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Occasionally, when two creators are striving to fill the same niche or appeal to the same demographic, one will end up creating characters and stories that bear a more-than-passing resemblance to the other's. For instance, Marvel and DC, being the most prominent producers of superhero comics, have led a sizable rivalry, sometimes friendly, sometimes not. This is sometimes reflected in the creation of characters. You could argue that, given the sheer number of characters in comic books, certain superpowers will overlap. Occasionally a new character, even one who appears for a short time, seems suspiciously similar to another. Usually, this is done as overt parody or homage. If not, it can be seen as one ripping off the other; however, occasionally it happens by pure coincidence, and the characters become fondly remembered equivalents. When the rival creators both fully embrace this trope, it may be hard to sort out the original characters from the Captain Ersatzes. A Sub-Trope of Expy (where a character is based on another character) and Captain Ersatz (which is basically a character with his/her name changed and a few other aspects to distinguish that character from the original). When this happens to TV shows, video games or movies, you have Dueling Shows, Dueling Games and Dueling Movies, or a case of Follow the Leader. Contrast Corrupted Character Copy, when a character is a deliberate Take That! towards another character. Compare Virtuous Character Copy, when a character is a Shout-Out to another character but has a nicer personality. Compare Serial Numbers Filed Off. |
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Two of the playfields in Digital Interactive's Pinball Dreams are direct copies of Physical Pinball Tables from Williams Electronics—"Steel Wheels" is a copy of Bad Cats, while "Nightmare"/"Graveyard" is a copy of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. | |
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All Japan Pro Wrestling's Giant Baba to New Japan Pro-Wrestling's Antonio Inoki, that latter outright encouraging this method of thinking. There is also a Captain New Japan for Marvel's Captain America. And in turn a Captain All Japan and Captain NOAH. | |
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PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale was Sony's crossover fighter equivalent of Nintendo's Super Smash Bros., even acknowledging their inspirations and using the latter game's name as YouTube tags in pre-release videos. Jump Super Stars is another answer to Super Smash Bros., except with manga/anime characters from Shonen Jump. | |
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Metallica's "The Mechanix" (from when Dave Mustaine was in the group) got rewritten as "The Four Horsemen", whilst Mustaine's group Megadeth recorded "The Mechanix" at a faster tempo with a new intro. The similarities didn't stop there—the Mustaine era Metallica's "When Hell Freezes Over" was reworked into "The Call Of Ktulu" by Metallica and later "Hangar 18" by Megadeth. Metallica's "Motorbreath" had very similar riffs to Megadeth's later "FFF". Megadeth's "Go To Hell" and Metallica's "Enter Sandman" both quote "now I lay me down to sleep". Megadeth's "When" is also based on Mustaine-era Metallica's arrangement of Diamond Head's "Am I Evil?". There are numerous other examples, though Metallica took inspiration from Megadeth's return to thrash form since the critical failure of St Anger compared to Megadeth's The System Has Failed. | |
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Nero and Nico could be argued to be this to Yaiba and Ms. Monday from Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z: Both Nero and Yaiba are Contrasting Sequel Protagonists in their respective franchises. Both are more foul-mouthed and temperamental than their predecessors and both fight against them. Devil May Cry 5 also sees Nero gain a cybernetic arm just like Yaiba has. It should be noted that Nero debuted before Yaiba and that while Nero is a hero, Yaiba is a Villain Protagonist. Nico and Ms. Monday are NPC supporting characters in their respective games who serve as sidekicks to the aforementioned Nero and Yaiba respectively. Both are snarky genius scientists who have tattoos, wear glasses and are Ambiguously Bi. Just as Nico designed Nero's cybernetic arm, Ms. Monday rebuilt Yaiba as a cyborg. |
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LEGO Dimensions is another "toys-to-life" game, although unlike the Skylanders and Disney Infinity, you actually have to build the portal yourself, though it still uses NFC note or at least similar technology. | |
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The Battlefield franchise has been around since the early 2000s, but more recently has been aggressively marketed as EA's answer to the Call of Duty franchise, with Medal of Honor presumably there to pick up the slack in odd-numbered years. Likewise, Titanfall was funded by EA as a counterpart to Activision and its Call of Duty franchise. | |
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Obsession Pinball is an obvious attempt to replicate Pinball Dreams, down to including little seams and screws in the playfield pieces. | |
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Raster Blaster is a digital copy of Firepower. | |
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Jaider Lee has been called the Bolivian Shawn Michaels. He's also similar to Hard Gay, except that he's not an exotico, nor a Gorgeous George. | |
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EA in general has been playing up many of its franchises as competitors to to Activision Blizzard's. Besides Battlefield, other counterparts include Rock Band to Guitar Hero for rhythm games, Skate to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater for skating games, and Star Wars: The Old Republic to World of Warcraft for MMOs. Apex Legends was intended to compete in the Battle Royale subgenre but it unintentionally became a competitor with Overwatch since it too is a Hero Shooter. | |
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The similarities between Sakura Kasugano and Shingo Yabuki, both being headband-wearing high schoolers who idolize the main hero and emulate their fighting style, are so pronounced, that with the year and a half gap between their respective debuts, it wouldn't be surprising if Shingo was deliberately designed to be Sakura's Spear Counterpart. | |
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The entire Epic Pinball series for MS-DOS computers is an Alternate Platform Equivalent to the Pinball Dreams series on the Amiga. | |
