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Although casting twins on TV are rarely incidental, this is a specific non-comedic use of identical twins who tend to speak, move, and act in tandem just enough to weird out the audience. Usually relegated to villainous or morally ambiguous characters. They may even display an intense, [[Twincest|very intimate fondness for each other]].

 

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== [[Advertising]] ==

* Seen in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Us8Q10Sks one of] the Verizon "Dead Zone" ads. They [[Speak in Unison]] and try to be creepy, but because the guy has a Verizon phone...

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

** {{spoiler|Only Kohaku fits here: [[Stepford Smiler|contrary to her cheerful demenor is in fact almost completely emotionally dead]] due to being [[Break the Cutie|repeatedly]] [[Despair Event Horizon|raped]] by Makihisa Tohno and later SHIKI Tohno since she was 8 years old, something that caused her to hold a twisted grudge against the entire Tohno family. Despite her stiff behavior, Hisui is honest to a fault and completely loyal to Shiki, not to mention she actually has suffered quite a bit due to all the horrible crap that her twin sister had to go through.}}

* [[Muhyo and Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation|Lili and Maril]]. They know too much, and behave suspiciously even after they help Roji fight some evil spirits.

* [[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]], with the vampire twins Subaru and Kamui who are {{spoiler|running away from a psychotic Seishiro for poorly explained reasons}}, and the "cursed twins," {{spoiler|Fai and Yuui}}. When the latter twin became convinced that he {{spoiler|killed his brother thanks to [[Big Bad]]'s [[Mind Rape]],}} he {{spoiler|took his brother's name}} and became the series's biggest angst muffin. 

* ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]'': Ichi and Hajime, {{spoiler|who at first seemed to be a single, creepy Forgery kid with a lollipop}}.

* ''[[Loveless]]'': Yoji and Natsuo, who, despite not being actual twins, certainly fit aspects of this trope and usually act like one mind.

* {{spoiler|Nene and Nono Motoe}} in ''[[Blood C]]''.

* Souya and Shirase aka {{spoiler|(the cute boys who work as Sanetoshi's assistants)}} in ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum]]''.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

** Later, {{spoiler|Andrea was resurrected, so Andreas had the skin flayed from his arm and given to her.}} Those crazy kids.

* At one time, [[Deadpool]] fought against two Britney Spears-esque twin sisters called "Mercy Sisters". They didn't finish each other's sentences, but they sure were creepy.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* There were two silent vampire twins in Hammer Horror's ''Vampire Circus''.

* Mu-rong Yin and Mu-rong Yang in ''Ashes of Time'', brother and sister, apparently. They are very hard to tell apart, one time a character realizes only in the middle of the conversation that he's talking to the other twin. Both ask the same hitman to kill the respective other. Turns out {{spoiler|they are two personalities in one body, eternally fighting}}

* ''[[Troma's War]]'' has creepy ''Siamese'' twins, joined at the head, one with a ''high''-pitched voice, the other with a ''low''-pitched voice.

* ''[[The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T]]'' features a pair of roller-skating twins who share a conjoined beard, with which they attempt to strangle the protagonists.

* Another Disney example: Si and Am from ''[[Lady and the Tramp]]''. Is that song [[Ear Worm|stuck in your head yet?]]

* Killers in the [[Slasher Movie]] ''[[Just Before Dawn]]'' turn out to be a pair of hillbilly twins.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Perdina and Voile Tricante in ''[[Burying the Shadow]]'' always struck Rayojini as being more than a little odd as all they seem to do is [[Incest Subtext|stay in their room]] and read strange poetry. Creepiness factor upped by them being [[Old Maid|women in their mid-twenties]].

* Emmeline and Adeline March in ''[[The Thirteenth Tale]]'' who speak their own twin language and don't realize that other people are real.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

** Indeed, Zack and Cody themselves fit this trope as well.

** [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|"Dude, I thought YOU were Cody!"]]

* A [[Shout-Out]] to Kubrick in ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'', when Dee sees ''[[The Shining]]'' twins. Whether the building is haunted in addition to everything else wrong with it or she's hallucinating from Charlie's cocktail of coping substances isn't made clear.

* ''[[Jekyll]]'': {{spoiler|Claire and Tom's twin kids are mostly normal throughout the series, but at the end, it's ''strongly'' implied that they've inherited the Hyde personality from Tom... and may in fact represent the divide rather than keep it lurking within themselves. Such as when they get bored and "switch" while confined in cells the size of beer kegs.}}

** In "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E01 The Eleventh Hour|The Eleventh Hour]]" Amy and Rory encounter a woman holding hands with two little girls. Although not twins, the girls look very similar and are dressed identically. The creepiness comes from the fact that {{spoiler|all three of them are actually a single alien "multiform", who gets confused and starts talking out of the wrong mouths with the wrong voices.}}

** Lampshaded in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E09 Night Terrors|Night Terrors]]". While searching an apartment building for a "scared kid", Amy encounters a pair of twin girls. She later asks the Doctor "I found ''scary'' kids, does that count?"

