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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|Evil Counterparts]] even if they have the same number of members.
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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.
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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
* ''[[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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* 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
* 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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