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