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Captain Ersatz
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The character equivalent of a Bland-Name Product. This character's design is a mix of legal issues and homage. Just as someone who wants to incorporate a Walmart into a story but can't manage the Product Placement might use "Box Mart," a person who wants to write Captain Original, but can't because a rival comic company owns the trademark, will create Captain Ersatz. Sometimes, these characters are used as affectionate Shout Outs to a series or creator that may have inspired them. At other times, they are used as parodies or Take Thats against the original characters they're based on (and possibly the company who owns them). Done when an artist or writer wants to use a character but for whatever reason isn't allowed to at the present time, especially due to uncertainty of ownership, or else certainty that that character is trademarked into someone else's continuity and isn't going to be loaned out. The key difference between this and Expy is that a Captain Ersatz is obviously the same character but with the Serial Numbers Filed Off, while an Expy uses the other character as a starting point before going in their own direction. Also note that a fictional counterpart to a real-life person would be either No Celebrities Were Harmed, No Historical Figures Were Harmed, or a Shout-Out, depending on the intent. A quick glance around TV Tropes will reveal just how often these mistakes are made on this very wiki. A Captain Ersatz character, if they make later appearances, tends to evolve into their own direction; it could become an Expy as a result. Captain Ersatzes are somewhat rare in American parody, as their copyright law allows use of the original characters in parody, which means if they are used in this way, it's usually for a You Wanna Get Sued? gag. They also (usually) aren't found in Fan Fic: that Sailor Earth is a Copy Cat Sue (and they can just outright use a crossover). Sometimes multiple characters will be distilled into one, creating a Composite Character. The same doesn't hold true for Anime & Manga parodies though, which often resort to Captain Ersatzes when the parody character is more than a background cameo. The trope name comes from the German word for "replacement"note As described here and here, Ersatz goods were primarily used during times of war when soldiers or civilians couldn’t acquire the real deal, often making up replacements to try and fulfill the need with varying degrees of success.. For common types of Captain Ersatzes, see Fountain of Expies. A cast made up of Captain Ersatzes counts for Cast of Expies. Compare Alternate Company Equivalent, Lawyer-Friendly Cameo, Brand X, Mockbuster. Contrast Writing Around Trademarks, where the similarity was unplanned and unwanted, and Suspiciously Similar Substitute, who replaces an existing original in the same continuity. See also Self-Plagiarism, when a creator or company does this with an earlier creation of their own, and the musical version, Suspiciously Similar Song. No relation to Captain Obvious, obviously. |
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The characters in Megamind represent various comic book heroes and villains, most notably from Superman. Metro Man is Superman, Megamind is a mixture of Brainiac and Lex Luthor, Roxanne is Lois Lane, and Hal is an incarnation of Jimmy Olsen with some Superboy-Prime thrown in. | |
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In The Adventures of Superboy, a super strong alien woman named Neila, who pursued Superboy romantically, appeared to be an ersatz version of the comics' Maxima. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): The Many which spawn from experiments on King Ghidorah's DNA are directly modeled on the Flood from Halo: a virus which transforms all humans and animals it infects into putrid, zombified monsters, then slowly and forcibly subsumes their minds into a Hive Mind that's driven to propagate the infection. | |
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Super Kid: Inspired by Dragon Ball. | |
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X-Team is an ersatz of X-Men. | |
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Done a number of times in Sluggy Freelance when it decides to parody certain stories, such as Star Trek, Star Wars, and Alien characters in "The Sci-Fi Adventure" or Harry Potter characters in the growing number of "Torg Potter" stories. While on the topic of Sluggy, Fans! brings us, Doctor Irving Riffington. |
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Mass Foundations: Redemption in the Stars has turian Hando Due and batarian Greedro as stand-ins for Han Solo and Greedo. They are encountered due to the Courier's Wild Wasteland trait. | |
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Speaking of The Irate Gamer, one of his recurring characters is Wilkins, who is Wilson from Home Improvement in all but (similar) name. He actually debuted as Wilson in the review of Home Improvement: Power Tool Pursuit!, appropriately enough. | |
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The Muses of Hercules are Captain Ersatzes of the black chorus girls from Menken's earlier, non-animated musical, Little Shop of Horrors. | |
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Heart In Hand started as a Real-Person Fic about famous hockey players Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin having a Secret Relationship but when the fic grew unexpectedly popular outside of the hockey RPF fandom with readers who didn't know that Crosby and Ovechkin were real people, the author changed the characters' names and teams to make it more accessible. It's still quite obvious to hockey-knowledgeable readers just who the Canadian hockey prodigy named "Darryl Colton" and his rambunctious Russian rival named "Aleksey Kuznetsov" really are, however. | |
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Whistler, who appeared in the Season Two two-part finale was supposed to be a main character on the spinoff Angel. Since the actor who played Whistler was unavailable at the time, the very similar character Allen Francis Doyle was created instead. | |
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Chuck: The BuyMore is clearly a Best Buy or Circuit City stand-in. Likewise, the Nerd Herd division of the store spoofs Best Buy's Geek Squad division. | |
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Wonderita is Donna Troy mixed with Robin. | |
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The Tick (2001) replaced Die Fledermaus and American Maid, who were in the animated cartoon but not the original comic book, with Bat Manuel and Captain Liberty. | |
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Equestria: A History Revealed: In an In-Universe example, the Griffon nation has their own prince in response to Shining Armor, Shining Amour. | |
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Pro Wrestling Guerilla, All Pro Wrestling, Ultimate Pro, the New Japan Dojo and many others have showcased The Human Tornado, who is a walking fan sequel to Dolemite. | |
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On It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the Philly Phrenetic in the World Series episode is an obvious one for the Philadelphia Phillies' real-life mascot, the Phillie Phanatic. It's even lampshaded by Charlie at the end of the episode, when he complains about having to call him the "Phrenetic" instead of "Phanatic" to avoid getting sued by Major League Baseball. | |
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Victory Games's James Bond 007 RPG used these in some places – SPECTRE became TAROT, and Ernst Stavro Blofeld became "Karl Ferenc Skorpios". | |
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And Smart got his own, B. Wise, in an episode of F Troop. | |
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Miss Jessica Marbles (Elsa Lanchester): Miss Marple. | |
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Gotham has two characters who are the Joker in all but name, due to the show's decision to treat the character as a decomposite character. The first, Jerome Valeska, is a teenager raised in the circus who is first put in Arkham for killing his mother and has become an Ax-Crazy, laughably evil monster clown by the time he escapes Arkham at the age of eighteen. His identical twin brother, Jeremiah, at first looks like Jerome's good counterpart, and is already a precocious but relatively harmless intellectual by the time he's in his early twenties. That is until Jerome makes sure that he is driven insane with his laughing gas after he dies, turning him into the show's true version of the Joker. Jeremiah is an even more terrifying opponent than Jerome, a Crazy-Prepared, obsessive madman who only incorporates the Joker's characteristic deadly humor into his crimes after undergoing several painful chemical transformations that lead to extreme sanity slippage. By the series finale, he has finally completed his transformation into the Joker, though he hasn't yet started going by that name. | |
