The Danza - TV Tropes. This entry is trivia, which is cool and all, but not a trope. On a work, it goes on the Trivia tab. Make your character's name 'Will Smith'. So I did, and true enough, to this day whenever we hang out .

This shows up in TV a lot in shows designed as a vehicle for an actor's fame. By lending their name to the fictional character, there's some familiarity created already.

The most obvious way to spot this is to see if the title of the show incorporates the lead actor/actress' name, but not always. This seemed to hit its peak in the sitcoms of the late eighties and early nineties. A good majority of sitcoms were based on a stand up comedian's routine (Tim Allen, Roseanne Barr) and many of these comics already were developing fanbases.

Creating the Danza was a way to leverage their fame as a comic into success as an actor. Film Noir Movies Okja (2017). To avoid the annoyance or awkwardness of this character being constantly referred to as . Also sometimes used for token ethnic minority characters, where it seemed that the program's staff were frightened to think up an original name and just used the name of the actor. That's As Himself (if they're a main character) or Special Guest (if they show up for a single episode). Beguiled (2017) The Movie High Quality.

How to differentiate? Is Bob the Actor playing Bob the Actor? Or does he just happen to be playing a character that's also named Bob? The second one is The Danza. See also Name's the Same, and Author Avatar.

• The Danza trope as used in popular culture. A character whose name is clearly taken from the actor/actress portraying them. This shows up in TV a lot in.
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If The Danza is the writer, then it may be Write Who You Know as well as Author Avatar. See this article at IMDB for another list. Furthermore, Watanabe himself appears a few times in both shows with the same character model. It goes further than that, since Shiraishi plays himself (or a version of himself that's only slightly older than Akira) in the Lucky Channel segments.. This is a homage to her real- life biker lifestyle. Daisuke Ono. And Aya Hirano, predictably voiced by Aya Hirano (who also did Konata). And then, in the English dub, was actually voiced by Patricia Ja Lee.

In their case, the characters were named for their actors. The English dub has a coincidental version with Kallen Stadtfeld (played by Karen. Strassman). Detective Wataru Takagi, bears the same name as his voice actor, but other minor police officers bear the surnames of their respective voice actors, for example . Ikeda eventually voices Akai. Furuya eventually voices Tooru Amuro.

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This name turns out to be a fake, and his real name is Rei Furuya, still named after both, Amuro Ray and Toru Furuya. In Gun. Buster, Noriko Takaya was voiced by Noriko Hidaka.

Many of the characters, in fact, were named after people involved in the production. Also, rivals Kati Mannequin and Leesa Kujoh (aka Sumeragi Lee Noriega) are voiced by Cathy Weseluck and Lisa Ann Beley respectively. Tsukasa Hojo intentionally named the character after him in the manga long before the anime version was made. Momoko Saito. This was an intentional ploy on the part of the mangaka which worked out handily when the manga was adapted for an OAV. W & Burn- Up! Excess is voiced by Maya Okamoto.

The parents were probably named after their voice actors, as most of the parents' voices were the same as some of the kids or their Digimon and some of their names were All There in the Manual. Yuko Mizutani (Sora) as Yuko Yagami, Hiroaki Hirata (Narrator) as Hiroaki Ishida, Toshiko Fujita (Taichi) as Toshiko Takenouchi, Masami Kikuchi as Masami Izumi..

Definitely a coincidence though, seeing how the manga came first. Now, if they could have gotten Hikaru Kotobuki from P- Model to (somehow) play the role.. Could possibly have been named after her. This is probably intentional (at least the surname, the name Nana is a pun on the show's title). Blum and voiced by Steve Blum. Similar to the Code Geass examples (in the Japanese version), Blum also plays the supporting (much more important) character Alex Cunningham.

Rather strange choices, until you realize that Shamal is voiced by Ryoka. Yuzuki while Hayate is voiced by Kana. Ueda. The other heroine is a partial match—Yuu Sonoda, played by Yuka Iguchi—so this probably wasn't a coincidence. Funny enough, Hime's seiyuu is also named Megumi. When the AI . The intent is presumably that he's this setting's version of the announcer from The Muppet Show, voiced by the late Jerry Nelson. The character later changed her name to ?

She DID change it back to Julie after saving her sister though. He'd be voiced by Faizon Love. Guido Quaroni as Guido from Cars. Disney originally intended to cast Louis Armstrong for the role until they realized the Unfortunate Implications of casting a black actor as an ape and chose Prima instead, who coincidentally also fit this trope.

The character was originally named Satchmo Cat and intended to be voiced by Louis Armstrong. While her name is not verbally mentioned, it does appear on Lilo's adoption paper for Stitch. Bolt himself is called Bolt in the show, and in a meta example, the movie is named Bolt while the Show Within a Show is also named Bolt. The real name of the singer is Grzegorz Markowski! It's also worth mentioning that the middle name of Kristen Bell, Anna's original voice actress, is Anne. He reprises the role in Young Justice. Notably, in Duck Soup, Chico's character is named Chicolini.

In case you haven't seen it (quite likely) Louie Anderson, Richard Lewis, Richard Belzer, Franklyn Ajaye and Tim Thomerson play lifelong friends and former Boy Scouts called.. Louie, Richard, Belz, Franklyn and Tim. This may not have been just to cash in on the fame of the cast..

The films are clearly not sequels to each other, however — Ray is an actor in one film and a gangster in another, Sadie is with Ray in one film and Jude in the other, and most significantly, Jude dies at the beginning of one film (the film cuts between his funeral and a video being screened at his funeral which Jude made before his death), and is alive and well in the other. These are often anagrams. Some examples: Cin Drallig (Nick Gillard), Roth- Del Masona (Leonard Thomas), Dannl Faytonni (Anthony Daniels), Nicanas Tassu (Nic Anastassiou), Jeremoch Colton (Jeremy Bulloch). An especially notable example is Amy Allen (mostly known for her portrayal of Aayla Secura, a character taken from a comic series), who has three characters she portrayed named after her: Mya Nalle, Yma Nalle, and Lela Mayn. It had been originally intended for them to be full- name Danzas, carrying on the previous film's gimmick of . The change was made so late in the day, however, that the new last names only appear in the credits, and we see the actor's last names on- screen briefly in a police report. Jackie Chan plays either a .

Nice Guy, Miki is played by Miki Lee. Venkman just wants to date, causing him to compromise scientific integrity. Also in that film, we have Paul Dano as Paul Sunday (and as Sunday's twin brother). Charles Hawtrey being the first. Also the character of Michael is played by Michael A. Baldwin in the first, third, and fourth installments.

This single- letter difference might have been to not mislead audiences into thinking that Eve Barrett (Esther Williams) was her sister in Real Life as well as in the movie. Neil Connery in the James Bond parody OK Connery (aka Operation Kid Brother—or to use the title of its Mystery Science Theater 3. Operation Double 0. And yes, the Casting Gag of having Sean's younger brother play an unnamed agent's younger brother is the plot.

In the same film Lois . Once this even bled into the title: The Sin of Harold Diddlebock. The role was written specifically for him, but then again he was friends with the writer before they even started. This might be chalked down to coincidence if not for the fact that Hewlett and director Vincenzo Natali have been good friends since high school — because of this he probably had some input in choosing his character's full name. Randy played by Justin Long. A particularly brave example since he sets himself up as an Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist from the beginning.