Bearing in mind that he went on Twitter and ranted about how Bill Gates used Chemtrails to give him Parkinson’s using Beast Boy’s face I think there’s definitely a reason to fire him, whether or not you think it’s justified
I mean he’s also been reposting stuff like this that is insensitive and conspiratorial. There are real genocides happening in the world and people like him grossly trivialize it to benefit an agenda that absolutely has gotten people killed.
I mean, if Tom Kenny got to keep his career voicing SpongeBob after this SNL skit, then I think Beast Boy deserves a little more forgiveness. Art ≠ Artist. His coo-coo-bananas ideals aside, it seems harsh.
I don’t wanna stick up for the corporation, but he never actually says WHY he was fired. There’s more to this story than what we know here, they couldn’t just fire him without reason.
Literally. After the whole shit show with Bayonetta's original voice actress, i'd rather wait for the full picture to come out before talking shit about a certain situation.
It was like 2-3 years ago so my recollection of the news isn't 100% accurate:
Hellena Taylor, the VA for Bayonetta in the first 2 games, came out with the video a bit before the release of Bayonetta 3, saying that she had been offered $4000 to do BY3 and she did not like this, therefore she urged people to boycott the game.
Jason Schreier, a journalist with valid credentials and credibility, came out with a report that the people behind BY3 had actually offered her around $15000, which is WAY more than other union actors get. I think they offered her a standard rate AFTER she declined their offer, but only as a cameo.
Hellena admitted to leaving those "small details" out of her original video; Hideki Kamiya found this “untrue, sad and deplorable”.
Hideki, the dev team and Jennifer Hale, the voice actress they got to replace Hellena, had been harassed online nonstop for days/weeks after Hellena's video, so they weren't exactly pleased.
Other VAs were VERY pissed off since Hellena was getting paid very well for her work and still wanted more, and now that she was caught lying about it, she basically "set back" a lot of the work other voice actors had done for fair compensation practices in the industry.
Obviously fans were not happy about being manipulated and well you can guess what goes after.
The bayonetta actress said they left the role because they were offered 4000 dollars as pay for a cameo appearance, which obviously is a bit low for one of their biggest roles, and a cameo in her own game? fans initially rallied behind her but they noticed she was acting a bit weird when asked certain questions that a conservative would act weird about, not that it mattered in the moment, the more important thing was highlighting the low pay of VA work in these days.
Later, Platinum Games, the devs of Bayonetta, would say that the role was initially for TEN THOUSAND dollars which later got bumped up to FIFTEEN THOUSAND. Not quite the dire numbers painted by the actress. The cameo money was because she REFUSED the initial offer.
People then turned on her and noted that her tweets were really very weird and did not paint her in a good light, to put it lightly (pun intended).
I also just wanna point out this is the second time (to my knowledge) a franchise by Hideki Kamiya had the main actor go apeshit and get fired because of it (the other time being Dantes actor going insane about Anti-vaxx and stuff, thats why he was voiced by Nero in the anime.)
Reuben Langdon didn't get fired, he was doing crazy conspiracy stuff before DMC5 and they kept him on anyway. He is still doing crazy conspiracy stuff and he will probably remain as Dante for DMC6, same way he reprised his role in a very recent official collab.
Ppl assume being a space-hippie conspiracy theorist automatically makes you incapable of doing your job, I assume Rueben has never stepped on anyone's toes with his beliefs which is why he gets the best of both worlds being a tin-foil hat guy and also the mocap/voice-actor for THE COOLEST character in all of video games.
Moral of the story is being a normal, sensible person while still having confidence in ur insane sci-fi beliefs actually /=/ (does not equal) weirdo, it equals the guy who has probably been diligently delivering ur mail for the last 10 years.
I wondered why they had Nero’s VA voice Dante in the anime. Made me sad when I first found that out as it made me think they weren’t going to put Nero in the anime ever (don’t know why, since they could just use a different VA if they wanted Nero in the anime). If they make DMC 6 (not holding my breath) I hope Dante isn’t voiced by Nero’s VA. I could get past it in the anime, but Dante’s sounding like Nero in the game would just sound wrong, especially if they also have Nero in the game. I would prefer Nero be the only character playable in the main story over that (I really like Nero). The perfect solution would be to get a new VA for Dante that isn’t Nero’s VA (especially if that means Nero gets a new VA due to him losing his old VA. I need Dante to sound like Ichigo)
Or they could fire him because of this and make up another reason I’ve heard of cases like that before and they get sued if they get caught for it but they don’t always get caught and it’s the individuals word against the company’s.
Yea I’ll give you that it is a little suspicious he didn’t give their reasoning or a counter we should wait and see if there’s more that comes out later since the company may make a statement and he may make a follow up at some point.
Probably NDA even if the internet loves vigilante stories of sticking it up to the man an NDA is gonna fuck you hard. So probably he gotta good package going on after he was fired and signed an NDA or an ongoing NDA about not speaking about the company.
If the state he’s considered employed in is an “at will employment” state they legally aren’t required to give a reason. The only thing that could make this an unlawful firing is if it was for an illegal reason like the Parkinson’s.
I know Greg Cipes has had a history of controversial Anti-Vaxx and pro-NFT statements, but even so wouldn't WB have also fired Tara Strong who has had WAY more controversial opinions beyond that? Assuming everyone here is telling the truth, it’s such an odd and evil thing to do, even for WB.
