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[[File:Mirror.jpg|link=El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|rightframe|[[Captain Obvious|The guy in the mirror is evil.]] [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|The guy not in the mirror is a guy.]].]]

{{quote|''"Ugh. I hate that mirror. It makes me look masculine."''|'''Aunt Zelda''', ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Comic Book)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'', [[Archie]] comic storyline.}}

{{quote|''"Picture every [[Golden Age|gold]], [[Silver Age|silver]], [[Bronze Age|bronze]] and [[Dark Age|rust age]] comic. Imagine a comic shop full of every [[DC Comics|DC comic]] ever. Now imagine that each one is about the Syndicate, and is about some lone hero rising up, and getting killed. Every issue is a forensic report of a new hero, alone and outclassed, standing up and getting murdered, brutally, publicly, colorfully, at the rate of one or two a month. It's not that the Syndicate are killers, but killers in equal measure to the heroes. It's evocative."''|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}5HF6SFaVs3M qbe9584]}}

Occasionally, some other characteristic is reversed. The hero in the [['''Mirror Universe]]''' functions as the [[Evil Twin]]. The [[Five-Man Band]] becomes [[The Psycho Rangers]] or [[Five-Bad Band]]. Expect the loyal soldier to become a blithering coward, the [[The Starscream|backstabbing bastard]] to become a peaceful negotiator, and the [[Bridge Bunnies|bridge bunny]] who normally gets no lines becomes a trash-talking, [[Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains|lingerie-wearing]], gun-toting, [[Depraved Bisexual|bisexually hyperactive]] [[Dark Action Girl|ball of unleashed id]].

From the ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]'' episode [[Trope Codifier|"Mirror, Mirror"]]. In homage to this episode, it's common for an evil mirror equivalent to have a [[Beard of Evil|goatee beard]].

Contrast with [[Dark World]]. Not to be confused with [[Mirror World]].

* Happened in one episode in ''[[Doraemon]]'' when Doraemon and Nobita enter and explore a mirror universe and interact with their counterparts. IIRC, this universe is literally mirrored of having mirrored writing and east is west. Other differences include reversed gender roles showing Nobita's mom as the breadwinner, all males dressed as females, and different teachings in school. Nobita and his counterpart decide to [[Prince and Pauper|swap roles]] for a day.

== [[Comic Books]] ==

** The trope originated in the [[Silver Age]] with Earth-3, which was destroyed in ''[[Crisis Onon Infinite Earths]]'' but was restored later. The antimatter universe was based on this concept.

*** Actually, this was not an alternate universe, but the "revamped" past of the only remaining Earth after 1985's ''[[Crisis Onon Infinite Earths]]'' mini-series. Since the "Earth Two/Golden Age" versions of Superman, Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Green Arrow had the same names and origins in the "Silver Age," they couldn't exist as they had been, unlike characters such as Green Lantern and the Flash, who had different origins and secret identities. The Nazi versions of those characters were the direct result of the ''[[Crisis Onon Infinite Earths]]'' folding all worlds into one. The "energy" that created those characters had to go somewhere, and it created those characters to fight the short-lived team ''the Young All-Stars'' (whose book replaced the cancelled ''All-Star Squadron'') during World War II.

* ''[[Exiles (Comic Book)|Exiles]]'', of the [[Marvel Universe]], had an issue where Galactus restored worlds instead of eating them, and the Silver Surfer was a power-hungry despot who had destroyed his own homeworld. The first issue of ''Exiles'' was in a universe where Magneto was the benevolent teacher who wanted mutants and humans to live in harmony, and Professor X believed there could only be peace when humanity was eradicated.

** The ''[[Age of Apocalypse]]'' has elements of this trope; [[Magneto]] leads [[La Résistance]]- including a [[Good Is Not Nice]] version of [[Complete Monster|Sabretooth]] and a version of Colossus who is a psychotic [[Anti-Hero]]-, and there is a human resistance including a heroic [[Dr. Doom]] and Sentinels actually protecting mankind, versus a dystopic mutant tyranny whose ranks include [[The Hero|Cyclops]] and his brother [[The Lancer|Havok]] as well as [[The Smart Guy|Beast]], now known as Dark Beast, as well as a new character called Abyss who was later introduced into the mainstream comics as a heroic character. However, though Dark Beast is a cruel and sadistic [[Mad Scientist]] and a despicable piece of work, Cyclops is just an [[Anti-Villain]] who does a [[Heel Face Turn]], and as the title suggests this is a world where recurring [[X -Men]] villain [[Evil Overlord|Apocalypse]] has achieved world domination and if anything has actually gotten ''worse''; other villains like [[Evilutionary Biologist|Mister Sinister]] merely serve as his minions and are still evil, while most heroes and villains from other parts of the Marvel Universe didn't change sides, they were just killed when Apocalypse nuked the United States and started purging humanity.

