There is an unwritten expectation that actors can only play the same character for so long. Maybe they got sick of the role, contract negotiations fell through, scheduling didn't work out, or they simply died. We tend to view things like The Other Darrin and Suspiciously Similar Substitute as normal and common. But there is something to be said for when an actor sticks with or comes back to a role. This tends to come as a surprise, just because of the length of time involved and scheduling issues.
This tends to happen one of four ways:
- Single Continuity — Time has continued from the last time we saw the character.
- Alternate Continuity — A reboot of some sort is created, and instead of recasting the role they keep the same actor despite that.
- Marathon Run — Every few years there is a new appearance that reminds us that they are still around, and have no intention on leaving the character alone.
- A Historical Domain Character or Public Domain Character's portrayal has been so memorable that the actor is recast in an unrelated production.
There is a minimum time gap for most examples. To qualify for the trope, the gap between appearances (based on release date) should be 5 years or more. There's no such waiting period for actors who return to a Historical Domain Character or Public Domain Character in a new, unrelated production — even if it's based on the same work.
- For the purpose of this trope, variants such as Alternate Universe and Alternate Continuity versions are treated as the same character.
- For previous live-action roles, voice acting during the gap (e.g. for games or animation) does not disqualify a subsequent return to live action. Returning to voice a live action character in another medium, after 5 years away, would be an example in its own right.
Compare Regular Character, The Original Darrin, Recurring Character, Remake Cameo and Back for the Finale.
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- The Batman OnStar Commercials sees the late Michael Gough reprise his role from the Batman film series as Alfred.
- Ad bumpers for MeTV feature stars of the shows they broadcast saying "Watch me on ME." Some are done As Himself but others are in character: Alan Brady from The Dick Van Dyke Show, and Ed Asner and Betty White as Lou Grant and Sue-Ann Nivens from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
- While not the case in the actual game, Corey Burton reprises his role as Shockwave from the Generation 1 Transformers cartoon and Transformers: Animated for GameStop's DLC commercial for Transformers: War for Cybertron. Likewise, a series of Stop Motion Hasbro Pulse videos promoting the Transformers: The Movie 35th anniversary action figures featured John Moschitta and Gregg Berger reprising their respective roles as Blurr and Grimlock from the original cartoon.
- Ian McDiarmid reprised his role as The Emperor for an Angry Birds Star Wars II Commercial.
- Yuya Miyashita reprises his role as Yusei Fudo for the Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V Synchron Extreme commercial.
- NickRewind: Back when the block was titled "The 90s are All That", Paul Christie and Chris Phillips were brought back to voice Stick Stickly and Face, respectively for the "Party Like It's the '90s" 2011 New Year's Eve special. Five years later, in 2016, Chris Phillips would be brought back to voice Face in an Easter-themed bumper titled "Are You an Easter Bunny?".
- Ford has been doing a number of commercial series called Overdubs, bringing in various actors to reprise roles when they can. Probably one of the more surprising ones is this commercial, which brings back Jason David Frank, Johnny Yong Bosch, David Fielding, Kerrigan Mahan and Wendee Lee to reprise their Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers roles as Tommy, Adam, Zordon, Goldar and Scorpina respectively.
- June Foray's reprisal, in a 2014 GEICO commercial titled "The Gecko's Journey", was one of the last of her many performances as Rocky the Flying Squirrel, having voiced the character since the show first premiered in 1959. (Her actual swan song was a short from that same year that was to precede Mr. Peabody & Sherman in theaters, but was instead shafted to the DVD.)
- The short Dueling Skeletors, for the Masters of the Universe fanclub Club Eternia features Alan Opperheimer and Brian Dobson reprising their respective versions of Skeletor.
- The commercial for the mail-away Clark Kent action figure for Super Powers Collection sees Marc McClure reprise his Superman film series role as Jimmy Olsen.
- In 2019, Xfinity made a four-minute commercial titled A Holiday Reunion, based on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and taking place several decades after the events of the movie. It also features Henry Thomas as Elliot, reprising his role for the first time since 1982.
