Tropescilloscope: Expy

This character was deliberately crafted to be very similar to another character in a different work. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Naked People Are Funny Groin Attack Establishing Character Moment Early Installment Weirdness All Men Are Perverts Asshole Victim Big-Bad Ensemble Adaptational Heroism I'm a Humanitarian Room Full of Crazy Genre Savvy Reality Has No Subtitles Trailers Always Spoil Curb-Stomp Battle Domestic Abuse Disney Villain Death Badass Boast Big Fancy House Smug Snake Expy Didn't Think This Through Vomit Discretion Shot Authority Equals Asskicking The Cameo Bad Boss Spiritual Successor Wounded Gazelle Gambit Smoking Is Cool Shell-Shocked Veteran Red Shirt Hollywood Law Attempted Rape Serial Killer Deal with the Devil Exactly What It Says on the Tin Armor-Piercing Question Contrived Coincidence Wrong Genre Savvy Implacable Man Ironic Echo Dramatic Gun Cock Black Comedy Knife Nut The Mole Parental Abandonment Drill Sergeant Nasty Police are Useless Bald of Evil Insane Troll Logic Genre Throwback Based on a True Story Rich Bitch Unresolved Sexual Tension Retirony Composite Character Toplessness from the Back Bowdlerise Made of Explodium As Himself Immune to Bullets Diabolus ex Machina Kick the Son of a Bitch And the Adventure Continues Overly Long Gag Silence Is Golden Dark and Troubled Past Brutal Honesty Decoy Protagonist You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Reasonable Authority Figure "Well Done, Son!" 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They Really Do Love Each Other Documentary Straight Gay Science Fiction Films Bad "Bad Acting" The Oner Film Noir A God Am I Canadian Movies Not So Above It All Almost Kiss Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Ambiguous Ending Crazy Jealous Guy Camera Abuse Star-Crossed Lovers Advertised Extra Japanese Films Book-Ends Rule of Three Animal Motifs Eiffel Tower Effect Mercy Kill Cloudcuckoolander Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Lancer Film Series Catch-Phrase Fire-Forged Friends Dramatic Irony The Musical Manipulative Bastard Green-Eyed Monster Took a Level in Badass Affectionate Parody Suspiciously Specific Denial Leaning on the Fourth Wall Jerk Jock Hollywood Darkness Hoist by His Own Petard Be Careful What You Wish For Hope Spot Madness Mantra Jerkass Has a Point Evil Plan Creepy Child Slasher Smile Dark Action Girl Evil Is Hammy Antagonist Title Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Cool Old Lady Facial Horror The '80s Parental Substitute Redshirt Army Informed Ability Continuity Nod The Load Age Lift Corrupt Corporate Executive Heroic Sacrifice Cat Scare Drowning My Sorrows Mad Scientist Oh, Crap! The Dog Bites Back Setting Update Crucified Hero Shot Killed Mid-Sentence Defiant to the End What the Hell, Hero? Chekhov's Gun Mugging the Monster Curse Cut Short Insistent Terminology An Arm and a Leg Television Movie Index Rule of Symbolism Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Bury Your Gays Chekhov's Skill Half the Man He Used to Be Make It Look Like an Accident Dogged Nice Guy Destination Defenestration In the Back Sequel Hook Bound and Gagged Video Credits Face Death with Dignity Whole Plot Reference Brick Joke Dirty Cop Artistic License – Biology Heterosexual Life-Partners Manchild Improvised Weapon Dutch Angle Meaningful Background Event Deconstruction Creator Cameo Mundane Made Awesome Pyrrhic Victory Faking the Dead It's Personal Take That! Works Set in World War II Never Found the Body What You Are in the Dark Historical-Domain Character Unusually Uninteresting Sight Stealth Hi/Bye The Smurfette Principle Better to Die than Be Killed The X of Y Male Frontal Nudity Anguished Declaration of Love Logo Joke Body Horror Villain with Good Publicity Karmic Death Real Life Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Hell Is That Noise Stylistic Suck Anti-Villain Action Survivor Improbable Weapon User Historical Hero Upgrade Break the Haughty Cat Fight Knight Templar Cassandra Truth Naïve Newcomer Bloodless Carnage Shout-Out Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Taking You with Me Disproportionate Retribution Self-Deprecation Accidental Misnaming The Place Romantic Comedy Dirty Coward Never My Fault Beard of Evil Disguised in Drag Black Best Friend From Bad to Worse The Atoner War Is Hell Mystery and Detective Films Stalker with a Crush Scary Black Man Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Punny Name Bond One-Liner Fun