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== 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 ''[[Lucky Star (Anime)|Lucky Star]]'', Konata works in a [[Cosplay Cafe]] and dresses as [[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi Suzumiya]], both characters having been voiced by Aya Hirano, as well as Wendee Lee in the English dubs (Though [[Lucky Star (Anime)|Lucky Star]] as a whole is full of [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] and other things like these).
* In the English version of ''[[Code Geass]]'', [[Johnny Yong Bosch]] stars as an intelligent and occassionally [[Necessarily Evil]] pragmatist whose ideals clash with [[Yuri Lowenthal]], his passionate and idealistic childhood friend. In ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', [[Yuri Lowenthal]] stars as a passionate idealist whose ideals clash with [[Johnny Yong Bosch]], his intelligent and pragmatic childhood friend. Amusingly, while their roles are the same, the "right" and "wrong" sides are reversed.
* In the English dub of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', [[Daran Norris]] voices both as Andy, a comical character who is Spike's rival during one episode, as well as the antagonist Vincent in the film, who is an [[Evil Counterpart]] to Spike.
* In ''[[One Piece (Manga)|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 Nini Kawaii Wake ga Nai (Light Novel)|Kuroneko]] respectively voice [[Action Girl]] variants of those characters.
* In ''[[Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai]]'' [[Yuka Iguchi]] voices Maria who is basically [[To Aru Majutsu no Index|Index]] with lavender hair and a dark blue habit.
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'': [[Aaron Dismuke]] did the voice of Alphonse in the English dub of the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (Animeanime)|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.
* ''[[Ga -Rei Zero]]'': Funimation cast many of their ''most popular'' voice actors to play the five Agency squad members in Episode 01 only. {{spoiler|Why Episode 01 only? [[Decoy Protagonist|....because they all get killed off!]] Could be a bit of dark humor on Funimation's part.}}
 
 
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** And then there's her card-playing buddies from the Old Days ("the Waxworks"), including [[Buster Keaton]].
** To complete the circle, Swanson at one point goes to Cecil B. De Mille to beg a part in his new movie. The director played himself, and the scene was shot on the set of his ACTUAL current movie.
* Carrie Fisher has a cameo in ''[[Scream (Filmfilm)|Scream]] 3'' as "Bianca" who is bitter over losing out for the role of Princess Leia to another actress. She goes as far to state that the actress 'must have slept with George Lucas'.
** Also Carrie Fisher, Billie Dee Williams and Ray Park have all appeared in ''Fanboys'' because of their roles in [[Star Wars]]. The fact that they played different characters added to the level of hilarious.
* Sigourney Weaver plays a ([[Dyeing for Your Art|blonde!]]) [[Bridge Bunny]] in ''[[Galaxy Quest (Film)|Galaxy Quest]]'', a character significantly at odds to her best known role, Ellen Ripley of ''[[Alien]]''. In the same film, Tim Allen is very convincing as a washed up TV star, and [[Alan Rickman]] is excellent as a respected [[Shakespeare|Shakespearean]] actor playing [[Classically-Trained Extra|a role far below his ability.]]
* In ''[[Avatar (Filmfilm)|Avatar]]'' Sigourney Weaver fights to ''protect'' the aliens. And the film is by [[James Cameron|the same director]] of ''Aliens''.
* In ''[[Paul (Film)|Paul]]'', Sigourney Weaver plays the [[Big Bad]] that hunts {{spoiler|the titular [[Alien]].}}
* In ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'', Ben Affleck (who was a big name at the time, possibly less so now) has a small role as a big name actor who is tricked into accepting a small role in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''.
* David Duchovny in ''[[Zoolander]]'' as a conspiracy nut.
* In the 1970's movie Cannonball Run, one of the racers has the delusion that he is a famous movie star named Roger Moore, and has lots of zany gadgets including an ejection seat in the car. Of course, the character is played by Roger Moore, who was one of the James Bond actors.
* The recent remake of ''[[Freaky Friday]]'' wanted to do this with [[Jodie Foster]] who played the daughter in the original now playing the mother, however she declined.
* In ''[[Clue (Filmfilm)|Clue]]'' we get this [[Stealth Pun]] Casting Gag:
** "Mr. Boddy won't be staying with us for very long. In fact, he's just Lee Ving."
* ''[[Sky High]]'': Lynda Carter, former [[Wonder Woman (TV series)|Wonder Woman]], as the Sky High Principal.
