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* ''Series/AlexRider'': [[spoiler:Dr Greif's plan was to replace his pupils, all children of super-rich industrialists, with his own surgically-altered clones.]][[spoiler: In the final episode, Alex's doppelganger tries to destroy his life in revenge for ruining the plan.]]

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* ''Series/AlexRider'': ''Series/AlexRider2020'': [[spoiler:Dr Greif's plan was to replace his pupils, all children of super-rich industrialists, with his own surgically-altered clones.clones, who would proceed to essentially TakeOverTheWorld on his behalf.]][[spoiler: In the final episode, Alex's doppelganger tries to destroy his life in revenge for ruining the plan.]]

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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Lord Tedd, and General Shade Tail are the evil counterparts in the Alpha universe for Main universe Tedd and Grace respectively. Although the little we've been told about Lord Tedd since his first appearance suggests he ''may'' be NotEvilJustMisunderstood, or at least a WellIntentionedExtremist.

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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has a few, although they're not usually capital-E Evil because Dan doesn't like characters like that (he regrets having to do an entire storyline about Damian):
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Lord Tedd, and General Shade Tail are the evil counterparts in the Alpha universe for Main universe Tedd and Grace respectively. Although the The little we've been told about Lord Tedd since his first appearance suggests he ''may'' be NotEvilJustMisunderstood, or at least a WellIntentionedExtremist.WellIntentionedExtremist, but we don't know the details yet.
** Parodied with Ellen, who is briefly convinced she's Elliot's evil doppelganger and tries to replace him as such, but only manages to PokeThePoodle because she's CopiedTheMoralsToo of frickin' ''[[GoodCannotComprehendEvil Elliot]]''.
** Elliot and Ellen get an actual WellIntentionedExtremist doppelganger in the form of [[spoiler: Magus, who is eventually revealed to be their counterpart from an alternate universe who was sent to ours in spirit form following a magical accident, and eventually uses the Dewitchery Diamond and Ellen's magic to restore himself. While he's fairly ruthless in using both twins in his plan, he bears them no animosity and tries to do right by them afterwards ... even if trying to do right by Ellen reveals a ''severe'' case of BlueAndOrangeMorality.]]
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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Lord Tedd, and General Shade Tail are the evil counterparts in the Alpha universe for Main universe Tedd and Grace respectively.

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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Lord Tedd, and General Shade Tail are the evil counterparts in the Alpha universe for Main universe Tedd and Grace respectively. Although the little we've been told about Lord Tedd since his first appearance suggests he ''may'' be NotEvilJustMisunderstood, or at least a WellIntentionedExtremist.

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* ''VideoGame/FairyBloom1'': Version 3.03's enemies are hordes of red {{Palette Swap}}s of the protagonist.



* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' you have to face your character's evil doppelgänger, who has an evil EyepatchOfPower and a BeardOfEvil (even if your character is female).
* In ''VideoGame/StrandedDreamscapes 2: The Doppleganger'' Alex's mirror twin Xela traps her in the mirror world and tries to take over her life.
* ''[[VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles Mystery Case Files: The Countess]]'': The Shade is a variation of this trope: it started as a malevolent MirrorMonster with its own appearance, but it gradually took the shape of lady Gloria Codington when feeding on her creativity over the years. It now appears as a black and ''very'' creepy doppelgänger of the benevolent lady Codington.
* Samus Aran of the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' series has had two, both resulting from having her suit invaded by evil alien organisms: the SA-X of ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', and Dark Samus of the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy''. Though, if you want to get technically, she actually has ''twelve'': due to the SA-X asexually reproducing, there are eleven of them in total in ''Metroid Fusion''. And in the third game of the ''Prime Trilogy'', ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', Samus nearly became the 13th doppelganger herself due to being infected by Phazon that could have [[CloneByConversion turned her into a copy of Dark Samus]] if it completely corrupted her as shown in the NonStandardGameOver.



* ''VideoGame/FairyBloom1'': Version 3.03's enemies are hordes of red {{Palette Swap}}s of the protagonist.
* In ''VideoGame/SpiderManEdgeOfTime'', the BigBad is [[spoiler:the Peter Parker of ComicBook/SpiderMan2099's timeline, who [[FakingTheDead faked his death]] and went on to become the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO of Alchemax]] and a WellIntentionedExtremist who wanted to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong and undo [[MyGreatestFailure the deaths of Uncle Ben and Gwen Stacy]]]].
* The original plot of the ''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'' game ''ISEKAI Memories'' has these created by the CanonForeigner BigBad. Rather than exact copies, they are "ideal" futures based on desperate thoughts a person had while they were near a reflective surface, and often possess powers much different than their originals based on that. In one example, [[NiceGirl Shion's]] copy is based on a timeline where after the Orcs destroyed her village, she absorbed the souls of her deceased ogre comrades to have enough power for revenge. While the real Shion is happily loyal to Rimuru and trusts he will defeat the Orc Lord, her counterpart is disgusted that she would serve a slime, and won't accept any justice to the orcs unless it is by her own hands. Worse, these doppelgangers tend to have a strong desire to [[KillAndReplace kill their originals for being "defective"]].