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Shake it Up to Victorious, right down to Zendaya's rise to superstardom mirroring that of Ariana Grande, and Bella Thorne floundering like Victoria Justice. | |
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Abyss can be considered the NWA-TNA version of Kane and Mankind. | |
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Sting in WCW and Ultimate Warrior in WWF. Both were frequent main event players who often played second bananas to the top guy of their promotion (Ric Flair in WCW and Hulk Hogan in WWF) but held the torch for a period of time. Ultimate Warrior and Sting started off as a tag team before they got into the major leagues, and were well-known for their face paint and overly toned and tanned physiques. Both men kept these traits in their major companies. Sting's initial WCW gimmick was that of a surfer while Ultimate Warrior's orange skin, long hair, and frequent use of the word "dude" implied he was some sort of surfer type. Their early theme songs are even both take offs of "Seek and Destroy" by Metallica. Sting eventually became known more as an agile technical wrestler after being mentored and groomed by Flair while Ultimate Warrior was a power wrestler who would allegedly get tired after doing his trademark entrance of sprinting to the ring. Ultimate Warrior would come to WCW for a short stint and inherited Sting's penchant for gaudy trench coats. They would reunite for a tag team match against Hulk Hogan and Bret Hart making for a great contrast of their styles, such as Sting's more simple red and black clothes and Ultimate Warrior's vaguely military tie-dye attire. After taking on his Crow persona, Sting became this to The Undertaker. Sting can also be considered the equivalent to Shawn Michaels, as they were the two biggest names on each side of the Monday Night Wars that had never at any point worked for the other side. (The other two biggest names would be The Rock and Goldberg, neither of whom were active until the MNW had already started, which also makes them an ACE of the other.) This continued even through Michaels' "retirement", WCW closing, Michaels' return from his "retirement", and Michaels' actual retirement before Sting finally joined WWE in 2014. They finally met in the ring for a few moments at WrestleMania 31 when Michaels interfered on behalf of Triple H during Triple H's match against Sting. |
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Speaking of Nero, Viola from Bayonetta 3 has been heavily compared to him as well. Both are new protagonists with a punk rock personality and design, are cruder and more emotional than their respective predecessors (Dante and Bayonetta), and have a more limited arsenal. They're even both biologically the next generation of the hero's lineage, with Nero being Dante's nephew and Viola being Bayonetta's daughter. | |
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Jeff Hardy had been frequently compared to Teddy Hart (talented, but weird and with Spot Monkey tendencies) even by wrestlers themselves.note Which isn't really fair, while Hardy's drug issues are well documented he's otherwise regarded as a nice guy who when sober is easy to work with. Teddy Hart meanwhile is one of the most hated people in wrestling among his peers and is basically blackballed from the business because there isn't a wrestling company anywhere that doesn't include several people that would punch him in the face as soon as he walked in the door This became oddly prophetic, as Hardy would later make appearances in former Teddy Hart venues ROH and TNA. | |
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SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millennium goes one step further; picking one character (ex. Ryu) will result in you fighting your Alternate Company Equivalent (ex. Kyo) just before the final match. At least one of them is even a case of Distaff Counterpart (Guile and Leona). | |
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Make Mega Man (Classic) into a female witch and you get Magical Doropie by Vic Tokai. Doropie (or Francesca, as she's called in the North American localization, The Krion Conquest) can duck as well as charge her shots before Mega Man could, but by and large, it's very similar run-and-gun gameplay against robotic antagonists. | |
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Dark Cloud was seen as Sony's answer to The Legend of Zelda series when it first came out, as with Killzone and Halo. | |
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Dark Reign is a near equivalent of Command & Conquer, even if both games are very different in several ways. Company of Heroes is analogous to Command & Conquer: Generals at first, though now people are comparing it to Men of War. | |
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Buff Bagwell was WCW's equivalent of Shawn Michaels. His gimmick was his attractiveness to ladies (as expressed in his theme song "Buff Daddy", which like Michaels' "Sexy Boy" is partly sung by him and a female vocalist) and his muscles, and his propensity for red tights. Like Michaels, he'd also experienced Breakup Breakout from his tag team "American Males", where his partner Scotty Riggs faded to obscurity after the team split (like Marty Jannetty). Furthermore, he remained in the higher end of the roster due to his own propensity for backstage meddling and ego. Also like Michaels, he took a few years out from wrestling before returning. Bagwell's ego, however, did get him fired from the WWF as soon as the Invasion happened. Bagwell was a omnipresent feature of mid to late 90s WCW, but is not as well remembered today due to his inability to follow up his career in that company. | |
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iCarly itself can be seen as Nick's response to Hannah Montana. | |
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TNA's Jeff Jarrett has been compared to Triple H due to both of them carrying their respective world titles for a long period of time, and have major influence over their bookings (Jarrett with Vince Russo, Triple H with Stephanie McMahon). As a result, fans sometime refer to Jarrett as "Triple J" (short for "Jackass Jeff Jarret"). | |
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Bratz sort of counts, but their main feature is removable feet, so they can wear different shoes. There's also the Moxie Girlz from the same company. | |
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More so alternate region equivalent, since they were both tied to the National Wrestling Alliance but the original plan for the promotion that came to be known as Ring Warriors was to be an Americanized version of New Japan, though it ended up as something much different. The World Wrestling League has a straighter example in New Boriquén Pro Wrestling. | |
