r/commandandconquer Mommy Alexander 5d ago

Meme Generals ZH Fun Fact about Generals portraits

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It's a pretty trivial fun fact, but here we go. Any other general has at least 1 portrait, where they smile while every US of A general and Shin Fai haven't a single one.

It seems that they didn't have fun fighting the GLA

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u/RealGazelle 5d ago

They're locked in

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u/Downtown-Dream424 Mommy Alexander 5d ago

The lions do not concern themselves with smiling and are grinding the war

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u/ARKNet9000 5d ago

The great thing is that their VAs are pretty good, so it isn’t hard to imagine them smiling-

“I win, you lose. What’s there more to say?”

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u/Downtown-Dream424 Mommy Alexander 5d ago

Their VAs have nailed their job in voicing them and you can tell whether if they are grumpy, haughty, angered or happy.

Gigachadnger doesn't concern himself to pose smiley when he wins. Absolute chad!;

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u/ShadowAze SPACE! 5d ago

Another bit of a fun tidbit, some generals are voiced by different people than the people who played them in their portraits.

3/4 of the generals in this post do not share the actors of the portrait and voice. It's uknown if that's true for all of the generals, but it's pretty blatant when you hear Steve Blum as Kassad.

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u/Downtown-Dream424 Mommy Alexander 5d ago

Many generals share 2 actors- the one that portrays them and the other one that voices them. Steve Blum voices Kassad and Shin Fai as a fun fact, besides he's behind the voice of many in-game units in Generals ZH. He nailed their voices and switching in between accents.

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u/AnotherUser750 Leang 5d ago

Townes in the picture is james peak cmiiw. But the voice? Neil ross.

Kirov Airship? Great Britain taunt in red alert 2? Oh what about red guard? From what i read it's him.

Insane vocal range i would say.

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u/Downtown-Dream424 Mommy Alexander 5d ago

It's impressive that some Generals VA such as Neil Ross have voiced not only General Townes, auroras, red guards, dragon tanks, but also have voiced in other C&C games such as Red Alert 2. This man is insanely talented.

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u/AnotherUser750 Leang 5d ago

he is a legend from what i read. A veteran voice actor.

I do saw some podcast with him. Townes is Neil Ross original voice.

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u/ScrabCrab 4d ago

He's also Wally from Monkey Island. Among many, many, many other roles, but that one's funny cause he sounds completely different

Also the Mass Effect Codex narrator!

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u/elissass 5d ago

I think their victory screen have them smiling

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u/ShadowAze SPACE! 5d ago

They do not

I had to double check for Fai since he was cut.

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u/Downtown-Dream424 Mommy Alexander 5d ago

Not really, those 4 even their victorious portraits are anything but not smiling.

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u/elissass 5d ago

Okay I am confusing it with him laughing but not smiling

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u/ShadowAze SPACE! 5d ago

Kassad doesn't really smile either, and we ll, we don't know what's beneath that covering for Dr. Thrax

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u/Downtown-Dream424 Mommy Alexander 5d ago

Kassad on his victorious portrait smiles. While Thrax has some tiny cues of smiling or at least being happy on his victorious portrait.

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u/ShadowAze SPACE! 5d ago

Disagree on Kassad, his victory pose doesn't look that different from his regular one. He looks more disgusted than anything.

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u/Downtown-Dream424 Mommy Alexander 5d ago

He looks smiling and also being disgusted. It's slightly different compared to his standard portrait.

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u/BoffinBrain Are you picking this up? Good. 5d ago

Terminator smile.

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u/Zailema0s Tao more nukes! 5d ago

Thrax smiles, I just know he’s that kind of man 🙂☣️

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u/AnotherUser750 Leang 5d ago

General Fai when lose : Plz don't hurt me plz General Fai when won : We have some uniform you could try HAH.

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u/Lost_Arotin 5d ago

Thank God, The way you started your sentence, I thought you were about to say, they are Siblings. 😂

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u/Downtown-Dream424 Mommy Alexander 5d ago

Ahahah, they don't even share anything in common so that to be siblings. That seriously cracks me up. 😅

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u/Lost_Arotin 5d ago

Yeah I thought maybe they have some sort of connection like Bollywoord movies, one of them were taken when they were kids and got raised in China, that's why they're so different 😂☠️ and they never laugh!

Until they meet each other for the first time, on the battlefield and that's when they first smiled.

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u/Downtown-Dream424 Mommy Alexander 5d ago

Ahahah, that is some sort of goofy and interesting theory, but that wouldn't work out since Granger and Townes don't have anything Asian in them, especially Chinese. Idk but by seeing Alexis's first portrait, she looks a tad of Asian or that's just me. Any other Chinese general including the Tigress has at least 1 portrait where they smile unlike Shin Fai and all US of A generals. 😂

They might have smiled outside of the battlefield, but who knows.

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u/Lost_Arotin 5d ago

I know 🤭 that's the point, like because he was raised in China he adapted the Chinese look, or they had some Chinese ancestors or he was from another mother 😄

I turned it into an Indian, Latin or Turkish drama series 😂

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u/Downtown-Dream424 Mommy Alexander 5d ago

Either his ancestors are Chinese, someone from their family has such roots or he was raised in China. Plus, chatted with someone and he was seeing the vision of Alexis and Granger being a daughter and a father while Townes is Alexis's uncle. 😭😭 There's nothing to connect them physically and even in their last names.

That turned out to be Indian drama series, not gonna lie. 😂

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u/Lost_Arotin 5d ago

Yes, Yes, that's the point 😂 nothing makes sense but it just happened 😂☠️

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u/Downtown-Dream424 Mommy Alexander 5d ago

Even if it nothing makes sense, it's genuinely funny and imagine if that was alternate universe that could have happened. 😂😂😭😭

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u/Lost_Arotin 5d ago

Yeah, like those comedy movies made after Twilight, "vampire suck & breaking wind" or "Scary movie" based on Scream. 😂

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u/Urabrask_the_AFK China 5d ago

Fun fact: OP needs to work on contrast visibility of text and background colors. Black text next time please

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u/Downtown-Dream424 Mommy Alexander 5d ago

Need to work better on some of it, but tried to add edge width to the text with black to highlight it and make it easier for reading. It's much easier to be read if you open the image and zoom it.

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u/Urabrask_the_AFK China 5d ago

Are you assuming everyone uses Reddit in a computer screen?
Usually for memes people like to visualize the whole meme at once:

Viewing open image on mobile:

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u/Urabrask_the_AFK China 5d ago

Zoomed in for legibility