History EvilCounterpart / ComicBooks

* With ComicBook/HarleyQuinn definitively repackaged as an AntiHero, DC created a new character to be the Joker’s henchwoman- Punchline. Like Harkey, Punchline is a clown-themed villainess with an obsessive crush on the Joker; however, while Harley is a kooky, talkative {{Woobie}}, Punchline is a silent, remorseless SerialKiller. Also, while Harley started out as a well-intentioned doctor who Joker turned to the dark side, and who eventually left him; Punchline is a Joker FanGirl who sought him out and joined him of her own volition.

** Then there is, of course, SelfDemonstrating/SuperboyPrime. While Prime may also be an evil version of Super''man'' his hatred of Kon-El for carrying the Superboy name leads to him actually killing Kon-El.

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Todd Jason Todd]] was the [[LegacyCharacter second Robin]], until ComicBookDeath turned him into the [[LegacyCharacter (new) Red Hood]], a vigilante who kills villains left and right and EvilCounterpart to both Batman and Nightwing (before, during, and after Nightwing briefly [[LegacyCharacter beca]][[RunningGag me Batman himself]]) - until [[ComicBook/New52 the reboot]] made him less villainous.

* [[{{God}} The One Above All]] has the [[TheAntiGod The One Below All]] as an evil counterpart.

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* In a way, Gideon Graves to ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim''. They are initially pretty opposite as Gideon is a successful multi-millionaire mogul whom is viewed as a winner while Scott is seen as a lovable loser. Both have large combat experience, with Scott being the best fighter in the province and [[spoiler: Gideon inventing the Glow for military purposes.]] However, Gideon serves as a malevolent counterpart to Scott Pilgrim. Both seem to be unaware of their misdeeds,(although in Scott's defense, he never explicitly denied doing anything wrong nor does he blame anyone for what happened. There is also the fact that[[spoiler: Gideon ended up tampering with his memories]].) Both were also not the best boyfriends and made some bad decisions (yet Scott's was the result of cluelessness, lack of thinking and a bit of cicumstance while Gideoon is implied to be wholly responsible). Ultimately, Gideon is much worse than Scott and Scott's realizing they are alike in ways allows him to unlock the Power of Understanding.

** ComicBook/{{Venom}} is Spider-Man's Evil Counterpart (pictured above), created when he symbolically cast off the darkness within him also there fact both Spidey and Venom work for news agencies though Peter is honest with his journalism while Eddie Brock's corrupt methods got him fired. By the 1990s issues, when Venom became an AntiHero, ComicBook/{{Carnage}} was created to be ''his'' Evil Counterpart. Years later, Eddie Brock became Anti-Venom and was the Good Counterpart to the third Venom.

** ComicBook/{{Venom}} is Spider-Man's Evil Counterpart (pictured above), created when he symbolically cast off the darkness within him also there fact both Spidey and Venom work for news agencies though Peter is honest with his journalism while Eddie Brock's corrupt methods got him fired. Later, when Venom became an AntiHero, ComicBook/{{Carnage}} was created to be ''his'' Evil Counterpart. Years later, Eddie Brock became Anti-Venom and was the Good Counterpart to the third Venom.

** ComicBook/{{Venom}} is Spider-Man's Evil Counterpart (pictured above), created when he symbolically cast off the darkness within him also there fact both Spidey and Venom work for news agencies though Peter is honest with his journalism while Eddie Brock's corrupt methods got him fired. Later, when Venom became an AntiHero, ComicBook/Carnage was created to be ''his'' Evil Counterpart. Years later, Eddie Brock became Anti-Venom and was the Good Counterpart to the third Venom.

