Tropescilloscope: Expy

This character was deliberately crafted to be very similar to another character in a different work. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Throwing Your Sword Always Works No Ending Badass in a Nice Suit Last-Name Basis Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun folderlabel Heroes Want Redheads Faking the Dead Very Loosely Based on a True Story Disappeared Dad Chewing the Scenery Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Bad "Bad Acting" Cool Shades Moment Killer Evil-Detecting Dog Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Hero of Another Story Riddle for the Ages Drill Sergeant Nasty Armor-Piercing Question Dogged Nice Guy Twist Ending A Date with Rosie Palms "Shaggy Dog" Story Eiffel Tower Effect Silent Movie The Smart Guy Shout-Out Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Adaptation Dye-Job Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Camp Gay Hope Spot Meaningful Echo 20 Minutes into the Future Does Not Like Shoes La Résistance Informed Ability Anguished Declaration of Love Neck Lift Red Herring Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Straight Gay BFG Demonic Possession Death by Adaptation He Who Fights Monsters The Stoic Advertised Extra Even Evil Has Loved Ones Dwindling Party Bond Villain Stupidity The Chick Chase Scene Bi the Way Male Frontal Nudity Flipping the Bird Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Sequel Hook Love Triangle Improbable Weapon User Wounded Gazelle Gambit Dropped a Bridge on Him Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Ambiguous Ending Politically Incorrect Villain Cool Car Plot Hole Psychopathic Manchild Crazy Jealous Guy Intergenerational Friendship Sanity Slippage Russian Films Pragmatic Villainy Artistic License – Physics Artistic License – Biology Department of Redundancy Department The Remake Author Appeal Children Are Innocent Bloodless Carnage Rule of Three Woman Scorned Badass Grandpa Offscreen Moment of Awesome Authority Equals Asskicking The End... Or Is It? Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Missing Mom Love at First Sight Captain Obvious Early-Bird Cameo Stuff Blowing Up Enemy Mine Light Is Not Good Bury Your Gays Mood Whiplash The Mole "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Five-Man Band Eldritch Abomination Crapsack World World of Ham Christmas Movies Index Black and Gray Morality For Want of a Nail Agony of the Feet She Cleans Up Nicely Jerk with a Heart of Gold Novelization Mundane Made Awesome Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Not Using the "Z" Word Wrong Genre Savvy A Father to His Men Gainax Ending Worthy Opponent Broken Bird Wham Line Blackmail Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Fire-Forged Friends Slasher Smile Bloody Hilarious Red Right Hand Only in It for the Money Heel Realization Police Brutality Break the Haughty Disguised in Drag It's Personal Chiaroscuro Due to the Dead Undying Loyalty Setting Update This Is Gonna Suck Leaning on the Fourth Wall Alas, Poor Villain As the Good Book Says... Anyone Can Die Truth in Television Dark and Troubled Past Storming the Castle Stock Footage Adapted Out Combat Pragmatist And I Must Scream Laughing Mad You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Improbable Aiming Skills Bring My Brown Pants Film Noir Amoral Attorney Fourth Date Marriage Car Fu Eagleland All Men Are Perverts Central Theme Shell-Shocked Veteran Antagonist Title The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Bait-and-Switch Shower Scene Conspicuous CG Batman Gambit Damsel in Distress Villainous Breakdown Interrupted Suicide Obstructive Bureaucrat As Himself Heel–Face Turn The Ace An Aesop The Big Guy Improvised Weapon Mighty Whitey Grievous Bottley Harm Never My Fault Humans Are Bastards Redemption Equals Death Mercy Kill Facial Horror Exact Words Big Fancy House Bolivian Army Ending Gorn Black Best Friend Rule of Cool Lock and Load Montage Henpecked Husband There Is No Kill Like Overkill Even Evil Has Standards From Nobody to Nightmare Actor Allusion Shirtless Scene Mooks The Stoner The Hero Dies One Steve Limit Age Lift Dark Action Girl Friend to All Children Deal with the Devil Action Survivor Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Irony Dies Wide Open Dramedy Easily Forgiven Villain Song Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Parental Neglect Guile Hero Word of God German Films Lampshade Hanging Screw the Money, I Have Rules! British Films Apocalypse How Badass Boast Mr. Exposition Cruel and Unusual Death Names to Run Away from Really Fast