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A regular [[Legion of Doom]] has members which oppose the heroes and are often their archrivals, but their powers are scattered all over the place, and they're not necessarily [[Evil Counterpart
'''The Psycho Rangers''' ''are'' the collective [[Evil Twin]] of the [[Five-Man Band]]. Each one's nature/powers mirror a specific hero and they work together as a group. The same way [[The Hero]] can get his [[True Companions]] together to fight the [[Monster of the Week]], sometimes [[Big Bad|The Big Bad]], [[The Rival]], [[Evil Twin]], [[Monster of the Week]] or [[Evil Counterpart]] can get himself a team made up entirely of Evil Counterparts to the main cast. As a result, if the team includes such specific characters as the [[Big Bad]] and [[The Dragon]], they may also be a [[Five-Bad Band]].
If they know all the moves of their heroic counterparts, the Psycho Rangers may be too strong for their duplicates one-on-one. The heroes can sometimes turn the tables by [[Opponent Switch|switching opponents and fighting each others' evil doubles]]. Without knowledge of the heroes' fighting techniques, the Psycho Rangers become much easier to defeat. (Unless they promptly switch ''back'' again.)
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The most extreme, but not the most common, type of Psycho Rangers are literally evil clones or [[Mirror Universe]] counterparts of the heroes.
A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Five-Bad Band]] and [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]. May to various extents also be a [[Similar Squad]]. Can be part of a [[Geodesic Cast]]. Usually turns out to be an [[Evil Knockoff]] team. May lead to [[Counterpart Combat Coordination]].
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== Trope Namer ==
* The trope namer are the Psycho Rangers from ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]'', a group of evil rangers that fought against the Space Rangers during the course of the series. Their counterparts in ''[[Denji Sentai Megaranger]]'' were the Jaden Sentai Nejiranger.
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** Most recently we have {{spoiler|Shiryu of the Rain}}, who makes a good counterpart for Zoro. He is also a swordsman and, much like Zoro in his role as [[Number Two]], is the one who calls out Blackbeard after his recklessness nearly gets the rest of the crew killed. Blackbeard and {{spoiler|Shiryu}} even met in a similar fashion, as the latter was on death row until Blackbeard came along.
** In this case, it's still a little early to tell who's a counterpart of who. {{spoiler|Especially now that the Blackbeard Pirates have doubled in size. One could easily argue that San Juan Wolf, the "Colossal Battleship", is the counterpart to ''the Thousand Sunny''.}}
** Any antagonist with a [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] has shades of this, such as the Arlong Pirates or the [[CP 9]]. In the former example, we have [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]] Kuroobi vs [[Dance Battler]] Sanji, 6-swords user Hatchan against 3-swords Zoro, and Chew against Usopp, with [[Big Brother Figure|Luffy]] and [[A Father to His Men|Arlong]] going at it in the end. For the latter, there's unashamed [[Large Ham]] Franky vs [[I Wont Tell You What Im Telling You|gossip-loving Fukuro the silent]], figurative wolf Sanji vs literal wolf Jyabura, [[Cute Bruiser|Chopper]] vs [[Gonk|Kumadori]], the [[Fan Service]]-laden battle between Nami and Kalifa, [[Lovable Coward]] Usopp sniping [[Dirty Coward]] Spandam, [[Rated "M" for Manly|Zoro]] vs [[The Comically Serious|Kaku]], and finally [[Hot-Blooded|Luffy]] vs [[The Stoic|Lucci]].
* ''[[Naruto]]'' sets up a fairly traditional Psycho Ranger arrangement for the genin squad trying to rescue Sasuke:
** [[Gentle Giant]] Chouji against [[The Brute]] Jiroubou. "Who are * you* calling fat?!" ensues.
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** Taijutsu specialists face off when [[Incurable Cough of Death|sick and dying]] yet still unbeatable Kimimaro meets still-recovering miniature [[Bruce Lee Clone]] Rock Lee.
** Then the series proceeds to set Sasuke himself up as Naruto's very own Psycho Ranger. Right up to the point where Naruto and his charming spiritual freeloader start to psycho back...
