Tropescilloscope: Suspiciously Similar Substitute

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

Film Frequency (%) Film Frequency (#)

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