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thegrenekni3t
Since: Dec, 2009
6th Mar, 2011 03:20:14 PM
(bump.)
nrjxll
Since: Nov, 2010
6th Mar, 2011 05:31:32 PM
Could this be Mythology Gag (or one of its related tropes)?
Is there a trope about adaptations where some or all of the characters are replaced with different characters? Or adaptations where characters' names are changed?
Like, in Around The World With Willy Fog, instead of Phileas Fogg, Jean Passepartout, and Aouda, you have Willy Fog, Rigodón, and Romy. The names are different and the personalities are somewhat different, but the story is more or less the same, and the characters fulfill the same roles as their original book counterparts.
I don't think it's Expy or Captain Ersatz, because it's not a suspiciously Fogg-like character in an unrelated work; it's a not-quite-Fogg character in Fogg's shoes. It's not Suspiciously Similar Substitute because Phileas Fogg never existed in this show and isn't being replaced. I thought it might be Same Story, Different Names, but that's something else entirely.
What is this called?
Edited by thegrenekni3t