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' had a set of these guys in most seasons (in order of appearance: Shittenou, Ayakashi Sisters, Witches 5, Amazones Quartet and Amazon Trio). Each of these groups was made up of [[
** Classic Sailor Moon: The Shittenou. Jaedite - Mars, Nephrite - Jupiter, Zoicite - Mercury, Kunzite - Venus.
** Sailor Moon R / Black Moon: The Ayakashi Sisters. Kooan - Mars, Berthier - Mercury, Petz - Jupiter, Calaveras - Venus.
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* Weiss of ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' run into no less than ''three'' teams of Psycho Rangers, with increasingly closer resemblances to the series' four protagonists: Schreient, who qualified as Psycho Rangers mostly just by being a team of four assassins opposing the protagonists; Schwartz, who draw a more direct comparison ("Weiss" and "Schwartz" are German for "white" and "black"); and La Mort, the four villains of ''Dramatic Precious'', all-out Psycho Rangers who started out as a previous incarnation of Weiss themselves only to be driven [[Ax Crazy]] by the job.
* ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'''s Dark Legendary Warriors. Notably, there's not as many straight match-ups as you think; [[Holy Hand Grenade|Lobomon]] has a rivalry with [[Dark Is Edgy|Duskmon]], as does [[Designated Girl Fight|Kazemon with Ranamon]], but the other three per team aren't as clear-cut - the good guys tended to encounter just one of their dark counterparts at once, and they'd all team up against him.
** ''[[Digimon Savers]]''' Bio-Hybrids. Kouki to Marcus (both are [[Hot-Blooded]] fighters, but Kouki takes it all the way to sadistic [[Blood Knight]]), Nanami to Thomas (both [[Teen Genius
* In a recent chapter of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', while observing [[Floating Continent]] Ostia, [[Arch Enemy]] [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|Fate]] has revealed that he has his own [[Transformation Trinket|Pactio cards]] and a squad of partners to match the Ala Alba. It was also revealed that Nagi Springfield's team the Ala Rubra when ''they'' fought Fate had a similar set of opponents each to match their abilities: a [[Supernatural Martial Arts|martial artist]], a [[The Big Guy|Big Guy]], a [[Glass Cannon|wide-spread destroyer]], a [[Barrier Warrior|barrier fighter]] and Fate himself to match the [[Kung Fu Wizard|combat]] [[Magic Knight|mage]] hero Nagi.
* Mewtwo's Pokemon clones from the [[Pokémon: The First Movie|first movie]]. The Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise and Pikachu clones sport markings to distinguish them from the originals but the rest all look the same. It's subverted when {{spoiler|Ash gets killed in the crossfire and their tears revive him}}. In fact the movie might count as a deconstruction of this trope.
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** The clones in the filler Invasion arc. They are stronger and more violent than the originals. And the filler [[Big Bad]] has cloned most of the captains. [[Cool Versus Awesome|Fun times]].
* The tail end of the last episode of the first season of ''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' showed a team of evil counterparts to the Angels, one of whom was a spy that the real Angels just helped release. Unfortunately, [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|this is all we ever see of them.]]
* In ''[[Berserk]]'', the "reborn" (for lack of a better term) Griffith creates a new Band of the Hawk (comprised mostly of [[Legions of Hell|Apostles]] like himself) that has counterparts to the
** Grunbeld is a massive warrior who wears similar armor and has an [[Arm Cannon]] like Guts
** Irvine and Locus are [[Bishounen]] [[Noble Demon]] characters who are obvious counterparts to two nobles (literally and figuratively) on Guts' side, Serpico and Roderick
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* The ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5]]'' movie features a Dark Cure team. In what is perhaps a bit of [[Genre Savviness]], the first thing they do when they face the Pretty Cure team is to warp their counterparts off to different locations so they can't use the "switching opponents" trick.
