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  • In 8-Bit Theater with the main characters being the Evil Counterparts of the true Light Warriors which travel the world since then stumbling from one disaster into another. Also, there are the other warriors which are also (mostly) way less evil than the protagonists.
  • Bob and George:
    • The titular characters. While George is depicted as god of electricity, Bob is depicted as god of fire. George's "true" form is called Blitz (originally Spark) and Bob's true form is called Napalm. They both got their powers from their mother. In the story, Bob/Napalm calls himself "the destroyer of civilisations" and George/Spark/Blitz believes in justice. Also, in the end, they get help from their respective protectors; Bob from Helmeted Author and George from Shadowy Author. Also, it's revealed that both of them were protected by their mother.
    • The Author and the Helmeted Author/Fistandantilus are also good and evil versions of each other.
  • In Dominic Deegan, Karnak (now the recently deposed King of Hell) and Dominic's father Donovan. Both were orphans raised in foreign lands by a different race/species (orcs raised Karnak and elves raised Donovan). When the two of them met they even became friends, though Karnak never did appreciate Donovan's sense of humor. Unfortunately, they both fell in love with the same woman, but Miranda only loved Karnak as a friend and had already given her heart to Donovan. This frustrated Karnak so much that he grew to despise Donvan and invoked a brutal tradition of orc culture and tried to kill Donovan and take Miranda for himself.
  • In Fans!, Keith Feddyg to Rikk.
  • Lord Tedd in El Goonish Shive along with Shade Tail. Ellen tried to be this for a while but quickly gave up on it.
  • Girl Genius:
    • The Geisterdamen (warrior-priestesses loyal to the Other) are the evil counterpart to the Jagermonsters (soldiers loyal to House Heterodyne). Both are elite fighting forces sworn to serve a single figure for the duration, which they do so with (mostly) undying devotion. They even both have Gratuitous German names! But the Geisters are not quite as goofy or lovable as the Jagers.
    • Zola Dorée (aka Zola "Heterodyne") is the counterpart to our hero Agatha Heterodyne. Agatha is the true heir to the Heterodyne family, while Zola is an impostor trying to take the throne. Funnily enough Zola is related to Agatha, just not on the Heterodyne side of her family.
    • Martellus von Blitzengaard is initially presented as an Evil Counterpart to Tarvek (their Sparky predilections and means of education are even in contrast, as Tarvek's signature is reverse-engineering the Muses which he learned to do from Van Rijn's notes while Martellus's is modified animals like his Sparkhounds which he learned from his mentor Dr. Vapnoople), he mirrors Gil better. Like Gil, he's blunt, physically powerful, not good with people, and tends to treat his peers like children. At the same time, he has people he cares about and harming them or worse leads to have both of them lose their shit. Unlike Gil, he's perfectly willing to use murder as a first solution, administers various types of mind control on people he can't kill for whatever reason, and where Gil tends to treat those who can't keep up with him as children to be corralled and protected, Martellus tends to treat those he sees as his "lessers" as disposable pawns.
    • Madwa Korel is the counterpart to Violetta. While Violetta is a loyal Smoke Knight tasked with guarding Tarvek (and therefore also Agatha), Madwa is a rogue Smoke Knight whose loyalty is to the Other. Violetta even ends up being the one to take down Madwa ... we think.
  • Homestuck plays with this in the form of the trolls, who have mixed and inverted elements of the kids' personalities.
  • Raven Red, as in her original comic book incarnation, serves as the evil aviatrix counterpart for the T-Girl heroine of Jet Dream, Harmony Thunder.
  • Miho in Megatokyo seems to fashion herself as an Evil Counterpart to Yuki. She has the same powers, and when she awakens Yuki to her powers, says that Yuki's are based on love, while hers are lonely and dark. But then again, no one ever knows what's with Miho.
  • The Order of the Stick:
    • The Linear Guild, a team of Evil Counterparts to the titular band, led by Elan's Evil Twin Nale. After their first defeat, Nale recruited replacements to purposefully continue the "evil opposites" theme.
      • Taken to its logical conclusion with Yokyok, who is actually a GOOD counterpart to the Chaotic Evil Belkar Bitterleaf. Belkar is an interesting example in that so far he had four evil counterparts, two of which (Yikyik and Yukyuk) were pretty much like him and two of which were his opposites — good Yokyok and Lawful Kilkil.
      • Roy however insists that Thog is not his Evil Counterpart and is merely just different from him, stating that there has to be more to it than just Roy being a Genius Bruiser and Thog being Dumb Muscle. Immediately before Thog reacts to his tusk being broken almost exactly the same way Roy reacted to his sword being broken. Later on however, Thog is replaced by General Tarquin, a highly intelligent Fighter. He even states that he's joining in partly because he sees Roy as a Worthy Opponent.
