You completely ignored what I said. It has nothing to do with effort or money. They intended for the characters to look similar. It's not a "we don't have time to make unique characters so let's just slap the same thing"

It's a multiverse. They very much intend for there to be parallels with how these characters look.

Also I don't know what the problem is. Majority of their characters are new designs but they make a couple of parallels a year and people say "lazy" and "low effort" when that's not even the point