History Main / EvilTwin

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* Happens literally in ''Literature/RangersApprentice'', although this is something of a subversion in that [[spoiler: Halt's]] twin is more petty and pathetic than outright evil, and the dichotomy is one of competent/incompetent rather than good/bad.

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* In [[ComicBook/TheSimpsons The Simpsons Comics]] Issue #60 invokes this when Professor Frink creates an "unethical clone" who exists to do highly unethical science experiments. His only real notable difference is that he wears a black lab coat.

* In [[ComicBook/TheSimpsons The Simpsons Comics]] Issue #60 invokes this when Professor Franklin creates an "unethical clone" who exists to do highly unethical science experiments. His only real notable difference is that he wears a black lab coat.

** His supposedly rehabilitated clone Kraken gets BrainwashedAndCrazy. Formerly a Judda member, he was slowly possessed by the Sister of Death, who used him to resurrect the Dark Judges. Then he was forced to murder millions of people in this state, begging Dredd to kill him when he was finally freed of their control. Dredd obliges.

* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' loves this trope. Dredd himself is a clone of Judge Fargo. Dredd may or may not be considered "evil", but [[spoiler:he is definitely far more fascist than his clone father]]. His clone brother Rico and Rico's identical MirrorUniverse double are straight examples. The Judda are a ''whole group'' of evil clones of him and other judges. His supposedly rehabilitated clone Kraken gets BrainwashedAndCrazy. His MirrorUniverse counterpart is a comically liberal counterpart to the fascist we know. And finally, his evil future self gets killed and dragged back to the present before getting up and going on a rampage. Dredd frequently {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s this by worrying if it's "something [[VillainousLineage in the blood]]".

* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'',

* Hana from ''Papillion Hana To Cho'' is glamorous, popular, and the decided [[ParentalFavoritism favorite]] over her CountryMouse twin sister Ageha until Ageha discovered tiny bit of confidence after reuniting with an old (male) friend. Hana then steals said friend by using Ageha's weak stomach to get her out of the way with a little HiddenDepths sweettalk. Things get worse after Ageha gets over the guy, improves her relationship with her [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Mom]] and hooks up with another guy: [[spoiler: ''Hana disguises herself as Ageha'' while Ageha is sick and is so irritating that he breaks up with Ageha the next day he's a psych major and he couldn't tell Ageha was acting a bit off? C'mon, they're not Cylons!). Due to said guy being [[HotForStudent her school counselor]] and offlimits in the first place it's unlikely Ageha will ever know the real reason they broke up.]]

* In ''Comicbook/JaxEpochAndTheQuickenForbidden'', while Jax finds out that a week has passed despite only being Realmsend for a couple minutes, she also finds out that her family and friends mistook her evil twin as the real her while she was gone

** In ''Comicbook/KryptoniteNevermore'', Superman meets a sand creature which looks right like Superman and appears to be malevolent.

** In ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 1982}} her second solo book]]'' Supergirl got an evil clone. Her clone was eventually depowered and just wanted to live a normal life. Kara promised to help her establish a new identity for herself.
** ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 2005}} Post-Crisis Supergirl]]'' went through a similar story which created "Dark Supergirl", although she ended up as more of an EnemyWithin.

* The Creator/MarvelComics series ''Comicbook/{{Exiles}}'' inverts this. The reality-hopping team of the title need to defeat the evil Hyperion... so they fetch two ''good'' versions of him from other universes.

* In ''Comicbook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', as well as having Shadow, and various Metal Sonics, there is the alternate world known as Moebius, home to kindly Dr. Kintobor (Robotnik's "evil twin") and the Anti-Freedom Fighters, the evil twins of the Freedom Fighters. Their leader was Anti-Sonic, the evil twin of Sonic himself, who proved to be very inept - despite helping Alicia (the evil Sally) depose of her father, he hadn't won a single fight since. Amongst his failures were accidentally giving the Sonic Underground Robotnik the Bio Borg instead of Robo-Robotnik and getting struck down by Antoine ''by accident''. Compare this to Anti-Antione (later known as Patch), Antione's evil twin, who successfully replaced Antoine, nearly ruined his relationship with Bunnie, poisoned King Acorn, killed Antoine's father and nearly took the throne before Sonic stepped in. Thankfully, Anti-Sonic got better after he TookALevelInBadass by becoming Scourge.

* 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 (taught by his adoptive grandmother.)

** Comicbook/{{Cable}} and Stryfe, although Cable seems to be the Good Twin. [[TangledFamilyTree It's confusing.]]

** Most of the Doppelgangers disappeared when the Magus was defeated, but a few survived the crossover and continued to fight their counterparts, including include Spider-Doppelganger (Comicbook/SpiderMan), Moonshade (Comicbook/MoonKnight) and Hellspawn (Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}).

* The Comicbook/{{Excalibur}} villains Lightning Squad were an alternate version of the team (minus Rachel, who has no counterpart in the multiverse) from a reality where the Nazis won World War Two. Hauptmann Englande was a cold and ruthless Nazi darling, Meggan had this [[TheBaroness Baroness]] thing going on, and Nightcrawler was a rapist; but the most chilling reflection was Jewish Shadowcat, who was a bald, emaciated slave to the regime.

* ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd'' loves this trope. Dredd himself is a clone of Judge Fargo. Dredd may or may not be considered "evil", but [[spoiler:he is definitely far more fascist than his clone father]]. His clone brother Rico and Rico's identical MirrorUniverse double are straight examples. The Judda are a ''whole group'' of evil clones of him and other judges. His supposedly rehabilitated clone Kraken gets BrainwashedAndCrazy. His MirrorUniverse counterpart is a comically liberal counterpart to the fascist we know. And finally, his evil future self gets killed and dragged back to the present before getting up and going on a rampage. Dredd frequently {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s this by worrying if it's "something [[VillainousLineage in the blood]]".

* Conversed in a [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4302297/9/In_His_Shoes one-shot]] within the [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender ATLA]] FanFic/AnotherBrother [[AlternateUniverse universe,]] where Sokka believes an evil twin was the reason that [[LaserGuidedAmnesia Zuko]] was banished.

* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' fanfic ''FanFic/InTheService'' has Other-Wolkenritter and the Immortal Order-Wolkenritter, for the real ones. Not quite as powerful as the real deal, they are respectively psychotic and sociopathic.

* ''Series/{{Neighbours}}'',

* Series/StarskyAndHutch each has one in "Starsky And Hutch Are Guilty". [[spoiler:These evil twins are actually two look-alikes disguised as the title characters, pinning crimes on the original duo under orders of a corrupt attorney.]]

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', particularly during the ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' era, there ''may'' have been this situation with Alpharius and Omegon, Primarchs of the Alpha Legion.[[note]]Since a Primarch is a lovingly crafted superhuman, there were only 20 of them ever (21 if you count Omegon since they turned out to be twins, [[TheDividual but not everybody does]]). Since Omegon's existence was and remains one of the Galaxy's best kept secret, to anybody outside the Legion, the concept of a Legion with two primarchs was simply a contradiction of terms.[[/note]] Both worked together to try to reach ThePlan, working with the forces of [[TheCorruption Chaos]] with the goal of making sure it ultimately fizzled out. However, it was implied one followed this plan while the other started to to become more sympathetic to Chaos, and their relationship started to strain because of it, [[TheUnsolvedMystery though which was which was never revealed]]. Since the Alpha Legion is known for [[ComplexityAddiction lies, misdirection, and misinformation]], including at [[MindScrew the narrative level]], the whole situation or [[RiddleForTheAges if that was the situation at all]] is never revealed to readers.