- Among the Colonel Sanders commercials KFC did featured RoboCop as a version of the Colonel — with Peter Weller reprising the role for the first time since RoboCop 2.
- The 2020 commercial DieHard Is Back, which advertises DieHard batteries, had Bruce Willis, Clarence Gilyard, and De'voreaux White reprise their roles of John McClane, Theo, and Argyle. Theo and Argyle had not been seen since the original 1988 Die Hard.
- Honda's "Happy Honda Days" Christmas commercials twice featured famous 80's toy lines advertising Honda cars, with the voice actors who voiced these respective characters reprising their roles.
- Wal-Mart brought back four Mean Girls cast members for some Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2023 commercials, in which Lindsay Lohan, Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried, and Daniel Franzese play older versions of Cady, Gretchen, Karen, and Damien.
- Stitch & Ai has Ben Diskin and Jess Winfield reprise their roles of Stitch and Jumba from the English dub of Stitch!.
- Josh Keaton reprised his role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man from The Spectacular Spider-Man for a social media ad promoting Greg Weisman's The Spectacular Spider-Men comic book.
- Betty White was cast as Mrs. Claus on three different occasions in three different works: The Story of Santa Claus, Noddy: Anything Can Happen At Christmas and Prep and Landing: Operation Secret Santa.
- Ed Asner, who played Santa in The Story of Santa Claus, would reprise the character in the movie Elf and the 1999 special Olive, the Other Reindeer.
- Kathleen Barr, who voiced Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for the 1998 feature film by GoodTimes Entertainment, returned to voice the titular character for the 2001 Direct-to-video sequel Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys which was an unofficial sequel to the 1964 Rankin/Bass special (albeit made by the same people as the 1998 film).
- Sarah Emi Bridcutt has been cast as Malty S. Melromarc in both the anime and stage play adaptations of The Rising of the Shield Hero.
- As far as the Doctor Who Expanded Universe is concerned, suffice to say that pretty much every regular actor from the classic series who was still alive and working as of Big Finish Doctor Who launching in 1999 has reprised their role for the audio dramas, as have many recurring characters and memorable villains, and more recently some Nu Who actors as well. Jon Pertwee, while sadly not falling in this category, reprised his role in the 1989 stage play The Ultimate Adventure and the nineties radio dramas The Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space. Lor Wilson, who played Sister of Mine in "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood", reprised the role in a 2020 official web audio called "The Shadow in the Mirror".
- The 2020 radio incarnation of The Lenny Henry Show has Lenny reprising the characters of Deakus from the 1985 TV series and Delbert Wilkins from the 1986 sitcom version, the latter also seeing Vas Blackwood returning as his sidekick Winston. The final episode also features the return of Theopolis P. Wildebeest.
- The main cast of The Kumars At No 42 reprised the roles for Sky1's The Kumars, which ran for one season eight years after The BBC series. Seven years after that, Meera Syal reprised the role of Sushila for the Radio 4 series Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar.
- SpongeBob SquarePants: The Dirty Bubble is voiced by Charles Nelson Reilly in his debut in "Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy II" and by Tom Kenny in all future episodes. However, in the video game SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants!, Reilly reprises the role.
- Russi Taylor, Charlie Adler, and Frank Welker returned to voice Birdie, Hamburgler, and Grimace for two stage shows (Ronald McDonald & Friends Friendship Adventure Show and Musical Show of Ronald McDonald respectively) starring Ronald and friends between 2013 and 2014. This also marked one of the final times Taylor was able to voice Birdie before her passing on July 26, 2019.
- In the 1988-1989 educational film series Language Arts Through Imagination, Billy Barty reprises his role as Figment from the original version of Journey into Imagination.
- David Tennant, who played Dangerous Beans in the 2003 radio adaptation of The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents reprises the role in the 2022 film The Amazing Maurice.
- The Loud House:
- Brian Stepanek voices Lynn Loud Sr. in animated media, and physically plays him in A Loud House Christmas and The Really Loud House. He also voices Todd in both animated media and The Really Loud House.
- Catherine Taber, who voices Katherine Mulligan in the animated series, physically reprised the role in A Loud House Christmas.
