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** Andrew Waltfeld = Ramba Ral, with Aisha as his Crowley Hamon.
** Admiral Lewis Halberton = General Revil
** [[General Ripper|Patrick Zala]] and [[Villain with Good Publicity|Muruta Azrael]] share [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Gihren Zabi]]'s [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|abhorrent politics]] and [[Smug Snake|personality]]. [[Insane Admiral|Patrick]] also shares his [[Putting on the Reich|look]] and penchant for [[Rousing Speech
** Rau Le Creuset may be the series' [[Char Clone]], but his [[Nietzsche Wannabe|other]] [[Omnicidal Maniac|personality]] [[Beta Baddie|traits]]? And [[War for Fun and Profit|how]] [[Playing Both Sides|he]] [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|aims]] to [[The End of the World as We Know It|achieve them]]? Let's just say he and the [[After War Gundam X|Frost Brothers]] would have a lot to talk about.
* And now ''[[Gundam AGE]]'' has Yurin L'Ciel as an expy of Tiffa Adil from ''[[After War Gundam X|Gundam X]]'', being both loli [[Mysterious Waif]] characters that help the main hero with their clairvoyance powers.
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** Shun Mitaka of ''Maison'' is suave, rich, and has a silly uncontrollable phobia. Just like Shutaro Mendou of Urusei Yatsura (they even have the same voice actor).
*** [[Ranma ½|Kuno Tatewaki]] is also comparable to [[Urusei Yatsura|Shutaro Mendou]]. Both are absurdly rich (although Mendou shows it a lot more,) both always carry a sword, which Ranma/Ataru [[Barehanded Blade Block|catches]], they also want to kill/defeat the main character, for "stealing' their love.
* Tomoe from ''[[Kamisama Kiss]]'' has more than a few things in common with [[Inuyasha]]. Not only do you have a physical resemblance (both are [[Little Bit Beastly]] [[White-Haired Pretty Boy
* The three main characters of ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'' were all upgrade expies from an earlier Kaishaku work called ''Cross Triangle''. (Kurusugawa Himeko and Oogami Souma even shared partial names with their
** All of them have returned yet again in supporting roles in ''Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora'': virtually unchanged, except that Himeko now affects [[Meganekko|a pair of glasses]].
*** Then there's Kaishaku's most recent manga, ''[[Zettai Shoujo Seiiki Amnesian]]''. Guess who's back. You may find the scanlation [http://zefiberyl.blogspot.com/search/label/Amnesian here].
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** Bruno looks like an Expy of Johan from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'', with his blue hair and instant [[Ho Yay]] relationship with [[The Hero]] to the point of making other characters jealous. Johan himself was actually an Expy of ''Judai.'' So Bruno is an expy of Johan who is an expy of Judai who is an expy of Yugi/Jyonouchi.
*** Thankfully, the similarity between them exists only within the role they play. Personality and backstory-wise, they are radically different characters.
** Sherry seems like a [[Gender Flip
** In a nutshell, Kazuki Takahashi seems to love mixing different characters together to create new ones, usually combinations of the three original main characters.
*** Yusei Fudo has Yami Yugi's facial structure and eye shape, Jonouchi's height range (middle height of the main trio) and obviously, Kaiba's blue eyes, humble (coming from Satellite) origins and 'no-nonsense' attitude.
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** Kotori is an expy of Anzu (personality, relationship) and Ruka (appearance).
** Shark is an expy of early Kaiba.
* The ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'' girls have counterparts in ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star|Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash* Star]]''
** ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5]]'' apparently tried to do it again before changing their tune to make a more traditional [[Magical Girl]] team; traces of Nagisa and Honoka can still be found in Rin and Karen, despite their being tweaked considerably. More obvious is Komachi, otherwise known as [[Tokyo Mew Mew|Retasu]].
** ''[[Fresh Pretty Cure]]'' had the blatant [[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch|Lucia]] expy Love/Cure Peach.
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* Leiji Matsumoto is another writer who uses 'actors' to the extreme, which considering the number of crossover characters in his series, can be confusing as hell. It's particularly noticeable in ''[[Galaxy Express 999]]'', when after watching enough episodes you can predict a character's personality, and even their chances of surviving the episode, the first time they appear. Strangely enough, this doesn't make the series any less awesome.
* Everyone in the ''[[Giant Robo]]'' [[OVA]] is an Expy of a character from various manga by Mitsuteru Yokoyama.