* In ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'', actors-turned-robbers Vize, Anita, and Faina appear as [[PaletteSwap Palette Swaps]] to heroes Vyse, Aika, and Fina, which has unfortunate results for the silhouettes on the Wanted poster (even though the heroes are already wanted as pirates, [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything sort of]]). Turns out they even mirror several of the heroes' moves. When you beat them, [[spoiler:they make a legitimate business out of looking like you]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', ''every single person in existence'' - except, it seems, the Protagonist [[spoiler: until the final episode of the anime]] - has an evil twin called a "Shadow" born of their repressed feelings and thoughts. Get stuck in the [[MentalWorld TV world]], and you'll end up meeting it.
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}'' also had evil Shadows based off people's inner selves, though their abilities and the circumstances behind their appearance are somewhat different.

* ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' follows this literally. [[spoiler: Lucas]]'s twin brother, [[spoiler: Claus]], becomes evil [[spoiler:after being reanimated and manipulated by Porky's minions]].

* Cave Prime from ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'''s Perpetual Testing Initiative has an evil alternate dimension twin, named Dark Cave. He asks you to find him, with no avail. They eventually end up being friends at the end.
* Absolute Zeroth ''VideoGame/{{LegacyOfHeroes}}'' [[spoiler: He's actually a second Zeroth that separated from the original]]

* Neifirst from ''Videogame/PhantasyStarII'' is the main personality of Nei. When Neifirst goes berserk and creates biomonster outbreak, her good part rejects her actions and splits up into the CuteMonsterGirl who joins your team.

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* ''WebComic/DeadOfSummer'' has an [[spoiler: evil clone of [[Music/TheProtomen Panther]]. This isn't revealed until the ''real'' one shows up to save the day.]]

* ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Eternity}}'' has the Original Hull Abyssals, who are specifically resistant to Shipgirls' firepower, and their presence weakens the shipgirls who are based off of them.

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* The HiddenObjectGame series ''Empress of the Deep'' reveals that Anna, the protagonist and TheChosenOne, has an evil twin sister named Pandora, who attacked her in a jealous rage and put her in a coma for over 100 years. The story of the games has Anna navigating her way through the empty settings and foil her sister's plans to destroy her.
* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', the BigBad of the ''Citadel DLC'' is [[spoiler: a Cerberus-created Clone of Commander Shepard, [[IJustWantToBeSpecial jealous]] about being created simply as a WalkingTransplant for them and now hellbent on [[KillAndReplace replacing]] the original]].

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* ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'': [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]] suggests that Rainbow Dash has one of these, called [[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.

* Comically subverted in the cartoon ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim''. In an episode when Evil Jim, the titular character's Evil Twin, tired of being the only Evil Twin in the universe, used a [[AppliedPhlebotinum Negative Synthesizer]] to create evil versions of Earthworm Jim's sidekicks. However, halfway through the episode the Synthesizer accidentally creates good twins of all of the series' recurring villains, including this most humourous exchange:
-->'''Good The Cat:''' I am Good the Cat. Would you be my friend? \\
'''Evil The Cat:''' I think not. Instead, I will destroy you with an acid furball. \\
'''Good The Cat:''' Then I will neutralize it with an antacid furball. \\
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'''Evil The Cat:''' Curses! \\
'''Good The Cat:''' Kisses!
** Evil Jim's debut episode both lampshaded this trope's appearance on superhero shows in general ("Superheroes and evil twins are like peanut butter and...''[[{{Dissimile}} evil]]'' [[{{Dissimile}} peanut butter]]!") and mocked the 'your opposite in every way' aspect.
-->'''Jim:''' If I hate losing, then you must love it! So why not give up now?
-->'''Evil Jim:''' Oh, don't be so literal-minded.

* There's an unused [[MechaMooks enemy robot]] in the game data for ''VideoGame/Descent'' II that is literally called the "Evil Twin". It's a green-tinted version of the [[RobotBuddy Guidebot]] that is programmed to [[ActionBomb charge the player and explode]].

* ''VideoGame/WaxWorks'' has this as a major part of the story: A witch cursed your family in the past so that, whenever twins are born to it, one of them will always be evil. These include Vlad the Impaler (who [[DeathByIrony killed the witch himself for not lifting the curse when asked]]), UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, an evil Egyptian priest, an old necromancer named Vladimir and a [[WasOnceAMan plant creature that doesn't even look human anymore]]. And other than Vlad, you must travel back in time to take them all down in the body of the good twin on the way to undo the curse. [[spoiler:And right as the game is coming to an end, and your brother tells you the dream he saw of the final curse-lifting event, it's revealed that ''you'' [[TomatoInTheMirror were the evil twin the entire time]]]].

* ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd'' loves this trope. Dredd himself is a clone of Judge Fargo. Dredd may or may not be considered "evil", but [[spoiler:he is definitely far more fascist than his clone father]]. His clone brother Rico and Rico's identical MirrorUniverse double are straight examples. The Judda are a ''whole group'' of evil clones of him and other judges. His supposedly rehabilitated clone Kraken gets BrainwashedAndCrazy. His MirrorUniverse counterpart is a comically liberal counterpart to the fascist we know. And finally, his evil future self gets killed and dragged back to the present before getting up and going on a rampage. Dredd frequently {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s this by worrying if it's "something InTheBlood".

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* In Archie ''Comicbook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', as well as having Shadow, and various Metal Sonics, there is the alternate world known as Moebius, home to kindly Dr. Kintobor (Robotnik's "evil twin") and the Anti-Freedom Fighters, the evil twins of the Freedom Fighters. Their leader was Anti-Sonic, the evil twin of Sonic himself, who proved to be very inept - despite helping Alicia (the evil Sally) depose of her father, he hadn't won a single fight since. Amongst his failures were accidentally giving the Sonic Underground Robotnik the Bio Borg instead of Robo-Robotnik and getting struck down by Antoine ''by accident''. Compare this to Anti-Antione (later known as Patch), Antione's evil twin, who successfully replaced Antoine, nearly ruined his relationship with Bunnie, poisoned King Acorn, killed Antoine's father and nearly took the throne before Sonic stepped in. Thankfully, Anti-Sonic got better after he TookALevelInBadass by becoming Scourge.

* The Manikins of ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', living (though not sentient) crystal lifeforms that can take on the form of anyone who gets to close might count.

* ''ComicBook/TheCallOfCRusso'': The great musician C'Rrusso is the evil twin to the rival musician D'Mmingo who looks exactly like him. For good measure, one wears black, and the other white. This is because they're really the same person, since both are embodiments of the monster-god Ar-Finn's conflicting desires to either wake up or keep on sleeping and must battle each other for supremacy.

* ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Eternity}}'' has the Original Hull Abyssals, who are specifically resistant to Shipgirls' firepower, and their presence weaken the shipgirls that are based off them.