Rated M for Manly The Film of the Book Arranged Marriage The Ditz Animated Credits Opening Protagonist Title Vampire Fiction Let's Get Dangerous! Disney Death Get Out! Epic Movie Cat Fight Drugs Are Bad Every Car Is a Pinto Mr. Fanservice Sinister Minister Large Ham The Lost Lenore Properly Paranoid The Dreaded Show Within a Show Adaptation Expansion Driven to Suicide It Will Never Catch On Re-Cut Vitriolic Best Buds Evil Counterpart No Antagonist Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Pretty Little Headshots Lighter and Softer Framing Device The Power of Love Anti-Villain Berserk Button Air-Vent Passageway Abusive Parents Foil Pimped-Out Dress Naïve Newcomer Works Set in World War II Leave the Camera Running Oh, Crap! Made of Iron Same Language Dub War Is Hell Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Vacation Films Match Cut Would Hit a Girl Romantic False Lead Ambiguous Disorder Public Domain Feature Films Death Glare Artistic License – Gun Safety Translation Convention Too Dumb to Live Market-Based Title Idiot Ball Camera Abuse Arch-Enemy Major Injury Underreaction He Knows Too Much Corrupt Corporate Executive Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Ironic Echo Fantasy Films Put on a Bus Time Skip Genre Throwback Book-Ends The Sociopath Non-Indicative Name Karmic Death Cluster F-Bomb Really Gets Around Toplessness from the Back Closed Circle All There in the Script Adult Fear Four-Temperament Ensemble Dull Surprise Butt-Monkey Biopic Body Horror Covers Always Lie The X of Y Eureka Moment Ghost Fiction Deconstruction Dramatic Gun Cock The '50s Parental Substitute O.O.C. Is Serious Business Brother–Sister Incest Early Installment Weirdness Malevolent Masked Men Unwitting Instigator of Doom Boom, Headshot! Instant Death Bullet Made of Explodium Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Black Comedy Asshole Victim Manly Tears Stalker with a Crush Defrosting Ice Queen Disney Villain Death Obfuscating Stupidity Daylight Horror Creepy Child Small Name, Big Ego Male Gaze Outrun the Fireball Pre-Mortem One-Liner Action Prologue Unspoken Plan Guarantee Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Artistic License – Military Japanese Films Scenery Porn Only Sane Man Scary Black Man Naked People Are Funny Rule of Symbolism Mad Scientist Race Lift Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Would Hurt a Child Running Gag Big Damn Heroes Country Matters A.I. Is a Crapshoot Married to the Job Those Wacky Nazis Historical In-Joke Ripped from the Headlines Not So Different Hero Antagonist Television Movie Index Fate Worse than Death Red Shirt Kids Are Cruel Title Drop Soundtrack Dissonance Line-of-Sight Name Insult Backfire Bowdlerise Index of Film Westerns Continuity Nod Training Montage Precision F-Strike Cool Guns Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Mexican Standoff Foreshadowing Evil Cannot Comprehend Good You Killed My Father You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Bottomless Magazines Nice Hat Chekhov's Skill Face–Heel Turn Dutch Angle I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Paper-Thin Disguise Cold-Blooded Torture Ungrateful Bastard Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Important Haircut Slap-Slap-Kiss Ominous Latin Chanting Stealth Pun Cool Old Guy Monumental Damage Double Entendre timeperiod Expository Hairstyle Change Men Are the Expendable Gender Fat Bastard What Happened to the Mouse? Dark Is Not Evil Spell My Name with an "S" Downer Ending Double-Meaning Title Woman in White Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Refuge in Audacity Artistic License – History The Casanova Drives Like Crazy Freudian Excuse Punch-Clock Villain Motor Mouth Offscreen Teleportation Horror Films Chekhov's Gunman Superhero In Medias Res Shoot the Shaggy Dog Obviously Evil Race Against the Clock Poor Communication Kills Heroic BSoD Based on a True Story Red Eyes, Take Warning Papa Wolf Self-Deprecation Destination Defenestration Fish out of Water Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Unusually Uninteresting Sight Greater-Scope Villain Military and Warfare Films Reality Ensues Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Break the Cutie Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Darkest Hour Film Series Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Villain with Good Publicity Spanner in the Works Scare Chord Credits Gag Mugging the Monster Manipulative Bastard Our Vampires Are Different The Great Depression Evil Is Petty Rousing Speech Playing Gertrude Police are Useless Here We Go Again! More