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{{quote|'''Dorothy:''' But it wasn't a dream. It was a place! And you, and you, and you, [[Trope Namer|and you were there]]! But you couldn't have been, could you?
'''Auntie Em:''' We dream lots of silly things...|''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''}}
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Mupu and Fupu in ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star|Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash*
* In one anime episode of ''[[Ranma ½
* ''[[School Rumble]]'' has quite a few versions of this. (and the not-Sequel is ENTIRELY this) especially the episode where Hanai ends up on an island populated seemingly by identical duplicates of the cast.
* An odd variation on this theme is played with in ''[[MAR]]''. Koyuki of the real world, and Ginta's love interest, looks exactly like Snow of MAR Heaven. They are different characters, with different backgrounds, but they are connected somehow. {{spoiler|At the end of the anime, Snow dies and joins with Koyuki, so that, when Ginta returns, both of them end up his girlfriend.}}
* In "Galaxy Police Mihoshi's Space Adventure!" from the ''[[Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki]]'' OVA series, Mihoshi tells the allegedly-true story of one of the cases she worked on as a Galaxy Police officer, casting everyone in the household in various roles -- except, oddly, for that of her partner Kiyone. When the story's version of Sasami turns out to be a [[Magical Girl]], its Washuu is an [[Omnicidal Maniac]], and [[Fridge Logic|other oddities]] turn up, the general opinion of the listeners is that it's just a tall tale. In [[The Stinger]], though, we see Kiyone -- whom Mihoshi thought had died in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] during the climactic battle with the villain -- still alive, trapped in the villain's old hideout, and ''still screaming in rage at Mihoshi''.
== Film ==
* Used as part of the [[Twist Ending]] to ''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]''. {{spoiler|Lil Dagover (Jane) and Conrad Veidt ([[Looks Like Cesare|Cesare]]) double as fellow residents of the insane asylum, and Francis even confuses them for the characters he attached to them in his dream. Werner Krauss plays both Caligari and the [[Only Sane Man|asylum coordinator]]. The 2005 "remix" takes this further by making Allan into one of the orderlies.}}
* The plot of ''[[The Fall (film)|The Fall]]'' centers around a paralyzed man telling a story to a girl in the hospital he's staying with. Since the audience views his story through the child's imagination, almost all of the characters are based on people she knows and played by the same
* Hans Conreid voiced both Captain Hook and Mr. Darling in the [[Walt Disney]] animated feature ''[[Peter Pan]]'', and their character designs are clearly deliberately similar. As a matter of fact, in theatrical and cinematic versions of ''Peter Pan'', Captain Hook and Mr. Darling are almost always played by the same actor.
** This is part of the point of the story. "Never-Never Land" is a fantasy version of the real world.
** This is true in 2003's ''[[Peter Pan]]'' in which Jason Issacs played Mr Darling and Captain Hook (the first live action film adapation to ever do so).
** ''[[Hook]]'', a sequel to the ''[[Peter Pan]]'' story, has a [[Shout-Out]] at the end when the adult Peter returns to Earth: He wakes up in Kensington Park and encounters a man sweeping trash; he's played by Bob Hoskins, who is Smee in the Neverland scenes. More subtly, the voice of the plane's ''captain'' as the Banning family heads to England at the beginning is provided by Dustin
** Considering that Smee was shown fleeing alone with whatever loot he could carry, it's entirely possible that he simply set himself up into safe, uneventful job in the normal world, or possibly had held such double identity for quite some time.
* [[Abbott and Costello]]'s ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' does this.
* In a manner reminiscent of the ''Peter Pan'' example, in the film adaptation of ''[[Jumanji]]'', Alan's father and Van Pelt are played by the same actor (Jonathan Hyde).
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*** In this case the parallels are the result of the Other Mother deliberately modeling herself and the other others after the people in Coraline's life in order to trap her.
* Partially done in ''[[Robot Monster]]''. In Johnny's dream, his sisters and mother remain the same, but the annoying Germanic archaeologist is now his dead father and the assistant is now Johnny's sister's boyfriend. It's a dumb movie, okay?
* In ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'', during the
** The 2016 Fox remake mimicked this with its version of the scene, then took it [[Up to Eleven]].
** In an inter-movie And You Were There, several cast members from ''Rocky Horror'' portray similar characters in the continuation of Janet and Brad's life, ''[[Shock Treatment]]''
* In ''[[Tron]]'', the three or four most important characters in the computer world are played by the same actors as the three or four most important characters in the real world. (Note that in each case, the program character has the real-world character as their "user", who in at least 3 cases also ''created'' the program.)