    • Crystal to Haley. Crystal took Intelligence as a dump stat, even though she has the Assassin prestige class (which requires high INT to do anything practical with), and hasn't done much except (sometimes) follow Bozzok's directions and wait for Haley to level up; as Haley's archrival, she'll always be the same level, give or take. Meanwhile, Haley's reasonably high INT makes her clever and sneaky — she has about a "bazillion points in Bluff" — ran a Resistance movement for several months, and has worked hard to not only level up, but improve her skills and collect useful equipment. They hate each other's guts.
    • From Empire of Blood we have:
      • General Tarquin, who is evil counterpart to both Roy (being intelligent fighter and competent leader) and Elan (as they share their love for storytelling and drama) and Lord Shojo, as they both rule their kingdoms through deception of being powerless, Shojo by faking being senile and Tarquin by pretending to be The Dragon to easily-manipulated Empress of Blood. Elan also considers Tarquin to be an evil counterpart to Julio Scoundrel, since he sees them both as father figures.
      • There is also Durkon's evil counterpart Malack. Both clerics of their adventuring groups, Durkon likes to help people anyway he can, while Malack is a vampire and has Plans for the day Tarquin dies and leaves him whatever Empire they're ruling at the time.
      • Later on we meet another party member of Tarquin's: Laurin Shattersmith, whose Hair-Trigger Temper and fondness for blasting things with powers make her quite similar to V with a touch of Fantastic Racism.
      • From Tarquin's evil adventuring party comes Miron Shewdanker, whose blunt sarcasm, penchant for nicknames and method of dealing with problems makes him a human, magic-wielding version of Belkar.
  • Penny and Aggie contains a team of Evil Counterparts to Penny's clique gathered by Penny's social rival who read way too many comic books before her makeover into an Alpha Bitch thanks to Penny and Aggie.
  • Rezz & Co Bounty Hunters Adam Tezlaar the "Armored Mercenary" is this to Rezz Kara. They both have similar training and power armor, but one is an assassin while the other one is only a bounty hunter.
  • Shortpacked!:
    • McAwesome's Parasailing and Chocolate Bakery... or, more accurately, the titular store is the Evil Counterpart to McAwesome's. Gustavo, Evan, Rose and Zaph are well-adjusted expies of Galasso, Ethan, Amber and Faz. Ronnie's counterpart is Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ninja Rick's is a pirate, and Robin's is Agatha from her original SEMME team. The others so far don't have counterparts, but Mike moonlights there, and gets drunk to do so, so he's his own counterpart.
    • Sydney Yus' designed her Axes of Something to be this. The first included Dawson (Ethan), Walter Mondale (Ronnie) and Faz (...himself?) The Axis of Something 2.0 included Angie (Malaya and Ken's roommate, mostly there because she's pissed at the former), Evan (for Ethan, now a cyborg and only slightly evil), Mike (again, for himself) and Leo (Leslie's Amicable Ex, who was lured there by claims that it was for Bible study).
  • In Sluggy Freelance Kusari serves as the Evil Counterpart to Oasis. They're both superbly skilled, (seemingly) immortal assassins created/raised by Hereti Corp, and Kusari even claims they're sisters. While Oasis is largely pointed against the bad guys and only poses issues for the heroes when her Berserk Button gets pushed, Kusari works directly for Hereti Corp and doesn't break with them until the very end.
  • Sonichu has a few for both its titular character and the Author Avatar. For the titular character, there's Metal Sonichu and Black Sonichu/Blachu/Blake, though Blake turns good. For the Author Avatar, there's Naitsirhc, whom takes Evil Counterpart to a major extreme.
  • Unsounded: Duane may be flawed, but he always tries to do what's right and abhors the deaths of innocents. Murkoph, the only other walking dead man with his memories and soul, is a monstrous cannibal and rapist who revels in it. To make the comparison more explicit Duane is shown with his face paint as a priest in life right before Murkoph, who has carved the same design into his face in some parody of piety, shows up for the first time.
  • User Friendly has the Crud Puppy, a scalpel-wielding Evil Counterpart to the Dust Puppy.
  • In Weak Hero, the main antagonist Donald Na is a villainous counterpart to the hero, Gray Yeon. Both of them are devastatingly intelligent, ruthless in battle, and with an unbroken winning streak. What separates them is that Gray fights against a hierarchy of bullies, whilst Donald is the one who reigns atop it. Jake realises this similarity when he sees Gray becoming a Blood Knight in the same vein of Donald, and warns him that said bloodlust will never go away.
  • White Dark Life Dark Matt is this to (of course) Matt, and most of his actions have him reinforcing this image (i.e., Matt mimics heroes, while Dark Matt mimics villains.) Though he's not truly evil and only does bad things to keep himself from being purified. Dark Matt drops this trope after the Time Skip anyway.
  • Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal (2022) : To counter the Pet Avengers, Ziggy Pig assembles the "Masters of Animal Evil". This is a team of animal-themed supervillains including Dragon Man, the Super-Apes, Swarm, Doctor Octopus Octopus, Doomfish, and Armadillo.

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