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| 10 | ->''"Wow, you know Lucius Sweet? He's exactly as rich and as famous as Don King, and he looks just like him too!"'' |
| 11 | -->-- '''Homer Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E3TheHomerTheyFall The Homer They Fall]]" |
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| 13 | Often, a show uses an {{Expy}} to create an original take (or a legal shortcut) on a character, a company, a franchise, a person, or any entity. In many of them, they might exist as a CaptainErsatz of the original, or just to be an equivalent but original take on an entity. It is always implied that they are the replacement for that entity in that universe... but sometimes it turns out that last statement is not true. In other words, this is an aversion of the CelebrityParadox, in-universe. |
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| 15 | In this trope, an Expy lives alongside the original characters, and nothing is weird about that. If there is a gang of famous characters, he might be part of that gang in that show's universe. These are common in animated shows that straddle the line between cartoon and reality, such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether''. They may often be said to be a fan, a friend, or a [[SitcomArchnemesis hated rival]] of the real person whom they are an Expy of. |
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| 17 | Also, if this story takes place in our universe, and it is established that the Expy and the original both exist as fictional entities, that would raise the question as to why the creator has not sent a cease-and-desist letter, or sued them for everything they have. |
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| 19 | Note: this trope does not apply when the character is NOT an Expy of a famous character, but hangs out with famous characters or people. For example, in ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', Jay Sherman is a famous TV film critic who is friends with other famous real-life critics, like Creator/GeneSiskel, Creator/RogerEbert, Gene Shalit, Rex Reed, etc. But because Jay is not intended to be a direct take on any of them, this trope does not apply. Compare and contrast with LawyerFriendlyCameo, CelebrityParadox and MutuallyFictional. If the original starts to trash-talk the expy when they run into them, that's KnockingTheKnockoff. |
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| 22 | |
| 23 | !!Example subpages: |
| 24 | |
| 25 | [[index]] |
| 26 | * ExpyCoexistence/ComicBooks |
| 27 | * ExpyCoexistence/WesternAnimation |
| 28 | [[/index]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | !!Other examples: |
| 31 | |
| 32 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 33 | |
| 34 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 35 | * The notorious UsefulNotes/McDonalds mascot Happy was created to cash in on the popularity of the Minions from the ''Franchise/DespicableMe'' franchise, with ads for Happy Meal tie-ins to ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}'' featuring Happies interacting with Minions. |
| 36 | [[/folder]] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 39 | * Suzu of ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' shares several traits with Empress Iyo, the deuteragonist of Creator/KentaroYabuki's first manga ''Yamato Gensouki''. Iyo implicitly exists in the past of ''Ayakashi Triangle'' just by merit of being a HistoricalDomainCharacter, and a one-panel flashback heavily suggests she or her mother Himiko [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy was an ayakashi medium, and thus one of the Suzu's past lives]]. Eventually, more elements of ''Yamato Gensouki'' are overtly {{Canon Weld|ing}}ed in, [[spoiler:establishing the woman seen as Himiko and Iyo (who has the same character design) as the first ayakashi medium]]. |
| 40 | * In ''Manga/BillyBat'', mangaka Zofuu-sensei is likely modeled upon Creator/OsamuTezuka, trademark beret included, but Tezuka is mentioned as being an influential famous comic book artist. |
| 41 | * ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' features recurring manga ''Gintaman'', which is basically [[SelfParody the same series]] run through the trope filter hundreds of times. ''Gintama'' itself ''[[RecursiveFiction also]]'' exists in-universe, best shown when Gintoki hits Kintoki over the head with every volume up to that point in his debut arc. |
| 42 | * Several installments of ''Franchise/LupinIII'' have featured Expies or supposed descendants of Literature/SherlockHolmes, such as Holmes III from ''[[Anime/LupinIIIPartII Part 2]]'' and Kōsuke Holmes Akechi from ''[[Anime/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure Part 4]]''. The plot of ''Anime/LupinIIIPart6'' sees Lupin clash with the ''real'' Sherlock Holmes after being framed for the murder of John Watson. |
| 43 | * Hawks of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' was created to substitute a role intended for the bird man Takahiro, a {{Transplant}} from ''Manga/OumagadokiDoubutsuen''. Takahiro finally showed up as a pro hero in ''Anime/MyHeroAcademiaTwoHeroes'', meaning both heroes are operating in-universe. |
| 44 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 45 | ** The Japanese intro to one special shows that the [[TheRival rival]] from ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' exists in the anime universe. Years later he was given an expy in Ash's Sinnoh rival Paul. |
| 46 | ** Dawn has a {{Childhood Friend|s}} named Kenny who has a similar role and design to the rival from ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl''. Later in that same arc, the rival ''did'' appear as Barry. As the result of this, Barry isn't Dawn's childhood friend [[AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul unlike in the games]]. |
| 47 | ** Delibird is clearly inspired by SantaClaus, who has also appeared in the anime. In fact, the two have appeared together in an episode. |
| 48 | ** The protagonist of ''Anime/TheLegendofThunder'' is named Jimmy, based on the male protagonist of the Generation II games. |
| 49 | ** ''Anime/PokemonZoroarkMasterofIllusions'' featured an identical character named Ethan, said game protagonist's official name. |
| 50 | ** The Generation V games ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackandWhite'' takes place in the Unova region, based on [[BigApplesauce New York City]]. The movie ''Anime/PokemonGenesectandtheLegendAwakened'' takes place in another New York-based region called New ''Tork'' City. |
| 51 | ** Speaking of which, there are now ''two'' Mewtwo seen in the anime. |
| 52 | ** ''Anime/PokemonTheRiseofDarkrai'' takes place in a Spanish-themed city. ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletandViolet'' take place in the Spanish-based Paldea region. |
| 53 | * The ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' franchise has multiple cases of characters being reused, though the most prominent example would probably be Nanoha herself and Miura. What makes this one especially noticable is that Miura is probably the only expy in the series that fufils a completely different role from their original (Nanoha is the primary protagonist of the franchise and Miura is a secondary FriendlyRival to Nanoha's daughter). |
| 54 | * ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': |
| 55 | ** Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon was created as an {{Expy}} of Minako Aino/Sailor Venus, who originally starred in a 1991 one-shot manga that eventually became the franchise's prequel ''Manga/CodenameSailorV''. Though Minako starts off as Sailor V in that series, she later made her debut as Sailor Venus in the ''Sailor Moon'' manga and joined the main cast. Since Minako and Usagi are already very similar in personality and looks, [[Anime/SailorMoon the anime]] attempted differentiate the two, first by making Minako more serious, but then by making her ''sillier'' (though still comparably more responsible). |
| 56 | ** Usagi's MentorMascot Luna was created to be a [[DistaffCounterpart female]] equivalent of Artemis from ''Codename: Sailor V'', who ended up joining the cast of ''Sailor Moon'' along with Minako. Artemis and Luna would generally work in concert, and are established as future romantic partners, but also display [[RedOniBlueOni contrasting temperaments]] --though the manga and first anime switch around which is overbearing (manga Artemis, anime Luna) or laid-back (manga Luna, anime Artemis). |
| 57 | * Creator/StudioTrigger's ''Anime/SpacePatrolLuluco'' has Over Justice, a HotBlooded skeletal police chief, just as Studio Trigger's ''WebAnimation/InfernoCop'''s titular character was a HotBlooded skeletal police officer. When Luluco [[spoiler:dies and is sent to Hell]], she meets Inferno Cop, who even turns out to be an old friend of Over Justice's. Ironically, Inferno Cop has [[TookALevelInKindness mellowed out]] since his last appearance, and is amused by Luluco's belief that he resembles Over Justice. |
| 58 | [[/folder]] |
| 59 | |
| 60 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 61 | * ''ComicStrip/BrewsterRockitSpaceGuy'': One of the most recurring villains is the Darth Vader {{expy}} Dirk Raider. However, the original [[Film/ANewHope Darth Vader]] has also made a surprising number of cameos over the years. |
| 62 | * Battom Comics in ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'' is a pastiche of Creator/MarvelComics, and its founders Flash Freeman and Phil Holt are Creator/StanLee (who Kirby famously parodied as Funky Flashman) and Creator/JackKirby-with-a-dash-of-Creator/SteveDitko. Marvel Comics also exists, and at one point Freeman quotes an old Stan's Soapbox. |
| 63 | [[/folder]] |
| 64 | |
| 65 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 66 | * Rachel, protagonist of ''Fanfic/BeyondTheBorders'', is loosely based on Tempest, the protagonist of the author's previous fic, ''A Decent Self-Insert, probably''. While Tempest hasn't appeared "on-screen", Rachel offhandedly lists her among some people she knows on the internet, thus confirming that she exists in this universe as well. |
| 67 | * Since ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBoilingPoint'' is inspired by ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'', the main trio (Boscha, Chris, and Phosphophyllite) are based on the Red Lotus Trio from the latter. [[spoiler: Chapter 7 eventually reveals that a version of the Red Lotus Trio exists in this universe, with them being fully revealed by Chapter 13.]] |
| 68 | * Count von Krolock from ''Film/TheFearlessVampireKillers'' and its musical adaptation ''Theatre/TanzDerVampire'' is an expy of Dracula- specifically, the taciturn Franchise/HammerHorror version played by Creator/ChristopherLee. In the ''Tanz der Vampire'' fic ''FanFic/ABriefHistoryOfTheVampiricalCareerOfTheGrafVonKrolockAndHisSon'', Krolock is given a very different backstory from Dracula (a semi-reclusive nobleman who devoted himself to his studies and avoided marriage until he unexpectedly fell in love in his early fifties rather than a proud warlord) and Dracula, though unnamed, is obviously Krolock's vampiric sire. [[spoiler:This also makes Dracula the GreaterScopeVillain of ''Tanz der Vampire'', because he and his brides imprisoned Krolock while Krolock completed his vampire transformation, delaying Krolock from getting to his dying wife Isabella in time to save her by turning her into a vampire too and making him into the bitter nihilist he is by ''Tanz'' proper.]] |
