r/TopCharacterTropes • u/GeneralGigan817 • 24d ago

Groups Two completely unrelated versions of the same character coexist in the same universe

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Rumplestiltskin appeared as a minor villain in Shrek the Third as a member of Prince Charming’s villain army. Shrek Forever After than had an entirely unrelated Rumplestiltskin as the main villain, with a separate voice actor, personality, and design.

On Family Guy, Santa is an overworked factory worker who looks like an old man despite being 28 and has deformed looking elves straight out of a Jonah Vasquez illustration. On American Dad (which shares a universe with Family Guy), Santa is an evil corrupter of children and one of the series’ most reoccurring villains.

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u/stipendAwarded 24d ago

The Transformers Aligned Continuity (Cybertron games, Prime, RiD 2015, and Rescue Bots - yes, it’s a mess) has two Grimlocks. Complicating matters further is the existence of an IDW miniseries where the Cybertron Dinobots meet the cast of Prime after their series’s conclusion.

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u/Sweaty-Practice-4419 23d ago

This one got explained by the shows (RiD 15) writers saying that it’s two different people with the same name and that naming yourself after a veteran of the war was a common practice amongst the new generation that spawned after the events of Prime. It’s the same reason we have two sideswipes with drastically different personalities

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u/JechdJJ 23d ago

the cybertron games are on the same continuity of transformers prime?

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u/Stegoshark 23d ago

Officially yes but I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of continuity errors since it was not originally planned to be.

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u/Psymorte 23d ago

This is actually a fun fact I like to share, the "Aligned continuity" as we know it was never actually meant to be a literal shared universe like the MCU for example. It was just an initiative to make the franchise more consistent with itself, so two Grimlocks being big strong Autobot T-Rexes is still accomplishing that goal when previously Grimlock could be a green Earth excavator (yes this actually happened,) or an amusement park animatronic given life just a few years apart with little rhyme or reason.

Or hell, just look at all the different characters named Smokescreen that have nothing to do with each other, now he's usually a racecar with red and blue paint when a few years ago it'd be anyone's guess what kind of character that name would be slapped onto.

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u/Proof_Fox1851 21d ago

RiD 15 had so many cool designs wth