History EvilCounterpart / WesternAnimation

** [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]] has Boscha; Amity was never a true jerk like Boscha was and never wanted to be mean. She was only forced to be friends with Boscha at the request of her parents. She also only used the facade to cover up her insecurities and is mistreated by her mother. Unlike Boscha, who appears to have always been mean.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'': Just as Scar was one for Simba in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' (see [[EvilCounterpart/AnimatedFilms here]]), he's also one to Kion, representing what Kion [[ShadowArchetype can become]] if he let his anger, self-doubts, and envy consume him to the point he becomes power-hungry. Kion often fears he'll end up like Scar, hence why he frequently regulates the use of [[MightyRoar the Roar of the Elders]], having been made aware that Scar was stripped of the Roar for destroying his own Lion Guard when they refused to help him overthrow Mufasa. [[spoiler:Some scenes in Season 3 of ''The Lion Guard'' even depict Scar [[TheCorrupter actively attempting]] to corrupt Kion.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', Darth Maul has become this to Ahsoka. Both were former members of one of the great orders of Force-users who left after a betrayal and no longer consider themselves to be a member of the order, yet are still similar enough in outlook to their former order to be considered a member by other people. They also both express the philosophy that "to defeat your enemy, you must understand/know them", and both got at least part of the lightsabers they wield from an Inquisitor they defeated. Maul himself calls attention to this when he's trying [[WeCanRuleTogether to recruit her]].

*** [[Characters/TheOwlHouseEdaClawthorne Eda Clawthorne]] and Belos both function as mentors to their students and are known as some of the most powerful witches on the Boiling Isles. However, Belos strictly believes in quashing anything that does not conform to his order whereas Eda believes in individuality and little restrictions on magic.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': Just like in the comics, Flintheart Glomgold is designed as Evil Counterpart for Scrooge [=McDuck=], being [[AlwaysSecondBest the second-richest duck in the world]] behind Scrooge and where Scrooge made his money fair and square as an honest SelfMadeMan who runs a financial empire, Flintheart is a conman and CorruptCorporateExecutive. Additionally to his traits from the comics [[AdaptationalNationality this version of Glomgold is Scottish]], just like Scrooge.

** The reboot takes it even further, as Flintheart designed himself as Scrooge's Evil Counterpart for Scrooge, as [[spoiler:he's really Duke Balony who was given a dime by Scrooge in his youth who failed betrayed]]. He wants to proof to the world he's a far better business man - and more Scottish - than Scrooge. [[spoiler:[[{{Fauxreigner}} It turns out he's not really Scottish, but South-African]]]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''':

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': Just like in the comics, Flintheart Glomgold is designed as Evil Counterpart for Scrooge [=McDuck=], being [[AlwaysSecondBest the second-richest duck in the world]] behind Scrooge and where Scrooge made his money fair and square as an honest SelfMadeMan who runs a financial empire, Flintheart is a conman and CorruptCorporationExecutive. Additionally to his traits from the comics [[AdaptationalNationality this version of Glomgold is Scottish]], just like Scrooge.
* ''DuckTales2017'':
** The reboot takes it even further, as Flintheart designed himself as Scrooge's Evil Counterpart for Scrooge, as [[spoiler:he's really Duke Balony who was given a dime by Scrooge in his youth who failed betrayed]]. He wants to proof to the world he's a far better business man - and more Scottish - than Scrooge. [[spoiler:[[Fauxreigner It turns out he's not really Scottish, but South-African.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' gives us Mozenrath to Aladdin. Both of them are very clever and quick-witted, yet they are prone to letting their youthful impatience and boredom get in their way of completely reaching their [[GuileHero full]] [[MagnificentBastard potential]], and they're both hinted to have rather unpleasant pasts. Oh, and neither of them is ever seen without their faithful animal companions.

** ComicBook/TheCreeper was presented as the Joker's ''good counterpart'', being doused by the Joker's PsychoSerum as well as the same chemicals, but turning out as a well-intentioned mad man. He is just as obsessively attracted to Harley Quinn as she is to the Joker, creeping her out. It also puts the lie into any idea that the Joker's origin makes a FreudianExcuse: the same thing happened to another man, but while he became just as delightfully insane, he doesn't go around killing people.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania}}'':

** Unlike the games this is a DefiedTrope with [[{{Dhampir}} Alucard]] and Dracula. Despite getting his nickname for seemly being his father's opposite, Lisa strove to raise her son to ''not'' be the antithesis of her husband. In fact, Alucard, despite being considered a MessianicArchetype by the Speakers, isn't too much better than his father; he wanted revenge for Lisa's death just as much as Dracula. Where the father and son really differed was Alucard wanted to narrow the scope to those directly responsible, while Dracula preferred to KillAllHumans. [[spoiler: After a HeelRealization and a MercyKill, Alucard becomes the owner of Dracula's castle in his father's place. At the end of the Season 3 Alucard has even started [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice planting his enemies on spikes]] outside his castle,]] just like dear old dad.

* ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'': In an inversion of this trope, Elise can be seen as a Good Counterpart to the VillainProtagonist, Dan. Both are [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]], [[TheCynic cynical]], [[TheTrickster deceptive]] [[TheDeterminator Determinators]] from [[AbusiveParents abusive families]] who are so vindictive that they can (and do) go to AxCrazy lengths to seek revenge on whatever has wronged them. In addition, both are associated with [[ExtremeDoormat Chris]] to the extent that they serve as VitriolicBestBuds to him. Elise has admitted that she actually enjoys some of Dan's revenge schemes. She even does the SkywardScream whenever something angers her, and in one episode literally participates in Dan's opening scream. The difference is that Dan is a misanthropic AntiRoleModel who can sometimes be a source of NightmareFuel, whereas Elise is the sanest of the three. Regarding Chris, Dan emphasizes the abuse while Elise emphasizes the caring.

** Appropriately, in a later appearance he and Demona make clones of the rest of the Manhattan Clan to serve as ''their'' Evil Counterparts; as a joke, they're all named after places in L.A., to contrast the heroes' New York names. Thailog also secretly made a clone to be his new mate, mixing DNA from both [[BadassNormal Elisa]] ''and'' [[BigBad Demona]], Goliath's current and former {{Love Interest}}s.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'': Just as Scar was one for Simba in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' (see [[EvilCounterpart/AnimatedFilms here]]), he's also one to Kion, representing what Kion [[ShadowArchetype can become]] if he let his anger, self-doubts, and envy consume him to the point he becomes power-hungry. Kion often fears he'll end up like Scar, hence why he frequently regulates the use of [[MightyRoar the Roar of the Elders]], having been made aware that Scar was stripped of the Roar for destroying his own Lion Guard when they refused to help him overthrow Mufasa. [[spoiler:Some scenes in Season 3 of ''The Lion Guard'' even depict Scar [[TheCorrupter actively attempting]] to corrupt Kion]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'':

** Twilight gains another one in Season 5 named [[DarkMagicalGirl Starlight Glimmer]]. Both seek to spread friendship across the land, but Twilight offers genuine friendship while Starlight offers a false one through brainwashing. Twilight studies and trains to overcome her limitations and encourages others to do their best, while Starlight became bitterly jealous of others and so found a spell that can take away the talents of others, so nopony can ever be better than her. While Twilight became a new Princess of Friendship in Equestria, Starlight became a sociopathic dictator in a FalseUtopia town, with aspirations to take her message [[TodayXTomorrowTheWorld outside of her town]]. It also reflects in their backstories. Twilight Sparkle has had friends, social status, and guidance since youth and had the benefit of being a magical prodigy mentored under the tutelege of Princess Celestia, not to mention her ''special cutie mark connection'' with the other Mane Five. Starlight Glimmer on the other hand, has had [[DarkAndTroubledPast no such fortune whatsoever]]. As a filly, Starlight had minimal guidance, no special cutie mark connection and in fact suffered a ''broken'' friendship due to her closest friend ''receiving his cutie mark'', and was forced to have pretty much spend most of her life [[FriendlessBackground alone]], which [[StartOfDarkness led]] to her increasing bitterness and hatred towards cutie marks and talents. It's even lampshaded when the two meet, as Starlight becomes increasingly [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] and [[TheResenter resentful]] of Twilight's talent and fortune, to the point where Starlight develops a personal vendetta against Twilight and her friends that [[RevengeBeforeReason grew even stronger]] after the Season 5 premiere. [[spoiler: Twilight Sparkle [[SympathyForTheDevil understood Starlight's plight]] and takes it upon herself to befriend Starlight and teach her about Friendship as her own mentor.]]

** [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E12ElsewhereAndElsewhen "Elsewhere and Elsewhen"]] gives Luz an even stronger one in the form of [[spoiler:Philip Wittibane/[[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Emperor Belos]]. They're both humans that ended up trapped in the Boiling Isles and seek to find a way home. But while Luz is kind and empathetic, and loves the Isles and only seeks to return home to reunite with her mother, having even found love with a witch, Philip is manipulative and selfish, willing to sacrifice his "companions" at the drop of a hat if he thinks it will benefit him, and hates witches. Philip even notes that it took years for him to track down the glyphs, almost as if something was trying to keep him from finding them, while Luz found all four in a matter of weeks.]]