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The Friday the 13th movie character Jason Voorhees got into the act as well. The first was Jason The Terrible (Karl "Butch" Moffatt), a creation of Bruce Hart in the dying days of the old Stampede Wrestling promotion in Calgary in the late 1980s, with his manager the Zodiac (Barry Orton- Randy's uncle) under a mask. There have been several other wrestlers who have done the Jason gimmick since. He's not the only one. Memphis gave us Tommy Gilbert as "Nightmare Freddy". His son Doug later wrestled as Freddy Krueger in the hardcore Japanese promotion W*ING, with his brother Eddie as Michael Myers. The Japanese hardcore wrestling promotion FMW, among others, had "Leatherface", sometimes changed to Super Leather. |
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Filly Princess, Filly Witchy, Fun Lovely Pony, Fun Neddy Lovely, Lovely Horse, Lovely Pony, Magic Lovely Pony, My Funny, My Funny Pony, My Little Pegasus, My Lovely Horse, My Lovely Horses, My Lovely Merry, My Pony, My Sweet Pony, Playful Pony, Pony Playset, Pony Princess, Pretty Pony, and Set Funny Pony are ersatzes of My Little Pony. | |
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A few in Sky High (2005), but the most obvious is Layla, being similar to Batman's villainess Poison Ivy. She's a redhead, she controls plants, she always wears green, she's very environment friendly, etc. — except she's a good gal. Many have pegged the movie to X-Men given that the plot of the movie centers on a Superhero School. | |
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Speedstar is The Flash. | |
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The Hammer Horror film X the Unknown was originally intended to be a sequel to The Quatermass Xperiment. However, they couldn't get the rights to the character of Bernard Quatermass at the time, so they made up a new character called Adam Royston. He is a Science Hero with the same general mannerisms as Quatermass, the only major difference being that his specialty is nuclear physics, not rocketry. | |
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8-Bit Theater is home to the Sulk, Arachna-Dude, Alloyed-Guy, and the Mediocre Four. | |
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Attack of the Super Wizards stars public domain characters, one of whom, Stardust, was created to be an ersatz Superman. The comic also includes ersatz versions of Krypto, Lois Lane, Batman, Wonder Woman, Cthulhu, Alan Moore, and others. | |
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In Community, Britta introduces Abed to long running British series Inspector Spacetime, which is a Captain Ersatz of Doctor Who with a constable instead of a companion, red telephone booth instead of a blue police call box and Blorgons instead of Daleks. Wordof God says that in-universe, Doctor Who is a ripoff of Inspector Spacetime. | |
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Alien-Man is an Alien ersatz. Because he dared to dream, and never stopped believing. | |
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One of the recurring characters of Lazy Company is an ersatz Captain America – "I'm the Patriot, but call me 'Captain'." He's a Super-Soldier Nice Guy whom even the resident grouch can't help but find likable. | |
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On November 23rd, 2013, NWA member Vendetta Pro presented a rematch nearly 30 years in the making at its Final Level event. Bruce Leroy vs The Shogun of Harlem (Jimi Mayhem) They did get the actual Bruce Leroy though. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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A series of El Látigo ("The Whip") films were produced in Mexico. El Latigo is a very close imitation of the famous gringo-created hero of Old California, Zorro. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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UFO Alien Ride: Inspired by E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Doonesbury: Uncle Duke was Garry S. Trudeau's tribute/homage to Raoul Duke, Hunter S. Thompson's alias. Thompson for two decades was so upset he refused to read the comic. Then, Uncle Duke himself was copied in Bloom County with an early character named Limekiller. No word if Thompson had issues with this copy of a copy. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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CASUAL+Y and Holby City get away with having a Lady Gaga one – who, unlike the real thing, dresses fairly plain-Jane, so to speak. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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The Steelheart race are basically Eberron's Warforged in pony shape. | |
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Captain Ersatz / int_38c57aa2 | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Titania is Hippolyta. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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In For Better or for Worse, it originally seemed as if the artist had intended to pair Liz of with her next door neighbor, Christopher; when he and his family were dropped from the strip, Mrs Johnston altered his serial number and created Anthony Caine. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Everyday Heroes shows an old friend of Mr. Mighty, who is from Mexico, wears a red insect-themed costume, and can change his size. As stated in the author's comments, "Any similarity between this guy and any other insect-themed size-changing Mexican superhero (with his own TV show) is purely coincidental". | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Open Blue has "Kukulu", a Super-Deformed copy of Cthulhu, as one of its Powers That Be. He also happens to be their Series Mascot. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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The Adventures of Aaron once ran a strip with "The Ghost of Calvin". A couple footnotes make it clear: "Any similarities between Ghost of Calvin and Calvin and Hobbes is purely coincidental." See it here. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Bananana, a kids programming block that airs on the Malaysian channel TV3, utilizes a mascot who is quite clearly a recolor of Bloo from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. It gets to the point that they've shown the mascot in a couple of the exact same poses that Bloo has been seen in on official Foster's artwork. Here is a Bananana bumper depicting the mascot. | |
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Heroes Unlimited states that one of the goals behind making the game was to allow players, if they wished, to make characters based on their favorite superheroes from the comics. While it doesn't flat out tell you how to, the names of various superpowers make it pretty obvious (and easy) to make, for example, a Wolverinenote Healing Factor + Heightened Sense of Smell + Claws + Indestructible Bones or Spider-Mannote Adhesion + Heightened Sense of Awareness + Swing Line clone. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Supernatural: Dean was originally supposed to be rescued from hell by Constantine himself, but they couldn't get the rights so they created an angel who dresses exactly like Constantine and, in early appearances, has a lot of his personality in Castiel. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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The Halt Evil Doer! setting likewise mixes and matches, with the main heroes being Superman with Martian Manhunter elements, Dick Grayson if his promotion to Batman stuck, and Wonder Woman Only More So, but the superhero team they're members of otherwise being closer to the Avengers. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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SuperMan Big Alliance features ersatzes of Power Rangers, Shrek, Spider-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and The Thing. | |
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Whateley Universe authors like doing this as spoofs. At Whateley Academy the team The Vindicators is definitely the classic Avengers, with Kismet for the Scarlet Witch, Donner as a dopey Thor, Captain Canada! as Captain America, Donner as Thor, Dynamaxx as Iron Man, Lemure as The Vision, and Sizemax as Giant-Man. And Elite League are all ersatzes of the animated Justice League seven. The Good Ol' Boyz are a parody too, but not of a superhero team. | |
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Space Gundam V: Inspired by the Super Dimension Fortress Macross VF-1J Valkyrie, Brave Raideen, and Invincible Robo Trider G7. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Captain Broadband has a clown pop up at one point to specifically inform the audience that Captain Broadband was created long before another blue garbed, nigh invulnerable superhero. | |
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Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger (itself a Spin-Off from Tales of the Questor IN SPACE!) has recently taken a rusty razor blade to the Star Trek franchise. Quentyn meets the crew in this strip. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Invoked by Angie in Nerf NOW!! when, after telling Samus she can't hire her to work at her bar for fear of Nintendo's wrath, passes her a note saying to 'change [her] name so [Angie] can claim ignorance, dimwit'. Hence, the hiring of 'Zamus'. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Englishman uses blatant spoonerised names of any real life individuals who appear. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Chapel was replaced by a similar character named Jessica Priest in Spawn (1997). This is due to Chapel being owned by Rob Liefeld, since he originated in Youngblood (Image Comics). | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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In the 2000-2005 Left Behind film series, Ivy Gold of Global Network News is one for Global Weekly secretary Alice Nelson from the books, who also gets confused for being Buck Williams' secret fiancee. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Ginormica → The 50-Foot Woman. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Johnny B. Badd baby, whooo! His theme music even included the lyrics "He looks just like Little Richard". | |
