HOT GALLERY: Snakkle Highlights All the Weird Roles on Johnny Depp’s Resume

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Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Edward Scissorhands was the first collaboration between director Tim Burton and the still fresh out of 21 Jump Street Depp. As Edward, the lonely patchwork boy created with scissors for hands, Depp shocked audiences with his wild, leather look and heartfelt performance. Audiences and critics admired Depp for being brave enough to subvert his good looks to truly become Edward Scissorhands.

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Johnny Depp as Ed Wood (1994)

Burton and Depp teamed up for a second time four years later for Ed Wood, the black-and-white ode to the schlock director. For most of the film, Depp plays Wood with pencil-thin mustache and a constant smile that embodies the director’s smarm and enthusiasm. And then it gets weirder when Wood reveals his preference for wearing women’s clothes and wigs. Depp in drag is brilliant… and in case you’re wondering, surprisingly he’s not a very pretty woman.

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Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Depp plays Raoul Duke, a gonzo journalist and drug aficionado based on writing legend Hunter S. Thompson. Depp adopts Thompson’s signature look for the part, including his variety of cloth hats, oversized sunglasses, and burning cigarette constantly hanging from his lips. There’s not much Depp left once the actor gets immersed in all things Hunter.

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Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Bucking the assumption that Johnny would go uber-skinny and awkward for the role of Washington Irving’s iconic pedagogue Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow, the actor surprised audiences by playing Crane as a pretty hot New York City constable. Dressed in the stuffy turn-of-the-century attire of 1799, Depp lets the rest of the cast get showy while he only gives Crane a messy mop of hair as he investigates a rash of gruesome murders in the rural town of Sleepy Hollow, New York.

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Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

When it was announced that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp were remaking the family classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, most people immediately wondered how the actor would stand apart from Gene Wilder’s perfect take on the eccentric candy factory impresario. And then audiences watched Depp reveal himself as Wonka wearing oversized veneers, pasty skin, and a page boy haircut and suddenly there was no question that his Wonka was a very, very different take.

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Johnny Depp as the Voice of Victor Van Dort in Corpse Bride (2005)

Depp voices the stop-animation character of Victor Van Dort in Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride. One look at his character and it’s absolutely no secret that Victor essentially is Depp; he's just a whole lot skinnier and happens to move frame-by-frame.

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Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean (2006)

Johnny Depp made pirates cool again with his swishy, drunken Jack Sparrow character, who is the featured buccaneer in all four Pirates of the Caribbean films. Equal parts beard, braids, and booze, Depp’s Sparrow somehow manages to be sexy and a little bit gross all at once.

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Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd (2007)

Johnny Depp starts Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as the perfectly respectable gentleman Benjamin Barker. But when his wife and child are taken from him and he’s left to rot in prison, Barker comes out reborn as the bitter, white-and-black-haired barber Sweeney Todd. You can see a bit of Barnabas Collins makeup inspiration in Depp’s Todd, especially in the pale skin and dark, recessed eyes.

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Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Johnny goes full psychedelic as the Mad Hatter in Burton’s Alice in Wonderland adaptation. He’s back in a grease-paint white face, but he surrounds it with a wild wig of orange hair and some pretty impressive eye makeup that brings out his creepy clear eyes. It’s only when Depp talks that you get any sense that the actor is actually inside all that visual insanity.

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Johnny Depp as the Voice of Rango (2011)

Depp lends his voice to a different animated character, this time a bug-eyed lizard known as Rango. While a bit (or a lot) of Depp’s physical look is usually incorporated into his animated characters, Rango is one film where there’s not much of Depp in the cowardly lizard aside from his physical movements (which Depp acted out in motion capture). It’s Depp’s most convincing metamorphosis yet!

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Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins in Dark Shadows (2012)

Depp goes full goth as Barnabas Collins, the vampire who doesn’t mean to be bad, in Dark Shadows. His character's got chalky white skin, dark-rimmed eyes, and jet black bangs; Depp’s cheekbones are about the only things that look natural to the man when he’s in full costume.

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Johnny Depp as Tonto in The Lone Ranger (2013)

We’re not sure what the heck to make of this outlandish image of Depp playing sidekick Tonto to Armie Hammer’s Lone Ranger in the upcoming film. What with the dead bird on his head and the war paint on his face, Depp’s either going hard-core authentic or something else…? Unfortunately, judging from the negative response when The Lone Ranger came out in 2013, no one else got it either.