MLPFIM Cast Fun Facts!

[Colon Leftbracket 971]

I've been reading up a few things on the cast of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and I was wondering what strange and awesome facts you've found.

I feel the fanbase doesn't speak enough about the cast that made all this possible!

 

I'll start with a list of ones I've found!

 

"cartoons for girls don't have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness"- Lauren Faust

 

Hasbro rejected a character who was to be named "egghead" since it was "treading a very delicate line."

Egghead is best pony!

 

Twilight's Voice Actress Tara Strong has done voices including,

Hello Kitty in Hello Kitty Furry Tale Adventures,

Lemmy "Hip" Koopa and Iggy "Hop" Koopa in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World (the tv shows),

Batgirl in The New Batman Adventures,

Dil Pickles from Rugrats,

Bubbles from Powerpuff Girls,

Timmy Turner, Poof, and Britney Britney from the Failry Odd Parents (I thought Timmy was obvious),

Raven from Teen Titans,

Ember McLain from Danny Phantom,

Terrence from Fosters Home of Imaginary Friends,

Ben Tennyson from Ben 10 (another obvious one),

Paris Hilton in Celebrity Deathmatch (CANNOT UNTHINK!),

Meg Griffin's singing voice in Family Guy (and yet she has Rebecca Schoichet sing for Twilight, but Rebecca does such a great job!),

Truffles from Chowder,

Rikku in Final Fantasy X & X-2 (such an awesome random fact!),

Kaede Smith from Killer7 (NO BUCKING WAY! I LOVE KILLER7!),

Melody Tute in Wii Music (...what?),

Cloe Walsh and Margaret in No More Heroes 2 Desperate Struggle (another Suda51 game me gusta),

Justine from Shadows of the Damned (a lesser known game with the guy in charge of RE4, the guy who did music for Silent Hill, and Suda51... it was really watered down and a big disappointment),

Harley Quinn from Batman Arkham City,

Risha (Smuggler Companion, my Smuggler is based on Scootaloo! Awesome coincidence!) and Holiday in SWTOR,

Juliet Starling in Lolipop Chainsaw,

Palutena from Kid Icarus: Uprising, and MUCH MUCH MORE!

 

Oh and we're just getting started! That's just Twilight! There's the whole other Mane 6 and the rest of the cast to find interesting stuff on! Just post if you find any!

[Finesthour 7,287]

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Please post more.

 

I did not know that Tara was in so much of my childhood...

[Doctor XFizzle 8,669]

think the voice actor for Soarin was Ed in Ed, Edd, and Eddy

[Skye Starlight 223]

Voice actor for Gilda and Spitfire also voiced Bubbles in Power Puff Girls Z...

[FLARE 952]

Spike is voiced by a girl (Cathy Weseluck)... wait does everyone know that?

Edited January 18, 2012 by Flare

[83awsm 234]

Spike is voiced by a girl (Cathy Weseluck)... wait does everyone know that?

Yeap, saw the voiceover recording bit from the behind the scenes vid and was a little bit surprised at first.

[SXCJ40 125]

Forget who... But one of the VA in FiM did Gotenks

[Colon Leftbracket 971]

hmm... I normally use Wikipedia to get a few facts...

 

Doesn't seem possible today!

[Kapi 215]

Apparently, Fluttershy's Voice Actress, Andrea Libman (Also Pinkie Pie's) did the voice for Chi Chi as a child in DragonBall, specifically the Ocean dub. The Ocean dub was shown more outside the US, where we got the FUNimation dub (Or, some people call it the Toonami version)

 

EDIT 1/23:

 

OOOH! Tara Strong also voiced Dizzy Devil from TIny Toon Adventures, and Daizy from Wo Wow Wubbzy!( Another Flash based cartoon). And Salsa from Eternal Sonata.. She's awesome!

Edited January 23, 2012 by Kapi

[chrisbiby 18]

think the voice actor for Soarin was Ed in Ed, Edd, and Eddy

 

i think he also voiced kero in the English dub of cardcaptors

[Jokuc 8,173]

Awesome thread. I didn't know that Tara did that much

[Killian Jones 2,655]

Well a lot of Voice actors do a lot of voices. Also girls make the best young boys voices.

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

A Sonic Rainboom is physically possible in real-life. The Sound Barrier is encountered when something such as a pegasus travels faster than air can be normally pushed out of the way as pressure-waves (sound). This makes the pressure double-back into a cone of super-accelerated air called a Shock-Cone. The shock cone loses its ability to retain moisture because the pressure causes it to loose energy and heat, which forms a visible cloud that follows in the shape of the shock cone.