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Captain Ersatz / int_5059d199 | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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GURPS Illuminati University: One of the university department heads is The Doctor with the serial numbers very lightly sanded off. | |
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Captain Ersatz / int_5188bde0 | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Iron Man 007: Inspired by Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. | |
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Captain Ersatz / int_527a5949 | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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SuperMan is a Kamen Rider Ryuki ersatz. | |
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Captain Ersatz / int_534c1b6b | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Comparisons between Al Swearengen of Deadwood and Silas Benjamin of Kings are pretty inevitable: Both are played in the same highflown style by Ian MacShane; both are amoral and ruthless in attempting to maintain their grip on power but affectionate to those close to them, and both have a tendency to slip into lofty monologues. Except for their different wardrobes and Silas' network-mandated inability to curse like Swearengen, they're essentially the same character portrayed by the same actor. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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When director F. W. Murnau sought to make a movie out of Bram Stoker's book Dracula, but was unable to secure the rights, he made the movie anyway as Nosferatu, changing the names of the characters. (Dracula, for example, became Count Orlok.) In this case, though, the attempt was unsuccessful: Stoker's widow sued for copyright infringement and won, bankrupting the production company... and getting an order that all copies of the film be destroyed. The movie survived through piracy. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Game Show Network's America Says is essentially an ersatz Family Feud (the Harvey edition runs on GSN as well) in that two teams reveal responses to national surveys. The manner in which the team members reveal the responses on America Says owes a little to Pass the Buck, a short-lived CBS game from 1978. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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"Grim Reaper Flag-chan!": Death Flag-chan looks exactly like Komaru Naegi from Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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He's not the only one. Memphis gave us Tommy Gilbert as "Nightmare Freddy". His son Doug later wrestled as Freddy Krueger in the hardcore Japanese promotion W*ING, with his brother Eddie as Michael Myers. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Knight Rider Becames Robert is a bootleg Transformer based on Challenge Of The Go Bots. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Challenge of the GoBots has an ersatz toy titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. | |
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The Order of the Stick: The comic presents Larry Gardener. And Zzdtri is a spoof of Drizzt, and his status as an Overused Copycat Character. His first appearance has him dragged away by copyright lawyers, but he later returns having realized that parody is protected under Fair Use. |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Sketch Comedy: Independent Music James, obviously. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Officially, The Godfather isn't about the Mafia at all. The story goes that when the real Mafia began making complaints and threats, the filmmakers compromised, removing all references to "the Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra". So the film is actually about a fictitious crime organisation that just happens to be based around five fictitious Italian-American families – it’s usually referred to as "the Five Families" when mentioned on screen. Averted in Part II, where during the senator hearings, the words Mafia and Cosa Nostra are mentioned multiple times (here by an outsider). | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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In 1961, Goodson-Todman created a Captain Ersatz of its own show The Price Is Right with Say When!!, which had two contestants selecting items from a pool of merchandise and trying to not go over a target value. In turn, 1975's Give-N-Take was an ersatz Say When!! with a spinning arrow. When G-T revived The Price Is Right in 1972 for CBS and nighttime syndication, they turned it into an ersatz Let's Make a Deal. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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The Japanese hardcore wrestling promotion FMW, among others, had "Leatherface", sometimes changed to Super Leather. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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SMW had Brian Hildebrand as Kowabunga Ninja Turtle. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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The resistance also includes a water-breathing alien soldier named Undyyne, who uses a suit of Powered Armor to stay hydrated while on the desert planet...and she doesn't like fighting children. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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The Swedish superhero game Supergänget (published in English as Supercrew) features some among their quick examples – The Weasel (Wolverine, but female), The Tomani (The Incredible Hulk with a Shout-Out to children's author Christine Nöstlinger) and Tapir Man (Rhino, and being a caricature of a friend of the author), among others. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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The Pokémon Squad: Barney's parents were this to Homer and Marge. Barney Frank also used to be like this for Bart. Hell, he even used to be strangled! | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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In Frazz by Jef Mallett, the title character, Frazz is a grown up expy of Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes, both in personality and in artistic design; Mallett says that Bill Watterson is a great influence, but that the similarities are unintentional. Nonetheless, it was blatant enough that rumors persisted that Watterson himself was writing a sequel strip under an assumed identity. | |
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Carlito Caribbean Cool began on Smackdown basically as Razon Ramon, but shorter. Before then, Carly had many different gimmicks which were much different. | |
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Detective Anna Ramirez in The Dark Knight was originally supposed to be Renée Montoya, but her name was changed at the last minute because her behavior in the film didn't match that of the animated and comic book character. Montoya is an honest cop, while Ramirez is corrupt and works with the mob. By the same token, Det. Wuertz was supposed to be another Batman staple, Harvey Bullock. Bullock is at worst, a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, whereas Wuertz is also on the take, and is subsequently killed by Two-Face. |
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The Missing Link → The Creature from the Black Lagoon. | |
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While on the topic of Sluggy, Fans! brings us, Doctor Irving Riffington. | |
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Cousin Dougal in Platinum Grit is an eight hundred year old sword-wielding immortal Scotsman. And his last name is McWickening. | |
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The original 2000-2001 run of WOW Women of Wrestling had The Beach Patrol (Summer and Sandy), Tanja Warrior Woman and Jane Blonde. | |
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Clues & Monster features ersatzes of Blue's Clues and Pokémon. | |
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Firebrand is Firestar. | |
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Cloudscratcher: Future character Valentine is confirmed to be one of "Smooth Criminal"-era Michael Jackson. | |
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Total Justice, and the reissue, Hall of Fame, feature an ersatz Justice League of America. | |
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Sonichu: The majority of the cast consists of Sonic recolors. Firstly, Sonichu is an ersatz that the author made sometime in the 1990s when a teacher wouldn't allow her to use Sonic the Hedgehog or Pikachu in a class project due to copyright. There's also Simonla Rosechu, who was originally a (male) Original Character created by a troll who's a fan of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, but Chris decided to change his gender and turn him into a Rosechu before using her in the comic. Add in two characters based off Zelda (Zelina Rosechu, Clawdorf and Darkbind Sonichu), Sailor Megtune and various others. The only characters who seem to be completely original are Kel, a generic Pokémon trainer, and Count Graduon, the Anthropomorphic Personification of Chris's high school graduation. | |