- Jeff Bennett voices Mick Swagger in the animated series and live-action media.
- John DiMaggio, who voices Mr. Grouse, reprised the role in The Really Loud House as a Voice-Only Cameo. The character would be played by Peter Breitmayer in subsequent Really Loud House appearances.
- Jahzir Bruno played Clyde McBride in A Loud House Christmas before reprising the role in the animated series. He was replaced by Jaeden White as the voice of Clyde due to playing Clyde in The Really Loud House.
- Timothy Spall has played Winston Churchill on three separate occasions: the first time as a voice actor in Jackboots on Whitehall, the second time - before he became PM - in The King's Speech and finally at the London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony.
- In the Fan Film Alzurs Legacy, Zbigniew Zamachowski reprises his role as Dandelion from The Hexer.
- In the Animated Fan Film, Batman: New Times, Adam West reprises his role from Batman (1966) as the titular Caped Crusader and Mark Hamill reprises his Batman: The Animated Series role as The Joker.
- A Very Potter Senior Year sees Evanna Lynch reprising her role from the Harry Potter films as Luna Lovegood.
- Josh Mandel voiced King Graham in King's Quest V. While he was a programmer and not a professional voice actor by any stretch (the game's voices were all Sierra staff), his was one of the best showings, and he was able to reprise it for King's Quest VI, which did have professional-grade voice talent. Later on, AGD Interactive had him return in the role for their Fan Remakes of King's Quest I, King's Quest II, and King's Quest III (he also voiced Graham in Infamous Adventures' version).
- The Sonic Fan Film sees Jaleel White reprise his role from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) and Sonic Underground as the titular Sonic the Hedgehog.
- Sonic and Tails R features a number of voice actors from the source material, most notably Ryan Drummond as Sonic (a role he'd last played 16 years prior) and Mike Pollock as Eggman.
- The Power Rangers parody, Power/Rangers (Bootleg Universe) sees Carla Perez reprise her (physical) role from Season 2 of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers through In Space as Rita Repulsa.
- Super Power Beat Down features Jason David Frank reprising his role as Tommy Oliver from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. He dons the mantle of the White Ranger once more in a fight against Scorpion, and of the Green Ranger in a fight against Ryu.
- The Doctor Who Fan Film "Devious" includes a scene with Jon Pertwee as the soon-to-be Third Doctor. It was his last acting role.
- Dirty Laundry, a fan film about The Punisher, sees Thomas Jane reprise his role from the 2004 film as Frank Castle himself.
- The Italian animated fan film Batman: Night of Shadows gets some reprisals from various DC productions.
- From Man of Steel: Gianfranco Miranda as Superman and Luca Ward as Jor-El.
- From Batman Returns: Giorgio Lopez as Penguin.
- From The Dark Knight: Massimo Rossi as Two-Face.
- While DEATH BATTLE! usually casts different actors or use sound clips from shows or games, The "Yang Xiao Long vs. Tifa Lockhart", "The Meta Vs. Agent Carolina" and "Naruto Uzumaki vs Ichigo Kurosaki" episodes respectively featured Barbara Dunkelman as Yang, Jen Brown as Carolina, and Johnny Yong Bosch as Ichigo.
- Star Trek Continues, a Fan Sequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, had the episode "Pilgrim of Eternity", a Sequel Episode to "Who Mourns for Adonais?", which saw Michael Forest, who played Apollo in that episode, reprise the role (it should be noted that there was 46 years between the productions of the episodes).
- Casey Jones The Movie is a fan film about the eponymous Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles supporting character. It also features Robbie Rist as the voice of Michelangelo, reprising his role from the '90s live-action movie trilogy.
- The creators of TMNT X Justice League Turbo (a mashup of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters and Justice League Task Force) were able to get Renae Jacobs, the voice of April O'Neil in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, to reprise her role for the game.
- In Return to Krocodile Isle, Benedict Campbell, Adrian Truss, Ron Rubin, and Richard Yearwood were all brought to reprise their roles from the Donkey Kong Country cartoon as King K. Rool, Klump, Skurvy, and Donkey Kong respectively.
