Voice behind Old Navy ads is Shockwave, Gruffi Gummi and more!

It's interesting to see what what cartoon characters were done by the same person. This will be a repeating feature on the spudart blog. Each time a different actor will be featured. This post features Corey Burton who played a wide range of roles, mostly cold evil villians. But there are some suprising roles too.

	The voice behind the Old Navy commericials is also a ruthless cutting villian...
	...Cold, brutal, scientific approach to war. Shockwave, secretly seeks to overthrow Megatron as leader of Decepticons because he believes logic says he would be better. He was the real bad-a55 of the Decepticons.
	Another cold calculating villian, Dr. Blizzard of the Justice League cartoon, even looks like Darth Tyranus. It makes you wonder if Dr. Blizzard is a secret Jedi Knight. Corey Burton on voicing Dr. Blizzard:"It was kind of simmering--kind of Clint Eastwoody--[and] slightly British tinged. I must have had a bit of a whisper to it for the iciness. Actually, the most difficult voices to do are whispering ones--it puts so much stress on your voice to whisper loudly and you dry out your vocal chords.It's amazing how a stage whisper can be the hardest thing you can do to your voice. That and hysterical laughter wasn't asked to audition for Dr. Blizzard. I'm sure they were already sold because of Brainiac--the iciness in his characterization" (courtesy of Comics2Film).
	Another smart, evil villian, The Brainiac from the Justice League.
	Tomax, one of half of the Cobra Twins. Cobra's first boyband--the prettiest terrorists ever. Tomax was the one with the scar, what's a good corporate mercenary without one? Experts in international finance and corporate law, their filecard states: "They chase you with paper, wound you with your own laws and kill you with the money you loaned them." Now that's a toy for ya!
	Ludwig Von Drakeof DuckTales (1987). He just looks freakin crazy like he's gonna whip out some machine that will stomp Denver to a pancake.
	But then Corey Burton also did the voices of two rough-n-tuff good guys. The official tech spec card for the Autobot Brawn reads, "The most macho of All Autobots." There you have it. No Autobot is more hard-core than Brawn. *GROWL*
	It only makes sense to pair up the tenacious Brawn with Gruffi Gummi of the Gummi Bears. Testosterone wrapped up in a cute cuddily bear.
	Burton is also the voice behind Rock 'em Sock 'em robots. Here you move into position and brutally beat your opponent's robot until you knock his block off. How much more gruesome can you get? Pure carnal destruction leads to...
	...the roles that make no sense. Chip? the stupid wimpy human in the Transformers that's always tagging along getting into trouble where the autobots have to bail him out? C'mon. But it only gets worse...
	...Dale of Chip 'N' Dale's Rescue Rangers! WTF. Dale is the total moron of the show who has no clue. Side note: That looks like an Old Navy shirt Dale is wearing there.
	And this just falls into the the "What in the freakin World is this" category. Xiao Fung of Jackie Chan Adventures. That thing is supposed to be the wind demon.

There's a message board on Burton's site and I left a message for him:
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Corey, which was your favorite Transformer role to perform?
Shockwave, Brawn, or Sunstreaker, or Spike?

Shockwave was so bad and evil he could emit ethal beams of energy from anywhere on the electomagnetic spectrum: gamma rays, X-rays, visible light, infrared rays, radio waves, etc. Then you got Brawn, second strongest Autobot, who can lift 190,000 pounds and knock down a small building with one punch. But Sunstreaker loves his sleek styling, and is a very calm, competent, and ruthless war machine. And of course there's Spike, the young human sidekick who could be annoying, but helpful like the time when he was able to knock of Starscream's blaster with a rock.

That was such a range from cold hard core villian to tough hero to egoist to sidekick human. Was there any favorites?

A big fan,
matt
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