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** ''The Muppets Wizard Of Oz'' sticks closer to the original book by ''not'' claiming it was [[All Just a Dream]], but still has Dorothy's friends in Oz resembling people she knows in the real world (since she's just auditioned for [[The Muppets]]).
** ''[[The Kentucky Fried Movie]]'' ends the segment "A Fistful of Yen" this way, even placing the main character in bed with Auntie Em and Toto.
** Sam Raimi's 2013 ''[[Oz the Great and Powerful]]'' (which can't ''legally'' call itself a prequel to ''The Wizard of Oz'', but somehow manages to be one) pays homage to this by populating the Land of Oz with individuals played by actors who also had roles in the opening scenes set in the American Midwest.
* In the film ''Nadja'', the title character is [[Dracula]]'s daughter, being pursued in the present day by a descendant of Professor Van Helsing. Dracula himself, being dead, appears only dimly in
** Dracula is actually ''played'' by [[Bela Lugosi]] archive footage, although not from ''[[Dracula (1931 film)|Dracula]]'' but from 1932's ''[[White Zombie (film)|White Zombie]]'', likely because the latter film is in the public domain.
* In [[Tim Burton]]'s version of ''[[Alice in Wonderland (film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'', this trope is played with a bit: most obviously, the sisters remind Alice of Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum. Less explicit is the fact that both the Hatter and Hamish have red hair, and the Hatter [[Foil|represents everything that Hamish is not.]] The caterpillar is implied to represent her father, which is probably why he was named "Absalom". There's a nod to Hamish's mother representing the Queen of Hearts, and some have seen parallels between the Knave and Alice's sister's fiance.
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== Literature ==
* In Lewis Carroll's ''Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There'' (the sequel to ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''), the eponymous character believes that the Red and White queens are the looking-glass versions of her cats.
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** Later, in the series, Laverne dies and her replacement Shirley is played by the same actress. Laverne was killed off because they thought the show would be ending that year, but when it continued, Bill Lawrence fulfilled a promise to cast the actress in another role. Note that only J.D. notices a similarity, but it's played for laughs as even then he can't quite place it.
* The miniseries version of ''[[Angels in America]]'' uses only eight actors for all the significant and many of the minor roles, meaning that (for example) actor Jeffrey Wright ends up playing [[Camp Gay]] nurse Belize, Harper's imaginary friend Mr. Lies, and the Continental Principality of Africa. In the play, the workload is bigger: Eight actors play approximately ''thirty'' roles, many of them important in some way.
* The ''[[Star Trek:
* Both ''[[Star Trek:
* In ''[[Star Trek:
* The 1999 ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' TV movie does this, where the guests at the party being held by Alice's parents become the characters in Wonderland.
** Possibly done in the mini-series ''[[Alice]]'' as well, in which Alice returns to the real world after a series of adventures with Hatter. She awakens in the hospital where her mother tells her that she was found and rescued by a man called "David". No prizes for guessing who David is. It possibly a subversion however, considering that "David" obviously recognizes Alice, implying that David and Hatter are one and the same, rather than other-worldly counterparts of each other.
* ''[[The X-Files]]''. In "Triangle" Mulder discovers the luxury liner Queen Anne in the Devil's Triangle, only it's back in [[World War II]] and his friends and enemies are spies, sailors or Nazi soldiers fighting over the vessel. Various aspects of their 'contemporary' selves are reflected: Skinner is apparently a Nazi but turns out to be on Mulder's side, Assistant Director Kersh is shown chained in the engine room, forced to steer the course set by the CSM who is naturally the Nazi [[Big Bad]]. Scully is a spy who is [[Agent Scully|initially skeptical]] of Mulder's claims to be one of the good guys, yet comes through for him in the end. Scully also reflects Mulder's unrequited feelings for
* An episode of ''[[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
* The ''[[Leverage]]'' episode "The Van Gogh Job" does this: as the guest-star narrates a [[WW 2]] story, scenes are shown from said story, with the main cast playing most of the important characters.
* This was used during "The Wizard Of Song" epsiode from ''[[The Fresh Beat Band]]''
* The ''[[Castle]]'' episode "The Blue Butterfly" has Castle find a rather [[Noir Episode|Noir]] diary of a 1940s-era P.I., and as he reads it, we see scenes from it playing out, with all the characters played by the main cast. (Castle's character, of course, falls in love with Beckett's character at first sight.)
** This was a reworking of a ''[[Moonlighting]]'' plot. David and Maddie both had dreams about a [[Film Noir]] murder, in which the same actors played the main roles in the dream sequences.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* They ended ''[[The Far Side]]'' using this trope, having [[Gary Larson]] wake up in bed next to all his family and friends, who happen to resemble a lot of the strip's more popular subjects.