* TheMovie of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'' introduces Zebedee's Evil Twin, the ice-wizard Zeebad who was imprisoned under the Roundabout itself. This would probably qualify it for CanonDisContinuity were it not for Tom Baker's wonderful LargeHam voice role. And then he became [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]] in the [[CulturalTranslation American]] version.

* The Creator/BetteDavis movie ''Film/DeadRinger'': After the funeral of her brother-in-law (who had died of a heart attack), Edith Phillips learns that Margaret de Lorca, her rich identical twin sister, tricked the man Edith loved into marrying her (Margaret) instead. Edith kills Margaret and assumes her identity and life-style. Turns out things are [[TwistEnding not quite what they seem]] at the de Lorca household. Edith discovers [[spoiler: that Margaret and her sleazy lover in fact murdered Mr. de Lorca]] and, realizing [[spoiler: she will be charged with Margaret's crime]], learns that YouCantFightFate.

* Classic voiceless Swede horror film "The Rat King". Somehow a rat manages to masquerade as the hero's girlfriend. [[AWizardDidIt (Don't ask.)]] She blows her cover by making the [[SexIsEvil grave error]] of wanting to have sex with the hero (it's the 1910's or so) - he immediately [[IncrediblyLamePun smells a rat.]]

* The twist at the the end of ''Film/TheInitiation'' is that the killer who has been stalking Kelly and murdering her sorority sisters (and assorted hangers-on) is not her father Jason as has been implied, but her identical twin sister Terry. Kelly, who has amnesia and cannot remember anything before age 12, does not even know she has a twin.
* ''Film/AnotherMe'': Lila, Fay's [[spoiler:dead]] twin, who wants revenge [[spoiler:for their dad letting her die and has come back intent on seizing control over Fay's life]].

* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': 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 over his life. 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."

* The ''Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch'' novel ''Fearful Symmetry'' is all over this trope. You may want to draw diagrams for this. Back in the episode "Second Skin", Major Kira was surgically altered to look like a Cardassian and told she was Iliana Ghemor, an Obsidian Order agent who'd been given FakeMemories as a DeepCoverAgent. This was [[ThePlan planned by the Obsidian Order to gain evidence against Iliana's father]] was an anti-military-rule dissident. In this novel, the ''real'' Iliana shows up, and it turns out she did indeed have her memories and appearance altered to resemble Kira, before Gul Dukat called a halt to the operation in memory of Kira's mother. He then kept Iliana captive all this time, taking his ... confused (not to say disturbing)... feelings about Kira out on her. Iliana is now AxCrazy with a side-order of AmnesiacDissonance and wants revenge on anyone else who claims to be Kira Nerys. She starts off by killing Kira's ''other'' evil twin, Intendant Kira from the MirrorUniverse, and taking her place. "Our" Kira, meanwhile, is being aided by Iliana's ''good'' twin; she's a MirrorUniverse version whose father was the ruthless head of the Obsidian Order, but who defied him and joined [[LaResistance the Terran Rebellion]]. Got all that? If this was the TV series, Nana Visitor would be playing four roles.

* OlderThanPrint: The "false Guenevere" in KingArthur, who is the true Guenevere's identical ''half''-sister (somehow), and plots to take her sister's place as queen.

* In ''Literature/TheLightbringerTrilogy'', a major part of the backstory lies in the fact that instead of there only being one person with the power to become Prism in that generation, there had been two, brothers named Gavin and Dazen Guile. There was a civil war over which one would take the throne, in which the 'good' brother, Gavin, was victorious. Of course, what only a handful of people know is that [[spoiler: although Gavin's ''army'' won the war, the man on the throne is actually Daven, who imprisoned his brother (who he closely resembled even before he made the effort to make himself his brother's double) and took his place. Also, even though the general population believes that Gavin was good and Daven evil, Daven has been a competent and fairly benevolent ruler, while some evidence suggests that Gavin might not have been as nice as the people believe]].

* In ''Literature/WheresWaldo'', [[SdrawkcabName Odlaw]] acts as Waldo's evil twin, being a criminal, and having a black and yellow colour scheme. Just as Waldo makes a journey to the "Land of Waldos" which is filled with Waldos, it is later reveled that Odlaw comes from "Odlaw's Swamp" which is filled with Odlaws.

* ''VideoGame/WaxWorks'' has this as a major part of the story: A witch cursed your family in the past so that, whenever twins are born to it, one of them will always be evil. These include Vlad the Impaler (who [[DeathByIrony killed the witch himself for not lifting the curse when asked]]), UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, an evil Egyptian priest, an old necromancer named Vladimir and a [[WasOnceAMan plant creature that doesn't even look human anymore]]. And other than Vlad, you must travel back in time to take them all down in the body of the good twin on the way to undo the curse. [[spoiler:And as it turns out, right as the game is coming to an end and your brother tells you the dream he saw of the final curse-lifting event, it's revealed that ''you'' [[TomatoInTheMirror were the evil twin the entire time]]]].
* In the fourth ''VideoGame/DetectivesUnited'' game, it's revealed that Agent Brown has an identical twin brother, Mortimer, who is wreaking havoc on a small community called Restville. Naturally, SpotTheImposter comes into play as part of the story - the difficulty is enhanced by the fact that the twins, who have the same voice, are also both ''[[spoiler:invisible]]''.

* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': 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."

* The ''Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch'' novel ''Fearful Symmetry'' is all over this trope. You may want to draw diagrams for this. Back in the episode "Second Skin", Major Kira was surgically altered to look like a Cardassian and told she was Iliana Ghemor, an Obsidian Order agent who'd been given FakeMemories as a DeepCoverAgent. This was [[ThePlan planned by the Obsidian Order to gain evidence against Iliana's father]] was an anti-military-rule dissident. In this novel, the ''real'' Iliana shows up, and it turns out she did indeed have her memories and appearance altered to resemble Kira, before Gul Dukat called a halt to the operation in memory of Kira's mother. He then kept Iliana captive all this time, taking his ... confused (not to say disturbing)... feelings about Kira out on her. Iliana is now AxCrazy with a side-order of AmnesiacDissonance and wants revenge on anyone else who claims to be Kira Nerys. She starts off by killing Kira's ''other'' evil twin, Intendant Kira from the MirrorUniverse, and taking her place. "Our" Kira, meanwhile, is being aided by Iliana's ''good'' twin; a MirrorUniverse version whose father was the ruthless head of the Obsidian Order, but who defied him and joined [[LaResistance the Terran Rebellion]]. Got all that? If this was the TV series, Nana Visitor would be playing four roles.

