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