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RuPaul: Live from New York, animated from Amphibia.

Examples of Ink-Suit Actor in Western Animation.

  • Amphibia:
  • Depending on the version of Alvin and the Chipmunks, Dave Seville will usually resemble his voice actor. Back in The Alvin Show, Dave looked like Ross Bagdasarian Sr., right down to the cleft in his chin. When Ross Bagdasarian Jr. took over from The Chipmunks and onward, Dave was redesigned to look more like him, with a leaner face and slightly less conservative hairstyle.
  • Gene Belcher from Bob's Burgers looks like an adolescent version of Eugene Mirman. Not only do they both share the same name, but they both have similar hairdos, builds and complexions. There's also Tina, who looks like a gender-flipped version of her voice actor Dan Mintz. Larry Murphy also resembles Teddy, albeit having more hair in real life.
  • Dr. Blight from Captain Planet and the Planeteers happens to resemble her voice actress, Meg Ryan.
    • Most of the villains resembled their voice actors.
  • Bruno the Kid has the title character use a CGI alter ego who resembles his voice actor, Bruce Willis.
  • Rick Moranis in Gravedale High.
  • John Candy in Camp Candy.
  • The Ghost and Molly McGee:
  • Arthur does this a lot. Examples: Fred Rogers as an aardvark (or as close to one as the Reads are), Art Garfunkel as a moose, Yo-Yo Ma as a rabbit, Neil Gaiman as a cat.
  • Ed Wuncler from The Boondocks animated series bears a striking resemblance to his voice actor, Ed Asner.
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic has multiple examples, many bearing a strong resemblance to him as he looks in real life — so many that he recently tweeted a collage of most of them, which you can see here note :
    • The creators of Transformers: Animated mentioned that their version of Wreck-Gar's facial features were partially modeled after those of his voice actor, "Weird Al" Yankovic. Chins were TFA's feature of choice and it helps that Al has a pretty impressive one of his own.
    • Yankovic also appeared in Lilo & Stitch: The Series as a minstrel at a medieval festival.
    • Yankovic also provided his voice for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. His character, Cheese Sandwich, is Weird Al himself as a cartoon pony.
    • Yankovic has appeared as himself on several iterations of Scooby-Doo.
    • He did voice acting for Dr. Screwball Jones on a second season episode of Wander over Yonder and the character design has many Al-like visible traits.
  • In The Transformers episode "Only Human", the main Autobots are turned into humans and they resemble their voice actors, Dick Gautier (Rodimus Prime), Neil Ross (Springer), Jack Angel (Ultra Magnus) and Susan Blu (Arcee).
  • The Simpsons:
  • The Flintstones often had stars with slightly altered names ("Ann-Margrock", et al.), though this shades over into Simpson-like Special Guest territory since the characters were so blatantly their actors.
    • Fred Flintstone was drawn to closely resemble original voice actor Alan Reed. This becomes obvious when one watches Reed's cameo appearance in Breakfast at Tiffany's, which was released the same year The Flintstones debuted on TV. Wilma looked a lot◊ like her original portrayer, Jean Vander Pyl (who also had red hair).
  • Ricardo Montalbán as Armando Gutierrez in Freakazoid!. He even quotes some of his old lines from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
  • American Dad!:
  • The Warden of Superjail! looks suspiciously like his voice actor, David Wain. All he's really missing is the suit/hat combo and the yellow tint on his glasses.
    • Oddly, when he does get medium blended into live-action (at the end of "Dream Machine"), he's instead portrayed by the lead singer of the band Les Savy Fav.
    • In an earlier episode of Wainy Days, David Wain first ends up in prison, then appears dressed very similarly like the Warden. Draw your own conclusions.
    • In the second season episode "Ghosts", John Waters voices some Aztec shaman that looks like him.
  • Many characters (usually the narrators and main characters) in the mostly stop-motion Rankin/Bass holiday specials of the '60s and '70s were modeled after their voice actors. An example is Burl Ives as Sam the Snowman, in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, so much so that Ives is now more famous for that role than for his folksinging or his Oscar-winning turn in The Big Country, even though he only provides a voice here. Look at a picture of the guy, and then at the snowman, and you'll see why people think of the snowman as being him rather than simply being played by him.