| 69 | * ''FanFic/LiquidsResidentEvil'': Elza Walker was created for ''Resident Evil 1.5.'', the prototype of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'', and redesigned into Claire. In this series, Elza is a full-fledged character, with her and Claire even meeting and working together during the events of ''Code Veronica''. |
| 70 | * ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaMechanicalGreen'': Durandal, a RobotDog that functions as an emotional support animal for [[GenderFlip Izumi]] after she tried and failed [[DrivenToSuicide to kill herself]], is an expy of numerous robot dogs, including Blade Wolf from ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''. Numerous characters, including Durandal himself, make reference to the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series existing InUniverse though, with even Tomura Shigaraki saying [[spoiler:Izumi's Sports Festival match with Mei while both wore PoweredArmor made from their robot dogs]] felt like the long awaited sequel to ''Revengeance''. |
| 71 | * As noted in the Anime & Manga {{Expy}} subpage, [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ritchie is an expy to both Ash]] and Red, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' videogames. In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Red exists along with both Ash and Ritchie in the new timeline, [[spoiler:and they're all paternal half-siblings]]. |
| 72 | * ''FanFic/TalesOfSonicTheHedgehog'': |
| 73 | ** In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', Madonna Garnet was created as a replacement for [[Anime/SonicX Topaz]]. Here, they both work for GUN and are sisters. |
| 74 | ** Keith Kent hails from a separate ''Sonic'' fic, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13522466/1/Sonic-Adventures Sonic Adventures]]'', where he serves as an expy of Chris. Here, they're maternal cousins. |
| 75 | * ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'' is primarily based on the [[Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon movies and TV show]], and Astrid is a major character, but it also includes Camicazi, the inspiration for Astrid from [[Literature/HowToTrainYourDragon the books]].[[note]]Though here her name is changed to the more believable "Camilla".[[/note]] |
| 76 | * ''Fanfic/ToFuelTheGutteringFlame'': Catalyst, who is always keeping an eye out for important names and figures, runs into this problem when she meets [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the dockworker Orion Pax]]. Immediately afterwards she learns of/is introduced to [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Optimus the space bridge repairman]], [[DubNameChange Convoy]], [[ComicBook/TransformersGenerationOne Optronix]], a yellow Optima, [[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW Guardsmech Pax]], and [[Franchise/TransformersAlignedUniverse a lookalike scrap eater out in the dump]] all in one scene. |
| 77 | * ''Fanfic/WorldWarEtheria'': The fic incorporates the Star ''Sisters'', background characters in [[Recap/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerS1E08PrincessProm Princess Prom]], are major players for a large part of the story. When the action moves to space the Star ''Siblings'' from [[Recap/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerS5E04Stranded Stranded]] show up, and are equally relevant to the plot. Two members from each trio and even hook up at the end. |
| 78 | [[/folder]] |
| 79 | |
| 80 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 81 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Animal Crackers|2017}}'': The character of Horatio was partially inspired by Music/ElvisPresley. At one point in his VillainSong, Horatio laments that he "should've been bigger than Elvis, with the fortune of a king." |
| 82 | * Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' features an underwater kingdom called Atlantica, based on the myth of {{Atlantis}}, and is inhabited by merpeople and anthropomorphic sea creatures. Disney's ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', features the ''actual'' [[ExactlyWhatitSaysontheTin Atlantis]], which unlike Atlantica, is located inside a massive cave beneath the ocean floor instead of simply being underwater and is inhabited by LongLived, magical, air-breathing humans sporting MysticalWhiteHair. |
| 83 | * At one point in ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie'' Barry is interviewed by a bee version of Larry King which gets lampshaded when Barry informs him that humans have their own version of him. |
| 84 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Ernesto de la Cruz is influenced by various Mexican actors and singers, with the creators specifically citing Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete as inspirations for his persona and singing ability - so at one point he briefly bumps into [[https://preview.redd.it/80xgrsrz9qk01.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=fb07f26e6a3c9764a4be019c6f308743bf929834 both of them]]. |
| 85 | * Creator/RaymondBriggs's father, [[WesternAnimation/EthelAndErnest Ernest]] makes a background cameo in ''ComicBook/FatherChristmas''. There's another cameo from Jim and Hilda Bloggs from ''WesternAnimation/WhenTheWindBlows'', whom Briggs based on his parents. |
| 86 | * Dracula's father, Vlad from ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania2'' LooksLikeOrlok. It's a rare case of him being an expy of an expy of his own son. |
| 87 | * Downplayed by Louis in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''. His name and mannerisms make him a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed caricature of Music/LouisArmstrong. In his song, he openly name-drops Armstrong as one of his inspirations as a trumpet player. |
| 88 | * ''[[WebAnimation/QueerDuck Queer Duck: The Movie]]'' begins with Queer Duck attempting to organize a gay day at the theme park Happyland. Happyland is an obvious pastiche of Disneyland, but a statement by Queer Duck's boyfriend Openly Gator indicates that Disneyland exists in the same universe. |
| 89 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'': By Johnny Depp's own admission, the titular character is heavily influenced by Creator/HunterSThompson's [[Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas Raoul Duke]] persona. Since the movie is set in the desert surrounding Las Vegas, it was perhaps inevitable that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Sjm8VW1Rs Duke himself would show up]]. |
| 90 | * ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': |
| 91 | ** Two of the main characters, Fix-It Felix Jr. and Wreck-It Ralph, are from a video game known as ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'', an old arcade game from TheEighties that is modeled after ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' and ''VideoGame/WreckingCrew''. While Fix-It Felix is an expy of [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]], he also offhandedly mentions that Mario himself was supposed to come to their 30th anniversary party but is "fashionably late, as per the norm".[[note]]Mario was supposed to appear in the movie, but he was left out due to the writers not wanting him to overshadow the main characters. A planned appearance in the sequel fell through when Universal got the movie rights.[[/note]] |
| 92 | ** ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' has a company example: there's dozens of real-world brands throughout the film, but the video uploading site [=BuzzzTube=] is a fictional Website/YouTube analogue. However, the Website/YouTube logo can be seen in the film and the site is even mentioned once by Yesss, [=BuzzzTube=]'s main algorithm. |
| 93 | * ''Animation/HappyHeroes2TheBattleOfPlanetQiyuan'': Mr. Lightbulb intends to hire Aprilday, a band which is a reference to the Taiwanese band Mayday, for the racing competition. When he is told he isn't able to book them, he asks if he can hire the real Mayday instead. |
| 94 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' features an arcade cabinet spoofing ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' called ''[[MythologyGag Jumpman]]'' replacing the title ape with a yeti inside a restaurant at the very beginning of the movie, which is even played by an old man named Giuseppe who looks like Mario's appearance in his debut and is voiced by Creator/CharlesMartinet. Later, Mario meets Donkey Kong himself, with the two being treated as being real people in this universe. |
| 95 | * The Disney Animated Canon has ''three'' different incarnations of the Wishing Star: ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023'' has an [[SentientStars anthropomorphic star]] [[ADogNamedDog named "Star"]] act as the Wishing Star, ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' has Evangeline, Ray the firefly's love interest, who is heavily implied to be sentient, [[spoiler: and Ray himself becomes a star after he dies during the final battle against the Shadow Man]], and finally, ''{{WesternAnimation/Pinocchio}}'' has the original incarnation of the Wishing Star in the form of the Blue Fairy. Oddly, ''Wish'' was marketed as the OriginsEpisode for the star in the other two movies, to the point that TheStinger has [[spoiler: Sabino composing "When You Wish Upon a Star"]], even though this backstory would appear to be incompatible with ''Pinocchio'''s explanation. |
| 96 | [[/folder]] |
| 97 | |
| 98 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 99 | * Creator/BillyWilder's ''Film/AceInTheHole1951'' is partly based on the 1925 case of Floyd Collins, a man who became trapped in a cave while the attempts to rescue him turned into a media circus. The protagonist, a reporter covering the incident, mentions Floyd Collins as a similar case from a few decades ago. |
| 100 | * Gary Winston, the BigBad of ''Film/{{Antitrust}}'', is transparently based on Bill Gates, but Gates is also acknowledged as existing in the movie, apparently as a rival. At one point Winston turns his nose up when a piece of technology he owns is compared to a similar one that Gates has in real life, and replies that Gates' version of the technology is primitive. |
| 101 | * ''Film/BigDaddy'' has a show with a singing kangaroo which is an obvious parody of [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney the Dinosaur]] but a dialogue with Sonny and Julian reveals that Barney as a show exists as well. |
| 102 | * ''Film/BladesOfGlory'' heavily involves the World Winter Sports Games, a lawyer-friendly parody of the Winter UsefulNotes/OlympicGames, but a coach mentions having trained other skaters who did compete at the Olympics. |
| 103 | * Near the end of ''Film/ChipnDaleRescueRangers2022'', while Chip and Dale are being chased by [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Sweet]] [[AdaptationalVillainy Pete]] and his henchmen, [[Creator/SethRogen Bob the Viking]] ends up running into [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019 the 2019 version of Pumbaa]], [[Franchise/KungFuPanda Mantis]], and [[WesternAnimation/MonstersvsAliens B.O.B.]] during the ensuing scuffle. Go on. Guess who voices these characters. |
