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** This has suffered Robert Picardo from ''Star Trek Voyager''; it's hard to see his character from ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' as anything but the EMH in a different uniform.
* On the note of sci-fi shows, the cast of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' has accepted this has happened to all of them... with quite a bit of grace and alacrity. It helps that to a man they ''all'' love the show and understand the affection the fans have for the show (and them); to quote Jerry Doyle, "if I'm typecast as a space cop, well, that's fine, because I got to play space cop on one of the best shows ever. What, should I prefer poverty?"
** Then again, Doyle did try to escape the typecasting by entering politics. He ran for Congress in 2000 and lost.<ref>In California's 24th District, as a Republican. This seat is well-known to be a safe seat for Democrats, and Doyle's opponent was an incumbent--and California specifically gerrymanders its districts to favor incumbents, regardless of party.</ref> More recently he was a syndicated [https://web.archive.org/web/20080119034149/http://www.jerrydoyle.com/ talk radio host] up until his death in 2016.
** The late Andreas Katsulas, who played G'kar, did manage to avoid this trap... by already being incredibly famous on stage in his home country of Greece. He came to America, did a Narn (and [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|a Romulan]] and [[The Fugitive (film)|a man with one hand]]) for a few years, then went right back to being famous in his home country (he was right up there with his castmates in not caring about typecasting either way because he adored the G'kar character, though).
** Bruce Boxleitner was already well-known for a variety of roles (and has continued to work steadily since). [[Mira Furlan]] is probably now better remembered as the Frenchwoman from ''[[Lost]]'', and like Katsulas was (and still is) tremendously well-respected in her native country (in this case, Croatia). She does gently remind interviewers that, yes, she has played characters not named Delenn or Danielle Rousseau, but like her castmates welcomes the adoration Delenn receives from fans and remains fond of the character and the show. Bill Mumy, however, will ''always'' remain [[Lost in Space|Will Robinson]] for most people.
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