** ''[[The Thanos Imperative]]'' features the Cancerverse, a universe where [[The Problem Withwith Fighting Death|Death has been wiped out]] by four powerful demons called the Many-Angled Ones, including [[Doctor Strange]] villain Shuma-Gorath (like the other three, a unique multiversal entity -- itentity—it has no [[Evil Twin|good twin]] anywhere in the multiverse). Life has become pollution and is spiraling out of control, and every living thing in the universe is [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] and are fanatically devoted to worshipping the evil entities, though non-living beings like the Vision (a robot) are immune and still heroic. Thus, in this universe hero teams like [[The Avengers]] are the servants of evil gods, though presumably so is every living villain as well.

* Archie Comics' ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Comic Bookcomics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comic has a Mirror Universe, called variously "The Reverse Universe", "Anti-Mobius", and "Moebius". In it Dr. Robotnik/Kintobor is a [[Kindly Vet]], while the Freedom Fighters fight against freedom, having overthrown the previous monarch. The <s> Anti-Freedom Fighters</s> Suppression Squad all dress in black leather, and acted like a bunch of juvenile delinquents until Anti-Sonic became "Scourge" and conquered Moebius.

** The interference from the heroes' world has caused the parallels to break down a bit; Scourge has been turned green, and hooked up with [[Face Heel Turn|Fiona FoxFOX]] for a while, Anti-Bunnie has pulled a [[Heel Face Turn]] and wears [[Powered Armour|Omega Armor]] instead of being a [[Cyborg]] (anti-Rotor is the cyborg) and anti-Antoine briefly posed as his good counterpart. Basically the [[Status Quo Is God|status quo]] for the mirror world gets altered more often than the main one. Oh, and [[The Starscream|Miles Prower]] even has [[Beard of Evil|the goatee]].

* Subversion: In [[Phil Foglio]]'s short story "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130910040235/http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/stories/HBstory/HBstory.php Work Ethic]" found in ''[[Grimjack]]'' #40, heroes from a world in which there is only pure good and pure evil (and the heroes always win), get transported to Grimjack's world, which has a more realistically varied moral spectrum. Thus, since they see that everything is not purely good, they begin to destroy the entire town of Cynosure until Cynosure's protector sends them back to their own dimension. (Incidentally, these heroes, the Heterodyne Boys, later became the inspiration for ''[[Girl Genius]]''.)

* ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass]]'', where the Heroic Decepticons are fighting to protect Earth and Cybertron from the powermongering of the Evil Autobots. "Till All are Gone..."

*** And the major Quintesson character is an exile who disagrees with the usual Quintesson policy of non-interaction with races until they're deemed sufficiently advanced -- asadvanced—as opposed to the normal Quintesson policy of enslaving or arbitrarily executing "inferior" beings.

** [[Transformers: Shattered Glass|Shattered Glass]] was meant to be played straight, but a three-page April Fools Day comic, "Shattered Expectations", was so spot-on that the series quickly became more humorous. (The SE team also works on SG now.)

* ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' has Deathworld, homeworld of Judge Death and Dark Judges, where Judges realized that all crimes are made by living, so life itself was outlawed.

== [[Literature]] ==

* Characters from [[Mirror Universe]] settings occasionally turn up in the [[Nightside]] novels, such as Dark Artur (an alternate King Arthur whose mentor Merlin had sided with the Devil), or Joan Taylor and Steven Shooter ([[Gender Flip]] villainous versions of the series leads).

* [[Star Trek: Mirror Universe]], naturally.

* Spider Robinson's story "Mirror/rorriM Off the Wall" has an invasion by Trebor, the evil mirrortwin of Robert, a patron of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon. {{spoiler|One of the tipoff'stipoffs is that Callahan's bar doesn't ''have'' a mirror normally, just quotes written behind the bar, and suddenly, there is a mirror.}}

* ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'' had a Polar Opposite World, where good and evil were reversed. The characters had to forge an alliance with their "evil" selves to get both worlds back into balance.

