Evil Counterparts in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- The Bridge:
- Xenilla aka Spacegodzilla is one to Godzilla Jr. They are both sons to Godzilla Sr. and have mostly the same powers, but while Junior wants to protect the innocent, Xenilla wants to take over. It is later revealed that Xenilla was Good All Along and purposely crafted an Evil Counterpart persona to be Junior's enemy and constantly fight him to make him stronger.
- Monster X is one to King Caesar. They are both brave and noble men who volunteered to be transformed into Kaiju to protect and serve their people, and when they are not needed, they hibernate in a special chamber. King Caesar is beloved by his people as a friend and guardian, and his chamber is a peaceful sanctuary. Monster X gained a Superpowered Evil Side, Kaizer Ghidorah, is hated and feared by his people who only see him a dangerous but necessary weapon, and his chamber is a prison.
- King Sombra is one to Xenilla of all people. They both have power over crystal and want to take over a kingdom. Xenilla is polite, knows a bit about Pragmatic Villainy, and is implied to be a bit noble deep down. Sombra is extremely egotistical and constantly expresses how much he enjoys making others suffer and die. While Xenilla's crystals can heal and empower people, Sombra's crystals are toxic.
- Dungeon Keeper Ami has Mercury and Mukrezar - both are physically weak, but possess devastating magical skill, both conquered the Avatar islands, both are resourceful and cunning and use that to win rather than brute strength.
- Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship (The Fairly OddParents! & My Little Pony: Equestria Girls): The Dazzlings serve as this for the Rainbooms. While the Rainbooms spied on Timmy, they were trying to save him from what they mistakenly believed was an evil form of magic, and learned to care for Timmy beyond their mission. The Dazzlings, meanwhile, only care about using him to get access to that same magic. While the Rainbooms try and help Timmy grow as a person, the Dazzlings manipulate and bully him into doing what they want and are willing to destroy his life to do so.
- Aria is this to both Rainbow and Gilda. The latter two are tough girls who are not afraid to be aggressive to people who cross them, but under their rough exterior are kind people who are hard on Timmy because they want him to become a stronger person. While Aria may act as she cares for Timmy, she is really just a bully who wants to turn Timmy into a violent thug so she can use him for her own benefit.
- Sonata is this to Pinkie. They're both bubbly Cloudcuckoolanders, but unlike Pinkie, Sonata has no problem manipulating Timmy and hurting people to get what she wants.
- Adagio to Sunset. They're both leaders of their groups and come from former positions of prestige, but where Sunset has had a Heel–Face Turn and is trying to be a better person, Adagio has not changed at all and is still obsessed with power at all costs.
- In God Slaying Blade Works, Mordred the Black Knight is one to Shirou Emiya. Mordred can perform a Storm of Blades attack that looks like a smaller scale version of Unlimited Blade Works. Mordred also reacts the same way Shirou does to being called a faker, by boasting that a copy can surpass the original.
- Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger (RWBY & Star Wars): Darth Nihilus is an evil counterpart to Ozma. Both are Really 700 Years Old, possess others, grant magic powers to their hosts, and slowly overwrite their hosts' memories with their own. However, neither Ozma nor his hosts have any have choice in the matter. Nihilus, on the other hand, requires his hosts to willingly put on his mask in order for him to possess them. While Ozma is benevolent and influences his hosts to help humanity, Nihilus seeks to consume all life and corrupts his hosts into using the Dark Side to harm others. This is lampshaded by Qrow, who dubs Jaune as "nega-Ozpin" upon learning of his situation.
- To Kill a Thief
(Death Note & Phantom Thief Jeanne): Light Yagami to Miyako Toudaiji. - Knight of Death and Rebirth (Code Geass & Monster Girl Encyclopedia):
- Druella is one to Lelouch - both are powerful royalty (former-royalty in Lelouch's case) who desire to create a better world for their loved ones. Druella's better world, however, would count A Fate Worse Than Death for everyone while Lelouch would not only preserve humanity but also ensure coexistence.
- Francisca Mistel Lescatie is what Nunnally could have been if she did not have Lelouch to give her a normal life despite her disabilities.