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Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn is essentially Nickelodeon's successor to The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (right down to having Brian Stepanek in a major role), but it also debuted shortly before Disney Channel launched their own show with a lead female character named Dawn: Kirby Buckets. | |
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All these years later, and Capcom and SNK are still doing this. Back in 2000, SNK introduced Vanessa, a single Fiery Redhead mom with noticeable assets who works as an Action Girl secret agent. Fast forward nine years later, and Capcom introduces Crimson Viper... A single Fiery Redhead mom with noticeable assets who works as an Action Girl secret agent. | |
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The King of Fighters XIII roster welcomed squeaky, half-insane Muay Thai asshole Hwa Jai, right after the Super Street Fighter IV roster welcomed squeaky, half-insane Muay Thai asshole Adon. Although Adon was introduced before Hwa, Hwa was already pretty unhinged in his debut in 1991 whereas Adon became so by way of his Street Fighter Alpha redesign in 1995. | |
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The Yuuzhan Vong have a striking similarity to the Borg (i.e. seemingly overwhelming scary dogmatic alien invaders with radically different technology), albeit somewhat inverted at the same time (biotech-using religious zealots who condemn all mechanical technology as "abominations," as opposed to coldly logical all-assimilating cyborgs). | |
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David's Midnight Magic is a digital copy of Black Knight. | |
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Polish sitcom Świat Według Kiepskich (eng. "The World According to Kiepscy", where "kiepski" is name of main family and means "of poor quality/performance") was designed to be Polish equivalent to Married... with Children (to the point the title was referencing Polish title of that show) but with time it both grew in popularity and its episodes became increasingly more bizarre and nonsensical. Having been running since 1999, nowadays it is seen as the Polish live-action equivalent of The Simpsons, with a popular joke being that if you tried to translate a sentence involving the name of the show's bumbling dad, Ferdynand Kiepski, to English, Google Translate would change it to Homer Simpson. | |
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Street Fighter 6 also saw the debut of Manon, a beautiful French grappler who combines elegant movements with grabs and throws. Add to that her prominent bangs and high fashion sense of style, and she comes across like Capcom's answer to Shermie from King of Fighters. | |
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Parodied on The Daily Show. When Jim Cramer went on various NBC shows to defend himself against attacks from Jon Stewart, Stewart countered by inserting himself onto various Viacom shows. This included Dora the Explorer and MTV's Real Life. | |
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The Suite Life of Zack & Cody as a response to Drake & Josh, and by extension, Jessie to iCarly, both of which were vehicles for female stars from the previous show. | |
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Not unlike Donald Duck, Toucan Sam has a trio of identical nephews who go on adventures with him. Even their names — Puey, Susey, and Louis — sound an awful lot like Huey, Dewey, and Louie from the Disney Ducks Comic Universe. | |
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SNK's Silber from Buriki One has been noted to be very similar to Capcom's Akuma, with both characters being gruff, spiky-haired Blood Knights who travel the world in search of strong opponents. They even have similar Badass Back poses. | |
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Originally AAA's La Parka Jr. was the Alternate Company Equivalent of WCW's La Parka (though the latter started in AAA, and thus they owned the mask). When WCW's La Parka joined CMLL, he was forced to become L.A. ParK, Alternate Company Equivalent to the now Jr-lacking La Parka. | |
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Initially known as "Nise Onita" in the year 2000, Rocky Santana eventually became known as the Mexican Onita. That Onita being Atsushi, who founded Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling, the trope namer for Garbage Wrestler. | |
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World War II: As this series is effectively a sequel to The Great War with the same format and host but a different production company, TimeGhost has had to rename some of the reused concepts such as "Out of the Trenches", a series about answering viewer questions, becoming "Out of the Foxholes" and Indy's Chair of Wisdom being replaced by the Chair of Infinite Knowledge. | |
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As an Affectionate Parody of superheroes, Megamind has several equivalents of DC Comics characters. Metro Man is a clear Superman Substitute, with all of Superman's powers and moments of classic Superdickery. Hal Stewart, like Jimmy Olsen, is a red-haired nerdy photographer, although his being given Metro Man's powers after the hero's "death" makes him an equivalent to Superboy. Him turning evil makes him equivalent to Superboy-Prime. Megamind himself is a nod to Brainiac, being another bald alien invader, but he later becomes a sendup to Batman of all characters by becoming a caped, black-clad gadgeteer hero after his Heel–Face Turn. |
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Many of the equivalent characters (Ryu and Ryo, Chun-Li and Mai, Sakura and Yuri, Zangief and Raiden, Sagat and King, etc.) have special pre-fight intros when facing each other in Capcom vs. SNK and Capcom vs. SNK 2. | |
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TGL's (Technical Group Laboratory) Advanced V.G. series has several characters, who drew clear inspiration from Street Fighter and The King of Fighters: Yuka Takeuchi is their tomboy equivalent of Ryu, sharing the same basic moveset and mentality in that she lives to test herself against worthy opponents and strives to learn more about herself as a martial artist. Likewise, she's the series' protagonist. Her best friend, Satomi Yajima, is similar to Ken, being her old sparring partner/rival. In terms of fighting style, however, she's V.G's tomboy equivalent of Kyo Kusanagi instead. She borrows several of his attacks, along with his "Ore no..!" catchphrase, and her moves are even themed named similarly to his. note Kyo's moves translate as different variations of "The 8 Scars" (i.e. "The Rusting 8 Scars" "The 8 Maidens' Flames", etc.), whereas hers translate as "The 8th Maiden", "The Circular 8ths", etc. Tamao Mitsurugi is their version of Sakura, complete with the same backstory: both first saw their heroes on television, are primarily self-taught by emulating their role models' fighting style, and seek to be trained by them. Her moves are also the same as Sakura's, right down to having a short-ranged projectile. While Saki Shinjo is a mashup of Rugal Bernstein, Iori Yagami, and Vice, in terms of character design and personality. Her moveset consists of moves borrowed from each of them including Rugal's Genocide Cutter, Iori's claw swipes and Dark Plume finisher, and Vice's Negative Gain command throw. |
