the 2003 short Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas, Bugs switches between being voiced by Joe Alaskey and Billy West.
- Not a voice instance but still audible: during the production of 1962's "The Jet Cage", music director Milt Franklyn died. The cartoon's score was finished by William Lava.
- In "An Egg Scramble", most of Miss Prissy's lines as well as her clucks and squawks were done by Mel Blanc, but a few of her lines were done by Bea Benaderet such as when she chases after the egg delivery truck.
- In "My Generation G-g-Gap", most of Porky Pig's lines are done by Billy West but his screams of pain when he's getting electrocuted are done by Bob Bergen.
- In the Mickey Mouse short Get a Horse!, the dialogue for Minnie and Pete is comprised of archival recordings of their previous voices, Marcellite Garner and Billy Bletcher, and new lines by Russi Taylor and Will Ryan.
- In Phineas and Ferb, Candace is usually voiced by Ashley Tisdale, but in "Jerk De Soleil", her parsnip allergy-affected voice was done by series co-creator Dan Povenmire.
- Mike, Lu & Og: For a couple of lines in "Roller Madness", Lu was voiced by Kath Soucie instead of Nancy Cartwright.
- The Owl House:
- King is usually voiced by Alex Hirsch, but his squeak of rage in "Once Upon a Swap" was provided by the show's creator, Dana Terrace.
- Eda is voiced by Wendie Malick, though when she turns into a beast, the vocal effects are done by Dee Bradley Baker.
- Vee is introduced pretending to be Luz, so she starts off being voiced by Sarah-Nicole Robles. When she drops the act, she's voiced by Michaela Dietz, even while disguised.
- Emperor Belos is normally voiced by Matthew Rhys. His original identity of Philip Wittebane is voiced by Alex Lawther, both to avoid giving away the twist, and because hundreds of years and a monstrous curse have likely taken their toll on his voice.
- King is usually voiced by Alex Hirsch, but his squeak of rage in "Once Upon a Swap" was provided by the show's creator, Dana Terrace.
- The Ren & Stimpy Show: The episode "A Visit to Anthony" was in pre-production when John Kricfalusi was fired from the show; while he voices Ren for the majority of the episode, a couple of lines were done by Billy West, who became Ren's full-time voice from then on. West had already done a number of Ren's insane laughs, particularly in "Stimpy's Invention", as Kricfalusi was unable to get Ren's laughs to sound convincingly diabolical.
- Animaniacs: Wakko's voice is normally done by Jess Harnell, but his loud belches are done by Maurice LaMarche.
- The Simpsons:
- In "The Last Temptation of Homer", Bart, normally voiced by Nancy Cartwright, gets his throat sprayed and gains a whiny, Jerry Lewis-like voice courtesy of Dan Castellaneta. It's gone by the next scene.
- In "Mother Simpson", Glenn Close voices Mona throughout, but her "D'oh!" at the end was shouted by Pamela Hayden. This was because Hayden did the temp recording for the character and Close couldn't get the "D'oh!" right.
- In "¡The Fall Guy-Yi-Yi!", Bumblebee Man in this episode is voiced by Humberto Vélez, who plays Homer in the show's Latin American Spanish dub. Despite this, some of his dialogue was still provided by his usual actor, Eric Lopez.
- The Simpson's dog Santa's Little Helper is usually voiced by Dan Castellaneta, but in a few episodes where he has a major role, Frank Welker (who specializes in giving non-humans the ability to emote) does it instead.
- Tangled: The Series:
- Reg E. Cathey, who voiced Captain Quaid, died on February 9, 2018. His unfinished dialogue was provided by Keith David.
- Jon Polito voiced the Griffon of Pitford in "Not in the Mood", but died before completing his dialogue, prompting Dee Bradley Baker to step in.
- Zhan Tiri is voiced by Jennifer Veal in her Enchanted Girl form, and by Tara Fitzgerald in her One-Winged Angel form.
- ReBoot: During the episode "Number 7", in which Matrix and AndrAIa enter a game based on Mainframe and Reboot into Megabyte and Hexadecimal, which turns out to be an extended Nightmare Sequence, Paul Dobson and Sharon Alexander continue to voice them, with a few lines from the virus's voices (Tony Jay for three of Matrix's lines and Shirley Millner for about half of AndrAIa's dialogue) spliced in, which only adds to the surreal nature of the episode and it's overall theme Matrix's fears that he's becoming just like Megabyte.
- Woody Woodpecker: Mel Blanc voiced the titular woodpecker in only three cartoons, however the laugh he did and his "Guess who?" line would be continued to be used in cartoons with the former being used until the 1950s and the latter until his final cartoon in 1972.
- For Invincible (2021), Grey DeLisle voices Monster Girl as a human, while Kevin Michael Richardson voices her in monster form.
- Red Hot Riding Hood: The wolf in the cartoon was primarily voiced by Frank Graham, while Kent Rogers voiced him in several scenes.
- The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh had Paul Winchell and Jim Cummings trade the role of Tigger throughout the series. While often only one actor did the role per episode, in a couple early instances such as "Things That Go Piglet in the Night", Cummings would fill in an odd line for Winchell. This was repeated in a few later projects, either due to Cummings providing odd lines or singing parts as Winchell's voice aged, or Winchell being utilised via archival footage.
- The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder: Papi is normally voiced by Alvaro Gutierrez like in the original show, but his Signature Laugh is now done by Kevin Michael Richardson.
- Courage the Cowardly Dog: Eustace was originally voiced by veteran voice actor Lionel Wilson but he left the show midway through production due to illness. Starting with "So in Louvre Are We Two", Eustace is now voiced by Arthur Anderson. Episodes featuring Anderson as Eustace often continue to use archival audio of Wilson's performance, such as his Catchphrase ("Stupid dog!"), groans, screams, laughs, and cries.
