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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Twins is a 1988 comedy directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger as twins.Yes. That Danny DeVito and that Arnold Schwarzenegger.Julius and Vincent Benedict are fraternal twins; the results of a secret experiment carried out at a genetics laboratory to produce the perfect child, using sperm donated by six different fathers. The mother was told that the children died at birth, while the children were informed once old enough that their mother died in childbirth. The program was a success but was shut down, due to one twin inheriting the "desirable traits", and the other being the "genetic trash": Julius is strong, handsome, kind and intelligent, while Vincent is, well, Danny DeVito.The two meet when they're both 35 and Julius bails Vincent out of jail. Vincent doesn't warm up to Julius right away, but he soon does.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Vincent steals a car that happens to have a secret prototype fuel injector worth five million dollars in the trunk. He is going to drive to Houston to sell it for money he owes to loan sharks, but Julius finds out that their mother is really alive and they might be able to find her, and the drive to Houston soon turns into a road trip with Vincent, Julius, Vincent's girlfriend Linda and Linda's sister Marnie. They are pursued by Webster, the criminal responsible for transporting the fuel injector. Hilarity Ensues.News broke in Summer 2013 that a sequel, called Triplets is planned with Eddie Murphy as the third brother. That sound you can hear is the entire world doing a collective "What?" The sequel has languished in Development Hell until 2021. Shooting is scheduled to begin in January 2022 with Murphy having been replaced with Tracy Morgan.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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Coat Over the Shoulder | |
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Coat Over the Shoulder: Vincent gets them matching sets of cool white suits. They simultaneously flip their jackets, with Julius's jacket floating over Vincent. | |
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Badass Adorable | |
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Badass Adorable: Julius is an interesting example; he is adorable not because of his appearance, but because of his gentle, innocent and kind-hearted personality. | |
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The Cynic | |
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The Cynic: Vincent has had one too many disappointments in his life to believe in concepts like love, kindness and hope. | |
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HotForTeacher | |
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Hot for Teacher: As a young boy, Vincent had the hots for Sister Maria, one of the nuns who was his biology teacher at the orphanage where he grew up. Sister Maria eventually lost her job after sleeping with Vincent (although the movie wants us to believe that Vincent seduced her, even though he was a child at the time) before he ran away. | |
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Mistaken Identity | |
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Mistaken Identity: When they first meet, Vincent thinks Julius is a debt collector working for the Klane brothers. | |
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Psycho for Hire | |
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Psycho for Hire: Webster. He kills anyone he meets in person so they can't identify him, even if that person is the one who hired him. | |
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Gentle Giant | |
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Gentle Giant: Keep in mind that this role was very much Playing Against Type for Arnie at first, since he was then-known either as an action hero or The Terminator. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: Julius tells Dr. Traven that if he's lying, "I'll be back". Another little reference to Arnold's ongoing rivalry with Sylvester Stallone is made, when Julius — completely innocent of pop culture and the seedier side of life — walks by a Rambo poster after coming to L.A.; puzzled, he studies the poster for a bit, then checks his own bicep and scoffs as if to say, "that guy doesn't have muscles, I have muscles". | |
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Flat "What" | |
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Flat "What": Vincent's reaction when Julius told him he's his brother. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: Julius' fight with the Klane heavy in Vincent's office. Later he easily dispatches four of them in the nightclub. | |
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Ungrateful Bastard | |
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Ungrateful Bastard: After Julius pays his bail, Vincent ditches him, thinking he's crazy. Though he does become grateful when Julius saves him from one of the Klane brothers. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Dr. Mitchell Traven denied any knowledge of the program. ("I don't know who you are, and I don't know what you're talking about!") This pissed Julius off. | |
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Long-Lost Relative | |
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Long-Lost Relative: Julius and Vincent were Separated at Birth. Vincent was placed in an orphanage in Los Angeles, Julius was taken to a South Pacific island and raised by Professor Werner. Each twin is unaware of the other's existence until Vincent learns of his twin brother in his 35th birthday. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Vincent, after some Character Development. | |
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Separated at Birth | |
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Separated at Birth: Natch. All because of Dr. Traven. | |
