History Main / EvilTwin

* The LawAndOrder episode "Brother's Keeper." The good twin is a mild-mannered citizen, while the bad one is a member of the Irish mob. [[spoiler: In a twist, it's revealed that the "good" twin committed murder, and the "evil" twin killed a witness to that murder, then took the rap himself, knowing that he'd get killed in prison. Which he did.]]
* The ''[[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit SVU]]'' episode "Double Strands", where the rapist and his wrongfully-accused twin brother were played by T.R. Knight. ADA Novak understandably flips out when she's told this, citing this as the definition of reasonable doubt.
* Robert and Cameron Robinson from {{Neighbours}}, in a rare example of the evil twin being introduced first, albeit while [[TwinSwitch pretending to be the good twin.]]

* The HulkHogan-AndreTheGiant match on ''The Main Event'' in early 1988 was supposed to have set up an "evil twin" storyline involving referees (and real-life twin brothers) Dave and Earl Hebner. [[hottip:*: Dave had been assigned to the match, but unknown to Hogan, TedDiBiase had paid an unknown man to have plastic surgery to look like Dave and eventually count Hogan's shoulders to the mat when Andre tried to pin him. In the match's aftermath, Dave – who had been detained backstage – ran out and confronted his lookalike (Earl, who was as of yet unidentified), after which the fake attacked Dave.]] The WWF built heat for Earl through a {{Kayfabe}} "investigative report" in ''WWF Magazine'', made Earl out to be the Cain to Dave's Abel, citing such examples as cheating in school and mistreating his brother's girlfriend, all while posing as Dave. However, when Dave became legitimately injured in the aftermath of the Hogan-Andre ''Main Event'' match, the "evil twin" storyline was dropped and Earl "came clean."

* The ''Sister'' arc of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has main character Elliot get "cursed"[[hottip:*: i.e. being zapped by a TransformationRay gun]] into a [[GenderBender female form]], then touch a [[GreenRocks magical diamond]] which separates him into his normal male self, and a female version, named Ellen, who has all of the same memories, experiences, etc. Believing that she's the embodiment of his "curse", and thus will disappear when it wears off in less than a month, she goes crazy and tries to become his evil twin in a desperate attempt to gain ''some'' sort of identity. [[spoiler: She was wrong about disappearing, and wasn't so good at the evil twin thing. She now lives as Elliot's twin sister, joins the cast, and is accepted by Elliot's friends and family against the initial predictions of others. An extremely rare case of a "clone" getting a happy ending.]] All that stuff you saw in that spoiler? [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2003-07-27 May not have been Dan Shive's plan to begin with...]]

* ''Animation/SheZow'' has [=SheZap=], the unintended product of Guy throwing a discarded fingernail into a [[ILoveNuclearPower nuclear waste vat]]. Described as [[EnemyWithout his dark side]], he's the same as Guy except his outfit is black and green, his version of Guy's LaserBlade is a curling iron that doubles as a HotBlade, his skin has a SicklyGreenGlow, and his motivation appears to be ForTheEvulz.

* The ''[[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit SVU]]'' episode "Double Strands", where the rapist and his wrongfully-accused twin brother were played by T.R. Knight.

* In the fourth season episode "The Angelmaker" of ''Series/CriminalMinds'', an executed serial killer appears to be back, complete with possible DNA evidence. Reid floats the idea of 'evil twin, '''eviler''' twin', but no one else buys it.

* In ''DarkOracle'' the major antagonists, Blaze and Violet fall somewhere between this and EvilCounterpart. [[NoNameGiven Evil Sage]] (Season 2, Episode 3, "Through A Glass Darkly") on the other hand, plays this absolutely straight, being the DarkWorld twin of Lance's girlfriend, Sage, and her complete opposite in terms of personality. Whereas real-world Sage is a geekily-cute girl, with low self-esteem and very odd taste in--well pretty much everything--her comic book counterpart is a vindictive bitch with creepy MismatchedEyes, [[TattooedCrook evil tattoos]], and a plethora of KickTheDog moments. She's hyper-aggressive to Sage's shyness, enjoys playing mind games with Lance, and looses a poisonous snake on a pair of girls who defaced her locker. It takes a near-death experience to bring the real Sage back.

