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** In the same way, MarlonBrando reprised his role as Jor-El in ''Film/{{Superman}} Returns'' from beyond the grave, making use of recycled and unused footage from the Richard Donner movies.

* In the "Can't Buy Me Love" sequence in ''[=~A Hard Day's Night~=], the audience doesn't see John Lennon much, because he was also promoting his book "In His Own Write" during production.

* In the "Can't Buy Me Love" sequence in ''[=~A Hard Day's Night~=], the audience doesn't see John Lennon much, because he was promoting his book "In His Own Write".

* Hollywood screen legends such as Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman were "Shemped" in the movie ''DeadMenDontWearPlaid''.

* When Issac Hayes left ''SouthPark'', it took the creators completely by surprise. The solution: blatantly copy and paste lines from earlier episodes, [[ManipulativeEditing edit them together in a ham-handed fashion]] and chalk it up to [[RealitySubtext Chef being brainwashed by a cult]].

* Bill in the ''Left4Dead'' campaign "Crash Course" counts. His voice actor was (and still is, apparently) unavailable, so the only lines he has are his generic stock lines. [[spoiler:{{Valve}} then decided it would be easier to just {{McLean|ed}} the character in "The Passing"]]
** Though this is to be subverted in [[spoiler:the upcoming campaign "''The Sacrifice''".]] Bill's voice actor will be back to record lines for the campaign. Ovbiously, [[AndTheFandomRejoiced the Fandom rejoiced.]]
* On a similar note, the ''TeamFortress2'' video "Meet the Spy" uses stock audio for the Engineer, Sniper, and Medic -- the last being especially noteworthy for recycling a completely unrelated DummiedOut line and still sounding completely natural.

* Done with Christopher Reeve's character, who was a victim of AuthorExistenceFailure, and allowed only his wheel chair to be seen. {{Egregious}} as the episodes in question were written some time after Reeve's death.
** Episodes of what? Is this a reference to his role in ''Smallville''?

* After Brandon Lee was [[FatalMethodActing accidentally shot and killed during the filming]] of ''TheCrow'', a stand-in and some clever early digital manipulations were used to finish the film. The film went on to have several sequels, with the titular character conveniently reincarnated as other actors.

** [[BarackObama Obama]] appears in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]", with his face constantly covered and his sole line being stock Obama audio. [[spoiler:This isn't necessary for long, however, as he is transformed into the Master as the rest but two of the human race.]] You can see his face in a few shots and in the episode's accompanying ''[[AllThereIntheManual Doctor Who Confidential]]''... and besides being black, he looks nothing like the real Obama, because he's played by Colin [=McFarlane=].

** In episode 613 ("Kitten with a Whip") Crow (puppeteered by Trace Beaulieu) visits Deep 13, and is silently menaced by Dr. Forrester's hand and lab coat being worn by someone else so Trace Beaulieu could puppeteer. An outtake from the episode feature's Trace's had accidentally popping into frame next to his own stand-in; Trace acknowledges the flub and says "hi, I'm not in this."
** Crow also joins the crowd in Deep 13 for Thanksgiving dinner during a Turkey-Day special, with Trace onscreen Crow was puppeteered by someone else and his voice dubbed in later.

** On multiple occasions the 'bots would FakeShemp themselves as multiple copies of them appeared on-screen together, such as time-travelling Crow meeting his past self, or Servo's penchant for randomly cloning himself.
** In TheMovie, Gypsy was being puppeteered by Patrick Brantseg so Jim Mallon could concentrate on directing. Eventually Brantseg took over the role in the series, this time with his voice as well.

* ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' doubled up their cast's roles often enough that they had to do this occasiopnally when the doubled characters appeared together on-screen.

* Something of an unusual instance is the final appearance of Callipygeas on ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' as only an arm and a voice. This was not because Kevin Murphy was unavailable, but because he had to also play the character of Bobo in the scene in a completely different costume, and in the show's typical fashion the scene was done in one long take.

* After Brandon Lee was [[FatalMethodActing accidentally shot and killed during the filming]] of ''TheCrow'', a stand-in and some clever early digital manipulations were used to finish the film.
** And then, according to [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18659_6-insane-attempts-to-make-movies-starring-dead-movie-stars.html this article]], they somehow made ''a sequel''.
*** That is because the sequel starred a completely different character, it's only tie to the first film is a single character who was in both.

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*** That is because the sequel starred a completely different character, it's only tie to the first film is a single charcter who was in both.

* In the final season of ''{{Angel}}'', when Sarah Michelle Gellar was no longer available for the role of Buffy, a blond stand-in was used and only the back of her head was in the shot.

* Averted in ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' which goes out of its way to bring back actors to further embellish on already existing scenes. A notable recent attempt was when they not only brought back Hiro's LoveIntrest, Charlie, but most of the original cast who played the staff of the diner for a time travel episode.

* Averted in {{The X-Files}} episode "The Unnatural". Recurring character Arthur Dales was set to tell Mulder about the plot of the episode, but actor Darren McGavin was ill. Therefore, Mulder goes to Dales' apartment to find his brother living there...whose name is also Arthur. Perturbed, Mulder questions this. Apparently, they had a sister and a goldfish also named Arthur.

** In the same way, MarlonBrando reprised his role as Jor-El in ''Film/{{Superman}} Returns'' from beyond the grave.

* In ''{{Gladiator}}'' Oliver Reed's character Proximo, was originally supposed to be one of the few to survive to the end, but he died before they shot the final scenes of the movie. The filmmakers had to then kill off his character earlier by using a body double, and filming him from behind as he's stabbed.

* Doctor Claw returns in ''InspectorGadget 2'', played by a different actor. His face is always obscured.
** Though this is also mostly a ShoutOut to the television show, where Claw's face is never seen by the viewers. And given that all the other main characters were recast as well, this trope really doesn't apply here.

** Even worse was that the Lugosi footage wasn't even for the movie; it was just him dicking around in a cape. Wood just wanted to recycle that when he got around to Plan 9, which is why Lugosi only appears in one scene that's just played over and over with no relevance to the actual film.

* When Issac Hayes left ''SouthPark'', it took the creators completely by surprise. The solution: blatantly copy and paste lines from earlier episodes, edit them together in a ham-handed fashion and chalk it up to [[RealitySubtext Chef being brainwashed by a cult]].
** "I specializes in your assholes, children!"

* Chef's final episode in ''SouthPark'' did something like this. Chef's character was the star of the episode even though Isaac Hayes was no longer with the show; it becomes obvious very early that they were simply playing pre-recorded lines from earlier episodes ([[ManipulativeEditing they weren't trying to hide it at all]], probably because [[RuleofFunny it was funny]] and a relevant symptom of Chef's state in the plot.)
** It does get a lot less noticeable when he's out from under the influence, as they start playing entire spoken lines rather than the obviously chopped-up lines.
*** Example: "I wanna make love/ to the children!"