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9	* ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'': During the "Transfer of Power" arc, the Authority were replaced by the G7 Authority, made up of corporate- and government-backed versions of each member. Jenny Sparks was replaced by the Colonel (of Britain); Swift was replaced by Rush (of Canada); Hawksmoor was replaced by The Street (of America); The Engineer was replaced by The Machine (of Japan); Midnighter was replaced by Last Call (of Italy); Apollo was replaced by Teuton (of Germany); and The Doctor was replaced by The Surgeon (of France).
10	* ''ComicBook/{{The Outsiders\|DCComics}}'': In ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'', Maxie Zeus formed a team called the New Olympians with each member being a counterpart to one of the Outsiders. Specifically:
11	** Antaeus = Geo-Force
12	** Diana = Katana
13	** Nox = Halo
14	** Proteus = ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}}
15	** Vulcanus = ComicBook/BlackLightning
16	* ''Series/CharliesAngels'': The 2018 comic book introduces Elka, Naomi and Franzinka, a trio of female assassins collectively known as Helena's Satansbraten.
17	* ''ComicBook/TheDandy'': The comic featured ''The Jocks & The Geordies''; A strip about two [[FiveManBand Five person teams]] doing everything possible to abuse, beat up, insult and undermine the other team.
18	* Franchise/TheDCU ''loves'' these. The Injustice League was made up entirely on one-for-one matches with the Justice League of the time.
19	** Other examples include the Hyperclan, a band of so called heroes who are copies of the Justice Leagues core members, but they are in fact White Martians posing as heroes for their invasion.
20	** The Injustice Society is also the name given to repeated team-ups of bad guys meant to counter the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica.
21	* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Inverted with the Renegades, a group of 25th century policemen who model themselves after the Rogues, since the 25th century's most dangerous criminal is the Flash's EvilCounterpart.
22	* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': [[Characters/GLSinestroCorps Sinestro Corps]] is an EvilCounterpart to the [[Characters/GLGreenLanternCorps Green Lantern Corps]], and most of the members of the former are Evil Counterparts to individual members of the latter (sometimes to a ridiculous level). And taken even further with the reveal of new Lantern Corps. Mildly subverted in that most aren't actually evil: the already-mentioned Sinestro Corps is a pretty straight evil example, the Red Lanterns are a berzerker BloodKnight Corps, most of whom have an (actually pretty justified) ax to grind against the Guardians, and Orange Lantern Larfleeze is certainly ''criminal'' but is mostly too [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny distracted by the shiny]] to be truly ''evil''. A handful ([[Characters/GLBlueLanternCorps Blue Lanterns]], [[Characters/GLIndigoTribe Indigo Tribe]], even [[Characters/GLStarSapphireCorps Star Sapphires]]) are friendly, or at least neutral to the Green Lanterns.
23	* ''ComicBook/HeroesForHire'': The nineties incarnation once faced a team called Strikeforce One who had been literally cloned from them by the Master of the World. They comprised Demi-God ([[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]]), Knight Errant (ComicBook/{{Black Knight\|MarvelComics}}), She-Cat (ComicBook/WhiteTiger), Stinger (ComicBook/AntMan), Dragonfist (ComicBook/IronFist), Behemoth ([[Characters/MarvelComicsBruceBanner The Hulk]]), and Amazon (ComicBook/SheHulk).
24	* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsBruceBanner The Hulk]]'s EvilTwin, the ComicBook/RedHulk (before his HeelFaceTurn), joined forces with the {{Evil Counterpart}}s of the other [[ComicBook/TheDefenders Defenders]] to form the Offenders: Red Hulk (Hulk); Baron Mordo (ComicBook/DoctorStrange); Tiger Shark (the ComicBook/SubMariner); and Terrax (the ComicBook/SilverSurfer). There's also a Red She-Hulk in the mix.
