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* [[Samuel L. Jackson]], who usually plays [[Badass]] [[Action Hero|Action Heroes]], had a role in ''[[Unbreakable]]'' as a handicapped [[The Obi-Wan|Obi Wan]] {{spoiler|who turns out to be an insane manipulator.}}
* [[Samuel L. Jackson]], who usually plays [[Badass]] [[Action Hero|Action Heroes]], had a role in ''[[Unbreakable]]'' as a handicapped [[The Obi-Wan|Obi Wan]] {{spoiler|who turns out to be an insane manipulator.}}
** Earlier on in ''[[Die Hard]] With a Vengeance'', Jackson was a bespectacled locksmith who didn't know how to handle a gun, but he became progressively more badass throughout the film.
** Earlier on in ''[[Die Hard]] With a Vengeance'', Jackson was a bespectacled locksmith who didn't know how to handle a gun, but he became progressively more badass throughout the film.
* [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]] has played against type on a few occasions, to the point that his "type" completely changed. Before ''[[Die Hard]]'', Willis was a comedic actor known for his wisecracking role in ''[[Moonlighting]]''. His appearance in such a big budget actioner was met with a great deal of initial skepticism, but its success turned him into a bona fide action star. Willis went against his new action star type with a role in ''[[Death Becomes Her]]'', in which he played a weak-willed and neurotic doctor. As he has aged, his type has broadened to include characters from a wide range of backgrounds, from daffy to dour, weak to badass. Willis also did the same in the erotic thriller ''The Color of the Night'', where he played a psychologist haunted by the suicide of a patient, and who has a love affair with a mysterious young girl.
* [[Bruce Willis]] has played against type on a few occasions, to the point that his "type" completely changed. Before ''[[Die Hard]]'', Willis was a comedic actor known for his wisecracking role in ''[[Moonlighting]]''. His appearance in such a big budget actioner was met with a great deal of initial skepticism, but its success turned him into a bona fide action star. Willis went against his new action star type with a role in ''[[Death Becomes Her]]'', in which he played a weak-willed and neurotic doctor. As he has aged, his type has broadened to include characters from a wide range of backgrounds, from daffy to dour, weak to badass. Willis also did the same in the erotic thriller ''The Color of the Night'', where he played a psychologist haunted by the suicide of a patient, and who has a love affair with a mysterious young girl.
** It should be noted that at the time he made ''[[Die Hard]]'', Willis' smartalecky ''Moonlighting'' persona was already considered yesterday's news, and ''Die Hard'' resurrected his career. Then the public tired of him as an action hero, and he required a ''second'' comeback, successfully transitioning into dramatic roles with ''[[Pulp Fiction]]''.
** It should be noted that at the time he made ''[[Die Hard]]'', Willis' smartalecky ''Moonlighting'' persona was already considered yesterday's news, and ''Die Hard'' resurrected his career. Then the public tired of him as an action hero, and he required a ''second'' comeback, successfully transitioning into dramatic roles with ''[[Pulp Fiction]]''.
* [[Robert De Niro]] has made a career for the past ten or more years out of subverting, parodying, or deconstructing the tough-guy cred he had accumulated over a long and illustrious career. Examples include ''[[Analyze This]]'' and ''[[Stardust (film)|Stardust]]''.
* [[Robert De Niro]] has made a career for the past ten or more years out of subverting, parodying, or deconstructing the tough-guy cred he had accumulated over a long and illustrious career. Examples include ''[[Analyze This]]'' and ''[[Stardust (film)|Stardust]]''.
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* David Arquette is associated with goofy comedic roles, but starred in the Holocaust drama ''[[The Grey Zone]]''.
* David Arquette is associated with goofy comedic roles, but starred in the Holocaust drama ''[[The Grey Zone]]''.
* [[Quentin Tarantino]] loves to play with this trope. Examples include casting [[Robert De Niro]] as a slovenly hoodlum in ''[[Jackie Brown]]'', and Sonny Chiba as the retired sword crafter in ''[[Kill Bill]]''. [[Pam Grier]] said that she cracked up laughing at the filming of a courtroom scene in ''Jackie Brown'' when she saw who played the judge: Sid Haig, who had appeared in many movies with her, but always as a villain.
* [[Quentin Tarantino]] loves to play with this trope. Examples include casting [[Robert De Niro]] as a slovenly hoodlum in ''[[Jackie Brown]]'', and Sonny Chiba as the retired sword crafter in ''[[Kill Bill]]''. [[Pam Grier]] said that she cracked up laughing at the filming of a courtroom scene in ''Jackie Brown'' when she saw who played the judge: Sid Haig, who had appeared in many movies with her, but always as a villain.
* Comedian Chi McBride as the serious but kind FBI agent in ''[[Mercury Rising]]'', who is the immediate superior to [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]]' undercover expert.
* Comedian Chi McBride as the serious but kind FBI agent in ''[[Mercury Rising]]'', who is the immediate superior to [[Bruce Willis]]' undercover expert.
* [[Danielle Harris]], usually a [[Final Girl]] or victim in horror films, turns out to be the killer in ''[[Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet|Blood Night the Legend of Mary Hatchet]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkIKhtRKn2Y It is awesome].
* [[Danielle Harris]], usually a [[Final Girl]] or victim in horror films, turns out to be the killer in ''[[Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet|Blood Night the Legend of Mary Hatchet]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkIKhtRKn2Y It is awesome].
* [[Kathy Bates]] as a milquetoast housewife in ''[[Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe]]''.
* [[Kathy Bates]] as a milquetoast housewife in ''[[Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe]]''.
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