  • Tiny Toon Adventures had a few examples.
    • In "Tiny Toon Music Television", the segment "Just Say Julie Bruin" featured a buxom Funny Animal version of Julie Brown in a parody of her MTV show who was voiced by another Julie Brown (American comedienne, singer, songwriter, etc) but not the British Actress that was on MTV. In the same episode, a They Might Be Giants song is played by Plucky and Hamton — both redrawn to be caricatures of the two Johns. Flansburgh, who is somewhat heavyset, was apparently offended at being drawn as a pig. In the DVD commentary, he wondered why he only watched it once, and on seeing it again commented that was why.
    • The first segment of the episode "New Character Day" had The Roches, a musical group consisting of three sisters, play themselves as anthropomorphic roaches.
    • In "Henny Youngman Day", comedian Henny Youngman plays an anthropomorphic chicken version of himself, serving as a substitute teacher for Daffy Duck's class.
  • This was the original plan for The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey". The Gnome was to have been voiced by Jack Black, and was even physically based on him, though by the time recording came around, Black was too busy to do his part, so they found the Poor Man's Substitute in the form of Jess Harnell, making it into No Celebrities Were Harmed.
  • Stripperella looks like her voice actress Pamela Anderson. Given that a major part of this series is about a well-endowed stripper turned crime-fighting Action Girl...
  • In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, most of the celebrity cameos are playing people, be it other celebrities, established South Park characters or new characters, who look nothing like themselves. The exception is George Clooney, who voices Dr. Gouache, who bears a resemblance to Clooney. This may be because Dr. Gouache is a parody of Clooney's ER character.
  • Class of 3000: Sunny Bridges bares quite the uncanny resemblance to Andre 3000.
  • Kim Possible:
    • The creators admitted that they created the character of "Motor Ed" to look and act like John DiMaggio because they thought his off-mike personality had great comedy potential.
    • Ricardo Montalban gets his usual treatment as Senor Senior Sr.
    • Adam West was clearly the visual model for the Adam West expy Timothy North, aka The Fearless Ferret. The whole ep was an Affectionate Parody of the '60s TV Batman (1966), with West playing a delusional actor who thought he was the superhero he played and roped Ron into taking on the role as well.
    • Cheese and crackers, Barkin looks a lot like Patrick Warburton.
    • Monique bears more than a passing resemblance to Raven-Symoné.
  • There's a whole mess of this on The Venture Brothers:
  • Bruce Timm's toy store owner in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Beware the Gray Ghost". This episode also featured Adam West as an actor who can't get work because he was typecast by a costumed crime fighter show he did decades ago.
    • As the series itself wore on the characters started to resemble their voice actors more and more, it doesn't hurt that some of them already looked similar to those playing them, special mention goes to Richard Moll and Harvey Dent/Two-Face, Paul Williams as The Penguin, and Ron Perlman as Matt Hagan/Clayface.
    • The Joker had a lot of his mannerisms on the show inspired by Mark Hamill's gestures while in the recording booth, as the lead animator actually brought in the team to watch his delivery of lines for inspiration.
    • Harley Quinn, the Joker's lovable henchwoman, was based on her voice actress, Arleen Sorkin (specifically on an episode of Days of Our Lives where Sorkin dressed as a Sexy Jester in a dream sequence). The producers were apparently amazed that she still talked to them.
    • Rossum, the creator of H.A.R.D.A.C., looks exactly like his voice actor, William Sanderson.
  • A debatable case: Is Amanda Waller in the DCAU modeled on actress C.C.H. Pounder, or is it just that to get the right voice they needed an actress the same physical type as the character?
  • Static Shock has the most celebrity guest stars of the entire DCAU, all of whom bare a striking resemblance; Shaquille O'Neal, A.J. Mclean, Karl Malone, and Li'l Romeo. The villain Replikon also resembles his voice actor, the rapper Coolio.
  • Gargoyles:
    • In "The Mirror", the gargoyles' human forms were made to resemble their voice actors, according to show creator Greg Weisman.
