History Main / AlwaysIdenticalTwins

* Averted by Rachel and Becky Black in ''{{Fanfic/Luminosity}}'', who are fraternal twins and look no more alike than any other pair of sisters. In their [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent wolf forms]], Rachel has cream-colored fur while Becky has black fur.

* Averted in ''Literature/FirstLight'' when Thea was told that the three girls on her locket were Lana, her mother, and [[spoiler:her mother's twin who left the community with her twin.]] This was important because there could [[PopulationControl only be two girls born to any mother]].

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Fred and George Weasley and the Patil sisters. In [[Film/HarryPotter the films]], this trope was both confirmed by the Weasley brothers (played by real life identical twins James and Oliver Phelps) while averted in the fraternal twin Patil sisters, who were played by unrelated (though similar looking) actresses.

* ''Series/AnotherWorld'': Marley and Vicky Hudson.
** Eventually, this was averted in a strange way. After several recasts, the original Marley actress returned, but Vicky was not recast. The explanation was Marley had an accident that resulted in MagicPlasticSurgery that somehow also left he several inches taller than she'd been before the accident.

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!!Examples of Fraternal Twins ({{aver|tedTrope}}sions):

[[AC: NOTE: This section is reserved for twins who do not look alike at all; brother-sister twins who still look alike go to HalfIdenticalTwins.]]

