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| 13 | {{Evil Counterpart}}s in Video Games. |
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| 18 | * From ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars 2]]'' onward, most of the Black Hole Army [=COs=] serve as Evil Counterparts to the Alliance [=COs=]: |
| 19 | ** Flak is the evil [[TheBrute brute]] to Max's [[TheBigGuy heroic muscle]], as he lacks Max's few restraints or glimpses of intelligence and prefers "smashin stuff" over any strategy; even his CO powers (which are functionally identical to Max's) are edgier-named: "Brute Force" and "Barbaric Flow". |
| 20 | ** Adder is this to Grit, both being lanky and thin men with a fairly laid-back disposition, with the difference being Grit has empathy where Adder lacks any. He even tries a WeCanRuleTogether to Grit in ''Black Hole Rising'', observing that Grit (who originally defected from Orange Star to Blue Moon) never really cared much about loyalty to a cause, and invites him to join Black Hole. Grit notes that he has a point, but refuses as he sees Black Hole's barbaric treatment of civilians. |
| 21 | ** Lash serves as one for Sonja. Both are intelligent, youthful, and based on terrain and defensive warfare in a manner that makes them map-dependent, but Sonja is mature and reserved while Lash is a cackling goofball. In ''Dual Strike'', many of Sonja's abilities even seem designed to counter Lash's. For bonus points, the mission that pits both of them against each other is named "A Mirror Darkly", after which Sonja even [[NotSoDifferentRemark states that Sonja also had fun in the battlefield, and that they have the same analytical mind, always looking for the victory move, and comparing war to a game of chess.]] Troubled by this, Sonja promises herself to never become like Lash. |
| 22 | ** Hawke is apperance and personality-wise a counterpart of Eagle, being a no-nonsense and competent CO with [[NobleDemon a code of honor]], though his CO powers are more in line with Drake's in terms of amount of damage and even names (Drake's powers are named Tsunami and Typhoon; Hawke's are Black ''Wave'' and Black ''Storm''). Personality and gameplay-wise, he's also one to Andy, being an all-around, talented, and very active CO with abilities based on healing; but where Andy simply heals, Hawke drains, and his units are all-around better instead of all-around good. Several times, he refers to Andy as a WorthyOpponent and Andy seems to remind him of himself. |
| 23 | * Your main power in ''VideoGame/AfterBurner Climax'' is the Climax Mode LimitBreak, which allows you to launch {{Macross Missile Massacre}}s. In the late-game you run into enemy planes who can launch {{Macross Missile Massacre}}s too. And since ItsUpToYou... Well, thank goodness for MercyInvincibility is all. |
| 24 | * In ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'', [[TheDragon Conrad Marburg]] is something of an evil counterpart to Mike; [[spoiler:a rogue agent from a previous incarnation of Alpha Protocol called Deus Vult, who like Mike was cut loose and falsely declared rogue because it was politically convenient]]. Unlike Mike, who's still trying to get to the bottom of the conspiracy, Marburg lost faith in the government and now works for [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Leland]]. |
| 25 | * An interesting case for ''VideoGame/ArNosurgeOdeToAnUnbornStar'' where the counterpart isn't actually between two in-game characters. [[spoiler:It's actually between ''you'', the player themself who's visiting the EXA_PICO world through Interdimend, and the Other Player, another visitor using Interdimend. Unlike you, who are trying to help the cast and the world, the Other Player is actively trying to put it in peril to achieve 100% completion, and doesn't care about the people at all. This is even reflected between your relationship with Ion and their relationship with Nero; while you care and treat Ion like a partner and person, the Other Player only sees Nero as a means to an end, even placing him inside the Maternal Overseer. There's also the treatment between your vessels, with you treating them with care while the Other Player forcibly controls Prim to do things she doesn't want. Ultimately it's the conflict between a good player and an evil player.]] |
| 26 | * ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'': |
| 27 | ** The Templar Order to the Assassin Brotherhood. Both are secret organizations founded in Ancient Egypt who work in the shadows to influence the course of world history to achieve their desired goal of permanent peace on Earth. However, the Assassins desire free will and will do everything to preserve it by any means, whereas the Templars want absolute control so they can establish a OneWorldOrder that would be directly overseen by them. |
| 28 | ** Il Lupo (aka The Prowler) in ''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy'' was a fighter trained by the Templars after observing Ezio in action as a countermeasure to the Assassins (specifically Ezio) by equipping him with similar weaponry, right down to a hidden blade and teaching him the same skills Ezio knows. Even his attire is similar to an Assassin's. Unfortunately, he was killed before he could ever have a chance to actually face Ezio. |
| 29 | ** Shay Patrick Cormac from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue'' is one to Connor Kenway from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' due to both having very strong morals, and [[FamedInStory becoming legends]] for being responsible for ThePurge of each other's Orders in the Thirteen Colonies/United States, as well as possibly their roles in [[spoiler:two of the world's biggest revolutions; the French and American, respectively]]. Both started out idealistic only to be exposed to the uglier side of the conflict, both were Achilles's prize students, and both were the targets of Haytham's manipulation. Connor saw through it immediately, while Shay never really figured out that Haytham was using him. Also, while both were exposed to the positives and negatives of the two ideologies, Connor stayed with the Assassins because he believed in freedom above all else; Shay cared more about protecting people, which aligned nicely with the Templars' beliefs. |
| 30 | ** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'', Bayek of Siwa has a villainous counterpart in [[spoiler:Khaliset/The Hyena]], a female member of the Order of the Ancients who like him is an expert archer and animal tamer who lost a child. However, Bayek is trying to put his child's soul to rest and move on while his counterpart is desperate to bring her child back to life, and while the experience of losing a child has spurred Bayek to help others, the counterpart losing a child drove her mad and made her willing to sacrifice people. |
| 31 | %%** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'', AntiHero Edward Kenway's counterpart is [[spoiler:Bartholomew Roberts]]: they're both legendary pirates, wear outfits they stole from dead men, have supernatural powers which made them a target by the Assassins and Templars, respectively, and they're both Welsh. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what makes one good and the other evil?) |
| 32 | %%* ''VideoGame/AtelierIrisEternalMana'' has [[SmugSnake Mull]] serving as an EvilCounterpart of [[TheStoic Arlin the swordsman]]. They even share the same sprite, only with PaletteSwap into a red outfit. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what makes one good and the other evil?) |
| 33 | %%* The ''Franchise/BaldursGate'' series firmly positions Sarevok as this to the [=PC=]. In [[VideoGame/BaldursGate the first game]] he's the only other Bhaalspawn you (knowingly) encounter, but even in ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal Throne of Bhaal]]'' where [=CHARNAME=]'s [[CainAndAbel evil siblings]] are ten a penny, he's still firmly positioned as the example of what [=CHARNAME=] could have been. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what makes one good and the other evil?) |
| 34 | * Every single character in ''VideoGame/BattleArenaToshinden 3'' has an EvilCounterpart that has to be fought as a SubBoss. Most of them are merely [[PaletteSwap carbon copies of the originals]] with a new coat of paint (except for BadassLongcoat Vermilion), so if you master one, you can easily play with their counterpart. Aside from that, the initial playable characters and their evil counterparts all [[Analysis/BattleArenaToshinden share special themes in relation to one another]]. For example, the series' main protagonist Eiji and his evil counterpart Leon shares a theme of temperament; while Eiji is a hot-blooded jerk seeking to get stronger, over time, he softens up and becomes more levelheaded in his pursuits. Leon is a cruel and cocky jerk without any standards, who will do anything in his power to be the strongest and get rid of those who will stand in his way, even if it means sending them as a sacrifice to [[BigBad Abel]]'s plans. He even desires to challenge [[WorldsStrongestMan Sho]] to achieve his goal. |
| 35 | * ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'': |
| 36 | ** The titular character's magical order called the Umbra Witches are a female-only group of magic-users who have contracts with infernal demons and can slow down time. By all accounts they ''should'' be the evil counterparts to the the male-only group of magic-users who work with angels and can speed up time, the Lumen Sages, except in the first game the Lumen Sages try to exterminate the Umbran Witch order in order to steal their half of a god's power, the Eyes of the World, which would make ''them'' [[LightIsNotGood the evil counterparts]]. However, this gets subverted in the [[VideoGame/Bayonetta2 sequel]] when it's revealed that the Lumen Sages aren't really evil, they were led down a path of destruction by the angels lying to them in an attempt at a power-grab for the Eyes of the World, coupled with the Lumen Sage leader, Balder, [[spoiler:being corrupted by housing the pure evil half of the soul of the former God of Chaos in his body. Additionally, despite the Umbra Witches serving demons, the demons are [[DarkIsEvil played straight]] to a certain extent, meaning some of them could deceive their conjurers into doing something bad (though there's a higher chance the ones Bayonetta has end up being completely DarkIsNotEvil especially in ''VideoGame/Bayonetta3'').]] |
| 37 | ** In ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'', we have [[spoiler:both halves of the aforementioned God of Chaos Aesir, Loki and Loptr. Both have the appearance of young boys (which Loptr uses to manipulate Balder into attacking Loki) who favor the use of magic cards as their weapons and are able to harness the Remembrances of Time in different capabilities: Loki having the Sovereign Power and Loptr bearing the Prophetic Power. Loki (who embodies Aesir's good nature) aims to stop Loptr, and despite having a rocky start with Bayonetta, ends up helping the witch against Loptr after her quest to save Jeanne ends; Loptr (who is the personification of Aesir's evil half) wants to acquire both Eyes of the World to remake the world, and has Balder hunt Loki under the claim that he's the responsible for the death of Balder's wife Rosa (while ''he'' was the real culprit) and, in a case of StableTimeLoop, he is TheCorruption to Balder - who sacrificed himself to try to contain him-, and by extension, instigated the Witch Hunts depicted in the first game (and, by extension as well, Balder's time-bending plot and Jubileus' resurrection in order to get both Eyes).]] |
| 38 | ** Downplayed in ''VideoGame/Bayonetta3'' where the final boss and the sole villain in the game, the multiverse-wiping AI Singularity, has an attack in his final form where he conjures a clone of himself to use some of Bayonetta's signature combat skills. He can also summon Homunculi that are seemingly counterparts to the angel's units to a certain extent (including a massive unit resembling a knockoff of Jubelius), and just like [[spoiler:the player Bayonetta, he can overwrite fate to make sure he always wins every fight he's in, although she resists that power to a significant degree.]] |
| 39 | * ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'': Alice Angel is first introduced in a poster for a ''Bendy'' episode called "Sent from Above" in [[Recap/BendyAndTheInkMachineE2TheOldSong Chapter 2]]. She herself is a cartoon angel with a cheerful upbeat theme song, but Chapter 3 acquaints Henry with, well... a real-life version of Alice Angel, who is a manipulative, AxCrazy VainSorceress far removed from the [[NiceGuy Nice Gal]] her cartoon counterpart is implied to be. The evil version is implied to be [[spoiler:[[SanitySlippage what's]] [[BodyHorror become of]] one of [[LostInCharacter her voice actresses]], Susie Campbell]]. |
| 40 | * ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' has Gehrman and Micolash, the former being the host of the Hunter's Dream, the realm of [[spoiler:the Nameless Moon Presence]], where [[HunterOfMonsters Hunters]] are taught the ropes on how to combat [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent the scourge of beasts]], while the latter is the host of the Nightmare of Mensis, the realm of Mergo, the stillborn Great One, and ultimately the source of the beast scourge itself. |
| 41 | * ''BOTS'': |
| 42 | ** The Ganda mooks are similar to a recolour of the [[PlayerCharacter Patch]] chassis, while Slappers and variants are a corruption of [[PlayerCharacter Surge]] wearing its first upgrade parts. Bubbleboy, the boss of the tutorial level and later a DegradedBoss, is based on Patch's first [[SuperMode Transformed form]], while the Heatcore-Shock minibosses are recolours of Surge's first upgraded transformation. The backstory vaguely implies these Mooks could be corrupt civilians, and/or actual evil copies. |
| 43 | ** With the rare, randomly occurring Special Transformations, you can invert it by temporarily assuming the form of a random boss, and using it to inflict devastation on ordinary viruses, or fight the level's boss on more equal terms. |
| 44 | * In ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'', [[spoiler:Ringabel at first appears the good counterpart to Alternis once his true identity as an Alternis from another world is revealed, as Alternis, being part of Eternia's council of six, was one of the seemingly evil ringleaders who tried to stop the party from saving the world by preventing the awakening of the crystals at all costs (he tried to kill Tiz, abduct Agnès and sway Edea to their side again in Chapter 2). However, by virtue of PerspectiveFlip, it turns out that Alternis was the ''good counterpart'' to Ringabel since the Eternians, despite their extreme measures, were trying to stop the main party from awakening the crystals as this would link their world to countless others in order to ''be devoured'' by the evil god Ouroboros, and Alternis had enough awareness of this happening in other worlds to try to stop this.]] |
| 45 | * Ryu from the ''Franchise/BreathOfFire'' franchise usually has an EvilCounterpart in every game: |
| 46 | ** ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'' has Teepo. Both have similar starts, and while Teepo is attracted to Myria's view of his powers and the Brood and sides with her, Ryu chooses free will and confronts her. |
| 47 | ** ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireDragonQuarter'' has Bosch. He comes from a rich family with a high D-Ratio whereas Ryu has a rock-bottom D-Ratio. However, both are swordsmen and even wind up bonded to rival dragons. |
| 48 | %%** ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireII'' introduces us to Ray, one of the dark Dragons (although he's more of a literal KnightTemplar). (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how are the two similar?) |
| 49 | %%** Fou-Lu from ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'', who's superpowerful. It's implied by various reactions to them that they are actually also {{Evil Twin}}s, but the sprites don't actually look that similar, especially since Ryu has short blue hair and Fou-Lu has long silvery hair. (Power levels are irrelevant to the trope. What are their similarities, and why is one evil and the other not?) |
| 50 | * ''VideoGame/BugFables'': The [[BigBad Wasp King]] serves as one to Vi, in the sense that both are stinging insects ([[spoiler:or in his case, ''looks'' like one]]) that grew up friendless and ostracized by their peers, and eventually left for bigger and better things which led them down the path of the explorer and usurper respectively. Greed is also a defining flaw of both characters, but Vi [[CharacterDevelopment grows as a person]] and comes to value her friends and the people around her, while the King is consumed by his selfishness and obsession with the Sapling to the point of throwing away the lives of his men in pursuit of it. |
| 51 | %%* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes: Going Rogue'' has this in spades. But due to the game's fluid alignment system, they can be your allies, ''or'' your enemies. Among them are: (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what similarities do they have to their counterparts, and what makes the Powers Division, Neuron, and Yin evil?) |
| 52 | %%** Emperor Cole, counterpart to [[CaptainGeographic Statesman]], single-handedly saved the world in the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Hamidon Wars]] and now rules the world with a gold-plated, iron fist. |
| 53 | %%** Praetor White (aka Marauder), counterpart to [[ScaryBlackMan Back Alley Brawler]], runs Praetoria's Powers Division. |
| 54 | %%** Praetor Tilman (aka Mother Mayham), counterpart to [[PsychicPowers Sister Psyche]], is in charge of the Seers, Praetoria's Thought Police. |
| 55 | %%** Praetor Sinclair (aka Chimera), counterpart to Manticore, is Emperor Cole's personal assassin. |
| 56 | %%** Praetor Berry (aka Neuron), counterpart to [[SuperSpeed Synapse]], has made hundreds of scientific advances singlehandedly. |
| 57 | %%** [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Metronome]], counterpart to the [[BrainInAJar Clockwork King]], behaves much like his Primal Earth counterpart, including his obsession with Penelope Yin. |
| 58 | %%** Penelope Yin, counterpart to [[OneSteveLimit herself]], is a [[LaResistance Resistance]] spy in Mother Mayham's mental hospital. |
| 59 | * ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'': |
| 60 | ** [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack The second installment]] introduces two computer experts: Crash's little sister [[TeenGenius Coco]] and Cortex's [[TheDragon new dragon]] [[{{Cyborg}} N. Gin]]: both of them are {{Ditzy Genius}}es with a rather short temper, but are also [[UndyingLoyalty heartfeltly loyal]] to the respective characters. In [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped the following game]], Coco fights N. Gin's new HumongousMecha in a spaceship, in [[VideoGame/CrashTeamRacing the racing game]], both are acceleration-based characters, and amusingly, both of them become more and more expressive over the years. |
| 61 | *** Nina Cortex was recreated into one for Coco Bandicoot in the Creator/RadicalEntertainment-developed games. Both act as right-hand girls and {{Kid Sidekick}}s to Cortex and Crash, respectively. However, while Coco is bubbly, altruistic, and looks up to her older brother, Nina is snide and conniving, and considers herself superior to her uncle. |
| 62 | ** Crash Bandicoot, Tiny Tiger and Crunch Bandicoot slightly played with this trope over the years: |
| 63 | *** In ''Cortex Strikes Back'', Tiny was an evil version Crash, being another hunching back orange marsupial who wears sneakers and who's good at platforming; but while Crash has [[GeniusDitz a subtle intelligence]] and rebelled against his creator, Tiny is only a DumbMuscle who blindly follows whoever is giving him orders at the moment. |
| 64 | *** Crunch Bandicoot was made to be this for Crash in ''[[VideoGame/CrashBandicootTheWrathOfCortex The Wrath of Cortex]]'', being a genetically-altered bandicoot who's actually ''loyal'' to Cortex[[note]]well, [[DragonInChief loyal-ish]]; he certainly has no problem with punching Cortex around in the final battle[[/note]], not to mention being [[EvilIsBigger large and imposing]] in contrast to Crash's small size. At least, up until he's broken free from his brainwashing, leading him to do a HeelFaceTurn. |
| 65 | *** If the manual for ''VideoGame/CrashNitroKart'' is any indication, Tiny Tiger serves as the now-good Crunch's EvilCounterpart due to the two of them being the muscle for their respective teams. |
| 66 | ** Uka Uka is literally the evil version of Aku Aku (also counting as a CainAndAbel dynamic) from ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'' onwards, being mask-like divine figures who act as the BigBad and BigGood of the series; Uka Uka being the true mastermind behind Cortex's world domination schemes and only taking center stage after being freed from his prison by the doctor, and Aku Aku being the one who drives Crash and Coco to stop them since the first game (though he was silent until the third game). Also, while Aku Aku is a FatherToHisMen, protecting Crash, Coco, and later Crunch, from Cortex, Uka Uka is such a BadBoss to his subordinates (he tried to kill Cortex for his failures, replacing him with Nina) especially in later games that most of them [[TheStarscream betray him at the first opportunity]]. For bonus points, both Aku Aku and Uka Uka function as {{Invincibility Power Up}}s and {{Bottomless Pit Rescue Service}}s for good and evil characters respectively in the racing games. |
| 67 | %%** ''VideoGame/CrashBash'' plays this straight, having two teams (good versus evil). Former villains Tiny and Dingodile become part of the good team, with Koala Kong and Rilla Roo representing their counterparts for the evil team. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what similarities do they have?) |
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| 71 | * ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'': |
| 72 | ** The ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' characters [[BigGood Makoto]] and [[spoiler:[[BigBad Junko]]]]. Excusing their cleverness, [[{{Determinator}} insane willpower]], and [[RousingSpeech speech-making]] [[BreakThemByTalking abilities]], both of them are extremely good at bringing allies over to their side by understanding the things that make them tick. The difference is that Makoto does this [[TheConfidant through simple listening]], [[TheReliableOne by allowing himself to be relied on]], and [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre unpretentiously helping people move past their pain and insecurity]] and instead [[TheParagon towards a hope-filled path]]. By contrast, she [[ManipulativeBastard exploits that emotional vulnerability]] and then [[TheCharmer psychologically manipulates her victims]] into [[TheCorrupter becoming someone willing (or even eager) to commit evil]] (and if all that fails she's got more [[{{Brainwashing}} forceful]] and [[{{Lobotomy}} invasive]] forms of making her victims comply). Hence their status as [[MessianicArchetype Ultimate Hope]] and [[SatanicArchetype Ultimate Despair]]. |
