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[Funny Trope] Clear nods to a character the actor previously played.
- In the early 2000s Scooby-Doo movies, Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played Buffy the Vampire Slayer, played Daphne, and as such is made to be a lot more of a fighter part as a subversion of Daphne's role as a damsel in distress but also as a nod to Buffy.
- In Fate/Grand Order, the character of Kriemhild is played by Aoi Koga, who lately had played Kaguya Shinomiya in Kaguya-sama: Love is War, and as such during the Valentine's Day event, where the Servants give something for the protagonist, Kriemhild's segment is instead a Kaguya-sama skit with her panicking wanting to make something for Siegfried while the protagonist plays the role of Hayasaka.
Super recent example, in Invincible theres Agent Spider which is an obvious nod to Spider-Man and he is also voiced by Josh Keaton who voiced Spider-Man
His dialogue in Invincible Vs with Omni Man who is played by JK Simmons who is also J Jonah Jameson is this
The greatest part of that sequence with Mark going through the multiverse is when he's on a rooftop talking to a dark caped figure and says: "No, I mean you're a man who dresses like a bat, and your name is… Well, I mean, like, don't you think that's kinda lazy?"
He also said the same thing about Spider-Man, which is hypocritical on Robert Kirkman's part. He has mfs like Monster Girl, Immortal, and freaking Robot. Like bro, look at yourself first.
To be fair, he also had Spider-Man immediately tell Invincible that he was being stupid and didn't have a leg to stand on with a name like Invincible. He's aware that he's no better and that's part of the joke.
This goes harder as Agent Spider was Spider-Man in the original story. Agent Spider is an OC to take his spot since Amazon and Marvel didn't come to a deal to use an animated Superman in their show.
They easily could have saved the movie if Stu had just came back for real. They could have kept the whole movie the same and just revealed post credit that one of "Stu's" messages were real not deep faked and that he's been a hidden puppet master since 4. Would have at least set up something interesting for down the road.
I'd also point out them getting Skeet Ulrich to play Henry in the second one feels like it too. As Henry is meant to be the partner of Afton, and since Skeet and Mathew were Billy and Stu in scream it feels like a great little reference.
From what I heard as a Fnaf fan myself. Apparently it's more unpopular. Don't take my word for it cause I can't touch the Fnaf movies because I'm pretty sure they'll never air them at my country.
I love that Castle has multiple Firefly references throughout the series. For example, Beckett asking Castle where he learned to speak Mandarin, and he responds, "TV show I used to like."
Sonic singing about the movie Snow Dogs being the worst in the second Sonic film.
It’s a fun reference to his voice actor Ben Schwartz and his previous role as Jean Ralphio in Parks & Recreation, where he does the same exact line delivery and hand gesture about his sister being the worst.
Deadpool 3 also made an actor joke where Deadpool takes in the Chris Evans superhero thinking he's Captain America ("AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!") only to get The Human Torch ("FLAME ON!").
Credit to Chris Evans’ acting skill, I knew it was Johnny right away based on mannerisms and how he talked. Two very distinct characters and facial movements. Really impressive
Shout out to my millennial babysitter who told us she was gonna show us an awesome movie that all her Freinds liked and showed me and my sister Sky High. You were right, Chloe.
Funny enough Daphne being a black belt became a recurring trait of hers in later animated versions of her. So Buffy's influence ended up extending beyond that one particular portrayal of her.
They had actually started to ramp up her athletic abilities before that. In Scooby Doo and the Cyber Chase they showed her using martial arts during the Japanese level of the game but that came out only a year before the live action film so I'm sure they already knew who was playing Daphne when they were working on it.
Do they ever say in the MCU what his middle initial stands for. I choose to believe it's Jules and the whole setting is a sequel to the Tarantino universe.
In Smash Bros Brawl, you can hear codec conversations about every character in Smash Bros Brawl, and Snake express clear rejection to Sonic despite Otacon trying to defend him. Snake doesn't elaborate or give more reasons that "there's something odd with him" and "i just don't like him".
That's because the japanese voice actor for Snake is Akio Ōtsuka, the real life son of Chikao Ōtsuka, who voiced Dr. Eggman in the japanese version of the Sonic Adventure games.
