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Charles Michael "Charlie" Adler (born October 2, 1956)[1] is an American voice actor and voice director. He is known for his roles as Buster Bunny on Tiny Toon Adventures, Ed and Bev Bighead on Rocko's Modern Life and Ickis on Aaahh!!! Real Monsters. His credits also include Avengers Assemble, Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, Cow and Chicken, Earthworm Jim, G.I. Joe: Renegades, I Am Weasel and SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron.[2][3]

Charlie Adler
Adler in 2020
Born	(1956-10-02) October 2, 1956 (age 66) Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Voice actor voice director
Years active	1971–present

Early life

In the mid-1960s, Adler's family moved to Nanuet, New York and later to Massachusetts. He was given the nickname "Beanie" due to always wearing a Beanie cap. His sister Cheryl Adler is a psychotherapist who wrote the book Sober University.

Growing up, Adler was a self-described "TV junkie",[4] and an avid fan of Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Three Stooges and Irene Ryan's Granny Moses from The Beverly Hillbillies.

Career

Adler's first professional acting job was in a commercial in 1971.[1][5] Afterward, he took a hiatus from acting.[6] During this time, he worked a variety of jobs, including waiter, janitor, paper delivery man, floor stripper, house painter, remedial reading teacher and caretaker for an Episcopal church.

In 1984 and 1985 he starred as Arnold Beckoff in Torch Song Trilogy, for which he was nominated for the 1985 Helen Hayes Best Actor Award, in New York City before moving to California in 1986.[4][7]

Adler's first animation role was recorded in New York, voicing Spike in Rescue at Midnight Castle.[8]

In 1985, after convincing the head of the Abrams, Rubiloff and Lawrence agency to allow him to audition for their voice-over department,[8] Adler later attended a private audition for Ginny McSwain and Arlene Thornton. An agent had praised him in front of them as the "next Frank Welker".[9] McSwain recalls that "he blew their minds"[9] but he claims that initially they had no interest in him. Having no demo, they arranged for him to record an audition. He improvised characters during the tape, which impressed both McSwain and Thornton, however, left him so embarrassed with his performance that he performed with his back to them and his face hidden with a hat and sunglasses.[4]

His voice acting career took off when Adler landed the roles of Nat Smurfling in the fourth season of The Smurfs, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper on Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, Silverbolt on The Transformers and Eric Raymond, Techrat and Zipper in Jem.

He was disenchanted with live-action acting after working on The Redd Foxx Show, in which he portrayed Ralph/Rita. In an interview for The Magic Behind the Voices, Adler commented on the experience: "you spend your whole life going, "God, I just want to be in a TV show and have a parking space". Then I got it and it was just so not what I wanted to do."[4]

He became active in animation, his roles include reprising Spike on My Little Pony, Low-Light on G.I. Joe, Mr. O'Greasy on A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Deputy Fuzz and Tex Hex on Bravestarr, Cavey Jr. on The Flintstone Kids, Pinky Dalton on The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound, Quark and Zappy on Rockin' with Judy Jetson, the TurkeyBoy and sometimes Hamburglar in McDonald's commercials and The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald, Mad Dog, Hacksaw, and Howard Huge in TaleSpin, Dripple on Tom and Jerry Kids, and the titular character on Paddington Bear.

In 1990, Adler lent his voice to Buster Bunny on Tiny Toon Adventures.[7] Producer Tom Ruegger recalled that he and voice director Andrea Romano insisted Steven Spielberg cast him due to the "great deal of energy" he brought to Buster. In 1992, during the show's third season, he abruptly left the show after a disagreement with the producers; while voice actors with smaller roles in the show were given starring roles in its successor Animaniacs, he was offended when he was not offered a role in that series. John Kassir replaced him for the remainder of Tiny Toons.

In 1993, Adler went on to play Chance "T-Bone" Furlong on SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, Bill on The Terrible Thunderlizards, Ickis on Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Ed and Bev Bighead on Rocko's Modern Life, Stalker Slaughter on Captain Planet and the Planeteers and Screwball Squirrel, as well as reprising Dripple for Droopy, Master Detective.[4]

In 1995, Adler voiced several characters on What a Cartoon!. In the latter, he played Cow, Chicken and The Red Guy. No Smoking was a pilot created by David Feiss, which was greenlit to be a series in 1997 with him on board to reprise his characters, for a new series, titled I Am Weasel. Cow and Chicken ran from 1997 to 1999, receiving multiple awards and nominations, including an Annie Award for "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production" for Adler as Cow. Later on I Am Weasel was made into a spinoff series, in which he reprised both characters.

