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** There is even The RX-78 Gundam it also has alot of Expies that inspire by its color

* Since ''ShakuganNoShana'', JCStaff apparently started mass-producing short, {{Pettanko}} {{Tsundere}} characters with let-down hair, who refuse to acknowledge their partner's human status, [[PigeonholedVoiceActor All voiced by]] RieKugimiya
* [[MobileSuitGundam Char Aznable]] was so often copied not only in the ''{{Gundam}}'' metaseries, but anime in general, that he recieved [[CharClone his own appropriate trope]].

-->''Who cuss like me; who just don't give a **** like me''

** There is even The RX-79 Gundam it also has alot of Expies that inspire by its color

** There is even The RX-79 Gundam it also has alot of Expys that inspire by its color

* SherlockHolmes. The inspiration for hundreds of [[DefectiveDetective eccentric private detectives]] in all kinds of settings, many of them explicit {{Expies}}, to the extent that from the time he became popular until ''Trent's Last Case'' [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] the type in 1913, it was well-nigh impossible to find a {{Great Detective}} who ''didn't'' rip him off, or, for that matter, a crime-solver who wasn't at least a parody of a {{Great Detective}}. Several characters inspired by Holmes have become distinctive popular characters in their own right, including Gregory House and Batman.

* SherlockHolmes. The inspiration for hundreds of [[DefectiveDetective eccentric private detectives]] in all kinds of settings, many of them explicit {{Expies}}, to the extent that from the time he became popular until ''Trent's Last Case'' [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] the type in 1913, it was well-nigh impossible to find a {{Great Detective}} who ''didn't'' rip him off, or, for that matter, a crime-solver who wasn't at least a parody of a {{Great Detective}}.

* Thanks to TheNineties, TheArnold is now a popular character, generally appearing as an AffectionateParody.

* Since ShakuganNoShana, JCStaff apparently started mass-producing short, {{Pettanko}} {{Tsundere}} characters with let-down hair, who refuse to acknowledge their partner's human status, [[PigeonholedVoiceActor All voiced by]] RieKugimiya

* [[MobileSuitGundam Char Aznable]] was so often copied not only in the Gundam metaseries, but anime in general, that he recieved [[CharClone his own appropriate trope]].

* {{Wolverine}}. Nearly every "exciting new character" introduced in the [[DarkAge Dark Age of Comics]] was a cheap knockoff of him.

* Ditto TheAhnold (whose clones tend to be more of the AffectionateParody type).

A character, who is so popular and impactul, that many other characters created afterwards are heavily inspired by it. They share even more than its {{Character Archetype}}s, they are its {{Expies}}: basically the same old character recycled, with some minor changes, to make it fit into the new setting. The original one gives inspiration not just for their basic {{Characterization Tropes}}, but for parts of their character dynamics, personality, and appearance.

* SherlockHolmes. The inspiration for hundreds of excentric private detectives in all kinds of settings, many of them explicit {{Expies}}, to the extent that from the time he became popular until ''Trent's Last Case'' [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] the type in 1913, it was well-nigh impossible to find a {{Great Detective}} who ''didn't'' rip him off, or, for that matter, a crime-solver who wasn't at least a parody of a {{Great Detective}}.

[[EmotionlessGirl http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Expy-orange_8220.jpg]]
[[caption-width:330: Character clockwise, from the top right corner: [[NogizakaHarukaNoHimitsu Hazuki]], [[ShakuganNoShana Hecate]], [[ZeroNoTsukaima Tabitha]], [[HaruhiSuzumiya Yuki]], [[MaiHime Miyu]], [[AngelBeats Kanade]]. Center: [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei]] ]]

** The funny things is, Rei comes more as a subversion of EmotionlessGirl by being a very repressed {{Kuudere}}, making her something of an UnbuiltTrope.

See also OverusedCopycatCharacter, when a work jokes about how many times a certain character has been copied.

See also OverusedCopycatCharacter, when a work references how many times a certain character has been copied.

* SherlockHolmes. The inspiration for hundreds of excentric private detectives in all kinds of settings, many of them explicit Expys.

A character, who is so popular and impactful, that many other characters created afterwards are heavily inspired by it. They share even more than its {{Character Archetype}}s, they are its {{Expies}}: basically the same old character recycled, with some minor changes, to make it fit into the new setting. The original one gives inspiration not just for their basic {{Characterization Tropes}}, but for parts of their character dynamics, personality, and appearance.

The difference from TropeCodifier is that these are centered around the character as a person, not around a single trope that it codifies. Even if the original one is also a TropeCodifier, there will be a difference between those new characters that simply follow the trope that it codified, and those that imitate the character's identity.

* Char Aznable has so many clones we have CharClone as a trope.
* Ditto [[TheAhnold Arnold Schwarzenegger]].

A character, who is so popular and impactul, that many other characters created afterwards are heavily inspired by it. They share even more than its {{Character Archetype}}s, they are its {{Expies}}: basically the same old character recycled, with some minor changes, to make it fit into the new setting. The original one gives inspiration not just for their basic {{Characterization Tropes}}, but for parts of their character dynamics, personality, and appearance.

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