Liam O'Brien is one of the more recent voice actors. Chances are that if you notice a character who seemsaristocratic orhave noble standing, they'll have this guy voicing them. Most likely characteristics of his voice are an almost-faux British accent or a very laid-back demeanor. And he doesn't differentiate that much--

--"You want any voice differentiation? That's Gaara!"

His real forte seems to be voicing characters who have more than a few screws loose in their head, from the eccentric to thecompletely batshit insane. In fact, this is what shot him to fame when he voiced Gaara inNaruto. He has a knack forAmbiguously Gay characters, and one hell of anEvil Laugh that's present in just about every villain he's ever played.

He's currently^[when?] married to fellow voice actressAmy Kincaid (who played Shirley Fenette inCode Geass and Kotone Himekawa inTo Heart), and also does a butt-load of ADR directing (Most notably for the most recent entries in theResident Evil series).

• Gaara of the Desert inNaruto
• Master Big Star inDisgaea 3: Absence of Justice
• Ingway inOdin Sphere
• Joachim Armster inCastlevania: Lament of Innocence
  • Isaac inCastlevania: Curse of Darkness
  • Jonathan Morris inCastlevania: Portrait of Ruin
• Jūshirō Ukitake, Soken Ishida, and Sora Inoue inBleach
• Lloyd Asplund inCode Geass
• Lezard Valeth inValkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria
• Dr. Clive inHaré+Guu
• KyKiske inGuilty Gear 2 Overture
• Dist theRunnyReaper Rose inTales of the Abyss
• Once substituted forSteve Blum as Mugen in theSamurai Champloo video game due toSteve Blum's union status.
• Levinand Raksha inSoul Nomad and The World Eaters
• Count Waltz inEternal Sonata
• Akihiko Sanada inPersona 3
  • Kei (Nate) Nanjou inPersona (PSP)
• Archer inFate Stay Night
• Vayne Aurelius inMana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis (Although it's a lot more obvious that it's him withtheEvil Counterpart that shows up at the end of the game).
• Goto inMana-Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy
• Stahn Aileron inTales of the World: Radiant Mythology.
• Chaos inAtelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny: The Azoth Of Destiny
• Illidan Stormrage inWorld of Warcraft (YOUARENOTPREPARED)
• Ray Lundgrin inGun X Sword
• Sanctus inDevil May Cry 4
• War inDarksiders
• Miguel Caballero Rojo inTekken 6
• Marquis Andrea Cavalcanti/ Benedetto inGankutsuou
• Dr. Kenzou Tenma inMonster.
• Kain Highwind inFinal Fantasy IV (DS)
  • And reprising the role forDissidia 012: Final Fantasy.
• Red XIII inFinal Fantasy VII: Advent Children.
• Vincent Law fromErgo Proxy.
• Cumore inTales of Vesperia.
• Endrance in the.hack//G.U. trilogy.
• Hisoka Kurosaki inYami no Matsuei.
• Detective Maniwa inParanoia Agent (starting with episode 5).
• Father Balder inBayonetta (though he and the other voice actors in the game aren't credited forunion issues.)
• Rezo the Red Priest inSlayers Revolution andEvolution-R
• Grimoire Weiss inNieR Gestalt
• Kazuharu Fukuyama inGirls Bravo
• Ayatane Michitaka inAr tonelico
• Steven Bisson from theEureka Seven video games
• Chuck Preston inWild ARMs 5
• Tokugawa Ieyasu inSengoku Basara (both the anime andSamurai Heroes)
• Baldren Gassenarl fromValkyria Chronicles II
• The generic Ghost and Science Vessel units inStarCraft II.
• Dr. Stahngun/Dimitri Allen inProfessor Layton and the Unwound Future
  • Clark Triton inProfessor Layton and the Last Specter
• Taishi Kuhonbutsu inComic Party.
• Air Raid inTransformers: War for Cybertron
• Reynard Fisher (Chris and Sheva's contact in Chapter 1) inResident Evil 5, where he also did the ADR directing
  • He is also Wesker...for only one line. When he jumps up to the last platform in the final boss fight and yells "Chris!" (right before he says "I can't lose, not to you!")
• Numerous named NPCs inFallout: New Vegas like Pacer, Cachino, Major Knight, and Jerry the Punk.
• Numerous other named NPCs inDungeon Siege III
• Tsubasa inKannazuki no Miko.
• Durant inYggdra Union.
• Asura fromAsura's Wrath
• P.M.C Multiplayer Announcer inCall of Duty:Modern Warfare 3
• Caius Ballad inFinal Fantasy XIII-2
• Mamiya Chida inRevolutionary Girl Utena
• Nightcrawler and Angel/Archangel inWolverine and the X-Men

Tropes relating toLiam O'Brien

• Ax Crazy: what a lot of his characters have in common. If the character is a good guy, the character is most likely aSociopathic Hero, those withDark and Troubled Past,Blood Knight, anAnti-Hero, ora former villain turned good guy/antihero^[1]. If the character is a bad guy, the character he voices is most likely going to be aSmug Snake,Manipulative Bastard,Mad Scientist,Psychotic Man Child,Villain Protagonist,Depraved Bisexual,evil nobles, or thosewithout any redeeming qualities.
• Evil Sounds Deep: if the character he voices happens to be very deep, then they are most likely are going to be villains. If the villain has a higher pitched voice, then the said villain is going to bepsychotic.
  • Kinda funny when you realize his natural voice is higher than what most of the characters he voiced.
• Evil Laugh: he'svery found with this. That, along with borderlining withEvil Is Hammy.
• Mad Scientist: whatLloyd,Dr. Clive, andDist have in common. Although the only the last one is the flatout villain.
• Man of a Thousand Voices: sure we have Gaara, Lloyd, and Dr. Clive for starters, but he's really capable of others. Also,his official resume lists British, Cockney, Spanish, Russian, Irish, German, Brooklyn, and New Jersey as his dialect specialties (the first one happensto be the most common one).
• Mean Character, Nice Actor
• Unions in Hollywood
• Pigeonholed Voice Actor: most of his characters tend to be mentally unstable villains.
  • Playing Against Type: Dr. Tenma fromMonster, aNice GuyTechnical Pacifist doctor.^[2].
    • Also BOTHKy Kiske andTokugawa Ieyasu,Reasonable Authority Figure type characters (quite a stark contrast to most of his characters).
    • AndMaster Big Star.
    • Akihiko Sanada isn't exactly villain material either.Asurais also another whole lot different story.
    • And for a short time, he voicedStahn Aileron, who's...Tales (series)' poster boy forWide-Eyed IdealistIdiot Hero.
    • Also a subversion:Kain Highwind isn't truly a villain, but he's often pointed with the label 'traitor' (and he did betray Cecil several times) so it kinda fits... Also one of his times he instead uses aGuttural Growler type of voice unusual for his other roles (but went back to normal style for Dissidia)
• Villains: the roles what he's best well-known for. As with a Youtube commentcomparing the evil laughs of English and Japanese voice acting inEternal Sonata: "best evil voice actor ever". He's getting there to become the definitive English counterpart ofNorio Wakamoto.

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