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So I was browsing the Behind the Voice Actors forums the other day, and I stumbled across an interesting thread. Someone was claiming that Charles Martinet was in fact not the voice of Toadsworth and several other Super Mario Sunshine characters attributed to him, but that Scott Burns was. But what especially caught my interest is that the poster actually had emails they had with Scott Burns to share as proof (reposted with permission):
https://imgur.com/gallery/OlmNqrQ
https://imgur.com/gallery/s1AnnCt
So yeah. According to Scott Burns, at least, he was the voice of Toadsworth and the male Piantas (both the generic ones and the Pianta judge, the Pianta prosecutor and the Isle Delfino Police). He also says he voiced the male Nokis, the Raccoon you exchange your Blue Coins with and is "pretty sure" he did the voice for Il Piantissimo too, albeit sped up.
Now Toadsworth I'm inclined to believe because I don't think Charles Martinet actually said anything about voicing Toadsworth and it was just a fan assumption that never went challenged.
The (generic) male Piantas are a bit trickier though, since Martinet does a very Pianta-like voice in this clip (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/15509006?t=55m35s) although he doesn't explicitly say it was him in the game. Maybe Martinet's voice was used for some male Piantas and Burns' was used for others? At any rate, he was definitely at the very least the Isle Delfino commercial from the intro in addition to Mario, since he confirmed that in the clip.
Anyway, what do you guys all think of this?
https://imgur.com/gallery/OlmNqrQ
https://imgur.com/gallery/s1AnnCt
So yeah. According to Scott Burns, at least, he was the voice of Toadsworth and the male Piantas (both the generic ones and the Pianta judge, the Pianta prosecutor and the Isle Delfino Police). He also says he voiced the male Nokis, the Raccoon you exchange your Blue Coins with and is "pretty sure" he did the voice for Il Piantissimo too, albeit sped up.
Now Toadsworth I'm inclined to believe because I don't think Charles Martinet actually said anything about voicing Toadsworth and it was just a fan assumption that never went challenged.
The (generic) male Piantas are a bit trickier though, since Martinet does a very Pianta-like voice in this clip (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/15509006?t=55m35s) although he doesn't explicitly say it was him in the game. Maybe Martinet's voice was used for some male Piantas and Burns' was used for others? At any rate, he was definitely at the very least the Isle Delfino commercial from the intro in addition to Mario, since he confirmed that in the clip.
Anyway, what do you guys all think of this?