{{quote|'''Gary:''' And Aunt Zelda all the women looked like you and Uncle Bob all the cows looked like you and Ernie there were cavemen that looked like you and there were all these nerdy little kids like you Billy and there were monsters and stupid-looking things and animals could talk and some of it was confusing and ...and...Oh, wow! There's no Place like home!}}
** Of course, given that this is ''[[The Far Side]]'', [[Widget Series|this probably came as a surprise to nobody]]
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* If a live production is missing an actor, they will often have one of the present cast double as the needed character during rehearsals. Examples of this should ''not'' be counted, since it's only done as a temporary fix and rarely needed for actual performances.
* The most famous version of Stephen Sondheim's musical ''[[Into the Woods]]'' does this three times. The narrator and the mysterious old man (who later turns out to be the one who set the whole story in motion) are played by the same actor, as are the wolf (a metaphorical but not-at-all-subtle sexual predator) and Cinderella's cheating, lecherous prince. The same actress plays Little Red Riding Hood's Grandmother, Cinderella's Mother and voices the Giant's Wife.
** The first two of these are because of the similarities between the characters: The Narrator and the Old Man know more about what's going on than any other characters; and The Wolf and the Prince are greedy and insatiable. Red's Granny,
* ''[[Peter Pan]]'' stage productions often use the same actor for the Darlings' father and Captain Hook.
* ''Pacific Overtures'' has a lot of this going on, as it can be played by a cast of only about two dozen actors despite having ''six dozen'' roles.
* Another Sondheim musical, ''[[Sunday in The Park With George]]'', typically has the characters from Act One played by the same actors as the characters from Act Two, which is set nearly a hundred years later.
* Similarly to ''George'' above, Tom Stoppard's ''Arcadia'' explicitly instructs the character of Augustus and his mute, mysterious descendant Gus (180 years later) to be played by the same person. It's left oddly ambiguous as to whether the two are actually the same character.
* In many productions of Shakespeare's ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', the actors playing Theseus and Hippolyta also play Oberon and Titania. Sometimes Theseus' manservant Philostrate will also be Puck.
** Historically, many roles in Shakespearean plays were doubled by actors, especially when you have cases like "Enter 3 Fishermen" and later on "Enter 3 Soldiers" or "Enter 3 Fairies."
** In ''[[As You Like It]]'', the French courtier Le Beau warns Orlando to flee and wishes that they might be able to speak to one another "in a better world than this". Some productions take this line as a cue to double Le Beau with the French traveller Jacques once Orlando reaches the idyllic Arden.
* In the musical ''[[City of Angels (musical)|City of Angels]]'', there is a near-complete overlap between the "Movie Cast" of the [[Show Within a Show]] and the "Hollywood Cast" which is making the [[Film Noir]]. The exceptions are the main characters of each cast, the private detective Stone and his creator Stine; they don't double each other (or anyone else), and occasionally [[Interactive Narrator|interact]]. As for the others, let the writer of the musical (Larry Gelbart) speak for himself:
{{quote|For instance, in the screenplay portions of the show, Stone's secretary, Oolie, is played by the same actress who plays Stine's employer, the producer-director, Buddy Fidler's secretary, Donna. In some instances, we first meet someone in the screenplay, say, Alaura Kingsley, and later discover the model for the character when the same actress appears as Buddy Fiddler's wife, Carla Haywood. We reverse the process by introducing Fidler himself, oozing fake charm, in Stine's life before revealing him in Stine's screenplay depicted as an equally odious studio boss, Irwin S. Irving, a man with absolutely no charm at all, real ''or'' fake.}}
* In the play based on the Parker-Hulme case, ''Daughters of Heaven'', the adults in the cast double up to great effect, symbolising the role each of the parents had in the girls' lives.
* In stage productions of ''[[Chronicles of Narnia|The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]'', the Professor and Aslan usually double up, as do the White Witch and Mrs Macready the housekeeper, suggesting that the children's adventures might all be a dream (though [[
* In ''Jekyll and Hyde The Musical'', as duality is the theme of the play, all the rich people on the hospital's board of directors (Jekylls) are played by the same actors as poor and sometimes criminal people living in the underbelly of the city (Hydes).
* In the opera ''Dido and Aeneas'', the heroine Dido and the evil Sorceress are often played by the same singer, and their respective attendants are similarly doubled.