25	* ''ComicBook/TheInfinityWar'', the sequel to ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet'' took this trope for all it was worth by creating an entire army comprised of evil counterparts of nearly all the Franchise/MarvelUniverse heroes at the time.
26	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': The ComicBook/NewAvengers arc of ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManJMichaelStraczynski'' featured a team of evil Avenger doppelgangers working for HYDRA. Their costumes were basically green and yellow palette-swaps of the originals with the HYDRA octopus logo added on. "Militant" for Captain America, "Tactical Force" (though he prefers Karl) for Iron Man, "the Hammer" for Thor and "the Bowman" for Hawkeye. Spidey, of course, pointed out how done-to-death the evil twin thing was, and none of them ever faced their "originals" (albeit Hammer and Bowman had the justified excuse that Thor and Hawkeye were technically dead at this point). None of them were captured, but they haven't shown up since then (except for the Facebook game, ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'').
27	* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': James Robinson's run had a team based off Creator/JackKirby's ComicBook/NewGods. The truly bizarre thing is that this was a team of Psycho Rangers that ''never actually encountered'' their heroic counterparts, as they debuted after the death of the New Gods during ''ComicBook/{{Countdown\|ToFinalCrisis}}'' and ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''.
28	** Doctor Impossible = Mister Miracle
29	** Tender Mercy = Big Barda
30	** Hunter = Orion
31	** Neon Black = Lightray
32	** Chair = Metron
33	* In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' Volume 2, Circe is inspired by ComicBook/LexLuthor's Legion of Doom to form an "Injustice League Dark." In addition to Circe herself as Wonder Woman's counterpart, there's Floronic Man for ComicBook/SwampThing, Papa Midnite for ComicBook/DoctorFate (ComicBook/JohnConstantine not being a current member), [[Characters/GreenLantern1941 Solomon Grundy]] for Man-Bat (both formerly human Batman villains), ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy for ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} (both from "lost tribes" of witches -- if Zatanna's mother's origin is still intact), and Teekl the cat for Detective Chimp.
34	* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' has the Legion of Super Villains, which features some original villains, but in all incarnations features Lightning Lord, the older brother of Legionnaires Lightning Lad and Lightning Lass. The comic versions usually also feature Cosmic King and Saturn Queen, counterparts of ComicBook/CosmicBoy and Saturn Girl, and, rarely, Chameleon Chief and Sun Emperor, counterparts of Chameleon Boy and Sun Boy.
35	* In ComicBook/LesLegendaires, [[GodOfEvil Anathos]], after [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown defeating and brutally scarring]] [[FiveManBand the Legendaries]], use the blood they left behind them to create magically engineered clones of them in order to prepare for their return. Referred as the Hellions ("Infernaux" in French), those clones were identical to their heroic counterpart physically, except for their skin/hair/eyes colours, and used the same names with the prefixe "Dark" (Dark-Shimy, Dark-Jadina, etc). Much like the original Psycho Rangers, they possessed upgraded version of the Legendaries' abilities and psychotic personalities. [[spoiler:Ironically, they still ended up biting the dust, since the Legendaries TookALevelInBadass by the time they had to face them.]]
36	* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': In Creator/MarvelComics, the U-Foes are explicitly described as Psycho Rangers to the Fantastic Four, with identical origins (though not identical powers; the only one that comes close enough is Ironclad to the Thing), although they usually fight [[Characters/MarvelComicsBruceBanner the Hulk]] (he interfered in the events that gave them their powers as they tried to deliberately recreate the FF's origin).
