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