with Acronyms Abhorrent Admirer Manic Pixie Dream Girl Aluminum Christmas Trees Wicked Cultured Canon Foreigner Refuge in Audacity Only a Flesh Wound Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Mistaken for Gay The Voiceless Gainax Ending You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Extremely Short Timespan Plucky Comic Relief Silent Movie Epic Fail Important Haircut More Dakka "Awesome McCool" Name Gilligan Cut Closed Circle Married to the Job The Bad Guy Wins "The Reason You Suck" Speech Honor Before Reason Betty and Veronica Despair Event Horizon Our Zombies Are Different Car Fu Auto Erotica Shipper on Deck Evil-Detecting Dog Blackmail Sports Stories Irony Black Dude Dies First After the End Vitriolic Best Buds Parental Incest Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Tagline Big Bad Country Matters No-Sell Anyone Can Die Even Evil Has Loved Ones Dwindling Party No Name Given She's Got Legs Beware the Nice Ones Distracted by the Sexy Action Prologue Red Herring Cain and Abel Evil vs. Evil As the Good Book Says... Obstructive Bureaucrat Ominous Latin Chanting The End... Or Is It? Pragmatic Villainy The Ace Neck Snap Rousing Speech Bullying a Dragon Dressing as the Enemy Hair-Trigger Temper Grievous Bottley Harm Adorkable Heel–Face Turn Race Lift Chekhov's Gunman Aside Glance Downer Ending Obfuscating Stupidity Bar Brawl Determinator Motor Mouth Victoria's Secret Compartment Driven to Suicide Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Affably Evil Took a Level in Jerkass Woman in White Gory Discretion Shot Disney Death Australian Movies Neck Lift He Who Fights Monsters Horror Films Everyone Has Standards Ambiguously Gay Laser-Guided Karma Small Name, Big Ego Foregone Conclusion Peek-a-Boo Corpse Guile Hero The Sociopath Eldritch Abomination Brainless Beauty Combat Pragmatist Arch-Enemy Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The Hero Totally Radical Daddy's Girl How We Got Here Villain Opening Scene The Faceless Police Brutality Catapult Nightmare Berserk Button German Films All There in the Script Determinator aka: The Determinator Death Seeker Zombie Stories Offscreen Moment of Awesome Villain Protagonist Only in It for the Money Final Girl Does Not Like Shoes Mr. Fanservice Ax-Crazy Air-Vent Passageway Chewing the Scenery Did Not Get the Girl Eureka Moment Framing Device Intergenerational Friendship Captain Obvious Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Big Brother Instinct Red Right Hand Paper-Thin Disguise Drives Like Crazy Same Language Dub All for Nothing Not So Different Butt-Monkey Ship Tease Badass Normal Scare Chord Danny Peary Cult Movies List "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Would Hurt a Child Fatal Family Photo Depraved Bisexual Not Even Bothering with the Accent Nice Hat Cool Guns Light Is Not Good Token Minority Adaptation Expansion Large Ham Anachronism Stew Older Than They Look Enemy Mine Politically Incorrect Villain The '50s Death Glare Artistic License – Physics Dying Moment of Awesome Children Are Innocent Fanservice Extra Meaningful Echo Gender Flip Time Skip Handicapped Badass The Hero Dies Ambiguous Disorder Crapsack World Covers Always Lie Unusual Euphemism Well-Intentioned Extremist Obviously Evil Famous Last Words Papa Wolf Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Meet Cute Word of God Dissonant Serenity timeperiod BFG Expository Hairstyle Change Malevolent Masked Men Leitmotif Epic Movie Training Montage It Can Think Dual Wielding Evil Counterpart Roaring Rampage of Revenge Kids Are Cruel Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Fanservice folderlabel Novelization There Is No Kill Like Overkill Pretty in Mink Pragmatic Adaptation The Chessmaster Mind Screw Up to Eleven Jerkass Blatant Lies Worthy Opponent Wretched Hive Big Damn Heroes Corpsing Empathic Environment Spared by the Adaptation In Name Only Sanity Slippage O.O.C. Is Serious Business Intrepid Reporter Department of Redundancy Department Bottomless Magazines Darkest Hour Faux Affably Evil Not What It Looks Like Big Bad Duumvirate Big "NO!" Thriller I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Failed a Spot Check The Quiet One Sassy Black Woman NO INDOOR VOICE The Casanova Stealth Pun Those Two Bad Guys '80s Hair Credits Gag Freeze-Frame Bonus Amusing Injuries Amoral Attorney Animated Credits Opening Death by Irony Adaptational Badass Moment Killer No Ending Camp Gay Daylight Horror Homage Italian Films Hero Antagonist Even Evil Has Standards