* ''Comicbook/SpiderMan'' has had ''many'' villains meant to be his thematic opposite, from the Fly (who gained his powers in an accident much like Peter's own, but never stopped "looking out for number one" and blamed everyone else for his shortcomings) to the Scorpion ditto; Bonus points for being an arachnid, too. And then the original Scorpion became Venom for a while). In ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Scorpion ''is even Peter's clone''. Less obviously, there's the Spider-Wasp.
** Comicbook/{{Venom}} is Spider-Man's Evil Counterpart (pictured above), created when he symbolically cast off the darkness within him also there fact both Spidey and Venom work for news agencies though Peter is honest with his journalism while Eddie Brock's corrupt methods got him fired. Later, when Venom became an AntiHero, Carnage was created to be ''his'' Evil Counterpart. Years later, Eddie Brock became Anti-Venom and was the Good Counterpart to the third Venom.

** Cain Marko aka TheJuggernaut is also an evil counterpart to Charles Xavier being [[CainAndAbel stepbrothers ]] and fierce enemies, both Juggs and the Professor are respectively two of the strongest individuals on the planet but ironically Xavier couldn't move without his wheelchair while Juggernaut's mobility cannot be stopped. Both Xavier and Marko suffered under the hands of Cain's father Kurt Marko but Juggs deluded himself into thinking Charles was [[ParentalFavoritism favored by his own father]] which made Cain hate Charles even more (despite Charles repeatedly telling his adoptive brother that [[NotSoDifferent he was abused as well]]). Even after Marko's father died Caine hated Xavier more for using his mental powers to make himself more successful with sports and academics, prompting a desire to be greater than Charles. This culminates in Marko gaining the [[PowerCrystal Gem Of Cyttorak]] and becoming his unstoppable namesake which is ironic as Cyttorak actually wanted Xavier to be the Juggernaut.

** ComicBook/WinterSoldier aka Bucky Barnes Cap’s former KidSideKick was this at the time of his reintroduction into Marvel Universe after being dead for decades. Like Cap the Winter Solider was a hero of WWII who fell into the ocean and [[HumanPopsicle remained frozen]] before being recovered years later. Except instead of being discovered by The Avengers like Cap, Bucky was found by the Soviets who brainwashed him into becoming a super assassin, essentially showing what someone with Cap’s skill and experience would be like as an agent of evil without compassion or morality. Fortunately thanks to the Cosmic Cube Bucky was able to recover his memories and HeelFaceTurn to good, even becoming Captain America himself for a time.

** ComicBook/{{Ultron}}, the robotic archenemy of Franchise/TheAvengers,had his programming [[BrainUploading based on the personality of his creator, founding Avenger Hank Pym]], and thus Ultron is essentially the physical personification of Pym's misanthropy and self-loathing. It is occasionally implied that being "born" with all of Pym's mental issues and bad memories is what drove Ultron insane and gave him the desire to KillAllHumans in the first place.

** Owlman and Talon, Batman and Robin's counterparts from Earth-3, the Evil Counterpart Universe.
*** Talon takes it further by being a LegacyCharacter. The Talon who seems to be a direct counterpart to [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] actually took a HeelFaceTurn and ended up joining the Teen Titans alongside Tim before being murdered and given back to Owlman in individually wrapped pieces.

** Lastly there’s [[Characters/DarkNightsMetal The Batman who Laughs]] the LaughingMad EvilTwin of Batman from an AlternateUniverse where he was poisoned with Joker Gas, went insane and massacred the Bat-Family turning into a terrifying supervillain. Worse still, The Batman who Laughs has all of good Batman’s CrazyPrepared skill making him all the more dangerous. Ironically it takes an EnemyMine situation between both Batman and The Joker to bring The Batman who Laughs down.

* The entire ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' has an EvilCounterpart in the MirrorUniverse Crime Syndicate of America. Ultraman opposes Franchise/{{Superman}}. Superwoman is sometimes an evil Amazon, sometimes her world's Lois Lane, and recently, ComicBook/MaryMarvel, but always stands in opposition to Franchise/WonderWoman. The magic-fuelled Power Ring is EvilCounterpart to Franchise/GreenLantern. Psychotic [[SuperSpeed speedster]] Johnny Quick is the opposite of ComicBook/TheFlash. And Owlman, who began as a SmugSnake EvilGenius [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] with MoreThanMindControl powers, and is now usually portrayed as a homicidal maniac with PowerArmour is the EvilCounterpart to however Franchise/{{Batman}} is being portrayed this week.
** Also, most of these incarnations have Alexander Luthor as [[GoodCounterpart good version]] of the main ComicBook/LexLuthor, contrasting the Crime Syndicate. This is averted in ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'' however with a Luthor as bad as his mainstream counterpart, since the new [[CrapsackWorld Earth 3 lacks good, period.]]

