History Main / DifferentlyDressedDuplicates

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Double Dipper", the photocopies of Dipper have blank spots on their hats where Dipper has a pine tree. They use felt tip markers to draw numbers on the hats so they can tell each other apart.

* 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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* Played with in ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', where one of the heroines, Harem, can be in 5 places at once, though all her copies of herself share one mind. Over the years, the five copies have started to differentiate their outfits and even their personalities, despite technically still being one person with one mind.
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* 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]].
** A seventh-season episode had Sabrina create a [[Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac Cyrano]] to help her express her love to Aaron; Cyrano looked exactly like her but with a comically-long nose. During the episode, a jealous Sabrina uses a spell to swap noses, and Aaron confusedly looks at both and asks if they changed outfits.

** In "The Rebel Flesh"/"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]].
** In the classic ''Doctor Who'' 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 "The Big Bang", the Doctor meets himself. One of the two Doctors wears a [[NiceHat fez]] and holds a mop.

* 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.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'', Sabrina enthusiastically signs up for more extracurricular activities than she can handle. She uses magic to conjure up two copies of herself and coordinates her three selves through a schedule and colored jerseys.

* 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 ''{{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.
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' once decided [[TripleShifter he didn't have enough time to be a superhero and enjoy a weekend with his friends]], so he divided himself in half to split his responsibilities. The result was a heroic Danny Phantom and a slacker with a mullet Danny Fenton. After his friends chew him out on how bad this idea panned out, Danny does the split again, except now there are two half ghosts with half the ghost powers each. The slacker Danny has human blue eyes but the heroic Danny has the ghostly green ones.
* Hacker in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'' points out this trope when confronted with an artificial duplicate controlled by Digit from the inside. Since the false Hacker was built in a factory on Symmetria, the duplicate is perfectly symmetrical, and Hacker [[FashionableAsymmetry asks the duplicate about its missing pocket protector]].

* In ''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.
** In ''Spy Kids 3: Game Over'', the Toymaker is trapped in cyberspace and talks with three artificial copies of himself, each one with a different personality and outfit. The real Toymaker gets mad when they bicker with each other and leave him out, but quickly realizes he can just turn them off.

* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' does this twice with Samus. 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.

* In ''Sabrina: The Animated Series'', Sabrina enthusiastically signs up for more extracurricular activities than she can handle. She uses magic to conjure up two copies of herself and coordinates her three selves through a schedule and colored jerseys.

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* In ''AtomicBetty'', Maximus makes three copies of Betty with different superpowers to commit crimes and frame the real Betty. Each of the three copies wears a different color than the real one.

** A seventh-season episode had Sabrina create a [[CyranoDeBergerac Cyrano]] to help her express her love to Aaron; Cyrano looked exactly like her but with a comically-long nose. During the episode, a jealous Sabrina uses a spell to swap noses, and Aaron confusedly looks at both and asks if they changed outfits.

* The ''Legend of Zelda: Four Swords'' games are all about this. Link can divide himself into four copies, each one wearing a different color-coded tunic.
* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' does this twice with Samus. In ''Fusion'', 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. ''MetroidPrime 2'' 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.

* 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.

* In the ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' 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.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Double Dipper", the photocopies of Dipper have blank spots on their hats where Dipper has a pine tree. They Sharpie in numbers on the hats so they can tell each other apart.

* In the ''GravityFalls'' episode "Double Dipper", the photocopies of Dipper have blank spots on their hats where Dipper has a pine tree. They Sharpie in numbers on the hats so they can tell each other apart.

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

* In ''{{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 the ''DoctorWho'' episode "The Rebel Flesh"/"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]].
** In the classic ''DoctorWho'' 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 the episode The Big Bang, the Doctor meets himself. One of the two Doctors wears a [[NiceHat fez]] and holds a mop.
* ''{{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.

* Happens to both Doc and Marty in ''BackToTheFuture Part II''. When they return to 1955 and encounter themselves from the first film, each is dressed differently to help the audience tell them apart. Biff's gang even uses the "how'd he change his clothes so fast?" line when they see both Martys one right after the other.

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

* Played with in GrrlPower, where one of the heroines, Harem, can be in 5 places at once, though all her copies of herself share one mind. Over the years, the five copies have started to differentiate their outfits and even their personalities, despite technically still being one person with one mind.

* In [[DisneyDucksComicUniverse 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 these days, 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.

* ''DannyPhantom'' once decided [[TripleShifter he didn't have enough time to be a superhero and enjoy a weekend with his friends]], so he divided himself in half to split his responsibilities. The result was a heroic Danny Phantom and a slacker with a mullet Danny Fenton. After his friends chew him out on how bad this idea panned out, Danny does the split again, except now there are two half ghosts with half the ghost powers each. The slacker Danny has human blue eyes but the heroic Danny has the ghostly green ones.

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* ''DannyPhantom'' once decided [[TripleShifter he didn't have enough time to be a superhero and enjoy a weekend with his friends]], so he divided himself in half to split his responsibilities. The result was a heroic Danny Phantom and a slacker with a mullet Danny Fenton. After his friends chew him out on how bad this idea panned out, Danny does the split again, except now there are two half ghosts with half the ghost powers each. The slacker Danny has human blue eyes but the heroic Danny has the ghostly green ones.