Why is it, that every other hero has a voice actor from their region they are meant to be from yet Junkrat has an american voice actor trying to be Australian. As an Australian i find this very wrong…
I dont like not like the voice acting, i think its good. But shouldnt it have been an Australian?
Reinheardt tho
Proves my point even more then. Why have South American voice a charc from South America then? Is it because of the accent they want to get right? Well I can tell you the accent for Junkrat isnt Australian.
Just think if Hugh Jackman did it…
I mean, several characters are just Americans doing accents. Rein, Torb, Mercy, Sym, Sombra, Hanzo, and Junk all fit that description I’m pretty sure. Hog is an American not even trying to do an accent. Yeah, it sucks, but what do you want them to do, recast after all these years?
Tracer is a Londoner voiced by a woman from Yorkshire. This is less egregious, but give us a proper Yorkshire lad/lass for OW2, please devs. 
Yes i do want them to recast. As for some of the charcs you have mention. They may be American but have the heritage from that country that they are trying to represent.
I really don’t see why this matters. All of the voice actors did a fantastic job.
I am not saying that havent. Where did my post say that they had? Please enlighten me.
I am saying that i would like it if an Australian was the voice of an Australian hero in overwatch.
Then I’ll say it again. I dont see why where a voice actor is from matters.
Why does it matter if a hero is Homosexual, Transgender, Handicapped, etc. Yet there are heroes who embody this. It is because people want to identify with them. And an American trying to be Australian doesn’t sit right with me.
Am i not allowed to bring something that i wanted to changed into a forum discussion? God forbid i don’t get trolled for it…
You’ll get your wish when Junkerqueen’s released. Siho Ellsmore is Australian 
It doesn’t.
Sure you are. As long as the voice actor did a good job bringing the character to life, I just dont see why it matters where they’re from.
Ah yes. Someone disagreeing with you means they’re trolling.
Wanting them to recast because of this is essentially the same as saying they did a bad job
I get where you’re coming from, but if you like the job they did then why does it matter?
Bad accent aside, Junkrat VA captured him perfectly.
It’s fine.
Because it would cost a fortune to fly people in from all over the world to have an “authentic” voice actor? Never mind I doubt many would even want the job for how little most VA get paid. If you take a “local” from said region I am sure people would complain they weren’t “Native” because they hadn’t lived there in X amount of years.
I mean this is Blizzard so yeah It’s surprising they didn’t instantly bend the knee to this kind of thinking. But it’s also one of those things in where you will never make the kinds of people who complain about this happy.
It’s also funny to try and say a real world Australian would speak in the same way as a crazy “Junker” from an Australia that suffered a nuclear fall out and war with Omniacs.
Let’s give the voice actor job to OP.
I love how these forums!
they could have just recorded jeff kaplan read the voice lines in his normal voice and it would be more tolerable than the horrible annoying voice they have for junkrat now
… It seems you think Voice Acting means saying things in your voice. This is not what it is.
You can have a judgement on whether or not the voice actor who did junks lines did a good job of duplicating an Australian accent, but asking that all characters have voice actors that are that characters nationality/regionality/race defeats the point of Voice Acting.
Many MANY professional VA’s study for years and years learning how to duplicate accents, vocabularies and cadences. It was interesting to learn that nearly every character in HalfLife is the same 2/3 guys.
Actors need to be able to seem to be from wherever their character is supposed to be from but Voice Actors don’t need to look like them.
Say it’s bad. Sure. But asking that they BE from wherever the characters from is silly.
It might make it easier, but just like Cassidy doesn’t talk like any southerner I know of not in a movie, junk is feasibly from a nuclear wasteland Australia.
In all honesty, as an Australian Junkrat’s inauthentic accent is very obvious, and New Zealanders have it worse as they have to listen to an American. Just…a shameless American accent on a supposed New Zealander.
With characters like Reinhardt who obviously don’t have VAs from their homeland voicing them, I don’t think it matters as much simply because I can imagine most German players are playing Overwatch in German, and that is presumably filled with German voice actors. But Australia and NZ are English-speaking countries, and are going to be playing the game in its original language.
I agree that the VA’s country doesn’t matter as much as their ability to pull off the character’s accent. You know I’m Australian, but I reckon if I became a VA I’d be asked to play British characters more than Australian characters because I have the accent and can play it up better than the small bits of Aussie I have in my voice. But, while both VAs did an excellent job overall (cannot stress that enough), they were both weak in the accent department, which is understandable because these are difficult accents to imitate, but regardless I can very much see where OP is coming from.
As far as I know, possible PTSD won’t give you an American accent… 
Question: What if, in the future where Overwatch takes place, that’s just what an Australian accent sounds like?