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L Thammy

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This is L Thammy's evil twin that only makes low effort threads, so there will be no discussion to start us off.

Here's Veil from Pulseman.


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EDIT: It's been mentioned in this thread that the idea of the "evil twin" trope is hurtful to actual identical twins. I had meant this to be a lighthearted and inoffensive thread, so it's concerning to me that my post did cause harm. I'd like to ask anyone reading this thread to listen and approach the subject with an open mind.
 
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Capra

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Alastor from Viewtiful Joe. AKA the spirit of Dante's sword from DMC1 that he sold.



Also comes in a more literal doppelganger flavor.

 

Hella

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Dark Link from Ocarina of Time. The standard by which all others are measured.

 

Eblo

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Is there an older example than Dark Link from Zelda 2?



Edit: lol at the OoT Dark Links above. That's a midboss, not a boss, you loons
 

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The joke is that Symphony of the Night has a doppleganger boss that's literally just the player character.
 

TwinBahamut

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Like... you don't have to if you don't want to. Just don't post in the thread.
Let me clarify then.

As a person with an identical twin, I've had to deal with stupid "which of you is the evil twin?" micro-aggressions from young childhood. I find this entire trope to be very deeply and personally offensive. It is a shitty trope.

So i'm not going to just tolerate and ignore it any more than a black person should be expected to tolerate something racist.
 

Astral

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Doppelgänger from DMC3.


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Kind of a lame boss and style but it was cool that you can use the style to play some bootleg co-op.
 

SEATLiens

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Let me clarify then.

As a person with an identical twin, I've had to deal with stupid "which of you is the evil twin?" micro-aggressions from young childhood. I find this entire trope to be very deeply and personally offensive. It is a shitty trope.

So i'm not going to just tolerate and ignore it any more than a black person should be expected to tolerate something racist.

Youre comparing "evil twin" to racism against black people????
 

Jaded Alyx

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Let me clarify then.

As a person with an identical twin, I've had to deal with stupid "which of you is the evil twin?" micro-aggressions from young childhood. I find this entire trope to be very deeply and personally offensive. It is a shitty trope.

So i'm not going to just tolerate and ignore it any more than a black person should be expected to tolerate something racist.
Bad, bad, bad comparison....
 

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Let me clarify then.

As a person with an identical twin, I've had to deal with stupid "which of you is the evil twin?" micro-aggressions from young childhood. I find this entire trope to be very deeply and personally offensive. It is a shitty trope.

So i'm not going to just tolerate and ignore it any more than a black person should be expected to tolerate something racist.

So you're the evil one, gotcha.
 

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SEATLiens

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Then tell me how bad I have to have it in order to complain.

Don't seriously tell me that you think prejudiced and hurtful stereotypes of twins don't exist. Or that I have no right to complain about it.

You are welcome to express how you feel about the trope but once you brought in the comparison to racism against black people you lost.
 

Jaded Alyx

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Then tell me how bad I have to have it in order to complain.

Don't seriously tell me that you think prejudiced and hurtful stereotypes of twins don't exist. Or that I have no right to complain about it.
The thread isn't even about twins in the first place:
I think you'd have a point if this thread were about evil twins as a trope, but doppelgängers are an entirely different concept.
You can complain all you want, just don't you dare equate it to racism.
 

Capra

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Let me clarify then.

As a person with an identical twin, I've had to deal with stupid "which of you is the evil twin?" micro-aggressions from young childhood. I find this entire trope to be very deeply and personally offensive. It is a shitty trope.

So i'm not going to just tolerate and ignore it any more than a black person should be expected to tolerate something racist.

I don't think any of these examples are actually playing into the "evil twin" trope though. A doppelganger of the player character is meant to a) present a mechanical challenge by pitting the player up against a boss with a similar or identical skill set, and b) play into themes of conquering one's "dark side." It's a fun concept for action games and stories in general to play with that isn't encouraging real-world discrimination.
 

chiller

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Omega from Mega Man Zero 3

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Doppelganger with a twist: he's got the original body, while yours is the fake.

Doppelganger from TSA
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The best thing about this motherfucker is his boss fight is literally JoJo trivia. He creates clones of himself that do a bunch of poses and whichever one isn't doing a JoJo pose is the real one. And because the game never tells you this most people just end up attacking randomly.

Wait, Doppelganger's clones do WHAT
I might have to go back to TSA...
 

calloumiii

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I guess Virgil from DMC3 would count? Mechanically he acts as close to the player character as an enemy can be, and narratively he is an actual antagonistic twin.
 

SkyOdin

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i sure hope your twin isn't as ignorant as you. maybe you are the evil twin.
Okay, I am the other twin. I think it is pretty poor form to label my sibling the "evil twin" right after he points out how frustrating and painful it can be to have to put up with the same fucked up "jokes" on a constant basis. I can list out a bunch of the same tired bullshit I hear literally whenever I meet someone who finds out I'm a twin. It gets old.
 

Capra

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In the spirit of FFIV getting rereleased:



Dark Cecil is a rad example of this thematically.
 

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L Thammy did SRW T include Nova from Rayearth? Cause that's my pick. Such a great use of the trope in the original anime, nice spin on the concept
 

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Okay, I am the other twin. I think it is pretty poor form to label my sibling the "evil twin" right after he points out how frustrating and painful it can be to have to put up with the same fucked up "jokes" on a constant basis. I can list out a bunch of the same tired bullshit I hear literally whenever I meet someone who finds out I'm a twin. It gets old.
what are your thoughts on your brothers form when he equated anti-twin rhetoric to racism
 

Melpomene

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It would be the very beginning.

Maybe after that we could get into the gritty of how the very idea of doopelgangers is bad.
Maybe you could make your own thread for that one? "Low-effort light-hearted video game boss image thread" seems like the wrong forum to attempt to take down a several-hundred-year-old fictional construct.