* The Garuru Platoon from ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]''. Giroro's counterpart is [[Aloof Big Brother|Garuru]], Dororo's counterpart is [[Unknown Rival|Zoruru]], Kururu's counterpart is Tororo, Tamama's counterpart is Taruru, and Keroro's counterpart is {{spoiler|a child-aged clone of himself from before he met Fuyuki and Natsumi.}}
* [[Deconstructed]], like so many other tropes, in ''[[Angel Densetsu]]'', the various evil (and often [[Distaff Counterpart|spear]]) counterparts to the [[Five-Bad Band]] (no, that's not a typo) are not a cohesive unit, but come in bit and pieces, you have to think on it a bit to see all the similarities. Oh, and of course [[Zig-Zagging Trope|zig zagged]] too, the ''heroes'' are a Five '''Bad''' Band, so their enemies are... [[
* ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' had traces of this in both Shinryuuji amd Ojou. Hiruma, Unsui, amd Takami are all physically average quarterbacks who compensate with their dedication and intelligence, Kurita, Yamabushi, and Ootawara are all incredibly large noseguards who cry at the end of their games, Monta, Ikkyu, and Sakuraba are all recievers determined to be the best who have one area of specialty, and Sena, Agon, and Shin are the "aces" of their team.
* ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'' has the two [[Lawful Evil|rule-obsessed]] demon sisters Scanty and Kneesocks, whom are also the [[Big Bad]]'s daughters. Respectively they battle their counterparts with [[Revolvers Are Just Better|revolvers]] and [[Sinister Scythe|scythes]].
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** Proteus = Metamorpho
** Vulcanus = Black Lightning
* The [[Incredible Hulk]]'s [[Evil Twin]], the [[Red Hulk]], joined forces with the [[Evil Counterpart
** Now there's also a Red She-Hulk in the mix.
* [[Norman Osborn]], the [[Villain with Good Publicity]] formerly known as the Green Goblin, led ''two'' groups of Psycho Rangers, as part of ''Dark Reign'':
** The [[Dark Avengers]] are an interesting example; a supposed hero team who are actually ''posing'' as their counterparts. In addition to Ares and Sentry as themselves (going along with it because one's morally ambiguous and the other's just plain nuts), the line up includes Venom as [[Spider-Man]], Moonstone as Ms Marvel, Noh-Varr as Captain Mar-Vell, Bullseye as Hawkeye and Daken as Wolverine. Norman leads the team as the [[Iron Man]]-[[Captain America (comics)]] mashup Iron Patriot.
*** Osborn later revived the Dark Avengers concept with a new team featuring Skaar, Son of Hulk (The Hulk/Red Hulk); Hawkeye's brother Trickshot ([[Hawkeye]], duh); The Gorgon, Wolverine's deadliest enemy ([[Wolverine]]); Ragnarok, the infamous clone of Thor ([[The Mighty Thor]]); Ai Apaec, a sinister Spider-man ([[Spider-Man]]); June Covington, a deranged geneticist Osborn met in prison ([[Scarlet Witch]]); and Dr. Monica Rappaccini, AIM's Scientist Supreme ([[Ms. Marvel]]). At the end of the issue introducing them Osborn asks if anyone knows where he can get a decent suit of armor, hinting that he'll once again act as "Iron Man".
** The Cabal are Psycho Rangers to [[Iron Man]]'s Illuminati: Norman himself takes Tony's place, and the rest are [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Emma Frost (Professor X)]]; [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Doctor Doom (Mr Fantastic)]]; Loki (Black Bolt of [[The Inhumans]]); [[The Hood]] ([[Doctor Strange]]); and the Sub-Mariner (er, [[Heel Face Revolving Door|the Sub-Mariner]]).
*** Then come Utopia, Emma and Namor reveal their intentions and leave the Cabal, so Osborn has to pick up someone to fill the spot. Apparently the Taskmaster was the next best option.
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** Patriot, the [[The Hero|determined leader]] is met by the doubt-filled, insecure Melter.
** The gay magician Wiccan's counterpart is the female sorceress Enchantress.
** The [[Action Girl]] Hawkeye II meets the Executioner II, a [[Psycho for Hire]]; both are [[Badass Normal
** Stature faces Big Zero, a [[Badass Bookworm]] [[Legacy Character]] against a [[Dark Action Girl]] and racist. Both are size-changers.
