Tropescilloscope: Suspiciously Similar Substitute

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

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