Role Association - Television Tropes & Idioms

Watching anything with a well seasoned cast will have echoes of the actors' previous roles, making the current viewing seem bizarre and humorous. It's Actor Allusion and Hey, It's That Guy!/Hey, It's That Voice! taken to their logical extreme.

Just for fun, twist the cast of a film or series into the screwiest collection of characters.

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Advertising

The Psycho Electro of Organization XIII is the spokesperson for a fast-food restaurant chain.
Abby Sciuto did the voiceover for a Volkswagen ad that featured Skills Taylor.
Gabriel did a Pepsi Max commercial.
The Engineer sells cars!
Apollo Creed knows the sure sign of a good time with Bud Light.
Sgt. Hartman demonstrates why drill sergeants make lousy therapists in a Geico commercial.
Dexter will drive the car he wants to drive...and then kill you.
Janet Weiss (SLUT!) wants you to be healthy by drinking milk.
Wheatley wants to talk to you about mortgages and wonders if squirrels are relevant to the whole thing.
- Cave Johnson here to talk about home insurance.
Johnson's pal Jack McCoy would also like you to have insurance, as would President Palmer.
Playhouse Disney (2001-2007): Jimmy Neutron hosts a preschool block, and his friend Twilight Sparkle gives out the word of the day. The announcer is Miss Grotke.
CLU knows what batteries America trusts.
On the other hand, Chief Zed wants to put a pink, fuzzy, battery-operated bunny out of the picture.
The (other) Avatar and The (astonishingly svelte) Sitter are The Vet and The N00b.

Musicians/Music Videos

A mysterious lady doesn't know why she ditched some guy.
Jailbird Mona wishes her husband knew her love is like wo before he went out at night to find himself.
A chef with a foul-mouthed parrot sings of dangerously genre-savvy sharks.
Verity the fencing instructress and a hapless kidnapper only have four minutes to save the world.
God may or may not know the meaning of Irony...
Renfield wants to know what's he building in there?
Ford Prefect freestyles for a little bit
Darius Parker is very concerned about inner-city children.
Det. Precious Ramatsotwe joins Moby and The Blue Man group at the Grammys.
A lesbian assassin likes her target.
Chef is talkin' about a bad mutha— shut yo mouth!
The late Queen Akasha goes on a journey to the past.
Merry and Mikaela have a very unstable relationship in B Rabbit's "The Way You Lie".
Jim my got out of his wheelchair and started rapping.
Agent Angel is the object of Dido's affection. But not nearly as much as she is his.
Ramona Quimby is bullied in school and has to eat alone... in the bathroom...

