Mark Hamill is like the Tony Hawk of cartoon voice actors; in spite of the fact that he’s been doing it for decades and has played some of the most well known characters in some of the most popular shows around, everybody is still absolutely flummoxed to learn that their favourite character was voiced by Mark Hamill.
I am beside myself with this information. Absolutely dumbfounded. Spent my lunch break nearly crying in confusion and/or relevation reading a wikipedia article
I think my favourite is the short where Joker (voiced by Mark Hamill) teams up with the Trickster (voiced by Mark Hamill) to kidnap famous voice actor Mark Hamill (voiced by Mark Hamill), only for the villainous duo to be defeated by Swamp Thing (voiced by Mark Hamill).
Can’t forget Firelord Ozai
Which, of course, means that he’s been on both the giving and receiving ends of a scene in which an evil emperor torments a scar-faced teenager by shooting lightning out of his hands.
I’m still fascinated that this is literally how his career kicked off. He did voices for Hanna-Barbera before he even got his first TV acting jobs, let alone Star Wars.
Heck, strictly speaking Star Wars isn’t even Hamill’s first role in a theatrical feature film. Star Wars was released in theatres three months after Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards, in which Mark Hamill voices Sean the Elf King: