Designed
Ersatz
Ersatz adjective - Being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials.
Both words in one sentence
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Captain Ersatz: A clone of Jessica Rabbit spliced with Elvira, the Dark Queen is so haphazardly designed that her cowl isn't even connected to anything.
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Captain Ersatz: The cat characters from "Puss in Boots" are the exact same designs of the cats Shamus Culhane designed and animated for the Van Beuren Studios cartoon "Merry Kittens".
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Contrast Captain Ersatz, where a variation of an Interpretative Character is introduced as a new character, and Expy, where a new character is designed around the defining tropes of another non - Interpretative Character.
Source: Interpretative Character
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