His voice directing career began in the late 1990s with Rugrats[10] and later collaborated with Klasky Csupo. Adler has directed The Wild Thornberrys, Rocket Power, All Grown Up!, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, The Replacements, among others.[11]

In 2002, Adler, with David Feiss and Michael Ryan, directed his own short film No Prom for Cindy.

Adler also voiced Dr. Peacock in Froot Loops commercials, Patrick Winks and Mr. Hornsby on Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, SAVO on Danger Rangers, Mr. Whiskers on Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, Optimatus on Loonatics Unleashed and Doctor Doom on The Super Hero Squad Show.

In 2007, Adler provided the voice of Starscream in Michael Bay's live-action Transformers film franchise. Just as Chris Latta voiced both Starscream and Cobra Commander[12] in the Sunbow cartoons, Adler voiced Cobra Commander on G.I. Joe: Resolute and G.I. Joe: Renegades. He also voiced the titular character in the webtoon Inspector Beaver.

Adler was the guest of honor at the 2017 edition of AnthroCon.[13]

His subsequent credits as voice director include Nickelodeon's Blaze and the Monster Machines, Wabbit (season 1), Kulipari: An Army of Frogs and Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny. He also plays MODOK on Avengers Assemble.

Filmography

Film

List of voice performances in direct-to-video and feature films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer	Popo	Credited as Charles Adler
1986	My Little Pony: The Movie	Spike, Woodland Creature
1986	Transformers: Five Faces of Darkness	Silverbolt, Guardian Prime	Direct-to-video
1987	G.I. Joe: The Movie	Low-Light
1987	The Chipmunk Adventure	Additional Voices
1988	BraveStarr: The Movie	Deputy Fuzz, Tex Hex
1989	Police Academy 6: City Under Siege	The Mastermind	Uncredited
1989	The Little Mermaid	Additional Voices
1990	Roller Coaster Rabbit	Carnival Barker	Uncredited Short film
1990	DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp	Additional Voices
1990	The Rescuers Down Under		Uncredited
1990	The Prince and the Pauper		Short film
1992	Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation	Buster Bunny, Usher	Direct-to-video
1992	Cool World	Nails	Credited as Charles Adler
1992	Aladdin	Gazeem, Melon Merchant, Nut Merchant
1993	Once Upon a Forest	Waggs
1998	Rusty: A Dog's Tale	Agent the Snake	Credited as Charles Adler
1998	The Rugrats Movie	United Express Driver
2000	Rugrats in Paris: The Movie	Inspector
2003	Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure	Templeton, Lurvy	Direct-to-video
2005	Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry	Grammy
2005	Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild	Beaver
2006	Bratz: Genie Magic	Reporter
2007	Transformers	Starscream
2009	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009	The Haunted World of El Superbeasto	Krongarr, Mooney McMoon, Albino Singer	Direct-to-video
2011	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Starscream
2013	Khumba	Wild Dog #1, Dassie Leader	Credited as Charles Adler
2015	Top Cat Begins	Granny Dibble
2015	Norm of the North	Forebear
2017	All I Want for Christmas Is You	Santa, Mr. Ingersoll, Dougie's Dad	Direct-to-video
2019	Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling	Ed Bighead, Bev Bighead, others	Netflix film

