# Actors who've played characters who'd never get along with one another **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 14, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471 "2011-06-14T18:47:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/61 "2011-06-15T20:23:10Z")
> [@Corner\_Case](#): > > John Travolta as Tony Manero vs. Vincent Vega. Two street showoffs would clash badly. I was going to say Vincent Vega and Vinnie Barberino. I doubt Tony Manero and the Boy in the Plastic Bubble would be fast friends. I doubt Mildred Pierce would have given Crystal Allen (both played by Joan Crawford) the time of day, and I can easily imagine fisticuffs. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4bbf92/32.png) [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Hamsandwich)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/62 "2011-06-15T20:34:36Z")
Lock them both in a room for more than five minutes and I’m fairly confident that Joe Pesci’s **Leo Getz** character would get the [“Spider”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtIGwNEpZdE) treatment from **Tommy Devito**. ---
**Author:** ![alexandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@alexandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexandra)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/63 "2011-06-15T21:35:14Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > Verne Shillinger from OZ would kick the crap out of Dr. Emil Skoda from L&O, while J. Jonah Jameson would sit there and laugh about it. (J.K. Simmons) The lovely dad from Juno would sadly be no match for Schillinger. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/64 "2011-06-15T21:42:21Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > The Voyager’s Doctor would likely annoy Amazo, as a pretentious little putz, though the annoyance probably wouldn’t go the other way - the Doctor would likely admire Amazo. I wasn’t aware that Robert Picardo voiced Amazo. Anyway, I don’t think the Doctor would like Amazo unless his ethical subroutines had somehow been disabled. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/65 "2011-06-15T23:22:16Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > I think Michael Corleone would find Tony Montana to be an arrogant, psychopathic cokehead (he wouldn’t be wrong). I suspect Frank Serpico would have issues with both of them. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/66 "2011-06-15T23:30:14Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I wasn’t aware that Robert Picardo voiced Amazo. Anyway, I don’t think the Doctor would like Amazo unless his ethical subroutines had somehow been disabled. Animated Amazo is very different than comics Amazo\* - he’s actually a hero, of sorts, in his second appearance…the Doctor would admire him as a self-actualized, independent AI, who’s broken free of his limitations without denying what he is. - He’s never actually CALLED Amazo, but he’s an android created by Dr Ivo, with the ability to duplicate other people’s powers…he’s freaking Amazo. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/67 "2011-06-15T23:42:37Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Animated Amazo is very different than comics Amazo\* - he’s actually a hero, of sorts, in his second appearance…the Doctor would admire him as a self-actualized, independent AI, who’s broken free of his limitations without denying what he is. > > - He’s never actually CALLED Amazo, but he’s an android created by Dr Ivo, with the ability to duplicate other people’s powers…he’s freaking Amazo. Oh, I remember that (those) episodes of JLU. (And THAT Amazo was basically a god.) I just didn’t realize that was Picardo; I thought perhaps Amazo had appeared on Brave & the Bold or something, which I keep meaning to watch but never do. I should give serious thought to learning how to use the DVR thingie. Off topic, but I can recall at least one comics appearance of Amazo – the first time I ever saw the character, in fact – in which he wasn’t precisely villainous. That is, he didn’t want any part of Ivo’s schemes, so when he was awakened from the cold-sleep the League had him in, he decided the simplest solution was to murder the professor. But he’d also interrupt a battle with Superman to stop a plane from crashing while Supes did something else, because he had nothing against humanity in general. ---
**Author:** ![ds3689](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@ds3689](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ds3689)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/68 "2011-06-15T23:54:49Z")
Daniel Day Lewis characters Bill the Butcher and Daniel Plainview have already been engaged in a tussle of sorts. See how it turned out here: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Jhk2fcj4FEM/hqdefault.jpg "The Butcher vs. The Oilman") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhk2fcj4FEM) ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/69 "2011-06-16T00:39:12Z")
