This take on the character is somewhat controversial since it is a big change from his voice in prior Mortal Kombat games. And that’s the one that I ended up booking.”

Like how much more foreboding can you get than that? It’s an homage to a game that I actually played to completion, which is very rare.

‘Shadow, collect the Chaos Emeralds.’ And I always loved it because it was just so definite. “So Sean Schemmel voices this character named Black Doom and Black Doom is literally this alien creature who wears these large shrouds and floats everywhere and every time he talks, it’s all the way down here. “This is gonna show my age more than anything else, but do you remember a GameCube game called Shadow the Hedgehog?” he said. RELATED: Keanu Reeves Doesn’t Want to See Neo or John Wick in Mortal KombatĪnd those three buzzwords conjured up a character from a forgotten Sonic spin-off game with an average MetaCritic score of 48. And I thought, ‘Well, what sounds very ethereal, wraith-like, and not of this world?'” “If I did something higher pitched and wispy, I want something very gravelly, very rumbly, very deep. “So then I wanted to do the exact opposite of that for take two,” said Chiplock. He then went in the complete opposite direction for his second submission. His first take was “very breathy, very ghost-like” in a way that somewhat sounded like Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, but more sinister and like he was perpetually having a slight asthma flare-up.

According to him, the unnamed game just described the character as “wraith-like, ethereal, not of this world.” This gave him some freedom in how he wanted to tackle the role. It was something that came to him out of the secrecy surrounding the project. And Chiplock pulled from an obscure game to get to this voice: 2005’s abysmally received Shadow the Hedgehog.Ĭhiplock spoke in detail about this odd inspiration during a recent interview with ComingSoon after only briefly mentioning in various other places like a past AMA and Twitter reply. Sean Chiplock was the actor that gave Noob that deeper voice, which serves as a huge departure from his usual roles in anime and his recent stint as Spider-Man in Marvel’s Avengers. However, it wasn’t until Mortal Kombat 11 where his voice reflected that darkness. Noob Saibot is an undead wraith-like warrior covered in black and is one of Mortal Kombat‘s edgier characters.

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