* ''ComicBook/YoungJustice2019'' Issue #8 introduces the team's [[MirrorUniverse Earth-3]] counterparts . Amaxon Thunder for Comicbook/WonderGirl, Luthor-El for Superboy, Speed Zone for Impulse, Hack for Teen Lantern, Hex for Jinny Hex and Drake for Tim Drake. We never meet Amethyst's counterpart as she apparently overslept and missed the fight.

* Comicbook/TheVision has Anti-Vision, his [[EvilTwin crooked doppelgänger]] from a parallel universe.

*** In the [[AlternateUniverse alternate earth]] where Charles is Juggernaut, he ruled Earth as a dictator showing just how evil he would've been if not for his bullying big brother taking the Gem for himself.

** Dark Beast of Earth-295 (ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse BadFuture world) is the evil counterpart to main Marvel Universe ComicBook/{{Beast}} being the EvilGenius to his ScienceHero. Both Hank [=McCoys=] are similar (aside from the respective blue and black fur) where they differentiate is in their loyalty as Earth 616 Hank never abandoned his friends and remains a NiceGuy to this day. While Apocalypse-Beast heel turned to titular BigBad as soon as shit went south and cares little for his old friends, naturally our Beast doesn't get along with him when they meet.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'':
*** Sonic has a direct evil counterpart in the form of Scourge the Hedgehog. Unlike Shadow, who often acts as a foil to Sonic, and Metal Sonic, which is a robot built to serve Dr. Eggman's diabolical purposes, Scourge is literally an evil counterpart: He is Sonic from a parallel dimension, where the protagonists and villains switch roles. In the early days of the comic, Scourge was simply known as "Anti-Sonic" and was identical to Sonic save for sunglasses, a black leather jacket, and a JerkAss attitude. However, after some vocal exchange with Sonic, Anti-Sonic became shaken up by the thoughts and sought to make himself stand-out. TO that end, he attempted to hijack the Master Emerald. The result was becoming green, getting some scars on his chest and a form of rebirth. This is where he christened himself as Scourge the Hedgehog and he was now much more ambitious than ever before, even becoming king in his unvierse.
*** He, then, forces this on his Anti-Freedom Fighters, turning them into the Suppression Squad. Not only are they just as bad, they followed Scourge's example in changing their names from their counterparts (such as Anti-Sally calling herself Alicia) to further standout from them. Princess Sally's counterpart, Alicia, is nothing more than a figurehead. Miles, Tails' counterpart, is cold, calculating and the ''real brains'' behind the team. Rotor's counterpart, Boomer, took his genius and used it on himself, turning himself into a cybernetic terror (which also makes him Bunnie's evil counterpart) Patch, Antoine's evil counterpart, is completely vain and in it for power. {{Subverted|Trope}} with Anti-Bunnie; she ended up becoming good (kinda) when she ended up contracting NIDS and her teammates left her to die. She was saved by Dr. Kintobar via a special mech suit (resembling Omega oddly enough) and she became his bodyguard as a result while now calling herself Buns.
** ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' featured [[https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/King_Sonic King Sonic]], hailing from a MirrorUniverse in which Sonic was the one who got caught in the explosion of the Retro-Orbital Chaos Compressor instead of Dr. Kintobor. As such, in the absence of Dr. Robotnik, this Sonic became the tyrant that sought to take over his universe's Mobius. He has all of Sonic's abilities with none of his redeeming qualities, and even has his own [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Superpowered Good Side]] in King Super Sonic.

