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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'''s Jean Grey, during periods when she has been rendered [[Death Is Cheap|temporarily dead]] or otherwise unusable, has been substituted numerous times, most notably by her Alterniverse daughter, [[X-Men/Characters/80s Members/Characters|Rachel]]. Now we currently have [[Messianic Archetype|Hope Summers]], the first mutant born after the Decimation events. She [[Green Eyed Red Head|looks like a teenaged Jean]], wears the same colors as she had, and even displays similar [[Playing with Fire|Phoenix-like]] powers.
** As a long-running tradition in ''X-Men'', the team roster ''always'' has to include one plucky, [[Badass Adorable]] teenage girl who adopts [[Wolverine]] as a [[Big Brother Mentor]]. When the character grows out of the role, she's always replaced by another one. Kitty Pryde started the tradition, and her replacements have included Jubilee, Marrow, Armor, Pixie, and [[X-23]]. Marrow shook up the tradition a bit by having Gambit as her mentor instead, but the writers cut out the middleman with X-23 by making her Wolverine's [[Distaff Counterpart|female clone]] (the closest thing to an actual little sister Wolvie's ever going to get).
* Parodied in ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]: The Black Dossier'', where we're told the British Government, in assembling the 1950s League, tried to find substitutes of the ''entire'' 1890s League. It didn't work.
** W.E. John's Worrals for Mina; ''Hotspur'''s Wolf of Kabul for Alan; Peter Brady (TV's first [[The Invisible Man (novel)|Invisible Man]]) for Griffin; Professor Grey (from ''[[The Beano]]'' strip ''The Iron Fish'') for Nemo; and a giant robot called the Iron Warrior (from ''Thrill Comics'') for Hyde.
** This went as far as to have Wolf hit on Worrals, when Worrals was openly gay.
* The Pre-Crisis version of Jason Todd, who took over the role of [[Batman]]'s sidekick [[Robin (Comic Book)|Robin]] after Dick Grayson became [[Nightwing]], was a carbon copy of Dick Grayson right down to having a similar origin story (his parents were acrobats murdered by Killer Croc). This was averted with the Post-Crisis version, which revised Jason's origin as a street hoodlum who was picked up by Batman. Oddly enough, Pre-Crisis Todd was a red-haired boy who dyed his hair black, while Post-Crisis Todd was naturally black-haired.
** Now he's back to being a red-head. Appropriate, given his current nom de guerre.
** But wait, post relaunch: black hair, no white stripe, and this is his natural colour again.
* In a rather peculiar example, when the [[Batgirl (Comic Book)|Batgirl]] mantle was [[Batgirl 2011 (Comic Book)|returned to Barbara Gordon]] [[Batgirl 2009 (Comic Book)|from Stephanie Brown]] following ''[[Flashpoint (Comic Bookcomics)|Flashpoint]]'', Barbara's personality appeared to shift to be closer to [[Lighter and Softer]] Stephanie's, so she was a similar replacement to her replacement's replacement. Incidentally becoming the [[Replacement Scrappy]] to the [[Replacement Scrappy]], yet both of whom have [[Vocal Minority]] fanbases. The Batgirl question is a massive [[Base Breaker]] with a lot of [[Executive Meddling]].
* When [[Grant Morrison]] was writing [[Justice League of America|JLA]], he was unable to use [[Hawkman]] because the character's [[Continuity Snarl]] had become such a problem. Instead, he created the replacement character Zauriel. He even hangs a lampshade on it by having [[Aquaman (Comic Book)|Aquaman]] briefly mistake Zauriel for Hawkman in his first appearance.
* A cross between this and [[Psycho Rangers]] happens with [[Norman Osborn]]'s [[Dark Avengers]]; villainous ranged-combat expert Bullseye imitates heroic archer [[Hawkeye]], the new [[Venom (Comic Book)|Venom]] symbiote imitates [[Spider-Man]], [[Wolverine]]'s [[Daken|psychotic son]] takes his place, and so on.
* In ''JLA'' comics, Vibe was a member of the poorly received [[Dork Age|Detroit League]] who, like the other newcomers to the team introduced in that run, had a stroke of misfortune or two when the roster needed to be cleared up for a new team. In his case, he died. Later, the Conglomorate, a rival team to the Justice League, is formed, featuring Vibe's identically-powered brother Reverb (as well as Vibe's JL teammate Gypsy). This was written by the same writer who killed off Vibe in the first place, mind you; of course, Reverb lacks Vibe's out-there personality and is generally unlikable for the opposite reason.
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* Grindor from ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''. He looks exactly like Blackout in both shape, size, appearance and alt-mode (they both turn into helicopters).