- The Last Brony: Kingdom Hearts With a Black Sora: Black Riku is this to Black Sora. Both are husbandos created by Vinyl Scratch, and thus have similar personalities because All Girls Want Bad Boys. They also both have a pup sidekick which they can use to do a Fusion Dance.
- The Many Dates of Danny Fenton: Vlad Masters to Sam Manson. Both of them were jealous when their love interests, Maddie and Danny Fenton respectively, found another significant other, have a problem taking responsibility for their actions, and feel entitled to and possessive of the objects of their desires. However, the difference is that Sam genuinely loves Danny and cares about his feelings, while Vlad's love for Maddie is more about loving the idea of ''having'' her and grows to an unhealthy obsession. Also, when Sam damaged her friendship with Danny because she spied on his date with Kara, she ultimately felt guilty, while when Vlad damaged his relationship with Maddie because he confessed his love to her, he could not understand why she was disgusted with him for thinking that she should just leave Jack for him and how he really feels about Jack. Sam, even at her worst, refuses to hurt Kara to get Danny and was disgusted when Vlad actually offered her a deal to get rid of Kara, whereas Vlad always tries to kill Jack throughout the series so he can have Maddie for himself. Finally, Sam was able to accept Danny's relationship with Kara, repair her friendship with him (and even start to form one with Kara), become happy for the couple, and move on. Vlad never accepts Maddie's love for Jack and becomes a supervillain, permanently destroying his friendship with them.
- Mass Effect: Human Revolution:
- Jules Leng is this to Adam. Both are Badass Longcoat-wearing augmented Number Twos to ambitious transhumanist executives, but while Adam always strives to do the right thing even at cost to himself, Jules has few qualms. Possibly none.
- Johnathan (sic) Scholar is this to David Sarif. Both are the aforementioned ambitious, jet-setting, smooth transhumanists, but Scholar is an utterly amoral monster, whereas Sarif had the best intentions for Adam and the world. Scholar makes an comparison in chapter 41.
- The Necromancer (The Lord of the Rings & Once Upon a Time): When Sauron initially appears in Storeybrooke, he assumes the appearance of a Gondor Ranger called Stephen, with Storeybrooke residents later observing that his new physical form was essentially an evil version of Aragorn after they meet the King of Gondor. After Gold becomes aware of Sauron’s magic, he compares Sauron’s raw power to the sense of standing beside a nuclear reactor, while Gandalf’s magic makes him feel like he’s standing close to a warming sun.
- Nor Hell a Fury (Christine & Supernatural): The Winchesters and Dennis defeat Christine by using a ritual that basically turns the Impala into Christine's good counterpart, giving the Impala Christine's regenerative abilities until it is able to batter Christine into final destruction.
- On the Run (The Fast and the Furious & Smallville): During the events depicted in Fast & Furious 6 Roman again notes that Owen Shaw's group are basically the evil counterparts of their own team, with Tess Mercer replacing Owen and the addition of the amnesic Chloe Sullivan and the actively-evil Davis Bloome to counter Letty and Clark.
- With Homelander having been deliberately created as an evil version of Superman, various crossovers naturally explore this concept. One of the most straightforward is A Supe of a Man, depicting a reality where Kal-El's rocket landed on Earth and Clark is sponsored by Vought through his aunt, Mary Clark (the Kents needed her aid to legalize Clark's adoption). By the time Clark is a teenager, Vought recognizes that he's a far more stable individual than Homelander and potentially at least as powerful as him. When the two of them meet properly, they form a connection over feeling like the world around them is made out of cardboard. They also both resent their celebrity status and the public relations they perform as Supes under Vought but for different reasons: Clark because he's exhausted by the corruption and Homelander because he's not allowed to indulge in his evil whims.
- The Terminators: Army of Legend has Zack Dawson, the primary antagonist of Volume V, to series protagonist Alex Vaughn. Both were child soldiers (in the same army no less!) and both were best friends in their youth. As is evident in the book, however, Alex learned to cope and make the best of his dark history while Zack, unable to recuperate entirely from the event, became an almost complete inversion to his former comrade. His relationship with the Tartarus Unit—tertiary antagonists of Volumes III and IV—didn't help matters much either.
- Turnabout Storm (Ace Attorney & My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic): Sonata, an almost complete Identical Stranger to Mia Fey if it wasn't for the whole being-a-unicorn business. While Mia was kind and motherly, Sonata is cold, ruthless, and practices Blackmail, the very practice Mia fought against and lead to her death.
