Evil Twin / Video Games

• Xitra Regeirk, the Big Bad of the AdventureQuest Bizarre Flecks Story Arc is Artix's Alternate Universe counterpart; while the Artix of our reality is an undead-slaying paladin, Artix is a sadistic necromancer who appears to have successfully taken over his world. Ryuusei's analog from said arc is an inversion, and an interesting and competent one at that.
• In Alan Wake's American Nightmare the villain Mr. Scratch is a Humanoid Abomination variation on an Enemy Without, wearing the protagonist's shape to manipulate events in service of a larger Eldritch Abomination, though his roots in Alan's psyche mean he's hopeful of attempting a Kill and Replace.
• Banjo-Tooie had the Jinjos' evil twins the Minjos, and one of the bosses in the game was Mumbo Jumbo's evil robotic twin Mingy Jongo.
• Body Harvest: The Man in the Black Suit. Revealed to be literally your evil twin at the end of the game. The invading aliens sampled a droplet of Adam's blood that was shed during the game's intro sequence, and used it to create a perfect copy of him.
• Sabata is this to Django in Boktai at first. It's revealed quickly that he's not really evil so much as just a fatalist who had one hell of a stepmom, and she raised him with a healthy dose of The Corruption. He even has a Heel–Face Turn and becomes a playable character in the sequels.
• Borderlands: Dr. Zed and his evil Mad Scientist brother Dr. Ned (who is a totally different, in no way made up person, and not just Dr. Zed in a cheap mustache disguise) qualify for this trope.
• Caves of Qud: One of the Defects you can get in character generation (to get more points for Mutations) is "Evil Twin", which imposes a chance that, whenever you go anywhere, a doppelganger from an alternate but very close universe will pounce and try to kill you, using copies of your items and mutations. There's ways to deal with such things, though it's particularly dangerous for Espers as they both have massively destructive powers at range (and thus could nuke you before you can nuke them if the map is unfavorable), and because with Psychic Glimmer they didn't need any more horrible psychic ambushers.
• Statesman, the resident Superman equivalent and Big Good of City of Heroes, has two evil twins: Tyrant, the Dimension Lord of the Mirror Universe, and Reichsman, the little-seen Nazi version from the dimension where the Nazis won. Naturally, pretty much every high-profile hero in the game has an evil counterpart in Tyrant's dimension, as the Praetorians. And as of Issue 17, every player character — hero and villain — can run a story arc featuring multiple iterations of his or her own Evil Twin. Heroes will also encounter a good doppelganger during their arc.
• Cube Colossus: Millie, the twin of protagonist Rua Elzee, who's been possessed by the giant cube they're fighting inside, as revealed about halfway through the game.
• There's an unused enemy robot in the game data for Descent II that is literally called the "Evil Twin". It's a green-tinted version of the Guidebot that is programmed to charge the player and explode.
• In the fourth Detectives United game, it's revealed that Agent Brown has a twin brother, Mortimer, who is wreaking havoc on a small community called Restville. Naturally, Spot the Imposter comes into play as part of the story — the difficulty is enhanced by the fact that the twins, who have the same voice, are also both invisible.
• Devil May Cry has Vergil, who despises his humanity and does questionable things to assuage his power cravings, unlike Dante who dislikes his demonic heritage and fights demonic incursions.
• Disgaea 4, has Des X, who differentiates herself from her far more likable counterpart Desco with a pale color scheme, a cold personality, and a mature voice that is not fitting for her appearance.
• Jimmy Lee in the NES version of Double Dragon I, being the "Shadow Boss" of the most powerful organised crime gang in New York. One ass-kicking by his brother Billy later, he goes legit.
• Dragalia Lost has Nedrick, although it is a bit of a variation: Nedrick was the original seventh scion, not Euden, and Euden is actually a clone of Nedrick. This means that Nedrick is the evil twin of Zethia instead. Nedrick presumably died at a young age, thus wasn’t apart of the royal family as he was supposed to be. Due to his unusual birth as well as being cursed by Bahamut in exchange for his revival, turned him bitter over the years. He acts as the main villain of most of the latter half of the main campaign, but eventually, he comes to an understanding with Euden, and agrees to help him take down Xenos.