37	** The Frightful Four, despite its ever-changing roster, was created by the Wizard (a MadScientist Evil Counterpart to Reed Richards) to be Psycho Rangers to the Fantastic Four. For instance, one incarnation featured the Wizard ([[Characters/FantasticFourTheFantasticFour Mister Fantastic]]), his friend the Trapster ([[Characters/FantasticFourTheFantasticFour The Thing]]), his ex-wife Salamandra ([[Characters/FantasticFourTheFantasticFour Invisible Woman]]), and someone unrelated to him who just happened to be Hydro-Man ([[Characters/FantasticFourTheFantasticFour Human Torch]]). Eventually he forces his daughter Cole to join the group and throws out the Trapster to make room. Cole, who is a love interest to Johnny Storm, then takes up the Human Torch role while Hydro-Man fills the Thing space. Invisible Woman once observed that the Frightful Four's threat level has only ever been undermined because all iterations of the team lack a clear bond in the style of the Fantastic Four themselves, although she then expressed concern about what might happen if the Wizard ever managed to assemble a genuinely effective line-up for the team.
38	*** Carried to its 'ultimate' extreme in ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'', where the Frightful Four are the counterparts of the regular (read Ultimate, in this case) FF from another universe, just with about fifteen more years of experience. Oh yeah, and they're ''[[ComicBook/MarvelZombies flesh-eating zombies]]''.
39	* The Blitzkrieg Squadron in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse were created as a Nazi counterpart to the heroic [[ComicBook/SgtFuryAndHisHowlingCommandos Howling Commandos]].
40	* Most incarnations of the Masters of Evil in Creator/MarvelComics are constructed in this manner.
41	* [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]], the VillainWithGoodPublicity also known as the Green Goblin, leads ''two'' groups of Psycho Rangers, as part of ''ComicBook/DarkReign'':
42	** The ComicBook/DarkAvengers are an interesting example; a supposed hero team who are actually ''posing'' as their counterparts. In addition to ComicBook/{{Ares\|Marvel}} and ComicBook/TheSentry as themselves (going along with it because one's morally ambiguous and the other's just plain nuts -- though Ares replaces [[Characters/MarvelComicsThorOdinson Thor]] and/or [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] to some extent), the line-up includes Venom ([[Characters/MarvelComicsMacGargan Mac Gargan]], previously known as Scorpion) as ComicBook/SpiderMan, Moonstone as [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Ms. Marvel]], Noh-Varr as ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel\|MarvelComics}}, [[Characters/DaredevilCentralRoguesGallery Bullseye]] as [[Characters/MarvelComicsClintBarton Hawkeye]] and ComicBook/{{Daken}} as [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]]. Norman leads the team as the [[Characters/MarvelComicsTonyStark Iron Man]]-[[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Captain America]] mashup Iron Patriot.
43	*** Osborn later revives the Dark Avengers concept with a new team featuring Skaar, Son of Hulk (The Hulk/Red Hulk); Hawkeye's brother Trickshot ([[Characters/MarvelComicsClintBarton Hawkeye]], duh); The Gorgon, Wolverine's deadliest enemy ([[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]]); Ragnarok, a robotic clone of Thor infamously created by Tony Stark's side during ''ComicBook/{{Civil War\|2006}}'' ([[Characters/MarvelComicsThorOdinson Thor]]); Ai Apaec, a sinister sort of arachnid god ([[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Spider-Man]]); June Covington, a deranged geneticist Osborn met in prison (Characters/ScarletWitch); and Superia, a StrawFeminist MadScientist with super strength ([[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Ms. Marvel]]). Norman himself becomes the new [[AllYourPowersCombined Super-Adaptoid]], making him the only Dark Avenger without any real analogue. [[spoiler:Skaar turns out to subvert his role, being Captain America's [[TheMole Mole]] in the team.]] John Walker, aka ComicBook/USAgent, has occasionally been a member of such a team as a counterpart to Characters/{{Captain America\|TitleCharacter}}. However these Dark Avengers didn't match up well with the actual Avengers they faced. For instance, there was no counterpart for ComicBook/LukeCage in either incarnation, and neither team of Dark Avengers actually fought a team with Hawkeye or Scarlet Witch as members. Likewise there was no Hulk on the team when Skaar was part of the Dark Avengers, and so on.
