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Often, in science fiction, the [[Evil Twin]] is created from the original character by [[Applied Phlebotinum]]. Most of the time, this results in a "Good Twin" and "Evil Twin", neither of which are complete entities on their own. See [[Starfish Character]] for examples of this.
[[Beard of Evil|A goatee or other beard]] is a staple of [[Evil Twin|Evil Twins]] everywhere. This comes from the ''[[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episode "Mirror, Mirror", in which the evil duplicate of Spock is distinguished only by the fact that he has a beard. It is common for parodies of [[Evil Twin]] to use a [[Good Hair, Evil Hair|beard]] as a distinguishing characteristic, in some cases even when they shouldn't be able to grow facial hair - for example, Flexo in [[Futurama]] or Cartman in [[South Park]]. Some evil twins use [[Identical Twin ID Tag|Identical Twin ID Tags]] to differentiate from their good counterpart such as [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|scars]] and [[Evil Makeover|evil costuming.]]
Sci-Fi versions usually wind up playing [[Spot the Imposter]].
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If you were looking for the videogame ''Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles'', it can be found [[Evil Twin Cypriens Chronicles (Video Game)|here.]]
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** 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]].
* 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
* In ''[[Ninin ga Shinobuden]]'', Onsokumaru creates an evil duplicate when he attempts to use a Ninja Clone technique. Of course, Onsokumaru being Onsokumaru, the twin isn't really any worse than the original.
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* Played straight in the ''[[Squadron Supreme]]'' limited series, when Hyperion is replaced by his [[Evil Twin]] as part of a larger [[Evil Plan]].
* ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' loves this trope. Dredd himself is a clone of Judge Fargo. Dredd may or may not be considered "evil", but {{spoiler|he is definitely far more fascist than his clone father}}. His clone brother Rico and Rico's identical [[Mirror Universe]] double are straight examples. The Judda are a ''whole group'' of evil clones of him and other judges. His supposedly rehabilitated clone Kraken gets [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]. His [[Mirror Universe]] counterpart is a comically liberal counterpart to the fascist we know. And finally, his evil future self gets killed and dragged back to the present before getting up and going on a rampage. Dredd frequently [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshades]] this by worrying if it's "something in the blood".
* In ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)|King Ottokar's Sceptre]]'', the conspiracy to steal the sceptre involves {{spoiler|kidnapping Professor Alembick and replacing him with his twin brother}}.
* [[The Smurfs]] deal with evil duplicates of themselves in ''The Smurf Threat'' that were created by Papa Smurf in order to get the Smurfs to stop fighting with each other.
* In the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] comic ''The Forgotten'', a brain parasite attacking the Tenth Doctor takes on the appearance of an evil twin version of him, complete with beard and black pinstripe suit, and claims to be the Valeyard. The real Doctor immediately mocks the parasite's complete lack of originality.
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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.
* Case in point: [[Darkwing Duck]] fanfic writers take trips to the Negaverse every so often. A popular subject is 'NegaGosalyn' and her relationship with the Friendly Four ([[Hurt Comfort Fic]] pops up here). {{spoiler|One story even explains why Gosalyn wasn't evil there--the ''normal'' one would've turned rotten.}}
* Conversed in a [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4302297/9/In_His_Shoes one-shot] within the [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|ATLA]] [[Another Brother (Fanfic)|Another Brother]] [[Alternate Universe|universe,]] where Sokka believes an evil twin was the reason that[[Laser
* ''[[Turnabout Storm (Fanfic)|Turnabout Storm]]'': [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Pinkie Pie]] suggests that Rainbow Dash has one of these, called [[Sdrawkcab Name|Wob Niar]], as a possible explanation of how the murder of [[Original Character|Ace Swift]] went down. [[Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Phoenix]] insists on it being a stupid idea, but Pinkie being [[Cloudcuckoolander|Pinkie]], she sticks with it.
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* What, no reference to [[The Middleman]] episode "The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome"? That's the entire point of the episode.
* In ''[[Father Dowling Mysteries]]'', the eponymous priest had and evil twin who was a criminal and would pop in and cause trouble.
* ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'' Season 3, Episode 4, [[Community (TV)/Recap/S3 E04 Remedial Chaos Theory|"Remedial Chaos Theory"]], features seven alternate timelines. The Abed in Timeline 1 recognises it as the darkest timeline (Pierce is dead, Annie's crazy, Jeff lost an arm, Shirley's a drunk, Troy lost his larynx and Britta [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|dyed a strip of her hair blue]]) and suggests the group embrace their role as evil versions of the Main Timeline group.
