Resident Alien's Octopus Voice: Why He Sounds So Familiar
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Resident Alien season 2, episode 1, «Old Friends.»
SyFy's Resident Alien season 2 premiered, and with it, a new/old character returned in the form of the octopus–and his voice might sound very familiar to viewers. Resident Alien, based on the comics of the same name, was one of SyFy's best new shows of 2021 and delighted audiences. After the ending of the season 1 finale found Harry (Alan Tudyk) and Max (Judah Prehn) on Harry's spaceship heading out to space, the premiere of Resident Alien season 2 found them returning to Earth–or more accurately, crashing back to Earth. Harry is now grounded once again and back among the characters he's not sure he still hates and wants to kill or is secretly starting to care for.
One of those returning characters isn't human at all, however. One of the best running gags from season 1 looks to get even bigger in Resident Alien season 2's story: the octopus. Octopi, of course, are the closest thing Earth has to Harry's race, being descendants of aliens themselves. Unfortunately, the only octopi Harry ever gets to talk to are in a tank at the local restaurant, forever doomed to be turned into calamari. Resident Alien season 2's premiere introduced a new octopus who was even more talkative than the previous ones, even convincing Harry to break him out of the tank and run away with him. With the cephalopod's loquacious nature, audiences may have noted that his voice sounds incredibly familiar.
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That's because his voice is familiar, at least to anyone who watches anything in the sci-fi or nerdier genres. Resident Alien's octopus character is voiced by none other than Nathan
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