* Issue #50 of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', "Deja View," was intended to be a season 5 episode of the TV series but it went over budget and ran up against a tight deadline. The storyline was given to DC to do as a comic. It had the girls sucked into a vortex and plopped into an alternate-world Townsville where its version of Mojo Jojo is a hero. The girls' alternate counterpart, the Powerpunk Girls (Berserk, Brat and Brute) end up in Townsville where they are having their way with it big time.

** ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd'' has the Dark Judges, who have taken the policing style of the Judges to an extreme where Mega-City One is practically ''Utopian''. Their world has indeed become devoid of crime. It has also become devoid of life. While their dimension is something of a MirrorUniverse of Dredd's, it's eventually established that Judge Death is not simply an EvilTwin of Dredd himself, with a completely different background.

* In ''ComicBook/MightyMorphinPowerRangersBoomStudios'', there's Lord Drakkon, an alternate reality version of Tommy Oliver/Green Ranger who, upon being freed from the Sword of Darkness and offered a hand in friendship, ran back to Rita. He became drunk on power and ultimately destroyed the Power Rangers and [[TheStarscream killed Rita and took her place]].

** Not only SelfDemonstrating/{{Sinestro}} was once a Green Lantern himself, in ComicBook/PostCrisis continuity he actually ''trained'' Hal Jordan in the use of his powers before becoming his nemesis.

** Callisto in many ways is ComicBook/{{Storm}}'s evil counterpart both were [[StreetUrchin homeless women]] who have a lot of [[KnifeNut skill with knives]] and who found themselves being worshipped, Storm by the Kilimanjaro Tribe's men and Callisto by the Morlocks. Upon meeting her Storm can understand Callisto's actions better than her fellow X-Men as Colossus is confused when Callisto is seemly [[VillainessesWantHeroes in love with Angel]] but Storm corrects him knowing it's more desire and reflects own her own DarkAndTroubledPast. Similarities get bigger as Storm leads the Morlocks as effectively as Callisto did and later in M-Day she joins Storm in protecting the Runaways, showing when it comes to the downtrodden she and the "weather witch" are NotSoDifferent.

* ''ComicBook/AnyasGhost'': Emily when her true colors are revealed]] is the evil counterpart to Anya. [[spoiler:After spending time with Anya, she turns out to possess exaggerated versions of all of Anya's negative traits: Emily is obsessive over boys (but unlike Anya, murderously so), sees existing girlfriends of 'mark' boys as competition and not individuals (but unlike Anya, she is inclined to murder them), lies and manipulates (but not just about her last name, she lies about her entire past). The mirroring is even physical: she dons Anya's hairdo and starts smoking "ghost cigarettes", presumably a mimicking of Anya's bad habit.

** Cain Marko aka TheJuggernaut is also an evil counterpart to Charles Xavier being [[CainAndAbel stepbrothers ]] and fierce enemies, both Juggs and the Professor are respectively two of the strongest individuals on the planet but ironically Xavier couldn't move without his wheelchair while Juggernaut's mobility cannot be stopped. Both Xavier and Marko suffered under the hands of Cain's father Kurt Marko but Juggs deluded himself into thinking Charles was [[ParentalFavoritism favored by his own father]] which made Caine hate Charles even more (despite Charles repeatedly telling his adoptive brother that [[NotSoDifferent he was abused as well]]). Even after Marko's father died Caine hated Xavier more for using his mental powers to make himself more successful with sports and academics, prompting a desire to be greater than Charles. This culminates in Marko gaining the [[PowerCrystal Gem Of Cyttorak]] and becoming his unstoppable namesake which is ironic as Cyttorak actually wanted Xavier to be the Juggernaut.

