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== Advertising ==

* One Priceline advert includes the appearance of the company's spokesman's Evil Twin, complete with the [[Beard of Evil]], the spokesman? William Shatner!

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* [[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.

 

== Fan Works ==

* Conversed in a [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4302297/9/In_His_Shoes one-shot] within the [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|ATLA]] [[Another Brother]] [[Alternate Universe|universe,]] where Sokka believes an evil twin was the reason that[[Laser-Guided Amnesia|Zuko]] was banished.

* ''[[Turnabout Storm]]'': [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|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|Phoenix]] insists on it being a stupid idea, but Pinkie being [[Cloudcuckoolander|Pinkie]], she sticks with it.

 

== Film ==

* The TV movie ''Echo'' had Jack Wagner play an evil twin brother who kidnapped the main character and move into his life, killing his remaining relatives in the process, until at the end when the character's girlfriend confronts them both in the abandoned building, she doesn't know which one is the evil twin and ends up shooting one of them, with the audience also left wondering which one was killed.

* Avatar and Black Wolf in [[Ralph Bakshi]]'s ''[[Wizards]]'', although they look nothing alike. Avatar is short, portly, friendly, and fairy-like (minus the wings). Black Wolf is tall, thin, evil, and mutated. The only thing they have in common is that they're both bearded.

 

== Literature ==

{{quote|"Are there no Prisons? Are there no Workhouses?"}}

 

* ''[[Gunsmoke]]'': One episode had Festus jailed on charges of murder and robbery ... only someone who [[Identical Stranger|looked just like him]] was the actual criminal.

* ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'': Two instances, both involving the series' two main villains (one each per episode):

* [[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Starsky and Hutch]] each had one. {{spoiler|These evil twins were pinning crimes on the original duo under orders of a corrupt attorney.}}

* 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.}}

 

== 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-Intentioned Extremist]], he makes [[Death Note|Light Yagami]] look like a [[Technical Pacifist]].

* ''[[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...").

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* 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.

* [[Magic: The Gathering]]: [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=229965 Like so]

 

== Toys ==

* A few variants used in ''[[Bionicle]]''. First, we have ''an army'' of corrupted Alternate-universe versions of Takanuva, and then we have an inversion with {{spoiler|"White Teridax", a "good" version of the main [[Big Bad]]}}.

 

== Video Games ==

* In [[Space Ace]], Dexter has a clone named Hexter. He energizes into a bigger form when Dexter energizes into Ace.

 

* [[Life of Riley]] features an early villain in Evil Dan, opposite of the main character Dan. Slightly subverted in that Evil Dan is even more of a moron than Good Dan, and has no real skills as an evil opposite.

* ''[[Kid Radd]]'' features an Evil Twin as one of a [[Goldfish Poop Gang]] duo - he serves as the titular character's [[Shadow Archetype]] later in the story.

* The False Guenevere in ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]''. In the baseline arc, she's the same as in the mythology; Guenevere's identical half-sister plotting to take Arthur and the throne. In the contemporary arc she's Guenevere's full sister Fasha, and probably isn't exactly ''evil'', although she may be a [[Stalker with a Crush]]. And in the space arc she's [[Cloning Blues|a clone]], and again isn't evil, genuinely believing herself to be the real Guenevere. The one thing all three have in common is that they love Arthur and {{spoiler|don't care much for Lancelot, thereby allowing space and baseline Arthur to have a Queen who loves him completely while convincing himself that [[I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy|he just wants Guenevere and Lancelot to be happy]].}}

* Alexis of ''[[A Magical Roommate]]'' considers her sister Alexandra ([[Only Known by Their Nickname|Better known as X]]) to be her evil twin. Of course, X isn't really evil, just anti-social and disturbingly fond of explosives.

 

== Web Original ==

* Arglwydd in ''[[ARCHON]]'' lampshades this, saying "...It always astounds me how the primary antagonist being the protagonist’s father, brother, evil twin or all of the above simultaneously comes as a shock."

* The ''[[League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions]]'' had interdimensional evil twins in the King's Interstellar Lethal Legionnaires, occasionally recurring group The Frank Conspiracy had a Dark Side & a Light Side, and the hero, Mr. Obvious, had a crazy twin brother, the hero, Mr. Absurd.

* 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.

 

== Western Animation ==

'''Evil The Cat:''' I think not. Instead, I will destroy you with an acid furball.

'''Good The Cat:''' Then I will neutralize it with an antacid furball.

'''Evil The Cat:''' Curses!

'''Good The Cat:''' Kisses! }}

* ''[[Edgar and Ellen]]'' are identical twin siblings that cause mischief and mayhem to the peaceful town of Nod's Limbs through the use of pranks. They live in a tower mansion located at the outskirt forest near the town where they plan all their schemes to terrorize the citizens and the mayor's daughter Stephanie.

 

* In ''[[Where's Waldo]]'' Odlaw acts as Waldo's evil twin, being a criminal, and having a black and yellow colour scheme. Just as Waldo makes a journey to the "Land of Waldos" which is filled with Waldos, it is later reveled that Odlaw comes from "Odlaw's Swamp" which is filled with Odlaws.

 

== Real Life ==

 

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