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* The Shadow Toa in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}} Chronicles #1: Tale of the Toa'' are [[BigBad Makuta Teridax]]'s final challenge to the six Toa Mata heroes. After realizing they're evenly matched, the Toa [[OpponentSwitch swap their duplicates]] and destroy them with their ElementalPowers. However, this scenario is actually a {{retcon}} of the originally intended ending, in which the Toa accept their shadow counterparts as representations of their own evil and thus make them vanish. In the ''BIONICLE Encyclopedia'', the Shadow Toa's defeat was retconned back to this version. They weren't the ultimate challenge either, the heroes went on to face Makuta himself after dealing with the Shadow Toa, effectively [[CanonDiscontinuity making the climax of the novel non-canon]]. The villains's ability to make evil clones of good guys [[ForgottenPhlebotinum wasn't brought up afterwards]], although another Makuta, Tridak would later experiment with kidnapping Toa from {{alternate universe}}s to corrupt them.

'''Felix:''' Oh, I get the concept. [[GenreSavvy I go to the movies]]. The clone goes out and destroys the guy's life by doing things that the original guy was never capable of! You've seen those movies, haven't you?

* ''ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls'': One issue features the Powerpuff Girls entering a MirrorUniverse and encountering evil versions of themselves called the Powerpunk Girls.[[note]]This was originally supposed to be an episode for the [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls the original series]], but it was later reworked for the comics.[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'': In season 2, Julian creates Evil Julian from his contact with a power ball. He's chaotic and power hungry, but still has similar mannerisms to regular Julian and looks just like him, even though wears white instead of purple. However, it takes some considerable amount of time for anyone to notice that he's not the actual Julian.

* ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'': In season 2, Julian createss Evil Julian from his contact with a power ball. He's chaotic and power hungry, but still has similar mannerisms to regular Julian and looks just like him, even though wears white instead of purple. However, it takes some considerable amount of time for anyone to notice that he's not the actual Julian.

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''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'': In season 2, Julian createss Evil Julian from his contact with a power ball. He's chaotic and power hungry, but still has similar mannerisms to regular Julian and looks just like him, even though wears white instead of purple. However, it takes some considerable amount of time for anyone to notice that he's not the actual Julian.

''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': Given this series' approach to TheMultiverse and infinite alternate versions of the two main characters, there's quite a few examples of this trope. The most iconic one in the show is probably Evil/[[spoiler:President]] Morty, a ruthless and amoral Morty who lives up to Rick levels of superintelligence, with the hostile Council of Ricks who propagate and maintain the Citadel's corrupt system also counting.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': Given this series' approach to TheMultiverse and infinite alternate versions of the two main characters, there's quite a few examples of this trope. The most iconic one in the show is probably Evil/[[spoiler:President]] Morty, a ruthless and amoral Morty who lives up to Rick levels of superintelligence, with the hostile Council of Ricks who propagate and maintain the Citadel's corrupt system also counting.

* Even Franchise/{{Kirby}} was a victim of this trope. In ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheAmazingMirror '', when he and his three good twins traveled to the [[AlternateUniverse mirror world]], they met Shadow Kirby, [[spoiler:who was actually a [[SubvertedTrope good guy]]]]. However, they also met Meta Knight's counterpart, Dark Meta Knight, who was truly evil.

* ''Series/SupermanAndLois'' has these in season 2 with the introduction of Bizarro World. Two examples of this trope are Bizarro!Lana (who somehow gains powers and is a staunch supporter of [[spoiler:Ally Allston]], even dragging her husband [[spoiler:Tal-Rho]] into this) and Bizarro!Jonathan (who is the twin with powers in that world and quickly becomes TheDragon of the season, [[spoiler:seeking to merge with Prime!Jonathan in order to achieve godhood]]). Inverted with [[spoiler:Tal-Rho]], who is a pretty decent guy in the other world and has a close relationship with Bizarro ([[spoiler:he even shows remorse at failing his brother and allows Superman to return home to save his son from Bizarro!Jonathan).

* ''Series/SupermanAndLois'' has these in season 2 with the introduction of Bizarro World. Two examples of this trope are Bizarro!Lana (who somehow gains powers and is a staunch supporter of [[spoiler:Ally Allston]], even dragging her husband [[spoiler:Tal-Rho]] into this) and Bizarro!Jonathan (who is the twin with powers in that world and quickly becomes TheDragon of the season, [[spoiler:seeking to merge with Prime!Jonathan in order to achieve godhood]]).

* Even Franchise/{{Kirby}} was a victim of this trope, in ''[[VideoGame/KirbyAndTheAmazingMirror Amazing Mirror]]'', when he and his three good twins traveled to the [[AlternateUniverse mirror world]], they met Shadow Kirby, [[spoiler:who was actually a [[SubvertedTrope good guy]]]]. However, they also met Meta Knight's counterpart, Dark Meta Knight, who was truly evil.

* ''ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls'': One issue features the Powerpuff Girls entering a MirrorUniverse and encountering evil versions of themselves called the Powerpunk Girls.[[note]]This was orginally supposed to be an episode for the [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls the original series]], but it was later reworked for the comics.[[/note]]

* 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''. Technically, she actually has ''twelve''. Due to the SA-X asexually reproducing, there are eleven of them in total in ''Metroid Fusion''. It's faintly implied that she never meets the same one twice.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'': The Saturday family have one in the form of their MirrorUniverse counterparts (nicknamed the Mondays by the main Zak), who have polarizing differences from the main Saturdays and are all-round nasty pieces of work.

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* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': Evil Morty is, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the nickname implies]], an evil version of the second titular character and the infinite multiverse versions of him.
* 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/MasterRaindrop'': In the episode “Originality”, General Bu creates an evil clone of Raindrop to steal na oracle lantern that would help him to capture the original Raindrop.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E2TheHundredDaysOfTheDragon The Hundred Days of the Dragon]]", a US presidential candidate is [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced]] by a secret agent who has not only been carefully trained to impersonate him, but uses a drug that makes human flesh malleable to take on his exact appearance. The assassin works for an Asian dictator who plans to take over America by having other agents replace important figures in politics, industry and the media.