| 104 | * An attempt that backfired big-time: at the very beginning of ''Film/CitizenKane'', a throwaway line compares Charles Foster Kane to the RealLife media magnate William Randolph Hearst, acknowledging that Kane is a completely different (to not mention fictional) person. Hearst still felt incredibly insulted at what the movie supposedly implied of him and used all of the power of his media empire to try to censor the film and make Creator/OrsonWelles' life a living hell. |
| 105 | * In ''Film/ClubDread'', the singer Coconut Pete is clearly based off Jimmy Buffett, but he swears that Buffett ripped him off and that his song "Pinacoladaburg" actually predates "Margaritaville." |
| 106 | * The events in ''Film/DantesPeak'' are inspired by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, but characters make comparisons to Mount St. Helens and Dr. Dalton’s team are introduced as working at a RealLife volcano observatory named for a geologist killed in that eruption. Somewhat justified as [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest the Cascades]] ''are'' a volcanic region and another such eruption occurring in the region is completely plausible. |
| 107 | * In ''Film/DeathToSmoochy'', Smoochy the purple rhino is modeled after [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney the purple dinosaur]]. One of the insults Randolph hurls at him during a tirade is "bastard son of Barney", establishing that Barney also exists in-universe. |
| 108 | * ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate'': Alexander Cullen is clearly inspired by UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, to the point that he is shown to reside in Trump's real life apartment in Trump Tower. However, a party scene has a minor character state "Donald Trump was supposed to be here tonight but he had a business emergency". |
| 109 | * ''Franchise/EvilDead'': ''Film/EvilDead2013'' is all but stated to be a StealthSequel to the original trilogy by to [[spoiler: Ash Williams appearing in TheStinger.]] However, ''Series/AshVsEvilDead'' and WordOfGod before that confirmed that the events of [[Film/TheEvilDead1981 the original movie,]] and not the recaps seen in its sequels in which all of the original film's cast were AdaptedOut, are canon, meaning two very similar groups of friends went to the same cabin and got possessed by Deadites roughly 30 years apart, and Olivia, Eric and Natalie will meet Linda, Scotty and Shelly in Heaven. |
| 110 | * ''Film/TheFrighteners'': BigBad John Charles Bartlett is inspired by SpreeKiller Charles Starkweather, [[spoiler:down to having an underage girlfriend who helped him with his murders]]. Bartlett clearly idolizes Starkweather, mentioning him multiple times and just as he is about to be executed, he brags that he managed to [[BodyCountCompetition beat Starkweather's bodycount]]. |
| 111 | * In the 2005 remake of ''Film/FunWithDickAndJane'', the events surrounding Globaldyne are clearly inspired by the Enron scandal. The movie ends with one of Dick's old coworkers bragging about his great new job... at Enron. |
| 112 | * ''Film/GalaxyQuest'': The film is an AffectionateParody of ''Franchise/StarTrek'', from the show itself to the fandom. In the novelization, one of the fans suggests they join a ''Star Trek'' fanclub, much to the ire of Brandon. |
| 113 | * In ''Film/TheIdentical'', one of the separated twins grows up to be Music/ElvisPresley in all but name. He has the same basic backstory as Elvis, with the same music style. However, one scene reveals that Elvis already exists in this universe. It makes you wonder what Elvis himself would have to say about someone ''exactly'' like him. |
| 114 | * The BigBad of ''Film/InTheMouthOfMadness'', Sutter Kane, is a pretty blatantly obvious Creator/StephenKing-expy. King himself is also revealed to exist in the film's universe, but it's said Kane's novels are more popular than his. |
| 115 | * In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', the titular skull is based on the many crystal skulls that were "discovered" in the late 19th century and early 20th century. It even has [[AncientAstronauts similar lore]] to some of the skulls as claimed by the skulls' owners at the time and conspiracy theorists in the modern day (for example, having healing powers, belonging to a lost {{Mayincatec}} civilisation, and being the skull of an alien). However, in the film, Indy dismisses all of the skulls that exist in real life as fakes, outright stating that he examined the Mitchell-Hedges skull personally and the only remarkable thing about it was the "interesting tooling". |
| 116 | * ''Film/IronMan'': The movie's portrayal of Tony Stark is based on Elon Musk. In the second movie, Elon Musk appears AsHimself and meets with Tony to pitch an idea for an electric jet. |
| 117 | * French film ''Film/TheJudgeAndTheAssassin'' features serial killer Joseph Bouvier who is heavily based on real-life French serial killer Joseph Vacher, emulating many of the things that happened in his life. However, a newspaper cover in the movie has the tagline "A new Vacher?", showing that Joseph Vacher exists/has existed in this universe. |
| 118 | * In ''Film/TheLastSamurai'', one of Katsumoto and Algren's conversations establishes that George Custer and his last stand existed in this universe just like in real life. Yet there's a villain (Colonel Bagley) who might as well be Custer, both in appearance and in being an arrogant, racist 7th Cavalry officer who's massacred Native Americans. |
| 119 | * The main character of ''Film/TheLifeAquaticWithSteveZissou'' [[MockCousteau has a lot in common with]] Creator/JacquesCousteau (although according to [[WordOfGod Wes Anderson]], he's also based on some other famous explorers from Anderson's youth, like Thor Heyerdahl), but at one point, Zissou refers to "Cousteau and his cronies" as rivals. |
| 120 | * ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'' features the historical Mexican bandit Joaquin Murieta in a small role (he dies early in the movie), while Joaquin's brother Alejandro (a fictional character) is trained by an ageing Don Diego to replace him under the costume of Franchise/{{Zorro}}. Joaquin Murieta has been speculated to be one of the sources of inspiration for the character of Zorro. |
| 121 | * In ''Film/{{Network}}'', the Ecumenical Liberation Army is an obvious parody of the Symbionese Liberation Army--but then the SLA is mentioned and the similarities are noted ("There's a hell of a lot of liberation armies in the revolutionary underground and a lot of kidnapped heiresses"). |
| 122 | * The ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' franchise establishes that Rocky Marciano, Joe Frazier, and Muhammad Ali all exist in its universe, despite the former two being inspirations for Balboa and the latter an inspiration for Apollo Creed. |
| 123 | * ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'': |
| 124 | -->'''Yogurt:''' I am the keeper of a greater magic. A power known throughout the universe, known as....\ |
| 125 | '''Barf:''' The Force?\ |
| 126 | '''Yogurt:''' No. The Schwartz. |
| 127 | ** Earlier, President Skroob agrees to get beamed via teleporter manned by a ''very'' Scottish engineer and says "It always works on ''Franchise/StarTrek''." |
| 128 | * ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'': The fictitious Heart of the Ocean has an identical backstory to the real Hope Diamond, which was originally known as the Blue Diamond of the French Crown, or French Blue, and disappeared in 1792 during the French Revolution before getting recut into a new shape. Brock mentions the Hope Diamond by name, saying that the Heart of the Ocean would be worth far more. |
| 129 | * ''Film/UltramanSaga'' introduces Taiga Nozomu, who the rest of [[Series/UltramanDyna Super GUTS]] note is extremely similar to Shin Asuka, Dyna's host. Taken a step further when Taiga becomes the host to Franchise/UltramanZero. [[spoiler:By the film's climax, Taiga as Zero and Shin as Dyna are fighting side by side against Hyper Zetton.]] |
| 130 | * ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'': Dr. Frederick Frankenstein gets very annoyed when people mention his relation to his grandfather, the ''original'' Victor Frankenstein. |
| 131 | [[/folder]] |
| 132 | |
| 133 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 134 | * Several works by Creator/KimNewman feature or refer to Dr. Shade, a vigilante similar to Radio/TheShadow. In "The Original Dr. Shade", about a writer working on modern reboot series about the character, it's mentioned that the Shadow also exists in-universe and the Shadow's publishers once sued Dr. Shade's publishers over the resemblance. |
| 135 | * Count Orlok from ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'' was written as a copyright-friendly ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''. ''Literature/AnnoDracula'' has Drac ruling Britain and Count Orlok running the Tower of London. |
| 136 | * In ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet'' (and its [[WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective famous adaptation]]), the titular [[SherlockHomage detective mouse]] lives under the floor boards of the real Sherlock who makes short cameos in the film. |
| 137 | * ''Literature/BimbosOfTheDeathSun'': Murder victim and author Appin Dungannon is short, has a HairTriggerTemper and tremendous ego, and is something of a DirtyOldMan. The story goes out of the way to mention that Creator/HarlanEllison might be a good candidate to write his eulogy. |
| 138 | * Frankenstein-818 in ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'' is a robot who's adopted a persona and mannerism inspired by [[FrankensteinsMonster Baron Frankenstein]], complete with his own castle and his own [[TheIgor hunchbacked assistant]] — because he apprenticed under the real deal. |
| 139 | * Miranda Priestly in ''Literature/TheDevilWearsPrada'' is based on Anna Wintour, the notoriously formidable editor-in-chief of ''Vogue''. It's said that Lauren Weisberger wrote the book as a means of revenge on Wintour for being a BadBoss to her when Weisberger was her PA. In the book, Priestly and Wintour are in one scene said to be bitter rivals. Anna Wintour herself actually turned up to the premiere of the FilmOfTheBook, [[RefugeInAudacity wearing Prada]]. |
| 140 | * ''Literature/DiogenesClub'': |
| 141 | ** The BigBad of the series is a powerful media mogul based on UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch. The story "You Don't Have to Be Mad..." features several RealLife people who were significant in the eighties, each referenced by an abreviation of their name that also serves as a play on their particular obsession. One is an Australian who wants everyone to think what he thinks, and sucks up to "[[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Mrs Empty]]", known as "Rumour". |
| 142 | ** In the the 1970s section of ''Literature/SevenStars'' it's briefly mentioned that the less traditional members of the Club include "King", who is almost certainly Series/JasonKing. Richard Jeperson, the extremely seventies main character of the Diogenes series, is a Jason King pastiche. |
| 143 | ** "Literature/SorcererConjurerWizardWitch" features multiple occultists from other sources such as [[Film/TheMagician Oliver Haddo]] and [[Film/NightOfTheDemon Julian Karswell]], who are NoCelebritiesWereHarmed versions of Alistair Crowley. In addition, "Literature/AngelDownSussex" features the ''real'' Crowley. |
