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Afterword (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2023-08-03 06:11:03

Doesn't Expy have to be deliberate on the part of the writer?

Ayumi-chan (Experienced Trainee)
2023-08-03 17:58:41

^ Yes, that’s why I am very unsure on these examples.

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Excessive-Menace (Fifth Year at Tropey's)
2023-08-03 18:12:53

^ If there are no official sources stating that they are based off of those characters, then I think that those Expy examples can be removed.

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Ayumi-chan (Experienced Trainee)
2023-08-03 18:17:05

^ But what about the Expy Coexistence entry. Is it really ok for that trope to have more than one character to qualify?

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Excessive-Menace (Fifth Year at Tropey's)
2023-08-03 18:25:46

^ The page for Expy Coexistence doesn't say that it can only apply to the expy meeting only one character, so it's okay for the expy to interact with two of their inspirations and still count.

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Vilui Since: May, 2009
2023-08-03 18:57:52

But Expy Coexistence does require that the character actually be an Expy in the first place, and an Expy is, by definition, a copy of one character.

Ayumi-chan (Experienced Trainee)
2023-08-03 23:11:05

So should I removed the EC entry or not?

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Excessive-Menace (Fifth Year at Tropey's)
2023-08-03 23:55:09

^ Like the Expy entries, if there's no official sources claiming that Ricotta is an expy of Terra and Calilica, then it can be deleted, and Vilui's comment gives off the idea that it's misuse since there can only be one character that the expy is based off of.

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Ayumi-chan (Experienced Trainee)
2023-08-04 00:45:16

^Done.

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