 

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Zorn and Thorn from ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' are [[The Scrappy|extremely annoying]] examples of this trope, as they are nearly identical in appearance (with the exception of their colors) and constantly repeat what the other twin says (only in reverse with the case of Thorn). It turns out though that {{spoiler|they aren't twins at all, but are really one [[Grotesque Gallery|grotesque and horrific]] monster that somehow poses as Creepy Twins.}}

* Any of the Twins enemies in ''[[Persona 3]]''. It's that rattling sound they make, and the fact that they're skewered together.

* ''[[Fatal Frame]] 2''. That is all.

* ''[[The King of Fighters]] XI'' has the Ikari Warriors encounter a pair of these in their ending.

* ''[[Kuon]]''... '''oh god''' ''[[Kuon]]''.

* The Twin monster from ''[[Silent Hill 4]]''.

* ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' gave us the Subway Bosses, Ingo and Emmet (Nobori and Kudari). Yet they are somehow very adorable, along with being creepy...

* Jaryn and Kerith, the Glitterati twins from ''[[Dance Central|Dance Central 2]]''.

* The twins Martha and Lindsay from ''[[Catherine]]'', with their odd speech and unsettling amount of knowledge about the nightmares. Ina variation for the trope they're old ladies.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* The Viper twins in ''[[The Beast Legion]]'' are a duo that are both creepy as well as ruthless & it can be clearly seen on [http://www.thebeastlegion.com/issue-02-page-03wrath-of-the-viper-twins/ this page]

* [http://www.ddtcomic.com/2012/03/13/margaret-and-madeline/ This] ''Dewey Defeats Tarzan'' strip features twin girls who are creepy even to their mother, and a reference to ''The Shining''.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* Sokara and Setesh Vu Noi in ''[[The Gungan Council]]'' are ''insanely'' creepy in the way their minds are linked.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** They spent the large part of the [[Beach Episode]] trying to subvert this by showing they're not always "on", but just end up all the creepier when they [[Flung Clothing|fling off their regular clothes]] to show their ''swim suits''. Zuko was about to [[Nausea Fuel|throw up,]] and [[Fan Disservice|I sympathize with him]]. 

** They're also "off" in the final episode, {{spoiler|when they're subjected to Azula's paranoia.}}

* The unoriginally-named Cobra operatives Xamot and Tomax from ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', though, admittedly, originally these weren't meant to be their actual names.

** They're even creepier in ''[[G.I. Joe: Renegades]]'' where they are depicted as [[Cult]] leaders who brainwash their followers. 

* ''[[Superjail]]'' has The Twins, who would've been creepy even if there had only been one of them.

* Jana and Jason are the villains of ''[[Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic]]'' who turn into a [[Scaled Up|big snake]] when combining their gems.

* Más y Menos from the TV adaptation of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''. They're actually good guys, but when Brother Blood had them under mind control, they definitely fit this trope.

* ''[[Invasion America]]'' has Simon and Sonia, a pair of genetically-engineered [[Half-Human Hybrid]] assassins, complete with psychic link. What made them creepy {{spoiler|before Sonia's [[Heel Face Turn]]}} was that half the time, they didn't even speak to each other. They just shared looks, and you could tell by their expressions that they were communicating through thought. Simon, definitely the scarier of the two, also had a habit of torturing Sonia through their link as well.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* Lynx and Lamb, also known as Prussian Blue. Two [[Those Wacky Nazis|white supremacist]] folk-singing girls. They've become less creepy as they've got older, though - they seem to have become rather less extreme in their views (presumably on account of being old enough to actually make up their own minds), and have started singing about subjects other than white supremacy. Their mother, however, remains a eerily cheerful Nazi.

* June and Jennifer Gibbons, the famous "Silent Twins" of Haverfordwest, Wales. They were elective mutes who wrote novels and diaries and committed several crimes. They have been celebrated in songs, films, and theatrical plays. June's book ''Pepsi-Cola Addict'' sometimes turns up on eBay.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg4cPWy0yR0 Freda and Greta Chaplin]—definitely creepy.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ITWpozN9k&feature=related Poto and Cabengo]—not really creepy, but rather adorable.

 

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