History Main / StuntDouble

* In-universe example: In ''LooneyTunesBackInAction'', the character Damian Drake Jr. is {{Brendan Fraser}}'s {{stunt double}}. The thing is, he's starred by {{Brendan Fraser}}.

* pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'' has a scene where Sheep swings on a thread and hits a wall. The scene cuts from sheep jumping off a building before cutting to a low-quality clip of stuntman in a sheep suit hitting the wall and falling painfully to the ground.

-> ''It's a death-defying life I lead, I'll take my chances.\\
I've died for a living in the movies and tv.\\
But the hardest thing I'll ever do is watch my leading ladies,\\
Kiss some other guy while I'm bandaging my knee.''

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', the definitively non-{{Canon}} and PlayedForLaughs 'movie marines' included 10 pt 'stunt doubles' that would absorb a single hit for a marine before dying, but were just as hard to kill as the regular kind.

Nowadays it's common for stunt doubles' faces to be replaced with the stars' faces in post production. An early example is ''Film/EventHorizon'': they didn't realise until they sat down to edit the film that Laurence Fishburne's stunt double's face was showing clearly for a couple of seconds in the finale (in his defense, ''he was on fire''). So, the star's face was crudely but effectively pasted over the double's. An earlier example of the same occurs in ''Franchise/JurassicPark''. This has opened the door to more flexible use of stuntmen.

* ''Film/EpicMovie'' employed this for laughs when Aslan (a middle-aged white man) is suddenly replaced by a young Asian guy in a bad wig for a white scene.

* In-universe example: In ''LooneyTunesBackInAction'', the character Damian Drake Jr. is {{Brendan Fraser}}'s {{stunt double}}. The thing is, he's starred by {{Brendan Fraser}}. o.O

* ''{{Smallville}}'' occasionally uses stunt doubles. Fans poked fun at a scene where Tom Welling's double clearly has a beard.

* Parodied in ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' by having the heroes use their stunt doubles for a DecoyGetaway: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwV61t_Tec8 You've captured their stunt doubles!]]" Bonus points for having Princess Vespa's double be a man.
** A man with a moustache and chomping a cigar, just for extra RuleOfFunny.

* The SoBadItsGood movie ''[[http://www.encyclopedia-obscura.com/moviesrobovampire.html Robo Vampire]]'' has, among other things, "the most obvious stunt double ever". A blonde woman's stunt double is a short dark-skinned guy with short grey wig and a moustache.

* StevenSeagal is notorious for this in his direct-to-video films, where noticably younger and lighter men dressed like him are in almost every shot where he isn't in close-up or talking. [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] even started a counter.
* ''Filom/EpicMovie'' employed this for laughs when Aslan (a middle-aged white man) is suddenly replaced by a young Asian guy in a bad wig for a white scene.

* KamenRider in general has used stunt doubles for the characters in Rider form (referred to in-fandom as 'suit actors') since the original 1971 show, where the hero's actor broke his leg doing a stunt. ''KamenRiderDouble'' spoofs its own usage: in a web-exclusive short, Kirihiko "interviews" the bad guys' cat Mick, eventually getting so mad that he attacks it, at which point Mick is replaced by an obvious plush. Then Mick changes into his monster form and gets revenge, at which point Kirihiko is replaced by a dummy in a suit with a photo of his face taped to the head, all while "he" continues to scream in pain.

* In the appropriately titled [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Sbemail]] "stunt double", Strong Bad denies that he employs one for his role as ''[[ShowWithinAShow Dangeresque]]''. This is proven incorrect by the Sbemail's RunningGag of forcing Strong Sad ([[PaperThinDisguise poorly dressed as Strong Bad with a paper bag mask]]) to go through with leaping off Bub's Concession Stand and getting socked by Strong Mad.

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* In the appropriately titled [[Franichse/HomestarRunner Sbemail]] "stunt double", Strong Bad denies that he employs one for his role as ''[[ShowWithinAShow Dangeresque]]''. This is proven incorrect by the Sbemail's RunningGag of forcing Strong Sad ([[PaperThinDisguise poorly dressed as Strong Bad with a paper bag mask]]) to go through with leaping off Bub's Concession Stand and getting socked by Strong Mad.

* From ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'', Siler, the technician who is known for always managing to get injured in increasingly ridiculous ways, was played by the stunt coordinator for the series.

* KaneHodder, before he landed the role of Jason in the latter ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' movies, was a well-known stunt double. After ''Friday'', he's a well-known stunt double and stunt coordinator.

* In addition to the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' example, ''FamilyGuy'' parodied incredibly obvious stunt doubles in another episode: Stewie jumps out a window, and the next scene shows a grown man in a (terrible) Stewie costume falling into a dumpster before one last cut shows the real Stewie climb out of it.

* In ''Warhammer 40000'', the definitively non-{{Canon}} and PlayedForLaughs 'movie marines' included 10 pt 'stunt doubles' that would absorb a single hit for a marine before dying, but were just as hard to kill as the regular kind.

* On the TV version of ''GarfieldHisNineLives'', one of the lives is as a stunt double for KrazyKat. It was very short.

* {{Averted}} in The SilentAgeOfCinema. BusterKeaton, Creator/CharlieChaplin, DouglasFairbanksSenior were just a few of the many actors who did their own stunts. And when you see [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome what those stunts were...]]

* Vic Armstrong is a stunt double with a very long resume who most prominently doubled for HarrisonFord in the IndianaJones films. Apparently they looked so similar that even their own children mixed them up on set.

* According to an unpublished story for SPIN Magazine that was released online in 2009, nearly every scene of WesleySnipes in ''BladeTrinity'' is his stunt double. Snipes was allegedly unhappy with the Director and script, so he only fulfilled the bare minimum his contract required and was only on set to shoot close-ups and dialogue scenes. None of the cast or crew have verified the story, however, so take it with a grain of salt.

* In ''Film/SoulSurfer'', Creator/AnnaSophiaRobb plays real-life surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack. While there's a regular stunt double who performs the surfing scenes prior to the attack, the producers had a hard time finding a one-armed stunt double who could surf, so Hamilton ended up being the stunt double for the fictional version of herself post-attack.

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