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Hood Hornament | |
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Hood Hornament: Julius jacks a convertible with buffalo horns on the hood. | |
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Grand Romantic Gesture | |
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Grand Romantic Gesture: Vincent has his love interest's room decorated with flowers. She is floored. | |
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Polar Opposite Twins | |
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Polar Opposite Twins: Aside from the visibly obvious, Vincent is a never-do-well conman who has been doing awful things since he was young enough to run like hell (away from the orphanage he grew up in, after "seducing" one of the nuns), while Julius is a Wide-Eyed Idealist Gentle Giant. | |
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Kavorka Man | |
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Kavorka Man: Vincent. Prior to meeting Julius, he doesn't have many redeeming features but nevertheless seems to have had no trouble attracting women. | |
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Bond One-Liner | |
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Bond One-Liner: During the final confrontation, once the chains finally finish piling up on the villain, Vincent looks in mild shock before delivering a classic: | |
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But I Read a Book About It | |
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But I Read a Book About It: Julius knew all about driving from reading about it, and having read the car's manual, he knew he could shut off the alarm by lifting it up from the back, thereby tricking it into thinking it was being towed. Of course it only worked because of his extraordinary strength. | |
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Smoking Hot Sex | |
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Smoking Hot Sex: Marnie lights up after sleeping with Julius. | |
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The Grovel | |
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The Grovel: Towards the end during his Grand Romantic Gesture, Vincent is on his knees begging his love interest for forgiveness. It works. | |
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Virgin-Shaming | |
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Virgin-Shaming: Julius is revealed to be a virgin, unsurprisingly since he's spent his whole life on a desert island with no women around, and is embarrassed when Vincent teases him about it. | |
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Twin Telepathy | |
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Twin Telepathy: Naturally. The Twins are even in constant synchronization, much to Vincent's initial annoyance. Vincent named his first cat Julius, and Julius named his first computer Vincent. When either brother is hurt, both feel pain. Vincent actually gives up the five-million-dollar payoff in an attempt to rescue Julius he's pretty sure won't work specifically because Julius has given him a conscience that won't quit nagging him. By the last few scenes, they even know where each other is and copy their movements perfectly. | |
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Appeal to Force | |
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Appeal to Force: Julius tries to talk reason to Burt McClane while he is attacking Vincent. Burt's response is to grab a fire axe and swing it at them. | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: Julius was informed that his mother died in childbirth. Vincent believed his mother abandoned him. | |
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Expecting Someone Taller | |
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Expecting Someone Taller: When Julius visits Vincent in jail, his reaction eyeing on a tall burly man walking by before Vincent sat across him and thought he got the wrong person. | |
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Big Brother Instinct | |
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Big Brother Instinct: Julius develops this immediately. | |
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Car Skiing | |
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Car Skiing: Julius does one of these completely by accident his first time driving a car. | |
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Babies Ever After | |
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Babies Ever After: At the end, lo and behold, the twins have married the sisters and have each had... twins. | |
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Hereditary Twinhood | |
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Hereditary Twinhood: At the end, the twin brothers have married twin sisters, and each couple has twin babies. | |
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Noble Demon | |
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Noble Demon: Beetroot honors the deal he made with Vincent, even though he realizes by then that Vincent obviously got ahold of it by accident, and probably doesn't even "know what the hell this thing is"; after explaining what it is, he leaves the promised payment and leaves with the goods. Unfortunately for Beetroot and his assistant, Webster isn't noble at all, gunning them down in cold blood just before Julius arrives, leading to the climax. | |
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Ready for Lovemaking | |
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Ready for Lovemaking: Marnie puts herself out there for Julius by crawling on his bed (as he's preparing to sleep on the floor) and purposefully showing she's not wearing anything under her negligee. | |
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Raised by Dudes | |
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Raised by Dudes: Arnold's character is raised by scientists (with one of them being more of a father figure to Julius) while his biological parents (all seven of them) are excluded. When he ventures into normal society, he is very much a Fish out of Water. | |
