Matthew Mercer
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Matthew Christopher Miller,better known asMatthew Mercer,is an American voice actor and game designer. He has provided voice work for cartoons, animations, video games, and English dubs of anime.
In anime, Mercer voicesLevi AckermaninAttack on Titan,Kiritsugu EmiyainFate/Zero,Jotaro KujoinJoJo's Bizarre Adventure,Tony Stark / Iron ManinIron Man: Rise of TechnovoreandAvengers Confidential: Black Widow and Punisher,Aikurō Mikisugi inKill la Kill,Kanji Tatsumiduring the second half ofPersona 4: The Animation,the second voice of Yamato inNaruto,Trafalgar Lawin theFunimationdub ofOne Piece,Hit inDragon Ball Super,Seijirou Kikuoka inSword Art Online,Falco inCyberpunk: Edgerunners,andLeorioinHunter x Hunter.
In video games, Mercer has voicedLeon S. KennedyinResident Evil 6,GanondorfinThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,Kurtis StrykerinMortal Kombat 9,Chromand Ryoma inFire Emblem,Jack Cooper inTitanfall 2,Espio the Chameleon inSonic the Hedgehog,DeadshotinInjustice 2,Cole Cassidy(formerly Jesse McCree) inOverwatch,Yusuke KitagawainPersona 5,MacCready inFallout 4,Midas and Syd inFortnite: Battle RoyaleandFortnite: Save the Worldrespectively, Edér Teylecg and Aloth Corfiser inPillars of Eternity,Gangplank and Kindred's Wolf inLeague of Legends,Walter inShin Megami Tensei IV,Ira inKingdom Hearts,Goro MajimainYakuza: Like a Dragon,Vincent ValentinefromFinal Fantasy VII Rebirth,andVecnainDead by Daylight.
In addition to his voice acting work, Mercer has developed and served as theDungeon Masterfor theDungeons & Dragonsweb seriesCritical Rolesince it premiered in 2015.[4]He is also a game designer[1][2]and thechief creative officerofCritical Role Productions.[3]
Early life
[edit]Matthew Christopher Miller was born inPalm Beach Gardens, Florida.He is primarily ofScottishdescent.[5]His family moved toLos Angeleswhen he was eight years old.[5]He attendedAgoura High SchoolinAgoura Hills, California.[6]He has a brother who is a musician under thestage nameDave Heatwave. He spoke with astutterwhen he was young, leading his father (who also stuttered) to recruit aspeech therapistwho managed to reduce the effects to the point that only certain words trigger it.[5]He adopted "Mercer" (which members of his family had used in the past) as his stage surname because his birth name was too similar to someone already represented bySAG-AFTRA.[5]He had a stint as a member ofThe Groundlings.[6]
Career
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Mercer's family advised him against moving into theatre as a career, and so he initially considered working in animation. He was dissuaded by advice from professional animators about the working conditions in that field however, and joined the games industry instead. In his early career he worked as a QA tester and later associate producer on a number ofEdutainmenttitles developed bySound Source InteractiveandTDK Mediactive.After "friends of his father got him some odd jobs in voiceover", Mercer decided to pursue the profession, and resigned from his game development job.[7][8]
Mercer began his voice acting career performing Englishwallaand additional characters in several Japanese anime, and has since also worked in cartoons, video games, and radio commercials. He has been a guest at conventions around the world, hosting at events such asAnime ExpoandAnime Matsuri.His work has expanded to a multitude of roles in cartoons, video games and radio commercials. He directed and produced theweb seriesThere Will Be Brawl,[9]based on theSuper Smash Bros.video game series, where he provided the voices for bothMeta KnightandKirby,and portrayed the role ofGanondorf.He also acted in several shows from theGeek & SundryandNerdistnetworks and produced the web seriesFear News with the Last GirlforFEARnetwhich was a 2010Webby AwardsHonoree for the Experimental & Weird category.[10]
In 2016, Mercer served as theDungeon MasterforForce Grey: Giant Hunters,which ran for 2 seasons.[11]In 2017, he was the Dungeon Master for the Nerdist showCelebriD&D,which puts D&D-playing celebrities into a small, mini-campaign where they are paired with role-players.[12]He has also been a player in otheractual playweb series such asDimension 20andL.A. by Night.[13][14]
Critical Role
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Mercer is the Dungeon Master of the web seriesCritical Role,[4]which launched on Geek & Sundry in 2015, where he leads several other voice actors through aDungeons & Dragonscampaign.[15][16]Critical Role was both the Webby Winner and the People's Voice Winner in the "Games (Video Series & Channels)" category at the 2019 Webby Awards;[3]the show was also both a Finalist and the Audience Honor Winner in the "Games" category at the 2019Shorty Awards.[17]Luke Winkie, in ahuman-interest storyforSlate,called Mercer "an expert improviser" and "a maestro with the dice in his hands, weaving interlocking plot lines and complex thematic threads out of thin air" with "the innate ability to make aDungeons & Dragonscampaign feel like a tightly wound limited drama ".[18]Winkie commented that "it can be downright intimidating to watch Mercer when he's at the peak of his powers. As a career voice actor, he possesses all of the subtle performance intangibles that saturate his storytelling with life: the timing, the verve, the language flourishes".[18]
