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* ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' has the titular [[Complete Monster|Johan Liebert,]] ''[[Half Identical Twin]]'' of Anna Liebert (Nina Fortner).

** It is even more subverted if you realize that Veronica isn't that evil - her problem is that she has a very twisted sense of morality. Not entirely her fault since she was created to be an assassin bodyguard in the first place.

* ''[[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-Serial Movie|movie]] (''Tree of Might''), looks and (in the original Japanese, where he was voiced by [[Masako Nozawa]]) sounds just like Goku. His goals are slightly more sophisticated versions of what Goku likes to do: enjoy fine foods and engage in battles. It's possible he was meant to represent what Goku would have grown up to be like had it not been for Grandpa Gohan.

* Hana from ''[[Papillion Hana To Cho]]'' is glamorous, popular, and the decided [[Parental Favoritism|favorite]] over her [[Country Mouse]] twin sister Ageha until Ageha discovered tiny bit of confidence after reuniting with an old (male) friend. Hana then steals said friend by using Ageha's weak stomach to get her out of the way with a little [[Hidden Depths]] sweettalk. Things get worse after Ageha gets over the guy, improves her relationship with her [["Well Done, Son" Guy|Well Done Daughter Mom]] and hooks up with another guy: {{spoiler|''Hana disguises herself as Ageha'' while Ageha is sick and is so irritating that he breaks up with Ageha the next day he's a psych major and he couldn't tell Ageha was acting a bit off? C'mon, they're not Cylons!). Due to said guy being [[Hot for Student|her school counselor]] and offlimits in the first place it's unlikely Ageha will ever know the real reason they broke up.}}

* Zeon from ''[[Gash Bell]]'', [[Evil Twin]] to the title character. Angry at not being able to have a [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]], which was given to his [[Idiot Hero]] of a brother. Has a [[Redemption Equals Death]] moment

* Zero's evil twin Ichiru in ''Vampire Knight''.

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

** For a while after he reformed, Dr. Alchemy (Albert Desmond) seemed to have a psychic twin named Alvin who took up his tools and identity, only becoming the evil twin after Albert became the good one. "Alvin" turned out to be the Philosopher's Stone's physical manifestation of his subconscious desire to continue a life of crime.

Hoo boy. Let's say it's popular, and even more so if the base subject has a [[Mirror Universe]] or an [[Evil Twin]] as part of its own canon.

* Olivia de Haviland in ''Dark Mirror'': A woman suspected of murdering her doctor boyfriend has an identical twin sister. When both twins have an alibi for the night of the murder, a psychiatrist is called in to assist a detective in solving the case. Through a series of tests, he discovers which twin actually committed the crime and in the course of his investigation he falls in love with the normal twin.

** The trope was later subverted in ''The Replacement''. A demon's spell, meant for Buffy, hits Xander instead, splitting him in two. He spends the rest of the episode tracking his twin while the twin interacts with his friends and makes various changes to his life. At the end its revealed {{spoiler|That the blast doesn't split you into Good/Bad but only into Strong/Weak. The Xander that the audience thought was the "Good" Xander was actually the "Weak" one and the "Strong" one wasn't doing anything harmful to his life and was actually improving it. The demon's plot hinged on the fact that if one of the twins was killed, both would die. He'd planned to split Buffy into a Slayer powered version and a valley girl version, then kill the latter.}} In this case the special effects crew had an easy time getting both Xanders in the same shot. Xander's twin was played by Nicholas Brendon's identical twin brother, Kelly Donovan (who may or may not be evil).

* [[Averted Trope|Averted]] in ''[[Castle]]''. The murder victim (Zalman) had a twin brother (Edmund), who [[Identical Twin ID Tag|wore eyeglasses]] and turned up mysteriously while Castle and Beckett were searching the victim's secret magic workshop. Castle immediately [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this trope and speculates that ''Edmund'' was the victim and Zalman murdered him to assume his happy family life and prosperous, stable job as an accountant, while inheriting his own magic shop plus insurance money. Played straight; Lanie double checks the fingerprints and immediately rules Castle's theory out. While the twins were very different, ''both'' were good guys who lacked stage presence.

** And then "Thomas" Riker shows up in ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'', impersonates his brother, and steals the Defiant for a mission with the Maquis, making him at least seriously misguided. (He's right about the hidden Cardassian fleet.)

