No, the other one.
#2: Apr 11th 2016 at 1:33:31 AM
I'm under the impression it's about the whole work, and not just characters.
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#3: Apr 11th 2016 at 7:14:16 AM
Yeah, a character that copies another character is an Expy, but that trope also sees a lot of misuse.
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#4: Apr 11th 2016 at 8:11:37 PM
The priority topic of In Name Only is about the adaptation as a whole compared to the original. I think individual characters are okay, so long as that is made clear that it's talking about the adapted character and not the entire work.
Thing is In Name Only runs heavily into Trope Decay where people label any changes to the work, character or just being a bad production as In Name Only. It should be pretty dramatic, where it is unrecognizable to the source material rather than superficial changes.
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I already asked this in Ask The Tropers, but was informed
that I should ask it here instead.
Can In Name Only be applied to characters from a derivative work, or is the trope limited to the derivative works themselves.