The Announcers are off-screen characters in the Metal Slug series.
Information
The Announcer provides information on what's going on screen such as collecting an item, entering a new mission, or a player's status. Most of the time they'll yell in an exaggerated manner often humorously mispronouncing words (e.g. "Rock-it Lawnchair" or "Mow-bee-al Sat-tall-light").
As new weapons and characters are introduced in the series, a new announcer will voice them. Bits and pieces of previous announcers are sometimes heard in newer games.
Voice Clips
Below are a list of lines each announcer shouts. Those with a [U] are unused. Since their voice actors are unknown, they'll be referred by ordinal numbers:
- 1st: Metal Slug and Metal Slug 2.
- 2nd: Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug 4, Metal Slug 5, Metal Slug Advance, Metal Slug Defense, and Metal Slug Attack.
- 3rd: Metal Slug 6, Metal Slug 3D, and Metal Slug 7.
- 4th: Metal Slug XX.
| Line | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
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| "Metal Slug!" | ||||
| "Metal Slug 2!" | ||||
| "Metal Slug X!" | ||||
| "Metal Slug 3!" [U][1] | ||||
| "Metal Slug XX!" | ||||
| "Mission Start!" | ✔ | |||
| "Mission 1 Start!" | ||||
| "Mission 2 Start!" | ||||
| "Mission 3 Start!" | ||||
| "Mission 4 Start!" | ||||
| "Mission 5 Start!" | ||||
| "Mission 6 Start!" | ||||
| "Mission 7 Start!" to "Mission 10 Start |
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| "Mission 11 Start!" to "Mission 20 Start!"[U][2] |
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| "Final Mission Start!" | ||||
| "Mission Complete!" | ||||
| "Mission All Over!" | ||||
| "You're Great!" | ||||
| "Continue?!" | ||||
| "Game Over!" | [U][3] | |||
| "Heavy Machine Gun!" | ||||
| "HeAvY MaChInE GuN!" | ||||
| "Flame Shot!" | ||||
| "FlAmE ShOt!" | ||||
| "Rocket Launcher!" | ||||
| "RoCkEt LaUnChEr!" | ||||
| "Shotgun! | ||||
| "Laser!" | ||||
| "Laser Gun!" | ||||
| "Enemy Chaser!" | ||||
| "Iron Lizard!" | ||||
| "Drop Shot!" | ||||
| "Super Grenade!" | ||||
| "Two Machine Gun(s)!" | Metal Slug 4
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| "Double Machine Gun!" | ||||
| "Sniper Rifle!" | ||||
| "Zantetsu Sword!" | ||||
| "Thunder Shot!" | ||||
| "Grenade!" | ||||
| "Fire Bomb!" | ||||
| "Stone!" | ||||
| "Armor Piercer!" | ||||
| "Thunder Cloud!" | ||||
| "Mobile Satellite!" | ||||
| "Smoke Bomb!" | ||||
| "Monolith!" | ||||
| "OK!" | ||||
| "Uh-oh! Big!" | [U][4] | |||
| "Emergency!"[2] | ||||
| "Caution!" | ||||
| "Raze the place!" | ||||
| "Annihilate the enemy! | ||||
| "Destroy the target!" | ||||
| "Hightail it to the target!" | ||||
| "Danger!" | ||||
| "Get Out!" | ||||
| "Bingo!" [U][3] | ||||
| "Yeehaw!" [U][3] | ||||
| "Here We Go!" [U][3] | ||||
| "Power up! [U][3] | ||||
| "Yah!" [U][3] | ||||
| "Marco!" | ||||
| "Eri!" | ||||
| "Tarma!" | ||||
| "Fio!" | ||||
| "Ralf!" | ||||
| "Clark!" | ||||
| "Leona! |
Metal Slug: 2nd Mission
The announcer in Metal Slug: 2nd Mission is different from the others due to using a different weapon set. His voice clips include the following:
| Line | Audio |
|---|---|
| "Metal Slug: 2nd Mission!" | |
| "Heavy Machine Gun!" | |
| "Rocket Launcher!" | |
| "Grenade Gun!" | |
| "Shotgun!" | |
| "Bazooka!" | |
| "Fire Gun!" | |
| "Missile Pod!" | |
| "Pineapple!" | |
| "Missiles!" |
Note that having the announcer on causes the music to start over anytime he speaks.
Trivia
- The first announcer also provides the voice for the golfers in Neo Turf Masters, another game by Nazca Corporation in association with SNK.
- In Metal Slug 4, the second announcer's voice is sometimes slowed down. In Metal Slug Advance, his voice is sped up.
- Only in the Xbox 360/Xbox One versions of Metal Slug XX does the 4th announcer shout the Final Mission. In any other version, it is instead shouted by the 3rd announcer.
- Metal Slug 4 and Metal Slug 5 both split the sound effects into separate sound files (for example, the gun cocking sound before the weapon name and "Mission" "3" "Start"). Metal Slug 4 has an unused "Six" announcer clip (S.E Set: 186F) not found in previous games. Putting the sound clips together gives this:
References
- ↑ Metal Slug 3, The Cutting Room Floor, https://tcrf.net/Metal_Slug_3_(Neo_Geo)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 aguila822, "Metal Slug Sound Effects 3", YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyBWEC6cn3Q
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Ragey0 and Ivo, "Metal Slug Info", The Random Hoo Haas Hub: Metal Slug: Missing in Action, http://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/msmia/1/index.html
- ↑ Ragey0 and Division 六, "Metal Slug 6 Info", The Random Hoo Haas Hub: Metal Slug: Missing in Action, http://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/msmia/6/index.html