History Main / AngstySurvivingTwin

* Played with on ''Series/DarkAngel''. Creator/JensenAckles's Season 2 character Alec only appeared after his Season 1 character Ben was killed off, and the twins were SeparatedAtBirth, so they never met, but Ben's existence certainly provided Alec with angst. First of all, all the twins of the 2009 escapees from Project Manticore were put through the worst of it when Manticore tightened the reins following the escape. And then in Alec's case in particular, Ben being a SerialKiller didn't help things - getting him put in psychological observation at Manticore for six months and later arrested in Seattle for a murder Ben committed. Alec also got a more regretful view of Ben after hearing from Max how he UsedToBeASweetKid and she'd had to MercyKill him, though he was mostly comforting Max in ''her'' angst.

* Played with on ''Series/DarkAngel''. Creator/JensenAckles's Season 2 character Alec only appeared after his Season 1 character Ben was killed off, and the twins were SeparatedAtBirth, so they never met, but Ben's existence certainly provided Alec with angst. First of all, all the twins of the 2009 escapees from Project Manticore were put through the worst of it when Manticore tightened the reins following the escape. And then in Alec's case in particular, Ben being a SerialKiller didn't help things - getting him put in psychological observation at Manticore for six months and later arrested in Seattle for murder Ben committed. Alec also got a more regretful view of Ben after hearing from Max how he UsedToBeASweetKid and she'd had to MercyKill him, though he was mostly comforting Max in ''her'' angst.

* Mostly averted on ''Series/DarkAngel''. Creator/JensenAckles's Season 2 character Alec only appeared after his Season 1 character Ben was killed off, and the twins were SeparatedAtBirth, so they never met. Moreover, what Alec had heard about Ben was largely negative; first of all, all the twins of the 2009 escapees from Project Manticore were put through the worst of it when Manticore tightened the reins following the escape, and then in Alec's case in particular, Ben being a SerialKiller didn't help things. Alec got a more regretful view of Ben after hearing from Max how he UsedToBeASweetKid and she'd had to MercyKill him, though, but he was mostly comforting Max in ''her'' angst.

* In ''Literature/TheSecretLifeOfBees'', one of the Boatwright sisters, May, had a twin sister named April who died. According to sisters June and August, May was never the same after that, and will become upset and emotional over the littlest things.

-->-- '''Jr./Rubedo''', ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} II''.

* Type 3 is turned {{up to eleven}} in ''The Stranger House'' when one of the interchangeable Gowder twins dies in an accident and the survivor goes 100% AxeCrazy.

** [[spoiler:George, the surviving Weasley twin, goes on without Fred to become super successful at Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, which was the dream the twins had pursued together.]] On the other hand, [[spoiler: he names his own son Fred, and WordOfGod says that he never fully got over Fred's death, to the point where he could no longer produce a Patronus charm, since all his happiest memories involved Fred]]. In the films, the look on [[spoiler: George's face in the movie when he sees Fred's dead body shows just how deeply it affects him]].

** [[spoiler:George, the surviving Weasley twin, goes on without Fred to become super successful at Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, which was the dream the twins had pursued together.]] On the other hand, [[spoiler: he names his own son Fred, and WordOfGod says that he never fully got over Fred's death, to the point where he could no longer produce a Patronus charm, since all his happiest memories involved Fred. In the films, the look on [[spoiler: George's face in the movie when he sees Fred's dead body shows just how deeply it affects him]].

* Taken UpToEleven in ''Literature/TheDiminished'' where everyone, save for a rare few "singleborn", is a twin. If one twin dies the other gets sick and dies soon after, and the 1 percent who survive become known as "the diminished" and will inevitably snap into murderous insanity. [[spoiler:Except not really. The CorruptChurch has been secretly dosing the diminished with PsychoSerum for decades, in order to increase the populace's fear of them and their own power. Without that, only one in five of the diminished will snap, and it won't be quite as dramatic or murderous when they do.]]

[[caption-width-right:260:"You cut down my sister like an animal and you tell me to ''stop''?"]]

* Lily experienced this on Series/AsTheWorldTurns after twin sister Rose was fatally poisoned, going so far as to assume Rose's identity in an effort to keep her alive.

* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', it turns out that Yuuki Konno had a twin sister, Aiko. Both girls were infected with HIV as a result of a contaminated blood transfusion, and Aiko died first. Yuuki, who was quite close to her sister, clearly misses Aiko a great deal, and ends up seeing a bit of her in her new friend, Asuna. [[spoiler:When Yuuki dies in Asuna's arms, the last thing she sees is her sister in Asuna's place]].

