History Main / DifferentlyDressedDuplicates

* In ''WebOriginal/HeHimselfAndHim'', this is invoked by Chris A to minimize the freak out factor (he's still quite surprised that Chris B even ''exists''). It's later played straight with Chris C.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]]: When the Doctor meets himself, one of the two Doctors wears a [[NiceHat fez]] and holds a mop.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda'' cartoon show had Ganon's magic creating an evil twin of Zelda. The Dark Zelda looks identical to the real Zelda, except she wears a black outfit and openly flirts with Link. Subverted when they both fall in the mud, forcing Link to challenge them to a "kissing contest" to tell which one is real.

* In ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', Triplicate Girl initially wore a purple outfit with orange cape and boots, which she continued to wear after one of her selves was killed and she became Duo Damsel. In ''Superboy'' #193, a number of Legionnaires got new costumes and Duo Damsel's new costume (based on a "[[OfficialFanSubmittedContent Fashions From Fans]]" piece in ''Adventure Comics'' two years earlier) was half orange and half purple, which became solidly one colour when she split (which, for the purpose of this story, represented the two factions the Legion was trying to make peace between). This became more significant with the Reboot Legion, where Triad's three selves had very different personalities, making it more important to distinguish between Triad-Orange, Triad-Purple and Triad-Neutral.
wears a multi-colored costume that her split versions wear one color of each.

* In some reboots of the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', Triplicate/Duplicate Girl wears a multi-colored costume that her split versions wear one color of each.

** In ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', a parasite takes over Samus's suit and becomes her duplicate, but the real Samus had her appearance changed to a sleeker, more organic suit due to her radical surgery.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'' had a Dark Samus duplicate, which confused and terrified the Space Pirates when they found out there were two Samuses out to get them. Believing it to be this trope, they named the black one the "Dark Hunter" and the original just "The Hunter", until they realized the two were enemies.

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* In [[http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+PM++143-1 one Disney comic]], Gyro Gearloose makes a duplicate of Donald to teach him how unlivable he is. The original wears a black sailor suit (as he often does in comics from those days and place), while the duplicate wears one in the classic blue color. At the end of the episode, a furious Donald forces the experience on all his entourage, and all of them have a similar distinguishing feature on their clothes.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daler_Mehndi Daler Mehndi]]'s SurrealMusicVideo for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTIIMJ9tUc8 Tunak Tunak Tun]]" features a variant with several duplicates of Mehndi dancing in {{Palette Swap}}ped versions of the same robe and turban.

* ''The Amazing Story Of Superman Red and Superman Blue'' -- Superman's two halves dress in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly those colors]].

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': When John Crichton was "twinned", one wore a green shirt most of the time while the other wore black. "Green John" was notably perturbed that he couldn't wear black, as well as that the John who escaped on Talyn with Aeryn had taken his favorite pulse pistol, Wynona.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'', Prue creates two clones of herself which are distinguished by wearing different-colored shirts. Later in the episode one of the clones is killed by a demon and ends up at the morgue. Prue's boyfriend turns up to break the bad news and ends up very confused when Piper mutters "thank god" on hearing what shirt color she was wearing.

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** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E4TheAndroidInvasion The Android Invasion]]", androids impersonate the Doctor and Sarah in each other's presence on two separate occasions. The Doctor realizes that the Sarah duplicate is not real because she was wearing a scarf that the real Sarah lost.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang The Big Bang]]", the Doctor meets himself. One of the two Doctors wears a [[NiceHat fez]] and holds a mop.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E5TheRebelFlesh The Rebel Flesh]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople The Almost People]]", the Doctor and his {{doppelganger}} are wearing different shoes. [[spoiler:While offscreen together, they swap shoes, causing Amy to reveal secret information to the Doctor thinking he's the doppelgänger.]]

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* ''The Amazing Story Of Superman Red And Superman Blue'' - Superman's two halves dress in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly those colors]].

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* Film/SpyKids franchise

* In an episode of ''Series/Charmed1998'', Prue creates two clones of herself which are distinguished by wearing different coloured shirts. Later in the episode one of the clones is killed by a demon and ends up at the morgue. Prue's boyfriend turns up to break the bad news and ends up very confused when Piper mutters "thank god" on hearing what colour shirt she was wearing.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E4TheAndroidInvasion "The Android Invasion"]], androids impersonate the Doctor and Sarah in each other's presence on two separate occasions. The Doctor realizes that the Sarah duplicate is not real because she was wearing a scarf that the real Sarah lost.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], the Doctor meets himself. One of the two Doctors wears a [[NiceHat fez]] and holds a mop.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E5TheRebelFlesh "The Rebel Flesh"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople "The Almost People"]], the Doctor and his {{doppelganger}} are wearing different shoes. [[spoiler:While offscreen together, they swap shoes, causing Amy to reveal secret information to the Doctor thinking he's the doppelgänger.]]