** ''[[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansXMen Powers of X]]'' reveals this is part of ComicBook/MoiraMacTaggert's Mutation as thanks to {{Reincarnation}} she has lived multiple lives. While Moria is still a good person in most of them, in her third life she created a cure for Mutantkind and tried force it upon them before Mystique had her killed, in her eighth life Moira joins Magneto and tries to conquer America with him before they are stopped by X-Men and Avengers. Worse still in her ninth life Moira joins ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} slughtering Xavier, Magneto and almost everyone else, but she also awakens Nimrod an unstopple super [[KillerRobot Sentinel]] and is later killed by Wolverine albeit willingly. However in her tenth life Moria having to knowledge of all her previous lives, is able to pass on it on to Charles Xaiver thus help him safeguard the future.

** SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}} surprisingly checks all the right boxes to be Superman's Evil Counterpart and generally succeeds in being a {{Foil}} to Supes whenever they face each other. Lobo is the [[TheLastOfHisKind last]] son of Czarnia much like Supes is the last son of Krypton and like Clark, Lobo is a super strong, super fast, nigh-indestructible GeniusBruiser who is more resource and canny than his foes would suspect. The difference between them is cystal clear though, while Superman escaped the destruction of his planet, ''Lobo caused it himself'' and while Supes is an AllLovingHero who embodies TheCape, Lobo on the other hand is a ruthless BountyHunter AntiHero who only cares about getting paid and causing violence. Though ironically Lobo does have a [[BruiserWithASoftCenter soft side]] and Superman [[BewareTheNiceOnes quite terrifying]] when pushed hard enough.

* ''Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}'' has had several evil counterparts. The most obvious is the Ocean Master, his own brother. Others include Charybdis, EvilTwin Thanatos, the Thirst and Black Manta (whose also evil counterpart [[ArchNemesisDad to his son]]).

** SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}} surprisingly checks all the right boxes to be Superman's Evil Counterpart and generally succeeds in being a {{Foil}} to Supes whenever they face each other. Lobo is the [[TheLastOfHisKind last]] son of Czarnia much like Supes is the last son of Krypton and like Clark, Lobo is a super strong, super fast, nigh-indestructible GeniusBruiser whose more resource and canny than his foes would suspect. The difference between them is cystal clear though, while Superman escaped the destruction of his planet, ''Lobo caused it himself'' and while Supes is an AllLovingHero who embodies TheCape, Lobo on the other hand is a ruthless BountyHunter AntiHero who only cares about getting paid and causing violence. Though ironically Lobo does have a [[BruiserWithASoftCenter soft side]] and Superman [[BewareTheNiceOnes quite terrifying]] when pushed hard enough.

** ''ComicBook/{{Shakara}}'': Shakara is the ghostly incarnation of the dead Shakara race sworn to avenge them. The main villain of the comic is Cinnibar Brenneka, an evil Shakara who destroyed his own species.

** ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd'' has the Dark Judges, who have taken the policing style of the Judges to an extreme where Mega-City One is practically ''Utopian''. Their world has indeed become devoid of crime. It has also become devoid of life. While their dimension is something of a MirrorWorld of Dredd's, it's eventually established that Judge Death is not simply an EvilTwin of Dredd himself, with a completely different background.

** ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd'' has the Dark Judges, who have taken the policing style of the Judges to an extreme where Mega-City One is practically ''Utopian''. Their world has indeed become devoid of crime. It has also become devoid of life.

** John D. Rockerduck is another almost-richest-duck-in-the-world like Glomgold, and... Well, that's about it. He operates out of Duckburg and is perhaps more of a plotter, but the basic idea is the same: he's an unethical version of and rival to Scrooge. Rockerduck's father however was a mentor figure to Scrooge, liking him more than his own son.
** In ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'', Scrooge encounters both Glomgold and Rockerduck (in Africa and America respectively), showing his contrast with both. While Scrooge is a hard-working miner out to make a fortune fairly, Glomgold is out to ''steal'' from miners, and Rockerduck is a SpoiledBrat due to inherit a fortune.