** Who, at one point, quips [[Actor Allusion|"I'm not a wonder woman, you know."]]
* [[Silence of the Lambs|Anthony Hopkins]] was cast as [[I'm a Humanitarian|Titus]] in the film adaptation of ''[[Titus Andronicus (Theatretheatre)|Titus Andronicus]]''.
* Christopher Walken appears in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' as a former Vietnam POW. Knowing [[Quentin Tarantino]], this is most likely a reference to Walken's role in ''[[The Deer Hunter]]''.
* ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]'' inverted this in the original stage version. The psychotic older brother berates his surgical henchman because someone said he looked like [[Boris Karloff]]. In the original Broadway cast, he was PLAYED by Boris Karloff.
* In ''[[Iron Man (Filmfilm)|Iron Man]]'', the [[The Stinger|after-credits]]-appearing character {{spoiler|Nick Fury is played by [[Samuel L. Jackson]] who serves (with his permission) as the model for the appearance and personality of the Ultimate Universe version of Fury. Within the comic ''The Ultimates'' itself, when the team was amusing themselves speculating on who would play them in the movie about their adventures, Fury said that he would of course be played by Samuel L. Jackson.}}
** A popular theory is that {{spoiler|Jackson agreed to provide his likeness for the Ultimate Universe Nick Fury, with the understanding that if ever there was a movie with Nick Fury, he would get to play the role.}}
** Ghostface Killah -- who uses "Tony Starks" as an alias, titled his 1996 solo debut album ''Ironman'' and opened his 2000 album ''Supreme Clientele'' with a clip of the theme to the old ''[[Iron Man]]'' cartoon -- was actually cast in a supporting role in the film as an industrial tycoon (his scene didn't make it to the final cut).
** Additionally, guitarist Tom Morello appears as one of the terrorists who try to kill the first Iron Man suit. To get the gag you have to remember that he is most famous for playing with "[[Rage Against the Machine]]." (Morello later co-scored the sequel)
** And then there were the endless jokes about casting Robert Downey Jr. as [[The Alcoholic|Tony Stark.]] And now he will be playing [[Sherlock Holmes]], who had a bit of a thing for cocaine.
* From ''[[Maverick (Filmfilm)|Maverick]]'':
** A [[Casting Gag]] played as [[Actor Allusion]], the title character (played by [[Mel Gibson (Creator)|Mel Gibson]]) is in a bank as it is held up by an unnamed bank robber played by Danny Glover who starred alongside Gibson in the ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'' series of movies. Maverick acts as though he recognises the voice of the bank robber and pulls down his mask, leading the two of them to share a moment before shaking their heads and walking away.
** And the unnamed bank robber also mentions that he's "getting too old for this" as he makes his getaway.
** Further, The film features the often-referenced-in-the-series-but-never-seen father of Bret Maverick -- who, just coincidentally, happens to be played by none other than [[James Garner]], who originated the role of Maverick on TV.
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* In Kenneth Branagh's film [[Henry V]], the actor Michael Williams, Judi Dench's husband, was cast as the character Michael Williams after she signed on to the film.
* At the beginning of ''[[Love Actually]]'', Liam Neeson's character is giving a eulogy for his wife, and he jokingly mentions that they had a lot of time to discuss things when she was ill, and one of her suggestions was that he bring Claudia Schiffer as his date to the funeral. This gets a callback later when he tells his stepson that he plans on never finding love again -- unless he should run into Claudia Schiffer. At the end, he's at the stepson's school, trying to help him resolve his own unrequited love for a classmate... and he bumps into another parent he's never met before, who introduces herself as <s> Carol</s> Karen (he stammers a bit and calls her Carol, though). She's is played by Claudia Schiffer.
* Thoroughly unintentional example (they initially refused to even let her audition): Paris Hilton in ''[[Repo! theThe Genetic Opera]]'' playing... a rich, slutty, fashion-obsessed heiress cultivating a singing career using her name and infamy rather than talent. Better than it sounds, not least because {{spoiler|her face falls off}}.
