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Fearful Symmetry

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Fearful Symmetry	comment	Two identical-appearing combatants attacking in perfect synchronization with identical attacks which will often cancel each other out if the two combatants are fighting each other. A favorite of the Asteroids Monster, expect plenty of Beam-O-War if ki-attacks are in fashion, and Spot the Imposter if one of the two is an Evil Twin. This trope runs on the idea that since the combatants know everything the other knows they must know what they would do in this situation, up to and including facing a copy of themselves. Thus, they match up. Compare Juxtaposed Halves Shot (where half of two characters' sides/faces are juxtaposed to or beside each other), Mirrored Confrontation Shot (a similar but conflict-exclusive trope), Bash Brothers, and Mirror Match. May result in a Double Knockout or Mutual Disadvantage. See Ditto Fighter for the fighting game equivalent. Not to be confused with The X-Files and Justice League Unlimited episodes of the same name. The Trope Namer, William Blake's poem "The Tyger", doesn't have anything to do with the trope.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_1858fe06	comment	In Issue #24 of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), everybody ends up in a fight with their evil twin, but nobody's making headway because they can predict each other's moves. The good guys end up winning easily when the good Sally hits upon the idea of everybody changing partners (which, apparently, the evil Sally doesn't expect). It's not explained why, exactly, the good guys suddenly end up being the better fighters... surely this could have caused them to lose as easily as it could have caused them to win?
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Fearful Symmetry / int_1a64c756	comment	The first time the Minerva and Archangel battleships engage each other seriously in Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny (the first encounter was Archangel refusing to fire on them and instead trying to shake them off) it's kicked off them each firing a single volley from their beam guns and firing a missile salvo, and the cannon shots being absorbed by each ships armor and the missiles being destroyed before impact by each ships point defense guns. Showing that both ships have almost identical functioning (though differing in design) weapons (and that their stock footage for firing them is very similar). After this though the battle quickly becomes more chaotic.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_1cc09117	comment	White Ichigo does this to Ichigo in Bleach during their Battle in the Center of the Mind. Slight subversion in that the hollow is actually capable of using much better techniques with greater finesse, he just wanted to show that he could do everything that Ichigo could just as well.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_1d2854c9	comment	"Those Emerald Eyes Are Shining": Lightning Lad and Lightning Lord engage each other using the same powers and tactics, enshrouded in twin electrical battle auras.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_2029a797	comment	Something similar can happen in Street Fighter Alpha 3. Adon (trained under Sagat) has a special intro with Sagat, where they both do identical kicks that end up parrying each other. Alpha 3 also has Fearful Symmetry intros for Evil Ryu versus Akuma (both trigger the Raging Demon special move, and the screen whites out as they exchange blows before being forced apart) and Akuma versus Gen (Akuma triggers the Raging Demon, Gen blocks each hit, Gen rushes past and triggers his own multi-hit move, Akuma blocks each hit). Street Fighter III has this for Makoto and Ibuki's intros.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_2250e67e	comment	Star Trek: Enterprise has the episode where thanks to a temporal anomaly, Enterprise encounters a time-shifted Enterprise, leading to a brief firefight between the two. Archer resolves the battle by having T'Pol beam components from the alternate ship to disable her.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_28fe1376	comment	In Fringe, Olivia confronts her alternate universe self thinking she has the upper hand. Turns out Alt-Livia hides her backup gun in a different place.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_2c71840f	comment	In the original Tomb Raider game, at one point Lara comes across a zombie Lara that mimics her movements exactly, so much so that the zombie keeps the player from moving onto the next challenge. The trick is to get the zombie Lara to follow the player's moves enough to fall into a pit that is only on "her" side of the arena.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League Unlimited: The title of an episode where Supergirl fights an older, more powerful, and more ruthless clone who knows all her moves. In "Divided We Fall", the original seven Leaguers all fight the Brainiac/Luthor hybrid's copies of the Justice Lords. In "A Better World", the members of the Justice League fight alternate versions of themselves. The Batman vs Batman conflict plays this trope to the letter with the mirror Batman insisting he knows everything Batman will do (and for the most part being right).