    • Elisa bears more than a passing resemblance to Salli Richardson.
    • Big Bad David Xanatos averts this via weird coincidence: Although he bears a striking resemblance to his voice actor, Jonathan Frakes, he was designed before anyone had been considered for the role.
    • Recurring Character Halcyon Reynard looks a little like his actor, Robert Culp.
    • Elisa's father, Peter Maza, is a dead ringer for his voice actor, Michael Horse.
  • Phineas and Ferb has Coltrane, who debuts without a voice in "The Best Lazy Day" as the guitarist in Jeremy's band and an apparent love interest to Stacy. Later, shortly after Corbin Bleu became his voice actor, Coltrane reappeared with a new look that gave him better resemblance to Corbin.
    • In addition, the manager of the Hawaiian hotel is modeled after Phill Lewis, who voices him. (Also an Actor Allusion, since the character is basically Mr. Moseby.)
    • In the episode "Live and Let Drive", The guys from the UK version of Top Gear make an appearance They even matched a typical wardrobe for the guys. Hammond is wearing a dark suit jacket over a white button up shirt, Clarkson has tan suit jacket and white shirt, and James May is wearing a loud Hawaiian shirt. An image can be seen here◊
  • The Owl House
    • Tiny Nose/Tinella Nosa is a self-insert of the show's creator Dana Terrace, sharing her hairstyle.
    • Main character Luz Noceda looks very similar to her voice actress, Sarah-Nicole Robles.
  • Looney Tunes:
    • In the early 1940s, Elmer Fudd was temporarily redesigned for a few animated shorts to be more portly like his voice actor at that time, Arthur Q. Bryan.
    • June Foray provided the voice of Witch Hazel, and she was used as the model for Hazel's beautified form at the end of Broom-Stick Bunny.
    • The 1940 short Africa Squeaks features a parody of bandleader Kay Kyser called "Cake-Icer", and they actually got the Ol' Professor to voice himself.
    • The 1959 short The Mouse That Jack Built had the cast of The Jack Benny Program playing animated mouse versions of themselves.
  • Five on The Fairly Oddparents: Mr. Turner is an animated caricature of Daran Norris, who even reprised the role in live-action. Teen pop idol Chip Skylark is *NSYNC member Chris Kirkpatrick in animated form. Norm the Genie is modeled after, named after, and voiced by former Saturday Night Live member Norm Macdonald. Superhero "The Crimson Chin" is modeled after and voiced by Jay Leno, whose most prominent feature is his chin. Finally, Dr. Rip Studwell looks like Butch Hartman, the series creator who also does his voice.
  • In the Justice League episode "Flash and Substance", Mark Hamill voices the Trickster, a Flash villain modeled on the actor who played him in the 1990s live-action series — Mark Hamill. The Trickster being an expy of sorts for the Joker. Who in the wider DC Animated Universe is played by (you guessed it) Mark Hamill.
  • Ricardio on Adventure Time is a rather creepy-looking example. Just takes George Takei's face with extreme detail and put it onto a cartoon heart.
  • King of the Hill's numerous celebrity guest stars occasionally played themselves, but whether or not they did, their characters looked like them the majority of the time.
    • Dale was drawn to look like Robert Patrick who was originally supposed to play him.
    • John Redcorn was also reportedly modeled on Victor Aaron, his original voice actor.
    • Octavio is essentially an animated clone of his voice actor, Danny Trejo.
  • Richard Simmons as Coach Salmons in Fish Hooks.
  • Clone High has Jack Black as Larry Hardcore/The Pusher and Luke Perry as Ponce de Leon.
  • In Hey Arnold!, the gang's teacher, Mr. Simmons, is a dead ringer for his voice actor, Dan Butler. This is especially noticeable because the show has an extremely idiosyncratic character design, to say the least.
  • Jason Griffith of 4Kids Entertainment fame has joked that all of the voice cast for Chaotic look like their characters.
  • The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo features Vincent Price as "Vincent Van Ghoul", a sorcerer drawn as a near-exact likeness.
