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Rachael Lillis, dub voice of Pokemon's Misty, Jessie, Jigglypuff and others for years, has died of cancer just five months after diagnosis, as announced by castmate Veronica Taylor, longtime voice of Ash. (twitter.com)
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– BetterNameUnfound [S] 23 points 1 year ago +23 / -0

Strangely enough, I don't think Lillis got the jab.

I found a tweet from 2010 showing her skeptical of any jabs.

Regardless, she was only 46 years old. A tragedy.

(Correction, she was 55, not 46. Still far too young.)

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– MostlyPeacefulPoster 24 points 1 year ago +24 / -0

That's not really good evidence tbh. I knew a woman who was dead set against the covid vaccine but she got the covid vaccine because she wanted to travel. Women are easily influenced by things like the covid scenario. The statement you linked is pretty weak. I'd say there's like a 75% chance she got the covid vaccine.

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– BetterNameUnfound [S] 16 points 1 year ago +16 / -0

I looked all over her Twitter, searching for "vaccine" and "COVID." I couldn't find anything about her saying she got it.

In fact, in looking for it, I found the 2010 anti-vax tweet linked above.

But I see your point. Just five months after diagnosis? That sounds like turbo-cancer.

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– ThreeLights 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

If she was anti-vax pre-Covid, I lean that she just got cancer outside the shot. Pre-Covid, there was a lot more uniformed peer pressure. With the clot-shots, it was very vitriolic but more people became skeptical.

As for cancer, pancreatic cancer is extremely hard to spot. Most people don’t know they have it until late stages (well after the curable early stages.) She probably refused treatment at the late stage due to only prolonging the suffering.

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– CatoTheElder 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Yet somehow Ruth Bader-Ginsburg somehow survived for years with pancreatic cancer. It was 2 months form diagnosis to death for someone I knew IRL.

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– weezkitty 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

Some types of cancers only show symptoms are a late stage

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– Norenia 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Sounds just like what happened with Billy Kametz; Colon Cancer in his case. And this is the point where I am going to HEAVILY recommend home testing kits for colon cancer screening, even if you're well under the age recommended for it. I've already seen two well-known under-40s die from it. The testing kits aren't expensive, GET CHECKED.

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– ParadigmShift2070 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

https://imgflip.com/i/9064wk

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– Adamrises 13 points 1 year ago +13 / -0

I mean, people did die before the vaxx existed. Many of them unfortunately very young, often because of the bitchfuck that is cancer.

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– WhoIsThatMaskedMan 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

She was 55. Not much better, but a far cry from 46 in terms of cancer rates. They really skyrocket in your 50s. The NYT was wrong about her age because journalists aren't good at anything at all, ever.

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– BetterNameUnfound [S] 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

You are correct. I will fix it.

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– SoctaticMethod1 16 points 1 year ago +16 / -0

Fuck cancer because I KNOW there are treatments for it but they keep them off the market for 'profitability'

Much too young and so many memories created from her work.

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– BetterNameUnfound [S] 12 points 1 year ago +12 / -0

I was stunned to learn how young she was.

The Pokemon anime first aired here in 1998, days before the launch of the Game Boy games that started the nationwide craze. I was there for it--you have no idea just how massive it got unless you lived through it.

That means she was only 20 when the series first aired--and depending on when the dub was recorded, she may have been a teenager when she first performed her most famous roles.

(Correction: Nope, she was 29 when the show premiered.)

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– ernsithe 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0

They got the timing perfect with that one. Game launched in JP in 1996. Anime started in JP in 1997.

Then they knew they were sitting on a goldmine and went into US syndication twenty days before the NA game launch.

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– weezkitty 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

That means she was only 20 when the series first aired--and depending on when the dub was recorded, she may have been a teenager when she first performed her most famous roles.

A teenager voicing the lines for people presumed to be kids/teens makes a lot of sense.

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– ParadigmShift2070 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

Damn you could say she grew up with all of us

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– realerfunction 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

so many batteries were sacrificed

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– Devidose 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

Meanwhile, Babylon 5 had already lost half it's cast while TNG is only just now feeling the effects, and that's e before getting to DS9 which was more analogous to B5 despite both Odo and Nog having died so far.

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– J_Darnley 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

I hadn't heard the actor playing Nog had died. Shame

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– Devidose 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

Odo was more straightforward as Rene was almost 80 when he died, but Aron Eisenberg was short because he only ever had one kidney which didn't work that well in the first place, so preexisting health issues that eventually led to his early death at the age of 50 almost 5 years ago in Sept 2019, eerily only 3 months before Rene also died.

The actor was born with only one kidney, which was defective and failed when he was in his early teens. He went on dialysis at age 14 and had his first transplant at 17, from a cadaver.

The actor for Jake hit a massive growth spurt so literally towered over Nog in the end as a result despite the character originally existing to give Jake a friend "his own age" even with Aron/Nog being 6 years older than Cirroc/Jake.

It happens, actors get older, they die, but Babylon 5 feels cursed with how many actors have already gone.

Sinclair, G'Kar, Delenn, Garabaldi, Vir, Dr Franklin, Zach Allen, Zathras. That's a lot of the core cast and several of the most significant secondary cast.

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– J_Darnley 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Now that you've said all that some it sounds familiar. Thanks.

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– Assassin47 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

Didn't even hear about that one. RIP.

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– alucard13mmfmj 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0

now her, i feel very sad that she died, especially from cancer and at a relatively young age.. unlike that susan bitch from youtube.

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– Norenia 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

Despite how I feel about actors these days, there's no denying what she contributed to to our youth. It was definitely an interesting feeling, familiarizing myself with her voice (and others), and then straight up hearing them elsewhere, in a classic RPG- Valkyrie Profile, where she was both Jelanda (bratty princess with her Misty voice) and Mystina (bitchy sorceress with her Jessie voice). Those really were the good days.

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– deleted 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

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