I like your novel but your protagonist is pretty clearly a Scooby-Doo expy.
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Expy
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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.
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The monsters vary from completely original creations to bizarre expies of famous characters and people, […]
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[…] 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 […]
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