{"id":106976,"date":"2026-03-11T09:12:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/mega-man-voice-actor-wont-return-for-sequel-because-capcom-wont-go-union\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:12:35","slug":"mega-man-voice-actor-wont-return-for-sequel-because-capcom-wont-go-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.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> <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, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/mega-man-dual-override\/\">Mega Man: Dual Override<\/a> is slated to bring back Capcom&#8217;s iconic hero. However, Ben Diskin&#8211;the actor who voiced the title character in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/mega-man-11\/\">Mega Man 11<\/a>&#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 <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/bendiskin.bsky.social\/post\/3mgptqfghgc2y\">Bluesky<\/a>. &#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><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\/\">Continue Reading at GameSpot<\/a><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\">Source link <\/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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}