Animation

List of voice performances in animation

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983–89	The Smurfs	Natural "Nat" Smurfling
1984	My Little Pony	Spike
1985	The Pound Puppies	Flack	Credited as Charles Adler
1985–86	Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling	"Rowdy" Roddy Piper
1985–87	The Transformers	Silverbolt, Triggerhappy, others
1985–88	Jem	Eric Raymond, Zipper, Tech Rat, others
1986	Smurfquest	Natural "Nat" Smurfling	Television film
1986	The Glo Friends	Excavator, Glo Bug, Dipper Duck
1986	G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero	Low-Light, André Vélocité
1986	Inhumanoids	George Landisburg	Uncredited
1986–87	My Little Pony 'n Friends	Spike, Woebegone
1986–88	The Flintstone Kids	Captain Caveman Jr.
1986–90	The Real Ghostbusters	Osiris, Sandy Van Sanders, Elizabeth
1987	Sky Commanders	Kreeg
1987	Ultraman: The Adventure Begins	Andy	Television film
1987	DuckTales	Filler Brushbill, Pluck	Ep. "Much Ado About Scrooge"
1987	Little Clowns of Happytown	Pranky
1987	Pound Puppies	Shadow Monster	Uncredited Ep. "The Rescue Pups/Good Night, Sweet Pups"
1987	The Little Troll Prince	Stav	Television film
1987–88	Yogi's Treasure Hunt	Greed Monster
1987–88	BraveStarr	Deputy Fuzz, Tex Hex, others
1987–88	The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse	Bat-Bat, Moe
1988	The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound	Pinky Dalton, Pig, TV Announcer from Bit-2 News	Television film
1988	Rockin' with Judy Jetson	Quark, Zappy
1988	The New Yogi Bear Show	Additional Voices
1988	The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley
1988	Dino-Riders	Hammerhead, Turret, Lokus
1988	Christmas in Tattertown	Sidney the Spider
1988–89	Slimer!	Rafael
1988–90	A Pup Named Scooby-Doo	Mr. O'Greazy, others
1989	The Further Adventures of SuperTed	Wally	Ep. "Leave It to Space Beavers"
1989	The Karate Kid	Additional Voices	Ep. "My Brother's Keeper"
1989	Dink, the Little Dinosaur		Ep. "Phantom of the Cave/Dry River"
1989	Camp Candy
1989–90	Paddington Bear	Paddington Bear
1989–83	ABC Weekend Special	Mr. Funnbunny, Street Pig
1990	Wake, Rattle, and Roll	Igor Jr., Catula	Credited as Charles Adler
1990	Gravedale High	Additional Voices	Ep. "Cleo's Pen Pal"
1990	Timeless Tales from Hallmark	Ugly Duckling, Crocodile #1	Ep. "The Ugly Duckling"
1990	Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone	Rocky
1990	The Wizard of Oz	Cowardly Lion
1990–91	TaleSpin	Mad Dog, Hacksaw, Howard Huge
1990–92	Tiny Toon Adventures	Buster Bunny, others
1990–93	Tom & Jerry Kids	Dripple
1990–97	Bobby's World	Harry's Father
1991	Star Street: The Adventures of the Star Kids	Sagi, Moon, Gemo
1991	Yo Yogi!	Additional Voices
1991	ProStars
1991–92	Darkwing Duck	Major Trenchrot, Andy Ape, Loophole, Mr. Mikey
1991–96	Captain Planet and the Planeteers	Stalker Slaughter, Piebald, Thylacine, Newt
1992	Defenders of Dynatron City	Dr. Mayhem
1992	Goof Troop	Moe the Ghost, Igor, The Magician's Hat
1992	The Plucky Duck Show	Buster Bunny
1992	Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire	Additional Voices
1992–93	The Little Mermaid	Squid #1, Additional Voices
1992–95	Capitol Critters	Jammet
1992–97	Eek! The Cat	Bill, others
1993	Family Dog	Additional Voices
1993	2 Stupid Dogs	Greg
1993	Marsupilami	Additional Voices
1993	Biker Mice from Mars	Corroder Cody	Ep. "The Masked Motorcyclist"
1993	Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa	Additional Voices	Ep. "Circus Daze"
1993	Mighty Max	Ernie
1993	Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby	Rocky	Television film
1993	A Flintstone Family Christmas	Additional Voices
1993–94	Problem Child	Additional Voices
1993–94	Bonkers	Police Light, Tiny, others
1993–94	Cro	Steamer, Mojo, Big Red
1993–94	Sonic the Hedgehog	Snively	[14]
1993–94	SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron	Chance "T-Bone" Furlong, others
1993–94	Droopy, Master Detective	Dripple, Screwball Squirrel, Lightning Bolt
1993–96	Rocko's Modern Life	Ed Bighead, Bev Bighead, others
1994	Yogi the Easter Bear	Paulie	Television film
1994	Aladdin	Mechanicles
1994–96	Duckman	Sgt. Red Herring, Juan Asalas, Doctor
1994–97	Aaahh!!! Real Monsters	Ickis, others
1995	The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show	Smelly Deputy Chafe
1995	Beavis and Butt-Head	Mr. Adler
1995	What-a-Mess	Additional Voices
1995	Santo Bugito	Eaton Woode, Miguel	Credited as Charles Adler
1995–96	Earthworm Jim	Professor Monkey-For-A-Head, others
1995–97	The Mask: Animated Series	Pete, Sergeant Cole, Ice Cream Man
1995–97	What a Cartoon!	Various
1995–97	The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat	Felix the Cat, others
1995–99	Timon & Pumbaa	Irwin, others
