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{{quote| '''Clone!Yumichika:''' 'Did you think that, like you, {{spoiler|I wouldn't be able to attack myself? You're mistaken.}} When I see you, I think you're beautiful just the way you do, {{spoiler|but am I the only one who thinks you'd look even more beautiful covered in blood?'}}}}
* ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' has Gemini Saga and Gemini/Sea Dragon Kanon, each of them is the evil twin to the other in different parts of the story. The Black Saints not only shares the same armor as the protagonists except theirs is black but for unexplained reasons also share the exact same physical appearance as their good counterparts. This is all the most jarring in the case of the Black Phoenix mooks that come in mass and all look exactly the same, that is to say like the main Phoenix. All the attacks of the evil counterparts also are reminiscent of the good ones albeit more evil. For example the attack of Black Pegasus, Ankoku Ryu Sei Ken, is similar to the Ryu Sei Ken of the main Pegasus except it slowly contaminates its victims eventually making them suffocate to death. Likewise, the Black Andromeda's attack has its chains turning into snakes feeding on the victim's blood.
* While not an actual twin, Tullece, from the third ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' [[Non
** In the same vein, Majin Boo's two forms. The thin Boo, the one formed out of steam seems to act entirely evil, while the 'original' Fat Boo (aka Mr. Boo) often makes the 'good' choice, especially after the split. Though they don't look all that much alike until the reabsorption.
** We can't discuss evil twins in Dragon Ball without bringing up the original's! [[God Job|Kami]] and [[Our Demons Are Different|Great Demon King Piccolo]], anybody? Furthermore, you could compare [[Genie in A Bottle|Shen Long]] to his [[Jackass Genie|Black Star counterpart]].
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* Takaya from ''[[Tekkaman Blade (Anime)|Tekkaman Blade]]'' quite literally has an evil twin. His twin brother Shinya succesfully completed the Tekkaman conversion process, becoming Tekkaman Evil and the main villain's [[The Dragon|dragon]]. At one point, he gets in close to Space Knight HQ in order to launch a surprise attack by dressing up as his brother and playing on his celebrity status amongst the human troops.
* Ranma from [[Ranma One Half]] 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
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* Oddly doubled variation: the twins from ''[[Sweet Valley High]]'' were menaced by another pair of twins who looked just like them, who wanted to take over their lives.
* In Matt Ruff's ''Sewer, Gas, and Electric'', the villains attempt to replace a hero with a robotic copy of himself. His assistant is able to distinguish the two when {{spoiler|the robot looks up and exclaims how worried he was that she'd be hurt, while the real version, despite the firefight going on outside, keeps playing a video game.}}
* The ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine Relaunch]]'' novel ''Fearful Symmetry'' is all over this trope. You may want to draw diagrams for this. Back in the episode "Second Skin", Major Kira was surgically altered to look like a Cardassian and told she was Iliana Ghemor, an Obsidian Order agent who'd been given [[Fake Memories]] as a [[Deep
* Harry Dresden of ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' has an entity that fits the evil-twin bill (based on Harry's wiseass and slightly lowbrow nature): more cultured, better groomed, more thoughtful, goatee. The catch is, the guy's neither evil, twin, nor real-he's a representation of Harry's subconscious, who takes the opportunity to lecture Harry whenever he's really on the ropes and unconscious.
* [[Older Than Print]]: The "false Guenevere" in [[King Arthur]], who is the true Guenevere's identical ''half''-sister (somehow), and plots to take her sister's place as queen.
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* In the 2002 revival of ''The Basil Brush Show'' there's Basil's cousin Mortimer who is a criminal mastermind.
* ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'' has begun this trope as an "evil" character {{spoiler|Sylar}} gained shapeshifting abilities and has begun taking on the roles of a "good" character {{spoiler|Nathan Petrelli }}. (Though their good and evil roles seem to change episode by episode).
* In the ''[[
* In the New World ''[[Zorro]]'' series, Don Diego has an evil (though not identical) twin. Also, the evil Alcalde is at one point replaced by his identical twin, who raises the suspicion of the other characters by being somewhat less evil than the real Alcalde.
* ''[[I Carly]]'' in the episode ''iTwins''. Essentially, the main character Sam is the ''evil'' twin, and Melanie is the ''good'' twin.
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* Played straight ''and'' inverted in the third installment of ''[[Phoenix Wright]]''. {{spoiler|Partway through the final case, good twin Iris is replaced and impersonated by evil twin Dahlia, though you don't realize this until later. And at the end, you learn that six years prior, Iris pretended to be Dahlia for several months.}}
** Also given a workout in another case in the same game, where Phoenix must track down his evil twin (nicknamed "Xin Ehop" by Maya) who has gotten a client found guilty with a laughable defence.
** ...And then you ''find'' said Evil Twin, and discover that he [[Jerkass|really]] [[Yakuza|doesn't]] [[Obviously Evil|pass]] [[Boisterous Bruiser|for]] [[Large Ham|Phoenix]] [[Hot
* Every few ''[[The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' games, Link must face Dark Link/Shadow Link.
* About halfway through ''Up You Arsenal'', the third "[[Ratchet and Clank]]" game. {{spoiler|Clank gets kidnapped by [[Big Bad]] Dr. Nefarious and replaced by a Dr. Nefarious built duplicate, Klunk. Ratchet even plays a few levels with Klunk on his back before finding the real Clank and defeating Klunk in a boss battle.}}
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** Yeah, for half the episode you feel nothing but sorry for the poor guy, and pissed with Bats and Alfred for being all [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]] on him. Then he gets possessed by the crazy supercomputer that made him (a [[Big Bad]] from a previous episode), and has glowy eyes and tries to take over the internet and use it to replace all humans with androids. ''Then'' Bats [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|twigs what a nice guy he was before]] and tries to [[Talking the Monster To Death|talk him down]] while fighting. Thinking he's killed Batman causes Batbot great pain, so in horror he goes and commits suicide by smashing the Batcomputer and preventing it from taking over the internet.
** Don't forget Galatea, [[Lawful Evil]] pawn of the Cadmus project.
** [[Brainiac|Braini]][[Lex Luthor|thor]] created evil Justice Leaguers to battle the real team once. They were based on the Justice Lords. Since there wasn't a Justice Lord Flash (since the Flash's death was [[For Want of a Nail|the nail in that universe]]), Flash gets a duplicate based on Professor Zoom (heretofore unseen in the [[DCAU]], so more like a [[Shout
** ''[[Batman the Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' "Deep Cover for Batman" features a version of the alternate-universe evil Batman counterpart Owlman who's appeared elsewhere--he doesn't match any recognized iteration, though; is not Thomas Wayne Jr. or the [[Nietzsche Wannabe|existentialist type]]. Brave and the Bold isn't really in Earth-1, so presumably its Mirror World isn't really Earth-3. Also features a ''good'' Joker who wears something like the Red Hood costume from one of his back stories and goes by that name. Somewhat cracked, but a good guy. Slight Mid-Atlantic accent.
** ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'' had [[Satan|Trigon the Terrible]] basically do the same thing as Brainithor. They were beaten by the Titans [[Opponent Switch|switching opponents]].
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