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So Random! appears to have been created not only to continue Sonny with a Chance, but also in order for Disney to create a kid-friendly version of Saturday Night Live (and/or have a counterpart to Nickelodeon's All That. | |
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AJ and Michelle McCool are sort of Distaff Counterparts. Both wear hooded robes to the ring and Michelle began using the Styles Clash as her finisher (renaming it the Faith Breaker), after her heel turn at the end of 2008. Both are also devout Christians in Real Life. | |
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Due to the above, first edition of Pathfinder, a game closely based on rules of Dungeons & dragons 3rd Edition, but made by another company, has an equivalent in Zweihänder, an RPG based on the classic WFRP rules, but made by another company. In both cases the game's success could be seen as largerly thanks to the fans of respective edition of D&D/WFRP who would rather try something similiar than a completely new ruleset. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay share a bit of pararell histories that allows to place few games as each other's equivalents in a context: Both 4th Edition of D&D and 3rd Edition of WFRP were basically completely different rulesets, which put off many fans unwillingly to make such drastic change to the point of almost becoming their respective Franchise Killer. In each case the edition that follwoed - D&D 5e and WFRP 4e - are seen as an Author's Saving Throw that saved the brand and also raised it to a new heigh of financial success. Due to the above, first edition of Pathfinder, a game closely based on rules of Dungeons & dragons 3rd Edition, but made by another company, has an equivalent in Zweihänder, an RPG based on the classic WFRP rules, but made by another company. In both cases the game's success could be seen as largerly thanks to the fans of respective edition of D&D/WFRP who would rather try something similiar than a completely new ruleset. Finally, Lancer is mechanically a Spiritual Successor of D&D 4e, but placed in a science-ficiton setting, while Star Wars: Roleplaying Game took the rules of 3rd Edition WFRP and repurposed them for the Star Wars setting. |
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Most characters from Freedom Force and Freedom Force vs. 3rd Reich are analogues of famous Marvel/DC characters. We have Minuteman (Captain America), the Ant (Spider-Man), Quetzalcoatl (Thor with a little Captain Marvel), Law and Order (Cloak and Dagger), Bullet (The Flash), Tombstone (Ghost Rider + the Punisher+ Deadman) and many others. Villains also fill in this trope with Time Master (Galactus), Pan (Loki), and Blitzkrieg (Leader/Red Skull). Although Time Master is probably closer in look and deed to Kang the Conqueror. Word of God says that Tombstone is their Batman, but his biggest influence seems to be The Spectre. |
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The King of Fighters XIV: Luong's personality, Tae Kwan Do, color motif and stances make her a dead ringer of Juri Han from Street Fighter IV, a character who ironically enough was joked about as being an SNK-style design. | |
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Descendants is the Disney equivalent of Ever After High. They both feature the children of various fairy-tale characters going to high school. Their two leads, Mal and Raven, are the Perky Goth daughters of the most evil villain in the series, but neither are evil like their mother. Descendants started out as a live-action film, unlike Ever After High's animated films, but it has expanded into books and toys like its counterpart series. A year after Descendants came out, Mattel put Ever After High on a "hiatus" to focus on its other properties. | |
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Plastic-bricks-that-click-into-each-other construction toys other than LEGO: Lego actually started as one to Kiddicraft's Interlocking Building Cubes and Self-Locking Building Bricks. It actually led to an out-of-court settlement where Lego paid Kiddicraft £45,000 before eventually purchasing the company outright. Mega Brand's Mega Bloks. Kre-O from Hasbro, including Kre-O versions of other Hasbro properties like Transformers and Dungeons & Dragons, and the license for Star Trek. Character Building, from the UK company Character Options, with licensed sets for Doctor Who, Ben 10, and the British armed forces. Tyco Super Blocks. Not only that, but they could also work with Lego blocks. Back when Nintendo still made toys, they made of line of Lego-like blocks called "N&B Block"note Official English name; the Japanese name was simply "Nintendo Block". They are even referenced in a Mario Zone stage in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. |
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Rival Schools' Roy Bromwell is pretty much Terry Bogard as a Foreign Exchange Student with a grudge against the Japanese thanks to his grandfather's bitter stories about WWII. He borrows several of Terry's attacks, complete with liberal use of Gratuitous English such as "Touchdown Wave" being short-ranged version of Terry's "Power Wave" and "Touchdown Spike" BV being essentially the same as Terry's 'Triple Geyser'/"Overshoot Geyser". | |
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I Am Frankie to Andi Mack. | |
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Willy's Wonderland is more or less the Screen Media Films version of Five Nights at Freddy's as both works have a silent protagonist who works the night shift at a Suck E. Cheese's pizza restaurant with a dark past and has to fight off the hostile animatronics out to kill him. Both works even share the same plot point of a serial killer transferring his soul to an animatronic robot after death. | |