| 73 | ** ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'': [[spoiler:Nagito Komaeda]] is this to Makoto Naegi. They're both [[spoiler:Ultimate Lucky Students with a strong belief in hope, and share the same voice actor in both dubs]]. However, Makoto is a BadassPacifist who never once thinks of murdering anyone, in contrast to [[spoiler:Nagito]], who starts out acting normal but quickly proves to be an unstable WellIntentionedExtremist who's willing to do ''anything'' as long as [[TheEndJustifiesTheMeans Hope Justifies The Means]]. Hell, he's even been described by WordOfGod as "if Naegi went down the wrong path." |
| 74 | ** [[spoiler: Izuru Kamukura]] is also one to Makoto, as both are described as the 'Ultimate Hope'. However, while Makoto is a normal kid who earned his title through ThePowerOfFriendship, [[spoiler: Izuru]] was an attempt to ''artificially'' create the Ultimate Hope through methods that proved his creators didn't really understand what hope ''was''. [[spoiler: He was given every talent Hope's Peak had ever studied, but the process eliminated his humanity, making him good at everything ''but'' being a HopeBringer. Makoto eventually took his place because, unlike Izuru, he could feel emotions, empathize with others, and draw motivation from those, while Izuru was an EmptyShell who couldn't find a reason to do ''anything''. His old self, Hajime Hinata, is able to turn it right back around to become a HopeBringer like Makoto despite not having ''any'' talent, even Makoto's luck, because he befriended his fellow students and was willing to stand up for them.]] |
| 75 | * ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': |
| 76 | ** [[Recap/DeltaruneChapter1TheBeginning Chapter 1]]'s ArcVillain, the King of Spades, is one to Asgore. Asgore had a legitimate excuse to be angry at humans, and despite his hostility towards humans is a caring dad and TheGoodKing. [[spoiler: And he doesn't really hate humans at all; he just doesn't have the heart to take away the monsters' one chance at escaping the Underground.]] King is a tyrant with an excuse lacking any strong roots, a bad father, and has no standards or remorse for his evil whatsoever. |
| 77 | ** Berdly can be considered this to Lancer: both are silly characters who are TheHeavy to their respective chapters' antagonists (who both use them to threaten the heroes during their boss fights), are far [[KnowNothingKnowItAll less intelligent]] than they want to show, depend on a far more competent female character in their respective fields (Susie for Lancer and Noelle for Berdly), and [[BigDamnHeroes help the heroes]] [[HeelFaceTurn at the last second]] during the final boss battle. However, while Lancer actually is a FriendlyEnemy and helps Susie have a HeelRealization, Berdly, despite his silliness, is a serious antagonist during physical battles and has to be given a lesson by Kris. |
| 78 | ** [[HonestJohnsDealership Spamton]] is an evil version of Swatch, the head butler in the Queen's mansion. Both are shopkeepers dressed in monochrome with a dash of color, and offer you "Big Shot" clothing, but Swatch offers the "Butler Juice" healing item and is willing to buy your junk, while Spamton offers poison that harms you and refuses to be sold to. Swatch even implies that Spamton has been impersonating him to gain access to the basement. |
| 79 | %%* JC Denton of ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' has Walton Simons. Both are BadassLongcoat [[TheStoic stoic]] [[{{Nanomachines}} nanocyborgs]]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what makes one good and the other evil?) |
| 80 | * The ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' series: |
| 81 | ** A GreaterScopeVillain and GreaterScopeParagon example would be Mundus The Prince of Darkness and Sparda The Legendary Dark Knight. Both are super powerful demons who are each worshiped as deities and have a giant statue dedicated to them [[spoiler:with extra bonus points in that the two of them are {{Living Statue}}s for different reasons]]. However, Mundus seems almost ashamed by his EldritchAbomination nature and pretends to be [[LightIsNotGood more holy than he is]] while Sparda, a threatening, bug-looking demon, "[[DefectorFromDecadence woke up to justice]]" and spent his life protecting humanity from the Demon World, gaining idolization that Mundus clearly values but lost. |
| 82 | ** Vergil, being Dante's EvilTwin, of course invokes this, though the reason of why Vergil is such a beloved BreakoutVillain is directly ''because'' of the [[SiblingYinYang juxtaposition with Dante]]. Both brothers are demon HalfHumanHybrid, BadassLongcoat-wearing MasterSwordsmen who [[BloodKnight love]] a good fight and have tendency to [[IShallTauntYou mock their foes]]. However, while Dante is a lovable goofball who will use [[WalkingArmory any kind]] of weapon that he gets his hands on, Vergil is the complete opposite, being [[TheStoic very serious]] and dressing regally (unlike the rock surfer-looking Dante). Also, instead of using guns, Vergil utilizes a combination of his katana, armored gauntlet, and boots, preferring to [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen honor]] warrior traditions instead of the crazy GunFu Dante loves. Vergil even expresses his [[DoesntLikeGuns disgust]] over his younger brother's choice of weaponry, citing that GunsAreWorthless. Personality-wise, both Dante and Vergil believe in protecting loved ones, though Vergil equates it to gaining strength, while Dante believes his strength lies in his human side and therefore he surpasses Vergil, who ironically shunned his humanity, seeing it as a weakness, and greatly suffered for it.\ |
| 83 | In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'', [[spoiler:we see how Dante and Vergil converge when it comes to how they treat Nero, who is Vergil's son and Dante's nephew. Despite being his father, Vergil is largely indifferent to Nero, and while he does want Nero to stay off the battlefield (like Dante), he still has no qualms about beating Nero for the sake of getting some kind of victory over Dante, though in an ironic twist, Nero defeats Vergil instead. It's very noticeable near the end of the game as Dante gives his nephew a friendly pat on the shoulder, stating that he and Vergil need to finish the mission in the Underworld while Vergil, [[NoSocialSkills being Vergil]], just swears that he won't lose to Nero a second time before flying off. Overall, Dante genuinely loves his nephew and is personally outraged that Vergil ripped off Nero's arm for the sake of getting his power back and is further angered that Vergil himself didn't even know or care very much that he had a son in the first place.]] |
| 84 | ** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'': |
| 85 | *** BigBad Arkham is just as much a ruthless NoNonsenseNemesis as Vergil is and both are willing to kill/hurt loved ones just to gain power. However, Vergil has flair, charisma, and honor, while Arkham is pathetic, scheming, and manipulative. |
| 86 | *** Jester [[spoiler: (Arkham's alter ego)]] is clearly Dante's goofy aspects dialed up with Dante's fun being contrasted with Jester's outright annoying (even Dante is irritated) behavior. However, both goofballs are [[BewareTheSillyOnes secretly very threatening and dangerous]]. |
| 87 | *** Arkham is also the evil counterpart to Lady [[spoiler:(aka Mary, his daughter)]]. Both are "normal" humans with differently coloured eyes and violent goals, though while Arkham seeks power, Lady seeks revenge. |
| 88 | ** Urizen from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' is another "eviler" counterpart for Vergil, [[spoiler:being his "demon side" SoulJar, i.e. amoral, power-hungry, ChaoticEvil BigBad]]. |
| 89 | * In ''VideoGame/DiceyDungeons'', The Witch, who's competing in order to earn a ton of social media followers, has the counterpart of the Sorceress, one of her enemies who's always seen with her mobile phone. |
| 90 | * ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'': |
| 91 | ** The Doom Slayer was a member of an army called the Night Sentinels. While he and a few others were not tempted by the forces of Hell, a few were and defected to the demons. These traitors gained power by being transformed into demons called Marauders. The Marauders wear similar armor to the Doom Slayer and fight in a similar way, even wielding copies of his Super Shotgun. |
| 92 | ** The DLC ''The Ancient Gods: Part One'' reveals that the Dark Lord, the leader of Hell's armies, is [[spoiler:an alternate universe version of the Doom Slayer who decided to conquer Hell instead of fight it]]. |
| 93 | %%* Corypheus and [[PlayerCharacter The Inquisitor]] develop this relationship throughout ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition''. Both of them are the leaders of [[CharacterMagneticTeam Character-Magnetic Teams]], and both of [[spoiler: possess a deep connection to the breach]]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what makes one good and the other evil?) |
| 94 | * ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'': Arl Howe to [[DeathByOriginStory Bryce Cousland]]. Both fought the Orlesians in the service of King Maeric, and were good friends at one time, then the GreenEyedMonster caught up to Arl Howe and drove him stark raving mad. |
| 95 | %%** Bryce Cousland and Loghain Mac Tir, as well. Both are immensely loyal, powerful figures in Ferelden and heroes of the war against Orlais. They are also the only two Teyrns left in Ferelden. In personality and actions, however, they are entirely different, and have diametrically opposed views on the Grey Wardens. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExamples; what are these entirely different personalities and actions?) |
| 96 | * ''Franchise/DragonQuest'': |
| 97 | ** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI'': In terms of abilities, the Dragonlord (in his initial form) becomes the Hero's Evil Counterpart. In subsequent releases, he boasts Sizzle, Midheal, and Snooze -- the three bases of the Hero's magic, apart from overworld abilities and different grades of the same spells. |
| 98 | ** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'': High Priest Rolo and Abbot Francisco are two high-ranking members of the Church. However, Francisco is a genuinely good and kind-hearted person devoted to helping people, whereas Rolo is ambitious and completely corrupt, at least until he undergoes a HeelFaceTurn. |
| 99 | ** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'': |
| 100 | *** Barbarus and Greygnarl are this to each other. Both are dragons that have a history with the Gittish Empire (Greygnarl fighting against them while Barbarus aids them in [[TakeOverTheWorld Taking Over the Protectorate]]), and both aid Celestrains in their quests (Guardian Nine and [[spoiler:Corvus]]). The Bestiary entries for the two dragons suggest that Greygnarl and Barbarus formed a balance of Light and Darkness, but that Barbarus forgot the use and need of the balance. |
| 101 | *** Corvus is the Hero's Evil Counterpart. Both are Celestrians that fell to a major region of the Protectorate they were the Guardians of (Angel Falls and Wormwood Creek), once had a connection with Aquila (The Hero being Aquila's student while Corvus was his mentor), were nursed back to health by a female human that became close to them (Erinn and Serena), ally themselves with a dragon that had a history with the Gittish Empire (Greygnarl with the Hero, Barbarus with Corvus), and at the end of the game, renounce their Celestrian nature. However, while the Hero was loved for their duties by Angel Falls, Wormwood Creek was so unwelcoming to Corvus that Serena's father sold him out to protect his hometown from the Gittish Empire, causing him to believe that Serena betrayed him and hates humanity. And while the Hero renounced their Celestrain nature to gain an edge against Corvus since Celestrains cannot act above their superiors, Corvus renounced his Celestrain nature to become a full on demon. Hell, his initial hairstyle is long blonde hair to contrast with the Hero's brown hair. |
| 102 | ** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXI'': While not a party member, Mia is [[VideoGame/DragonQuestVI Milly]]'s Evil Counterpart. Both are the sisters of their siblings (Terry and Erik) who were put in danger motivating said siblings to go on a quest to save them. (Milly being captured by bandits from Felonia, Mia putting on a cursed necklace, turning everything to gold, including herself) However, Milly eventually joins the Hero's party before the quest to fight Murdaw and later [[spoiler:Mortamor]], while Mia is left behind and recruited by Mordegon to become Gyldygga, one of the Spectral Sentinels. They even fight their siblings later in the game, though while Milly fights Terry to save him from the [[DealWithTheDevil Deal With Dhuran]], Mia, as Gyldygga, fights Erik and his friends to protect Mordegon's dominance over Erdrea. |
| 103 | ** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroesRocketSlime'': Slival's Schwarzman Tank is a dark version of your own Schleiman Tank with lots of spikes. |
| 104 | * Inverted somewhat in the ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper'' series, as most of your minions are evil counterparts to the forces of good, with the biggest example being Black Knight and Knight. Other examples include Warlock/Wizard, Dark Elf/Elf and Vampire/Monk. |
| 105 | * ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'': Sima Yi can be seen as the evil counterpart to Zhuge Liang. Both are powerful officials, but while the latter serves his liege faithfully and does not empower his clan despite exercising great power, the former, while not exactly evil, is [[MagnificentBastard manipulative]] and [[TheStarscream scheming]]. |
| 106 | %%** WellIntentionedExtremist Cao Cao to AllLovingHero Liu Bei. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what are their similarities?) |
| 107 | * ''VideoGame/DyztopiaPostHumanRPG'': |
| 108 | ** Clyde is an esper like Runi and also specializes in the psychic element. However, Runi fears that she could hurt others with her powers after she accidentally killed her mom while Clyde believes his powers entitle him to torment and control others. Additionally, while Runi wants to overcome her flaw of paranoia by learning to trust her friends, Clyde is incapable of CharacterDevelopment because he relies on brainwashing himself in order to get along with others. |
| 109 | ** Morgalia serves as this to Crow and Dr. Sando in terms of being a parent. While she does love Chase, she's also very controlling and believes the two of them will be happier at the top of a banana republic, regardless of Chase's feelings. She also expects Chase to unconditionally forgive her for executing the latter's friends and lover. In contrast, Crow wants to defeat Zetacorp so that his estranged daughter Emile can live peacefully and Dr. Sando left the Smog Empire to protect Kiyota from the country's brutal patriarchy. Additionally, Morgalia constantly tries to justify her actions to herself while Crow and Sando accept that their actions, no matter how well-intentioned, have consequences. |
| 110 | ** Akari [[spoiler:turns out to be a victim of the Smog Empire's misogynistic policies like Kiyota and both defect to other countries in order to escape the patriarchy. While Kiyota eventually found people who accept her and supports Akira's cause, Akari is so bitter about her abuse that she wants to make everyone else in the world suffer under an apartheid state]]. |
| 111 | ** Robun serves as this to Akira's resistance movement, since he claims to believe in egalitarianism too, [[spoiler:yet he's secretly filled with a lot of resentment and self-hate, turning him into a BoomerangBigot who believes non-humans are incapable of creating true equality. While he has a point about the cruelties of the current world, he has somehow twisted his logic into pretzels to believe that an apartheid state for the sake of humanity would be more egalitarian than the world's current state. In contrast, Akira's team wants to reform Zeta, Vulcanite, and later the Smog Empire into egalitarian societies instead of giving up on the non-human population]]. This is only revealed in the scenario where Edgar escapes from Morgalia early and [[spoiler:kills Clyde early, causing Robun to take the spotlight as the top Hunter]]. |
| 112 | * In ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound|1994}}'', Ness is approached by a time traveler, Buzz Buzz, and learns that he's the hero who saves Earth from an alien invasion. Unbeknownst to him (and the player, until the end of the game), [[spoiler:Porky -- your initial guest character who is totally narcissistic and useless --]] has been approached by the alien leader, Giygas, to be his right-hand man. |
| 113 | * ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': |
| 114 | ** Throughout the series, at least for the average denizens of Tamriel, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Princes]] are seen as this toward the [[SaintlyChurch Aedric Divines]]. Anyone who worships a Daedric Prince is typically [[ReligionOfEvil seen as evil]], or at the very least, as [[ScaryAmoralReligion dangerous lunatics]]. Ultimately played with significantly, as the Daedra are not inherently evil (and the Aedra are not inherently good), and even within the different cultures of Tamriel, some that are seen as good by certain groups are seen as evil by others. |
| 115 | ** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'': |
| 116 | *** The Thieves Guild and the Camonna Tong. While the ThievesGuild is, by nature, rather shady and amoral, they do have elements of GentlemanThief and JustLikeRobinHood, and resort to murder only as [[GodzillaThreshold a last resort]]. The Camonna Tong is a [[FantasticRacism xenophobic]] Dunmer nationalist [[TheSyndicate crime syndicate]] with Mafia elements who despises the Empire and has no code of honor. Dealing with the Camonna Tong is a major part of the Thieves Guild questline. |
| 117 | *** Likewise with the Morag Tong and the Dark Brotherhood. Both are [[MurderInc assassin's guilds]], but the Morag Tong is government sanctioned within Morrowind and its members are honorable {{Professional Killer}}s. The Brotherhood is a fully criminal offshoot of the Morag Tong, popular elsewhere in the Empire, who are much closer to [[PsychoForHire Psychopaths For Hire]] and worship Sithis, a borderline GodOfEvil. Dealing with the Dark Brotherhood is a major part of the Morag Tong questline. |
| 118 | ** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'': Necromancers in Tamriel have always been portrayed in a "dark grey" light. The Order of the Black Worm, however, show just how evil and depraved they can be if they want to. It doesn't help that the Order's leader is an OmnicidalManiac. Dealing with them is a major part of the Mages Guild questline. |
| 119 | %%*** The [[BlandNameProduct Blackwood mercenaries]] become evil counterpart to the Fighter's Guild in that questline. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 120 | ** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'': |
| 121 | *** The [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Thalmor]] are one to both the [[AncientOrderOfProtectors Blades]] ([[StateSec militant]] [[TheOrder orders]] with [[SecretPolice espionage responsibilities]]) and to the [[MagicalSociety Psijic Order]] (Aldmeri orders who [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic seek immense magical knowledge]]). Naturally, they are major enemies to both groups, with the Thalmor having hunted the Blades to near-elimination and the Psijic Order withdrawing almost entirely from Tamriellic affairs (in addition to making their entire home island disappear). |
| 122 | *** The ''Dragonborn'' DLC reveals that the Dragonborn, the protagonist, has one in the ''First'' Dragonborn, an undead [[ReligionOfEvil Dragon-Priest]] who once ruled over Solstheim and now seeks to return to life. |
| 123 | * ''VideoGame/ElohimEternalTheBabelCode'': The FinalBoss serves as this for Joshwa, being a representation of what he could become if he became consumed by hatred. While Joshwa is motivated by rage and grief over losing his father to the infernos, [[spoiler:Anat lost all hope in her people and in AHIX after the Kosmokraters manipulated the Cainites into wiping out the first Idinite-Cainite alliance, including her husband, leaving her as nothing but a bitter avenger. Both remember their loved ones, but Anat only remembers her husband as someone to avenge while Joshwa remembers his father's desire for peace and helping others, leading to him seeking peace between the Idinites and Cainites. Anat also blames all her atrocities on the Kosmokraters while Joshwa learns in the prologue that simply placing all the blame on others, no matter how justified, is just a way to dodge personal responsibilty]]. |
| 124 | * ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'': Both ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy4'' and ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'' have superbosses in the form of evil versions of the party members in their premium versions. In ''4'', they are the "Dark Players" and are all silent, gray, and look to be undead. ''5'' has the "Evil Players", which are more varied and have personalities that are twisted exaggerations of their counterparts': |
| 125 | ** Matt is a BigEater shut-in who keeps remarking on eating his enemies. His Evil Player is Mattheus, a golem that looks like he hasn't seen sunlight in years and wants to eat the party members. When he is defeated or captured, Matt promises to stop making jokes about eating [=NoLegs=] and says the fight got "too real" for a moment. |
| 126 | ** Natalie is a mage with a higher moral compass than most of the party (except Anna). Her Evil Player, Natalia, is some sort of undead humanoid that instantly deems the entire party sinful and wants to purify them by wiping them all out. After the battle Natalie just wants to take her mind off the experience. |
| 127 | ** Lance was already the TokenEvilTeammate to begin with for the first part of the game, and he tried to excuse his fascist conquering as him building up the world's defenses against the BigBad in the most efficient way possible. His counterpart Lancelot is an emotionless robot that wants everything to be efficient or optimized. [[AIIsACrapshoot Achieving this includes killing living beings to turn them into raw materials, and dismissing their fear over this as "irrelevant"]]. Lance is notably the only human party member that has no apparent trauma or realization after fighting his counterpart. |
| 128 | ** Anna is a ranger with a strong link to nature and the most childish member of the party. Her counterpart Annabelle is a PsychopathicManchild demon that wants to hunt the party for the hell of it and treats their whole fight as a game. The battle ends with Anna worrying that Annabelle is how the animals she hunts see her. |
