Casting Gag: Difference between revisions

 

An actor can use this self-consciously for themselves for [[Adam Westing]]. Compare with [[Playing Against Type]] where the casting may feel like a joke for the wrong reasons. Contrast with [[Stunt Casting]] where the big name actor is not being used for any in-joke but as a piece of marketing to draw in a wider crowd. When the '''Casting Gag''' is specifically that the person cast is an [[Actor Allusion]] for an already estabilished character, it's [[I Want You to Meet An Old Friend of Mine]]. If the '''Casting Gag''' is that the actor appeared in an earlier version of the same story, it's a [[Remake Cameo]]. Compare also to [[Cast the Expert]].

 

== Anime ==

* [[Jun Fukuyama]], who is known for playing [[Code Geass|Lelouch]], has recently been cast as [[The Legend of the Legendary Heroes|Ryner Lute]], another character who possesses an [[Evil Eye]].

* In ''[[One Piece]]'', the Japanese voice actors for the Straw Hat pirates ''also'' provide the voices for a group of impostors trying to gain infamy by posing as the Straw Hats. They also mix up who is who, such as Sanji's voice actor playing the fake Luffy or Chopper's as the fake Nami.

* In ''[[Dog Days]]'', both [[Minako Kotobuki]] and [[Kana Hanazawa]] well known for there roles as [[K-On!|Mugi]] and [[Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai!|Kuroneko]] respectively voice [[Action Girl]] variants of those characters.

* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'': [[Aaron Dismuke]] did the voice of Alphonse in the English dub of the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|first anime]], but puberty made it impossible for him to reprise the role for ''Brotherhood''—so he did the voice for Al's father, Hohenheim, as a young man.

** There also exists another gag: [[Luci Christian]], who played the first anime's incarnation of Wrath, provides the voice of the Truth in ''Brotherhood''. Both characters are strikingly similar in that {{spoiler|both meet Edward at the [[Gate of Truth]] and end up taking his arm and leg for themselves, keeping them until the end of the storylines they appear in (except Wrath loses both limbs while the Truth keeps Ed's leg)}}. Considering the Truth simply shares the same voice actor as the one it appears before in the original Japanese language, the fact that they had a single person to portray a character that had something in common with one of her earlier roles in the franchise couldn't be called anything less than a tribute.