- The Vasto of White (Bleach & Fate/stay night): Yhwach is one to Shirou. They have similar origin stories and powers, and both granted power to their followers. Shirou has no ambition, treats his followers as True Companions, and only wants to help and protect people. Yhwach treats his followers like disposable pawns and wants to destroy and rebuild the world with him as its god, no matter how many people die in the process. Both of them have commented on their similarities and differences. In fact, due to their similarities, Yhwach mistakenly believes Shirou is his brother.
- White Devil of the Moon (Lyrical Nanoha & Sailor Moon): Deconstructed. Luna sees Fate in her Barrier Jacket and automatically assumes that she's evil. Unfortunately, she finds out that Dark Is Not Evil, but she isn't going to take being attacked lying down.
- The Renegade timeline of With This Ring contains a Crossover with My Little Pony that sees a fragment of the Anti-Life Equation merge with the Tantabus and spawn corrupted versions of the Elements of Harmony inside the protagonist's mind. For example, "Forsaken Vanguard" is a corruption of Loyalty: mindlessly obedient regardless of the merits or otherwise of his commander. "Twisted Caretaker", corruption of Kindness, wants to look after ponies who are hurt — which means she wants to make ponies suffer so that they need her. "Spoiled Prince" is a corruption of Generosity who doesn't value anyone or anything.Grayven: You're actually compatible with the Elements of Harmony, aren't you? You could make a run at the Tree.
- Zany To The Max: The Zarner siblings, Takko, Jakko, and Zot started out as evil counterparts of Yakko, Wakko, and Dot. They first appeared in a parody of The Powerpuff Girls, where they were created by Pinky and the Brain as part of a plot to Take Over the World. This was their only Season 1 appearance. Even though the Zarners started out this way, they've become less evil starting with their second appearance. They even made it into the theme song! (In Season 1, the 4th section started with "Meet ZakKo, Pakko, Makko, Jot, the Yarners, and Coach Nurse." From Season 2 onward, it went "Meet the Warner cousins, Yarner Twins, the Zarners, and Coach Nurse.") By Season 3, the Zarners have become good friends of the Warners.
- Calvin & Hobbes: The Series:
- Dr. Brainstorm and Calvin are both inventors, though while the former is a Stupid Evil Bungling Inventor Card-Carrying Villain, the latter's inventions actually work most of the time.
- Likewise, Jack and the MTM are both snarky Do-Anything Robots, though the latter is more faithful than the former.
- Brainstorm and Jack themselves have evil counterparts in the form of Thunderstorm and Shadow, who are one of the series' most competent villains.
- Twist of Fate features a villain called Kurosawa, the Nightmare Witch, who has I Know What You Fear powers and enjoys Mind Raping people until they die or go into comas. After Kurosawa is defeated, Misaki Shokuhou, a powerful telepath who could Mind Rape someone if she wanted to, points out that Kurosawa is basically a darker version of her.
- In Once and Future Witches, the Charmed Ones eventually realise that their current threat seeks to form a new version of the Triad with a warlock and a darklighter, forcing them to create their own "good" Triad using Piper, Paige and Chris (Paige and Chris representing whitelighters and the Elders due to their parentage).
- In Code Geass: The Prepared Rebellion, Tetsuya is basically a meaner, less moral version of Tamaki.
- In Supergirl fic Hellsister Trilogy, Satan Girl is Kara Zor-El's duplicate, created via exposure to Red Kryptonite. Literally the embodiment of Supergirl's dark side without a conscience to restrain it, she loves killing and destroying with no remorse."All I knew at the time was that I had a fainting spell," said Supergirl. "While I was out, the real Red K effect came through. The thing... it..." She fumbled for words, then burst out: "I was cloned! It cloned me, and the clone was, well, my evil side. My dark side. And it was just as real as... as real as me."
- Here There Be Monsters: Whereas the Marvels are empowered by benevolent gods, turn into classical models of beauty, and use their powers for good, Ibac and Sabbac struck a bargain with a diabolical entity, transform into hideous monsters and love causing death and destruction.Both his and Sabbac's powers stemmed from the same diabolical source. Both of them had done deals with a fearsome and evil entity, and had been enabled to change into a new, more powerful, and more evil sort of being with the speaking of a word.
