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*''[[Mario Golf: World Tour]]'' – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi / [[Gold Mario]] | *''[[Mario Golf: World Tour]]'' – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi / [[Gold Mario]] | ||
*''[[Mario Kart 8]]'' – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi / Baby Mario / Baby Luigi / Metal Mario | *''[[Mario Kart 8]]'' – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi / Baby Mario / Baby Luigi / Metal Mario | ||
*''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U]]'' | *''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U]]'' as Mario / Luigi / Waluigi | ||
*''[[Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Wii U)]]'' | *''[[Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Wii U)]]'' as Mini Mario / [[Mini Luigi]] | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== |
Revision as of 11:49, September 7, 2014
- “Ah, that Charles Martinet. Nice Italian boy.”
- —Mario, Mario vs. Donkey Kong
Charles Martinet (last name pronounced mar-tin-AY), born September 17, 1955 in San Jose, California, United States, is the prominent voice actor of the Mario games. He voices several major characters, including Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Baby Wario, Metal Mario, Toadsworth, and many other characters. He also voiced Petey Piranha before the role was taken up by Takashi Nagasako as of Mario Superstar Baseball. Martinet portrayed the male bosses in Super Mario Advance as well. Martinet plays the vast majority of the male characters in the Mario series. The Internet Movie Database attributes over seventy works to Martinet in total. Martinet speaks fluent French and Spanish, but, ironically, only a little Italian. His first voice over work at Nintendo was voicing the announcers, boxers and the referee in Super Punch-Out!! for the SNES.
Martinet originally wasn't invited to audition for the role of Mario. He crashed the auditions, and was asked to do an Italian accent. His recordings left so much of an impression that they were the only one sent to Nintendo.[1] A former Shakespearean actor, Martinet has stated that Mario's voice was based on his voice for Gremio, a character from The Taming of the Shrew.[2]
Martinet first officially voiced Mario with Mario in Real Time in 1994, when he had motion sensors hooked to his face, which transposed his facial movements to a computer-generated Mario head on a screen. Martinet watched people passing by the screen through a surveillance camera and talked to them as Mario. This is used rather often by Nintendo when attending trade shows. An altered form of Mario in Real Time appeared in 1995's Mario's FUNdamentals, with Martinet's voice, though most consider Mario's voice debut to be Super Mario 64 in 1996.
Portrayals
- Mario's Game Gallery as Mario
- Super Mario 64 as Mario
- Mario Kart 64 as Mario / Donkey Kong / Luigi (English) / Wario (English)
- Mario Teaches Typing 2 as Mario
- Mario's FUNdamentals as Mario
- Mario Party as Mario / Donkey Kong
- Super Smash Bros. as Mario / Donkey Kong / Luigi
- Mario Golf as Mario / Luigi / Baby Mario / Wario / Donkey Kong / Metal Mario
- Mario Party 2 as Mario / Donkey Kong
- Mario Tennis as Mario / Luigi / Baby Mario / Donkey Kong / Donkey Kong Jr. / Wario / Waluigi
- Mario Party 3 as Mario / Luigi / Wario / Donkey Kong / Waluigi
- Super Mario Advance as Mario / Luigi / Clawgrip / Tryclyde / Mouser / Fryguy / Wart
- Dr. Mario 64 as Dr. Mario / Wario / Metal Mario
- Mario Kart: Super Circuit as Mario / Donkey Kong
- Wario Land 4 as Wario
- Luigi's Mansion as Luigi / Mario
- Super Smash Bros. Melee as Mario / Donkey Kong / Luigi / Dr. Mario
- Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 as Mario / Luigi
- Super Mario Sunshine as Mario / Toadsworth
- Mario Party 4 as Mario / Luigi / Wario / Donkey Kong / Waluigi
- WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! as Wario
- Wario World as Wario
- Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 as Mario / Luigi
- Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour as Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi / Shadow Mario / Petey Piranha
- WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$! as Mario
- Mario Kart: Double Dash!! as Mario / Luigi / Baby Mario / Baby Luigi / Wario / Waluigi / Petey Piranha
- Mario Party 5 as Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi / Donkey Kong
- Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga as Mario / Luigi
- Mario Golf: Advance Tour as Mario / Luigi / Waluigi / Wario
