Tropes/Expy

* Abigail Rosa Mercia is based on this unnamed character from the PKMN anime. However, her starter is instead a female Pikachu, and unlike her Cheerfulverse counterpart, she has a different outfit.
* Counterparts of the canon characters are based on their original versions. However, there are notable changes:
	+ Nanette does not have glasses.
	+ The Pokémon that Marina catches are all Water types.
	+ Mami, Felicia (Fuu) and Teryn (Mimori) all have normal-sized chests for teenage girls. As a result, the running gag concerning chest types is dropped.
	+ Sunny becomes an actual Alicorn instead of having wings and a horn made of pure magic.
	+ Tart's braid grows back when she transforms.
	+ Twilight Sparkle gets her castle between *Cherry Magica 3* and *Elizabeth Magica*.
	+ If originating from a *Winx Club* fanfiction counts as "canon," Queen Vera has a backstory as a music-loving girl named Valerie Harper before she betrayed her friends, and eventually redeems herself.
	+ Teryn does not name her shotgun "Shirogane," as it is instead the name of Gina's (Gin's) Perserver form.
	+ Extending this trope to include sentient magic, the Light of Hope is based on the force of the same name from *Sailor Moon*. Its powers, however, also are partly based on the Ginzuishou/the Legendary Silver Crystal from the same series.
	+ Serena instead has a crush on Calem due to Ash not existing. She, Dawn, May, Iris, Chloe, Lillie, and Goh, as well as the other counterparts of the Pokémon school classmates, are also teenagers rather than 10 due to this.
	+ Oriko is a pure Miko, and her canon counterpart's weapon (crystal balls that look like vine-patterned spheres) is given to Eileen, whose original counterpart only had two weapons.
	+ The counterparts of the Sentinels are Messiahs.
	+ The counterparts of the Mane 6 never get their "aged" looks due to Chosen Ones being immune to growing old, but Pinkie Pie's bun and hair accessories from the MLP finale are instead reused for her magical filly form. Applejack is still seen wearing Granny Smith's scarf, and Apple Bloom is still seen wearing Goldie's scarf, however, since the scarves' previous owners died of old age due to not being Chosen Ones.
	+ Kazumi's magical girl outfit has *major* modifications to make it less skimpy.
* Starry Night's personaility is based on Natsuumi Manatsu from *Tropical Rogue! Pretty Cure*.
* Dragonet's coloration and real name are based on the character Bubbles from the PBS Kids series *Splash and Bubbles*.
* Elizabeth's personality is based on Usagi Tsukino from *Sailor Moon*.
* Event Horizon is heavily based on Sailor Galaxia from *Sailor Moon*. Her real appearance was also partially based on the character Hoshi Yunibasu from *Fish Turned Girl Pretty Cure*, the series which was the inspiration for the creators' Pokémon-magical girl (and boy) series as a whole.
* Julia's appearance is based on Isabella Garcia-Shapiro from *Phineas and Ferb*.
* Nova is based on the 90s anime version of Chibi Chibi from *Sailor Moon*, as both of them are an important part of a character and took physical human disguises after their host was brainwashed to prevent the villains from stealing said important thing. After their hosts are returned to normal, they both voluntarily lose their human forms and return to their host's body.
* As confirmed in a made-up interview, Melody - who is a 12 year-old Child of Two Worlds - was partly inspired by the character Melody, the protagonist of *The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea*, who is also a 12 year-old Child of Two Worlds.
* Downplayed example: The idea of Gekai Niku's English dub first name being Nicole, combined with the fact she has a medicine theme and dreams of being a doctor, came from Nicole Watterson (Gumball's, Anais's, and Darwin's mother) in *The Amazing World of Gumball*. This is also due to the fact that Nicole Watterson's real first name is actually "Doctor."
* Melody's, Nanette's, Nova's, Blissany's, and Katy's magical girl outfits resemble the outfit style of the Sailor Senshi, although there are some slight alterations, such as Nanette's gloves lacking the three bands, her having flat boots instead of high heels (likely due to her being a child who would look weird in heels), and her having a different crown.
* All the villains who reform and become real humans and Chosen Ones in their own right - such as Alondra, Mira, Nicole, Tsukiko, and Honoko - are based on Michiru and Kaoru Kiryuu's story in *Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star*.
* Jim was *very* clearly based on RoboCop from the movie of the same name, even having a nearly identical backstory of how he became a cyborg.
* Ryutsuki is a partial Expy of Rarity. The two are even interspecies Heterosexual Life-Partners.
* Both Eric and Syren are partially based off Hawk Moth from *Miraculous Ladybug*, though they are good instead of evil.
* Melissa Bikker was slightly inspired by Omori Yuko from *Happiness Charge Pretty Cure*, as she has a motherly and generous personality, has a yellow theme color, and is a good cook.
* The AoTA are based on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse from... a certain book, though they are heavily modified and made more fantastical in order to avoid religious controversy.