Corrupted Character Copies in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Code Prime:
- R2's Headmasters (who are majorly composed of the Irregulars from Nightmare of Nunnally, Rolo, and a disembodied Mao) are Transformers: Super-God Masterforce's Headmaster Juniors (both Autobot and Decepticon) turned over their heads. Both share their primary title as Headmasters, are mostly composed of younger people with implications of Child Soldiers. Masterforce plays the Headmaster concept straight, has the younger people join willingly to become Headmasters, and the implications of Child Soldiers are downplayed. Code Prime puts them as an In Name Only group, the younger people hail from the Geass Order (which at the time is operated by Shockwave), are forced to serve the Decepticon cause (though one of them successfully makes it to the Autobots' side), and them being Child Soldiers is treated rather seriously, with one of the Autobot-Black Knight Alliance's sub-goals being to retrieve the escapee's lost friends.
- Shin Hyuga Shaing of course could be considered a more darker, crazier, and nihilistic version of Itachi Uchiha.
- The fic's depiction of Marianne vi Britannia skews towards a darker version of Minato Namikaze. Both are some of the strongest in their respective areas (Knightmare piloting and ninjutsu respectively); even having "Flash" as part of their epithet, had children that they had to abandon due to personal circumstances, and were on the receiving end of a punch and a Motive Rant from their children upon learning of their true natures. But while what Minato did was for the greater good (sealing the Nine-Tails in Naruto to defend the Hidden Leaf against its attack) and "abandoned" Naruto in a sense that he died to protect the Hidden Leaf, Marianne abandoned Lelouch in order to advance her and her husband's plans for the Ragnarok Connection. Minato remains a good person through and through, but Marianne starts out antagonistic and doesn't commence her Character Development leading up to her Heel–Face Turn until the Decepticons destroyed Britannia and she's forced to serve under their whims for a time. And while Minato's actions are remembered in a positive light by the cast, what Marianne did ultimately earned her the scorn of everyone, from her son Lelouch, to the Autobots denouncing her as being no different than the Decepticons, to the Black Knights that were affected due to her empire's actions, to even other members of her family like Euphie and Cornelia.
- Dust and Decepticons features a Downplayed example with Team ROZE. Rosalyn, Opal, Zephyr and Esmerelda each parallel members of Team RWBY, and are considered to be the best Huntress team that Atlas has to offer... but unlike RWBY, the four of them never truly overcame their early issues, which comes back to haunt them when they suffer The Worf Effect at the hands of the disguised Stunticons.
- Infinity Train: Blossomverse:
- Chloe Cerise from Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail is a more bitter and spiteful version of Luz Noceda from the The Owl House. Both are outcasts, isolated and bullied by their classmates due to their interests being seen as weird. Both enter a new world, with Chloe entering the Infinity Train and Luz entering The Boiling Isles; both find acceptance and friends in the new world and prefer it to the old one. What separates them is attitude: while Luz is implied to be afraid of her peers due to their bullying, with her mother as the sole connection she retains to the human world, she remains a kind, forgiving person who wishes no ill will upon her former classmates. Chloe, despite having a similar connection to her little brother, is angry and spiteful towards her classmates and parents, refusing to forgive the latter for their mistakes. Eventually, this has tragic consequences for everyone back in Vermillion City.
- Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus:
- Chloe Cerise initially serves as one to Robyn Goodfellowe. Both are girls who are an All-Loving Heroine who are stuck in a society in a role that they don't want. However, while Robyn is legitimately kind and misunderstood, Chloe only extends her kindness and forgiveness to those who are on her side, while throwing anybody who's against her under the bus. And while Robyn being an outcast is a result of different values where she's living, Chloe's outcast status is as much to blame on the city as it is on her, as her own refusal to own up to her mistakes, insensitive and self-centered nature, and penchant for violence when riled up enough caused people to see her as unapproachable at best and outright dangerous at worst.
- Chloe also reflects darkly on the character of Penny from Scarlet and Violet. Both are introverted nerds who faced bullying problems that would ultimately lead the both of them to be taken out of school events, afterschool for Chloe and entirely for Penny, for their own healing. Both are implied to be from well off families, as Chloe's father affords a rather large research facility in a major city while Penny is hinted to be the paternal niece of the massively rich Chairman Rose. Both are fans of mass media and both have created longstanding problems in their wake after they left, and are often paired alongside extroverts they find exasperating at times (Ash and Goh in Chloe's case and the other main characters, particularly Nemona, for Penny). And while Chloe herself is not directly linked to Eevee, her alternate self is. However Penny did not intend for Team Star to cause any problems after she left, and both set to save them from themselves while also doing what she can to clean up her mistake, a level of self-reflection Chloe has shown to be unable to muster as she handles her own lingering problems back home. Penny, while she also groans at her family's antics and the antics of Nemona, does not loath or hate them in anyway similar to that of Chloe to her own family and friends and would never desire to hurt them. Ultimately Chloe is who Penny would be if she actually wanted to have people, from her bullies to her friends and family, severely hurt and ruined.