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Azeem in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a Captain Ersatz of Nasir in Robin of Sherwood, allegedly because the creators didn't initially realise he was under copyright and not part of the original myth. Since then "the Saracen Merry Man" has become a regular character, but always has a different name. | |
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Lord Nor, the arrogant, bearded, English-accented Kryptonian warlord in Season 4, is more than a little reminiscent of General Zod (specifically Terence Stamp's version). | |
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Also occurs with some of Pathfinder's alternate class archetypes. While most of Pathfinder's character options are inspired by preexisting fictional archetypes to some degree (such as the Swashbuckler, Phantom Thief, or Magical Child), in some cases this gets pretty specific. The Shield Champion fights just like Captain America, the Sleepless Detective Prestige Class and most variations of the Investigator are blatant Sherlock Homages, the Master Chymist Prestige Class was based on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the Brute archetype for the Vigilante class is obviously the Hulk without the gamma radiation. | |
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Astro Plan, Star Field War Record Astro Plan, or Space Adventures: Similar units to the VF-25 Messiah (Macross Frontier), VF-11 Thunderbolt and YF-21 (Macross Plus), VF-2SS Valkyrie II (Macross II), and GNZ-004 Gaga (Mobile Suit Gundam 00). The main ship is a cross between the Archangel-class assault ship (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED) and Ptolemaios II (Mobile Suit Gundam 00). One character resembles Lockon Stratos; the Type Yi Fighters' special attacks resemble the Trans-Am System (Mobile Suit Gundam 00). The Sky Arrow Flight Team symbol is similar to the U.N. Spacy insignia (Macross). | |
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Mutants & Masterminds: The primary setting, Freedom City, is filled with Captain Ersatzes of the characters from Astro City, who in turn are mostly obvious equivalents for famous DC and Marvel superheroes. The Freedom City sourcebook even hangs a lampshade on this by ending with art of a road sign that reads, "You are now leaving Freedom City, please drive carefully", mimicking the ending tag from the Astro City comics. In a picture in the 3E Hero's Handbook, there's even a character wearing a shirt that says "Ersatz" on the front; this character is a villain who is even named "Ersatz" who has the power to transform into a twisted copy of anyone. The Halt Evil Doer! setting likewise mixes and matches, with the main heroes being Superman with Martian Manhunter elements, Dick Grayson if his promotion to Batman stuck, and Wonder Woman Only More So, but the superhero team they're members of otherwise being closer to the Avengers. Rogue Genius's Superpowered Legends series of character books is very blatantly this, with the slogan "Because sometimes what you need is a character everyone will recognize, even if they’ve never met her before". Mostly Marvel characters (the young spider-hero Recluse, the armoured playboy Spartan, the explorer family Challengers, etc,), sometimes with a twist (Pendragon is a British woman, but still a World War II hero with a shield who spent years in suspended animation), they've also pastiched Marvel pastiching DC (the Moon Knight and Gladiator counterparts form Legend's Finest) they've since adopted other sources from the Powerpuff Girls to Cerebus the Aardvark. |
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More directly, there are two government wizards involved in cleaning up magical messes named Wolfe and Cranium. | |
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For a long time, Big Finish Doctor Who wasn't allowed to use any characters, monsters or Doctors who appear exclusively in the 2005 Retool series, so resorts to this on occasion: Genre Shift Brit Com episode "The Kingmaker" featured references to an unseen character who was described by the other characters as having "big ears" (clearly supposed to be the Ninth Doctor). The New Eighth Doctor Adventures had been leading slowly up to a big, cataclysmic event involving Daleks, which is very likely the Time War from the revival series, but never called as such due to license issues. Once Big Finish got the rights to use Nu-Who concepts, the subtext rapidly became text. |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Various members of the D&D pantheon are based on deities from fantasy fiction. Gruumsh, with his orcish followers and eye-shaped holy symbol, is clearly meant to invoke The Lord of the Rings' Sauron. Tharizduun, a Neutral Evil deity worshiped by aberrations, is modeled on H. P. Lovecraft's Azathoth, while many of the other aberrant deities resemble other figures in the Cthulhu Mythos. Some D&D deities are based on deities from old mythologies. The game writers didn't need to get any rights; this is all public domain! However, it is possible the writers felt that creating their own analogue deities would give them more freedom and avoid making D&D look like a neopagan cult. Kord, a Chaotic Good Boisterous Bruiser deity, resembles Thor in many respects. Obad-hai, True Neutral nature god, right down to his holy symbol, is a dead ringer for the Anglo-Saxon "Green Man" figure. Ehlonna, Chaotic Good goddess of hunters and fey creatures, has a fair bit in common with Artemis. Mielikki, Neutral Good goddess of forests in the Forgotten Realms setting, may also draw from Artemis, but for the most part was taken straight from Finnish Mythology. Chaotic Neutral Olidamarra is a classic Trickster Archetype, in the vein of the Native North American Coyote spirit, or a pre-Face–Heel Turn Loki, while his Neutral Evil counterpart Mask resembles later versions of Loki. Averted by Thrym, Chaotic Evil god of frost giants, who is named for an actual frost giant from a Norse myth. Also averted by most of the fiendish overlords, who are named explicitly for the demonized deities that inspired them – Asmodeus, Moloch, Bel, Pazuzu, Dagon, Dispater, etc. Nobanion the lion god is rather unabashedly one to Aslan, at least when first concieved; very early material mentioning him outright states that one of his many names is in fact Aslan. The same texts stated that he's an interloper deity who arrived in Faerun via a forest full of magical portals (a reference to the Wood Between Worlds from the The Magician's Nephew) and that he's a major deity on his home world. Later material seems to have backed off on this angle, though his backstory as an interloper deity has remained unchanged. The barbarian class basically exists so you can play a Conan the Barbarian stand-in, while the ranger class was created for people who wanted to be Aragorn or Legolas. And then there's all the people playing Drizzt clones. The displacer beast is a monster that is almost but not quite a direct rename of the couerl, an alien from A.E. van Vogt's science fiction (whose appearance in The Voyage of the Space Beagle also inspired Alien, to keep the borrowing going). The Ravenloft setting features many Captain Ersatzes of the Monster Mash: Count Strahd von Zarovich: Count Dracula. Dr Victor Mordenheim and Adam: Dr Frankenstein and the Creature. Duke Tristen Hiregaard and Malken: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (originally even closer, but that version is Canon Discontinuity). Dr Rudolph van Richten: Dr Abraham van Helsing. |
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Ray Lloyd was dressed up as the not-quite-Sub-Zero wrestler Glacier (a character who has since popped up in CHIKARA, making for a better fit). | |
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Being a film based on the first of a series of books that are technically illegally-published Harry Potter Hate Fics, Children VS Wizards replaced the HP characters featured as villains with lookalikes. Professor Saires is clearly meant to be a grown-up lookalike of Harry Potter, complete with glasses. However, he has thick eyebrows and a handlebar mustache that serve to signal he's evil. The "phantoms" that accompany Leonard on his way to Russia, which the Narrator explains that their purpose is to destroy children's souls, are basically Dementors under another name. |
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Over the course of a few episodes of Analog Control the hosts attempt to reference Cool Cat Saves the Kids, but instead refer to "Fun Feline", created not by Derek Savage, but by "Dick Ravage". These were recorded around the time Derek Savage got very aggressive about flagging Cool Cat related criticism. | |
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Smallville had Captain Ersatzes for a shockingly-large number of DC characters. Gloria was Poison Ivy, Vordigan the Dark Archer was Merlyn, Pete Ross ended up becoming a Captain Ersatz of Plastic Man (or Jimmy Olsen as Elastic Lad)...the list goes on and on. One episode even had Lois cosplaying as an in-universe Captain Ersatz of Wonder Woman! That same episode had a boy transformed by a magic comic book into Warrior Angel. Whereas Warrior Angel was always an Expy of Superman (with his nemesis Devilicus as an Expy for Lex), this "Warrior Angel" was a clear one of Captain Marvel. |
