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I agree with cutting those.
Agreed. And half the Anime section actually belongs under Bland-Name Product.
Most likely, it's people just copy-pasting entries from similar tropes. I bet if you go to Bland-Name Product and look up one of those anime examples, it'll be word for word.
I understand that Fictional Counterpart isn't solely for products, but almost every example is a product or company.
The Legend of Korra example starts fine, with a paragraph demonstrating how Hiroshi Sato is an Expy of Henry Ford.
But then there's 3 child paragraphs that are essentially just "this is a history analogue." Such as:
"Since the series is set in the Avatar universe's equivalent of The Roaring '20s, the Equalists represent the fears of communism that existed at the time in the US and Europe- a fearsome movement spreading among the underclass who planned to subvert and destroy the established order and enforce total equality."
It ends up just cluttering the examples with 3 paragraphs that are much better suited to another trope, like Does This Remind You of Anything?.
At the end of the day, only Hiroshi Sato/his company is an explicite expy of a historical figure/company. The rest are just vague historical analogues.
Might as well add every single shopping center that has appeared in fiction as a Wal-Mart parody.