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Though their gameplay styles are very different (almost polar opposites, in fact), the BioShock and Fallout series could be said to be counterparts of each other. Both have a similar style, playing off the culture and sci-fi visions of the future of early to mid-20th century "Golden Age" America while at the same time depicting what a hateful, nasty, paranoid mess it really was, one taking place in the past, the other in a future where said culture reached its logical conclusion; both are sequels or Spiritual Successors to hit computer games from The '90s; both have soundtracks full of classic period music and their Aesops, reflected by their gameplay and story, are mirror opposites of each other, the former being a linear narrative about slavery and the inevitability of fate while the latter is an open world with various different options and Multiple Endings, showing how one person can change history. On a smaller scale, while Fallout: New Vegas's Robert House is mostly based on Real Life industrialist Howard Hughes, Obsidian makes no secret of the fact that he's partially inspired by Andrew Ryan, even giving you an achievement if you kill him with a golf club. Amusingly, they're even both played by actors whose most famous roles were opposite each other on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. | |
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Master of Darkness plays like Sega's own take on a Castlevania game, what with a vampire as the antagonist, collecting power-ups by striking a floating source (masquerade masks instead of candles), sub-weapons with limited ammo, and similar platforming and stair navigation. | |
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Unintentionally, AJ Styles and John Cena. Both made their national television debut in 2002, were the faces of their company, wore colourful attire and had a career degeneration in 2012 and a revival in 2013. | |
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Disney Infinity was note emphasis on "was"; it has since been discontinued a more direct answer to Skylanders with similar gameplay and a similar NFC device for scanning the figures into the game. | |
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Star Trek and Doctor Who have a similar relationship with their monsters, most notably with the Cybermen and The Borg. Star Trek fans sometimes complain that Doctor Who ripped off their ideas for an evil race of cybernetic humans. Doctor Who fans just laugh at this and then ignore them. | |
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Bizaardvark has a premise eerily similar to iCarly, but also one eerie similarity to Victorious, in how it inadvertently gave rise to one of the biggest celebrities of The New '10s in one of its main actors (but who wasn’t the lead). A more contemporary counterpart to a Nickelodeon show could be, Game Shakers, which also revolved around two teenage girls who work at a content creation studio. | |
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One notable example is Hasbro's Maxie. Although Jem predated her, she was primarily music themed, with Jem mainly shown as a singer (although Hasbro had planned to have Jem "branch out" at one point before the toyline was discontinued). Maxie is a much closer equivalent as a girl featured in many different roles (although she is mainly a high school student), though not as many as Barbie. | |
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The recursive example of Iori-Remy-Ash Crimson. Remy, from Street Fighter III, was plainly designed to resemble SNK characters, Iori Yagami in particular, but given charge-based moves to differentiate him/establish him as III's Guile counterpart. Then KOF 2003 saw the debut of Ash Crimson, an effeminate Bishōnen with charge-based moves who is clearly designed to resemble Remy. Both characters are from France as well, adding another parallel. | |
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Arcana Heart has a few blatant ones, as far as movesets go. The most blatant is lead Heart Aino, who has half of Ryu's moveset herself, and the other half on her default Arcana. As of Arcana Heart 3, her moveset (sans arcana) mirrors Ragna the Bloodedge closely enough that the pair has been spotted on a date in an official April Fools crossover (not to mention the former becoming a Guest Fighter in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle). | |
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A completely coincidental example, as they debuted mere weeks from each other: Street Fighter V has G, who was revealed just 20 days before Soulcalibur VI's Azwel. Both are mysterious, highly eccentric, self-styled global leaders obsessed with uniting humanity for their own deranged purposes. Even in terms of gameplay, they have unique styles that are completely unusual within their respective games. They even have similar titles, with G being the "President of Earth" and Azwel being the "Leader of Humanity". | |
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The popularity of the American Girl line of dolls led to a number of imitators such as Target's Our Genration brand of 18-inch dolls made by Battat as well as Walmart's My Life As, both of which are largely compatible with clothes and accessories made for American Girl dolls. Going on a more moral direction, there is also Dolls from Heaven, a faith-based line of American Girl-esque dolls modeled after Catholic saints and biblical figures. | |
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Ben 10. Will Harangue is a news anchor who is clearly based of J. Jonah Jameson for his Irrational Hatred for Ben, except he would try to attack Ben if he could. He also openly supports The Incurseans when they banished Ben from Earth, and still call them heroes when they are clearly there to occupy Earth with an army of giant aliens who will destroy Earth should Ben ever return. | |
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Jerry Lawler has been described as the Ric Flair of Memphis. Similarly, Ray González has been called the Ric Flair of Puerto Rico. | |
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In-universe examples frequently appear in Defunctland, where someone (usually Michael Eisner) tried to create a theme park attraction based on something a competitor had, with varying results. The aforementioned Disney Quest, Astro World, and Disaster Transport were all Alternate Company Equivalents featured in Defunctland episodes. | |
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Nero from Devil May Cry could be considered an ACE to Raiden of the Metal Gear series. Both have white hair, both replaced the original series' hero much to the fandom's ire, both then got Rescued from the Scrappy Heap and became cyborgs. | |
