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Basic Trope: Someone tells someone they remind them of someone else.

  • Straight: Alice tells Bob he reminds her of Charlie.
  • Exaggerated: Alice tells Bob he reminds her of Charlie, and then begins to list several traits that they have in common.
  • Downplayed: Bob reminds Alice of Charlie, but she doesn't tell him.
  • Justified:
  • Inverted: ???
  • Subverted: "Bob, you remind me of Charlie, except you're shorter, and less funny, and you can't run… actually, nevermind, you're nothing like Charlie."
  • Double Subverted:
    • Alice is unwilling to admit to Bob how much he is like Charlie, listing superficial details to not let him know how similar they are.
    • "You're nothing like Charlie… you're like David."
  • Parodied: Bait-and-Switch Comparison
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: No one comes to Alice's mind when she sees Bob.
  • Enforced: The two characters are supposed to be very alike (they're Mirror Characters) and the author is trying to highlight it.
  • Lampshaded: "Yeah, I get that a lot."
  • Invoked: Alice's friend, Emma, is tired of Alice pinning over Charlie, and so she introduces Alice to Bob, and says Bob reminds her of Charlie.
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: "Why does every character have another character running around who's just like them?"

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