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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Yuzu and Karin Kurosaki are twin sisters but are the complete opposite of each other. Yuzu is a pale-haired homemaker who gets excellent grades in school. Karin is a tough, dark-haired tomboy who leads her male peers in football. Yuzu resembles their mother Masaki while Karin resembles their father Isshin.
* Rin and Yukio Okamura from ''Manga/BlueExorcist'' are fraternal twins who are opposites in pretty much everything, up to and including Rin being (half-)demon and Yukio being human. They look somewhat alike, but aside from Yukio wearing glasses, he's also [[BigLittleBrother a little taller and stockier]] than Rin.
* Momiji and Kaede Fujimiya of ''Manga/BlueSeed'' are not only fraternal, they don't even resemble each other all that much. But their twinship is very important, because by being twins they split the power of the Kushinada.
* Yukino and Kanade from ''Anime/CandyBoy'' are twin sisters but they aren't identical. Their hair colors are different and the way they style their hair differs.
* In ''Literature/{{Corsair}}'', fraternal twins Aura and Leti are clearly related yet distinct, with Leti taking much more after their father's side and Aura taking more after their mother's side.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Androids 17 and 18 are twins and do have some physical similarities (especially in the way their faces are drawn), but they have different hair colors and wear very different outfits.
** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': It is revealed that there are twelve universes, but they are six pairs of twins. If the sum of their numbers is 13 (1+12, 4+9, 6+7, etc), those pairs are determined as twins. However, it is shown that Universe 7 and Universe 6 aren't identical. While both have a planet Earth, the Earth from Universe 7, which is the home planet of Goku and the others, is still full of life, while the Earth from Universe 6 is devoid of life due to the Earthlings blasting the entire thing in a devastating war.
*** Beerus and Champa, who are the Gods of Destruction of their respective universes, are both humanoid, purple cats. But Beerus is skinny, while Champa is fat.
* [[SingleMindedTwins Mairu and Kururi]] [[spoiler:Orihara]] from ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'', though they are sufficiently similar to possibly be just identical twins who decided [[PolarOppositeTwins to look different]].
* ''Manga/FoodWars'':
** Averted in the case of Natsume and Orie Sendawara; Natsume is far more outspoken and aggressive than Orie, and tends to dress in quite provocative outfits, whereas Orie is calmer, meeker and tends to go for a cuter style. However, both of them are gourmets with extremely sensitive palates and have no hesitation whatsoever when it comes to shooting down unworthy efforts.
** Defied in the case of the Aldini brothers, with several characters expressing shock at the fact that the two are even related, much less twins. Takumi is short, slender, blonde, artistic, sensitive and highly strung. Isami is tall, stocky (most of the time), brown-haired, calm, down-to-earth and practical. The only physical trait they seem to share is that both are blue-eyed, which is only noticeable when Isami is in "slim" mode.
* ''Go! Go! Itsutsugo Land!'' averts the trope with a set of Quintuplets, all of which are radically different in appearance and personality.
* ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Gundam SEED]]'''s [[spoiler:Kira and Cagalli, being largely based on [[Franchise/StarWars Luke and Leia]]]]. In addition to being non-identical, one is a genetically engineered superman and the other is completely unaltered.
* In ''Anime/HighSchoolStarMusical'' [[spoiler:Otori and Hiiragi]] are revealed to be not just brothers, but fraternal twins, separated by [[spoiler:their grandfather, who needed an heir]].
* Kirio and Kirika from ''Manga/KamichamaKarin''.
* Kagami and Tsukasa Hiiragi from ''Manga/LuckyStar'' are fraternal twins who are drawn to have very different eye shapes (Tsukasa has TaremeEyes and Kagami has TsurimeEyes) and they also have different hairstyles. The fact that they're fraternal twins is even pointed out by Kagami. However, they have the same hair and eye color and look more similar to each other than to any of their other family members.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' has Combat {{Cyborg}}s Otto and Deed, who are constantly referred to as the twins due to having been [[ArtificialHumans created from the same genes]] and born at the same time. [[EmotionlessGirl While they act alike and are always together]], they don't look alike, even having different height sizes, eye colors and shades of brown hair.
* ''Manga/MagicalGirlSite'': It turns out Aya and Yastumura are these, with one having black hair and the other with blonde hair. This came as a complete shock to the main character, who just had her First Kiss with said twin sister.
* It is unclear whether [[ThemeTwinNaming L and R]] Nomura of ''Anime/MarginalNumber4'' are identical or fraternal twins. They have different hair colors, but that could be dyed (dandelion orange and lime green). R is 2 cm taller, but that could be due to other things.
* ''Manga/{{Mitsudomoe}}'' has this with the main ''trio''. They're triplets but look very different.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The three sons who are born directly after Perospero are triplets: Katakuri, Daifuku and Oven. Aside from being massively huge and muscular, none of them resemble each other. They rather look like lost relatives of other characters instead. Their dissimilarity is even mirrored in their Devil Fruit abilities (Katakuri is a Logia-type user who can turn into mochi, Daifuku can summon a genie, and Oven has heat powers).
* Suiseiseki and Souseiseki from ''Manga/RozenMaiden'' are designed to be twins and they have the closest relationship among all seven sisters. While they do look similar, Suiseiseki has long hair and wears a green dress while Souseiseki has BoyishShortHair and wears a blue suit. Their heterochromia also mirror each other's eye colors.
* [[spoiler:Bossun and Tsubaki]] from ''Manga/SketDance'' are eventually revealed to be twins who were SeparatedAtBirth. Nobody noticed this before the revelation. Especially since [[spoiler:Tsubaki is characterized by his long eyelashes, which Bossun don't have, and he also wears contacts]], making them look less similar than they should be. However, with proper modifications, they're apparently similar enough to perform a convincing TwinSwitch.
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has Jougon and Balinbow Bakusa, with blue and red eye colors.
* ''Manga/ToLoveRu'':
** Ren and Run are alien twins (initially) SharingABody and look nothing alike. The only similarities are eye color and having multi-colored hair (and not even the same mix of colors).
** [[PolarOppositeTwins Nana and Momo]] look like sisters, but Momo has a much curvier body ([[FanservicePack moreso later on]]). They pull off a TwinSwitch at one point using their sisters FreakyFridayFlip [[AppliedPhlebotinum machine]].
* Princess Fine and Princess Rein of ''Anime/TwinPrincessOfWonderPlanet''.
* Towa and Setsuna from ''Anime/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon'' are twin sisters, but they're very clearly fraternal since they have different hair and eye colors. The only part of their appearances they have in common are a streak of red hair.
* The Kamishiro twins from ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal'', Ryoga/[[InSeriesNickname Shark]] and Rio, are opposite gender twins with distinct designs. Their dissimilarities are a huge contrast to the HalfIdenticalTwins from ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', Lua and Luca.
* Though ''Anime/YuriOnIce'' plays this straight with the Nishigori triplets, it's averted with Michele and Sara Crispino, who are fraternal twins; aside from having the same purple eyes and dark skin tone, they don't look much alike.
* In ''Manga/{{Zipman}}'', Kaname and Koshiro are twins who look and act nothing alike. Kaname is a BookDumb stuntman with whitish hair and a [[FaceOfAThug devilish face]] that earns him titles like "White Demon". Koshiro is a TeenGenius with gentle features and regular dark hair. The contrast is so startling that people can hardly believe they're related. It's even discussed by the judges who turned down Kaname for the role of Jackman.
-->"His last name... Tatara."\\
"You mean like ''that'' Tatara?!"\\
"Could he be his brother?"\\
"No, I doubt it. They don't look alike...
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Ember and Suntop from ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'', who are respectively a girl and a boy and have different hair colors (Ember is a redhead while Suntop is blonde).
* Crystar and Moltar from ''ComicBook/CrystarCrystalWarrior.''
* Northstar and Aurora from ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight.'' They were a lot more alike in their early days, but have since undergone DivergentCharacterEvolution (most notably in a storyline where Aurora specifically makes it so that her powers don't [[WonderTwinPowers need him]] to work).
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Charles Xavier]] and Cassandra Nova, although she apparently is [[EldritchAbomination not exactly human.]]
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsQuicksilver Quicksilver]] and Characters/ScarletWitch: different genders, different hair colors, and different power sets.