After becoming hugely successful, theCritical Rolecast left the Geek & Sundry network in early 2019 and set up their own production company,Critical Role Productions;[19][20][21][22]Mercer is the company'schief creative officer.[3]Soon after, they aimed to raise $750,000 onKickstarterto create an animated series of their first campaign, but ended up raising over $11 million.[23]In November 2019,Amazon Prime Videoannounced that they had acquired the streaming rights to this animated series, now titledThe Legend of Vox Machina;[24][25]Mercer reprised his role as Sylas Briarwood and other characters.[26][27]
In October 2020, Mercer became the creative advisor for the Critical Role board and card gameimprintcalledDarrington Press.[28]From June to August 2021, Mercer appeared onExandria Unlimited,a spinoff ofCritical Role,as a player.[29][30][31]In March 2022, he reprised his role in the two part specialExandria Unlimited: Kymal.[32][33]
Game design
[edit]Mercer's work as Dungeon Master has led to the development of threecampaign settingbooks being published about his world ofExandria.The first is theCritical Role: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting(2017) published throughGreen Ronin Publishing.[1]The second is theExplorer's Guide to Wildemount(2020) published throughWizards of the Coast,thus making Exandria an officialDungeons & Dragonscampaign setting.[2][34]The third isTal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn(2022), a revised and expanded edition of theTal'Dorei Campaign Setting,which was published by Darrington Press, the publishing label created by Critical Role Productions.[35]Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Rebornwas nominated for the 2022ENNIE Awardsin the "Best Setting" category.[36]
On March 15, 2022, a new adventure module titledCritical Role: Call of the Netherdeep(2022), with Mercer, James Haeck andChris Perkinsas lead designers, was released. It is the second collaboration book between Wizards of the Coast and Critical Role Productions.[37][38]Mercer was then a consultant on the upcomingDungeon Master's Guide(2024) for therevised 5th EditionofDungeons & Dragons.[39]
Personal life
[edit]Mercer began dating voice actress andCritical Roleco-starMarisha Rayin 2011, and they were engaged in 2016 before marrying on October 21, 2017.[40]The video of his proposal became popular among fans as it involved an entireescape roomgame he secretly created with theCritical Rolecast as a surprise for Ray.[41]They live inLos Angelesand have a pet corgi named Omar.[42]
Mercer said in 2017 that, while he isheterosexual,he has also been attracted to men in the past and experiencedhomophobiawhile growing up as a boy who liked to experiment with an androgynous appearance.[43]He explained that he tries his best in storytelling to also represent the experiences of closeLGBTfamily and friends.[43]As an activist, he works with variousLGBT rightscharities likeOutRight Action International.[44]In 2018, he revealed that he suffers frombody dysmorphic disorderand has always struggled with his physical appearance.[5]
Filmography
[edit]Voice acting
[edit]Anime
[edit]Animation
[edit]† | Denotes series that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
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2011–12 | ThunderCats | Tygra | [46] | |
2013 | Beware the Batman | Ice Pick Joe | [46] | |
2015 | DC Super Friends | Superman,Two-Face | [46] | |
Wabbit | Bigfoot | [75] | ||
2016–17 | Regular Show | Chance Sureshot, Recap Robot, others | [46] | |
2017–19 | Avengers Assemble | Hercules,Tiger Shark,others | [46] | |
2017 | Marvel's Spider-Man | Aleksei Sytsevich / Rhino,others | [46] | |
Zak Storm | Golden Bones | Tweet[76] | ||
Freedom Fighters: The Ray | Black Arrow,Doll Man,Oliver Queen / Green Arrow | Web series | [77][78] | |
2018 | Voltron: Legendary Defender | Lieutenant Hepta | Tweet[79] | |
2020 | Robot Chicken | Ant-Man,Aquaman | [46] | |
Blood of Zeus | Hermes | Tweet[80] | ||
2022–present | The Legend of Vox Machina | Trinket, Sylas Briarwood, Orthax, Umbrasyl, others | Executive Producer | [26][27] |
2022 | Dragon Age: Absolution | Fairbanks | [81] | |
2024 | Lego Monkie Kid | Nine-Headed Demon | Tweet[82] | |
TBA | Mighty Nein† | TBA | In production | [83] |
Films
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
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2012 | Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos | Melvin Voyager | Limited theatrical release for English dub | [46] |
Resident Evil: Damnation | Leon S. Kennedy | [46][84] | ||
2017 | Resident Evil: Vendetta | Leon S. Kennedy | Limited theatrical release | [85][86][87] |
Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale | Seijirō Kikuoka | [88] | ||
2019 | Promare | Gueira | Limited theatrical release | [89] |
One Piece: Stampede | Trafalgar Law | [90] | ||
2022 | One Piece Film: Red | [91] | ||
2023 | Resident Evil: Death Island | Leon S. Kennedy | Limited theatrical release | [92][93] |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
