Tropescilloscope: Suspiciously Similar Substitute

Replacement character is almost exactly like their predecessor. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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