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Tekken's Asuka Kazama and her rival Emilie "Lili" de Rochefort draw frequent comparisons to the above Sakura and her rival from Street Fighter Alpha 3, Karin Kanzuki. Because both rivalries involve two aspirant street fighters who happen to be high school students, with the second party being a wealthy heiress who loses to the first and obsesses over settling the score, only to come to value the other girl's friendship (although Asuka and Lili are currently at the Vitriolic Best Buds stage, with some additional subtext on Lili's part), several fans feel it's more than a coincidence. If Sakura defeats Lili in Street Fighter X Tekken, her win quote even lampshades the similarities between Lili and Karin. | |
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Barbie and the Rockers was Mattel's answer to Hasbro's Jem and the Holograms. Both star hit 80s pop-stars and had animated adaptations. While Jem had a full-length 65-Episode Cartoon, Barbie only received two direct-to-VHS specials. Despite this, it seems like the job worked because Jem was Cut Short due to poor merchandise sales. | |
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New Japan Pro-Wrestling 's Hiroshi Tanahashi has been called the "John Cena of NJPW" by fans. Both are ace babyfaces at the top of card that are booked to be strong, rarely ever putting an opponent over clean. And a strong female fan base, can't forget that. | |
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Stuck in the Middle is widely seen as the counterpart to 100 Things to Do Before High School, namely their respective stars Jenna Ortega and Isabela Merced. Stuck in the Middle has also been called the live action version of The Loud House due to their similar premises. | |
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Fridays, an early 1980s sketch show, was specifically made to be ABC's answer to Saturday Night Live, complete with popular music guests of the day, celebrity hosts (though they were called "special guests"), a Weekend Update-style fake news segment, wacky recurring characters and sketches, a cast of unknown comedy stars (some of which became famous years later, like Larry David, Michael Richards, Melanie Chartoff, Bruce Mahler, and Rich Hall), and humorous sketches that skewered everything from pop culture to the (at the time) current political climate. | |
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Taka Michinoku's success in WWF in 1997 caused WCW to hire Kaz Hayashi in 1998. Both of them had been part of the stable Kai En Tai in Japan, and both wore very similar blue tights. Likely feeling the need for a Japanese Wrestler themselves, ECW hired Yoshihiro Tajiri. Whilst Taka and Tajiri both enjoyed popularity in their respective companies, Kaz was the victim of poor booking in squash matches (as with many in WCW at the time) and only appeared with the WWF once during the invasion era before asking for his release and returning to Japan. | |
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Ninja Gaiden could be seen as Koei Tecmo's answer to Capcom's Devil May Cry: The respective protagonists (Ryu and Dante) are superhuman warriors who fight evil demons. Both posses an Ancestral Weapon (The Dragon Sword for Ryu, the Sparda sword for Dante). Both Ryu and Dante's allies include a superstrong buxom, blonde, demonic woman in black leather (Rachel and Trish, respectively) and a raven-haired human woman dressed in white (Momiji and Lady, respectively). Both Ryu and Dante have an evil relative who sought to transcend humanity and served as the Big Bad in a prequel game (Murai for Ryu, Vergil for Dante). As pointed out in this video, Ninja Gaiden Black and Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening follow very similar story beats. Both are prequel games starring the main hero in his younger years. The hero is descended from a legendary bloodline known for defending humanity from powerful demons. The hero becomes embroiled in the villains' scheme when they send their minions to destroy his home. The villain plots to obtain a legendary sword containing incredible demonic power that will allow them to transcend humanity. Along the way, the hero allies with a female demon hunter who is seeking to kill a relative who became a demonnote In Ryu's case, Rachel and her relative is her sister Alma. In Dante's case, Lady and her relative is her father Arkham. She acts coldly towards the hero, but warms up to him as they work together to defeat the villains. Towards the end, her signature weapon becomes available for the hero to use. The huntress becomes a trusted companion from here on, serving as the odd man out among the hero's playable superhuman alliesnote Rachel is the only playable character in Ninja Gaiden who isn't a ninja while Lady is the only playable character in Devil May Cry who isn't a demon or half-demon. The story ends with a relative of the hero discarding his human companion and obtaining the sword. The hero defeats him with the sword he inherited from his father, ensuring that the sword will never fall into evil hands as his relative falls into darkness. Nero and Nico could be argued to be this to Yaiba and Ms. Monday from Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z: Both Nero and Yaiba are Contrasting Sequel Protagonists in their respective franchises. Both are more foul-mouthed and temperamental than their predecessors and both fight against them. Devil May Cry 5 also sees Nero gain a cybernetic arm just like Yaiba has. It should be noted that Nero debuted before Yaiba and that while Nero is a hero, Yaiba is a Villain Protagonist. Nico and Ms. Monday are NPC supporting characters in their respective games who serve as sidekicks to the aforementioned Nero and Yaiba respectively. Both are snarky genius scientists who have tattoos, wear glasses and are Ambiguously Bi. Just as Nico designed Nero's cybernetic arm, Ms. Monday rebuilt Yaiba as a cyborg. |
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Marvel vs. Capcom 2 introduced Ruby Heart, a universe-hopping female Sky Pirate. The King of Fighters XIV would later include Love Heart, a universe-hopping female sky pirate, though in that case, she actually originated in one of SNK's pachinko games. | |
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Jago from Killer Instinct is the series' equivalent of Street Fighter's Ryu, being a stoic, dedicated warrior with very similar special moves (including a fireball, rising uppercut and advancing kick). He even possesses his own corrupted alter ego, Shadow Jago, who in turn acts as the equivalent to Evil Ryu. | |
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Nickelodeon's twin superhero sitcoms The Thundermans and Henry Danger may have been created in response to Disney XD's success with Lab Rats and Mighty Med. | |
