Voice of an icon
PUBLIC awareness of Captain America has skyrocketed faster than a speeding bullet in recent years thanks to the success of the live-action films Marvel’s The Avengers and Captain America: The First Avenger. As the voice behind Steve Rogers in Disney XD’s Avengers Assemble cartoon, Roger Craig Smith was faced with a conundrum – should he stick to what the live-action Cap sounds like, or put his own spin on the character?
“We are very conscious of the fact that there is an audience out there that is very aware of the popularity of the live-action films. But we are not trying to emulate or mimic them in any way,” he said in a phone interview from the United States.
According to him, the cartoon version of Captain America is more of a boy scout than his live-action counterpart, which is unsurprising considering that it is a cartoon aimed at children after all.
“Our version of Cap has tremendous experience being a leader, and definitely does things by the book, always has a definitive plan of attack, and an organised approach,” said Smith.
“He is also having trouble with having to work with Tony Stark and co-lead the team, and accepting that other members of the team have a different approach to things.
“But at his core, he is still the model boy scout and military guy we’ve all come to love throughout all the different generations of the comics and movies.”
Besides being the voice of Captain America in both Disney XD’s Ultimate Spider-Man and Avengers Assemble series, Smith is also the current voice behind Chris Redfield in the Resident Evil videogame series, Ezio Auditore da Firenze in the Assassin’s Creed games, and Batman in Batman: Arkham Origins.
With Cap being one morally upright characters Marvel, Smith also feels
to uphold the good captain represents. there are people who characters. Anytime a role like Captain America, are people out there know that the people for bringing these characters have a reverence for from the animators to actors to the writers.
“I try to be very mindful character’s integrity, well that I’ve been hired and it’s my responsibility accordingly and not company or the character. follow me on Twitter,