History Expy / WesternAnimation

** In a crossover comic [[CrossoverPairing they hooked up for a while]].

** After being unable to make any sense of Kevin's [[CharacterDerailment sudden and inexplicable]] change from sociopathic CompleteMonster to wisecracking AntiHero, the team behind ''Alien Force'' and ''Ultimate Alien'' have taken his prior characterization and powers, made it grown-up and mature, and have named it "Aggregor", who is truly [[NightmareFuel a foe to beware]].

* In ''Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas'', Max's girlfriend Mona is a quite obvious Expy (in character, but not in design) of Roxanne from ''A Goofy Movie''; she's even voiced by the same VA, Kellie Martin. The plot at hand is that he's bringing his girlfriend from college home for Christmas to meet his dad ...but Roxanne obviously met Goofy before, so they came up with a new girlfriend character. (And, to be realistic, how many of you were still with your high school crush/sweetheart in college?)

* Disney's animated female leads in recent years (Belle, Ariel, Pocahontas, Jasmine) have a distressing sameness about them, which may point to their all being Expies of each other (Pointed out by ''{{Animaniacs}}'' in this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJrud9uW_wI song]]). All are rebellious (despite having a decent life), do not want to be with a man they are initially bethrothed to (technically Ariel does not want any mermen), all have animal sidekicks. Somewhat subverted with early heroines: SnowWhite is innocence personified, {{Cinderella}} was much more plucky, and Sleeping Beauty was much more passionate.

** Although Belle has some similarities to the other 90's Disney protagonists, I think it's fair to set her apart for at least one key reason- She wasn't a Princess, she was the daughter of a moderately poor inventor. The other girls were all Princesses who could functionally have anything they wanted because of their respective father's power; the Princesses all yearned to escape from a life of luxury and splendor where they could have anything they wanted. Belle's wish to escape is a little more understandable, being that she's quite literally stuck in a French village with nowhere to go.
** Somewhat more distressingly, ''{{Cinderella}}'' and ''SnowWhite'' appear to be married to [[IdenticalStranger the same man]], PrinceCharming, who may or may not be the same man as Prince Phillip in Disney's ''Sleeping Beauty''. [[MST3KMantra We suggest you don't think about it]].
*** This fact is used directly in ''{{Fables}}'' comic, where {{Cinderella}}, SnowWhite and Sleeping Beauty all ''are'' ex-wives of Prince Charming, and the musical ''{{Into the Woods}}'', which has has Prince Charming lose interest in {{Cinderella}} after they get married and go after Sleeping Beauty.

*** There is, in fact, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot a reason for this]]. Disney was in the financial hole at the time ''RobinHood'' was made and a number of scenes in the film (for example, the dancing in Sherwood Forest and [[strike:Kaa's]] Sir Hiss's hypnotizing of Prince John) were actually trace-overs from cels in older films such as the ''TheAristocats'', ''SnowWhite'' and ''TheJungleBook''. Fortunately ''RobinHood'' did well and Disney was able to carry on.
**** -as indeed Maid Marian dancing was a rotoscope of Snow White.

** After being unable to make any sense of Kevin's [[CharacterDerailment sudden and inexplicable]] change from sociopathic CompleteMonster to wisecracking AntiHero, the team behind ''Alien Force'' and ''Ultimate Alien'' have taken his prior characterization and powers, made it grown-up and mature, and have named it "Aggregor", who is truly [[NightmareFuel a foe to beware.]]

** I don't know if it's fair to call Roland an expy of Winston. Roland was always the academically gifted, science-passionate, straight-laced guy who often was teased for this combination of traits. In the original Ghostbusters, Winston was the blue-collar guy who was * much less* interested in the geeky stuff than Egon or Ray. Aside from the fact that they're both black they don't seem very similar.

** Spanky resembles various characters from internet comics and flash animations.

** The werewolf's name is Stewart Lawrence, a combination of Lawrence Talbot (the Wolf Man) and Jimmy Stewart, who his voice actor is imitating.

* Being a huge homage to TheATeam, the main cast of GIJoeRenegades understandably have some similarities to Hannibal's crew.

* Well, basically {{Hanna-Barbera}} has made a career out of exporting characters from wherever! During the Simpsons' episode "The Day that Violence Died" Roger Meyers Jr. says that "Animation is built on plagiarism! If it weren't for someone plagiarizing The Honeymooners, we wouldn't have The Flintstones. If someone hadn't ripped off Sergeant Bilko, there'd be no Top Cat. Huckleberry Hound, Chief Wiggum, Yogi Bear? Hah! Andy Griffith, Edward G. Robinson, Art Carney." All the characters mentioned to be plagiarized versions are Hanna-Barbera's except one (Chief Wiggum).

** Paradox seems to be an {{Expy}} of the [[DoctorWho The Doctor]].

** Jax-Ur from SupermanTheAnimatedSeries is an obvious {{Expy}} of General Zod.

** In one LooneyTunes comic book, Wile and Ralph meet, turning out to be [[YouFailBiologyForever long-lost brothers]]. They both realize that they both failed to get their respective targets (the Road Runner and the sheep, respectively), so they team up to catch the Road Runner. And fail.

** The ''AmericanDad'' episode "The One That Got Away" had Judi, who appears to be an expy of Audrey from ''LittleShopOfHorrors'', because of her [[HairOfGold hair]] and her voice. However, unlike Audrey, Judi [[spoiler: is a {{Hermaphrodite}}]].

**** {{YMMV}} on the whole "fortunately" thing, what with the recent piles of crap Disney has been churning out.

** The upcoming video game ''EpicMickey'' is playing on this, now that Disney got Oswald's rights back almost a century later.

* ''TinyToons'' is a combination of this trope and SpinoffBabies, as all the main characters are yonger PaletteSwap versios of the original LooneyTunes, who are actually there, in the background, as teachers in Acme Loonaversity. Probably the Tiny Toon who's the furthest from her Loonytoon counterpart is Elmyra. (Escentially, she's more of an EvilCounterpart than an Expy.) Unlike Elmer, Elmyra LOVES animals, and is female. Ironically, unlike Elmer, animals find Elmyra genuinely frightening. Still, relatively speaking TinyToons was downright respectable [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoonaticsUnleashed compared to]] some [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Looney_Tunes other shows]]
** Babs is the only Tiny Toon that never really had a LooneyTunes counterpart. However, Lola was later added to the Looneytunes lineup, and... [[DisContinuity never mind.]]