History Main / EvilKnockoff

* Nuclear Man is the Evil Knockoff of Superman in ''Film/{{Superman}} IV''.

** Also, in ''PaperMario'', enemies could transform into allies, and at one point in the game [[spoiler: a mirror breaks, and it turns out that Mario and his allies' reflections were actually disguised enemies behind glass]].

* Surprisingly not mentioned yet, Wario could be considered a knockoff of [[SuperMarioBros Mario]]. However, after ''SuperMarioLand'', he became a bumbling idiot with absolutely no resemblance except the outfit. Shadow Mario is a more recent version, although [[spoiler: he is really Bowser Jr. in disguise.]] Waluigi can be considered a knockoff of [[SuperMarioBros Luigi]] as well (although I think he is a cheap copy of Wario).

* Parodied in ''{{Adventurers}}!'' Khrima creates robot duplicates of all the heroes, and plans to kidnap the heroes and replace them with their doubles to fool each other, only to be informed of the holes in this plan: the duplicates only vaguely resemble the people they're replacing; he built a double of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Evil Killer Death Spybot 5000]], who is ''already'' a robot and ''already'' on their side; and of course, if they're kidnapped, there's no need to trick them anyway.

Often a form of LaserGuidedTykebomb. SisterTrope to EvilTwin (evil identical twin), EvilCounterpart (evil AlternateUniverse persona), and CriminalDoppelganger (evil IdenticalStranger). Related to MirrorBoss and SixthColumn. Often, whole teams being cloned results in ThePsychoRangers. If the knockoff turns out to be the manifestation of the hero's inherent evil side, it's an EnemyWithout. Contrast PsychoPrototype, where the hero is the "Good Knockoff".

** And almost ''every PowerRangers'' team has an episode in which the BigBad creates [[ThePsychoRangers bad Rangers]]. The Jungle Fury season did a variation on it, with the "Five Fingers of Poison," poisonous animal-based Monsters Of The Week, as an EvilCounterpart team rather than an EvilTwin team. Of course, the year is far from over: clones may still be on the way.
*** Well, the season is over now and it turns out they didn't go with copies: the Spirit Rangers were [[spoiler: senior members of the Rangers' order, with original suits and attacks based on the masters' own animal spirits]].

*** Don't forget the Mighty Mutant Rangers!
*** [[DisContinuity Oh god, can we please?]]

* The Eva Series in ''[[NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]]'' are mass produced copies of the Evas. Unusually for this trope, but typical for ''Evangelion'' really, these copies are superior to the protagonists' units with flight ''and'' copies of the ArtifactOfDoom. Their opponent is Unit 02 armed with battery power, a combat knife, and a really angry German.

* In ''Beetleborgs'' the Shadowborg was an evil Beetleborg specifically created to destroy the heroes. The good guys had to create a ''good'' knockoff of Shadowborg, the White Blaster Beetleborg, to even the odds. Because of the rules governing the magic that created White Blaster, when Shadowborg was eventually defeated White Blaster's power vanished as well.

* In ''Rayman'', There's Bad/''[[DarkisEvil Dark]]'' Rayman, Created by ''[[NamestheSame Mr. Dark]]''.

* In [[Sonichu]], Robotnik and Giovanni make ''two'' Evil Knockoffs of Sonichu - Black Sonichu (later renamed "Blake") and Metal Sonichu. Metal Sonichu is defeated in his first appearance and Blake is an annoyance to Sonichu and the Chaotic Combo until his hidden away HeelFaceTurn after getting a girlfriend.

* As related to the above, ''The Spoony Experiment'' has implemented this recently. At the end of Spoony's Final Fantasy VIII review, he is attacked by Squall, who was hired by Dr. Insano, ALL of whom are [[ActingForTwo played by Noah Antwiler]]. At the end of this encounter, both Squall and Spoony are killed, and Linkara takes to reanimating Spoony through cloning. This Clone is now the main character of the Spoony Experiment. The Evil Knockoff comes in when a short while later, a Black Lantern ring falls into Linkara's hotel room while he's at the Chicago Comic Convention, and reanimates the soul of the Original Spoony One. This Black Lantern version fights Linkara briefly, is defeated, and joins Linkara in a single review. He is then promptly murdered by Mechakara and brought back as a Black Lantern again. Then, in the Final Fantasy X review, before the review truly begins, the Original Spoony bursts in on Clone Spoony, explaining that he came back to life as Spoony the White, and came to kill the clone to get his show back. Upon finding out that Clone Spoony was going to review Final Fantasy X, however, Spoony the White shot himself with the gun intended to kill the Clone. He then promptly returns as a Black Lantern Spoony, AGAIN. Given the convolution of this plot, it's hard to say if he's really the original, an Evil Knockoff, or if this is reversed from the get go.

* In one "Teen Force" short on ''Space Stars'', Uglor created an evil duplicate of Elektra.

* An army of InspectorGadget clones Dr. Claw once created.