* VideoGame/KnockKnock has a visitor that looks like the main character, but is more transparent and has red eyes.

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* VideoGame/KnockKnock ''VideoGame/KnockKnock'' has a visitor that looks like the main character, but is more transparent and has red eyes.eyes.
* Samus Aran of the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' series has had two, both resulting from having her suit invaded by evil alien organisms: the SA-X of ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', and Dark Samus of the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy''. Though, if you want to get technically, she actually has ''twelve'': due to the SA-X asexually reproducing, there are eleven of them in total in ''Metroid Fusion''. And in the third game of the ''Prime Trilogy'', ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', Samus nearly became the 13th doppelganger herself due to being infected by Phazon that could have [[CloneByConversion turned her into a copy of Dark Samus]] if it completely corrupted her as shown in the NonStandardGameOver.
* ''[[VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles Mystery Case Files: The Countess]]'': The Shade is a variation of this trope: it started as a malevolent MirrorMonster with its own appearance, but it gradually took the shape of lady Gloria Codington when feeding on her creativity over the years. It now appears as a black and ''very'' creepy doppelgänger of the benevolent lady Codington.
* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' you have to face your character's evil doppelgänger, who has an evil EyepatchOfPower and a BeardOfEvil (even if your character is female).
* In ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', [[BigBad Mephiles the Dark]] is a LivingShadow who shortly after he breaks loose from his seal merges with Shadow the Hedgehog's... well, shadow, and uses that to form a doppelganger body in his image, though with several noticeable differences such as NoMouth, green slitted eyes, and all his red highlights being colored gray-green. Then he later goes OneWingedAngel and turns into a CrystallineCreature version with more [[PurpleIsPowerful purple coloration]] and spikey body parts. [[spoiler:It later turns out he took Shadow's form more than just because he happened to be right there, both in order to gain power by copying his form as a form of insurance against getting sealed again and as a twisted revenge scheme since Shadow [[TimeyWimeyBall thanks to time travel]] is the one who initially sealed Mephiles away.]]
* In ''VideoGame/SpiderManEdgeOfTime'', the BigBad is [[spoiler:the Peter Parker of ComicBook/SpiderMan2099's timeline, who [[FakingTheDead faked his death]] and went on to become the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO of Alchemax]] and a WellIntentionedExtremist who wanted to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong and undo [[MyGreatestFailure the deaths of Uncle Ben and Gwen Stacy]]]].
* In ''VideoGame/StrandedDreamscapes 2: The Doppleganger'' Alex's mirror twin Xela traps her in the mirror world and tries to take over her life.
* The original plot of the ''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'' game ''ISEKAI Memories'' has these created by the CanonForeigner BigBad. Rather than exact copies, they are "ideal" futures based on desperate thoughts a person had while they were near a reflective surface, and often possess powers much different than their originals based on that. In one example, [[NiceGirl Shion's]] copy is based on a timeline where after the Orcs destroyed her village, she absorbed the souls of her deceased ogre comrades to have enough power for revenge. While the real Shion is happily loyal to Rimuru and trusts he will defeat the Orc Lord, her counterpart is disgusted that she would serve a slime, and won't accept any justice to the orcs unless it is by her own hands. Worse, these doppelgangers tend to have a strong desire to [[KillAndReplace kill their originals for being "defective"]].
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* In ''Bratz Kidz Sleepover Adventure'', Saha goes to a carnival and finds a mirror containing an evil clone of her that traps her inside and escapes, causing mischief.

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* In ''Bratz Kidz Sleepover Adventure'', Saha In Sasha's story, Sasha goes to a carnival and finds a mirror containing an evil clone of her that traps her inside and escapes, causing mischief.



* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E13TheMean6 The Mean Six]]", Queen Chrysalis uses hairs from the main characters' manes to create clones of them with which to wield the Elements of Harmony, but somewhere along the line completely inverts their personalities, resulting in the clones being a barely functional collection of villainous parodies of their originals with personalities dominated by one specific vice -- Applejack's clone is a compulsive liar, Rainbow's clone has essentially no personality beyond ditching people, Fluttershy's is a psychotic bully, Rarity's is so overwhelmed by greed that she compulsively tries to hoard every bit of trash she sees, Pinkie's is chronically depressed and foul-tempered, and Twilight's is a scheming backstabber. Their actions eventually cause the real ponies to believe they've gone bad out of nowhere (they straight-up mistake the clones for the actual mares), making them hate each other for the episode.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E13TheMean6 The Mean Six]]", Queen Chrysalis uses hairs from the main characters' manes to create clones of them with which to wield the Elements of Harmony, but somewhere along the line completely inverts their personalities, resulting in the clones being a barely functional collection of villainous parodies of their originals with personalities dominated by one specific vice -- Applejack's clone is a compulsive liar, Rainbow's clone has essentially no personality beyond ditching people, people and being lazy, Fluttershy's is a psychotic bully, Rarity's is so overwhelmed by greed that she compulsively tries to hoard every bit of trash she sees, Pinkie's is chronically bored, depressed and foul-tempered, and Twilight's is a scheming backstabber. Their actions eventually cause the real ponies to believe [[TookALevelInJerkass they've gone bad out of nowhere nowhere]] (they straight-up mistake the clones for the actual mares), [[FeudEpisode making them hate each other for the episode.]]
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*** [[Characters/UltimateSpiderManMilesMorales Miles Morales]] of Earth-616 was the complete opposite of his Ultimate counterpart. He was a white man who became TheDragon to ComicBook/TheKingpin, and used technology stolen from the restored Ultimate universe to become the supervillain Ultimatum.

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*** [[Characters/UltimateSpiderManMilesMorales [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]] of Earth-616 was the complete opposite of his Ultimate counterpart. He was a white man who became TheDragon to ComicBook/TheKingpin, and used technology stolen from the restored Ultimate universe to become the supervillain Ultimatum.
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** ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'': One StoryArc has Mimic meeting the ForWantOfANail version, whereas Exiles Mimic accepted Xavier's offer of friendship leading him to become a much respected hero his evil version chose to reject it by spitting in Xavier's face instead, ending up a mass murderer who killed both Xavier and Magneto among others. He's redeemed by the end of the arc though.
** ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'': ComicBook/RedSkull dicks around with the cosmic cube Kobik and creates a world where [[ComicBook Steve Rogers]] is a HYDRA sleeper agent. Cue the CrisisCrossover of everyone trying to bring back Captain America so he can defeat his copy.

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** ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'': One StoryArc has Mimic meeting the ForWantOfANail WhatIf version, whereas Exiles Mimic accepted Xavier's offer of friendship leading him to become a much respected hero his evil version chose to reject it by spitting in Xavier's face instead, ending up a mass murderer who killed both Xavier and Magneto among others. He's redeemed by the end of the arc though.
** ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'': ComicBook/RedSkull dicks around with the cosmic cube Kobik and creates a world where [[ComicBook [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] is a HYDRA sleeper agent. Cue the CrisisCrossover of everyone trying to bring back Captain America so he can defeat his copy.



* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'', [[spoiler:Miles Morales ends up in Earth-42, the original universe of the spider that bit him. Because the spider vanished before it could make him ComicBook/SpiderMan, that universe's Miles [[ForWantOfANail instead followed in his uncle's footsteps after his father died]] and became The Prowler]].

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* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'', [[spoiler:Miles Morales ends up in Earth-42, the original universe of the spider that bit him. Because the spider vanished before it could make him ComicBook/SpiderMan, that universe's Miles [[ForWantOfANail [[WhatIf instead followed in his uncle's footsteps after his father died]] and became The Prowler]].
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* ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''[[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy The Last Command]]'' Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade battle against insane Dark Jedi clone Joruus C'boath and Luuke Skywalker, who was cloned from Luke's severed hand.
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* "VideoGame/KnockKnock" has a visitor that looks like the main character, but is more transparent and has red eyes.

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** ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
*** Owlman is Batman's MirrorUniverse double, with most iterations of him being Bruce Wayne's older brother who outlived him. In the ''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier'' continuity, he was a FallenHero who wanted to avenge his family's deaths at the hands of the [[DirtyCop corrupt Gotham PD]], only to find out that [[BrokenPedestal his parents were the city's worst criminals]]. After realizing that his entire life's mission was built on a lie, he became a StrawNihilist MisanthropeSupreme in stark contrast to Batman's [[HopeBringer endless faith in mankind]].
*** The Batman Who Laughs was Batman's DarkWorld counterpart who was turned into a clone of ComicBook/TheJoker and destroyed his reality ForTheEvulz before seeking to do the same to the main one.
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* ''WebVideo/UnwantedHouseguest: For unknown reasons [[spoiler: the Shadow Demon looks like the Houseguest.]]
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The Evil Doppelgänger is traditionally a MirrorUniverse counterpart. The double can also be the equivalent of ForWantOfANail: he/they represents what the hero or heroes could become, or may become.

