Evil Twin / Comic Books

• In Aquaman (1962), Mera's sister Hila was completely identical to her and opposite in temperament, while Quisp had a pair of nasty twin brothers who appeared once or twice.
• Astro City: Brief mention is made of the Worst Family, evil versions of the First Family from another dimension. The simple fact that these situations can happen motivates a defense attorney to turn a hopeless case on its head by bringing up the incontestable idea that maybe it was his client's evil twin who killed that woman in front of 59 eyewitnesses.
• Batman: Black and White: In "Two of a Kind", Harvey "Two-Face" Dent goes straight and gets reconstructive surgery, and falls in love. Alas, his villain theme continues to haunt him, as it turns out his fiancée has an emotionally-disturbed identical twin sister. Things go rapidly downhill from there.
• In Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden, while Jax finds out that a week has passed despite only being Realmsend for a couple minutes, she also finds out that her family and friends mistook her evil twin as the real her while she was gone
• Superman:
  • The entire Bizarro World in the pre-Crisis Superman mythos can be considered a form of Evil Twin by Applied Phlebotinum, though it slowly changed from "evil opposite" to "goofy opposite".
  • Oddly, Bizarro himself had an Evil Twin, in the form of Bizarro-Bizarro, who looked like Superman, spoke like Bizarro, and acted like a Jerkass.
  • In All-Star Superman, there's Zibarro, who's the most intelligent man on Bizarro World. Though unlike Bizarro-Bizarro, he isn't evil and is mostly just depressed about being the only person on Htrae who appreciates beauty.
  • In addition to Bizarro, Superman has several other evil twins. All of them as strong as he is but not willing to hold back, courtesy either of cybernetics, having all the powers of the Pre-Crisis Superman or being just a Superman's facsimile but devoid of any of his multiple heroic attributes.
    • There is Hank Henshaw, an astronaut-turned-Energy Being who used his powers to create a body that was equal parts Kryptonian cybernetics and Superman clone.
    • Then there's Superboy-Prime, a surviving "Superman" from an alternate, Pre-Crisis Earth, who descended into madness, and then into villainy after seeing his universe destroyed.
    • And then there's The Eradicator, a war relique from old Krypton turned up into another Superman duplicate who don't squeamish in to kill even the lesser threats just to fulfill a mission.
  • Ultraman is Superman's evil twin from a Mirror Universe, which features evil counterparts of the entire Justice League.
  • In Kryptonite Nevermore, Superman meets a sand creature which looks right like Superman and appears to be malevolent.
    Superman: I don't know what you are, either! You seem... like a dark twin of myself...
  • The main page image is a Silver Age story featuring an energy duplicate of Kal-El who was created before he landed on Earth, and was raised by an Outlaw Couple, Wolf and Bonnie Derek, to follow in their footsteps. When the infant Clark was first sighted as Superbaby, the Dereks called their son Super-Brat, but kept his existence secret. When Superboy became known as the hero of Smallville, the duplicate called himself Super-Bully, and occasionally tried to make things difficult for Clark by briefly posing as him. But it wasn't until Superman appeared that Wolf Derek sent his son out as Super-Menace. The embittered Super-Menace eventually realises that, while he hates Superman for having loving parents and the admiration of the world, the people responsible for him not having these things are the Dereks.
• The Simpsons Comics Issue #60 invokes this when Professor Frink creates an "unethical clone" who exists to do highly unethical science experiments. His only real notable difference is that he wears a black lab coat.

  Frink: He's like an Evil Twin but without all the killing and the maiming and the《gah-hoy》 hurting!

• Supergirl too.
  • In the Silver Age there was her Enemy Without Satan Girl in Legion of Super-Heroes, created by Red Kryptonite.
  • In her second solo book Supergirl got an evil clone. Her clone was eventually depowered and just wanted to live a normal life. Kara promised to help her establish a new identity for herself.
