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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]] in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* Mexican promotion AAA was the first federation of moderately well known luchadors Psychosis and La Parka. When the two had a falling out with AAA and left, AAA sued them for the gimmicks and gave the Psychosis and La Parka gimmicks to different wrestlers to play. The original La Parka (Adolfo Tapia) did something of a reverse Other Darrin by keeping the gimmick but changing the name to LA Par-K. The original Psicosis (Dionicio Castellanos) uses the Nicho El Millionario gimmick in Mexico outside AAA.
** There was a short lived running gag involving Los Payasos, a stable of 3-5 clown luchadores whose only difference was the hair color on their masks; as Mexican tag team matches require the leader being pinned/submitted to win they would all change their masks in the middle of a fight so they all would have the same as their current leader forcing the opposing team to pin/submit all of them.
* In [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]], the role of Doink the Clown was given to several other wrestlers following the departure of Matt Borne (who played him first) until it was given to Ray Apollo (who played him until the character was phased out). Ironically, as all this was going on, Borne continued to play Doink for several weeks in his new home, ECW, as part of a storyline that led to his new character, Borne Again. Doink has also been played by Dusty Wolfe and Steve Lombardi, and a whole host of wrestlers have donned the costume temporarily as part of angles.
** This is also currently{{when}} being done in [[TNA]]. The character of 'Suicide' was supposed to be played by Frankie 'Kaz' Kazarian. Kazarian injured himself, and, since the character wore a full-cover bodysuit and mask, the role was given to [[Christopher Daniels]]. Kazarian is since back, and TNA has worked the switch into the angle, with some of the other wrestlers accusing Daniels of being Suicide.
*** Now{{when}} there's a ''third'' Suicide -- Kaz has returned to competing under his old name with no explanation, while Suicide is now being played by Kiyoshi.
* When Kevin Nash and Scott Hall -- who were billed as Diesel and Razor Ramon, respectively -- left the World Wrestling Federation in 1996, [[Vince McMahon]] decided that (because the characters were trademarked, and thus, legal property of the WWF) he would recast Diesel and Razor Ramon. Hence, Glen Jacobs would perform as "Diesel" (one of Jacobs' many pre-[[Kane (wrestling)|Kane]] roles), while Rick Bognar became the new "Razor." Of course, it was obvious to fans these were Other Darrins performing these characters, and not just by lack of ability, but by overt explanation by the WWF announcers (including [[Jim Ross]], who briefly turned heel as part of this gimmick). The "Fake Diesel"/"Fake Razor" storyline proved unpopular and was soon dropped; Bognar left the WWF not long afterward, but Jacobs was repackaged as Kane ... and the rest is history.
* [[Ric Flair]] took the role as the Black Scorpion in 1990.
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** This turned out to be Hunico wanting to take over the role of Sin Cara, as Hunico had used the name, with a different gimmick, Mistico, but lost the right to use the name to CMLL who had given it to the man who now portrays the Original Sin Cara, and are now in a feud over who will be the "real" Sin Cara.
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