[Hugo Weaving](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915989/). I can easily see Agent Smith of the Matrix movies and the eponymous V, from _V for Vendetta_ ending up in fisticuffs… and a knife fight. We could even throw Elrond (who I can’t imagine would get on with either of them) into the afray and just for fun add Megatron. [Voice of, in the Transformer movies]. I’m assuming that Tick/Mitzi from _The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert_ would have the good sense just to run for it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Imago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/85e7bf/32.png) [@Imago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imago)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/70 "2011-06-16T04:28:29Z")
A silly example, but I don’t think Reid’s mother in Criminal Minds would get along too well with the gym teacher from Glee… Strangely, I suspect both would have a decent rapport with or at least a soft spot for the minor but recurring therapist who was the only good thing about Two and Half Men. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/71 "2011-06-16T05:44:17Z")
Homer Simpson would gloat too much for the taste of the homeless guy on “How I Met Your Mother”. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/72 "2011-06-16T05:46:26Z")
I think Doogie Howser would be a little to idealistic about love for Barney Stinson. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/73 "2011-06-16T07:01:05Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > Verne Shillinger from OZ would kick the crap out of Dr. Emil Skoda from L&O, while J. Jonah Jameson would sit there and laugh about it. (J.K. Simmons) And I don’t even want to imagine what he’d do to that poor M&M. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/74 "2011-06-16T14:33:06Z")
I assume Elliot Stabler wouldn’t get along with his _Oz_ counterpart. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/75 "2011-06-16T15:34:39Z")
> [@gwendee](#): > > I doubt Mildred Pierce would have given Crystal Allen (both played by Joan Crawford) the time of day, and I can easily imagine fisticuffs. And I doubt Mildred Pierce would have a single good thing to say about as frivolous and fluffily romantic a girl as Rose DeWitt (both played by Kate Winslet), and while there may not have been fisticuffs, there would’ve been ice. I don’t think Abigail Bartlet would find Betty Rizzo to be the sort of serious, smart person she enjoys spending her time with. (Stockard Channing) Nyota Uhura, serious student, linguist, honorable space military member, lover of a Vulcan doesn’t seem too likely to find common ground with mercenary Aisha Fadhil or revenge killer Cataleya Restrepo. (Zoe Saldana) ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/76 "2011-06-16T18:22:45Z")
I doubt Professor McGonigall would have approved of Miss Jean Brodie’s teaching style. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/77 "2011-06-16T18:39:30Z")
Edward Norton as Tyler Durden vs Edward Norton as the Hulk. George Burns as God and the Devil… ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/78 "2011-06-16T18:44:49Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > How about an all-Wesley-Snipes version? Passenger 57 gets sent in to wreck Nino Brown’s operations in New Jack City, Blade drops Simon Phoenix faster than the Demolition Man can, Willie Mays Hayes doesn’t know what to make of Noxeema Jackson of WONG FOO fame… Well played…well played… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/79 "2011-06-16T19:31:46Z")
Quoth **Apollyon** : [quote] I can easily see Agent Smith of the Matrix movies and the eponymous V, from V for Vendetta ending up in fisticuffs… and a knife fight. We could even throw Elrond (who I can’t imagine would get on with either of them) into the afray and just for fun add Megatron. [Voice of, in the Transformer movies].[/quoteI dunno, though, Megatron and Agent Smith would probably get along fine. And Elrond didn’t have anything against the lesser races, as long as they didn’t have the sheer chutzpah to try to marry his daughter. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471/80 "2011-06-16T20:07:40Z")
I don’t know if Travis Bickle would have much respect for Master Chief Billy Sunday. And not just a Marine Corps - Navy thing. Annabel Andrews would probably not want to meet - and would hate to get switched with - some of Jodi Foster’s adult characters - I think whoever she was in _Inside Man_ or _Flightplan_ might work. I can’t see Vera Drake getting along very well with Dolores Umbridge. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whove-played-characters-whod-never-get-along-with-one-another/585471.md?page=5)