*** To Eda. They are both mentors to young witches and are known as two of the most powerful witches on the Boiling Isles. However, while Eda advocates for freedom and individuality, Belos enforces conformity through his coven system. [[spoiler:"Hunting Palismen" reveals that he also is struggling to control a mysterious magical affliction that is gradually turning him into a monster. However, unlike Eda his method of controlling it involves killing Palismen to absorb their wild magic.]] They're also both famously powerful witches who have both taken [[spoiler: magicless]] prodigies under their wing, forming close bonds with them in the process. But while Eda is highly supportive of Luz and promises to be with her on any path she chooses, Belos is [[spoiler:a far harsher taskmaster, forbidding Hunter from studying wild magic and keeping a very unequal balance of power between the two of them.]] [[spoiler:In season two, both Eda and Belos manage to get better control of their afflictions in a mental realm, but while Eda managed to gain a better understanding of the Owl Beast and come to an agreement after Hooty sends her into her dreams, Belos deliberately seeks out and destroys the embodiment of the Palismen souls that he's consumed.]]
*** To Luz Noceda. [[spoiler:Both are humans who got trapped in the Demon Realm, adapted to living there, learned magic, and gained a mentor of sorts in Eda and the Collector respectively. In "Hollow Mind", Belos even uses the same line that Luz had used earlier ("Can't reason with crazy"). Both have an impact on the society of the Boiling Isles, be it by making it a crueler and more Social Darwinist in Belos' case or bringing out the best in the people around them in Luz'. Luz is a WideEyedIdealist who genuinely loves and wishes to learn magic, whereas Belos is a cruel and tyrannical man who uses magic as a means to an end to ''wipe it all out'']].

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'', the eponymous duo accidentally release Dangly Deever, a Howdy Doody-style children's show marionette, while futzing with one of the Geek's numerous research projects. This seems harmless enough, until the Geek returns in time for an evil version of Dangly, and several other puppets who didn't get good counterparts, to break free. At the climax, the two Danglies are struggling for dominance while the heroes try to pick out their target.

** The PosthumousCharacter Abigail Gluck is framed as an EvilCounterpart to Velma, taking her famous intelligence and social awkwardness to chilling levels. She served as TheSmartGirl of the Benevolent Lodge of Mystery in the 1880's, but was apparently just as amoral as Professor Pericles, devoting her scientific acumen to building deadly weapons of war in her old age -- and she may well have been involved with ''the Nazis'' at one point. [[note]] This being a kid's show, no one ever actually says "Nazis". But she's outright said to have built robotic soldiers in the 1930's, her robots wear UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era German helmets, and they all have German names. Do the math.[[/note]] She apparently served as an EvilMentor to Pericles, and eventually secluded herself in an underwater base that she built herself, where she eventually died of old age -- alone and unmourned.

** Gargamel himself can be considered an evil counterpart of Papa Smurf as they both are wizards but one uses his magic to help people and do good and the other for selfish and cruel reasons, they both are father figures for Smurfette and Sasette but one because is a gentle adoptive father and the other because is a negligent creator, they both have aprentices (Brainy and Scruple) but while Papa Smurf is a patient and wise teacher Gargamel misstreats and exploits Scruple, and they are both old for their respective species.
** Scruple could be considered an evil counterpar of several characters; of the Smurfulings as he is a child version of Gargamel in a similar way how the Smurflings are child versions of adult Smurfs. Of Prince Gerald as Gerald is also a child who knows the existence of the Smurfs but is a kindhearted good boy. Of Denisa (Baltazar's niece) who is also a goodhearted sweet girl who befriends the Smurfs.
** Hogatha can be an evil counterpart for Smurfette as both are interested in improving their look and look pretty, but while Smurfette antics always cause unintentional damage, Hogatha is outright sadistic and indiferent to others suffering.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''

** [[Characters/TotalDramaHeather Heather]] is one to Gwen in unmitigated spades. Both of them start off as loners, and quickly develop an antagonistic relationship with Chris. Both are beautiful females who attract plenty of interest from the opposite sex. However, Heather is a representation of everything that Gwen is absolutely not, especially in Island. Gwen is a loner by voluntary choice, and generally minds her own choices. Heather, by contrast, winds up a loner because of her abuse of her allies. Gwen, despite having a cynical and snarky side, genuinly cares for her friends, and won't hesitate to risk losing the challenge to help them. Heather puts on a nice facade, but the friendship she offers is false, and backstabs them once they are no longer neeeded. Gwen is shown to accomplish most of her victories on her own merit, while Heather relies on her allies, and all of her individual wins are through sheer luck. Gwen is adamant on winning the competition fairly, even against friends. Heather will not hesitate to cheat to win. Gwen is shown in both her online biographies and the video message from her family to have a good relationship with her family, while Heather has a dysfunctional one. Gwen's relationships with Trent and Duncan were healthy, and they failed because of odd actions on Trent and Duncan's side. Heather's relationship with Alejandro swings from one pendelum to the next. In other words, Heather represents everything that Gwen appears to be, but is not.