- Estelle Ellis, the original voice of Krystal in Star Fox Adventures, has reprised her role in numerous fan projects, including the Half-Life 2 Krystal mod, Star Fox Remadventures and Star Fox Event Horizon.
- Jock Blaney, the original voices of Wolf O'Donnell and Bill Grey in Star Fox 64, also reprises both roles in Event Horizon.
- In-Universe example: In the metafictional Doctor Who Expanded Universe short story "The Thief of Sherwood", the role of Little John in the imaginary First Doctor serial "The Outlaws" was supposedly taken by Archie Duncan... who really did play Little John in The Adventures of Robin Hood.
- The LazyTown Flypod kiddie ride has three role reprisals - Magnus Scheving as Sportacus, Julianna Rose Mauriello as Stephanie, and Stefan Karl as Robbie Rotten. They recorded their respective characters' dialogues for the speech buttons.
- The original Budgie the Little Helicopter kiddie ride by R.G. Mitchell has Richard Pearce reprising his role of the titular character for the ride start and stop messages.
- Elvira and the Party Monsters and Scared Stiff have specially-recorded voice work from Elvira herself. Elvira's House of Horrors goes a step further and features newly-recorded footage of her introducing each mode, a first in any pinball game.
- The Addams Family saw Raúl Juliá and Anjelica Huston return as Gomez and Morticia from the 1991 film adaptation.
- Doctor Who sees Sylvester McCoy and Terry Molloy return as the Seventh Doctor and Davros, respectively.
- Gilligan's Island uses an unusual mix of soundalikes (the Professor and Mr. Howell), reused clips from the original series (the Skipper), and this trope (Gilligan himself, voiced by Bob Denver).
- Baywatch has custom speech from David Hasselhoff as Mitch.
- South Park has some custom voice work from Trey Parker and Matt Stone as various characters.
- The Simpsons Pinball Party: Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, and Hank Azaria return as Bart, Homer, and various other characters, respectively.
- The Lord of the Rings (based on Peter Jackson's film trilogy) saw Elijah Wood and John Rhys-Davies return for some new voice clips as Frodo and Gimli, respectively.
- Metallica features voice work from the band's lineup (Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Robert Trujillo).
- Ghostbusters features new dialogue from Ernie Hudson as Winston.
- Batman '66 has custom speech from Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin.
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: The Collector's Edition features voice work from Julie Dawn Cole, reprising the role of Veruca Salt from the original movie nearly fifty years later.
- Rick and Morty has extensive amounts of new voice work from Justin Roiland as Rick, Morty, and Mr. Meeseeks.
- Stranger Things: David Harbour provides some voice clips as Hopper.
- Both Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines feature Arnold Schwarzenegger reprising his role as the Terminator.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation has several cast members from the original series provide voice work, including Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard.
- The Shadow has Penelope Ann-Miller, John Lone, and Tim Curry reprise their roles from the movie.
- Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure has voice work by John Rhys-Davies as Sallah.
- The original release of Spider-Man (Stern) sees J. K. Simmons voice J. Jonah Jameson, reprising his role from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy.
- In The Mandalorian, Carl Weathers provides new voice work as Greef Karga (his character in the original series).
- Toy Story 4 (2022) has two actors voicing their characters from the original film:
- Tim Allen returns as Buzz Lightyear for specially-made voiceovers.
- Annie Potts provides custom voice work as Bo Peep (though much of it is exclusive to the Collector's Edition).
- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (2023): All five of the main characters are voiced by their then-standard voice actors from the franchise at large — Matthew Lillard as Shaggy, Kate Micucci as Velma, Grey DeLisle as Daphne, and Frank Welker as Fred and Scooby.
- Batman: The Audio Adventures
- Brent Spiner reprises his role as The Joker from Young Justice (2010).
- Season 2 sees Gillian Jacobs reprise her Injustice (2021) role as Harley Quinn.
- In the 1999 radio adaptation of Agatha Christie's A Murder Is Announced, Inspector Craddock is voiced by John Castle, who had played the same role 1985-1992 in the television series Miss Marple.
