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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldofGumball'' episode "The Copycats", Nicole and a knock off version of her fought each other and were evenly matched with punches and kicks.

* In ''DynastyWarriorsGundam'' 2, [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Elpeo Puru]] and [[CloningBlues Puru II]]'s story modes, being already intertwined, culminate in a cutscene wherein the two battle in their identical Quebeley Mobile suits, each mirroring the other's moves perfectly. They comment on how good and natural it feels.

* "Insanity Prerequisite" in the WhateleyUniverse: protagonist Carmilla fights demon The Kellith. Since they're just two different aspects of the same person/thing, it gets complicated.

* In ''Series/Fringe'', Olivia confronts her alternate universe self thinking she has the upper hand. Turns out [[spoiler:Alt-Livia hides her backup gun in a different place.]]

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[[caption-width-right:250: It's like a mirror fight, but with less broken glass.]]

* In the ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' storyline ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' and Silver Banshee faced each other during their fight in [[http://www.readcomics.net/images/manga/supergirl/29/1.jpg New 52 Supergirl #29]].

* Subverted in ''Anime/HikaruNoGo''. One player gets the brilliant idea of challenging TheAce by taking the first stone (putting it in the center of the board, which has no mirror spot) and then mirroring Akira's actions on the Go board. Akira figures out what he's doing almost immediately and promptly sets a trap to capture his pieces in the center.

* In the miniseries ''InfiniteCrisis'', both {{Superman}} and Lex Luthor face off against alternate versions of themselves, and the two Supermen (Supermans?) later take on a ''third'' version of themselves.
** ''Countdown: Arena'' is four issues of this trope, as Monarch forces different versions of heroes to fight each other.
*** However, it's not very faithful- while the Wonder Women may be hard to tell apart, the Supermen's powers are very different (one is an "evolved" Kryptonian who can grab the other two's heat vision beams and throw them around by them, while the other is the super-patriotic Superman from ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder and the third is Red Son Superman, raised communist) and the others all offer some degree of variation- for example, the Ray fights a Nazi Ray and [[ComicBook/TheAuthority Apollo]], one of the Batmen is a vampire (from Batman: Red Rain) and another is a Green Lantern (from Batman: Darkest Knight), one of the Starmen is a monkey and one is a chick, and... well, the list goes on.

* In [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} Aladdin The Animated Series]] when a {{trickster}} called Chaos pairs Aladdin against an EvilTwin the results are to be expected.

* ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'''s final battle.

* [[GuileHero Quantum Cop]] and [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy Quantum Crook]] from ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy'' are so similar, [[http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=204 their bullets meet in mid-air]]. Howver, that is the ''only'' part of ''any'' fight where their actions are symmetrical.

* The finale of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' pits the eponymous mecha against the Grand Zamboa, a twisted doppelganger created to cause despair by [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame beating the heroes using their own shape]]. TheMovie goes step further with Super TengenToppaGurrenLagann and Super Grand Zamboa using the same [[FinishingMove Giga Drill Breaker]] at each other.

** Any fight between the [[spoiler:two Syaorans]] in ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' comes off like this, since they both use nearly identical styles of kickboxing and swordplay. The only difference is in their magic: Syaoran has inherited the Li family's magic, while [[spoiler:the clone has stolen half of Fai's magic]]. The latter is also far more ruthless in combat, which generally gives him an edge.

* ''{{Dragonball}} GT'' also features an example where the HumongousMecha Luud can only be destroyed by simultaneous attacks from inside and outside.

* ''{{Naruto}}'' does this near the end of the Rescue Gaara arc in Shippuuden. Clones of Gai, Lee, Neji and Tenten attack after they remove the seals that [[spoiler:hide Sasori, Deidara and the dead Gaara inside the Akatsuki lair.]]

* The finale of TengenToppaGurrenLagann pits the eponymous mecha against the Grand Zamboa, a twisted doppelganger created to cause despair by [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame beating the heroes using their own shape]]. TheMovie goes step further with Super TengenToppaGurrenLagann and Super Grand Zamboa using the same [[FinishingMove Giga Drill Breaker]] at each other.

* In one of the YuYuHakusho movies, Kuwabara faces an enemy who can immediately match any [[KiAttacks Ki Attack]] he performs, resulting in this trope. Kuwabara defeats the foe by unleashing an enormous burst of energy in order to drain both of them, and then just whaling on the guy, who is physically weaker than him.

* There's a (possibly apocryphal) story about a twin pair, one left-handed and one right-handed, who got into a GentlemensDuel. They took the required 10 paces, turned, fired... and [[ShootTheBullet their bullets met and melded at the halfway point]].

* [[Wrestling/TheYoungBucks Matt Jackson]] and Chris Sabin both tagged out during the first night main event of [[Wrestling/RingOfHonor Supercard Of Honor X]] due to this trope preventing either of them from gaining an advantage over the other. It was less the case with Alex Shelley and Nick due to the latter's [[IShallTauntYou posturing]].[[/folder]]

* [[Wrestling/TheYoungBucks Matt Jackson]] and Chris Sabin both tagged out during the first night main event of [[Supercard Of Honor X]] due to this trope preventing either of them from gaining an advantage over the other. It was less the case with Alex Shelley and Nick due to the latter's [[IShallTauntYou posturing]].[[/folder]]

* SymbionicTitan has a variation of this: [[BackToBackBadasses back-to-back]] symmetry. The two aren't clones, but Lance and Cain's martial arts moves are exactly the same, but mirrored, prompting both to ask the other where they learned to fight. Being that Lance learned to fight on another planet, and the Galalunian technology they find in the G3 base, this laid the groundwork for some sort of connection between Earth and Galaluna, though [[CutShort nothing came of it]].