** Spock's "evil twin" was terrifyingly cold and ruthless; however, apart from the beard, he actually was identical to his regular universe counterpart, and was simply behaving logically for someone living in an evil empire. When he realizes what's happening, he helps Kirk return to his original universe so he can get his (evil) captain back. Kirk is even able to persuade him to rebel from the empire on moral grounds.

** In the original show, Spock detects the evil Kirk almost immediately and confines him, whereas the good Kirk is able to blend in without arousing suspicion. Spock later speculates that a civilized man can masquerade as a barbarian by simply reverting, but that a barbarian has no core of civilization to draw on.

** "Frankenstein, Tonto, and Tarzan" sketch, Frankenstein is kidnapped and replaced by his evil brother. The big joke of that was Frankenstein was played by Phil Hartman and was inarticulate while his evil twin was played by Mel Gibson could speak proper English and Tonto and Tarzan still couldn't tell them apart.

* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' has had three shapeshifter episodes:

** "Skin", "Nightshifter", and "Monster Movie". The latter two don't really use this trope, but "Skin" prominently features a shapeshifter who becomes an Evil Twin of Dean.

** Another well-known American soap opera example is Andre [[Di Mera]] from ''[[Days of Our Lives]].'' Andre was given plastic surgery to make him look like his cousin Tony at the contrivance of the man Tony grew up believing was his father, crime lord/practical supervillain Stefano [[Di Mera]]. At Stefano's behest and while Tony was kept secretly imprisoned, Andre while impersonating Tony became a serial killer just to frame an enemy of Stefano's, although Stefano ended up betraying him once Andre's killing spree included Stefano's own daughter (although that didn't stop Stefano many years later getting Andre to pretend to be Tony ''again''!).

* The ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|SVU]]'' episode "Double Strands", where the rapist and his wrongfully-accused twin brother were played by T.R. Knight.

* In the Fox TV movie ''Dark Reflection'' (aka, ''Natural Selection''), C. Thomas Howell plays a dual role. In one, he is a successful computer programmer named Ben with a great house and an awesome sports car but is neglectful of his wife and son. In the other role, he is Adam, a clone of Ben who has been running around the country killing his other clones and taking over their lives. (There were seven clones all together). Well, Ben is last on the list. So, Adam gets a job at Ben's company, charms the wife and kid, and infiltrates Ben's life to learn all the little details he will need to accomplish his evil pan. Along the way, {{spoiler|Adam kills a private detective who has figured it all out and Ben's mother who is the only one who know that Ben has a clone. He also has sex with Ben's wife, who can't tell the difference.}} In the climax, Ben and Adam fight on the roof and one kills the other. At the end, we find out that {{spoiler|evil Adam survived and that he's a better father to Ben's son and wife, neither of whom know they're now living with a murderous clone who has killed.}}

* In ''[[Exalted]]'', [[Anti Christ|Infernals]] can obtain an Ebon Dragon charm, Black Mirror Shintai, that lets them shapeshift into an exact duplicate of the target, from obtaining their abilities right down to having the exact same fate, along with developing Intimacies and a Motivation antithetical to their target's.

** ''[[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]].

** He even tries and fails to kill a successful, non bald doppelganger of himself from an alternate reality.

* ''[[The Tick]]'' has Mucus Tick, an evil clone created by inter-dimensional horror Thrakkazog from a tissue, or rather Kleenex, sample taken from The Tick when he had a cold. Mucus Tick was, appropriately, green and amorphous. The sample was taken from a clone of Arthur, which among its most telling features is that it could only say, "I Arthur." The Tick considered that a rather compelling argument when it came time to determine which one was real.

* Lucius and Wayne Cramp, from ''[[The Cramp Twins]]''. Though it's more of a good twin, annoyingly bully and ridiculously filth loving twin. With purple skin.

* Played with in ''[[Sealab 2021]]'', where a pair of characters gets displaced in time, and Captain Murphy is convinced they are doppelgangers.

* On ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'', Stimpy makes a formula which splits people into good and evil versions of themselves. Or in Ren's case, Indifferent Ren and Evil Ren. And his evil half takes more of the formula to become Evil Ren and Hideously Evil Ren (not that Indifferent Ren cares).

* In the first season finale of ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'', {{spoiler|[[Captain America]]}} gets knocked out, then duplicated, by a Skrull invader. If the warning of {{spoiler|Kang the Conqueror}} is to be believed, {{spoiler|this Skrull will eventually betray the Avengers and/or the Earth, and this action will cause the destruction of the world}}.