    • The New Scooby-Doo Movies used a number of celebrities in cartoon form, most notably Don Knotts (although Don Adams and Sonny & Cher aren't the most likely people to be seen on screen with Mystery Inc. either). Season two of Hanna-Barbera's Wait Till Your Father Gets Home had guest stars in cartoon form as well.
    • Scooby-Doo! and KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery features this for KISS.
    • Frank Welker, Nicole Jaffe, and Stefanianna Christopherson bore more than passive resemblances to the characters they originated on the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (Fred, Velma, and Daphne respectively). Nicole Jaffe in particular would have looked just like her character if she didn't dye her hair blonde or wear contacts (notably, she even wore her hair in the classic bob style at the time as well). Also, Velma's quirk of loosing her glasses was even based on a real incident involving Jaffe that occurred during an early table read.
    • Matthew Lillard, Shaggy's current voice actor, does make a striking resemblance to the lanky teen. Especially when he portrayed as Shaggy in the first two live-action films.
  • Many of the Recess cast happen to look like the characters they played. They commented on this on a documentary they did for the Disney Channel.
  • According to the Audio Commentary, Eunice from the Futurama episode "Proposition Infinity" is modeled after the episode's director Crystal Chesney-Thompson. The brief on the character apparently was that she should look "girly, but nerdy." Animator's response? "Oh, she should look like Crystal then!"
    • In the "Anthology of Interest II" segment where Bender is turned into a human, his human form is modeled on his voice actor John DiMaggio.
  • Now-cancelled Arnold Schwarzenegger project The Governator blends this with No Celebrities Were Harmed, as the main character is a fictionalized version of his voice actor (basically Arnold if he decided he wanted to be Bruce Wayne)—but animated versions of Schwarzenegger's wife and children, who aren't in the acting business, will also be featured. Alas, the project was shelved due to Arnold's troubles in his personal life.
  • Benny the Ball in Top Cat, voiced by Maurice Gosfield, is modelled on Private Doberman in The Phil Silvers Show ... played by Maurice Gosfield.
  • Zhao from Avatar: The Last Airbender looks quite a bit like his voice actor, Jason Isaacs. Co-creator Micheal Dante DiMartino confirmed in an interview that when creating Zhao, he was inspired by Isaacs performance as a villain in The Patriot (2000). He asked the casting director to get "someone like Jason Isaacs" for the role, and she ended up getting Isaacs himself instead.
    • Master Piandao does not look like his voice actor, Robert Patrick. He does look like Sifu Kisu, the martial arts consultant for the series. This was an intentional tribute by the animators: since Piandao is an expert martial artist and teacher, they took the opportunity to have Sifu Kisu appear more-or-less As Himself.
    • The bald prisoner from "Avatar Day" pretty clearly resembles his voice actor Jason C. Miller (at least how he appeared back when the episode aired, nowadays Miller sports a beard).
    • Tenzin from The Legend of Korra bears more than a slight resemblance to his voice actor, J. K. Simmons, to the point where you could describe him as "J.K. Simmons with airbending tattoos and a beard".
    • Zaheer from Korra also closely resembles his actor, Henry Rollins.
  • In Rick and Morty, Unity is acquainted with a different hive mind, this one a parodic Expy of The Borg from Star Trek. Its spokesman is voiced by Patton Oswalt and looks like a cybernetic caricature of him.
  • In SpongeBob SquarePants:
    • Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's designs are caricatures of their voice actors Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway, particularly of their roles in McHale's Navy.
    • While SpongeBob wasn't really designed to look like Tom Kenny, his thick-rimmed glasses were supposedly based off of Kenny's own pair.
    • In "The Krusty Sponge", Gene Scallop is designed after his voice actor, American film and literary critic Gene Shalit, featuring his trademark oversized hair, mustache, and glasses. Scallop's bright green bowtie additionally mirrors Shalit's affinity for similarly colorful neckwear.
  • Bud Abbott voiced a direct animated adaptation of himself for the 1967 Abbott and Costello cartoons, while Stan Irwin substituted for the late Lou Costello.