In a sense, they were evil Captain Marvels.
- Digimon 2: Return of Digimon: The antagonist is the aptly named Evil Digimon, who is an evil counterpart to Digimon, the main character.
- Hope for the Heartless: Arawn is the perfect antithesis of Avalina and everything she represents. The Death Lord of Annuvin hates every living thing and is recognizable from the coldness his presence provides, while the animal-loving peasant girl has an extraordinarily strong aura of life that helps her in turning a dead wasteland into a healthy econiche. Arawn was a key factor in regards to the Horned King becoming The Dreaded monster from The Black Cauldron, while Avalina is slowly turning the lich more humane.
- The Lion King Adventures: The King of Dreams is this to Simba. He looks like an older version of him, using his dreams in order to psychologically torture him into turning evil.
- Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Due to changing quite a bit from the source material, it has some cases of this that weren't present in the original series:
- In the series proper, Raditz was one to Goku. In Abriged, he's one to Yamcha, as evident by Vegeta saying that Yamcha "Sounds a lot like Raditz". Nappa, on the other hand, believes that Raditz is one to Krillin, saying that "at least your Raditz is stronger than our Raditz!"
- As a result of Raditz not being Goku's evil counterpart, the role gets shifted to Nappa, who is shown as being as idiotic as Goku, but more malicious. He shares this distinction with Vegeta.
- In an odd example, Mr Popo is this to Blue Popo — the latter a result of Bowdlerization of Popo in the 4Kids airing, which turned Popo's black skin blue.
- Fallout: Equestria (Fallout & My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic): Lilpip and Red Eye. Both are Stable Dwellers that wish to make Equestria like, or better than what it was before the Great War. They also both represent one of the Elements of Harmony when corrupted.
- Red Eye, who gave up every comfort he had to bring some sense of order to the Wasteland, represents corrupted generosity.
- Lilpip, who's overwhelming concern for others often leads to self-destructive and irresponsible decisions, represents corrupted kindness.
- Lilpip herself lampshades this as she realizes that, though she despises Red Eye's system being built on slavery, it's the first real working infrastructure Equestria has had in hundreds of years. Red Eye, for his part, feels enough mutuality with Lilpip that he offers to abdicate his position to her. It doesn't help that Lilpip is your typical Fallout protagonist (albeit one with exceptionally good karma) and Red Eye is very much an anti-villain compared to other antagonists in the story.
- Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku! (The DCU & My Hero Academia): In the spinoff series of shorts, Dark Steel: Kryptics is designed to introduce a slew of these. The first is The Weaver from -Earth-2014.25, a twisted parody of "Izuku as Spider-Man" stories like Amazing Fantasy where he becomes a genocidal maniac after being consumed by his latent resentment for Hero society.
- Gargoyles: Modern Day features Xanatos's adopted daughter Willow become part of the Manhattan Clan. Her status as an honorary member becomes more significant during the events of "The Mirror"; after Puck returns the other humans in Manhattan to normal, he grants Willow the ability to become a gargoyle at will. This makes her a particular counterpart to Demona, as while Demona is a gargoyle who becomes human in the day, Willow is a human who can become a gargoyle whenever she wants, even able to transform during the day without turning to stone and with no pain.
- Kimberly T's Gargoyles series creates a good counterpart to the anti-Gargoyle Quarrymen in the People for Interspecies Tolerance; where they were a two-scene wonder at best in the show, here they are clearly explored as a group of college students actively working to protect and befriend gargoyles just because it's the right thing to do, with no agenda or ulterior motive; Macbeth gave them some financial assistance to get off the ground, but the actual idea was all the members' own,
Godzilla/King Kong/MonsterVerse
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Monster X overall is a Good Counterpart to Ghidorah, having similar powers and a similar origin but remaining on the side of good. Vivienne has an Evil Counterpart in Ichi/Eldest Brother, who is essentially what Vivienne could've become if she became hateful due to her traumas and abused San instead of forming a caring bond with him. San in turn gains an Evil Counterpart in MaNi/Elder Brother, who remains loyal to Ghidorah and lusts to see Monster X's capacity for violence, in contrast to how San makes a Heel–Face Turn and genuinely loves Vivienne as a sister.
