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[[File:one_of_these_things_is_not_like_the_others_4912one of these things is not like the others 4912.jpg|frame|[[Sesame Street|One of these things is not like the others]]. <ref>From right to left: ''Necronomicon: Book of Dead'' (1993), ''[[Re-Animator|Beyond Re-Animator]]'' (2003), ''[[Re-Animator|Bride of Re-Animator]]'' (1990) and ''[[Honey, I Shrunk the Kids]]'' (1989)</ref>]]

Related to [[Playing Against Type]], [[I Am Not Spock]], [[Genre Adultery]] and [[WTH?What the Hell, Casting Agency?]]. Compare [[Same Face, Different Name]], where the creator hides the fact that he's doing something different under a new name. In music, [[Black Sheep Hit]] is a special case in which the ''aberration'' becomes famous. Compare [[Hey, It's That Guy!]] and [[Hey, It's That Voice!]], which are often this trope but for actors.

=== Real Life Examples: ===

=== Actors ===

* Richard Ayoade-- MossAyoade—Moss from ''[[The IT Crowd]]'', Dean Learner from ''[[Garth Marenghi's Darkplace]]''-- also—also directed [http://www.listal.com/list/videos-directed-richard-ayoade quite a few music videos].

* David Hemmings, the star of Antonioni's [[Blow UpBlowup]] began as a boy soprano and originated the role of Miles in Britten's [[Turn Of The Screw]].

* [[Boris Karloff]] started out as a stage-trained character in silent movies, then graduated to playing [[Fu Manchu]], [[Frankenstein]]'s monster, the Mummy, and associated mad scientists and crazy people in horror films. He was also the voice actor for the narration and the Grinch in the animated ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (animation)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]''. He also played the title police detective, specializing in the [[Locked Room Mystery]], in the 1950s TV series ''Colonel March of Scotland Yard''.

* [[Leonard Nimoy]] directed ''[[Three Men Andand Aa Baby]]'' and ''[[The Good Mother]]'' (as well as the less-surprising ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]''). He has also released five albums, directed music videos, acted in many non-[[Star Trek]]-related roles, and (most notably) he is a succesfulsuccessful photographer.

** Gates McFadden -- DoctorMcFadden—Doctor Crusher from ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' -- was—was also a choreographer for the Jim Henson Workshop, who worked on such films as ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' and ''[[Labyrinth]]''. For the latter, she was credited with her first name as Cheryl McFadden.

* Frank Oz is known as the voice of several [[Muppet|Muppets]]s, including fozzy, Miss Piggy, Grover, [[Star Wars|Yoda]], (He was also the Hands of the Swedish Chef while Jim Henson did the head and voice). However, he also directed ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' (which after all uses puppetry to portray a major character) and ''[[The Stepford Wives]]'', and ''[[Dirty Rotten Scoundrels]]''.

* [[Vincent Price]] is best known for his horror roles, but most of his early work was dramatic, and he also took afew voice acting roles, notably in [[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby -Doo]] and [[The Great Mouse Detective]]. He was also well-known as an art collector (he donated 90 pieces of art to a community college, making it the first community college to have such a collection), and as a noted gourmet cook (authoring several cookbooks, and once giving a demonstration on ''[[The Tonight Show]] Starring Johnny Carson'' of how to poach a fish in the dishwasher). He also spoke several languages and was an opera grade singer. During a segment on ''What's My Line'' where the blindfolded regulars were supposed to guess his identity by listening to his voice and his answers to their questions, he [[Beyondhe Impossible|''sang all his answers in French'']] to keep them from recognizing his distinctive voice.

* While known for the voice of [[One Piece|Monkey D. Luffy]] nowadays, in Japan, [[Mayumi Tanaka]] had also been well known for her role in the [[Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru]] franchise <ref>best known in the U.S. for its incarnation as a [[Turbo Grafx]]TurboGrafx-16]] game, which was released as ''Keith Courage in Alpha Zones'' in that territory</ref> as the title character.

* In addition to voice acting, Paul Winchell was also a puppeteer, an acupuncturist, and an inventor -- hisinventor—his most famous inventions being the artificial heart and the blood plasma defroster.

* Ian Ziering, aka Steve Sanders from ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]'', played Edison Trent from ''[[Freelancer]]''. Same goes for John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and Tobias from said game.