Men Who Stare At Goats - wacky movie, but the premise is George Clooney is part of a secret government program trying to harness psychic powers (but really mostly just doing LSD) and Ewan McGregor plays a reporter who starts uncovering this. There's an exchange along the lines of "We called ourselves Jedi Knights, do you know what that is?" and it cuts to Ewan McGregor deadpan and he says something like "I've heard of them"
This movie is CRAZY underrated, one of my favorites of all time, and everyone I mention it to has never heard of it. Thank you for spreading the word.
And if you’re reading this and you’ve never seen Men Who Stare At Goats, go watch it now. A star studded cast, absolutely hilarious, and the opening tag line of “More of this is true than you would believe” is shockingly accurate.
This interaction between T-1000 and Peacemaker in Mortal Kombat 1:
The reason Peacemaker says this is because T-1000 is based on Robert Patrick's performance of said character, both through voice and model, and Robert Patrick plays Auggie Smith (Peacemaker's dad) in the show.
When Shao Khan, who looks like a brutal barbarian king, faces T-800 he asks "What is the best in life?" T-800 answers "To crush the enemies and see them driven before you"
Good catch! There's actually a similar one in MK1:
There's an interaction where T-1000 tells Conan The Barbarian he looks like the T-800. This is because both Conan and T-800 are played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. (in their source material at least)
The Project Elrond name existed in the book first, so the question becomes if the casting director made an extra effort to get a LOTR actor for the film
For those who didn't get it, it's from the first Deadpool movie played by Ryan Reynolds, Ryan also played hal Jordan in the green lantern movie and he hated it
Not a character reference but I also like that Frank is a fan of RuPaul’s Drag Race just like Joel (even if Frank thought it was about the other kind of drag racing at first)
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters - Nathan Fillion
Fillion plays Hermes, he talks about the Hercules TV show "Greatest television show ever so of course, cancelled after one season" in a reference to Firefly which he starred in and was cancelled after one season.
Daniel Southworth reprises his role as the Quantum ranger from when he played him in the early 2000's. Between then and the release of Battle for the Grid, Dan's most prominent role became Vergil from Devil May Cry. So when Battle for the Grid added the Quantum Ranger, his first line is saying "Foolishness Lord Zed", mirroring Vergil saying "Foolishness Dante". He also says "I need more quantum power" and Vergil says "I need more power" before the final fight in DMC 3 but I think that one is more of a coincidence since at least the Foolishness one was said in a similar cadence to Vergil.
Ryan Reynolds doesnt want his suit to be green and animated. One of his old movies was Green Lantern, which has a green suit and TONS of CGI. It wasnt a good movie.
Ray Park played Darth Maul (physically, not the voice), and Toad in X-Men. In the latter, he spins a pipe just like Maul would. The movie is pretty cheeky about it, too.
Also there was a House of Wax reference in the Paris Hilton episode since he was in it with her, and a Days of our Lives in the French Mistake for Jenson.
In the movie The Marine, there’s a scene where one of Robert Patrick’s henchmen, after seeing John Cena dodge a series of deadly obstacles, says “This guy’s like The Terminator”.
Robert Patrick, who played a terminator in Terminator 2, does a subtle 4th wall break where he looks at the rearview mirror that’s looking at the camera.
Also in Reacher season 2, Robert Patrick finds out the aliases of the people looking into him. One of which is Sarah Connor and he says "who the fuck is Sarah Connor."
An odd coincidence but before playing Dio, Koyasu played two Yugioh villains: Pandora (Arkana in the dub) whose evil Black Magician used the magic card Thousand Knives; and Sartorius in Yugioh GX who uses an arcana cards deck, including Arcana Force 21: The World.
Duel Links played up the comparisons with Sartorius summoning The World with the same tone as DIO.
Ashley was know for not being able to join a few episodes of Critical Role due to working in the Blindspot series.
Not only she had a mug featuring the Critical Role cast, in a episode she jokingly claims another character is a wizard, said character then call her an elf, which she quickly corrects that she's actually a gnome cleric, referencing her critical role character.
The part of her astral projecting during the bryrewood arc in the animated series is also a reference to her videochatting during game night a few times.