* In [[Bridget Jones]]' Diary, Colin Firth was cast to play Mark Darcy, a character inspired by Fitzwilliam Darcy (from [[Pride and Prejudice]]) which he played in a series of made for TV films. On top of that, in the original novel, Bridget and her friends are stated to lust after the actor and his famous [[Shirtless Scene|wet shirt scene]].
* The titular ''[[The Men Who Stare Atat Goats|Men Who Stare At Goats]]'' call themselves "Jedi Knights." So who should be cast as the reporter writing a story on this covert group of psychic warriors, making such statements as, "I don't understand what a Jedi Knight is"? Ewan McGregor.
** According to McGregor, the director didn't even realize this, although McGregor himself played it up.
* Is it just a coincidence that Nestor Carbonell, who played the Mayor in ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', also played Batmanuel in the TV Show of [[The Tick]]?
* [[Derek Jacobi]], famous for ''[[I, Claudius]]'', as a Roman senator in ''[[Gladiator]]'' and as King ''Claudius'' in Brannagh's ''[[Hamlet]]''.
** Jacobi's character in ''[[Dead Again]]'' {{spoiler|stutters}}, just like Claudius.
** Jacobi plays the Archbishop of Canterbury in ''The King's Speech'', which is all about another monarch getting over a [[Speech Impediment]], and arguably, the clergyman role could be a [[Cadfael (TV series)|Cadfael]]-based [[Casting Gag]].
* In David Mamet's adaptation of the play ''[[The Winslow Boy (Film)|The Winslow Boy]]'', Neil North plays the First Lord of the Admiralty. In the 1948 film of the same play, North had played the title character (a supporting role).
* The same year Mark Williams was cast as the technology-loving wizard Arthur Weasley in the ''[[Harry Potter (Filmfilm)|Harry Potter]]'' movie series, he was also an enthusiastic presenter in ''Industrial Revelations'', a documentary series about the history of technology.
** In [[Half Blood Prince]], after Bill was attacked, he was said to bear a distinct resemblance to Mad-Eye Moody. In [[Deathly Hallows]], Bill was played by Domhnall Gleeson whose father, Brendan Gleeson, played Moody.
** In the epilogue, Draco Malfoy's wife was played by [[Tom Felton]]'s real life girlfriend.
* Miranda Richardson has been in so many roles that involve [[Off Withwith His Head|beheading]] -- Queen Elizabeth in ''[[Black AdderBlackadder]] II'', the Queen of Hearts in 1999's ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Literature)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' TV miniseries, Lady Van Tassel in ''[[Sleepy Hollow]]'' -- that it's hard to imagine her role as the chicken-killing Mrs. Tweedy in ''[[Chicken Run (Animation)|Chicken Run]]'' being anything other than an allusion to her past head-removing roles.
* [[Sean Connery]] was cast as [[Indiana Jones]]' father in ''[[TheIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Film)|The Last Crusade]]'' because Spielberg and Lucas considered that the only man who could play Indy's father was [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]], and because in a meta sense, James Bond ''was'' the father of Indiana Jones. ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' came about when [[Steven Spielberg]] told George Lucas that he wanted to make a Bond movie; Lucas pitched his "Indiana Smith" character as a rights-free alternative, and the rest is history.
** And to really push the joke home, four other actors had been in Bond films (Julian Glover was Bond villain Kristatos in ''[[For Your Eyes Only (Filmfilm)|For Your Eyes Only]]'', Alison Doody was [[Girl of the Week|Bond girl Jenny Flex]] in ''[[A View to A Kill (Film)|A View to Aa Kill]]'', John Rhys-Davies was Bond ally Pushkin in ''[[The Living Daylights (Film)|The Living Daylights]]'', and the Brunwald castle butler was nightclub owner Max Kalba in ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me (Film)|The Spy Who Loved Me]]''.
** He similarly played the proto-Indiana in ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Filmfilm)|The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]''.
* John Hurt, who played the lead role of Winston Smith in British movie ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]''; was in 2006 cast as the dictator for the film ''[[V for Vendetta]]'', which bore a similar setting. The dictator's face is seen displayed over several screens throughout the city, all in a very Big Brother-esque way.
* Matt Damon as the hero and Greg Kinnear as the [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Green Zone]]''. Both had previously starred as conjoined twins in the Farelly Brothers comedy ''Stuck On You''.
