JB Blanc

Happy Birthday JB Blanc!

My top 10 *UPDATED* favourite roles from him are:

1.) Bane (Batman: Arkham Origins/Batman: The Enemy Within)
2.) Roberto (Monster)
3.) Enrico Maxwell (Hellsing Ultimate)
4.) Zinyak (Saint Rows IV)
5.) Saxton Hale (Team Fortress 2)
6.) Wrecker (The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes)
7.) Heimdall (The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes)
8.) Alfred (Beware The Batman)
9.) Alberto Vist (Gundam Unicorn)
10.) The Other (Lego Marvel Avengers)

I'm really glad last year JB Blanc got to become the official voice of Saxton Hale in Team Fortress 2's Jungle Inferno update. From the moment I heard his voice I knew it was JB, and when Blanc had confirmed he was indeed Saxton Hale's VA that was pretty exciting. He absolutely nailed the part and was exactly how I imagined Hale sounding. So spot on, people on different websites thought they got DuroxTheShredder back for the role. I'm pretty glad that a VA that JB Blanc got to be like Nolan North and Ashly Burch and became a part of the series even long after the original game came out, around the 10th anniversary in fact.

I'm also glad that JB Blanc got to reprise Bane again for the Telltale Batman series, he continues to prove he is the definite Bane VA.

Also cool he got to voice Abnegazar and Merlin in Justice League: Dark.

Happy Birthday JB Blanc, the VA that just continues to get better and better with age.

@DisneyAnimefan1995 Though it would be nice if he continued with anime dubs. I'm not sure if those recent Street Fighter dub roles were credited, but he mentioned on a podcast that he started out through anime dubs, & it isn't like SF dubs pay THAT much more than anime dubs, & they're also non-union.


Granted, he's pointed out on The Voice Behind that he's union, tho he didn't specify exact status, & I won't further discuss that.

But it would be nice if he was in the occasional dub, like Steve Blum, Crispin Freeman, Liam O'Brien, Yuri Lowenthal, Kari Wahlgren, etc.

If he maybe didn't have the current wherewithal to be union-only...it'd be nice if he did non-union dubs as well - after all, it's not like dubbing companies aren't TRYING to unionize their work, they just lack a lot of the resources.

@huzaifa_ahmed For what it's worth, he pops up in a couple non-union projects occasionally. He reprised Dojima in late 2014 in P4AU.

It might just be limited to reprisals and not actively searching out new roles.

JB is starting to make bank as a voice director on big-name games too. Mafia III, Shadow of Mordor, XCOM 2, Lego Dimensions, and things like that. And I think he's had some good-sized live-action roles like Breaking Bad and War Dogs. The dude is basically going places.

@Troodon2 Not sure where all those guys on your list come from. He sounds mostly like DiMaggio & Cummings.

Somewhat lighter than Fred Tatasciore, & a lot smoother than Steven Blum.

Though I think my favourite role of his has to be Roberto in Monster.

He is absolutely wicked in that role. Quite possibly one of the most villainous characters he's played in his career.

He was also great as Lynchman, Atsuro Masaki, Alberto Vist, Batroc The Leaper, Mangog and Titus.

Happy Birthday JB Blanc!

@Troodon2 Heimdall and Wrecker.

@Troodon2 Oops wrong Avengers show. Sorry about that.

@Polyester Funk I think it was Bullseye and Crusher.

@Troodon2 So far he's only had one role in AA, as Mangog.

Unless you're thinking of Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Either way, all of his credited characters from both shows are on here.

@Aussieroth Enrico Maxwell, Hiruko, Bane, Zinyak good collections of baddies right there and most of them are bad to the bone; who can blame you?