| 144 | * The ''Franchise/DoctorWho'' ''Literature/NewSeriesAdventures'' novel, ''Winner Takes All'' has a ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' expy called Percy The Porcupine. ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'' later appears listed amongst Mickey's video games. |
| 145 | * ''Literature/{{Fangirl}}'': main character Cath writes fanfiction for the ''Simon Snow'' books, a series about a boy attending a magical school in Britain that acts as a clear stand-in for ''Franchise/HarryPotter''. However, the ''Harry Potter'' books ''also'' exist in this universe. WordOfGod says that they are DuelingWorks. The ''Simon Snow'' series was later [[{{Defictionalization}} defictionalised]] – sort of – as ''Literature/CarryOn''. |
| 146 | * Andi Ra' coming to Earth to warn humanity in ''Literature/GoMutants'', is based on Klaatu from ''[[Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951 The Day The Earth Stood Still]]'' though Klaatu is mentioned as a separate character and his robot master Gort makes a cameo cutting some grass. |
| 147 | * ''High Society'' by Creator/BenElton features a character who is clearly 'inspired' by Robbie Williams. However, Robbie Williams is mentioned in the book and the character in question has even met him. |
| 148 | * ORSK in ''Literature/{{Horrorstor}}'' is clearly a satire of IKEA, yet it's established on the first page of prose that in-universe it's just a bargain basement ripoff of the actual IKEA. |
| 149 | * ''Literature/InCryptid'' has both Ride/WaltDisneyWorld and its expy Lowryland, which are mentioned to be competitors both located in Florida. |
| 150 | * In his expanded adventures in novels and comics, Franchise/IndianaJones has mentioned (and sometimes teamed up with) several of the real-life explorers who have been suggested as inspirations for the character, including Percy Fawcett and Hiram Bingham. |
| 151 | * ''Franchise/IrisWildthyme'' was written as a female parody of ''Franchise/DoctorWho''. When her author, Paul Magrs started writing ''Doctor Who'' tie-in novels, she was [[CanonWelding Canon Welded]] into the series as another Time Lord. |
| 152 | * In Creator/SinclairLewis's novel ''Literature/ItCantHappenHere'', a right-wing demagogue named Buzz Windrip becomes President of the United States and establishes a fascist dictatorship. Windrip is clearly based on UsefulNotes/HueyLong, but Long is mentioned a few times in the book and compared to Windrip. |
| 153 | * ''Literature/{{Jago}}'' by Creator/KimNewman is set in a fictional Somerset village with an annual music festival similar to the real-life Glastonbury Festival. At one point, a character reels off a list of other locations in England with their own music festivals, and buried in the list is Pilton, the real Somerset village that hosts the Glastonbury Festival. |
| 154 | * In ''Literature/TheKrakenWakes'', the main character works for the EBC (English Broadcasting Company). There's a running gag of people saying "don't you mean ''B''BC?". |
| 155 | * At one point in ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'', the VillainProtagonist Humbert Humbert refers to a real-life child abduction case which is thought to be one of the inspirations for the novel's story: "Had I done to Dolly, perhaps, what Frank Lasalle, a fifty-year-old mechanic, had done to eleven-year-old Sally Horner in 1948?" |
| 156 | * Lev Grossman's ''Literature/TheMagicians'' series satirizes both Harry Potter and Chronicles of Narnia. The Potter books are occasionally mentioned by the characters. WordOfGod is inconsistent if the Narnia books exist in this universe. [[https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-biography-of-christopher-plover-from-lev-grossmans-1617911172 This in-universe site]] about Christopher Plover mentions him alongside other famous children's authors such a Creator/CSLewis, but Grossman [[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/08/a-brief-guide-to-the-hidden-allusions-in-the-magicians in an interview]] states that in the Magiciansverse, C.S. Lewis was never born, and that if he had been, he and Christopher Plover would have collapsed into each other and formed a space-time singularity. |
| 157 | * The Skarloey Railway and its engines in ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' are based on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales, and Skarloey and Rheneas frequently talk about their twins on the mainland (ie: the real engines they're based on). |
| 158 | * In the ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' sequel-by-other-hands ''Mycroft and Sherlock'', one of the {{Historical Domain Character}}s is Dr Joseph Bell, Arthur Conan Doyle's inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. |
| 159 | * ''Literature/SolarPons'' was one of the earlier [[SherlockHomage Sherlock Homages]] but a retired ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' is mentioned in the books but only referred as The Master. |
| 160 | * ''Literature/{{Superfolks}}'' protagonist, David Brinkley, Captain Mantra and Mary Mantra are based on Superman, [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] and Mary Marvel respectively. Most [=DC=] characters, exist in this universe, though Supes and the Marvels are all dead. |
| 161 | * ''Literature/WizardOfTheCrow'' is set in the fictional African Republic of Abiruria, modelled on Kenya. At one point, the dictator of Abiruria speaks slightingly of Kenya, establishing that it also exists as a separate country. |
| 162 | [[/folder]] |
| 163 | |
| 164 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 165 | * The second season of ''Series/AgentCarter'' featured as its BigBad an actress named Whitney Frost, whose backstory (a famous [[TheForties '40s]] actress who secretly is also a brilliant scientist) was confirmed by the showrunners to reference Creator/HedyLamarr. However, Lamarr is mentioned to also exist during the season. |
| 166 | * Season seven of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' features Oliver's paternal half-sister Emiko, who in the comics, is an {{expy}} of Thea, his maternal half-sister in the series, who in turn is an {{expy}} of Mia Dearden. Both Thea and Emiko meet in the GrandFinale. |
| 167 | ** Oliver Queen himself is more or less portrayed as an Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}-expy of ComicBook/{{Batman}}, making his portrayal DarkerAndEdgier than the ComicBook/GreenArrow of the comics. However, Bruce Wayne/Batman ''does'" exist in the Arrowverse, although he only appears as TheGhost or as an AlternateSelf from a different universe. |
| 168 | * The ''Series/Batwoman2019'''s second season featured Arthur Brown, alias Cluemaster, a highly intelligent InsufferableGenius obsessed with leaving clues behind to his next scheme, proving himself the smartest intellect on the planet, and figuring out how someone managed to outsmart him. All of that sounds exactly like that of ComicBook/TheRiddler (though Cluemaster claims Riddler is jealous of him and not the other way around), who exists (but is yet unseen) in the Arrowverse. |
| 169 | * ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Sheldon's favorite childhood TV show ''Professor Proton'' is quite similar to ''Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy'', which exists in-universe. When they meet each other, Proton accuses Nye of plagiarism. |
| 170 | -->'''Bill Nye:''' Wow, Arthur Jeffries. It's an honor to meet you. My show never would have happened without yours.\ |
| 171 | '''Arthur Jeffries:''' That's what I told my lawyers! |
| 172 | * ''Series/{{Blackadder}} Goes Forth'' had [[LargeHam General Melchett]], basically Field Marshal Haig with a Lord Kitchener moustache, as the most obvious and frequently-seen face of [[GeneralFailure good old-fashioned WWI strategic incompetence]]. Haig himself was later shown in the series; he's shown to have Melchett's utter disregard for human life but none of the delusional bombast. |
| 173 | * Several episodes of series 6 of ''Series/BlackMirror'' feature "Streamberry", a Creator/{{Netflix}}-like streaming service that even uses Netflix's signature "thomp" sound effect. However, Netflix itself is also mentioned as a rival service. |
| 174 | * ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' has the ''Skyfire Circle'' books, which Terry is a HUGE fan of: |
| 175 | -->'''Boyle:''' ''[in the middle of Terry describing the books]'' So it's a ''Series/GameOfThrones''-type thing. |
| 176 | -->'''Terry:''' No, ''Game of Thrones'' is a ''Skyfire''-type thing; get your head out of your ass! |
| 177 | * ''Series/{{Community}}'' features a DoctorWhomage called ''Inspector Spacetime''. Within the ''Community'' canon, it is established that ''Series/DoctorWho'' also exists but is a cheap knock-off of the original, superior and more popular ''Inspector Spacetime''. |
| 178 | * In another example of when the Expy hates the real-life counterpart, the villain of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episodes "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK Arachnids in the UK]]" and '[[Recap/DoctorWho2021NYSRevolutionOfTheDaleks Revolution of the Daleks]]" is a very obvious {{Trumplica}} -- who mentions that he hates UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and plans to run against him in 2020. |
| 179 | * ''Series/EliStone'': One episode features "Jason Turk" as an obvious stand-in for real-life UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball player Barry Bonds -- both were sluggers playing professional baseball for a team based in San Francisco under a cloud of steroid allegations. The actor playing Turk even bears a resemblance to Bonds. However, when a character refers to Turk as "San Francisco's favorite son", another character is quick to point out that San Francisco's favorite son is actually -- Barry Bonds. |
| 180 | * An episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' featured ''Space Patrol'', a CaptainErsatz of ''Franchise/StarTrek'', a franchise already established as existing on the show (Frasier even encounters a Klingon cosplayer in the episode where ''Space Patrol'' shows up). |
| 181 | * Tim Taylor from ''Series/HomeImprovement'': |
| 182 | ** Tim with his TV show, ''Tool Time'' was written as a parody of Bob Vila and ''Series/ThisOldHouse''. Vila occasionally appeared on the show as Tim's rival. |
| 183 | ** Tim appeared for a DoppelgangerCrossover in the ''[[Series/LastManStanding2011 Last Man Standing]]'' episode, "Dual Time" where he meets Tim Allen's character, Mike. ''Last Man Standing'' is a CreatorDrivenSuccessor where Mike is basically Tim if he had daughters instead of sons and a fishing show instead of a tool show. |
| 184 | * In ''Series/JustShootMe'', Jack Gallow is a {{Trumplica}} - a business mogul with a daughter from his first marriage and married to her former classmate. He has ongoing golf and business rivalries with Trump, often resulting in Jack having to do something humiliating like wearing a fish in his trousers or getting a tattoo. |
| 185 | --> '''Jack Gallow:''' Egomaniac has to have his name on everything. |
| 186 | * Happens in nearly every episode of the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' franchise. Whenever a character is a blatant {{Expy}} of a famous person, someone will make a single offhand reference to the RealLife inspiration, then that person will never be mentioned again, [[RippedFromTheHeadlines no matter how many eerie similarities pop up.]] |