2013 | Iron Man: Rise of Technovore | Tony Stark (Iron Man) | [46] | |
Leo the Lion | Maximus Elephante | [46] | ||
2014 | Justice League: War | Guard | [46] | |
Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Blood Prison | Mui | [94] | ||
Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher | Iron Man (Tony Stark) | [46] | ||
One Piece Film: Z | Bins | [46] | ||
2015 | Tiger & Bunny: The Rising | Richard Max | [95] | |
Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts | Mech Guard 1, Wealthy Jock | [46] | ||
Marvel Super Hero Adventures: Frost Fight! | Captain America,Gingerbread Men | [46] | ||
2016 | Batman: Bad Blood | Hellhound, Chuckie Sol | [46] | |
2017 | K: Missing Kings | Kuroh Yatogami | [96] | |
2021 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train | Kagaya Ubuyashiki | [46] | |
Justice Society: World War II | Hourman | [97] | ||
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms | Stryker,Smoke | [98] | ||
2023 | Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match | Ethan, Bully | [99] |
Video games
[edit]Audio books
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
2022 | Critical Role: The Mighty Nein – The Nine Eyes of Lucien | Lucien Tavelle, additional voices | [145] |
Other media
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | There Will Be Brawl | Ganondorf,Kirby,Meta Knight | Also director and co-creator Hosted onThe Escapistwebsite |
[146] |
Live-action
[edit]Films
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | Mythica: The Darkspore | Szorlok | Premiered onCONtv | [147][148] |
Mythica: The Necromancer | Premiered on CONtv | [149] | ||
2016 | Mythica: The Iron Crown | Funded throughKickstarter | [150][151] | |
Mythica: The Godslayer | [152][153] |
Web series
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015–present | Critical Role | Dungeon Master | Also Creator and Producer; 3 campaigns + specials | [15] |
2015–18 | CelebriD&D | Celebrity guestD&Dshow presented by Nerdist | [154][155] | |
2016–17 | Force Grey | Wizards of the CoastD&Dshow presented byNerdistandGeek & Sundry | [11][156] | |
2019 | UnDeadwood | Clayton "The Coffin" Sharpe | Main role.Limited seriesusing theDeadlandsRPG system presented byCritical Role Productions | [157][158] |
2019–present | Dimension 20 | Kraz-Thun / Leiland "Unlucky Jack" Brakkow Dungeon Master |
Escape from the Bloodkeepcampaign Pirates of Leviathancampaign The Ravening Warcampaign |
[159][13] [160][161] [162] |
2020 | Vancouver by Night | Cuthbert Beckett | Guest role; season 1, episode 13. Web series using theVampire: The MasqueradeRPG system. | [14][163] |
2021–22 | Exandria Unlimited | Dariax Zaveon | Main role; alsoKymalspecial in 2022 | [29][30][31][32][33] |
2021 | L.A. by Night | Cuthbert Beckett | Episode: "Reign in Hell" | [14][164] |
2023 | Candela Obscura | Game Master | 3 episodes; actual play web series using theIlluminated Worldssystem. | [165][166] |
Bibliography
[edit]Role-playing games
[edit]- Critical Role: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting(writer,Green Ronin Publishing,2017)[1]
- Explorer's Guide to Wildemount(writer,Wizards of the Coast,2020)[34]
- Doom Eternal Assault on Armaros Station(writer,Critical Role Productions,2020)[167]
- Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn(writer,Darrington Press,2022)[168]
- Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep(writer, Wizards of the Coast, 2022)[37]
Notes
[edit]- ^The first three episodes of the English dub forStardust Crusaderswere limited streamed in July 2014 forAnime Expo
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*Mercer, Matthew [@matthewmercer] (November 21, 2017)."Went to check on Netflix... whoa, Zak Storm is on there?! This ridiculous cartoon was a good time to work on, but never saw it finished until now. Looks much slicker than I expected! Silly, fun... kids would dig it"(Tweet).RetrievedJuly 18,2018– viaTwitter.
*@timbaldridge (November 21, 2017)."Who did you voice on the show? My kids have been watching it non-stop on Netflix for about a week now"(Tweet).RetrievedJuly 18,2018– viaTwitter.
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- ^@matthewmercer (August 10, 2018)."Well now... The wait is over! All new episodes of @Voltron Legendary Defender are now on @Netflix! Who's THIS handsome cameo...?"(Tweet) – viaTwitter.
- ^Mercer, Matthew [@matthewmercer](October 6, 2020)."Looks like the #BloodOfZeus trailer dropped! I voice this speedy Hermes fella in this series! Can't wait to see it on 10/27. @netflix Click here for the trailer: https://t.co/aAs2CCNi1e https://t.co/uKzGZ1Svv8"(Tweet).Archivedfrom the original on December 23, 2021.RetrievedFebruary 21,2022– viaTwitter.
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Arkham Knight features additional voice talent from Breaking Bad's Jonathan Banks as Commissioner Gordon, Kevin Conroy as Batman, Matthew Mercer as Robin, and a slew of others.
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I played on both tracks for a substantial amount of time, and there were some very good performances all around—particularly both Matt Mercer and Daisuke Ono's takes on Sigma
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