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== Western Animation ==

** 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|Billie Hayes]] playing witchy Mother Mae-Eye in ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', and (most amusingly), George Lazenby as the latest King in the Royal Flush Gang in ''[[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.

** 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 (animation)|Teen Titans]]''.

*** Speaking of which, Kid Flash and Speedy in ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|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.

*** For the episode "The Super-Batman of Planet X!" Kevin Conroy reprises his [[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman]] role, and Dana Delaney and Clancy Brown reprise their ''[[Superman: The Animated Series|Superman the Animated Series]]'' roles... [[Recycled in Space|sort of.]]

*** Another ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' one: John Welsey Shipp played Barry Allen on the short-lived ''[[The Flash (TV 1990)||Flash]]'' live-action series in the 90s. In "Requiem for a Flash", he voiced [[Evil Counterpart]], the Reverse-Flash/Professor Zoom.

*** 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.

{{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]]'' does this a lot with ''[[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]]'' 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 (animation)|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''.

* ''[[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|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.