History Expy / ComicBooks

** From the pre-Moore era, Kid Supreme was a fairly direct take-off of [[ComicBook/{{Superboy}} Kon-El]] from DC Comics, with almost the exact same appearance and personality. His short-lived solo series, however, owed a lot more to the contemporaneous ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'' and ''ComicBook/{{Impulse}}'' series in its tone and status quo.* Being highly influential and popular, ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' spawned many expies in FrancoBelgianComics:

* An oft-mocked facet of early Creator/ImageComics was that every team seemed to have a ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} expy, who had blades on his hands, a bad attitude, and a mysterious past. And while it wasn't '''every''' team – ''ComicBook/Gen13'' and ''ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}'' being the most notable exceptions – this was true for most of them: ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'' had Troll '''and''' Cougar (though the latter was arguably more influenced by Beast), while spin-off series ''Bloodpool'' had Wylder; ''ComicBook/{{Cyberforce}}'' had Ripclaw; ''ComicBook/WildCATSWildStorm'' had Warblade; ''ComicBook/{{Bloodstrike}}'' had Deadlock; and ''Codename: Strykeforce'' had Killrazor. Deadlock was probably the most obvious, since his first costume featured a mask nearly identical to Wolverine's.

* Lee, the main character of Creator/PeterDavid's ''ComicBook/FallenAngel'' is an Expy of Linda Danvers, protagonist of David's previous run on ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}''. In fact, David did his best to fuel speculation that the characters were one and the same until the book's second volume, in which he chronicled Lee's origins. Later on, he introduced Lin, yet another expy of Linda Danvers, who can in fact be considered Linda in everything but name. Likewise, the God figure in the series is a small girl dressed in a tennis motif and carrying a tennis racket, which makes her an expy of Wally, the god figure in David's ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' who was a young boy who carried a baseball bat.

** ComicBook/CommanderSteel was another Captain America Expy. ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' lampshaded this by having the second Steel mimic Cap's iconic shield throw.

** The ''Sonic'' Special issue crossing the book over with Creator/ImageComics also got away with two of the most blatant Expys in comic book history, [[Series/TheXFiles Wolf Scolder and Lana Mully]]. [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/aeb737f7e909334b39eacd4912b84daf/tumblr_oljbmkwBRv1w0yi0zo1_1280.jpg it has to be seen to be believed]]. It even includes something resembling a cross between a TakeThat and a dedication to Creator/ChrisCarter to make it unmistakable.* Dr. Aphra, of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' comics, has BT-1 and 0-0-0, assassin droids that look like an R2-D2/astromech and C-3PO/protocol droid respectively. Other than being jet black and brimming with weapons, of course.

* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': [[http://www.zeldawiki.org/images/a/ac/Roam.png Roam]] is based on [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cyb002_2097.jpg 002]] from Creator/ShotaroIshinomori's earlier work ''Manga/Cyborg009'', whose pre-cyborg name was [[StealthPun Jet Link]].

* The Fighting American was an expy of Comicbook/CaptainAmerica created by Cap's original creative team of Joe Simon and Creator/JackKirby. Creator/RobLiefeld's attempted revival of the character in the 90s dialed the similarities UpToEleven, so much so that Marvel eventually took legal action against him.

%%* The Fighting American himself was an expy of Captain America, though he dates back to the 1950's and was created by Creator/JackKirby.

* Several of the "[[ScienceHero science heroes]]" of Alan Moore's ''Creator/AmericasBestComics'' are expies of pulp-era heroes: ComicBook/TomStrong is Franchise/DocSavage, Greyshirt is ComicBook/TheSpirit, and The Cobweb and Clarice are a [[GenderFlip genderflipped]] [[AmbiguouslyGay Ambiguously Lesbian]] [[Radio/TheGreenHornet Green Hornet and Kato]].

* ComicBook/LanaLang essentially served as a teenaged Expy of ComicBook/LoisLane in the ComicBook/{{Superboy}} comics.