  • Jon Lovitz as Jay Sherman in The Critic is an interesting inversion. He insisted that the character design be noticeably different from how he actually looked, only to begin resembling the character more and more as he aged.
  • In Sofia the First: Baileywick is a dead ringer for Tim Gunn.
  • In The 7D, the main antagonist, Hildy Gloom, bears more than a passing resemblance to her actress Kelly Osbourne, especially the purple hair.
  • In the Rankin Bass adaption of The Emperor's New Clothes, Danny Kay's character Marmaduke is made to look like Kay.
  • The Regular Show Whole Episode Flashback has Reggie, Muscle Man's college acquaintance, who looks like Danny Cooksey did as a teenager, specifically in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
    • In the episode "Benson's Suit", Travis Willingham voices a villain named Rich Steve, who could be his cartoon counterpart (albeit with longer hair).
  • In Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, Coach Green looks almost exactly like John Oliver. Debbie Kang also bears more than a passing resemblance to Piper Curda.
  • The Cleveland Show has Gus, the otherworldly bartender who's voiced and modeled after David Lynch.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) has their incarnation of Casey Jones look eerily similar to his voice actor, Josh Peck, although this may be a subversion, because while this Casey Jones is considered Ugly Cute at worst, Josh is considered, well, cute cute.
  • Rachel Wilson, who provided voice acting for Heather from Total Drama looks quite similar◊ to the character she is portraying.
  • In Guardians of the Galaxy (2015), Peter's father J'son looks like an animated version of his voice actor Jonathan Frakes, specifically from Frakes' Will Riker period.
  • Done completely intentionally in Jackie Chan Adventures, the only real differences being that cartoon Jackie is younger and the stunts are slightly more over-the-top. The opening sequence even has Jackie shift back and forth between cartoon and live-action.
  • The Batman:
  • Mighty Magiswords: Jim Cummings voices a minor character named Buford, who looks quite a bit like him too.
  • The Loud House:
  • Miraculous Ladybug:
    • Class tomboy Alix Kubdel looks quite similar to Kira Buckland.
    • Luka Couffaine is basically his voice actor Andrew Russell with longer and more punk-ish hair. Funnily enough, both of them are skilled at playing guitar.
    • Several French celebrities appeared as guests characters, sometimes getting akumatized :
      • French veteran actress and director Josiane Balasko as herself in Season 1-13 and 4-02, plus some cameos. The international version named her "Sarah".
      • Former ice-skater Philippe Candeloro fittingly gets the part of the skating coach (only known as "Philippe") at the ice-rink and gets akumatized as "Le Patineur/Frozer" in S2-21 and again in Season 2's two-part finale. In following seasons he gets several cameos.
      • Harry Clown of S4-21, who gets akumatized into "Psycomédien/Psycomedian", is basically popular comic, actor and director Franck Dubosc transplanted into the Miraculous' verse. Though Dubosc humor is far less lame and more adult-oriented than Harry Clown's. But the two share a desire to be more than simple clowns, as Dubosc, since several years, is in a process of turning to more drama-oriented roles, yet still in upbeat films.
  • The character Gearhead◊ (a.k.a. Revolio Clockberg Jr.) from Rick and Morty looks very similar to his voice actor, Scott Chernoff◊.
  • Thunderbirds Are Go: Gadgeteer Genius Tycho Reeves from the episode "Hyperspeed" looks exactly like his voice actor, David Tennant.
  • The Marvel's Spider-Man version of Max Modell resembled a bearded Fred Tatasciore. The Creator Cameo proprietor of Cup O' Joe looks like Joe Quesada.
  • A large number of guest stars during later seasons of Garfield and Friends, including but not limited to Rip Taylor, Ray Jay Johnson, and Eddie Lawrence doing his "Old Philosopher" routine in cat form. Most notable was adding Aloysius, a pastiche of voicing comedian Kevin Meaney (right down to his catchphrase, "That's not right!"), as a recurring character on U.S. Acres.
  • Magic Adventures of Mumfie has The Queen Of Night, who bears a striking resemblance to her voice actress (and also the series' creator), Britt Allcroft.
