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'''NOTE:''' An actor "playing the same character over and over" is often a comedian playing themselves, or simply someone with a lack of range. Either way, think long and hard about whether they truly qualify for this trope before adding them.
* In a strange and rare example of the Expy not originally being an expy and then being one and being played by the person the character is an expy off, the live action Scooby-Doo movie has Daphne go though off screen character development that includes [[Took a Level
* The character of Han, played by Sung Kang, in the ''[[The Fast and
* Norman Bates of ''[[
* Despite the use of many other characters from the comics, the Batman movies also have [[Expy|Expys]] for some characters. For instance, since, for some reason, [[Tim Burton]] didn't want to use Harvey Bullock (possibly because Bullock's character wasn't truly corrupt) in the 1989 ''[[Batman]]'' movie, he created the overweight, gruff, corrupt Lt. Eckhardt in the Batman movie. In the [[Dark Knight Trilogy]], you have Officers Stevens and Ramirez, who are essentially Expys for Harvey Bullock and Renee Montoya, with the exception of, again, being that Ramirez is corrupt. Stevens on the other hand is Bullock right down to the toothpick chewing but his name was probably changed so the film wouldn't have two characters named Harvey.
** Another corrupt detective in the [[Dark Knight Trilogy]], Flass in ''Batman Begins'', is also somewhat Bullock-like. This is particularly interesting since he's named for a character in ''[[Batman: Year One]]'' who was a [[Corrupt Cop]], but wasn't in any way a [[Fat Slob]].
* John Cusack's [[Hitman
* Alex from ''[[Home Alone]] 3'' is the expy of Kevin from the previous two movies.
* Daniel Jackson (''[[Stargate]]'') vs. Milo Thatch (''[[Atlantis:
* ''[[Star Wars]]'', a lot of the characters from the Prequel Trilogy are Expies of characters from the Original Trilogy (Even if both characters are actually in the original trilogy)
** Anakin Skywalker in episodes II and III is basically an Expy of his own son, even though he was also [[The Dragon]] in episodes IV, V, VI and even the end of III.
** Qui-Gon Jin is [[The Obi
** Darth Maul is obviously an Expy of Darth Vader in a [[The Dragon]] sort of way. Count Dooku is also an Expy of Darth Vader, but he's actually got more in common with The Emperor, and is more of a [[Spell My Name
*** [[Word of God]] says the three were used in [[Foreshadowing]], each one being an element of Vader. Maul as [[The Dragon]] who enforces the emperor's will, Dooku as a fallen Jedi, and Grievous as a cyborg with breathing problems (though he only got them after [[Samuel L. Jackson|Mace Windu]] used the Force to crush his chest).
** This sort of thing is so common in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] that you may well assume the Star Wars galaxy is heavily based on reincarnation, maybe through the Force. Just look at Han Solo via Atton Rand, Carth Onasi, Kyle Katarn (before the lightsaber), Corran Horn...
*** Atton Rand is an obvious [[Deconstruction]].
*** Don't forget [[Knights of the Old Republic|Darth Malak]], possibly the most obvious Darth Vader expy, and [[Star Wars:
* In ''[[Gremlins|Gremlins 2: The New Batch]]'', one Mogwai looks and acts very similarly to Stripe from ''[[Gremlins]]''. The music sting, the way the camera zooms in and Gizmo's reaction all make it abuldantly clear to everyone including Gizmo that, for all intents and purposes, Stripe has been reborn. (Technically, both characters are brothers, as they both popped out of Gizmo's back after he got wet, and the New Stripe has black and white fur rather than blue and white, and after he becomes a gremlin, he has a reptilian frill rather than a Mohawk. But still undeniably an expy of Stripe.)
* ''[
* The villains in each of the direct sequels to ''[[
** Likewise, the villain from the [[Highlander (TV series)|TV series]]' pilot "The Gathering", Slan Quince, was also a Kurgan expy.
** And the Guardian from ''[[Highlander:
*** That was one of the attractions of the series - villains who actually ''weren't'' copies of the Kurgan.
* The ''[[Strangers
* In the [[Marx Brothers]] film each brother plays a character with a different name but the same personality as the character he played in the other films.