• A version of this shows up in Dragon Age: Origins during the Gauntlet. As one of the final challenges before the party reaches the last chamber, they are forced to contend with evil mirrors of themselves. (Which ones appear, and consequently what abilities they have, depends on who is in the active party.) Companion Leliana may comment on it afterward, noting that "the other me" had a truly evil expression on her face, and begging to be assured that she herself doesn't really look like that.
• Duel Savior Destiny: Rico/Oltara has an Evil Twin of sorts in the form of Imnity. Introduced in the fifth chapter, she is a spirit that is opposite but mostly identical to her 'twin' that follows a different set of rules and has a parallel goal. The evil bit is slightly questionable, though, since she genuinely believes she's doing the right thing and doesn't appear particularly sadistic.
• Empress of the Deep: Anna, the protagonist and The Chosen One, has an evil twin sister named Pandora, who attacked her in a jealous rage and put her in a coma for over 100 years. The story of the games has Anna navigating her way through the empty settings and foiling her sister's plans to destroy her.
• Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles is an entire game revolving around this trope. The hero winds up in another world where he fights evil versions of his friends and himself.
• Final Fantasy:
  • One of Final Fantasy XII's plot twists was that Basch, a leading soldier in the home nation's army, was framed by his evil twin brother in the murder of the king, resulting in Basch's imprisonment and nationwide condemnation.
    • He does become a little less evil right around the endgame, though.
  • Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII has Lumina, who bears an eerie resemblance to Lightning's sister Serah who died in the previous game. She constantly antagonizes Lightning, but shows a bit of a lighter side in her actions. Turns out her resemblance is because Lightning subconsciously created Lumina from her desire to seal away her "weaknesses", with Lumina becoming a vessel for Serah's soul.
  • The Manikins of Dissidia Final Fantasy, living (though not sentient) crystal lifeforms that can take on the form of anyone who gets too close might count.
• In the F-Zero series, there's Blood Falcon, who was literally cloned from Captain Falcon, and wears the exact same clothes in a different color. In a nice touch, however, their racing machines are rather different.
  • The machine change is justified: The scientists that cloned Falcon realized Blood would have no chance against the Captain if they had identical machines: Captain Falcon is just way too skilled with his vehicle.
• Jet Set Radio: Future has NT-3000, a robotic doppleganger of Yoyo that infiltrates the GGs when the Rokakku kidnap the real Yoyo ("NT" being short for "Noise Tanks", a rival gang).
• Defied by Dark Pit from Kid Icarus: Uprising. The Mirror of Truth broke before the "evil" part could be finished, spitting out a Wild Card Shadow Archetype whose very first act is an Offhand Backhand to his creator. He was supposed to be Dark Link, but ended up as Shadow the Hedgehog.
• Absolute Zeroth Legacy of Heroes He's actually a second Zeroth that separated from the original
• Linda Cube: Nek, the homicidal brother of Ken Challenger. He wants to take Linda, Ken's girlfriend, for himself, so he hypnotizes Linda to be under his command and "love" him instead.
• In LittleBigPlanet guest players get a subtitle based on their controller number, like Best Friend. Playing as a guest on the number one controller nets you this title. One of the titles is also "Good Twin."
• In Love & Pies, Sam is everything but his identical twin brother Joe. Joe is kind and caring to Amelia, while Sam is obnoxious and arrogant, and he enjoys rubbing his accomplishments as a worker at Clean Bean Café in Joe's face. Joe respects Amelia's boundaries and assures her that he wouldn't leave her for another woman, while Sam constantly harasses her even after he was exposed when he pretended to be Joe to try seducing her.
