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