John DiMaggio
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John DiMaggio (born September 4, 1968) is an American voice actor, comedian and professional beatboxer, who is best known for his iconic role as the drunken robot Bender and many characters on Futurama. His cartoon credits include Jake the Dog on Adventure Time, Dr. Drakken & Motor Ed on Kim Possible, Rath and later Four Arms on the Ben 10 series, Rico on the Penguins of Madagascar, The Joker on Batman: Under the Red Hood, Aquaman on The Brave & the Bold, the Scotsman on Samurai Jack and almost everything you've seen for the past 20 years or so growing up.
Video game wise, he can be heard as Marcus Fenix in the Gears of War series, Gilgamesh in Final Fantasy XII, Kreese Kreely in Madworld, Galactus in Lego Marvel Super Heroes, the Hammer of Sauron in Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor among others.
| “ | Last Christmas I go to see some Christmas movie—me, my girlfriend and some of her family members—and we see a Transformers trailer, and at the end of it, as it’s dying down, it’s quiet in the theater, and I go, “Thanks Michael Bay, you just ruined f***ing Christmas!” And the whole place exploded in laughter. Which is great, right? This was in L.A. at the Cinerama Dome or whatever. Literally three weeks later, I get a call saying, “Yeah, John, Michael Bay needs to see you in Santa Monica.” So it turns out that I totally **** on the movie, and three weeks later I end up in it. | ” |
—John DiMaggio[1] | ||
Voice over roles
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Game
- Major William Lennox
- Sideways
- Additional voices
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Transformers: The Ride
Transformers: Prime
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015)
Transformers: The Last Knight
- Crosshairs
- Nitro Zeus (See Notes)
Notes
- He does a mean Scatman Crothers impression.
- In alternate versions of The Last Knight, Steven Barr originally recorded dialogue for Nitro Zeus in the "Pre-Release" version of the film, while for the "finished" version, Nitro Zeus was re-recorded by DiMaggio himself. A food amount of lines of dialogue were also changed. Some examples include:
- During his introduction, the finished version has him say: "I know where you live, Enrique, say hello to your wife for me!" while the other, he says: "By the way, Enrique, Chad's sleeping with your wife!"
- When the Decepticons arrive in the abandoned down, Barr's Nitro says: "I know they're close!" while DiMaggio's Nitro says: "Oh, I feel a fight comin'!"