| 129 | ** [[spoiler:[=NoLegs=]' "Evil Player" is a subversion. His counterpart is God himself, who is calm, polite, and trying to train and encourage the party to defeat the Devourer. He is the only "Evil Player" boss whose permanent status effect helps the party rather than harms them. In fact, God is ''nicer'' than his player counterpart, who is sometimes temperamental or sassy.]] |
| 130 | %%* Several classes in ''VideoGame/EverquestII'' have good and evil counterparts, though the last four examples only started as good respectively evil before both were later made neutral: (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample, what are their similarities, and what makes one good and the other evil?) |
| 131 | %%** The Shadowknight to the Paladin. |
| 132 | %%** The Brigand to the Swashbuckler. |
| 133 | %%** The Necromancer to the Conjurer. |
| 134 | %%** The Defiler to the Mystic. |
| 135 | %%** The Bruiser to the Monk. |
| 136 | %%** The Assassin to the Ranger. |
| 137 | %%** The Coercer to the Illusionist. |
| 138 | %%** The Inquisitor to the Templar. |
| 139 | * ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': Caesar can be considered this to a good-aligned Courier. Both want to shape the future of New Vegas, both can potentially own Rex and befriend Arcade Gannon, and both can gather a group of followers. The similarities end there, however. A good Courier encourages rival groups such as the NCR, the Brotherhood, and the Followers to retain their identities and co-operate peacefully for the benefit of all like a GuileHero, whereas Caesar violently crushes opposing groups and eliminates their identities, then absorbs their assets into the Legion. A good Courier's relationship with Arcade is built on mutual trust and respect and helps him overcome his internal conflicts, whereas Caesar's friendship with Arcade is one of forced compliance and causes the troubled man to eventually commit suicide. Caesar orders for the [[DisproportionateRetribution annihilation of entire communities over minor slights]], whereas a good Courier can be kind and forgiving enough to come to the rescue of a man ''who shot them in the head''. |
| 140 | ** Ulysses is also this to the Courier, with their actions largely mirroing each other. Ulyssess helped the White Legs, while the Courier could help the Sorrows and Dead Horses. Ulysses visited the Sierra Madres and later told Elijah about it, which eventually led to the Courier being taken there. Ulysses is the reason the war between the NCR and The Legion is happening, as he was the one who discovered Hoover Dam and told Caesar about it, while the Courier's actions is the reason the war ended, one way or another. Even Ulysses points out their similarities, describing himself as alike and unlike the Courier "in all the ways that matter". |
| 141 | %%* Each of the four good champions in ''VideoGame/FantasyGeneral'' has an evil counterpart who shares the same abilities: (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what makes one good and the other evil?) |
| 142 | %%** Knight Marshal Calis's counterpart is Maloch of Blacklance (both are cavalry specialists, charismatic, and healers). |
| 143 | %%** Archmage Krell's counterpart is Aelcar the Shadow Wizard (both are archmages). |
| 144 | %%** Sorceress Mordra's counterpart is Ssazikar the Snake (both are beastmasters and summoners). |
| 145 | %%** Lord Marcas's counterpart is Orc King Dragga (both are infantry specialists and get bonuses to experience and army size). |
| 146 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games frequently employ this trope. |
| 147 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' has Cecil and [[spoiler:Golbez]]. It's revealed that [[spoiler:they're blood brothers and also [[HalfAlien half-lunarians]]; but Cecil was abandoned as a baby out of jealousy by Golbez (then Theodor) at Castle Baron's gates, being raised as the King as his son, while Theodor was mind-controlled by Zemus, wormed his way to gaining the trust of the King and turning him into his puppet (he actually killed the king) and takes over the Red Wings after Cecil defects. Cecil thinks when he finds out that it could easily be him that was mind-controlled by Zemus to act as the villain]]. In [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears the sequel]], they have mirror movesets, Cecil having WhiteMagic while [[spoiler:Golbez]] has BlackMagic, and their Cover and Taunt abilities both draw attacks from allies in different ways. |
| 148 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has Kefka as the Evil Counterpart to Celes, Terra, and Leo. With Celes, they were both products of the same SuperSoldier project, and were both generals of TheEmpire. With Terra, they both have detachment from humanity and love no one, but Terra underwent CharacterDevelopment to understand and find love, while Kefka decided it wasn't worth feeling. With Leo, Kefka is a BadBoss who harasses his troops and is generally a menace, while Leo is an honorable and beloved general. |
| 149 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': |
| 150 | *** The story builds up Sephiroth as Cloud's, but while the link starts as fairly concrete at the start of the game, especially since they are both from the town of Nibelheim, the reveal that [[spoiler:much of Cloud's backstory is a lie and is, in fact, the tale of his friend Zack]] pushes this aside. It still applies if you compare how they react to revelations about themselves though; Sephiroth thought that he was special and awesome, only to learn that he was a laboratory monster. Likewise, Cloud [[spoiler:thought that he was an epic super-soldier, only to learn that everything he remembered about that was a lie]]. But while Sephiroth desperately tries to restore his pride through godly delusions, Cloud manages to (with Tifa's help) [[spoiler:restore himself to a state free of delusions]]. Cloud and Sephiroth's appearances in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', though, play this totally straight, with Sephiroth sporting a black angel's wing on his right shoulder and Cloud having a black demon's wing on his left shoulder. In the same series, it is even heavily implied, if not outright stated, that the Sephiroth in that game was actually Cloud's EnemyWithout, an embodiment of his inner darkness. |
| 151 | *** Spin-offs instead treat Sephiroth as more an Evil Counterpart to Aerith -- he thinks he's the last Cetra, she actually is; both had fathers involved in the Jenova Project; Aerith has the White Materia to call Holy, Sephiroth seeks the Black Materia to call Meteor; Aerith is a benevolent protector of the planet, Sephiroth is more in line with an eco-terrorist. WordOfGod has said they were intended during development to be revealed as [[SiblingYinYang siblings]], which is why they have similar hairstyles and both have green eyes. In a novella set before ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children]]'', it's implied that Aerith could have created avatars of herself like Sephiroth did, but she felt it more important to let Cloud handle things on his own. |
| 152 | *** There's also Dyne in relation to Barret. Both are men from Corel who lost their arms in a Shinra attack and got {{Arm Cannon}}s to replace them. Also, they are both violent, but Barret directs his anger at Shinra while Dyne snapped and became an OmnicidalManiac. It shows that Barret could have followed a very similar path to him. |
| 153 | *** On a lesser note, there's Hojo against Gast Faremis. Both were scientists working for Shinra, but Gast was a kind man who used science to obtain wisdom while Hojo is an immoral MadScientist. Furthermore, [[spoiler:Hojo is the father of Sephiroth, who is the evil counterpart to Aerith, Gast's daughter.]] |
| 154 | *** In ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus'', all of the Tsviets share something in common with Vincent. Shelke is immortal, Nero wields Darkness, Rosso has similar attire (red clothes, metal gauntlets) and fighting methods, Azul has the same shapeshifting powers, and Weiss is [[spoiler:trying to attain the power of Omega, the antithesis to Chaos. Furthermore, he's the vessel for Hojo, who turns into monsters like Vincent, but has no morals or physical prowess to call his own.]] Oh, and they also all use a combination of guns and martial arts, leaning towards guns. Except for Shelke. Rosso and Vincent lampshade this with their discussion on each other's "humanity". |
| 155 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'': |
| 156 | *** Seifer is an evil counterpart to Squall, both using gunblades and having been trained at the same Garden. Although Seifer is more ambitious than evil. |
| 157 | *** [[spoiler:Ultimecia]] is this to Rinoa, as they are both sorceresses and their appearances contrast each other: Rinoa has black hair, blue clothing, and white wings, while her counterpart has white hair, red clothing, and black wings. Rinoa encourages Squall to open up despite the risk of loss, expressing the healthy outlook that the uncertainty of the future means that they should value what they have in the present, but her counterpart demonstrates Squall's insecurities about the future writ large, railing against the passage of time and attemping to destroy reality via time compression rather than face future loss. |
| 158 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' has [[spoiler:Zidane to Kuja -- both created by Garland to lead Gaia to war. Zidane is horrified when he thinks that if things had gone differently, he could be the one doing all the evil Kuja has been doing.]] |
| 159 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'': Tidus and Shuyin; one died while failing to protect his beloved, while the other gave his existence and succeeded. They even look alike, and fans speculate that [[spoiler:the fayth deliberately modeled Tidus after Shuyin in their dream-Zanarkand]]. |
| 160 | %%*** [[spoiler:Yunalesca]] is an evil counterpart to Yuna. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 161 | %%*** [[spoiler:Seymour]] is also this to Yuna. |
| 162 | %%*** Given his status as [[spoiler:[[OurGhostsAreDifferent Unsent]], Seymour]] is also this to Auron. |
| 163 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' has the [[spoiler:for most of the game]] evil Gabranth and the good [[spoiler:Basch, who doubles as a pair with an EvilTwin]]. Both are disgraced {{Failure Knight}}s who keep fighting, but while the latter fights by holding to honor, the former is motivated by hatred. |
| 164 | ** The endgame quests from the ''Heavensward'' expansion of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has [[spoiler:the Warriors of Darkness, a group of five warriors siding with the Ascians against the Scions and the Warrior of Light. Subverted in that the Warriors of Darkness are not evil so much as desperate to save the world they came from and are willing to do whatever it takes, even if it means destroying another world.]] |
| 165 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' has Illua, the BigBad of the game and evil counterpart to Luso. Luso and Illua both have grimoires that have blank pages and are filling up with words as they go on their adventures. If Luso fills out his book, it will give him the power to return home, but if Illua fills out her book, then she gets to summon a great evil demon from another dimension to terrorize Ivalice with. [[spoiler:Whether Illua succeeds in defeating Luso or not doesn't matter since once she is slain, her last efforts get recorded in the book and the demon gets summoned anyway.]] |
| 166 | * In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'', the Reed brothers Linus and Lloyd are evil counterparts to Hector and Eliwood (who aren't actual brothers, but [[TrueCompanions might as well be]]). [[ForceAndFinesse Eliwood and Lloyd are agile and favour swords, while Hector and Linus are strong and prefer axes.]] [[RedOniBlueOni Eliwood and Lloyd prefer to act calmly and rationally, while Hector and Linus are brash and headstrong.]] The brothers exaggerate the Lords' flaws however, as Lloyd remains passive until it's too late and, if fought last, is implied to be pulling a SuicideByCop, while Linus lets his UnstoppableRage consume him and goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge if Lloyd dies. This is commented on in-game if Hector lands the killing blow on Linus in ''Cog of Destiny'', which triggers extra dialogue where Hector gives a NotSoDifferentRemark. |
| 167 | * ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'' takes this one quite literally in the Fell Xenologue DLC, which features an AlternateUniverse version of Elyos that has fallen to ruin, and the Royals who have turned into twisted versions of themselves [[spoiler:owing to their death and subsequent ressurection as Corrupted]]. For instance, Alternate Céline is a ruthless BloodKnight, Alternate Fogado is a blatant hedonist, and Alternate Alcryst is a GreenEyedMonster towards Alternate Diamant, all of which are fought as antagonists through the six chapters. |
| 168 | * ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'': |
| 169 | ** ''F.E.A.R.: Perseus Mandate'' has the Nightcrawler Elites, who possess the Point Man's BulletTime abilities through unknown means. They will usually "teleport" when taking damage. |
| 170 | ** In ''F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin'', [[spoiler:Sergeant Harold Keegan]] eventually becomes this to the PlayerCharacter Michael Beckett. [[spoiler:He's a member of Dark Signal like Beckett, and matches or possibly even surpasses Beckett in terms of psychic potential, but has questionable mental stability. After Alma possesses and {{Mind Rape}}s him, he learns that Beckett is (completely unwillingly) Alma's favourite, and becomes a CrazyJealousGuy obsessed with killing Beckett, and capable of using Beckett's BulletTime powers.]] |
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| 174 | * Azel in ''VideoGame/GodHand'' has the left God Hand, while the main character, Gene, has the right. It is said that he who possesses a God Hand may be either god or devil; Azel chose the latter route, dubbing himself "the Devil Hand". He wiped out his entire clan (protectors of the God Hands) to test his power, and then sided with the demons plotting to raise Angra. |
| 175 | * ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'': The Stranger [[spoiler:aka Baldr]] is one to Kratos, [[spoiler:as they're both gods who were cursed by their parents (though Freya's was an attempt to protect her son that went wrong) and spend their lives in a self-destructive revenge quest]]. It all plays into the game's overall theme of Kratos trying to move on from his past, in this case by confronting someone who is the same as he was in the original trilogy. It helps [[spoiler:Baldr]] also looks like a emaciated Norse version of Kratos. |
| 176 | * ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': Big Smoke is this to CJ. Both men are gangsters who want power and money, but while CJ is loyal and completely refuses to sell crack, Smoke sees it as a good deal. In other words, he represents what CJ would be if he had opted for hard drugs and corruption. |
| 177 | * In ''VideoGame/GuildWars'', to progress beyond a certain point in the plot you have to defeat your own character's evil twin in single combat. The doppelganger has the same skills as your character and higher stats, so you can't defeat it by simple brute force; you have to win by outsmarting the AI. |
| 178 | * ''VideoGame/Halo4'' introduces [[AncientEvil The Didact]] for Master Chief, a heavily armored Forerunner commander who was the lover and protector of "the Librarian" similar to Chief's relationship with [[BenevolentAI Cortana]]. The Librarian also imprisons The Didact for his crimes like how Cortana freezes Chief for his protection, and Chief wants to protect humanity while the Didact seeks to destroy it in revenge. |
| 179 | * In ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'', Mark Parchezzi III is this to Agent 47. Even though 47 can be viewed as a villain, he is shown to have a set of values and morality, while what little is seen of Parchezzi shows him to be completely without scruples. Plus, while 47 performs rather indiscriminate hits, Parchezzi works for the Franchise, a clandestine government group with the goal of keeping human cloning illegal so that nobody else may benefit from it. |
| 180 | * ''VideoGame/JitsuSquad'': Several of the villains are counterpart to the titular squad. |
| 181 | ** Hero TheHero, against Dash Kobayashi TheDragon ([[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon fittingly enough, Hero's sworn enemy is Dash instead of the main villain]]), both highly-competent swordfighters using identical weapons and special moves, but on different sides. |
| 182 | ** Baby O'Hara the ActionGirl against Shade the DarkActionGirl, both who DualWield weapons in their fights, and {{Fragile Speedster}}s who specializes in using speed and [[GuysSmashGirlsShoot long-ranged projectile attacks]], unlike their male compatriots. |
| 183 | ** Jazz Amun the WarriorMonk and Raven the {{Necromancer}}, two magic-users who used to be from the Black Lotus Order, before the latter defected in search of more power. |
| 184 | ** Aros Helgason TheBigGuy and Balthazar TheBrute, being marine bucaneers by trade (the former is a Viking, the latter a Pirate Captain) and the largest of their respective teams, who wields a weapon almost as large as themselves (Aros swings a {{BFS}} while Balthazar uses [[AnchorsAway an anchor]]). |
| 185 | * In ''VideoGame/JumpjetRex'', [[spoiler:the First Dinonaut appears to be this to Rex. They look identical aside from being different colors, and both were sent on the same mission to destroy the asteroid, but the First Dinonaut turned against the dinosaurs.]] |
| 186 | * ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': |
| 187 | ** Initially, Sora and Riku, before they patch up their troubles at the end of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. Both came from Destiny Islands and wished to leave and explore other worlds, but while Sora was motivated by a love of adventures, Riku hated the islands and saw it as a prison. Once they leave the islands, Sora teams up with Donald and Goofy to find King Mickey and save the worlds while Riku joins Maleficent and helps her with her plans to kidnap the princesses just so he can save Kairi. This is the reason why Riku's Keyblade went to Sora in the first place, as Riku had given into the darkness, which in turn made him unworthy to wield one. |
| 188 | ** Donald and Goofy have entire races of Heartless counterparts in [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI the first game]] -- the shield-using Defender for Goofy, and the sorcerous Wizard for Donald. On the very rare occasions one drops its weapon (each has a 0.2% chance), the corresponding hero can pick it up and use it immediately. |
| 189 | ** Master Xehanort is this to the entire Destiny Islands Trio. |
| 190 | *** Looking at the backstory revealed in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth By Sleep]]'', he is one to Sora. They both grew up at Destiny Islands, they both became Keyblade wielders, they both became a sort of composite being (Xehanort steals the bodies and hearts of others to extend his life, Sora lets others share his body and heart to extend ''their'' lives), they both became a Heartless and a Nobody. Sora is a [[IdiotHero Naive Hero]] and increasingly portrayed as a MessianicArchetype, while Xehanort is TheChessmaster who shows some FallenAngel symbolism. Also, like Sora, Xehanort came from a humbler background. Sora was an ordinary boy while Riku was chosen by the Keyblade. Xehanort was an islander while Eraqus is descended from the survivors of the Keyblade War. But while Sora comes about as a result of his selfless altruism and trying to help those he meets, Xehanort works to create new incarnations to further his goals and corrupts others to darkness. |
| 191 | *** This also makes him Riku's Evil Counterpart, as they share very similar backgrounds of being dissatisfied with life on their tiny world and wanting to see the outside, even if it meant delving into darkness. Both use darkness as their main weapon after losing themselves in darkness in pursuit of his ambitions. Riku however pulled himself back and reformed, while Xehanort kept going deeper into the darkness and was lost for it. They also both invade Sora's subconscious during the events of ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance Dream Drop Distance]]'', but for differing reasons. Ansem shifting to being Riku's ArchEnemy[=/=]EnemyWithin exemplifies this. |
| 192 | *** After the finale of ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX Union Cross]]'', he can be considered one to Kairi. [[spoiler:Both of them were born on different worlds before getting sent to Destiny Islands]], they both wanted to leave Destiny Islands to explore more worlds, and both are wielders of the keyblade, but while Kairi uses the power of light, Xehanort uses the power of Darkness. Kairi is also an inexperienced Keyblade Wielder while Xehanort is an expert Keyblade Master. |
| 193 | ** Xemnas is one to Roxas. Both are Nobodies of shocking power, born from Keyblade Wielders. Both are dual wielders of their signature weapons. Both tend to have anger issues: Roxas is bent on revenge towards Xemnas at the end of ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 Days]]'' and throws several tantrums in ''II'', while Xemnas is a firm believer in ThePowerOfHate. However, Roxas is also kind to his friends and loyal to them, and his anger is genuine. Xemnas is a sociopathic tyrant who sees the other Organization members as mere pawns and cares about no one save for himself. |
| 194 | ** Vanitas is one to a few characters. |
| 195 | *** His closest counterpart is Ventus. Vanitas is literally the darkness to Ventus's light, [[spoiler:(or so we thought). It's [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIIIReMind Re:Mind]]'' however, as Vanitas reveals that he isn't actually Ventus's dark half, but rather he is a being that existed inside of him for a long time before being extracted by Master Xehanort.]] |
| 196 | *** He is also one to Sora, having Sora's versatility (he uses all three major elements in ''Birth by Sleep'') and energetic nature. He's enjoying most of what he's doing, but unlike Sora, his joy is manic and sadistic. |
| 197 | *** He can be considered as one to Roxas as well. They were both born after being ripped out of someone (Ventus and Sora respectively), yet they end up looking different than the person they originated from (Roxas looks exactly like Ventus, while Vanitas looks like a black haired, yellow-eyed Sora). Their character development also differs, as while Roxas has friends, grows vengeful against the Organization for what they put him and his friends through, rebels, and is ultimately a good guy, Vanitas became a monster underneath Xehanort's tutelage and is ultimately alone. They both also end up getting new Keyblades at the climax of their stories, but whereas Roxas gets Oblivion and Oathkeeper and becomes a hell of a badass, Vanitas gets the singular χ-blade, which is not even properly forged and, as ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII III]]'' shows, can be beaten by a strong enough Keyblade wielder and his two friends. |