  • Post-Crisis Supergirl went through a similar story which created "Dark Supergirl", although she ended up as more of an Enemy Within.
  • And then there's Bizarrogirl, who causes chaos on Earth because she's just as confused as Kara but doesn't deal with it as well.
  • Before that, Earth-Angel Supergirl had her own Bizarro-Supergirl, and also fought Matrix, her own former body! In fact, the shapeshifting Matrix-Supergirl, in one of her more confused periods, was also an evil twin of Superman...
  • A Mirror Universe Ultragirl has also been seen, but thus far Kara hasn't had to deal with her. Averted for her Infinite Frontier version, however, since she defies Mirror Universe tradition to side with Alexander Luthor against Ultraman.
• The Marvel Comics series Exiles inverts this. The reality-hopping team of the title need to defeat the evil Hyperion... so they fetch two good versions of him from other universes.
• In the Transformers: Shattered Glass comic series, Cliffjumper is transported to a Bizarro Universe where the Autobots are evil and the Decepticons are good. In a bit of parody/lampshading, evil Rodimus even got himself a goatee, saying that he feels it makes him feel distinguished.
• The DCU has Earth-3, a Mirror Universe of Evil Twins and Evil Counterparts, including Alexander Luthor Senior, the good twin of Lex Luthor. President John Wilkes Booth was assassinated by Union sympathizer Abraham Lincoln and Benedict Arnold is on the dollar bill, too.
  • Lex Luthor also had a Good Twin in the Pocket Universe, as revealed in The Supergirl Saga. Although this was more the case of him being a version of Pre-Crisis Earth-1 Lex Luthor not meeting up with Superboy and thus not becoming a criminal in the process.
• Subverted in Hellblazer, in which it is revealed that the series's star, John Constantine is the 'evil' twin, having strangled his brother in the womb with his own umbilical cord. He later crossed over to a parallel universe, where his brother had become an incredibly powerful and celebrated magus. When John meets his ancestor Johanna Constantine in #240, it's hinted that it's the Laughing Magician entity that reincarnates in their bloodline which causes them to kill their twins in the womb. Later the trope is played straight when his demonic half appears in the comic.
• In the comic book Gold Digger, the two main characters (Gina and her adopted were-cheetah sister, Brittany) accidentally create a clone of themselves that shares traits from both of them, including their memories, in an attempt to remove a curse from themselves. After several battles with the clone, Gina realizes that the reason the clone is trying to kill them is because the curse is inhabiting the clone, motivating its irrational desire to kill them. Her father, an arch-mage, happens to show up in time to dispel the curse, and the clone is invited to join the family and given the name Brianna (a portmanteau of Brittany and Gina). Later on, the Djinn Madrid uses magics to disguise herself as Gina so well she can fool empaths. This backfires though, erasing her original form, and since then, Madrid has been slowly overwritten by Gina, to the point that a future version of herself traveled to the edge of existence and beyond to save her 'baby sister'
• In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), as well as having Shadow, and various Metal Sonics, there is the alternate world known as Moebius, home to kindly Dr. Kintobor (Robotnik's "evil twin") and the Anti-Freedom Fighters, the evil twins of the Freedom Fighters. Their leader was Anti-Sonic, the evil twin of Sonic himself, who proved to be very inept — despite helping Alicia (the evil Sally) depose of her father, he hadn't won a single fight since. Amongst his failures were accidentally giving the Sonic Underground Robotnik the Bio Borg instead of Robo-Robotnik and getting struck down by Antoine by accident. Compare this to Anti-Antione (later known as Patch), Antione's evil twin, who successfully replaced Antoine, nearly ruined his relationship with Bunnie, poisoned King Acorn, killed Antoine's father and nearly took the throne before Sonic stepped in. Thankfully, Anti-Sonic got better after he Took a Level in Badass by becoming Scourge.