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Fearful Symmetry / int_2fee008d	comment	The finale of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann pits the eponymous mecha against the Grand Zamboa, a twisted doppelganger created to cause despair by beating the heroes using their own shape. The Movie goes step further with Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Super Grand Zamboa using the same Giga Drill Breaker at each other.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto does this near the end of the Rescue Gaara arc in Shippuuden. Clones of Gai, Lee, Neji and Tenten attack after they remove the seals that hide Sasori, Deidara and the dead Gaara inside the Akatsuki lair. Shikamaru's basic technique forces his opponent to perfectly mirror whatever he does. He subverts this trope in his first one-on-one fight by easily beating a perfectly symmetrical opponent. He and Kin both throw shuriken at each other. While dodging the shuriken, Shikamaru forces Kin to slam her head against a wall behind her.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_30b255fb	comment	The title of an episode where Supergirl fights an older, more powerful, and more ruthless clone who knows all her moves.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_33888a01	comment	Drizzt Do'Urden vs. Artemis Entreri. From the very beginning, it's clear that while they are not physically identical, when one fights the other it feels as if he is fighting a mirror image of himself.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_33acebd8	comment	An unusual sort of symmetry, though not from clones, occurs in Guilty Gear XX. Before a story-related fight, Ky Kiske and Sol Badguy both perform a massive set of attacks, with each one being the move that serves about the same purpose with each character, starting with projectiles, going next to aerial attacks, then a chain combo attack, then finally, they both throw super attacks. Everything neutralizes the other attack, and they just end up about ten feet further away from each other for it. IIRC, there's another version of this, possibly in GGX2#R only, where Sol and Ky clash stand slashes, chain into their "dragon punch" moves and then only Sol does his jumping EX Tyrant rave, which takes off about 25% of Ky's health before the fight even begins.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_3638bab7	comment	Having been trained by the same tulku and possessing the same powers, The Shadow and Shiwan Khan manage to do this with bullets. But only once, because they're both a little freaked out by it.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_3a9cf1cc	comment	Ryo and Gui Zhang's fight just before the climactic battle in Shenmue culminates with them matching each other blow-for-blow, and ends when both suffer a Double Knockout.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: Dragon Ball GT features an example where the Humongous Mecha Luud can only be destroyed by simultaneous attacks from inside and outside. Used by Piccolo in Dragon Ball Z for solo training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. In Dragon Ball Super, two gods of destruction, Champa and his brother Beerus, play an increasingly fast game of rock-paper-scissors to settle a dispute where they tie again and again and again and again and again... Goku Black and Goku punch each other in the exact same manner. Downplayed because Goku is in his Super Saiyan form and much more muscular than the slimmer Black.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_3bce4381	comment	The battle between Knives and Vash in the finale of Trigun is similar in this respect.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_3cd90f30	comment	Arrested Development parodies this between the twins George and Oscar Bluth. Each man tries the exact same sequence of movements, just to be blocked in the same way every time.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_3ddddb25	comment	In Xiaolin Showdown, Clay ends up fighting a mime who can perfectly mimic his movements. Clay responds by punching himself; Clay can take the hit, but the mime can't.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion, in Episode 9, features the angel Israfel, which splits into two and can only be defeated by two pilots using an identical sequence of simultaneous attacks. By way of dance. In fact, this trope encapsulates the episode: Shinji and Asuka's arguments with each other, their attempts to synchronize their everyday lives, and their final dance number all typify it. Not to mention the fight between EVA-01 and EVA-02 in Episode 24.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_4522fd1	comment	"Insanity Prerequisite" in the Whateley Universe: protagonist Carmilla fights demon The Kellith. Since they're just two different aspects of the same person/thing, it gets complicated.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_46a8fe44	comment	In Replicant, Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a serial killer and his clone grown by the government to catch him. In the climactic fight, both Garrotte and the Replicant try to hit each other but end up punching each other's fists and kicking each other's legs. The weird thing is, they actually mirror each other's moves literally (i.e. one punches with his right, while the other with his left).