- Green Phantom Queen interprets Casimira as one for an archetypical Disney Princess with many a parallel to Giselle (Yuri even calls her an "urban Disney Princess wannabe"). Casimira is the "princess" figure who works with the vermin of a modern city and has a dream to rebel against the status quo, only for her methods to go into disastrous proportions. Instead of being cheered, a lot of people despise her. And her drive to succeed only boils down to how she wants it the most and she herself is sided by Palimpsest itself not because it understands her reasonings but because Casimira "wanted it more". She's also seen as smug and above all others because she thinks she is in the right.
- Sara Diktaylis serves as one to Blossoming Trail's version of Chloe Cerise, of all people. Both of them are incredibly violent girls who have a lot of trouble just telling people about their issues, and who would rather take incredibly convoluted ways of getting what they want rather than take the easy way out. Alongside that, they both end up constantly lying and spreading Malicious Slander against those they believe have wronged them, all the while Playing the Victim Card in order to garner as much sympathy as possible. However, while BT!Chloe got a lot of Character Shilling and admiration from the denizens who didn't know any better, Sara receives the kind of treatment someone with such a personality would receive in real life: becoming incredibly unpopular by most people, before becoming Hated by All once the true extent of their malice and slander gets exposed.
- A Possible Encounter for a Phantom: The Terakon at first appears to be a blatant Expy of Predaking in Transformers: Prime. Both of them are members of a long extinct race of dragons brought back to life via genetic engineering by the villains to use as a weapon. While some elements play out the same, the two are different characters. Predaking has no memories of his past life and was loyal to Megatron and the Decepticons out of gratitude, wanting his race back because he didn't want to be the only one of his kind. Thirorex, by contrast, has his memories return and is in fact a sociopath with ambitions for world domination, and wanted the revival of his race to possess an army to make it possible.
- Classroom of the Elite: Liquid Inspiration: Kiyotaka's father Atsuomi demonstrates what could have happened to Shirogane Miyuki had he continued sacrificing his kindness and morals in order to pursue his ambitions and win over a Love Interest that was completely out of his league... and failed at the latter, leaving him with only his desire to rule over Japan.
- Danganronpa: Memento Mori:
- Ren Kurusu is one for Joker, with both characters being raven-haired infamous juvenile delinquents, with the former's name even being derived from the latter's real names given in the anime and manga adaptations of Persona 5. While the latter is a Karmic Thief willing to do the wrong thing for the right reasons, namely to bring corrupt authority figures to justice, the former started off as a petty shoplifter who eventually became a Prison Escape Artist merely for his own personal freedom, with little regard for anybody else. And while the latter has a strict Thou Shalt Not Kill policy towards his targets, who he tries to ensure properly deserve their punishment, and cares for his True Companions, the former has no qualms about killing another student out of mere suspicion and attempting to get the others killed to save himself.
- Kaiji Kudo serves as one for Shuichi Saihara. Both are insecure detectives that sport Signature Headgear, with Kaiji's appearance based off of one of Shuichi's beta designs. However, Kaiji's issues prove even more severe, forcing Kaori to take charge of the Class Trials, and while Shuichi's Heroic Self-Deprecation is usually aimed towards himself, Kaiji is far more willing to be openly envious of others. And that's not even getting into how he set up the Killing Game in hopes that some Engineered Heroics would make him look more impressive for 'solving' all those crimes...
- Danganronpa: Paradise Lost:
- Yae Hayabusa is quite similar to Sakura Ogami, with both being talented female martial artists with silvery-white hair, and to drive the point home, Yae's physical appearance is an almost complete replica of one of Sakura's much more lithe concept designs. Unlike Sakura, who is a Gentle Giant and Regretful Traitor who would rather kill herself than hurt others, Yae is prone to violence at the drop of a hat and has an Inferiority Superiority Complex that results in her beating Ringo to an inch of her life and ultimately getting herself killed by antagonizing Ayaka enough to cause her to brain Yae with a flowerpot.
