History Film / Twins1988

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The movie pretty much glosses over the fact that one of the nuns at the orphanage had sexual relations with Vincent when he was only a child.

* HotForTeacher: Vincent somehow managed to seduce Sister Maria, one of the nuns who was his biology teacher at the orphanage where he grew up. This resulted in Sister Maria losing her job before he ran away.

* PolarOppositeTwins: Aside from the visibly obvious, Vincent is a never-do-well conman who has been doing awful things since he was young enough to run like hell (away from the orphanage he grew up in, after ''seducing one of the nuns''), while Julius is a WideEyedIdealist GentleGiant.

* {{Adorkable}}: Julius, especially on the topic of women.

* BondOneLiner: During the final confrontation, once the chains finally finish piling up on the villain, Vincent looks in mild shock before delivering "Now there's a guy with a lot on his mind."

* TwinTelepathy: Naturally. The Twins are even in constant synchronization, much to Vincent's initial annoyance. [[WeNamedTheMonkeyJack Vincent named his first cat Julius, and Julius named his first computer Vincent]]. When either brother is hurt, both feel pain. Vincent actually gives up the five-million-dollar payoff in an attempt to rescue Julius he's pretty sure won't work specifically because Julius has given him a [[ConscienceMakesYouGoBack conscience that won't quit nagging him]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: Vincent accuses Linda of accompanying him on the journey because her interests were only financial, even though five million dollars is exactly what motivated his road trip in the first place. Though he likely just taking his anger on the news of his mother's supposed death on her.

** Dr. Werner had hoped Julius would stay with him after learning he had a twin, but Julius was insistent on leaving to find his twin brother, so Werner let him leave. That's as nice as he gets and it's all downhill from there.

''Twins'' is a 1988 comedy directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Creator/DannyDeVito and Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger as twins.

Yes, ''that'' [[TheNapoleon Danny [=DeVito=]]] and [[TheAhnold Arnold]] [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Schwarzenegger]].

%% * PolarOppositeTwins: (This is a zero context example. Please do not uncomment until further context has been added.) Duh.

* PolarOppositeTwins: [[CaptainObvious Duh.]]

* CassandraTruth: No one ever believes that Vincent and Julius are twins.

* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: When Julius visits Benedict in jail, his reaction eyeing on a tall burly man walking by before Benedict seats across him and thought he got the wrong person.

* TwinTelepathy: Naturally. The Twins are even in constant synchronization, much to Vincent's initial annoyance. [[WeNamedTheMonkeyJack Vincent named his first cat Julius, and Julius named his first computer Vincent]]. When either brother is hurt, both feel pain. Vincent actually gives up the five-million-dollar payoff in an attempt to rescue Vincent he's pretty sure won't work specifically because Julius has given him a [[ConscienceMakesYouGoBack conscience that won't quit nagging him]].

* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: When Julius visits Benedict in jail, his reaction eyeing on a tall burly man walking by before Benedict approaches across him.

Julius and Vincent Benedict are fraternal twins; the results of a secret experiment carried out at a genetics laboratory to produce the perfect child, using sperm donated by six different fathers. The mother was told that the children died at birth, while the children were informed once old enough that their mother died in childbirth. The program was a success but was shut down, [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid due to one twin inheriting the "desirable traits", and the other being the "genetic trash"]]: Julius is strong, handsome, kind and intelligent, while Vincent is, well, [[TypeCasting Danny [=DeVito=]]].

* BadassAdorable: Julius is an interesting example; he is adorable not because of his appearance, but because of his sweet, innocent and kind-hearted personality.

* BadassAdorable: An interesting example, because Julius' adorability is in his demeanour and behaviour rather than his appearance.

News broke in Summer 2013 that a sequel, called.. What else, ''Triplets'', is apparently going into production soon with Creator/EddieMurphy as the third brother. That sound you can hear is the entire world doing a collective ''[[FlatWhat "What?"]]''.

* NatureVsNurture: Because of the unexpected birth of twins, the experiment was ended and the mother/children split up. Julius ended up with one of the scientists who genuinely raised the boy to be a genius bodybuilder ("the Good") in an isolated environment void of cultural distractions. Vincent was left abandoned to an orphanage, without any mentor or guidance to grow up, and learned to cheat and lie his way through life ("the Bad") while living a hedonistic unhealthy lifestyle. The argument would be how much did genetics already establish which twin was Good or Bad, and how much did they way they grew up? Lampshaded by Julius, who realizes he had the more coddled childhood and condemns Dr. Traven for pre-judging Vincent to a harsher life.
-->I was taken to a beautiful island, protected, educated, loved, given every opportunity to grow, to dream, to create. But you had none of that. You had ''nobody.'' Nobody to love you, nobody to trust you, nobody to encourage you. All life taught you was that the only person you could count on was yourself.

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: We never find out if the loan sharks are still after Vincent.

* CoatOverTheShoulder: Danny gets them matching sets of cool white suits. They simultaneously flip their jackets, with Arnold's jacket floating over Danny.

* CurbStompBattle: Julius' fight with the Klane heavy in Vincent's office.