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** Scourge and Sonic deserve special mention considering how many different ways they contrast each other. Both being speedsters who try to look cool, they otherwise couldn't be any more different. Scourge is a purely spiteful, egotistical {{Jerkass}} while Sonic is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold hero type. Scourge also succumbs to an inversion of EvilFeelsGood with his super form. Despite its power, he feels horrible when he's in that state, as opposed to Sonic who feels great when in his super form. A back and fourth NotSoDifferentRemark between the two drives this home. What makes them different overall is how Scourge fell victim to a whole "One Bad Day" occurrence, while Sonic has a certain level of selflessness and decency that Scourge lacks. If not for those things, they would be pretty much the same.

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** Scourge and Sonic deserve special mention considering how many different ways they contrast each other. Both being speedsters who try to look cool, they otherwise couldn't be any more different. Scourge is a purely spiteful, egotistical {{Jerkass}} while Sonic is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold hero type. Scourge is later revealed to be a DirtyCoward while Sonic is a genuinely brave {{Determinator}}. Scourge also succumbs to an inversion of EvilFeelsGood with his super form. Despite its power, he feels horrible when he's in that state, as opposed to Sonic who feels great when in his super form. A back and fourth NotSoDifferentRemark between the two drives this home. What makes them different overall is how Scourge fell victim to a whole "One Bad Day" occurrence, while Sonic has a certain level of selflessness and decency that Scourge lacks. If not for those things, they would be pretty much the same.
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** In multiple videos, he says that Diesel is a mirror of Duck in ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'': both are mass-produced shunting engines that are proud of what they are, but while Duck proves himself a hero at the end of ''Duck and the Diesel Engine'', Diesel learns nothing and is sent away in disgrace.

