Evil Duplicates, they’re such a staple of genre fiction it
seems almost inevitable that they infect every aspect of geekery. As one might expect, there are a ton of
evil duplicates in the realm of comics, mainly because most superheroes have
been around for decades and decades and rather than reuse old characters
authors love to make up their own spin on the concept. That actually proves pretty fruitful as
so far a lot of the evil duplicates we’ve got have proved pretty diverse an
interesting as far as takes on a very well established concept go. Granted it helps that we’ve also had
decades to weed out the stuff no one cares about but that just means the stuff
now is even more interesting.
Given The Flash’s obsession
with evil versions of the hero and Supergirl’s
premiering Bizarro, I figured now would be a good time to give you the run down
on the evil duplicates of DC and Marvel.