* Tite Kubo revived the protagonist of his ill-fated first manga, ''[[Zombie Powder]]'', as the arrancar Grimmjow Jeagerjaques in his more successful later series -- ''[[Bleach]]''
** ''[[Zombie Powder]]'' earns the distinction of producing two expies in one series from the ''same character''. An early design for Gamma is very clearly the design around for Renji Abarai.
** Make that ''[[Rule of Three|three]]'', Stark's released form is also based on Gamma, just with guns instead of a chainsword.
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** And then inverted when {{spoiler|one of the "same face, different place" characters really ''does'' turn out to be the same person they'd met before.}}
** [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] later on, when one Expy turns out to be {{spoiler|the ''son'' of the character he mimics, for... [[Oedipus Rex|less than healthy reasons]].}}
** CLAMP wrote ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' as a 20th anniversary [[Fan Service]] gift to its fans, so [[Expy]] is essentially the raison d'etre for the series. ''[[xxxHolic]]'' is a concurrent CLAMP manga series that intersects so tightly with ''[[Tsubasa]]'' as to require reading both to fully appreciate and understand each story. For the 100+ list of CLAMP [[Expy
* Continuing on from the Gundam listing above, ''[[Code Geass]]'' has plenty of its own.
** Lelouch is a main character version of Char, what with both being exiled members of (more or less) royalty, suffering from having their beloved parent murdered, having a sister, planning for revenge, and not allowing that sister to be part of it, or even knowing about it. And when she does find out, they have a showdown, and she gets in his way, etc, etc. They also fight an internal battle between revenge, wanting to join with the "nice guys" and be a real hero, and mass genocide.
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*** Amazing in that [[Kyoto Animation]] finished ''[[Lucky Star]]'' before working on ''[[Clannad]]''.
*** Most likely a reference to the visual novel, which was contemporaneous with the original [[Yonkoma]] on which the ''Lucky Star'' anime was based. It may also just have been a coincidence that the studio capitalised on to up the [[Pandering to the Base|otaku quotient]]; Kagami is actually named after [[wikipedia:Kagami Yoshimizu|her creator]].
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** Misae is an [[Expy]] of [[Full Metal Panic!|Kaname Chidori]], down to the [[Satsuki Yukino|seiyuu]]. Hell, her last name is Sagara.
** Tsukasa is a visual (at least) expy of Akari Kamigishi from ''[[To Heart]]'', which the series delights in [[Lampshade Hanging|pointing out]]. The poor girl once gets photographed by an [[Otaku]] who sees the resemblance and [[Otaku Surrogate|Konata]] once gives her Akari's red uniform.
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* Mitsuka-sensei from ''[[DearS]]'' is a direct [[Expy]] of [[Mahoromatic|Shikijo-sensei]], almost to the point of ripoff status, as they share the same English voice actress. Ren is an obvious expy of most of the persocoms from ''[[Chobits]]'', but more specifically, Chii.
** Speaking of ''[[DearS]]'', Junpei from ''[[Nyan Koi]]'' is very reminiscent of Takeya.
* Most ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' characters are Expies of ''[[Mai-HiME]]'' characters. In fact, almost all of the main characters of Mai-HiME appear in Mai-Otome, although they may only be supporting characters or even extras. The reverse is often true as
** Rena Sayers, however, is an expy of ''not'' of a character from Mai-HiME, but that of a character of another series: Rena Yuuki of the [[PlayStation]] game ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula]]: The New Challenger''. Their first names sound alike (except the "L" replaces the "R") and addition to that, the series' main character designer is also the main character designer for the last 2 OVAs for ''Cyber Formula'' as well as most of video games based on that series.
* In [[One Piece]] there were two characters who share similarites to Nami who appeared in previous versions of Romance Dawn. One was a Swordswoman who joined Luffy's crew, personality wise she was more gentle than Nami. Another was more similar to Nami's current self in terms of personality however from the way the Pilot's story was going it seemed like she wouldn't join the crew.
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* Nanaka from ''[[Myself Yourself]]'' resembles and initially acts like [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|Komachi]] [[Jerkass|Tsugumi]] from ''[[Ever 17]]''.
* Most of class 2-D is taken from [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Zeon]]. The resident CHAR is Harry MacKenzie.
