Editing Announcer

[[File:UltimateAnnouncerGO!.jpg|thumb|In the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series, all matches and [[Sudden Death]] officially start when the Announcer says "GO!"]]

 

 

The announcer has been voiced by approximately 13 actors to varying degrees, for each game in the series as well as for different regions and [[language]]s. The English voice actor is considered to be the "primary" one in each game and is used by default in [[NTSC]] versions, which means he is also used in Japan, albeit with some minor differences in his lines, including character names.

{{s|wikipedia|Jeff Manning 1999}} was the first actor for the series, starting many of the trends that would later be followed by the future announcers; in addition to his booming style and various exclamations during gameplay, such as [[Character selection screen|characters being selected]], Jeff Manning started a trend where both the Announcer and Master Hand are voiced by the same person. Manning's voice has a significant filter applied to it, causing his voice to echo, as well as increasing the intensity of his voice; his actual delivery, however, is relatively calm, and he does not generally hold out words for long periods of time.

Outside of Manning's voice, two other actors provide the announcer's voice in different regions; Frank Wölfen provides his voice in the German [[PAL]] version, and Jean-Marc Delhausse provides his voice in the French PAL version. The Chinese version of the game, released for the {{s|wikipedia|iQue Player}}, reuses Manning's voice.

{{s|wikipedia|Dean Harrington 2001}} is the second announcer in the series. He takes on a different inflection than Manning; Harrington yells more similarly to an emcee at a boxing match, with his phrasing often lasting for long periods of time, as well as a generally more intense voice than Manning's. Like Manning, Harrington's voice has an echo filter applied to it; other filters applied to his voice, however, cause Harrington's voice to have a more muffled tone compared to the other announcers. With the introduction of [[Crazy Hand]] in the series, Harrington also began a trend where the announcer also voices Crazy Hand.

In the PAL version, when choosing {{SSBM|Jigglypuff}}, two different announcers will say the character's name when the game is set to German or French (the names being "Pummeluff" and "Rondoudou", respectively). The identities of these two announcers are unknown.

{{s|wikipedia|Pat Cashman 2008}} is the third announcer in the series. He ended Harrington's emcee style, and in general, his voice is considerably calmer in sound, more akin to Manning. Cashman's voice is not modified to the extent of Manning's or Harrington's, leading to a cleaner sound quality from him; Cashman also has a deeper voice than either of his two predecessors. Cashman's voice also features more personality from the announcer, such as his quizzical inflection when the player selects {{SSBB|Luigi}} as a playable character.

Outside of Cashman's voice, five other individuals voice the announcer in ''Brawl'', for the game's PAL and Korean releases. Achim Barrenstein provides the German announcer, Carlos Lobo provides the Spanish announcer, Jean Faure provides the French announcer, Luigi Fantino provides the Italian announcer, and {{s|wikipedia|Choi Han}} provides the Korean announcer.

Cashman was the oldest announcer at the age of 58 when he recorded his lines for the game.

{{s|wikipedia|Xander Mobus}} is the fourth announcer in the series. He acts and sounds similarly to Pat Cashman in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'', with his voice being deeper than those of Manning and Harrington, as well as having few filters applied to his voice. Compared to Cashman, however, Mobus's announcer is less relaxed and reserved, though he still does not act as intense as Harrington.

Mobus also provided his voice in the [[Nintendo Direct#Super Smash Bros. for Wii U: 50-Fact Extravaganza|50-Fact Extravaganza presentation for Nintendo Direct]], explicitly introducing himself as "the announcer" and proceeding to narrate the video; he also voices the announcer in a few commercials for the games.

Outside of Mobus's voice, four other announcers voice the announcer in the PAL release of ''Smash 4''. It's important to note that all of these actors were retained from ''Brawl'': Achim Barrenstein (German), Carlos Lobo (Spanish), Jean-Louis Faure (French), and Luigi Fantino (Italian). The Spanish and French announcers also provide voices for the Latin American and Canadian localizations, respectively. The Dutch, Portuguese, Korean, and Russian localizations use the English announcer.

Mobus was by far the youngest of the ''Smash Bros.'' announcers, recording his lines for ''SSB4'' at the age of 21; the previous three announcers were in their 50s at the time of their respective games' release.

In a series first, Mobus reprises his role as the English and Japanese announcer in ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''; he also provides voice clips specific to the Korean language option, while the Chinese options reuse his Japanese voice clips.

Mobus would portray the Announcer in an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLu7e8RZoYc overview trailer] for ''Ultimate'' in a similar manner to his performance in the 50-Fact Extravaganza.

Additionally, the previous foreign language announcers retain their roles from ''Brawl'' and ''SSB4'' along with two new announcers for the Dutch and Russian language options.

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*Jean-Marc Delhausse, who provides the French announcer in ''Smash 64'', later reappeared as a voice actor in subsequent games in the series, voicing [[Lucario]], [[Ivysaur]], and various [[Poké Ball]] Pokémon in the French localizations of the games.

*Carlos Lobo, who provides the Spanish announcer in ''Brawl'', ''Smash 4'' and ''Ultimate'', also voices Lucario in the Spanish localizations of the games.

*Xander Mobus, who provides the English announcer in ''Smash 4'' and ''Ultimate'', also voices [[Joker]] in the English localization of ''Ultimate''.

*''Brawl'' contains unused, empty announcer files for what appears to be the announcer shouting the title's name; in the final game, there are no voice clips for this. Other unused files also feature the [[Match timer#Final countdown timer|countdown at the end of a match]] starting at ten seconds, rather than five.

*Xander Mobus booked his role with the same microphone {{s|mariowiki|Kenny James}} ([[Bowser]]'s current voice actor outside of ''Super Smash Bros.'') gifted him, when he was [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkSGdDBpyvE performing theater alongside James].

*In spite of ''Brawl'' using a Korean announcer, ''Ultimate'' uses the English announcer and translates certain names into Korean, while using the Japanese translations for others.

*In ''Super Smash Bros.'', a German voice line for when selecting Captain Falcon is completely missing so the game uses the English version instead.