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So we have Typecasting, which is cases in which an actor is known only for playing certain kinds of roles (in its most extreme form, I Am Not Spock, when the actor is only known for a particular role). Then we have Playing Against Type, which is when an actor deliberately plays a role extremely different from his or her established type. Then there's this trope, a sub-trope of Playing Against Type, in which an actor plays against type in such a way as to specifically play with, subvert or outright deconstruct his or her previously established character type. Supposing, for example, Bob is best known for playing charming, funny Nice Guys. In this trope, Bob takes on a role superficially quite similar to his established character type — only for the film to reveal that Bob's character is only capable of being charming and funny while drunk, and that he is driven to alcoholism by his history of social awkwardness and depression. (This trope can hence overlap with Deconstructed Character Archetype if Bob's character type is a recognizable archetype in its own right.) Note that this trope is not limited to comedic character types being Played for Drama; it's entirely possible to do this by playing dramatic character types for laughs (e.g.: Bob is best-known for playing tough-as-nails gangsters, and then plays a wannabe gangster who acts tough but is in fact easily frightened and can barely hold a gun, let alone fire one), or exploring facets of a dramatic or comedic character type previously left unexamined. When successfully executed, this trope can cast an actor's earlier roles in an entirely new light and lead members of the audience to cry, "He Really Can Act!" When done poorly, it can seem jarring and awkward and may lead the audience to finding it "Questionable Casting" (especially if the actor in question is insufficiently skilled to pull it off). Compare I Am Not Spock, I Am Not Leonard Nimoy, Adam Westing, Self-Parody, Meta Casting, Casting Gag, Tom Hanks Syndrome and Leslie Nielsen Syndrome. In-universe, compare with Hidden Depths, Character Development, Flat Character and Rounded Character. Note: Do not list a different actor indented under another actor's example just because they appeared in the same work. Indented examples should only be examples of when the same actor played with their character type in multiple different roles. See Example Indentation in Trope Lists for more information. Unmarked spoilers below. |
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The Ancient Sleeping Magi of Life Giving from Adventure Time is one of Dana Snyder's usual hammy Cloudcuckoolander, except with his mental problems played for tragedy rather than for laughs. | |
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He also plays a broken character in Reign Over Me where the character's seemingly carefree attitude is actually just an escape mechanism so he doesn't have to acknowledge a terrible trauma in his life. Any attempts to disturb his escape from reality tactics are usually met with violent denial and outbursts. | |
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Joseph Sugarman in Bojack Horseman is just like any other character played by Matthew Broderick: friendly and charismatic... which makes his more horrific actions such as getting his wife lobotomized, then threatening to do the same to his daughter if she couldn't keep her emotions in check that much creepier, especially since as far as society was concerned at the time, he was justified to do so. | |
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In an episode of Bones, Robert Englund (of A Nightmare on Elm Street fame) guest-stars as a creepy janitor who hangs out in the basement of the school - who, in a subversion of Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize, isn't the perp. | |
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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: Quinton Flynn's Raiden was developed to sound like an older version of the title character from Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures, who's also a young, blond, heroic character in a James Bond-influenced action-adventure setting with supernatural elements (in the case of the incarnation of Jonny played by Flynn, even incorporating the idea of VR training as a significant part of the backstory). This adds some interest to the reveal that Raiden isn't a Kid Hero, but a former Enfant Terrible traumatised by fighting in wars while still a child. Kenyuu Horiuchi was cast as Raiden because of his ability to play cool Pretty Boy while himself being a much older veteran, with the idea that Raiden's voice would sound inappropriately old for his age, indicating he isn't as innocent as he seems. |
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Then there was his role in The Last of Us as David, the leader of a group of survivors, who is kinda in a sense Nathan Drake if he was the leader of a group of survivors. But then you find out he's not only violently crazy, but he's also a cannibal and possibly a pedophile. | |
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In The Outer Limits (1995) episode "Zig Zag", Frank Whaley seems to be playing the usual timid character he became famous for in The '90s due to his youthful "whitebread" looks. However, in this episode, it's just a fake persona for a bold cyberterrorist who is using it to mask his real status as The Chessmaster. | |
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The Last of Us (2023) stars Pedro Pascal as anti-heroic Joel Miller, in his third instance of portraying a morally-grey single father on HBO. Previously, he made his big break playing Game of Thrones anti-hero Oberyn Martell, then depicted Wonder Woman 1984 anti-villain Maxwell Lord. Unlike Oberyn and Maxwell, Joel outlives his own daughter in the series premiere (Pascal's children in GoT and WW84 either outlive him or have no death scene at all), then spends the rest of the season protecting a surrogate daughter instead. | |
