Editing Category:Copycats

{{Quote|Weis Markets is officially Columbine High School.|[[Randy Stair]] announcing his intent to replicate the Columbine massacre.}}'''Copycats''' will usually copy a behavior role from [[:Category:Muses|others they idolize themselves with]].

For instance, Parkland shooter [[Nikolas Cruz]] said through a video that they are going to be the next school shooter making an attempt to kill more students than the other previous school shooters. Other shooters may copy shootings like from the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and recreate it by wearing the same stuff or recreating the chaotic acts; [[Randy Stair]] is a good example of this. Also, the original shooters like [[Eric Harris]] and [[Dylan Klebold]] (who have been looked up to a lot by the newer school shooters) often made [[Anti-Semitism|anti-semetic]] jokes referencing [[Nazi]]s/[[Hitler]], and were inspired by the movie ''Natural Born Killers''.

However, copycats are not just limited to mass shooters. There have been documented cases of serial killers attempting to copy other serial killers. For example, the [[Zodiac Killer]] has inspired a number of other serial killers, such as [[Heriberto Seda]], who called himself the '''New York Zodiac Killer'''. Villainous copycat crimes have also extended to events beyond mass shootings and serial killings; for instance, the [[2021 United States Capitol storming]] by supporters of U.S. President [[Donald Trump]] inspired supporters of Brazilian President [[Jair Bolsonaro]] to participate in the [[2023 Brazilian Congress storming]] two years later.
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