| 187 | ** The ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Funny Valentine" featured a celebrity couple based on Music/ChrisBrown and Music/{{Rihanna}}, who Detective Munch snarkily suggests they go own a double date with. |
| 188 | ** The season 12 ''SVU'' episode "[[{{Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS12E15Flight}} Flight]]" and the season 20 two-parter "[[{{Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS21E9CantBeHeldAccountable}} Can't Be Held Accountable]]" & "[[{{Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS21E10MustBeHeldAccountable}} Must Be Held Accountable]]" each feature a VillainOfTheWeek {{Expy}} of Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 189 | ** The ''SVU'' episode "[[{{Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS5E19Sick}} Sick]]" and the mothership episode "[[{{Recap/LawAndOrderS13E24Smoke}} Smoke]]" each feature a VillainOfTheWeek {{Expy}} of Michael Jackson. |
| 190 | ** The mothership episode "Publish and Perish" and the ''Criminal Intent'' episode "My Good Name" both feature characters that are obviously based on disgraced former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik. |
| 191 | ** There have been three [[{{Expy}} expies]] of Ann Coulter across the franchise, and a few references to the real one. |
| 192 | * Being a stoic Mandalorian bounty hunter with a mysterious past and a cool suit of armor, [[Characters/StarWarsTheMandalorianCharacterSheet the titular protagonist]] of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' was clearly influenced by [[Characters/StarWarsBobaFett Boba Fett]] from the original ''Franchise/StarWars'' movies (and there are persistent rumors online about how much, if any, of the cancelled Boba Fett movie was ported into the show). However, Boba Fett himself appears in the show's second season (with Creator/TemueraMorrison reprising his role) and teams up with the Mandalorian. Going full circle, Boba Fett would even receive his [[Series/TheBookOfBobaFett own series]] with the Mandalorian guest starring in a few episodes. |
| 193 | * One episode of ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' features a ChurchOfHappyology whose legal defenses were explicitly compared to those used by the Church of Scientology. |
| 194 | * Season 4 of ''Series/OnceUponATime'' features both [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Princess Elsa]] and her original fairytale inspiration, Literature/TheSnowQueen. The two are even RelatedInTheAdaptation, with Ingrid the Snow Queen being Elsa and Anna's aunt. To an extent, this also applies to Anna and Gerda, as Elsa and Anna's mother is Gerda in the show instead of Idunn as in the movies. |
| 195 | * In ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' episode, "[[Recap/TheOfficeUSS7E14TheSeminar The Seminar]]", Michael meets David Brent. Brent is the character he was based on from ''Series/TheOfficeUK'' that the American show is based on. |
| 196 | * The 2017 remake of ''Os [=Trapalhões=]'' features a SupermanSubstitute named "Super Super". In one episode, he states his home planet was destroyed along with Krypton, suggesting Superman exists in Super Super's verse. |
| 197 | * ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' had an episode where the Conners visited Disney World almost immediately followed by another episode where they satirized the theme park and its company with an Expy called Edelweiss Gardens. While initially a TakeThat, the show's opinion seemed to reverse by mentioning the Gardens as essentially a bootleg Disney World. |
| 198 | * The ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' skit "Neurotology" is a fake music video produced by a ChurchOfHappyology, but one of the captions mentions that one of the cultists shown later "Switched to Scientology". |
| 199 | * In ''Series/SiliconValley'', Hooli is very clearly meant to be a parody of Google, yet Google and its founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin are frequently name-dropped. Likewise, Keenan Feldspar and his company Retinabyte are clearly a parody of Palmer Luckey and Oculus, but an entire subplot started due to Erlich's mistaken belief that Jian-Yang had developed an Oculus related app. |
| 200 | * ''Series/{{Superstore}}'': Cloud 9, the titular fictional superstore, is heavily based off UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}}, which Marcus namedrops in the Season 3 episode "Town Hall" (as well as Target and Costco). |
| 201 | * T'Pol in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' was originally conceived of as T'Pau from the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries original series]] episode [[Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime "Amok Time"]] before becoming a new, similarly named character. T'Pau herself eventually appeared and met T'Pol in a three-parter in ''Enterprise'' Season 4. |
| 202 | * In ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'', hotel magnate daughter [[UpperClassTwit London Tipton]], who is pretty much Creator/ParisHilton in all but name with the ditziness dialed up, offhandedly mentions Ms. Hilton when a teacher calls out having a spoiled heiress in her class. |
| 203 | * ''Series/TedLasso'': Fictional UsefulNotes/EnglishPremierLeague club AFC Richmond is heavily based on Crystal Palace FC, down to the show even using their stadium Selhurst Park to stand in for the fictional Nelson Road Stadium. However, Crystal Palace still exists in the show's universe and even shows up as Richmond's opponent in Ted's first match as manager. |
| 204 | * JustForFun/JohnMunch's cameo in ''Series/TheWire''. Munch is based on a real police officer named Jay Landsman. ''The Wire'' has a character named Jay Landsman, played by Delaney Williams, who is ''also'' based on the real Jay Landsman. As if that wasn't enough, the character Munch talks to, Lt. Mello, is ''played by'' the real Jay Landsman! |
| 205 | [[/folder]] |
| 206 | |
| 207 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 208 | * The fictional luchador Huracán Ramirez was created for a movie that was meant to star Wrestling/ElSanto but couldn't get the real thing, basically becoming Santo minus the {{mask|edLuchador}}. Mil Máscaras was an even more blatant Santo expy in that he did have a mask and, again, was created due to a contract dispute between Santo and a producer. [[Wrestling/{{CMLL}} EMLL]], the promotion that gave Santo his gimmick in the first place, decided to turn both of these fictional movie Santo knockoffs into [[{{defictionalization}} real luchadores on its live shows]]. |
| 209 | * Wrestling/TheGreatMuta has a different wrestling style than The Great Kabuki, but uses the same face painted look and the same cheats. In the USA's Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance territories, Muta was pushed as Kabuki's son. (They both get the look and cheats from Phillipeno wrestler Rey Urbano.) |
| 210 | * Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors have many knockoffs, homages, tributes and pastiches, Wrestling/ThePowersOfPain being the most obvious example and most relevant to this trope as they were put together with the long term goal of feuding with The Road Warriors, which they did. Wrestling/{{Demolition}} was a more obvious cash-in by a rival promotion, but they still ended up feuding with The Road Warriors and then the Powers Of Pain. In Wrestling/{{Chikara}}, The Devastation Corporation aren't just expies of the Road Warriors, but hearken back to the full on LegionOfDoom by having a manager in Wrestling/SidneyBakabella. However, while Chikara played up the similarities between Bakabella and Precious Wrestling/PaulEllering, they had Ellering manage Demolition instead of the Road Warriors in a match against the Devastation Corporation. |
| 211 | * Wrestling/JimmyJacobs was always a FanBoy of wrestlers like Wrestling/KevinSullivan, but gradually became a Kevin Sullivan expy after using a railroad spike he claimed was a gift from Sullivan himself. Then Sullivan himself showed up to kick Jacobs's ass, although he was allowed to keep using the spike. |
| 212 | * Wrestling/{{Abyss}} started off mostly as a Wrestling/{{Kane}} knockoff, but over the course of his Wrestling/{{TNA}} career became more and more like Mankind as well. This led up to Abyss being confronted by Mankind himself, Wrestling/MickFoley. |
| 213 | * Crosses over into ParodyAssistance with El Sensactional Carlitos, who was given a gimmick meant to mock the leading WrestlingFamily of rival fed WWC by IWA Puerto Rico. Carlitos ended up becoming a big star, but due to an internal attempt to sabotage IWA PR, he and TagTeam partner Hiram Tua were conned into leaving Puerto Rico and ended snatched up in WWC when they returned. WWC would then briefly team Carlitos up with Wrestling/{{Carlito C|olon}}aribbean Cool himself.[[/folder]] |
| 214 | |
| 215 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 216 | * ''Series/SesameStreet'' has had four seperate {{Trumplica}}s over the years: a grouch named Ronald Grump, a human named Ronald Grump, a grouch named Donald Grump, and an unnamed humanoid Muppet who met Donald Grump. There have also been several parody Muppets of celebrities who have themselves appeared on the show for SesameStreetCred. |
| 217 | * ''Series/TheMuppetsMayhem'' has in episode 7 a cameo by Creator/PeterJackson where he reminisces about the Muppets [[Film/MeetTheFeebles meeting the Feebles]] in Wellington. So, a show aired on Disney+ revealed that the Muppets exist alongside their raunchy and violent counterparts. |
| 218 | [[/folder]] |
| 219 | |
| 220 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 221 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' setting ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' was built on the premise of a prison-like Demiplane of Dread, where every domain is ruled by different villains imprisoned in it, with many of them being expies of well-known classic horror villains. This includes Strahd Von Zarovich, a ClassicalMovieVampire inspired by {{Dracula}} and opposed by Abraham Van Helsing expy, Rudolph Van Richten, Sir Tristen Hiregaard and Malken, expies of [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Doctor Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde]] ([[DivergentCharacterEvolution at least initially]]) and Victor (or [[GenderFlip Viktra in the fifth edition]]) Mordenheim, expy of [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Victor Frankenstein]]. Later Gothic Earth, a version of XIX-Century Earth populated by monstrous creatures, was introduced as part of Demiplane of Dread. On which Dracula, Abraham Van Helsing, Jekyll & Hyde and Victor Frankenstein all exist. However, the trope is downplayed as while the Gothic Earth characters and Darklords exist in one demiplane, the nature of it prevents them from interacting or knowing about each other. |
| 222 | [[/folder]] |
| 223 | |
| 224 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 225 | * ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'' is heavily based on the story of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Orpheus and Eurydice]]. Both Jasper and Agnes are aware of this myth before they wind up in a near-identical situation, [[spoiler:and Eurydice actually appears near the end of the second act]]. |