* Unusually, Creator/EdgarAllanPoe wrote a serious inversion, "William Wilson". The twins even have the same ''name''. This is because the good twin is actually [[spoiler: the narrator's conscience. Which gets confusing and symbolic when the evil twin ''murders'' him.]]
* ''Literature/MikeHammer'': "One Lonely Night" by Creator/MickeySpillane. An up-and-coming politician campaigning against corruption and DirtyCommunists hires Mike Hammer to catch his insane twin brother who committed a murder in public in apparent attempt to destroy his reputation (fortunately the politician was giving a speech before hundreds of people at the time). [[spoiler:Inverted in that Mike discovers the brother is a fraternal twin who doesn't look anything like the politician, who hired a look-alike actor to give the speech and commited the murder himself.]]
* The novella ''The Wife of Martin Guerre'' subverts this: Bertrande's husband goes off to adventure and avoid farm life. 8 years later he returns and is noticeably kinder and softer in manner. When she questions him he responds that WarIsHell, that life is to be enjoyed. She feels troubled about this as she [[SarcasmMode Loves]] him, but feels he is not her real husband and cannot stand to live a pleasant lie. Despite having a child with him, she eventually has him put on trial for impersonating Martin Guerre. The real [[JerkAss Martin]] [[BloodKnight Guerre]] shows up at the end of the trial, confirms that the man is an imposter and calls her out for betraying both him as her husband, and the other guy whom she had admitted to loving. Doubles as RealLife as it is a fictionalization of a court case that did really occur in medieval France.

* In Creator/RobertEHoward's ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' story "Literature/AWitchShallBeBorn", Salome to Queen Taramis.
* Played straight in the short story ''The poet and her double'' in the book ''Women and Ghosts'' by Alison Lurie. Karo [=McKay=], a young and gifted poet, finds out that she is followed by her Evil Twin, the anti-Karo.

* An interesting [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] occurs in the ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' with the Doctor's companion Samantha. The version the Doctor met and traveled with was actually paradoxically altered in the moment of their first meeting and accidentally turned into the "perfect" (blonde, peppy, vegetarian) companion. The original Sam is a (brunette) former addict, cynical and unimpressed with the Doctor.

-->I get it, thought Sam. ''I'm'' the evil twin.
But she's not really evil, just a version of Sam who led a much harsher life and never met the Doctor.

* This is a key component in the young adult novel ''Twins'' by Caroline B. Cooney. Mary Lee is envious of her identical twin sister Madrigal, who is considered prettier and is much more popular. When Madrigal is killed in an accident, Mary Lee decides to use the tragedy to fake her own death, so she can live her sister's life instead of her own. [[spoiler:Only when she 'becomes' Madrigal does Mary Lee find out that Madrigal was actually a ''terrible'' person who did some truly evil things. The twins' parents actually sent Mary Lee away to boarding school because they began to suspect that Madrigal might try to kill her.]]

** The episode "Baa Baa White Sheep" introduces Boss Hogg's good twin, Abraham Lincoln Hogg (Sorrell Booke in a dual role), who is everything his brother isn't; A.L. Hogg is kind, charitable, and decent. He wears a priest's black outfit and a black stovepipe hat, and drives a black car, in contrast to his brother's white duds and white vehicle. The twins' parents must have had foreseen how their sons would have turned out; astute viewers will recognize that the twins are named after Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, the Presidents of the Union and the Confederacy, respectively, during the American Civil War.

** Zelda's Evil Twin is worse. [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Jezebelda]] claims to have created the Bubonic Plague, but while clearly wicked, she isn't as smart as Katrina.

** The series plays pretty heavily on this trope, as Elena learns that her identical-appearing ancestor Katerina Petrova is [[spoiler: alive and regularly killing people as a vampire named "Katherine"]], and both are part of a supernatural heritage of reincarnated {{Doppelganger}}s. Over the entire show, lead actress Creator/NinaDobrev plays three versions of the Petrova Doppelgangers (all of whom eventually make out with fan favorite [[spoiler: Elijah]]!)

** William Riker has one, thanks to a [[PhlebotinumBreakdown transporter malfunction]], that's at first just missing some social niceties after being stranded on a planet alone for the better part of a decade.
** And then "Thomas" Riker shows up in ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'', impersonates his brother, and steals the Defiant for a mission with the Maquis, making him at least seriously misguided. (He's right about the hidden Cardassian fleet.)

** Spock's "evil twin" was terrifyingly cold and ruthless; however, apart from the beard, he actually was identical to his regular universe counterpart, and was simply behaving logically for someone living in an evil empire. When he realizes what's happening, he helps Kirk return to his original universe so he can get his (evil) captain back. Kirk is even able to persuade him to rebel from the empire on moral grounds.

* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' outright abused this along with IdenticalStranger, with the reveals of Uber -A [[spoiler: Mary Drake]], Spencer's mother [[spoiler: and killer of her own twin sister, Jessica Drake]] and AD [[spoiler: Spencer's twin sister, '''A'''lex '''D'''rake]].

** This trope is parodied in another ''Saturday Night Live'' skit one which is titled Jay's Evil Twin, in it... Leno uses a fake moustache to determine if his date (Joan Cusack) will put out - his evil twin Wade.

'''Jay's Evil Twin''': ''[releases an evil laugh]'' Jay - that little weasel! That sniveling druid! What kind of a man would read "Our Bodies Ourselves"? I've got my own version of that book, baby - it's called "Your Body Myself!" ''[releases an evil laugh]''\\

* In a ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' episode, Alex gets her replica out of a picture, using a special machine. Their lines suggests the fact Alex is actually [[{{Jerkass}} the]] [[ManipulativeBastard bad]] [[MagnificentBastard one]] of the two:

-->'''Alex(turns to her replica):''' Alex, can I talk to you over there for a second?
-->'''Alex's replica:''' Sure! (she walks away)
-->Alex grabs a heavy object from a shelf, then follows her, with a dark scowl on her face.

* Alton Brown's evil twin, B.A., is a recurring character on ''Series/GoodEats'', usually to provide contrast as Alton and B.A. make sweet and spicy varieties of the same dish. Despite that B.A. is "evil", and has been in and out of jail numerous times, Alton and B.A. seem to get along relatively well. Of course, this might be because B.A.'s also TheVoiceless, and Alton provides the running commentary on anything B.A. makes.

* ''Series/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).

* ''Series/OutOfThisWorld1987'': Evie splits herself in order to attend a party while also writing a speech about the evils of school uniforms (Specifically, bright yellow dresses with blue baseball caps, and breeches for the boys). Unsurprisingly, the process results in a serious Evie and a reckless Evie. The serious Evie is portrayed as the "real" one, at least until Serious-Evie tries to give her speech and discovers that she's now ''in favor'' of the dress code. Troy attributes their eventual recombination to ThePowerOfLove, which is kind of {{Squick}}worthy if you think too hard about it.

* Subverted in ''Series/{{Farscape}}'''s third season, where a second John Crichton is created... yet is absolutely the same as the first Crichton. However, it was essentially played straight in the episode ''My three Crichtons,'' which featured John being duplicated into [[spoiler: a caveman and a future-brain-man-thing]]. Strangely enough, only ''one'' was actually evil.

* Each of the main characters in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' has a [[IdenticalStranger doppleganger]]. Lily's duplicate Jasmine is a clear Evil Twin who robs Barney, Ted and Robin. However, Barney's doppelganger, Dr John Stangel, is a mature and well-respected fertility doctor who is visibly unamused by his duplicates' antics, making ''Barney'' the Evil Twin.

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' has begun this trope as an "evil" character [[spoiler: Sylar]] gained shapeshifting abilities and has begun taking on the roles of a "good" character [[spoiler: Nathan Petrelli ]]. (Though their good and evil roles seem to change episode by episode).