| 198 | *** Lastly, he is one to Aqua. They are both loyal students of their masters and seek to uphold their legacy, but [[OrderVersusChaos Vanitas relishes in chaos while Aqua pursues order]]. Also, despite Vanitas sharing a physical connection with Ventus, it's Aqua whom he ends up having to fight over and over again throughout ''Birth by Sleep'' and ''III'', to the point that they can be considered [[ArchEnemy archenemies]]. |
| 199 | ** In the endgame of ''III'', Xemnas, Ansem, and Young Xehanort take up this trope in regards to Sora, Riku, and Mickey, as they have been the primary enforcers of the darkness and light on behalf of their true leaders, Master Xehanort and Yen Sid, respectively. The final fight before the final boss is Sora, Riku, and Mickey facing off with the three chief Xehanort incarnations. |
| 200 | * ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': |
| 201 | ** Iori Yagami is Kyo Kusanagi's Evil Counterpart, the two of them both being fire-wielding heirs to two of the three clans that [[SealedEvilInACan defeated and sealed Orochi away]]. While Kyo is known to be an ArrogantKungFuGuy who also [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold personally cares and loves both his family and friends]], Iori is known for his anti-social behavior and being somewhat an AntiHero {{Jerkass}} who wouldn't hesitate to attack his own teammates if he was in a really foul mood (as seen in his own teams' endings for both ''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters95 KOF '95]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters2001 KOF 2001]]''). |
| 202 | ** The New Faces Team uses the powers of the malevolent god Orochi to become evil counterparts of Team Japan in ''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters97 KOF '97]]'' |
| 203 | *** Chris is this to Kyo, getting fire powers plus his own version of Kyo's Orochinagi. He basically ramps up Iori's pre-existing anti-social behaviour into nihilistic hatred of humanity. |
| 204 | *** Shermie is this to Benimaru, having electrical moves plus her own version of Benimaru's Raikouken - with her exaggerating Benimaru's flamboyance into outright sexual sadism. |
| 205 | *** Yashiro is this to Daimon. He gets the powerful grapple moves plus his own version of Daimon's Jigoku Gokuraku Otoshi DM, but executes them in a far more cruder and violent manner than Daimon's graceful judo. |
| 206 | ** Krizalid is this for K' in ''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters99 KOF '99]]'' - while the latter [[DefectorFromDecadence turned against NESTS]] and is dedicated to tearing the corrupt organization down, Krizalid, his clone, is one of their high-ranking executives. |
| 207 | ** K9999 from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters2001'' got his Good Counterpart in Nameless from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters2002: Unlimted Match'': both have more or less [[MovesetClone the same moves]] and positions as a 9999th clone (K9999 of Kyo and Nameless of K', respectively). But while K9999 is prone to childishly insulting everyone around him [[spoiler:even as Krohnen in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFightersXV'']] and was perfectly willing to [[TeamKiller attempt to murder his own teammate Foxy]] on behalf of NESTS, Nameless had a genuine, loving relationship with the late Isolde and only goes along with NESTS's agenda for her sake. |
| 208 | * ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'': |
| 209 | ** Kirby has Shadow Kirby in ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheAmazingMirror'', [[spoiler:although he goes through a HeelFaceTurn once Kirby realizes that [[NotSoDifferentRemark he wants his world to be saved just as much as Kirby wants his own world to be saved]], which results in them becoming allies.]] Shadow Kirby also appears in [[VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe Kirby Fighters]] and ''[[VideoGame/KirbyFightersDeluxe Kirby Fighters 2]]'' as the final boss of Single-Handed Mode. One could argue Shadow Kirby is not necessarily a 'dark' counterpart of Kirby, as the only thing that separates the two is their color. |
| 210 | ** Meta Knight has Galacta Knight, although not directly a dark counterpart. When referring to Meta Knightmare, Meta Knight himself considers Galacta Knight to be a powerful rival, nothing more. Both have very similar appearance, attacks, and movesets. The primary differences between the two are that Galacta Knight lacks Meta Knight's sense of chivalry, and Galacta has a more angelic appearance compared to Meta Knight (white feathered wings and brighter colors compared to Meta's bat wings and dark colors). |
| 211 | ** Meta Knight has not encountered [[spoiler:Morpho Knight]], the other winged counterpart within ''[[VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies Star Allies]]'' nor in ''[[VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand The Forgotten Land]]''. Aside from their similar build, Morpho Knight [[spoiler:usually appears as a normal butterfly in the 3D games and needs to forcibly possess other powerful beings -such as Galacta Knight (ironically) and Fecto Forgo- to gain his true form, while taking them out of their would-be boss battles, even using some of their abilities]]; while Meta Knight was possessed/controlled against his will by the villains while attempting to fight them and gained more abilities as a byproduct (and only managed to keep his duplication technique from ''Star Allies''). Interestingly, he acted as an antagonist (either main or under King Dedede) out of his free will in two instances, while Morpho Knight was the GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere in both of his apperances. |
| 212 | ** Meta Knight himself sometimes acts as an evil counterpart to Kirby (though as of recent he falls more on his tendencies for battle rather than antagonize Kirby directly), their relationship is quite unpredictable, at times being steadfast allies or bitter rivals, though Meta Knight is more stoic and has BloodKnight tendencies while keeping his code of honor; plus he looks very similar to Kirby beneath the mask. Often in a Story Mode, he is frequently seen being controlled by a another larger force that manipulates him to attack Kirby (see Kirby Epic Yarn, Kirby Planet Robobot, and Kirby Star Allies), should his BloodKnight tendencies not be in play. |
| 213 | ** Meta Knight's first dark counterpart is [[spoiler:Dark Meta Knight]], who first appears in ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheAmazingMirror'' and later appears as the final boss of Dededetour mode in [[spoiler:''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'']]. Dark Meta Knight is the last boss fought before Dark Mind and, under his orders, poses as the normal Meta Knight for most of the former game, as he splits Kirby in four, traps the normal Meta Knight in the Dimensional Mirror, and in his first boss batttle he is refered as "???". He also lacks his sense of honor, as he never leaves a sword for Kirby to pick (which is a giveaway of his real identity). |
| 214 | %%** King Dedede has [[spoiler:Shadow Dedede, who is fought during Dededetour in ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe''.]] |
| 215 | * ''VideoGame/KnightBewitched'': Typhus, despite seeming like a generic EvilOverlord at first, has a lot of the same vices as some of the main characters and not a whole lot of virtues to compensate. |
| 216 | ** He has a lover, Bjalla, just like how Gwen has Ruth. However, he [[spoiler:brainwashed Bjalla into loving him and when she's released, she's just glad to be free from his control, showing that there's no mutual love between them. Gwen does put a curse on Ruth to make the latter more compliant, but the curse doesn't overwrite Ruth's feelings and she apologizes doing so, leading to the two forming a true relationship.]] |
| 217 | ** He's racist against humans while Alduin is a BoomerangBigot against witches, and both seek the genocide of those groups. Typhus is willing to start a war against humanity, even if it means getting his brethren killed. In contrast, Alduin [[spoiler:has a HeelFaceTurn when he realizes his vengeful crusade will lead him to kill the sister he wanted to save]]. |
| 218 | ** Like Uno, Typhus believes in taking justice into his own hands and is willing to kill others for a perceived greater good, regardless of society's opinion. Uno is at least self-aware that his vigilante assassinations are still evil in their own way, and he doesn't want Stray to go down the same path. Unfortunately, Typhus is very self-righteous about wiping out humanity for the sake of dragons and is unable to comprehend why his fellow dragons oppose him. |
| 219 | * ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'': Malefor is this to Spyro. Both are Purple Dragons, both were, according to Chief Prowlus and the statues of him all over the place, heroic in their youth, and both were trained freely by their elders in the Dragon Elements. The difference is Malefor let his power go to his head and [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity went mad with power]] while Spyro remained good hearted (though Spyro was [[RaisedByWolves raised by dragonflies]], which may have had something to do with it). Malefor is aware of this and works it into his NotSoDifferentRemark combined with a HannibalLecture. |
| 220 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': |
| 221 | ** Dark Link, the shadow version of our hero Link first seen in ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink''. In some games, Dark Link is just a mid-level boss, while in other games, he's a full-fledged villain. Dark Link uses a sword and shield in exactly the same way as Link and frequently mirrors Link's attacks to block them. |
| 222 | ** It's not grasping at straws to point out how similar Link and BigBad Ganondorf are, especially in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''. Both Link and Ganon are unique in their respective homes, with Link being the only Hylian among Kokiri and Ganondorf being the only male among the Gerudo. Also, both Link and Ganondorf win favour with the Hyrule Royalty, though Link had no secret agenda of taking over. ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' adds even more as Ganon is [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]] in time just like [[SealedGoodInACan Ocarina Link was]]; also in the same game, both Link and Ganondorf are [[MasterSwordsman Master Swordsmen]] who both respectively have a [[{{Animorphism}} beast mode]] which they use against each other. |
| 223 | ** In addition to this, Ganon can be considered the evil counterpart to both Link and Zelda, since they possess the Triforce of Courage and Wisdom, respectively, while Ganon himself possesses the Triforce of Power, representing the negative elements of creation. Going much further into this is the fact that [[spoiler:Ganon is the incarnation of a demon's hatred much like Link is the descendant of the original hero and Zelda herself is the human descendant/incarnation of the creation goddess]]. |
| 224 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword's'' [[spoiler:Ghirahim]] as [[spoiler:Demise's]] sword to [[ExpositionFairy Fi]] as Link's sword. His persona was carefully crafted to be Fi's polar opposite. Fi is fairly emotionless and speaks in [[IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect percentages]]. [[spoiler:Ghirahim]] is [[LargeHam flamboyant to the extreme]], and very open and dramatic. Once his true form is revealed, his text boxes look similar to Fi's, albeit black. [[spoiler:Demise's]] weapon even looks like a dark version of the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Master Sword]] -- even down to an upside-down Triforce on the blade. |
| 225 | ** Vaati from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'' is a selfish, power-hungry evil to Link's selfless, altruistic good, a powerful wizard to Link's master swordsman, and they even have a very similar appearance, [[GoodColorsEvilColors though the colors are suitably different]]. |
| 226 | ** Zig-zagged with [[spoiler:Princess Hilda]] from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds''. She looks like an evil version of [[spoiler:Princess Zelda]], what with her [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] to [[spoiler:Zelda's]] InnocentBlueEyes, her [[spoiler:[[GracefulLadiesLikePurple purple]]]] attire to [[spoiler:Zelda's]] [[PrincessesPreferPink pink]] attire, and her dark hair color to [[spoiler:Zelda's]] [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold blonde hair]]. Still, she is at worst morally ambiguous and even helpful towards Link. [[spoiler:Until the final boss that is, where it's revealed that she is working with [[BigBad Yuga]]. Then it's triple subverted when it turns out that she isn't evil, but a WellIntentionedExtremist who would risk another kingdom for her own. Ultimately, Hilda is merely being used by Yuga and after the final battle, she makes up with Zelda.]] |
| 227 | ** In ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', every character has a "dark" palette that makes his or her skin, clothes, and equipment completely black and gives him or her glowing red eyes, but only Link's is freely useable, and in the UsefulNotes/WiiU version only if you buy the Hero of Hyrule DLC combo pack. In Ganon's Fury, this palette also doubles as a SuperpoweredEvilSide of sorts for the giant bosses: their dark versions can't be stunned with properly-used subweapons and you can't use Weak Point Smashes against them, but they take much more damage from any attack by default, meaning you can fight them like any other enemy, though there's no way to interrupt any of their attacks. |
| 228 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', its sequel ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom Tears of the Kingdom]]'', and by extension ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity'', have the Yiga Clan as the evil counterpart to the Sheikah. Whereas the Sheikah had long dedicated themselves to protecting the Hylian royal family and working with them to defeat Ganon, the Yiga are Sheikah traitors who have dedicated themselves to Ganon's return and the deaths of both Link and Princess Zelda, their preferred M.O. being to attack without warning, either with sudden ambushes or disguising themselves as civilians and luring their marks in for an easy kill. The distinction also extends towards their appearances: while Sheikah have white hair and tend to dress in light colors, Yiga dye their hair black and lean towards [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver a red and black ensemble]] with [[MalevolentMaskedMan face-concealing masks]] adorned with the clan's emblem, a red inverted Sheikah emblem. ''Age of Calamity'' goes further to show they can also go back into their old Sheikah professions for infiltration and disguise, similar to what Zelda did as Sheik in ''Ocarina of Time''. |
| 229 | *** ''Tears of the Kingdom'' goes even further with their use of ancient technology in the present time of Hyrule, though while the Sheikah used their ancient Guardian technology to help Hyrule until it got hijacked by Ganon's Calamity Ganon incarnation, the Yiga used Zonai technology to attack Link and expand their offensive capabilities. |
| 230 | * ''VideoGame/LieOfCaelum'': Kenzo Vanguard is a pugilist like Kyou and his EnemyScan entry implies that he's also of the Speed discipline. Both have a tendency to snark at their friends and are obsessed with training their skills to perfection, but Kenzo is much more malicious and openly takes pleasure in humiliating others while Kyou is more honorable but can be wrathful when Miyu is hurt. |
| 231 | * ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'': Kiryu has had many enemies who reflect darker aspects of himself, but Ryuji Goda from ''VideoGame/Yakuza2'' is frequently pointed to as his main Evil Counterpart. Like Kiryu, Ryuji is a powerful man with a dragon tattoo and a nickname to go with it ("The Dragon of Kansai"), and like Kiryu he has a deep code of honor that he follows to the letter. Unlike Kiryu, Ryuji lacks loyalty and kindness towards others and is mainly driven by his {{ambition|IsEvil}} to get to the top, and his code of honor is more reflective of his self-image than anything else. Also, while Kiryu has a high amount of respect and love for his adoptive father Shintaro Kazama, Ryuji hates his adoptive father Jin Goda and wants nothing more than to surpass him in every way imaginable. |
| 232 | * In ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw'', [[BigBad Swan]] is this trope to Juliet Starling. Both were motivated by "love" to pervert the natural order of life and death: He raised an undead army to punish Juliet [[EntitledToHaveYou for not requiting his feelings]], she crippled her boyfriend as part of a magic ritual to prevent his death. Notably, Juliet can only defeat Swan by [[spoiler:allowing Nick to pass on (rather than forcing him to continue living in his extremely dependent, painful state)]] -- essentially acknowledging that "life is about more than what we want", something Swan was too angry to do. |
| 233 | * ''VideoGame/LostJudgment'': Takayuki Yagami finds his Evil Counterpart in [[spoiler:Jin Kuwana; both men were burned by the legal system in events that caused harm to innocents (Yagami getting a murderer acquitted only for the man to seemingly kill again, while Kuwana ignored a severe case of bullying until it was too late and was torn apart by the public while most of the culprits got off scot free), and both believe the system is flawed and allows good people to be unjustly wronged. But while Yagami became a private detective to fix the system from within, Kuwana became a [[SerialKiller Serial Killing]] BullyHunter who would rather tear the system down if it brings his vision of justice to fruition.]] |
| 234 | * Many of the Guilds of ''VideoGame/{{Lusternia}}'' have counterparts in the form of {{foil}}s, but only the Celestine priesthood have a straight-up Evil Counterpart in the form of the Nihilists: The former are white-winged priests granted angelic companions by extradimensional incarnations of virtues, while the latter are bat-winged priests granted demonic companions by extradimensional incarnations of sins. |
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| 238 | * ''Franchise/MassEffect'': |
| 239 | ** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', Saren Arterius is [[PlayerCharacter Shepard's]] EvilCounterpart, being a Spectre agent turned rogue. He can be seen as a version of Shepard who's willing to do horrible things in order to achieve "greater good". This is specially made clear in the Paragon ending of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. |
| 240 | ** The ''Mass Effect 2'' DLC ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' takes it even further with [[spoiler:Tela Vasir, an asari Spectre and agent of the [[KnowledgeBroker Shadow Broker]]. She even delivers a NotSoDifferentRemark to Shepard, who, for all intents and purpose, is working for the equally shady Illusive Man.]] |
| 241 | ** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': |
| 242 | *** Shepard is being targeted by Cerberus assassin Kai Leng, who's first introduced in ''Literature/MassEffectRetribution''. Before Kai Leng worked with Cerberus, he was an Alliance N7 operative (like Shepard) who was imprisoned for murdering a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy krogan]] in a bar while on leave ([[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer with nothing but a knife]]). Also, after Shepard was killed, s/he was given many cybernetic implants to help rebuild him/her, and Kai Leng now also has cybernetic enhancements. Finally, they're both the best and most skilled fighters of their specific sides, Shepard for the Alliance and Council and Kai Leng for Cerberus. |
| 243 | *** Another evil counterpart to Shepard in ''Mass Effect 3'' is the Illusive Man. While Shepard is willing to sacrifice himself/herself for the greater good and reluctantly sacrifices others for the same, TIM forcibly sacrifices others to achieve his goals and acquire power. While Shepard's sacrifices bring humanity closer to victory, TIM's sacrifices brings it closer to destruction. |
| 244 | *** The main villain of the ''Citadel'' DLC is [[spoiler:a [[EvilTwin Cerberus-created clone]] of Shepard, who intends to KillAndReplace the original]]. Taken further when they explicitly refer to [[spoiler:Maya Brooks]], their NumberTwo, as being their "[[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Miranda]]". |
| 245 | *** Achieved in the Multiplayer, with the [[SuperPrototype Phoenix classes]], biotic Cerberus defectors, and the Dragoons, which is what would have happened if the Phoenixes had stayed loyal. Same suit? Check. Same attack, [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience different only in color]]? Check. The Phoenix gets it better, since at least it gets shields. |
| 246 | * The ''VideoGame/MasterOfOrion'' reboot gives us the aggressive and xenophobic Terran Khanate, a stark contrast to the far more peaceful and diplomatic Human Republic. Their ship designs are [[CosmeticallyDifferentSides virtually identical]] (human ships are gleaming white, while Terran ships are dark-gray), but their bonuses are different. According to their backstory, the Terrans are TransplantedHumans, taken from Earth long ago by the [[AbusivePrecursors Antarans]] during their war with the [[BenevolentPrecursors Orions]] to be used as battle thralls, only to be abandoned on a barely-habitable world in the Alpha Ceti system. Only draconian policies allowed the Terrans to survive, thrive, and claw their way back to the stars, determined not to be enslaved by anyone else ever again. |
| 247 | * ''Franchise/MegaMan'': |
| 248 | ** ''VideoGame/MegaManPoweredUp'' has "Mega Man ?". This guy is basically what Mega Man would be like if he was a jerk and wore a purple scarf. Oddly enough, Mega Man never gets to fight him -- he always shows up if you're playing as a Robot Master and you play that Robot Master's level. |
| 249 | ** [[VideoGame/MegaManZero Zero's]] evil counterpart is [[spoiler:AxCrazy Omega Zero]], considering that [[spoiler:Omega possesses Zero's original body and uses the same attacks Zero himself uses in ''VideoGame/MegaManX'']]. Plus, [[spoiler:Omega is what Zero himself would have become if he had followed Wily's plans for him and the programming flaw that caused his placeholder personality never happened]]. |
| 250 | ** Copy X is... well [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a copy of X]] that was created to run Neo Arcadia in the real X's stead. Only Copy X lacks the decades of ethics testing that gave X his strong moral convictions, causing him to do what the real X would '''never''' do and choose a side in the conflict between humans and reploids, turning Neo Arcadia into a paradise for humans propped up by the brutal oppression of Reploids. |