Dakka Guns Akimbo Parental Abandonment Character Development Be Careful What You Wish For Rule of Funny Taking the Bullet Hypocritical Humor Bar Brawl Slashed Throat Genre Shift Meaningful Background Event Fatal Family Photo Kill 'em All Cloudcuckoolander Kubrick Stare Gory Discretion Shot Those Two Guys Psychological Thriller Gone Horribly Right Ship Tease Captain Ersatz The Mafia No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Smoking Is Cool The Cameo Sports Stories The Brute Take a Third Option Serious Business Tagline Reality Has No Subtitles Vomit Discretion Shot Badass Longcoat Tap on the Head Badass Bookworm Extreme Doormat Beard of Evil "Awesome McCool" Name The Stinger Not Quite Dead Stylistic Suck Auto Erotica Logo Joke My Beloved Smother Deliberately Monochrome Corpsing Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Spared by the Adaptation May–December Romance Fanservice Extra Only One Name Off-into-the-Distance Ending One-Man Army Pay Evil unto Evil Unreliable Narrator Dying Moment of Awesome Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Rape as Drama Crazy-Prepared Up to Eleven In Name Only Big Brother Instinct Better to Die than Be Killed Manchild A God Am I Back from the Dead Anachronic Order Death Seeker Arc Words Mistaken for Gay Humiliation Conga Funny Foreigner Nothing Is Scarier Hooker with a Heart of Gold I Have Your Wife Contrived Coincidence Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Faux Affably Evil Noodle Incident What You Are in the Dark The Vamp Villain Ball Cat Scare Bloodier and Gorier Groin Attack Random Events Plot Cain and Abel From Bad to Worse All Just a Dream Film Noir Index Victoria's Secret Compartment All There in the Manual The Atoner Didn't Think This Through Redshirt Army Badass Normal Eyepatch of Power Famous Last Words Establishing Character Moment Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Spiritual Successor Cassandra Truth Accidental Misnaming Becoming the Mask Attempted Rape Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Catch-Phrase Totally Radical Coming-of-Age Story Villain Protagonist Hollywood Law Awesome, but Impractical Hate Sink Comically Missing the Point Bald of Evil Chekhov's Gun Developing Doomed Characters Music Stories I Did What I Had to Do Manic Pixie Dream Girl Evil vs. Evil Call-Forward Sacrificial Lion Gratuitous English Hair-Trigger Temper Romantic Comedy Animal Motifs Decoy Protagonist Funny Background Event Ambiguously Gay One-Word Title Epic Fail Beta Couple Creator Cameo How We Got Here The Musical The '60s Determinator The '80s Hidden Depths Darker and Edgier The Quiet One Shown Their Work Meaningful Name Roaring Rampage of Revenge Half the Man He Used to Be Despair Event Horizon Bare Your Midriff Heterosexual Life-Partners Babies Ever After Bunny-Ears Lawyer Yandere Together in Death Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Daddy's Girl Big Bad Sadistic Choice Token Minority Dirty Coward Well-Intentioned Extremist Your Head A-Splode Thriller The Lancer Mind Screw Australian Movies Betty and Veronica Pragmatic Adaptation The Dragon Only Known by Their Nickname Aluminum Christmas Trees Calling the Old Man Out Silence Is Golden Star-Crossed Lovers Dramatic Irony Amusing Injuries The Cavalry Fan Disservice Reckless Gun Usage Sole Survivor Big Eater Demoted to Extra Overprotective Dad Fiery Redhead Real Life Evil Laugh Rewatch Bonus Villain Opening Scene Green-Eyed Monster Bland-Name Product I Need a Freaking Drink Danny Peary Cult Movies List Artistic License – Geography Handicapped Badass Celebrity Paradox Adaptational Heroism Not Even Bothering with the Accent Sealed Evil in a Can It Can Think Action Genre Evil Brit Plucky Comic Relief Off with His Head! Catapult Nightmare Earn Your Happy Ending Defiant to the End The Voiceless The Load Suspiciously Similar Substitute Reasonable Authority Figure The Dog Bites Back Karma Houdini Smug Snake Canadian Movies Blood from the Mouth The Place Neck Snap Blatant Lies Loads and Loads of Characters Taking You with Me Breaking the Fourth Wall The Starscream The '70s "Well Done, Son!" Guy Product Placement Dumb Blonde Death by Sex Artistic License – Law Wham Shot Horror Comedy Older Than They Look Super Strength Pretty in Mink Deliberate Values Dissonance Author Avatar Whole Plot Reference Never Found the Body Bad Boss She's Got Legs Big "NO!" Broken Pedestal Accidental Murder The Alcoholic Dressing as the Enemy Fainting Ass Shove Pet the Dog Took a Level in Badass Retcon Psycho for Hire Genre Savvy Beware the Nice Ones Those Two Bad Guys Creative Closing Credits Crucified Hero