Why are all the bad guys Australian?
Posted by Ray @ 10:52 pmIt’s a trend noticed since Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings. The goblins are always Australian. Now I you’d probably tell me they’re New Zealand accents, but to my amateur ears the Australian accent and the New Zealand accent are indistinguishable, so I’m sorry.
The question struck me again as I was playing Final Fantasy XII. The bad-guy pilots minions all have Australian accents! Why? I know they used to be a British penal colony, but come on, that’s a really ridiculous reason to cast Australian voice actors as the baddies…
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Becaues they can do shakespearean pathos without appearing silly like the Yankees?
Comment by dagger — Thursday, November 30 2006 @ 9:39 am
dagger:
that might make sense if the Big Bad Boss Baddie is Australian… but he’s not! It’s only the minions.
Comment by Ray — Thursday, November 30 2006 @ 10:41 pm