- The Black Sheep Dog Series: Sirius and his cousin Bellatrix are frequently noted to share very similar temperaments: they possess a wild, rebellious streak and frank attitude that sticks out sore thumbs among their Stiff Upper Lip family. They both blatantly disregard the stiff formalities and norms of courtesy of their blue blood circle, and demonstrate a clear disdain towards their families even though they continue to carry the air of arrogance and entitlement that their noble status afford. But while Sirius is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who refuse to let his loved ones come to harm despite his troublemaking tendencies, Bellatrix is a cruel and sadistic Death Eater who is willing to attack, torture and kill her enemies without batting an eyelid.
- Discussed in The Idea Of Consequences: Dumbledore tells Harry that he embodies all of the most positive aspects of what Slytherin House is meant to stand for: leadership, initiative, cunning, and ambition. Voldemort, by contrast, represents what happens when all of those same traits are twisted to their worst possible extremes.
- Herding Cats: Eridan ends up becoming this to Nepeta. Where Nepeta ships her fellow trolls in redrom, Eridan does so in blackrom.
- Hidekaz Himaruya once created Darker and Edgier alternative concept art for several Hetalia: Axis Powers characters. The fans have built on these drawings to create the immensely popular 2p!Hetalia characters, all of whom have personalities directly opposite to their canon counterparts. For instance, 2p!Britain is depicted as being good at cooking and either always upbeat, but seriously unhinged as well. Save for the aforementioned official artwork, the 2p!Hetalia characters are completely fanon.
- In Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, Gentaro and Ryusei obtain dark States changes. Gentaro obtains Void States for the defunct Cosmic States, and Ryusei now has the Meteor Impact States for Meteor Storm.
- For His Own Sake has Chisato and Kagura, who serve as Eviler than Thou counterparts to Naru and Motoko:
- Like Naru, Chisato wants to get into Tokyo University. However, while Naru works hard to achieve her goals, Chisato is willing to do anything, including lying, cheating and stealing. She also blames Keitaro's cousin Yoshinari for how she got caught stealing the answers to a test, even though she is the one at fault here. In other words, just like Naru, it's Never HER Fault that she does terrible things and she blames those hurt by her actions.
- Kagura, meanwhile, hates men just for being male and loves uses false accusations as 'justification' for viciously attacking them. In the past, this has led to her flat-out murdering at least one innocent victim. Not only does she show absolutely no remorse for this, she continues to insist she was the one in the right — and her father's lawyers kept her from dealing with the consequences. In a dark mirror of how Naru and Motoko get others to go along with their punishments of Keitaro, Kagura has even remained friends with the victim's sister, convincing her that it was just a 'tragic accident'.
- lies of attrition: There are many parallels between Chrysalis and Ladybug. Both use Exact Words to describe the final battle with Monarque and the death of Gabriel Agreste, each pushing their preferred narrative of the story. Both are Consummate Liars. Both have an attachment to Chat Noir that goes beyond friendship (Marinette's dating Adrien, but as Argos points out, she's rather emotionally invested in someone she supposedly only sees as Just Friends. And Chrysalis has a full-blown Villainous Crush on him, while having initially had one on Adrien as Lila. And they both use the Affectionate Nickname "Chaton" for him). However, Ladybug is ultimately only doing what she thinks is best, Chrysalis is using Chat Noir for her own agenda.
- Miraculous City: The new Butterfly Villain Chrysalis, aka Camille is revealed to be one to Socqueline Wang. Both of them were Cool Big Sis and Big Sister Mentor figures, Socqueline to Marinette and Chrysalis to Cerise. Socqueline would eventually become a full good counterpart after Marinette gives her the retrieved Butterfly Miraculous, which she uses to become Painted Lady.
- Scarlet Lady: Nathalie serves as one for Adrien/Chat Noir. Both of them serve as the Hypercompetent Sidekick of an egotistical and self-serving bug-themed Miraculous wielder (Scarlet Lady for Chat Noir, Hawkmoth for Nathalie), but are on opposing sides of the law.