** In the classic series adventure ''Inferno'', the Third Doctor is sent into an AlternateUniverse where he encounters evil-fascist-twin versions of his friends in UNIT -- the evil Brigadier has in fact ''lost'' his facial hair, but gained an eyepatch in response. Bizzaro Liz is a brunette instead of a redhead. Curiously enough, there's no evil version of the Doctor himself (although the ExpandedUniverse novels did suggest that the evil tyrant ruling this fascist alternative Britain was in fact an alternative version of the Third Doctor with a different body who went evil after his forced regeneration by the Time Lords).

* In ''Series/{{Lidsville}}'' the villain Hoodoo had a good twin, Bruce, the White Sheep of the family.

** Then there's the ''actual'' evil twin in "Simon Said." Sam and Dean are investigating a case where someone is using mind control to make people commit suicide. They find a guy named Andy who has mind control powers, but it turns out that the one who's actually making people off themselves is his long lost twin brother, who has the same powers. Andy's response when he finds out? [[LampshadeHanging "I have an evil twin."]]

* ''Series/GeneralHospital'' once had an interesting take on this. There was once a character named Grant Putnam who was revealed to TheMole for the Soviet Union. ThePowerOfLove redeems him and after helping to dispense with his comrades, continues his life. Eventually the NotQuiteDead real Grant Putnam recovers from amnesia. At first it seems he's evil due to the trauma of nearly dying and spending years in an asylum, but it's revealed that he was EvilAllAlong and had originally murdered his brother in order to have his brother's fiancé, who's now married to the Russian.

** And later on in the Sixth Season, there was a revelation of a mirror universe where everyone who is good is evil and everyone who is evil is good. The whitelighters are darklighters and the Police Station looks more like a strip club.

* The ''[[Series/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. The evil twin follows his blissfully ignorant and successful brother (their mother gave them up for adoption separately) around the country and rapes women, when he knows his brother doesn't have an alibi. He slips up, when his brother alters his schedule one day, and then leaves a fingerprint on a screwdriver (twins have the same DNA but different fingerprints).

** Robert Robertson for his triplet Cameron, who he [[TwinSwitch impersonated]] in a plan to kill his father, sister and anyone else who got in his way.
** Andrea Somers, who was originally introduced as an IdenticalStranger for Dione Bliss, who she impersonated in hopes of getting her parents' inheritance. They were retconned to be twins SeparatedAtBirth two years later.

* In ''Series/FatherDowlingMysteries'', the eponymous priest had and evil twin who was a criminal and would pop in and cause trouble.

* Lord John Roxton gets one in one episode of ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'' after he is cursed for disturbing a graveyard's peace. The protector takes the ruthless and violent part - basically the hunter part - out of him andd gives him a life of his own. Evil!Roxton tries to kill the good one, using Marguerite as bait. It ends in a MirrorMatch.

* In the Fox TV movie ''Dark Reflection'' (aka, ''Natural Selection''), C. Thomas Howell plays a dual role. In one, he is a successful computer programmer named Ben with a great house and an awesome sports car but is neglectful of his wife and son. In the other role, he is Adam, a clone of Ben who has been running around the country killing his other clones and taking over their lives. (There were seven clones all together). Well, Ben is last on the list. So, Adam gets a job at Ben's company, charms the wife and kid, and infiltrates Ben's life to learn all the little details he will need to accomplish his evil pan. Along the way, [[spoiler: Adam kills a private detective who has figured it all out and Ben's mother who is the only one who know that Ben has a clone. He also has sex with Ben's wife, who can't tell the difference.]] In the climax, Ben and Adam fight on the roof and one kills the other. At the end, we find out that [[spoiler: evil Adam survived and that he's a better father to Ben's son and wife, neither of whom know they're now living with a murderous clone who has killed.]]

* ''Series/HannahMontana'' has this with Miley's cousin Luann, who looks like her, does bad things to her and even tricks other people in a Halloween party that she's the real Hannah just to ruin Miley's alter ego's reputation. Luckily, she only showed up in one episode.
** To say nothing of Luann's dad, who is Robbie Ray's identical twin brother. He isn't actually evil himself, but seeing two Robbies side by side does freak the snooty neighbor out.

* In an unusual example, ''Series/DarkAngel'' introduces the evil twin first. Ben is a disturbed serial killer; his twin brother Alec, introduced a season after Ben's death, becomes one of the main heroes of the series...even if he does [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold have his rough patches]].
* Subverted in one episode of ''Series/{{Elementary}}''. The twins in question were [[spoiler: fraternal twins, not identical so there wasn't any impersonation of the good twin.]] Some aspects of this trope are played with, namely [[spoiler: framing/trying to kill off the good twin.]]
* The second season ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' episode "The Return Of The Green Ranger" gives us a clone of Tommy, repowered with the Green Ranger powers and evil. He easily hands the real Tommy his rear and the resummoned Dragonzord easily trounces the Thunder Megazord. Thankfully, defeating the wizard that created him frees him from being evil and he and Tommy go back to the past and allow the clone to live there in peace.

** The ninth clone introduced (counting three killed before the series starts), Helena, was raised by a group of religious extremists to kill off the other clones. [[spoiler:At first, the other characters just assume, and the audience is meant to, that she's just another clone, but she's ultimately revealed to literally be Sarah's twin sister. It's ultimately subverted, however. Helena may be murderous, but she's not ''evil'' --she's just an abused young woman who's been taught some ''very'' bad morals. Over time, she goes through a HeelFaceTurn.]]
** Rachel — who's clone number ten — may be a very dark grey as opposed to pure black, but also fits into this trope.

* Gwen, Fiona Brake’s identical sister in ''Series/NightAndDay''. Not ''outright'' evil, but certainly an antagonist, who swiftly makes a beeline for Fiona’s husband Mike.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}''. A DiscussedTrope in "The Abominable Bride" that's PlayedForLaughs. Said bride has apparently come back to life to murder someone ''after'' witnesses saw her blowing her own brains out. Watson suggests that she might have a twin sister who committed the murder. This is dismissed by Sherlock with irritation: her only relative was a brother who died years before. Watson then suggests that she might have a ''secret'' twin!

* Parodied in one episode of Even Stevens, where Louis meets a lookalike with a similar name from a different school, who starts playing pranks on everyone and gets him blamed for it. Louis isn't so much upset about that as the fact that the pranks being pulled are so amateurish and sloppy as to [[VillainCred ruin his reputation as a prankster]].

** Frequently discussed by the characters and the narrator as a well-worn telenovela trope. Rogelio considers it an old cliche.

* In ''TabletopGame/ScarredLands'', the goddesses of Good and Evil are twins. With Madriel being the good twin and Belsameth being the evil twin. They often impersonate each other. Especially with Belsameth impersonating Madriel, but the reverse also happens sometimes.

* Sabata is this to Django in ''VideoGame/{{Boktai}}'' [[spoiler:at first. It's revealed quickly that he's not really evil so much as just [[TheFatalist a fatalist]] who had [[RaisedByOrcs one hell of a stepmom]] who raised him with a healthy dose of TheCorruption. He even has a HeelFaceTurn and becomes a playable character in the sequels.]]