- Space Goofs: Gorgious was originally voiced by Michael Sicoly during the first half of Season 1, but midway into production, he's voiced by Danny Mann. There have been a few episodes leading up to this, where Gorgious is mostly performed by Sicoly, but at least one or two lines of dialogue (or exclamations) have him voiced by Mann before the latter took up voicing the character full-time. Examples include "Gnome Alone", "Flora and Feast", and the end of "Sweet Tooth Blues". (However, some of Sicoly's exclamations can be heard in a few episodes that followed, including "We Robot", "2000 Feet Under Home to Rent", "Flashman vs. Zork", and "Toon In, Drop Out".) In fact, in "Flora and Feast", Gorgious has a full line of dialogue with both of his actors voicing him.
Gorgious: (in Mann's voice) Candy, if you're done crying, I'd appreciate it if you'd sashay your little bottom into the kitchen and fix my dinner. (in Sicoly's voice) I'm starving! Was it something I said?
- Similarly, Bud was voiced by Jeff Bennett during Season 1, but in "The Pro", three lines of dialogue have him voiced by Jim Gomez, who would later take over voicing the character full-time in Season 2.
- In Adventure Time, Princess Monster Wife's voices are provided by Hynden Walch, Steve Little and Pendleton Ward, due to having the three mouths of the characters they voice.
- In Teen Titans Go!, one episode has Robin, Beast Boy, and Cyborg doing impressions of various incarnations of The Joker to get inside his lair. While they're usually voiced respectively by Scott Menville, Greg Cipes and Khary Payton, Eric Bauza voices all of them in their impressions.
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The episode "The Lawless" marks Ian Abercrombie's final time voicing Palpatine/Darth Sidious prior to his death. However, Sidious' final lines in the episode ("Do not worry, I'm not going to kill you. I have...other uses for you") were provided by Abercrombie's replacement Tim Curry, and were likely recorded later in production in order to confirm that Maul would survive to return in the future.
- Steven Universe: Dee Bradley Baker provides the voices of the Gem Monsters. When they get uncorrupted, different voice actors are provided to voice their original forms.
- In the Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures episode "In the Realm of the Condor", the native boy's screams and cries are done by Frank Welker, but his speaking lines are done by an actual young boy.
- Tiny Toon Adventures:
- In "Hero Hamton", Porky Pig for most of the episode is voiced by Bob Bergen but his first line was done by Maurice LaMarche with his voice sped up.
- In "New Character Day", Daffy as Duck Twacy in the wraparounds was voiced by Joe Alaskey, but Jeff Bergman voiced him in "The Return of Pluck Twacy".
- In 101 Dalmatians: The Series, Cruella is normally voiced by April Winchell. However one of her lines in the episode "The Fungus Among Us" was done by Tress MacNeille (who voiced her in the episode "Close But No Cigar").
- In several episodes where Debi Mae West voiced Lucky, stock audio (such as yells or grunts) of Pamela Adlon's voice for him was still used.
- In the Recess episode "Teacher's Lounge", an Imagine Spot of Miss Grotke and Principal Prickly boxing each other has Tress MacNeille doing Miss Grotke's grunting noises during the match, while Allyce Beasley performs her normally.
- South Park:
- Kenny is normally voiced by Matt Stone, but when he talks without his hood on, he's almost always voiced by another actor, usually Eric Stough. One exception is when Kenny is in his Mysterion guise, where he's still voiced by Stone using a gravelly voice. One instance in "Mysterion Rises" has Kenny briefly break character and say "What the fuck?" in his "natural" voice provided by Stough before repeating the line in his gruff "Mysterion" voice provided by Stone.
- Loogie from "The Tooth Fairy's Tats 2000" was voiced by guest star Richard Belzer. However, when additional dialogue had to be recorded and Belzer wasn't available, Trey Parker filled in for him.
- Humpty Dumpty from Goldie & Bear is normally voiced by Mitchell Whitfield. In the episode "Don Huevo", where he thinks he's the titular character, his voice is done by Philip Anthony-Rodriguez.
- In Sonic Prime, the main version of Knuckles is voiced by Adam Nurada, but his Shatterspace counterparts are voiced by Vincent Tong.
- The Alice's Wonderland Bakery episode "Alice's First Day in Wonderland" has a brief scene of Fergie getting hiccups. However, due to Jack Stanton going through puberty, and thus sounded a bit too old, his hiccups were instead done by Abigail Estrella, who voices Rosa.
- Firebuds has three examples of this:
- During season 2, as Declan Whaley, the voice of Bo, became less available to record (along with hitting puberty), Courtney Lin did some of his dialogue.
- The episode "The Ice Cream Truck Bandits" has a disguised Wiley Riley use a sweet girl's voice to trick Iris into letting her into the Firebuds' treehouse. The disguised voice is done by Lily Sanfelippo rather than Luna Bella Zamora.
- The episode "Hey Dude" has Nick Fisher do some of Halo's dialogue due to Jack Stanton hitting puberty.
- During season 2, as Declan Whaley, the voice of Bo
- For Antonio Agama's debut in the Elena of Avalor episode "Leaping Lizards", he spends most of his screen time as a lizard, voiced by Dee Bradley Baker. When he turns back to normal, he's voiced by Danny Trejo.
- The late Johnny Hardwick's final performances as Dale Gribble in the 2025 revival of King of the Hill sees his replacement Toby Huss filling in for some lines on the episodes that Hardwick partially recorded before his death.
