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* In ''The Secret History'', narrator Richard Papen is in love with Camilla, one half of a fraternal pair of twins. She and her twin, Charles, look virtually identical ... and when Richard finds out they're [[Brother-Sister Incest|a little too close]], he's titillated by the thought. Eew.

* The post-finale ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine Relaunch]]'' novels reveal that Gul Macet, played by Marc Alaimo in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', is a cousin of Alaimo's ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' character Gul Dukat.

*** Possibly justified, as their mannerisms and attitudes are so clearly parallel that there's a good chance they really are identical twins.

* In ''[[Nightside|Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth]]'', John Taylor resembles his older male relatives, so much so that {{spoiler|John's late father, resurrected to meet his grown son for the first time, points out John's resemblence to ''his'' father}}.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

** Frequently spoofed. ''[[Full House]]'' occasionally subverted this by having one of the Olsen twins play Michelle and the other play a cousin from Greece.

** Similarly, during the mid-1980s, ''[[Kids Incorporated]]'' had Renee Sands play her [[The Danza|character of the same name]] as well as British cousin Samantha on a couple of episodes.

* Lisa Kudrow played Phoebe Buffay in ''[[Friends]]'' and her twin sister Ursula in ''[[Mad About You]]''.

* In the Japanese tokusatsu series ''[[Sazer X]]'', a flashback scene depicts the main character's grandfather as a young man. In flashback, the younger version of grandpa is played by the same actor who plays the main character.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

 

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