- Akihiro Garaki turns out to be one towards Clemont; both are precociously talented, yet scrawny boys devoted to the sake of science, who wear glasses and have almost identical blond haircuts. But while Clemont is kind, polite, and would never think about harming anyone, especially his little sister Bonnie, Akihiro is far more condescending towards others and shows absolutely zero remorse over both murdering Miyuki Nagasu and fusing his own sister with a lab rat à la Shou Tucker simply because he could.
- With him having an almost identical hairstyle and hair color, alongside his elite status, jerkish behavior and childhood affection towards a Rose-Haired Sweetie, Junpei Ichikawa is rather similar to Damian Desmond. However, Junpei's backstory of witnessing his friend be beaten to death by Monokuma Kids during the unrest in Towa City asks the question of what could've happened to the Jerk with a Heart of Gold Damian if Anya too died a violent and premature death, and the end result is that he would grow up to become a raging Straw Nihilist perfectly willing to not only orchestrate a Killing Game to revenge himself on Monaca no matter how guilty she feels about it, but also deliberately provoke his own murder to kickstart said Killing Game and prove his worldview right.
- Danny Phantom: Stranded:
- Jean-Luc Bevier, from the artwork of him shown, is based physically on Iknik Blackstone Varrick from The Legend of Korra, right down to similar skin tone, mustache, and purple color scheme, but he lacks all of Varrick's redeeming qualities. Varrick is an Affably Evil man who is very energetic, holds no ill will towards the heroes despite past occurrences, shows he's capable of empathy, has an Odd Friendship with Nice Guy Bolin, and genuinely loves his assistant Zhu Li before marrying her. By contrast, Jean-Luc is a stuck-up and vain man who looks down on the lower classes, only shows interest in attractive women regardless of their marital status, has an open disdain towards Danny specifically, and even if he does indeed love Stella, it doesn't change his attitude, to the point that Star wonders if he cheats on her.
- Beatrice Traville is this to Victoria Everglot from the movie Corpse Bride, as they're both daughters of impoverished noble families who were arranged to marry a wealthy, yet kind bachelor out of financial desperation. However, Victoria was a sweet and kind lady who genuinely fell in love with her fiancé Victor after getting to know him, whereas Beatrice was a Spoiled Brat, Gold Digger, and Social Climber who only married Richard for his money and treated him terribly.
- Dash Baxter and Paulina Sanchez from Flowerprincess 11's stories are this to Flash Thompson and Liz Allan from Spider-Man, without their redeeming qualities or depths.
- Like Flash Thompson, Dash Baxter is a popular blond Jerk Jock who picks on the protagonist while ironically admiring his superhero alter ego. They have very similar first names to top it off. However, unlike Flash, Dash never really grew out of being a bully. While Flash bullied Peter Parker throughout high school in the original comics and antagonized him in college, he matured and made peace with Peter, with them even becoming friends. Even in high school, Flash showed depth when Peter got into trouble for fighting with him before graduation, as he privately admitted to the principal that it was his own fault after learning that Peter took the blame for what happened. He also had a Freudian Excuse of being abused by his alcoholic father, which caused him to act out. Dash, by contrast, had no such excuse and never made peace with Danny. In fact, he didn't care about Danny trying to help him despite their history. In his first appearance, Dash acknowledged that high school was the peak of his life, and it would all go downhill afterward, which eventually came true because he never tried to change his future. Meanwhile, Flash never resigned himself to failure and eventually had good adult life, becoming a hero in his own right.
- Paulina Sanchez is basically Liz Allan in her high school days, only Latina instead of white.note Like Liz, Paulina is a mean, spoiled popular girl from a wealthy family (it was implied Liz was spoiled by her father in the comics) — a typical Alpha Bitch. She is the hero's first crush, but only has eyes for his superhero persona while looking down on his civilian identity, even ridiculing him with the Jerk Jock. Eventually, the hero gives up on her and moves on to another girl. The difference is that Liz developed genuine feelings for Peter in high school and began to tire of her boyfriend Flash's behavior before breaking up with him. She eventually grew into a more mature and empathetic person; at graduation, Liz admitted her feelings for Peter but acknowledged he wasn't interested in her and that his perception of her as a Dumb Blonde might be true, but it was time to graduate from that part of her life. She said goodbye to Peter, wished him luck, and left with her parents. Years later, Peter and Liz met again and became friends. While Liz faced hardships in her adult life, she outgrew her high school self to become a successful businesswomannote . By contrast, Paulina continued to obsess over Danny Phantom and remained a ditzy bully. As an adult, she was unsuccessful because of her flaws and never left behind that shallow girl she was in high school.
