Basic Trope: Twins are always identical to each other.
- Straight: Alice has a twin sister, Annie, who looks identical to Alice.
- Exaggerated: Every character in the work has a twin: Alice has a twin sister named Annie, Bob has a twin brother named Barry, Charles has a twin brother named Christopher, Diane has a twin sister named Daphne, and so on, and they look so much like each other that it's impossible to tell which one is which.
- Downplayed: Alice and Annie look like each other, but their eye colors are different, and Alice is a few millimetres taller than Annie.
- Justified: Alice and Annie's mother requested to have them genetically modified so they look alike.
- Inverted: Alice and Annie look so drastically different that you would not expect them to even be related.
- Subverted: Annie wasn't actually Alice's twin sister; she was adopted as an infant, and her adoption was kept a secret to her and Alice.
- Double Subverted: But then it's revealed by a DNA test that Annie was actually Alice's twin sister; she was just brought to the orphanage when she was born, but then her parents changed their minds and adopted her back instead.
- Parodied: Bob assumes Alice and Annie must be Single-Minded Twins because they're genetically identical. He's genuinely astonished to find out that they aren't, because he and his own fraternal twin brother Barry have that dynamic.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice and Annie are identical; Bob and Barry are fraternal; Charles and Christopher are identical; Diane and Daphne are sororal; et cetera.
- Averted: Alice and Annie look like each other, but they have some differences that doesn't make them look like each other.
- Enforced: The creator added identical twins as they also have an identical twin.
- Lampshaded: "Don't you think we look like each other, Annie?" "Yeah, Alice!"
- Invoked: Alice or Annie gets plastic surgery so they can look identical to each other.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice and Annie decide to get plastic surgery so they can no longer look identical to each other.
- Discussed: "God, I hope our baby twins don't look identical to each other, like in these comedy movies."
- Conversed: "Haven't you notice that twins in these movies look identical to each other? Weird, right?" "Yeah."
- Implied: Alice and Annie are the only twins in town, but Bob says they're representative of twins in general.
- Played for Laughs: Alice or Annie goes to great lengths to make herself look unlike her sister, but just ends up looking goofy as a result.
- Played for Drama: Alice and Annie feel that their excessive superficial similarities to each other are holding one or both of them back.
- Played for Horror: Alice and Annie are Creepy Twins.
- Deconstructed: Despite being genetically identical, Alice and Annie have very different personalities, interests, and goals. Everybody else thinks they ought to go through life joined at the hip, though, and trying to force that just makes their lives less pleasant. Likewise, they find being mistaken for each other quite a bit more unpleasant than the minor annoyance it is for most twins.
- Reconstructed: As a side effect of that period in their lives, they come to respect each other's ideas that much more.
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