** Vision and Egghead are both robots.
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** For unknown reasons, Hulkling doesn't have a counterpart in the other team. The Dark Young Avengers are somewhat unusual, because the Dark Young Avengers were not gathered together to fight the original Young Avengers, but just want to be heroes. However, they will probably end up under Osborn's control. What's more, some relationships between the members of the Dark Young Avengers mirror those in the Young Avengers. just like Stature and Vision love each other, Big Zero has a crush on Egghead.
** The title of the story arc; "Young Masters", combined with their names, offers a pretty big clue as to where it's going.
* ''[[X-Men]]'' examples:
** In one of the ''
** In the ''Fall of the Mutants'' arc, when the X-Men went missing, the villain Mojo tried to use cloning technology to create his own version of them. He first tried gender-swapped and [[Furry]] versions of them (Mojo is far more concerned with a minion's entertainment value than battle prowress) but considered the results failed experiments [[Bad Boss| and had them destroyed]]. He then created child versions of them (the second incarnation of the "X-Babies", the first being the actual team that had been de-aged) but again considered them a failure and ordered them disposed of... But they escaped, and would ally themselves with ''[[Excalibur (Comic Book)|Excalibur]]'', making this a Subversion. They would ultimately work for Mojo again, after he agreed to a ''very'' long list of contract negotiation conditions in their favor.
* The original Soviet Super Heroes team primarily featured clear counterparts to [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]] team they often opposed. Perun, the Slavic god of thunder, was the Thor counterpart; Sputnik/Vostok, a calculating android, was the Vision's counterpart; the Red Guardian, uber-patriotic Soviet supersoldier, was the Captain America analogue; Surge, a man in a suit of [[Powered Armor]], was Iron Man; Sabercat was the Beast, Vanguard was Hawkeye, Darkstar was the Scarlet Witch, etc.
* Another case of the Psycho Rangers not actually facing their counterparts (because [[Final Crisis|they're dead]]) is the team of knock-off [[New Gods]] that have bedeviled the [[Justice League of America]]: Dr Impossible, the evil Mr Miracle from an early storyline, is now joined by Hunter (evil Orion); Neon Black (evil Lightray); Chair (evil [and dumb] Metron); and Tender Mercy (evil Big Barda).
* The Liberators from volume 2 of Marvel's ''[[The Ultimates]]'' are an Axis of Evil counterpart to the title team. The Colonel being the Iranian counterpart to Captain America, Abomination the Chinese Hulk, Crimson Dynamo the Chinese Iron Man, Perun the Russian Thor, Hurricane the North Korean Quicksilver, and Swarm the Syrian Wasp.
* In ''[[Rawhide Kid]]: The Sensational Seven'', when the [[Big Bad]] learns that the Rawhide Kid and the Seven are coming for him, he recruits a team composed of villainous counterparts of the Seven.
* The White Lions were the Nazi counterpart to the heroic [[Blackhawk]] Squadron.
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* In the [[Archie Comics]] version of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', there's at least three groups. The first is the Suppression Squad, [[Mirror Universe]] counterparts of the Freedom Fighters. The second is the Destructix, a group of mercenaries lead by Scourge the Hedgehog, Sonic's [[Mirror Universe]] counterpart, and his girlfriend Fiona Fox (which may be a jab at Sonic and Sally being unable to stay together). Recently, Eggman's unleased a series of Metal-series bots comprised of Metal Sonic, Metal Tails, Metal Knuckles and {{spoiler|Mecha Sally}}.
== Fan
* A rather interesting case in ''[[Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy]]''. The Akutare brothers, managers of the Sunday Scent Shop, oppose the girls in episodes 16 and 17... But the girls are five, so neither Ayameko nor Hanae have counterparts.