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: Nanoha, Fate and Hayate got their very own Evil Twins in the form of The Darkness of the Book of Darkness copies Material-S(tarlight), Material-L(ightning) and Material-D(arkness), respectively, in the PSP game Battle of the Aces. They are identical to their good analogues, except that they are stronger, their skills can't be customized, they have different hair and clothes colors, and their personalities are complete opposites of the originals (Material-S is coldly logical, Material-L is The Berserker, and Material-D is just plain evil). The sequel, The Gears of Destiny, would make them a bit more unique, with names, individualized movesets, and more complex personalities.
• You encounter Dark versions of various characters in Marvel Ultimate Alliance, including Captain America, Spider-Man, and all of the Fantastic Four, mostly created by Dr. Doom. They also appear occasionally in the simulator discs, usually with no real explanation (in Dark Spider-Man's case, he presumably appeared in Deadpool's simulator mission because he was the funniest option).
• In Mass Effect 3, the Big Bad of the Citadel DLC is a Cerberus-created Clone of Commander Shepard, jealous about being created simply as a Walking Transplant for them and now hell-bent on replacing the original. In a realistic touch, the clone comments that while they have the same DNA, their fingerprints are different..
• In Master Detective Archives: Rain Code, the Big Bad is a copy of the protagonist, Yuma Kokohead/Number One of the World Detective Organization, after a Face–Heel Turn. The clone is a perfect homunculus who completely lost moral restraint and created the overarching mystery in Kanai Ward because he thought hiding the truth was the best option for Kanai Ward's homunculus residents to "be happy".
• Mona Sax, the "knockout Femme Fatale" of Max Payne, introduces herself as the "evil twin" of Lisa Punchinello, the Don's wife. Lisa is killed by the Don near the end of the second act, and Mona shows up later during the final assault on the Aesir building, where she does a Heel–Face Turn and apparently dies, only to show up again in the sequel, in which she plays a major role as Max's partner/love interest.
• In Mega Man Battle Network 4, the final boss creates a dark version of Mega Man, simply titled "DarkMega" in the game's sequel.
  • In the sequel, Battle Network 5, DarkMega is MegaMan himself, just tainted.
  • In the manga adaptation, Dark MegaMan is its own standalone character.
  • In addition, several boss characters in Battle Network 4 and 5 have "DS" versions, dark versions of themselves that stray from their attacking pattern to bombard you with any Battle Chip you've used, even Program Advances.
• Metal Gear:
  • The plot of Metal Gear Solid is all about this. The protagonist and his maniacal twin are the products of research into "soldier genes". The hero, Snake, was supposedly modified to have the strongest possible soldier phenotype, and the maniacal Liquid Snake was meant to be the weakest. It's subverted twice: at the end of the game, it's revealed that Liquid was actually the superior twin, and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty reveals a third 'twin', also not very nice.
  • Solid Snake himself is technically an evil twin in his own respect, given the fact that he was a clone of Big Boss, and that it's heavily implied in Metal Gear Solid (by Psycho Mantis, Liquid Snake, and even one of his own allies, Meryl Silverburgh) that he does actually enjoy war and all the killing. Psycho Mantis declares that Solid Snake is true evil, and that he's even worse than Liquid Snake.
• In all three episodes of Apogee's Monster Bash you end up having to fight Johnny Dash's evil twin. These fights are somewhat harder than most enemies partly because the evil twin can take more damage than most monsters and partly because the evil twin uses the exact same sprite graphics as the player's character, making things confusing at times.
• Mother 3 follows this literally. Lucas's twin brother, Claus, becomes evil after being reanimated and manipulated by Porky's minions.
• In the Nancy Drew game Stay Tuned for Danger, actor (and suspect) Rick Arlen plays good and evil twins on the soap opera Light of Our Love.
• A bit of a reversal from the NiGHTS into Dreams… series: the titular character is the good twin of a pair of nightmares. The evil half of the pair, Reala, was created alongside the purple dream jester NiGHTS with a similar appearance and the same abilities. After NiGHTS began to fight against Wiseman, Reala was granted the ability to summon exploding orbs to gain an edge over his/her/its twin.
