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Basic Trope: An actor seems to always play the same type of character.

• Straight: Andy Bigstar always plays The Cape in his movies.
• Exaggerated: Andy Bigstar always plays an incredibly specific variant of The Cape (red costume, blond hair, tragic origin story).
• Justified: He does a good job at playing that role, and everyone's used to seeing him in those types of movies.
• Inverted: Andy makes it a point to never play the same type of character twice.
• Subverted: The trailer for a new movie comes out, featuring Andy as an Anti Hero.
• Double Subverted: But you can Never Trust a Trailer, and the movie turns out to play out like his other ones.
• Parodied: Andy is typecast, but as a ridiculously broad role like "guy wearing a hat" or "businessman". He still complains about it though.
• Deconstructed: Eventually, he gets tired of playing the same role all the time, which either leads him to quit entirely, or to try - and fail - to reinvent himself.
• Reconstructed: ???
• Zig Zagged: So it seems like Andy is Playing Against Type, but the marketing for that movie was misleading. But in the sequel, his character really does become an Anti Hero... But only temporally, on a strange case of Super Dickery. Then the third part rolls out, and he has turned into a Villain Protagonist... Or has he?!
• Averted: He plays the same roles occasionally, but has some broadness as an actor.
• Enforced: "That new superhero movie is about to start production. Who's playing the lead?" "Who else? Andy Bigstar!"
• Lampshaded: During one of his many superhero movies, the Big Bad quips to Andy that "You Look Familiar".
• Invoked: Meta Casting, Adam Westing
• Exploited: ???
• Defied: Playing Against Type
• Discussed: "Remember Andy Bigstar?" "Oh, the guy who's always playing the same goody-two-shoes?"
• Conversed: ???

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