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** Casting Natalie Dormer as Margaery Tyrell seems like an example of this. Dormer played Anne Boleyn in ''[[The Tudors]]''- Anne is a beautiful young woman whose family is involved in court machinations, has a close bond with her gay brother, and ultimately finds herself tried for promiscuity before a [[Kangaroo Court]]. Margaery is a beautiful young woman whose family is involved in court machinations, has a close bond with her gay brother... (you get the point) This is likely a deliberate choice as Margaery and the Tyrells are a sort of heroic subversion of the type of scheming and debauched royals who get HBO series (i.e. The Boleyns and Margaery's rival Cersei/The Lannister family).

* ''[[Sesame Street]]'' had a recurring sketch that parodied ''[[Miami Vice]]'' as ''Miami Mice''. The American sketches in the German ''Sesamstrasse'' were dubbed by the same studio as ''[[Miami Vice]]'', so the voice artists who already played Crocket and Tubbs played their rodent equivilents.

 

 

* While [[Patrick Stewart]] playing the king may qualify as an [[Actor Allusion]] in [[The Elder Scrolls|The Elder Scrolls Four]]: [[Oblivion]], the casting of Lynda Carter (famous for playing [[Wonder Woman (TV series)|Wonder Woman]]) as the voices of the female Orcs and Nords certainly qualifies.

* The ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series is rife with this trope, with [[Samuel L. Jackson]], Ice-T and Peter Fonda in ''San Andreas'', Phillip Michael Thomas, Jenna Jameson and Burt Reynolds in ''Vice City'', and Michael Madsen, Robert Loggia and Joe Pantoliano in ''GTA III'', as well as pretty much every DJ on every [[GTA Radio|radio station]] ever since ''III''.

* Gary Oldman as the Russian Commander Reznov in ''[[Call of Duty]] World at War''. Oldman had previously played the Russian terrorist Ivan Korshunov in ''[[Air Force One (film)|Air Force One]]''. His American counterpart is voiced by Kiefer Sutherland, of ''[[24]]'' fame. Sutherlands's previous voice-acting job was as the American general W.R. Monger in ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]''.

* Male protagonist Joshua Radcliff of ''[[Super Robot Wars Destiny]]'' will be voiced by [[Yuuichi Nakamura]] in the ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|Second Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]''. This means players will see a robot-piloting [[Clannad (visual novel)||Tomoya Okazaki]] (since both Tomoya and Joshua have blue hair and near-similar hairstyle), surrounded by [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Gundam]] [[Expy|lookalikes]] (Nakamura's role in [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]] is Graham Aker who memetically [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|shouts]] "I LOVE YOU, GUNDAM!!"), fighting creatures empowered by despair (making him an anti-[[BlazBlue|Hazama]]), alongside [[Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai!|an orange-haired younger sister that can't be this cute]]. For [[Relationship Voice Actor|bonus gag]], said sister is to be voiced by [[Clannad (visual novel)||Tomoyo Sakagami]]'s [[Houko Kuwashima|seiyuu]].

* In [[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]], [[Mark Hamill]] plays [[The Obi-Wan|Master Eraqus]], [[Star Wars|one of the few remaining masters of an ancient, inter-world knighthood with distinctive and iconic weapons. He is struck down halfway through the game by one of his pupils who embrace the darkness in his heart, but has appeared to transcend death, at least for the time being.]]