** [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Scarlet Witch's twin boys]] eventually manage to straddle the line: they're absolutely identical in features and build, but have inherited the different coloring and power sets from their mother and uncle (Wiccan from Scarlet Witch, Speed from Quicksilver). For extra fun, they're not blood-related, for bizarre reasons of magic and time-traveling reincarnation.
* Pre-Crisis, Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} used to have a twin sister called [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Nubia]]. They were two different races (apparently due to being made of different colors of clay) and Nubia had darker hair.
* The Katayanagi twins of the Evil Exes from ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'', with one having black hair and the other blonde.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ComicStrip/ThePhantom's son and daughter are twins.
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}},'' Carol apparently has a twin who's not identical. The Pointy-Haired Boss used this as an excuse for why Carol didn't need a ''whole'' day off to attend her funeral.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/CodexEquus'':
** Junior Equestrian Princesses Gold Lily and Sterling are born fraternal twin sisters. Gold Lily, the older twin, has a gold pelt, a multi-colored blue, pink, and purple mane and tail, and a blue Cutie Mark depicting a pair of hearts intertwined within two circles. After Ascending to demi-godhood, she gained pink wings that is noted to be part of a hereditary birthmark common in her family line. Meanwhile, Sterling, the younger twin, has a light purple coat, a rainbow-colored mane and tail, and a Cutie Mark depicting a white diamond with light radiating off of it. After Ascending to demi-godhood, she gained dark blue wings that is noted to be part of a hereditary birthmark common in her family line.
** Pinkie Pie's entry reveals that she and her younger sister, Marble Pie, are twins, though it's subverted in that they're fraternal. As shown in canon, Pinkie is a... pink-furred Earth pony mare with a dark pink mane and tail and a balloon Cutie Mark, while Marble Pie is a gray-colored Earth pony with a rock Cutie Mark. Upon becoming a demi-Draconequus goddess, Pinkie gained animal traits like a Golden Retriever's right front paw, a rabbit's left hind leg, an alligator's tail, a bluebird's left wing and a dragonfly's right wing, making her even ''more'' different than Marble.
** Cernunnos and his younger sister, Rhiannon are labeled as fraternal divine twins by their respective entries, and thus have enough traits to differentiate them each other. Rhiannon is a dark blue-furred Deer doe with silver spots all over her body and face, smaller silver antlers, bright turquoise eyes, and a halo made of moonlight. Meanwhile, Cernunnos is a brown-furred divine Deer stag with darker brown accents, dark brown antlers gnarled like tree branches, blazing yellow-orange eyes and body markings, and a halo made of sunlight. Cernunnos gaining tree-like traits like leaves and bark on his antlers and body after receiving the domain of Rebirth [[spoiler:and fusing with his dead older brother, Orion]] only served to widen the difference gap further.
** Trench Bull and her deceased sister, Sweet Dove, are fraternal twins and thus can be easily told apart. Trench Bull's entry notes that she was physically larger than Sweet Dove even as fillies.
* The Foxwell twins from ''Fanfic/CoventinasCrown'' are fraternal. Sowilo is a blonde-haired girl with green eyes while her brother Dagaz is a brown-haired boy with blue eyes.
* In the ''Jem'' one-shot ''Fanfic/GlitterReunion'', Kimber and Sean have a set of fraternal twins. Amber is a redhead while Selene is a raven.
* Link and Mipha's daughters in ''Fanfic/{{Offspring}}'' are fraternal. Mira has hazel eyes and a short head tailfin, while Neolani has blue eyes and a long head tailfin. Neolani is also several inches shorter than Mira. They also [[spoiler:have a brother, making them a set of triplets]].
* Of the eight [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Demon Sorcerer]] siblings from ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', the [[PlayingWithFire Fire]] Demon [[DragonsAreDemonic Shendu]] and the [[MakingASplash Water]] Demon [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} Bai Tza]] are portrayed as twins in ''Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil'', for their respective elements are opposites and equals to each other.
* ''Fanfic/WhiteSheepRWBY'': In the DistantFinale, it's noted that Jaune and Yang's eldest sons are twins who don't look much alike. They're pretty obviously brothers due to the blond hair, but one is tall and the other short. [[spoiler:Then Oscar notices that the short one has silver eyes, meaning they're not twins at all--one is Yang's son and the other Ruby's.]]
* Near the end of ''The Game of Three Generals'' in the Fanfic/ElementalChessTrilogy, [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Roy and Riza]] become the parents of fraternal twins Brendan and Riana. The side volume ''Notes From the Grandmaster'' includes a DistantFinale which makes it clear that the twins look very different; Riana takes after their father and Brendan after their mother.
* According to the [[Fanfic/{{Cinderjuice}} Contractually Obligated Chaos]] series of fics, WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}} and his brother Donny are fraternal twins. (The actual show was more ambiguous on the point.)
* In the Literature/{{Discworld}}, the twin children born to the Witch Olga Romanoff [[note]]Her best friend, also a Witch, wished a multiple birth on her in a moment of exasperation[[/note]] are a boy and a girl who are definitely not identical. They are close, however, and while both were born with magical potential, Vasily willingly gifts his share of the magic to his sister, making Valentina twice as potentially powerful.[[note]]She wants to be a Witch. Meanwhile, Vasily has discovered that boys with magic are barred from attending the Assassins' School, and the idea of becoming a Wizard doesn't sound half as interesting or exciting, so the twins come to an agreement. Their parents are yet to discover this.[[/note]]
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* Crash and Eddie the possums in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' have almost the same personality and look very similar, but are obviously fraternal twins since Eddie has brown eyes, while Crash has blue eyes and a light stripe on his nose.
* In ''Franchise/DisneyFairies,'' Tinker Bell and Periwinkle are actually different races of fairies--apparently, fairies are created when a baby laughs, and the season that they're associated with depends on where the laugh "lands." In this case, they came from the same laugh but wound up being blown into different places, with Tinker Bell as a summer fairy and Periwinkle as a winter fairy. They have identical designs on their wings, however, as well as the same nose.
* Princesses Delia and Edeline from ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses'' are twins with similar personalities, but the sisters are easily distinguished from each other by their hair and dress colors. Hadley and Isla are also SingleMindedTwins, with the only differences being their hair and dresses.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Luke and Leia from the ''Franchise/StarWars'' saga. They were SeparatedAtBirth after their mother [[DeathByChildbirth died]], to protect them from the Dark Side and particularly from their father, who had joined it. That's why they didn't know that they were twins when they first met each other and they have no resemblance to each other at all (he has light brown hair and blue eyes, she has dark brown hair and brown eyes). Granted, they were also established as twins later in the series, after the actors had already been cast.
* ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'': Sharpay and Ryan are twins.
* Leto and Ghanima Atreides, twin children of Muad'dib in [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci-Fi Channel]]'s ''Series/ChildrenOfDune'' adaptation.
* This is the HighConcept underlying ''Film/Twins1988'', with the titular twins being played by the tall, muscular and handsome Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger and the short, chubby and homely Creator/DannyDeVito. They are the result of an attempt to create a "genetically perfect" human, but instead the scientists ended up with one "genetically perfect" human and one "genetically inferior" human, due to them containing varying genes from six different fathers.
* The [=MacManus=] brothers from ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'' are fraternal twins, and in a deleted scene, they are seen conversing with their mother and asking which one of them came out first.
* Castor and Pollux from ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay'' aren't explicitly stated to be twins, but their names certainly imply it. And while the way they're described in the book makes it possible that they're identical twins, in the movies they're clearly not.
* In ''Film/CheaperByTheDozen2003'', two of the girls are fraternal twins (the family also includes a pair of identical male twins).
* ''Film/BasketCase'': Duane and Belial used to be ConjoinedTwins, but were unwillingly separated at an early age. While Duane is a normal person, Belial is [[BodyHorror a deformed, tumor-shaped lump of flesh with a human face and arms.]]
