expy
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
expy (plural expys)
- Contraction of expressway.
Etymology 2[edit]
From a clipping of exported character + -y.[1] Coined by TV Tropes in 2006.
Noun[edit]
- (fandom slang) A character in a work of fiction who is a stand-in for or knockoff of a character from an unrelated work or of a real person.
- I like your novel but your protagonist is pretty clearly a Scooby-Doo expy.
- 2014, Jonathon O'Donnell, “Our Demonic World”, in Robert Arp, editor, The Devil and Philosophy: The Nature of His Game[1], page 120:
- The demon-run Raptor News Network clearly parodies that of the American conservative Fox News Network in both rhetoric and appearance, with its anchorman Bob Barbas being a thinly veiled expy of Bill O’Reilly.
- 2018 February 27, Amy Nash, “You should be watching Monster Factory”, in Concrete, University of East Anglia, page 21:
- The monsters vary from completely original creations to bizarre expies of famous characters and people, […]
- 2019 March 1, Robin Wilde, “The 1990s: A Decade of Adventure”, in Forge Press, University of Sheffield, page 36:
- […] Thimbleweed Park is an obvious X Files parody with direct expies of Mulder and Scully as protagonists, so a 1990s setting is the natural choice […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:expy.
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References[edit]
- ^ Hillary Busis, "'Mad Men': Bob Benson is the new Don Draper", Entertainment Weekly, 20 December 2019