| 226 | * ''Theatre/TheResistibleRiseOfArturoUi'': Ui is a stand-in for UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. Each scene ends by displaying a news headline showing a story about the actual Hitler, which always mirrors whatever Ui was doing in the scene before. |
| 227 | * ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' is a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' parody, which mostly uses the original names and settings. However, Hogwarts is also shown having a rival school called "Pigfarts" whose staff are all expies of those at Hogwarts. |
| 228 | [[/folder]] |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 231 | * In 1981, ''Toys/HotWheels'' came out with Turismo, a car based off a modified casting for the [=DeLorean=] after failing to obtain a license from [=DMC=]. 30 years later, the brand released the actual [=DMC DeLorean=] in its lineup, which was even given a red iteration in 2015 with the original Turismo's paintjob as a nod. |
| 232 | [[/folder]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 235 | * ''VideoGame/ActionTaimanin'' had the characters interact with a demon called "The King Of Death Wraith". A neutrally-aligned, extremely powerful demon leading TheUndead, making him a clear reference to Teutates, another neutral undead demon of the franchise. But Teutates ''is'' stated to exist within ''Action''[='=]s timeline as well, with a Story Event featuring his minion Wight, who makes it clear Teutates and the King Of Death Wraith really don't get along and their respective undeads are enemies. |
| 236 | * In ''VideoGame/AlanWake'', the titular character is a celebrity horror author clearly inspired by Creator/StephenKing. Wake's OpeningMonologue begins with the words "Stephen King once wrote..." |
| 237 | * ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' has Jingle, the black nose reindeer as the holiday character for Toy Day who is a stand in for Santa Claus. ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'' reveals if you invite him to The Roost that he works for the real Santa. |
| 238 | * Liskarm from ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'' fights using a handgun and a ballistic shield capable of emitting [[BlindedByTheLight flashes of blinding light]], a loadout she shares with Blitz from ''VideoGame/RainbowSixSiege''. Fittingly, when the IntercontinuityCrossover ''Operation: Originium Dust'' saw four Operators from the latter make their way into the former, Blitz was one of them, and the event's story featured him fighting alongside Liskarm. |
| 239 | * ''VideoGame/BatenKaitosEternalWingsAndTheLostOcean'' features three Sacred Artifacts that act as expies of [[PublicDomainArtifact Imperial Regalia of Japan]]. However, the game also features a sword named "Kusanagi Blade", straight-up named after ''Kusanagi no Tsurugi''. There's nothing that prevents you from having both Kusanagi Blade and its aforementioned expy Sword of the Heavens in the same deck. |
| 240 | * ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'': Tyalie is [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]], a cheerful and energetic ball of sunshine with unexplained MediumAwareness, only as a GamerChick rather than a party pony. Pinkie Pie appears later in the game [[spoiler:and can be recruited for a single boss fight if talked to enough times]]. |
| 241 | * ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'': The game has a history of creating Killers that are expies of famous horror media antagonists, and subsequently introducing the originals as {{Guest Fighter}}s as soon as they're licensed to. In all cases, both characters fight and hunt in thematically similar but mechanically different manners. |
| 242 | ** "The Hillbilly" is a clear reference to [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], both being HillbillyHorrors armed with a [[BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon hammer]] and [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]]. A later update to the game introduced the actual Leatherface as a GuestFighter, known in-game as "The Cannibal". |
| 243 | ** Later updates added the killer known as "The Legion", a PsychoKnifeNut with a collective identity assumed by multiple people which involves wearing a [[InTheHood black hood]] and [[MalevolentMaskedMen white mask]]. This was done in reference to Ghostface from ''Film/{{Scream}}'', and eventually the Ghostface Killer himself [[note]]Specifically the costumed identity itself was licensed for the game; none of the characters from the movies are represented due to legal issues, so an original character was created to legally use the copyrighted mask associated with the costume.[[/note]] became a GuestFighter in a separate update. |
| 244 | ** The later-added killer "The Spirit"--real name Rin Yamaoka--is a StringyHairedGhostGirl who was an innocent woman before being brutally murdered, and after her death, becomes a powerful ''onryō'', a VengefulGhost fueled by ThePowerOfHate against the one who wronged her; all of this makes her a send-up to ''Literature/TheRing'''s Sadako Yamamura, one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s of the StringyHairedGhostGirl. Sadako herself was also added to the game later as yet another GuestFighter called "The Onryō". |
| 245 | * ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' is set in Fortune City, a mini UsefulNotes/LasVegas. In-universe, the real Vegas was destroyed in a zombie outbreak years prior. |
| 246 | * In ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', the creature Tessie who lives in Lake Tess in Winters is a StockNessMonster. A newspaper headline mentions Tessie is the cousin of Nessie. |
| 247 | * In ''VideoGame/Europe1200'', the available companions include Robin Hood and the historical English outlaws Roger Godberd and Fulk [=FitzWarin=], who has been speculated to be among the sources of inspiration for the Robin Hood legend. |
| 248 | * ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' features the Vikki and Vance Casino in the town of Primm, replacing Whisky Pete's, themed around a legendary OutlawCouple that got gunned down in their car in a police shootout near a bank... however, Bonnie and Clyde are explicitly mentioned and compared to them, and it's stated that they began their crime spree two days before Bonnie and Clyde. Vikki and Vance however were much smaller-time criminals (whose major crime was check fraud) who got shot only because they tragically happened to get in the line of fire of the police firing at ''real'' bank robbers. |
| 249 | * ''Franchise/FateSeries'': While Waver Velvet didn't ''start off'' as a SherlockHomage when introduced in ''Literature/FateZero'', he's acquired enough similarities to him by the time of ''Literature/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'' to warrant occasional LampshadeHanging. Naturally, with the franchise being the FantasyKitchenSink that it is, Sherlock Holmes also exists and even becomes the MissionControl in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'''s second MythArc. Should you manage to summon both of them as playable Servants, Holmes will even ask to have a chat with Waver (with one piece of official art implying that said chat involved [[HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs Holmes's stash of chemical assistance]]). |
| 250 | * ''VideoGame/FearAndHunger'': [[CrystalDragonJesus Alll-mer]] is a rather obvious counterpart for [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Jesus Christ]], with both being born to a virgin mother, gathering up a group of twelve disciples, being sentenced to death by crucifixion, and [[BackFromTheDead returning from the dead]]. [[DressingAsTheEnemy Donning a Dark Priest's robe]] and then talking to a Dark Priest teaching how to use Empty Scrolls results in Alll-mer being referred to as "our Christ". |
| 251 | * Chocobos from ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' were meant to be a reference to the Japanese candy Chocoball, whose mascot was a bird known for saying "Kweh". [[https://blog-001.west.edge.storage-yahoo.jp/res/blog-f3-b6/luuna_bird/folder/478064/27/15073127/img_0 Eventually, officially licensed Chocobo Chocoballs were made.]] |
| 252 | * ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'': |
| 253 | ** One of the game's older iconic skins is Reaper, an obvious CaptainErsatz of Franchise/JohnWick. Many seasons later, after ''Fortnite'' had become a CashCowFranchise, a licensing deal would be struck allowing an actual John Wick skin to be introduced. |
| 254 | ** This has actually happened with many skins. Lynx is an expy of ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} and ComicBook/BlackPanther, Rust Lord is an expy of ComicBook/StarLord, Carbide is an expy of ComicBook/IronMan, and ALL of these characters eventually got added to the game. |
| 255 | ** This has even happened with ''dances''. The "Ride The Pony" emote is one of the game's oldest emotes, available in the ''Save The World'' campaign from the very start, showing the player mimicking riding a horse while twirling a lasso, with one version of its music sounding suspiciously like "Music/GangnamStyle". In 2020, with the rise of Platform/{{TikTok}} leading to many of the app's popular dances being licensed for use in the game along with the original songs, the actual dance moves from "Gangnam Style" were added to the game, complete with the original music. |
| 256 | * The ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngelII'' trilogy's Emblem Frames of the Rune Angel Wing are essentially expies of those of the Moon Angel Wing from the first ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'' trilogy; Cross Caliber and First Aider, the Emblem Frames of Rico and Nano respectively, are the only ones to be expies of the Emblem Frames their pilots themselves are similar to (specifically Lucky Star and Harvester, the Emblem Frames of Rico's elder sister Milfie and Nano's adopted mom Vanilla respectively). The others are more of a mix-and-match (Lily's Eagle Gazer functions more akin to Chitose's Sharpshooter than Forte's Happy Trigger, in a straight swap with Natsume Izayoi and her Papillon Chaser, with a similar straight swap between Kahlua/Tequila's Spell Caster and Anise's Relic Raider in regards to Mint's Trick Master and Ranpha's Kung-Fu Fighter). Anise and Ranpha are the closest match between the roles of their respective Emblem Frames outside of the Hyper Weapon, as both are speedy GlassCannon-types of primarily red coloration. |
| 257 | * ''VideoGame/GigaBash'', through its DLC, has Franchise/{{Godzilla}} fighting alongside (or against) Rawa, and Series/{{Ultraman}} doing the same with Gigaman. |
| 258 | * In the Greek era of the ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' series, Kratos' character is greatly inspired by Heracles' backstory and traits in Myth/ClassicalMythology, mostly in the [[VideoGame/GodOfWarI first installment]]; both are powerful and skilled warriors sons of Zeus with a mortal woman who were manipulated by a god into killing their own families in a fit of mad wrath, thus having to perform many labours to be pardoned by Olympus. After accomplishing several tasks with the help of the gods, including killing the Hydra, and adventuring through the Underworld by the end of their journey, they are rewarded with godhood around the time of their deaths. Then, in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'', Kratos and Heracles — [[AncientGrome under his Roman name of Hercules]] — interact and fight, with Hercules being envious of Kratos for the attention and glory he had got from Zeus. |
| 259 | * In the VR game HappyFunland, the setting is an abandoned amusement park in South Florida, founded by a man named [[MrAltDisney Mort Grisly]], featuring the main mascot Randy Rodent. The game is basically "What if Disney World/Land was abandoned 30 years ago and left to rot?" However, at one point in game, [[Creator/{{WaltDisney}} Walt Disney]] is directly mentioned by name. |
| 260 | * ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'': There are a few skins based on heroes from across Blizzard's library which were later made into full-fledged heroes. |
| 261 | ** [=AzGul'dan=] is a skin for Azmodan based on Gul'dan from ''Warcraft''. The FlavorText indicates that it's from an AlternateUniverse where Gul'dan drank Azmodan's blood instead of Mannoroth's and was [[TransformationOfThePossessed twisted into this form]]. The actual Gul'dan was added as a playable hero around two years later. |
| 262 | ** Nova has a skin that makes her into an Amazon from ''VideoGame/DiabloII'', and Cassia, the Amazon's representative, was added in 2017. Although in this case, they had to design Cassia around the javelin build rather than the more popular crossbow build, since Nova already had the crossbow and they feared it would too easy to mix them up. |
| 263 | * ''VisualNovel/LastChanceInXollywood'' is a visual novel set in the future on the titular galactic film industry; however, Hollywood still exists on Earth and alien species are said to appreciate ([[HumansAreAverage sort of]]) Earthling movies. |
| 264 | * In ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestivalAllStars'', Kasumi Nakasu is an expy of Nico Yazawa, from the original series. With this game being an AlternateContinuity featuring all groups co-existing as mutual friends, the two of them interact with frequency, and given their [[AttentionWhore personalities]], [[TooMuchAlike they rarely manage to get along]]. |
| 265 | * In the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' series, Kabal and the Cyber Lin Kuei (Cyrax, Sektor, Cyborg Smoke, and--in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9''--[[spoiler:Cyber Sub-Zero]]) all drew inspiration from ''Film/ThePredator''. In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' a Predator was added as a GuestFighter. Though Kabal only made minor cameos in that game's story (ironically, he was a playable character in the installments [[VideoGame/MortalKombat9 preceding]] and [[VideoGame/MortalKombat11 following]] ''MKX''), the cyborgs were all included as playable fighters, combined into one unit named Triborg. |
| 266 | * In the ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' level for ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'', the player is tasked with distracting [=GLaDOS=]. How? By summoning [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL 9000]] and having the two of them argue with each other! |
| 267 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'': The Pokemon Masters League has invited all trainers from the Pokemon world for a grand competition, among them being the legendary Red from the first game and Ash Ketchum from the anime continuity. |
| 268 | * ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'': Due to playing Puyo having a possible side-effect of being taken to another dimension, Amitie, who directly copies Arle's tomboyish personality in early appearances, meets her in ''[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyoFever Fever]]'' and appears as a main character alongside her and Ringo (who ''isn't'' an expy of either) in succeeding games. |
| 269 | * ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsPhoenixWrightAceAttorney'': In this game, [[VideoGame/ProfessorLayton Professor Layton]], who is a [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]] expy via being another [[BunnyEarsLawyer quirky and efficient law official]], crossovers with his inspiration. |
| 270 | * ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls2'': In the ''River City Girls'' universe, versions of Kunio from localizations that changed his name were made into their own people that exist alongside him, like Jeff "Crash" Cooney from ''VideoGame/CrashNTheBoysStreetChallenge'' and Mr. K from ''Renegade''. Due to using characters from ''VideoGame/RiverCityRansomUnderground'', Alex as he appears in that game is also implied to be around. Roxy, a localized version of Hasebe that also transitioned into an expy in ''Underground'', appears as a shopkeeper. |
| 271 | * ''VideoGame/{{Segagaga}}'' has this, for a certain value of coexistence: the evil corporation DOGMA is a clear expy of Nintendo and Sony, but Alex Kidd mentions that Nintendo existed too before DOGMA crushed it and left Sega as the only other gaming company standing in the world. |
| 272 | * ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'': |
| 273 | ** [[{{Kappa}} Kuzenbo]]'s "Shino-bo" skin has more than a passing reference to the ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', complete with his "Woo-hoo!" becoming "Kappa-bunga!". Then Osiris, Mercury, Sun Wukong and Loki all got alternate skins depicting them as the quartet of heroes in a half-shell. |
| 274 | ** Rama's "Last Commando" skin is quite obviously based on ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'', what with his general appearance and quoting a few of the movies. Then Rambo himself became a GuestFighter as an alternate skin for Ullr. |
| 275 | * Bean the Dynamite from ''VideoGame/SonicTheFighters'' is based on Bin, one of the bomb-throwing duck protagonists of ''VideoGame/DynamiteDux''. The manual for ''VideoGame/FightersMegamix'' reveals that Bin is Bean's father. |
| 276 | * Mitsurugi of the ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'' was inspired by ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'''s Haohmaru, who would later appear as a [[GuestFighter guest character]] in ''VideoGame/SoulcaliburVI''. |
| 277 | * ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIIThePiratesOfPestulon'' has a slaver in Scumsoft headquarters look almost exactly like Creator/{{Sierra}} president Ken Williams, [[BitingTheHandHumor whipping programmers into programming video games]]. The ending has [[spoiler:Roger and the Two Guys from Andromeda land on Earth at Sierra headquarters and meet the ''real'' Ken Williams, with the Two Guys staying behind to program games for him]]. |
| 278 | * ''Franchise/StreetFighter'': |
| 279 | ** Fei Long is a BruceLeeClone to the tee - starring in movies, using the One Inch Punch, [[{{Kiai}} screaming as he fights]], et cetera. In his ''Super Street Fighter II'' ending, he blows off a director impressed with him by stating that "There could never be another legend like [[Creator/BruceLee the Great One]] and [[Creator/BrandonLee his son]]!" |
| 280 | ** Dan Hibiki, a character who tries to imitate [[{{Shotoclone}} protagonist Ryu's fighting style]] while [[JokeCharacter failing miserably at doing so]], was created as a TakeThat to Creator/{{SNK}}, due to Creator/{{Capcom}} feeling that ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'' protagonist Ryo Sakazaki was [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct doing just that]]. In ''VideoGame/SNKVsCapcom'', Ryu, Ryo, ''and'' Dan -- the original, the expy, and the parody of the expy -- are all in the playable roster. |
| 281 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': |
| 282 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'': Wart was the antagonist of ''VideoGame/DokiDokiPanic'' and its equivalent of Bowser. He then appears in this game, putting him in the same universe as his main inspiration. His Spirit also appears in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', where Bowser is playable. |
| 283 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioIsMissing'' has you return King Kong to the Empire State Building. Discussed by WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd in his review that in addition to the whole ordeal being a MindScrew for having you return a fictional ape that was definitely not wanted by people on the building in an ''educational game'', it is a little bit strange that the character that served as partial inspiration for Franchise/DonkeyKong ends up appearing in a Mario game. |
| 284 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'': New Donk City resembles New York City in its aesthetical heyday, complete with yellow cabs, sleek musicians, and big lights. ''VideoGame/MarioKartTour'' features courses based on real-world cities, one of which was the Times Square romp New York Minute. The game even emphasizes this through the course's themed items (yellow taxi kart, Musician Mario), which are directly based off of their New Donk City iterations but fit right in here. The course was later added as DLC to ''VideoGame/MarioKart8 Deluxe'': |
| 285 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'': |
| 286 | *** The game features a statue of Peach that is clearly inspired by the Statue of Liberty in the Toad Harbor course (despite Toad Harbor being more so inspired by San Francisco than New York). The ''Booster Course Pass'' DLC adds New York Minute from ''Mario Kart Tour'' to the game, which contains the real Statue of Liberty. Relatedly, Toad Harbor itself is no longer the only fictionalization of California, since ''Tour'' introduced Los Angeles Laps, located in the eponymous coastal city. |
| 287 | *** ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe'' features an unconventional example thanks to the ''Booster Course Pass''; the remake of [[VideoGame/MarioKart64 N64 Rainbow Road]] is divided into three sections rather than laps given the course's long nature, and the music of the final section begins from the chorus section; these changes were inherited from the ''VideoGame/MarioKart7'' version of Rainbow Road. The ''Booster Course Pass'' adds in 3DS Rainbow Road, which not only retains both of the aforementioned details, but also samples the chorus of N64 Rainbow Road for its music - thus marking the first time in which a ''Mario Kart'' game has two tracks that utilize the chorus of N64 Rainbow Road, as well as having the final lap's music begin with said chorus. |
| 288 | ** The presence of [[NostalgiaLevel classic courses]] in the ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' series since ''VideoGame/MarioKartDS'' has resulted in a few courses that share similar premises appearing in the same games as each other. DK Summit (from ''VideoGame/MarioKartWii'') and DK Mountain (from ''VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash'') both appear in ''Wii'' and ''VideoGame/MarioKartTour'', Cloudtop Cruise (from ''8'') and Sky Garden (from ''VideoGame/MarioKartSuperCircuit'') both appear in ''8 Deluxe'', Choco Island 2 (from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioKart'') and Choco Mountain (from ''VideoGame/MarioKart64'') both appear in ''DS'' and ''Tour'', etc. |
| 289 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': The game's playable boards are stereotypically inspired by real-life countries. One of them is Windmillville, which takes many cues from the Netherlands. Come ''VideoGame/MarioKartTour'', which features the real Netherlands as the setting for three tracks located in Amsterdam (Amsterdam Drift 1, 2 and 3); they would also appear in one combined version in the DLC of ''VideoGame/MarioKart8 Deluxe''. |
