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Identical twins are highly prone to [[Speak in Unison|Speaking In Unison]] or [[Finishing Each Other's Sentences]].
In reality, fraternal twins are significantly more common than identical
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== Identical Twins ==
=== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ===▼
▲== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* Fujio Akatsuka's ''Osomatsu Kun'' is about identical ''sextuplets''. Yes, SIX characters that look exactly alike. The running gag in the early episodes was that other characters couldn't tell which is which.
* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' has the Hitachiin twins, who are so alike that no one had ever been able to tell them apart until they met Haruhi. Of course they use that similarity for their own amusement.
* ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' has {{spoiler|Fai and Yuui}} , the "twins of misfortune" who are practically the same child made twice.
** Horitsuba Gakuen has the above mentioned twins as well as {{spoiler|Syaoran and Syaoron}}.
* It is fairly common in most harem-type series to have a pair of identical twins as part of the cast.
* Played with in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''. Agon and Unsui dress and act very different from each other and whether they were fraternal or identical was left somewhat ambiguous for most of the series. However after Agon gets a haircut, everyone is amazed to see he and his brother are very much identical.
* Mion and Shion Sonozaki from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' use this to their advantage, as they often assume each other's identity to manipulate and cover up murder. The roles between psychopath and victim switch depending on the arc.
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* Played with in ''Maomarimo'': Mao and Ako remain fraternal twins even after Mao's [[Gender Bender]], but the issue is raised by a background character who wonders why this trope wasn't invoked.
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* Wendy and Goldie, twin prostitutes from Frank Miller's ''[[Sin City]]''. According to Marv, they even [[The Nose Knows|smell identical]].
* [[Mandrake the Magician]] and his [[Evil Twin]] Derek.
* The Trigger Twins, from DC Comics ''All-Star Western'' series.
* Lightning Lad and Lightning/Light Lass of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]], who are [[Half-Identical Twins|fraternal twins]], come from a planet where nearly everyone is born with a twin sibling. The reason their older brother Lightning Lord is evil is because he was born without a twin.
* Huey, Dewey, and Louie from the ''[[Disney Ducks Comic Universe]]'', with bonus rhyming names. They have [[Color-Coded for Your Convenience]] hats: red is Huey, blue is Dewey, and Louie is green or yellow, depending on the colorist. Yellow was more prevalent in the 4-color era, but by the time of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' green became the standard, possibly because of RGB screens.
=== Fanfiction ===
* Ethan and Evan Brightman from the ''[[Glee]]'' fanfic ''[[Dalton]]'', who are heavily based on [[Harry Potter (novel)|Fred and George Weasley]].
=== [[Film]] ===
* There are identical twin brother cops in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' -- {{spoiler|the Sergeants Turner (Bill Bailey's characters)}}.
* Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen in everything they've done (except ''[[Full House]]'', where the twins both played the same one character to stretch limits on how long very young child actors are allowed to work). They're actually fraternal twins, but look alike enough for identical-twin plots to work.
* Both versions of ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]''.
* ''[[The Prestige]]'': {{spoiler|Borden and Fallon}}.
* The Stabbington Brothers in ''[[Tangled (2010 film)|Tangled]]''.
* A pair of elderly women twins appear in the French film ''[[Amelie]]'', buying food at the local fruit stand. They also [[Finishing Each Other's Sentences|
=== [[Literature]] ===
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'': Fred and George Weasley and the Patil sisters
* The main character and his brother from ''[[The Spiderwick Chronicles]]''
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* [[Polar Opposite Twins|Jory and Nia]] from [[Circle of Magic|Cold Fire]].
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell on ''[[Sister, Sister]]'' are long-lost identical twins, played by real life twins Tia and Tamera Mowry.
* Zack and Cody on ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'', also played by Real Life twins. Puberty made them not so identical.
* Nearly every set of twins in ''[[The Pretender]]'', from regular character Sydney and his brother Jacob down to the briefest one-off appearance. Particularly notable was the episode where Sydney visits a Twins Convention, which is populated entirely by identical twins sticking together and wearing co-ordinated outfits.