** Counterpart fan series ''[[Shining Pretty Cure]]'' and ''[[Pretty Cure Full Color]]'' play this more straightly, with the main villains being an equally element-oriented team of [[Evil Counterpart
* In the [[All Things Probable Series|"All Things Probable" series]] of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' fanfics, [http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/Team_Probable Team Probable]{{Dead link}} is a group similar to Team Possible, except that they assist villains for pay rather than stopping them for free. Its members (except the [[Team Pet]]) are the [[Distaff Counterpart|opposite]] [[Spear Counterpart|gender]] from their respective counterparts.
* In ''[[My Little Avengers]]'', [[Big Bad|Loki]] eventually assembles a team of Dark Avengers to combat Thor's Avenger team, selecting ponies whose powers make them [[Evil Counterpart
* {{spoiler|The Axem Rangers X}} in Part 2 of ''[[Clash of the Elements]]''
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* The ''[[City of Heroes]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] novel ''The Freedom Phalanx'' has the Tyranny Legion, Psycho Rangers for the not-yet-formed Phalanx. The armored hero Positron has his old boss, Doctor Null, who's stuck inside his armor; Synapse, who got his powers from one of Null's experiments, has Revenant, his ex-friend who was turned into a zombie through a similar experiment; Sister Psyche, the mutant psychic, has the Shadow Queen, whose psychic powers come from a possessed mask; Manticore, a [[Batman]]-esque vigilante, has Protean, the shapeshifter who killed his parents; and, of course, Statesman has Lord Recluse, whose rivalry the entire game revolves around.
* [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''[[In Name Only|Op-Center]]'' series (which, as the [[Pothole]] implies, was ghostwritten) has the titular crisis command headquarters and its Russian counterpart, ''Mirror Image''. Sometimes they cooperate, sometimes not.
* Sherman Alexie's horror novel ''[[Indian Killer]]'' features two [[Power Trio
* In ''[[Animorphs]]'', [[Sixth Ranger Traitor|David]]'s ultimate plan for the [[Super Empowering|blue box]] was to use it to create a gang of morphing criminals to counter the Animorphs. The Animorphs were able to defeat him before he could put this plan into action.
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** Fred's tourguide is Knox, a morally ambiguous geeky scientist... {{spoiler|he worships an [[Eldritch Abomination]] and will eventually cause her death}}.
** Wesley's guide is Rutherford Sirk, a former Watcher.
** Angel gets Lilah.
* The season six finale of ''[[Charmed]]'' featured an alternate universe where the role of good and evil were switched with the humans/witches as evil and the demons good. The sisters met their evil counterparts as well as counterparts for Chris and Leo. They tried fighting them but of course came to a draw. A subversion then happened where they decided to work together for their respective greater good/evil.
* By the end of the second season of ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', Weaver, John Henry, Ellison and Savannah were the morally ambiguous, if not dark, mirrors of Sarah, John, Derek and Cameron.
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* ''[[Bionicle]]'' had the Shadow Toa, illusory copies of the Toa that could only be defeated when the heroes acknowledged that the darkness was a part of themselves.
** Smilarly, the [[Bee People|Bohrok Kal]] and [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|Piraka Gang]] are seperate groups with elemental powers. The Piraka Gang almost managed to pass themselves of as the real deal (It helps that the townsfolk in question had never seen a Toa before).
** The Makutas of the Karda Nui saga were the closest in toy form. They even came with their own "evil" matoran, who could latch on and connect to them in the same way as the Toas from the set and were the first villains to feature Kanohi Masks. Originally there was to be a genuine Shadow Toa set, but it was cancelled in the prototype stage.
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** Marduk, Sailor Jupiter's counterpart, is named for the leader of the Babylonian gods.
** Ishtar, in addition to being a bad movie, was the Babylonian goddess of love, and a fitting name for Sailor Venus' counterpart.
* Star Wolf in ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star
* The ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' games played with this trope a few times. In ''Sonic Adventure 2'', Team Dark consisted of Shadow, Eggman and Rouge: three villains with the same powers and move sets as [[Power Trio|Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles]] respectively. They'd return with some adjustments as antiheroes in ''Sonic Heroes'': Rouge moved from Knuckles' counterpart to Tails', and Eggman was replaced by new character Omega, who filled the "Anti-Knuckles" slot.
