Basic Trope: Two or more characters at odds realize that they share similarities, after all.
- Straight:
- Amazing Girl was just forced to kill General Psychopathic and Master Destruction tells her that the ease with which she took human life is something he shares with her.
- Alternately, Amazing Girl unites with Master Destruction to fight crime once she realizes that, despite their differing methods, she and Master Destruction are both courageous, idealistic warriors who genuinely want world peace.
- Exaggerated:
- Master Destruction breaks Amazing Girl by talking about how similar they are that it makes her not only do a complete Face–Heel Turn, but she kills him, wears his costume and takes his place, thinking she really is him.
- Master Destruction goes on a 48 hour tirade on how him and Amazing Girl are exactly the same, and then proves his point by removing his mask and revealing that 'Master Destruction' is just an alias of Amazing Girl!
- Downplayed: Master Destruction is clearly presented as an Evil Counterpart to Amazing Girl, but neither of them says this explicitly.Master Destruction: You know, we're not so different, you and I.
Amazing Girl: I guess not... but what's your point?
Master Destruction: Nothing. Just sayin'. - Justified:
- Master Destruction is trying to turn Amazing Girl to The Dark Side and his first step is to convince her they are similar.
- What Amazing Girl did really was in Master Destruction's style.
- Master Destruction is a Shadow Archetype to Amazing Girl: while both are similar, their philosophies are vastly different, with Master Destruction deciding he should be callous, and Amazing Girl falling back on her empathy.
- They're related by blood, after all.
- Master Destruction is Amazing Girl's evil clone, Mirror Universe self, Enemy Without, villainous Split Personality, or some other kind of physical manifestation of her potential for evil that is "not so different" in the sense that it is her.
- He Who Fights Monsters to the point where you can’t help but to call it out.
- Inverted:
- Amazing Girl and Spectacular Girl, two very similar people, turns out to have more differences than it may seem.
- Amazing Girl comments that Master Destruction is actually quite heroic upon being saved from certain death by him.
- Subverted:
- It looks like Master Destruction is going to tell that Amazing Girl and he have something in common, but instead reveals that she crossed the line even he wouldn't dare and he calls her on it...
- Alternatively, the heroine points out that she and the villain are, in fact, quite different than the sparse few similarities they share. Or she just tells him to shut up.
- Double Subverted: ...just before doing the same thing and saying, "Now there's no difference between us, we're one and the same."
- Parodied:
- Amazing Girl steps on a cockroach, and Master Destruction tells her that this proves she doesn't care about life either, so she can't condemn him for his murders.
- Alternately, Master Destruction points out something incredibly obvious and not indicative of evil that he and Amazing Girl share in common, such as the fact that they are both human, both breathe oxygen, and both enjoy the same kind of sandwich. Somehow, this still throws Amazing Girl off her game.Master Destruction: I'll tell you why we aren't so different, Amazing Girl: We both have no taste in clothes.
Amazing Girl: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! [Cue Heroic BSoD] - Master Construction is Master Destruction's good twin. When the latter tells the former he's not so different, he just rolls his eyes.
- "We're not so different, you and I... after all, we both want to rule the Earth due to our horribly abusive childhoods, brutally kill anyone opposing us, set up an evil dictatorship, and use the password "Dstruction101" for all our incredibly important terminals... what, you don't?"
- Zig-Zagged: Amazing Girl is a bit touchy on this particular topic, and it is treated differently Depending on the Writer or her state of mind.
- Averted: Amazing Girl and Master Destruction never realize that they're similar, because they are essentially completely opposite, except for species and race, if even that.
- Enforced: "Amazing Girl killed General Psychopathic, which is something Master Destruction would do. Why not make him recognize this to add more drama?"
- Lampshaded:
- "Oh great, here comes the 'you and I are the same' speech. How original."
- "Villains and heroes are always alike; Luke and Vader, Sherlock and Moriarty, Amazing Girl and Master Destruction..."
- "If we're really as similar as you say, perhaps you should give some thought as to why I want less of my like running around?"
- (As the villain is at the heroine's mercy and possibly just saw her destroy his plans or something dear to him) "If we really are as similar as you say, why aren't you more pleased when dealing with someone like you?"
- Invoked: Master Destruction sets up the traitorous General Psychopathic to be killed by Amazing Girl so he can tell her about how similar they are now.
- Exploited: Amazing Girl bluffs her way to victory by threatening to deploy a bomb and kill both herself and Master Destruction. When Master Destruction reminds her that only someone like him would break the Thou Shalt Not Kill rule, she reminds him how similar they are.
- Defied:
- Amazing Girl changes her personality, lifestyle, and fighting technique so she wouldn't have any obvious similarities to Master Destruction that the latter can point out.
- Or...Master Destruction: "Scratch that, we're nothing alike. 0/10, not evil enough."
- Discussed: "Don't worry, Amazing Girl, villains always tell heroes we're just like them to make themselves feel better."
- Conversed: "Ah, the classic "You and I are not so different" speech, just as I expected from this comic's villain."
- Deconstructed: Amazing Girl loses it and tries to cut out anything in herself she sees as being like Master Destruction, because of her lingering and not entirely unjustified belief that anything and everything Master Destruction does is evil. This prevents her from doing her duty as a heroine, since "fighting is what Master Destruction does." People die as villains, including Master Destruction himself, do the evil things that make them villains.
- Reconstructed:
- Amazing Girl, though she works to be more unambiguously heroic and less like Master Destruction, never has a Heroic BSoD and never stops fighting evil.
- She fully admits that she is just like Master Destruction...which allows her to Pay Evil unto Evil (works best for Anti Heroes).
- Amazing Girl fully admits that she's hardly any different from Master Destruction... which is why neither of them can be trusted with power or authority over the rest of the world. The best Amazing Girl can do is prevent others like her from going down the same road she's constantly tempted to take herself, while trusting the world to others like Pacifist Paragon, who aren't like either of them.
- Amazing Girl acknowledges that she and Master Destruction have similarities... but also notes that just because they have some similar traits, that doesn't necessarily make them morally comparable any more than her fondness for sugar makes her anything like Hitler.
- Amazing Girl turns Master Destruction's Breaking Speech against him- pointing out that if they're so similar, it's a shame he wasted what she benefited from. Master Destruction is stunned realising this.
- Amazing Girl, instead, just offs Master Destruction right then and there, rather than letting his pithy lecture get to her.
- Played for Laughs:
- This exchange:
- Master Destruction tells Amazing Girl that they aren't so different... after seeing her go to the toilet. Amazing Girl's reaction is a Flat "What" and responds, "Literally everyone does this!"
- Played for Drama:
- Amazing Girl has a bit of a rough time accepting that she dipped to Master Destruction's level, and has to deal with it on her own terms.
- Master Destruction says it not as a form of manipulation, but as a warning to Amazing Girl so that she, hopefully, doesn't turn out like him as she reminds him of how he used to be.
- Played for Horror: After Master Destruction tells Amazing Girl that she's a lot like him, she has nightmares and eventually takes it to heart, deciding Then Let Me Be Evil and becoming a Person of Mass Destruction to put his escapades to shame.
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