History Main / ThePsychoRangers

** The "Ginga Sentai Gingaman" (not to be confused with the later heroic ''SeijuuSentaiGingaman'') from ''ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'' were the first truly recurring Evil Sentai within the franchise. They were evil space aliens who, at first, attempted to gain the trust of Earthlings by pretending to be heroes, but eventually they turned out to be villains.

* ''{{Hexen}}'' has Zedek, Traductus, and Menelkir, a trio of [[TheDragon Dragons]] who are clones of the three player character classes. Each uses the [[BFG most powerful weapon]] of his class.

* ''{{Hexen}}'' has Zedek, Traductus, and Menelkir, a trio of [[TheDragon Dragons]] who are clones of the three player character classes. Each uses the [[BFM most powerful weapon]] of his class.

* ''BigBadBeetleBorgs'' features the Mantrons, which, in a semi-subversion, are not PsychoRangers to the Beetleborgs but rather the Beetleborgs' allies, the Astralborgs.

* ''BigBadBeetleBorgs'' features the Mantrons, which, in a semi-subversion, are not PsychoRangers to the Beetleborgs but rather the Beetleborgs' unpublished predecessors, the Astralborgs. Oh yeah, it's a doozy.

* ''{{Kamen Rider}}'' has the Shocker Riders of [[Series/KamenRider the original series]], a group of evil copies of Kamen Rider 2. Subsequent Showa era series use evil copies of main Tiders fairly often. Later series forego this in favour of newly designed evil riders.

* The ''SonicTheHedgehog'' games played with this trope a few times. In ''Sonic Adventure 2'', Team Dark consisted of Shadow, Eggman and Rouge: three villains with the same powers and move sets as [[PowerTrio Sonic Tails and Knuckles]] respectivly.

** The "Hana Kunoichi Gumi" (aka the [[FanNickname Hanarangers]]) from ''NinjaSentaiKakuranger'' were an all-female group that were originally average cats.

** The A-Squad from ''PowerRangersSPD'' was the first truly recurring evil Ranger team exclusive to ''Power Rangers''. In contrast to previous evil rangers, they were actually the predecessors of the main heroes before they turned evil. Their helmets were recycled from ''Megaranger''/''Power Rangers in Space''.
** ''GogoSentaiBoukenger'' parodied this trope with the "Gaja Dengekitai" in one of their Super Sentai history lessons.

** The "Ginga Sentai Gingaman" (not to be confused with the later heroic ''SeijuuSentaiGingaman'') from ''ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'' were the first truly recurring Evil Sentai within the franchise.

* The Cocytus members in ''{{Wild ARMs 2}}'' are three-fifths of the way there - Brad and Ptolomea as [[MightyGlacier ex-military heavies]], Tim and [[ShesAManInJapan Caina]] as underage summoners, Lilka and Antenora as [[BlackMagicianGirl more traditional, more female fireball-slingers]] - but the other two in each group don't quite fit, since [[BrokenBird Kanon]] has a very different feel than [[PsychopathicManchild Judecca]], and enemy leader Vinsfield is an obvious EvilCounterpart for the PCs' MissionControl, Irving.

* Clones of the protagonists from ''{{Gargoyles}}''.

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[[caption-width:350:One team is the {{Trope Namer}}. The other isn't. Guess which is which?]]

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[[caption-width:288:The {{Trope Namer}}s in all their Psychotic glory!]]

*** It may be jumping the gun, but one thinks that [[spoiler: Catarina Devon]] is the counterpart of Nico Robin. Both are females with a bad reputation, have the MostCommonSuperpower, and have long, dark hair and both can handle themsevles in a fight. However, where Robin is TallDarkAndBishoujo and reserved, and uses her Devil's Fruit for combat that doesn't need to go hand-to-hand, whereas [[spoiler: Devon]] is a {{Gonk}}, quite more open, and uses a Spear to fight instead.

[[caption-width:288:The [[TropeNamer Trope Namers]] in all their Psychotic glory!]]

** Fred's tourguide is Knox, a morally ambiguous geeky scientist...[[spoiler:he worships an EldrichAbomination and will eventually cause her death]]

** The Frightful Four, despite its ever-changing roster, was created by the Wizard (a MadScientist Evil Counterpart to Reed Richards) to be Psycho Rangers to the Fantastic Four. In its latest incarnation, it featured the Wizard (Mr. Fantastic), his friend the Trapster (the Thing), his ex-wife Salamandra (Invisible Woman), and someone unrelated to him who just happened to be Hydro-Man (the Human Torch). Eventually he forces his daughter Lyra to join the group and effectively kills the Trapster to make room. Lyra, who is a love interest of Johnny Storm, then takes up the Human Torch role while Hydro-Man fills the Thing space.

