James Avery as Shredder.
 

Isn't it odd that a black man is being the voice of a Japanese character?

Not really. He gave Shredder the voice he needed for that cartoon and thats all that mattered. I mean besides Mako...how many of the Voice actors of Splinter were actually Japanese?

As long as the voice fits, who gives a sh*t about race, skin colour, appearances, etc?

Did you know that Bart Simpson is voiced by a woman? The shock! The horror!

Yeah I mean its not like you ever see who these people are. At least most of the time you don't.

So it doesn't matter about race or gender on characters.

He was even the voice of Fang the giant from the 1986 anime feature "Fist of the North Star".

What the **** is wrong with you?

Inter-racial voice acting (how stupid does that sound?) happens all the time....

I'd like to go off on you, but you're either a racist or just painfully retarded. Either way I'd be wasting my time.

Geeze dude, I don't think he meant any harm. I've actually wondered stuff like this myself. Say for instance when a Japanese character speaks I rate it on a meter of how fake I think the accent sounds. Its just that in the instance of the OT show it really didn't matter in the slightest. And you know what? I for the longest time didn't know that Shredder was voiced by this guy. And when I did, it friggin blew my mind. Uncle Phil as the Shredder? No way!

His question is strange and easy to explain, yes but I don't think you should jump the gun and call him racist or retarded.

No i'm not an ignorant racist, i'm just weirded out that a black man voiced a Japanese character. And i believe race isn't important, like Cree Summer who is a black voice actress is the voice of Dulcy on Sonic SatAM and Penny on Inspector Gadget.

and the weird Elmyra chick from Tiny Tunes

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"Veronica Taylor, I CHOOSE YOU!!!!"

See? well wait. I always knew Ash's VA was female from the start lol

Jaleel White who played Steve Urkel on Family Matters is black and he voices Sonic in all 3 American Sonic cartoons Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Sonic Underground.

Lawl that doesn't count. Sonic is an animal (technically)

Ok one thing I'm confused about, what did this James Avery guy voice the Shredder in?? I honestly don't know.

The old 1980's cartoon

Oh s**t! Just looked him up, I honestly would of never guessed Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince of Bel Air was the Shredder. Wow.

Hahaha thats just how I felt.

Oh my god. You're talking about the OT... it's not like they made Shredder particularly Japanese.

Sure it's an amusing factoid for like one second, but I don't see why you made a thread about it, or why you're "weirded out" by anything.

James Avery didn't do the voice of Shredder in every episode. He consistently had substitute voice actors and he didn't voice Shredder at all in the red sky episodes. I would've loved to see him voice Shredder in Turtles Forever but that didn't happen.

If actors could only play characters of their race, then all Transformers would have the voice of a MAC. It doesn't matter and has nothing to do with race. It is, however, surpising at first that Shredder and Uncle Phil are the same guy. Now that's just fun trivia.

Something that's actually odd is Playmates turned Bebop into a white guy even though he was black in the show. Make of that what you would.

She also voiced May, which makes any love scenario between them really funny. :lol: