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Batman Beyond

Expy in this series.
  • Personality-wise, Terry McGinnis has more in common with Peter Parker than with most other versions of Batman; he's an Ordinary High-School Student who becomes a superhero following the death of his paternal figure, struggles to balance his personal life with the demands of his crime-fighting career, and has a strong sarcastic streak. Even some of his supporting characters note  and Rogues Gallery note  mirror Peter's.
  • Most of Terry's Rogues Gallery is made up of Expies of Spider-Man villains, including Stalker (Kraven the Hunter), Shriek (Shocker with the name and color scheme of Shriek, a recurring Spidey villain with similar powers), and Spellbinder (Mysterio, with the name and color scheme an obscure Silver Age Batman villain, who is also a Mysterio Expy himself). And let's not forget Inque (Venom, and alien symbiotes in general). note 
    • An amoral businessman whose experiments turn him into a deranged, green-colored supervillain and Arch-Enemy to a teenage crime fighter. Are we talking about Derek Powers or Norman Osborn?
    • Willie Watt shares a few similarities to Dr. Octopus, being a gifted scientist with deadly technology at his hands, who had an abusive father; he even has the same hairstyle.
    • Besides being an analog for Clayface, Inque bares more than a few similarities to Marvel's Mystique, as both are blue-skinned shapeshifting Femme Fatale, complete with difficult relations to their estranged children.
    • While there is in fact a Spellbinder in the Batman comics (four of them in fact), this guy—an evil psychologist and illusionist who is a bit of a wimp underneath the mask—is most likely the Beyond version of The Scarecrow. He also shares similarities with the Spider-Man villain, Mysterio.
    • The Stalker is an Egomaniac Hunter who wants to battle a masked superhero in the city? It sounds an awful lot like Spider-Man's Kraven the Hunter.
    • Mad Stan is a more violent version of Spider, Henry Rollins's character in Johnny Mnemonic.
    • Kobra, despite being based on an organization from the comics, was made an expy of Cobra-La from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero in the show. Its leader, original character Zander, is an expy of Serpentor.
      • Which is even more amusing, as GI Joe and Cobra were themselves expies of Marvel's SHIELD and Hydra. Hasbro asked Marvel to make backstories for their GI Joe toys, and Marvel basically pulled a rejected comic about the son of Nick Fury out of the trash can and changed the names.
    • Zander is exceedingly similar to Serpentor, the genetically engineered leader of Cobra from GI Joe.
    • Minor subtle example. Dr. Howard Hodges's jealous rivalry with Mike Morgan brings to mind that of Victor von Doom's with Reed Richards.
    • Being a sadistic prison warden toward his charges, along with his obsession with punishing people he thinks are responsible for society's moral failing and coddled for their crimes. Dr. David Wheeler slightly resembles a more mundane version of Lyle Bolton/Lock-Up from the original Batman: The Animated Series.
    • Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker introduces Dee Dee, evil acrobatic twins based on Nightwing foes Double Dare.
  • Nelson Nash is pretty clearly one of Flash Thompson, minus the redeeming traits.
  • Kai-Ro is an expy of Kairo from The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure.
  • Blight's character design of a glowing skeletal man who is a walking nuclear hazard is one to Doctor Phosphorus.

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