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expy

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Title card of the first Merrie Melodies short, "Lady, Play Your Mandolin!", produced in 1931 by Leon Schlesinger Productions for Warner Brothers.
Foxy, an expy of Mickey Mouse.
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Etymology 1

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Noun

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expy (plural expys)

  1. Contraction of expressway.

Etymology 2

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From a clipping of exported character + -y.[1] Coined by TV Tropes in 2006.

Noun

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expy (plural expys or expies)

  1. (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, [â€Ķ]
    • 2019 March 1, Robin Wilde, “The 1990s: A Decade of Adventure”, in Forge Press, University of Sheffield, page 36:
      [â€Ķ] 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 [â€Ķ]
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:expy.
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References

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  1. ^ Hillary Busis, "'Mad Men': Bob Benson is the new Don Draper", Entertainment Weekly, 20 December 2019

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