Matt Smith’s character Milo in the Morbius film states his pain is at an 11 at one point in the film clearly alluding to his famous role as The 11th Doctor in Doctor Who
For all you young whipper snappers, Mel Gibson and Danny Glover meet each other in a robbery. They briefly stare at each other while a familiar guitar chord plays and then move on from the moment in a clear reference to the Lethal Weapon series that they both shared top billing in.
I like how you refer to a Lethal Weapon reference like young whippersnappers wouldn't know about it, yet you assume they'd have seen Maverick, which came out 31 years ago.
Daniel Southworth plays Vergil in Devil May Cry. Before that he played Quantam Ranger in Power Rangers Timeforce. When they called him back to reprise his role in a recent fighting game. Quantam Ranger is literally Vergil as a power ranger. All of his phrases are Vergil quotes. “I need more Quantam Power” “Quantam Divide!” “I’m motivated!”.
In Arrested Development, Henry Winkler plays the Bluth Family Lawyer if memory recalls. At one point he is in the bathroom of some place, goes to comb his hair, and does his Arthur Fonzarelli "why bother" pose or what it's called.
It’s still uncertain whether this was intentional or not, but there’s actually a case where an actor’s role in a film actually FORESHADOWS a character they play in another show later on.
As in, before he got cast as the next Doctor in Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi acted as a Doctor in World War Z, and is literally credited as “W.H.O. Doctor”
Even if it is just a massive cosmic coincidence, it’s still my favorite bit of actor trivia.
In Die Hard with a Vengeance, John McClane explains what he's been doing while not serving active duty on the NYPD for administrative leave; one of the things he said he did with his time is, "Smoking cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo," a reference to the song "Flowers on the Wall" by The Statler Brothers, which played during Bruce Willis' story in Pulp Fiction.
Ray Park also played Rugal in the live action King of Fighters movie and at one point he does that exact same pose with a hockey stick and uses it like a staff. This is not at all accurate to the King of Fighters
In Invincibile, Thaeuds (left) is played by Peter Cullen (RIP), most famous for playing Optimus Prime in Transformers. As a reference to that role, they cast Frank Welker (most known for playing Fred Jones in Scooby-Doo, also Megatron) in the role of Emperor Argall (right), who gets killed by Thaedus.
Carrie Fisher has a self parodying cameo in Scream 3, in which her character states that she was up to play Princess Leia but lost to Fisher, in universe, cause she slept with George Lucas
Created, written, directed by, and starring Alan Tudyk. Such a funny show. The whole thing is a nod to his time on Firefly. I mean, just look at the plot synopsis:
Rex dangervest in the Lego movie 2 listing every past Chris Pratt role when introducing himself to emmet and also being a dinosaur tamer in space. He literally can’t get any more Chris Pratt
Harry dean Stanton played this random gaurd in the first avengers movie where he talks to Bruce and he asks this question "are you an alien, from outer space an alien?" this is a nod to his previous role in the very first alien movie(1979)
This entire sequence with Jim beaver who played a character named Bobby in the boys and in supernatural, his entire character was just a reference to supernatural
Leslie Nielsen plays the president in Scary Movie 3. The final fight is won by him opening a door, saying "I just wanted to say, Good luck. We're all counting on you.", bonking the monster into a well. An obvious reference to Airplane.
Tokusatsu does this a lot since many toku actors stay in the business but a recent example is Kousei Amano, known for playing Tachibana from Kamen Rider Blade, returning to Kamen Rider Zeztz as Sieg. The last episode of Blade ends with a shot of a bench which is notorious in the fandom for how heartwrenching the scene is and Kousei Amano recreates that with his new character
David Tennant as Kilgrave telling a story of when he was young to Jessica Jones, only for her to respond that he’s not ten anymore, referencing that Tennant was the 10th Doctor.
Ray Park plays the villainous mutant Toad in X-Men. During the final fight scene he kicks a bar of scrap metal into the air and spins it like a staff before ending in a dramatic guard post.
Park previously played Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I...who is most famous for wielding a two-ended lightsaber in which he used the same moves.