* Statesman, the resident [[AlternateCompanyEquivalent Superman equivalent]] and BigGood of ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', has ''two'' evil twins: Tyrant, the DimensionLord of the MirrorUniverse, and Reichsman, the little-seen [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi version]] from the [[StupidJetpackHitler dimension where the Nazis won]]. Naturally, pretty much every high-profile hero in the game has an evil counterpart in Tyrant's dimension, as the Praetorians. And as of Issue 17, every player character -- hero and villain -- can run a story arc featuring multiple iterations of his or her own Evil Twin. Heroes will also encounter a good doppleganger during their arc.

* ''VideoGame/WaxWorks'' has this as a major part of the story: A witch cursed your family in the past so that, whenever twins are born to it, one of them will always be evil. These include Vlad the Impaler (who [[DeathByIrony killed the witch himself for not lifting the curse when asked]]), UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, an evil Egyptian priest, an old necromancer named Vladimir and a [[WasOnceAMan plant creature that doesn't even look human anymore]]. And other than Vlad, you must travel back in time to take them all down in the body of the good twin on the way to undo the curse. [[spoiler:And as it turns out, right as the game is coming to an end and your brother tells you the dream he saw of the final curse-lifting event, it's revealed ''you'' [[TomatoInTheMirror were the evil twin the entire time]]]].
* In the fourth ''VideoGame/DetectivesUnited'' game, it's revealed that Agent Brown has an identical twin brother, Mortimer, who is wreaking havoc on a small community called Restville. Naturally, SpotTheImposter comes into play as part of the story - the difficulty is enhanced by the fact that the identical twins, who have the same voice, are also both ''[[spoiler:invisible]]''.

* The False Guenevere in ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace''. In the baseline arc, she's the same as in the mythology; Guenevere's identical half-sister plotting to take Arthur and the throne. In the contemporary arc she's Guenevere's full sister Fasha, and probably isn't exactly ''evil'', although she may be a StalkerWithACrush. And in the space arc she's [[CloningBlues a clone]], and again isn't evil, genuinely believing herself to be the real Guenevere. The one thing all three have in common is that they love Arthur and [[spoiler: don't care much for Lancelot, thereby allowing space and baseline Arthur to have a Queen who loves him completely while convincing himself that [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy he just wants Guenevere and Lancelot to be happy]].]]

* Lucius and Wayne Cramp, from ''WesternAnimation/TheCrampTwins''. Though it's more of a good twin, annoying bully and ridiculously filth loving twin. [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation With purple skin]].

** And, in the same Negaverse, evil versions of Launchpad and Honker; Tank (pretty rotten in reality) is good. Oddly, Gosalyn in the Negaverse isn't evil.

* PlayedForLaughs in episode Aged Heat of ''WesternAnimation/DuckMan'', after his family mock's his detective skills, Duckman is convince that his comatose mother-in-law was replaced by an impostor. In turns out [[spoiler:yes, it was a known criminal and exact look-alike who scaped from prison named Agnes Delrooney.]]

** 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...''[[{{Dissimile}} evil]]'' [[{{Dissimile}} peanut butter]]!") and mocked the 'your opposite in every way' aspect.

* ''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.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has a ShowWithinAShow called Duck-tective where the eponymous duck is revealed to have an evil twin brother who shot him in the season finale. [[spoiler: This is a parody of ''Gravity Falls''' second season mid-season twist revealing the main protagonist's great uncle having a twin, albeit not an evil one. Bonus points for the fact that the twin also shot one of the main protagonists in the finale, although it was with a memory gun.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GummiBears'' turns out that Duke Igthron actually has the opposite: a Good Twin, his twin brother Sir Victor, almost identical except for the fact that Igthorn is brunette and has beard. Which comes handy in one episode when Igthron impersonates his brother who is an admired hero among the townsfolk and one of the most trusted men of King Gregor.

** 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.
** In another episode, Skeletor created a He-Man imposter named Fakor after temporarily gaining greater magical power. The imposter was last seen plummeting into the abyss surrounding Castle Greyskull after a battle with the real He-Man; Skeletor implied that he intended to recover Fakor somehow, but he wasn't seen again.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/JacobTwoTwo'' introduced Principal Greedyguts' ''good'' twin, who immediately became popular with the kids. And then subverted it, [[BitchInSheepsClothing showing him to be]] ''even worse'' than the principal. [[SadistTeacher And that's saying something]].
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' has Susan and Mary sucking out the negative part of Johnny's psyche, then during a power outage the beaker it's contained in falls and turns into an evil Johnny while the original Johnny slowly degrades into a NiceGuy.
* Not a real 'evil twin' per se, but 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.

** Subverted this in the episode "The Ron Factor". The leader of the Global Justice Network, Doctor Director, is shown to have an evil twin named Gemini. An evil ''fraternal'' twin, of opposite gender and vastly different appearance, but with an almost identical eyepatch. This is based on Marvel's Nick Fury and his evil twin Scorpio, by the way.
** When Private Dobbs, with whom Dr. Drakken [[FreakyFridayFlip swapped bodies]] to gain access to a weapon, contacted Kim Possible for help and explained he wasn't Drakken, Ron accused him of being Drakken's evil twin and Kim replied ''Drakken'' is the evil twin.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'': The episode "Donatello's Duplicate" has Donatello make a duplicate of himself to help with his labwork so he can have some more time to relax. Unfortunately for him, the twin is an egotistical {{Jerkass}}, who eventually sides with a gangster who wants to rule the city, so the twin builds a second duplicator to create copies of rats to swarm the city. The Turtles eventually confront the evil Donatello during the climax, who uses the duplicator on the rest of the team to make evil duplicates of them as well.

** Though it does seem to rattle Dr. Venture when Henry Killinger (and his magic murder bag) assume he'd make a good supervillain/arch-nemesis for his brother. He turns it down when he realizes it, despite that his compound is so much more efficient that way.

* Not actually evil, per se, but Will and Yan Lin gain twins thanks to Nerissa during the second season of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}''. Will's fights back when she realizes that the real Will is trying to reabsorb her (due to the fact that she's a projection from the Heart of Candracar given sentience), but ends up TakingTheBullet when Nerissa attacks, willingly allowing Will to reabsorb her. Yan Lin's goes rogue when Nerissa threatens to take away her sentience if she didn't join her. Unlike Will's, Yan Lin's lives on and the real Yan Lin passes her duplicate off as her never-before-seen twin sister.
* Ranger Smith of ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'' fame had a literal twin known as Slippery Smith. Being a fugitive for unspecified crimes (probably mostly theft) was bad enough, but forcibly swapping clothes with his brother and throwing him out to the cops was a MoralEventHorizon. Thankfully (if unsurprisingly), Slippery Smith did not appear in more than one episode.

* ''Series/TheTonightShow With Jay Leno'' in the 90's had Jay playing different characters such as Iron Jay and Beyondo. The character of his that fits right in this trope is Evil Jay who appears at every full moon. Years before that, Jay Leno satirized the entire 'evil twin' trope when a guest on Johnny Carson's ''Tonight Show''. Leno had a marked-up ''TV Guide'' and showed what seemed like a dozen 'evil twin' themed shows for that one week. There was one on ''Hawaii Five-O''. The bit wrapped with ''Series/{{Dynasty}}'', which had Crystal replaced with her 'scheming lookalike', with Jay shouting, "Scheming lookalike? Scheming lookalike? It's an '''EVIL TWIN'''!". This trope is so endemic in television that perhaps we should be asking which shows never did it.

