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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'': Thumper's sisters are a Twindividual: they all look and act identically to each other, to the point where both the [[WesternAnimation/BambiII midquel]] and ''Disney's Bunnies'' series drop a sister with absolutely no change to the dynamic. They aren't even given individual names outside of the latter.

* Exaggerated in ''Theatre/TheGondoliers'' by Creator/GilbertAndSullivan, where Marco and Giuseppe become the King of Barataria until it can be settled which one of them it really is, and they make comical attempts to act "as one individual."

* ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'': [[OutlawCouple Isaac and Miria]] share an entry on [[Characters/{{Baccano}} the cast page]]. People within the series get the same impression as well, so much so that the mere fact that Miria shows up to the Genoard mansion alone in ''Alice in Jails'' alerts Jacuzzi's gang that something has gone ''very'' wrong (namely, that [[spoiler:Isaac was arrested and sent to Alcatraz]]).

* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'':
** Mairu and Kururi are twins who don't even consider themselves as individuals. [[Characters/DurararaAnimeSupporting They too share an entry on the cast page]].
** [[ThoseTwoGuys Walker and Erika]] also count, being nigh inseparable and sharing the same {{Otaku}} interests. They share [[Characters/DurararaMainCharacters an entry on the cast page]] as well.

* Kay and Lorna from ''Literature/MonsterGirlDoctor'' are both war orphans that were adopted by the Arte family. Despite not being blood related, they look and act similarly enough that they're often referred to as "the twins".
* [[BrotherSisterTeam Sora and Shiro]] take this to the extreme in ''Literature/NoGameNoLife''. They're nearly invincible when playing together, but if they get separated even briefly they'll instantly have nervous breakdowns.

* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': The seagulls are a flock of some thirty or forty individuals, but they're also very flat characters with exactly the same exact design, behavior and personality as one another, and all act together with the singular goal of eating food.
* Ruffnut and Tuffnut from ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2010'' are fraternal twins so similar, aside from respectively being female and male, that their choice of a two-headed zippleback as a dragon steed could be foreseen from the film's beginning. They're so accustomed to living and working side-by-side that background dialogue in one scene has Ruffnut fail to recognize her own twin, because she's ''sitting on the wrong side'' of Tuffnut for a change.

* Thumper's sisters in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' are a Twindividual: they all look and act identically to each other, to the point where both the [[WesternAnimation/BambiII midquel]] and ''Disney's Bunnies'' series drop a sister with absolutely no change to the dynamic. They aren't even given individual names outside of the latter.

* The Bimbettes (Gaston's fangirls) trio in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' are, for all intents and purposes, a single entity.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Aaron T. and Aaron Z. are almost always next to each other, to the point it's difficult for casual viewers to tell which is which. It's particularly noticeable that Mei elaborately describes Robaire, Jesse, and Tae Young's unique traits and then glosses over Aaron T. and Aaron Z. by simply saying that they are "like, really talented, too".

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Huey, Dewie and Louie. The fact that they have all the exact same personality, and are impossible to tell apart without their hats, means that they're basically one boy with three bodies. The early comics even had their dialogue as one speech bubble with three arrows, when they weren't FinishingEachOthersSentences instead. The ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' cartoon gives each brother a role he plays more often than not: Louie (green) tends to consult the book, Dewey (blue) tends to voice the collective decisions and Huey (red) tends to be the first to act; one episode is a clear subvertion -- Dewey tries to leave The Dividual when frustrated that no one outside their family can tell them apart; still, the triplets are mostly interchangeable. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' and ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017''.

Might overlap with HeterosexualLifePartners, ThoseTwoGuys and/or BumblingHenchmenDuo. SingleMindedTwins is a subtrope. Compare LiteralSplitPersonality, HiveMind, FusionDance, and IAmLegion. See PuppetFighter for two characters treated as one in gameplay. If the members of the Dividual are twins, expect any number of TwinTropes (especially SingleMindedTwins) to be in place (although it's also possible for PolarOppositeTwins to be a Syndividual). Sometimes, the Dividual will exhibit TwinTropes despite the fact that its members are not twins. For a romantic couple that is often referred to by a single name, see PortmanteauCoupleName. Over time, they may end up going through DivergentCharacterEvolution.

