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** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart]]": Lampshaded by Claudia when she concludes that Lestat and Louis had turned her into a vampire so that she can take Grace's place after [[StalkerWithoutACrush witnessing from afar]] the other woman disowning her brother Louis. (Claudia's belief is erroneous because she was a [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter band-aid baby]] to save Louis and Lestat's crumbling relationship, but since they never told her this, she does her best to understand their reasoning on her own.)

** Also another sketch, in a parody of ''Film/{{Rebecca}}'', the trope itself is flipped on its head when the main character is changed to be Rebecca herself, and the context of the film becomes her dealing with the knowledge that Mr. de Winter is anticipating replacing her in the future.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** The Buffybot doesn't start out this way, but after [[spoiler: Buffy dies]] at the end of Season 5, one of the series' more poignant scenes features Dawn, missing her big sister, lying down next to the Buffybot and cuddling with the robot as it charges. Furthermore, in the same episode, we see Giles trying to instruct it in Eastern philosophy during a sparring session.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
** In Season 5 Wesley's {{Love Interest|s}} 'Fred' Burkle is killed so her body can be used by [[EldritchAbomination Illyria]]. In exchange for Illyria agreeing not to kill anyone, Wesley acts as Illyria's guide to this strange new world she's been reborn into. Angel flat-out asks Wes if he's in love with Illyria; he denies it adding, "But I do need her." Wes does try to limit this trope -- when Illyria [[ShapeshiftingSeducer offers to take Fred's form]] to [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove understand human relationships]] Wes is outraged and refuses to speak to her for a while. Just before the GrandFinale, which no one expects to survive, Team Angel spend their time doing simple things they enjoy. Wes on the other hand just tends to Illyria's wounds, and she once again offers to comfort him by taking Fred's form, but Wesley refuses because he knows Fred is gone and to accept anything else would be a lie. "And since I don't actually intend to die tonight, I won't accept a lie." When Wes receives a fatal wound, Illyria asks "Do you want me to lie to you now?" Wes agrees, and Illyria morphs into Fred, telling Wesley she loves him and that they'll be together in the afterlife.

** The second Conduit is this to the first one.

** Riley Finn had the words 'Buffy's new love interest!' flashing in bold neon lettering over his head in his first appearance.

** Disturbingly subverted with Lily in "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]", a prostitute whom Lestat de Lioncourt spent more time with when he realized that Louis de Pointe du Lac was avoiding him after he and Louis had sex for the first time. While Lestat places Lily in the same category as Louis in terms of their looks (they're both [[MixedAncestryIsAttractive biracial "misfit beauties,"]] as he calls them), he must have found her personality sorely lacking because in his words, she "proved herself a poor substitute." Louis later discovers that Lestat had murdered her.
** Lampshaded by Claudia in "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart]]" when she concludes that Lestat and Louis had turned her into a vampire so that she can take Grace's place after [[StalkerWithoutACrush witnessing from afar]] the other woman disowning her brother Louis. (Claudia's belief is erroneous because she was a [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter band-aid baby]] to save Louis and Lestat's crumbling relationship, but since they never told her this, she does her best to understand their reasoning on her own.)

** In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill The Thing Lay Still]]", Daniel Molloy infers that he's a replacement for Lily, [[PlatonicProstitution the prostitute whom Louis had habitually paid to simply chat with him]] when the latter was human. Louis doesn't dispute it.