{{quote| '''Troy and Abed:''' ''[[Dark Reprise|Evil Troy and evil Aaa-bed!]]''}}
* Lord John Roxton gets one in one episode of ''[[Sir Arthur Conan Doyles the Lost World]]'' after he is cursed for disturbing a graveyard's peace. The protector takes the ruthless and violent part - basically the hunter part - out of him andd gives him a life of his own. Evil!Roxton tries to kill the good one, using Marguerite as bait. It ends in a [[Mirror Match]].
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== New Media ==
* ''[[Magic the Gathering]]'''s [http://www.wizards.com/magic/ official site] did a theme week where most of the weekly articles were written by "evil twins" of their usual writers. Even the writer that's supposedly a supervillain; the twin is such a [[Well
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' info site Thottbot.com allows you to switch between ''Classic'' and ''Evil Twin'' themes (white background vs. black background, among other color changes), and the loading screen when switching to ''Evil Twin'' mode says "Growing goatee..." (while the loading page to get back to ''Classic'' mode says "Shaving...").
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* Parodied in the [[Whateley Universe]]. In one novel, Jade Sinclair tries to fix her [[Hand Wave|Exemplar problem]] that's keeping her looking like an eleven-year-old ''boy''. She uses massively superpowered Tennyo as a model. Jinn Sinclair gets the upgrade.. even though Jinn is only a PK copy of Jade, currently inhabiting some ground chalk. In a rare [[Genre Savvy]] moment for the Sinclair girls, Jinn pretends to be a clone of Tennyo, and (of course) insists that she is real and the real Tennyo is fake. No one is fooled. She is physically composed of ground chalk at the time.
* The parody website ''Sev Trek'' subverted this in a cartoon where the crew of ''[[Voyager]]'' are duplicated by Yet Another Transploder Accident. However the duplicated crew are not evil, they're just more interesting.
* But at least [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|You can always tell them apart]] by their clothes, right? [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/File:MPost5023-b53f3a9139_o%2Ejpg Right?..]
* [[I Wanna Be the Guy]] and [[You Have to Burn The Rope]]. The former, of course, is the evil one.
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* This was effectively parodied in the ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'' episode "Spookyfish", in which Cartman's Evil Twin was soft spoken, considerate, and generous, so Stan and Kyle try to send the "real" Cartman back to the [[Alternate Universe]] instead.
** Another episode had Stan cloned. Despite having one arm longer than the other, a giant head, and only saying, "Me Stan, bah-chewy-chomp, bah-chewy-chomp, bah-chewy-chomp," [[Hugh Mann|everyone thought it was him when it escaped and went on a rampage.]]
* In the ''[[Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' episode "Squeeze the Day", Bloo fools around with an eyebrow pencil, first drawing [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]] and a moustache on his face and pretending to be "Pierre", then adding an [[Good Hair, Evil Hair|evil goatee]] and pretending to be "Pierre's evil twin brother".
* ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' also did a subversion of this trope, where it turned out Bender, as opposed to his "twin" Flexo (another robot of the same model, except with a goatee), had stolen a beauty pageant crown and was ultimately the "evil" one. However, Flexo ended up taking the blame for everything.
** In "The Farnsworth Parabox," Professor Farnsworth creates a box containing a whole other universe, which is identical, except for everyone's color schemes and the outcomes of coin tosses. When the group from Universe A (ours) enter Universe 1 (theirs), each is convinced the other is their evil twins. Bender laments that he tries his hardest, and therefore it hurts that there's a Bender more evil than he.
** Futurama's spoof soap opera "[[Soap Within a Show|All My Circuits]]" also lampshades this with dialogue about the main hero Calculon's ''4th evil identical septuplet''.
** ''Evil Lincoln''
* The animated [[The DCU|DC Comics universe]], particularly ''[[Superman:
** In ''Superman'', Superman encounters his "Bizarro" counterpart, a degenerate clone created by [[Lex Luthor]]. In another episode, Lois Lane finds herself in an alternate universe where her death resulted in Superman becoming an [[Knight Templar|unhinged tyrant.]]
** ''Justice League'' featured another good-guys-turned-bad alternate universe where, after Flash's death, the "Justice Lords" crossed the line by executing Luthor and taking over the world.
** Batman faced a ''robotic'' evil twin of himself in ''[[Batman:
** Robotic, yes. Twin, yes. Evil? Batman himself wondered at the end of the episode if it had managed to develop a soul, since it was in anguish at the thought that it might've accidentally killed him(the Bat). So evil - not so much, no.