* In the New World ''Series/{{Zorro|1990}}'' series, Don Diego has an evil (though not identical) twin. Also, the evil Alcalde is at one point replaced by his identical twin, who raises the suspicion of the other characters by being somewhat less evil than the real Alcalde.

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* In the New World ''Series/{{Zorro}}'' series, Don Diego has an evil (though not identical) twin. Also, the evil Alcalde is at one point replaced by his identical twin, who raises the suspicion of the other characters by being somewhat less evil than the real Alcalde.

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* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s [[http://www.wizards.com/magic/ official site]] did a theme week where most of the weekly articles were written by "evil twins" of their usual writers. Even the writer that's supposedly a supervillain; the twin is such a WellIntentionedExtremist, he makes [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami]] look like a TechnicalPacifist.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' info site Thottbot.com allows you to switch between ''Classic'' and ''Evil Twin'' themes (white background vs. black background, among other color changes), and the loading screen when switching to ''Evil Twin'' mode says "Growing goatee..." (while the loading page to get back to ''Classic'' mode says "Shaving...").
* ''Encyclopedia Dramatica'' is this to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, with the former being a self-admitted parody of the latter that strives to be as [[BlackHumor offensive]] and [[CrossingTheLineTwice disgusting]] as possible.
* ''Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego'' has Double Trouble.

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* [[https://garfield.com/comic/2011/12/04 When Jon tells]] ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' that SantaClaus has been watching him, he writes a letter suggesting Santa might have seen his evil twin.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' had George HW Bush's evil twin, Skippy, as a recurring character during his Vice-Presidency and Presidency. Since Trudeau considered Bush such a bland non-entity that his representation in the comic was just a voice coming out of an asterisk floating in mid-air, Skippy appeared completely identical.
* ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician has an evil twin brother named Derek.
* In a series of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' strips, Calvin creates a machine to duplicate himself, then is astonished when the twin doesn't want to just obey him. Turns out it's an ''exact'' duplicate: a twin just as evil as Calvin himself.
** His duplicator returns in another story, where Calvin has added an "ethicator" to decide whether his clone should be good or evil. It ends up not helping.

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* The MirrorUniverse Lt. Uhura in Creator/DataEast's ''[[Pinball/StarTrekDataEast Star Trek]]'' pinball game.

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* Literature/TheBible may be the TropeMaker, with Esau as the evil twin of Jacob. Interestingly, they were ''not'' identical twins. Also, they reconciled eventually.

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* It's revealed near the end of Machinima/TheStrangerhood that Tovar had a twin, created by an accident with the time machine splitting his molecules into two. Sam the scientist describes them as "One was pure evil. The other, pure moron."

* The ''Roleplay/LeagueOfIntergalacticCosmicChampions'' had interdimensional evil twins in the King's Interstellar Lethal Legionnaires, occasionally recurring group The Frank Conspiracy had a Dark Side & a Light Side, and the hero, Mr. Obvious, had a crazy twin brother, the hero, Mr. Absurd.
* Parodied in the Literature/WhateleyUniverse. In one novel, Jade Sinclair tries to fix her [[HandWave Exemplar problem]] that's keeping her looking like an eleven-year-old ''boy''. She uses massively superpowered Tennyo as a model. Jinn Sinclair gets the upgrade.. even though Jinn is only a PK copy of Jade, currently inhabiting some ground chalk. Jinn pretends to be a clone of Tennyo, and (of course) insists that she is real and the real Tennyo is fake. No one is fooled. She is physically composed of ground chalk at the time.

* ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'' and ''VideoGame/YouHaveToBurnTheRope''. The former, of course, is the evil one.
* ''Roleplay/MSFHighForum'': Michelle has one, she's a hermit who lives out in the forest. She typically covers herself in bandages though, making it difficult to tell.

* New fans of ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' could be forgiven for assuming that Kevin is the good twin to Cecil's NightmareFuelStationAttendant...until they saw [[EvilIsVisceral the inside of Kevin's radio booth]].

* ''Podcast/RandomAssault'': Slabflapper is one to Matt, in that he's literally a negative version of Matt. His skin is blue, like a film negative.
* In WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged's "Tree of Life" video, Goku calls Turles his evil twin.
--> '''Goku:''' But he doesn't have a goatee. I'm going to imagine one. ''*gasp*'' So ''evil.''
** Lord Slug is an evil Namekian who was split from and exiled by his other half. [[spoiler:He's the ''good'' twin. The evil twin is Super Kami Guru.]]]
* The '''Bert is Evil''' websites: Featuring images of the Muppet character Bert (of ''Series/SesameStreet'') PhotoShopped into pictures with the world's most evil people, including UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden, UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein and others. Played up as Internet humor.

JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith CreepyTwins, which is about ''twins'' who are disturbing, usually also evil.

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** When John meets his ancestor Johanna Constantine in her miniseries, it's hinted that it's the Laughing Magician entity that reincarnates in their bloodline that causes them to kill his/her twin in the womb. Later the trope is played straight when his demonic half appears in the comic.

* Evil Robot Bill and Evil Robot Ted from ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney''. If nothing else, it gave us the classic line (when E.R.Ted first sees Ted's girlfriend)..."I got a full-on robot chubby."

* Classic voiceless Swede horror film "The Rat King". Somehow a rat manages to masquerade as the heros girlfriend. [[AWizardDidIt (Don't ask.)]] She blows her cover by making the [[SexIsEvil grave error]] of wanting to have sex with the hero (it's the 1910's or so) - he immediately [[IncrediblyLamePun smells a rat.]]

* The twist at the the end of ''Film/TheInitiation'' is that the killer who has been stalking Kelly and murdering her sororitory sisters (and assorted hangers-on) is not he father father Jason as has been implied, but her identical twin sister Terry. Kelly, who has amnesia and cannot remember anything before age 12, does not even know she has a twin.

* In ''Literature/{{Haunted 1988}}'' there are some horrendous acts going around and the family says it's Christina's evil twin sister who is doing it [[spoiler: except there is no evil twin, it is just Christina]].

* In the George O. Smith story ''Identity'', matter duplicators are used to copy people, e.g. like creating an ExpendableClone to practise surgery on. Unfortunately this means that identical twins tend to hate each other, as [[CloningBlues each is mistaken for a duplicate]] and blames the other. So the protagonist Cal finds himself up against his identical twin brother Benjamen, who fulfils this trope (at least from his perspective).

* ''Series/{{Gunsmoke}}'': One episode had Festus jailed on charges of murder and robbery ... only someone who [[IdenticalStranger looked just like him]] was the actual criminal.

** In "Too Many Roscoes," the real Rosco is kidnapped by a band of bank robbers while the ringleader -- an impersonator named Woody (James Best in a dual role) -- takes to the streets assuming Rosco's identity ... all to help his two criminal associates gain control of an armored truck delivering a $1 million shipment to Hazzard Bank. (Incidentally, the main characters fail to call Woody on his fake identity when "Rosco" bungles simple facts about his friends but remembers facts about the expected bank shipment in exact detail.)
* In ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie''. Jeannie's sister (also named Jeannie, also played by Barbera Eden, but with a brunette wig) was not truly her twin, but could easily pass for her sister and was clearly evil, trying many times to steal Tony for herself. Jeannie's sister wore a green version of Jeannie's pink harem girl outfit, but with a skirt rather than pantaloons.