- Growing Pains: Helena is this for Emily from the movie "Corpse Bride". They're both undead women who are obsessed with getting married, but while Emily is a genuinely sweet girl who only wants love, Helena is a shallow and nasty Gold Digger who just wants a rich husband that fits her impossibly high standards. There is also their reputation among their peers; Emily is genuinely well-liked by and on good terms with the residents of the Land of the Dead whereas Helena is very unpopular and disliked by the residents of the Ghost Zone due to her horrid personality and obsessive man-hunting.
- Eden, by Obsessmuch: Lucius Malfoy fills a similar role to the titular beast from Beauty and the Beast, holding a young girl prisoner in his manor until the two fall in love. However, unlike the Beast, he didn't undergo any kind of Karmic Transformation, and is holding Hermione hostage alongside Ron. Rather than changing for the better as he gets to know the girl, he grows increasingly obsessive, eventually abusing, torturing, and raping her.
- In the Yet Another Christmas Carol fic A Miraculous Chrismas Carol
, Gabriel Agreste is cast in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge, sharing the same loathing for Christmas, strained relationship with his family, and a refusal to donate for charity. However, while Scrooge is motivated by an obsessive Greed, Gabriel is acting out of spite and frustration for his inability to defeat Ladybug and Chat Noir as the supervillain Hawkmoth and use their Miraculous to bring back his wife. Even how they undergo their three nights is reflected; Scrooge is warned by his deceased partner Jacob Marley to listen to the three spirits, while Gabriel undergoes his after akumatizing his nephew Félix into Christmas Spirit. Their endings show the final difference between both characters: Scrooge ultimately undergoes a full Heel–Face Turn after his tribulations and shows generosity to not just his employee Bob Cratchit and his family but to everyone around him, while Gabriel at most makes thing right with his son along with his sister-in-law Amélie and Félix, but he still continues his path as Hawkmoth even after seeing his future defeated and imprisoned, if only to avoid the Bad Future or the truth that his son is Chat Noir.
- Cain: Despite the fic being a one-shot, Katsuki Bakugou's gradual descent into villainy makes him a corrupted caricature to a couple of characters that inspired the canon My Hero Academia manga:
- Of Tetsuo Shima from AKIRA. Despite not being a hero by any stretch of the definition, even with the anime's Adaptational Heroism, Tetsuo is still far more sympathetic than how Cain!Bakugou is, especially regarding his Dark and Troubled Past as an orphan abandoned by his parents and bullied for his meek behavior by the other kids, and, even at his worst, he would never kill (or truly bring himself to kill), his Best Friend despite his deep feeling of inferiority towards him, and manages to reconcile with the Kaneda before he Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence at the end of his series. In contrast, Cain!Bakugou never had to struggle while growing up as Tetsuo did and his friendship with Izuku was only fair weather before turning animosity after years of being lionized for the most asinine things, and spend over a decade as a Barbaric Bully ensuring Izuku's eternal misery. The moment Katsuki finds out that Izuku is being chosen by All Might to become his successor, he pulls nonstop by escalating his harassment of Izuku to outright physical and psychological torture for nearly the entire fic out of a combination of self-righteousness, sadism, bigotry, narcissism, and delusional paranoia before he eventually decided to murder him (and failed) and is on his way to becoming Izuku's (and by extension All Might's) Arch-Enemy and as a potential All For One 2.0 in the unforeseen future.
- Of Naruto Uzumaki from the series of the same name. On the surface, the two of them share many similarities regarding their physical appearances, personality, having parents of differing temperaments, natural talent in power and fighting, lifelong goals, and even sharing similar sounding names in a reverse order. However, Naruto suffers a Dark and Troubled Past from being scornfully isolated (at best) for something that was out of his control, is a very empathetic and loyal friend to those he loves, constantly reaches out to Sasuke despite the latter's repeated (and many times lethal) rejection and succeeds, and achieves his lifelong dream of being Hokage at the end of his story. Similar to the above example, Katsuki lived a life of privilege with nearly anything handed him on a silver platter (though he does put in the effort to earn them), leaving him with an incredibly huge, but fragile ego who would so much as harm and eventually screw anybody who contradict his desires and worldviews, even his own loved ones. He also constantly bullies and tortures Izuku throughout the fic, despite getting more chances than he justifiably deserves to think otherwise of Izuku's true intentions. Finally, Katsuki destroys his own life by the end and is implied to be on his way to becoming one of the worst villains in Japanese history.
- In addition, Cain!Bakugou is also a corrupted caricature of Naruto's Alternate Self in the anime-only What If? arc, Jiraiya Shinobi Handbook: The Tale of Naruto the Hero, where Naruto's parents didn't have to sacrifice themselves to stop the Nine-tail fox's rampage.
