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* In ''ComicBook/TheMuppetShowComicBook: Seasons'' #2 "Summer", Fozzie is invited to play at the Whatnot Theater, to replace their previous comedian, Ozzie Bear. All the Whatnot troupe turn out to be counterparts to the Muppets, with the compiere being Dermot the Dog, and other Whatnots including Miss Tiggy (a tiger), Bonzo the Great (a monkey), Dr. Tongue (as opposed to Dr. Teeth), and Vegetable (a giant carrot who plays the spoons).

The cast runs into another group that is functionally identical to them. The same number of people, the same roles represented, maybe even the same tastes in clothes or food but expect a PaletteSwap. Usually creeps out the original group a ''lot'', although a common humor variant is that no one notices the similarities. Or only notices the similarities to everyone else's parallel but not their ''own''. If the characters [[OtherMeAnnoysMe find their counterparts' habits annoying]], without noticing any similarities, this can lead to HypocriticalHumor. Sometimes it is SelfParody.

* When Mikado ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' is walking alone and is lost in thought, he passes a trio of characters who resemble him and his friends Masaomi and Anri.

* In an episode of ''Series/CornerGas'', the town decides to employ professional firefighters. The two they hire are named Carol and David and are almost exact copies of the two cops Karen and Davis. Needless to say, Karen and Davis fail to notice this similarity and are overcome with jealousy regarding the firefighters.

* In ''Film/Zombieland2DoubleTap'', the undead-fighting male duo of Columbus and Tallahassee in this post-apocalyptic action comedy run into a doppelgänger duo named Albuquerque and Flagstaff.

* In an episode of the 2010 ''WesternAnimation/{{Pound Puppies|2010}}'' ("Catcalls"), the main team runs into a similar team of cats for the first time. The "Kennel Kittens" not only look like their dog counterparts and have similar roles and names, they [[TalkingToHimself share voice actors]] as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/DinoTrux'': One episode has Ty and his friends run into a group of [=DinoTrux=] that look exactly like them but behave very differently. Ty's counterpart (a female) is always scoffing and rebellious, Skya's counterpart is the leader of her group (not unlike Ty), Ton-Ton's counterpart is always cautious and doesn't speak in a TotallyRadical accent, and Dozer's counterpart really likes being a daredevil (like Ton-Ton). Ty's gang has to teach Rocksie's group how to behave like them to trick D-Structs and D-Stroy, and when their counterparts are thrown into the D-Brothers' prison, Ty and his friends act like Rocksie's gang to "accidentally" break them out. The episode is even called "Opposites".

** The four main characters have counterparts in the delta shifters, who seem more jerky than our heroes (the beta shifters) are; they consist of [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Asif Asif]] (Boimler), [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Moxy Moxy]] (Tendi), [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Karavitus Karavitus]] (Mariner), and a [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Unnamed_USS_Cerritos_operations_personnel#Human_ensign_15 currently unnamed man with an eyepatch]] (Rutherford).

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* In Creator/DCComics, the Comicbook/KnightAndSquire are the British counterparts to Franchise/{{Batman}} and Robin. Creator/PaulCornell takes this further, adding Hank, the Knight's American butler, and HarmlessVillain Jarvis Poker, the British Joker.

* In the final storyline of ''Comicbook/{{Shadowpact}}'', the Shadowpacts of 1908 and 2108 have roughly similar memberships to the present day version, although neither is a full set. The roles appear to be: magician (Adept, Enchantress, Magus Excelsis), swordsman (none, Nightmaster, Revenant), otherworlder (Faerie Queen, Zauriel, Sardonyxx), big guy (Mister Meteor, Blue Devil, Brazen Man), energy blaster (none, Nightshade, Miss Poltergeist), medium (Mrs Prescott, Ragman, none), talking animal (Civet, Detective Chimp, Apalala). The Shadowpacts of other time periods appear to have similar compositions.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Asterix}} and the Griffin'', the Sarmatian villagers Asterix and Obelix are introduced to include Dodderiestov, a village elder who looks like Geriatrix, Wottastinkov, a cheesemaker who looks like Unhygenix (with equally smelly wares), Oldblocktchipov, a carpenter who looks like Fulliautomatix (and is wielding an axe the same way Fulliautomatix wields his blacksmith's hammer), and Kordov, a firewood deliveryman who looks like Obelix (and is carrying a tree-stump the same way Obelix carries his menhirs). After talking to the latter, Obelix is left with the strangest feeling that Kordov's shorter, blond-moustached friend looks vaguely familiar...

* In ''Film/TheMuppets'', years of decline have led Fozzie Bear to headline for The Moopets, a sort of dark-and-dirty version of The Muppets. Thankfully Kermit, Rowlf and the others rescue him from the clutches of bad lounge music (and Miss Poogy).

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* In an episode of the 2010 ''[[WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010 Pound Puppies]]'' ("Catcalls"), the main team runs into a similar team of cats for the first time. The "Kennel Kittens" not only look like their dog counterparts and have similar roles and names, they [[TalkingToHimself share voice actors]] as well.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', ''[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS12E13SpongeBobsBigBirthdayBlowout SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout]]'' has him take a surface tour with Patrick. The tour bus eventually arrives at a burger diner called "The Trusty Slab", which is pretty much a "Plankton tries to steal the formula" episode played by humans, specifically, the voice actors.

