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* EvilTwin: ZigZagged in regards to his IdenticalStranger Dorian. On the one hand, Jonathan is a respectable family man and lives an ordinary life where he doesn't hurt anyone, and when it comes down to it [[spoiler:he dies trying to save his wife]]. On the other hand, he's very quickly shown to be rather uncaring towards Scarlet, is rather dismissive of how he treated prostitutes while living Dorian's life, and when he figures out that Dorian slept with Scarlet his response is to get violent and insult Scarlet.

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* EvilTwin: ZigZagged in regards to his IdenticalStranger Dorian. On the one hand, Jonathan is a respectable family man and lives an ordinary life where he doesn't hurt anyone, and when it comes down to it [[spoiler:he dies trying to save his wife]]. On the other hand, he's very quickly shown to be rather uncaring towards Scarlet, is rather dismissive of how he treated prostitutes while living Dorian's life, and when he figures out that Dorian slept with Scarlet his response is to get violent with his doppleganger and insult slut-shame Scarlet.
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* GirlOfTheWeek: {{Averted|Trope}}, Dorian wants Freya to be this but she politely rejects his flirtations. The actress was actually happy about this.
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* YouAreWhatYouHate: Scarlet accuses both Jonathan and Dorian of this, pointing out that they are both selfish people who treated her badly (Jonathan by actually trying to get away from her, Dorian by going along with the lie and pulling a BedTrick on her).

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* EvilTwin: ZigZagged in regards to his IdenticalStranger Jonathan Moore. On the one hand, Dorian is an {{Immortal|Hero}} {{Byronic|Hero}} AntiHero who has dedicated decades of his life to being TheHedonist regardless of the harm he causes. But on the other hand, Dorian comes to treat Moore's wife Scarlet with far more respect, learns to appreciate Moore's ordinary life with a loving wife and son, and becomes deeply worried about her safety after realising how far Moore had fallen while living Dorian's life.



* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: While it does seem to fade overtime as CharacterDevelopment kicks in, Dorian has a noticeable misogynistic streak with a massive example being how he treated Rosina Sawyer who was one of his flings in 1911. However he's also been shown to be friends with Dorothy Parker while also having more genuinely romantic relationships with other women not long after what happened with Rosina.

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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: While it does seem to fade overtime as CharacterDevelopment kicks in, Dorian has a noticeable misogynistic streak with a massive example being how he treated Rosina Sawyer who was one of his flings in 1911. However he's also been shown to be friends with Dorothy Parker while also having more genuinely romantic relationships with other women not long after what happened with Rosina. {{Downplayed|Trope}} with "Human Remains", where he doesn't care about making racist jokes towards Dr. Madras (voiced by an actor of Indian descent) but at the same time treats Flo (who is voiced by a black actress) with lots of respect and he's never shown to treat anyone else like this.



* IdenticalStranger: Jonathan is the exact double of Dorian, to the point not even Scarlet could really tell them apart.

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* EvilTwin: ZigZagged in regards to his IdenticalStranger Dorian. On the one hand, Jonathan is a respectable family man and lives an ordinary life where he doesn't hurt anyone, and when it comes down to it [[spoiler:he dies trying to save his wife]]. On the other hand, he's very quickly shown to be rather uncaring towards Scarlet, is rather dismissive of how he treated prostitutes while living Dorian's life, and when he figures out that Dorian slept with Scarlet his response is to get violent and insult Scarlet.
* IdenticalStranger: Jonathan is the exact double of Dorian, to the point not even Scarlet could really tell them apart. However things change after Dorian sleeps with Scarlet, with it being implied that Scarlet to some degree now suspected that Dorian wasn't her husband since when she sees him and Jonathan together, she immediately calls him Dorian.
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A married couple in 1949, completely ordinary except for the fact that the husband has a remarkable resemblance to Dorian.

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A married couple in 1949, 1949 with a young son named William, completely ordinary except for the fact that the husband has a remarkable resemblance to Dorian.
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* PrinceAndPauper: An interesting variation of the trope. Dorian is the Prince, but he isn't royalty and in fact spends his entire life doing what scandalous and shocking things, as opposed to being trapped in a GildedCage. However his lives a life of complete freedom and with no responsibilities, a common perception of the Prince character, and he's definitely more charming than the somewhat dull Jonathan Moore.

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* PrinceAndPauper: An interesting variation of the trope. Dorian is the Prince, Prince to Jonathan's Pauper, but he isn't royalty and in fact spends his entire life doing what scandalous and shocking things, as opposed to being trapped in a GildedCage. However his lives a life of complete freedom and with no responsibilities, a common perception of the Prince character, and he's definitely more charming than the somewhat dull Jonathan Moore.



* PrinceAndPauper: An interesting variation of the trope. Jonathan is the Pauper, but he isn't necessarily poor as he seems to have a rather well paying job and seem to be in the upper to middle class. However compared to Dorian he is completely ordinary, reflecting how a Pauper's life is often seen as less interesting, and has the traditional life expected of people, such as having a good job with a wife and son.

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* PrinceAndPauper: An interesting variation of the trope. Jonathan is the Pauper, Pauper to Dorian's Prince, but he isn't necessarily poor as he seems to have a rather well paying job and seem to be in the upper to middle class. However compared to Dorian he is completely ordinary, reflecting how a Pauper's life is often seen as less interesting, and has the traditional life expected of people, such as having a good job with a wife and son.

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