* An episode of the usually extremely down-to-earth ''{{Route 66}}'', "I'm Here to Kill a King", features an assassin who looks exactly like lead character Tod and is played by Martin Milner.

* In ''MassEffect3'', the BigBad of the ''Citadel DLC'' is [[spoiler: a Cerberus-created Clone of Commander Shepard, [[IJustWantToBeSpecial jealous]] about being created simply as [[HumanResources spare parts]] for them and now hellbent on [[KillAndReplace replacing]] the original]].

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* In LoisMcMasterBujold's ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga Vorkosigan]]'' book series: After the ''very'' distinctive-looking Miles Vorkosigan claims (as a coverup for his secret identity) that he has a clone running around, it turns out he does have one. Who's been trained to take his life over. Turns out the twin, Mark, isn't necessarily born evil, just brainwashed (plus has SplitPersonality, with the personalities generally being pretty dark). Lampshaded in Mirror Dance: "Some people have evil twins. I am not so lucky. I have an ''idiot'' twin."

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* Vanessa from ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', although technically the main villain in disguise, probably counts as Ariel's evil twin due to the distinct similarities between the two.

* Avatar and Black Wolf in Creator/RalphBakshi's ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}'', although they look nothing alike. Avatar is short, portly, friendly, and fairy-like (minus the wings). Black Wolf is tall, thin, evil, and mutated. The only thing they have in common is that they're both bearded.

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* In the ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' series, Chaos makes an evil twin of Aladdin when he discovers that Fate has destined that Aladdin always wins. To even Chaos' surprise, it came with an evil Genie as well.

* ''Animation/SheZow'' has [=SheZap=], the unintended product of Guy throwing a discarded fingernail into a [[ILoveNuclearPower nuclear waste vat]].

* The MassEffect3 [=DLC=] ''Citadel'' offers [[spoiler:Shepard's clone]]

* ''TransformersArmada'' had a black version of Optimus Prime appear when they briefly jumped dimensions for...some reason. [[spoiler: Actually it was Sideways, but still an evil twin.]]

** A Botcon ''TransformersAnimated'' comic features the Stunticons, destructive Decepticon clones from miscellaneous Autobots (and Lockdown, who's ''already'' pretty slaggin' evil.) Toxitron, the one based on Optimus, is a pastiche of Bizarro.

** The Delightful Children From Down The Lane and their Father are evil twins of their counterparts from that universe. It's implied but not confirmed the same applies to the other villains from the mainstream universe.

* In the ''FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode "Squeeze the Day", Bloo fools around with an eyebrow pencil, first drawing BigOlEyebrows and a moustache on his face and pretending to be "Pierre ze Schwan", then adding an [[GoodHairEvilHair evil goatee]] and pretending to be "Pierre's evil brother".

* The short lifespan of ''MegasXLR'' still had enough time to introduce Coop to an evil AlternateUniverse version of himself and one of Kiva, in the two-parter "Rearview Mirror, Mirror". The weird thing is that Evil Coop was supposed to be competent (as opposed to good Coop's idiocy) but for no reason decided to trade Megas in for a "better" bot (guess he forgot that Megas can shoot FREAKING BLACK HOLES OUT OF ITS CHEST).

* Averted in ''FriskyDingo''. When the Xtacles find Xander Crews' mentally retarded twin brother and cure his condition with "brain chemical", he quickly becomes evil and swears revenge on Xander Crews until he is promptly shot in the head by one of the Xtacles. The Xtacle then explains that the entire "evil twin" thing made the plot far too complicated for its own good and the rest of the Xtacles agree.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Dr. Venture himself can be considered the evil twin to his brother Jonas Jr., [[spoiler:whom he consumed in the womb]]. While Jonas Jr. is meant to be the true heir to Jonas Sr. and is the superior scientist, Rusty is a failed scientist who has shown himself to be amoral, having created a Joy Can out of an orphan's heart and a FrankensteinsMonster out of a PunchClockVillain that his bodyguard killed as well as being generally a horrid father who seems to show mostly disdain for his own sons (though this might be related to the fact that they are shown to be TooDumbToLive at times).

