Basic Trope: A character has or encounters an identical, evil (twin) sibling/clone/other family member.
- Straight: Bob encounters Kane, his evil identical twin brother.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob has multiple evil siblings who were born together with him (triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets, etc.)
- Bob encounters his Alternate Universe self who was born in his place and Driven to Villainy because of one minor difference in his otherwise identical upbringing to Bob.
- Downplayed:
- Bob encounters Kane, his evil fraternal twin brother.
- Bob encounters Kane, his jerkass identical twin brother.
- Kane is Affably Evil and genuinely loves Bob, and wants to bond with his brother... by committing some unsavory crimes.
- Justified:
- Bob and Kane were Separated at Birth and given up for adoption. Bob had a rather normal upbringing living with loving Good Parents, while Kane was raised by a couple of supervillains (who may have even been abusive to boot).
- Kane is a clone created by Emperor Evulz to be the perfect enemy of Bob.
- Kane is Bob. Or rather, Bob's inner darkness given its own body.
- Inverted: Kane encounters Avel, his good twin.
- Gender Inverted: Bob encounters Roberta, his fraternal twin sister who looks and acts a lot like him (aside from being female and, well, evil).
- Subverted: Bob's supposedly evil twin turns out not to be evil.
- Double Subverted: Kane was just playing a mind game with Bob. He was a bad guy all along.
- Parodied:
- Both twins are evil, or one of them is a little more evil than the other.
- Every time a pair of twins show up, Alice feels the need to ask which one of them is the evil one.
- Zig Zagged: Bob's twin Kane sometimes antagonizes him or commits evil deeds, but at other times he does not seem to be evil at all.
- Averted: Bob doesn't have an evil twin.
- Enforced: The writers want to create a new enemy for Bob, but are convinced he needs to be a much more personal nemesis for Bob than his previous adversaries.
- Lampshaded: "So you're my evil twin, huh? Then where's your goatee?"
- Invoked: Someone (perhaps even Bob himself) intentionally uses Applied Phlebotinum to create an evil clone of Bob.
- Exploited: Bob takes the opportunity of Kane's visit to commit a crime he's always secretly wanted to do, because people will blame his evil twin.
- Defied: Bob's identical twin is prophesied to become his evil counterpart, so their parents do everything to instill Kane with kindness and good virtues.
- Discussed: "Bob has just discovered his identical twin. I'm telling you the guy must be evil or something, no way around it".
- Conversed: "In this episode Bob runs into his evil twin".
- Played For Laughs: Bob and Kane keep getting into hilariously awkward situations, as people keep mistaking one for the other, despite their obvious personality differences.
- Played For Drama:
- Kane murders Bob, and then impersonates him while committing crimes.
- Kane deliberately frames Bob for several crimes that he committed, causing Bob to be arrested for his brother's misdeeds.
- Kane is an Angsty Surviving Twin on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Bob's killers.
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