@SM Scorx MVC3 was in development for quite a while, and since voice acting is one of the first things done for the game, he probably recorded Spencer before his retirement. I guess now that Kai is out, he decided "oh, what the hey. Might as well make this my grand finale." Travis will probably remain as Cell's voice in the games.

@NCZ
According to his website Dameon's going to be in the Medal of Honor video game sequel, so I guess if it's in L.A. and prelay work he's not retired from voice acting. :p

Cell basically jump started his career so he most likely came back to please fans (and I'm sure he enjoys playing the character). Pay wise the character is in more than 20+ episodes so even though it's only "dubbing money" he stands to gain a profit and therefore was also worthwhile to fly out to Texas instead for just 1 or 2 video games.

He'll still be around when the Dragon Ball Z Project Age 2011 video game gets dubbed (or Raging Blast 3 as some suspect) since I doubt Funimation has finished dubbing all of Kai yet. I believe it's suppose to be released this fall so he'll probably work on that game while also working on the remaining Kai episodes that Cell is in.

@IAMTHEVASTUNIVERSE And wow, just look at the time. Been quite a while, hasn't it? Anyway, Dameon's work in Kai is arguably his best one ever as a VA! You should watch all the new episodes and listen for yourself!

@penguintruth Back when Clarke first voiced Cell for the dub, though, he came closest out of any English voice actor out of capturing Wakamoto's sinister tones. His vocal performance as Cell decayed over the years though, which is why I'm worried about how he's going to sound now.

@Galactic_Cyrus To be fair, Wakamoto was struggling with his return to Cell a bit in Kai, so that might close the gap a little more.

@Galactic_Cyrus

I agree that in the video games for the later years Dameon's voice work wasn't as good.
I'm just guessing here but here's my theory.

Dameon stopped doing voice-work to focus on his film & TV career but Funimation still gets 1 or 2 Dragon Ball Z games every year to dub.

Dubbing as well all know doesn't pay THAT much so it wouldn't have been worth it to fly from L.A. to Texas and not make a profit.

I wouldn't be surprise if a sound clip was sent to him in L.A. (through email) to match. Then he records it himself using the dub clip to match the sound waves (which already match the character's mouth flaps). Then he sends the clips back to Funimation.

This is what Mike McFarland did with Kyle Hebert. Vato Falman had only a few lines in the beginning episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Kyle would end up losing money to fly out just to record a few lines.

So Mike McFarland dubbed Vato Falman's lines himself and sent the sound clip to Kyle Hebert. McFarland's sound clip matched the mouth flaps, so Kyle now just had to dub the lines himself and match the sound waves.


I guess my point is that while the work gets done, the performance is better when you're there in person to work with the voice director.

And I don't think Dameon was there in person for the later years for the video games.

But now that he is there in person I'm pretty sure he'll sound much better.

@Galactic_Cyrus
Not to mention the sound engineers kept screwing up and mismatching the imperfect cell voice with perfect cell and vice versa.

@Jackson_H That makes sense. I heard that Chris Sabat was credited as Cell for some of the games (like Tenkaichi 1). Maybe whoever did the credits didn't know what was going on.

As for each of his forms having the Imperfect voice, it's because in Japanese, each form has the same voice, so they only bothered recording one set of grunts. They recorded the Imperfect grunts for the English version, but it would have been too much effort to alter the files and data in the game, so they left it at that.

Regardless, I'm sure he'll be amazing!

@Jackson_H I'm mainly referring to how Perfect Cell's voice sounded like in games like Infinite Worlds and Burst Limit. Watch the cutscenes and you'll see what I mean. He sounds like Plankton from Spongebob!

@NCZ My copy of "Super Dragon Ball Z" credits Chris Sabat as the voice of Cell in the guide booklet, but credits "Dartanian Nickelback" as Cell in the credits for the actual game itself. It sounded exactly like Clarke, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was Clarke working under an alias. You bring up a good point that Sabat may have done some lines for Cell for Clarke to work off of, and the folks at Atari got confused with the booklet.

@PerfectSe7en I know some people who could, but then again, Dameon is the original, and as it always goes, you just can't beat 'em.

@PurpleWarrior13 Uh...decent? Ayres is a flat-out better Freeza than Linda Young. Linda was great in her early work as the character but her voice stopped suiting the character as she kept on voicing him.

As for Gohan, I think Colleen does a better Kid Gohan than Stephanie Nadoly, who I always thought was better as Kid Goku in Dragonball.

@Galactic_Cyrus I like both Chambers-Young and Ayres in the role, but I always thought the former nailed the acting part of the character. Her voice wasn't always perfect, but it worked overall, especially since Frieza's an alien-like creature, but I do enjoy listening to Chris Ayres. His overall presence in the role really isn't that different from Chambers-Young's. I still feel it's the same character.

As for Gohan, I admit that I liked Stephanie more as Goku, but her Gohan was almost as good, especially for older Gohan. I liked Colleen in the beginning, but now it's gotten to the point where I cringe just listening to every single line she speaks (my little brother laughs and mocks at the voice whenever he hears it). Sure she gets some aspects of the character down, but she doesn't have to sound so fucking ANNOYING! It makes me want to slap that kid! I'm a HUGE Stephanie Nadolny fan, but even at her worst in the part, at least she made the kid seem likeable! Ugh, Colleen's Gohan voice is just plain unbearable, and the main reason why I've been doing my best recently to avoid Kai like the plague!

...with all due respect for Colleen of course! I love most of her work (her Luffy and Rachel are some of my favorite voice acting moments) but her take on "Kid Gokan" was just a little slipup that every voice actor has once in a while.

@NCZ You said it man! I've been watching every episode on Nicktoons this past summer, and I'm just loving his voice! He alone makes the anime one of the best ones there is!