If this shock cone passes through an air pocket that is lower pressure than the other air around it, as well as behind high humidity, it can cause refraction of light in an ideal viewing angle.

Yes.

 

Macintosh, Granny Smith, Braeburn and Ambrosia are real life cultivars of apples. (Visibly, the apples they grow on Sweet Apple Acres appear to be Mcintosh, and Zap Apples have the shape of Red Delicious. Other cultivars which might be possible to tie in other relations within the MLP universe: Jazz (obviously the music genre), Bolero (a classical music piece could tie in to Octavia), Gala, Sunset (Twilight's family?), Cox Orange (The Oranges), Northern Spy (obviously a spy))

[Colon Leftbracket 971]

Awesome thread. I didn't know that Tara did that much

 

Thanks, I plan on doing similar lists for the other VAs as well.

 

Just I did Tara Strong first because I knew quite a few of them before doing any research! Plus it makes sense to do Twilight first.

 

Not sure which VA to do next... but on a non-pony related note Eeyore and Optimis Prime have the same voice! Just a cool thought.

 

Also when it comes to VAs I wish the next big villain in MLP is either voiced by Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker, VA for The Joker, Invader Zim during the Pilot episode!) or Tim Curry because I love his voice!

 

A Sonic Rainboom is physically possible in real-life.

 

I've heard about this before!

 

Also apparently according to a physicist Rainbow's Top Speed is at Mach 10, but then again that's assuming Equestrain Physics behave like real life Physics which, just ask Pinkie Pie, they don't! Still an interesting thought...

Edited January 19, 2012 by Colton Manestache

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

Also apparently according to a physicist Rainbow's Top Speed is at Mach 10, but then again that's assuming Equestrain Physics behave like real life Physics which, just ask Pinkie Pie, they don't! Still an interesting thought...

 

They don't. If they did, Fluttershy would have been killed by the butterflies she landed on, unless Ponies are made in such a way that allows them to withstand excesses of 1000 G-forces. If this is the case, every single one of them would be as resilient to damage as Tom the Diamond; something which we have observed in-show, they are not.

 

Which is why I came up with a list of possible physics explanations.

[FinalGamer 192]

The voice actress for Zecora, Brenda Crichlow, is most known as being typecast as a black news reporter in several shows such as Smallville.

Also guidance counsellor. According to the IMDB, Zecora has been her most recurrent role in any medium.

 

Also the voice actor for Braeburn voiced Iceman in X-Men: Evolution...I can't remember the actor's name though, Andrew...something?

 

And finally, Big Macintosh' voice actor, Peter New, ALSO voices Hoity-Toity and Filthy Rich. He also created his own show called The Triple Eight, even voicing one of the characters called Candace.

Edited January 19, 2012 by FinalGamer

[StarGazer 129]

Aww, thanks for posting that! I loved Teen Titans and Raven was one of my favorite characters along with Beast Boy.

I think her being Timmy was obvious too.

[Colon Leftbracket 971]

Well I was going to to Ashleigh Ball next, but today I have to do Tabitha St. Germain for a special occasion!

 

Tabitha St. Germain is the most fabulous VA of the cast since she voices Rarity!

Also she voices Luna/Nightmare Moon, Granny Smith, Photo Finish, Mrs. Cake, Pound Cake, and now...

http://youtu.be/nCZGrDM9Ecc

 

SO AWESOME!

 

Naomi Misora - Death Note

Kid Dende and Gotenks (Ocean Group) - Dragonball Z (mentioned above)

Pashmina - Hamtaro (I remember that show! )

Nazuna, Sayo, Koume - InuYasha

Miss Keane, Ivy, Violet, Saphire - Powerpuff Girls Z (Okay I have to watch this now! )

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 - Wendy O. Koopa/ Kootie Pie Koopa

Nazz - Ed, Edd, and Eddy (Season 1) [MUST HUNT DOWN DVD!]

My Little Pony (G3 Animations) - Minty, Thistle Whistle, Wysteria, Fiesta Flare, and Scootaloo (Rarity was a Scootaloo once? )

Scary Godmother (1&2) - Scary Godmother (Not entirely sure why I watched those... curse you little sisters)

 

 

That's all the interesting voices I could find for Tabitha, but there's more that perhaps I haven't heard of (a few Gundam animes and a few Barbie movies were in there so good hunting!). I'll probably get to Ashleigh tomorrow! Today is in celebration of Tabitha as Derpy!