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These are examples of well-known works (not obscure experiments) of creators that are so far out of their perceived niche that often times people don't immediately realize the person behind it.
Related to [[Playing Against Type]], [[I Am Not Spock]], [[Genre Adultery]] and [[WTH 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.
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** Actor and comedian [[Patton Oswalt]] has written quite a few comic books, including a one-shot ''[[Firefly]]'' comic featuring Wash.
** Sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison wrote an Avengers/Hulk crossover in the early 1970's. It introduced the (fairly) popular character of Jarella into the Hulk's life.
* [[Dave Sim]], author of ''[[Cerebus the Aardvark]]'', also signed the [
* [[Ursula Vernon]]: creator of both the webcomic ''[[Digger (Webcomic)|Digger]]'' and [http://ursulav.deviantart.com/art/The-Biting-Pear-of-Salamanca-29677500 The Biting Pear of Salamanca].
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* Acclaimed auteur Alexander Payne, who wrote and directed films such as ''Sideways'', ''[[About Schmidt]]'', and ''Election'', is also credited on the screenplays of ''[[Jurassic Park III]]'' and ''[[I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry]]'', though little of his work on the latter film made it into the finished product.
* [[Rod Serling]] (''[[The Twilight Zone]]'') wrote ''Requiem for a Heavyweight'', which some have said was the point where televised drama [[Grow the Beard|Grew the Beard]]. He also co-wrote ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'', which, while easily falling within the niche people think of him as being in, is often neglected, possibly because he only co-wrote it. He was also a noted boxer and the host for the game show ''Liar's Club.''
* [[J Michael Straczynski]], producer/writer/director of ''[[
* [[Quentin Tarantino]] directed episodes of ''[[ER]]'' and a ''[[CSI]]'' episode that featured direct dialogue references to his earlier films, and a character even [[Buried Alive|suffers the same fate]] as [[Kill Bill|The Bride]]. He's also an actor as has appeared several movies he's directed. He also co-starred in [[From Dusk Till Dawn]] with [[George Clooney]]
* [[Francois Truffaut|François Truffaut]], the legendary French film director, played the French scientist Claude Lacombe in ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''. This was one of his few acting roles, and his ''only'' one in a movie he didn't direct.
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* Mikhail Lermontov, a Russian 19th-century poet, was also a talented landscape painter.
* [[H.P. Lovecraft (Creator)|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 [http://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.
* Vladimir Mayakovskiy, a famous Soviet poet, was also a [
* 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 (Film)|Spaceballs]]'') and was the creator and writer for [[Nickelodeon]] show ''[[Eureekas Castle]]''.
* [[Vladimir Nabokov (Creator)|Vladimir Nabokov]] was also an entomologist, and he extensively studied a boring butterfly tribe, the [
* Naomi Novik, author of the ''[[Temeraire]]'' series of novels, was originally a prolific writer of ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' [[Fan Fiction]].
* Mystery novelist Anne Perry's real name is Juliet Hulme. That's right, she's the same Juliet Hulme of [
* [[Edgar Allan Poe (Creator)|Edgar Allan Poe]] helped invent detective fiction. He also wrote a lot of satirical/parodic short stories (leading some to wonder [[Stealth Parody|how serious some of his serious writing really was]]) and a long philosophical-scientific treatise. He was a pretty versatile guy
* The Philip Reeve who wrote the ''[[Mortal Engines]]'' quartet (a [[Sliding Scale Long Name|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.
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