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IQ Egg (IQ蛋) is a Taiwanese comic strip that rips off Doraemon. As it turns out, the magazine hosting the series runs into licensing troubles and couldn't feature stories involving everybody's favorite robot cat, so instead the artists literally sketched over Doraemon artwork and called it a day. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was created with the intent to include Michelle Forbes' recurring character from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Ro Laren, but the actress declined to star as a regular in the series. So the character of Kira Nerys was created as a near-identical substitute (abrasive personality, lack of trust in Starfleet). This was tried again for Voyager and again Michelle Forbes refused, so instead they created the Klingon-human Maquis member B'Elanna Torres. | |
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Sense of Right Alliance features ersatzes of Cars, Batman, Fantastic Four, The Incredibles, Power Rangers, Shrek, Spider-Man, and Superman. | |
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Doctor Mordrid: Doctor Mordrid (played by Jeffrey Combs) is Doctor Strange; the villain Kabal is more or less Baron Mordo. This is because Full Moon Features had optioned the right to adapt the comic into film, but the rights expired during pre-production. Rather than cancel the project, they just changed the characters' names. | |
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In The Event, the President and his right-hand man are Palmer and Novick. | |
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In the 1960s, Jack Pfefer's heavy use of this trope nearly killed off the Chicago territory when he was the promoter. He was largely responsible for launching the career of Buddy Rogers, so dubbing a look alike Bummy Rogers was clearly his right. Everyone loves Bobo Brazil? Love Hobo Brazil! Want to see Bruno Sammartino? He's got Bruno Sanmartino. | |
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The 1980 TV Movie Murder Can Hurt You itself seems to have been inspired by Murder by Death, but with these versions of '70s TV Cop Show characters like Columbo, Starsky & Hutch, Kojak, etc. | |
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Super Special Heroes features ersatzes of Batman, The Incredible Hulk, The Incredibles, Power Rangers, Spider-Man, Superman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Toy Story. | |
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Curveball has several: Liberty for Captain America, Gladiator for Ozymandias, and Farraday City for Basin City. | |
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In Bloom County, Bill the Cat has been called a "Garfield ripoff" within the strip itself, though Bill's resemblance to Garfield is only particularly blatant in early appearances. The 2015 revival makes it explicit in one strip, claiming Garfield as Bill's literal father (with Jim Davis lending a hand). | |
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The Amazing Bulk is about an ersatz of The Incredible Hulk. | |
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General Hager from Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer was originally supposed to be Nick Fury, but was changed to an original character when the director found out 20th Century Fox didn't have his film rights. Not only does Hager have Fury's personality and (Ultimate) ethnicity, but some of his lines are taken word-for-word from Fury's dialogue in Warren Ellis' Ultimate Galactus Trilogy. | |
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Angel Invincibility Super Design 3 and Rob-Ots Super Hero are ersatzes of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. | |
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Gruumsh, with his orcish followers and eye-shaped holy symbol, is clearly meant to invoke The Lord of the Rings' Sauron. | |
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Galaxy Quest is for the most part an Affectionate Parody on Star Trek: The Original Series including its actors and fans, with some Star Trek: The Next Generation thrown in. The character of Doctor Lazarus is Spock, the alien on the team, from TOS. The actor is a combination of Spock's Leonard Nimoy, who was haunted by his typecasting as Spock, and Patrick Stewart, classically trained Shakespearean actor who found himself in a Star Trek show. Commander Taggart is Captain Kirk, the hammy star of the show and a Large Ham. Tech Sgt. Chen, although not Scottish, is the equivalent of Scotty, (badly) operating their transpo... sorry, "digital conveyor". Lt. Laredo, the prodigy child crew member, is Wesley from TNG. Lt. Madison who repeats everything the computer says is a mix of Counselor Troi from TNG, who did little more than look good in tights while saying "Captain, I'm sensing something," and Lt. Uhura in TOS—Nichelle Nichols considered leaving the show due to her character doing little more than "opening hailing frequencies" in most episodes, which parallels Gwen's problems with her character.note Supposedly Gwen's line complaining about how her TV Guide interview was all about her breasts getting squeezed into her suit was inspired by an actual TV Guide interview with Jeri Ryan of Star Trek Voyager. |
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On A Different World, having lost her job, Whitley is forced to work as a waitress at "The International Cottage of Flapjacks", clearly a ripoff of "The International House of Pancakes". | |
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Ginni features ersatzes of Barbie and My Little Pony. | |
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Space Boys 3 is a Toy Story ersatz. | |
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Sam Diamond (Peter Falk): Sam Spade. | |
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Black Mirror: Princess Susannah from the first episode is intended to be the Duchess of Cambridge, being a young royal and focus of public interest while not actual adoration. | |
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Robot Taekwon V is inspired by Mazinger Z. | |
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Champions has many far too many to list: Defender = Iron Man, Doctor Destroyer = Doctor Doom (or occasionally Apocalypse), Foxbat = the silver age Joker. It also has Ersatz cities: Hudson City = Gotham, Millennium City = Metropolis. | |
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Parodied on 30 Rock when Jenna intends to star in a biopic about Janis Joplin, but because of legal issues, the pic will be about a Janis Joplin facsimile called Jackie Jormp-Jomp. | |
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MonsterVerse: The Skullcrawlers, Kong's recurring reptilian mortal enemies on Skull Island who killed off the rest of his kind including his parents, have a similar design to the two-legged reptiles from King Kong (1933), and their role in Kong's backstory in Kong: King of Skull Island. Dr. Rick Stanton who debuted in Godzilla: King of the Monsters is a clear expy of Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty: a white-haired, middle-aged, bespectacled, alcoholic scientist with a sardonic streak and a cynical outlook. |
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Little Annie Rooney was an ersatz of Little Orphan Annie. | |
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Noob has one of Jack Sparrow, who, like his original, insists he's a captain despite the lack of a crew or even a boat. His appearances have him completely lost and looking for a special compass. | |
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Robert Cop 3 is an ersatz of Robocop. | |
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The Gulliver Juguetes Super Powers Collection featured Captain Lightning or Captain Ray/El Capitan Rayo, closely resembling Superman. | |
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Duncan McSmurf in Empath: The Luckiest Smurf is an obvious Captain Ersatz of Gutsy from The Smurfs film series who does not like to be called Gutsy, particularly from Hefty who just simply doesn't like Duncan. His only noticeable differences are that Duncan has brown hair whereas Gutsy has ginger hair, and that he wears green plaid instead of blue. Also the shoulder strap of his kilt goes over his right shoulder instead of his left. | |
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VeriAble Uncanny Embryo HoRRiBLE is an ersatz of Mothra. | |
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B.O.B. → The Blob (1958). | |
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The Bloody Man: Sam's favourite toy, Barbarian Man, is pretty much He-Man. Like, the makers didn't even bother TRYING to make him not look too much like He-Man. | |
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That Gosh Darn Hippie Show: Anthony is pretty clearly just Anthony Fremont without the hatred of electronics and singing, complete with sending people to the cornfield. | |
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ATTACK on MIKA: Shiori Choko, an exchange student, is basically Shinobu Kocho as a high schooler. | |
