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* The ur-examples are the identical fighters from ''[[Karate Champ]]''. Completely identical fighting styles, and they even wore a white and red gi.

* The trope codifiers and trope namers, [[Trope Namer|obviously]], are Ryu and Ken from Capcom's ''[[Street Fighter]]'' franchise, having appeared in every game in the series to date. At first, they started off as clones of one another, having the exact same movesets and being merely head-swaps of one another (because the original ''[[Street Fighter (video game)|Street Fighter]]'' had no scope for [[Mirror Match|mirror matches]], so they needed two identical characters for two-player competition play). During the ''Street Fighter II'' games, their stats, moves, and strategies began to differentiate, albeit little by little each new iteration, but by the time the ''Street Fighter Alpha'' series started they had distinct backstories and extremely similar, but not identical, abilities. Naturally, the series also includes the Sakura, Akuma, and Dan-types as well (Unsurprisingly, the characters with those names).

* ''Battle K-Road'',an arcade-only fighting game released by Psikyo in 1994, features an entire character roster consisting of head/palette swaps. There are two karatekas, two boxers, two Thai kickboxers, two Jujitsu girls, two sumo wrestlers, two commandos and even two Terminator-like cyborgs. The only character without a head-swap is naturally the final boss himself.

 

* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'':

** Riku and Sora from ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', until Riku gets lured to the side of darkness and becomes a [[Rival Turned Evil]].

* Out of the four playable characters in ''[[Panzer Bandit]]'', [[Kid Hero|Kou]] and [[Action Girl|Kasumi]] have a similar set of skills and attacks, though Kasumi is slighty faster and combo-oriented. There's also [[The Rival|Jin]], who fights [[Mirror Boss|identical to Kou]].

 

== [[Anime]] ==

* ''[[Gundam]]'' also is this Trope like Loran and Gym having the Moonlight Butterfly Amuro and Char having the Psyco Frame and Funnels {{spoiler|Hearo and Zech having the Zero System and Transforming Mechs}} Along with Domon and Master Asia having the Same Fighting Skills

** Both [[Grendizer]] and [[Mazinkaiser]] serves as the Akuma, both combines the aspect of two machines and put them on one mecha. Grendizer is more simmilar to Great, while Mazinkaiser is more simmilar to Z.

** Ironically, in [[Super Robot Wars]], Z become more of a mellee based unit while Great become a better sniper unit thanks to his multitude of long range weapons, while Grendizer become [[Jack of All Trades]] and Mazinkaiser become [[Lightning Bruiser]] of the group.

** While many characters see Ranma as their rival, Ryoga is the only one Ranma considers such, they also share an attack (which is their strongest), Ryoga is the strongest character in the series besides Ranma, Happosai and the ocasional Big Bad, they learned their respective second strongest attack from the same teacher (Shampoo's grandmother), Ryoga has beaten Ranma more times than any other character (including Haposai who's supossedly the strongest charater in the series) and he's the only one Ranma trusts enough to willingly fight alongside with.

* ''[[Zatch Bell]]'' features this for two of the strongest characters in the series; the eponymous [[Shock and Awe]]-based character and his [[Evil Twin]] ({{spoiler|prior to his manga-only [[Heel Face Turn]]}}), and [[Gravity Master]] Brago and Zofis, his first main foe. The latter's spells are based on explosions.

 

== [[Comics]] ==

* [[Booker T]] and [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]]. Somewhat justified due to them being the [[Alternate Company Equivalent]] of each other.

 

* Lions and Tigers. Both are big cats of a similar size that kill prey with a bite to the back of the neck. In fiction where the hero is confronted by a big cat, lions and tigers are interchangeable. In Asia, Tigers are also associated with the same [[Animal Stereotypes|characteristics that Lions represent]] (Pride, leadership, honour etc).

** Don't forget Jaguars and Leopards.

* Annie Oakley and Lillian Smith. Equally skilled, worked for the same rodeo show for a number of years, and were frequently rivals, until Smith embarrassed herself in front of the Queen of England during an international show and largely retired from active performing soon afterwards.

* ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' superchampions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings are the two highest scoring human contestants in the show's history, each having won over $3 million, while no other human contestant has ever won even $1 million (or anywhere close). Their encyclopedic knowledge and lightning fast reflexes meant they were only ever a challenge for each other and a supercomputer (Brad only ever lost to the IBM supercomputer Watson, and Ken's loss in regular play occurred because he made a mistake in his 75th match. The beneficiary of said mistake proceeded to lose the next match as a one-time champion.)

* There are many modern rifle designs, but the two kings every other rifle will be judged by are the AR15 family and AK family.

* In firearms cartridges most categories are dominated by two types of cartridges which have ''very'' intensely debated comparisons. These are often self reinforcing as their popularity makes their per bullet costs cheap, which makes them popular because their per bullet cost is cheap.

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