| 290 | * This is a common occurrence in the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' series. Not only frequently featuring team-ups between robots from similar anime (to the point that {{Combination Attack}}s with SpiritualSuccessor mecha like ''Anime/CombattlerV'' and ''Anime/VoltesV'' are a mainstay of the series) but most of the OriginalGeneration characters and mechs are based on established ones, such as the recurring Huckebein-class RealRobot being nearly identical to {{Franchise/Gundam}}s. |
| 291 | ** On the non-mech side, it's not unusual to see [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Char Azenable]] and/or his many expies (e.g. [[Anime/NewMobileReportGundamWing Zechs Merquise]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Full Frontal]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Rau le Creuset]], or [[Anime/MetalArmorDragonar Meio Plato]]) side by side. |
| 292 | * ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'': |
| 293 | ** ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Super Smash Bros. for Wii U]]'' features [[VideoGame/KidIcarus Palutena's]] Guidance, a series of hidden convos Pit can activate on Palutena's Temple as well as a send-up to ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Brawl]]'''s [[VideoGame/MetalGear Snake Codecs]]. In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', Snake and his codecs would return, albeit without updated lines. |
| 294 | ** One of the alternate palettes for the Duck Hunt duo in both ''Smash 4'' and ''Ultimate'' is clearly inspired in the starring duo of ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'', with the dog being colored dark brown and the bird being colored red. Banjo and Kazooie themselves would then reappear in ''Ultimate'' as DLC. |
| 295 | ** As the long-term face of the franchise, Mario's moveset design in ''Super Smash Bros.'' was conceptualised as something of a {{Shotoclone}}, although with a few liberties taken to transplant typical Shotoclone gameplay into a PlatformFighter. Eventually, the original Shoto, Ryu from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', was introduced to the series in both versions of the fourth game as DLC, and his playstyle was of course far more faithful to the traditional Shoto archetype. |
| 296 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' features Akira Yuki from ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter'' as an AssistCharacter and Kazuya Mishima from ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'' as a DLC fighter, both of whom were at least inspired physically by Ryu and are now all coexisting in the same game. |
| 297 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' has a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed example]] with VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}} and ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]]''; while Bayonetta herself is a playable fighter, her direct inspiration Dante only appears as a Mii Fighter costume. |
| 298 | * In the first ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon, the female ninja mercenary Lotus Blossom was a precursor for the female Foot Clan member Karai from the original Mirage comics. Both of them would eventually appear as unlockable player characters in the mobile game ''Mutant Madness''. |
| 299 | * One prominent mission-line ''VideoGame/WatchDogs2'' features the heroes exposing New Dawn, a ChurchOfHappyology in California, complete with an [[Creator/TomCruise action movie star]] as one of their prominent members. However, one of the randomly generated facts about pedestrians in the world says that they are [[Creator/LRonHubbard Scientologists.]] |
| 300 | * ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'': A RecurringElement of the ''Xeno'' games (''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'', and ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'') is the presence of a RobotGirl, with Poppi being the main one from ''2''. At the same time, one of the Rare Blades can be recruited in ''2'' is KOS-MOS from ''Xenosaga'', the [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual predecessor]] to ''Xenoblade'' and probably the most notable example of a RobotGirl from any ''Xeno'' game. |
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| 302 | |
| 303 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 304 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Last Chance in Xollywood}}'': In the future Hollywood still exists and thrives, and is defined as Earthlings' equivalent to Xollywood. |
| 305 | [[/folder]] |
| 306 | |
| 307 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 308 | * The titular protagonist of the ''Sonichu'' parody, ''WebComic/{{Asperchu}}'' is a parody of Sonichu and the series creator, Christine Weston Chandler. Sonichu and Christine have appeared in the comic without the real Christine's consent with Christine renamed to Ian Brandon Anderson. An ''Asperchu'' expy called Mitch Sonichu was later added to the ''Sonichu'' comic. |
| 309 | * ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'': Three of the Dark Gods of EN are transparent copies of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'''s Chaos gods: the Hound for Khorne, the Patterner for Tzeentch and the Soulthirster for Slaanesh (Fernex is closer to the Void Dragon, a C'tan Star Vampire, instead of Nurgle). Not only that, but the Patterner does not like Tzeentch due to losing a plagiarism lawsuit against him, meaning he's not allowed to like change in general (change is Tzeentch's specialty, be it through mutation, hope or betrayal), leading to a LetMeAtHim [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2014-01-18/comic/non-storyline/randoms/everchosen/ when they see each other]] (with ''KHORNE'' of all possible people trying to stop the fight). |
| 310 | * Minmax and Forgath in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' are introduced alongside three [[OverusedCopycatCharacter blatant parodies of]] [[Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt Drizzt Do'Urden]]. Each one of them is also claiming to be Drizzt's cousin. |
| 311 | * ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'': Early on, Tiger was an expy slash TakeThat of ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}, being a lazy fat dog who hung around his owner's house and got into food-related antics. In ''Heckraiser'', Marion briefly brings up actual ''Garfield'' strips while discussing comics. |
| 312 | * One recurring character in ''Webcomic/{{Keiki}}'' is Wolf the Bounty Hunter, an expy of Dog the Bounty Hunter. Dog himself shows up in one comic, as both are attempting to [[ItMakesSenseInContext claim a bounty on Beefer, who's been accused of being a "demon child"]]; the two end up brawling with each other (giving Beefer a chance to escape). |
| 313 | * The Whimsy Corporation in ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'' is a Disney pastiche, even to the point of one of their mascots being the Mender-Fairy. One of their intelligent animatronic characters, Baron Mistycorn, writes ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' slash, so Disney exists as well. |
| 314 | * ''WebComic/{{Sonichu}}'' is based on ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', Sonic exists in the comics as a separate character. Other expies like Rosechu and Black Sonichu have also met their inspirations Amy Rose and Shadow. |
| 315 | [[/folder]] |
| 316 | |
| 317 | |
| 318 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 319 | * ''Literature/TheDayTheMusicDied'' centers around the fandom of ''Carverquest'', a young adult fantasy series that serves as an expy of ''Franchise/HarryPotter''. Their fanbase is so loud that [[EveryoneHasStandards even die-hard Potterheads are weirded out by their antics]]. |
| 320 | * ''Website/SCPFoundation'': The tale [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/further-selections-of-media-referencing-the-anomalous Further selections of Media Referencing the Anomalous]] reveals that ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'', which is heavily based off of the Foundation, exists in the universe. The Foundation is somewhat disturbed by the similarities, but allows the game to be released anyway, since there's no 1:1 equivalencies that could result in a BrokenMasqeurade. |
| 321 | [[/folder]] |
| 322 | |
| 323 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 324 | * Played for laughs in ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', where Trunks [[AccidentalMisnaming misremembers]] Goku's name as [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Sun Wukong]] (the character Goku was named after and loosely based on). |
| 325 | * ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'': |
| 326 | ** One episode had Film/JamesBond battling against Film/AustinPowers, who was created as a parody of Bond. {{Lampshaded}} when Bond naturally accuses Austin of ripping him off. |
| 327 | ** Another episode had Literature/{{Dracula}} battling against his own real-world inspiration, UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler. |
| 328 | ** The Galactic Empire from ''Franchise/StarWars'' is one of the most famous examples of ANaziByAnyOtherName. In this series, the Empire is shown to exist alongside the actual Nazis, and one of the series' few recurring plot lines involves a rivalry between UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and Darth Vader. In an odd twist, since the ''Star Wars'' films are set in the distant past, it's ''Hitler'' who gets accused of ripping off ''Vader's'' tactics. |
| 329 | * Parodied in ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'''s ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' tribute where he says he has no idea what it's like to be influenced by ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck'', which of course his character was inspired by. |
| 330 | * The ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZDwUa335-M Supervillain Speed Dating]]'' web video features both [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] and [[Film/{{Spaceballs}} Dark Helmet]] in the same bar, leading to an AtArmsLength scene between the too. |
| 331 | -->'''Darth Vader:''' Your helmet is absurdly oversized... |
| 332 | * Creator/PaulCornell's short ''Series/DoctorWho'' web video ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSfOgnDhmRc&feature=emb_logo Shadow of a Doubt]]'' is crossover between Nu Who and the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novels, in which Literature/BerniceSummerfield meets Sister of Mine from the TV story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature Human Nature]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood The Family of Blood]]", and recognizes that she's somehow equivalent to Aphasia from the novel ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHumanNature Human Nature]]'', which the TV story adapted. It's stated that these aren't even the only two times this adventure happened. |
| 333 | * ''WebVideo/TheWarpZone'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vi8v5jmZGQ "Mandalorian Couples Therapy"]] heavily lampshades Series/{{the Mandalorian}}'s status as a Boba Fett expy. |
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