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As part of Unforgiven's Genre Deconstruction of Westerns as a whole, Clint Eastwood's role in the film is a deconstruction of his earlier Western character(s), namely those from the Dollars Trilogy. | |
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Likewise in The Truman Show, in which his character's superficial friendliness and wacky charm hides his inner loneliness and yearning to escape his dreary life. | |
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In Rogue One, Mads Mikkelsen - who is primarily typecast as villains in American films and television - plays a scientist working for THE Trope Codifier, if not the Trope Namer, of the Evil Empire. The catch? In this film, he's actually a reluctant Mad Scientist (pardon the pun) who helps the heroes in this movie destroy the Death Star. | |
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The producers of Flightplan cast Sean Bean as the pilot to mislead the audience, who'd think he's part of the villainous plot because of his typecasting as a bad guy. | |
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Metal Gear: Metal Gear Solid: Akio Ōtsuka, the Japanese voice of Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid, is jarring to hear if you're an English player more used to David Hayter's deep-voiced version of the character. Ohtsuka has often played cool, deep-voiced characters who crack the odd Bond One-Liner, but the voice he uses for Snake is more like the 'astringent', warm and likeable register he uses in his extensive career as a voice-over artist for television advertising, giving Snake an impression of Dissonant Serenity that at first makes him seem like the most relatable, fun character in the cast, but gets progressively more desperate and brittle as the story continues and it becomes more apparent how messed-up a person he is. Hideyuki Tanaka had previously been playing the badass, cynical Jonathan Ingram, a character who shares more than a few traits with Solid Snake, in Hideo Kojima's previous game, Policenauts. In Metal Gear Solid, he is cast as Otacon, an awkward Otaku with a poster of Jonathan on his wall, with the voice indicating that there is a core of coolness in there. As Otacon becomes more confident and attractive over the course of the series, Tanaka's performance gets closer to his voice as Jonathan. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: Quinton Flynn's Raiden was developed to sound like an older version of the title character from Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures, who's also a young, blond, heroic character in a James Bond-influenced action-adventure setting with supernatural elements (in the case of the incarnation of Jonny played by Flynn, even incorporating the idea of VR training as a significant part of the backstory). This adds some interest to the reveal that Raiden isn't a Kid Hero, but a former Enfant Terrible traumatised by fighting in wars while still a child. Kenyuu Horiuchi was cast as Raiden because of his ability to play cool Pretty Boy while himself being a much older veteran, with the idea that Raiden's voice would sound inappropriately old for his age, indicating he isn't as innocent as he seems. The Japanese version of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker probably contains Metal Gear's best example, Stunt Casting Paz Ortega Andrade with the Jpop idol Nana Mizuki. Paz appears to be a perfect innocent, but we later find out she's significantly older than she appears, has a rude, foul-mouthed, and obnoxious personality, loves nuclear war, hates everyone around her, and also smokes, and sprays you with verbal abuse while attacking you, with a jpop song playing in the background about how nuclear deterrence is a lot like love. This is a reference to the pressure to maintain impossible standards of Contractual Purity for Japanese idols, who have had their careers ended by slips of an Incorruptible Pure Pureness image that no-one could maintain. (Although it's fair to suggest that Mizuki has probably never tried killing people in a giant, nuclear-equipped mech.) |
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My Name Is Earl: In the episode "Made a Lady Think I Was God", Roseanne Barr guest stars as a character with her usual insulting personality until Earl inadvertently turns her into a kindly nun. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Cobie Smulders plays Maria Hill as what Robin Scherbatsky (from How I Met Your Mother) would be like if she worked for a government intelligence agency. Robert Redford's role as Alexander Pierce in Captain America: The Winter Soldier riffs off his earlier roles as liberal or left-wing heroes taking down fascist conspiracies, but then reveals that he's the leader of the film's fascist conspiracy. Ben Mendelsohn is known for his villainous roles, which led to him being cast as Talos, the Big Bad of Captain Marvel (2019). Namely, to help obscure the fact that the Skrulls undergo Adaptational Heroism in the film and Talos is an Anti-Hero at worst, only trying to find his family and protect his people from the Kree. |
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The protagonist of The Perfect Host is a bank robber who is looking for a place to hide. So he manages to trick his way into the house of a guy played by David Hyde Pierce who seems to be the latter's usual milquetoast character a la Niles Crane. Then Pierce's character reveals himself to be an Ax-Crazy maniac who proceeds to drug the protagonist and torment him for most of the night. | |
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The casting of Doraemon's voice actress as Monokuma in Danganronpa is a perfect example. Monokuma is a parody of a Japanese kawaii mascot character with a Non-Standard Character Design, who speaks with affected cuteness, as well as openly being a vicious, psychotic Evil Genius manipulating people into killing each other, explicitly for his own amusement. Him choosing to use a voice associated so strongly with the wonder of childhood in generations of the Japanese consciousnessnote The go-to analogy for international audiences is "imagine Jigsaw from Saw voiced by Mickey Mouse" perfectly fits his personality. | |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: A light-sided male Consular? Playing with type because the Consular is a Martial Pacifist diplomat. Dark sided male Consular? A cruel, nasty Knight Templar manipulating the galaxy to his own benefit while keeping up the appearance of a hero. | |