44	** The Cabal are Psycho Rangers to [[Characters/MarvelComicsTonyStark Iron Man]]'s Illuminati: Norman himself takes Tony's place, and the rest are [[Characters/MarvelComicsEmmaFrost Emma Frost]] ([[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Professor X]]); [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]] ([[Characters/FantasticFourTheFantasticFour Mister Fantastic]]); [[Characters/MarvelComicsLoki Loki]] ([[Characters/TheInhumans Black Bolt]] of ComicBook/TheInhumans); ComicBook/TheHood (ComicBook/DoctorStrange); and [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] (er, [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Namor]]). Then come Utopia, Emma and Namor reveal their intentions and leave the Cabal, so Osborn has to pick up someone to fill the spot. Apparently ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}} was the next best option.
45	** Namor later formed a new Cabal in ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'', which includes the likes of [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]] and Maximus the Mad (Black Bolt's brother). The villains aren't exact parallels to the members of the Illuminati, but share the same goal (protecting Earth-616 from Multiverse incursions). The difference is, the members of the Cabal are willing to commit mass murder on a cosmic scale to save their reality.
46	* The original Soviet Super Heroes team primarily featured clear counterparts to ComicBook/TheAvengers team they often opposed. Perun, the Slavic god of thunder, was the Thor counterpart; Sputnik/Vostok, a calculating android, was ComicBook/TheVision counterpart; the Red Guardian, uber-patriotic Soviet supersoldier, was the Captain America analogue; Surge, a man in a suit of PoweredArmor, was Iron Man; the feral Sabercat was the ComicBook/{{Beast\|MarvelComics}}, weapons expert Vanguard was Hawkeye, the mystical Darkstar was the Scarlet Witch, etc.
47	* Marvel's Russian national superhero team (variously called the Soviet Super-Soldiers, the Supreme Soviets, the People's Protectorate, or the ComicBook/WinterGuard) while not usually villainous as such, was often in conflict with ComicBook/TheAvengers, and several of its members were Avengers counterparts. Red/Steel Guardian = Captain America; Crimson Dynamo = Iron Man; Perun = Thor; Ursa Major = Beast; Vostok = Vision. The new incarnation of the Winter Guard introduced in ''ComicBook/TheAvengersJasonAaron'' can be seen as a counterpart to that incarnation of the team: Guardian (now Vanguard), Dynamo and Perun remain counterparts of the Big Three, but now Ursa Major = Hulk and Darkstar (who didn't have a counterpart before) = [[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Captain Marvel]]. New members Chernoberg and Red Widow are roughly counterparts to [[ComicBook/AllNewGhostRider Ghost Rider]] and ComicBook/BlackPanther.
48	* The original Hellions to the ''ComicBook/NewMutants'': Tarot to Dani Moonstar (Psychic) Empath to Karma (influencing others), Jetstream to Cannonball (living rocket pack), Catesye to Wolfsbane (animal shapeshifter), Tarot to ComicBook/{{Magik}} (magic user), Thunderbird to Sunspot (strong guy), and Roulette to Magma (ranged attacks, although their actual effects are very different).
49	* ''ComicBook/RawhideKid'': In ''ComicBook/{{Rawhide Kid\|2010}}: The Sensational Seven'', when the BigBad Cristo Pike learns that the Rawhide Kid and the Seven are coming for him, he recruits a team composed of villainous counterparts of the Seven. These members (and their counterparts) were Bloody Ivan (ComicBook/KidColt), [[SissyVillain the Cabo Kid]] (Rawhide Kid), [[BearsAreBadNews Grizzly Johnson]] (ComicBook/RedWolf), [[GirlsWithGuns Honey Bee]] (Annie Oakley), [[RevenantZombie Kid Dead]] (Billy the Kid), [[BladeEnthusiast Le Sabre Kid]] (Doc Holliday), and [[{{Ninja}} the Lone Ninja]] (ComicBook/TwoGunKid).
