Tropes relating to substitution and replacement. See also This Index Is Copypasted, where something is copied and may stand in for it.
Tropes
- Asset Actor: It's understood that even though something was already something else, it stands in for something that couldn't be used.
- Bed Trick: A form of rape by deception where one tricks another into sleeping with them by impersonating that person's significant other.
- Borrowing from the Sister Series: A creator copies a successful feature in one of their series to use in another.
- Capture and Replicate
- Clothing Switch
- Contrasting Replacement Character
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character
- Contrasting Sequel Setting
- Convenient Replacement Character
- Disguised Hostage Gambit
- Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment
- Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: Two or more characters switch minds and now have to find out how to get their brains back to their proper bodies.
- Freaky Friday Sabotage
- Hotlinked Image Switch: After an image is hotlinked, its creator replaces it with a different one to expose the hotlinker.
- I Made Copies: Bob destroys or takes a piece of paper from Alice, who would’ve used it to incriminate Bob, but Alice has made copies of said paper.
- Impersonation-Exclusive Character
- Kill and Replace: A character gets murdered and then has their identity usurped by an imposter.
- Lame Rhyme Dodge: A character is overheard saying something that could get them in trouble and covers their ass by lying that they said something rhyming with what they really said.
- Last-Second Word Swap
- Literal Change of Heart
- Midfight Weapon Exchange
- Midseason Replacement
- More Popular Replacement
- New Body, Old Abilities
- Ninja Log
- Opponent Switch
- Outfit Decoy
- Parental Substitute
- Personality Swap: People swap personality traits, but not minds.
- Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo: A character thwarts an attempt at poisoning them by switching drinks with the one trying to poison them.
- Prince and Pauper
- Regime Change: One government forcibly removes another government's leader to install their own proxy.
- Replaced with Replica
- Replacement Goldfish
- Replacement Scrappy
- Rotten Robotic Replacement
- Satchel Switcheroo
- Script Swap
- Second Episode Substitute
- Sleeping Dummy
- Stand-In Parents
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: A character gets replaced with a character similar enough that their name is the only major difference between the two.
- Swap Fighter
- Swap Teleportation
- Switch-Out Move
- Throwing Out the Script
- Twin Switch: Twins decide to switch places.
- Unfortunate Item Swap
- Weight and Switch