** Also, [[Megan Fox]]'s Mikaela being replaced by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's Carly.
* [[Ed Wood (Creatorcreator)|Ed Wood]]'s ''[[Plan 9 from Outer Space]]''. [[Bela Lugosi]] died minutes into filming the movie (actually, he died before production started, but Wood used recycled film to include him in the motion picture at all), so Wood hired his dentist to fill in for Lugosi, holding a cape over his face to disguise the considerable differences between him and Lugosi.
** Actually, it was his wife's chiropractor.
* In the second ''[[The Rescuers (Disney film)|Rescuers]]'' film (which takes place in [[Land Down Under|Australia]]), the role of Orville Albatross is replaced by that of his brother, Wilbur.
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** Vice and Mature's original role as Rugal's secretaries was taken over by Aya and Hermoine in ''The King of Fighters '98''.
* In ''[[Street Fighter Alpha]]'', Guile, the Air Force lieutenant searching for his missing friend, is replaced with Charlie, another member of the Air Force. Subverted in that the game is a prequel, Charlie's moves are similar to Guile's, already existed in the storyline, and chronologically came first. Also, the "missing friend" Guile was looking for was, you know, Charlie.
* In ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom Clash of the Superheroes|Marvel vs. Capcom]]'', the developers couldn't use [[Iron Man (Comic Book)|Iron Man]] due to licensing issues, despite being previously featured in ''Marvel Super Heroes'', so they simply [[Palette Swap|recolored his sprite]] from that game to make [[War Machine (Comic Book)|War Machine]]. When Capcom was able to use Iron Man again for ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]'', they gave War Machine the moveset of his "Hyper War Machine" counterpart from the previous game in order to [[Divergent Character Evolution|distinguish him]] from Iron Man, who used War Machine's regular moveset from the previous game (which in turn, was based on Iron Man's move set from ''Marvel Super Heroes'').
* The heroes of ''[[Golden Axe]] III'', Kain Grinder and Sarah Barn, look and fight similarly to Ax Battler and Tyris Flare, respectively (though the U.S. version still mistakenly refers to them as Ax and Tyris). Sarah even gets Tyris' repertoire of fire magic. Gilius Thunderhead is the only character from the previous installments to return in that game, though not as a playable character.
* ''[[Fire Emblem]] 7'' - full circle, actually. Nils is the not so [[Spoony Bard]] in the introductory campaign of ''Fire Emblem 7'', then he's replaced by Ninian, his sister. But then {{spoiler|Ninian kicks the bucket, so Nils replaces her in the final battle}}.
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* Lucca in ''[[Chrono Trigger]]''=>Luccia in ''[[Chrono Cross]]''
** Yes and no. There are some similarities between the two, most notably the hair color, glasses and occupation. Fighting styles are completely different however, as well as attitudes, and Luccia's [[Herr Doctor|accent.]]
* Between ''Resident Evil 1.5'' and ''[[Resident Evil 2 (Video Game)]]'', Elza Walker, John, and Linda were redesigned into/replaced by Claire Redfield, Robert Kendo, and Ada Wong, respectively. The "Hooked Man" prototype of ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' had paranormally animated suits of armor, while the final version had Plagas-controlled armor suits, and Ashley replaced Sherry as the [[Distressed Damsel]].
* ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' can have this depending on the player's actions in ''[[Mass Effect (video game)|Mass Effect 1]]''. If Wrex survived the first game, he will appear on Tuchanka leading his clan. If he was killed, it will be his brother Wreav, offering the same quests and exposition (although his personality is notably different). Likewise, if you saved the colony of Zhu's Hope but let Shiala die, an unnamed human colonist will appear in her place on Illium to offer the same quest.
** Continues into the 3rd game for characters who died in ''2''. {{spoiler|Mordin}} is replaced by {{spoiler|another salarian named Padok Wiks (who appears regardless, but quickly vanishes if Mordin is still alive)}}, {{spoiler|Grunt}} is replaced by {{spoiler|a generic krogan soldier}}, {{spoiler|Miranda}} is replaced by {{spoiler|her sister Oriana}}, {{spoiler|Tali}} is replaced by {{spoiler|Admiral Raan}}, and {{spoiler|Legion}} is replaced by...{{spoiler|a backup copy of itself (who doesn't have memory of Shepard)}}. {{spoiler|Garrus, Jacob, Jack, Zaeed, Kasumi, Samara, and Thane}} simply have their parts skipped if they died. Joker will even [[Lampshade Hanging|insist on referring to]] {{spoiler|Padok}} as "Not-{{spoiler|Mordin}}".
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