In Men in Black International, Chris Hemsworth has a scene where he very dramatically picks up a hammer and throws it at his enemy, an obvious reference to his role as Thor, the scene is even accompanied by very heroic, MCU-esque music
Wasn't there an Episode of Zack & Cody where Maddie didn't get the role for Sharpae because she doesn't look like Ashley Tisdale according to inuniverse
Carrie Fisher in Fanboys. Which of course is a parody of fans loving StarWars, but after this scene one of the boys kisses her and says "I love you", in post production they edited her in saynig "I know" using audio from Empire
In the Dragon Prince, Callum (voiced by Jack de Sena) is briefly fascinated by a boomerang, the weapon of choice for Avatar’s Sokka (voiced by Jack de Sena). https://giphy.com/gifs/8cPpgUhTMjhF6
In Excel Saga, there is a scene where the main character, Excel, fights some bad guys in America by quoting Sailor Moon's speech, "In the name of the Moon, I will punish you!" This was funny on its own since Excel Saga is supposed to be a brutal takedown and parody of anime in general (at the time) but also because the voice actress who plays Excel was also the the same person who voiced Sailor Moon.
Nathan Fillion does this quite a bit in Castle. There are at least two nods to Firefly in it. One when he straight up wears Mal's costume for Halloween, and a subtler one when he's wearing blue gloves and does the 2 by 2 gesture in reference to the Blue Sun group.
In Legends of Tomorrow's third season, the crew goes up against a time demon (voiced by John Noble). At one point they realise that he sounds just like John Noble and tavels back in time to the filming of Lord of the Rings to have the actor John Noble (in his Denethor outfit) record a voice line that they can use to decieve the time demon's cronies.
Another FGO example from the same chapter with Don Quixote and Sancho, one is an aggressive fighter with his NP being a charge to impale his enemy that damages him too while Sancho is his ever-faithful female companion who will tend to him after said attack
The nod is to Zeta Gundam since Nobuo Tobita and Arai Satomi voice the protagonist Kamille Bidan and his childhood friend love interest Fa Yuiry respectively. In the finale of said series Kamille impales the main villain with the nose of the plane mode of his Gundam in an attack known as Waverider Charge and also ends up mindbroken with Fa having to take care of him
The casting of these 2 in English is a very deliberate nod to the "rivalry" in pop culture two of the characters they played in the past had. Xehanort is voiced by Leonard Nimoy (who played Spock in Star Trek) while Eraqus is voiced by Mark Hammill (who played Luke Skywalker in Star Wars).
The Justice League Unlimited episode "Hunter's Moon" has the cowboy-themed superhero Vigilante (voiced by Nathan Fillion) team up with Vixen (voiced by Gina Torres) for an adventure in space, a clear nod to both their roles on Firefly.
Not just for the famous scene - Myers said he wouldn't do Wayne's World without Rhapsody. They were going to use a Guns n' Roses song. At the time, Queen was not particularly relevant, but Myers' fight to include the song made their catalog sales soar and boosted their popularity off the charts. He is considered to be the reason they had a second resurgence, so this is a massive thank you to Mike.
He described the irony of this scene as like "a snake eating its own tail".
Captain Dylan Hunt in Andromeda Ascendant. Played by Kevin Sorbo, previously of Hercules fame.
At one point, Captain Hunt is pulling out a lot of memorabilia from a locker, and he gets to a furred loincloth (part of his Hercules costume). He looks at the others, and just says "Long story..." and continues rummaging.
After having staged his own death at the end of Captain America and the Winter Soldier, Nick Fury is reportedly buried under a tombstone citing the beginning of Ezekiel 25:17.
This is a clear homage to Samuel L Jackson's iconic role as Jules in Pulp Fiction.
Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy has an episode where Eris had a cereal scam. Her assistant is pretty much Patrick from SpongeBob, right down to the same voice actor. And yes, he does the same exact voice.
Ok... Deadpool...in Marvel Tokon...His thing is still making references. But one in particular is important. One of his supers makes a reference to JoJos Bizarre Adventures. "Muda muda muda muda!" Takehito Koyasu voices him in Japanese. Who also voices DIO.
In Bullet Train, one of the characters judges people’s characters by comparing them to Thomas the Tank Engine characters, and he calls Logan Lerman a “Percy”, a clear nod to him playing Percy Jackson in the titular series
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u/Effective_Piece251 11h ago
Super recent example, in Invincible theres Agent Spider which is an obvious nod to Spider-Man and he is also voiced by Josh Keaton who voiced Spider-Man
His dialogue in Invincible Vs with Omni Man who is played by JK Simmons who is also J Jonah Jameson is this