A is the ghostly double of a living person. The word ''doppelgänger'' is adapted from German ''doppel'', meaning "double", and ''gänger'', translated as "goer" (though in this context, the meaning is closer to "walker"). The term has, in the Vernacular , come to refer to any double or Look-alike of a person, most commonly in reference to a so-called Evil Twin , or to Bilocation .
Alternatively, the word is used to describe a phenomenon where you catch your own image out of the corner of your eye. In some mythologies, seeing one's own doppelgänger is an Omen of Death . A doppelgänger seen by friends or relatives of a person may sometimes bring bad luck, or indicate an approaching illness or health problem.
The doppelgängers of folklore cast no shadow, and have no reflection in a mirror or in water. They are supposed to provide advice to the person they shadow, but this advice can be misleading or malicious. They can also, in rare instances, plant ideas in their victim's mind or appear before friends and relatives, causing confusion.
- Emilie Sagée was a schoolteacher in the nineteenth century whose Doppelgänger's public appearances were recorded by Robert Dale Owen after being reported to him by Julie von Güldenstubbe.
- Guy De Maupassant recorded his own Doppelgänger experiences in his story Lui.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley claimed to have met his Doppelgänger foreboding his own death.
- John Donne , the English Metaphysical Poet , apparently met his wife's Doppelgänger in Paris, foreboding the death of his yet unborn daughter.
- Abraham Lincoln told his wife, while shaving after his election as president, that he saw an image of himself in the distance fade away while shaving in front of a mirror. He believed this to mean he would be elected to a second term but would not survive.
Robert Dale Owen was responsible for writing down the singular case of Emilie Sagée. He was told this anecdote by Julie von Güldenstubbe, a Latvian Aristocrat . Von Güldenstubbe reported that in the year 1845 – 46 , at the age of 13, she witnessed, along with audiences of between 13 and 42 children, her 32-year-old French teacher Sagée Bilocate , in broad daylight, inside her school ( Pensionat Von Neuwelcke ). The actions of Sagée's Doppelgänger included:
- Mimicking writing and eating, but with nothing in its hands.
- Moving independently of Sagée, and remaining motionless while she moved.
- Appearing to be in full health while Sagée was badly ill.
Apparently also, the Doppelgänger exerted resistance to the touch, but was non-physical (two girls passed through the Doppelgänger's body).
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Doppelgängers appear in a variety of Science Fiction and Fantasy works, in which they are a type of Shapeshifter that mimics a particular person or species for some typically nefarious reason.
A temporal doppelgänger is any version of oneself one may meet during Time Travel . It is an exact likeness of one at a specific time in your history (or future). Meetings with oneself may occur when one version of oneself travels backwards through the Timestream and encounters a younger version of oneself, or when two or more of the same person from different timestreams travel to the same moment in their futures.
Nigel Watson writes about the Doppelgänger Effect in Flying Saucer tales, which have a long history of lookalikes. In the February 2006 edition of Fortean Times (pp50-53) he does a double-take on ufologists, fairies and their links to modern science fiction.
- '''' episode "Firefall"
- '' The X-Files '' episode "Fight Club", written by Chris Carter and named after the Palahniuk novel
- '' Buffy The Vampire Slayer '' episode " Doppelgängland ", written by Joss Whedon .
- '' Buffy The Vampire Slayer '' episode " The Wish ", written by Marti Noxon .
- David Lynch 's television series '' Twin Peaks ''
- The evil Captain Kirk from '' Star Trek '''s Mirror Universe
- Sealab 2021 , " Lost In Time "
- '' NCIS Television Series '' episode 2-12 "Doppelgänger"
- '' The Legend Of Zelda '' Season 1, "Doppelgänger."
- '' Supernatural '' episode "Skin"
- '' Sliders '' episode "Season's Greedings" written by Eleah Horwitz first aired: 12/20/96. As well as a number of the shows other episodes since they move through different dimensions and sometimes encounter themselves on these other "Earths".
- '' The Vision Of Escaflowne '' episodes 10 (The Blue-Eyed Prince) and 11 (Prophecy of Death).
- '''' episode 213, "Identity Crisis," Serial Killer Paul Millander, pretending to be a Las Vegas judge, claims to have a doppleganger for whom Gil Grissom has mistaken him.
- '' Martin Mystery '' episode "Revenge of the Doppelgänger" features a young woman who has exorcised her doppelgänger, but it remains at large searching for her and stealing the face all three women who resemble the woman. Diana refers to it as "those little guys who appear on your shoulder in cartoons".
- '' Neighbours '' episode “The Joy Flight”, Janelle briefly sees Dylan’s doppelganger when he is involved in the plane crash.
- '' So Weird '' episode "Eddie's Desk" episode 4, 3rd season, Annie sees the doppelganger of the man in charge of desks. She's told that he's not dead and Fi tells her by chat that a doppelganger is the part of a person that separated of that person because it left something uncomplete. When he completes it, the doppelganger joins Eddie and they both form him.
- '' Yu-Gi-Oh! There is a Duel Monster magic-type card called " Doppelganger", one of the cards in Maximillion Pegasus's deck. It looks like a ridiculously cartoony cat with a elasticated body and in the Anime , it can take on the form of one of the opponent duelist's monsters.
- The character Larry from '' Teen Titans '' is Robin 's doppelganger who appears in a smaller and much more cartoonish form.
- In Twin Peaks When Agent Cooper enters the Black Lodge, he is confronted by his 'evil twin' who takes his place in the real world.
- Zatch Bell, from The Show Of The Same Name , has an evil twin named Zeno, who hates Zatch for one reason or another.
