Tropescilloscope: Expy

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

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