* In ''[[Enemy of the State]]'', Gene Hackman plays a character who seems like a good-guy version of his "professional eavesdropper" character in ''[[The Conversation]]''. This is referenced when a photograph of Hackman's character from that earlier film is used as a file photo in ''[[Enemy of the State]]''.
* In ''[[Piranha 3D]]'', Richard Dreyfuss has a cameo at the beginning as a character who is practically Matt Hooper from ''[[Jaws (Filmfilm)|Jaws]]''.
* ''[[Blades of Glory]]'' manages to make ''[[Brother-Sister Incest|incest]]'' both funny and pretty much a foregone conclusion by casting [[Cast Incest|real-life husband and wife]] Will Arnett and Amy Poehler as [[Twincest|fraternal twins]] Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg.
* ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' casts Edward Woodward as {{spoiler|the equivalent of his antagonists from ''[[The Wicker Man]]''}}
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** Also, there's one scene {{spoiler|in a mental hospital for soldiers with PTSD. One of the soldiers thinks he's Ethel Merman, and he's played by none other than Ethel Merman herself.}}
*** Additionally, casting Peter Graves, Robert Stack, and Leslie Nielsen was in-and-of-itself a Casting Gag because they had never acted in comedic roles before Airplane!.
* In ''[[The Flintstones (Filmfilm)|The Flintstones]]'' movie, Fred has a secretary named Sharon Stone (a reference to both the actress and the non-stop "rock" puns common in the TV series). The producers wanted Sharon Stone to be played by...Sharon Stone, who had to turn down the role as she was working on another movie (the part was taken by Halle Berry). Stone has since expressed her regret for not appearing in the Flintstones.
* David Rasche plays a senator in Clint Eastwood's ''[[Flags of Ourour Fathers]]''. Rasche is most famous for spoofing Eastwood's [[Dirty Harry]] character as the trigger-happy, fascist [[Cowboy Cop]] ''[[Sledge Hammer]]''.
* In ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'', George Thomason is played by Tom Georgeson.
* In ''[[Unknown]]'', Aidan Quinn plays the sinister impostor "Martin B", who steals the identity of Martin Harris ([[Liam Neeson]]). They had both played best friends in ''[[Michael Collins]]'', and Neeson suggested that he be cast opposite him as the villain.
* Maybe: In ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' Part 1, one of Dagny's enemies is played the actor who was both [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV)|Quark]], an alien who's [[Planet of Hats|"Hat"]] is greed and business prowess and [[Bio ShockBioshock|Andrew Ryan]], extreme business-liberal and parody of ''Atlas'' author [[Ayn Rand (Creator)|Ayn Rand]].
* In the original version of ''[[The Parent Trap]]'', the father's evil girlfriend is named Vicky. In the remake, the evil girlfriend Meredith's mother says, "You may call me Aunt Vicky." She was played by the same actress who played Vicky in the original.
* In ''[[Battle Beyond the Stars]]'' Robert Vaughn plays the [[Recycled in Space]] version of his character from ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]''.
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|Lord of the Rings]]'', Gimli nudges Legolas's bow so that the intended warning shot would nail one of Sauron's pirate reinforcements right in the chest. the pirates were all played by the production staff and the pirate that gets killed? Peter Jackson, the director.
** Ian Holm plays Bilbo, but was Frodo, Bilbo's nephew in the 1981 radio drama.
* [[Tim Burton]] has a brief [[The Cameo|cameo]] in ''Singles'', playing a disheveled, artistic amateur film director.
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** ''Forever Red'' is a big example of this as three of the Machine Empire Generals were voiced by Walter Jones (Mighty Morphin Black Ranger), Catherine Sutherland (Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger & Zeo Ranger 1) and Archie Kao (Blue Galaxy Ranger).
** This is far more common in Sentai series, however. In particular: ''[[Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger]]'' brought back had several former Sentai actors as the many faces of Shurikenger. When changing to Shurikenger, most used the henshin poses from their show - and even when that was impossible in one case, due to a lack of a pose, Ohba Kenji simply did the [[Metal Heroes|Gavan henshin pose]].
** In ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (TV)|Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'', Engine Machalcon joins the crew to assist in using the Go-Onger ultimate power. As a Japanese Pirate crew, the Gokaigers are often compared to the [[One Piece (Manga)|Straw Hats]], so who else should voice Machalcon but [[Hiroaki Hirata]] aka Sanji!