50	* The Pride were this for ComicBook/{{Runaways}}. Bonus points for being their ''parents'', so each pair served as this for their respective kid, either playing on similarities or contrast between them:
51	** Alex and his parents are {{Badass Normal}}s, strategists and leaders.
52	** Nico and her parents are all magicians.
53	** Karolina shares her parents' powerset
54	** Gert and her parents are often voices of reason in both groups
55	** Chase is BookDumb delinquent, to contrast his parents, a pair of {{Mad Scientist}}s.
56	** Molly and her parents are all mutants, but while her mutation manifested as super strength, they are both telepaths.
57	** The only other story involving The Pride sets them in the past, where they clash with ComicBook/TheIlluminati, serving as this trope to them:
58	*** ComicBook/IronMan -- Geoffrey and Katherine Wilder
59	*** [[ComicBook/MisterFantastic Reed Richards]] -- Victor and Janet Stein
60	*** ComicBook/DoctorStrange -- Robert and Tina Minoru
61	*** [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] -- Dale and Stacey Yorkes
62	*** [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Black Bolt]] -- Frank and Leslie Dean
63	*** [[ComicBook/ProfessorX Professor Charles Xavier]] -- Gene and Alice Hayes
64	* The ComicBook/{{Shadowpact}} (DCU ''again'') has the Pentacle, set up by a witch called Strega, which "just happened" to feature counterparts to the magical heroes. (Strega herself is the counterpart to the Enchantress; Jack of Fire to ComicBook/BlueDevil [and turns out to be [[LukeIAmYourFather his brother]]; Sister Shadow to Nightshade; Bagman to ComicBook/{{Ragman}}; Karnevil to Detective Chimp (kinda); and White Rabbit to Nightmaster.) However, in-universe the similarities are commented upon by Bagman, who notes that it felt as if this version of the Shadowpact was composed specifically to handle the Pentacle. In a sense, the Shadowpact can be viewed as ''good'' Psycho Rangers, making this an InvertedTrope.
65	* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'':
66	** The Black Marvel Family, ComicBook/BlackAdam's equivalent to [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]]'s [[TrueCompanions group of friends]]: Black Adam for Cap himself, Isis for ComicBook/MaryMarvel, and Osiris for Captain Marvel Jr. (even though Isis had a very different relationship with Adam than the one Mary Marvel has with Marvel). Although, while they existed, Black Adam was on a HeelFaceTurn, so they weren't Evil Counterparts so much as Dark Counterparts.
67	* In UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age\|OfComicBooks}}, DCU (again) introduced the alternate Earth of Earth-3, where the counterparts of the JLA were known as the Crime Syndicate. After massive retcons, there are ''two'' versions of this -- the Crime Syndicate from the Antimatter Universe, and a new Earth-3 with the Crime Society, which are more like the JSA than the JLA.
68	** Bizarrely, to this day there are neither Earth-3 nor Antimatter versions of the ComicBook/MartianManhunter or Aquaman, or at least none that have ever been seen in comics. There have been brief mentions of 'a White Martian' and 'Barracuda', but that's as far as it goes.
69	** The New 52's version of the Crime Syndicate introduced an evil Aquaman called Sea King. Also new to the group are Deathstorm (evil Firestorm), Atomica (evil Atom), and Grid (evil Cyborg).
70	* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', there's at least three groups.
71	** The Suppression Squad, MirrorUniverse counterparts of the Freedom Fighters.
72	** The Destructix, a group of mercenaries led by Scourge the Hedgehog, Sonic's MirrorUniverse counterpart, and his girlfriend Fiona Fox
73	** Eggman later unleashed a series of Metal-series bots comprised of Metal Sonic, Metal Tails, Metal Knuckles and [[spoiler:Mecha Sally]].