| 251 | ** Baryl and Colonel is this to Chaud and [=ProtoMan=] in ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork5TeamColonelAndTeamProtoMan''. They each star in one version, and both are leaders who think more logically. Baryl, however, is adopted by Wily, and in [[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork6CybeastGregarAndCybeastFalzar the sixth game]] he becomes one of the main villains. |
| 252 | ** Bass (AKA Forte in the original Japanese versions) is this to Mega Man. This is made more explicit in ''[[VideoGame/MegaMan9 9]]'' (his outline appears in Dr. Wily's monitor in the ending) and ''[[VideoGame/MegaMan10 10]]'', where his sprites closely resemble Mega Man's. Indeed, he was actually created by Wily based in Mega Man's blueprints in order to surpass his power, and in ''7'', he purposely wounds himself in battle with Shade Man in order to infiltrate Light Labs and steal the Super Adapter meant for Mega Man. From there, even if he no longer works for Wily, Bass tries to prove himself stronger than Mega Man, even using the Evil Energy in ''8''. The reason he ends losing, according to Duo (who does sense goodness in him), is that, unlike Mega Man, he has "no one to fight for" despite his superior power. |
| 253 | ** Mega Man has [[FutureMeScaresMe Quint]], who is a Mega Man from the future who was captured and reprogramed by Dr. Wily to destroy Mega Man. |
| 254 | ** Zero has [[TheVirus Sigma]], the former leader of the Maverick Hunters. In the backstory, Sigma encounters and fights Zero, who was the carrier of the original form of the Maverick Virus, and who was uncontrollable due to a flaw on his programming. However, during that time Sigma ended up infected by the Virus, becoming a Maverick and his mind fused with the virus, mutating into the even more dangerous Sigma Virus, who ends causing an abnormal surge of Mavericks; while Zero becomes the new leader of the Maverick Hunters and, alongside X, the greatest opposition to Sigma's plans, especially because he attempts to sacrifice himself in ''X5'', and he possesses an antibody to counter the Sigma Virus in the form of the Mother Elf which ends up kicking up the conflict in the ''Zero'' series. |
| 255 | ** Dr. Wily himself is Dr. Light's EvilCounterpart. Both were fellow students and friends who wanted to improve the standing of robots in society, until the Robot University decided to support Light's research of robots with independent thought while halting Wily's Double Gear System project, which caused him to end their friendship (though Light decided to keep the discarded prototype as a symbol of their friendship). More prominently, whereas Light creates a number of Robot Masters (like Mega Man) to help humanity, Wily builds Robot Masters (or reprograms those from others, like Dr. Light's) like Bass, and sets other threats in a bid for world domination. Finally, Dr. Light creates the first Reploid, X, to save the future world, while Dr. Wily creates Zero based on X's blueprints, and --as the carrier of the Maverick Virus-- sets him to be the greatest threat to the world (though, as above stated, he ends being one of the saviors of the world). |
| 256 | %%In ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'', he and [=MegaMan=] are the only Navis who always have distinctive humanity among [=NetNavis=], with Bass being an experiment and [=MegaMan=] being's Lan's dead little brother [[BackFromTheDead brought back as a Navi]]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; why is one good and the other evil?) |
| 257 | * ''VideoGame/{{Messiah}}'': In the final boss fight, [[spoiler:Bob the cherub meets Satan's imps, who too can possess people and who look like babies, though demonic ones.]] |
| 258 | * ''VideoGame/MetalGear'': |
| 259 | ** Liquid Snake from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' is one of the few literal examples. He and his twin Solid Snake were cloned from the same man, and although Liquid was (supposedly) genetically superior than his brother Solid, Liquid grew up believing the opposite and wanted to kill his father Big Boss to prove his worth. When Solid takes away that chance from him by defeating Big Boss first, Liquid decides to take his aggression to Solid instead. |
| 260 | ** Big Boss himself counts. Both he and Snake have been put through the wringer and seen just how horribly soldiers are treated by their governments that claim to respect them. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Big Boss crosses lines]] that Snake refuses to. Right before his death, [[HeelRealization after finally realizing how far he had fallen]], Big Boss commends Snake for not going down the same path that he did. |
| 261 | ** Every single one of the Winds of Destruction bosses of the [[RoguesGallery Desperado Enforcement LLC]] in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' is this to Raiden. They all [[ShadowArchetype darkly reflect]] some trait of his personality and character with the addition of all of them being some kind of {{Cyborg}}/BloodKnight like Raiden. |
| 262 | *** [[FemmeFatale Mistral]] echoes Raiden's mixed heritage, as neither resemble ethnicity of their country of origin, with Raiden a Liberian who's white as snow and Mistral a redheaded French woman. Both have a DarkAndTroubledPast which turned them into a CombatSadomasochist and both Mistral and Raiden [[YouKilledMyFather avenged]] their parents's murder and didn't regret it. However, Mistral is selfish and never sought to help others, unlike Raiden, who suppressed his AxCrazy persona, and this is one of the reasons why the attraction is purely [[VillainessesWantHeroes one sided]] on Mistral's part. Also, both Mistral and Raiden mock [[CanineCompanion Blade Wolf]] for being a soulless machine; however, Raiden grows to care for him, while Mistral just treats him like crap. |
| 263 | *** [[PoeticSerialKiller Monsoon]], apart from having a similar appearance to Raiden, has a similar past as well, being a survivor who developed sociopathic tendencies after being victimized by war; Raiden by the First Liberian Civil War and Monsoon by the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror. Both characters are cynical towards peace, with Monsoon leaning towards StrawNihilist while Raiden is more simply jaded. Ironically, despite Monsoon being the one who turned Raiden back into his "Ripper" persona through crushing his moral codes by making Raiden accept the killer inside him, when Raiden actually goes nuts because of it even Monsoon laments that ''he went too far''; so fittingly Monsoon's own beliefs ensured he'd get massacred. Also, both Monsoon and Raiden take influences from Japanese culture. |
| 264 | *** [[FatBastard Sundowner]] reflects both Raiden's thirst for battle and realist ideals, though both traits are exaggerated on Sundowner's part. Sundowner at one point even claims that [[PsychopathicManchild he is in touch with his inner-child]], saying KidsAreCruel as an excuse for the atrocities he commits; for reference, Raiden is also in touch with his inner child, given that his SuperPoweredEvilSide was born during his TrainingFromHell as a child in Liberia where Solidus gave Raiden a knife and told him to "''go nuts''". However, Raiden even at his worst still is more noble than Sundowner, who reveals himself a DirtyCoward during his fight with Raiden. |
| 265 | *** [[TheRival Sam]] is the closest parallel with Raiden, as both take their characterizations from Japanese traits, Sam with samurai culture and Raiden with ninjutsu, despite both characters being far from oriental. Character-wise, Jetstream Sam represents what Raiden would truly be if he accepted the murderous side of himself and didn't treat his CoolSword like a "tool of justice" instead of as an object made to kill people, which is its purpose. Raiden also has a goal and drive, while Sam gave up on justice after Armstrong kicked his ass and became embittered, [[spoiler:so when Sam sees Raiden resolute in conquering Desperado, he accepts that Raiden will beat him ''this time'' as he has motivation and Sam simply doesn't]]. To put the cherry on top, Raiden takes Sam's motorcycle at one point in the game, gets Sam's katana, and copies Sam's stance and even his "LetsDance" PreAsskickingOneLiner before fighting the BigBad. |
| 266 | *** [[BigBad Armstrong]] is an interesting example of this trope, as while he does seem to enjoy a good duel like Raiden, there isn't much comparison on the surface, with Armstrong being ridiculously patriotic while Raiden considers himself without a country. Where the protagonist and antagonist do become similar is in their refusal to conform to society's standards and fight their own wars, with Armstrong even calling Raiden a "kindred spirit", claiming that they've both lived their lives in accordance with their own free will, and while it's true that Raiden himself doesn't believe in a MightMakesRight philosophy like Armstrong does, the former makes it personally clear that ''he completely agrees'' with the latter's freedom philosophy in the ending after ripping Armstrong's heart out. |
| 267 | %%** In ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake'', Gray Fox is this to Snake -- Snake's former ally in FOXHOUND and the superior soldier. They both have a brief involvement with Gustava, who comments that she sees a lot of Frank in him. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how is one good and the other evil?) |
| 268 | * ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'': |
| 269 | ** The SA-X from ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' is stated by Samus herself to be the embodiment of her potential for evil. It has all of her ''exact'' abilities, but no heart or conscience, which makes sense, as it ''is'' a clone of her created from [[TheVirus X-Parasite]] [[GeneticMemory infection]]. |
| 270 | ** Dark Samus from the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'' also fills the role of evil counterpart to Samus. She even has Phazon-based variants of Samus's abilities and moves in addition to her own abilities. The games' scan logs state that Dark Samus is quite intelligent and can manipulate other races to benefit her own agenda, which is to spread the corruptible Phazon across the galaxy. [[spoiler:Ironically enough, chronologically, Samus ends up becoming Dark Samus's own GoodCounterpart; in ''Fusion'' Samus has Metroid DNA integrated with her body to save her from the X, and Dark Samus is born when the Metroid Prime integrates Samus's Phazon Suit and DNA into itself at the end of the titular game]]. |
| 271 | * In ''VideoGame/MillenniaAlteredDestinies'', [=McDonald's=] EvilCounterpart is an alternate timeline version of himself who was recruited by the evil Microids instead of the benevolent Hoods. He flies an identical [[CoolShip XTM]] but uses the ship to undermine the player's actions. Unlike the other examples, there is no way to get rid of the other him. |
| 272 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': |
| 273 | ** The Sub-Zero brothers Bi-Han and Kuai Liang. The former is a [[IncrediblyLamePun stone cold]] assassin who happily slaughters innocents in the name of his clan the Lin Kuei, and willingly serves Quan Chi and other villains as the wraith Noob Saibot after getting killed by Scorpion during the events of the [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1992 first game]]. The latter is a NiceGuy who laments the crimes of his clan and makes amends by helping and defending Earthrealm alongside with the other protagonists. Even when he has become a {{Cyborg}} in ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat9 MK9]]'', Kuai Liang himself says that he still has more humanity than Bi-Han ever did. |
| 274 | ** Sektor is also an evil counterpart to the second Sub-Zero. Both are proud members of the Lin Kuei, but the difference between the two of them is that Sektor embraced his cybernetic makeover (even personally volunteering to be one of the first earlier prototypes for the project itself) while Sub-Zero himself was horrified with the experience. Sub-Zero personally defected to Earthrealm as soon as he got his free will back while Sektor continued to turn the remaining members of the Lin Kuei into cyborgs long after EvilOverlord Shao Kahn bit the dust. Ironically, both Sektor and Sub-Zero are trying to rebuild their clan, though Sektor himself is just doing it in a bad way. |
| 275 | ** Frost, Kuai Liang's apprentice, eventually becomes this to her former master. While Sub-Zero forgoes the cruelty of his clan, Frost remains a HotBlooded bigoted bitch who wants the recognition that she is denied. ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat11 MK11]]'' takes it further, as Frost gets a cyborg upgrade like Kuai Liang once got. |
| 276 | ** Kano is the evil counterpart to Jax (though the former is usually Sonya's ArchEnemy), being on opposing militaristic factions (Special Forces and Black Dragon respectively). Also, both Kano and Jax have cybernetic parts, and in their respective ''[=MK9=]'' endings, they both enter into {{Cyberspace}} to kill each other. In addition to this, Jax and Kano have their own children as well, but while Jax loves and cherishes his daughter, Kano tortures and abuses his unnamed son. |
| 277 | ** Kitana has an evil counterpart in her AxCrazy EvilKnockoff Mileena, created by Shang Tsung. However, in an interesting twist on the concept itself, it becomes quite clear that Kitana and Mileena are really not that different from each other. Both women are extremely arrogant and haughty, both love TheHero Liu Kang, both become rulers of Outworld, and the both of them deep down just want to be [[IJustWantToBeLoved adored]] and worshipped. This proves to be an impossible task for Kitana and Mileena in ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatX MKX]]'', as the former was an undead minion while the latter is despised for her abysmal rule in Outworld. Ironically, while Mileena is seen as an evil ButterFace freak compared to Kitana because of her Tarkatan DNA, when Kitana gets the chance to go back to her homeworld of Edenia in her ending in ''[=MK11=]'', she realizes that living in Outworld has made her a freak the same as Mileena by Edenia's own standards. So Kitana settles with being the Empress of Outworld and does do a better job than Mileena. |
| 278 | ** Shinnok serves as an Evil Counterpart to Raiden [[spoiler:and later his sister Cetrion]]. While Raiden uses his God powers to help the Earthrealm fighters and spread hope, Shinnok is a fallen Elder God ManipulativeBastard who spreads fear and death, and they also both have a special powerful amulet. ''MKX'' really hammers the similarities home, as while Raiden takes care of [[LifeEnergy Jinsei Chamber]], Shinnok corrupts it with just his touch. [[spoiler:Cetrion also differs from her brother as she seeks life and peace; however, she does [[JerkassGods ultimately become as dark]] as Shinnok in the end.]] |
| 279 | ** Kronika is another Evil Counterpart to Raiden, as both are Gods who, in trying to safeguard the future and get the best possible outcome, cause more harm than good. The difference is that Kronika has gone mad after hitting the reset button so many times and has become evil, while Raiden (especially in his ending) truly understands ThePowerOfLove and only wants a world where EveryoneLives. |
| 280 | ** Raiden is the BigGood to Shang Tsung's BigBad, and both of them lead the opposing ensembles in ''Mortal Kombat'' while having a special power over an element (Electricity for Raiden, Fire for Shang Tsung). While Raiden is well respected and admired among the heroes while caring greatly for humanity, Shang Tsung is considered a failure among the RoguesGallery and his own personal motivations lean towards ForTheEvulz. |
| 281 | ** Shang Tsung is also this to Liu Kang, having PlayingWithFire and {{Shapeshifting}} powers just like him. However, while Liu Kang is honorable and heroic, Shang Tsung is an embittered and self-centered JerkAss who snakes his way into power while Liu Kang earns it. By the end of ''[=MK11=]'''s ''Aftermath'' DLC, Liu Kang and Shang Tsung have both become the strongest kombatants in TheVerse thanks being brought BackFromTheDead. |
| 282 | ** Both Kenshi and Shang Tsung wield blades, wear red, and have [[ManlyFacialHair badass beards]]. They both also use SoulPower, though Kenshi uses it positively through his CoolSword Sento while Shang Tsung violently sucks the souls out of people to keep his youth. |
| 283 | ** Raiden and Shao Kahn are two of the [[WorldsStrongestMan strongest individuals]] in the franchise and respectively are the key figures for both good and evil, with Raiden protecting Earthrealm and Shao Khan ruling Outworld. ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception'' also implies that Shao Kahn had once held a similar position as Raiden did for the Elder Gods, but Shao Kahn grew weary of order and control and started conquering other realms for shits and giggles. ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'' went the extra step of making Raiden and Shao Kahn brothers. |
| 284 | ** Shao Kahn is also this to Kotal Kahn, with both of them serving as the Emperor of Outworld. While the former is a BloodKnight who believes in MightMakesRight by ruling with an iron fist, Kotal cares deeply for his people and understands when sacrifices and hard choices need to be made in order to ensure his subjects' survival. Furthermore, the both of them dress in tribal clothing, wield massive melee weapons, and will readily execute those who break the rules, but Kotal only does so for the betterment of Outworld while Shao Kahn is AxCrazy. In addition to this, Kotal achieved and attained leadership without murdering his predecessor, while Shao Kahn poisoned Onaga and took over at first opportunity. Adding to this is the fact that Kotal had willingly gave up his position to Kitana, while Shao Kahn wants to remain as the Emperor of Outworld '''forever''' and kills anyone who dares to disagree with him. Bonus points in that they both have Edenian lovers, though Jade genuinely loves Kotal, while Sindel only loves Shao Kahn because she's BrainwashedAndCrazy[[note]] at least this was the case before the controversial {{retcon}} in ''[=MK11=]'' that Sindel was [[AdaptationalVillainy actually]] NotBrainwashed and EvilAllAlong[[/note]]. |
| 285 | ** Johnny Cage and Shao Kahn are both {{Attention Whore}}s with staggering amounts of AwesomeEgo. They also respectively have a wife and daughter: Sonya and Cassie to the former and Sindel and Kitana (who gets replaced with Mileena) to the latter. The ''[=MKX=]'' comic even lampshades it with [[https://animesuperhero.com/comics/images/images/solicitations/2015-06/DC/Mkx_Cov7.colorfinal.jpg artwork of Johnny sitting on a chair eerily similar to how Shao Khan sits on his throne]]. Hell, they even share a [[FinishingMove fatality]] where they rip a person apart by digging their fingers through their opponents' chests and pulling them apart. However, the aforementioned wife and daughter of Shao Kahn are actually enslaved and brainwashed (in Kitana's case at least) while Johnny has a normal and healthy relationship with his family. |
| 286 | ** The future undead Revenant versions of Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Kitana, and Jade serve as their evil counterparts in ''[=MK11=]'', being chilling reminders of what they [[FutureMeScaresMe nearly became]]. |
| 287 | %%* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'': (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 288 | %%** Maugrim for Aribeth (for a while). |
| 289 | %%** Haedraline for Drogan in ''[[NeverwinterNightsShadowsOfUndrentide Shadows of Undrentide]]''. |
| 290 | %%** Sabal for Nathyrra. |
| 291 | %%** The Valsharess for the Seer in ''[[NeverwinterNights/HordesOfTheUnderdark Hordes of the Underdark]]''. |
| 292 | %%** [[BewareTheNiceOnes Alex]] / [[MeaningfulName Mordred]] for the player in the community expansion ''VideoGame/TheBastardOfKosigan''. |
| 293 | %%** ''VideoGame/ADanceWithRogues'': |
| 294 | %%*** Vico for Bran (and in part Anden, though his role is more of a {{Foil}} to Vico). |
| 295 | %%*** Arto Benthur for the player. |
| 296 | %%** ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'': |
| 297 | %%*** [[spoiler:[[WellIntentionedExtremist Ammon Jerro]], who, like the player character, is collecting the shards of the Silver Sword of Gith to reconstruct it, aims to vanquish the [[BigBad King of Shadows]], and has collected a group of (involuntary) allies to aid him.]] Possibly {{subverted|Trope}} in that the player can be just as evil as either character -- or potentially more so. (What makes him more evil than the player?) |
| 298 | %%*** The ''[[NeverwinterNights2/MaskOfTheBetrayer Mask of the Betrayer]]'' expansion has Araman, who isn't really "evil" as such but opposes your character at every turn, unless you give up on the Crusade. (In what way is he similar to the main character?) |
| 299 | * ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'': |
| 300 | ** [[TheNecrocracy Sergey Taboritsky of the Holy Russian Empire]] is the evil to [[TheGoodKing Rurik II of Kemerovo]]. Both are Despotic warlords with the most unique and radical unifying forces for Russia, modelling new societies on the country's pre-communist past (medieval Kiev and Muscovy for Rurik, the Russian Empire for Taboritsky). The difference is that Rurik is a [[BunnyEarsLawyer pragmatic and wise ruler in spite of his insanity]], while Taboritsky is a [[TheCaligula horrible ruler precisely because he is batshit crazy]]. Rurik takes steps to democratise his country [[spoiler:that can continue after his death provided his good son Yuriy takes over]], while Taboritsky abandons monarchy to "purify" Russia with the [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans Burgandian]] model of government. Rurik leaves a united and powerful Russia (albeit one that looks very different from any other that came before it) for his successors to inherit, Taboritsky [[spoiler:leaves a collapsed, devastated, and anarchic Russia that nobody else will ever be able to reunify again]]. Rurik's final victory is one of the better endings for Russia, Taboritsky's victory is one of the worst. [[spoiler:Even how they die contrasts: Rurik dies peacefully in a bed, surrounded by his kids; Taboritsky dies alone in his office from a VillainousBSOD-induced aneurysm when he finally realizes that Alexei Romanov is dead and everything he has done is AllForNothing.]] |
