Evil Counterpart: Difference between revisions

* Like ''[[Vampire Hunter D]]'', Rei-Ginsei is a weirdly beautiful [[The Hunter|Hunter]] with supernatural powers. Unlike D, he's egotistical, completely amoral, only helps beautiful women and doesn't hesitate to try to torture a child to death to get what he wants.

* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' has {{spoiler|Lordgenome, the Spiral King, a Spiral Knight}} who might be considered what Simon would have become if he hadn't had {{spoiler|Nia to find the Anti-Spiral homeworld and therefore end the war in his favor}}.

** {{spoiler|Guame the Steady}} is {{spoiler|''Boota's''}} Evil Counterpart. {{spoiler|Guame is shown as a small critter accompanying a young Lordgenome exactly the way Boota does Simon.}}

** Another candidate for Simon's [[Evil Counterpart]] is {{spoiler|Rossiu}}, although not so much evil as a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] who is ''very'' [[Wrong Genre Savvy]].

* Iron Monger {{spoiler|(Obadiah Stane)}} to [[Iron Man]] (Tony Stark) in the [[Iron Man (film)|2008 film]].

* ''[[The Man with the Golden Gun]]'': Scaramanga and Bond. Scaramanga gives a [[Not So Different]] speech:

'''Bond''': There's a useful four letter word, [[Shut UP, Hannibal|and you're full of it.]] }}

* ''[[Push]]'' has two. Nick's counterpart is Victor, and Cassie's counterpart is the Triad Watcher. Victor is a better Mover than Nick, and the Triad Watcher is a better Watcher than Cassie.

* ''[[Glory]]'' has the Negro irregulars to the 54th Massachusetts.

* ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]'' plays with this. Sam and [[Kid Appeal Character|Bumblebee]] are given dark counterparts in the form of {{spoiler|Soundwave}} and {{spoiler|Dylan}}. Bumblebee came to Sam for help, Sam's family having a history with Cybertronians. Likewise {{spoiler|Dylan's dad received Soundwave as a "client", as the Decepticon had him crunch numbers to make further trips by NASA to the moon improbable, ensuring no one would ever find the ''Ark''.}} This becomes a case of [[Fridge Brilliance]] in the final battle, where both human and Autobot kill their respective counterparts.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* In ''[[Futurama]]'', Fry assumes that the character Flexo is this to Bender but his jealousy blinds him to the fact that it's actually the other way around.

'''Bender:''' [[Jerkass|Eh, they're both fine choices. Whatever floats your boat.]] }}

* On ''[[Kim Possible]]'', Dr. Drakken's [[The Dragon|Dragon]] Shego is a sort of evil counterpart to Kim. She's a former teen hero herself. The similarities in their overall character design leads some new viewers to think Shego is Kim's [[Evil Twin]].