** Similarly the Babylon Rogues in ''[[Sonic Riders]]''.
** They had a set of Psycho Rangers as early as the Saturn era. In ''[[Sonic R]]'', there were Metal Sonic, Mecha Knuckles and the Tails Doll whom Robotnik created to give Sonic and friends a hard time.
*** The first ones mentioned got even more psycho counterparts: Eggman Nega, Mephiles, and Shade, although they never met.
* The Handsome Men in ''[[
** Who in turn are the Psycho Rangers (if you consider the main characters to be [[Villain Protagonist|protagonists]] to the [[
* Vize, Faina and Anita in ''[[Skies of Arcadia]] Legends''.
* The Hell Hounds in ''[[Galaxy Angel (video game)|Galaxy Angel]]'', a group of mercenaries that just happened to have a grudge or other fixation with each of the specific Moon Angels. In the second game, they were replaced by actual robot duplicates of the Angels, foreshadowed by the brief presence of a robotic Tact in the first game. The fake Angels were the only villains to carry over to the ''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' anime, although they only appeared for one episode.
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** Sync is actually Guy's counterpart, although this is more by virtue of everyone else being taken than anything else.
*** Storywise, there is a time when Sync and Guy conterpart each other, when Sync puts the curse mark on Guy.
* The Cocytus members in ''[[Wild
** Don't forget the villains of [[Wild
* The Praetorians in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' are the [[Mirror Universe|evil other-universe]] counterparts of the Freedom Corps heroes.
** The first of the new Positron Task Forces introduced in Issue 17: Dark Mirror, feature a team of "[[Evil Knockoff|shadow simulacra]]" of the [[Player Party]]. Issue 17 in general revolves around doubles of the [[Player Character]].
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* ''[[Alter Echo]]'' pits the heroic shaper Nevin and his teammates, the gruff gun-toting Stome and the blade-wielding [[Action Girl]] Arana against the evil shaper Paavo and his bodyguards, the idiotic gun-toting Gherran and the blade-wielding [[Psycho for Hire]] Kess.
* [[Big Bad|Jon Irenicus]] in ''[[Baldur's Gate]] II'' is powerful enough to create a group of identical copies of your party with one spell, although they are relatively easily defeated because they lack many of the originals' more special powers.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'''s savage Builder's League United (BLU) forces are a carbon copy of noble Reliable Excavation Demolition (RED) armies created to snatch corporate and industrial dominance away.
** Or is it the other way around? I can never remember.
* In ''[[Ultraman Fighting Evolution Rebirth]]'', a trio of evil Ultras are introduced. Chaosroid U, a clone of Ultraman, Chaosroid S, a copy of Ultraseven, and Chaosroid T, Taro's counterpart. While they're fought one by one by their counterparts, they attack Nebula M78 as a team and {{spoiler|capture two important artifacts of the Ultras, Chaosroid S stealing the Ultra Key and Chaosroid T steals the Ultra Bell while Chaosroid U comes close to stealing the Plasma Spark.}} In addition to the powerful weapons they steal, S has the ability to split his Eye Slugger into a huge number of weapons and Chaosroid U is more powerful than Ultraman, {{spoiler|until the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Plasma Spark reenergizes him and let's him blow U away with the Giga Specium Beam]]. }}
* In ''[[Battle Realms]]'' the Serpent clan is the yin counterpart of the yang Dragon clan.
* ''[[Hexen]]'' has Zedek, Traductus, and Menelkir, a trio of [[The Dragon|Dragons]] who are clones of the three player character classes. Each uses the most powerful weapon of his class.
* The ''[[
* The Dark Aeons from ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' are evil versions of all the Aeons that can be obtained in the game and boast higher HP, super powerful attacks and evil colour schemes. Though they are fought separately, the Dark Magus Sisters are fought together thus invoking the trope. Your normal Aeons will take on the appearances of the Dark Aeons at the end when Yu Yevon possesses them. They reappear in the sequel as possessed once again.
* In ''[[Ultima IV]]'', the final fight is against the "evil yous", a team of evil copies of your party.