** As do some of the recurring supporting actors, most notably Margaret Dumont.
* ''[[Transformers]] II Revenge of the Fallen''; {{spoiler|In ''Transformers 1'', of course, they couldn't have a giant robot turn into outdated '80s technology so they had an expy of Soundwave by taking one of Soundwave's tapes (Frenzy) and turning him into a CD player. In ''Revenge of the Fallen'', they turn Soundwave himself into a satellite, and he sends another one of his tapes, Ravage, to Earth to spy on the humans. The whole Expy thing becomes a bit Meta, because Ravage spews a bunch of little metal balls which come together and form another character who is an expy of Movie 1's Frenzy!}}
** Ravage also has a compartment in his chest open to release The Doctor, just as the old Soundwave used to release cassette-Ravage.
** Not to mention the fact that Blackout in the first movie was an Expy of Soundwave. His role was originally meant to be filled by Soundwave, down to the symbiotic animal partner.
** There's also {{spoiler|Wheelie}}. He has some similarities to both Frenzy and Rattrap from Beast Wars.
** Jetfire, bit of an Expy of Kup.
* Both ''[[Coraline (
* Del Preston from ''[[
* [[Léon: The Professional|Léon]] is Victor from ''Nikita''. Same actor, and they even share an euphemism for their job, "cleaner".
** Luc Besson has said that they're basically cousins.
** Winston Wolf, "the cleaner" from ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', is an Expy of the character played by Harvey Keitel in ''The Point of No Return'' -- which was itself a remake of ''Nikita'', thus tying all of these fellas together.
* Al from ''[[Toy Story (franchise)||Toy Story 2]]'' and Dennis Nedry from ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' are played by [[Wayne Knight]], and they have similar personalities. They are both fat, disgusting, immoral (Al stole a child's beloved toy, for God's sake!), nerdy slobs. Karma bites both of them in the ass eventually.
** Both are of course an Expy from the original evil himself, [[Seinfeld|Newman!]]
* [http://www.mwctoys.com/images/review_cb2_1a.jpg Victor] from ''[[
** Victor also looks like what [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|Jack Skellington]] would look like if the latter was alive, albeit with a tear-drop-shaped head rather than a round skull.
* The Filipino superhero Captain Barbell is quite similar to [[Captain Marvel]], except that he has no lightning power and that his wimpy alter ego has to lift a barbell over his head to transform.
* Sort of a type-casting example with Paul Bettany. He recently was in a biopic on [[Charles Darwin]], and some reviews noted his previous role as [[Master and Commander|Stephen Maturin]] in film ''Master and Commander'' who comes across as somewhat similar to Darwin in his time on the ''Beagle'' (intellectual naturalist on a ship, interacts with giant tortoises at one point).
** Not any giant tortoises. The giant tortoises ''of the Galpagos Islands'', just like Darwin!
* ''[[Rudolph the Red
* Michael Cera basically plays the same character over and over. His characters in ''[[Superbad]]'', ''[[Juno]]'', ''[[Nick and
** Ditto for Jesse Eisenberg, whose appearance has been compared to Cera by some. His character in ''[[Adventureland]]'' is basically like the guy from ''[[The Squid And The Whale]]'' growing up and graduating college. ''[[
**** Subverted with Eisenberg's role in [[The Social Network]], although he's still playing a college kid.
*** These men are Expies of Rick Moranis.
** No mention of [[Jon Heder]], who came before both Cera and Eisenberg. [[School For Scoundrels]] is basically [[Napoleon Dynamite]] learning from a watered-down [[Bad Santa]] (as well as being an unneccesary and REALLY insulting remake of an Ealing Comedy classic), and [[Benchwarmers]] is [[Napoleon Dynamite]] playing little league baseball. Even his voice acting roles is pretty much [[Napoleon Dynamite]] as an overweight pizza boy ([[Monster House]]) and a pothead chicken [[
** Ditto for Seth Rogen, who plays a fat clumsy pothead in pretty much all of his movies, and Jonah Hill, who plays mini-Seth Rogen in pretty much all of his movies.
** These are also be examples of [[Typecasting]].
*** Subverted, hard, by Seth Rogen in ''[[
* In ''[[
** The scene with the arks may also resemble the ferrys.
* George Sanders' The Falcon was a expy of George Sanders' The Saint. The Saint's author even brought suit against RKO over the issue.
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