Real Life Couples

A Tomb Raider and a Fight Clubber ~~raise will share custody of~~ have many children together
- Said Fight Clubber was married to one of his Friends while the Tomb Raider was married to a guy with a Sling Blade; they left their spouses while trying to kill each other.
Emily Charlton is engaged to Jim.
One of the Three Faces Of Eve was married to Doc Hudson.
Snake Plissken loves Private Benjamin.
Nigel Tufnel loves Laurie Strode.
Janet (SLUT!) is was partners with Andy Dufresne.
- Janet used to be married to a suave suburban vampire and still has his surname.
The Closer is sweet on a high school terrorist.
Carrie is married to Simba; they have three kids.
Lindsey Funke is married to Dory.
Foxxy Cleopatra is married to an American Gangster (okay, not really, but he did make an album dedicated to the film).
Qui Gon-Jinn was married to a divorced mother of twins. Sadly...
Anastasia reportedly left her husband Bill Clinton (in 2011) for Maximus.
Mrs. Turnblad loves Jetstream.
John Maclane used to be married to a fallen Angel; now she's married to one of those two dudes.
Borat is married to Gloria Cleary.
Fred loves Daphne!
Maureen (or is it Mimi?) loves Benny!
Buttercup married a retard.
- Speaking of, Tugg Speedman is married to Marsha Brady.
Mindy McConnell is married to Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
Mr. Conductor (the first one) is married to Anya Amasova.
The Medium is exes with The Punisher.
Mr. and Mrs. Ennis del Mar were divorced.
Agent Jay and Niobe are married with children.
Satine used to be married to Ethan Hunt; now she's married to an Aussie country singer and he's married to Joey.
San and Ashitaka dated.
The broken-up couple became a real broken-up couple.
Alicia Nash married a figment of her husband's imagination.
Max was married to... um, I'm guessing the wheelchair guy?
God (not that one, for once) was engaged to Deadpool; Deadpool is divorcing Black Widow, who's rumored to have had a fling with Harvey Milk.
- God was also in an allegedly inspiring relationship with Uncle Joey.
Velma Kelly married Gordon Gecko, who is a bit older then her father.
Jareth is married to Martia.
Daredevil and Elektra got a happy ending after all!
Basically everyone in Cast Incest.
- Best one is probably The Tenth Doctor becoming engaged to his daughter/clone, who is the real-life daughter of The Fifth Doctor. So she's engaged to the guy who plays her father twice over. Oh, and she's also pregnant with his child/grandchild. Your head can explode now.
Jack Ryan was married to Vickie Vale.
Ginny Weasley's engaged to young Gelert Grindelwald.
The star-crossed older couple in Letters To Juliet already hooked up, broke up, reunited and got married in real life.
Parker is, at the very least, the mother of Earl Hickey's son.
Two crazy artists got hitched about twenty years after they first acted together (awww!). Or if you want to be a bit creepier, that crazy chick in Gothica married Anton Chigurh.
Sibyl Trelawney's marriage to Guilderoy Lockhart was broken up by Bellatrix Lastrange, who later came between an Alien Witch Doll *
she was the inspiration for the last one's looks
and her director.
Sookie married Bill!
Sniper is married to GLaDOS!!
- By extension, he's married to The Announcer (and that voice on the PA in Half-Life 2).
Wolverine is married to an owl (there's a "Late Late Night With Craig Ferguson" Twitter joke in there somewhere).
Sabertooth married 2005 Ann Darrow.
Dexter, sadly, doesn't have to worry about Cast Incest with his foster sister now that they're getting divorced.
Roy Mustang is engaged to Lust.
Eduardo is married to Sarah Dubois. They have two kids.
The Penguin is married to Carla Tortelli.
TRON and Laura Ingalls, until recently.
Evie Carnahan and James Bond got married out of nowhere!
Zack and Aerith are now married!
Heero Yuy and Lana Lang have been in a relationship since 2004 (What kind or whether or not they still are in said relationship is unknown though).
A supermom is married to The Shoveler.

Web Original

Dr Horribles Sing A Long Blog: Doogie Howser, M.D. and Captain Reynolds square off for the love of one of the potential slayers. Howard Wolowitz roots for Doogie and sweats a lot.
Dragon Ball Abridged: Five years after the death of Yusuke Urameshi, the former Kabuto Yakushi joins up with his friends, including his son, the former Konohamaru, to go fight Nesbitt. Later, they all have to join forces to fight David Bowie.

Other

I actually had this as an assignment in a lit class. That teacher was awesome!
- The Faerie Queene: Lady knight Ellen Ripley searches for knight of Justice Jonas "Snake Doc" Blane who walks the earth with his partner T-800. Narration by Captain Picard.
- Voice version: Lady knight [Anime/[Outlaw Star Hilda]] Kusanagi searches for knight of Justice Leroy Gibbs who walks the earth with his partner Centurion Worf. Narration by Professor X.
Fantasmic!: One of the Horned King's henchmen shows off his vivid imagination when suddenly, Minnie Rabbit joins up with Grandma Arbuckle, Wanda Cosma, Bushwhacker Bob, Shere Khan, Eli Pandarus, Alex Welles, Braniac, and Evil-Lyn to turn his dream into a nightmare.

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