  • The Anti-Freedom Fighters got better afterwards when Anti-Sonic became Scourge. After Sonic gives him "The Reason You Suck" Speech, he decides to apply himself to what he wants to do and undergoes a form of rebirth, to where he no longer resembles Sonic (he turned green from the Master Emerald and got some scars on his chest). He then proceeds conquer Moebius, becoming king and reforming his gang into the Suppression Squad, with all of them taking new names as a result. They attempt a takeover of Mobius, but only get as far as taking over Freedom HQ temporarily. However, their shipshape turned into a Gone Horribly Right as Miles, Tails' Evil Twin, conspires to overthrow Scourge and successfully takes over the Squad. Scourge now leads the Destructix.
• The Flash (Barry Allen version) had an Evil Twin in the form of Eobard Thawne, who had plastic surgery to resemble him, and then traveled back from the 25th century to become Professor Zoom, the Reverse-Flash. A later Retcon would reveal that Zoom was descended from Malcolm Thawne, aka Cobalt Blue, who really was Barry's estranged twin brother, but had completely different powers (taught by his adoptive grandmother.)
  • In the 30th century Eobard's descendant created Inertia, a clone of Barry's (and his own) grandson Impulse, and sent him back in time to fight his counterpart.
  • For a while after he reformed, Dr. Alchemy (Albert Desmond) seemed to have a psychic twin named Alvin who took up his tools and identity, only becoming the evil twin after Albert became the good one. "Alvin" turned out to be the Philosopher's Stone's physical manifestation of his subconscious desire to continue a life of crime.
• Pretty much every member of the X-Men has had at least one Evil Twin at some point, thanks to any or all of alternate realities, android duplicates, Skrulls and insane geneticists with a thing about cloning. Among the more notable examples...
  • Madelyne Pryor was a clone of the at-the-time deceased Jean Grey who was thought to be a normal human who simply had a strong resemblance to Jean (and, in fact, this was the original plan for her), but went insane and discovered her latent telepathic and telekinetic powers when Jean turned up alive and Madelyne discovered her origins.
  • Beast's evil twin from an alternate dimension, known as the Dark Beast, made his way into the mainstream universe and has been a recurring villain since the 1990s. Beast also had at least two other Evil Twins, but they didn't last.
  • Gambit has New Sun, a version of himself from another universe who never got his Power Incontinence fixed by Mr Sinister and became a Person of Mass Destruction as a result. What's more New Sun has actually been killing all alternate versions of himself The One-style until he was stopped by 616 Gambit.
  • Joseph was a much younger 'copy' of Magneto. Since at the time Magneto was villainous and Joseph was an X-Man, he counts as a Good Twin.
  • At one point half the team was replaced by the shape-shifting aliens known as Skrulls (this was back before everyone was doing it). While most of them remained in captivity while their doubles were running around making trouble, the story culminated in Professor X handing a simultaneous physical and mental beatdown to his double. While naked.
  • Professor X has an actual evil twin, Cassandra Nova. It's later explained that everyone has an evil twin, a psychic construct the Shi'ar call the mummudrai that they face off with before birth. Xavier killed Nova in the womb, but, because she was the Evil Twin of an extremely powerful psychic, she managed to survive as a mass of miscarried fetal tissue and reconstruct herself to the point where she could enact revenge.
  • Cable and Stryfe, although Cable seems to be the Good Twin. It's confusing.
• During the Marvel Crisis Crossover the Infinity War with the entity called the Magus trying to snuff reality, he distracted all the superheroes by simultaneously creating Evil Twins of every superhero in the Marvel Universe.
  • It had a few interesting moments in the 'crossover' issues; one issue of Fantastic Four had the Human Torch being pursued by doppelgangers of several X-Men, as well as his own 'twin'; Once Torch found out that not a single one of them was human, or even truly alive, he started flash-frying them like popcorn. He ended up missing his own twin, who merely looked at him and said he had no more intention of trying to absorb him, because as he put it before he left, "You're already worse than anything I could ever make you." Thing even later yelled at him that "You ain't no flaming version of the Punisher!" The irony of this is that Torch was one of the few that ended up not being defeated by the doppelgangers in the final issue, whereas the Thing was defeated not even a few minutes later by the dark version of Invisible Woman.
