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Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Edited by Tomodachi To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back.
^ It's not meant to be a "substitute" though? They're active in different places, but they have quite some similarities.
We don't need justice when we can forgive. We don't need tolerance when we can love.
I have asked something to this effect in Ask The Tropers previously (regarding similar character roles in Ace Attorney and Pokemon sequels). It's not Expy or Counterpart Comparison. The closest I could come up with is Recurring Element.
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We don't need justice when we can forgive. We don't need tolerance when we can love.
I repeat, this is exactly Meet the New Boss. It doesn't require the old villain to have been defeated or anything; it's just that the story has replaced them with a very similar villain. In this case, it just happens to be because the story has moved to a far away location. In comedy-friendly series like One Piece there's usually at least some lampshading of the whole "Isn't this guy a lot like the guy we were fighting before?" thing.
Edited by Scorpion451
(reading it) Okay, it fits.
We don't need justice when we can forgive. We don't need tolerance when we can love.
Basically, where would this fall into?