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Fearful Symmetry / int_4b42bc93	comment	Thomas and Mr. X trade blows this way in Natraps X.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_4be3aedd	comment	Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers uses this to some degree when White Ranger Tommy has to fight his past Green Ranger incarnation, including a simultaneous Cross Counter to the chest at one point in the fight.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_5acfd39c	comment	Done in Rush Hour 2, when Lee gets into a fight with Kenny, and they end up doing the same move several times in succession. When Lee asks who his teacher was, they find out that their masters were brothers and stop fighting.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_5b90dd16	comment	Death & the Family: After the spirits of the McDougal Clan possess and transform Kara, Silver Banshee and the Banshee-fied Supergirl have a literal screaming match where they shoot sonic screams at each other.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_5ce2f08b	comment	An example without the appearance part in Black Butler is the duel between Sebastian and Agni in chapter 17.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_5f19d1f2	comment	Black Widow (2021) has two cases, first when Natasha meets Taskmaster, who for running on Power Copying repeats whatever she does, and her fight with "sister" Yelena, as both have the same training\skills and thus use the same moves until Yelena grabs a knife.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_61b1bd67	comment	Any fight between the two Syaorans in Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- comes off like this, since they both use nearly identical styles of kickboxing and swordplay. The only difference is in their magic: Syaoran has inherited the Li family's magic, while the clone has stolen half of Fai's magic. The latter is also far more ruthless in combat, which generally gives him an edge.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_61b874fb	comment	In the film version of Ryu Ga Gotoku (Yakuza as it's known in the west) has this in fights between Kazuma and Majima. Epitomized in their duel with shotguns.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_631805af	comment	Although they don't look alike, part of the final battle between Solid Snake and Liquid Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid 4 goes like this. One moment stands out in particular. After spending several minutes beating each other to a pulp, Snake and his "brother", Liquid Ocelot, each find themselves facing each other and holding a syringe full of fast-healing nanotech. Instead of jumping back to inject themselves or trying to knock away the other's syringe, they inject each other, knowing that the other will do the exact same thing. Fearful symmetry, indeed...
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Fearful Symmetry / int_6d10ab03	comment	Mortal Kombat 1 sees Geras do a nutty spin on this as part of his Fatal Blow, which involves punching his opponent into a time portal, sending them flying into both an alternate timeline and towards an alternate Geras. This leads to a Split Screen shot of both Gerases catching their respective opponents before rushing back towards the portal to smash their skulls into each other, all doing so in perfect symmetry.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Happens in Farscape when Crichton is duplicated. Each one is insistent that he is the real one and the other is fake, and in order to prove it he furiously plays rock-paper-scissors against himself, seemingly for hours at a time, and it's always a tie. Some viewers have pointed out that Crichton's pulse pistol is lying on a table between the two, leading to speculation as to what the stakes may have been. Later, even when Crichton plays against a recording of his other self, it's still a tie.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: The final battle between Zuko and Azula definitely has these moments, often with red and blue flames mirroring perfectly. Happened earlier during their fight on an airship at the Western Air Temple. They both swing to punch each other (shown in slow motion) and the blast of their flames bursting on contact knock them off the airship.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_72e6ad4a	comment	Done during the boss fight with Fake Crash in Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced. He will do everything that Crash does at the exact same time. The idea is to time the movements with the hazards around the field to damage him while not coming into contact with the hazards on your side of the field.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_730bdef3	comment	The final battle between Rushuna and Setsuna at the end of Grenadier, in which they're so evenly matched, their bullets end up intercepting each other more often than not. The battle between Knives and Vash in the finale of Trigun is similar in this respect.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_73d7930f	comment	In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Adversary", Odo and another shape-shifter fight. At one point they are fighting with exactly the same moves.