=== Athletes ===

=== Comic Books and Manga ===

** [[Joss Whedon]], although in many cases he is writing properties that he already did on TV. Whedon also directed a episode of ''[[The Office]]'' and did script doctoring work on things like ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' and ''[[X-Men (film)|X Men]]''. He's also credited as a writer for ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'', ''[[Titan A.E.]]'' and (of course) ''[[Alien Resurrection]]''.

* [[Dave Sim]], author of ''[[Cerebus the Aardvark]]'', also signed the [[wikipedia:Creatorchr(27)Creator's Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights for Comics Creators]], together with Richard Pini and the artists of [[Mirage Studios]].

=== Directors and Producers ===

=== Musicians / Composers ===

* Alexander Courage, whose best remembered composition is the [[Theme Tune]] for ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'', had worked as an orchestrator on MGM musicals such as ''[[Annie Get Your Gun]]'', ''[[The Band Wagon]]'' and ''[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]]''.

** On a similar note, voice actor [[BioshockBioShock (series)|Stephen]] [[Hero Factory|Stanton]] was also a special effects artist on (amongst others) ''[[Last Action Hero]]'', ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'' and ''[[Armageddon]]''

* [[Tony Banks]], better known as a founding member of/keyboard player in the [[Progressive Rock|prog rock]] band [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]], [[He Also Did|also did]] ''Seven: A Suite For Orchestra'', an album of original classical music performed by The London Philharmonic Orchestra.

* [[Jeremy Soule]] - best known for his work on the soundtracks for ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'', ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'', ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic]]'', ''[[Guild Wars]]'' and ''[[Secret of Evermore]]'' also did the music for... many ''[[Putt-Putt]]'', ''[[Freddi Fish]]'', and ''[[Pajama Sam]]'' games.

** Similary, Koji Igarashi alias "IGA", and Mikio Saito alias "Metal Yuhki", both big names in the ''[[Castlevania]]'' series (the first as the man in charge of the series, and the second as the music composer of popular entry ''[[Castlevania: Rondo of Blood]]''), are respectively the scenario writer of ''[[Tokimeki Memorial|Tokimeki Memorial 1]]'', and the music producer and composer of the ''Tokimeki Memorial'' series.

=== Writers / Poets ===

* [[Isaac Asimov]] is known as a sci-fi writer, but also dabbled in lots of other genres, and published books on history, [[The Bible]], [[William Shakespeare]], [[Gilbert and Sullivan]], and several collections of dirty [[Limerick|Limericks]]s. His work can be found in nine of the ten categories of the Dewey Decimal System — all ten, if forewords count.

* [[H.P. Lovecraft|HP Lovecraft]] wrote a few travelogues, despite usually being considered a recluse who rarely left his home (which isn't true. While he did spend most of his life in Providence and didn't socialise much, he did often travel to meet his friends in other parts of the country). He also wrote the comic short story [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sweet_Ermengarde Sweet Ermengarde], a parody of romantic melodrama, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130206151443/http://www.lovecraftlibrary.org/hpl/waste/ Waste Paper], a painfully spot-on parody of "[[The Waste Land]]." In a vaguely related vein, he responded to a friend's teasing about his teetotaling by writing "Old Bugs", a parodically exaggerated [[Scare'Em Straight]] story about alcohol.

* R.L. Stine, well known for his horror books such as the ''[[Fear Street]]'' and ''[[Goosebumps]]'' series, also published various humor books (such as the [[Novelization]] of ''[[Spaceballs]]'') and was the creator and writer for [[Nickelodeon]] show ''[[EureekasEureeka's Castle]]''.

* The Philip Reeve who wrote the ''[[Mortal Engines]]'' quartet (a [[Sliding Scale Longof NameIdealism Versus Cynicism|cynical]], [[Black and Grey Morality]]-laden [[Used Future]] set [[After the End]]) and ''Here Lies Arthur'', a [[Demythtification]] that [[Deconstruction|deconstructs]] Arthurian legend, also wrote ''[[Larklight]]'' and sequels, a hilarious and [[Sliding Scale of Seriousness Versus Silliness|absurd]] [[Affectionate Parody]] of things like ''[[Treasure Island]]'' which runs on [[British Stuffiness]], [[Rule of Funny]], and occasional [[Rule of Cool]]. And good always wins. Yes...yes, they are by the same person.