| 301 | ** Taboritsky may also be seen as the evil counterpart of [[GoodShepherd Alexander Men]]. Two leaders at the opposite ends of Russia with spoiler-ridden paths that were heavily teased during production. Both of them take cues from Orthodox Christianity, but their execution can't be any more different. [[spoiler:Taboritsky is an AxCrazy NaziNobleman trying to make a long-dead kid Tsar again and forcing his insane view of Christianity on Russia, to eventually plunge it into chaos. Alexander Men is a BaitAndSwitchTyrant MessianicArchetype bringing about an egalitarian Russia that combines Christian ethics with mutualist[=/=]borderline social anarchist economics to leave Russia a peaceful place. Men tolerates other faiths and even LGBTQ+ people and walks the path of Christian forgiveness; Tabby is a vindictive lunatic who believes that [[DisproportionateRetribution anyone who slightly crosses him deserves divine punishment, mandates chemical weapons use on any villages who defy him, and orders workers executed for dropping their tools]]. Men actually has a special event against Taboritsky where he compares the Burgundian madman's esoteric nightmare to the work of TheAntichrist.]] |
| 302 | * ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' has [=A2=], an android similar to [=2B=] who is wanted by [=YoRHa=] for subverting humanity's attempts to retake Earth from the machine lifeforms. |
| 303 | * ''VideoGame/Onmyoji2016'': [[spoiler:Seimei]] has one in the form of [[spoiler:Kuro Seimei]], who plans to wreak havoc on the city. All of the latter's victims mistake the former for the perpetrator, even though [[AllegedLookalikes the players can easily tell the two apart]]. [[spoiler:To be fair, that last part is sort of [[JustifiedTrope justified]], since the two are not clones, but [[LiteralSplitPersonality two halves of the same person]].]] |
| 304 | %%* In ''VideoGame/OverlordI'', your EvilOverlord character comes up against an Evil''er'' Counterpart in the form of the Wizard [[spoiler:who was possessed by your predecessor]]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way is he eviller, and in what ways are the two similar?) |
| 305 | * ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': |
| 306 | ** Two of the game's healers, [[HerrDoktor Mercy]] and [[MadScientist Moira]]. Mercy is a kind doctor who [[TechnicalPacifist champions peace]] and has multiple voice lines like "Must violence always be the solution?". Moira is an EvilutionaryBiologist and ProfessorGuineaPig whose single-minded drive towards improving humanity through genetic modification is, unfortunately, [[MadScientist not tempered by things like ethics]]. The game draws subtle parallels between these two women, including giving Moira a RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver [[https://i.imgur.com/QhX2LiM.png version of Mercy's suit]], and giving players a spray that [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/4380978d13dc1ba7abb062c3a3a87c8f/tumblr_oz0ozg8mhT1saswrso1_1280.png shows them standing back-to-back]]. |
| 307 | ** [[{{Cowboy}} Cassidy]] and [[{{Outlaw}} Ashe]]. Both were BornInTheWrongCentury by being TheGunslinger in a futuristic setting, both are generally {{Badass Normal}}s in a cast full of enhanced individuals, both use hand-thrown explosives in battle (Cassidy uses a flashbang grenade, Ashe uses a stick of dynamite), and both were founding members of the Deadlock Gang. However, Cassidy turned his back on the gang and became a part of Blackwatch in order to atone for his crimes, and [[MeaningfulRename disowned the criminal alias he once used as a cover]], in contrast to Ashe, who continues leading the gang in the present day, embraces her status as an outlaw, and openly flaunts her real name even during her criminal activities. |
| 308 | ** Symmetra and [[TheCracker Sombra]] both use HardLight, the former for mostly good reasons, the latter for bad reasons. |
| 309 | ** [[ColdSniper Widowmaker]] and [[CoolOldLady Ana]]. Widowmaker is a sniper whose ability set focuses entirely on killing and who gets off from the people she kills, but her scantily-clad appearance would be impractical for real-life combat. Ana is a Support sniper who heals allies with each shot, dresses up primarily for stealth, and is a weary ShellShockedVeteran whose victims weigh heavily on her conscience. |
| 310 | %%** Widowmaker is also the evil counterpart to [[FragileSpeedster Tracer]], as both are sexy, latex-wearing action girls. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how are they different morally speaking?) |
| 311 | %%** [[RetiredBadass Solider 76]] and [[FallenHero Reaper]]. It helps they used to be partners too. |
| 312 | %%** [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Torbjörn]] and [[ScavengersAreScum Junkrat]]. |
| 313 | %%** [[TheBigGuy Reinhardt]] and [[TheBrute Roadhog]]. |
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| 317 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'', the FinalBoss Victor Ashford acts as this to the (already morally dubious) PlayerCharacter. Both were stranded on the archipelago and forced to harness the power of its {{mons}} to survive; inventing new weapons, discovering new processes, [[BlackComedy abusing Pals]], [[PoweredByAForsakenChild condensing]] them and [[CreatureBreedingMechanic breeding them]], studying every detail about them. But while your actions are PlayedForLaughs and done for the sake of survival, Victor was the dark reflection of this as an EvilutionaryBiologist seeking to create {{Bioweapon Beast}}s, PlayingWithSyringes in generally horrifying ways. |
| 318 | * ''VideoGame/PaRappaTheRapper'': |
| 319 | ** In ''VideoGame/UmJammerLammy'', Lammy has Rammy, who is essentially a monochrome, less friendly version of Lammy. However, it's something of a parody, as Rammy has no real relationship with Lammy at all, and Lammy seems to have very little idea who Rammy even is. She can also be quite helpful in certain game modes. |
| 320 | ** [[BigBad Colonel Noodle]] to [=PaRappa=] in ''[=PaRappa=] the Rapper 2'' -- both are obsessed with avoiding a certain food that has become boring ([[spoiler:burgers]] for the former and noodles for the latter), both have eccentric scientist fathers and missing mothers, and both use their rapping talent to deal with life's troubles. Colonel Noodle even uses [=PaRappa=]'s "I gotta believe!" before his stage. However, while [=PaRappa=] is a cheerful, charismatic kid who is loved and supported by all his friends and family and is always trying to mature and improve himself, Colonel Noodle is a grumpy nerd whose "followers" are mostly robot dummies, was hated by all his friends, never moved on from his terrible childhood, and now wants to impose it on everyone else. |
| 321 | * Because of the Jungian craziness, ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' has this in ''spades'': |
| 322 | ** The original ''VideoGame/Persona1'': |
| 323 | *** [[spoiler:Ideal]] Maki/[[DubNameChange Mary]] and Mai/Mae vs. Pandora and Aki/Maggie, with the former two representing [[spoiler:Maki Sonomura's ideal self and ego]] and the latter two representing [[spoiler:Maki's nihilism and id]]. |
| 324 | *** Kei/Nate (good, if a bit of a jerk) vs. Kandori/Guido (definitely evil), being wealthy businessmen who took different paths, which becomes even more apparent [[spoiler:if you have them meet each other again in ''Persona 2'']]. |
| 325 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona2'': |
| 326 | *** The main cast actually have to fight their Shadows, manifestations of their dark sides created by Nyarlathotep. |
| 327 | *** Before they fight their Shadows, the cast of ''Persona 2: Innocent Sin'' also have to face the Masked Four, who are leaders of the Masked Circle chosen by the Joker (whether intentionally or only subconsciously) because of their parallels with the main four party members. Of the three fought during the game, two of them even wield modified versions of their counterpart's initial Personas. |
| 328 | ** [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Strega]] of ''VideoGame/Persona3'' are the Evil Counterparts to SEES; whereas SEES seeks to save the world because they and their loved ones all have something to live for, Strega seeks to destroy the world because they believe all life is pointless. Specifically, Strega's leader Takaya is the Protagonist's Evil Counterpart, though he's more against your team in general than you specifically. |
| 329 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona4'': |
| 330 | *** The Shadow tradition continues in this game, where fighting the Shadows of your soon-to-be party members is a major part of the game, generally after the original screams "You're not me!", causing the Shadow to go berserk. |
| 331 | *** The true killer, [[spoiler:Adachi]], serves this role for the protagonist. While the protagonist embraces his bonds and encourages his friends to face life head-on, the killer rejects his bonds and embraces selfish and nihilistic hedonism. In fact, he even has [[spoiler:the same [[Creator/JohnnyYongBosch US voice actor]]]] and a modified version of the main character's first Persona. |
| 332 | ** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', the traitor, [[spoiler:Goro Akechi]], is this to the protagonist. In fact, [[spoiler:the deity manipulating everything specifically choose the two to be rivals in its twisted game; Akechi and the protagonist even have the same "Wild Card" power that allows them to use multiple Personas]]. |
| 333 | * ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': |
| 334 | ** The Gengar line has been set up as this for the Alakazam line. Both are powerful {{squishy wizard}}s who [[SocializationBonus must be traded to reach their final forms]], who share similar stats, and who are capable of Mega Evolving. While the stoic Alakazam is described as being intelligent but benign, Gengar is a malicious SlasherSmile-sporting curser who steals the life force of humans. |
| 335 | ** The Mandibuzz line is this to the Braviary line -- the latter consists of AlwaysMale [[NobleBirdOfPrey warrior eagles]] who are said to be powerful and honorable fighters, while the former consists of AlwaysFemale [[ScavengersAreScum vultures]] with an appetite for bones, including human ones (in fact, Vullaby, Mandibuzz's baby form, wears a ''human skull'' as a ''diaper''). To drive the point home, the Mandibuzz line is outfitted with the [[CombatPragmatist Dark-type]], meaning that they fight dirty. |
| 336 | ** ZigZagged by AntiVillain N in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' who serves as this to the PlayerCharacter. Both cared deeply for Pokémon, but while Hilbert/Hilda fought to protect the status quo, N was a WellIntentionedExtremist who sought to upheave it. His hat is the same design as [[TheAce Red]]'s classic cap, but [[EvilWearsBlack in black]], and he captures the opposite title legendary to yours while becoming Champion. |
| 337 | ** The ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonRescueTeam'' games have [[spoiler:Gengar]] to the main character. While the main character is selfless and rescues another Pokémon all while trying to get back to their homeworld, [[spoiler:Gengar]] is a jerkass and conniving bully who only works for money and world domination. More importantly, though, both were humans who became Pokémon, but the main character was brought [[spoiler:to save the world from a meteorite, and is not the true cause of the natural disasters]], while [[spoiler:Gengar is the true human of the Ninetales legend, who became a Pokémon because he ran and abandoned Gardevoir when he enraged Ninetales. Gengar tries to use the legend to turn everyone against the main character by convincing that their arrival caused the natural disasters. However, upon learning that Gardevoir no longer resents him and brought the main character to save the world, he has a HeelRealization and assists the heroes from behind the scenes; and in the post-game, with help from the player, he manages to break the curse and save Gardevoir's physical body, indicating that all he needed to break it was a sense of gratitude.]] |
| 338 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', [[spoiler:[[TheDogWasTheMastermind Volo]] was this to his IdenticalGranddaughter [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Cynthia]]. Both have an interest in the myths and Legendaries of the Hisui/Sinnoh region, but while Cynthia is a benevolent woman whose interest in myths is largely restricted to studying ancient ruins and texts, Volo had GoneMadFromTheRevelation and became so obsessed with the TopGod Arceus that he's willing to [[InTheirOwnImage destroy the entire universe]] to capture it. He even has almost the same team as Cynthia in ''Platinum'' when battled, save for Milotic being replaced by Hisuian Arcanine. The two also have contrasting {{Signature Mon}}s--Cynthia having the monstrous-looking Dragon/Ground-type Garchomp while Volo has the angelic-looking Fairy/Flying-type Togekiss--which also ties into their differing visual aesthetics, Cynthia's being DarkIsNotEvil while Volo's is LightIsNotGood]]. |
| 339 | * ''VideoGame/RadiantArc'': Seperus turns out to be a {{Foil}} to Linky. [[spoiler:Linky is the son of the good deity Irin's human avatar while Seperus is a Morian created from the evil deity Zardon's very being. Both are meant to be the primary agents of their deities, but while Linky loves Irin as a mother and isn't afraid to [[CallingTheOldManOut criticize her]], Seperus is completely deferential to Zardon because he is merely a piece of his creator rather than his own person.]] |
| 340 | * ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'''s Micah Bell is this to two characters: |
| 341 | ** He and Sadie Adler share almost equal levels of bloodthirst, but their core values are what separates them. Both tend to not listen to orders and gun down anyone in their way, especially if they're O'Driscolls in Sadie's case. They also share similar levels of recklessness. However, unlike Micah, who is disloyal, Sadie is loyal to those who trust and respect her and is quite moral whenever she's in a good head-space. |
| 342 | ** [[PlayerCharacter Arthur Morgan]] and Micah are two of the Van der Linde gang's primary gunmen, [[TheDragon serve as Dutch's right-hand men]], [[GunsAkimbo are capable of dual-wielding sidearms]], and, in Micah's words, [[TheReliableOne "always get the job done"]]. Additionally, both men have a propensity for violence, even if Micah's far exceeds Arthur's. However, Arthur still has plenty of [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]] and will go out of his way to help those he cares about (such as the gang and Mary Linton) or even the many strangers he encounters... unlike Micah, who is a [[AxCrazy deranged]] [[TheSociopath sociopath]] that's more than willing to massacre half a town's worth of people and [[ItsAllAboutMe puts himself before everyone else (including the gang)]]. Arthur having Low honor will result in the two being deeply similar, but even then he'll still be at least somewhat more principled than Micah. Both men even have the same default outfit, but with totally opposite colors: Arthur's default outfit is his tan coat, blue shirt, black pants and a black hat, Micah's default outfit is his black trench coat, red shirt, white pants and a white hat. In other words, Micah represents the kind of man that Arthur would be if he had zero honor, morals or conscience. |
| 343 | * ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': |
| 344 | ** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'' has the two corresponding siblings Chris and Claire Redfield on the good side while Alfred and Alexia Ashford are on the bad side. Both brothers and sisters care for each other, but while Chris and Claire are orphans, Alfred and Alexia are [[SelfMadeOrphan Self Made Orphans]]. Funnily, it's switched up as Claire fights Alfred, who's less of a threat than Alexia, the final boss whom Chris kills. |
| 345 | ** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'': |
| 346 | *** Chief Irons to Leon Kennedy. Both are police officers caught up in the ZombieApocalypse, and from within the story itself, Irons is revealed to be a [[DirtyCop corrupt]] [[DaChief chief]] who's secretly working for Umbrella, while Leon is a [[ByTheBookCop good-natured]] innocent rookie who's simply trying to survive and escape the zombie threat. Also, whilst Leon is a ChickMagnet who tends to AlwaysSaveTheGirl, Irons [[KickTheDog abuses]] and [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty preys]] on women. |
| 347 | *** Claire and Annette Birkin: both are against Umbrella, both care for Sherry Birkin, and ironically, both Claire and Annette have their significant other (William for Annette and Steve for Claire) ''turn into a giant monster before dying''. Though Annette and her husband William, being [[MadScientist amoral Umbrella scientists]], kinda [[LaserGuidedKarma had it coming]]. |
| 348 | ** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' gives S.T.A.R.S[[labelnote:*]]Special Tactics and Rescue Service [[/labelnote]] an EvilCounterpart faction in U.B.S.C[[labelnote:*]]Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service [[/labelnote]]. While S.T.A.R.S are hand-picked peace-keeping officers who are sent out on rescue missions, U.B.S.C are [[ArmyOfThievesAndWhores ex-convicts and mercenaries]] whom Umbrella use as a CleanUpCrew to deal with outbreaks and evidence removal. They both function as [[RedShirtArmy Red Shirt Armies]] being wilted down to only a few members. However, in a bit of a subversion, the U.B.S.C members that Jill encounters; Carlos, Mikhail, and Tyrell (in the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake remake]]); are [[TokenGoodTeammate quite heroic]], and only Nikolai plays it straight, being psychotic and OnlyInItForTheMoney -- unlike Jill or Chris, who actively help people. |
| 349 | ** Jack Krauser is another evil counterpart to Leon in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', with the former being the latter's partner in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarkSideChronicles''. Krauser was both a military soldier and government agent who did a FaceHeelTurn in aligning himself with [[EvilutionaryBiologist Albert Wesker]]. Despite being on opposite factions, Krauser still sees Leon as a WorthyOpponent, and it's clear during their KnifeFight that they're both having a [[BloodKnight whale of a time]]. Even after beating him, Leon laments how Krauser went down such a dark path. |
| 350 | ** Jill Valentine gets an evil counterpart in the form of Jessica Sherawat from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations'', who briefly takes Jill's place as Chris's partner, but turns out to actually be a [[TheMole double agent]] for TRICELL. Additionally, both Jill and Jessica have [[SensualSpandex sexy scuba gear]] and have an interest in Chris. Though Jill's attraction seems to be somewhat in PlatonicLifePartners territory, she and Chris still get plenty of ShipTease throughout the ''Resident Evil'' series, while Jessica blatantly wants to jump Chris's bones and gets jealous of his unwavering care for his "partner" Jill. |
| 351 | %%** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'' contrasts Chris and Claire to another brother-sister duo by revealing that Alex is the sister of Albert Wesker, thematically mirroring Chris and Claire (it helps that Chris is already the established ArchEnemy of Albert). (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what makes the former more evil than the latter?) |
| 352 | * ''VideoGame/{{Robopon}}'': Sun-Zero is a version of Sunny gone bad, with a black aesthetic. |
| 353 | %%** Negapon is this to Gigapon. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
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| 357 | * ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'' has Rasetsumaru, who is the evil counterpart of Haohmaru. Aside from being an EvilKnockoff of Haohmaru himself, Rasetsumaru is the dark representation of Haohmaru being an AxCrazy BloodKnight instead of being a BoisterousBruiser BloodKnight. |
| 358 | * ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'': |
| 359 | ** It's observed that the [[MysticalPlague Filth]] is the direct opposite of [[TheLifestream Anima]], and often referred to as "Anti-Anima" and "corrupted Anima" for this very reason. Both are powerful forms of supernatural energy; both can be used to [[SuperEmpowering infuse individuals with weird and eldritch powers]]; both can induce immortality of a sort; both are under the control of immensely powerful beings that the players never meet in person -- [[BigGood Gaia]] for Anima, the [[EldritchAbomination Dreamers]] for the Filth; and both are used in order to provide these beings with servants. However, where Anima brings healing and enlightenment, the Filth brings hideous mutations and insanity. |
| 360 | ** Later, the [[KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge Buzzing]] receives its own counterpart in the form of the [[TheDisembodied Black Signal]], AKA [[TomTheDarkLord John]]. Both are [[MouthOfSauron speakers]] for eldritch beings with no means of communicating on their own -- again, Gaia and the Dreamers; both [[NonActionGuy remain outside of the conflict]] except in dire circumstances; and both provide information to the players in the form of the Lore entries. But where the Buzzing merely tries to inform the players, the Black Signal tries to convert them to his cause; also, while the Bees merely warn you that telling you too much [[GoMadFromTheRevelation could do serious damage to your brain]], John can and ''will'' MindRape you if you don't comply with his orders. For good measure, John communicates primarily by hijacking the Buzzing's lore signal to the players. |
| 361 | * In ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight Dig'', everyone's favorite [[ImprobableWeaponUser shovel-wielding]] hero must contend with his Evil Counterpart, a [[ThisIsADrill drill-wielding]] GentlemanThief named Drill Knight. Aside from using different digging tools, Drill Knight is also a VillainWithGoodPublicity, in stark contrast to Shovel Knight's NoRespectGuy status. They even have [[GoodColorsEvilColors contrasting color schemes]]! |
| 362 | * ''Franchise/SilentHill'' also invokes this a few times, often overlapping ShadowArchetype: |
| 363 | ** Dahlia in many ways serves as this to Harry in ''[[VideoGame/SilentHill1 Silent Hill 1]]''; both are parents obsessed with finding their children (child) and both are attacked by Alessa. However, Harry for his part genuinely adores his daughter Heather/Cheryl even if she is a SoulJar, while Dahlia is an abusive, insane bitch who wants to birth a EldritchAbomination out of her daughter, while Harry [[spoiler:even from beyond the grave makes sure that never happens by making Heather keep [[MagicAntidote Aglaophotis]] with her at all times so she can "abort God"]]. |
| 364 | ** ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'': |
| 365 | *** Pyramid Head is the metaphorical EvilCounterpart to James in that he is all James's [[EnemyWithout inner demons, denial, aggression, lust, and guilt brought to life]]. Pyramid Head represents and embodies [[spoiler:James's guilt and desire for punishment over [[MercyKill killing]] his wife Mary, with Pyramid Head's sexual violence to other monsters symbolising James [[CovertPervert inner sexual frustration]] at not being able to have sex with Mary due to her illness. Furthermore, both James and Pyramid Head wield the [[{{BFS}} Great Knife]] (i.e carrying a great burden, which echoes caring for Mary) and both are seen on the other side of jail bars (in essence Pyramid Head is caged in James's mind as well). Pyramid Head's [[NonHumanHead namesake]] also alludes towards James being "blind" to the truth of killing Mary, and yet James still has purpose and can't be stopped, just like Pyramid Head. It's only when James accepts the truth that Pyramid Head and James (in one ending) kill themselves.]] |
