Fake Shemp / Video Games

• Kingdom Hearts:
  • In Kingdom Hearts II, James Earl Jones and Jonathan Taylor Thomas are credited for reprising their roles as Mufasa and young Simba in The Lion King (1994). In reality, it's done entirely through archived sound, as they don't say any lines they didn't have in the film. Thomas' case works well as the audio recycling was done only for a flashback adult Simba has of Mufasa's death—his only line is the Big "NO!", by the way.
  • Zig-zagged in Kingdom Hearts Final Mix. Because this version of the game, initially a Japan-only exclusive, uses the English voice acting, the cutscene before the fight with the Superboss Unknown has archived audio for Sora and Goofy, with shaking text for the Unknown. This still holds true for the HD collection release in the West, in spite of the fact that the Unknown's true identity has new recorded English dialogue for the Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days portion of the collection. The rest of the cutscenes added for this release, while they feature characters speaking, have no voices at all -– the dialogue is conveyed through the subtitles.
  • Averted for later rereleases: The new cutscenes in Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix don't have voices in the English track, but do when played with the Japanese track in Theater Mode ^note although the newly-added Boss Battle with Roxas does use stock audio for his battle grunts — and the Secret Episode of Birth by Sleep Final Mix uses Japanese voice acting by default.
    • And now the cutscenes added in KHIIFM have had English dialogue recorded for them in the HD ReMIX collections, with one exception — a cutscene featuring the character of DiZ uses archived audio of his original voice actor Christopher Lee.
  • In Kingdom Hearts III, the child actresses who played young Rapunzel in Tangled, and young Anna (speaking and singing) and Elsa in Frozen (2013) are similarly credited as reprising their roles, as they appear only in flashbacks to the A Minor Kidroduction scenes from their films. More impressively, Boo from Monsters, Inc. actually manages to be present throughout that film's entire segment of the game, voiced entirely by archived recordings of her original voice, Mary Gibbs.
• Bill in the Left 4 Dead DLC campaign "Crash Course" counts. His voice actor was unavailable for almost a year, so the only lines he has are his generic stock lines. Valve then decided it would be easier to just kill the character off in "The Passing". He did, however, return in time to record new lines for "The Sacrifice."
• In Street Fighter: The Movie, the late Raúl Juliá is credited as M. Bison, the character he played in the film. In reality, Juliá's likeness only appears in the arcade attract mode (using recycled footage from the movie) and character select screen, as he was far too ill at the time to do any stunt filming for the game. The character's actual in-game animations were performed by Darko Tuscan, Juliá's stunt double, with Bison's trademark Commissar Cap used to partially obscure his face.
• Team Fortress 2:
  • On a similar note, the TF2 video "Meet the Spy" uses stock audio for the Engineer, Sniper (who only grunts in this case), and Medic—the last being especially noteworthy for recycling a completely unrelated Dummied Out line and still sounding completely natural. The voice actors technically would have been available, though (especially the Sniper's, who besides Ellen McLain is the closest thing Valve has to a full-time voice actor, and who also recorded new lines for that very update).
  • "Meet the Medic" involved reused clips to a lesser extent. The Demoman's only word ("MEDIC!") is a stock voice clip despite the fact that his voice actor also plays the Heavy, who has plenty of original dialogue in the video. The Scout and Heavy both receive an instance of reused stock phrases mixed in with original dialogue. Interestingly the two words the Spy utters in the video ("Kill me") are original.
  • The video for the Second Annual Saxxy Awards uses almost exclusively recycled and clipped voiceclips. This was due to the event itself being for fan-made videos, who understandably would use recycled voice clips.
  • Grant Goodeve was unavailable to record the Engineer's lines in Expiration Date, so Nolan North was assigned to provide them in a very convincing sound-alike role. Less convincing are the screams and sole line he recorded for the Soldier as he's being tossed by the bread monster.
• They appear to attempt this in Jak 3, as Keira has few lines in the game compared to the previous two. By the next game though they brought her back in for some more full scenes, and she was a main character again by The Lost Frontier.
• Happens a lot with in both Super Robot Wars and SD Gundam G Generation game series with voice actors who recorded lines in older games but died later on (especially with Kaneto Shiozawa, Hirotaka Suzuoki and Daisuke Gōri) since they used archived voices of them in later games.
• Postal 2 had Gary Coleman as a guest star. Gary returned in the Paradise Lost DLC, but since that game was made long after he died, Gary used recycled clips, with all the plot-relevant lines being relayed by his Dragon-in-Chief McWillis.
• Metal Gear:
  • Happened with Meryl in Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance, where she is a boss character in one of the VR missions and she just reuses Olga's lines from her boss fight in the main game. This would have worked out well in the Japanese version, as the two characters were voiced by Kyoko Terase... if not for the fact that the Japanese version of Substance on PS2 only had English voice acting; it wasn't until the later HD Edition that the Japanese got all the bonus Substance content in their native language.
  • A much more traditional comes in Gray Fox's guest appearance in the Japanese version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Due to Kaneto Shiozawa's death in 2000, the developers simply reused archived recordings from the original Metal Gear Solid for his character.
  • In the Japanese version of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Liquid Ocelot is voiced by Banjo Ginga (Liquid Snake's voice) for most of the game until he reverts back to his original personality at the end. His final line in the game is spoken by the deceased Kōji Totani, recycled from the very first Metal Gear Solid.
• The downloadable Guest Fighter Bayonetta in Anarchy Reigns has lines that are purely recycled from her game of origin.
• Related to the above, Sega (the publisher of Anarchy Reigns ^note which was developed by PlatinumGames) does this a lot. For example, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed used recycled audio for almost all characters, except guest characters (Wreck-It Ralph and Danica Patrick) and those who had little-to-no voice acting in their games of origin. And even then, depending on the character, they may still use sound effects from their home games as a form of speech.
• In Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun's expansion Firestorm, Umagon is only seen via grainy CCTV footage, while Tratos' face is shown either partially in shade or obscured by a cloak.
• Sian Blake was the voice actress of Yugiri Mistwalker in Final Fantasy XIV. She was brutally murdered along with her children shortly after the first Heavensward patch. Out of respect for Blake's family, Square Enix did not have the Yugiri character voiced for almost two years. To get around the issue, Yugiri was simply absent for most of the story and any appearances that she did make would be in non-voiced cutscenes. Once the murder case on Blake was settled, the developers hired a new voice actress for the character.
• Persona 5: Following the release of Persona 4, Igor's Japanese voice actor passed away. At first, it seems that the game is going The Other Darrin route. However, the new voice actor sounds a lot different from the old one, which is your first clue that the Igor you're talking to for most of the game isn't the real Igor. He's actually the Greater-Scope Villain in disguise. When the real Igor shows up at the very end of the game, he's voiced by recycled clips from the original actor in the original Japanese version.
• Toy Story 2: All of Buzz's lines in the game are archival recordings of Tim Allen from the first two Toy Story movies
• Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time had the Looney Tunes characters voiced by their 1990s-era voice cast (such as Billy West as Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd and Joe Alaskey as Marvin the Martian, Rocky, and Mugsy), except for Daffy Duck and Pirate Yosemite Sam, whose voices were entirely made up of old recycled voice clips of their original voice actor, Mel Blanc, a full decade after his death in 1989.
• Several voice lines in LEGO Adaptation Games starting with LEGO The Lord of the Rings are lifted from their original movies for cutscenes.
• For LEGO Dimensions, archival audio was used for several characters including Legolas and Gimli, every Doctor before Peter Capaldi, and the four original Ghostbusters.

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