- If Izuku is a counterpart to Peter Parker, then Cain!Bakugou would be Eugene "Flash" Thompson if you stripped away all of his sympathetic qualities and make him notably unhinged, or if you take Flash's Ultimate and film counterparts' Jerkass traits and dial them up by eleven, or, more horrifyingly, if Carl King/The Thousand is more intelligent and popular. Also, given the fic's futuristic setting, the Cain and Abel dynamic between Katsuki and Izuku, and the escalating paranoia-fueled animosity the former has for the latter, we can add in some characteristics of Kron Stone in Cain!Bakugou for good measure.
- My Hero Academia: Mechanical green: The original version features the Paranormal Syndicate, a group of villains based off of the Villain Team in Hero Class Civil Warfare, with several sharing the same code names and literally being Alternate Selves of the characters in question. But while the Villain Team in Civil Warfare were only roleplaying villains as part of a school exercise, the Paranormal Syndicate are full-fledged villains with none of the morals of their counterparts.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- My Little Pony: The Mentally Advanced Series constructs its entire cast from this premise, taking the canon cast of the show and cranking their flaws up to eleven, either for comedy, drama, or both.
- Twilight Sparkle in canon is a bit of a control freak with insecurities over her own abilities, who looks up to Celestia as a mentor. MAS Twilight is a bitter Only Sane Man who thinks herself superior to the others for her intellect and magical abilities, and is terrified of Celestia after years of being traumatized as her student.
- Rainbow Dash can be a slacker and The Ditz in canon. MAS Rainbow Dash is an idiot who can barely do her own job, can't keep an insurance policy because of all the accidents she gets into, can barely stay focused on the same topic for long enough to finish a sentence, and can't read.
- Rarity in canon is a diva, but genuinely cares for her friends and represents Generosity at the end of the day. MAS Rarity couldn't give a damn about anyone but herself, and is self-absorbed to the point of being racist against other pony kinds.
- Fluttershy is a doormat in the first few seasons, but gradually learned to stand up for herself with help from her friends. MAS Fluttershy is so horribly mistreated and overlooked she can barely stand to live with herself, and is so forgettable that most characters can't even bother to get her name correct.
- Pinkie Pie can be neurotic and a bit of a CloudCuckoolander in canon, but ultimately is defined by how much she loves to make other people laugh. MAS Pinkie ramps up her neuroticism to become an outright fanatic who must know where everyone lives and what they do, and insists on constantly throwing parties that only the rest of the cast ever show up to. Otherwise, she has a completely warped idea of 'fun', and enjoys causing pain and misery to those around her.
- Luna, in her first few appearances before Characterization Marches On, could be a little dim on social cues due to her exile on the moon. MAS Luna, perhaps in part due to being MAS Celestia's sister, feels the need to be involved in social gatherings and casually threatens those around her with her immense power when she feels she is being left out.
- The Soulmate Timeline: Akasuki Suzumebachi is technically an Evil Counterpart to three different characters (Mami, Kyoko, and Homura), but in terms of outright design she's meant to be this to Mami Tomoe. Both of them are veterans who take young girls under their wing to help them find wishes and train them as fellow Magical Girls, both of them are Improbable Weapon Users (Mami with her ribbons, Akasuki with her finger ring), and both of them are close to Kyubey due to their actions. However, Mami genuinely wants to help others while addressing her crippling loneliness, believes wishes should be thought through, does her best to prepare possible apprentices for the tough life ahead of them, and she has no idea about the Awful Truth about the connection between Magical Girls and Witches or about the true depths of Kyubey's manipulations. Akasuki meanwhile not only knows all about the Awful Truth and Kyubey's actions, she's a Serial Killer who fools impressionable girls into making contracts, mentors them only long enough to form a bond of trust, and then exploits that trust to take control of their bodies with her magic, upon which she mentally breaks them until they turn into Witches she then kills for their Grief Seeds to keep on living. Kyubey appreciates Mami for being an inspiring paragon for Magical Girls and Akasuki for being a reliable farmer of Grief Seeds, as both of them play a great role in harvesting the energy for the Incubator's fight against entropy. Fittingly, it's Mami who ultimately kills Akasuki.
- Monster Chronicles: Cedric von Túfeice is a dark and more dangerous version of Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog. Both of them made a deal with a loa for power, and both of them wore suits and hats. The difference is that Dr. Facilier is a Con Man looking to become rich, while he Hates Rich People and is looking to take all the souls of New Orleans, he's also looking to live comfortably as a rich man. Cedric, however, is a Serial Killer that loves to cause mass destruction; he is also a Misanthrope Supreme that is looking to end the world because of his hatred for humanity.
