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* Norman Bates of ''[[Psycho (Film)|Psycho]]'' and David Callaway in ''[[Hide and Seek]]'' have similar characteristics. They are protagonists of their films, they fight antagonists not shown to us, they found out that they themselves are the antagonists, and they have a [[Split Personality Takeover]] afterwards.
* 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 With a Heart]] in ''War Inc.'' is an expy of his character in the earlier film ''[[Grosse Pointe Blank]]'', and almost every other character in the new film has an equivalent in the previous one.
* Alex from ''[[Home Alone]] 3'' is the expy of Kevin from the previous two movies.
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* ''[[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 With a "The"|The]] [[The Starscream|Starscream]] than a [[Spell My Name With a "The"|The]] [[The Dragon|Dragon]]. General Greivous is a bit closer to Vader; Darth Vader has trouble breathing, Grevious has a cough, and they're both cyborgs.
*** [[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...
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