** 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
** 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 Out]] to him.)
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* Averted in ''[[Frisky Dingo]]''. When the Xtacles find Xander Crews' mentally retarded twin brother and cure his condition with "brain chemical", he quickly becomes evil and swears revenge on Xander Crews until he is promptly shot in the head by one of the Xtacles. The Xtacle then explains that the entire "evil twin" thing made the plot far too complicated for its own good and the rest of the Xtacles agree.
* Ranger Smith of ''[[Yogi Bear (Animation)|Yogi Bear]]'' fame had a literal twin known as Slippery Smith. Being a fugitive for unspecified crimes (probably mostly theft) was bad enough, but forcibly swapping clothes with his brother and throwing him out to the cops was a [[Moral Event Horizon]]. Thankfully (if unsurprisingly), Slippery Smith did not appear in more than one episode.
* In ''[[The Venture Brothers (Animation)|The Venture Brothers]]'', Dr. Venture himself can be considered the evil twin to his brother Jonas Jr., {{spoiler|whom he consumed in the womb}}. While Jonas Jr. is meant to be the true heir to Jonas Sr. and is the superior scientist, Rusty is a failed scientist who has shown himself to be amoral, having created a Joy Can out of an orphan's heart and a [[
** He even tries and fails to kill a successful, non bald doppelganger of himself from an alternate reality.
** Though it does seem to rattle Dr. Venture when Henry Killinger (and his magic murder bag) assume he'd make a good supervillain/arch-nemesis for his brother. He turns it down when he realizes it, despite that his compound is so much more efficient that way.
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* ''[[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.
** Furthermore, Arthur seems to have an entire race of evil clones in an alien species called the Hey that coincidentally dresses exactly like him, has a language consisting entirely of the word "Hey," and literally worship nothing to the point of wanting to destroy everything.
** Hey propaganda is patently hilarious to hear, because to the human ear it sounds less like inspiring prose and more like [[Jade
** Arguably, Tick also has "Barry Tick," who is similar only in theme and wind up fighting each other over who gets to use their name.
* In one episode of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (Animation)|The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'', Grim takes Billy and Mandy into a shadow world where their shadows manifests as their opposites. Mandy meets her good double, while Billy meets his stupid double. And no, that's not a typo. The stupid Billy spends much of the episode barking like a sea lion.
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** In a later episode, they face the People-Busters, ghostly versions of themselves from an alternate universe. The "Evil" aspect is open to discussion, however.
* 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.
* Rikochet from ''[[Mucha Lucha]]'' had his leprechaun-esque evil twin, Rick O'Shay. The fact that the two names are homophonous leads to a [[
* Played with in ''[[Sealab 2021]]'', where a pair of characters gets displaced in time, and Captain Murphy is convinced they are doppelgangers.
{{quote| '''Captain Murphy:''' Tell it to Queen Doppelpopoulis!}}
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** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Garfield when he reads up on Davis disguising himself and exclaims, "Oh, no! It's an evil twin story! It's come to that!"
* In the cartoon version of [[Space Ace]], besides Hexter in the games, Dexter has a ''second'' evil clone named Baby Face Nerks, who looks like Dexter, but does not energize, and also wears a cowboy hat and wears a bandana around his neck. He appears in ''Wanter Dexter!''.
* Spider-Carnage of ''[[Spider Man the Animated Series]]'', [[Beta Test Baddie]] and [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] par excellence. "I'm more you than you'll ever admit!"
* ''[[Stunt Dawgs (Animation)|Stunt Dawgs]]'' villain Richard P. Fungus and his insane twin brother R. Peter Fungus.
* A ''[[Midnight Patrol]]'' episode featured the Night Mirror, that creates evil twins of good people who look at it. When the ones who look at it are evil, they're the evil twins to their good duplicates. The duplicates (be they good or evil) disappear when they look at the mirror.
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* An interesting example in one episode of ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]''. The CIA develops cloning technology that makes an exact copy of the existing individual, same age and memories. After disputes with Francine over how to raise Steve, (with Francine winning the bike race, meaning Steve gets raised her way) Stan clones a second Steve to raise as his own, naming the clone "Stevearino". The clone is later shown to be evil, however, it is the result of Stan's overly-strict rules and not some inherent evil-ness that comes with being a clone.
* The cartoon version of [[Dragons Lair]] had a episode called ''Mirror Mirror, in which Singe disguises himself as Dirk to trick the villiage people. The episode ends with two morals. The second one? {{spoiler|"Evil dragons should learn how to swim."}}
* In the first season finale of ''[[The Avengers:
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