*** He does it again in the Japanese dub of the [[Pirates of the Caribbean]] as ''Jack Sparrow!''
* Casting Dean Stockwell to play against [[Quantum Leap|Scott Bakula]] in ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise (TV)|Star Trek Enterprise]]''.
* There is an episode of ''[[Dragnet]]'', where they meet a priest who explains that they are looking for a plaster doll of the baby Jesus that was taken from the church. So they question the altar boy, and an old man who runs a pawn shop. Maybe ten years later, they do a remake of the show. They get the actor who played the altar boy, to play the priest, and they get the same man to play the part of the pawnbroker.
* In ''[[Mission Impossible|Mission: Impossible]]'', Barney Collier's son Grant is played by Greg Morris's son Phil.
* In the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'', casting Richard Hatch (who played Captain Apollo in the original series) being cast as terrorist-cum-politician-cum-dictator Tom Zarek. In the episode he first appears on, both Zarek and Apollo turn their heads when someone calls out "Hey, Apollo!"
** For bonus points, he spends most of his first episode giving [[Hannibal Lecture|Hannibal Lectures]] to Lee "Apollo" Adama.
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*** In that case James Callis as Baltar was just a Dirk Benedict stand-in...
* And Dirk Benedict, Starbuck in the original series, does a great double-take as Faceman in ''The A Team'', when a cylon centurion passes him at the Universal Studios. The moment is preserved in the credit sequence, of course.
* In the ''[[Stargate SG -1]]'' episode 200, Vala Mal Doran (played by Claudia Black), when challenged to come up with a more obscure property to rip-off for her movie pitch, launches into a full-blown parody of ''Farscape'' which basically consists of the SG-1 cast as the Farscape crew repeating every single one of Farscape's alien curse words in the shortest span possible.
** There's also a slight subversion in that Ben Browder doesn't play Crichton in the parody--Michael Shanks does. Browder plays Stark.
*** When Vala and Mitchell first meet, Mitchell asks her if they've met before.
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* [[Tim Curry]] once guest-starred in an episode of ''[[Will and Grace]]'' in which he plays a character with a feminine aspect to him (In this case, it's the character's name, Marion) flirts with several characters, makes a reference to [[Cross Dressing]], and even tries to trick one character's fiance into climbing into bed with him. [[Rocky Horror Picture Show|Sounds pretty similar to a certain Sweet Transvestite, doesn't it?]]
** An episode of the short-lived 1997 series ''Over The Top'' had [[Tim Curry]] dressing in drag. [[Rocky Horror Picture Show|Now, why does that sound so familiar?]]
*** Speaking of ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'', Barry Bostwick played a suspect in a ''[[Cold Case (TV)|Cold Case]]'' episode involving a murder outside of a theater during a midnight screening of Rocky Horror.
** This is apparently his thing. He and Meatloaf also showed up as a pair of conservative straw-men trying to stop [[Glee]]'s Rocky Horror production.
* Both versions of ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' did adaptations of [[Adam Link|Eando Binder's story "I, Robot"]], and [[Leonard Nimoy]] appeared in both, as a reporter in the original and the robot's lawyer in the remake. Similarly, when the new ''Outer Limits'' remade "A Feasibility Study" from the original series, they cast David McCallum, who had been in two episodes of the original (though not that one).
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* In ''[[F Troop]]'', Sergeant O'Rourke is played by Forrest Tucker, who once portrayed a "O'Rourke" Cavalry Sergeant on ''[[Gunsmoke]]''.
** Also from ''[[F Troop]]'', Trooper Duffy (Bob Steele) is an elderly cavalryman who claims to be the sole survivor of the Alamo. Steele was previously a 1930s and '40s western star, and had once been in a movie about meeting Davy Crockett at the Alamo.
* In ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', after {{spoiler|firing lawyer Barry Zuckerkorn (played by Henry Winkler)}}, Bob Loblaw is hired and played by Scott Baio, who also {{spoiler|replaced Winkler}} on ''Happy Days''. This is specifically mentioned by Loblaw. Gets even better when you remember Ron Howard is running the show.
** In one episode Barry literally jumps over a shark.
** In the episode where Tobias goes to prison to study a film role, he gets in because the warden is an appreciator of film...and played by James Lipton, who was [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVWasBau1V0 mocked mercilessly] at the end of [[David Cross]]' stand-up special ''The Pride is Back''.