• In Nintendo Land, Monita has an evil twin, Dark Monita, who is a self-proclaimed Evil Overlord. She is introduced to players in Pikmin Adventure. She also builds some Pikmin enemies and tends to spawn them all over the place at a given time to attack you and your Pikmin.
• Done in No More Heroes when the well dressed Irish-brogue accented swordsman Henry says he's your twin brother... in the last three minutes of the game. Plus, considering how the Touchdown/Crystel/Whatever brothers behave it's hard to tell which one is evil. Also, it is probably the greatest parody of Dante and Vergil you'll ever see.
• Persona:
  • Persona 2 also had evil Shadows based off people's inner selves, though their abilities and the circumstances behind their appearance are somewhat different.
  • In Persona 4, every single person in existence — except, it seems, the Protagonist until the final episode of the anime — has an evil twin called a "Shadow" born of their repressed feelings and thoughts. Get stuck in the TV world, and you'll end up meeting it.
• Neifirst from Phantasy Star II is the main personality of Nei. When Neifirst goes berserk and creates biomonster outbreak, her good part rejects her actions and splits up into the Cute Monster Girl who joins your team.
• In Pokémon Colosseum, the True Final Boss is Fein, a Cipher Peon who is a Master of Disguise. He disguises himself as Wes to try to ruin Wes' reputation, and almost succeeds, but after Wes himself defeats him at the Outskirt Stand on live television, the truth comes out, and the citizens of Orre forgive him. Fein has the most powerful team of Pokemon in the game, and holds the final Shadow Pokemon, a Togetic.
• In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, it's revealed that the Time Machine created a second Koraidon/Miraidon that killed The Professor and traumatized yours. It acts as the True Final Boss when the Professor's Virtual Ghost sics it on you before you catch it in the postgame.
• Cave Prime from Portal 2's Perpetual Testing Initiative has an evil alternate dimension twin, named Dark Cave. He asks you to find him, with no avail. They eventually end up being friends at the end.
• Puyo Puyo has not one, not two, not three, but FOUR examples!
  • Puyo~n (and by extension the original Madou Monogatari series) has Doppelganger Arle, who masqueraded as Pierrot, brainwashed Satan, and kidnapped Carbuncle to lure out Arle and personally battle her.
  • Waku Puyo Dungeon gives us Doppelganger Schezo, a product of the Space-time Crystal and Schezo's stolen magic.
  • Discstation side game Comet Summoner has Dark Witch, the final boss within Witch's dream world.
  • Chronicle gives us Rafisol, a manifestation of hate that spawned from Ally's amulet and serves as the Final Boss of the game. Unlike the above examples though, she actually pulls off a Heel–Face Turn after her defeat.
• About halfway through Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal. Clank gets kidnapped by Big Bad Dr. Nefarious and replaced by a duplicate, Klunk. Ratchet even plays a few levels with Klunk on his back before finding the real Clank and defeating Klunk in a boss battle. Klunk later returns in the non-canon Secret Agent Clank as the Big Bad, now sporting a Beard of Evil.
  • The Soap Within a Show mentions that Lance has an evil twin named Engelbert, who fathered Janice's child. It is implied that Lance made him up, though Engelbert is mentioned in The Stinger for Ratchet: Deadlocked.
• Subverted in SaGa Frontier with Blue and Rouge. Blue is one of the seven main characters. Rouge is a secondary character. They are doomed to fight each other to the death. Now, since Blue is a main character, you'd think he's the good one, right? Wrong. Blue is very willing to manipulate others for his own means, whereas Rouge is a friendly, personable guy who will join others on their quest. Subverted further in that the two are different halves of the same person, split at birth — several types of magic in the Saga Frontier world are mutually exclusive, so if you learn one type, you can't learn the other; splitting him in two lets both halves learn different types (and Blue is told early on that if Rouge learns a type of magic, Blue can't). The "fight to the death" is actually how the two recombine.
• Sailor Moon: Another Story: The Opposito are evil doubles of the Inner Senshi and even have one that is a evil double of Usagi's brother Shingo.
