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* In [[Marvel Comics]], Flatman, aka Dr. Val Ventura, looks exactly like and has roughly the same exact powers as Mr. Fantastic of the [[Fantastic Four]]. The only difference is that Flatman is, well, flat, his entire body being less than an inch thick. This is pretty much never ever [[Ignore the Disability|commented on, no matter how obvious it is]], until it later became a [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Great Lakes Avengers]].''
* This is how [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|the Wasp]] entered into Hank Pym's life - she looked identical to his dead wife.
* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'':
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** In a ''[[What If...?]]'' story, [[Wolverine]] is hurled through a time warp to [[Conan|Conan the Barbarian's]] time period, and quickly comes face-to-face with [[Red Sonja]], whom he at first mistakes for Jean Grey. When she challenges him, he realizes it isn't Jean, but she "sure has Jeanie's spunk though." To make this even weirder, at the conclusion of the story, Conan is thrown through the same warp to the modern time, is confronted by the other X-Men, and ''he'' mistakes Jean for Sonja. ([[Reincarnation]], maybe?)
** One [[Spider-Man]] editor even made a joke once claiming that Mary Jane Watson and Jean Grey were the same person, and that she just has dimples as MJ. ("Honestly, and they say [[Superman]] had a lame disguise," he added.)
* An ''extremely'' common trope in [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]] [[Superman]] comics. Not only do Superman, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, and other supporting characters encounter their own randomly-occurring identical duplicates on Earth, they even have duplicates on ''Krypton'' (a single Kryptonian ''city'', at that - the Bottle City of Kandor!) Astute readers pointed out how often this plot device was used, and in response, a DC editor actually stated that, ''in [[Real Life]]'', every single person on Earth has at least one exact duplicate walking around somewhere (it's a Science Fact!)
** One of the very few occasions on which this was even vaguely justified: Vam-Zee, who adopted the identity of Kandorian superhero Nightwing from Superman, looks exactly like the Man of Steel. The explanation? They're cousins.
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