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In the At the Earth's Core episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Jonah builds a new robot, Growler, a super chill, easy-going musician programmed to take everything in stride with a very familiar muppet voice. The other bots react with hatred toward the newcomer. Jonah's response is bafflement and he straight up admits he was invoking this trope. | |
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Ponyfinder: Most of the deities of the corebook are clearly based on the fan-accepted "gods" of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic cast; Sun Queen (Princess Celestia), Moon Princess (Princess Luna), Princess Luminace (Twilight Sparkle), the Night Mare (Nightmare Moon), the Unspoken (Discord), and Kara (Queen Chrysalis). The Steelheart race are basically Eberron's Warforged in pony shape. Doppelgangers are based more off of Eberron's Changelings than the show's, though the Doppelganger mini-splatbook makes them more like their show counterparts, including noting that Kara devotees turned into doppelgangers resemble the insecto-equines of the show. |
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The Ben 10 fanfic Egypt on Anur Khufos features multiple examples of this: Four characters leading a resistance group are directly modeled off of Rapses' guardians from Mummies Alive!, called Ja'Kaal, Raht, Marnor, and Neferti, who in this story are alien mummies that have the added perk of elasticity and Combat Tentacles, and even use a landspeeder based on the original Hot-Ra. Similarly, the evil pharaoh has a sorcerer in his employ named Skaraab. Ben also notices their similarities during the story from the actual cartoon, having watched it at one point. The resistance also includes a water-breathing alien soldier named Undyyne, who uses a suit of Powered Armor to stay hydrated while on the desert planet...and she doesn't like fighting children. |
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In Rango, there is a brief appearance by Hunter S. Thompson's own Captain Ersatz from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Being as the main character is played by Johnny Depp in both films, this only makes matters better. | |
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Mazinger X: Inspired by UFO Robo Grendizer and Mazinger Z. | |
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In the original books, the characters in The Snapper and The Van were the same family as in The Commitments. Due to Fox owning the rights to the Rabitte name, they were different characters. Especially glaring is the fact that Colm Meaney plays the father in all three films, but is ostensibly playing different characters. | |
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Dog Sees God is, of course, not in any way connected to the Peanuts comic strip, though the characters are CB, CB's Sister, Van, Van's Sister, Beethoven... | |
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Several one-off villains were also ersatzen; Wheelchair-bound mastermind Leadside was based on Ironside (1967), Yellow Peril caricature Dr. Yes was based on Dr. No, etc. | |
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Funny Toys is an ersatz of Teletubbies. | |
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Pet's Little Intelligent Spirit, Pocket Monica Jump-Jupm Chess, Politic Pat, and Prodigy Pet are ersatzes of Pokémon. | |
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Toy Story: Bo Peep, since Mattel didn't allow Pixar to use Barbie at the time, since they didn't think the movie would get much exposure, among other reasons. The company quickly reversed their decision after seeing the success of the first movie, which is why Barbie is featured significantly more than Bo Peep in the rest of the series. Also the Combat Carl, as initially it was going to be a G.I. Joe that got blown up by Sid in his introductory scene, but when Hasbro refused to let Pixar use G.I. Joe in the film, it was changed. |
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Spinnerette is a female Spider-Man. | |
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The Angry Video Game Nerd has spawned possibly enough imitators on YouTube to start a list. Noteworthy mentions include The Irate Gamer and Game Dude. | |
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The Liberty League in Love and Capes is a blatant ripoff of the Justice League, not surprising as main character The Crusader is an obvious copy of Superman. The only member of the League who isn't specifically a DC hero is The Arachnerd, and he doesn't join until the 4th issue. | |
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Birds of Prey (2002) had Darkstrike, a thinly-veiled Nightwing wannabe. Subverted when he turns out to be a Corrupted Character Copy. | |
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The title character of Adam Adamant Lives! was originally intended to be the genuine hero of Victorian pulp fiction Sexton Blake, but when the BBC were unable to get the rights to Blake, they changed the character's name and turned him into a generic adventure hero. | |
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The Ravenloft setting features many Captain Ersatzes of the Monster Mash: Count Strahd von Zarovich: Count Dracula. Dr Victor Mordenheim and Adam: Dr Frankenstein and the Creature. Duke Tristen Hiregaard and Malken: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (originally even closer, but that version is Canon Discontinuity). Dr Rudolph van Richten: Dr Abraham van Helsing. |
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Get Smart had a few examples: Comedian Joey Forman played a Charlie Chan-based one called "Harry Hoo" on more than one occasion. Several one-off villains were also ersatzen; Wheelchair-bound mastermind Leadside was based on Ironside (1967), Yellow Peril caricature Dr. Yes was based on Dr. No, etc. And Smart got his own, B. Wise, in an episode of F Troop. |
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While Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek was able to largely keep the character names from Star Trek: The Original Series due to them being common surnames, the creators were apparently concerned enough that they turned Spock into "Mr. Spak". | |
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Rufus from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, a quirky, sophisticated fellow in a time-travelling phone box... | |
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NoPixel has Carl Crimes, an expy of Carl Grimes from The Walking Dead. He's even played by Carl's actor Chandler Riggs, and his criminal mugshot is a headshot of Carl from the TV show. | |
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Princess Potato from Sonic for Hire is a parody. She says she comes from the Mario knockoff game, "Super Italian Laborer Town". | |
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Help!: Kaili = Kali. | |
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Doctor Shark is Curt Connors, AKA the Lizard. | |
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Super Hero features ersatzes of The Incredible Hulk, The Incredibles, Spider-Man, and Superman. | |
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Space Transformers / Micro-commando Diatron-5: Inspired by Takara's Diaclone toyline, and Armored Trooper VOTOMS, Ginga Hyouryuu Vifam, and Space Runaway Ideon. | |
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The displacer beast is a monster that is almost but not quite a direct rename of the couerl, an alien from A.E. van Vogt's science fiction (whose appearance in The Voyage of the Space Beagle also inspired Alien, to keep the borrowing going). | |
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The Incredibles: The family is very nearly the Fantastic Four: Mr. Incredible is the Thing, Elastigirl is Mister Fantastic, and Violet is the Invisible Woman. Only Dash lacks a direct parallel, though he's certainly Hot-Blooded enough to be a match for the Human Torch. The ending shows Jack-Jack has highly variable superpowers (among these, setting himself on fire like the Human Torch), and Franklin Richards, the child of Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman had very ill-defined but vast superpowers. Even their costumes and name (Fantastic/Incredible) are similar. Their villain, Syndrome, is a somewhat more rotund Doctor Doom, a villain whose primary superpowers are simply being so good at super-technology that his super-suit is more powerful than the family combined. Syndrome also has Doctor Doom's 'petty grudge blown way out of proportion' motivation for his enmity as well. Dash is basically The Flash and even calls himself "The Dash" when he gets his suit. Frozone is basically Iceman from the X-Men comics as played by Samuel L. Jackson. They even have the same way of getting from place to place: creating ramps of ice to skate everywhere. In a more extreme example, Gazerbeam and The Underminer basically are Cyclops (from X-Men) and the Mole Man (from Fantastic Four) in all but name. The DVD special features on the minor heroes in the movie even parodies Cyclops' infamously bland personality by having Gazerbeam be an incredibly dull person. Some of the other heroes listed on the DVD also fall into this. Meta Man is very obviously Superman, with his Combo Platter Powers, wholesome personality, and outfit, Everseer's leadership position (and formerly having been Gazerbeam's superior) and telepathy resemble Professor X, and Splashdown's powerset is a clear callout to Aquaman. It even extends to the comic, which has featured among the expanded rogues gallery a Gorilla Grodd expy and aliens resembling the tentacles. And the Humongous Mecha piloted by the Underminer in an effort to frame the Incredibles resembles The Iron Giant with a red paint job. Both films were directed by Brad Bird. It's also notable that The Incredibles successfully captures the "superhero team as a family" dynamic that the Fantastic Four is best-known for in the comics, which three live-acton attempts (thus far) at adapting the FF to film by 20th Century Fox and Marvel have failed to fully accomplish. |