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The Incredibles is often considered the only good Fantastic Four movie: both are about a team of four superheroes who shares a familial bond with each other. Bob, like Ben, has Super-Strength; Helen, like Reed, is a Rubber (Wo)man; and Violet, like Sue, has the combination of Invisibility and force fields. Fragile Speedster Dash is also similar to Johnny in personality, while baby Jack-Jack has Johnny's powers, and several others. Word of God says these were just Personality Powers and the similarities weren't intentional. | |
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When Goldberg made his WCW debut, he was denounced as an Expy of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin due to the fact that he had a bald head, goatee and wore black trunks and boots like Austin. | |
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Ryoko Kanno from Fighter's History and Ryoko Izumo from World Heroes are both cute, teenage female judo practitioners from Japan, and even share the same first name. This is because they were both inspired by Ryoko Tamura (later Ryoko Tani), a young female judoka who was popular in Japan during the early 90's. | |
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Dual Blades and its sequel, Slashers: The Power Battle, by a team of Turkish-based developers note Vivid Image made the first game in 2002 while the latter was made by employees of that now defunct company who created Stun Games as a successor entity is basically an equivalent to SNK's Samurai Shodown series though set in Europe and the Middle East instead of Feudal Japan. They even have a Stance System mechanic called the "power combining system" that is similar to the Samurai Shodown's Slash/Bust system. | |
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The first Aleste came about when Sega asked Compile to develop exclusive software for the Sega Master System console. As such, Aleste is basically Compile's previous NES hit Zanac in all but name (this was at a time where Nintendo held strict anti-competitive clauses that forbade third-party developers from porting their NES games to other systems), being a vertically-scrolling shoot em up with similar weapons, a lot of Cores-and-Turrets Boss and a focus on a adaptative Dynamic Difficulty. Its sequels would soon develop their own identity. | |
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Character Building, from the UK company Character Options, with licensed sets for Doctor Who, Ben 10, and the British armed forces. | |
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The Lost stable in 3CW, led by Sean David and The Age Of The Fall in Ring of Honor, led by Jimmy Jacobs, were purposefully set up to be alternate company equivalents of each other, with The Lost looking to spread across Europe and Age Of The Fall looking to spread across the Americas, or at least the USA to fight its health care system. | |
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On that note, Singularity and BioShock. Both are FPS/RPG's where superpowers are utilized through the left arm, set in crumbling, mutant-haunted wastelands. However, 2K Entertainment's Bioshock is set in a faux-America, and Raven Software's Singularity in an alternate-timeline USSR. Bioshock's powers come from direct Bio-Augmentation of the protagonist himself, and Singularity's come from a Soviet Superscience gizmo called the "Time Manipulation Device," or "TMD" for short. Heck, Singularity can be considered an honourary 'Shock title if you apply the criteria of City (KATORGA-12 Research Facility)-Lighthouse (Barisov/Demichev Reactor)-Man (Adrian Renko) set down in BioShock Infinite. | |
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Some players see the "Tower" table of Ruiner Pinball is Atari's equivalent of Devil's Crush. | |
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Few know that Art of Fighting 3 had done it before either of them (although it lacks the Time Skip factor present in both Garou and SFIII, as well as the aforementioned defensive maneuvers). | |
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Likewise, Pai Chan is highly similar to Street Fighter's Chun-Li, being a beautiful Chinese Kung-Fu practitioner who primarily wears blue and yellow. The two even get some unique interactions in the crossover game Project × Zone, where they're partnered with fellow Anime Chinese Girl Ling Xiaoyu from Tekken. | |
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Forza Motorsport was explicitly designed from the beginning to be Xbox's answer to Sony's Gran Turismo. | |
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Super Sonico of Nitro Plus came to be seen as one for Vocaloid centerpiece Hatsune Miku in the virtual idol department, with the former debuting one year earlier. While they both get the bulk of figurines and other merch, Sonico serves as both a gravure idol and a Girl Group member while Miku tends to be a solo act. | |
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Big Time Rush is essentially Nickelodeon's answer to Jonas LA. Later, Nick tried to promote One Direction as their successor, but they became way too big for them to control. | |
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Finally, Lancer is mechanically a Spiritual Successor of D&D 4e, but placed in a science-ficiton setting, while Star Wars: Roleplaying Game took the rules of 3rd Edition WFRP and repurposed them for the Star Wars setting. | |
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Body Blows: This game (and its sequels) owes its existence due to complaints of Amiga owners in regard to the first port of the original Street Fighter II. Commodore, the company that owned the Amiga brand of computers, decided that rather than going through the hassle of reattempting a better version of that game, they would contract British based developer Team 17 to create their own equivalent fighting game for their Amiga brand of personal computers. In terms of particular characters, Danny and Nik are shotoclones with similar moves to Ryu and Ken, but having designs and backstories more like those of the Bogard brothers and Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia, while Junior and Kossak are equivalents to Balrog and Zangief respectively. Inferno and Warra, introduced in the sequel Body Blows Galactic, are equivalents of Scorpion and Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat. | |