** Evil Jim's debut episode both lampshaded this trope's appearence on superhero shows in general ("Superheroes and evil twins are like peanut butter and...''evil'' peanut butter!") and mocked the 'your opposite in every way' aspect.

* ''TheFairlyOddparents'' has the Crimson Chin's (voiced by Jay Leno) evil MirrorUniverse twin Nega Chin (also voiced by Jay Leno), who appeared in the episodes ''Mighty Mom and Dyno Dad Meet The Crimson Chin'' and ''The Big Superhero Wish''. In the ''Mighty Mom and Dyno Dad'' episode he brought all his villain pals out of the comic, at the end he gets defeated by several versions of the Chin (all voiced by Jay Leno).

* ''TheTick'' has Mucus Tick, an evil clone created by inter-dimensional horror Thrakkazog from a tissue, or rather Kleenex, sample taken from The Tick when he had a cold. Mucus Tick was, appropriately, green and amorphous. The sample was taken from a clone of Arthur, which among its most telling features is that it could only say, "I Arthur." The Tick considered that a rather compelling argument when it came time to determine which one was real.

** Arguably, Tick also has "Barry Tick," who is similar only in theme and wind up fighting each other over who gets to use their name.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', Grim takes Billy and Mandy into a shadow world where their shadows manifests as their opposites. Mandy meets her good double, while Billy meets his stupid double. And no, that's not a typo. The stupid Billy spends much of the episode barking like a sea lion.
** And it should be noted that Mandy turns her good double evil, so at the end Grim is unable to tell them apart. Also, Billy had smashesd open a window, unleashing SEVERAL clones of himself.
*** ''Several'' is a gross understatement. There was literal SEA of Billy's surrounding the first two when the window broke.

* The ''SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' episode "Switcheroo" (the one in season 3, not 4) introduces Space Ghost's Evil Twin brother Chad... who, of course, has a [[BeardOfEvil goatee]].
** The original ''SpaceGhost'' series had a straight example of this, with the evil "Space Spectre" crossing over for one episode from a parallel universe. No evil twins of Space Ghost's friends, however, since Space Spectre works alone, [[spoiler: a fact pointed out by Space Ghost as the reason he was able to defeat Spectre]].
* In the ''BountyHamster'' episode "Twin Cheeks", Cassie comes across the roughest, toughest bounty hunter around - her alternative universe self! While certainly meaner, she actually turns out to be not quite as bright, and loses to the Real Cassie in a game of spaceship chicken.

* WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls have the Rowdy Ruff Boys as their evil twins. Not that [[{{Fandumb}} fanfiction writers]] [[ToyShip care]].
** More accurately, later on in the comics (from a planned episode) come the Powerpunk Girls

* Lucius and Wayne Cramp, from ''TheCrampTwins''. Though it's more of a good twin, annoyingly bully and ridiculously filth loving twin. [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation With purple skin]].
* Rikochet from ''MuchaLucha'' had his leprechaun-esque evil twin, Rick O'Shay. The fact that the two names are homophonous leads to a WhosOnFirst situation when Rikochet tries to deny the crimes that he's being framed for.
* Played with in ''{{Sealab 2021}}'', where a pair of characters gets displaced in time, and Captain Murphy is convinced they are doppelgangers.

