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, started by ulmuchiha on Nov 21st 2013 at 9:29:59 PM
[[VideoGame/MegaManV Tango]]
This was the caption before I edited the page just now:
This caption really bothered me because it doesn't really explain the joke, so I changed it to link to Memetic Mutation (because that particular quote is a meme) and added a note to further explain why we're being so snarky about Foxy. Edited by DrNoPuma I haven't played the particular game that Tango is from, but still... robo kitty. :D
Am I misunderstanding the trope or should literally almost everything from The Simpsons be on the examples list? Slurpies, The Kwik-E-Mart, Buzz Cola, Duff Beer, and even if you don't think that those are direct parodies of Bud, Jolt, etc then off the top of my head, Rainier Wolfcastle is blatantly Arnie Schwarzenegger at the very least! Oh and Laramie Cigarettes are Ersatz Marlboro too...
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Products go in Bland-Name Product and Rainier Wolfcastle falls into The Ahnold
Working on cleaning up List of Shows That Need Summary
Ah OK, cool
What about 'The Inspector', the back-up short from the first season of 'The Pink Panther' cartoon who is always just called 'The Inspector' and 'Clouseau' is never mentioned?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inspector
Parodies do not go into this trope. They need to be nearly completely identical to the point of copyright violation, so to speak.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
ulmuchiha
If you can provide evidence of misuse or underuse because of the current name, please start a Trope Repair Shop thread about it.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Removed the following from the 'Film' category: "* Brian in The Life of Brian is obvious Messiah Ersatz to Jesus (who himself has a cameo appearance) with other examples being Mandy/Virgin Mary and Judith/Mary Magdalene."
As stated by the Pythons themselves before, at the time of, and after release of the film, Brian is explicitly *not* a stand-in for/ersatz Jesus (nor a "...Messiah Ersatz to Jesus...", whatever that means).
We are more than the sum of our memories.
I disagree about the Katsa/ Katniss one, since the books came out within two weeks of each other. Can I remove it? I highly doubt that Katsa was based on Katniss, given that- books are not written and published within two weeks. It seems more like happenstance than anything.
Ok, here at Brazil people use a lot of that. Monica's Gang have a lot of that (specially in their 90's strips and comics) because of Brazilian Law. Like Cebolinha (in English, he's Jimmy Five) in a Horoscope Knights, because at time, Saint Seiya was translated as Zodiac Knights, soooo... There are a lot more, but I just can't recall. It has been a lot of time that I don't read those comics.
Good examples or YMMV?
MagBas
- No one can agree if he's supposed to be Batman, V, Light Yagami, a Char Clone, Zorro, an Iron Man/Master Asia rip-off, Kaworu Nagisa, Zechs Merquise, or some unholy combination of them all, but it's clear that Lelouch Lamperouge/Zero is a Captain Ersatz of someone.
Head Lopper
suedenim, an Expy is a character based on another character who are both created by the same person. The cast of Drawn Together are all (except for Spanky) based on famous cartoon characters, none of whom were created by the guys who made the show. They belong here.
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That's not actually the definition of Expy, though. TRS discussion here. Apparently, your definition was used at one time, but it's not the one in the trope description.
...Wait, what? They changed it just like that? Also, ouch, nuclearneo is mad at this trope. Stealing? Really?
Sorry, I guess. I've got a forum ban so I don't really keep up with TRS, my mistake.
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Not sure when the definition might have changed, but the sentence "Often seen in different works by the same writer(s) or production team" has been in there unchanged since Aug. 1, 2010, which is as far back as the page history goes.
Jet-a-Reeno!
Well, like I said, my mistake. Guess I need to pay more attention, is all.
Wrestler, bodybuilder. No hopes, no dreams.
I replaced the spider-man image with an image of Foxy from the early days of Warner Bros. As you can see, he's clearly a blatant ripoff of Mickey Mouse. I can't confirm whether they stopped using him out of lack of interest or if Disney asked them to stop. If anybody can elaborate on this, i'll appreciate it.
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Gonna have to say, the page image fails. Both Lucky Star and CLANNAD were made within a very short span of each other, meaning that neither one can be copying another.
Can we use a image of World-3 of Deathstroke? and compare to Deadpool?
I've returned the original Foxy image to it's proper place, guys. Hope you're happy.
Pika is the bombchu!
Could someone take out the AVGN Follow the Leader examples? I don't think Internet personalities are allowed to have Captain Erzatzes, at least not in the way that the trope meant.
mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really.
Knights of the Dinner Table features a group of friends who play tabletop roleplaying games...not Dungeons & Dragons, of course, because that's trademarked. They play Hack Master! ...So does this count as a Captain Ersatz? I think it does, because Hack Master started out as a sort of affectionate parody of D&D and then evolved its own identity (even getting released as an actual game system). There are even Ersatzes of other TSR games; there's a western-themed one that's a takeoff of Boot Hill. So would it fit in this article?
A couple of these appear in playing with pages.
- Super Bob = Superman
- Action Girl Alice = Probably Black Canary, Wonder Woman, or Lara Croft
- Biggs = The freaking Hulk!
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