** In an episode called "Family Ties", a woman who Michael believes to be his sister (but ultimately isn't) is played by Justine Bateman, Jason Bateman's actual sister. Also, her most famous role was in [[Family Ties]].
* In the ''[[8 Simple Rules]]'' episode "Old Flame", an old boyfriend of Cate (Katey Sagal) shows up, played by Ed O'Neill (who played her husband on ''[[Married... Withwith Children]]''.)
* [[George Takei]] played Rome London on ''[[Suite Life On Deck]]'' in an episode that parodies 'Star Trek'. He even played a direct descendant of London and acts very much like a young teenage girl.
* In ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'' Troy (played by Donald Glover) convinces Abed of a variety of absurd things including that he is related to actor Danny Glover.
** Except that Donald Glover isn't related to Danny Glover.
*** But still, the character is making an [[Actor Allusion|allusion]] to his actor's last name.
** French Stewart appeared on the show playing a professional impersonator of French Stewart.
* In ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' Burt Reynolds plays the character Big Chubby. His son, Little Chubby, is played by Norm MacDonald: the actor who plays Burt Reynolds in the [[Saturday Night Live]] Celebrity Jeopardy skits. In fact, Little Chubby pretty much '''is''' the Celebrity Jeopardy version of Burt Reynolds. He even has the same laugh.
* Clive Mantel played Little John in ''[[Robin of Sherwood]]'', and so there seems to be this involved in ''[[Game of Thrones (TV)|Game of Thrones]]'', where he plays Jon Umber, generally known as The ''Great''jon.
** Amusingly, in the books at least the Greatjon has a son even bigger than he is who is called Smalljon.
** 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 (TV)|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.
* [[Mass Effect 2]]: Tricia Helfer of [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]] voices your ship's AI.
 
 
== Radio ==
* In The Quandary Phase of ''[[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy (Radioradio series)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'', original H2G2 producer Geoffrey Perkins plays Arthur's boss at BBC local radio; a character with the same relationship to [[Douglas Adams]]' [[Author Avatar]] as Perkins had to Douglas himself.
 
 
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== Video Games ==
* Who's that playing übercapitalist Andrew Ryan in ''[[Bio ShockBioshock]]''? Why it's Armin Shimerman, who you might remember as Quark the Ferengi from ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV)|Deep Space 9]]''!
** Shimerman also voiced one the of the villains from the ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' series - the main rival of a character named 'Qwark'.
* 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''.
** James Woods as a jittery, paranoid goverment agent sure seems to fit.
* [[Nathan Fillion]] voices the main character in [[Halo|Halo 3: ODST]]. Who plays his character's ex-girlfriend (and boss)? His ex-girlfriend [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Tricia Helfer]]. Who plays his squad mates? [[Firefly (TV)|Alan Tudyk and]] [[Serenity (Film)|Adam Baldwin]].
* 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 (Filmfilm)|Air Force One]]''. His American counterpart is voiced by Kiefer Sutherland, of ''[[Twenty Four|24]]'' fame. Sutherlands's previous voice-acting job was as the American general W.R. Monger in ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]''.
** In ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops (Video Game)|Call of Duty Black Ops]]'', Ed Harris plays a CIA agent in the 1960's involved in many missions in Southeast Asia. In ''[[The Rock]]'', he played an Marine general who was famous for his black ops exploits in 1960's southeast asia.
* 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 (Anime)|Gundam]] [[Expy|lookalikes]] (Nakamura's role in [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|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-[[Blaz Blue|Hazama]]), alongside [[Ore no Imouto ga Konna Nini Kawaii Wake ga Nai (Light Novel)|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.]]
* In the ''[[God of War]]'' series did this twice: Perseus is voiced by Harry Hamlin and Hercules is voiced by Kevin Sorbo, roles the actors previously played in the original ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' and ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' respectively.
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* In ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|Thundercats 2011]]'' Snarf has gone from the [[Thunder CatsThundercats|original]]'s [[Talking Animal]] [[Non-Human Sidekick]] with a [[Verbal Tic]] to a [[Team Pet]] who can only [[Pokémon-Speak]]. His voice actress is [[Satomi Koorogi]], who voiced Togepi and Pichu in the anime of ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]''.