1996	The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper	Additional Voices
1996	Tales from the Crypt	Smokey	Ep. "The Third Pig"
1996	The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest	Rawlings, Robber #2	Ep. "The Ballad of Belle Bonnet"
1996	Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series	Dr. Droid, Otto Maton, Flork
1996	Quack Pack	Additional Voices
1996	Project G.e.e.K.e.R.	Dr. Maston, Jake Dragonn, Gene Damage
1996	The Tick	Sarcastro	Ep. "The Tick vs. Education"
1996	Jungle Cubs	Ned
1996	Freakazoid	Buster Bunny	Ep. The Freakazoid
1997	Bruno the Kid	Additional Voices	Ep. "The Unfriendly Skies"
1997	Adventures from the Book of Virtues	Swindler, The Child	Ep. "Humility"
1997	Cave Kids	Bug	Ep. "Beanstalk Blues"
1997	Spicy City	Rocco, ZBig, Additional Voices
1997	Extreme Ghostbusters	Additional Voices	Ep. "The Unseen"
1997	Men in Black: The Series		Ep. "The Buzzard Syndrome"
1997–99	Todd McFarlane's Spawn
1997–99	Cow and Chicken	Cow, Chicken, The Red Guy, Cousin Boneless Chicken
1997–99	I Am Weasel	I.R. Baboon, The Red Guy, Cow, Chicken
1997–2006	Space Goofs	Candy Caramella, others	English dub
1998	Channel Umptee-3	Additional Voices	Ep. "The Lying Show"
1998	Oh Yeah! Cartoons	Herb Brush
1998	The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs	Additional Voices	Credited as Charles Adler
1998–2003	The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald	Hamburglar
1998	Mad Jack the Pirate	Additional Voices
1998	Toonsylvania
1999	Hey Arnold!	TV Announcer	Ep. "Love and Cheese/Weighing Harold"
1999	Johnny Bravo	Director, Fan #1
1999–2001	Rugrats	Ickis, Professor Spooky	Credited as Charles Adler
2000	Pepper Ann	C.J.	Ep. "Burn Hazelnut Burn/Career Daze"
2000	The Wild Thornberrys	Wrestlers	Ep. "Horse Sense"
2000	As Told by Ginger	Principal, Radio Announcer	Ep. "The Party"
2000	100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd	The Dogfather, Retriever
2000–01	Cartoon Cartoon Fridays	Chicken, I.R. Baboon, The Red Guy
2000–02	The New Woody Woodpecker Show	Woodrow Woodpecker, Caveman Woopecker	Ep. "Teacher's Pet"/Wild Woodpecker
2000–02	Rocket Power	Blimp Announcer, Helicopter Reporter
2001	The Oblongs	Executive #1	Ep. "My Name Is Robbie"
2002–05	The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy	Snowman, Lubbermouth, Zombie Kid
2003–04	Ozzy & Drix	General Malaise, Abglobtus Goop, Dr. Hammertoe
2003–07	Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks	Mr. Hornsby, Patrick Winks
2004	All Grown Up!	Chance, Pete
2004–05	Dave the Barbarian	Various
2004–05	The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius	The Junkman
2004–06	Brandy & Mr. Whiskers	Mr. Whiskers
2005–07	Pet Alien	Dinko, Flip, Captain Spangley, Gepetto, others
2005–06	The Buzz on Maggie	Additional Voices
2005–06	Danger Rangers	S.A.V.O., Additional Voices
2005–07	Loonatics Unleashed	Optimatus, Director
2005–08	Camp Lazlo!	Additional Voices
2006–07	Shuriken School	Principal of Shuriken, Vladimir	English dub
2006	Wow Wow Wubbzy	Additional Voices
2006–09	The Replacements	Prime Minister Ricobo
2007	El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera	Mano Negra	Ep. "Clash of the Titan/Eye Caramba"
2007–08	Random! Cartoons	Various
2007–09	Chowder	Additional Voices
2008	The Emperor's New School		Ep. "Guaka Rules"
2008	Wizards of Waverly Place	Report Card	Ep. "Report Card"
2008	Wolverine and the X-Men	Mojo, Captain Gruber, others
2009	G.I. Joe: Resolute	Cobra Commander, Stalker, Flint, Gung-Ho
2009–11	The Super Hero Squad Show	Doctor Doom, Sabretooth, Melter, others
2010–11	G.I. Joe: Renegades	Cobra Commander, Buzzer, others
2010–12	Hero Factory	Corroder, Chief Drax, Toxic Reapa, Speed Demon
2011–15	Word Girl	Additional Voices
2012–14	Ben 10: Omniverse	Proctor Servantis, Hokestar, Collectimus, others
2013	Bubble Guppies	Additional Voices	Ep. "Sir Nonny the Nice!"
2013	Phineas and Ferb	MODOK	Ep. "Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel"
2013–18	Avengers Assemble
2014	The Tom and Jerry Show	Polly's Mother	Ep. "Holed Up/One of a Kind"
2014	Wander Over Yonder	Stok, Additional Voices	Ep. "The Nice Guy/The Timebomb"
2015	Ultimate Spider-Man	MODOK	Ep. "Contest of the Champions: Part 3"
2015	The Awesomes	Additional Voices
2015–22	Blaze and the Monster Machines	The King, White Knight, Robbie, others
2016	The Lion Guard	Mojamba	Ep. "Too Many Termites"
2016	Kulipari	Commander Pigo
2016	Rolling with the Ronks!	Mormagnon
2019	SpongeBob SquarePants	Manager, Jelly Fisher Gal, Fan Boy	Ep. "Jolly Lodgers"
2019–20	The Rocketeer	The Great Orsino, Clyde, others
2019–20	Spider-Man	MODOK, Father Octavius, A.I.M. Agent #1
2020	Harley Quinn	Nick Quinzel, Grandpa	Ep. "Bensonhurst"
2020	Madagascar: A Little Wild	Murray
2021–22	Rugrats (2021)	Graham

