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* In addition to Bizarro, Superman has at least four other evil twins, each by way of a different trope. There is his [[Evil Counterpart]] [[Kneel Before Zod|General Zod]]. There's Hank Henshaw, who went from being a [[Take That]] parody of [[Fantastic Four|Reed Richards]] to an evil Superman by way of [[Grand Theft Me]]. There's his [[Mirror Universe]] double Ultraman (in fact, there are currently two Ultramen, from two similar but distinct [[Mirror Universe|Mirror Universes]]). And finally, there's his alternate universe counter part [[Superboy|Superboy Prime]], who began life as a sort of [[Sidekick]] by way of [[Retcon|Ret Con]], but was eventually transitioned into a villain.
* [[Supergirl]] too. In the [[Silver Age]] there was her [[Enemy Without]] Satan Girl in ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]'', created by Red Kryptonite. Supergirl (pre-DCnU reboot) went through a similar story which created "Dark Supergirl", although she ended up as more of an [[Enemy Within]]. And then there's Bizarrogirl, who causes chaos on Earth because she's just as confused as Kara but doesn't deal with it as well. Before that, Earth-Angel Supergirl had her own Bizarro-Supergirl, and also fought Matrix, her own ''former body''! In fact, the shapeshifting Matrix-Supergirl, in one of her more confused periods, was ''also'' an evil twin of Superman... (A [[Mirror Universe]] Ultragirl has also been seen, but thus far Kara hasn't had to deal with her).
* The [[Marvel Comics]] series ''[[
* In the ''[[Transformers Shattered Glass]]'' comic series, Cliffjumper is transported to a [[Bizarro Universe]] where the Autobots are evil and the Decepticons are good. In a bit of parody/lampshading, evil Rodimus even got himself a ''goatee'', saying that he feels it makes him feel distinguished.
* Newspaper comic inversion: In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Calvin once made a perfect copy of himself to do his work for him, only to find out that his double was even more troublesome than the original, since he realized that he could commit any mischief and the original would get all the blame. A later storyline had Calvin making a duplicate of only his ''good'' side... who among other things starts trying to make friends with the girl next door Calvin's always trying to humiliate. Calvin confronts his good counterpart and provokes him into a fight. Angered, Calvin's Good Side decides that he's going to "tear [Calvin] limb from-", and promptly disappears with the exclamation "Oops, I had an evil thought!" Hobbes then declares: "Another casualty of Applied Metaphysics."
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** At one point half the team was replaced by the shape-shifting aliens known as Skrulls (this was back before everyone was doing it). While most of them remained in captivity while their doubles were running around making trouble, the story culminated in Professor X handing a simultaneous physical and mental beatdown to his double. While naked.
** Professor X has an actual evil twin, Cassandra Nova. It's later explained that ''everyone'' has an evil twin, a psychic construct the Shi'ar call the ''mummudrai'' that they face off with before birth. Xavier killed Nova in the womb, but, because she was the [[Evil Twin]] of an extremely powerful psychic, she managed to survive as a mass of miscarried fetal tissue and reconstruct herself to the point where she could enact revenge.
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* During the Marvel [[Crisis Crossover]] with the entity called the Magus trying to snuff reality, he distracted all the superheroes by simultaneously creating Evil Twins of ''every superhero in the Marvel Universe''.
** Likewise the ''Avengers Forever'' series ends with a no punches pulled battle between every good Avenger that can exist, and every evil Avenger that can exist.
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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
* 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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** The Archie comics Sonic has an evil duplicate from an alternate universe who's been in the comics for a long time. Originally referred to as Evil Sonic, he renamed himself "Scourge" after absorbing energy from the Master Emerald.
* ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' has Vergil, who despises his humanity and does questionable things to assuage his power cravings, unlike Dante who dislikes his demonic heritage and fights demonic incursions.
* ''[[Disgaea 4:
* This was the whole point of the series ''Two'' : The evil one is the first to discover he has a twin, and frames him for his own crimes.
* Wario from the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' games is Mario's evil twin, a malicious, greedy egotist to Mario's more peaceful, fair and modest nature. His origin is not known other than him being a childhood friend of Mario, but the most commonly accepted story is that he was jealous of Mario's fame and bullied him as a child. Wario has since moved away from being one of Mario's antagonists and instead wants to gather fame and fortune for himself.
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