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_74a4c704	comment	In the first Kingdom Hearts game, this trope is your best defensive option before you get Guard (and depending on your choices in the tutorial, that'll take a while). Landing an attack so that the overhead swing of Sora's Keyblade connects with your opponent's attack is the only way to block an attack (and thus earn Tech Points) without that ability; sword-wielding bosses like Tidus, Leon, and Cloud often employ overhead swings of their own to better fit the trope.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link: Dark Link pulls off the same moves as you do. It's not pretty. You can cheat and head to the corner and down stab. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: The battle between you and Dark Link starts out this way, and remains this way as long as you use Z-Targeting. Unless you perform a stab at him. If you do that, instead of simply stabbing back, he'll balance on your sword and smack you in the face.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_76e539c2	comment	In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, Subaru and her sister Ginga have a mock battle. They have the exact same fighting style and even have two halves of the same device (Revolver Knuckle), so it comes off as a mirror match — after initially looking as though a difference in skill level would dictate otherwise.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_7832b74c	comment	In the Steven Universe episode "Ocean Gem", this happens between Garnet and a magically-produced "water clone" of herself.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_7849f0c1	comment	In the battles in Getter Robo Devolution, the Unevolved would take a form based on the classic Getter Robos, prompting the Getter Team to use the corresponding Getter in response. The manga's climax has the Getter Robo, which was ultimately revealed to be a man-made Getter Emperor, fight against the Will of the Getter Rays itself, which were in the iconic form of the original Emperor.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_7ac43256	comment	An interesting variation is with the Kyosuke vs Axel fights in Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Inspector. Initially Axel fights Shadow-Mirror Kyosuke and they grapple with each other and try to overpower one another, and when Kyosuke starts to win Axel surprises him with an energy blast that damages him and forces him to active his hidden Einst power, making him a much bigger target. When Axel fights regular Kyosuke the battle is initially a perfect copy of this, right down to similar animation frames and identical dialogue. However when Axel tries the surprise energy blast, Kyosuke reacts faster than he expects to interrupt it and then open fire on the wide open Axel, as regular Kyosuke turns out to be more skilled fighter than his alternate self since he has no Einst power to rely on.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_7c038c18	comment	This happens in the Phineas and Ferb episode, "Doofapus" when Doofensmirtz turns himself into a platypus to even the playing field with Perry. Turns out that he evened the field too much.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_7d4dbd51	comment	Subverted in the Archie Comics Sonic/Megaman crossover. As per the games, Mega Man fights a duplicate of himself, who claims that the fight is this. Mega Man quickly proves him wrong by using a recently acquired weapon, something Copy Bot couldn't possibly have gotten.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_7f2f5e71	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2016), Link's fight with Dark Link is completely mirrored, to the point that when Link gets the upper hand and stabs Dark Link, he finds out that he stabbed himself, too.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_83ad4daa	comment	Pokémon: The First Movie's final battle. Unlike most battles in the Pokémon universe, which are treated as A-OK, this fight between the clones and the originals is treated as wrong, because the clones and the originals are clearly fighting to kill one another.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_83f8495b	comment	Zelda II: The Adventure of Link: Dark Link pulls off the same moves as you do. It's not pretty. You can cheat and head to the corner and down stab.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_87e00d8e	comment	In Teen Titans (2003), Starfire, Cyborg, and Beast Boy are pitted against their own inner evils, resulting in this trope. The fights end up at best evenly matched and at worst losing to their evil counterparts until they switch adversaries. Evil Cyborg defeated by the physically stronger Starfire, Evil Beast Boy defeated when animal fangs and claws can't penetrate Cyborg's metal body, and Evil Starfire's questionable accuracy being unable to hit Beast Boy's agile animal forms.