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* Kaede from ''[[Ladies versus Butlers!]]'' seems [[Lucky Star|a bit familiar...]]

* Okay, here we go. Most people (in the audience, not in the show) seem to like the [[Broken Bird]]/Woobie/often Stoic character. One of the first and most well known is Ayanami Rei, from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. Then, about eight years later, another hugely successful manga/anime debuts. That anime is ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya|Suzumiya Haruhi]]''. The character is Nagato Yuki. About a year after that, ''[[Zero no Tsukaima]]'' debuts. Besides the two main characters having the same seiyuus as the two main characters of ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'', ''Zero no Tsukaima'' has Tabitha. All three have the same hair color (light bluish. Yuki's hair is kinda purplish too), are similarly very quiet, and have similarly tragic pasts (okay, Yuki's past isn't nearly as tragic as Rei's, but that may be because the ''Suzumiya Haruhi'' series is a comedy/sci-fi series, and NGE is a psychological drama/horror.)

** There are even more expies who share her personality if not her looks (or at least try to), especially in mecha and high school anime. [[The Big O|Dorothy]], [[Angel Beats|Kanade Tachibana]] and [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Ruri]] just to name a few. Basically the quiet, cool girl with a mysterious past and a strange link to the hero has become very popular in anime.

** There are even more expies who share her personality if not her looks (or at least try to), especially in mecha and high school anime. [[The Big O|Dorothy]], [[Angel Beats!|Kanade Tachibana]] and [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Ruri]] just to name a few. Basically the quiet, cool girl with a mysterious past and a strange link to the hero has become very popular in anime.

** [[Zero no Tsukaima|Tabitha]] seems to be a combination of [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'s two heroines, with the [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|apperance]] and [[Emotionless Girl|personality]] of Rei, with the [[Freudian Excuse|back]][[Tear Jerker|story]] of Asuka.

** The trope-savvy Rei from [[Evangelion Abridged]] lampshades this by mentioning just how many Rei expies there are. She's probably seen this page. Probably after trawling through all of the slightly unsettling [[Rule 34|fanart]] of her.

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*** However, ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' was actually in the works while Sato and Ikuko Itoh (the creator of Tutu) was working on ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', possibly meaning that the ''[[Prétear]]'' cast are the true expies. (Also, it's worth noting that Sasame and Fakir have the same actors in both the Japanese and English dubs--[[Takahiro Sakurai]] and [[Chris Patton]], respectively—but this is likely just a casting fluke.)

* ''[[Fushigiboshi no Futagohime]]'': The vice principal and his two henchmen from season 2 are the spitting images of the Moon Kingdom's {{spoiler|former and late}} chancellor and his two henchmen from season 1.

* ''[[Angel Beats]]'': This show also has some characters that fit this trope, especially the main protagonist Yuri that looks and acts similar to [[Haruhi Suzumiya]]. We also have the main protagonist [[Deadpan Snarker|Otonashi]] that is like almost all the other other protagonists of Key. [[Emotionless Girl|Tenshi]] despite not looking the same as Nagato Yuki has the same personality as her.

* ''[[Angel Beats!]]'': This show also has some characters that fit this trope, especially the main protagonist Yuri that looks and acts similar to [[Haruhi Suzumiya]]. We also have the main protagonist [[Deadpan Snarker|Otonashi]] that is like almost all the other other protagonists of Key. [[Emotionless Girl|Tenshi]] despite not looking the same as Nagato Yuki has the same personality as her.

** This serves as the driving force of a [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6149731/1/ crossover fanfiction between the two franchises.]

* Stop me if you've heard this premise before: A young, newly-hired male teacher and his busty female co-worker/love interest have to deal with a class of hyperactive students, particularly a "unique" trio of girls whose antics cause no shortage of misunderstandings. This can describe Kodomo No Jikan, [[Hanamaru Kindergarten]], ''and'' [[Mitsudomoe]]. It's a triple threat of expy-ness!

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** Henri Claytor is an expy for [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Yzak Joule]], except that Henri has a strand of red streak on his bangs and Yzak doesn't have one.

* D'Eon from [[Le Chevalier d'Eon]] is pretty obviously a [[Gender Flip|genderflipped]] Expy of Oscar from [[Rose of Versailles]].

* Walker and Erika from ''[[Durarara]]'' serve as expies of Isaac and Miria from [[Baccano]], both being a set of [[Cloudcuckoolander|very weird]] [[Birds of a Feather]] that facilitate the plot from the sidelines by being their very bizarre selves. They're even all [[Otaku]] (Yes, bandits living in the 1930s New York can apparently be [[Occidental Otaku]]. Try not to think about it too much). The main difference is that Walker and Erika are [[Cute and Psycho|much more unstable]] than their 1930s American counterparts.

* Walker and Erika from ''[[Durarara!!]]'' serve as expies of Isaac and Miria from [[Baccano!]], both being a set of [[Cloudcuckoolander|very weird]] [[Birds of a Feather]] that facilitate the plot from the sidelines by being their very bizarre selves. They're even all [[Otaku]] (Yes, bandits living in the 1930s New York can apparently be [[Occidental Otaku]]. Try not to think about it too much). The main difference is that Walker and Erika are [[Cute and Psycho|much more unstable]] than their 1930s American counterparts.

** A latter ''[[Baccano]]'' book set in 2002 features Huey Laforet's great-great-grandson {{spoiler|by way of Chane and Claire}}, Charon Walken, who strongly resembles Kasuka Heiwajima both in appearance and personality. This is lampshaded in a later volume of ''Durarara!!'', when Saki mentions meeting a boy with an uncanny resemblance to the actor in question.

** A latter ''[[Baccano!]]'' book set in 2002 features Huey Laforet's great-great-grandson {{spoiler|by way of Chane and Claire}}, Charon Walken, who strongly resembles Kasuka Heiwajima both in appearance and personality. This is lampshaded in a later volume of ''Durarara!!'', when Saki mentions meeting a boy with an uncanny resemblance to the actor in question.

* Nitori from ''[[Wandering Son]]'' looks near identical to the protagonist of the mangaka's earlier manga, ''Inhabitants of the Threshold''. You probably won't notice at first due to the very different art styles, but when she [http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/2945/houroumusukov01001.jpg drew them in the first omake of her new series] it becomes very apparent. The difference ends there, as their personalities are polar opposites.

** Shimura is well-known for [[Only Six Faces|reusing designs]] in her manga. In ''[[Aoi Hana]]'' several of the characters are near-identical to characters in ''[[Wandering Son]]'', there's even a background girl who has the same hairstyle and face as Nitori's. But as said, resemblances almost always end at appearances.