** ''Every'' member of the Spellman family is one of twins, and one of each set is ''always'' evil. In Sabrina's case, her twin is Katrina. Naturally, Sabrina is the good one, and the family has a SecretTestOfCharacter for discovering which is which. (Both sisters are brought to a volcano, where the emcee tells the good one to cast the evil one into it, knowing only the evil one would actually do it; Katrina fails miserably by doing this without hesitation.) The Other Realm even has a prison specifically for witches like this (in the "Twin Cities", although Katrina escapes from it in one episode and in another, is able to strike at Sabrina while still there.)
** Zelda's Evil Twin is worse. [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Jezebelda]] claims to have created the Bubonic Plague, but while clearly wicked, isn't as smart as Katrina.

** The trope was later subverted in ''The Replacement''. A demon's spell, meant for Buffy, hits Xander instead, splitting him in two. He spends the rest of the episode tracking his twin while the twin interacts with his friends and makes various changes to his life. At the end it's revealed [[spoiler: that the blast doesn't split you into Good/Bad but only into Strong/Weak. The Xander that the audience thought was the "Good" Xander was actually the "Weak" one and the "Strong" one wasn't doing anything harmful to his life and was actually improving it. The demon's plot hinged on the fact that if one of the twins was killed, both would die. He'd planned to split Buffy into a Slayer powered version and a valley girl version, then kill the latter.]] In this case, the special effects crew had an easy time getting both Xanders in the same shot. Xander's twin was played by Nicholas Brendon's identical twin brother, Kelly Donovan (who may or may not be evil).
** Two AlternateUniverse versions of Giles; Ripper from the game ''Chaos Bleeds'', and a vampire EvilOverlord from ''The Lost Slayer'' book series.

* Similarly, ''Series/FantasyIsland'' once revealed that Mr. Roarke and Tattoo had their own evil (non-identical) twins, who wore black suits with white ties, and had British Accents. Perhaps ironically, the 1998 reboot of ''Fantasy Island'' starred British actor Malcolm [=McDowell=], complete with a black suit, as Mr. Roarke. In a seperate episode of the original series called "Look Alikes", a guest (Ken Berry) wishes to meet and exchange places with his (non related) twin (Ken Berry) who he has never met, and who of course turns out to be wanted by some bad guys.

** This trope is parodied in another ''Saturday Night Live'' skit one which is titled Jay's Evil Twin, in it... Leno uses a fake moustache to determine if his date (Joan Cusack) will put out- his evil twin Wade.

'''Shane''': That doens't sound like Pierce Talbott at all...

** Phoebe's twin sister, Ursula, is by all accounts a bad person: she's an awful waitress, nearly cons a man into marrying her, sold Phoebe's birth certificate to a stranger, becomes a porn star using Phoebe's name and generally has no affection for Phoebe. She also didn't tell Phoebe that their mother had left a [[GoodbyeCruelWorld suicide note]], and tried to improvise one on the spot before admitting she'd ''thrown it away''.

* Each of the main characters in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' has a [[IdenticalStranger doppleganger]]. Lily's duplicate Jasmine is a clear Evil Twin who robs Barney, Ted and Robin. However, Barney's doppleganger, Dr John Stangel, is a mature and well-respected fertility doctor who is visibly unamused by his duplicates' antics, making ''Barney'' the Evil Twin.

* [[https://garfield.com/comic/2011/12/04 When Jon tells]] ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' SantaClaus has been watching him, he wrote a letter suggesting Santa might have seen his evil twin.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' had George HW Bush's evil twin, Skippy, as a recurring character during his Vice Presidency and Presidency. Since Trudeau considered Bush such a bland non-entity that his representation in the comic was just a voice coming out of an asterisk floating in mid-air, Skippy appeared completely identical.

* In a series of ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes, Calvin creates a machine to duplicate himself, then is astonished when the twin doesn't want to just obey him. Turns out it's an exact duplicate: a twin just as evil as Calvin himself.

** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has a variation: There's an entire ''race'' called dopplegangers, who can shapeshift into any similarly sized humanoid-including other people.

* In ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'', when TheFairFolk kidnap mortals they leave behind Fetches, magical duplicates of their victims, right down to their memories. All Fetches are incomplete, though, meaning they lack ''something'' of the original. When that something is empathy or a sense of right and wrong, then you've got an Evil Twin. Things get more complicated if they merely lack your alcoholism or bitterness, though. It works both ways. Fetches don't know they're not the original person, so when someone shows up who looks like a monsterous version of them (and nobody else can see the monsterous things, and thinks it looks ''exactly'' like them, but a different age), who hates their guts and has strange magical powers, they are perfectly justified to think they are the victim of this trope.

* Sabata is this to Django in ''VideoGame/{{Boktai}}'' [[spoiler:at first. It's revealed quickly that he's not really evil so much as just [[TheFatalist a fatalist]] who had [[RaisedByOrcs one hell of a step-mom]] who raised him with a healthy dose of TheCorruption. He even has a HeelFaceTurn and becomes a playable character in the sequels.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', ''every single person in existance'' - except, it seems, the Protoganist [[spoiler: until the final episode of the anime]] - has an evil twin called a "Shadow" born of their repressed feelings and thoughts. Get stuck in the [[MentalWorld TV world]], and you'll end up meeting it.

* The HiddenObjectGame series ''Empress of the Deep'' reveals that Anna, the protagonist and TheChosenOne, has an Evil Twin sister named Pandora, who attacked her in a jealous rage and put her in a coma for over 100 years. The story of the games has Anna navigating her way through the empty settings and foil her sister's plans to destroy her.

* ''[[UpdatedRerelease Ultra]] Videogame/StreetFighterIV'' gives us Decapre who serves as this to Cammy.

* ''Videogame/WaxWorks'' has this as a major part of the story: A witch cursed your family in the past so that, whenever twins are born to it, one of them will always be evil. These include Vlad the Impaler (who [[DeathByIrony killed the witch himself for not lifting the curse when asked]]), UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, an evil Egyptian priest, an old necromancer named Vladimir and a [[WasOnceAMan plant creature that doesn't even look human anymore]]. And other than Vlad, you must travel back in time to take them all down in the body of the good twin on the way to undo the curse. [[spoiler:And as it turns out, right as the game is coming to an end and your brother tells you the dream he saw of the final curse-lifting event, it's revealed ''you'' [[TomatoInTheMirror were the evil twin the entire time]]]].

* PlayedForLaughs in the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' reboot: when asked which of the Duck brothers was the "evil triplet," Huey and Dewey ''immediately'' point to Louie...who shrugs and accepts it. (Fans joked that he definitely earned it after putting the idea of [[spoiler:Donald/Beakley]] in their heads.)

* ''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.

** Slimer has his own Evil Twin (except for a darker green tone) in one episode, escaped from the Netherworld.

* ''Anime/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.]]

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