Vic has confirmed before he is the voice of Broly mostly because he's always been the voice of Broly. He took the role not knowing what he was signing up for, immediately regret it and lost his voice, thought he was done since it was a one off villain who died...and then found out to his horror for the next decade that every time someone needed a Broly voice they'd call him saying 'hey, you're Broly, we need you'. And this eventually extended to Toei going 'he's Broly, right? Okay, use him.'
Incredible that this ~16-year-old weak-ass shit gained so much traction. Rekieta hyped these up so much that I thought we'd get a bombshell of an audio recording.
Oh well, serves them right. Shouldn't have put on this holier-than-thou attitude. Now everyone knows this zero-tolerance regarding their rules of conduct is absolute hogwash.
Can't wait for the next round of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes".
Nick hyped it up like this because he knew it was going to play out exactly the way it's playing out. He isn't offended by this type of thing, but he's also not an ignoramus. He knows what the 'normal person' is going to think, and what the media vultures are going to do, and
most importantly what the business lawyers are going to do. Disney fired their huge moneymaker James Gunn
instantly when news broke of him saying less offensive stuff than this. He managed to come back from it, but that was a comparatively smaller PR blunder.
I know some people get agitated by the concept of PR and image in this situation, but Nick is very aware of it, and he plays it to his advantage. The PR image isn't of that much consequence to the lawsuit, but Nick has said from day 1 that it's a two-pronged battle, both legal and PR. Regardless of how other people feel, Nick is going to play it that way. Thus, while this is pretty minor on the lawsuit front - Funimation can work it to try to excuse themselves and come up with legal reasons why they weren't breaking the rules ('our policies have changed over the years, the VAs would never do this now' 'we had no knowledge of these clips, they were saved by employees no longer with us') but they can't escape the PR nightmare of it. The people they wanted to please won't forgive them for it, and the casuals who clicked on the trend, recoiled in horror, and then moved on will never hear the excuses or resolution. They'll just remember forever that Funimation VAs did something gross.
I think that's where some of the disconnect and disappointment might come from. Nick hyped it, people inferred this would be a huge blow on the law side of things (Sabat screaming at Kamehacon, or pressuring women into sex or something that would wreck them legally), but instead it's an unmitigated PR disaster instead. And with that success, if the mole isn't found, I bet we'll get even more spicy leaks later.
Shane's shit takes. He's begging to get sued.
A defamation suit requires damage to have been done. Shane's not important enough to do damage to anyone but himself.
Didn’t a bunch of girls and women all tell similar stories about him making them uncomfortable by getting physical? Didn’t he cop to and apologize for at least some of it? I don’t remember exactly because I don’t really give a shit but it seems like he at least did something.
He’s right though.
You're incorrect. You should do some research.
Some women who got together on a secret discord to 'coordinate' came out with similar sounding stories to each other. Vic unilaterally denied all of their salacious claims. A whole ton of fujoshi came forward with second, third, and fifth-hand nonsense accounts that meant nothing and couldn't be substantiated. Every claim from any kind of credible source has been rather thoroughly debunked, and keeps mutating with new conflicting details each time it gets told (or debunked), and zero actual evidence has surfaced of Vic doing
literally anything even remotely scandalous. Except cheating on his fiancee with adult women, I guess. But that has nothing to do with any of his accusations nor what got him fired and cancelled from all of life forever more.
Vic apologized for making people potentially uncomfortable, and was really hurt over the idea that maybe he might have hugged someone who didn't want it and thus caused them harm. That's all. All people who have since come out claiming they didn't want the hug they received (and have a photo of happening) say 'oh, I wanted it THEN, but now years later I realize he's a creep, so ew!) - He also once said that he touched a co-worker's hair after being invited to do so, and people now twist that to claim he yanked said coworker's hair and head back violently and whispered sexual stuff in her ear.
So there you go. What you've heard are rumors spun to make Vic specifically sound bad by the people intent on destroying him. If you're wondering 'but why would people even bother?' it's for two reasons: his castmates HATE that he makes so much more money than them at cons, and crazy yaoi fangirls literally want him to die because he doesn't sign yaoi stuff. This is verified.
