Tropescilloscope: Suspiciously Similar Substitute

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

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Redemption Equals Death Anti-Hero Flashback Imagine Spot Male Gaze Fainting Precision F-Strike Punch-Clock Villain Call-Back Accidental Murder You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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It Can Think MacGuffin Yandere Brutal Honesty Our Vampires Are Different Off with His Head! Real Life Sequel Escalation Christmas Movies Index Bilingual Bonus This Is Gonna Suck Ascended Extra Combat Pragmatist Spell My Name with an "S" Evil Plan Does Not Like Shoes Reality Ensues Action Prologue Batman Gambit Drives Like Crazy Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Plot Hole Manic Pixie Dream Girl Auto Erotica Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The Brute Flipping the Bird The Mole Handicapped Badass Adults Are Useless Names to Run Away from Really Fast Shipper on Deck Large Ham Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Slap-Slap-Kiss Ominous Latin Chanting Never My Fault The '70s Nothing Is Scarier Be Careful What You Wish For My God, What Have I Done? Artistic License – History Love at First Sight The Smurfette Principle Blackmail Slasher Smile Punny Name I Have Your Wife Cat Fight Vomit Discretion Shot Adaptation Name Change Vampire Fiction Abhorrent Admirer Jump Scare The End... Or Is It? 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Is a Crapshoot Unresolved Sexual Tension She Cleans Up Nicely Bait-and-Switch Freeze-Frame Bonus Drill Sergeant Nasty Leitmotif Animal Motifs Brick Joke Room Full of Crazy Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Only a Flesh Wound Hero of Another Story Mama Bear Epic Movie Grievous Bottley Harm Deliberate Values Dissonance Grey and Gray Morality Agony of the Feet Made of Explodium Creator Cameo No Antagonist No-Sell Double Entendre Fanservice Extra Dissonant Serenity Ripped from the Headlines Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Overprotective Dad Motor Mouth Beta Couple The Quiet One Annoying Younger Sibling Super Strength Small Name, Big Ego Cruel and Unusual Death Driven to Suicide Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Beauty Is Never Tarnished Arch-Enemy Hong Kong Films Calling the Old Man Out Bolivian Army Ending Establishing Character Moment Evil Sounds Deep Sexy Discretion Shot I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Took a Level in Jerkass He Knows Too Much Villain with Good Publicity Heterosexual Life-Partners Soft Glass Bottomless Magazines What the Hell, Hero? Central Theme Drugs Are Bad The Alcoholic Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Mr. Fanservice Take a Third Option Time Skip Heroic BSoD Fate Worse than Death Blatant Lies Zombie Stories Earn Your Happy Ending Wrong Genre Savvy Bavarian Fire Drill Body Horror Cold-Blooded Torture Badass Bookworm Lock and Load Montage Man on Fire Rich Bitch Everyone Has Standards Decoy Protagonist "The Reason You Suck" Speech Get Out! 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Cat Scare Fake Shemp Jitter Cam Expository Hairstyle Change Pyrrhic Victory Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Unusual Euphemism No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Daylight Horror Foil Greater-Scope Villain Your Head A-Splode Gorn Taking You with Me The Remake Demoted to Extra Jerkass Has a Point Ax-Crazy Those Two Guys Dark Reprise Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Creative Closing Credits Red Right Hand Very Loosely Based on a True Story Arranged Marriage Death Seeker Karmic Death Breaking the Fourth Wall Contrived Coincidence Sinister Minister Military and Warfare Films Adaptational Badass A Date with Rosie Palms Up to Eleven Dropped a Bridge on Him Loads and Loads of Characters Serious Business Anti-Villain Let's Get Dangerous! A God Am I Hero Antagonist Sealed Evil in a Can Here We Go Again! Kick the Dog Eagleland Dirty Old Man Nice Guy Bury Your Gays Informed Ability Reality Has No Subtitles Frame-Up Becoming the Mask Sadistic Choice Bowdlerise One-Word Title Broken Pedestal Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Dumb Blonde Bi the Way There Is No Kill Like Overkill Gold Digger Outrun the Fireball Adaptation Expansion Leaning on the Fourth Wall British Films Sports Stories Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Every Car Is a Pinto Insistent Terminology Homage The '90s Silent Movie Unwitting Instigator of Doom French Films Gilligan Cut Developing Doomed Characters Unspoken Plan Guarantee Exactly What It Says on the Tin Air-Vent Passageway For the Evulz The Alleged Car In Medias Res Defrosting Ice Queen Anachronism Stew Rewatch Bonus Captain Obvious Curse Cut Short Historical In-Joke NO INDOOR VOICE Boom, Headshot! Riddle for the Ages Police are Useless Not So Above It All Costume Porn