* The ASIC's Four Felons in ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2]]'' can be considered as the Psycho Rangers to the CPU Candidates. CFW Magic and CFW Judge act opposite Nepgear, the former for being the one who held Nepgear and the CPUs hostage, the latter for being the [[Hopeless Boss Fight|first actual enemy for Nepgear to fight]]. CFW Brave acts opposite Uni, even arguing with her [[Straw Man Has a Point|about happiness gained from]] [[Digital Piracy Is Evil|playing illegally-obtained games]], especially in the case of children doing such a deed. CFW Trick acts opposite Rom and Ram [[Lolicon|due to his unhealthy obsession with children.]]
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* In ''[[Shortpacked]]'', a minor character {{spoiler|who was fired instead of a major character}} forms a team of other minor characters into a league of minor evil.
* The Linear Guild in ''[[Order of the Stick]]'', were [[Invoked Trope|deliberately chosen]] by their leader to be this. This gets to the point that he's unwilling to face the Order of the Stick without a full team of evil counterparts, because he's invested so much time and effort into cultivating that identity of them as a team.
* Sven's Gang in ''[[Cwen's Quest]]'' appear to be this having a counter part to each of Cwen's friends and allies. Overlaps with [[Evil Counterpart]] a bit, although Cwen's [[Revenge Before Reason|isn't exactly a hero]].
* Inverted in in ''
** There are two other examples that follow the trope a bit more closely, as well. First there's the Dark Warriors, with the technically-a-villain-but-actually-really-nice Garland (as opposed to [[Heroic Sociopath]] Black Mage), the haughty dark efl Drizz'l (as opposed to haughty regular elf Thief), incalculably stupid pirate Bikke (as opposed to incaculably stupid Fighter), and LARP fan Vilbert (as opposed to pen & paper rollplaying enthusiast Red Mage).
** Finally, there are the Other Warriors, made up of the shady and unethical Rogue (Thief), the rule-bending Ranger (Red Mage), the normally friendly but incredibly vicious Berserker (Fighter), and Cleric (Black Mage). Cleric doesn't fit quite as well as the others until you notice that he deliberately plays the Gods themselves against each other to increase his own power.
* The [[Gender Bender|T-Girls]] of ''[[Webcomic Jet Dream]]'' face off against another all-girl flying team, Raven Red and her Dynamic Dare-Dolls. Each of the Dare-Dolls fits a national stereotype that isn't "covered" by one of the T-Girls.
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* Almost every subgroup has a counterpart team on the opposite side in ''[[Transformers]]''. The Triggerbots and Triggercons, the Protectobots and the Combaticons, the Aerialbots and the Stunticons, etc.
** The G1 origins of the Aerialbots and Stunticons are an inversion, with the former created by the heroes to counteract the latter.
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*** What's ironic about this is that the Stunticons themselves are a type of Psycho Rangers for the Autobots as a whole. They were created by Megatron because he wanted a unit of car-based warriors to counteract the Autobots, the vast majority of whom had car-based alternate forms.
** Due to a shortage of Autobot combiners, however, the Constructicons and Predacons never had exact opposites. The Dinobots and/or Omega Supreme were the arch-enemies of the former, and Sky Lynx was the enemy of the latter. (Despite being small compared to Predaking, Sky Lynx has defeated them more often than not. Because he's that good. [[Insufferable Genius|And knows it.]])
* The [[Spear Counterpart|Rowdyruff Boys]] in ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''.
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* The Anti J-Team in ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'', comprised of criminal counterparts of Jackie, Jade, Viper, El Toro, and Tohru.
* The Delightful Children From Down The Lane in ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' look eerily similar to [[Five-Man Band|Sector V]]. {{spoiler|The movie reveals that they were once the lost team from Sector Z.}}
* CHYKN in ''[[WITCH (animation)|WITCH]]''. Formerly the team that did the job WITCH does now, Season 2 Big Bad and [[Fallen Hero
** CHYKN was technically stronger than WITCH because they had two [[Amplifier Artifact
* One of the [[Big Bad
* In the Original ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' Series, the Punk Frogs are a notable subversion. While Shredder did (indirectly) mutate them from ordinary frogs, going as far as to teach them how to fight as well as even ''naming them'' based off his heroes such as [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] and Genghis Khan, he had to trick the frogs into believing that the Turtles were the bad guys in order [[Let's You and Him Fight|for the Frogs to fight them.]] When they find out the truth, the Frogs instantly turn against him.