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All of the "nice guys" in Promising Young Woman are played by actors well known for playing charming romantic leads (Adam Brody, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Christopher Lowell). Director Emerald Fennell wanted to show that not all men who commit sexual assault look like mean hulking brutes, while also suggesting that even rapists see themselves as charming romantic leads. | |
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Metal Gear Solid: Akio Ōtsuka, the Japanese voice of Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid, is jarring to hear if you're an English player more used to David Hayter's deep-voiced version of the character. Ohtsuka has often played cool, deep-voiced characters who crack the odd Bond One-Liner, but the voice he uses for Snake is more like the 'astringent', warm and likeable register he uses in his extensive career as a voice-over artist for television advertising, giving Snake an impression of Dissonant Serenity that at first makes him seem like the most relatable, fun character in the cast, but gets progressively more desperate and brittle as the story continues and it becomes more apparent how messed-up a person he is. Hideyuki Tanaka had previously been playing the badass, cynical Jonathan Ingram, a character who shares more than a few traits with Solid Snake, in Hideo Kojima's previous game, Policenauts. In Metal Gear Solid, he is cast as Otacon, an awkward Otaku with a poster of Jonathan on his wall, with the voice indicating that there is a core of coolness in there. As Otacon becomes more confident and attractive over the course of the series, Tanaka's performance gets closer to his voice as Jonathan. |
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Howard Ratner in Uncut Gems is impulsive, hotheaded, selfish, irresponsible, and immature, much like many of Sandler's comedy roles. Here, it's Played for Drama (and for Black Comedy). | |
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A dub example: In the Japanese dub of The Amazing World of Gumball, the titular character is played by Junko Takeuchi. He would fit her Typecasting of goofy young boys (as in Naruto, Hunter × Hunter, Monster, and Inazuma Eleven)... if only Gumball didn't take a level in jerkass and become The Cynic in the second season. | |
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In Disco Elysium, the Chapo Trap House hosts play with their on-air comic personas without their characters really being their type: Felix Beiderman plays Sociopathic Soldier Kortenaer, who reflects his interest in oafish, delusional military culture. Unlike Felix's usual version of this character, Korty is Played for Drama. He gets no funny lines, doesn't do any of Felix's familiar schtick, and in fact gets some dialogue describing a war crime he did that is so unpleasant and graphic that the game - which is already dark and gross - makes a point of warning you that you can opt out of hearing it. If you pick up on the slight humour of Korty's horrific violence being a reaction to his own ineffectuality, it's probably only because he's played by the guy who coined the term 'failson'. Matt Christman, known on the show for his Sophisticated as Hell rants about infuriating political cruelties, plays Titus, a militant Unionist who is also far left, has a hot temper and is known for raising his voice... but in Titus's case, it's only to exercise his authority. Titus isn't interested in rhetoric and is suspicious of conventional learning, and when it comes to dealing with the political situation's stupidity he is extremely calculating and level-headed. Will as Fuck The World, a young man who styles himself as a delinquent but who is actually a literary critic, is more along the lines of self-parody of the Chapo hosts' 'dirtbag' image. Virgil, voted the handsomest one on the show by an audience of mostly men, plays a swishy Camp Gay who Harry finds extremely cool and mysterious. On the show more fun is poked at Virgil's foppish geekiness and ambiguous disorder than him being especially camp or cool. |
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End of Days was sold on the premise of "Arnold Schwarzenegger fights The Devil". However, instead of depicting Arnold as an unstoppable force of nature that can destroy everything in sight, this movie depicts his character, Jericho, as being genuinely flawed, such as being suicidal, not being able to do the same death-defying acts as the other heroes Arnold has played (not counting the scene where he uses a rope on a helicopter to lower himself mid-flight) and, in the end, there was no other way to stop Satan from causing the End unless Jericho killed himself, but at least Jericho can be with his family again. In interviews, Schwarzenegger said that he took this role because he thought it was the perfect script to make his return to action movies, which makes this part even more weird. | |
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His character in Click is a workaholic with very little time to spend with his family, but as the film goes on the audience learns that this attitude makes him miss out on most of his life, leaving him a broken man. | |
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The Japanese version of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker probably contains Metal Gear's best example, Stunt Casting Paz Ortega Andrade with the Jpop idol Nana Mizuki. Paz appears to be a perfect innocent, but we later find out she's significantly older than she appears, has a rude, foul-mouthed, and obnoxious personality, loves nuclear war, hates everyone around her, and also smokes, and sprays you with verbal abuse while attacking you, with a jpop song playing in the background about how nuclear deterrence is a lot like love. This is a reference to the pressure to maintain impossible standards of Contractual Purity for Japanese idols, who have had their careers ended by slips of an Incorruptible Pure Pureness image that no-one could maintain. (Although it's fair to suggest that Mizuki has probably never tried killing people in a giant, nuclear-equipped mech.) | |
