History Main / ObviousStuntDouble

* ''Series/TheMandalorian'' gave Creator/PedroPascal two main body doubles, Brendan Wayne (for gunplay scenes) and Creator/LateefCrowder (for physical stunts). When neither Pascal nor Wayne can make it to the ''Mando'' set, Barry Lowin performs instead. While Crowder and Lowin are fairly close matches for Pascal's body shape, Brendan Wayne is noticeably slimmer (particularly in the shoulders and chest). Eagle-eyed viewers can tell which man is currently donning Mando's armor based on how it sits on his frame, and how well Mando's body language compliments theatrically-trained Pascal's line deliveries. Wayne mentioned in [[https://www.vulture.com/amp/2019/12/the-mandalorian-double-brendan-wayne-interview.html an interview]] that his kids can tell if it's him in the suit with 100% accuracy.

** This ends up being a recurring thing whenever Dangeresque is done. In the sbemail "[[http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail106.html Dangeresque 3]]", Strong Bad shows ''Dangeresque 1: Dangeresque Too?'' and has Strong Sad serve as Strong Mad's stunt double for when Dangeresque Too is kicking Killing You Guy. Then in ''[[VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]]'', Strong Sad serves as a stunt double for Homestar in a scene where both Dangeresque Too and Uzi Bazooka ([[TalkingToHimself both of whom are played by Homestar]]) and Strong Bad is given the option to shoot either one of them.

** The ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' takes on [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E22MasterNinja the show]] have a ball noting this...
-->'''Joel''': Right, that's Van Cleef, he could barely step out of the van.
-->'''Crow''': It's Lee Van ''Petite!''
-->'''Tom''': Epilogue, where you always see Lee's gut...and there it is!

* A very obvious stunt double was used for most of Jaime Pressly's fight scenes in ''Series/MortalKombatConquest''. WebVideo/{{Phelous}} pointed out that the wig they had the stunt double wear ''wasn't even the right color''.

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' has [[TeamPet Bear the dog]], who is ordinarily portrayed by [[http://graubaers-boker.com/ Graubaer's Boker,]] an intact male with a patch of white on his chest. He is occasionally doubled by a ''female'' dog who lacks the white patch on her chest and was ''lactating'' for part of season four. Would a swinging mammary line be the canine equivalent of GagBoobs on a male character?

** The T.Rex in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]" is terrible to begin with, but it doesn't help that the model used for closeups is obviously completely different to the one used for the long shots.

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]" has a sequence where the Doctor falls off a cliff and is suddenly replaced by a poor-quality dummy. Tom's usually convincing double Terry is also betrayed by a synthetic wig that stays springy when wet compared to Creator/TomBaker's plastered-down real hair in the closeups, and is several shades redder than it.

* Happens so often in ''Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero'', Website/AgonyBooth [[http://www.agonybooth.com/tv/Greatest_American_Hero/Here_s_Looking_at_You__Kid_S01E03.aspx?Page=3 turned it]] into a DrinkingGame.

* Similar to the ''Sabrina'' example above, the title character in ''Series/{{Zoboomafoo}}'' was portrayed during non-speaking scenes by a real sifaka lemur named Jovian. For speaking parts, however, a puppet was used, and the difference is clear to anyone who pays attention.

---> ''WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow'': [[https://youtu.be/NxqUYN47lQU "Dancing turned him from George Harrison to George Michael!"]]

This is a subtrope of PaperThinDisguise or SpecialEffectsFailure (depending on whether the example is in-universe or not), often overlaps with FightSceneFailure, and is also related to StockFootageFailure. TheOtherDarrin is something similar, where a character gets a new actor because the previous one left the show. Happens less often now than it used to, thanks to film and TV-makers now being able to [[DigitalHeadSwap digitally stick the real actor's face on the stunt performer]].

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* Occurs in this [[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.religion.kibology/hRkkIIRYi4k/TM-tG6uxS-UJ parody]] of 1970s action-show tropes:
--> The top of the truck. MATT hangs on for dear life, only he looks much larger and has black hair in the long shots.

* An InUniverse / BreakingTheFourthWall example in ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' when the Spaceballs capture the heroes' stunt doubles. Princess Vespa's is a man, complete with a mustache and cigar.