  • Freakazoid!: Mad Scientist Dr. Mystico looks a lot like his voice actor Tim Curry, if somewhat bulkier.
  • Bill Dewey in Steven Universe was almost certainly modeled on his voice actor, Joel Hodgson.
  • In the Bob the Builder Christmas Episode A Christmas to Remember, John the piano player, voiced by Elton John, is modelled on Elton, at least to the extent that's possible within the show's Only Six Faces style (really, he's just got red hair and glasses, but the intent's clearly there).
  • The Star Wars cartoons do this a lot, likely in case they want to bring the characters into the movies and save the effort of finding an actor by using their voice actors. This is obviously played straight for live-action actors that reprised their roles in the cartoonslist 
    • Star Wars: The Clone Wars:
      • Anakin Skywalker looks very similar to Matt Lanter.
      • So does Stephen Stanton (Captain Tarkin). Stephen took it one step further: At Star Wars Celebration VI, he actually cosplayed as Captain Tarkin. This is carried over into Rebels.
      • Duchess Satine looks like Anna Graves, but she's been noted to have a Comic-Book Fantasy Casting resemblance to Cate Blanchett.
      • Bo-Katan looks like Katee Sackhoff, except with short red hair. Her hairstyle is similar to Sackhoff's role as Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica. This is carried over into Rebels. When the character made her live-action debut in The Mandalorian, Sackhoff easily reprised her role.
      • Prime Minister Almec shares some resemblance to Julian Holloway, but with a beard.
      • Korkie and his friends resemble their voice actors.
      • Queen Neeyutnee resembles her voice actress, Jameelah McMillan, although we never see her without her headdress and make-up.
      • Cham Syndulla has some resemblance to Robin Atkin Downes. This is carried over into Rebels.
      • Gobi resembles Corey Burton. This is carried over into Rebels.
      • Lux looks like a younger version of Jason Spisak.
      • Senator Mina Bonteri resembles Kath Soucie, except with short brown hair with greying streaks and a beauty mark near her mouth.
      • Steela resembles Dawn-Lyen Gardner, except with dreadlocks and blue eyes. This is carried over into Rebels.
      • Saw resembles Andrew Kishino. This is retconned in entries released after Rogue One such as in Rebels, with Saw now resembling Forest Whitaker, his actor in Rogue One. The Rogue One Marvel comic adaptation depicts The Clone Wars era Saw as looking more like Whitaker than Kishino.
      • The Father resembles Lloyd Sherr.
      • The Son and the Daughter resemble Sam Witwer and Adrienne Wilkinson, respectively. It may also be worth noting that Witwer and Wilkinson's roles as the Son and the Daughter is a Mythology Gag (and given the content of their story, this could also be a Call-Forward at the time of their episodes' release and a possible Discontinuity Nod post-Continuity Reboot) towards their roles as enemies Starkiller and Maris Blood in The Force Unleashed, who also apply to this trope.
      • Kalifa, Jinx, and O-Mer look like younger versions of Gwendoline Yeo, Sunil Malhotra, and Cam Clarke, respectively.
      • Weirdly enough, you can see a bit of resemblance between Gwendoline Yeo and one of her characters, Peppi Bow, who is a female Gungan.
      • Chairman Chi Cho resembles Brian George.
    • Star Wars Rebels:
      • In side material that depicts the characters realistically, Hera is sometimes modeled after her voice actress, Vanessa Marshall.
      • Ahsoka now resembles Ashley Eckstein. This is possibly a reference to when she cosplayed Ahsoka at a convention while The Clone Wars was airing.
      • The Grand Inquisitor resembles Jason Isaacs, but, you know, bald and alien.
      • During development, Agent Kallus was at one point considered to resemble his voice actor, David Oyelowo.
      • Since there was no official actor reference for Grand Admiral Thrawn (who originally appeared in novels and comics, with a variety of artists' interpretations of his appearance but no defined look other than 'blue skin, red eyes, near-human'), the production team chose to model him after his voice actor, Lars Mikkelsen. Mikkelsen would later go on to reprise the role of Mitth'raw'nuruodo in live-action for the Ahsoka series, thus coming full circle.