* Used as part of TheReveal in ''Film/{{Hex}}''. The long-suffering Lady Chun finally succumbs to a slow, painful and graphic death at the hands of her abusive asshole husband and his secret lover, where they then gleefully claim her inheritance for themselves... only to find out Lady Chun's vengeful spirit has returned as a demon to haunt them. But as it turns out, the "ghost" is Lady Chan's twin sister, who arranged the entire "haunting" to avenge her death.
* ''Film/HouseOfWax2005'' has brother and sister twins as its protagonists. Rather than going down the HalfIdenticalTwins route, they don't look that similar; for example, Nick is blond and Carly is brunette.
* In ''Film/ACinderellaStory,'' the "evil stepsisters," Brianna and Gabriella, are twins played by unrelated actresses. Most notably, one is short and chubby while the other is tall and skinny.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In Creator/LMMontgomery's ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' series, among Anne and Gilbert's children are fraternal twins Anne and Diana, nicknamed "Nan" and "Di." Dark-haired Nan inherited her father's looks and her mother's wild imagination, while Di has her mother's red hair but in temperament is described as "very much her father's child." The fact that they are not identical baffles many of their peers and forms a minor plot point in ''Anne of Ingleside'' when a mischievous girl convinces the young Nan that ''all'' twins are identical, and the reason Nan doesn't look like her twin is that she was SwitchedAtBirth.
** Starting in ''Anne of Avonlea,'' Marilla fosters boy/girl twins Davy and Dora Keith, who are fraternal and PolarOppositeTwins in personality, as well. Davy is curious and always getting into trouble, while Dora is quiet and a rule-follower.
* ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'': Will Navidson, the main character of [[FramingDevice his piece]] of the story, has a fraternal twin brother, Tom.
* Faith[[labelnote:*]][[OverlyLongName Katherine Honor Stephanie Miranda]][[/labelnote]] and James[[labelnote:*]]Andrew Benjamin[[/labelnote]] Harrington, Literature/HonorHarrington's younger siblings.
* Literature/TheBobbseyTwins are actually four siblings - two pairs of fraternal twins. Bert and Nan are the elder pair, Freddie and Flossie are the younger. They ''resemble'' one another, like any other siblings might, but not to the extent of HalfIdenticalTwins.
* Creator/HPLovecraft's ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror'' plays this for, well, horror.
* Caramon and Raistlin Majere of ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}''. Caramon's a strapping warrior, Raistlin's a sickly wizard, and this difference drives 90% of their character development and plots.
* Leto and Ghanima Atreides, twin children of Muad'dib in ''Literature/ChildrenOfDune''.
* Kit and Holly Fielding in the ''Creator/DickFrancis'' novels ''Break In'' and ''Bolt.''
* ''One Lonely Night'' by Creator/MickeySpillane. A radical politician campaigning against corruption and DirtyCommunists hires Mike Hammer to catch his [[EvilTwin insane twin brother]] who committed a murder in public in apparent attempt to destroy his reputation (fortunately the politician was giving a speech before hundreds of people at the time). Mike discovers the brother is a fraternal twin who doesn't look anything like the politician, who hired a look-alike actor to give the speech and committed the murder himself.
* In ''Literature/TheGirlFromTheMiraclesDistrict'', [[spoiler:Nikita and Ture]] ultimately turn out to be twins, but you'd never guess it - one's an aloof woman with Asiatic heritage, while the other is a FieryRedhead guy who's clearly a Scandinavian.
* In ''The Famine Secret'' by Cora Harrison, the protagonists are a set of twin sisters - Deirdre and Fiona. Deirdre has blue eyes and brown curls, while Fiona has brown eyes and blonde locks. Deirdre resembles her younger brother more than her own twin sister. A paragraph from the POV of the matron has her wondering if they're actually twins, since they're not even the same height.
* According to the ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' book ''Literature/AFrozenHeart'', Hans has twin brothers. Rudi is of average height and has reddish hair similar to Hans, while Runo is very tall and has pale blond hair. Runo is the only blond out of the thirteen brothers.
* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}},'' Darwin and Madra, the son and daughter of [[spoiler:Visser One through her previous human host]]. The two are presumably adopted by different families and we only see Madra as a baby, so it's hard to say how similar they turn out.
* ''Literature/ShadowsOfTheEmpire'': {{Subverted|Trope}}. The Pike sisters, expert martial artists whom Xizor hires as assassins, look the same aside from their eyes: Zan's are green, Zu has one blue eye along with one green. This would technically make them fraternal-the book simply says they're "genetic twins".
* ''Literature/WhatAWeek'' has a rare case of fraternal twins of the same gender. Paul has a twin brother who looks nothing like him. Holly even said it's hard to believe they are related.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* On ''Series/TheHoganFamily'', 12-year-old twins Willie and Mark are explicitly fraternal and look nothing alike. The fact that they have [[PolarOppositeTwins comically opposite personalities]], usually an identical twin trope, could be a double subversion.
* On ''Series/GetSmart,'' 99 gave birth to boy and girl twins in the final season.
* Buffy and Jody from ''Series/FamilyAffair'' were fraternal twins. They looked absolutely nothing alike.
* [[spoiler:Miss Parker and Mr Lyle]] in ''Series/ThePretender''.
* Brenda and Brandon Walsh ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'' are fraternal twins.
* Douglas and Christina Wheeler on ''Series/BobHeartsAbishola'' are fraternal twins. They look nothing alike apart from hair color.
* ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'' had a rather interesting example. Ridge and Taylor's daughters Steffy and Phoebe were identical twins and played by identical twins up until the point where the characters left for London. Phoebe is the first to return, now played by a new actress. When Steffy returns a while later, she is played by a different actress than Phoebe, and the twins are now fraternal.
* One episode of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'', called "Twins at the Tipton," had Dirk and Kirk, fraternal twins Maddie and London dated.
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' has Sheldon and his twin sister, Missy, who look nothing alike except for hair and eye color. (And even that wasn't always the case, since Missy had dirty blond hair [[Series/YoungSheldon when she was a child]].)
* In the ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' episode "While You Were Sleeping," when Sherlock Holmes learns that Yvette Ellison, a coma patient identified as a murderer by a witness, has a twin sister called Rebecca, he automatically suspects Rebecca of being the killer. He is very surprised to learn that Yvette and Rebecca are fraternal twins who look different enough that no one would mistake one for the other. [[spoiler:Yvette is the killer. Her coma is medically induced to provide her with an alibi for the murders of all her siblings.]]
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' has Jaime and Cersei Lannister, who are not only of different genders but also engage in {{Twincest}}.
* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' has Dennis and Dee Reynolds, another brother/sister pair.
* ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'': Eric and Sami Brady.
* ''Series/OneLifeToLive'': Jessica and Natalie Buchanan.
* The premise of ''Series/NickyRickyDickyAndDawn'' with quadruplets instead of twins.
* One of the big reveals in ''Series/HeroesReborn'' is that main characters Tommy and Malina are in fact, fraternal twins who were SeparatedAtBirth. Why is this important to the show? Because they're [[spoiler:Claire Bennet's]] children who were sent back in time to prevent Renautas Corporation from exploiting them - and because if the twins were raised together, Tommy's original ability of power absorption would have stolen his sister's ability as well. [[spoiler:Their mother died in childbirth because he had inadvertently absorbed her regeneration.]]
* Hansel and Gretel in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' are said to be twins, but they have different hair colours and Gretel is noticeably taller than her brother.
* ''Series/JustTheTenOfUs'': Wendy and Cindy Lubbock. Cindy is a redhead, while Wendy is blonde.
* ''Series/CoronationStreet'' had twin sisters Joanne and Jessie, who acted as if they were identical - when Jessie was about [[FatAndSkinny two hundred pounds heavier]]. They apparently looked more identical when they were children. The whole thing was then subverted when Joanne revealed she was actually an illegal immigrant from Liberia, and Jessie had just been her cousin. As they looked similar, they pretended to be twins.
* ''Series/WandaVision'': Unlike their comic book counterparts, Wanda's twins Tommy and Billy are fraternal and played by actors who somewhat look alike but aren't brothers.
* ''Series/TheWilds'': Rachel and Nora are fraternal twin sisters who look quite distinct.
* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'' has Gordon and Horatio Brittas, who look similar but not identical to each other.
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[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
