History EvilCounterpart / LiveActionTV

* In ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon, The Shitennou are portrayed as the senshi's equals and opposites ([[spoiler:they'd normally serve the same role for Endymion as the Senshi do for Serenity, while the evil part comes from Beryl's influence]]). Their individual characterizations take things further:

** Jenna evil Aria being short brunettes involved in a forbidden relationship (Jenna with her step-brother Toby though it's only one-sided while Aria has a teacher Ezra as main love interest) . The former is vengeful and music-oriented while the latter is kind and art-oriented .

** Soldier Boy is an effective EvilCounterpart and ShadowArchetype to Billy Butcher himself. Both are chain smoking, thuggish crude leaders with a military background (though Soldier Boy is PhonyVeteran) and they were both abused by their fathers during childhood directly instigating a TestosteronePoisoning VirtueIsWeakness mentality in both of them. Butcher and Soldier Boy’s similarities become even more overt when they both have their respective teams turn against them precisely because of their awfulness and the scene of Butcher of making homosexual insinuations to Soldier Boy’s sidekick Gunpowder is directly mirrored by Soldier Boy insinuating the same thing with Hughie in regard to Butcher. The key difference, is that Butcher at least had some positive influence in his life thanks to his late brother Lenny, with Hughie stepping into Lenny’s role later in life and preventing Butcher from having a MoralEventHorizon. Soldier Boy on the other hand had no MoralityPet and by the time he’s discovered he has a son and grandson — it’s too late and he’s too twisted of a person to mend his ways; while Butcher is willingly to change and soften as seen by his love for Ryan, despite the circumstances of his birth. Not to mention they both essentially “cheated” their way into getting superpowers, but whilst Butcher had justified reasons to use Compound V (killing Homelander), Soldier Boy did it purely for his own benefit.

*** Jason also serves as an EvilCounterpart and {{Foil}} to Eddie himself. They’re both dramatic impassioned leaders of their respective teams (the Hawkins High basket ball team and the Hellfire club respectively) both put a harsh amount of pressure on the newcomers to their groups, (Lucas for Jason, Mike and Dustin for Eddie) and both Jason and Eddie care deeply for the same girl Chrissy, to the extent of dedicating their actions to her [[spoiler:after she dies]]. However while Eddie despite being [[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown despised by the people of Hawkins]] displays HiddenDepths and [[WhatYouAreInTheDark proves]] to be a real hero, Jason whom in contrast is [[AHeroToHisHometown beloved by the town]], has a SanitySlippage and [[JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope becomes]] a villain. [[spoiler: Even their deaths are similar, though whilst Eddie dies in a HeroicSacrifice, Jason gets unceremoniously killed after attempting murder.]]

** Ben Sisko's archrival on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Gul Dukat. Dukat once ran Deep Space Nine as a shogun-style warlord, but was deposed by the people he tried to subjugate. On his arrival, Sisko is hailed as the messiah to that planet's inhabitants. D'oh. Later, Dukat is made the Emissary to the Pah-Wraiths, evil aliens standing in opposition to Sisko's benefactors, the Prophets.

* ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'':
** Loki has several counterparts more or less reprehensible than himself. President Loki and Boastful Loki representing what he would be like without his CharacterDevelopment i.e a SmugSnake with ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, while Classic Loki and to a lesser extent Kid Loki show his potential for goodness and heroism [[spoiler: with Classic Loki performing a HeroicSacrifice. Sylvie, Loki's DistaffCounterpart zigzags this at first she's set up as the "badder" counterpart him, until it's revealed the TVA is corrupt and Sylvie is ChaoticGood in wanting to bring them down. Then at the end when faced with the person who has ruined their her their to maintain a StableTimeLoop, she becomes a real bad counterpart as Sylvie unlike Loki refuses to listen to reason (having spent her life without any guidance or compassion from others) betrays Loki and kills He Who Remains/Immortus seemingly dooming the entire multiverse.]]
** Renslayer ultimately becomes the evil counterpart to Mobius. Both are bureaucratic agents of the TVA who maintain the rules to a fault and are close colleagues. Then Mobius learns the truth [[spoiler: that they are all variants whom have been stolen from their timelines]] and defects while Renslayer (who knows the truth) continues to uphold the laws of the TVA and prune anyone who rebels.
** Played with in regards [[spoiler: to the He Who Remains aka Immortus. While a insane {{jerkass}} who put trillions of lives in slavery to maintain the sacred timeline and destroy anything that threatens it, turns out he's actually the '''GoodCounterpart''' to his Evil Counterpart ComicBook/KangTheConqueror and many others whom he has been keeping in check. After Sylvie kills him, his counterparts start popping up all over the place.]]

* ''Series/{{WandaVision}}'':
** [[spoiler: After TheReveal in Episode 7, Agatha Harkness serves as the EvilCounterpart to Wanda. Both are powerful sorceresses who have been victimised and made poor choices in the pursuit of empowerment which led to both of them to descend into villainy. Except Wanda found a MoralityChain in the Avengers namely Vision who brought the goodness out of her while Agatha beneath her bubbly persona is cruel and WouldHurtAChildLevel-psychotic with no regard for others besides herself ([[PetTheDog and her demonic bunny rabbit]]). The way they use magic is polar opposite too, Agatha uses TheDarkArts to manipulate, bind, hurt and outright drain the life out of people. Wanda conversely uses her one of a kind [[RealityWarper Chaos Magic]] to resurrect her husband, [[MysticalPregnancy give herself children]] and turn a depressing small town into a cheerful one to the astonished [[EvilCannotComperhendGood disgust]] of Agatha. How they respond to fair persecution is opposite as well, Agatha kills her coven when they try and bring her to justice whereas Wanda when faced with the consequences of what she did to the people of Westview, while she reacts violently at first ultimately lets them go and apologises ]].
** [[spoiler: TheStinger of Episode 8 reveals [[LightIsNotGood White Vision]] who is the parts of the original Vision ReforgedIntoAMinion by GeneralRipper Hayward. Unlike the Vision we know, White Vision is cold and inhuman and in Episode 9 almost kills Wanda before being stopped by his GoodCounterpart (who comes from the part of the Mind Stone that lives in Wanda and her good memories of Vision). Subverted though as White Vision deep down is [[BenevolentAI not]] a heartless and violent machine like [[AIIsACrapShoot Ultron]] and through a BattleOfWits and by unlocking his counterparts’s memories Vision is able to restore humanity to his “real” and physical self. Wanda’s Vision also [[NotSODifferentRemark points out]] to White Vision that they’re not all that different, being echoes of one dead synthezoid brought back to life]].