{"id":35309,"date":"2026-03-11T07:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35309"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:45:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:45:34","slug":"mega-man-voice-actor-wont-return-for-sequel-because-capcom-wont-go-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35309","title":{"rendered":"Mega Man Voice Actor Won&#039;t Return For Sequel Because Capcom Won&#039;t Go Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1837\/18375603\/4664558-megaman11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a long hiatus between Mega Man games, Mega Man: Dual Override is slated to bring back Capcom&#8217;s iconic hero. However, Ben Diskin&#8211;the actor who voiced the title character in Mega Man 11&#8211;has revealed that he won&#8217;t be returning for Dual Override because Capcom is refusing to abide by SAG-AFTRA regulations in the next game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With a broken Blue Bomber heart, I am no longer the voice of Mega Man,&#8221; Diskin wrote in a post on Bluesky. &#8220;I was asked to return for Mega Man: Dual Override, but only on the condition I work without the protections of a union contract.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Diskin, one of the reasons he refused the offer was a potential lack of AI protections, which Capcom insists are already part of the contract. But without SAG-AFTRA&#8217;s backing, Diskin may not have been able to enforce that contract provision.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/mega-man-voice-actor-wont-return-for-sequel-because-capcom-wont-go-union\/1100-6538705\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long hiatus between Mega Man games, Mega Man: Dual Override is slated to bring back Capcom&#8217;s iconic hero. However, Ben Diskin&#8211;the actor who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3622,4415,140,4507,2257,2506,7491,3005,17790],"class_list":["post-35309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-actor","tag-capcom","tag-man","tag-mega","tag-return","tag-sequel","tag-union","tag-voice","tag-won039t","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}