History Main / DoppelgangerLink

* ''Film/ThePrestige'': Alfred has always felt a psychic connection with what he believes to be his long-lost twin. [[spoiler:It turns out that Alfred himself is a duplicate of a little boy named Nicholas Julius Borden.]]

* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' establishes that dreams are [[VisionsOfAnotherSelf visions into the lives of your counterparts from parallel universes]][[note]]Which means actual dreams do not exist in the MCU[[/note]]. It also introduces Dreamwalking, a DangerousForbiddenTechnique that allows a magic user to possess and control a doppelganger of their choosing.

* ''Literature/AncillaryJustice'': TheEmperor has a HiveMind across thousands or millions of cloned bodies allowing her to personally oversee her empire.

* ''Literature/ThePrestige'': Andrew has always felt a psychic connection with what he believes to be his long-lost twin. [[spoiler:It turns out that Andrew himself is a duplicate of a little boy named Nicholas Julius Borden.]]

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': The Sisters are clones of Misaka Mikoto who can link together into a HiveMind using a weaker version of Mikoto's electromagnetic abilities.

* ''Fanfic/ACertainDrollHivemind'': The Sisters from of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' (see the Anime section above for their entry) are the focus of this fic. The difficulties of keeping a private diary when one is part of a constantly active telepathic hivemind is lampshaded and used as underline just how different the Sisters' thought processes are.

* ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'': The denizens of the Alphaverse have developed technology that allows them to access the skills, knowledge, memories, and even bodies of their parallel universe counterparts, although this link is one-way only: the counterparts so accessed black out while their other self is in control, and have no memory of the intervening time.
* ''Film/TheIsland'': Lincoln inherits GeneticMemory from the man he was cloned from, allowing him to know how to drive and speak in a Scottish accent.
* ''Film/TheOne'': If Yulaw and his counterparts are any indication, people can sense and possibly track their alternate selves if they are in the same universe. Both Lawless and Gabe seem to sense Yulaw's approach mere seconds before he attacks them (and in Lawless's case, kills him). Yulaw is also able to track Gabe to a hospital and locate the room where he is undergoing an MRI, with no indication that he had to follow Gabe or ask where Gabe was. Later, Gabe is able to track Yulaw to an industrial plant and does indeed confirm that he is doing this by sensing Yulaw's presence.

* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'': Harem's superpower is the ability to split herself into up to five bodies, all of whom are a linked HiveMind, so she shares the sensory imputes and knowledge between them. When Maxima responds to one of her pranks by giving one of her bodies a wedgie, it sets off a chain reaction of AmusingInjuries among her bodies as they all react simultaneously and wind up tripping, bumping into things, or otherwise accidentally hurting themselves.

** ''ComicBook/Supergirl2011'': ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} and her Earth-2 counterpart Power Girl meet for the first time when the latter is being taken in by the US military. The two touch and share a brief psychic link that causes them to experience each other's memories.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition'': The Dvati are a humanoid race consisting completely of identical twins, with one soul shared by two bodies. In addition to their TwinTelepathy, the twins can know the health and mental state of each other by concentrating a bit. This mental link also means that some powers targeting them will affect both, notably mind-affecting and personal spells, as well as LevelDrain.

* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' establishes that dreams can be [[VisionsOfAnotherSelf visions into the lives of your counterparts from parallel universes]]. It also introduces Dreamwalking, a DangerousForbiddenTechnique that allows a magic user to possess and control a doppelganger of their choosing.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': The Sisters are clones of [[ShockAndAwe Misaka Mikoto]] who can link together into a HiveMind using a weaker version of Mikoto's electromagnetic abilities.

** "The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People": Gangers (short for "doppelgängers") are body duplicates of individual humans made of an organic substance called The Flesh, which are in common use by the 22nd Century. The human and their ganger duplicate are linked through a telepathic remote control harness, allowing the human to maneuver their ganger through hostile environments without putting the human at risk. However, certain freak incidents, such as an electrical storm or solar storm, can sever the link and give the gangers sentience. [[spoiler:It is later revealed that the Amy Pond in the first half of Season 6 had been a ganger all along, with the real Amy unaware that she had even been kidnapped because she was mentally experiencing everything her ganger did.]]
** "The Vanquishers": When the Doctor is split across three locations, her consciousness tends to switch locations telepathically. The two still within the universe are able to communicate more easily than the one who is stuck in the void between parallel universes. Downplayed, since Time Lords have natural telepathic abilities.
** "City of Death": The villain of this episode is an alien who was split into seven copies of himself and scattered across Earth's history when his spaceship's hyperdrive exploded. The different fragments can communicate telepathically, allowing them to collaborate on his scheme to escape Earth.

* VideoGame/KingdomHearts: Naminé is Kairi's Nobody. However, Kairi's heart has [[IncorruptiblePurePureness no darkness]], which means her heart didn't turn into a Heartless. So Naminé was formed from Kairi's heart, but Sora's body ([[ItMakesSenseInContext It makes sense in...]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext scratch that.]]) This connection allows Naminé to tamper with Sora's memories.

** ''ComicBook/Supergirl2011'': Supergirl and her Earth-2 counterpart Power Girl meet for the first time when the latter is being taken in by the US military. The two touch and share a brief psychic link that causes them to experience each other's memories.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In "Fearful Symmetry", Supergirl is troubled by recurring nightmares in which she appears to be killing people who are connected to Cadmus. It turns out that these murders are actually the actions of Galatea, a clone of Supergirl created by Cadmus, and the nightmares Supergirl is having are a result of a psychic link between the two that allowed her to see what Galatea was doing. The Question theorizes that the link works both ways: while Supergirl was having visions of Galatea's murders, Galatea was feeling Supergirl's horror and guilt over these murders which was affecting her work.