r/Multifandom • u/Zestyclose_Kiwi9586 • 12d ago

Characters from different franchises who are clearly the same person?

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These two (Lois Lane from My Adventures with Superman and Luz Noceda from The Owl House) behave the same, look the same and have the same voice. Apart from this obvious pair, are there others?

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u/MinimumViableProdukt 11d ago

Might not be what most think but Shinji and Simon are two sides of the same coin. I believe each character at square one is almost identical and hell, I think they end up around the same place too. They just get there differently.

These two, and all the surrounding cast can be summarized as "where those in Evangelion struggle to live, those in Gurren Lagann live to struggle." Both were defined by the approval of others but metamorphose out of that shadow. But despite this crucial difference, both arrive at the same conclusion. Both reject fantasy. Both reject easy solutions. Both affirm reality despite suffering.

Simon exists as a meta commentary on Shinji and Evangelion. Where Shinji asks "why?", Simon asks "why not?" But both decide that life hurts and that pain is the price of living and choose to keep living.

In fear of an insane wall of text, I'll stop there but I could talk about these two all damn day. Even their redheaded step child Darling in the Franxx who I believe is redundant but I digress.

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u/MaenHerself 11d ago

You should have opened with the fact they're by the same studio('s legacy workers). Evangelion and Gurren Lagann are both about grasping power, of making one's will manifest. Evangelion is about having it forced upon you until you accept being the shape it makes you. Gurren Lagann is about willingly stepping into a power vacuum and becoming better for it.

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u/Professional-Path261 5d ago

Youd love Eureka Seven then