Bloody Hilarious Horror Comedy Heel Realization Kill It with Fire Precision F-Strike Broken Aesop Our Vampires Are Different Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Death by Sex Translation Convention My Beloved Smother Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Conspicuous CG Happily Married B-Movie Dark Is Not Evil Film Noir Index As Long as It Sounds Foreign Rule of Funny Interrupted Suicide Love Triangle Anachronic Order Spiteful Spit Hidden Depths Fantastic Racism Military and Warfare Films Artistic License – Military Product Placement The Stoic Damsel in Distress Cool Shades Overprotective Dad Crazy-Prepared Re-Cut Kubrick Stare Heroes Want Redheads Extreme Doormat Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Lighter and Softer Captain Ersatz Alliterative Name Boom, Headshot! Hero of Another Story Creative Closing Credits A Date with Rosie Palms Mood Whiplash Becoming the Mask Historical Villain Upgrade All Just a Dream Blood Knight Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Say My Name Soundtrack Dissonance Not So Stoic Show Within a Show Outrun the Fireball Line-of-Sight Name Race Against the Clock Karma Houdini The Smart Guy Shoot the Shaggy Dog Villain Song Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Cold-Blooded Torture Sir Swears-a-Lot Black Comedy Rape Reckless Gun Usage Defrosting Ice Queen Major Injury Underreaction Flipping the Bird Suspiciously Similar Substitute Lampshade Hanging Bait-and-Switch The Reveal Throwing Your Sword Always Works Villain Ball Drugs Are Bad Insult Backfire Super Strength The Ditz Psychopathic Manchild In Medias Res Playing Gertrude The Power of Love I Have Your Wife Pet the Dog Heroic BSoD Apocalypse How Taking the Bullet Fate Worse than Death Instant Death Bullet N-Word Privileges Pay Evil unto Evil Hypocrite Character Development Ms. Fanservice Badass Longcoat Chase Scene Those Two Guys "Shaggy Dog" Story The Lost Lenore Bittersweet Ending Easily Forgiven Five-Man Band Jitter Cam Big Eater Fatal Flaw Brother–Sister Incest Only Known by Their Nickname Names to Run Away from Really Fast Frame-Up Four-Temperament Ensemble Hypocritical Humor Red Oni, Blue Oni Get Out! What Happened to the Mouse? Put on a Bus Arc Words Psychological Thriller Psycho for Hire Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Bloodier and Gorier Mexican Standoff Adaptational Villainy A Father to His Men Darker and Edgier Stepford Smiler La Résistance Protagonist Title Loophole Abuse Fiery Redhead The Un-Reveal Woman Scorned Title Drop Twist Ending Dropped a Bridge on Him Let's Get Dangerous! Unreliable Narrator Romantic False Lead Sci-Fi Horror Femme Fatale Soft Glass French Films Really Gets Around Good Is Not Nice Tranquil Fury Shower Scene Agony of the Feet I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Break the Cutie Hong Kong Films Gone Horribly Right Adaptational Attractiveness Sole Survivor Martial Arts Movie Bare Your Midriff Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Suddenly SHOUTING! Public Domain Feature Films The Alleged Car Adaptation Distillation Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Freudian Excuse Action Genre Monumental Damage Revenge Bring My Brown Pants Unwitting Instigator of Doom Eyepatch of Power Dumb Blonde You Killed My Father Eye Scream I Did What I Had to Do Rule of Cool Calling the Old Man Out Fake Shemp Noodle Incident May–December Romance The '90s Jump Scare From Nobody to Nightmare Broken Pedestal The '60s Meaningful Name Adults Are Useless Chiaroscuro Laughing Mad Sequel Escalation Funny Foreigner An Axe to Grind Kick the Dog It's All About Me Fingore Serious Business Gratuitous English One-Man Army One-Word Title Leave the Camera Running Evil Laugh Adaptation Name Change Bond Villain Stupidity Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Stuff Blowing Up Greater-Scope Villain The Ghost Actually Pretty Funny Casting Gag Demoted to Extra The Remake Mr. Exposition Recycled IN SPACE! Friend to All Children Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Dirty Old Man Bi the Way Dark Reprise Real Life Writes the Plot Developing Doomed Characters Gorn Tap on the Head Man on Fire Accidental Murder Fourth Date Marriage Deadpan Snarker Badass in a Nice Suit Exact Words Parental Neglect Adaptation Dye-Job Non-Indicative Name Bilingual Bonus Narrator Early-Bird Cameo Beauty Is Never Tarnished Russian Films Deus ex Machina I Need a Freaking Drink My Greatest Failure Card-Carrying Villain Not Quite Dead Girl-on-Girl Is Hot