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_88b348e8	comment	Cardcaptor Sakura does much the same with the Twin card, which can only be defeated by two allies using an identical sequence of simultaneous attacks. But with martial arts this time. Any fight between the two Syaorans in Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- comes off like this, since they both use nearly identical styles of kickboxing and swordplay. The only difference is in their magic: Syaoran has inherited the Li family's magic, while the clone has stolen half of Fai's magic. The latter is also far more ruthless in combat, which generally gives him an edge.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_89cd614f	comment	Subverted in Hikaru no Go. One player gets the brilliant idea of challenging Akira by taking the first stone (putting it in the center of the board, which has no mirror spot) and then mirroring Akira's actions on the Go board. Akira figures out what he's doing almost immediately and promptly sets a trap to capture his pieces in the center.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_8c6bc3c2	comment	Street Fighter III has this for Makoto and Ibuki's intros.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_90c73dda	comment	This happens a couple times in Animorphs, usually when a hostile animal has someone morph into a copy of it. Most notably in The Hidden, where a water buffalo acquires and morphs Visser Three, mimicking his movements out of animal instinct. Not only do the Visser's men freeze, more afraid of angering their boss than helping him, the buffalo actually downs the Visser after a brief fight, buying it enough time to escape.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_91120398	comment	Ga-Rei -Zero- at one point involves a monster whose entire fighting style is based on this. It copies the appearance and weapons of its opponents, mimics their every move, and can even reflect projectile attacks.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_95a8c491	comment	Sym-Bionic Titan has a variation of this: back-to-back symmetry. The two aren't clones, but Lance and Cain's martial arts moves are exactly the same, but mirrored, prompting both to ask the other where they learned to fight. Being that Lance learned to fight on another planet, and the Galalunian technology they find in the G3 base, this laid the groundwork for some sort of connection between Earth and Galaluna, though nothing came of it.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_985ad25d	comment	In Dragon Ball Super, two gods of destruction, Champa and his brother Beerus, play an increasingly fast game of rock-paper-scissors to settle a dispute where they tie again and again and again and again and again...
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Fearful Symmetry / int_98dc652b	comment	Dragon Ball GT features an example where the Humongous Mecha Luud can only be destroyed by simultaneous attacks from inside and outside.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_9bee13f2	comment	Matt Jackson and Chris Sabin both tagged out during the first night main event of Supercard Of Honor X due to this trope preventing either of them from gaining an advantage over the other. It was less the case with Alex Shelley and Nick due to the latter's posturing.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_9f6c32a9	comment	The fight between Wesley and Cross in Wanted has shades of this, such as when they continuously deflect each other's bullets with their shots.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: In "The Farnsworth Parabox", the two Leelas try to fight each other, to no effect. After they lunge at each other and end up simply colliding in midair, one of the Professor Farnsworths tells them "Now, now, perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything." Flexo is a bending robot exactly like Bender. Whenever they get into a fight, they throw punches and just end up hitting each other's fists.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_a25840b7	comment	In Sengoku Basara, if you and a humanoid boss character attack each other at the same time, you enter a clash mode in which the two characters parry each other's attack until you button mash enough to win.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_a825da3e	comment	Happens in competitive card games like Magic: The Gathering and Versus a lot, especially at the start of sanctioned tournaments where many players may be using identical decks that did well in previous tournaments due to the existence of websites dedicated to the best builds. Many tournament players have several silver bullets against their own deck in their optional side-deck to use in mirror matches. There are also a few pairs of cards that seem perfectly matched to one another — for instance, Time Spiral reprinted the 13/13 Krosan Cloudscraper, and the next set (Planar Chaos) has Shivan Meteor, which deals exactly 13 damage. Also appears in the art of several cards, usually ones that represent shapeshifters. Morphling, Clone, Vesuvan Doppelganger, Spitting Image, and the like. Mirrored Pairs are a set of cards that are of opposing colors and usually do opposing things. Sometimes, this runs in such a way that both cards cancel each other out, like Red Elemental Blast and Blue Elemental Blast (both counter or destroy a card of an opposing color, and since red and blue are opposing colors, they can very well cancel each other out when used).