- In the game '' Bloodrayne '', the Doppelganger Twins, Sigmund and Simon Kreiger, were a pair of narcissistic twins. Conjoined at birth, they were later separated (with the result that each of them has only one arm). When one of them was hit, he would be unharmed, but the other twin would suffer damage. When one of them was killed by Rayne, the other died as well.
- In level 5 of '' Prince Of Persia '', a classic videogame by Jordan Mechner released in 1989 by Brøderbund , the hero's reflection escapes from an enchanted mirror. Throughout the rest of the game, this doppelgänger acts as the evil double obstaculizing the player's mission.
- In the computer game '' Guild Wars '', the player must defeat their doppelgänger.
- Heather, the protagonist of Silent Hill 3 , fights a dark and bloody version of herself on a merry-go-round at the Lakeside Amusement Park.
- In the Nintendo game Pokémon , the Pokémon Ditto can replicate its opponents and their abilities by copying portions of their DNA .
- Sega's Sonic The Hedgehog has multiple doppelgängers. Sonic The Hedgehog 2 contained one robotic version. Metal Sonic is another, sleeker robot appearing in many games, beginning with Sonic CD . Shadow The Hedgehog , first appearing in Sonic Adventure 2 , is Sonic's darker moral and visual counterpoint. The Sonic the Hedgehog Comics published by Archie , contain a doppelgänger named Evil Sonic a.k.a. Dark Sonic .
- The , Doopliss transforms into a different, eyeless Shadow Mario, before stealing Mario's identity, effectively making Mario the doppelgänger.
- In 's first set, the Vesuvian Doppelganger was a well-known blue creature that allowed a player to copy another creature, with the option of changing the creature the doppelgänger copied.
- In the , Samus trains in her own simulator versus a green doppelgänger.
- In Suikoden II it's revealed that the vampire Neclord that you vanquished in the first Suikoden was nothing more than a doppelgänger of the real Neclord.
- In '''', Link must battle his doppelgänger Dark Link in the Water Temple, Great Palace, and other areas.
- In Metal Gear Solid , Foxhound member Decoy Octopus is a master impersonator, who impersonates the DARPA Chief .
- In Metal Gear Acid , Hans Davis is portrayed as Solid Snake 's second personality that separated from his body and became his doppelgänger.
- One of is called Doppelganger, which allows him to utilize a shadow to double attacks.
- In Onimusha , Samanosuke fights Stylado, a Genma clone, but he does not possess an Oni Gauntlet.
- In the mmorpg Ragnarok Online , Doppelganger is a MVP (a boss), and is actually a sort of "shadowy" clone of the swordsman class. In the same game, the newest-added dungeon, BioLaboratory of the city of Lighthalzen, "includes Dopplegangeresque" versions of all the first-class jobs (Swordsman, Acolyte, Magician, Merchant, Thief, Archer)and versions of the first 6 trascendent class jobs (Lord Knight, High Priest, High Wizard, Whitesmith, Assassin Cross, Sniper). These monsters are meant to drop the strongest weapon for each class, depending of which you kill.
- In the Gamecube game Lost Kingdoms you can acquire a Doppleganger card by either transforming either a Great Turtle, White Tiger, Blue Dragon, Golden Phoenix, God of Destruction, or collecting all 100 red fairies. The card looks just like the main character, Princess Katia, and it walks around on the battlefield when summoned. When either friend or foe touches the Doppleganger, they are automatically killed, and the card is discarded.
- In the game Chrono Cross , the character Sprigg has a level 3 tech called Doppelgang, which allows her to transform into certain monsters once they have been defeated by anyone carrying the Forget-Me-Not Pot.
- In the game Grandia , Rapp learns a knife skill named Doppelganger where he splits into four copies of himself and attacks an enemy.
- In the Playstation game Saga Frontier , while aquiring shadow magic, the main party must defeat their shadows.
- In the game Arc The Lad , the main protagonists must fight dark versions of themselves (the evil in their souls) during the Final Boss battle.
- In Kingdom Hearts , you fight Anti-Sora, who is the Heartless form of Sora . In Kingdom Hearts 2 Roxas has to fight his own reflection in a waterfall.
- In many of the There is a doppelganger that copies most of your abilities and attacks.
- In '''' The Doppelgaenger is a soul that allows Soma to switch his weapons and equipment and a monster that took the form of Mina Hakuba used and killed by Celia to make Soma's hate grow in order for him to become a Dark Lord ( Dracula ).
- In Final Fantasy IV , Cecil must fight his Doppelganger that was him as a Dark Knight while you use him as a Paladin.
- In Zombies Ate My Neighbors , a horror-themed video game for the SNES and Sega Genesis consoles, there is an extra-terrestrial enemy known as Doppelgangers. They appear identical to the player's character and generally mimic his or her movements.
- In Disciples 2 , a unit called Doppleganger is a unit for the Legions of the Damned. It can transform to any unit on the field.
- In the game Sudeki , the main characters meet their alternate versions when heading to the Aklorian Stronghold.
- Freud 's essay ''The Uncanny''
- Spider-Man 's evil Doppelganger from the pages of Marvel Comics
- The '' Dungeons & Dragons '' role-playing game, and adaptations thereof, such as the ''Baldur's Gate'' Series
- In the comic Bob And George , the characters are constantly meeting past, future, and alternate reality versions of themselves.
- Doppelgänger is the title of the sophomore album from the band '' The Fall Of Troy ''.
- Doppelgänger is the title of a song by American singer/songwriter Dory Previn which deals with Paranoia and the latent savagery of humanity.
- Doppelganger is the title of a song by Asian American singer/songwriter Cynthia Lin with a more jovial view of the "evil twin" phenomenon
- In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Creature is often thought of as Victor Frankenstein's doppelganger.
- Doppelgänger is the name of the debut album by the British band, Curve, comprised of Toni Halliday and Dean Garcia
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