• A mission in Saints Row IV introduces The President's Evil Twin, who uses the player's custom appearance but with an eyepatch and goatee, irrespective of gender.
• In all of the Scribblenauts games, if the player tries to create "Maxwell" as an object (he is the protagonist), it will create Maxwell's evil twin, who has a different colour scheme to Maxwell and will create random objects using his own notepad.
• In Silent Hill 3, Heather meets and fights her twin, which appears to be incarnate Memories of Alessa, as Heather and Alessa are basically the same person (nuances exist, however).
• In Skies of Arcadia, actors-turned-robbers Vize, Anita, and Faina appear as Palette Swaps to heroes Vyse, Aika, and Fina, which has unfortunate results for the silhouettes on the Wanted poster (even though the heroes are already wanted as pirates, sort of). Turns out they even mirror several of the heroes' moves. When you beat them, they make a legitimate business out of looking like you.
  • They're also pretty darn tough to beat; though having a fourth party member helps lean the odds to your side.
• In Space Ace, Dexter has a clone named Hexter. He energizes into a bigger form when Dexter energizes into Ace (Should you choose to do so).
• Super Robot Wars: Original Generation has Beowulf, the Shadow Mirror universe version of Kyosuke Nambu. In Original Generation 2, he's shown to pretty much be identical to Kyosuke, but Original Generations and The Inspector is completely psycho and obsessed with destroying and recreating the world. The explanation for Psycho!Beowulf is pure Butterfly of Doom: In both universes, Kyosuke and Excellen were in a terrible shuttle accident. In the main universe, Kyosuke survived due to his incredible luck while Excellen was technically killed and brought back to life by the plant-like aliens called the Einst. In Shadow Mirror's world, the Einst grabbed Kyosuke instead, while Excellen's corpse was turned into the android Lemon Browning; without the balancing influence of her lighter personality, Kyosuke went off the deep end. So far he's only made brief appearances, but fans speculate that he'll become a prominent villain in future games.
• In Tomb Raider I and Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Lara's Doppelganger has no skin. In Underworld, she gets better, blows up Lara's mansion, kicks her ass inside of her burning mansion, and kills Allister. Later, the Doppelganger gets her own game on Xbox Live.
• Ultra Street Fighter IV gives us Decapre, who serves as this to Cammy.
• Viewtiful Joe has "Another Joe", who looks just like Joe to the point the original makes a deal with him: loser has to wear a yellow outfit. His boss theme is even a Boss Remix of "Joe the Hero". It's actually Alastor.
• Waxworks (1992) has this as a major part of the story: A witch cursed your family in the past so that, whenever twins are born to it, one of them will always be evil. These include Vlad the Impaler (who killed the witch himself for not lifting the curse when asked), Jack the Ripper, an evil Egyptian priest, an old necromancer named Vladimir and a plant creature that doesn't even look human anymore. And other than Vlad, you must travel back in time to take them all down in the body of the good twin on the way to undo the curse. And right as the game is coming to an end, and your brother tells you the dream he saw of the final curse-lifting event, it's revealed that you were the evil twin the entire time.
• In World of Warcraft, players that use a transporter to Gadgetzan can be turned into their evil twin. Blizzard neglected to add goatees to the character models, unfortunately. As a Brick Joke, there's a female gnome imprisoned in Talramas in Borean Tundra, and when she attempts to escape she accidentally releases her Evil Twin. Said twin can later be fought in Hrothgar's Landing near Icecrown as part of a quest given by The Leaper after the Knights of the Ebon Blade take control of the Shadow Vault.
  • Due to Gameplay and Story Segregation, being turned into your Evil Twin by the "Ultrasafe" transporter does not affect the game or your character at all. It just gives you a harmless temporary debuff with amusing text stating you've been turned into your evil twin.
• A common theme in Zone of the Enders: The main player's Humongous Mecha with a decidedly intelligent AI whose cockpit he ends up in is always part of a pair created for a specific purpose. Guess where the other one ends up?