The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Cool Old Lady Asshole Victim Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil An Arm and a Leg Public Domain Feature Films Epic Fail Neck Lift Romantic Comedy Spiritual Successor Disappeared Dad The Stinger Psycho for Hire Determinator aka: The Determinator Friend to All Children Didn't Think This Through Soundtrack Dissonance After the End Works Set in World War II An Axe to Grind Bald of Evil Credits Gag Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Chekhov's Gun Red Shirt Humans Are Bastards Older Than They Look The Ditz No Ending Jerk with a Heart of Gold Failed a Spot Check Wham Line Malevolent Masked Men Cool Car Ambiguous Disorder Dressing as the Enemy Cloudcuckoolander Hypocrite Fingore Say My Name From Bad to Worse You Killed My Father Affectionate Parody Playing Gertrude Gainax Ending Index of Film Westerns Amoral Attorney Based on a True Story Dirty Cop Shut Up, Hannibal! Show Within a Show And Starring Laughing Mad Heel Realization Guns Akimbo Loophole Abuse Even Evil Has Loved Ones Missing Mom Villain Protagonist Fantasy Films And the Adventure Continues All for Nothing Corrupt Corporate Executive Gender Flip Damsel in Distress Reckless Gun Usage You Have Failed Me The Hero Offscreen Moment of Awesome The Ghost As the Good Book Says... Badass Normal Naïve Newcomer Determinator Cool Old Guy Jerk Jock Paper-Thin Disguise Martial Arts Movie N-Word Privileges Maybe Ever After Kick the Son of a Bitch Empathic Environment Retcon Femme Fatale Knight Templar Fat Bastard Half the Man He Used to Be Gory Discretion Shot Dutch Angle Music Stories Rape as Drama Evil Is Petty Twist Ending Continuity Nod Last-Name Basis Evil Brit Kids Are Cruel Comically Missing the Point Running Gag Big "NO!" Better to Die than Be Killed Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Straight Gay World of Ham The '80s Monumental Damage Pimped-Out Dress The Place Black and Gray Morality War Is Hell Adaptational Heroism Left the Background Music On Irony Chekhov's Gunman Hollywood Law Ambiguously Gay Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Obstructive Bureaucrat Artistic License – Law Victoria's Secret Compartment Woman in White Suspiciously Similar Substitute Naked People Are Funny Due to the Dead Canadian Movies Obviously Evil Artistic License – Biology Double-Meaning Title Extremely Short Timespan Big Damn Heroes Black Dude Dies First Tranquil Fury Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Epilogue Bare Your Midriff Bring My Brown Pants Implacable Man Video Credits It's Personal Manchild Lampshade Hanging Fun with Acronyms Stalker with a Crush Evil Laugh Slasher Movie No OSHA Compliance Fourth Date Marriage Hoist by His Own Petard Hair-Trigger Temper Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Only Known by Their Nickname Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Domestic Abuse Kill It with Fire Protagonist Title Adaptation Dye-Job All There in the Script Laser-Guided Karma Meet Cute Corpsing Sir Swears-a-Lot Dark and Troubled Past Shoot the Shaggy Dog Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? All There in the Manual Not What It Looks Like Idiot Ball Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Those Two Bad Guys Ironic Echo The Dog Bites Back Car Fu Chewing the Scenery Ms. Fanservice Funny Foreigner Rated M for Manly An Aesop Mistaken for Gay La Résistance Knife Nut Back from the Dead Really Gets Around Word of God All Men Are Perverts Training Montage Faking the Dead Hidden Depths Meaningful Background Event Bloodier and Gorier Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique In Name Only True Companions Bad Boss Superhero Evil vs. Evil Spared by the Adaptation Rasputinian Death Break the Cutie Early-Bird Cameo Parental Abandonment Romantic False Lead Biopic Real Life Writes the Plot Fanservice Big Brother Instinct B-Movie The Lancer The Stoner Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Sequel Hook Badass Grandpa Villain Song Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Action Survivor Hate Sink Death of a Child Toplessness from the Back Chekhov's Skill Plucky Comic Relief Broken Bird My Greatest Failure Dogged Nice Guy Diabolus ex Machina Film Noir Scenery Porn Artistic License – Military Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Undying Loyalty Early Installment Weirdness Heroic Sacrifice Match Cut Deus ex Machina Catch-Phrase Book-Ends A Father to His Men Insane Troll Logic The Mafia Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Blood Knight Too Dumb to Live Villain Ball Shown Their Work Final Girl Advertised Extra Exact Words The Chessmaster Bloody Hilarious Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene "Awesome McCool" Name Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Apocalypse How Good Is Not Nice Canon Foreigner One Steve Limit Men Are the Expendable Gender Skewed Priorities