Video games

List of voice performances in video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Normality	Leader Paul
1996	Nickelodeon 3D Movie Maker	Ickis	Credited as Charles Adler
1996	Blazing Dragons	The Pied Piper, Hunter, Fisherman
1997	Atomic Bomberman	Bomberman
1997	Fallout	Harold
1997	ClayFighter 63⅓	T. Hoppy, Dr. Kiln
1998	Fallout 2	Harold
1999	Earthworm Jim 3D	Professor Monkey-For-A-Head	Uncredited
1999	Planescape: Torment	Ignus	Credited as Charles Adler
2000	Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn	Kalah, Telos, Rielev, Rejiek Hidesman
2000	Escape from Monkey Island	Jumbeaux LaFeet, Mungle the Pirate Student
2000	Sacrifice	Additional Voices
2001	Stupid Invaders	Candy Hector Caramella, Chicken, Cow, Singing Pufferfish	Credited as Charles Adler
2001	Nicktoons Racing	Ickis
2002	Earth and Beyond	Gratis August Var
2005	Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 3: Night of the Quinkan	Redback Russ
2006	Cartoon Network Racing	Cow, Chicken, The Red Guy, I.R. Baboon
2009	MadWorld	Jude the Dude, Frank, Killseeker A
2009	Transformers Revenge of the Fallen: Decepticons	Starscream	Credited as Charles Adler
2009	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Starscream, Sunstorm
2009	Marvel Super Hero Squad	Doctor Doom, Sabretooth, Doombots, others
2010	Star Trek Online	S'Taass, Gazzan
2010	Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet	Doctor Doom, Doombot
2011	Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds	Super-Skrull	Also Ultimate
2011	Marvel Super Hero Squad Online	Doctor Doom, Red Skull, Annihilus, others	Credited as Charles Adler
2011	Marvel Super Hero Squad: Comic Combat	Doctor Doom, Doombot
2012	Final Fantasy XIII-2	Additional Voices
2013	Marvel Heroes	Super-Skrull	Uncredited
2013	Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII	Additional Voices
2014	Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes	MODOK
2015	Disney Infinity 3.0
2016	Lego Marvel's Avengers
2016	Skylanders: Imaginators	Chain Reaction, Skunkwalker, Scholarville Mabu
2018	Red Dead Redemption II	The Local Pedestrian Population

Live-action

List of appearances in film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	The Redd Foxx Show	Rita / Ralph	2 episodes
1988	Thirtysomething	Mister Squeeze Auditioner	Episode: "The Competition"
1990	1st & Ten	Rod	Episode: "Earn This One for Ernie"
2009	Wake	Priest
2010	Totally Tracked Down	Himself	Episode: "Estelle Harris: Master of Her Domain"
2011	Hot in Cleveland	Director	2 episodes
2013	I Know That Voice	Himself	Documentary

Casting and Voice director

Awards and nominations

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Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
1985	Helen Hayes Award	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Touring Production	Torch Song Trilogy	Won
1999	Annie Award	Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production	Cow and Chicken	Nominated
2000	Annie Award	Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production	Cow and Chicken	Nominated
2003	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Children's Animated Program	Rugrats	Won
2020	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Directing for an Animated Program	Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny	Nominated

References

External links

• Official website
• Charlie Adler at IMDb

Preceded by Michael Dobson	Voice of Starscream 2007	Succeeded by Tom Kenny
Preceded by Tom Kenny	Voice of Starscream 2009	Succeeded by Sam Riegel
Preceded by Steven Blum	Voice of Starscream 2011	Succeeded by Steven Blum

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