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The Morality/Mortality Equation | |
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The Morality/Mortality Equation: Beetroot's associates get killed just for seeing Webster's face, even though as far as the audience is aware they're just a couple of guys doing their job. Beetroot himself suffers the same fate near the end, for the exact same reasons. | |
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Has Two Mommies | |
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Has Two Mommies: How many fathers do the twins have? | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: In the last scene, when the mother notes "I just can't get over how alike they are", the camera cuts to Julius and Vincent but then pans down to the twin babies in the buggies. | |
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Designer Babies | |
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Designer Babies: Julius and Vincent are the results of a secret experiment carried out at a U.S. Government genetics laboratory to produce the perfect child. To the surprise of the scientists, the embryo split and twins were born. One twin, Julius, is seemingly "perfect", exhibiting all the traits the scientists were hoping to achieve, while the other, Vincent, is much more "average", to the scientists' dismay. | |
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Double In-Law Marriage | |
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Double In-Law Marriage: The end has the twins marrying sisters. | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass: Of course Vincent was kind of a jerkass his whole life, but became a bigger jerkass after he was told their mother died and took it out on Linda and Julius. He was also told that he wasn't planned and was made out of everything they didn't want in Julius. That certainly didn't do much for his mood. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: Ultmately everyone gets what they deserve, for good or ill. The twins forge a permanent bond, marry a pair of good-looking, good-hearted women and each gets a set of twins of their own. Mary Ann, having long believed her only son died at birth, discovers she actually has two and gets the chance to reconnect with them. Meanwhile Webster, a Faux Affably Evil murdering bastard who killed the two men who hired him and offed Beatroot, gets violently crushed by a chain-hook and a long length of metal chains. Dr. Traven, who isn't a villain but still acted like a bitter old crank and a jackass, gets sucker-punched for his own bad deeds (because at least he didn't kill anyone). | |
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In the Blood | |
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In the Blood: Done in a more controlled and planned manner than usual. Dr. Traven and his team took sperm from men who excelled in all fields — a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, a bodybuilder etc. so they could create someone who was literally a master at everything. The embryo's split into a "good" twin and a "bad" twin in Mary-Ann's womb, however, was not planned for. | |
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Dr. Jerk | |
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Dr. Jerk: Dr. Mitchell Traven at best, bordering on Morally Ambiguous Doctorate. It's not possible to justify breaking up a family the way he did, no matter what his reasons for it. Not to mention how he treats Vincent, considering the way he treats him as the result of leftover genetic "crap" from the experiment. | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Vincent, at least when he finds out he was lied to when told he was a Son of a Whore. Of course, by the time he and his true mother meet, he's not really that bad anymore. | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
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Overly Long Gag: The chain (see above). | |
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Leave No Witnesses | |
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Leave No Witnesses: Webster has this as a very important part of his personal code, and is all the more psychotic for it — not even the people he works for are safe. The only reason he spares Burt and Bob Klane's lives, choosing to kneecap them instead, is because they've made it clear they have no idea who he is. | |
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Hero Stole My Bike | |
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Hero Stole My Bike: Reconstructed. Julius jacks a convertible with buffalo horns on the hood in Twins, but later mentions that he returned it. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Vincent's celebration of getting his money is cut short when he hears gunshots and Beetroot's car crashing. | |
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Stupid Evil | |
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Stupid Evil: Webster's rule of killing anybody who ever sees his face, even if that someone is his employer, is ridiculous to the extreme. It definitely comes to bite him in the end because he explains he's going to do it to Vincent and Julius, even after they give him the money, giving them a few seconds to look around the room and notice a way to strike back, a prime example of Bond Villain Stupidity. | |
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Twins Are Special | |
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Twins Are Special: Justified as Julius and Vincent are the products of genetic experimentation to produce the perfect child by fertilizing a single ovum with the sperm of 6 different men, Julius getting all of the desired genes and Vincent getting all of the leftovers. This technically makes Vincent Julius's twin, doppleganger, and clone all at once! They experience both Twin Telepathy and Synchronization. | |