* Literature/TheBible has Jacob and Esau. Esau is described as [[CarpetOfVirility covered in red hair]] even as a baby, while Jacob was plain and smooth-skinned. Since Esau was born first (by a minute or so), he was treated as the firstborn and was supposed to receive the birthright, until Jacob bought it from him.
* Fraternal Twins in Myth/ClassicalMythology:
** The Sun God Apollo and Moon Goddess Artemis (children of Zeus and the goddess Leto).
** When Zeus had sex with the married mortal Ledo, she's described as giving birth to two sets of twins. The first set was Castor (son of Ledo's husband Tyndareus) and Pollux (son of Zeus). The second was Clytemnestra (daughter of Tyndareus) and [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman Helen]] (daughter of Zeus).
** Heracles and his brother Iphicles was another example of twins, one from Zeus and one from the mom's mortal husband. Zeus certainly got around!
** The twin sons of Medusa and Poseidon. One, Chrysaor, is human in appearance; the other is {{Pegasus}}.
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[[folder:Print Media]]
* ''Magazine/WeeklyWorldNews'' once ran a CoverStory on a set of [[ConjoinedTwins conjoined septuplets]]: 5 male, 2 female.
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[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear in ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'' -- but don't try telling ''them'' they're not [[AllegedLookalikes identical]], nor even the same species.
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[[folder:Radio]]
* Among Radio/BobAndRay's stable of characters were non-identical twins Claude and Clyde [=McBeeBee=], whose trademark was to SpeakInUnison but just slightly out of sync with one another, creating an echo effect.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/BloodBrothers'', Mickey and Edward look similar enough that Mrs Lyons mistakes a photograph of Edward for a photo of Mickey , but they're also different enough that no one else in their lives realizes that they're twins who were SeparatedAtBirth.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* The Toola Twins from ''Toys/{{Bratzillaz}}'' have different faces and eye colours.
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* Alexander and Rosella from ''VideoGame/KingsQuest''. Alexander is dark-haired, dark-eyed, and medium-skinned, while Rosella is fair-skinned, blonde, and blue-eyed. This also carries over to the remake, ''VideoGame/KingsQuest2015''.
* [[spoiler:Kid and Sara]] from ''VisualNovel/{{Ever17}}'' are fraternal twins.
* For a series that's so out of touch with reality, you wouldn't expect ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' to feature realistic fraternal twins, but the heroes are, in fact, same-sex twins that look similar enough that they're clearly related, but different enough that they're easy to tell apart. Luigi was originally a PaletteSwap of his brother, yet the Mario Bros. weren't canonized as twins until long after Luigi's DivergentCharacterEvolution.
* ''VideoGame/TheSims2'' has a mechanic resetting how the parents' genetics and features are mixed after every birth, including between twins. Identical twins are thus impossible unless that mechanic is glitching (which is not uncommon). However, you can create identical twins in Create-A-Sim and Angela and Lilith Pleasant are existing identical twins.
* While they are [[HalfIdenticalTwins half identical]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', by ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears The After Years]]'', twins Palom and Porom have grown to look very different. Their earlier similarities can be justified by them originally being very young children, with puberty making their differences much more obvious.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** Inverted in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''; Miranda and her sister Oriana are genetically identical, but look drastically different as [[spoiler:Oriana was created sixteen years after Miranda. Miranda was 35 years old as of ''Mass Effect 2'', whereas Oriana was only 19]].
** ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' has Scott and Sara Ryder, a pair of opposite sex fraternal twins, one of whom is the player character (the player chooses which one to play). While they do look alike since they're siblings, they're still fairly distinct enough from each other that they don't fall into HalfIdenticalTwins.
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', on the Hoshido side, there's fraternal twins Kaze and Saizo (PolarOppositeTwins, in fact), and on the Nohr side there's fraternal twins Felicia and Flora.
* The Yorigami sisters from ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' are twins, but their appearances and outfits are very distinct from one another, along with Shion being taller than Jo'on. To drive it further home, they're also PolarOppositeTwins.
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', the Companions guild includes fraternal twin {{hunk}}s Vilkas and Farkas.
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'' has a couple sets of fraternal twins.
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', during the Provings in Orzammar, the player can encounter Lucjan and Myaja, twin brother and sister who enter fighting tournaments as a tag team. They resemble each other, with the same hair color and similar facial features, but no more than most brothers and sisters.
** Hawke, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', has younger twin siblings Bethany and Carver. Although they look ''similar'', they are nowhere near HalfIdenticalTwins, as Carver is taller and has blue eyes in a more square-shaped face, while Bethany is brown-eyed and rather delicately featured. (Sharp-eyed players may notice that Bethany resembles their mother, Leandra, and Carver resembles Leandra's younger brother Gamlen.) They're also PolarOppositeTwins in terms of disposition; even the game makes note of their RedOniBlueOni natures by giving Carver a reddish background in his icon while Bethany's is bright blue.
* In the ''VideoGame/DarkParables'' games, Prince Ross Red and Queen Snow White are immortal PolarOppositeTwins who don't look even remotely alike. Ross, who has fire-based powers, has red hair and red eyes; Snow, meanwhile, has frost powers and icy blue eyes. She used to be a brunette, but PowerDyesYourHair white.
* The ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' franchise has a fairly believable example with Solid and Liquid Snake. Both of them were grown from tubes as part of a cloning project simultaneously. The genetic difference is that Solid Snake was made from Big Boss's dominant genes, while Liquid was made from his recessive genes.
* ''VideoGame/{{IMGCM}}'': the Ootori twins, Ao and Aka, are not only non-identical, but they're actually half-sisters born at the same time (a very rare but possible phenomenon where a woman gets pregnant twice at the same time by different men). As a result there is [[PolarOppositeTwins almost no similarity]] between them at all.
* In ''VideoGame/GrimTales'', protagonist Anna's brother-in-law has a twin niece and nephew, Jared and Jackie, who look only a bit alike.
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* Kyou and Ryou Fujibayashi of ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' are similar to Kagami and Tsukasa Hiiragi in that Ryou has TaremeEyes and Kyou has TsurimeEyes. Though they're more alike than most fraternal twins with similar colored hair and eyes. [[spoiler:In the OVA for Kyou's route it takes Tomoya several minutes to realize that he's talking to Kyou and not Ryou after she cut her hair.]]
* Haruka and Kanata of ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' aren't identical, but they look similar enough that Kanata can impersonate Haruka, at least physically.
* In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', Mukuro Ikusaba and Junko Enoshima are fraternal twin sisters who look enough like each other with the right hairstyle, makeup and clothing that they can pass for each other, a fact used to switch Ikusaba for Enoshima, but there are enough physical differences like Ikusaba's YouthfulFreckles that she has to brush off as being the result of her photographs being retouched when Naegi comments on it. If not using tricks, it's hard to tell that they are twins at all, considering that Enoshima has blond pigtails, round blue eyes, big breasts, and ceramic skin while Ikusaba has short black hair, narrow grey eyes, smaller breasts, and greyish pale skin. And even if Enoshima's blond hair is just dyed, her real hair color (red) would still be different from her twin sister's.
* Sofiya and Natalya from ''VisualNovel/MissingStars'' have a StrongFamilyResemblance but still look quite different from one another. Sofiya is quite a sum shorter than Natalya, wears her hair much longer, and their facial features are different. Their eye colours are also different (with Sofiya having green eyes and Natalya having blue).
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* North and South Dakota from ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' are a quirky example. They don't look that much alike out of their armor aside from both having white-blond hair, but when suited up their armor is near-identical compared to the other Freelancers.
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* Alex and Dan in ''Webcomic/TheDreamlandChronicles'' are a rare case of fraternal twins of the same gender. This is likely inspired by the creator's fraternal twin sons.
