diff --git a/spacy/tokens/doc.pyi b/spacy/tokens/doc.pyi
index f0b68862c..62a20279c 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/doc.pyi
+++ b/spacy/tokens/doc.pyi
@@ -28,8 +28,12 @@ from .underscore import Underscore
 
 DOCBIN_ALL_ATTRS: Tuple[str, ...]
 
-class DocMethod(Protocol):
-    def __call__(self: Doc, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> Any: ...  # type: ignore[misc]
+DocMethod = Union[
+ Callable[[Doc], Any],
+ Callable[[Doc, Any], Any],
+ Callable[[Doc, Any, Any], Any],
+ Callable[[Doc, Any, Any, Any], Any],
+]
 
 class Doc:
     vocab: Vocab
diff --git a/spacy/tokens/span.pyi b/spacy/tokens/span.pyi
index b982eb810..1714f732d 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/span.pyi
+++ b/spacy/tokens/span.pyi
@@ -8,8 +8,12 @@ from .doc import Doc
 from .token import Token
 from .underscore import Underscore
 
-class SpanMethod(Protocol):
-    def __call__(self: Span, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> Any: ...  # type: ignore[misc]
+SpanMethod = Union[
+ Callable[[Span], Any],
+ Callable[[Span, Any], Any],
+ Callable[[Span, Any, Any], Any],
+ Callable[[Span, Any, Any, Any], Any],
+]
 
 class Span:
     @classmethod
diff --git a/spacy/tokens/token.pyi b/spacy/tokens/token.pyi
index 435ace527..4bc41d517 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/token.pyi
+++ b/spacy/tokens/token.pyi
@@ -9,8 +9,12 @@ from .morphanalysis import MorphAnalysis
 from .span import Span
 from .underscore import Underscore
 
-class TokenMethod(Protocol):
-    def __call__(self: Token, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> Any: ...  # type: ignore[misc]
+TokenMethod = Union[
+ Callable[[Token], Any],
+ Callable[[Token, Any], Any],
+ Callable[[Token, Any, Any], Any],
+ Callable[[Token, Any, Any, Any], Any],
+]
 
 class Token:
     i: int