* The ''Star Trek'' Mirror Universe started out (in the ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]'' that introduced it) as identical to the main universe, except that for the moral inversion between the Federation characters and their evil Empire counterparts. When the Mirror Universe was revisited in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', the correspondences were less straightforward -- thestraightforward—the Empire had been overthrown, humans were downtrodden slaves, and the station was run by [[Depraved Bisexual|Kira's evil counterpart]].

** And, despite being the [[Trope Codifier]], slightly subverted it - even though his mirror counterpart had a [[Beard of Evil]], Spock was, as the show put it, "A man of honor in both worlds", and not strictly evil in the mirror universe despite clearly being on the side of the angels in the primary reality. Further, the Aliens Of The Week were [[Actual Pacifist|Actual Pacifists]]s in both the 'normal' universe and in the Mirror Universe.

** One of Shatner's novels gives a quite satisfying explanation for why this is the only parallel universe open to cross-dimensional travel. When the Enterprise chased the Borg back to Cochran's time in [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_First_ContactStar Trek: First Contact|First Contact]] they didn't, as they supposed, change the timeline and change it back again: they gave rise to a separate timeline. (Then returned to their own and assumed, since it looked the same, that they had succeeded.) Their clumsy attempts to cover up their fixing (hiding in the shadow of the Moon, duh!) didn't fool the Vulcans, who deduced the existence of the Borg, concluded that the logical counter to this menace was the savage militarism they discovered on Earth, and set humans on the path to becoming an Evil Galactic Empire that would be big and bad enough to defeat the Borg when they appeared. Because of the artificial way it was created, this timeline remained entangled with its parent one, leading to a leaky boundary, but also to cross-influences producing similar people with the same names in the same places despite completely different backstories.

** The [[Star Trek: Mirror Universe|''Star Trek'' novels]] continue the Mirror Universe after season seven of ''Deep Space Nine'', showing us how the Terran Rebellion is becoming more of a social revolution, as well as giving us perspectives on Mirror Spock's rise to power as Emperor after the initial episode "Mirror, Mirror", Emperor Sato's putting down of the rebellion during the Enterprise era, and how Picard stopped being a slave and became a Terran Rebellion leader during the TNG era.

** Also, the [[Expanded Universe]] ''does'' show us more than one version of the [[Mirror Universe]], though whether it's intentional or simply the Trek EU not being having nearly as tight continuity as the ''[[Star Wars]]'' one is unknown. However, one book features the ISS ''Enterprise''-E of the Terran Empire, which doesn't work with the [[DS 9]] incarnation of the MU, so that one is clearly alternate from the beginning.

* One of the many, many sphere malfunctions in ''[[Seven Days]]'', rather than sending Parker into a [[Mirror Universe]], actually inverted the ''real'' universe (Since the existence of parallel universes was disallowed by the show's [[Applied Phlebotinum]]), changing Never Never Land into the seat of a tyrannical dictatorship, Ramsey into a spaced-out hippie, and reversing all writing. Parker, being morally ambiguous to begin with, was immune.

* ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' played the concept straight in the episode "Only the Good...", where Rimmer travelled to another dimension where everything was opposite to procure the antidote for a virus infecting the ship. The alternate Rimmer and Hollister's positions and personalities were switched, with Rimmer becoming the captain and Hollister a technician on probation from a prison sentence; the Cat was the ship's chief scientist, and Kochanski was his ditzy secretary. (Also seen in deleted scenes: Lister was the [[Officer and Aa Gentleman]] first officer with no dreadlocks and a moustache.) Additionally, all writing was reversed and Rimmer became left-handed and [[Biggus Dickus|well-endowed]].

* [[MST3KMystery Science Theater 3000]] explicitly parodied the ''Star Trek'' mirror universe in their ''[[Last of the Wild Horses]]'' episode. Tom and Gypsy are swapped with their evil counterparts. In the evil universe, Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank are trapped on the SOL, while bearded Mike and the bots subject them to horrible movies.

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Cordelia [[Be Careful What You Wish For|gets her wish that Buffy never came to Sunnydale]], turning the town (and likely the world) into hell. Xander and Willow are vampires and rule the streets at night, Angel is regularly sexually tortured by Willow, Buffy eventually turns up bitchier than [[The Terminator|Sarah Connor at her worst]] to stop a vampire plot to rule the world, only to die trying like most of the show's characters.

* In season two of the [[Game Show]] ''[[Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?]]?'', this was common type of skit. In the [[Mirror Universe]], AMCE was a force of evil and VILE was a force of good. Kevin [[Lampshaded]] this when one of the skits came up.