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The Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy is sometimes accused of this by Monkey Island fans, who cite similarities between Tia Dalma and the Voodoo Lady as evidence of their claim. Though given how both draw inspiration from On Stranger Tides (and indeed, from the original Pirates of the Caribbean ride), this might be a case where both are the Ersatzes. | |
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The primary setting, Freedom City, is filled with Captain Ersatzes of the characters from Astro City, who in turn are mostly obvious equivalents for famous DC and Marvel superheroes. The Freedom City sourcebook even hangs a lampshade on this by ending with art of a road sign that reads, "You are now leaving Freedom City, please drive carefully", mimicking the ending tag from the Astro City comics. | |
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Mr. Raven from El Goonish Shive seems a heck of a lot like Snape. More directly, there are two government wizards involved in cleaning up magical messes named Wolfe and Cranium. |
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Count Mordrek the Damned from Warhammer is a Captain Ersatz of recurring villain Gaynor the Damned from various Michael Moorcock works. | |
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The Aces & Eights stable in TNA is a wrestling version of Sons of Anarchy, right down to their attires, logos, and music being inspired by said series. | |
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There was a late 80s/early 90s jobber named "Randy Hogan" who had Hulk Hogan's signature bald scalp with blond hair wrapped around and even the fu-manchu. | |
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Jurassic Park gets this in spades every time a film with a new prominent dinosaur is released. Toy companies can’t use the franchise name (outside of W Dragon and and Rebor who got licenses) but it doesn’t stop them from pumping out lookalikes. Raptors with blue stripes on each side or oversized black raptors with gold stripes, filled Dilophosaurs, and large white carnivores similar to the Indominus are most common. Some companies do straight up use the character names which isn’t this trope but in most cases it happens because dinosaurs aren’t the easiest things to copyright now that the “J.P. mark� of the 90s is gone. | |
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Most of the deities of the corebook are clearly based on the fan-accepted "gods" of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic cast; Sun Queen (Princess Celestia), Moon Princess (Princess Luna), Princess Luminace (Twilight Sparkle), the Night Mare (Nightmare Moon), the Unspoken (Discord), and Kara (Queen Chrysalis). | |
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Power Mice is a Biker Mice from Mars ersatz. | |
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The barbarian class basically exists so you can play a Conan the Barbarian stand-in, while the ranger class was created for people who wanted to be Aragorn or Legolas. And then there's all the people playing Drizzt clones. | |
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Dan Dunn was Hearst's answer to Dick Tracy. | |
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Milo Perrier (James Coco): Hercule Poirot. | |
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Also, Celsan Automotive LLC on NationStates, who appear to be a sort of copy or Homage to Nissan, Holden, Peugeot, Opel, Chevrolet in one. Possibly an Expy too. | |
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The Buddy Holly Story had a fictionalized version of the Crickets (two members instead of three, names changed) because the real-life Crickets had already signed onto a different Buddy Holly project. | |
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Comedian Joey Forman played a Charlie Chan-based one called "Harry Hoo" on more than one occasion. | |
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The tenth episode of the original 1966 Ultraman gave us "Jirass", a giant reptilian Kaiju who was essentially Godzilla in all but name—right down to being played by Haruo Nakajima himself. To their credit, Tsubaraya Productions at least gave Jirass a neck frill to obscure the fact that his rubber suit actually was an old Godzilla costume borrowed from Toho Studios. Then they proceeded to have Ultraman rip off said neck frill in the course of the fight. Essentially, if you've ever wanted to see an unofficial Godzilla/Ultraman crossover, watch this episode. | |
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The Nonsensical RP: John Cryptograph is visibly intended to be a parody of Bill Cipher, with his last name being a synonym of Bill's last name and being described as a square with one eye and a top hat. | |
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In the mid-80's, Dick the Bruiser's WWA promotion had a wrestler from Memphis who had a goatee and wore a single-strap singlet. His name was Gary Lawler. Gee, that sounds familiar .... | |
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In The Care Bears: Adventure in Wonderland, Dim and Dum are blatant copies of Beastly (from the Care Bears TV series). Dim even has the same voice. In Care Bears Nutcracker Suite, the Rat King shares Beastly's voice and general characterization. | |
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An Arab company once stole some character designs from South Park. No, we're not talking about the Kuwaiti knockoff Block 13; the Arab company in question is a YouTube channel for kids called Toyor Baby TV, and this is the video where they used the stolen designs in question. It's supposed to be a song about water conservation, but it's pretty hard not to ignore the characters who are pretty blatantly South Park characters such as Stan and Butters (also, what does South Park of all things have to do with teaching children water conservation anyway?). At least Block 13 changed the character designs so that, while they're blatant copies, they're still less blatant than in Toyor Baby TV's video, where literally the only change made to the characters is that they're given slightly different color schemes. | |
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In the late 80s and 90s, every major US city that didn't air The Howard Stern Show had a Howard Stern Imitator at some point. Mark & Brian (LA), Lex & Terry (Dallas), Paul & Young Ron (Miami), and Opie and Anthony(Boston) were the biggest. When the Stern Show would enter their markets, very often locals listening for the first time thought he was the imitator of them and just had a black (or female, since not everyone realized Robin Quivers is Black) sidekick. | |
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Parodied in Psychoville when in a pantomime production of Snow White, the director has to remind his cast that they changed the names of the dwarves (to "Prof", "Blusher", "Sniffy", "Smiler", "Snoozer", "Grumbly" and "Loopy") so as to avoid being sued by Disney. | |
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Mouse and Friends is an ersatz Mickey Mouse. | |
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Nobanion the lion god is rather unabashedly one to Aslan, at least when first concieved; very early material mentioning him outright states that one of his many names is in fact Aslan. The same texts stated that he's an interloper deity who arrived in Faerun via a forest full of magical portals (a reference to the Wood Between Worlds from the The Magician's Nephew) and that he's a major deity on his home world. Later material seems to have backed off on this angle, though his backstory as an interloper deity has remained unchanged. | |
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Rudolph's love interest in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1998) is "Zoey". Wordof God is she was meant to be Clarice but they couldn't use the name. | |
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Not so much for legal reasons, but for reasons of parody, The John Dredge Nothing To Do With Anything Show features two different Scooby-Doo parodies: Doggie Doo, What Kind Of Dog Are You? and in a later episode, Scooby-Don't. There's also a Batman (1966) parody called Gasman & Robert. | |
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Iced Earth's Cast In Stone is Written On The Walls with new lyrics and reduced instrumentation, as Gene Adam (who wrote these parts) did not allow the band to use them. However apart from this, the backing track is identical to the original version. It is debated amongst fans if this constitutes a new song or not. | |