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Happens a lot in the soft drink industry, since everyone wants to be able to round out the standard set of varieties carried in vending machines and affiliated restaurants: cola, lemon-lime, orange, root beer, and whatever the heck Dr Pepper is. (Contrary to popular belief, there are three major companies in the US: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and the guys who make 7-Up and Dr Pepper, whose name has changed at least five times since we were in seventh grade but is currently known as Keurig Dr Pepper.) Cola: Coca-Cola and Pepsi, and also Royal Crown (Keurignote only in the US; the independent RC Global Beverages owns the brand elsewhere). Diet colas: Diet Coke and Coke Zero Sugar; Diet Pepsi, Pepsi Zero Sugar, and Pepsi Max; Diet Rite (Keurignote unlike the situation with RC Cola, Keurig owns this brand worldwide) Dr Pepper-flavored: Dr Pepper (Keurig), Mr. Pibb (Coca-Cola)note Dude didn't even get his degree!, Mr. Green (PepsiCo). Lemon-lime: Sprite (Coca-Cola), 7-Up (Keurig in US, PepsiCo and affiliates elsewhere), and Starry (PepsiCo; replaced Sierra Mist in 2023). Citrus (actually grapefruit): Squirt (Keurig), Fresca (Coca-Cola). The other citrus, which tends to be caffeinated: Mountain Dew (Pepsi), Sun Drop (Keurig), and Mello Yello (Coca-Cola). Orange and usually other fruit flavors: Fanta (Coca-Cola) and Crush/Sunkist (both Keurig); PepsiCo affiliates and vending machines in the US usually carry Sunkist, but outside the US, PepsiCo makes Mirinda in this category. Also Tango (Britvic), but as the company name implies, only really in the UK. Root beer: A&W (Keurig, though they also own Hires and IBCnote Oddly, however, A&W is marketed by Coca-Cola in Asia), Barq's (Coca-Colanote Except in Asia, where they market A&W instead), and Mug (PepsiCo). Outside the realm of carbonated beverages, PepsiCo has Gatorade and Coca-Cola has Powerade; Coca-Cola's NOS energy drink competes with PepsiCo's Rockstar; and for bottled water, Coca-Cola has Dasani (among others) and PepsiCo Aquafina (among others). Third party knock-offs will usually have names that make their origin blatant; for example, Walmart's answer to Dr Pepper is Dr Thunder. (In fact, just about any company or supermarket will have a drink of some sort called "Dr ___________" or "________ Pepper"). |
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Yo-kai Watch World is the Yo-kai Watch version of Pokémon's Pokémon GO. They're both mobile spinoff titles to mon games and they both involve walking to find the monsters in the real world. | |
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Main character Akira is often seen as VF's answer to Ryu, the protagonist of Street Fighter, as both characters are stoic Japanese warriors who wear headbands and white outfits (though Akira's is black in certain entries). VF director Yu Suzuki even acknowledged the strong resemblance in the official Street Fighter 25th anniversary documentary, though he claims he didn't consciously copy Ryu's design. A key difference, however, is that despite looking like Ryu and being his series' mascot, Akira is not a Shotoclone, instead practicing the Chinese martial art Bajiquan. | |
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The Tonight Show has a CBS equivalent in The Late Show. Similarly, CBS's The Late Late Show can be seen as equivalent to NBC's Late Night. | |
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The Kingdom Hearts series introduced Yen Sid as the Big Good and revealed he was a Keyblade Master. They then introduced another Keyblade Master, Master Eraqus, as Square's counterpart to Yen Sid, his name being a corruption of Square backwards (as Yen Sid is Disney backwards) and had him resemble an eastern samurai-archetype as opposed to Yen Sid's western wizard-archetype, and had him resemble Final Fantasy series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. | |
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As far as wrestling style goes, AJ has also been compared to another WWE contracted wrestler, John Morrison. After AJ left TNA and Morrison left WWE, the two would meet in Family Wrestling Entertainment. | |
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The Hollow Knight from the titular Hollow Knight has been compared a lot to a similiar character from a similiar game, Artorias the Abysswalker from Dark Souls: A tragic Fallen Hero that was corrupted by the Big Bad of the story that has a BFS, fights with only one arm, has a strong connection with the darkness and an abyss, was an important warrior of the God-Emperor of light of their kingdom, and despite their glory days are long gone, they are still able to pull a good fight, using some powers of The Corruption too (and ironically, they were tasked of stopping said corruption). All of this can applied to both characters. | |
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Kre-O from Hasbro, including Kre-O versions of other Hasbro properties like Transformers and Dungeons & Dragons, and the license for Star Trek. | |
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Lucia Morgan from the Final Fight and Street Fighter series has been compared to Blaze Fielding from Streets of Rage. Both are young female cops (ex-cop in Blaze's case) who wear revealing outfits and utilize a fighting style that emphasizes kicking. Interestingly, when a fourth Streets of Rage was announced in August 2018 (24 years after the third game was released), Blaze was revealed to have undergone some Costume Evolution, wearing a black version of her SOR1 jacket over the bra-and-skirt look she's favored since SOR2—essentially making the resemblance between her and Lucia even more noticeable. (That is, until Lucia appeared in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition almost a full year later, sporting a more modest redesign emphasizing her status as a Metro City police officer, though her original Final Fight 3 attire is featured as a Nostalgia Costume.) | |
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SNK's Garou: Mark of the Wolves (1999) to Capcom's Street Fighter III (1997-1999). Both are critically praised, well-balanced, highly technical fighters known for pushing the technological capabilities of 2D fighters at the time and their soundtracks. In addition, many of the mainstays from previous games were Put on a Bus (but still made cameos) to emphasize the new roster (III only had Ryu and Ken at first, followed by Akuma in 2nd Impact and Chun-Li in 3rd Strike, while Terry Bogard was the only returning Fatal Fury character in Garou; both games, however, featured analogues to previous fighters). The two games even featured similar defensive concepts: Parrying (Blocking in Japanese) and Just Defending. Both games also happened to feature an Afro-Brazilian martial artist introduced in a "Next Generation" meant to also serve as the representative for the prominent mainstay fighting style: Sean Matsuda (Ansatsuken/"Shotokan") and Marco Rodriguez (Kyokugenryu Karate), respectively. Few know that Art of Fighting 3 had done it before either of them (although it lacks the Time Skip factor present in both Garou and SFIII, as well as the aforementioned defensive maneuvers). |
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