Uuummm... I don't want to sound like I bootlick corpos... But I'm guessing he got fired because he posts conspiracy theories while having Beastboy as his profile.
Well, if being an antivaxxer isn't enough to get the head of US health department fired then I don't think it's gonna help WB in the wrongful termination case
I mean, it’s not going to help them but I really doubt that the U.S government (especially in its current state) is going to care about what happens to the Beast Boy voice actor…
Tbh I could actually see current administration taking him in as a martyr, fired by the "liberal Hollywood" over "not following woke agenda" as a way of sticking it to the studios. Greg Cipes wouldn't even have to be antivaxxer consipiracy theorist (which I won't say one way or the other as I don't know)
But whether they would or not, it doesn't stop the VA from suing WB in a civil case, as wrongful termination suits don't fall under penal code
While I love his beast boy, him being an anti-vaxxer is probably what got him fired i doubt they would risk firing him over Parkinsons and have to deal with the PR nightmare that is. Like most anti-vaxxers he's probably playing the victim here. I lost a family member to Parkinsons and to use that as a way to spread anti-vax bullshit is disgusting so I have no remorse for the guy.
Not really. It's not harmful to think like that and literally he ain't spreading stuff to kids or the DC brand. So I don't think it was his takes on COVID or the government, cause if that's the case a lot of celebs would be fired by now lol
Except for it is quite harmful to spread misinformation about medicine that saves lives. Anyone who has a platform and uses it to spread this gross shit should be fired.
Important context is missing, he's using Beast Boy as his PFP while claiming dangerous pseudoscience such as his parkinsons being caused by vaccines and chemtrails, or claiming he can use magic crystals to cure himself.
Don’t want to defend WB or Zaslav, but he was probably fired for being the face of a children’s TV show while simultaneously proclaiming all modern medicine is poison and that drinking your own urine and fasting are the only cures to diseases.
Can we stop promoting this misinfo? He got fired for using the Beast Boy image to spread the lie that Bill Gates gave him Parkinson’s through COVID and that Parkinson’s can be cured with magic crystals and shit
I really really hate to try and play devil’s advocate here, but I wonder what Sam Register’s reason for this is. I can’t imagine it was purely due to Parkinson’s, so long as he can maintain his voice acting ability, right? Not to mention it was probably planned since before the announcement? Is it an insurance thing? The more I try to wrap my head around it, the harder it gets. He’s by all means Beast Boy, so I’m wondering what could have spurred this decision?
I legit think it’s an inside job at this point, they’re clearly trying to kill their entire animation… EVERYTHING and kill off any and all IPs they have. Like what the fuck? It’s insane
Every tree will always have some rotten apples, but WB has been doing such big mistakes in the last years that is almost as if someone was sabotaging them from the inside.
Does it even affect his ability to do voice acting? What the fuck? Even if it did, It’s still shitty to immediately fire him like holy shit. Do they not know they can get sued? “Ah yes, let’s get rid of an asset that’s well beloved by our consumers, has a long time working relationship most likely with many of our other workers, cause an instant loss of millions in the courts, well before the disease would even have a chance to make them less capable of earning us money! Why? WE FUCKING HATE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES RAGGHHHHHHHHH”
Idk what it even does so I looked it up, it’s a moving around thing. The most they’d have to do is probably hire him a physical therapist maybe or give him easier to work with schedules, like what in the actual fuck
Does it even affect his ability to do voice acting?
Well, it generally impacts your ability to control muscles, including facial and possibly vocal ones. However it didn't stop Michael J. Fox from acting in shows like Good Wife. And in Good Wife it was a full live action performance which is generally more physically demanding than doing voice acting.
I'm no expert but sounds to me like they might as well fire the rest of the cast too cause they aged and that has similar impact on vocal performance as early stages of Parkinsons
However it didn't stop Michael J. Fox from acting in shows like Good Wife
Yes - as a character with a neurological condition. His character was specifically written with his Parkinson's in mind. And he never appeared in more than a third of a season's episodes, and frequently had gaps of months between his appearances to make the workload as easy as possible for him.
I'm no expert but sounds to me like they might as well fire the rest of the cast too cause they aged and that has similar impact on vocal performance as early stages of Parkinsons
You cannot make that claim if you're not an expert. You don't know anything about the severity of Cipes' Parkinson's or how it manifests.
Me binging a lot of Suits recently might be showing but that sounds like a slum dunk case of wrongful termination which should net Greg Cipes a nice settlement payout. WB would have to assemble the AvengersJusticeInjustice League of slimey lawyers to even the odds - I'm talking at least 10 times as slimey as the attorney arguing the case of wrongful death after a woman died of peanut allergy at a Disneyland restaurant should be dismissed because the husband signed up for free Disney+ trial and the ToS for it said they agreed to waive their right to sue Disney outside of small claims court or whatever.
Man, I thought this was made up. Why the fuck are they soooooo horrible? I know multi-billion dollar corporations are evil, but it feels like they're trying to set a record (one they're losing, but still)
I think at this point it would be in the best interest of DC to break off from WB and do they’re things independent because as it stands right now…the executives in charge are more interested in the money of fans rather then the success their projects.
no one's gonna replace him because if someone does, the entire team and fans gonna know he was the guy who replaced the previous guy who got fired from having parkinson
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u/Noobsysys 1d ago
No-no. He used Beast Boy’s image to say that you can cure Parkinsons with magic crystals and shit.