Once upon a time, there was a show called Captain N and the Game Master. It was late-80's marketing cheese of the most whoreish sort, starring such innovative characters as Simon Belmont, Mega Man, and some kid with a magic game controller on his belt. So my brothers and I watched it religiously, and it was good.

Fast forward about eighteen years. My tastes have subtly evolved, and so you might imagine my surprise when I happen to find that the then-kid who voiced Pit (erroneously called Kid Icarus) in the Captain N cartoon was...L. In Death Note.

Yep. Wiki-hopping at work has revealed that Alessandro Juliani, a Canadian actor slated to play L - a performance I cannot yet judge from experience - was not only Gambit in one of the X-Men cartoons and some guy in Battlestar Galactica, but that annoying little winged bastard up yonder. (I can't get onto YouTube at work, but those of you with the courage to do so can probably find Captain N clips there. If not, well, it's out there somewhere.)

This weirdness reminds me of some other "No way!"s I've encountered over the years--for example, Gregg Berger, the dude who so aptly rendered Jecht from FFX, and The Pain from MGS3: Snake Eater? Odie. Like, Garfield's Odie. Not to mention Eeyore in Kingdom Hearts II and the Gromble from Aah! Real Monsters -- remember that one? Good times. Now that's versatility! Almost as versatile as Tara Strong, who played Bubbles in the Powerpuff Girls, Raven in Teen Titans, Rikku in all her FFX incarnations...and both Princess Clara and Toots Braunstein in Drawn Together.

Then there's Cam Clarke, who's done over 100 roles in various media (the first Kaneda, a He-Man, Ryudo and Symphonia's Kratos, for starters), and any number of Japanese seiyuu I could get into. Anyone else I missed?

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