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  • In The A-Team, the bad guys at first are from the Blackforest PMC, a thinly disguised expy of the Real Life Blackwater.

    David Isenberg: Putting the [(P)op Culture] in PMC David Isenberg 2011

  • It follows the exploits of a country called Gallia's (which totally can't be an expy for France) 7th Squad's struggle again the East European Imperial Alliance (which totally couldn't be the Axis powers) who attacked their neutral nation and is already at war with the Atlantic Federation (which totally couldn't be a stand in for the Allied powers).

    AnimeBlogger.net Antenna 2009

  • The DVD of the same is on sale at the newsagency for $30, which seems way too expy.

    The View from Elsewhere 2009

  • 3: 16 PM melissa mcgee said ... oh my goodness - i had completely forgotten about smelling mrs baird's on central expy - and i lived there only a few years ago!

    Texas toast points | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007

  • It has a Psmith expy that I hope to kick away into someone who isn’t, but it’s quite difficult at this point, but with more development that may very well happen.

    Dear Writing Soul, Please Be More Linear | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010

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