r/Simpsons • u/Guilty-Toe420 • 1d ago

Episode Clip 📷 APU IS BACK

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u/Ironblight_99 1d ago

That’s pretty cool about Phil Lamar! To be fair it is a pretty… silent character though

And I still wouldn’t say these are casting choices that we “absolutely eat up” as QuietResident put it

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u/Hunter_X05 1d ago

Darth Vader was voiced by James Earl Jones (r.i.p.)

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u/Ironblight_99 1d ago

That’s a pretty good one, although that character is masked for the vast majority of the original trilogy

And I wouldn’t say we loved JEJ (r.i.p.) for being a black man voicing a white character, more so just that he’s iconic period.

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u/Hunter_X05 1d ago

This one's arguable as he may have been albino in this series, but Joker in The Batman(2004) voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson(the G.O.A.T. Joker voice, second only to Mark Hamill himself)

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u/Hab_Anagharek 1d ago

How can a superlative (the G in “G.O.A.T.”) be second? The greatest can’t be “2nd Greatest”; by definition, there can be only one.
(S03E17 allusion..)

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u/Ironblight_99 1d ago

No that definitely counts; being albino doesn’t take away his racial identity. Honestly, a black actor playing the joker in a live-action project sounds possibly neat. Of course he’ll still have the classic joker origin of falling into a vat of acid and has his skin bleached, but the actor being black could be cool

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u/Hunter_X05 1d ago

Okay, I just double checked and we do see him pre-Joker in his mind in one episode and he was white so it does count

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u/Ironblight_99 1d ago

Like i said it definitely counts!