Basic Trope: The villain creates an evil clone, robot double, or other kind of copy of the hero.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz creates Brad, a clone of the hero Bob who has all of his powers and is willing to obey Evulz's vile orders.
- Exaggerated:
- Emperor Evulz creates an evil duplicate of every hero that opposes him.
- Emperor Evulz creates clones of every individual soldier of The Republic.
- Emperor Evulz creates Ben, a clone of Brad, and then creates Rob, a clone of Ben, and then creates Obo, a clone of Rob, and then creates Boo, a clone of Obo, and then creates Bbo, a clone of Boo, and then creates...
- Downplayed: Rather than create a complete copy of Bob, Emperor Evulz simply copies Bob's powers and transfers them to a henchman he feels is suitable to have them.
- Justified: Emperor Evulz felt that the best way he could defeat Bob would be to have him taken out by his exact double.
- Inverted: Bob is a benevolent clone of the criminal Brad.
- Subverted: Brad is created to be an evil copy of Bob, but he ends up turning against Emperor Evulz and siding with the heroes.
- Double Subverted: No one trusts Brad, so he goes back to being the villainous counterpart to Bob he was created to be.
- Parodied: Brad is easily distinguishable from the real Bob by being dim-witted and weird-looking, yet everyone is fooled into mistaking Brad for Bob.
- Zig Zagged: It varies whether every clone or robot double Emperor Evulz makes of Bob is evil or good and whether or not they stay that way.
- Averted: No one ever makes evil copies of the heroes.
- Enforced: "Let's do an episode where Bob fights an evil clone of himself."
- Lampshaded: "Real original plan, Emperor Evulz. Exactly what were you hoping to accomplish by making me fight an evil robot built to look and act the same way I do?"
- Exploited: Emperor Evulz has Brad commit crimes so that Bob can be framed for them.
- Defied: "Create an evil clone of Bob? Nothing doing! If he's anything like the original, he could end up turning against us!"
- Brad is a clone of Bob created to defeat him. He resents the idea and strives to make himself wholly distinct from the hero; thus, they look, act, and fight nothing alike.
- Discussed: "I always wondered why the bad guy thought it was a brilliant scheme to get rid of the hero by siccing an evil clone on him."
- Conversed: "What confuses me is how the duplicate manages to be an exact copy of the hero with the sole exception of reversed morality."
- Implied: Some sort of "Evil Bob" is mentioned among a list of creations by Emperor Evulz that failed to kill Bob.
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