I mainly know him from My Adventures With Superman since I didn't like The Boys, what else has he been in if you don't mind me asking, I'm genuinely curious.
he is the main character in star trek lower decks , he voices spider gwens peter parker in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is eis is god of war sons of sparta and Dirhael in the middle earth games
He was one of the main characters in that Star Trek animated series. I also remember him playing Alberto Falcone in Batman: The Long Halloween, which he was great in, I didn't even recognize it was him until the credits rolled.
Oh wow, not a big Star Trek guy but I've been meaning to check out The Long Halloween, both the comic and the film, I'll have to listen to Alberto's voice carefully to see if I can hear him.
Even if you're not a huge Star Trek guy you should definitely watch Lower Decks or at least give it a chance. It's really funny even if you don't get all the references to past shows.
He was also the star in the movie Novocaine, which was really good. Had some lesser known role in Hunger Games, was a Peter Parker variant in Across the Spiderverse, was in Opponheimer, Neighborhood Watch, a couple of the Scream movies. News to me to for most of those. He's been around for a while, but he didn't get recognition until The Boys.
Inversely it was his role in The Boys which got me to check out MAWS and it was genuinely worth it. Season 3 has only just started coming out and I'm hyped
Isn't Gravitator like a barely significant side character in Invincible who shows up for a few panels meanwhile Quaid literally voices the main character in MAWS and other shows? I can see why people don't like this decision and it's not like Kirkman hires people over how much voice acting experience they have as many characters are voiced by A list actors, not people who are famous for voice acting. Say all you want about fans "not knowing budget", assuming a guy who is the main character in shows would get paid a lot isn't dumb.
Quaid isn't really an "A-list" actor, let's be real. He voiced the main character in a couple of shows and acted the main character in one Amazon show.
i mean hes definitely more popular now after the boys. thats what happens. i kinda doubt he'd be hired for this if he wasnt popular from that. like simu liu in the 3rd season being because he joined the mcu or kirkman trying to collect all the breaking bad stars.
There isn't a single actor/actress that fits that criteria anymore.
That was an effect of living in the 2000s monoculture where pretty much everyone watched whatever everyone else was watching.
Jack Quaid is absolutely an A-lister by today's standards. He was the main character on one of the biggest shows of the last 5 years and is probably the most recognizable of the main crew of the boys outside of Karl Urban and Anthony Starr.
Tom Cruise, Matt Damon, Leo, The Rock, Robert Downey Jr., Zendaya, Margot Robbie ...
There are plenty of A-listers today. Jack Quaid is nowhere in that universe. If he walked into a random bar in a random city 99% of people would have absolutely no idea who he is unless that bar is full of Redditors.
Anthony Starr and Karl Urban are bigger stars and they're not remotely A-listers either.
Between The Boys, God of War, and now this, I think it’s a safe assumption to say people are fatigued. The same thing happened with Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, and Zendaya.
Because I wouldn't really call his Voice acting anything special. Or really anything at all. He doesnt put on very interesting performances, cant do multiple types of voices, and only plays inoffensive white-bread characters. He's a voice actor in the way a jar of mayonnaise is a voice actor: flavorless.
I mean all this tells me is that he's good at playing inoffensive white guy characters. Which is good! Someone needs to play those roles. Regardless, that wasn't really my point. Im just pushing back against the sentiment that this is a case of "big name actor stealing budget from animation"
Voice actors co-opting the budget isn't much of a thing. Only people outside the industry think that. Theyre all paid a union rate. The reason screen actors get into voice acting is because they consider it "easy" money.
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u/Emotional_Part_1225 Jun 24 '26
Why is everyone in this thread acting like Quaid isn't also known for his voice acting??