Shot Evil Sounds Deep Revenge Cowboy Cop Once More, with Clarity! As Long as It Sounds Foreign Stepford Smiler Casting Gag Blood Knight Shut Up, Hannibal! Zombie Stories Evil Is Hammy Took a Level in Jerkass The Faceless Broken Aesop Wretched Hive The '90s Gilligan Cut Bound and Gagged Retirony Sexy Discretion Shot Disproportionate Retribution NO INDOOR VOICE Determinator aka: The Determinator And Starring Scenery Gorn Drowning My Sorrows Depraved Bisexual Man on Fire Alpha Bitch Chuck Cunningham Syndrome No Celebrities Were Harmed Never Trust a Trailer Have a Gay Old Time Shipper on Deck Final Girl All Girls Want Bad Boys Bavarian Fire Drill Abhorrent Admirer The Reveal Skewed Priorities Face Death with Dignity Costume Porn Fantastic Racism Knife Nut Deus ex Machina I'm a Humanitarian Our Zombies Are Different Anti-Hero Italian Films Morality Pet Domestic Abuse Parental Incest Dissonant Serenity Mystery and Detective Films Extremely Short Timespan The Smurfette Principle Belligerent Sexual Tension Foregone Conclusion Bond One-Liner Beauty Is Never Tarnished Tranquil Fury "The Reason You Suck" Speech Freeze-Frame Bonus Peek-a-Boo Corpse Distracted by the Sexy Adults Are Useless Affably Evil Stealth Hi/Bye Call-Back Alliterative Name Insistent Terminology Take That! Action Girl Empathic Environment Insane Troll Logic It's All About Me Adaptational Villainy Homage Anachronism Stew Award-Bait Song No OSHA Compliance Kick the Son of a Bitch Recycled IN SPACE! Hollywood Darkness Adaptational Attractiveness Say My Name For the Evulz Suspiciously Specific Denial Canon Foreigner The Un-Reveal B-Movie Make It Look Like an Accident Rasputinian Death Hypocrite Annoying Younger Sibling Curb-Stomp Battle Meet Cute Spiteful Spit I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Jitter Cam Not So Above It All Punny Name Your Cheating Heart True Companions Soft Glass Expy Failed a Spot Check Does This Remind You of Anything? Documentary Slasher Movie You Have Failed Me Mama Bear No Name Given Card-Carrying Villain Reality Is Unrealistic Rich Bitch Death of a Child Real Life Writes the Plot Adaptation Distillation Jerkass Loophole Abuse Hoist by His Own Petard And the Adventure Continues Maybe Ever After A Minor Kidroduction Evil Plan Eye Scream Ascended Extra Wicked Cultured Big-Bad Ensemble Fanservice Almost Kiss Fingore Did Not Get the Girl Getting Crap Past the Radar Ax-Crazy Black Comedy Rape Honor Before Reason No-Sell Jerk Jock Everyone Has Standards Composite Character Sequel Escalation Science Fiction Films Room Full of Crazy Martial Arts Movie MacGuffin Killed Mid-Sentence N-Word Privileges French Films Bittersweet Ending Flashback An Axe to Grind All for Nothing Only a Flesh Wound Madness Mantra Trailers Always Spoil Laser-Guided Karma Adaptation Name Change My Greatest Failure Not So Stoic Deadpan Snarker Needs Wiki Magic Love Diabolus ex Machina Retired Badass Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Hero The Bully Hong Kong Films Overly Long Gag Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Serial Killer What the Hell, Hero? Suddenly SHOUTING! Aside Glance The Oner Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The Ghost My God, What Have I Done? '80s Hair Imagine Spot Ms. Fanservice Mythology Gag Unresolved Sexual Tension Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Bad Guy Wins Intrepid Reporter Big Bad Duumvirate Visual Pun Brutal Honesty Implacable Man Fake Shemp Animal Title Index Affectionate Parody Brick Joke Jump Scare Dual Wielding Exactly What It Says on the Tin Adorkable An Arm and a Leg Fun with Acronyms Big Applesauce No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Unusual Euphemism The Chessmaster Black Dude Dies First The Alleged Car Kill It with Fire Hell Is That Noise Bilingual Bonus After the End Sir Swears-a-Lot Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Knight Templar Femme Fatale Dark Reprise Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Historical Hero Upgrade Sci-Fi Horror As You Know Cool Old Lady Vomit Indiscretion Shot In the Back Adaptational Badass Immune to Bullets Red Oni, Blue Oni Video Credits Posthumous Character Grey and Gray Morality Curse Cut Short Historical Villain Upgrade Jerkass Has a Point Sassy Black Woman Fatal Flaw Left the Background Music On Actually Pretty Funny Good Is Not Nice Leitmotif Tempting Fate Frame-Up Pyrrhic Victory Nice Guy Narrator Death by Irony Brainless Beauty Heroic Sacrifice Kick the Dog Gold Digger Not What It Looks Like Happily Married Historical-Domain Character Bullying a Dragon Dirty Old Man Dirty Cop Gender Flip