![]() One of many reasons you might consider Killing Your Alternate Self. ![]() Extreme versions of the Fake King plot tend toward this route as well. Contrast Klingon Promotion, where one kills to assume the victim's job. If the victim is kept alive but restrained, see Capture and Replicate. Replicant Snatching involves a cyborg inhabiting a living host. This is generally a horror trope, while Twinmaker, if played for horror at all, is usually of a more philosophical bent, trying to determine how the seemingly identical victim and copy are related, and by extension what it means to exist as an individual.Ĭompare Dead Person Impersonation, Mugged for Disguise and Dressing as the Enemy, where the victim at least gets to live, albeit knocked out and half-naked. ![]() note Although either can appear in either genre, and in practice the two tend to be used for wildly different tones. Just kill and replace the hapless guard, then the sergeant, then his lieutenant superior. ![]() If the murderer has full-on Voluntary Shapeshifting, this technique may well be employed iteratively to pierce increasing layers of security. If they're quick and quiet, nobody will suspect a thing until it's too late. Dark Bowser, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside StoryĪ Doppelgänger, shapeshifting being (in a speculative fiction setting), or an identical twin (for more mundane stories) seeks to kill the original and take their place. ![]()
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