      • Fenn Rau looks like Kevin McKidd. Rau's hairstyle is similar to McKidd's character's hairstyle in Dog Soldiers.
      • Gar Saxon looks like Ray Stevenson, except for the hair. Interestingly, Saxon had previously appeared helmetless in Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir (or at least half of his face did, thanks to how the comic panels were arranged), he did share some resemblance to Stevenson bar the blonde hair and the hairstyle. It's currently unknown if Stevenson was selected to voice him in The Clone Wars before it was cancelled or if this was a coincidence.
      • Tiber Saxon looks like Tobias Menzies, except blonde and with a different hairstyle.
      • Numa grew up to resemble Catherine Taber, except with purple eyes (and obviously, lekku).
      • Governor Ryder Azadi looks like Clancy Brown, except Ambiguously Brown. Brown would later reprise his role in live-action in Ahsoka.
      • Erskin Semaj resembles Josh Brener.
      • Gold One/Dutch Vander resembles Yuri Lowenthal, as well as his late actor.
      • Gooti Terez and the Controller are based on The Star Wars Show host Andi Gutirrez and Lucasfilm Story Group member Pablo Hidalgo, and though they don't voice them in the actual show, they were brought on as placeholder voices.
    • Star Wars Resistance:
      • Kazuda resembles Christopher Sean, except younger.
      • Tam resembles Suzie McGrath, albeit with darker skin and Tam's hair isn't curly.
      • You can see a resemblance between Neeku and Josh Brener.
      • Yeager resembles Scott Lawrence, except with dreadlocks and a beard.
      • Torra looks like a younger version of Myrna Velasco.
      • Synara resembles Nazneen Contractor.
      • Jace Rucklin resembles Elijah Wood, but with blonde hair and brighter-colored eyes.
      • Griff Halloran looks like Stephen Stanton.
      • Freya Fenris looks like Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, although like Duchess Satine and Governor Pryce before her, she's also be noted to have a Comic-Book Fantasy Casting resemblance to Cate Blanchett.
      • Hugh Sion, one of Kaz's teammates in the New Republic Navy, resembles Sam Witwer.
      • Mia Gabon, one of Kaz's teammates in the New Republic Navy, shares some resemblance to Cherami Leigh, though Mia appears to be Asian equivalent.
  • Scooby-Doo
    • In The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, Vincent Van Ghoul looks just like his voice actor, Vincent Price. The Mystery Incorporated continuity plays up the resemblance, in which Van Ghoul is an actor and is also a good cook, like his late voice actor.
    • Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated:
      • Mayor Fred Jones Sr. resembles his voice actor, Gary Cole, specifically in the late '90's and the 2000's. For reference, see Cole's roles in Dodgeball, One Hour Photo, and The West Wing. This is possibly a hint about Mayor Jones's false relation to Fred, as there is little to no familial resemblance between them.
      • Mayor Nettles and Principal Quinlan resemble Kate Higgins, except with darker hair.
      • Sheriff Stone resembles Patrick Warburton, except with a mustache. Case in point...◊
      • Hot Dog Water/Marcie looks like Linda Cardellini, further bringing her status as Velma's expy to full circle, as Cardellini played Velma in the first two live-action movies.
      • You can see a resemblance between Professor Pericles and Udo Kier, even though the former is a bird. Pericles specifically looks like this photo of Kier◊.
    • A Scooby-Doo Valentine: The perps, who were doppelgangers of the gang, are unmasked to be caricatures of the cast's voice actors (Frank Welker, Grey DeLisle, Casey Kasem, Mindy Cohn).
  • The Hollow: Mark Hildreth is the only member of the cast to carry over his role to the live—action epilogue (and prologue)
  • Inverted in Godzilla: The Series with Mendel Craven and Mayor Ebert. Despite Malcolm Dunare and Michael Lerner coming back to reprise the respective roles, Craven was now blond with his hair in a ponytail instead of short brunet hair and Ebert sported a mustache instead of his original clean-shaven look and his hair was styled differently.