  • Rage of the New Warriors ended up inadvertently absorbing his own twin, which had very little effect on him, surprisingly enough.
  • Most of the Doppelgangers disappeared when the Magus was defeated, but a few survived the crossover and continued to fight their counterparts, including include Spider-Doppelganger (Spider-Man), Moonshade (Moon Knight) and Hellspawn (Daredevil).
• Likewise the Avengers Forever series ends with a no punches pulled battle between every good Avenger that can exist, and every evil Avenger that can exist.
• The Excalibur villains Lightning Squad were an alternate version of the team (minus Rachel, who has no counterpart in the multiverse) from a reality where the Nazis won World War Two. Hauptmann Englande was a cold and ruthless Nazi darling, Meggan had this Baroness thing going on, and Nightcrawler was a rapist; but the most chilling reflection was Jewish Shadowcat, who was a bald, emaciated slave to the regime.
• Inverted in The DCU comic series Kobra, whose eponymous Villain Protagonist was the Evil Twin. His wicked schemes were always foiled by his Good Twin, from whom he'd been separated at birth. Shortly after the series was canceled, Kobra killed off his twin. Recently, however, Kobra himself was Killed Off for Real by a rogue superhero, and his minions have resurrected the good twin, brainwashed him to become evil, and made him the new Kobra.
• In the final issue of the latest Arkham Asylum miniseries, Jeremiah Arkham meets the Jester. It transpires that the "Jester" is just a projection of what Jeremiah imagines himself to be, under influence of a psychotropic drug given to him by... the Joker.
  Jester: Think of me as the Joker's evil twin.
  Arkham: The Joker's evil twin?
  Jester: Scary, ain't it?
• Played straight in the Squadron Supreme limited series, when Hyperion is replaced by his Evil Twin as part of a larger Evil Plan.
• Judge Dredd is abound with evil twin foils for Joe Dredd himself. Also often a Deliberately Bad Example to make Dredd's zero-tolerance methods more acceptable by comparison. There are aversions, such as the second Rico clone (who becomes an outstanding Judge in his own right) but they are outnumbered by the insane or evil ones. Dredd frequently Lampshades this by worrying if it's "something in the blood".
  • Dredd himself is a clone of Judge Fargo. Dredd may or may not be considered "evil", but he is definitely far more authoritarian than his clone father. Fargo wanted to restore American liberties at some point, but Dredd has long ago come to the conclusion that order and justice are more important.
  • His clone brother Rico and Rico's identical Mirror Universe double are straight examples. Both of these became Dirty Cops who had to be put down by Dredd himself.
  • The Judda are a whole army of evil clones of him and other judges. Their creator, Morton Judd, was excommunicated from the Justice Department because his plans were far too radical for Fargo—suggesting to clone and replace the entire civilian population with more obedient versions.
  • His supposedly rehabilitated clone Kraken gets Brainwashed and Crazy. Formerly a Judda member, he was slowly possessed by the Sisters of Death, who used him to resurrect the Dark Judges. Then he was forced to murder millions of people in this state, begging Dredd to kill him when he was finally freed of their control. Dredd obliges.
  • His Mirror Universe counterpart is a comically liberal counterpart to the fascist we know.
  • His evil future self gets killed and dragged back to the present before getting up and going on a rampage.
  • Subverted with Judge Death, who was intentionally made to mirror Dredd in conception, right down to being The Faceless and a Lantern Jaw of Justice sporting a Slasher Smile, but later stories establish that they have completely different family backgrounds.
• In the Tintin book King Ottokar's Sceptre, the conspiracy to steal the sceptre involves kidnapping Professor Alembick and replacing him with his twin brother.
