Evil Twin: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]] 2'' has Nova, evil twin to titular protagonist Shidou Hikaru. Extremely bi-polar (which is putting it kindly as she switches constantly back and forth between cutesy, loving little child and homicidal psychopath personalities), and bat-shit insane. Created at the very instant that Hikaru and her fellow Knights were transported back to earth at the end of the first story, {{spoiler|1=Nova is actually a small portion of Hikaru's soul given a separate existence and consciousness of its own. Hikaru couldn't cope with all the crushing negative emotions and thoughts brought on by the trauma induced by the first story's ending, and thus her body expelled them all along with a bit of her being, which was given a life of its own via Cefiro's "willpower=reality" system of existence}}.

* Subverted in a stand-alone episode of ''[[The Slayers]]''. A villain uses an enchanted mirror to create dark duplicates of his victims, including main characters Lina and Naga. The clones are supposed to be the "reverse" of the originals - which, to the bad guy's surprise, means the copies are meek, modest and peaceful, not evil.

* Throughout ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'', there are sinister flashes of another Syaoran floating in a tank of water in the villain's base, who seems to be "influencing" the Syaoran who is traveling with the good guys. In the manga, the truth is revealed. {{spoiler|The Syaoran in the tank is the "original" Syaoran, and the one traveling with them is really a [[The Heartless|heartless]] clone whose emotions were inspired by psychic connection. Upon the good Syaoran's release, our Evil Twin Syaoran succumbs to his programming.}}

* Knives in ''[[Trigun]]'', Cain in ''[[Trinity Blood]]'', and Aion in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]''. Apparently, being a guy who's the hero's evil twin means being a genocidal psycho and having a brother complex the size of the Empire State Building. Knives, Cain and Aion are anime's unholy trinity of Evil Twins. The three of them are practically [[Expy|expies]] of whomever came first. Roshel/Rociel in ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]'' is very much like them too, with the difference that Alexiel is female and his non-identical twin. Also a partial subversion in that [[Dark Is Not Evil|Rociel is a supreme angel and Alexiel, a fallen one]].

* Ranma from [[Ranma ½]] gets a mischievous copy of his female self from a [[Magic Mirror]], who is incapable of gender-bending and [[Screw Yourself|happy to learn that Ranma is a guy]]. They almost manage to seal the copy in another magic mirror, but instead a ''second'' copy of Ranma is created, this one male. The two copies then hook up, which at least keeps them out of trouble.

* Arguably, Suboshi from ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'', Amiboshi's [[Hot-Blooded]] younger twin brother.

 

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