Greg Cipes In Early Stages of Parkinson's Disease
 

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Greg Cipes, voice of Mikey in the 2012 TMNT series, has revealed that he is now in the early stages of Parkinson' disease.

Best wishes to him, and his friends, family, and fans.

That sucks.

I remember him from interviews around the era of the show and always sort of perceived him as being much younger than me. Hard to wrap your head around that, but that's purely me - I had a great Uncle who had Parkinson's and I just associate it with "aging", even though I guess it's not true.

Oh, no. Poor guy. May God be with him.

Shame, I love his Mikey and Beast Boy voice on Teen Titans.

Oof and only 45, what a terrible thing to find out. Hope maybe there have been advances in it over the years that might at least help slow it and let him enjoy middle age reasonably okay?

Damn, this sucks to hear. Greg is the man, I hope he fights this as long as he can.

Warner Bros reportedly fired Greg from Teen Titans Go! shortly before he went public with this. Sources have also said he was manipulated into accepting a demotion on the show, stepping back from Beast Boy and voicing a different character who will appear in the upcoming tenth season.

https://deadline.com/2025/09/teen-ti...is-1236511063/

Yeah, the claims from Cipes seemed dubious right away to me. "They're firing me because of Parkinson's! Right after I announced it!" Except they didn't? And why would they fire him for having Parkinson's? It'd have to be other reasons we aren't privy to.

He might've told the showrunners about his problem before he made it widely "public". Additionally, it's possible that his condition was interfering with his ability to deliver lines or to show up or some other factor.

I agree with you there in spirit, but the "before" or "after" distinction isn't entirely reliable.

Maybe his attitude took an absolute nosedive after his diagnosis. Started showing up to deliver lines but was sullen and arguing with people, then had to explain the Parkinson's thing to the showrunners who said "we are super sorry but no one can work with you in your current state of attitude". He says "f you" and he's fired.

I'm not saying that's true, but just illustrating the possibilities.

I just can't imagine a company as large as WB firing someone for having Parkinson's. That's obviously opening themselves up for a huge lawsuit.

But it DOES sound like a nice shield to suddenly shoot up if you know you're getting canned, if you've got that in your ammo pouch.

He was fired over performance issues as Beast Buy, WB tried to create another character for him to work with.

I heard the real reason was Greg was posting all sorts of anti-vax stuff on his socials. And you know what most of these left-leaning companies do to people with the wrong opinion....

If I didn't know the context, I'd be confused if you meant to write Beast Boy, Best Buy or the name of a pet store.

Right, that's sort of what I was getting at. They aren't going to fire him "for having" Parkinson's.

Which leaves that either his Parkinson's somehow made voicing Beast Boy difficult for him. OR any other number of reasons.

Either way hopefully he can continue to work in his field. Honestly, I would love to be a voice actor that got regular work. I think it'd be great.

I mean, it sucks. But if you're a voice actor and you can't really do the voice thing anymore... what are you going to do? Similarly, if you're a court stenographer and one day you go deaf. Probably you can't do court stenography anymore, but maybe you can sort some files in the back room or something. It's certainly nobody's fault at the court.

Um... I just said the actual reason was his social media posts....

Yeah I think there's something missing from the story from both ends. It might be he might've demanded more money or wanted to do less I don't know. I don't think WB is particularly clean on this either.
I mean it's a shame to lose him and Teen Titans Go makes buckets of money for WB for them to get rid of him, if we see marge struggling to keep Marge's voice why can't he stay instead of a replacement?

If we ever get a movie of 2012 I'd want Greg Cipes in the role.

That may be closer to the truth.

Teen Titans Go is still making new eps? Really weird they won't just end it now if Greg Cripes can't play Beast Boy anymore.