| 366 | *** Eddie is James's literal, more traditional Evil Counterpart. Both are blonde, introverted, selfish, gun-toting losers who have been dealt a cruel fate in life and have killed someone. [[spoiler:As the game reveals James and Eddie's misdeeds, it's clear that both of them are guilt-ridden and disgusted with their actions and both actively deny their culpability to each other with BlatantLies. Where James and Eddie diverge is in their attitudes, as Eddie soon becomes more and more apathetic to murder and turns AxCrazy. While James was driven to complete mental breakdown over [[MercyKill euthanizing his agonized wife]], Eddie simply no longer cares who kills while James despairs over everything he did wrong. Ironically, James even laments killing Eddie too, even if it was in self-defense.]] |
| 367 | *** Maria is this [[spoiler:for Mary herself. Both have the same face, voice, personality quirks, and deep love for James. However, [[MentalWorld Silent Hill]] being [[MindScrew what is]], Mary's flaws are exaggerated and weaponised against James through Maria as she echoes all of Mary's anger, clinginess, flippantness, and even her sickness. However, the real Mary [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy wanted James to be happy]] and move on with his life after her death, while Maria refuses to let James go and [[{{Yandere}} would rather kill him than let him get over her]]. Not to mention that Maria dresses very sultrily and often speaks in a flirtatious, sexual manner while Mary dresses modestly and speaks in a sweet tone.]] |
| 368 | ** ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': |
| 369 | *** Claudia was raised in the same nightmarish cult as Alessa [[spoiler:AKA Heather]] by a similarly abusive parent and [[spoiler:may also possess the ability to summon the series's iconic DarkWorld]]. However, she embraced the cult's teachings and their plans of resurrecting "God" while Alessa [[spoiler:AKA Heather]] rejected them. |
| 370 | *** Memory of Alessa is a disfigured, dark-haired, murderous EvilTwin of Heather and, much like Pyramid Head with James, symbolises Heather quite literally battling her inner demons reflected back at her. Though interestingly, Heather disregards her twin after defeating her despite them being one and the same. Heather barely remembers the suffering Alessa went through and favours her new life as Cheryl Mason. |
| 371 | * The ''VideoGame/SimonTheSorcerer'' games play with this. At the end of the third game, a second Simon appears who is different in two aspects: a) he's corporeal (long story) and b) he has a [[BeardOfEvil goatee]]. [[spoiler:Wait, [[ChaoticNeutral Simon]]'s not a nice guy either, right? Well it turns out that the counterpart is actually the [[LawfulNeutral ''lawful'' counterpart]] to Simon. He even [[DefiedTrope shaves his beard to get rid of the stigma]].]] |
| 372 | * ''Franchise/SlyCooper'': |
| 373 | ** Neyla from ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'' starts off as a friendlier version of [[{{Jerkass}} Carmelita]], but come the end of "[[Recap/Sly2BandOfThievesMission03ThePredatorAwakes The Predator Awakes]]", she's revealed to actually be a much dirtier Interpol inspector who frames Carmelita for conspiring with criminals, leading to her being fired by Interpol. She also has the same athletic skills as Sly, and is also gunning for the Clockwerk parts, making her come across as this to him, too. |
| 374 | ** Dr. M, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'', considers himself one to Bentley. Both are TheSmartGuy of their generations, but Dr. M grew to hate Sly's father for not being appreciated, and decided to get at the Cooper Vault as payback. Although Bentley did have the occasional doubts, he knows that Sly cares for him, and ''Sly himself'' even tells Dr. M that he'd do anything for Bentley. This leads to Dr. M committing suicide by staying in the collapsing vault in a VillainousBreakdown. |
| 375 | ** ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'': |
| 376 | *** Cyrille Le Paradox, like Sly, descends from a line of thieves and the two even share several skills. What sets him up is that while Sly has morals and treats his friends like family, Le Paradox has a huge ego and treats his minions like disposable seed packages. |
| 377 | *** Penelope also ends up becoming Bentley's Evil Counterpart for similar reasons as Dr. M. Both are geniuses and have moments where they think they can't live down Sly's accomplishments. But while Bentley pulled out of that, Penelope allowed her jealousy to consume her, causing her to become a [[TakeOverTheWorld power-hungry]] [[TheSociopath sociopath]]. |
| 378 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' definitely loves this trope within its own series: |
| 379 | ** Metal Sonic did not only start as an EvilKnockoff of Sonic, but also as a mirror to him: he can go fast, has an equivalent to the spin dash in the form of an electric energy shield, and he even mimics Sonic's iconic FingerWag. However, while Sonic is a free spirit, Metal is programmed to serve Eggman, and while the blue blur goes on his quest to save harmless animals, his robot doppelganger is shown [[KickTheDog harrassing them]] [[ForTheEvulz for his own amusement]]. |
| 380 | ** Shadow the Hedgehog was introduced as Sonic's Evil Counterpart in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''. Both hedgehogs are [[SmugSuper confident]] and [[LeeroyJenkins short-tempered]], but Sonic is more laidback while Shadow takes himself far more seriously. Since then, Shadow has become more of an anti-heroic foil instead. In fact, ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' as a whole is built around this trope, with Team Sonic up against Eggman and his two subordinates, Shadow and Rouge. Notably, since Shadow serves as Sonic's counterpart, Tails was made into Eggman's Good Counterpart to compensate and Rouge was introduced as Knuckles's counterpart. |
| 381 | ** Shadow got his own evil counterpart in the form of Mephiles the Dark, the main villain from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', whose form is a copy of Shadow's own shadow. |
| 382 | ** In a somewhat rare example, the villainous Dr. Eggman has an Evil Counterpart as well, in the form of his [[MultipleChoicePast dimensional counterpart/descendant]] Eggman Nega. Where Eggman is AffablyEvil with a skewed but nonetheless present sense of morals and heroism, Nega unabashedly loves fear, chaos, and suffering -- essentially, he's what Eggman would be without his human qualities. |
| 383 | ** In ''VideoGame/SonicForces'', Infinite is depicted as the Evil Counterpart to the [[PlayerCharacter Avatar]]. [[spoiler:Both characters are motivated to better themselves after their teammates are killed by a more powerful being that dismissed them as a weakling. And while Infinite wants to increase his power for his own sake, the Avatar wants to become stronger to protect their friends and save the world.]] |
| 384 | %%** ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'' does this again, this time with Team Sonic up against the Babylon Rogues. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 385 | * ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'': Shauna for Endorph. They start out as members of the same band of thieves but have differences on how to run it. He has converted it into more of a Robin Hood kind of business, but she hates his altruistic ways and wants to go back to pure banditry. |
| 386 | %%** [[spoiler:Revya]] is this to Levin in one path of the NewGamePlus. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 387 | %%** Cuthbert for Vitali. |
| 388 | %%** Lobo for Christophe. |
| 389 | %%** Dio for Odie. |
| 390 | * There are a couple present in the ''VideoGame/SoulSeries''. The most direct example is Lizardman to Sophitia; both are Greek warriors chosen by Hephaestus, but while Sophitia succeeded (sort of) in her mission and returned home, Aeon Calcos failed, was transformed into a horrible lizard monster, and swore revenge on the god that had abandoned him. |
| 391 | * Dark Angel Red to Angel Wendy in ''VideoGame/SouthParkPhoneDestroyer''. Both are female angels who fight from a distance, have the ability to restore other units' health, and whose card art depicts them flying over a cloudy background. However, while Angel Wendy is a benevolent angel with a [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine white and gold colour scheme]] who heals units the standard way, Dark Angel Red is a FallenAngel with a [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black colour scheme]] who "heals" units by killing them and then bringing them back to life. |
| 392 | -->'''Angel Wendy:''' ''[when summoned]'' By my grace.\ |
| 393 | '''Dark Angel Red:''' ''[when idle]'' Disgrace is the only grace I know! |
| 394 | * The ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' series technically has L'il Judd, who is this to Judd in a meta sense. On the results screen from ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' onwards, he judges the "Bad Guys" team and raises the flag if the player's team is defeated, causing Judd to trip over. Supplemental material also reveals that he has [[CloneAngst some negative feelings about Judd as well]], with his Sunken Scroll in ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'' implying that he's been been outright trying to eliminate his predecessor. Indeed, the third game in general takes a straighter approach to this trope; when playing against them in Tableturf, Judd is friendly and encouraging, while L'il Judd is ruthlessly competitive to the point of being a borderline SocialDarwinist. Also, unlike Judd, L'il Judd no longer gives the player any advice in ''3''. |
| 395 | %%* ''Franchise/StarFox'': has Star Wolf, notably in ''Star Fox 64 & ''Zero''. Unlike the titular bounty hunter team, Star Wolf is entirely comprised by wanted criminals with high bounties over their heads. In each of the three timelines, Star Wolf is hired specifically to kill Star Fox. Gameplay-wise, in most of the games featuring them they have the distinction of being the only boss characters who attack in ships that have the same or similar capabilities to Arwings, and in ''Star Fox Zero'', the Wolfen can even transform into Hunters in certain encounters, which are wolf-like mecha serving as counterparts to the Arwing's bird-like Walker. |
| 396 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'': |
| 397 | ** ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'': |
| 398 | *** The [[PlayerCharacter Jedi Exile]] possibly has an Evil Counterpart in the form of Darth Nihilus; both were presumably [[spoiler:present at Malachor V during that final battle there, and where the Exile survived all the death and destruction there by cutting themselves off from the Force entirely -- thus becoming sort of a Force black-hole -- Nihilus instead chose to sustain himself by feeding on the energy of other beings, essentially becoming a Force vampire. This is more or less the (in-story) trick to beating him when you confront him near the end of the game, convincing him to try to feed off of the Exile and instead weakening him severely.]] |
| 399 | *** Hanharr is Mira's evil counterpart. Both are bounty hunters with intrinsically different reasons and methods of going about their business -- whereas Mira is more about the credits and prefers bringing people in alive, Hanharr does it simply for the thrill of the hunt and will kill his targets regardless of what he's paid for it. This is most prominently reflected in that, when the two end up pitted against each other on Nar Shaddaa, which one of them you play as for that fight and incorporate into your party afterwards depends on the player's alignment, with light-side players playing as Mira and dark-siders as Hanharr. |
| 400 | *** Visas Marr is another one of these, to the Handmaiden. They're both disciples of essentially the biggest names on either side, the Handmaiden to Atris and Visas to the aforementioned Darth Nihilus. Interestingly, however, is their different approaches to combat -- the Handmaiden is entirely melee-focused, not even having been trained in the use of the Force by Atris, while Visas is a more traditional dark Jedi -- and that both have doubts about their masters that make it rather easy to convince them away from that cause -- the Handmaiden can be trained as a Jedi mostly by sparring with her, Visas turns primarily because you chose to spare her after the initial fight against her. The two were even originally meant to join the party based on the player's alignment as with the above, Handmaiden joining light-siders and Visas dark-siders. |
| 401 | *** Kreia acts as this and a ContrastingReplacementCharacter to Jolee Bindo from [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic the previous game]]. Both are NeutralInNameOnly Jedi who act as TheMentor to the PlayerCharacter. While Jolee is [[DefaultToGood fundamentally a Jedi Knight]] who is only gray because he's [[KnightInSourArmor unaffiliated with the Order and disagrees with some of their teachings]], Kreia's philosophy is much closer to TheDarkSide, only staying gray because [[EvenEvilHasStandards she doesn't approve of violence or cruelty for its own sake]]. Furthermore, her true identity is Arren Kae, who like Jolee had an affair while being a Jedi -- Jolee's wife fell to the Dark Side and went on to slay several other Jedi when [[MyGreatestFailure Jolee couldn't bring himself to strike her down]]. Arren Kae, on the other hand, fell to the Dark Side herself, and her former lover, the Echani general Yusanis, was slain in a duel by Kae's pupil, Darth Revan. |
| 402 | ** In ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' all of the playable classes function as a ShadowArchetype to one another (Jedi Knight vs Sith Warrior, for instance) both in story and [[CosmeticallyDifferentSides gameplay]] terms, with each story canonically having happened within the game's overall lore. The non-Force-using classes split the roles up slightly; for instance, the Trooper (Republic) fights like a Bounty Hunter (Imperial) but their storyline and personality draw more comparisons to the Imperial Agent. |
| 403 | ** "Starkiller" from ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' has been described as the "photo negative" of Luke Skywalker, and is what Luke may have become had he been trained by Vader instead of Obi-Wan. [[spoiler:Starkiller falls more in line with Luke's story after turning to the light, ultimately engaging in a self-sacrificing battle against Vader and the Emperor aboard the half-completed Death Star.]] For bonus points, in Creator/GeorgeLucas's original draft, Luke's original name was "Luke Starkiller". |
| 404 | ** In ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediFallenOrder Jedi: Fallen Order]]'', Trilla Suduri aka [[spoiler:Second Sister is an Evil Counterpart to Cal, as she was once a Padawan the same as him, but was left behind by her Master Cere Junda. Captured and [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil subjected to torture]], she allowed the dark side of the Force to transform her into the Second Sister. She forgoes her past as a Jedi and cruelly mocks Cal for his naive inexperience, despite being not all that different from him, except for the fact that Cal's master Jaro Tapal saved him from Order 66 while Junda [[MomentOfWeakness gave up]] Trilla to Vader. In the FinalBattle Cal is able to bring Trilla out of the darkness with the help of Junda.]] |
| 405 | %%** Potentially [[spoiler:Bastila]] to the player in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 406 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'', the two dev-created human star nations available to play as are the United Nations of Earth and the Commonwealth of Man, the latter of which is this to the former. |
| 407 | ** The UNE's governing ethics are [[TheXenophile Xenophile]] and [[UnitedSpaceOfAmerica Fanatic Egalitarian]]. It must be governed as a democracy, it has access to {{utopia}}n living standards, it cannot use the "no refugees" policy or displace aliens on conquered worlds, and it gets boosts to faction influence, specialist output, diplomatic influence, trade value, and other nations' opinion of you. Its starting civics are Beacon of Liberty, which boosts Unity output, and Idealistic Foundation, which boosts the happiness of your people. Playing as the UNE, you will likely be forming TheFederation with your neighbors and seeking to maintain friendly relationships with them while avoiding war -- and when you ''do'' go to war, it will be to stop the conquests of violent imperialists. |
| 408 | ** The [=CoM=], on the other hand, is governed under the [[AbsoluteXenophobe Xenophobe]] and [[WarIsGlorious Fanatic Militarist]] ethics. It can [[MadeASlave enslave]], displace, or [[FinalSolution purge]] aliens on conquered worlds, and cannot grant them full citizenship or full military service rights. It also gets bonuses to population growth and the fire rate of ships' weapons and a discount on the influence cost of building starbases (used to colonize and defend unclaimed systems) and claiming other nations' star systems, while other nations' opinion of them is penalized. Finally, it gets access to the No Retreat combat doctrine, meaning that ships engaged in combat will never attempt to disengage and will get a further improved fire rate as a result. Furthermore, the [=CoM=] starts out governed as a dictatorship, though this can be changed later on, and their starting civics are [[MyCountryRightOrWrong Nationalistic Zeal]], which reduces war weariness and further reduces the cost of claiming other nations' systems, and Distinguished Admiralty, which further increases ship fire rate while boosting the maximum size of your fleets and allowing admirals to gain an extra skill level. Playing as the [=CoM=], you will be expanding quickly in the early game and then conquering or vassalizing numerous worlds and neighboring nations, settling into a role as TheEmpire. The lore for the [=CoM=] even states that they began as a LostColony of the UNE born from a seemingly failed wormhole experiment, and sure enough, if you are playing as the [=CoM=], the UNE will always spawn somewhere in the galaxy. |
| 409 | * ''Franchise/StreetFighter'': |
| 410 | ** [[BloodKnight Akuma]] is [[WarriorPoet Ryu's]] [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Blue counterpart]] in various ''Street Fighter'' games and their adaptations. The brother of Ryu's master, Akuma was a student of the same martial art and was also driven by the desire to be the most powerful martial artist, deciding that he was willing to kill those he defeated in the pursuit of true strength, while Ryu ultimately rejects killing (the exception being in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha 2'' and ''3'', where there's an Evil Ryu SecretCharacter. There, he turns out ''even worse'' than Akuma. Whereas Akuma has a sort of moral code, even if it falls heavily under BlueAndOrangeMorality, Evil Ryu is just a cold-blooded killer who ends up slaughtering the entire cast). |
| 411 | ** It can argued that Ken has similarities with Vega, as both men are extremely strong, rich, blond, handsome (to point of {{Bishounen}}) fighters who value flair above strength. Vega, however, is an AxCrazy [[TheFightingNarcissist narcissist]] who preys on beautiful women while Ken is a HandsomeLech who became a FamilyMan. In ''Anime/StreetFighterIIV'', Ken and Vega end up having a CockFight over Chun-Li. |
| 412 | ** Another example would be [[MysticalWaif Rose]] and [[BigBad M. Bison]], as both are wielders of [[OurSoulsAreDifferent Soul Power]]. Whereas Bison uses his corrupted Soul Power (which he calls Psycho Power) for pure evil, Rose is very heroic, kind, and uses her Soul Power to aid the other heroes, [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice going as far as offering her life to Bison in order to spare them]]]]. The fact that she was created from Bison's [[IncorruptiblePurePureness discarded goodness]] further cements the connection the two ultimately share. |
| 413 | ** Balrog is the EvilCounterpart to Dudley. Both are boxers, with the difference being that Dudley is a polite and refined [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen gentleman]] while Balrog is a cruel and vicious {{Jerkass}} who cheats like crazy. |
| 414 | ** Seth is the EvilCounterpart to Abel. [[spoiler:Both are revealed to be replacement bodies for M. Bison and the two decide to rebel against him in their own personal ways, with Abel being the good counterpart in that he vows to help bring down both M. Bison and Shadaloo so that the world can truly be safe from them while Seth is the evil counterpart in that he vows to overthrow M. Bison and seize control of Shadaloo so that he can TakeOverTheWorld himself.]] |
| 415 | ** ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'': |
| 416 | *** In ''Super Street Fighter IV'', Juri is the evil counterpart to Chun-Li, both whose parents were murdered by Shadaloo. While Chun-Li decided to join Interpol in order to help bring down Shadaloo by using the full extent of the law itself, Juri decided to join Shadaloo so that she could destroy the organization from the inside out, though Juri's personal obsession for revenge against M. Bison ended up causing her to fall into HeWhoFightsMonsters territory. |
| 417 | *** ''Ultra Street Fighter IV'' gives us Decapre for Cammy. Aside from being the her [[EvilTwin twin]], the former also represents what the latter could have become had she not broken free from her brainwashing. |
| 418 | ** ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'': |
| 419 | *** Kage is a LivingShadow who literally represents what Ryu would be if he gave into power-lust. |
| 420 | *** The story mode, "A Shadow Falls" effectively plays F.A.N.G as Rashid's Evil Counterpart: [[LargeHam They're both very silly]], [[GadgeteerGenius have a flair for technology]], use [[BlowYouAway some]] [[PoisonousPerson kind]] of element in combat, [[ButtMonkey get little respect]] from everyone, and aren't even taken seriously among the heroes/villains. However, the difference between the two of them is that F.A.N.G is genuinely psychopathic [[BewareTheSillyOnes beneath his silly demeanor]], taking and enjoying a personal [[TheSociopath sadistic pleasure]] in murdering a defenseless woman and threatening to do the same thing to [[WouldHurtAChild a little girl]]; while Rashid, beneath his goofiness, is truly heroic, and when he eventually learns that F.A.N.G had killed the aforementioned woman (who was Rashid's friend), he flies into an UnstoppableRage in stark contrast to his previous behavior. In addition to this, Rashid's wind powers perfectly counter F.A.N.G's poison abilities. |
| 421 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': |