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Several examples in Jojo Rabbit. It is, after all, a Black Comedy set in Nazi Germany. Taika Waititi initially retains his trademark quirkiness as Jojo's imaginary friend, but with that friend being Adolf Hitler, his performance also has hints of genuine menace that become more blatant as the film goes on. Stephen Merchant is nearly always a cheerful, lovable fellow in films he appears in. Here, he plays an Affably Evil Gestapo officer who doesn't outwardly seem much different from his usual characters, save for the whole antisemitic genocide thing. Sam Rockwell frequently plays racist hicks, cowardly bad guys, and assorted scumbags. In a cast that consists almost entirely of Nazis, Rockwell's character is the one adult member who displays any trace of morals and intelligence, who ends up sacrificing his life for Jojo. Still a Nazi and not a good person, by his own admission. Rebel Wilson is usually typecast as outrageous Fat Comic Relief characters. She plays Fraulein Rahm — still comic relief, yet also a fanatically devoted Nazi who brainwashes children into Fascism and throws them into the meat grinder as Child Soldiers. |
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For those who watched Friday Night Lights before Breaking Bad, it at first seemed that Jesse Plemons as Todd was playing a criminal version of Landry: an extreme Nice Guy and even a little dorky. Then he unexpectedly murders a child with no hesitation and only gets more creepy as the show progresses. | |
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In Punch-Drunk Love, his character is, like always, antisocial, emotionally immature, and prone to uncontrollable fits of anger. Instead of that being a source of comedy, it leads to awkward, embarrassing situations, and the character leads a lonely, depressing life. Roger Ebert discussed this in his review of the film. | |
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In season 4 of Veronica Mars, Patton Oswalt plays another "Plucky Comic Relief nerd" who repeatedly impedes in the investigation carried out by the main characters with his bumbling antics, is constantly trading insults with the Sitcom Archnemesis in his online group of amateur sleuths, and it's even somewhat sweet when he starts to romance one of his female friends. Until it's revealed that he's really a delusional Psychopathic Manchild who treats everything as a game, murders the Sitcom Archnemesis to frame him, and becomes a copycat Mad Bomber to undo his perceived lack of respect from the "alpha crowd" around him. | |
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American Hustle features Amy Adams playing a sort of Innocence Lost character, and there are a few scenes that evoke her more familiar sweetheart personas in other films. But her character Sydney has had to reinvent herself as a sexually aggressive Femme Fatale - though she wants to escape that life and settle down. | |
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Another Once Upon a Time cast member who took this trope for a friendly game of pinball was Raphael Sbarge. In live-action roles (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Cold Case, Star Trek: Voyager), he's usually playing some deeply disturbed Perp of the Week. It's his voice acting roles where he tends to play Nice Guys like Scorch (Star Wars: Republic Commando), Carth Onasi (Knights of the Old Republic), Kaiden Alenko (Mass Effect), and the title character of Deadman. Jiminy Cricket would be playing to type when depicted as a CGI cricket, but playing against it as the meek Archie Hopper. | |
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In The Descendants, one of the main plot points is that the protagonist (played by George Clooney) has found out that his comatose and slowly dying wife has been cheating on him. Early on he and his daughter find a picture of the guy...and he's played by Matthew Lillard, to which he and his daughters react with "Seriously? THAT'S the guy?". While this could simply be a crack at his appearance (who would go from Clooney to Lillard?), audiences familiar with Lillard's typical "annoying jackass" roles will likely start figuring this is yet another one of those...then once they actually meet Lillard's character, you're blown away. | |
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The title character of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is a talented and eccentric gentleman, which his actor Benedict Cumberbatch often plays, but Wain is affable and bumbling rather than insufferable like many of the other characters in said wheelhouse. | |
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His role in Spec Ops: The Line as Cpt. Martin Walker initially appears to be quite similar to North's usual type (specifically the "Drake" voice from Uncharted), but as the game wears on it turns into a savage deconstruction of the character type, with Walker becoming increasingly violent and unhinged as a consequence of the horrific actions he is forced (or believes himself to have been forced) to carry out. Curiously, this was apparently unintentional on the part of the development team. | |
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Before Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston was best known for his performance as Hal in sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, an archetypal Bumbling Dad and Henpecked Husband frustrated by his dead-end job and poor financial standing. His character in the series, Walter White, starts off as a very similar sort of character, which makes his transformation into a vicious, ruthless drug dealer all the more shocking. | |
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