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* ''ComicBook/BerrybrookMiddleSchool''
** Mari to Peppi. Unlike the klutzy and awkward Peppi, Mari is passionate, hard-working, and TheAce amongst her peers. However, Peppi is much closer to her family, and isn't constantly pressured into being the way she is by any of them, unlike Mari who cowers under the shadow of her domineering father.
** Jenny to Akilah. One prioritizes professionalism and has a rather short temper, while the other tends to be more open and emotionally driven when it comes to her job. Rather inevitably, it puts them at odds with one another at times.
** Jorge to both Zeke and James, more so the latter. Jorge is a large intimidating stoic kid who's otherwise charitable and very kind-hearted. Zeke meanwhile is a small meek-looking guy who uses his innocent looks to woo girls and generally get his own way. As for James, he's basically Jorge minus any of his morals and respect for others.
** On the subject of teachers, Mr. Ramirez and Ms. Tobins couldn't be farther apart in terms of personality and looks. Ramirez is a heavily-built individual and a total neurotic mess who has less authority over his club than his own students, while Ms. Tobins is an athletic BadassTeacher whose mere presence commands authority.
* ComicBook/CortoMaltese, by Hugo Pratt: he does not have a permanent "sidekick", but many times he has adventure partners who are much crazier and more violent than him: Rasputin, an Ethiopian warrior, A Chinese Assassin girl. He also has had partners who are more of the "professor" type, which turns him into the guy who leads the action.
* ''ComicBook/Elsewhere2017'': Amelia Earhart is pointed out as having an unusual trust in authority by today's standards and is generally hopeful and naive, contrasting with D. B. Cooper's snarky attitude.
* In ComicBook/{{Jeremiah}}, by Hermann: The protagonist's partner, Kurdy Malloy, is much more cynical, streetwise and childish than he is. Jeremiah is no fool by any means, and he is an action guy, but he is much nobler and more romantic than his friend, and puts more trust in others.
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'':
** On a faction-wide level, the Suppression Squad is this to the Freedom Fighters. The clue is in the name, suppression versus freedom. Otherwise, they are literally the same ensemble of characters. The SS come from a planet in an anti-verse of sorts called Moebius (the extra 'e' in the name no doubt referring to it being evil), while the FF live in Mobius. All of the [[EvilCounterpart evil equivalent characters]] (like Evil Sonic/later Scourge to regular Sonic, etc.) share many similar character traits with the originals, but are evil, cruel, selfish and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin suppressive]].
** Scourge and Sonic deserve special mention considering how many different ways they contrast each other. Both being speedsters who try to look cool, they otherwise couldn't be any more different. Scourge is a purely spiteful, egotistical {{Jerkass}} while Sonic is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold hero type. Scourge also succumbs to an inversion of EvilFeelsGood with his super form. Despite its power, he feels horrible when he's in that state, as opposed to Sonic who feels great when in his super form. A back and fourth NotSoDifferentRemark between the two drives this home. What makes them different overall is how Scourge fell victim to a whole "One Bad Day" occurrence, while Sonic has a certain level of selflessness and decency that Scourge lacks. If not for those things, they would be pretty much the same.
** Sally Acorn and Fiona Fox. One is a Freedom Fighter, the other an ex-Freedom Fighter. Sally is loyal and trustworthy while Fiona has a tendency to [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder turn on people she's aligned with]]. Sally is a well respected leader amongst the heroes and often plays the role of CoolBigSis to some of the younger male characters like Tails. Fiona [[FemmeFatale exploits the feelings of male characters]] to her advantage, much to Sally's annoyance and disgust, as displayed when Sally gut punched her for toying with Tails. Sally is a {{Tomboy}} who subverts the role of PrincessClassic by leading the Freedom Fighters as a competent battle strategist and tactician, with an [[LadyLooksLikeADude androgynous appearance]]. Meanwhile, Fiona is a bit more of a {{GirlyGirl}} with a knack for using her feminine charms to manipulate male characters, with a [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics relatively feminine appearance]]. Both are tough BadassNormal girls (in the context of the Sonic universe, anyway) who often find themselves as rivals whenever the Destructix or whatever group of villains Fiona has teamed up with crosses paths with Sally's Freedom Fighters.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''ComicBook/{{Kanan}}'': Commander Grey and Captain Styles are both clone troopers under General Depa Billaba, and together make up half the survivors from her first Battalion. They are however very different from each other and Grey is affiable, kind and devoted to Billaba, while Styles is sarcastic and devoted to the Republic. Grey ends up being the only known clone to fight off Order 66 (though only after [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone killing Billaba]]), but when he tries to point out just how messed up the order is to Styles the captain refuses to listen and continues trying to kill Caleb so Grey sacrifices himself to ensure their transport is destroyed, killing all the clones hunting the Jedi apprentice.
** ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
*** ''ComicBook/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' has its hero Zayne and villain Haazen. Both were incompetent Padawans, routinely humiliated, but best friends with the most outstanding member of their class. But while Zayne accepts that he's going to flunk, Haazen expected to skate by on his friend's coattails. Zayne didn't blame anyone for his expected failure; Haazen blamed everyone in the Galaxy except himself. While Zayne was ready to find a new path, Haazen trailed after his friend and grew so bitter that he betrayed him to his death. Then Haazen spent the next decades trying to rot the man's legacy, while Zayne is so true to Jedi principles he outdoes most of the ''actual'' Jedi in the story.
* [[BenevolentMageRuler K'Kruhk]] to [[EvilOverlord Darth Krayt]] in ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy''. Both were Jedi who survived Order 66 by killing every clone trooper around them, and went on to lay low in the Dark Times that followed. Both became instrumental in rebuilding their respective orders, Krayt by rebuilding it from scratch on Korriban, and K'Kruhk by training Jedi in secret until Luke came along, and both eventually ascended to become rulers of the entire galaxy. Whereas K'Kruhk survived by hiding and finding those he could trust, Krayt survived by killing any witness, and whereas Krayt was an EvilOverlord who held absolute power, K'Kruhk is a BenevolentMageRuler who shares power with his fellow triumvirs.
* The Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles are a quartet (Leonardo [[TheLeader leads]], Donatello [[TheSmartGuy does machines]], Raphael is [[HairTriggerTemper rude]], and Michelangelo is [[FunPersonified a party dude]]) where every combination brings up opposites:
** FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Mikey > Donnie ~ Raph > Leo
** AllWorkVsAllPlay: Leo and Mikey
** TheHero vs TheLancer: Leo and Raph.
** BrainsAndBrawn: Donnie and Raph.
** GleefulAndGrumpyPairing: Mikey and Raph.
** TheSmartGuy vs BookDumb: Donnie and Mikey, sometimes played as academic intellect vs (pop) cultural awareness.
** [[AgentMulder Spirituality]] vs [[AgentScully Science]]: Leo and Donnie, but they're both levelheaded enough to defer to the other's expertise so they usually don't have any real tension when they pair up together.
* In IDW's ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' comics, Soundwave in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'' is a foil to Tarn in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''. Both were originally persecuted by the Functionists and the Senate, and both became Decepticon true believers and went FromNobodyToNightmare, but Soundwave retains a certain streak of idealism, while Tarn is violent and sadistic. Tarn started out as one of Orion Pax/Optimus Prime's allies and underwent a FaceHeelTurn, while Soundwave ''becomes'' one of Prime's allies after doing a HeelFaceTurn. Even their powers are opposed; Soundwave's are focused around listening (he can hear thoughts), while Tarn's are focused around speaking (his voice can kill).
* Elorin to Praxton in ''ComicBook/WhiteSand''. While Praxton is a FantasyForbiddingFather who attempts to bend rules to force Kenton to resign from his aspirations and resorts to ''ad persona'' to humiliate him, Elorin is more worried about Kenton's safety, yet ultimately states that it's Kenton's decision and enforces the rules to let him participate in the exam.
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* ''WebVideo/SMPLive'': Schlatt is the outgoing, extroverted contrast to his business partner Connor's introverted and quiet self, though there's more to it than just that — Schlatt's manipulation tactics rely more on making himself out to be important and powerful, while Connor's tend to fall back on him being nonthreatening and appearing to be easy to push around.
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** Young, worldly, idealistic ex-professor UsefulNotes/BarackObama chose middle-aged Washington insider and lifelong politician UsefulNotes/JoeBiden.