* In ''Film/BladeRunner'' no amount of face paint can disguise that tall, slender, Creator/DarrylHannah suddenly becomes a short, muscular, man when she starts doing gymnastics. Unlike the similar switchover with Joanna Cassidy during the chase between Decker and Zhora, this was not corrected for ''The Final Cut''.

* Parodied in a WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail where a reader asks if Strong Bad has ever [[http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail80.html used a stunt double]]. [[BlatantLies "I've always done my own stunt work!"]] \\

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* Name pretty much any ''Creator/StevenSeagal'' DirectToVideo movie (such as ''Kill Switch'') and you can guarantee that any shot that doesn't explicitly show his face will be a stunt double who's several pounds lighter and often has a different hair color. Not just fight scenes either; even scenes of him simply standing or walking around are liable to be stunt doubles due to Seagal not staying in shape.

* In the first ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' film, the scenes in which Marty is rammed by Biff's car while he's riding the makeshift skateboard feature a stuntman who is obviously much taller than Creator/MichaelJFox and also has darker hair.
** Also, when George spies on Lorraine while she's getting dressed, the girl we see is clearly not Lea Thompson.

** One of the sequels, ''3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain'', has another really bad example. There's a scene where where the terrorists infiltrate an amusement park on jet skis, and despite the fact that the terrorists include a woman, a black man, and a really fat guy, all the stuntmen riding the vehicles are athletic white men.

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* When [[spoiler: Brenda]]'s dead body is thrown through the window at the end of ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'', she was played by makeup artist Tom Savini wearing a very bad wig in the completely wrong hair color.
* When Jason grabs Chris as she is falling from a window in ''Film/FridayThe13thPartIII'', it becomes obvious from the camera shots outside the house that a stunt actress is being used.

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* A recent UK advert for 118 118 plays this for laughs. The mascots, two tall men with the same dark droopy hair and moustaches, are rehearsing for a film. Their stunt doubles look nothing like them, one having long white hair and tattoos and the other being nearly bald.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StuntDawgs'': In "Freedom of Screech", Badyear becomes the stunt double for one of Fungus' girlfriends in spite of being too muscular to look like her. Badyear tells the viewers Fungus paid him a good money to do it. Not enough but still a good money.

* This is a Bollywood movie called ''Film/{{Yaarana}}''. There are two main protagonists, Bishan and Kishan. Bishan buys gliders for both of them, and they take off. It's very obvious that the stunt doubles riding the gliders aren't the two actors.

* While the shot's convincing in the movie proper, the outakes in the credits of ''Film/JesusChristVampireHunter'' show the double for [[ActionGirl Mary Magnum]]'s motorbike stunts without ''[[CrosscastRole his]]'' helmet on (but wearing the, presumably padded, catsuit). That said, while the stunt double's ''gender'' is pretty well hidden in the film, the fact that the double's catsuit is a completely different shade of red makes it obvious when he's in the shot.

* ''Film/TowerOfDeath'', the last film starring Creator/BruceLee, have Bruce's scenes being clobbered together using stock footage and unused scenes from his previous works. While Bruce's character does have onscreen fights, it's fairly obvious that the double isn't Bruce, being too skinny, short, and fights in a different, far more acrobatic pattern than Bruce's usual Jeet-kun-do style. (The double for Bruce's fights is actually a young Creator/YuenBiao, who isn't famous at that point of his career)

* When [[spoiler: Brenda]]'s dead body is thrown through the window at the end of ''Film/FridayThe13th'', she was played by makeup artist Tom Savini wearing a very bad wig in the completely wrong hair color.

Alice is a famous actress working on her latest movie. The time has come to film the scene where she rides a motorcycle through flaming hoops over a shark tank. But, wait, Alice is far too delicate, precious and non-expendable to put be put through that! A StuntDouble is needed. But Alice's usual stunt double is in the hospital, so what do they do? Hire Alice's friend Bob. Sure, he looks nothing like her, but it's not like anyone will notice.

* ''Film/WetHotAmericanSummer'': Whenever Neil climbs on the motorcycle it ''not so seamlessly'' cuts to another man who looks nothing like him wearing the same costume, in a cheap wig riding away. At one point the double even slowly and awkwardly rides the motorcycle directly toward the camera. After panning away to others, it whips back to show the actor now straddling the bike. Given the film's nature, [[RuleOfFunny it was likely done on purpose]].