* Played straight and subverted on ''[[Justice League]]''. In the original, there were three versions of the Injustice Gang. However, only the third was made of any form of counterparting to the seven members of the League (and even then, the relations were stretched at best), and the fights for each tended to trade off who fought who every time. In ''Unlimited'', the various Injustice League members merged into the [[Legion of Doom]], which had grown in response to the Justice League's growth. It should be noted that the villain The Shade has the distinction of being on all four Injustice Leagues. (He points this out at the third Injustice League formation, to which the villain recruiting him replies "Third time's the charm".)
** The [[Alternate Universe]] counterparts introduced in ''A Better World'' are near perfect Psycho Rangers. [[Superman]] and [[Batman]] did mention that having counterparts willing to break any "rules" they kept would make them much more difficult to fight. It was somewhat subverted when {{spoiler|Batman's counterpart proved to still have the same sense of morality.}} In ''Unlimited'', {{spoiler|Brainiac/Luthor}} recreated the alternate universe counterparts, and a few needed to trade partners to defeat them. (Flash defeated his counterpart in a most excellent way. His counterpart taunted him [[Hannibal Lecture|by saying no one else trusts him with his childish behavior]] and the Flash responded with [[Shut UP, Hannibal|"Says you! I got a seat at the big conference table...I'm going to paint my logo on it!" And he proceeded to destroy the counterpart.]])
** In the [[Grand Finale]], when the Legion of Doom and the Justice League were about to come to blows, there was an excellent shot of everybody facing off with their [[Evil Counterpart]]: Green Lantern vs. Sinestro, Superman vs. Bizarro, Atomic Skull vs. [[Captain Atom]], Giganta vs. Iron Giant, Volcana vs. Fire...and Batman standing alone, since nobody is cool enough to beat Batman.
*** or because of the Bat embargo, none of his rogue's gallery could appear.
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* Clones of the protagonists from ''[[Gargoyles]]''. Subverted in that only Goliath's clone [[Sdrawkcab Name|Thailog]] was actually evil. But they did have the same fighting their doubles problem.
** In the comic book continuation, {{spoiler|Lexington's clone Brentwood chose to stick with Thailog. He's portrayed, like the rest, as more gullible and naive than actually evil.}}
* One episode of ''[[Class of 3000]]'' features the Westley kids going up against their counterparts from Eastley, all of whom wear red and black [[Putting on the Reich|Reich-style uniforms]]. Coincidentally their teacher looks nothing like Sonny.
* The Shadow Avengers were MacBeth's attempt to create her own version of the ''[[Invisible Network of Kids]]''.
* In seson one of ''[[Alpha Teens On Machines]]'', [[Big Bad|Payne]] and his two henchmen goes through [[Terrible Interviewees Montage]] to find somebody they can hire to fight titular team. After few failures they finds out five [[Psycho for Hire|maniacs]] who happens to have similiar skills and opposite personalities to the members of A.T.O.M.. Seson two has Mu-Team, A.T.O.M.'s evil clones mixed with animals whose natural abbilities could improve their skills. Shark's clone was mixed with an actual shark to make him even better swimmer, Hawk's with hornet and bee so he can use his piloting talent to control himself while flying, King's with rhino to make him stronger, and Axel's and Lioness' with snake and cat respective, to increase their agility.
* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]''; in the episode "Citizen Ghost", Peter Venkman recounts how Slimer first came to stay with the Ghostbusters after the Gozer incident. They received new uniforms to replace their original uniforms, which were heavily contaminated with ectoplasm. The ectoplasm later animated the old uniforms, creating four ghostly doppelgangers of the Ghostbusters, out to take down the originals, until Slimer ended up saving them.
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