** We now have [[Jim Cummings]], the voice of [[Winnie the Pooh|Tigger]] and many other cat like characters, as Caspin, a member of the ''Tiger'' clan.
* Casting director [[Andrea Romano]] seems to have set a few of these up for the DCAU: Rob Zombie voicing evil god <s>Cthulhu</s> Ichthultu in ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', [[H.R. Pufnstuf (TV)|Billie Hayes]] playing witchy Mother Mae-Eye in ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'', and (most amusingly), George Lazenby as the latest King in the Royal Flush Gang in ''[[Batman Beyond (Animation)|Batman Beyond]]'':
{{quote| '''King:''' "Do you have any idea what it's like [[James Bond|living in someone's shadow?!]]"}}
** Not to mention Nathan Fillion as Vigilante... [[Firefly|a cowboy who flies a spaceship]] with Gina Torres' character, Vixen. Vigilante is also very unhappy about the events of a previous episode's war-scale crisis.
** Also Arte Johnson was brought in as Virman Vundabar, who voiced him essentially as his Wolfgang character from [[Rowan and MartinsMartin's Laugh-In|Laugh-In]], complete with a "Very interesting ..."
** Another joke was the casting of the Royal Flush Gang (Justice League version). All of the voice actors cast were the ones that played the principal characters in ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]''.
*** Speaking of which, Kid Flash and Speedy in ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' have the same voice actors as their ''[[Justice League]]'' counterparts.
** A somewhat obscure but particularly clever example of this was casting Fred Savage and Jason Hervey (the brothers from ''[[The Wonder Years]]'') as Hawk and Dove, only reversing the relationship dynamic by casting Savage as Hawk and Hervey as Dove.
*** Legend has it originally Savage and Hervey had the opposite roles, but for one take they decided to switch characters, and the director decided it worked better.
** She's brought in [[Adam West]] and [[Batman (TV series)|Julie Newmar]] to play the Waynes alongside ''[[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]'' alumni [[Mark Hamill]], Kevin Conroy and Richard Moll as The Spectre, The Phantom Stranger and Lew Moxon for the ''[[Batman: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' episode "Chill of the Night".
*** For the episode "The Super-Batman of Planet X!" Kevin Conroy reprises his [[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Batman]] role, and Dana Delaney and Clancy Brown reprise their ''[[Superman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Superman the Animated Series]]'' roles... [[Recycled in Space|sort of.]]
*** Another ''[[Batman: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' one: John Welsey Shipp played Barry Allen on the short-lived ''[[The Flash (TV series)|Flash]]'' live-action series in the 90s. In "Requiem for a Flash", he voiced [[Evil Counterpart]], the Reverse-Flash/Professor Zoom.
*** The ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' adaptation of ''[[For the Man Who Has Everything]]'' has Kevin Conroy voicing the mugger who shot the Waynes.
** Arguably the best casting gag of the DCAU was when [[Adam West]] was cast to play a washed up, [[Type Cast]] actor by the name of Simon Trent, who prior resents his role as a live-action TV hero.
*** In the tie in comic ''Batman Adventures'', an in-universe example occurred as Bruce Wayne had some creative control in producing a new Grey Ghost movie and chose Simon Trent to play the mayor.
** Henry Rollins, an anti-authoritarian and passionate rock musician, was cast as Mad Stan, an anti-authoritarian and passionate anarchist with a penchant for high explosives.
** In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]'', Thomas Wayne is voiced by Richard Moll; who also voiced Harvey Dent and was one of Bruce's few friends in Gotham. Another gag is seen by the roles of Martha Wayne and Selina Kyle/Catwoman (both of which are some of the most important women in Bruce's life; judging from The Cat and the Claw) played by Adrienne Barbeau.
* Just before the resurgence of superhero movies stated above, [[Stan Lee]] has already been making cameo appearances in assorted [[Marvel Comics]] animated series, specifically the ''[[Spider-Man]]'' ones. The first season of the most recent one, ''Spectacular Spider-Man'', already has this covered. Of special note is his cameo in the 90s Fox Kid's Spider-Man - {{spoiler|as himself, when Spider-Man travels to an alternate universe, implied to be ours, where Spider-Man is a comic book character.}}
{{quote| Stan Lee: {{spoiler|Now how do I get down from here... Maybe the [[Fantastic Four]] will swing by...}}}}
** Also of note, Joan Clayton Lee, Stan Lee's wife, played the voice of Madame Web in that series.
* ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'' does this a lot with ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]''. The original two antagonists were members of the TNG cast, and over the course of the series seven other primary cast members from across four ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' series appeared on the show, many of them in reoccurring roles.
