Tropescilloscope: Suspiciously Similar Substitute

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

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