* The titular character in WidgetTheWorldWatcher had an evil twin from another dimension, Ratchet the World Trasher.
* On ''RenAndStimpy'', Stimpy makes a formula which splits people into good and evil versions of themselves. Or in Ren's case, Indifferent Ren and Evil Ren. And his evil half takes more of the formula to become Evil Ren and Hideously Evil Ren (not that Indifferent Ren cares).
* One episode of ''JacobTwoTwo'' introduced Principal Greedyguts' ''good'' twin, who immediately became popular with the kids. [[spoiler: And then subverted it, [[BitchInSheepsClothing showing him to be]] ''even worse'' than the principal. [[SadistTeacher And that's saying something]].]]
* The Mondays from ''TheSecretSaturdays''.
* Not a real 'evil twin' per se, but an alternate {{Batman}}. Owlman (in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths'') is exactly like Batman, except a sociopath. To be honest most of the JLA counterparts are like that, but especially Owlman.

* Played with in ''ReBoot''. While the "second Bob" is truly evil [[spoiler: (he's really Megabyte in disguise)]], he acts like a good character and even convinces a few people that the first Bob is fake. [[UpToEleven He even convinced the real Bob that he was a fake]]. Like the WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} example earlier, this show averted the "switching good twin with bad twin" bit, since "second Bob"'s only claim to being real was that he looked normal while "first Bob" was Web degraded.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}:!'' Guitierrez made an evil clone of Freakazoid which he then sent out to create havoc and commit crimes. He's quickly found out when he refuses to attend a Yakov Smirnoff film festival with Sgt. Cosgrove.
* SamuraiJack vs. Mad Jack.
* One episode of ''The ScoobyDoo Show" featured Arlene Wilcox, whose evil twin tried to take advantage of their resemblance to have her executed as a witch. It'd have worked if not for those MeddlingKids.
* One episode of ''GarfieldAndFriends'', entitled "Binky Goes Bad", featured Stinky Davis disguising himself as Binky the Clown, after which he starts a crime wave for which the real Binky is falsely accused and is almost imprisoned until Garfield steps in to prove his innocence.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Garfield when he reads up on Davis disguising himself and exclaims, "Oh, no! It's an evil twin story! It's come to that!"
* In the cartoon version of SpaceAce, besides Hexter in the games, Dexter has a ''second'' evil clone named Baby Face Nerks, who looks like Dexter, but does not energize, and also wears a cowboy hat and wears a bandana around his neck. He appears in ''Wanter Dexter!''.
* Spider-Carnage of ''SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', BetaTestBaddie and WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds par excellence. "I'm more you than you'll ever admit!"

* ''[[HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]]'' used a similar mirror to create an evil twin of one of He-Man's allies. When the ally tricked Skeletor into allowing a good duplicate into existence, it lead to He-Man asking both Skeletors to claim to be his friend. The original Skeletor was too evil to comply.

* The cartoon version of DragonsLair had a episode called ''Mirror Mirror, in which Singe disguises himself as Dirk to trick the villiage people. The episode ends with two morals. The second one? [[spoiler: "Evil dragons should learn how to swim."]]
* In the first season finale of ''WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', [[spoiler:Comicbook/CaptainAmerica]] gets knocked out, then duplicated, by a Skrull invader. This Skrull eventually breaks up the Avengers, then tries to sway human support for his race re-colonizing the Earth and enslaving them.
* Albedo in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' and ''Ben10UltimateAlien'' is an evil Galvan who created an Omnitrix that worked by copying Ben's, and therefore had the "default setting" of looking like Ben, rather than a Galvan. He was then {{Mode Lock}}ed as a PaletteSwap of Ben when the Omnitrices reacted to each other.
* ''CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' had a plot where the series villains got together and made evil clones of the Power Rings. When the powers combined, they created Captain Pollution, an evil twin of Captain Planet who thrived on pollution and was weakened by clean, pure things.