* Averted and lampshaded in ''Webcomic/JupiterMen''. Quintin's hair is shorter and thicker than his sister Jackie's much curlier and more voluminous hair. Their eyes are slightly different shades of brown and Quintin's hair is dyed light green at the ends. They don't dress alike either, with Quintin wearing a simple hoodie and shorts while Jackie wears denim over a shoulderless blouse and short shorts. Rick is surprised to learn that Quintin is Jackie's twin, as they're fraternal twins who don't look identical, initially assuming that they're simply friends.
-->'''Jackie:''' Hmm... have I never mentioned my twin brother?\\
'''Rick:''' Twins...? But you guys don't look the same.\\
''[BeatPanel as Rick looks between the two of them]''\\
'''Jackie:''' Jeez! I sure hope not!\\
'''Quintin:''' Hey!
* [[SiblingYinYang Surama and Hafmar]] in ''Webcomic/{{Wurr}}''.
* ''Webcomic/ShotgunShuffle'' has statuesque blonde Ellie and her petite black-haired sister Cinnamon. Of the seven Buckingham sisters Ellie and Cinnamon resemble each other the least in both looks and personality despite being the only twins. Since Cinnamon is generally referred to as "the dumb one," Ellie is constantly annoyed that they're twins.
* Hiroki and Masuji in ''Webcomic/SeiyuuCrush'' are fraternal twin brothers who are opposites in looks and personality. They are shown quarreling a lot when they first appear, but later [[{{Twincest}} another kind of relationship]] is revealed.
* Aaron and Sharon in ''Webcomic/PixieTrixComix'' are brother and sister; although they have a definite resemblance, coming close to being HalfIdenticalTwins, when they first appear, Aaron is depicted as a gawky teen boy, while Sharon is a MsFanservice type. (Aaron becomes a bit more appealing as time goes on.)
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* ''WebOriginal/UniversalLadyJusticeAya'' has the Ustez twins, who are different both genetically (Ria = red eyes and black hair, Lia = blue eyes and white hair) and personality-wise (Ria = prudent and mature, Lia = perverted and naïve). It goes the same for their magical girl forms, with Lia being more elegant and Ria more gothic.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Apu and his wife have octuplets, courtesy of fertilization injections. They look noticeably similar, but not identical. At least one future episode revealed each of those 8 children would go on to have 8 children each, making 64 in total.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has two sets of fraternal twins. Thaddeus & Jonas Junior, and Hank & Dean, the latter two being the title characters.
* Jackal and Hyena of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' both have brown hair and are completely AxCrazy, but that's where the similarities end.
* In ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' several characters are twins, and there's usually at least one pair in each continuity. However, they are never identical - at the very least they have strikingly different colours like Jetfire and Jetstorm in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' and other times they look different in many other ways, like Sideswipe and Sunstreaker in G1 - who even had radically different personalities. This is obviously [[MerchandiseDriven for the purpose of making and selling more toys.]] Family relationships are actually rarely used to explain the PaletteSwap characters, who get a more technical explanation if it's explained at all.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hurricanes}}'': Helmut and Yorg Beethoven. Helmut is taller and Yorg is more muscular.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
** The show focuses mainly on the adventures of fraternal twins, Dipper and Mabel Pines, occasionally called the Mystery Twins. They're sort of a {{downplayed|Trope}} example of HalfIdenticalTwins, because while physically similar, they have different hair and clothes. [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Their]] [[FunPersonified personalities]] [[PolarOppositeTwins are a different story entirely]].
** Eventually, we find out about the ''original'' Mystery Twins, [[spoiler:Grunkle Stan and his brother, Ford]]. They are [[spoiler:closely related to the above, as twins running in a family [[TruthInTelevision can happen in real life]]]]. It is ambiguous as to whether they are identical or fraternal given certain differences--most notably one having [[spoiler:six fingers on each hand]], but that most likely comes from embryonic development, not genes. If they are identical, they are portrayed in a [[TruthInTelevision very realistic way]], in that their physical features are very similar, especially as children, but they have [[IdenticalTwinIDTag a handful of small differences]] that increased over time due to their [[PolarOppositeTwins different personalities and lifestyle]]. Like Dipper and Mabel, they have enough of a StrongFamilyResemblance to [[spoiler:[[TwinSwitch switch clothes and fool the Big Bad in the finale]]]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingSpiez'': Marc and Megan are twins, but they don't look any more related than they do compared to their older and younger brothers, and since the show's focus is on the team as a whole, the fact that they are twins is rarely mentioned or used as a plot point.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake. They have different color schemes and mane styles, and are different genders, but the most glaring difference is that Pound is a {{pegasus}} and Pumpkin is a {{unicorn}}.
** Pinkie Pie bears little resemblance to the rest of her family, and her twin sister Marble is no exception.
* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks'': Fee and Foo are fraternal twin {{Cartoon Creature}}s who have obvious similarities, but look so different from each other (Foo appears to have some sort of antenna that Fee lacks) that it comes off as BizarreSexualDimorphism.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': The PolarOppositeTwins Pretty and Eugly. They are both pink rabbits, but Pretty is slim, beautiful and has EarsAsHair while Eugly is fat, ugly and has an orange FurryFemaleMane with bangs.
* In ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', Dr. Director and Gemini are twins. Gemini identifies himself as Dr. Director's "opposite in every way," which apparently includes looks; they barely look ''related'', much less like twins. [[SharedFamilyQuirks But they somehow both ended up with eye patches.]]
* It's noted in ''WesternAnimation/TheWorldOfDavidTheGnome'' that gnomes always have twins when they have children. The trope is both played straight and subverted, however; some of the twins shown in the cartoon are identical, while others are fraternal.
* ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' - Dora's baby siblings are twin brother and sister and are given a decidedly different hairstyle.
* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017''--the triplets apparently hatched from the same clutch of eggs (as did Donald and Della), but compared to the source material the three have distinct looks (mostly in regard to their "hair feathers") and personalities.
* WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost's sidekicks Jan and Jayce are a blonde girl and brown-haired guy.
* The Comicbook/WonderTwins, Zan and Jayna, on ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' were visually based on Donnie and Marie Osmond.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "White Rice" reveals that Hayley had a twin brother named Bailey who died as an infant after Stan refused to vaccinate him. Bailey had auburn hair like Steve would later have rather than black hair like Hayley has.
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* Not only does supermodel Nyle [=DiMarco=] look absolutely nothing like his [[https://www.hearinglikeme.com/nico-dimarco-how-to-dj-with-hearing-loss/ twin brother Nico,]] they don't even appear to be the same ''race''. Nyle has olive skin and straight black hair while Nico is a pale, curly ginger. The only sign that they're related at all is the deafness that runs in their family, as their parents and older brother Neal (who looks like ''he'' could be Nyle's fraternal twin) are all deaf.
* [[https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/family/story/million-biracial-twins-race-define-blend-53681241 Marcia and Millie Briggs]] actually play with this trope. They're biracial twins who each resemble a different parent appearance-wise, hence the news reporting them as "black and white twins." But once you get past the obvious differences, their facial features are every bit as similar as you would expect from sisters.
* Perhaps the ultimate subversion of this trope would be Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen. Despite playing identical twins in all their screen roles (save for ''Series/FullHouse'' where they took turns playing the same character), they're actually fraternal twins. However, they look so similar that they've been mistaken for identical their entire lives.
* Similar to the Olsens are Wrestling/TheUsos, who are fraternal twins, but look similar enough that it can be difficult to tell them apart. The fact that they change their appearances often doesn't help.
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* ''Anime/ArmoredTrooperVotoms'' features the Schmittel twins, who are (at first) only differentiated by their uniform color and voices. Even so, [[OffModel the animators were incredibly prone to slip up at remembering which one was which]].