- Mortal Kombat: Desperation: Raiden serves as one to Kotal Kahn. While both of them are their realms' respective rulers, Kotal Kahn wants to protect his realm from Raiden, who wants to merge it with Earthrealm so he could instigate a Class Z Apocalypse How.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- In Legionnaire, Springbok fancies himself this and a Worthy Opponent to Diplomatic Incident. Unfortunately for him, he's incompetent.
- Loved and Lost: Prince Jewelius, the Big Bad of this extended retelling of "A Canterlot Wedding", is this to Twilight Sparkle as well as her Love-Interest Traitor. Both young unicorns are inquisitive, charismatic, closely connected to Equestria's ruling royalty, and they have a purple color motif as well as a reliable assistantnote . However, while the sociopathic Jewelius is capable of feigning kindness and nobility, it's not authentic like with Twilight, and unlike her, he gathers knowledge and makes acquaintances solely for his own benefit. They both used to play as foals with Princess Cadance who treated both of them like they were her younger siblings. Twilight is mistaken to be a Green-Eyed Monster in regards to Cadance as per canon, but it's actually Jewelius who holds extreme hatred toward Cadance just because of her popularity. Twilight adores Cadance (the real deal, that is) to the point that Jewelius is unable to destroy the high esteem Twilight holds in regards to her even though he manages to corrupt her into disowning her brother, mentor and friends. Jewelius hates his cousin Cadance and aunt Celestia because he feels they've wronged him by being more loved than him, overthrows them by using the Changeling invasion he himself started, tries to murder them both, and delusionally believes that his tyrannical reign is superior to Celestia's. After the falling out Twilight has with her brother, mentor and friends at the wedding rehearsal, Jewelius manipulates her into thinking they've taken advantage of her all along, and she refuses to trust them as they try to get through to her and warn her about Jewelius' true nature. However, Twilight gradually stops holding a grudge against her loved ones, forsaking the exaggerated feelings of victimhood in favour of reconciling with them. Jewelius in turn refuses to abandon his own delusions of supremacy or take up the chances of reconciliation the family members he has betrayed offer him.
- The Long Eventide: Coming to the titular city-state of Eventide has the Mane Six meeting the inner circle of the location's shadow-rulers, the Umbral Society. Both are sextets of mares, consisting of two earth ponies, two unicorns, and two pegasi, with Chancellor Penumbra, their leader, having similar Theme Naming to Twilight Sparkle. But while the Mane Six are a Ragtag Band of Misfits who became unlikely heroes, the inner circle are politically powerful mares with mysterious intentions.
- Racer and the Geek does an interesting take on this trope. Service in the Royal Guard or the Equestrian Royal Army, is considered highly honorable by the populace. However, those who do similar work in a private outfit are considered the lowest of the low. Regardless of the actual character of those involved, their actions and motives will be interpreted very differently depending on if they are a trooper or a contractor.
- Vee For Vendetta: Veggie Vee shares Twilight Sparkle's love of order and organization, as well as being neurotic. However, she's also an Evil Vegetarian who becomes a Corrupt Bureaucrat as she attempts to force her will upon Ponyville in Twilight's absence.
- Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox: Gaara is this to Naruto. Both of them trained together in the program that would lead them to becoming members of the Nine Terrors, but they couldn't be any more different: Gaara lost both of his parents, while Naruto's parents are still alive; Gaara wanted to use his newly-gained skills to take over the country, while Naruto wanted to use his skills in service to said country; Gaara doesn't care about the number of people he killed during the 365 days or after, while Naruto can never forget the exact number he personally killed during the year of terror; and Gaara has used his skills following the 365 days to become a crime boss, while Naruto largely hides his talents so as not to unduly alarm the public and has been trying to atone for his misdeeds during the 365 days.
- True Potential: Tatsuma Aburame is this to Shino. While the latter (and presumably, the rest of his clan) shows a lot of care for his kikaichu, Tatsuma only sees them as tools and submits them to harsh conditions in order to make them stronger, not caring that most of them die as a result.
- Hours 'Verse: The Reaper is one to Igor. Whereas Philemon left Igor and the Velvet Room on This Side to watch over and help the Wild Cards in his absence, Nyarlathotep created and sent the Reaper to hunt them down and kill them.
- Thanks Kyubey had Juubey as Kyubey's evil counterpart, by having Kyubey have actual emotions and being more forthcoming with information about Puella Magi, and having Juubey act like... well, the canon Kyubey. Juubey got better.
