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