Might overlap with HeterosexualLifePartners, ThoseTwoGuys and/or BumblingHenchmenDuo. SingleMindedTwins is a subtrope. Compare LiteralSplitPersonality, HiveMind and IAmLegion. See PuppetFighter for two characters treated as one in gameplay. If the members of the Dividual are twins, expect any number of TwinTropes (especially SingleMindedTwins) to be in place (although it's also possible for PolarOppositeTwins to be a Syndividual). Sometimes, the Dividual will exhibit TwinTropes despite the fact that its members are not twins. For a romantic couple that is often referred to by a single name, see PortmanteauCoupleName. Over time, they may end up going through DivergentCharacterEvolution.

* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe'': The twin employers of Extensive Enterprises are this; best noticed when they are speaking. The only way to tell them apart is Xamot's facial scar.

* Ruffnut and Tuffnut from ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'' are fraternal twins so similar, aside from respectively being female and male, that their choice of a two-headed zippleback as a dragon steed could be foreseen from the film's beginning. They're so accustomed to living and working side-by-side that background dialogue in one scene has Ruffnut fail to recognize her own twin, because she's ''sitting on the wrong side'' of Tuffnut for a change.

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* Ruffnut and Tuffnut from ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' are fraternal twins so similar, aside from respectively being female and male, that their choice of a two-headed zippleback as a dragon steed could be foreseen from the film's beginning. They're so accustomed to living and working side-by-side that background dialogue in one scene has Ruffnut fail to recognize her own twin, because she's ''sitting on the wrong side'' of Tuffnut for a change.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Osgoods, introduced in [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]], are a human woman and a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Zygon]] who originally impersonated her for nefarious purposes. They ended up getting along swimmingly, and made themselves into symbols of the peace treaty between humans and Zygons, refusing to tell anyone which is which. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven Death in Heaven]]", [[spoiler:Missy kills one of them, but the survivor ''still'' refuses to spill the beans. Eventually, another Zygon [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E8TheZygonInversion takes the place]] of the dead Osgood. So now they consist of either a human and a Zygon or two Zygons]]. They still refuse to tell anyone which is which. They even have a PsychicLink so what one knows, both know. (According to Creator/IngridOliver, their actress, it ''is'' possible to tell which Osgood is which — and she and the writers know — but no-one has been able to figure it out yet.)

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'': Dee Dee are twin sisters in the Jokerz gang who form a SiblingsInCrime team and are generally referred to as if they were one person. Apparently their real names are Delia and Deidre Dennis, and they're [[spoiler:Harley Quinn's granddaughters]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has several pairs who are usually seen together (and apparently they tend to be based to some extent on the show's two [[AuthorAvatar creators]]), but the only ones who really come off as inseparable are the Guild agents Watch and Ward. Henchmen 21 and 24 began as a Dividual, but eventually they developed out of it.

-->'''Edgeworth:''' Why the [[spoiler:Yatagarasu has three legs...?]] ''[...]'' No, it can't be!

-->'''Edgeworth:''' Why the [[spoiler:Yatagarasu has three legs...?]] '[...]' No, it can't be!

-->''Edgeworth:'' Why the [[spoiler:Yatagarasu has three legs...?]] '[...]' No, it can't be!

-->[[spoiler:'''Yew''']]: Hey, Edgeworth. [[spoiler:The Yatagarasu has three legs]]. Do you know why that is?
-->Edgeworth: Why the [[spoiler:Yatagarasu has three legs...?]] '[...]' No, it can't be!

%%* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Andy and Ollie Pesto.%%ZCE. Quotes aren't context, and this one especially isn't.
%%-->'''Andy:''' Back to you Ollie!\\
%%'''Ollie:''' Back to you Andy!\\
%%'''Andy:''' Back to you Ollie!