* In addition to Bizarro, Superman has at least four other evil twins, each by way of a different trope. There is his EvilCounterpart [[KneelBeforeZod General Zod]]. There's Hank Henshaw, who went from being a TakeThat parody of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] to an evil Superman by way of GrandTheftME. There's his MirrorUniverse double Ultraman (in fact, there are currently two Ultramen, from two similar but distinct {{Mirror Universe}}s). And finally, there's his alternate universe counter part [[SuperBoy Superboy Prime]], who began life as a sort of {{Sidekick}} by way of {{Retcon}}, but was eventually transitioned into a villain.

* TheDCU has Earth-3, a MirrorUniverse of Evil Twins, including Alexander Luthor, the good twin of LexLuthor. President John Wilkes Booth was assassinated by Union sympathizer Abraham Lincoln and Benedict Arnold is on the dollar bill, too. It also has the anti-matter universe, /another/ MirrorUniverse of Evil Twins. The main visible difference between the two? The anti-matter universe is home to the Crime Syndicate of Amerika [sic], while Earth-3 is home to the Crime Society of America.

* Comicbook/TheFlash (Barry Allen version) had an Evil Twin in the form of Eobard Thawne, who had plastic surgery to resemble him, and then traveled back from the 25th century to become Professor Zoom, the Reverse Flash. A later {{Retcon}} would reveal that Zoom was descended from Malcolm Thawne, aka Cobalt Blue, who really ''was'' Barry's estranged twin brother but had completely different powers.

* In the ''FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode "Squeeze the Day", Bloo fools around with an eyebrow pencil, first drawing BigOlEyebrows and a moustache on his face and pretending to be "Pierre", then adding an [[GoodHairEvilHair evil goatee]] and pretending to be "Pierre's evil twin brother".

* The TV movie ''Echo'' had Jack Wagner play an evil twin brother who kidnapped the main character and move into his life, killing his remaining relatives in the process, until at the end when the character's girlfriend confronts them both in the abandoned building, she doesn't know which one is the evil twin and ends up shooting one of them, with the audience also left wondering which one was killed.

* ''{{Friends}}'' gives us [[GranolaGirl Phoebe's]] Evil Twin, Ursula. Or rather, ''MadAboutYou'' gave us Ursula, and ''Friends'' revealed she was Phoebe's Evil Twin. Parodied in another episode, when Joey was dating someone who honestly believed he was the character he played on TV. When she saw him on TV while Joey was in the room...
--> '''Ross''': He's ''Hans'' Ramore, Drake's evil twin!

* ''FanFic/TurnaboutStorm'': [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]] suggests that Rainbow Dash has one of these, named [[SdrawkcabName Wob Niar]], as a possible explanation of how the murder of [[PosthumousCharacter Ace Swift]] went down. [[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Phoenix]] insists on it being a stupid idea, but Pinkie being [[CloudCuckooLander Pinkie]], she sticks with it.

* Evil twins of the [[{{Saiyuki}} Sanzo-ikkou]] were created by a demon who rationalized that the best chance of beating them was pitting them against themselves. Turned into comedy when Hakkai, Gojyo, and Goku imagine beating up on a Sanzo-lookalike. Also used as AnAesop, as when they win against their clones - who are wearing their clothes from the first season - they explain to the confused demon that they are not the same people as they were when the clones were created and they grow and learn as blah blah blah.

* ''SoWeird'': "Pen Pal": Random supernatural occurrences cause Annie to come face-to-face with a parallel universe counterpart who has fallen in with a bad crowd, and thereby turned "evil" (Well, goth and rebellious. This being a Disney show, the two are more or less synonymous).

** In the same vein, Majin Boo's two forms. The thin Boo, the one formed out of steam seems to act entirely evil, while the 'original' Fat Boo (aka Mr. Boo) often makes the 'good' choice, especially after the split. Though they don't look all that much alike until the reabsorption.

* In the first season finale of ''[[WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'', [[spoiler:CaptainAmerica]] gets knocked out, then duplicated, by a Skrull invader. If the warning of [[spoiler: Kang the Conqueror]] is to be believed, [[spoiler: this Skrull will eventually betray the Avengers and/or the Earth, and this action will cause the destruction of the world]].