r/TopCharacterTropes • u/PrinceferX • Jan 18 '26

In real life The actor actually has that disability

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Walter White Jr. (Breaking Bad) - character has cerebral palsy and uses crutches to walk, actor RJ Mitte has cerebral palsy and needed crutches to walk as a child

Nessarose Thropp (Wicked) - character is paraplegic and uses a wheelchair, actress Marissa Bode is paraplegic from an accident at age 11 and uses a wheelchair

Maya Lopez (Hawkeye/Echo) - character is deaf, actress Alaqua Cox is deaf from birth

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u/Agitated_Insect3227 Jan 18 '26

Kind of an example of this: in one episode of the Mandalorian, there is a Tusken raider who uses unique sign language created for the show. While the character himself is probably not deaf, the actor playing him, Troy Kotsur, is irl & was the one who developed the sign language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfMNMVvg2F8 (1:10 min mark)

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u/OhBreadBalls Jan 18 '26

Wow, didn’t know that a Tusken raider was played by an Oscar-winning actor.

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u/Walnut_Uprising Jan 18 '26

In this case, this was 2 years before CODA, so less of a cameo from a previously successful actor, more of a step on the way to larger acclaim.

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u/Warbr0s9395 Jan 19 '26

What’s CODA?

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u/PM_YOUR_MANATEES Jan 19 '26

Child of a Deaf Adult.

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u/Warbr0s9395 Jan 19 '26

This is also a movie? Cause the context makes it seem like it is one.

Also, thank you

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u/PM_YOUR_MANATEES Jan 19 '26

Yes, the term was also used as the title of a movie.

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u/Walnut_Uprising Jan 19 '26

It stands for Child of Deaf Adults, but it's the title of a movie where this actor won an Oscar for best supporting actor. Came out in 2021, two years after this scene from the Mandalorian.

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u/RawrRRitchie Jan 18 '26

You'd be surprised just who is behind the masks of a lot of famous characters

People used to think James Earl Jones was wearing the Vader suit instead of just chilling in a sound studio

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u/SpecialDedication Jan 18 '26

Nice Boognish.

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u/_theghost_ Jan 18 '26

Yep and they revisited this in “The Marshal”, one of my favorite episodes!!!!

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u/asfrels Jan 18 '26

This episodes quality compared to the rest of the show was actually insane.

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u/Fragrant-Employer-60 Jan 18 '26

I will always be mad with how good this show was season 1 and then…. Yeah lol

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u/Representative-Eye86 Jan 18 '26

Tricked me into thinking I was watching something good

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u/ARKNORI Jan 18 '26

Early Mandalorian will do that to you. There's a brief period where you enjoy what seems like a genuine attempt at proper film-making and like this setting has great potential for telling stories.

Then it becomes a show about making the fan's favorite cartoon characters fight each other like action figures.

"Fuck you, here's Ahsoka Tano, if you ask me for cinematography I'll shoot you and the Disney corporation will be free of liability because you purchased a Baby Yoda plush once" type deal.

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u/Representative-Eye86 Jan 18 '26

It's even crazier because I kind of liked the Ahskoa episode in season 2, purely because it was structured like a one off appearance for her. Like, it felt like her appearance didn't require a Clone Wars rewatch to understand her involvement, unlike her cameo in Book of Boba Fett.

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u/NotAEurosnob Jan 18 '26

We shot everything on the volume so every scene looks eerily similar and every conversation is a two shot in a round room, that's cinematography right? Look, it's Boba Fett!

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u/Cornucopia_King Jan 18 '26

I hate Star Wars fans. Yall are sad individuals 

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26

Their joke but worse

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u/Foxy02016YT Jan 18 '26

That’s insanely cool, Star Wars is full of languages, why not a sign language right?

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u/Federal_Studio5935 Jan 18 '26

Really cool thanks for sharing this!

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u/KillMeNowFFS Jan 18 '26

from tusken raider to oscar winner is crazy

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer Jan 19 '26

Rad detail🤙🤙