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* The Bizarro Jerry that Elaine dates and his clique on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. The main cast is known for their cynicism, bad luck, and often-outright antisocial behavior, Bizarro Jerry's crew is supportive, genial, and generally happy with their lives. (As an example, Bizarro Kramer knocks on the door before entering.) Of course, Elaine chooses to be with the latter, but her tendency to give playful [[ArmorPiercingSlap Armor Piercing Punches]] undoes the happy little tryst, and soon enough she's back with the poor schlubs she usually hangs out with.

** Fuck The World and Pissf***t, two ineffectual wannabe gangsters who attempt to vandalise Kim's car without getting in trouble with the police, appear to be parallels of Harry and Kim. Like with Harry and Kim, Fuck The World is a bit more id-driven and silly, and Pissf***t is more officerial and restrained. Both of their names seem to reflect the philosophical sentiment of the police officers, as well. Fuck The World claims his name is a response to 'meaningless' true love by embracing reckless sex with all things ("Because when one fucks everything, he fucks nothing... sticking your dick into the void"), which fits how Harry's response to his [[LostLenore heartbreak]] was to pursue a life of DeathSeeker [[SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll disco hedonism]] and [[ChronicHeroSyndrome nihilistic work overload]]. Pissf***t claims that, [[CasualKink while he does like piss]], his name is an artistic statement about reclaiming the contempt other people subject him to regardless of his actual nature ("things being defined as they seem, not as they are"); this paralels well with Kim's stoic endurance of the bigotry he experiences as a mixed race man who is a born, patriotic Vacholiere, [[TwoferTokenMinority and]] a gay man in a world where homosexuality is seen as a subversive underground movement. (Kim, if asked, will say he relates more to the "Pissf***t" sentiment, and that Harry is more of a "Fuck The World" kind of guy.) The player can have Harry ask them for their jackets so he and Kim can wear them, but Kim, a notorious spoilsport, will not play along unless you successfully convince him to do so in the Jamais Vu update by telling him how awesome the sight of two cops wearing those jackets would be, causing him to relent, but he only agrees to do so for as long as you wear one of the jackets yourself and after you take it off, he'll take his off and won't put it back on again.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': The four main characters have counterparts in the delta shifters, who seem more jerky than our heroes (the beta shifters) are; they consist of [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Asif Asif]] (Boimler), [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Moxy Moxy]] (Tendi), [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Karavitus Karavitus]] (Mariner), and a [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Unnamed_USS_Cerritos_operations_personnel#Human_ensign_15 currently unnamed man with an eyepatch]] (Rutherford).
** Another episode had a gag with Dr. T'Ana running onto what she thinks is the bridge of the ''Cerritos'', only it's another vessel, with strange counterparts to the usual main characters (ie. Boimler's counterpart is some sort of mosquito man). As Dr. T'Ana runs off, cursing why [[LampshadeHanging all Starfleet vessels look alike]], she passes by her own counterpart, a male human doctor with orange facial hair and a similar hairdo, asking "who the hell was that?".
** Said counterparts show up in a huge BrickJoke in the season 3 finale, as part of ''[[GunshipRescue the entire fleet of California-class ships]]'' arriving to save the ''Cerritos'' from certain doom.

** In "Smoke on the Daughter," Homer and Bart attempt to trap two raccoons who are stealing homemade beef jerky from their basement. The two raccoons, an adult and a juvenile, humorously resemble Homer and Bart themselves. Homer has a change of heart and decides to befriend the raccoons when he hunts them to their burrow and realizes they're just feeding their family, a second pair of raccoons resembling Marge and Lisa.

** In "Smoke on the Daughter," Homer and Bart attempt to trap two raccoons who are stealing homemade beef jerky from their basement. The two raccoons, an adult and a juvenile, humorously resemble Homer and Bart themselves. Homer has a change of heart and decides to befriend the raccoons when he hunts them to their burrow and realizes they're just feeding their family, two other raccoons resembling Marge and Lisa.

** Another episode had a gag with Dr. T'Ana running onto what she thinks is the bridge of the ''Cerritos'', only it's another vessel, with strange counterparts to the usual main characters (ie. Boimler's counterpart is some sort of mosquito man). As Dr. T'Ana runs off, cursing why [[LampshadeHanging all Starfleet vessels look alike]], she passes by her own counterpart, a male human doctor with orange facial hair, asking "who the [[SoundEffectBleep bleep]] that was".

* ''Manga/GetterRoboArc'': After travelling to the Dinosaur Empire to assist them against the Andromeda Stellaration, the main trio has a run in with an as yet unmentioned counterpart to their group comprised entirely of [[LizardFolk Saurians]] and piloting a reptile themed mech called [[EvilKnockoff the Gettersaurus]].

* Was used on ''Series/HawaiiFiveO'' and Showtime's late 1980s ''Series/RobinHood'' series.

* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': The episode "Panda's Friend" centers around Panda making friends with a guy named Tom who is basically a human version of himself. At the end of the episode, he ends up meeting two human equivalents to Grizzly and Ice Bear, named Griff and Isaac. They would appear in further episode.