- Twenty years after the original TV version of Neverwhere, Paterson Joseph reprised the role of the Marquis de Carabas for the radio adaptation of "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back", with a brief explanation about why he sounds like "his younger self", rather than David Harewood from the radio version of Neverwhere.
- The original radio cast of The HitchHikers Guide To The Galaxy (1978-80) reprised their roles in the Tertiary to Quintessential Phases (2004-05). Sandra Dickinson, Trillian in the TV version (1981) sort of reprised the role in the Quintessential Phase as an AU Tricia Macmillan. For the 40th anniversary in 2018, there was an adaptation of And Another Thing..., with most of the original radio cast, but Dickinson as the "regular" Trillian. Also returning from the later Phases are Samantha Bèart as Random Dent, Jane Horrocks as Fenchurch and Toby Longworth as Prosthetic Vogon Jeltz and Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged. Mitch Benn, who played Zaphod Beeblebrox on some dates of the 2012 stage play, takes the role of Left Brain, Zaphod's former second head.
- BBC's radio adaptation of Knightfall saw the late Michael Gough reprise his Batman film series role as Alfred.
- The BBC radio play 80 Not Out: The Saving of Albert Parks has Bernard Cribbins reprising the role of the eponymous porter, fifty years after The Railway Children in real life, and around 35 years in universe.
- SiriusXM's Squirrel Girl: The Unbeatable Radio Show! brought back Milana Vayntrub as the title character after she previously voiced her in Marvel Rising and portrayed her in the live-action New Warriors TV pilot.
- Brace Beemer temporarily played the Lone Ranger in the WXYZ radio series prior to Earle Graser winning the part. Beemer would return to the role eight years later when Graser died in an auto accident, and play the Ranger until the series ended.
- Usually Takarazuka Revue actresses only play a role once, but there have been exceptions.
- From Elisabeth: Nao Ayaki played Death in 1997 and 2005, while Rio Asumi played Death in 2009 and 2014.
- Shou Ayanagi played Goethe in two different musicals: Spring Thunder (2013) and Fortississimo (2021).
- On the subject of Elisabeth:
- Pia Douwes was Elisabeth in both the 1992 Vienna production and the 1999 Dutch production.
- Máté Kamarás played Death in a Hungarian production before reprising the role in the 2005 Vienna revival. He later played Death again in both Hungary and Japan.
- Several former Takarazuka actresses (Mari Hanafusa, Jun Sena, Hana Ranno and Reika Manaki) who played Elisabeth while part of the Revue have gone on to play Elisabeth in Toho productions.
- In an odd form of this trope, Jonathan Freeman, who voiced Jafar in Disney's Aladdin in 1992, returned to the role for the live-action Broadway production of the film in 2014.
- The Wiz had a short-lived 2009 Off-Broadway production starring Ashanti as Dorothy Gale, a role she played another interpretation of in The Muppets' 2005 take on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
- Annie Get Your Gun: Ethel Merman reprised her starring role in the 1966 Lincoln Center revival (for which Irving Berlin wrote a new Counterpoint Duet for her) and in NBC's televised version the following year.
- Pal Joey: Vivienne Segal appeared in both the original 1940 production and the 1952 revival, though neither she nor the new Joey, Harold Lang, were on the revival cast album due to Columbia Records having recorded Pal Joey with them in 1950.
- In the 1952 revival of the 1934 play The Children's Hour, Katherine Emmet reprised her role as Amelia Tilford.
- Harvey Fierstein, who played Edna in the original cast of Hairspray, reprised the role for the 2016 NBC live production of the same show.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote and starred in Hamilton as, well, Hamilton, reprised the role for a charity run in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Irma.
- The 2012 stage tour of The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy Radio Show Live!, had Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Susan Sheridan and Stephen Moore reprise Arthur, Ford, Trillian and Marvin, with Mark Wing-Davey returning as Zaphod on some dates. In addition, Samantha Bèart reprises the role of Random Dent from the Quintessential Phase and Toby Longworth and Andy Secombe reprise — among other characters — Prosthetic Vogon Jeltz and Colin the Robot.
