{"id":5487,"date":"2026-03-11T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/mega-man-voice-actor-wont-return-for-sequel-because-capcom-wont-go-union\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T05:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:00:06","slug":"mega-man-voice-actor-wont-return-for-sequel-because-capcom-wont-go-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/mega-man-voice-actor-wont-return-for-sequel-because-capcom-wont-go-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Man Voice Actor Won&#039;t Return For Sequel Because Capcom Won&#039;t Go Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/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<\/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 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","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[256,2901,1600,3272,4566,5076,5439,463,5438],"class_list":{"0":"post-5487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-actor","9":"tag-capcom","10":"tag-man","11":"tag-mega","12":"tag-return","13":"tag-sequel","14":"tag-union","15":"tag-voice","16":"tag-won039t"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}