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** Young, worldly, idealistic ex-professor UsefulNotes/BarackObama chose middle-aged sexagenarian Washington insider and lifelong politician UsefulNotes/JoeBiden.



** Elderly, politically seasoned Midwesterner Joe Biden chose the middle-aged, up-and-coming Californian senator UsefulNotes/KamalaHarris.

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** Elderly, politically seasoned Midwesterner Elderly Mid-Atlantic political veteran Joe Biden chose the middle-aged, up-and-coming Californian senator UsefulNotes/KamalaHarris.
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* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': The Stormcast Eternals can be seen as this to the Astartes of ''40,000''; both are knightly [[SuperSoldier Super Soldiers]] in massive armor created in service to the BigGood (relatively speaking) of the setting, but there are crucial differences: where Space Marines are deliberately engineered to lose their connection to humanity and see this as a boon, the same occurence is seen as a tragic flaw in Stormcast Eternals, who start out completely human and become progressively less so as they come BackFromTheDead. What's seen as bug in one setting is a feature in another.
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** In the Sodor's Finest on Duck, he says that Diesel is a mirror of him in ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'': both are mass-produced shunting engines that are proud of what they are, but while Duck proves himself a hero at the end of ''Duck and the Diesel Engine'', Diesel learns nothing and is sent away in disgrace.

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** In the Sodor's Finest on Duck, multiple videos, he says that Diesel is a mirror of him Duck in ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'': both are mass-produced shunting engines that are proud of what they are, but while Duck proves himself a hero at the end of ''Duck and the Diesel Engine'', Diesel learns nothing and is sent away in disgrace.
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* WebVideo/TheUnluckyTug {{discusse|dTrope}}s this a lot in his ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' videos:
** In the Sodor's Finest on Duck, he says that Diesel is a mirror of him in ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'': both are mass-produced shunting engines that are proud of what they are, but while Duck proves himself a hero at the end of ''Duck and the Diesel Engine'', Diesel learns nothing and is sent away in disgrace.
** In both the season 6 retrospective and the Sodor's Finest on Cranky, he says Salty is Cranky's foil. While Cranky is snappy and looks down on everyone, Salty is chipper as long as he's by the sea. Tug compares them to [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob and Squidward]].
** In the Sodor's Finest on Diesel, he says the Brenner Era turned Paxton into a foil for Diesel. Both are Class [=08s=], but Diesel is cunning and manipulative, whereas Paxton is naïve and easily manipulated.
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* HammyVillainSeriousHero: A contrast between a LargeHam villain and a serious hero.
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* ChildishVillainMatureHero: The villain is an overgrown brat while the hero is a responsible adult.
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* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: One villain is capable of redemption while the other is irredeemably evil.
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* WhiteBreadAndBlackBrotha: A straight-laced white guy partners up with a streetwise black guy.
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* ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'': Jasper and Gretchen are total opposites. Jasper is TheWatson, with no context for anything in Deadland, and Gretchen has been there long enough to act as a NativeGuide. Jasper has to get out of Deadland and reach the Living World before he loses all the memories of his life, whereas Gretchen has already lost her memories and her life and doesn't care about getting them back. Jasper has a cynical outlook on his existence due to how awful his life, whereas Gretchen is more optimistic due to how trouble-free her ''afterlife'' is.

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Jasper and Gretchen are total opposites. Jasper is TheWatson, with no context for anything in Deadland, and Gretchen has been there long enough to act as a NativeGuide. Jasper has to get out of Deadland and reach the Living World before he loses all the memories of his life, whereas Gretchen has already lost her memories and her life and doesn't care about getting them back. Jasper has a cynical outlook on his existence due to how awful his life, whereas Gretchen is more optimistic due to how trouble-free her ''afterlife'' is.
** In the song "The Killing", Jasper explains that his parents are awful for opposite reasons - his mother only cares about herself, and his father doesn't care about anything, including himself.
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* SaltAndPepper: A straitlaced, by-the-book white character and a rebellious, hotheaded black character contrast one another.

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