* Parodied in [[Community (TV)|Community]]. When the tossing of a die to choose who picks up some pizza creates [[For Want of a Nail|seven alternate universes]], one horrible one is created where {{spoiler|Pierce dies, Jeff looses an arm, Shirley becomes an alcoholic, Annie suffers a mental breakdown and Troy's larynx is destroyed}}. [[Genre Savvy]] Abed deduces that they're in the "evil" universe, makes them all [[Star Trek (Franchise)|fake beards]] and makes it their job to break into the true universe and wreak havoc.

* As a direct homage to DC's Crime Syndicate, the [[Freedom City]] setting for ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'' has a [[Mirror Universe]] (Anti-Earth) in which the city is called Empire City and the Freedom League is replaced by the Tyranny Syndicate.

* The fan-made ''Brighthammer 40k'' campaign setting for the ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' roleplaying games, is largely a Mirror Universe, with some [[Bizarro Universe]] mixed in -- givenin—given [[Crapsack World|the state of the normal universe]], it's a [[Lighter and Softer|pretty nice place to live]]. There are exceptions, however. The Tau are ''exactly the same'' -- their—their new status as villains is simply because the rest of the universe now looks better, rather than worse, by comparison, and the Tyranids are also the same -- theysame—they're mirrored in that they're now the threat another extragalatic faction is fleeing from, rather than being implied to be fleeing from an even worse extragalatic faction. While the Eldar are reversed in alignment as well, the makers took it to a logical conclusion: The Bright (Dark) Eldar were born in dire straits, and are fighting a losing war against their cruel brethren. The Slaan are a borderline exception, as well: They're much the same, but they're now villains as the setting replaces the mysterious-but-benevolent [[Precursors|Old Ones]] of ''40k'' and ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'' with the twisted and horrifying Great Old Ones; being devoted servants to the Old Ones is now an unequivocally bad thing. Oh, and the Deceiver (the worst of the extremely nasty C'Tan in [[Canon]]) is still completely evil, it's just that how he goes about it reversed -- hereversed—he's known as the Soothsayer, and rather than causing trouble with deception, he instead specializes in sharing dangerous and unpleasant truths and dispelling even harmless or necessary lies. The other C'Tan play this straight, though -- thethough—the Daybringer is flat-out benevolent, the Void Dragon is well-meaning but utterly alien and unaware of just how dangerous his knowledge can be in the wrong hands, and the Outsider is in a self-imposed exile due to emotional and mental scars from battling the Great Old Ones... but the Tyranids are heading toward his "prison" and ''no-one'' knows how that will turn out.

== Videogames[[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' hashad the "Praetorians", evil world-conquering versions of the "normal" world's main heroes. Of course, it's up to the player character(s) to defeat them and ensure that they don't extend their conquests to other worlds.

** The expansion ''Going Rogue'' (not to be confused with Sarah Palin's book) looks to be givinggave them a [[Retcon]] into more [[Grey and Gray Morality|grey-and-gray]] version -- 'Justice Lords' than 'Crime Syndicate',. there incidentallyIncidentally there is also a [[The Syndicate|Syndicate]] in Praetorian Earth. There's also good versions of several villain groups; the [[Circus of Fear|soul-stealing Carnival of Shadows]] are the heroic Carnival of Light, and [[La Résistance|the Resistance]] seem to be based on [[Cyberpunk|the Freakshow]].

*** Counterpart to Clockwork King {{spoiler|is Metronome, who is a disembodied psychic entity.}}

*** Counterpart to Ghost Widow, {{spoiler|is Belladona, who is still alive and a member of the Resistance.}}

*** Clumsily [[Retcon|Ret Conned]]ned into the Council Empire later on, though Issue 15 brings back the most memorable character of the Amerika Korps...

*** The "Amerika Korps" could be seen as a slight subversion to the idea that they were identical mirror counterparts. While the game's background clearly stated that [[The Cape (trope)|the Statesman]] and [[Evil Counterpart|the Reichsman]] could spend all day slamming each other into the concrete, the Reichsman did not like competitors approaching his power level and deliberately made sure his "teammates'" training were less than adequate. That came back to bite him in the ass.

** Then there is Asakim Dowin from ''[[Super Robot Wars Z]]'', who is clearly an [[Evil Twin]], or at last [[Evil Counterpart]] of Masaki Andoh from ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]'', being his antithesis in every possible way and having mecha that is darker version of Masaki's Cybuster. Many fans speculate that just like Masaki's [[Backstory]] involves mystical world La Gias, Asakim's might involve La Gia's [[Mirror Universe]].