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Lois & Clark: Intergang is run by the feuding father and son Bill Church Sr and Jr, who have a Front Organisation with a TV company called Multiworld Communications. They're Captain Ersatzes of the comic book's Vinnie and Morgan Edge, who run Intergang behind the facade of Galaxy Broadcasting. Lord Nor, the arrogant, bearded, English-accented Kryptonian warlord in Season 4, is more than a little reminiscent of General Zod (specifically Terence Stamp's version). |
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Guerreros del Espacio and Heroes del Espacio are an ersatz of He-Man. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Whistler, who appeared in the Season Two two-part finale was supposed to be a main character on the spinoff Angel. Since the actor who played Whistler was unavailable at the time, the very similar character Allen Francis Doyle was created instead. Warren was an unusual example. In his first appearance in Season 5, Warren created problems by being misguided and irresponsible, but he was far from villainous, unlike Tucker who was entitled, homicidal, and not remotely sympathetic. Tucker was originally planned to be the most evil member of the trio, but Tucker's actor was unavailable, so they just put Warren in his place, gave him Tucker's personality, and acted as if he had always been that way. |
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Penumbra is Doctor Strange, with a dose of Raven thrown in. | |
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anti-HEROES makes no secret about being inspired by The Order of the Stick and besides having characters in the same style has some fairly similar characters: Kaal is Belkar if he was a ghost. Aldran is a magic user like Vaarsuvius and has the Deadpan Snarker personality of Vaarsuvius and Roy and an Evil Twin (or possibly Good Twin), just like Elan. Kerris and Lana are both Haley, except the first is a Tiefling and the second is a vampire, and Kerris' species also makes her quite similar to the villain Nale's succubus girlfriend, Sabine. |
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Looking for 1980s cartoon Captain Ersatzes, then you won't be surprised that Cartoon Action Hour has more than its fair share. For I.E, the Black Widow from "Strikeforce Freedom" is a blonde version of The Baroness from G.I. Joe. | |
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Fearless Fosdick in Li'l Abner is a lanky duplicate of Dick Tracy. So much so that political cartoonist Herbert Block used him in some of his pieces during the Nixon Administration. | |
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Goblins has a similar joke, with three players using obvious copies of Drizzt, including both a Gender Flipped version and Drasst Don'tsue, Drizzt's half-brother. | |
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Space Black Knight: Characters inspired by Mobile Suit Gundam characters Amuro Ray, Char Aznable, Dozle Zabi, Sayla Mass and Kycilia Zabi. Specifically, the Amuro and Sayla knockoffs are exact copies of said characters, but they're initially dressed as palette swaps of Char and Kycilia (complete with face-concealing masks, so at first they simply seem to be palette swaps of Char and Kycilia), while the Dozle clone is simply Dozle with neon green skin. | |
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Phoenix-bot Phoenix King / Defenders of Space: Inspired by Ippatsuman, Mazinger Z, Mobile Suit Gundam, Space Battleship Yamato, and Leiji Matsumoto. Phoenix King is inspired by the Diaclone toy Fire Engine (later known as Inferno from Transformers). | |
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Third Rate Gamer has Billy, an obvious parody of Irate Gamer's side character Tony, complete with a dumb nonsensical catchphrase and being represented by a sprite taken from a browser-based MMORPG (Runescape rather than MapleStory here). TRG also makes fun of the part where IG messes up Wilson's name. | |
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LazyTown: Ziggy's regular outfit is reminiscent of Superman. In the first play, it was a Superman costume outright. | |
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Dragoonball is a Dragon Ball Z ersatz. | |
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Marshyo from Crazy Candies bears such a resemblance to SpongeBob SquarePants that it's easy to make the case that the series, or at least the character, is a knockoff. Both are yellow anthropomorphic cephalothoraxes who wear a quirky pair of pants, have prominent buck teeth, display energetic, childlike personalities, have dim-witted best friends, and love to work at a restaurant. | |
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Ever since Marble Hornets came up with totheark, nearly every single Slender Man-related blog/video series has had a similar character. | |
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And Star Trek: Voyager went as far as to cast the actor who had played Nicholas Locarno in TNG's "The First Duty" before changing the character's name to Tom Paris and altering his backstory to be more sympathetic. Though Wordof God has flip-flopped on whether this was done because Locarno was unrepentant and therefore unsympathetic, or because they didn't want to have to pay royalties to the writer of "The First Duty". There has been fanfiction written that attempts to reconcile this by making them the same person. | |
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Street Warrior is an ersatz of Street Fighter. | |
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The family is very nearly the Fantastic Four: Mr. Incredible is the Thing, Elastigirl is Mister Fantastic, and Violet is the Invisible Woman. Only Dash lacks a direct parallel, though he's certainly Hot-Blooded enough to be a match for the Human Torch. The ending shows Jack-Jack has highly variable superpowers (among these, setting himself on fire like the Human Torch), and Franklin Richards, the child of Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman had very ill-defined but vast superpowers. Even their costumes and name (Fantastic/Incredible) are similar. Their villain, Syndrome, is a somewhat more rotund Doctor Doom, a villain whose primary superpowers are simply being so good at super-technology that his super-suit is more powerful than the family combined. Syndrome also has Doctor Doom's 'petty grudge blown way out of proportion' motivation for his enmity as well. | |
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The Mentalist has done this with the entire premise of Psych. Gleefully lampshaded in many episodes of Psych: | |
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine: A kindly old couple on a farm who take in a super-powered individual? That sounds kinda familiar. The first shot of them smiling while driving their pickup seems like a deliberate homage to Superman: The Movie. Richard Donner is a producer on this film. | |
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Annie Pretty Sailor, Beauty Fighters, Beauty Soldier Shirley Moore, Beauty Warrior, Fly Dancer, Galaxy Girl, Kapuha, Meteor Girl, Petit Soldier Sailormoon, Planet Girl, Pretty Girl, Sailorbike, Sailor Cute, Sailor Mary, Sailor Sweetie, Super Girl, and Young Beauty Flower Angel are ersatzes of Sailor Moon. | |
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Spader-Man is an ersatz Spider-Man. Spader-Man Unmatched features an ersatz Deadpool. | |
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Cooper and Cementron are Optimus Prime and Megatron. And they're gay. | |
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The Inception card game guest starring "Joker", "Avatar", "Lord of War", "Black Swan", "Paprika", "Martyr", and "Space Queen". | |
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Tomorrow's Pioneers has the really-not-a-Mickey Mouse-rip-off Farfur. However, the extremely controversial subject matter did draw Disney's attention to Farfur's ersatzen nature. | |
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In Happy Heroes, many of Miss Peach's features are dead ringers for Princess Peach from Super Mario Bros.. She has a heart-shaped bang, she has blonde hair, she wears a pink dress, at least one major character has a crush on her... oh, yeah, and her name is also Peach. | |
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Rhyme and Reason, an ABC game show from 1975, was a Captain Ersatz of CBS's Match Game in that it had two contestants trying to match words (the rhyming word of a poem) with a panel of six celebrities. | |
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Universal Hero features ersatzes of Captain America, Power Rangers, and Spider-Man. | |
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Hail to the King (Thuktun Flishithy) has Zone Fighter. He was already a Captain Ersatz of Ultraman, but in this story it is made more obvious. Here, he is an energy being that bonds with Shinji Ikari in order to save his life, just like what Ultraman did with Hayata. | |
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In Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, the Final Girl is a teenage girl with telekinetic powers and a fraught relationship with her parents that has left her traumatized. Change her name from Tina Shepard to Carrie White, and the awful parent from her father into her mother, and you have what many fans of the Friday the 13th films describe as an unofficial crossover with Stephen King's Carrie. (Tina is even the name of one of the girls in Chris' Girl Posse who torments Carrie.) | |
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