Basic Trope: An expy and the character/thing/person that they're based on exist within the same setting.
- Straight: Troperman is an in-universe franchise and obviously meant to be a reference to Superman. However, it's shown that Superman exists in the setting as well.
- Exaggerated: The show has expies of just about every piece of media under the sun, and their real life equivalents also exist in the setting.
- Downplayed: Alice makes reference to Superman in one scene, but that's about it.
- Justified: In-universe, Troperman was deliberately made as a Follow the Leader to Superman.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Troperman is explicitly shown to be the in-universe stand-in to Superman.
- Enforced: The writers weren't allowed to use Superman in the work, so they made a fictional equivalent to him. When they managed to get permission to use Superman, they figured that dropping Troperman would make no sense, so they just had them coexist.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "Oh, just like Super-" "His name is Troperman!"
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "So, is Troperman kinda like the knockoff version of Superman in their universe too?"
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