Might overlap with HeterosexualLifePartners, ThoseTwoGuys and/or BumblingHenchmenDuo. SingleMindedTwins is a subtrope. Compare LiteralSplitPersonality, HiveMind and IAmLegion. If the members of the Dividual are twins, expect any number of TwinTropes (especially SingleMindedTwins) to be in place (although it's also possible for PolarOppositeTwins to be a Syndividual). Sometimes, the Dividual will exhibit TwinTropes despite the fact that its members are not twins. For a romantic couple that is often referred to by a single name, see PortmanteauCoupleName. Over time, they may end up going through DivergentCharacterEvolution.

* Thorn and Zorn from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''. In fact, they're ''literally'' one person, as shown when they rejoin into Meltagemini for their boss fight.

* Irri and Jhiqui, the handmaidens to Daenerys Targaryen, from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. They are nearly always mentioned together, they share the same CatchPhrase, and are more or less interchangeable.

* ''ComicBook/{{Dreamkeepers}}'' has Indigo twins: Indi and Digo, indistinguishable in any way and always working together. Their fur patterns are inverse, but they keep changing colours and patterns, also synchronously.
* In ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes,'' Triplicate Girl's alien race the Carggites have the natural ability to split into three identical bodies. In most continuities, each group of three is treated as a Trividual. But the Post Zero Hour version of Triplicate Girl, named Triad, was persecuted by Carggite society because her three selves had distinct personalities (one aggressive, one submissive, and one balanced between the two). Her aunt secretly had the same condition and claimed that this was actually the natural state for Carggites, and that their culture's insistence on making each person's parts act the same was cruel and harmful.
* Franchise/MarvelComics:
** Villains the Blood Brothers are two bulky alien twins, who's powers are based on how close they are to one another. Leading to this trope to the fullest.
** ComicBook/{{Carnage}} is the result of the symbiotic bonding between serial killer Cletus Kasady and the offspring of the Venom symbiote, with the former being in complete control and the latter usually being completely subservient to him, acting as an extension of his body.
* {{Non Player Character}}s Bartémulius and Nostariat from ''ComicBook/{{Noob}}''.
* Dupont and Dupond from ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' (Thomson and Thompson for the English-speakers).

* ''Series/TeenWolf'': Twins Ethan and Aiden are introduced as an inseparable set. Even their shifted alpha form is a physical merging of the two into a single hulking form. They are not developed as individual characters until [[spoiler: Aiden is killed]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Tad and Chad are almost identical twins except [[SaltAndPepper one of them is white and the other is black]] and are usually treated like a single person. In one episode they both ran for class president as a single candidate and won.

** Katie and Sadie are [[HeterosexualLifePartners BFFFLs]][[note]]"Best Female Friends for Life[[/note]] who freak out at the thought of being separated from each other in any way. They [[FatAndSkinny look]] [[SaltAndPepper different]] but [[CoordinatedClothes dress the same]] and have the same sweet-but-flighty personality.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': The rational cool headed Hudman and impulsive hot headed Hudson are essentially opposites that are always joined at the hip and Ives gives them a joint nickname of "Hudster", which is how they're often introduced or refered to. This worked against Kevin Hudman when later writers attributed "Hudster" to Hudson and seemed to forget Hudman was a character at all.

* FUWAMOCO of ''WebAnimation/{{hololive}}'' EN Advent consists of the twins Fuwawa and Mococo Abyssgard, who have very similar models save for secondary colors (Fuwawa has blue and Mococo pink) and always stream together, even sharing the same channel.

* If there happens to be eight people who want to play a face-to-face game of the seven-player ''TabletopGame/{{Diplomacy}}'', traditionally Austria-Hungary gets two people assigned to it as a nod to the Dual Monarchy nature of the state in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Both players represents Austria-Hungary in negotiations with other powers and discuss their units' orders among themselves for each turn.