* HeyItsThatGuy: The 1993 film, in which [[HarryPotter Professor Lockhart and Professor Trelawney]] are in a SlapSlapKiss relationship while [[Film/TheMatrix Neo]] works to break up [[Series/{{House}} Wilson]] and [[{{Underworld}} Selene]] while Film/{{Beetlejuice}} [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Denzel Washington]] look on.
** Meanwhile, [[HarryPotter Professor]] [[Characters/HarryPotter Umbridge]] is mistaken for Hero. And in what [[strike:bizarro]] awesome world did [[Series/MonarchOfTheGlen Hector MacDonald]] become brothers with BrianBlessed?
** Complete irony: EmmaThompson and KennethBranagh were actually married to each other off-screen from 1989 to 1995. So perhaps their casting was a bit of RealLifeWritesThePlot?
*** He also plays opposite to her in both ''HenryV'', ''Dead Again'', and ''LookBackInAnger''. And all four films were also directed by him. So it's not so much RealLifeWritesThePlot as it is Real Life Casts the Movies.
*** Hero's nurse was also played by Emma Thompson's mother, so real life does indeed cast these movies. They didn't refer to this lot as the "Brit Pack" for nothing...
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: The 2011 RSC production starred DavidTennant [[VitriolicBestBuds and]] CatherineTate as [[SlapSlapKiss Benedick and Beatrice]]. As always seems to happen when Tate is playing opposite Tennant, SheReallyCanAct ensued.
* HeyItsThatGuy: The 2012 film, being directed by JossWhedon...

** [[Series/{{Angel}} Fred and Wesley]] are Beatrice and Benedick. [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Caleb and Andrew]] also turn up as Dogberry and Verges.
** Its [[Series/{{Firefly}} Captain Tightpants Dogberry, and Dr Simon Don John]].
** Or Beatrice and Benedick are [[Series/{{Dollhouse}} Dr Claire Saunders and Senator Daniel Perrin]], while Topher is Claudio and Mr Dominic is Don Pedro.
** [[Film/{{TheAvengers}} Phil Coulson]] is Leonato, and the waitress is Margaret.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Giles]] was going to be Leonato, but he couldn't make the time to film it unfortunately. At least we got Phil Coulson taking his place.