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong as Mario / Mini Mario / Donkey Kong (shares role with Kevin Bayliss & Grant Kirkhope)
- Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door as Mario
- Mario Pinball Land as Mario
- WarioWare: Twisted! as Wario / Wario-Man
- Mario Power Tennis as Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi
- Mario Party 6 as Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi / Donkey Kong
- Super Mario 64 DS as Mario / Luigi / Wario
- WarioWare: Touched! as Wario
- Yoshi Touch & Go as Baby Mario
- Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix as Mario / Luigi
- Mario Superstar Baseball as Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi / Baby Mario / Baby Luigi / Toadsworth
- Mario Tennis: Power Tour as Mario / Luigi / Waluigi
- Mario Kart Arcade GP as Mario / Luigi / Wario / Robo Mario
- Super Princess Peach as Mario / Luigi
- Mario Party 7 as Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi / Donkey Kong
- Mario Kart DS as Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi
- Super Mario Strikers as Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi
- Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time as Mario / Luigi / Baby Mario / Baby Luigi
- New Super Mario Bros. as Mario / Luigi
- Mario Hoops 3-on-3 as Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis as Mario / Mini Mario
- Yoshi's Island DS as Baby Mario / Baby Wario
- WarioWare: Smooth Moves as Wario
- Wario: Master of Disguise as Wario
- Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 as Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi / Robo Mario
- Super Paper Mario as Mario / Luigi
- Mario Strikers Charged as Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi
- Mario Party 8 as Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi
- Super Mario Galaxy – Mario / Luigi
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi
- Mario Party DS – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl – Mario / Donkey Kong / Luigi / Wario / Diddy Kong / Waluigi
- Mario Kart Wii – Mario / Luigi / Baby Mario / Baby Luigi / Wario / Waluigi
- Mario Super Sluggers – Mario / Luigi / Baby Mario / Baby Luigi / Wario / Waluigi / Toadsworth
- Wario Land: Shake It! – Wario
- WarioWare: Snapped! – Wario
- Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story – Mario / Luigi
- WarioWare: D.I.Y. – Wario
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! – Mario / Mini Mario
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii – Mario / Luigi
- Super Mario Galaxy 2 – Mario / Luigi
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem – Mario / Mini Mario
- Mario Sports Mix – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi
- Super Mario 3D Land – Mario / Luigi
- Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi
- Fortune Street – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi
- Mario Kart 7 – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Metal Mario
- Mario Party 9 – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi
- Mario Tennis Open – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi / Baby Mario / Metal Mario
- New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Mario / Luigi
- New Super Mario Bros. U – Mario / Luigi
- Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon – Luigi / Mario
- Game & Wario – Wario
- Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move – Mario / Mini Mario
- New Super Luigi U – Luigi
- Mario & Luigi: Dream Team – Mario / Luigi
- Mario Kart Arcade GP DX – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi
- Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi
- Mario Party: Island Tour – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi
- Super Mario 3D World – Mario / Luigi
- Yoshi's New Island – Baby Mario
- Mario Golf: World Tour – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi / Gold Mario
- Mario Kart 8 – Mario / Luigi / Wario / Waluigi / Baby Mario / Baby Luigi / Metal Mario
- Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U as Mario / Luigi / Waluigi
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Wii U) as Mini Mario / Mini Luigi
Trivia
- According to an interview in 2009, Charles Martinet told Shigeru Miyamoto that he wanted to voice Link in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, though Miyamoto told him that Link would remain without a voice.[3]
- Charles Martinet's favorite Mario game is New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
References
External links
- Official site
- Voice Over
- Martinet in Action
- Martinet's Interview
- Wikipedia Page
- Facebook Page
- Instagram Page
- Charles Martinet's profile on Vine