* [[Dr. Seuss]] used to be [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924165439/http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/politicaldrseuss/seuss_fla.html a political cartoonist] during [[World War II]], creating many hilarious cartoons about the defeat of Hitler and more than a few [[Unfortunate Implications|horrifying caricatures of Japanese people]].

* Walter Tevis, author of ''[[The Hustler (film)|The Hustler]]'' and ''[[The Color of Money]]'', also wrote ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]''.

=== Other ===

* Pablo Picasso was most famous for his cubist work, but he was also a major player amongst futurists, expressionists, surrealists, neoclassicists, artists of New Objectivity, [[Dada|dadaistsdada]]ists and Art Brut. Many people don't realize that most members of these movements ''hated'' all the other movements, so Picasso's involvement with them all (and the fact that he was idolized by them all) is astounding. He was also a successful impressionist, and one of the earliest known comic artists.

* [[Shigesato Itoi]], the man responsible for the ''[[MOTHER]]''/''[[EarthboundEarthBound]]'' series, is ridiculously versatile and has dabbled in pretty much everything in the past thirty years, ''MOTHER'' being just another dabbling. He's also known for his fishing games, doing guest-judging on ''[[Iron Chef]]'', and for voicing the father on ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]''. His actual profession is writing essays and copywriting, in his signature writing style and idiosyncrasies. In Japan, that's what you think when you hear the name [[Shigesato Itoi]], but in America, ([[Needs More Love|if at all]]), it's ''[[EarthboundEarthBound]]''. ''[[MOTHER]]'' was just Itoi experimenting into a new medium after being inspired by playing [[Dragon Quest]], and its sales in Japan [[Celebrity Endorsement|are largely based on the fact that he made it]], and it and its sequels' slogans were also a factor, of course. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQUN7QAnMp0 TV commercial] even specifically says that it was by him, invoking [[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It]] without actually using it. Its sequels' sales were also boosted by the fact that they were sequels to the games before them.

* Both World Wars pretty much ensured that a large number of famous people from two generations [[He Also Did|also served in the military or related fields]] in addition to the main source of their fame. Among these can be cited of note (takes breath) [[Christopher Lee]] (Commando in WWII), [[Kurt Vonnegut]] (WWII private and Dresden flattening survivor), [[William Butler Yeats]] (volunteer in WWI), [[Ernest Hemingway]] (volunteered as paramedic in WWI and spy in WWII), bogus director and crossdresser extraordinaire [[Ed Wood (creator)|Ed Wood]] (war hero in Guadalcanal... [[What the Hell, Hero?|in panties]]), [[Ian Fleming]] (WWII), painters Otto Dix, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka and lots of other Germans/Austrian young poor artists (drafted in WWI), Russian writer [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] (tank commander in the [[Great Patriotic War]], decorated twice), B-25 bomber gunner [[Charlton Heston]] (WWII) a whole lot of French enlisted in [[La Résistance]] (mime [[Marcel Marceau]], philosopher Simone Weil, writers [[Marguerite Duras]], [[Albert Camus]], [[Samuel Beckett]], [[Paul Eluard]], [[Louis Aragon]], [[André Malraux]], [[Tristan Tzara]] etc). Technically, Queen Elizabeth II also served in WWII, though not in a fighting capacity - she volunteered for the British women's auxiliary force, thus making her the only current head of state who's a veteran of that war. (A fact which caused some controversy when she wasn't invited to the D-Day commemoration in 2010.)

* History has seen a lot of [[Warrior Poet|Warrior Poets]], along with Warrior Philophers, and Warrior Artists.[[Older Than Feudalism|Socrates]] fought against the invading Persians, Xenophon was a Greek mercenary, Thucydides experienced first-handedly the Peloponnesian Wars, Horace fought in the Roman Civil Wars, a sharp decrease can be seen during the Dark Ages (where the ruling caste were often barbarian invaders) and the Middle Ages (where the feudal lords were sometimes literate and sometimes not and usually had enough on their plates politically to keep them busy). Things go booming during the last years of the High Middle Ages, where knights were supposed to be poets as well, while still being actually efficient and ruthless iron-clad warriors. The heyday of the [[Warrior Poet]], some examples includes Chrétien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Mallory, and very notably [[Dante Alighieri]], who incidentally had to exiled from Florence and became a [[Hired Guns|rogue knight]] who fought for many different lords, [[Leonardo da Vinci]] was contracted as a military engineer in Venice, [[Miguel De Cervantes]] was a young officer and war hero at Lepanto and so it goes.

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