Overused Copycat Character: Difference between revisions

* ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' also has an evil dual-wielding drow ranger called Drizz'l, though he moved away from this after his first appearance.

* Cale'anon, [[The Hero]] of ''[[Looking for Group]]'' is an '''accidental''' example of this trope, though an outright parody regardless, as the creators, Ryan Sohmer (the writer) and Lar De Souza (the artist), claim that they had never heard of Drizzt before creating the comic. It should be noted, though, that Sohmer fully acknowledged the Snafu after finally reading a Forgotten Realms book by R.A. Salvatore, and thought it incredibly humorous that he'd written such a perfect parody of the character. This accidental parody probably also stems from the fact that Sohmer has commented several times about having played ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' since childhood, and is well known as a player of ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. Cale was originally a parody of the quintessential Ranger/Hunter, which Drizz't himself just happens to be; this led to an accidental parody being done ''on purpose'', as it were.

 

== Web Original ==

* [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]] ridicules the overuse of the humorless, hard-ass [[Space Marine]] archetype for [[First-Person Shooter]] protagonists. While Master Chief of ''[[Halo]]'' isn't the ''direct'' source from which the character type is derived, he is held out as the most obvious and recognizable example of the archetype.

* Parodied in one chapter of the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' [[Fanfic]] ''[[Those Lacking Spines]]'', where the "Heroes" fight a guy named "Jeffiroth", with the implication that he to be the first of many similar [[Copy Cat Sue|Copycat Sues]].

 

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