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toys

Tropes:

• Ability Over Appearance
• Absentee Actor
• Acting for Two
  • Backup Twin
• Action Hero Babysitter
• Actor Allusion
• Actor Existence Limbo
• Actor-Role Confusion
• Actor Swap
  • Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome
  • The Nth Doctor
  • The Other Darrin
    • Flashback With The Other Darrin
  • The Other Marty
  • The Pete Best
  • Timeshifted Actor
• Adaptational Sexuality
• Advertised Extra
• Affirmative Action Girl
• Age Lift
• All Star Cast
• Amateur Cast
• And You Were There
• The Artifact
• Ascended Extra
  • Descended Creator
  • Demoted to Extra
• As Himself
• Autobiographical Role
• Awesome, Dear Boy
• Big Bra to Fill
• Billing Displacement
• Bit Character
• Breakout Character
• But I Play One on TV
• But Not Too Black
• But Not Too White
• But You Were There, and You, and You
• The Cameo
  • Creator Cameo
  • Death by Cameo
  • Insert Cameo
  • Newscaster Cameo
  • Real Person Cameo
  • Remake Cameo
• Cant Unhear It
• Cast as a Mask
• Cast Full Of Writers
• Cast Incest
• Casting Gag
• Cast of Snowflakes
• The Cast Showoff
• Cast Speciation
• Cast The Expert
• Celebrity Paradox
• Celebrity Star
• Celebrity Toons
• Character Aged with the Actor
• Character Outlives Actor
• The Character Died with Him
• Character Magnetic Team
• Chronically Killed Actor
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
• Common Eye Colors
• Composite Character
• Cousin Oliver
• Cross-Dressing Voices
• Crosscast Role
• The Danza
• Dawson Casting
  • Three Month Old Newborn
• Deleted Role
• Designated Protagonist Syndrome
• Disabled Character, Disabled Actor
• Dyeing for Your Art
• Economy Cast
• Ensemble Darkhorse
• Ethnic Menial Labor
  • Chinese Laborer
  • Chinese Launderer
• Fake Nationality
  • Fake American
  • Fake Brit
  • Fake Irish
  • Lzherusskie (Fake Russian)
  • Fake Mixed Race
  • Not Even Bothering with the Accent
  • Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
• Fake Shemp
• Final Season Casting
• Full Circle Portraying
• Funny Character, Boring Actor
• Gender is No Object
• Gibbering Genius
• Give Geeks a Chance
• God Created Canon Foreigner
• Ham-to-Ham Combat
• The Heavy
• Hey, It's That Guy!
• Hey, It's That Voice!
• Hollywood Genetics
• Hollywood Homely
• Hollywood Old
• Hypothetical Casting
• I Am Not Leonard Nimoy
• I Am Not Spock
• I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine
• Identical Grandson
• Incestuous Casting
• Intellectual Animal
• Irony as She Is Cast
• Lady Mondegreen
• Last Episode New Character
• Leno Device
• A Little Help From My Friends
• Loads and Loads of Roles
• Long Bus Trip
• Making Use of the Twin
• Mandatory Line
• Mean Character, Nice Actor
• Meta Casting
• Minimalist Cast
• Money, Dear Boy
• Must Have Lots Of Free Time
• My Grandson Myself
• Narrowed It Down To The Guy I Recognize
• Nice Character, Mean Actor
• Non Actor Cast
• Non-Actor Vehicle
• Non-Identical Twins
• Not Allowed to Grow Up
• Not Quite Starring
• Not So Small Role
• One-Scene Wonder
• One Shot Character
• Only So Many Equity Members
• Playing Gertrude
• Polly Wants A Microphone
• Production Posse
• Promotion to Opening Titles
• Poor Man's Substitute
• Race Lift
• Real-Life Relative
  • Couple Bomb
• Recurring Character (Recurrer)
• Red Herring Shirt
• Regular Character
• Required Spinoff Crossover
• Remember the New Guy
• Retroactive Recognition
• Revolving Door Casting
• Role Association
• Same Character, But Different
• Second Episode Introduction
• Separated At Birth Casting
• Serkis Folk
• Sesame Street Cred
• Shoo Out The New Guy
• Significant Double Casting
• Small Role Big Impact
• The Smurfette Principle
• So My Kids Can Watch
• Special Guest
  • Stunt Casting
• Spinoff Sendoff
• Stage Names
• Starring Special Effects
• Stunt Casting
• Suddenly Ethnicity
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute
• Talking to Himself
• Temporary Substitute
• Those Two Actors
• Transplant
• TV Teen
• Two Girls to a Team
• Type Casting
  • Playing Against Type
  • Pigeonholed Voice Actor
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
• Uncanny Family Resemblance
• Vacation Dear Boy
• Vocal Evolution
• Welcome to the Liberator
• Written-In Infirmity
• What The Hell, Casting Agency?
• You Have To Have Jews
• You Look Familiar
• You Might Remember Me From
• Younger and Hipper