A [[TwinTropes pair of twins]] are introduced. They are portrayed as being [[SingleMindedTwins sufficiently alike]] that even people who have known them for a long time have trouble telling them apart. Often they serve as comic relief, enjoying [[TwinSwitch the confusion they might cause]] just as much as the audience. It is highly likely that one twin, and only one, will be killed off. Why?

* In ''Literature/{{Twig}}'', the twin sisters of the [[TheCaligula Baron Richmond]] are introduced serving as TheDragon to him, his bastard half-siblings. After the Lambsbridge Gang kill all but one, the sole survivor is struck by the lack of care her brother shows for their lives, and, after making a final attempt to kill the Lambs, crosses a DespairEventHorizon and gives up.

* Music/ElvisPresley and Creator/PhilipKDick both had twin siblings (a brother, Jesse, in Elvis' case; a sister, Jane, in Dick's) who died as infants.

* There are a number of support groups and resources for "twinless twins," as this is definitely a truth in television for many.
* Among the many new specials trotted out for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks was a feature on the 46 people who lost their twin in the disaster.
* Lisa Bessette, the twin sister of Lauren Bessette, who died along with her younger sister Carolyn and her brother-in-law John F. Kennedy, Jr. in a [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Jr._plane_crash plane crash]].

* Nacht Faust from ''Manga/BlackClover''. Back in his youth, Nacht had a younger twin brother named Morgen. While his brother formed a pair with Yami and became famous as a great Magic Knight, Nacht started studying devils. However, his studies led Morgen to [[spoiler:sacrifice his life to save Nacht from a powerful devil]]. Nacht says he still can't forgive himself even years after the incident.

[[caption-width-right:260: Oh no, not ... Which one are you?]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'', even though Jr. (Rubedo) has spent the better part of two games trying to kill his AxeCrazy twin Albedo, he can't stop himself from breaking down crying after he finally goes through with it.
** He never really seemed to want to kill Albedo. Even before the last fight, he was talking like he planned on stopping him without killing him. Which only makes it worse, since it wasn't even the outcome he was looking for.

* ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': Wanda Maximoff loses her twin brother to Ultron, and his death is a very sore subject for her to the point that she refuses to talk about it with her teammates, and people bringing it up in ''Series/WandaVision'' is enough to warrant her expelling them from the Hex.

* The Series/WandaVision fanfic Fanfic/TheMaximoffsAndFriendsAndFamilyVsTheMultiverseAndSometimesWith has both Wanda and Peter as this... To each other's alternate self.

* Opposite-sex example in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' with [[spoiler: Wanda, who tells Ultron she felt like she too had "died" following Pietro's death.]]

* Both played straight and subverted in ''Literature/HarryPotter''. [[spoiler:George, the surviving Weasley twin, goes on without Fred to become super successful at Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, which was the dream the twins had pursued together.]] On the other hand, [[spoiler: he names his own son Fred, and WordOfGod says that he never fully got over Fred's death, to the point where he could no longer produce a Patronus charm, since all his happiest memories involved Fred]].
** In the films, the look on [[spoiler: George's face in the movie when he sees Fred's dead body shows just how deeply it affects him]].
*** Meta-Example (sort of); the actor playing [[spoiler: George]] couldn't do more than a few takes of [[spoiler: pretending his brother was dead]] as it was too much for him.

* Patsy Parisi from ''Series/TheSopranos''. He angsts about it often enough to make the rest of the cast frustrated, and when he finds out that Tony had his brother killed for trash-talking him, Patsy gets drunk and pees in Tony's pool (after seriously contemplating killing Tony in revenge).

* ''[[Literature/TheCatWhoSeries The Cat Who Sniffed Glue]]'' features David Fitch, who has to deal with not only the murder of his twin brother Harley and his wife, but also their mother's fatal stroke and their father's suicide, both indirectly caused by the murder. His friends are all worried he may follow his father's example. [[spoiler: Subverted when we find out that David was DeadAllAlong and the surviving twin is actually Harley, who killed David in order to take his place. He was having an affair with David's wife. The parents' stroke and suicide were caused by the fact that they figured out the truth, and couldn't live with it.]]

* ''Literature/WingsOfFire'': Peril is haunted by the fact she killed her twin while [[FetusTerrible still in their egg]]. It fuels her belief that [[EnfantTerrible she was hatched to kill others]], something [[TykeBomb enforced by her queen]]. [[spoiler:It turns out the story is a lie. Her MissingMom was forced to kill her brother not soon after they hatched.]]