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For twins related by blood, see [[Twin Tropes]]. See also [[Disguise Tropes]]. If a good character has an evil Doppelgänger, the Doppelgänger is an [[Evil Twin]].
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=== Specific types of Doppelgängers include: ===
 
 
* [[Alternate Self]]
* [[Alternate Universe]] -- self—self explanatory.
* [[Artificial Human]] -- [[Our Clones Are Identical|Clones]] and [[Organic Technology|bioroids]] are one common way of making duplicates.
* [[Body Snatcher]] -- Doppelgangers—Doppelgangers created by bodily possession.
* [[Changeling Tale]] -- when—when [[The Fair Folk]] [[Invasion of the Baby Snatchers|abduct children]], they often [[Redheaded Stepchild|leave behind]] a "changeling".
* [[Costume Copycat]] -- When—When a hero is impersonated by someone in a nearly identical costume.
* [[Criminal Doppelganger]] -- When—When the person's double is also coincidentally a wanted criminal.
* [[Dead Person Impersonation]] -- When—When one person takes over another's identity.
* [[Easy Impersonation]] -- When—When a hero is impersonated by someone in a not-even-similar costume.
* [[Evil Counterpart]] - A character (not related to the hero) who is very similar, but [[For Want of a Nail]] turned evil.
* [[Evil Knockoff]] - when a robotic duplicate or clone is made of a hero with the purpose of destroying them.
* [[Evil Twin]] -- When—When a character has an evil sibling or alternate reality duplicate.
* [[Face Stealer]] -- When—When a villain has to harm another character in some way to look like them.
* [[Freaky Friday Flip]] -- When—When two people switch bodies, the result is remarkably doppelganger-like.
* [[Humanshifting]] --A—A type of Shape Shifter that turns into humans.
* [[Identical Grandson]] -- [[Superpowerful Genetics]] is so strong, it can give you the original person back! ([[Genetic Memory]] also helps.)
* [[Identical Stranger]] -- For—For some reason, the gene sequencing fairy took the day off and you have an unrelated twin.
* [[Jekyll and Hyde]] -- When—When the person is their own doppelganger.
* [[Legendary Impostor]]
* [[Literal Split Personality]]
* [[Mirror Self]]
* [[My Sibling Will Live Through Me]] -- When—When someone takes over their sibling's identity.
* [[Opposite Sex Clone]]
* [[Our Clones Are Identical]]
* [[Replicant Snatching]] -- Or—Or when a robot/alien peels off the original's skin and wears it.
* [[Robot Me]] -- When—When the doppleganger is a robot.
** [[Mobile Suit Human]] -- When—When the robot duplicate is piloted by a tiny alien.
* [[Separated at Birth]] -- two—two (often but not always identical) twins are, well, separated at birth.
* [[Shapeshifting]] -- Some—Some doppelgangers can do it by shape shifting.
* [[Split At Birth]]
* [[Surgical Impersonation]] -- When—When the doppelganger used [[Magic Plastic Surgery]] to impersonate someone.
 
=== Related tropes: ===
* [[Actually a Doombot]] -- When—When the person is revealed to be a robotic duplicate.
* [[Ambiguous Clone Ending]] -- Did—Did the original kill the clone, or is the clone the survivor?
* [[Becoming the Mask]] -- What—What happens to many doppelgangers.
* [[Body Double]]
* [[Counterpart Combat Coordination]] -- fight—fight your doppelgangers.
* [[Creepy Child]] -- often—often come in twos, or more.
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Very similar to the original character, just the opposite gender. Often a rival or villain.
* [[Doppelganger Replacement Love Interest]] -- That—That [[Love Interest]] that just died? They have a duplicate in the real world that wants to shack up with you.
* [[Emergency Impersonation]] -- An—An impersonator tries to fill in for someone else and [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Expendable Clone]] -- The—The tendency to see these doubles as highly expendable, if not abominations to be killed.
* [[Gendered Outfit]] -- When—When an [[Opposite Sex Clone]], [[Distaff Counterpart]], or [[Gender Bender]] wears an opposite-gender version of an established outfit.
* [[Glamour Failure]] -- Not—Not all doppelgangers can hide their tells.
* [[I Say What I Say]] -- Doppelgangers—Doppelgangers speaking in unison.
* [[Identity Impersonator]] -- A—A ploy heroes use to throw off people are snooping their [[Secret Identity]].
* [[Impostor Exposing Test]] -- A—A test to identify an alien or supernatural impostor.
* [[Imposter Forgot One Detail]] -- An—An impersonator fails to to be convincing.
* [[Kill and Replace]]
* [[Mangled Catchphrase]] -- One—One person imitates another but screws up the first person's [[Catch Phrase]].
* [[Me's a Crowd]] -- when—when someone tries to clone themselves to do their chores.
* [[Mirror Match]] -- When—When a character fights themselves (or a reasonably close match) in a video game.
* [[Mirror Morality Machine]] -- A—A character is made into their moral opposite thanks to [[Phlebotinum]].
* [[Mirror Universe]] -- Home—Home to many morality opposite versions of a cast.
* [[Mismatched Eyes]] -- a—a character with [[Odd Eyes]] or [[Eyes of Gold]] may be a doppleganger of some sort.
* [[Mistaken for An Imposter]]
* [[Opening a Can of Clones]] -- A—A story with clones, especially when used to revive dead characters or undo plot, makes the events lose punch.
* [[Other Me Annoys Me]]
* [[Prince and Pauper]] -- Two—Two people switch lives.
* [[The Psycho Rangers]] -- An—An ''entire team'' of doppelgangers to the [[Five-Man Band]].
* [[Screw Yourself]] -- Yes—Yes, there is [[Power Perversion Potential]] to be had here (also [[Rule 34]]).
* [[Spot the Imposter]] -- When—When the friends of the impersonated have to figure out who the spy is.
* [[Teleporter Accident]] -- One—One surefire way to create a duplicate, evil or otherwise.
* [[Twinmaker]] -- A—A clone is made to replace a dead original.
* [[Villains Blend in Better]] -- Most—Most villainous doppelgangers easily impersonate their target.
* [[You Are Who You Eat]] -- A—A non-human shapeshifts into the form of the person they've eaten.
 
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