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Keeping the downplayed trope there added a strange space between exaggerated and justified. You don't need to include every trope to be played with, so I put it under optional.


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** Anguish is Alice's EnemyWithout. She came from Alice's mind, meaning she closely mirrors Alice in terms of personality and fighting style while also serving as an EvilTwin.

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** Anguish is Alice's EnemyWithout. She came from Alice's mind, meaning she mind and closely mirrors Alice her in terms of personality and fighting style while also serving as an EvilTwin.

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** Alice and Bob mirror each other because they were originally the same person: Albys. Albys' soul was split into two beings who now go by Alice and Bob.
** Anguish is Alice's EnemyWithout. She came from Alice's mind, meaning she closely mirrors Alice in terms of personality and fighting style while also serving as an EvilTwin.



* '''Subverted''': Alice and Bob seem very similar, but as the story progresses, even the similarities they seemed to have at the beginning turn out not to be true.

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Alice and Bob seem very similar, but as the story progresses, even the similarities they seemed to have at the beginning turn out not to be true.true.
** Bob seems suspiciously similar to Alice... and they've never been seen in the same place at the same time. He's revealed to be Alice pulling a SweetPollyOliver.



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%% * '''Zig-Zagged''': ???Alice and Bob start undergoing DivergentCharacterEvolution, but then they converge to the point of becoming TheDividual. Then they realize this and start working to differentiate themselves from each other again.



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* '''Parodied''': Alice and Bob appear in cut scenes that show them doing the exact same activities completely independently of each other.

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* '''Parodied''': Alice and Bob appear in cut scenes that show them doing the exact same activities completely independently of each other.other while a laugh track plays.
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'''Basic Trope''': Two characters are similar in meaningful ways.
* '''Straight''': Alice and Bob both want to save the world from the evil overlord because he destroyed their home villages.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice and Bob are clones raised as twins and mind-meld.
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* '''Inverted''': Alice and Bob have almost nothing in common at all. See {{Foil}}.
* '''Subverted''': Alice and Bob seem very similar, but as the story progresses, even the similarities they seemed to have at the beginning turn out not to be true.
* '''Double Subverted''': Alice and Bob seem to be very similar at first, but it becomes evident they are very different, and these differences make them the same.
* '''Parodied''': Alice and Bob appear in cut scenes that show them doing the exact same activities completely independently of each other.
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* '''Averted''': Most characters are not mirrors of each other, therefore this trope cannot be averted.
* '''Enforced''': Alice and Bob were designed as two very different characters, but the executive producer wanted to save budget and had them repeat the same backstory.
* '''Lampshaded''': Alice comments on how odd it is to have so much in common with Bob.
* '''Invoked''': Alice tells Bob they really have more in common than he thinks. (See NotSoDifferentRemark).
* '''Exploited''': Alice can foil Bob's plans because they are the exact same plans she would have made.
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