- Warriors of the World: Soldiers of Fortune has Big Bad Argath Iruvedla being one to Knight Commander Valkron. Both are (or were, in Argath's case) in positions of authority, overseers appointed by their superiors. However, Valkron exploits his rank to save the lives of others and help people while Argath exploited his for his own dark motive of gaining as much power as he possibly could.
- Old West: Benjamin Hares, the estranged con artist husband of Grace Glossy, is this to Sheriff Rango. They're both cowardly, have a tendency to get into trouble, and aren't above bluffing to get out. This fits their species because Rango is a chameleon while Benjamin is a gopher snake, a species that mimics rattlesnakes to ward off predators. However, while Rango cares for people and means to do the right thing despite his vices, Benjamin cares only about himself and his own safety. The climax has Rango doing something that symbolically proves his moral superiority over Hares: he jumps in the way of the bullet the Big Bad aims at Benjamin's wife and son, something the by then dead Hares wouldn't have done.
- Professor Arc: Cinder becomes this to Jaune. Both of them, through deception and cunning, manage to sneak their way into Beacon. While Jaune indulges in self-serving goals, he ultimately has noble and lofty aims. Cinder has self-servings goals, but ultimately not-noble aims. While Jaune, as a student counselor, helps his charges with their problems, Cinder plays mind games with them, toys with them for her own ends, even willing to kill them in her gambit to claim power.
- RWBY: Scars: Roman is one to both Ruby and her father Taiyang:
- Roman was once a bright-eyed hunter-in-training and leader of his team like Ruby. After he was unjustly kicked out of Beacon and arrested for a crime he didn't commit, he lost his way. While in jail, Roman was asked to be involved in a crime and that's how he got involved with the illegal dust trade.
- Roman's similar to Taiyang in that he's a single father who just wants to protect his daughter. His wife Eon was also a huntress who died on a mission when his daughter was young, like Taiyang's Second Love Summer.
- The Unseen Hunt: After the first third of the story, Ruby (who is revealed to be a Grimm that's on the heroes' side) loses her beloved sister Yang, while Cinder loses her Grimm mate Leviathan, and they both become fixated on getting revenge on the opposite moral alignment for taking the one being they loved more than any other away from them. The difference is that where Ruby is a huntress on the side of humanity despite her nature, Cinder is a hateful monster who wants to watch the human world burn and to destroy everything the heroes care about.
- Yin and Yang Series: While not explicitly seen as such, Nikolai Kezanstav and Fuyuki Hinata are both occult-loving boys that met aliens.... only, it didn't end well for the alien, on Nikolai's part.
- Doesn't end too well for Nikolai either...
- A Raven Under the Starlight: Inverted Trope. Cyclonis eventually realises that Phoenix the Orange is a positive foil to the late Dark Ace. Phoenix and the Dark Ace both served as familial figures to Cyclonis on some level after all her family had died, but the Dark Ace nurtured all of Cyclonis' worst traits and encouraged her forebears' toxic values, whereas Phoenix instead nurtures Cyclonis' potential to be a better person and encourages her to break away from her ancestors' legacy.
- Clash of the Elements: In part 2's finale, Chaos Alex is this to Alex Whiter. Though this is actually Inverted from Chaos Alex's point of view, for he thinks the real Alex is the evil half. Also, the Sin Samurais to the Genesis Samurais.
- A Wolf in the Garden: Inverted; the story focuses on the good counterparts to the Chaos Gods, heavily implied to be the positive aspects of their domains that they carved out of themselves and imprisoned in a sealed section of the Warp. Thus Nurgle is a kindly and paternal gardener who tends to an idyllic forest; Khorne is an honorable and just (if stoic and harsh) knight; Slaanesh is a loving patron of the arts who uses pleasure and joy to relieve suffering; and Tzeentch is a scatterbrained scientist and inventor. To say they're unhappy with the actions of their counterparts in the larger galaxy is an understatement.
- The Wraith Saga gives us The Wraith, an Eldritch Abomination that is essentially the Yang to the Phoenix Force's Yin, representing Death, darkness and oblivion. Subverted, in that the Phoenix can also be extremely destructive in its own way, but it's made clear that the Wraith potentially poses a much graver threat if it gets out of control.