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Lifty and Shifty, the thieving raccoon brothers.

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** Two other pairs are [[PlayingWithFire Agni]] [[DualBoss and]] [[BlowYouAway Rudra]] from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'', and Bael [[AnIcePerson and]] [[AlluringAnglerfish Dagon]], a pair of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent frog demons]] in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'', the latter of whose in-game information even points out that, [[PaletteSwap aside from their color,]] they are identical in terms of abilities and weaknesses.

* ''WebAnimation/TheTwins2022'': Apart from their different clothing choices and hairstyles, Lake and Lucas are identical in physical appearance. [[spoiler:This allows Lake to seamlessly take Lucas's place when the latter dies.]]

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Grace's two daughters and the [=MacPhail=] brothers are identical twins, and both pairs of siblings wear matching outfits to further accentuate their sameness.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Grace's two daughters and the [=MacPhail=] brothers are identical twins, and both pairs of siblings wear identical outfits to further accentuate their sameness.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Corsair}}'', fraternal twins Aura and Leti are clearly related yet distinct, with Leti taking much more after their father's side and Aura taking more after their mother's side.

* [[SingleMindedTwins Mairu and Kururi]] [[spoiler:Orihara]] from ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', though they are sufficiently similar to possibly be just identical twins who decided [[PolarOppositeTwins to look different]].

