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openNo Title Western Animation
On Expy.Western Animation, Alternative Cola readded a bad example
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It was pulled a month ago with the reason "i questioned in the "is this an example" thread. This was the answer." and... well, knowing Naruto and Avatar it's just an awful example.
openNo Title
Question about an example on Demon Aid: Is this a correct use of Expy?
- Expy: Pretty much from the second his design was shown, readers were calling Luft an expy of Makoto from Gina's previous series. Sure enough, by the end of the first chapter, he's already got Esta locking lips with him.
Luft looks nothing like the character he's being compared to, and the author has given no indication that they're connected that way.
The reason I'm leery about this is, Makoto (from the author's previous webcomic) caused a metric crapload of ship-warring nastiness and the wording of the example looks a bit like a stealth attempt to import that drama onto this page. (The same user added a more direct example on the YMMV page, but that's for complaining, so I let it stand.)
I created the page and have been worried about Red String's drama bleeding into it, so I may be interpreting this in a biased way, so I wanted another opinion or two.
Edited by DracMonsteropenNo Title
22 jan, Wyldchyld removed an expy example in Bleach: Wandenreich with "Expy needs to be deliberate, not fan associations." In the same day, El Hombre De Los Moleculos put this again with "It's...pretty damn deliberate. You'd have to be blind not to see the intent. So, don't be an obnoxious trope nazi." as edit reason. 23 jan, wyldchyld removed this again with "Taken to Discussion page." as edit reason. In the same day, El Hombre De Los Moleculos put this back with "Taken out of the discussion page, and where it belongs. Once more, stop being an obnoxious trope nazi. This site doesn't revolve around your own personal sensibilities." as edit reason.
openNo Title Anime
On Characters.Bleach Vandenreich El Hombre De Los Moleculos insists on putting the following entry:
- Expy: He bears more than a passing resemblance to Jim Gordon. The similarities mostly end there, however.
The first time Wyldchyld removed it due to "Expy needs to be deliberate, not fan associations."
El Hombre put with back with the following edit reason: "It's...pretty damn deliberate. You'd have to be blind not to see the intent. So, don't be an obnoxious trope nazi."
Wyldchyld pulled the entry to the discussion page.
Now El Hombre put it back, outright ignoring the discussion. Edit reason: "Taken out of the discussion page, and where it belongs. Once more, stop being an obnoxious trope nazi. This site doesn't revolve around your own personal sensibilities."
EDIT: Ninja'd by MagBas
Edited by shadowblackopenNo Title
Just for clearing confusion: From Characters.RWBY edit by Wyldchyld: "[Expy] isn't for anything a fan might think is similar, it needs to be deliberate."
Question is, is he right or wrong? Because if he's right then there outta be many cleanups in pages.
openNo Title
Example comparing eight of the ponies in My Little Pony to the Powerpuff Girls in Expy.Western Animation added again. Opinions?
openNo Title
In 11 aug, in DigimonTamers, i removed an Expy example with "feels like" wording with the Examples Are Not Arguable edit reason. 19 aug, Lord Crayak put the example again... with "feels like" wording again.
openNo Title
Recently, I had argued for the cutlisting of a trope called Batman Clone, and the mods evidently agreed, as Bobby G (I think) cut the example and locked the page. Well, Iqbal (who launched it initially) re-created it just as Batman Expy.
Edited by JordanopenNo Title
owenfan put an example in the western animation page of expy with a link to Your Mileage May Vary(edit reason: none). I removed it(Edit reason:"first line is Expy: "Short for "Exported Character", an Expy is a character from one series who is unambiguously and deliberately based on a character in another, older series" Note the "unambiguously".e"). Owenfan put it again(edit reason:none) Link: Western Animation
open No Title
suedenim is waging a one-troper war against examples on Captain Ersatz - many of which are actual examples of the trope. She keeps saying "these are Expies" in her edit reasons, but... an expy is a character similar to another character by the same writer. That, and she seems to think that Expy is basically "Captain Ersatz as regarding objects or concepts of Shows Within a Show."
I really don't mean to complain, but she's throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Yes, there are some examples that don't belong, and she's taking out some natter, but she's going a little too far.

Is this Expy entry apt?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.PokemonGenerationIVFamilies