Tropescilloscope: Suspiciously Similar Substitute

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

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