* ''The Bold And The Beautiful'' had a rather interesting example. Twins Stephanie and Phoebe Forrester were identical twins until they graduated high school. From that point on they've been fraternal.
=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* The [[Ravenloft]] setting has Laurie and Gennifer Weathermay-Foxgrove, identical twin monster-hunting heiresses, as well as Jacqueline and Louise Renier, identical wererat littermates.
=== [[Theatre]] ===
* The mix-up in ''[[The Comedy of Errors]]'' is caused by two sets of identical twins confusing themselves for each other.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* Dante and Vergil from ''[[Devil May Cry]]'', of the [[Rule of Symbolism|symbolism-heavy]], [[Cain and Abel]], [[Polar Opposite Twins]] variety. You can tell them apart because Vergil [[Good Hair, Evil Hair|slicks his hair back]], but they're also [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Vergil wears blue, Dante red.]]
* Redmond and Blutarch from ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', you can only tell them apart because [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|Redmond wears a red suit and Blutarch wears a blue suit]]
* Ami and Mami Futami of ''[[The Idolmaster (video game)|The Idolmaster]]''.
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'': Elan and [[Evil Twin|Na]][[Sdrawkcab Name|le]].
=== [[
* Melanie and Militia Malachite from ''[[RWBY]]'', twin [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] bouncers at a [[Bad Guy Bar]].
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* Patty and Selma and Sherri and Terri from ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''
* Dee Dee and Di Di from ''[[Batman Beyond]]''
* Lo and Li, Azula's ancient caretakers, from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. ATLA also had a set of twins in the episode "The Fortuneteller," who were identical except one was an Earthbender and one wasn't.
* [[Kim Possible]]'s little brothers are identical twins who can only be told apart by the colour of their shirts.
* The Scottish Twins from ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' zigzag with this trope. In their backstory the twins intentionally removed their number plates so as to appear completely identical and pull a [[Twin Switch]] and escape from a railroad that threatened to have them scrapped. After being employed at Sodor, though, they were given number ''and'' name plates, specifically so they could be told apart.
* Ingrid and Latoyah from ''[[Slacker Cats]]''.
* Más y Menos from ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''.
=== Real Life ===
* The village of Kodhini, India has 6 times as many twins as the global average. On top of that, the majority of the twins are identical.
== Fraternal Twins ==
=== [[Anime]] ===▼
▲== NOTE: This section is reserved for twins who do not look alike at all; brother-sister twins who look alike go to [[Half-Identical Twins]]. ==
▲== [[Anime]] ==
* Kirio and Kirika from ''[[Kamichama Karin]]''.
* In ''[[Corsair]]'', fraternal twins Aura and Leti are clearly related yet distinct, with Leti taking much more after their father's side and Aura taking more after their mother's side.
* {{spoiler|"Syaoran Li" and "Watanuki Kimihiro"}} aka {{spoiler|"Tsubasa Li 1" and, presumably, "Tsubasa Li 2}} of ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' and ''[[
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Gundam SEED]]'''s {{spoiler|Kira and Cagalli}}, being largely based on [[Star Wars|Luke and Leia]]. In addition to being non-identical, one is a genetically engineered superman and the other is completely unaltered.
* Kagami and Tsukasa Hiiragi from ''[[Lucky Star]]'' are fraternal twins who are drawn to have very different eye shapes (Tsukasa has [[Tareme Eyes]] and Kagami has [[Tsurime Eyes]]) and they also have different hairstyles. However, they do look more similar to each other than to any of their other family members, at least as far as their hair and eye colors are concerned.
* Karin and Yuzu Kurosaki of ''[[Bleach]]''.
* [[Single-Minded Twins|Mairu and Kururi]] {{spoiler|Orihara}} from ''[[Durarara!!]]'', though they are sufficiently similar to possibly be just identical twins who decided [[Polar Opposite Twins|to look different]].