** Barbara Ann Minerva aka ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} in many ways is a evil counterpart Diana, especially in the ComicBook/New52 where she's a fellow Amazon who thanks to cutting herself on a ancient dagger transformed into a human-cheetah hybrid who serves the "Goddess of the Hunt" much like Diana serves Olympians. Cheetah can also ensnare people (e.g Superman) with her powers much like Diana can control people with her Lasso, they're also both BloodKnight(s) in later continuities but Diana has moral standards which Cheetah happily lacks.

** Callisto in many ways is ComicBook/{{Storm}}'s evil counterpart both were StreetUrchin(s) who have a lot of [[KnifeNut skill with knives]] and who found themselves being worshipped Storm by the Kilimanjaro Tribe's men and Callisto to the Morlocks. Upon meeting her Storm can understand Callisto's actions better than her fellow X-Men as Colossus is confused when Callisto is seemly [[VillainessesWantHeroes in love with Angel]] but Storm corrects him knowing it's more desire and reflects own her own DarkAndTroubledPast. Similarities get bigger as Storm leads the Morlocks as effectively as Callisto did and later in M-Day she joins Storm in protecting the Runaways, showing when it comes to the downtrodden she and the "weather witch" are NotSoDifferent.

** ''[[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansXMen Powers of X]]'' reveals this is part of Moria [=MacTaggert=]'s Mutation as thanks to {{Reincarnation}} she has lived multiple lives. While Moria is still a good person in most of them, in her third life she created a cure for Mutantkind and tried force it upon them before Mystique had her killed, in her eighth life Moira joins Magneto and tries to conquer America with him before they are stopped by X-Men and Avengers. Worse still in her ninth life Moira joins ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} slughtering Xavier, Magneto and almost everyone else, but she also awakens Nimrod an unstopple super [[KillerRobot Sentinel]] and is later killed by Wolverine albeit willingly. However in her tenth life Moria having to knowledge of all her previous lives, is able to pass on it on to Charles Xaiver thus help him safeguard the future.

** Hell even ComicBook/{{Mystique}} is a kind of evil counterpart to Wolverine as well considering they both [[LongLived lived]] over a century and have made more mistakes than almost anybody else in the Marvel universe (which is saying something) not to mention they were mutant [[OutlawCouple Bonney and Clyde]] for multiple years. Both Wolverine and Mystique have had numerous illegitimate children and are prone to selfish desires, they're also both loners when you really get down to it. When they divide is in the fact Wolverine even at his very worst has a moral compass which Mystique simply lacks, though Logan knows deep down he's really NotSoDifferent from her which pisses him off when she can correctly call him a {{Hypocrite}} when he tries to act holier than she is. ''Still'' at the end of the day, Wolverine for all his faults has [[TrueCompanions friends]] while Mystique doesn't and she suffers greatly for it.

** SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}} surprisingly checks all the boxes to be Superman's EvilCounterpart and generally succeeds in being a {{Foil}} to Supes whenever they face each other. Lobo like Clark is TheLastOfHisKind, being the last Czarnian who were [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] like the Kryptonians and just like Supes, Lobo is a super strong, super fast, nigh-indestructible GeniusBruiser whose more resource and canny than his foes would suspect. The differnce is cystal clear though, while Superman escaped the destruction of his planet, ''Lobo caused it himself'' and while Supes is AllLovingHero and TheCape Lobo grew up to a rutheless BountyHunter who only cares about getting paid and casusing violence. Though conversely Lobo does have a soft side and Superman quite terrfying when pushed hard enough.
*** Perhaps in recognition of this trope, DC redesigned Lobo in the ComicBook/New52, taking away his BadassBiker look and making him TallDarkAndHansome like Clark. After some [[ReplacementScrappy severe backlash]], DC soon brought back the OG Lobo back.

* The ''Comicbook/IncredibleHulk'' has the ComicBook/RedHulk.

** [[Characters/XMenRoguesGalleryAToI Deathbird]] of the Shi'ar Empire is the evil counterpart of her younger sister [[Characters/XMenRecurringCharacters Lilandra]] (Xaiver’s LoveInterest) as whereas Lilandra is caring and heroic, Deathbird is a colossal bitch.