Typecasting/Playing With

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

• Straight: Andy Bigstar always plays The Cape (trope) in his movies.
• Exaggerated: Andy Bigstar always plays an incredibly specific variant of The Cape (trope) (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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