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