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Bedroom Adultery Scene | |
| Twins / int_bbec7823 | comment |
Bedroom Adultery Scene: Vincent's introductory scene. | |
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Genius Bruiser | |
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Genius Bruiser: Julius. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Vincent finds out the hard way that calling Burt Klane a "blimp" isn't the smartest thing to do. | |
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male | |
| Twins / int_c289826f | comment |
Double Standard: Rape, Female on Male: The movie pretty much glosses over the fact that one of the nuns at the orphanage had sexual relations with Vincent when he was only a child. | |
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Informed Ability | |
| Twins / int_ca3a6dbd | comment |
Informed Ability: Some of Julius' abilities, like his superior skill at math. Justified in that only some of his skills are relevant to the plot, and usually only for a single scene each. | |
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Conscience Makes You Go Back | |
| Twins / int_cafca250 | comment |
Conscience Makes You Go Back: Julius makes Vincent grow a conscience, which irritates Vincent to no end. | |
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Rule #1 | |
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Rule #1: The rules of a crisis situation: | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
| Twins / int_cf92fea8 | comment |
Cassandra Truth: No one ever believes that Vincent and Julius are twins. Vincent doesn't even believe it until about halfway through the film. | |
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Hypocrite | |
| Twins / int_d52d28b6 | comment |
Hypocrite: Vincent accuses Linda of accompanying him on the journey because her interests were only financial, even though five million dollars is exactly what motivated his road trip in the first place. Though he's likely just venting his anger on the news of his mother's supposed death. | |
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Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist | |
| Twins / int_d9d3c1f2 | comment |
Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist: The two couriers who deliver the car to the garage try to pass themselves off as tourists by wearing Hawaiian shirts. | |
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Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing | |
| Twins / int_d9f97805 | comment |
Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: Near the beginning, a motorcycle-riding thief tries to steal Julius' suitcase. Julius is so strong that he is able to hold onto the suitcase without even noticing that the man was trying to steal it, which yanks the thief right off his motorcycle. Julius actually thinks the man got caught on his suitcase and unironically tries to give him medical assistance while apologizing profusely. | |
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Something Else Also Rises | |
| Twins / int_dae0cfd5 | comment |
Something Else Also Rises: When Marnie falls asleep on Julius, it causes his bicep to bulge to the point where it rips his shirt. | |
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Mix-and-Match Man | |
| Twins / int_de62575 | comment |
Mix-and-Match Man: Julius and Vincent are Designer Babies with combined DNA from six athlete and scholarly fathers. Vincent lost out in the process though. | |
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Dating What Daddy Hates | |
| Twins / int_de89c0a1 | comment |
Dating What Sister Hates: Marnie doesn't like her sister Linda going out with Vincent. Though she eventually back off upon meeting Vinncent's twin Julius. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: Mary Ann, after she learns about Dr. Traven's little white lie. "You stole my family... you lying son of a BITCH!!" | |
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Manchild | |
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Manchild: Julius has a lot of child-like innocence due to spending his whole life on an island. | |
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Big Guy, Little Guy | |
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Big Guy, Little Guy: And it's rather hard to get them mixed up. | |
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Jerkass | |
| Twins / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Mitchell Traven. He treats Vincent like crap, because his unexpected birth was the reason the program was shut down. Also because of it, he told Mary Ann, their birth mother, that her child died at birth. As well as already pre-judging how Vincent would grow up. | |
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Martial Pacifist | |
| Twins / int_ed46da54 | comment |
Martial Pacifist: Julius has been trained in karate since he was a boy. He just doesn't learn to enjoy violence until he meets Vincent. | |
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Loan Shark | |
| Twins / int_fb5ab090 | comment |
Loan Shark: Vincent is hounded by the family of loan sharks almost every other scene. Played for Laughs, as they are continuously injured and quite non-threatening. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
| Twins / int_fccd06b6 | comment |
Beware the Nice Ones: Julius. He doesn't want to hurt you; that doesn't mean he can't. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
| Twins / int_ff7f34c5 | comment |
Pet the Dog: Or cat in this case. Vincent, despite being a moneygrubbing lech until he meets Julius, is very kind and loving towards his pet cat, ironically named Julius. Dr. Werner had hoped Julius would stay with him after learning he had a twin, but Julius was insistent on leaving to find his twin brother, so Werner let him leave. That's as nice as he gets and it's all downhill from there. Although Werner does reunite with Julius at the end. | |
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