* The ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds (Video Game)|Adventure Quest Worlds]]'' 2nd Birthday Event has your hero visiting the Mirror Realm, where pretty much everything is switched around. Battleon is called Battleoff, Aria owns a butcher shop instead of a pet shop, Yulgar's Inn is called "Ye Olde Outt," Zorbak is actually good, [[Cloudcuckoolander|Cysero]] is actually sane, Warlic is a [[Mad Scientist]] rather than a mage, and the greatest hero of this reality turns out to be [[Big Bad|Drakath]]. His "Lords of Order" (basically good mirror counterparts of the Chaos Lords you've fought so far) have been captured by this realm's [[Big Bad]], King Alteon, who commands an undead army led by Artix, who is an undead Doom Paladin in the Mirror Realm, and you have to free them. The adventures include a trip to Lightovia (basically a mirror Darkovia) where Safiria is the Queen of the Werewolves instead of the Vampires (and where the werewolves love silver rather than it being the bane of their existence), a trip to a farm where a farmer is infecting his chickens with Chaos (don't ask) and finally heading to Alteon's secret lair, an evil mirror version of Swordhaven Castle, to do battle with undead Artix.

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' series features several in-game [[Mirror Universe]] worlds, including the Dark World in ''A Link To The Past,'' the future Hyrule in ''Ocarina of Time,'' Termina in ''Majora's Mask,'' and the Twilight Realm in ''Twilight Princess''. Usually Link can go back and forth between worlds once you find the appropriate [[Plot Coupon]] (which in ALttP and TP is indeed a mirror).

* ''[[AHAlternate DotHistory: Com theThe Series]]'' has the Mirror Crew, though we never see their home universe. They're stereotypical pure evil much like the [[Star Trek]] original, but the dynamic is quite different because the ''primary'' AH.com crew are scarcely angels themselves, it's more a case of [[The Same but More]].

* ''[[Gaia Online]]'' recently{{when}} featured a literal Mirror Universe in the form of the Dark Reflection random item generator. [[Unlucky Everydude|Unlucky Everygirl]] Kanoko get sucked into a bizzaro Gaia, and Gaians have to venture through the mirror to rescue her. Bizzaro Gaia features strange versions of the most famous Gaian NPCs. Some of these are fairly basic changes. (Agatha and Rina swapping ages, Moria and Sasha swapping clothing styles, Ian and Rufus swapping species), while others are a bit more bizarre. (Scheming con man Nicolae is now a priest, Liam has become a woman, his yaoi-bait roommate Gino has become his ''boyfriend'', and Edmund has become a huge nerd.). Various inversions of items are present as well. (Gaia-Tan has become Gaia-Sama, Grunny has become Prunny, etc...)

== Webcomics[[Web Comics]] ==

* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20090429014005/http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000035.html this strip] of ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'', where every comic is the same six images every time, an early story arc involves a mirror universe that is the same six panels... mirrored. Also, every character has goatees.

* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]''{{'}}s "Cliffhangers" theme had [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/235.html a visit] by an alternate Kolonel Haken from a mirror universe where the Nazis were good and Monty were evil. Eventually he was killed in single combat by the main-universe Haken, so the only good Nazi was a dead Nazi.

* ''[[In WilysWily's Defense]]'' takes place in a universe where Dr. Wily would like a less exciting lifestyle, Cut Man's the hero, Dr. Light is an egotistical megalomaniac, and X is [[Ax Crazy]].

* [http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20080801.html McAwesome] is apparently a mirror ''shop'' of ''[[Shortpacked (Webcomic)|Shortpacked]]''.

* ''[[Bob and George]]'': In the first AU Bob lands in [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/010204c an intelligence flipped world].

** While Megaman and Bass swapped intelligence with Protoman (They're geniuses and Protoman's the dumbass), Bob and George swapped temperaments: George became a blind psychopathic murderer, Bob became a flaming homosexual. The regular Bob was...a bit freaked out.

* The Dimension of Hackneyed Stereotyped Opposites in ''[[Casey and Andy (Webcomic)|Casey and Andy]]''. Since Casey and Andy are [[Chaotic Neutral]] at best, conventional moral flips don't apply to them (instead Andi is a girl who dates God instead of Satan), but Quantum Cop's counterpart is Quantum Crook.

* ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', obviously. There's the Main Universe's Tedd (the one the story follows), Beta Tedd, Lord Tedd (also known as Alpha Tedd and the evil one pictured in the mirror in the trope image <ref>the image is not from EGS itself but from a [[The Wotch|Wotch]] [http://specials.thewotch.com/?date=2007-05-06 special].</ref>), the Tedd from Ellen's "Second life" dreams and those are just the canon ones. There's probably more we haven't been introduced to.

* In ''[[Universal Compass (Webcomic)|Universal Compass]]'' there are 10 Alternate/parallel worlds that each reflect a certain emotion.

{{quote| '''Batman:''' [[You're Insane!]]. <br />

* An episode of ''[[Arthur (Animationanimation)|Arthur]]'' [[Playing Withwith a Trope|plays]] with this trope when Arthur's third grade class from Lakewood Elementary, taught by Mr. Ratburn, goes to a Renaissance Faire and meets the third grade class from Glenbrook Academy, taught by Mr. Pryce-Jones, Mr. Ratburn's favorite teacher from his school days. Mr. Pryce-Jones is basically is a really snooty, much meaner version of Mr. Ratburn, who is just a [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|goofy, nerdy, but well-meaning guy who has an affinity for giving a lot of homework to challenge his students' minds]]; Mr. Pryce-Jones seems intent on producing a bunch of snobby learning-machines, and his students behave as such, with an evil [[Big Eater]] opposed to Buster, an evil [[Smart Guy]] for the Brain (his counterpart is called "I. Q."), an evil [[Rich Bitch]] for Muffy, and an evil [[Unlucky Everydude]] for Arthur (named "Chester"). Arthur and Buster even [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshade]] the trope's use:

{{quote| '''Arthur:''' They look familiar. Did we play soccer against those guys?<br />

{{quote| '''Milhouse2:''' But Milhouse is my name!<br />

* The ''[[Swat Kats (Animation)|Swat Kats]]'' episode "The Dark Side of the SWAT Kats" featured the titular team being warped to a dimension where their equivalents are evil (as is that of their ally, Deputy Mayor Callie Briggs). The universe wasn't entirely swapped however - some major characters retained their 'correct' moral alignments. (There were other more subtle changes as well, such as the Enforcers using fixed-wing aircraft rather than helicopters.)

* ''The World's Greatest [[Super FriendsSuperfriends]]'' had such an episode, "Universe of Evil". Each of the Superfriends received an [[Evil Makeover]] (Aquaman with an eyepatch! Robin with a [[Good Hair, Evil Hair|pencil mustache!]] Wonder Woman letting herself go!) See them [[http://superfriends.wikia.com/wiki/Robin_<!-- 28Evil29%28Evil%29 here]]. -->

* ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (Animation)|Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'' had as a minor villain the [[Sarcasm Mode|imaginatively dubbed]] and yes, goateed, Evil Buzz Lightyear who came from a parallel universe that he had conquered. He's ''exactly'' as evil as Buzz is good. Also, there are parallel versions of the other main characters, except none of them are evil.

* ''[[Codename Kids Next Door (Animation)|Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' had one in which even the acronyms were reversed - the counterparts to the Delightful Children From Down The Lane were the Little Traitorous Dudes From Children's Defence, who opposed the iron grip of the Destructively Nefarious Kids, who were led by Numbuh -4, who had attained a goatee to make himself look even eviller. Fortunately, since the regular Numbuh 4 is brave to the point of recklessness and a strong physical fighter, Numbuh -4 was a coward and weakling. Also, Numbuh -86 was a sweet girly-girl.

* ''[[Hey Arnold (Animation)|Hey Arnold!]]'' had an episode where Arnold goes into the country to visit his weird cousin Arnie. All of the people he meets are counterparts of his friends, but they all appear in pairs, with each one displaying the attributes of the other's counterpart: Harold and Rhonda appear as Harry and Rhoda, with Harry being slim and fashion-conscious and Rhoda being a fat slob. Stinky and Phoebe are seen as Stumpy and Fifi, with Stumpy being intelligent and Fifi being simple-minded and Gerald and Sid appear as Gerard and Kid, with Gerard being the whiny one and Kid being cool. In the end, {{spoiler|it turns out that it was [[All Just a Dream]].}}

* ''[[Sonic Underground (Animation)|Sonic Underground]]'' had the hedgehogs enter one where they were the tyrants and Robotnik was a Freedom Fighter. It ended with them [[Heel Face Turn|redeeming]] their evil counterparts. Strangely, there was no mirror version of Queen Aleena.

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