Trivia / Xiaolin Showdown

• Acting for Two: Taken as far as it could go since the series was voiced by incredibly well-recognized and prolific voice actors, as all four of the main character's voice actors - Tom Kenny, Jeff Bennett, Tara Strong, and Grey DeLisle - also voice multiple background characters and one-off villains. Even Maurice LaMarche gets in on the action. See the character page for details.
• Actor Allusion: Jennifer Hale playing a cat-like cat burglar.
• All-Star Cast: The show has some of Western Animation's most famous voice acting names in it: Tom Kenny, Jeff Bennett, Tara Strong, Grey DeLisle, Wayne Knight, Danny Cooksey, Maurice LaMarche, Jason Marsden, Jennifer Hale, Kevin Michael Richardson, Susan Silo...
• Cross-Dressing Voices:
  • Tara Strong as Omi. This is played straight for him in most languages. Except Italian, where Omi is played by Davide "Ash" Garbolino, Romanian, where he is voiced by Paul "Ben 10" Zurbău, and Brazilian Portuguese, where he is voiced by Erick "Aang" Bougleux.
  • Jeff Bennett also played Clay's sister, Jesse.
• Fake Nationality: All of the main characters are voiced by white Americans; barring Clay (a white boy from Texas), none of the monks share their voice actors' race or nationality.
  • Kimiko, voiced by Grey Delisle, is Japanese.
  • Raimundo (Tom Kenny) is Brazilian.
  • Omi (Tara Strong) and Master Fung (René Auberjonois and later Maurice Lamarche) are Chinese.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The series wasn't available anywhere for a long time after it aired, leaving fans to rely on TV rips if they wanted to watch the show. Though season 1 received a DVD release, seasons 2 and 3 did not, and it was nearly a decade before season 1 was added to iTunes in HD, with 2 and 3 later following. The effect of this can be seen in compilation videos on YouTube, screenshots on the wiki, and gifs posted on sites like tumblr, that are all low-quality and have the Warner Bros logo in the corner.
• The Other Darrin: During the first season, Master Fung was voiced by René Auberjonois. Then in seasons 2 and 3, he was replaced by Maurice LaMarche.
  • Dojo is voiced by Paul Rugg in the 2006 video game as opposed to Wayne Knight.
• Playing Against Type: Jason Marsden as Chase Young is usually cast as either heroes or at least anti-heroes. Chase is a rare example of him playing a straight-up villain, albeit a Noble Demon.
• Recast as a Regular: Maurice LaMarche guest starred a couple of times in Season 1 as Tubbimura and then took over as Master Fung in Seasons 2 and 3.
• Screwed by the Network: Cartoon Network Australia quietly cancelled showings of Xiaolin Showdown after Season 2 finished airing. Season 3 would not air in the country until 2009, four years later and on the channel Boomerang as well, meaning that Australian fans were left for that entire time thinking the show ended with Omi trapped working on the side of evil.
• Shout-Out: Hannibal Roy Bean is thought to be named after Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lambs, with him as a bean being a reference to a line in the book about Hannibal eating a man's liver with some fava beans.
  • "Roy Bean" is additionally the name of an (in)famous Texas judge from the Old West, thus the Southern accent.
  • In Venezuela, Omi and Wuya share a voice.

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