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The Evil Doppelgänger is traditionally a MirrorUniverse counterpart. The double can also be the equivalent product of ForWantOfANail: a WhatIf scenario: he/they represents what the hero or heroes could become, or may become.
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* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' has Vanitas, who was created from the darkness within Ventus' heart around the time of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep''. But in a twist, despite sharing similarities with Ventus, outwardly, he doesn't look like Ventus at all. [[spoiler:Instead, he looks almost exactly like ''Sora'', who was only a small child at the time of Vanitas' creation]]. ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' is where this similarity is elaborated on, [[spoiler:albeit shortly before Vanitas bows out for good]].
-->[[spoiler:'''Sora (horrified):''']] Your face...!\\
'''Vanitas:''' I'm the piece of Ventus that was taken away. And ''you're'' the piece Ventus needed to be whole again. So... why shouldn't you and I look exactly the same? [[spoiler: You define me, Sora, the same way that Ventus does]].
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** ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
*** In the ''ComicBook/SpiderGeddon'' story arc, Spider-Punk's universe is a bit different than main universe Earth-616. Among the differences, the god of thunder is Eric Masters and he's a neo-Nazi thug (where most others are just punk versions of their normal super-hero identities). Hobie happily breaks his arm and proclaims "No gods, no masters..."

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*** In the ''ComicBook/SpiderGeddon'' story arc, Spider-Punk's ComicBook/SpiderPunk's universe is a bit different than main universe Earth-616. Among the differences, the god of thunder is Eric Masters and he's a neo-Nazi thug (where most others are just punk versions of their normal super-hero identities). Hobie happily breaks his arm and proclaims "No gods, no masters..."
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* Samus Aran of the ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' series has had two, both resulting from having her suit invaded by evil alien organisms: the SA-X of ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', and Dark Samus of the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy''. Though, if you want to get technically, she actually has ''twelve'': due to the SA-X asexually reproducing, there are eleven of them in total in ''Metroid Fusion''. And in the third game of the ''Prime Trilogy'', ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', Samus nearly became the 13th doppelganger herself due to being infected by Phazon that could have [[CloneByConversion turned her into a copy of Dark Samus]] if it completely corrupted her as shown in the NonStandardGameOver.

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* Samus Aran of the ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' series has had two, both resulting from having her suit invaded by evil alien organisms: the SA-X of ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', and Dark Samus of the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy''. Though, if you want to get technically, she actually has ''twelve'': due to the SA-X asexually reproducing, there are eleven of them in total in ''Metroid Fusion''. And in the third game of the ''Prime Trilogy'', ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', Samus nearly became the 13th doppelganger herself due to being infected by Phazon that could have [[CloneByConversion turned her into a copy of Dark Samus]] if it completely corrupted her as shown in the NonStandardGameOver.

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* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': The cosmic hero Starfighter once had to fight his alternate-dimension evil counterpart.

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* ''WebOriginal/FortniteTheMovie'': Big Norm. He's basically Norm, but bigger and more skilled. The two aren't exactly related in any way, Big Norm is simply someone that just looks like Norm. The two face off in Goliath, and eventually team up against [[spoiler:Mime]] during the final season of The Norm Show.

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* ''WebOriginal/FortniteTheMovie'': ''WebVideo/FortniteTheMovie'': Big Norm. He's basically Norm, but bigger and more skilled. The two aren't exactly related in any way, Big Norm is simply someone that just looks like Norm. The two face off in Goliath, and eventually team up against [[spoiler:Mime]] during the final season of The Norm Show.



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Sometimes the evil double is a [[CloningBlues clone and may brood about how he's not a "real" person,]] just a hollow imitation of the original. If that happens, the clone tends to go mad and try to murder the original to take his place. (Although sometimes a clone may have a case of CopiedTheMoralsToo.)

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Sometimes the evil double is a [[CloningBlues [[CloneAngst clone and may brood about how he's not a "real" person,]] just a hollow imitation of the original. If that happens, the clone tends to go mad and try to murder the original to take his place. (Although sometimes a clone may have a case of CopiedTheMoralsToo.)
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* In the ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' vs ''Go-Busters'' movie, the Gokaigers become evil versions of themselves [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3thZPp6b4QQ/UJKvoSU-GYI/AAAAAAAADTg/xw5nZ5GxqKM/s400/G33j8.jpg]] [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QpJbcgakbA8/UK7tEpwmZCI/AAAAAAAAiOY/pz5sVHK9aBs/s400/go-busters239a.jpg]]
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* In ''VideoGame/SpiderManEdgeOfTime'', the BigBad is [[spoiler:the Peter Parker of ComicBook/SpiderMan2099's timeline, who [[FakingTheDead faked his death]] and went on to become the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO of Alchemax]] and a WellIntentionedExtremist who wanted to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong and undo [[MyGreatestFailure the deaths of Uncle Ben and Gwen Stacy]]]].

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