* In ''[[Amanchu]]'', the author transported ''[[Aria]]'s'' Akari back to earth, renamed her Hikari and [[Author Appeal|gave her some scuba gear]]. And seemingly infused her with some interesting drugs, since Hikari tends to be even more spaced-out than her
** In the most recent chapters, they give us characters Akane and Chizuru who look EXACTLY like Akari and Aika respectivley.
* Kentaro Yabuki reused both the appearance and the powers of both Kyoko and Eve from ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' when designing Magical Flame Kyoko and Golden Darkness in ''[[To Love Ru]]''.
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** "Quite a resemblence""? Lunar not only looks virtually identical to Enta (Lunar's hair being a few shades lighter, and her tail is different), her real personality is also very close to Etna's.
* Max Taylor of the anime series ''[[Dinosaur King]]'' is very much an Expy of [[Pokémon (anime)|Ash Ketchum]]. The similarities include their weird hair, both being comical protagonists, yet serious about their fighting, having a pet with lighting attacks and both having the same (English) voice. The connection is helped in that [[Veronica Taylor]] uses the '''exact same''' voice she used for Ash.
* Lucifer of ''[[Saint Beast]]'' is [[Final Fantasy VII|Sephiroth]] with black
* 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.)
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** A [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] with a gentle, giving heart who originally seems to be a love interest for the heroine, but ends up {{spoiler|being tainted by evil because of the [[Dark Magical Girl]] and ending up as her romantic interest}}. (Sasame, Mytho)
** A dark-haired girl who is a friend of the heroine, but becomes the [[Dark Magical Girl]] because of a misguided belief that she's unloved. (Fenrir/{{spoiler|Takako}}, Rue/Kraehe)
*** 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]],
* ''[[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.
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* The [[Manhwa]] ''[[Witch Hunter]]'' is quite an expy of ''[[D.Gray-man]]''. The main protagonists both have [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|white hair]], wear black uniform which are the same color as their respective comrades', show sympathy towards their enemies' ''race'', and have [[Played for Laughs|hilarious]] financial problems.
* Many of the characters in [[Rumiko Takahashi]]'s latest work, [[RIN-NE]], seem to be expies from her older works (though in looks, Rinne's grandmother Tamako seems to be a genderbent [[Bleach|Ichimaru]]. For example, Sakura Mamiya is a more laid-back [[Inuyasha|Kagome]], Tsubasa Jumonji looks a ''lot'' like [[Inuyasha|Miroku]] (though his personality is more like [[Ranma ½|Ryoga's]]). Ageha looks very similar to [[Inuyasha|Abi-hime]], too.
* ''[[Lost Universe]]'' is considered the sister series to ''[[Slayers]]'' for the near-identical parallels between plot and characters; the plot is more or less the same but in a sci-fi setting, with a [[Big Bad]] sharing a similar name to the [[Big Bad]] of the latter series. It's [[Epileptic Trees|theorized]] that both franchises are a part of the same universe becacuse of the presences of a [[God]] and a [[
** As for the characters, protagonist Kane Blueriver is a male, less sociopathic version of [[Red Headed Heroine|Lina Inverse]], [[Tsundere|Millie Nocturne]] and [[The Ditz|Nina Mercury]] are split parts of [[The Pollyanna|Princess Amelia's]] personality, Railey Claymore carries a few of[[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Zelgadis']] traits, and [[Big Bad|Dark Star's]] human form is a more evil-looking version of [[Idiot Hero|Gourry Gabriev.]] In addition to all of this, [[Megumi Hayashibara]] (Lina) voices [[Genki Girl|Canal Vorfeed]], [[Yasunori Matsumoto]] (Gourry)voices Dark Star, Masami Suzuki (Amelia) voices Nina, and [[Hikaru Midorikawa]] (Zelgadis) voices Riley.
* ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula]]'': Osamu Sugo/Knight Schumacher. Let's see, he has a [[Secret Identity]], he's a [[The Ace|really fast driver]], he has a little sister who's in love with the main character, also being the [[Long-Lost Relative|long lost brother]] of said little sister, he's [[The Rival]] of the hero, he has a cool accessory covering his face ([[Cool Shades|his sunglasses]]), he's [[Ensemble Darkhorse|really popular with the fans]] and he drives a white and red machine (in his case a race car)...does this [[Char Clone|remind you]] [[Mobile Suit Gundam|of somebody?]]
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