74	* The various criminals and mercenaries Vader recruits in ''ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader'' collectively serve as a villainous counterpart to the main Rebel heroes:
75	** Darth Vader to Luke Skywalker
76	** Boba Fett to Han Solo
77	** Black Krrsantan to Chewbacca
78	** Doctor Aphra to Princess Leia
79	** Triple-Zero and BT-1 to C-3PO and R2-D2.
80	* ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}'s "Titans East" of ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' comics, which included The Match, an evil clone of ComicBook/{{Superboy\|1994}} (who had, by this point, degenerated into as good a clone of Superboy as Bizarro is of ComicBook/{{Superman}}); Inertia, an evil clone of [[ComicBook/TheFlash Kid Flash]], and Kid Crusader, who is...[[MyFriendsAndZoidberg the only person Slade could find who had ever heard of Kid Devil while also wanting to kill him]]. They also had Joker's Daughter, Enigma (both chose to style themselves after their inspirations the same way Tim Drake sought out Batman, although Deathstroke probably didn't know that), a brainwashed ComicBook/{{Batgirl\|2000}} for ComicBook/{{Robin\|1993}}, and Risk (a former Titan who lost his arm and decided against a prosthetic) for ComicBook/{{Cyborg}}.
81	** Later on there was Clock King's Terror Titans, made up of original characters who used power suits and modeled themselves after older villains. As it turned out, none of them had any connections to the Teen Titans, except for Dreadbolt, [[GenerationXerox who was the son of Bolt]], a Blue Devil villain, making him a sort of rival to Kid Devil.
82	** The LegionOfDoom from the final ''Teen Titans'' arc before the ComicBook/New52 were built around this. Superboy-Prime for ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, Headcase for ComicBook/{{Raven}}, Sun Girl for Solstice, Inertia for [[ComicBook/TheFlash Kid Flash]], Indigo for ComicBook/RedRobin, Zookeeper for ComicBook/BeastBoy, and Persuader for Ravager.
83	* The Liberators from Volume 2 of Marvel's ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'' are an Axis of Evil counterpart to the title team. The Colonel being the Iranian counterpart to Captain America, Abomination the Chinese Hulk, Crimson Dynamo the Chinese Iron Man, Perun the Russian Thor, Hurricane the North Korean Quicksilver, and Swarm the Syrian Wasp.
84	** There were later the Dark Ultimates, the Ultimate counterpart of the above-mentioned ComicBook/DarkAvengers. Reed Richards acts as the team's leader and Iron Man parallel, while the Hulk acts their counterpart to Thor. The rest of the team however (Kang, the Human Torch, and ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}) don't match up as exact analogues to the Ultimates.
85	* The Infinite Comics' comic book tie-in to ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'' had a five issue story, Rival Schools, about the Maggia forming a team of teenage supervillains who each paralleled someone from ComicBook/NickFury's ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} training program. The group consisted of Arachnikid (Spider-Man), Dark Matter (ComicBook/{{Nova}}), Overcharge ([[ComicBook/LukeCage Power Man]]), Black Bunny (ComicBook/WhiteTiger) and Skull Punch (ComicBook/IronFist).
86	* ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'' has two examples:
87	** In the second story arc [[FallenHero Nerissa]], leader of [[LegacyCharacter the past generation of Guardians]] before [[FaceHeelTurn turning evil]], created the Knights of Revenge, with [[AnIcePerson Tridart]] as [[MakingASplash Irma]]'s counterpart, [[PlayingWithFire Ember as Taranee]]'s, [[TheDragon Shagon]] as [[TheLancer Cornelia]]'s, [[TheBrute Khor]] as [[BlowYouAway Hay Lin]]'s, and [[BigBad Nerissa]] herself to her successor [[TheLeader Will]]. In a variation, Shagon and Khor's powers don't actually match those of their counterparts (Cornelia has control over [[DishingOutDirt Earth]] and [[GreenThumb plants]] while Shagon is [[EmotionEater powered by any hate felt in his presence and especially that against him]], and Khor is an earthbound brute to Hay Lin's graceful flier) but on their roles in their respective groups. Also, the closest they get to a direct counterpart confrontation is Cornelia blasting Shagon during a fight: the Knights only launch quick raids and tend to act by stealth, and during the final battle Nerissa, having just lost half her power, absorbs the powers of her Knights (and in the process she killed Ember and Tridart, who were artificial constructs kept alive by their magic), only for it to backfire horribly when she told Shagon she'd also kill him and Khor and Shagon wounded her right before [[CombatPragmatist the Guardians swarmed and killed her]].