** Amy and Samey are this to Katie and Sadie. Both knew each other before the show, dress the same, have similar names and are treated by everyone as TheDividual. But Katie and Sadie are HeterosexualLifePartners who are TheDividual because they enjoy each others company so much, whereas Amy is a BigSisterBully who copies everything Samey does in order to outshine her and take away any individuality she tries to gain to ensure she always be the more popular of the two. Even their similar names are invoked by an EmbarrassingNickname Amy gave her sister, whose actual name is Sammy. While treated as TheDividual they are actually PolarOppositeTwins. Even their titles demonstrate this, Katie and Sadie are [[NiceGirl "The Sweet Girl"]] and [[TrueCompanions "The Sweet Girls Friend"]] whereas they're [[SiblingYinYang "The Good Cheerleader Twin" and "The Evil Cheerleader Twin"]].

** Heather is one to Gwen in unmitigated spades. Both of them start off as loners, and quickly develop an antagonistic relationship with Chris. Both are beautiful females who attract plenty of interest from the opposite sex. However, Heather is a representation of everything that Gwen is absolutely not, especially in Island. Gwen is a loner by voluntary choice, and generally minds her own choices. Heather, by contrast, winds up a loner because of her abuse of her allies. Gwen, despite having a cynical and snarky side, genuinly cares for her friends, and won't hesitate to risk losing the challenge to help them. Heather puts on a nice facade, but the friendship she offers is false, and backstabs them once they are no longer neeeded. Gwen is shown to accomplish most of her victories on her own merit, while Heather relies on her allies, and all of her individual wins are through sheer luck. Gwen is adamant on winning the competition fairly, even against friends. Heather will not hesitate to cheat to win. Gwen is shown in both her online biographies and the video message from her family to have a good relationship with her family, while Heather has a dysfunctional one. Gwen's relationships with Trent and Duncan were healthy, and they failed because of odd actions on Trent and Duncan's side. Heather's relationship with Alejandro swings from one pendelum to the next. In other words, Heather represents everything that Gwen appears to be, but is not.
** Duncan is this to Trent. While Duncan is not exactly evil, there are some distinctions between him and Trent. Trent seems to get along very well with most of the contestants (even the ones he dislikes), Duncan easily makes enemies (especially Harold, who is involved in a band with Trent). While Trent's relationship with Gwen became unhealthy at the start of the second season, Duncan's was healthier in the third season. Even though Trent threw challenges for Gwen to prove his love for her, Duncan will stop at nothing to cheat (which was evident in some episodes, including "The Princess Pride").

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'':

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Fry assumes that the character Flexo is this to Bender but his jealousy blinds him to the fact that it's actually the other way around.

** Amy and Samey are this to Katie and Sadie. Both knew each other before the show, dress the same, have similar names and are treated by everyone as TheDividual. But Katie and Sadie are HeterosexualLifePartners who are TheDividual because they enjoy each others company so much, whereas Amy is a BigSisterBully who copies everything Samey dose in order to outshine her and take away any individuality she tries to gain to ensure she always be the more popular of the two. Even their similar names are invoked by an EmbarrassingNickname Amy gave her sister. While treated as TheDividual they are actually PolarOppositeTwins. Even their titles demonstrate this, Katie and Sadie are [[NiceGirl "The Sweet Girl"]] and [[TrueCompanions "The Sweet Girls Friend"]] whereas they're [[SiblingYinYang "The Good Cheerleader Twin" and "The Evil Cheerleader Twin"]].

** Darth Maul was this to Anakin (pre-FaceHeelTurn) as well. Both were slaves as children and then passed down to be taught the ways of the Force; both are incredibly skilled and powerful at a young age; both form master-apprentice and brotherly relationships with another (Obi-Wan with Anakin and Savage with Maul); both were nearly killed by Obi-Wan Kenobi and restored to life using machinery; and finally, both are cast aside by Darth Sidious in favor of another potential apprentice (Maul for Anakin, and Anakin for Luke).