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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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 * '''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]].
+* '''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?!
+* '''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!"