Tropescilloscope: Suspiciously Similar Substitute

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

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