88	** Much later we're introduced to the Runic Wizards, enemies of Kandrakar who have at their service five counterparts to the Guardians, only males and with what appear to be dark counterparts to their powers. Again there's never a direct confrontation, [[AbortedArc as the Runics are shelved immediately after their debut]].
89	* In one of the ''ComicBook/XMenFirstClass'' issues, the random kids in the coffee shop who correctly guess the team's orders before they're made (and just-so-happen to resemble the team greatly) turn out to be Skrull imposters that have been masquerading as the X-Men and causing havoc.
90	* The ComicBook/DarkXMen feature: Dark Beast ([[Characters/MarvelComicsBeast Beast]]), Mimic ([[Characters/MarvelComicsAngel Angel]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]]; he has the powers of the original five), ComicBook/{{Daken}} (Wolverine), [[Characters/MarvelComicsMystique Mystique]] ([[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean Grey]]). When [[Characters/MarvelComicsEmmaFrost Emma Frost]] was a member, she was the counterpart of [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Professor X]], as both a psychic and a teacher.
91	* And for all of Osborn's "Dark" teams, it should be noted that those were just [[IAmNotShazam the titles of the books]]. Osborn was a VillainWithGoodPublicity and the public (and most any individual member you're surprised to see on these lists) thought they were truly there to do good. All this is in the aftermath of ''ComicBook/{{Civil War\|2006}}'', and Osborn was promoting his teams as the ''only'' real Avengers, etc. unlike those outlaws who were operating without the legal right to do so.
92	* ComicBook/DarkReign gave us Dark ComicBook/YoungAvengers, whose members are the Psycho Rangers to the original Young Avengers.
93	** Patriot, the [[TheHero determined leader]] is met by the doubt-filled, insecure Melter.
94	** The gay magician Wiccan's counterpart is the female sorceress Enchantress (a younger Asgardian wannabe who is not [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheEnchantress the one we know and love from Thor.]])
95	** The ActionGirl Hawkeye II meets the Executioner II, a PsychoForHire; both are {{Badass Normal}}s.
96	** Stature faces Big Zero, a BadassBookworm LegacyCharacter against a DarkActionGirl and racist. Both are size-changers.
97	** Vision and Egghead are both robots.
98	** The funny SixthRanger Speed faces Coat Of Arms, a crazy fangirl.
99	** For unknown reasons, Hulkling doesn't have a counterpart in the other team. The Dark Young Avengers are somewhat unusual, because the Dark Young Avengers were not gathered together to fight the original Young Avengers, but just want to be heroes. However, they will probably end up under Osborn's control. What's more, some relationships between the members of the Dark Young Avengers mirror those in the Young Avengers. Just like Stature and Vision love each other, Big Zero has a crush on Egghead.
100	* In the ''ComicBook/HeroesReborn2021'' take on ''Dark Reign'', Goblin's attempt to take over the US is presented as a bizarre Joker-style caper, but he still has a Dark [[ComicBook/SquadronSupreme Squadron]] by his side: ComicBook/TheSentry for Hyperion, ComicBook/{{Valkyrie\|MarvelComics}} for Power Princess, ComicBook/MoonKnight for Nighthawk, ComicBook/{{Nova}} for Dr Spectrum and [[ComicBook/GhostRider Ghost Runner]] for the Blur.

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