  • As mentioned below in Coincidences, this isn't actually the case with the main cast of Archer. However, this is played straight with pretty much all of the guest characters, including Len Drexler (Jeffrey Tambor), Cecil Tunt (Eugene Mirman), Alan Shapiro (Patton Oswalt), Conway Stern (Coby Bell), Katya Kazanova (Ona Grauer), Commander Drake (Bryan Cranston), Lemuel (Keith David) and Claudette Kane (C.C.H. Pounder), Edie (Allison Tolman), Lance Casteau (Anthony Bourdain), Lucas Troy (Timothy Olyphant), Captain Price (Jillian Bell), Noah (David Cross - just with hair), Captain Murphy (Jon Hamm - just with grey hair), Juliana (Lauren Cohan - just with red hair), Ziegler (Flula Borg - just with blonde hair)... basically, if there's a well-known guest star on the show, you can safely assume that their character will be this.
    • Also played straight with Ron Cadillac, who was directly based on Ron Liebman, and Slater, who was based on... well, you can probably guess who.
  • Disney's 2019 conceit that The Muppets (not the performers, the Muppets themselves) are guest voice actors on Disney Channel animated series leads to a weird metafictional example: Dr. Enamel in Big City Greens looks a bit like a human version of Fozzie Bear (the show's Amazing Technicolor Population helps, since he's actually orange). Allowing for art style, Crumpet the Frog in Amphibia looks exactly like Kermit.
  • According to a source, Ben's parents in Ben 10: Alien Force were designed from and voiced by their live action counterparts from Race Against Time.
  • Grossology: After Deven Mack was cast as Lab Rat, the character was redesigned to look like him, down to the blue hoodie he occasionally wore to recording sessions.
  • What If…? (2021), being based on alternate histories of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, naturally has every character looking like their film counterparts. But the one character introduced on the show, Uatu, is the Watcher from the comics with a Race Lift and a few adjustments to resemble Jeffrey Wright.
  • Entergalactic: Every character is visually based on their original voice actor. Jabari being a dead ringer for Kid Cudi is the most obvious, but Jimmy has Timothée Chalamet's sharp facial features, Carmen has Laura Harrier's downturned eyes and full lips, Ky has Ty Dolla $ign's black and blonde dreadlocks, and so on.
  • Close Enough: Josh bears a strong resemblance to his voice actor and the show's creator, JG Quintel. The show's Halloween Episode "Halloween Enough" plays this trope for horror, as towards the end of the episode Josh's daughter Candice accidentally falls into the Cartoon Network building. Frightened and confused, she finds someone who she thinks is her father, only for it to turn out she found the completely identical JG Quintel instead, who doesn't recognize her.
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks takes this approach to many of the characters (at least for the ones who, in live action Trek, would be portrayed by humans in makeup), including the occasional guest star from elsewhere in the franchise. This works in reverse too — several of the main characters' voice actors have gone to conventions in Starfleet uniforms essentially playing themselves, and a crossover episode of the live-action Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was produced with Boimler and Mariner's actor and actress reprising their roles.
  • On JoJo's Circus, JoJo's design is notably similar to that of her voice actress, Madeleine Martin, particularly the hairstyle, which matches the hairstyle she sported when appearing on Out of the Box around the same time she voiced JoJo.
  • The commentary for The LEGO Movie states that Emmet’s minifigure was designed to look like his voice actor Chris Pratt— at least, as close as they could get it with a LEGO minifigure.
  • Invincible (2021): Done with plenty of the characters, especially the Grayson family. Mark, Debbie and Omni Man all bear strong resemblances to Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh, and J. K. Simmons, respectively.
  • The Legend of Vox Machina has regular appearances of side characters voiced by and looking very similar to Matthew Mercer, all of whom exist only to get their day ruined by the titular heroes. As the show started out as Critical Role, a DnD campaign DM-ed by Matt, who acts and voices all the NPCs, this is very much a Mythology Gag.
  • Family Guy sees Joe Swanson resemble his voice actor, Patrick Warburton.
  • Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous has most of the main cast members resemble their voice actors, or in the case of Dr. Wu, resembling his original actor from the films.

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