| 422 | ** Wario was once an evil rival of Mario, complete with evil versions of Mario's powerups. Then he shifted to a greedy AntiHero who stole from [[EvilVersusEvil other villains]], soon replacing his dark powerups with the gimmick of NighInvulnerability and bizarre transformations based on how he is injured. On a couple of occasions, Wario has actually even helped Mario, both with and without selfish motives. Some time after Wario's creation, Creator/{{Nintendo}} gave Luigi his own Evil Counterpart in the form of Waluigi. It's interesting to note that the prefix "wa" originated from the word "warui", meaning plenty of things, including "evil", in Japanese. Hence, Wario and Waluigi are, literally, "Bad Mario" and "Bad Luigi". However, their names can also mean, based on the meanings of the word "Warui", "Wrong Mario/Luigi", "Poor Mario/Luigi", "Hateful Mario/Luigi", "Abominable Mario/Luigi", or "Inferior Mario/Luigi". Furthermore, Waluigi´s name in Japanese is an anagram of the word "Ijiwaru", which means that his name has extra meanings, such as "Ill-tempered Luigi" or "Sadistic Luigi". |
| 423 | *** While the opposition between them is not a major plot point in ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' games, you can see it in their respective weight classes (Mario and Luigi always are [[JackOfAllStats balanced characters]] while Wario [[MightyGlacier focuses on power]] and Waluigi's class depends on the game), but also in their respective stages: Mario and Luigi often have classic circuits while Wario and Waluigi have more technical and mature-looking tracks in the forms of [[VideoGame/MarioKart64 cross stadiums]], [[VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash a colosseum]] and [[VideoGame/MarioKartDS a pinball machine]]. In ''VideoGame/MarioKart7'', Wario's Shipyard/Galleon can also be seen as a more submerged and hostile environment than Piranha Plant Slide/Pipeway. |
| 424 | ** Wario got one himself in ''VideoGame/WarioLandShakeIt'' The Shake King is essentially a bigger, greedier Wario (while he holds the infinite sack of coins which is the only reason for Wario's adventure, he also took over the Shake Dimension and kidnapped the Merfles and Queen Merelda, which is not why Wario gets into this), with most of his abilities mirroring those of Wario. While [[VillainProtagonist Wario isn't exactly a good guy to begin with]], the Shake King has none of his few redeemable traits and is what Wario would be like if he went back to being a straight villain again. |
| 425 | ** Wario had previously got another in ''VideoGame/WarioMasterOfDisguise'' in the form of said game's FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Terrormisu]]. In true ''Wario'' fasion, we have the firmly evil character in a game running in BlackAndGrayMorality as [[spoiler:Terrormisu is a greedy demon who deceived Poobah the Pharaoh to have his wish granted if he starved his people and ruined his kingdom, only to double-cross him and steal his riches, so Cannoli the First [[SealedEvilInACan sealed her in the Wishstone]] and tried to find the one who would finally defeat her and save the world. She posed as an ally of Wario and waited until he gathered the whole Wishstone in order to devour the souls of the world]]. Gameplay-wise, similar to Wario's ability to gain powers from his disguises, [[spoiler:Terrormisu]] changes each phase of the fight by putting on a different {{mask|OfPower}} [[EmotionalPowers representing sadness, happiness, and anger]]. |
| 426 | ** Bowser eventually evolved into one to Mario as well. Both are associated with fire and wield numerous powerups, both are {{Acrofatic}} badasses that use their weight to injure their enemies (Mario through jumping, Bowser through stomping hard enough to break blocks), and both are interested in Princess Peach. However, Mario is a HumbleHero and generous soul who fights for good often without asking for anything in return, and his affections for Peach are warmly returned. Bowser is a greedy king, bully, and tyrant who chases after Peach despite her obvious rejection of him. |
| 427 | ** Bowser himself gets one in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'' when the Dark Star becomes Dark Bowser, the final boss. While Bowser wants to rule the Mushroom Kingdom, the Dark Star wants to obliterate existence outright. |
| 428 | * In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration'', Tenzan Nakajima is the EvilCounterpart to Ryusei Date. Like Ryusei, he was [[IKnowMortalKombat a video game champion turned actual robot pilot]], but unlike Ryusei, never learned the difference between a game and a life-and-death battle. |
| 429 | %%** Similarly, there's the [[spoiler:Shadow-Mirror equivalents of Kyosuke Nanbu and Sanger Zonvolt, especially the latter]]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 430 | %%** ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ'' adds [[spoiler:Asakim Dowin to the family of evil counterparts (in this case, of Masaki Andoh), and unfortunately there won't be a white Paladin Shu to stop him. His first name's even a SignificantAnagram of Masaki's.]] (How is he more evil than his counterpart?) |
| 431 | * ''VideoGame/SwordOfPaladin'': Nade has a counterpart in [[spoiler:Lancelot, who also wishes to be a heroic knight. While Lancelot appears to be the perfect knight commander, he turns out to have similar confidence issues as Nade, since he feels ashamed of failing to defend Asgard and failing the Paladin trials. As a result, he became vulnerable to Berienstahl's temptation of Extra Gems and deluded himself into thinking that conquering the world is the only way to be a hero. Additionally, Lancelot's desire to do good is tainted by his belief that he's the [[IneffectualLoner only one]] who is qualified to lead the world while Nade knows that the Paladin needs to have mutual trust with their allies and the masses.]] |
| 432 | %%* Gabe Logan has [[spoiler:Jason Chance]] in ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter 2''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
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| 436 | * ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'': |
| 437 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' elevates this to an art form. Every single member of the party has an evil counterpart in the Six God-Generals, and the BigBad, [[spoiler:Dorian General Van Grants]], is pretty much an EvilCounterpart to half the party: |
| 438 | *** Luke's evil counterpart is Asch, [[spoiler:as he's Asch's clone]]. |
| 439 | *** Tear's evil counterpart is Legretta, who trained her to fight. |
| 440 | *** Anise's evil counterpart is Arietta, who was a Fon Master Guardian before Anise took over her job. |
| 441 | *** Natalia's evil counterpart is Largo, who seems to have her sense of honour and dedication, and [[spoiler:is also her father]]. |
| 442 | *** Jade's evil counterpart is Dist, who [[spoiler:grew up with Jade and idolized him; they created fomicry together. Well, more like Jade created fomicry and Dist was there when it happened.]] |
| 443 | *** Guy's evil counterpart is Sync; [[spoiler:or at least, the game would have you believe that. This is a RedHerring -- Sync is counterpart to Guy in terms of their LightningBruiser fighting style, but story-wise, he's another clone of the original Fon Master Ion, making the current Ion his GoodCounterpart (and thus making him another, albeit loosely, evil counterpart to Anise).]] |
| 444 | *** BigBad [[spoiler:Van]] is personally connected to or mirrored by about half the main party. Luke [[spoiler:is his student and the product of his fomicry experiments, and both are primarily seeking a way to avert the Score]]. Guy [[spoiler:is, like Van, a survivor of the sinking of Hod; initially, they both want revenge for their painful childhoods, but Guy manages to overcome his bitterness while Van takes it... way too far]]. Tear [[spoiler:is Van's sister, obviously]]. Jade [[spoiler:is also a practitioner of fomicry, but while even he realizes fomicry is amoral, Van sees it as the way to recreate the world and save it from the Score]]. He and Anise [[spoiler:had ulterior motives for joining the Order of Lorelei]]. |
| 445 | ** Yggdrasil [[spoiler:aka Mithos the Hero]] in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' could be considered as such to Lloyd, [[spoiler:both of them starting out as well-intentioned {{Determinator}}s, though while Lloyd eventually learns when to back down and think things through, Mithos remains stubborn and unwavering to the bitter end, which causes his StartOfDarkness (his last words even have him calling Lloyd "my shadow" and proclaiming that he "stands at the end of the path I chose not to follow."). He also has a lot in common with Genis, both being disillusioned half-elves and having to suffer the persecution that comes from being such, though Genis eventually learns to accept the humans who persecuted him, while Mithos continues to be bitter and resentful towards them.]] |
| 446 | * In the early ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'' games (more so the first one), there are 8-10 default characters, and consequently 8-10 sub boss characters, specifically designed to match up with their corresponding default character and vice versa, as a "rival" (i.e. one will always fight the other on Round 8). Most of these are actual counterparts of the default character, and in the first game, they're literally clone characters too. Examples would be what Anna is to Nina, as well as what Armor King is to King, or what Kunimitsu is to Yoshimitsu. Their EvilCounterpart nature is due to most of their intentions and/or employers, i.e. Nina being sent as an assassin to take down the BigBad whereas Anna is working for them, or King wanting to use the tournament winnings to fund an orphanage whereas Armor King doesn't care about King's orphanage and just wants to prove that he's better (as well as being generally quite a dark and mysterious character). Yoshimitsu is the leader of a clan who wants to steal from the rich to give to the poor, but Kunimitsu wants to steal from the poor to give to herself (and even stole from her own clan). Later ''Tekken'' games kept all these characters, but from ''Tekken 3'' and onward, the sub-boss system associated with it was scrapped. |
| 447 | %%* ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}} 2'': (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 448 | %%** Lord Toda for Lord Gohda. |
| 449 | %%** The Burning Dawn ninja for the Azuma ninja. |
| 450 | %%* ''VideoGame/ThunderForce'': (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how are the below examples evil?) |
| 451 | %%** Vasteel Original in ''Thunder Force V'' is the prototype of the player's Vasteel fighter. |
| 452 | %%** Vasteel Nocht from ''Thunder Force VI'', which is a large fighter that utilizes weapons similar to the player fighter's from the previous three games. |
| 453 | * ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'': The Guardian ends up usurping the Avatar in his long absence, replacing the doctrine of the Virtues with his own propaganda, the "Fellowship". |
| 454 | %%** Lord Blackthorn is this to Lord British. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 455 | %%** The Virtues have evil counterparts as well. |
| 456 | * Rafe Adler in ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd'' is a rival treasure hunter who acts as a much more violent and sociopathic version of Drake. He is just as much a capable climber, explorer, and gunman as Drake, and even shares Drake's fondness for dry humor at times. [[spoiler:It is revealed over the course of the game that one of his primary motivations is to outdo Drake, whom he is incredibly jealous of.]] |
| 457 | * ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' has many characters contrasting each other: |
| 458 | ** In the early hours of the game, you fight Papyrus, a {{Camp}}y, [[LargeHam hammy]], and [[SmallNameBigEgo narcissistic]] but [[NiceGuy friendly]] [[DemBones skeleton]] who speaks in {{CAPS LOCK}}, gives you childish puzzles, [[GloryHound dreams of entering the royal guard]], encourages his brother [[LazyBum Sans]] to be more proactive, and tries to become friends with you even in your most violent playthrough. Also, befriending him is the secondary condition to engage the best ending possible. Later in the game, you fight another [[NoIndoorVoice loud]], campy, hammy, and narcissistic character, the [[KillerRobot killer]] entertainment [[AIIsACrapshoot robot]] Mettaton. More than an EvilCounterpart, he also represents [[ShadowArchetype what Papyrus would be]] if he became a legitimate threat, if his fascination for humanity implied betraying his own people, and if his narcissism and quest for glory overshadowed his positive qualities: |
| 459 | *** While Papyrus, despite his [[CloudCuckoolander eccentricities]], is still a reliable friend nonetheless, Mettaton started ignoring Alphys, the scientist who '''''built''''' him and [[NervousWreck who endures a lot of insecurities]], as soon as he became famous[[labelnote:spoiler]]except for their little scheme during the Hotland arc, even though he also makes his own in parallel[[/labelnote]]. |
| 460 | *** While Papyrus' puzzles are all harmless (and he gives up on his most violent one because this means he wouldn't earn his victory), Mettaton's are more deadly[[labelnote:Spoiler]]Alphys having full control over them helps a lot in this regards[[/labelnote]] and his following traps are far more dangerous[[labelnote:Spoiler]]This counts signaling the Human Child to the Royal Guards while Alphys is distracted, bribing Muffet to kill them in a place where they cannot contact Alphys, and engaging mercenaries in the CORE[[/labelnote]], as he wants to steal the protagonist's soul to leave the underground and [[ItsAllAboutMe become a celebrity on the surface]], [[SpannerInTheWorks despite knowing the fact]] that the king needs it to break the barrier and free monsterkind. |
| 461 | *** In an opposite fashion to Papyrus, you are forced to harm him even in a Pacifist run, you can't befriend him, and while the former's fight starts as a scheme to fulfill his lifelong dream, but ends as a way to bond with him, the latter's is just his last scheme [[GloryHound to increase his popularity]], even if he gives up after his fans (who, amusingly, involve Papyrus) call to convince him to stay. |
| 462 | *** While both of them can potentially become the ruler of the Underground in Neutral endings and neither of them have political knowledge (or know how to deal a future human falling), they handle things differently. While Papyrus has Sans to do most of the work, he tries to be a moral support for the monsters, even if it essentially goes by cooking them spaghetti. Mettaton, on the other hand, tries to handle everything personally and miserably fails, all by transforming the Underground into a PoliceState where every non-fan of his TV show mysteriously disappears. |
| 463 | ** During the whole game, your protagonist has the (relative) protection of Sans the skeleton, a [[TheSlacker lazy]] but [[NiceGuy friendly]] [[DemBones skeleton]] with a taste for [[PungeonMaster bad jokes]], who constantly shows a [[PerpetualSmiler big smile]], has [[ManOfAThousandVoices a talent for imitations]], a taste for [[TheGadfly snarky remarks]] and [[ThePrankster pranks]], knows about resets by reading your character's face, and judges your characters for their actions at the end of the game. He also subtly shows you that even the most aggressive monster can become a friend when you first meet him. Another alliterative monster shows a constant smile, [[VoiceChangeling mimics voices at perfection]], and plays you pranks with it; however, his are more sadistic, consisting of imitating a relative to make you doubt their sincerity. His snarky comments also are harsher than Sans's, as they often revolve around what '''''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou you]]''''' did in the game because he actually '''''remembers''''' all your actions. In an opposite fashion to Sans the first time you meet him, he shows a [[TheFakeCutie friendly side]] before [[BitchInSheepsClothing attacking you]] at your most vulnerable moment, manipulating you with the idea that ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption or, in his own words, [[spoiler:"It's kill or be killed". You guessed it, Sans's contrasting character is none other than Flowey the flower.]] |
| 464 | ** If you play in a True Pacifist run, the [[KidHero Human Child]] can become a [[MessianicArchetype Christian messiah]] for monsters, reconciliating them with the human race and freeing them from the underground. On the other hand, if you decide to kill everyone, you will progressively lose control over their actions and transform them into a satanic figure. [[spoiler:In the end, they will be replaced by/[[SplitPersonalityTakeover be taken over by]]/[[AmbiguousSituation become]] an [[TheAntichrist Antichristic]] archetype, the first Fallen Human/[[CanonName Chara]]/"[[HelloInsertNameHere however you want to call them, it is your playthrough after all, so you choose the name you want for this]] AdorableAbomination". They are similar to your playable character, but with a [[LightIsNotGood brighter]] sprite, opened eyes, pink cheeks, and a big smile, and obsessed with grinding and power. Also, while your character is [[CainAndAbel the Abel to Flowey's Cain]] and their backstory is a [[MysteriousPast mystery]], the First Human is more acknowledged: They were the Cain to Asriel's Abel, and they're heavily implied to have had issues even before you went on your rampage.]] |
| 465 | %%* When Carver calls Clementine into his office in ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonTwo'' Episode 3, [[spoiler:he mentions that he sees the same ruthlessness in her that he possesses. Clem can either [[ShutUpHannibal rebuke him]], in which case he maintains that she's in denial about her true nature; remain silent; or agree with his assessment]]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what makes him more evil than her?) |
| 466 | * ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': |
| 467 | ** At one point you actually ''get to beat up'' your own evil counterpart. Or technically, your "inner turmoil" (or for casters, it has often been identified by players as your inner ''idiot'' -- it only uses melee attacks). |
| 468 | ** The Warlock class is, lore-wise, the Evil Counterpart to the Mage, as they are usually former mages fallen into the temptation of resorting to demonic energy to make them stronger. |
| 469 | ** Another example is the boss battle Herald Volazj, who actually drives you insane and makes you fight evil twisted versions of your party members. Though, after you beat them, you may help your real party members kill their evil selves. |
| 470 | ** This is a common theme among the "war-torn" forms of the [[InfinityPlusOneSword artifact weapons]]. Many of the forms are corrupted or dark versions of normally "good" weapons, such as Ashbringer and T'uure. |
| 471 | %%** The Lich King's Death Knights, both as a hero unit in ''[[VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Warcraft III]]'' and a class in ''World of Warcraft'', serves as an Evil Counterpart to the Paladin (they're even referred to as such) in both games. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what makes one good and one evil, and what are their similarities?) |
| 472 | %%** Shadow Priests are in themselves the evil counterpart to their Light and Holy brethren. |
| 473 | %%** There have been plenty of non-playable evil counterparts to every class, such as the Druids of the Flame for Druids. |
| 474 | %%** [[OmnicidalManiac Deathwing]] firmly establishes himself as an evil counterpart to [[TheHighQueen Alexstrasza]], being bent on the destruction of life and twisting dragons into genetically-engineered monstrosities. (How is he similar to her?) |
| 475 | * In ''VideoGame/WrestlingMpire'', some of the clauses of a wrestler's contract are these. The "good" clauses are in green while the "bad" clauses are in red. |
| 476 | ** CREATIVE CONTROL allows for the wrestler to refuse a booker's task at the cost of Attitude points. NO CREATIVE CONTROL is the opposite. |
| 477 | ** IRON CLAD means the wrestler cannot be fired even if they fail a booker's task. NO COMPETE means a wrestler cannot quit, even if offered a contract by a different promotion. |
| 478 | ** PART TIME means a wrestler will not be booked frequently but will lose popularity due to lack of screen time. OVERTIME means a wrestler can be booked multiple times in a single event (more noticeable in Booking Career). |
| 479 | * In the ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' expansion ''Enemy Within'', an evil organization called EXALT is revealed to be secretly in league with the aliens, although they have their own mysterious goals. Their operatives use the same tactics as your own XCOM soldiers, and their weapons are identical in stats (but less boxy) to your own firearms and laser weapons (EXALT never develops plasma). Like your soldiers, EXALT uses [[GreyGoo Meld]] to enhance their operatives, although they never build [[PoweredArmor MEC Troopers]]. Even their HQ's location is opposite to yours: The XCOM base is deep underground, while the EXALT HQ is on top of a skyscraper. When storming it, your soldiers find a hologlobe identical to yours but red in color, although their HQ is more aesthetic than functional, in stark contrast to the XCOM base. There are some subtle hints that EXALT may have evolved out of the [[VideoGame/TheBureauXCOMDeclassified original XCOM project]] in TheSixties. |
| 480 | %%** Mutons have been described like this, an alien SEAL Team Six to fight your own troops. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how are they evil?) |
| 481 | * ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}'': |
| 482 | ** ''VideoGame/YsMemoriesOfCelceta'': [[spoiler:Gruda]] is an eviler counterpart to his supposed master, Dark Eldeel. Both wish to test and improve humanity by antagonizing them with the apocalypse, but Dark Eldeel genuinely loves humanity and is willing to hold back against them to ensure their survival while [[spoiler:Gruda]] despises his fellow humans for being complacent and believes they deserve to die if they can't pass his trials. |
| 483 | ** ''Videogame/YsSeven'': [[spoiler:Tia and Scias]] serve as counterparts to the Twin Goddesses and [[spoiler:Toal Fact]] from ''VideoGame/YsOrigin''. Like the Twin Goddesses, [[spoiler:Tia]] is a blue-haired supernatural being who manages her land to ensure its prosperity, only to be faced with disaster when the land's prosperity goes too far. Like [[spoiler:Toal]], [[spoiler:Scias]] is a white-haired knight who serves their supernatural maiden and does everything he can to ease their burden, even if it means acting behind the backs of his liege. The difference is that the goddesses and [[spoiler:Toal]] never lose faith in their people while [[spoiler:Tia and Scias]] are in despair over their land's situation, causing them to enact a cycle of death and rebirth to fix everything. |
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