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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Tommy Merlyn is this for [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Harry Osborn]], being the main character's more carefree, outgoing best friend who comes from a rich family, is involved in a love triangle with said best friend, and is a WellDoneSonGuy towards his father, who just so happens to moonlight as a supervillain.
** And like ''Smallville'''s, this characterization of Green Arrow demands some explanation to Batman.

* ''Series/TheFlash1990'': Nightshade is based on the original [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Sandman, right down to the GasMaskLongcoat costume and the use of a specialized gun that renders his foes unconscious.
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': Sherloque Wells is just a French Franchise/SherlockHolmes, and everyone in the show is aware of this. He also is from Earth-221, had a partner named Watsune, and has a love interest named Renee Adler.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': Chloe Sullivan originally started as an Expy for ComicBook/LoisLane (the actual Lois was introduced later), [[CompositeCharacter as well as the Silver Age version of Lana Lang]]. As she began to grow apart from Lois, her journalism career was downplayed and her computer skills evolved to their current levels -- making her now an expy for [[ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey Oracle]].
** Tess Mercer, in her first two appearances, was referred to as both "an obscure regional VP" (unfit for her job of taking over for ComicBook/LexLuthor) and a "pitbull in Prada." The first was said to her while they were up in the Arctic. The second, after she had firmly assumed control of her bald boss's former position. That's right, it's Sarah Palin. Of course, she's intended as a fusion of Mercy Graves and Miss Teschmacher (tending ''much'' more toward Mercy.)
** The episode "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E13Warrior Warrior]]", turned the in-universe fictional Warrior Angel into a [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] Expy.
** This version of ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'' has quite a significant [[Film/MysteryMen Captain Amazing]] vibe.
** There are some sharp similarities between ComicBook/GreenArrow's characterization and relationship with Clark, and that of Franchise/{{Batman}}. Throw in the fact that ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' likely meant the writers couldn't use Bruce, and that makes a lot of sense all of a sudden.
*** Appropriate, given that initially ComicBook/GreenArrow was very much [[PoorMansSubstitute the poor man's Batman]] in the comics, with his earliest stories featuring Speedy as a blatant {{Expy}} of Robin, as well as an Arrow-Mobile and even an "Arrow Cave."
** Vordigan the Dark Archer is heavily based on Merlyn, Green Arrow's EvilCounterpart in the comics.
** Davis Bloome and the version of Doomsday he turns into is basically ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, but evil. He's a generally physically unimposing person with anger issues who turns into a NighInvulnerable hulking monster with SuperStrength when overstressed. He's also a [[CompositeCharacter composite version]] with Doomsday from the comics, as he possesses his spikes, overall appearance, and reactive evolution abilities.

* InUniverse in ''Series/{{Westworld}}. Shogun World contain as major characters a dishonourable {{Ronin}}, his female partner with a dragon tattoo and the head geisha of the local okiya, who the lead writer admits he just recycled from Hector, Armistice and Maeve; complete with regular robberies of the okiya. When they all wander into Shogun World the Westworld originals [[ExpyCoexistence]] meet their duplicates.

* ''Series/TheOldGuys'': Roy and Tom are expies of Mark and Jeremy of ''Series/PeepShow'', with the same writing team.

* ''Series/FargoSeasonOne'' is has expies of characters in ''{{Film/Fargo}}'' - Lester Nygaard is basically a more psychopathic and slightly more adept Jerry Lundegaard, Molly Solverson is a stand-in for Marge Gunderson. Lorne Malvo is an expy of Anton Chigurh from ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'', another Coen Brothers film.

** Buffy, as a character, is largely based on ComicBook/KittyPryde, a character in Franchise/XMen. It's been theorized she was inspired by Regina and Samantha Belmont of ''Film/NightOfTheComet'': blonde, Californian morons who find themselves battling the undead.

* Eclipse from ''Series/TheGifted2017'' is based off of Sunspot from the ''Comicbook/NewMutants'' (particularly as he appeared in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''), being a Latino mutant with solar powers.

* ''Series/NoOrdinaryFamily'': Lucas Winnick's animal based powers, slightly scraggly appearance, and eagerness to inflict violence with his new claws and teeth make him an expy of Sabretooth from the ''Franchise/XMen'' franchise.

* ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseUSGovernmentAndMilitary General Puckett]] takes over the role that the fictionalized version of General UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur in the [[CanonDiscontinuity no de-canonized]] ''Godzilla: Awakening'' graphic novel originally had; of the U.S. Army officer who authorized the Castle Bravo atomic bombing in an attempt to kill Godzilla in 1954, over protests from [[BenevolentConspiracy Monarch]], and who contributed to Monarch's growth in its early days.

** ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'' goes for another Darth Vader expy in the form of Wolzard. He is a dark armored MagicKnight in the employ of the BigBad. [[spoiler:Like Darth Vader, he is revealed to be the brainwashed father of the rangers.]] '''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' adapted this character as Korrag the Knight Wolf, with the only change that he is [[spoiler:only the Red Ranger's father]].

* ''Series/TheXFiles'': [[TheSymbiote The Black Oil or Black Cancer]] has a striking resemblance to the Venom symbiote from ''Franchise/SpiderMan''. Both are evil black alien liquid lifeforms resembling oil that have the ability to attach themselves to people, taking over their bodies and granting them superhuman powers. And just like most incarnations of the symbiote, the Black Oil was originally discovered in a meteorite. The introductory scene of the Black Oil even has resemblances to the symbiote's introduction in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries''. FBI Agent Dana Scully has more than a hint of Clarice Starling from 'The Silence of the Lambs', an imprisoned Mulder even riffing the whole "Hello Clarice" gag in the final episode.

* ''Series/TheLAComplex'': Abby was originally planned to be [[Series/{{Degrassi}} Manny Santos]]. When they made the choice not to make a SpinOff, she gained a new name but kept the same actress and the same background down to [[UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}} hometown]] and her boyfriend back home's of job.

** Davies seems to have brought in a lot of influences from earlier works. Gwen bears a resemblance to [[Series/DoctorWho Rose]] in her role. Captain Jack comes across as a hybrid of the Doctor and Stuart from Series/QueerAsFolk, while Ianto became more and more like [[Series/QueerAsFolk Vince]], especially in his relationship to Jack, as the series progressed.

* ''{{Series/Wings}}'': Joe, Brian and Helen's representations during the first season are quite similar to that of Chip, Dale and Gadget from ''Disney/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' (which premiered a couple of years before ''Wings''). Joe and Chip were the smart, responsible pilots with the cool jackets, Brian and Dale were the goofy, fun-loving brothers who wore Hawaiian shirts, and Helen and Gadget were the cute blondes that the brothers fought over.

* Eclipse from ''Series/TheGifted'' is based off of Sunspot from the ''Comicbook/NewMutants'' (particularly as he appeared in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''), being a Latino mutant with solar powers.

* ''Series/{{Rawhide}}'': Wishbone, the bearded cook, is an expy of Charlie Wooster, the bearded cook of ''Series/WagonTrain'' fame.

* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Aaron seems to be this to [[Series/{{Lost}} Hurley]], but with a RaceLift. Rich guy whose money is now worthless? Check. Big guy who is a [[AWorldwidePunomenon vast source of comic relief?]] Check. Apparent aversion to physical tasks (at least partially due to his size)? Check.

* ''Series/BronBroen'': Saga Norén is so remarkably similar to Kathleen Mallory from Carol O'Connell's prose detective novels that it's hard to imagine there wasn't an influence. About the only difference between them is that Kathy is apparently asexual while Saga picks up random guys in bars for sex (and then freaks them out by starting her laptop up and looking at autopsy photos as soon as they've finished).

* Creator/BudSpencer (real name Carlo Pedersoli) currently stars in an Italian TV series where he plays a former police commissioner with a passion for cooking, who now owns and runs a restaurant in Ischia, an island near Naples. Given that he played Neapolitan commissioner "Piedone" Rizzo in four movies during the '70s, this latest character may be Rizzo after he retired from active duty.

* ''Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance'':
** Of all main Gelflings, Deet is clearly modeled the most after ''[[Film/TheDarkCrystal Kira]]''. They both have long platinum hair, are a Friend to All Living Things and Speaks Fluent Animal, and are in a Ship Tease with a brown-haired Gelfling lad who functions as The Hero.
** Likewise, Rian is pretty clearly modeled after Jen. A strapping young Gelfling lad with long brown hair who is functionally The Hero yet often needs help from the female Gelfling(s) he travels with, and is in a Ship Tease with a white-haired female Gelfling who is a Friend to All Living Things and Speaks Fluent Animal. All that said, he's much more effective in combat than Jen.

** Chyna Parks is expy of [[Series/ThatsSoRaven Raven Baxter]] , [[Series/{{ICarly}}]] ,and [[Series/{{Victorious}} Tori Vega]].
** Olive Doyle is expy of [[Series/HannahMontana Lilly TruscottCat Valentine and [[Series/ICarly Sam Puckett]].

** Gibson is expy of [[Series/{{ICarly}} Spencer Shay.

** Chyna Parks is expy of [[Series/ThatsSoRaven Raven Baxter]] , [[Series/{{ICarly}} Carly Shay]],and [[Series/{{Victorious}} Tori Vega]].
** Olive Doyle is expy of [[Series/HannahMontana Lilly Truscott]] and [[Series/ICarly Sam Puckett]].

** Paisley Houndstooth is expy of [[Series/Victorious Cat Valentine]], minus mentioning her brother.