- Thomas Borchert originated the role of Leopold Mozart in the 1999 Vienna premiere of Mozart! and returned to it in the 2015 Vienna revival.
- The stage show version of Spirited Away has Yubaba portrayed by Mari Natsuki, who previously voiced the character in the original film.
- The Broadway run of The SpongeBob Musical has Tom Kenny reprise his role as the French Narrator. The televised version has him reprise his role as Patchy the Pirate as well.
- The 2004 Los Angeles premiere of The Ten Commandments: The Musical starred Val Kilmer as Moses, whom he had previously voiced in The Prince of Egypt.
- In the second Italian edition of We Will Rock You produced in 2018, half of the cast of the 2009 edition returned to their original roles: Salvo Vinci as Galileo, Valentina Ferrari as Killer Queen, Massimiliano Colonna as Pop and Loredana Fadda as Oz. Paolo Barillari, who played Brit in the 2009 edition, now plays Khashoggi.
- Godzilla vs. Evangelion: The Real 4-D sees Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara,Yuko Miyamura, Kotono Mitsuishi, and Fumihiko Tachiki reprise their respective Neon Genesis Evangelion roles as Shinji Ikari, Rei Ayanami, Asuka Langley Shikinami, Misato Katsuragi, and Gendo Ikari.
- The Angry Video Game Nerd is no stranger to having celebrity guests appear on his show as themselves (or at least as Adam Wested versions of themselves... though in Lloyd Kaufman's case it's hard to tell), but as of 2019 the one and only time he has had somebody reprising a character they previously played is, of all people, Mike Butters as the "Pepsi for TV-Game" guy from Pepsiman.
- The main cast members of Critical Role all reprised their roles for The Legend of Vox Machina (bar Orion Acaba, who left the show early in the Briarwood arc — which the show adapts for its first season — and whose character Tiberius was Adapted Out), with Game Master Matthew Mercer as Sylas Briarwood.
- DEATH BATTLE!: It's actively rare for this to happen, but so far, 4 non-Rooster Teeth characters on the show(plus one downplayed example and one non-combatant example) have had their roles reprised.
- The first of them is Johnny Young Bosch, who reprised his role as Ichigo during his fight with Naruto. Although in order to avoid legal problems, he went under the pseudonym "Adam Park" and was linked to an article about frogs in reference to his role as the second Black Power Ranger.
- The second is Chris Tergilafera, reprising Sigma in in his fight with Ultron reusing Sigma's voice as heard in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. Much like Bosch, Chris also used a pseudonym, this one being "SupremeOverlordOfIce" in reference to Gundham Tanaka.
- The third is Dante Basco, who reprised Prince Zuko when he went up against Todoroki. Unlike Bosch or Chris however, Dante didn't need to use a psuedonym.
- The fourth would be Silver, while unconfirmed, the mysterious "Esu Onsti" is heavily implied to be reprised by Bryce Papenbrook, Silvers latest voice actor.
- While The Doctor isn't played by David Tennant, impressionist Elliot Crossley would step up to play The Doctor after previously voicing the tenth in Lockdown.
- Jay Britton, the voice for Iron Mans old AI, J.A.R.V.I.S in the interactive comic, The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII, would reprise his role when Iron Man went onto the show to fight Lex Luthor. Much like Dante above, he also didn't need to utilize a pseudonym.
- Played for comedy in Home Movie: The Princess Bride, where Fred Savage reprises his role as the Grandson at one point. At 43 years old he certainly doesn't look like a young child requesting a bedtime story any more, but it's not any more ridiculous than some of the other castings.
- Search for Sandvich:
- Robin Atkin Downes (Medic), John Patrick Lowrie (Sniper), Gary Schwartz (Demoman/Heavy), Ellen McLain (Administrator), Dennis Bateman (Spy/Pyro), and Nolan North (Merasmus) reprise their respective roles from Team Fortress 2.
- Liz McCarthy reprises her role as the Giggling Secretary from Twin Peaks.
- Aficionados Chris's video review of the Akira 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray begins with an sketch featuring Tetsuo reprised by Jan Rabson who previously voiced Tetsuo in the 1989 English dub of AKIRA