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Fearful Symmetry / int_a8d4631e	comment	In Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2, Elpeo Puru and Puru II's story modes, being already intertwined, culminate in a cutscene wherein the two battle in their identical Quebeley Mobile suits, each mirroring the other's moves perfectly. They comment on how good and natural it feels.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_aca7b22d	comment	In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Copycats", Nicole and a knock off version of her fought each other and their punches and kicks mirror each other. Meanwhile, Gumball and Chichi end up having a Wimp Fight, Darwin and Ribbit are both apologetic attackers, and Richard and Dad end up sucking each other's fingers after they both collapse from exhaustion charging at each other.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_ae050a9f	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: The battle between you and Dark Link starts out this way, and remains this way as long as you use Z-Targeting. Unless you perform a stab at him. If you do that, instead of simply stabbing back, he'll balance on your sword and smack you in the face.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_b0028436	comment	Appears in one of the most iconic scenes of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, specifically in Stardust Crusaders when DIO and Jotaro are exchanging punches.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_b0ec0986	comment	This occurs at the end of two out of three stories in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. In Terra's story, after Master Xehanort possesses Terra and the Lingering Will forms, the two fight. Terranort has the same appearance as Terra (golden eyes, darker skin, and white hair notwithstanding), but most of Terranort's moves are Terra's high-end Deck Commands. In Ventus' story, in the second half of the final battle with Vanitas (the darkness ripped out of Ven's heart and manifested), Ven enters into a D-Link that allows him to use two commands and a Shotlock based on those Vanitas is using. Ven's job is to invoke the trope and meet Vanitas' attacks with the same, thus allowing him to build up the Command Gauge for a finisher.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_b40eb913	comment	In Infinite Crisis, both Superman and Lex Luthor face off against alternate versions of themselves, and the two Supermen later take on a third version of themselves.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_b5101841	comment	In "Bizarrogirl", the main character and her Bizarro counterpart have a duel where her opposite powers and mirror moves cancel each other.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_b9b796cf	comment	Fate/stay night: In the Unlimited Blade Works route, this is how Shirou manages to do battle against Gilgamesh. Usually, Gilgamesh simply spams magic swords at his opponent in such numbers that they are overwhelmed, but Shirou's unique brand of sword-creation magic (plus skills he subconsciously absorbed from Archer, his future self) allows him to spam equal numbers of swords right back, cancelling Gilgamesh's barrage out. With that advantage removed, he's able to catch Gilgamesh off-guard and defeat him before Gilgamesh pulls out Ea.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_c19161	comment	In the beginning of "Red Daughter of Krypton", Supergirl and Silver Banshee fight like this.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_c6b738c4	comment	Played for laughs on an October 2015 edition of ROH On SGB where The Kingdom and The Addiction's attempts to cheat each other lead to Frankie Kazarian and Matt Taven trying to hit each other with title belts at once, realizing the referee was about to catch them and throwing their belts down to frame the other as well as Maria Kanellis and Chris Sabin getting ejected at the same time after trying to trip one of the opposing team.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_cb6abea3	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Yugi vs Arkana duel has a moment of this when they set their Dark Magicians against each other. During the Doma arc, Yugi and Yami Yugi fight each other using the same decks, the only exception being the Seal of Orichalcos on Yugi's side. Subverted in that after a few turns, Yugi plays Sangan, which shuffles the order of their decks, then Card Destruction to make both draw new hands.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_d4f9ccf	comment	In Aladdin The Animated Series when a trickster called Chaos pairs Aladdin against an Evil Twin the results are to be expected.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_d75fd352	comment	"The Condemned Legionnaires": In their first battle, Supergirl and Satan Girl clash against each other using identical powers and maneouvers.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_d7aab7c1	comment	Ptilol and Cyprine in Sailor Moon S were also one person split into two. They are finally destroyed when an attack from one mistakenly hits the other.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_dab32bc	comment	In Mega Man, the title character has to fight a robot clone of himself. While his movement is his own, the robot will fire a shot every time Mega Man does.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_daff6a21	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds: Jack Atlas goes up against an imposter who has a copy of not only his duel runner but also his deck, including three copies of his one-of-a-kind Red Dragon Archfiend. Even more disturbing, he takes Jack's arrogance to the next level, leaving Jack shaken and realizing how much of a jerk he's been lately.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_e05681a1	comment	In Kick-Ass, the protagonist and his enemy wind up knocking each other out at the same time using identical weapons.