* The play ''[[Speaking In Tongues]]'' has three acts, each featuring four characters. and is written so that four actors can play nine characters: Leon/Nick, Pete/Neil/John, Sonja/Valerie and Jane/Sarah. Averted in the film adaptation ''Lantana''.
* Every single minor character in ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' is played by the same actor who plays Orin (the dentist), in the standard version of the script. However many productions change this to fit more actors in (including the movie adaptation).
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* Used in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiNklYntX_o this short film] three times for three different video games
* In ''[[Gitaroo Man]]'', Kira, the girl U-1 befriends, and Zowie, the head of the evil empire, are direct analogues of Pico, his crush, and Kazuya, the boy who bullies him. They all share voice actors, and Zowie and Kazuya even have the same catchphrase.
* In Roadkill's ending in ''[[Twisted Metal]] 2'', {{spoiler|he wakes up from a coma after a car crash. The other characters are in the beds around his, still in comas.}}
* In ''[[Strong Bad's
* Whenever a ''Zelda'' game is set in a mysterious alternate dimension of Hyrule, expect plenty [[Expy
** It gets weirder in the case of Cremia and Romani. Cremia and Romani are parallel universe expies of Malon from ''Ocarina of Time''. But then Malon is inversion of trope, being a real world Hyrule expy of a character that originally appeared in a dream, Marin from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening|The Legend of Zelda Links Awakening]]''. And then Marin was supposed to look like Princess Zelda. This results in a four level chain of And Your Were There: Reality -> Dream -> Reality -> Parallel Reality
* Gaz from ''Call Of Duty 4: [[Modern Warfare]]'' and Ghost from its sequel, ''Modern Warfare 2'', basically fill the exact same roles. Both are elite British soldiers, both are voiced by the same voice actor, and both are {{spoiler|killed by each game's respective [[Big Bad]] personally, with a large caliber pistol, executed in front of a player character.}}
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== Web Originals ==
* ''[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/257930 X-Men: Revisiting Profit]'', a flash animation parody of the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'', uses this. The line is spoken by Bishop, in reference to the ''[[Age of Apocalypse]]''.
== Western Animation ==
* Cosmo/Mr. Turner and Wanda/Mrs. Turner of ''[[The Fairly
** Not only do Cosmo and Wanda share actors with Mr. and Mrs. Turner, respectively, but as of the [[Uncancelled|new season]], Cosmo and Wanda have a son voiced by Tara Strong --- who also voices Timmy. Coinky-dink? I ''think not!''
* Parodied in ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' in the episode "Short Story". After a crazy dream inspired by his insecurities about being short, Rocko wakes up to find folks he knows who appeared in his dream, and goes through the usual spiel, but the last person in line turns out to be [[Creator Cameo|series creator Joe Murray]]:
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** In the latest movie, ''Bender's Game'', the characters are dropped into an alternate, fantastical universe where each has a different backstory and motive. This setup was partly in reference to ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''.
* On ''[[The Venture Bros]]'', creators Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick voice many duos ([[Mauve Shirt|21 & 24]], Billy Quizboy and Pete White, Dr. Girlfriend and The Monarch, Watch and Ward). These duos tend to have similar interactions, i.e., how Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick interact in real life.
** Another example of this trope is in the parallel between the
** In the 4th season episode where Dr. Orpheus goes inside Rusty's mind (not to be confused with the 4th season episode where Brock and the boys go inside Rusty's body), he meets "Eros" and "Thanatos", who look and sound like Billy Quizboy and Pete White, respectively.
* Parodied in the 2003 ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' series, when Leo wakes Michelangelo:
{{quote|I had the oddest dream. And You Were There, and the [[The Wizard of Oz (film)|tin man, and a wizard, and a cowardly lion...]]}}
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** Seeing as Bart had just been to Hell, his And You Were There is particularly hilarious. He's such a horrible child.
* Played literally in ''Mater's Tall Tales,'' a [[Pixar Shorts|series of Pixar shorts]] set after ''[[Cars]]''. Each short begins with Mater regaling Lightning McQueen and the Radiator Springs residents with a story about an exciting career he used to hold (firefighter, bullfighter, drift racer). Halfway through, Mater would turn to McQueen and say "And You Were There!", then continue the story with McQueen as a [[Butt Monkey]] participant. Each story ends with a [[The Stinger|stinger]] that suggested the story wasn't ''completely'' fabricated...
* ''[[Batman: The
* In the animated short ''[[The Groovenians]]'', Dennis Hopper voices both the dad and [[Big Bad|King Norman]].
* ''[[Barbie]]'' movies often have Barbie tell a story to one of her sisters and/or her friends, with Barbie and her friends shown in the lead roles.
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