** The Frightful Four, despite its ever-changing roster, was created by the Wizard (a MadScientist Evil Counterpart to Reed Richards) to be Psycho Rangers to the Fantastic Four. In its latest incarnation, it featured the Wizard (Mr. Fantastic), his friend the Trapster (the Thing), Lyra (Invisible Woman), and someone unrelated to him who just happened to be Hydro-Man (the Human Torch).

Since they know all the moves of their heroic counterparts. the Psycho Rangers may be too strong for their duplicates one-on-one. The heroes can sometimes turn the tables by [[OpponentSwitch switching opponents and fighting each others' evil doubles]]. Without knowledge of the heroes' fighting techniques, the Psycho Rangers become much easier to defeat. (Unless they promptly switch ''back'' again.)

** Fred's tourguide is Knox, a morally ambiguous geeky scientist - [[spoiler: worships an EldtrichAbomination and will eventually cause her death]]
** Wesley's guide is Rutherford Sirk, a former Watcher

* Deathstroke's "Titans East" of recent ''TeenTitans'' comics, which included The Match, an evil clone of Superboy (who had, by this point, degenerated into as good a clone of Superboy as [[BizarroUniverse Bizarro]] is of Comicbook/{{Superman}}); Inertia, an evil clone of Kid {{Flash}}, and Kid Crusader, who is... the only person Slade could find who had ever heard of Kid Devil and wants to kill him. They also had Joker's Daughter, Enigma (both chose to style themselves after their inspirations the same way Tim Drake sought out Batman, although Deathstroke probably didn't know that), and a brainwashed Batgirl for Robin and Risk (a former Titan who lost his arm and decided against a prosthetic) for Cyborg.

** The ActionGirl Hawkeye II meets the Executioner II, a PsychoForHire, for both are BadassNormals.

* In one of the ''{{X-Men}} First Class'' issues, the random kids in the coffee shop who correctly guess the team's orders before they're made (and just-so-happen to resemble the team greatly) turn out to be skrull imposters that have been masquerading as the X-Men and causing havoc.

** Due to a shortage of Autobot combiners, however, the Constructicons and Predacons never had exact opposites. The Dinobots and/or Omega Supreme were the arch-enemies of the former, and Sky Lynx was the enemy of the latter. (Despite being small compared to Predaking, Sky Lynx has defeated them more often than not.)

* Played straight and subverted on ''JusticeLeague''. In the original, there were three versions of the Injustice Gang. However, only the third was made of any form of counterparting to the seven members of the League (and even then, the relations were stretched at best) but the fights for each tended to trade off who fought who every time. In ''Unlimited'', the various Injustice League members merged into the LegionOfDoom, which had grown in response to the Justice League's growth. It should be noted that the villain The Shade has the distinction of being on all four Injustice Leagues. (He points this out at the third Injustice League formation, to which the villain recruiting him replies "Third time's the charm".)
** The AlternateUniverse counterparts introduced in ''A Better World'' are near perfect Psycho Rangers. {{Superman}} and {{Batman}} did mention that having counterparts willing to break any "rules" they had made them much more difficult to fight It was somewhat subverted with [[spoiler:Batman's counterpart proved to still have the same sense of morality.]] In ''Unlimited'', [[spoiler: Brainiac/Luthor]] recreated the alternate universe counterparts, and a few needed to trade partners to defeat them. (Flash defeated his counterpart in a most excellent way. His counterpart taunted him [[HannibalLecture by saying no one else trusts him with his childish behavior]] and the Flash responded with [[ShutUpHannibal "Says you! I got a seat at the big conference table...I'm going to paint my logo on it!" And he proceeded to destroy the counterpart.]])

* The opponents of Celestial Being in ''{{Gundam 0 0}} form a PsychoRangers of sorts, although not all of them are all that evil

** DarkActionGirl Soma Peres is a SuperSoldier like Allelujah

* ''DigimonFrontier's'' dark Legendary Warriors.

Since they know all the moves of their heroic counterparts. the Psycho Rangers may be too strong for their duplicates one-on-one. The heroes can sometimes turn the tables by switching opponents and fighting each others' evil doubles. Without knowledge of the heroes' fighting techniques, the Psycho Rangers become much easier to defeat. (Unless they promptly switch ''back'' again.)