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_e91422c9	comment	Countdown to Final Crisis: Arena is four issues of this trope, as Monarch forces different versions of heroes to fight each other. However, it's not very faithful — while the Wonder Women may be hard to tell apart, the Supermen's powers are very different (one is an "evolved" Kryptonian who can grab the other two's heat vision beams and throw them around by them, while the other is the super-patriotic Superman from All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder and the third is Red Son Superman, raised communist) and the others all offer some degree of variation — for example, the Ray fights a Nazi Ray and Apollo, one of the Batmen is a vampire (from Batman: Red Rain) and another is a Green Lantern (from Batman: Darkest Knight), one of the Starmen is a monkey and one is a chick, and... well, the list goes on.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_e9e265b6	comment	In Chapter 4 of Fire Emblem: Awakening "Marth" matches Chrom blow for blow. When pressed, "Marth" claims that he learned his skills from his father. Turns out "Marth" is actually Chrom's daughter from the future. Side Story 22 is this trope at a squad scale. The enemy consist of nothing but identical copies (including skills and stats) of the squad you field in the battle armed with some of the best weapons in the game, plus a copy of an NPC fighting alongside you.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_ec19bd89	comment	Saiyuki both plays this straight and subverts this in both the anime and the manga when an enemy creates clones of the main cast programmed with their entire moveset, with every move he's observed up until the day prior to when he chose to unleash them on the team. The main characters quickly realize they'll just copy and counter all their known moves and switch to trying different things, making quick work of the clones and rendering them a minor nuisance, chiding the enemy that created them by saying "the us you knew yesterday isn't the us that exists today". Hilariously, in the manga, although Goku, Gojyo, and Hakkai figure this out quickly, Sanzo doesn't catch on until they find him and tell him...after enjoying watching him fight against himself for a while.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_ec28245c	comment	Used by Piccolo in Dragon Ball Z for solo training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_eeaaec28	comment	In one episode of Martian Successor Nadesico, Akito has a Battle in the Center of the Mind with the ship's computer, and both combatants take the form of Gekigangar III, the title robot of Nadesico's Show Within a Show. They match each other's attacks blow for blow until Akito levels up his avatar to Gekigangar V, a more powerful robot that the computer doesn't know about.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_eef5470a	comment	Near the end of the Rurouni Kenshin manga, Aoshi fought against another user of two swords who used his own moves against him. It worked for a while until Aoshi dropped his swords and just started beating him with only his fists.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_ef2e1620	comment	In an episode of Rockman.EXE (MegaMan NT Warrior), an evil alternate universe version of one character shows up. The inevitable fight eventually ensues. This trope is taken to the point that when the two use their Dice Bombs, they both roll the same. In a different doppelganger fight they start out equally matched, but then the doppelganger starts predicting the others moves and starts countering with opposite attacks instead.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_ef445f2b	comment	In Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie Sonic faces Metal Sonic; a robot programmed to think and fight exactly like him. Naturally, they spend half the fight simply canceling each other out.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_f10619d8	comment	The cutscene fights between Luke and Asch in Tales of the Abyss; note that they were both trained in swordfighting by the same person. Helped by the fact that Luke is left handed where Asch favors his right.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_f2041376	comment	Charmed features a fight like this in the Mirror Universe, between the good and evil version of Phoebe and Paige. The two Paiges keep at this for some time, their specific magic causing explosions that threaten everyone around.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_f8956ef3	comment	In one of the YuYu Hakusho movies, Kuwabara faces an enemy who can immediately match any Ki Attack he performs, resulting in this trope. Kuwabara defeats the foe by unleashing an enormous burst of energy in order to drain both of them, and then just whaling on the guy, who is physically weaker than him.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_fd314ec1	comment	In Kamen Rider Decade, the flashback to the Rider War ends with Kuuga Ultimate Form and Decade throwing identical punches at each other, creating a Sphere of Destruction. The image was iconic enough that the Climax Heroes series of video games uses it as the animation when one character attempts to counter another's Finishing Move.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_fd82c162	comment	Upgrade has the cybernetically augmented hero fist-fighting a cyborg soldier to a perfect impasse. The hero's AI guiding his movements states that they cannot defeat the soldier purely with fighting moves.
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Fearful Symmetry / int_fdbace96	comment	Used as a one-off gag in Gravity Falls episode "Double Dipper", but afterwards there's another scene where multiple clones fight each other normally.
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