• The Smurfs deal with evil duplicates of themselves in The Smurf Menace that were created by Papa Smurf in order to get the Smurfs to stop fighting with each other. Papa Smurf's counterpart, the Great Leader, is more of an authoritarian figure instead of a paternal one. Gray Greedy is selfishly hungry for food, eating whatever normal Greedy is eating right out of his hands. Gray Jokey has nastier pranks than normal Jokey. Gray Handy doesn't seem to care about the quality of his work. Gray Smurfette is rather cold and snide towards her normal counterpart. About the only one who doesn't have an issue with his Gray Smurf counterpart is Brainy, who seems to admire how ruthless his other self is in catching Smurfs shirking off on their duties.
  • Inverted in one story where the Smurfs meet Gargamel's good twin brother Gourmelin.
• In the Doctor Who Expanded Universe comic The Forgotten, a brain parasite attacking the Tenth Doctor takes on the appearance of an evil twin version of him, complete with beard and black pinstripe suit, and claims to be the Valeyard. The real Doctor immediately mocks the parasite's complete lack of originality.
• Used as an Author's Saving Throw in Captain Carrot and the Final Ark: the Alley-Kat-Abra who killed Little Cheese was actually "Dark Alley", an Evil Twin created by Feline Faust.
• In the Pocket God Christmas issue, Nooby is cloned by Red. While most of the clones are deformed and explosive, the first one is an intelligent, but malevolent clone named Newbie. He tries to harm Nooby, but is defeated when an icicle impales him in the chest and he falls into the water. He survives and becomes the main antagonist in the story arc, "A Tribe Called Quest".
• Nero: Happens a lot in this comic strip:
  • In "Het Geheim van Bakkendoen" a good and an evil twin brother cause confusion.
  • In "De Verschrikkelijke Tweeling" two dwarf brothers, Manu the good one and Panu the evil one cause a lot of confusion.
  • A good and evil twin brother also appear in "De Krabbekokers".
  • A good and evil twin brother appear again in "Baringo".
• Negative Forbush Man from "Marvel What The...". Of course, played for laughs.
• In The Wacky Adventures of Pedro, Pedro's efforts in constructing a mirror portal turn his reflection into a troublemaker named Ordep. Inverted when the mirror later turns Ordep's reflection into the goody-goody Erpod.
• Spider-Man:
  • Venom, possibly the most famous example in comics.
  • The Spider-Doppelganger.
  • Kaine, a defective clone of Peter.
  • Spidercide, an insane shapeshifting clone of Peter.
• Wonder Woman:
  • Wonder Woman (1942): Hynota is Seva's evil twin, and uses her powers to make Serva even forget that she has an indentical twin when switching palces with her to hide and disguise her crimes.
  • Vance Trotter's twin brother Globe kills their uncle for the inheritance.
• Batman '66: Eggbert is Alfred's cousin but otherwise fits.
• The Call of C'Russo: The great musician C'Rrusso is the evil twin to the rival musician D'Mmingo, who looks exactly like him. For good measure, one wears black, and the other white. This is because they're really the same person, since both are embodiments of the monster-god Ar-Finn's conflicting desires to either wake up or keep on sleeping and must battle each other for supremacy.
• Alix has Arbaces' identical brother, who is slightly less of an asshole to the titular hero, but they're still enemies.
• In West Coast Avengers, Hank Pym met Ultron Mark-12, who was a Good Twin of the genocidal android. Sadly, despite Pym wanting to connect with this heroic Ultron, he was killed by his predecessor Ultron Mark-11.
• The final Charlton issue of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! had a story where criminal duplicates of the gang rob a bank. The real Mystery Inc. stop at the bank so Velma could cash a check, but she and her criminal doppelganger board the wrong vans. Scooby is tipped off that it wasn't Velma by her perfume.
• The 11th issue of the 1946 Kid Eternity series had a story where Kid Eternity and Mr. Keeper ran afoul of Mr. Keeper's villainous identical twin brother.