* In one episode of {{Disney/Aladdin}}, a chaos elemental can't figure out how to defeat Aladdin, so he makes a Bad Aladdin to fight him, complete with Bad Genie. Luckily, Good Aladdin figures out that Bad Aladdin wouldn't have freed his genie, so stealing the lamp works.

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* Match, the evil clone of {{Superboy}} in TheDCU.

** Prior to that, ''Game/MegaMan'' has also been cloned at least twice, once into triplets. In ''[[MegaManPoweredUp Powered Up]]'', whatever character you play as also gets cloned.

* In the {{Legion of Super Heroes}} storyline ''The Great Darkness Saga'', the servants of [[spoiler: Darkseid]] are duplicates of [[spoiler: Lydea Mallor (ancestor of Legion member Shadow Lass), Superman, a Guardian of the Universe, and Darkseid's sons Orion and Kalibak.]]

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[[caption-width:300:The original substitute [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]]. Accept no substitute! ...Wait, what?]]

** When the [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombie clones]] show up, the regular clones stop being [[OneHitPointWonder one hit point wonders.]] [[DrLombriz This]] [[TroperTales Troper]] lost his last life on his last continue stabbing a clone before it just shotgunned him. It's [[YourMileageMayVary arguably]] the [[ScrappyLevel toughest,]] [[BestLevelEver most tense]] part of the game.
** A slight variation in ''Metal Slug 5'', where the Ptolemaic Army uses Metal Slug tanks of their own. In fact, the first boss of the game is a ''[[BiggerIsBetter giant]]'' Metal Slug.

Often a form of LaserGuidedTykebomb. SisterTrope to EvilTwin (evil identical twin), EvilCounterpart (evil AlternateUniverse persona), and CriminalDoppelganger (evil IdenticalTwin). Related to MirrorBoss and SixthColumn. Often, whole teams being cloned results in ThePsychoRangers. If the knockoff turns out to be the manifestation of the hero's inherent evil side, it's an EnemyWithout. Contrast PsychoPrototype, where the hero is the "Good Knockoff".

Often a form of LaserGuidedTykebomb. Related to EvilTwin, EvilCounterpart, MirrorBoss and SixthColumn. Often, whole teams being cloned results in ThePsychoRangers. If the knockoff turns out to be the manifestation of the hero's inherent evil side, it's an EnemyWithout. Contrast PsychoPrototype, where the hero is the "Good Knockoff".

** A slight variation in ''Metal Slug 5'', where the Ptolemaic Army uses Metal Slug tanks of their own. In fact, the first boss of the game is a ''[[BiggerIsBetter giant]]'' Metal Slug. This Troper actually felt ''betrayed'' the first time he encountered one, and usually makes a point to destroy them first.

* ''AtopTheFourthWall'' has the mysterious Mecha-Linkara, who resembles Linkara with a robotic hand. His origins and motives are unknown and mostly he's just lurked in the background chuckling in a sinister fashion and occasionally making subtle attempts on Linkara's life [[spoiler: and re-killing the original Spoony.]] Linkara apparently doesn't even know he exists.
** [[supersecretspoiler: He does now, and Mecha-Linkara even got to give a [[WhatTheHellPlayer What the hell, viewers?]] for taking [[ReviewsAreTheGospel reviews as gospel.]] ]]

* As related to the above, ''The Spoony Experiment'' has implemented this recently. At the end of Spoony's Final Fantasy VIII review, he is attacked by Squall, who was hired by Dr. Insano, ALL of whom are [[ActingForTwo played by Noah Antwiler]]. At the end of this encounter, both Squall and Spoony are killed, and Linkara takes to reanimating Spoony through cloning. This Clone is now the main character of the Spoony Experiment. The Evil Knockoff comes in when a short while later, a Black Lantern ring falls into Linkara's hotel room while he's at the Chicago Comic Convention, and reanimates the soul of the Original Spoony One. This Black Lantern version fights Linkara briefly, is defeated, and joins Linkara in a single review. He is then promptly murdered by Mecha-Linkara and brought back as a Black Lantern again. Then, in the Final Fantasy X review, before the review truly begins, the Original Spoony bursts in on Clone Spoony, explaining that he came back to life as Spoony the White, and came to kill the clone to get his show back. Upon finding out that Clone Spoony was going to review Final Fantasy X, however, Spoony the White shot himself with the gun intended to kill the Clone. He then promptly returns as a Black Lantern Spoony, AGAIN. Given the convolution of this plot, it's hard to say if he's really the original, an Evil Knockoff, or if this is reversed from the get go.

* ''MegaManZero'' [[spoiler:'''inverts''' this by making the Zero as you play as the knockoff, but the memory's real... the original Zero body is the mindless, AxCrazy one]].

* ''MSPaintMasterpieces'' had Copy MegaMan, made by Dr. Wily to stop megaman and pre-loaded with all of the Robot Masters weapons. A logical move on Wily's part since Mega Man is, y'know, ''a robot he helped build.'' And honestly, it would have actually killed Mega Man if it weren't for outside intervention.

* ''BeastWars''' Dinobot 2 is a clone of Dinobot, minus the honor.