* David Hyde Pierce playing the role of Cecil, Sideshow Bob's brother on ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' (alluding to the show ''[[Frasier]]'', in which he played Kelsey Grammer's brother). In a later episode, Bob and Cecil's dad was voiced by John Mahoney, who played Frasier and Niles' dad on ''Frasier''.
* In ''[[Brother Bear]]'' the goofy [[Canada, Eh?|Canadian]] moose brothers are played by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas - the goofy Candian brothers from ''[[Strange Brew]]'' and ''SCTV''.
* ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' and ''[[Transformers]]'', both being Hasbro-produced [[Merchandise-Driven]] series, tend to have a few of these. ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' has Corey Burton and Michael Bell playing twins Tomax and Xamot. ''[[Transformers]]'' has them as twins Sunstreaker and Sideswipe. Many actors who have played Starscream have also played the Cobra Commander, [[Transformers Animated|Tom Kenny]], [[Beast Wars (Animation)|Doug Parker]], [[Transformers Prime|Steven Blum]], and [[Transformers: War for Cybertron|Sam Riegel]] being the only exceptions.
* ''[[Robbie the Reindeer]] in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind'' casts [[The X -Files|Gillian Anderson]] as the invading alien queen.
* When the JLA-[[Expy|expies]], the [[Squadron Supreme]], appeared on ''[[The Super HeroSuperhero Squad Show]]'', [[Adam West]] (who played Batman [[Batman (TV series)|in the 60s TV series]] and the last two seasons of ''[[Super FriendsSuperfriends]]'') and Susan Eisenberg ([[Wonder Woman]] on ''[[Justice League]]'' and ''[[Superman Batman Apocalypse|Superman/Batman: Apocalypse]]'') in the respective roles of Batman-expy Nighthawk and Wonder Woman-expy Power Princess.
* John Ratzenberger is the ''only'' actor to every appear in every single Pixar movie.
* When Pat Buttram still worked for Disney, he is always cast as [[The Aristocats (Disney)|some]] [[Robin Hood (Disney film)|sort]] [[The Fox and Thethe Hound (Disney)|of dog]] with a Southern accent. Except in ''[[The Rescuers (Disney film)|The Rescuers]]'', where he was cast as a rat with a Southern accent.
* [[Julie Lemieux]] has voiced two different ([[Cross-Dressing Voices|male]]) bat characters with a fairly similar voice: Sleepy Bat on ''[[Birdz]]'' and Batty on ''[[Almost Naked Animals]]'' a good 13 years later.
* [[Grey DelisleDeLisle]] plays two different feline characters named Kitty: one on ''[[Tuff Puppy|T.U.F.F. Puppy]]'' and the other on ''[[Danger Rangers]]''.
* [[Gilbert Gottfried]] actually voiced at least [[Aladdin (Disney film)|three]] [[Cyberchase (Animation)|obnoxious]] [[Morally-Ambiguous Ducktorate|birds.]] (The third being the Aflac duck.)
* In ''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]]'', a character named Asami is voiced by one Seychelle Gabriel, who played Princess Yue in the [[The Last Airbender|film.]] Expect to hear a line about [[Memetic Mutation|beliefs.]]
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000," one of the villains trying to trick the Apple family out of their farm is voiced by [[Sam Vincent]], who has had previous experience [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|pulling off scams.]]
* When [[Phineas and Ferb]] went to Hawaii, the hotel manager was voiced by Phill Lewis, who also plays a hotel manager on [[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody|some]] [[The Suite Life On Deck|other]] [[Disney Channel]] shows.
* When the celebrity voice actors were replaced in the transition from the ''[[Madagascar]]'' films to ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'', celebrity voice actor Sacha Baron Cohen (the voice of King Julien) was replaced by Danny Jacobs. Jacobs previously played an impersonation of Cohen's [[Borat]] character in ''[[Epic Movie]]''.
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