* The Kamishiro twins from ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal'', Ryoga/[[InSeriesNickname Shark]] and Rio, are twins with different gender. Since it's ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'', they don't look even like they are related just like most siblings from the franchise, that's why they look more like [[{{Twincest}} lovers]] than siblings to the fans. Shark and Rio's dissimilarities are a huge contrast to the HalfIdenticalTwins from ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', Lua and Luca.

* In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', Mukuro Ikusaba and Junko Enoshima are fraternal twin sisters who look enough like each other with the right hairstyle, makeup and clothing that they can pass for each other, a fact used to switch Ikusaba for Enoshima, but there are enough physical differences like Ikusaba's YouthfulFreckles that she has to brush off as being the result of her photographs being retouched when Naegi comments on it. If not using tricks, it's hard to tell that they are twins at all, considering that Enoshima has blond MegaTwintails, round blue eyes, big breasts, and ceramic skin while Ikusaba has short black hair, narrow grey eyes, smaller breasts, and greyish pale skin. And even if Enoshima's blond hair is just dyed, her real hair color (red) would still be different from her twin sister's.

* ''Webcomic/FreddyFox'': Sammy and Sheldon the red squirrels look indistinguishable from each other, in spite of the former being the latter's little brother.

* In the Disney film ''Film/HotLeadAndColdFeet'', long-lost identical twins are reunited by the death of their father. He's not actually dead, however; he just wants to get his boys back together. Since they're also PolarOppositeTwins, HilarityEnsues.

* One of the biggest reveals regarding Super High-School Level Bodyguard Isshiki Madarai in ''LightNovel/DanganronpaZero'' is [[spoiler:that he's one of a group of identical ''octuplets,'' all of whom share the title of Super High-School Level Multiple Birth Siblings. Not only do they all look identical, they can synchronize flawlessly, which they utilize to make it seem like they're one immortal man]].

As this is a trope in aggregate, a single pair of identical twins appearing in an individual work [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs isn't an example of the trope]]. Cases in which more than one pair of twins are present in a single work — essentially a microcosm of the trope — ''are'' examples. Cases where the trope is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]], [[DiscussedTrope discussed in-universe]], [[InvokedTrope invoked]], or suchlike are likewise valid.

As this is a trope in aggregate, a single pair of identical twins appearing in an individual work [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs isn't an example of the trope]]. Cases in which more than one pair of twins are present in a single work — essentially a microcosm of the trope — ''are'' examples. Cases wherein the trope is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]], [[DiscussedTrope discussed in-universe]], [[InvokedTrope invoked]], or suchlike are likewise valid.

As this is a trope in aggregate, a single pair of identical twins appearing in a single work [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs isn't an example of the trope]]. Cases in which more than one pair of twins are present in a single work — essentially a microcosm of the trope — ''are'' examples. Cases in which the trope is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]], [[DiscussedTrope discussed in-universe]], [[InvokedTrope invoked]], or suchlike are likewise valid.

As this is a trope in aggregate, a single pair of twins appearing in a single work [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs isn't an example of the trope]].

However, cases in which the trope is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]], [[DiscussedTrope discussed in-universe]], [[InvokedTrope invoked]], or suchlike ''are'' examples. Similarly, cases in which more than one pair of twins are present in a single work—essentially a microcosm of the trope—are likewise valid.

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!!Examples of Fraternal Twins ({{aver|tedTrope}}sions)

''Literature/IntoTheDrowningDeep'': Heather and Holly, identical deaf twin sisters. Holly thinks of how it was annoying sometimes having a mirror image of herself.