* In a late fourth-season episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', Sabrina is pressured by her two friends Harvey and Josh and her two aunts Hilda and Zelda to make different plans after high school. Sabrina ends up involuntary splitting herself into four to please all of them and each duplicate attends a formal with each respective character wearing a different colored dress. At the end, she pulls herself together and wears one dress with all four colors and decides to [[TakeAThirdOption go to the college of her choice, Adams]].

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Second Chances", "Thomas" Riker, a duplicate William Riker created in a transporter accident, wears a gold "Ops" uniform instead of Will's red Command uniform. Both Rikers also [[GrowingtheBeard grew a beard]] in the years since the accident, although Thomas' beard is fuller.
** This comes up again when Thomas shows up in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. The first thing he does after dropping his impersonation of his clone is to remove a couple of prosthetic sideburns, showing that he's chosen to distinguish himself from Will by growing a goatee... [[EvilTwin among other things.]] His desire to establish himself as a separate and distinct person from his 'brother', at ''any'' cost, is what drives the plot of the episode.

* During the ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' Citadel DLC, you can go up against various duplicates of Shepard in the Armax Arena, though they wear a grey-and-blue version of the default N7 armor. [[spoiler: The Shepard-clone from the 'story' aspect of the DLC also wears this grey-and-blue variant if you are wearing the standard black-and-red N7. If you aren't, the clone wears the black-and-red.]][[/folder]]

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* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', Leela decides to look inside Professor Farnsworth's secret box that she's guarding due to the outcome of a coin flip. Once inside, [[PaletteSwap palette-swapped]] versions of her friends appear and remark how she dyed her hair purple, since the Leela in the alternate universe contained within the box is a red-head.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCyberChase'', the cyber versions of Mystery Inc. wear the gang's classic 70's outfits, as opposed to the real Mystery Inc. who had since had their outfits updated.
** Except for the cyber version of Shaggy, who wore his 1980s-era red and blue outfit since the "real" Shaggy had reverted to his original green and maroon outfit by this time.

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* In ''3x3Eyes'' Pai is cloned. The clone almost immediately gets a different hairstyle to distinguish her from the original Pai.

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* In some reboots of the ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'', Triplicate/Duplicate Girl wears a multi-colored costume that her split versions wear one color of each.

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* In an episode of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'', Prue creates two clones of herself which are distinguished by wearing different coloured shirts. Later in the episode one of the clones is killed by a demon and ends up at the morgue. Prue's boyfriend turns up to break the bad news and ends up very confused when Piper mutters "thank god" on hearing what colour shirt she was wearing.

** In the classic serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E4TheAndroidInvasion "The Android Invasion"]], androids impersonate the Doctor and Sarah in each other's presence on two separate occasions. The Doctor realizes that the Sarah duplicate is not real because she was wearing a scarf that the real Sarah lost.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E5TheRebelFlesh "The Rebel Flesh"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople "The Almost People"]], the Doctor and his {{doppelganger}} are wearing different shoes. [[spoiler:While offscreen together, they swap shoes, causing Amy to reveal secret information to the Doctor thinking it's the doppelganger]].
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': When John Crichton was "twinned," one wore a green shirt most of the time while the other wore black. "Green John" was notably perturbed that he couldn't wear black, as well as that the John who escaped on Talyn with Aeryn had taken his favorite pulse pistol, Wynona.

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* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin's duplication of his "good" half is immediately distinguishable for combing his hair flat.
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* In an episode of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', Prue creates two clones of herself which are distinguished by wearing different coloured shirts. Later in the episode one of the clones is killed by a demon and ends up at the morgue. Prue's boyfriend turns up to break the bad news and ends up very confused when Piper mutters "thank god" on hearing what colour shirt she was wearing.

* ''Spy Kids''
** In ''Film/SpyKids'', Floop builds several Spy Kid robots, including a pair who look exactly like Carmen and Juni, except wearing a mass-produced outfit. When the real Carmen and Juni meet their duplicates, they get confused about it at first as the robots are much stronger and more hostile.