* Rin and Yukio Okamura from ''[[Blue Exorcist|Ao No Exorcist]]'' are fraternal twins who - despite looking somewhat alike when you take away Yukio's glasses - are opposites in pretty much everything, up and including Rin being (half-)demon and Yukio being human. This didn't stop the fandom from going nuts with [[Twincest]].
* Princess Fine and Princess Rein of ''[[Fushigiboshi no Futagohime]]'' (Twin Princesses of the Mysterious Star).
* Kyou and Ryou Fujibayashi of ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' are similar to Kagami and Tsukasa Hiiragi in that Ryou has [[Tareme Eyes]] and Kyou has [[Tsurime Eyes]]. Though they're more alike than most fraternal twins with similar colored hair and eyes {{spoiler|in the OVA for Kyou's route it takes Tomoya several minutes to realize that he's talking to Kyou and not Ryou after she cut her hair.}}
=== [[Comics]] ===
* Ember and Suntop from ''[[Elf Quest]].''
* [[The Phantom (comic strip)|The Phantom]]'s son and daughter are twins.
* Crystar and Moltar from ''[[Crystar Crystal Warrior]].''
* Northstar and Aurora from ''[[Alpha Flight]].''
* [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Charles Xavier and Cassandra Nova,]] although she apparently is [[Eldritch Abomination|not exactly human.]]
* [[Quicksilver (comics)|Quicksilver]] and [[Scarlet Witch]]: different genders, different hair colors, and different power sets.
=== [[Film]] ===
* {{spoiler|Luke and Leia}} from ''[[Star Wars]]''
* ''[[High School Musical]]'': Sharpay and Ryan are twins.
* Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear in ''[[The Great Muppet Caper]]''
* Leto and Ghanima Atreides, twin children of Muad'dib in [[Syfy]]'s ''[[Dune|Children of Dune]]'' adaptation.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* In [[L. M. Montgomery]]'s ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'' series, Anne and Gilber'ts twins, Nan and Di, are fraternal. They are opposite in looks, with Nan taking after Gilbert and Di taking after Anne. They also differ in personality. Di is mentioned as being "very much her father's child", while Nan inherits her mother's wild imagination.
* ''[[House of Leaves]]'': Will Navidson, the main character of [[Framing Device|his piece]] of the story, has a fraternal twin brother, Tom.
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* Kit and Holly Fielding in ''[[Dick Francis|Break In]]'' and ''[[Dick Francis|Bolt]]''
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* On ''[[The Hogan Family]]'' the twins were explicitly fraternal.
* On ''[[Get Smart]]'' 99 gave birth to twins in the final season; it never came up whether or not they were identical, but given that they were boy & girl it seems pretty unlikely.
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* {{spoiler|Subverted}} on ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' with Lindsay and Michael {{spoiler|when it's revealed that Lindsay was adopted and is actually three years older than Michael.}}
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* Alexander and Rosella from ''[[King's Quest]]''.
* {{spoiler|Kid and Sara}} from ''[[Ever 17]]'' are fraternal twins.
* For a series that's so out of touch with reality, you wouldn't expect ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' to feature realistic fraternal twins, but the heroes are, in fact, same-sex twins that look similar enough that they're clearly related, but different enough that they're easy to tell apart.
* Yuki Kudou and his bubbly idol obsessed "younger" sister Erika Kudou of the ''[[Chou Soku Henkei Gyrozetter]]'' 3DS game look nothing alike.
=== Newspapers ===
* ''[[Weekly World News]]'' once ran a [[Cover Story]] on a set of [[Conjoined Twins|conjoined septuplets]]: [[You Fail Biology Forever|5 male, 2 female]].
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* Alex and Dan in ''[[The Dreamland Chronicles]]'' are a rare case of fraternal twins of the same gender. This is likely inspired by the creator's fraternal twin sons.
* [[Slightly Damned]] has Kieri and her twin brother, Kazai. Despite being different genders, they are very similar, right down to the cowlick on the back of their heads.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' has two sets of fraternal twins. Jonas Junior & Thadeus and Hank & Dean.
* Jackal and Hyena of [[Gargoyles]] both have brown hair and are completely [[Ax Crazy]], but that's where the similarities end.
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