Michael Vincent Jones is an American employee of Rooster Teeth as both on-screen personality and voice actor. He is a core member of Achievement Hunter, creator and host of the now-defunct Rage Quit, creator and co-host of the Internet Box podcast, and finally, co-creator and main host of the Off Topic Podcasts.
He was the voice actor of Max in Camp Camp (Season 1-4), Sun Wukong in RWBY, and Sting Eucliffe from "Fairy Tail".
Trivia[]
- He married Lindsay Jones (who provides the voice of Space Kid), on May 9, 2014.
- In the 2016 Extra Life livestream, the couple announced they were expecting a baby. On May 24, 2017, Iris Elise Jones was born.
- During RTX 2018, they announced they were having another baby, and their second daughter Luna Claire Jones was later born on February 18, 2019.
- Before working for Rooster Teeth, he worked for six years as an electrician.
- He was hired at Rooster Teeth after a short video he made of him screaming at the video game "Crackdown 2" made its way onto the front page of Reddit. The video was spotted by Rooster Teeth founder, Burnie Burns, and he was sent a job offer to work for the then newly formed Achievement Hunter.
- He has said multiple times that he is Max and Miles Luna is David, with their real-life personalities matching that of their characters. [1][2]
- Michael was the only person who auditioned for Max and the only person that they called in. During his audition, Michael has said that Miles asked him to audition for David too as a diversion so that he wasn't just auditioning for "this piece of shit asshole". But in Jordan Cwierz's words, "He just wasn't nice enough." [3]
- He and Lindsay are shown to be avid fans of the show "Miraculous Ladybug".
- He has also talked about being a fan of such shows as: Voltron, Adventure Time, Rick and Morty, Digimon, Pokémon, Dragon Ball Z and more. He is an all round fan of western animation and anime and frequently talks about a multitude of shows on Off Topic.
- He's also known to be a major fan of The Legend of Zelda, Banjo Kazooie, and the My Little Pony series (referenced by his previous Gamertag of "MLP Michael").