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This trope is what happens when you combine the old adage that "two heads are better than one" with Twins Are Special: when twins (or other similar sibling sets) work together, they are smarter, more efficient, more productive, more creative, and just all around better than 1) when they work separately and/or 2) than non-twin individuals and groups. This is often justified by claiming that twins are more in-tune with each other's thinking than non-twins, therefore they are able to communicate faster and more effectively (or just simply intuit what their sibling is thinking). Twin Telepathy is another oft-used in-universe justification. While a direct comparison between twins doing something better than non-twins is the clearest way to depict this trope, it can also be shown indirectly by emphasizing in-universe the incredibleness of the feat the twins are accomplishing together. Simply depicting twins as smart, creative, or strong is not enough if they are neither working together nor excelling at whatever they do in a notable way. And neither does this cover every instance of twins working together. Remember, the emphasis of this trope is on the superiority of the twins when they cooperate with one another. A Sub-Trope of Twins Are Special and Sibling Team. A Sister Trope to Wonder Twin Powers, which is about characters (twins and non-twins alike) who have a superpower or ability that does not work unless both are together. In some cases, that trope is this trope taken to its logical extreme. See also Tag Team Twins, which this trope may be used to justify. |
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In the climax of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Mario makes it a point to team up with his fraternal twin brother Luigi during the final battle, forming a two-man army that easily trounces Bowser's forces thanks to the Super Star. As the brothers tell each other at different points, "Nothing will hurt us as long as we're together." | |
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The Belgariad: Single-Minded Twins Belkira and Beltira are the only sorcerers capable of decoding the Mrin and Darine Codexes due to their Twin Telepathy, as the codexes only make sense when read in conjunction. The regular Telepathy that all other sorcerers possess doesn't appear to be up to the task. | |
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Assassin's Creed Syndicate: The main protagonists, twin siblings Jacob and Evie Frye, each have different skill sets. The former specializes in fighting and taking damage while the latter excels at stealth and remaining unnoticed. In one of the game's later memory sequences, it's shown that at one point, the twins considered ending their partnership. They realize however that given their complementary skill sets, they work far better together than they do separate from one another and reconcile with each other. | |
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Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese: The Smith Twins work in such perfect unison that they often outperform the title group in contests, despite being outnumbered three to one. | |
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Twins (1988): After some initial friction, Julius and Vincent work together extremely well. They learn to read each other's body language and pick up non-verbal cues, appear to have Twin Telepathy going on, and fight effectively by double-teaming opponents. Julius is educated and strong, but naive and lacking in street smarts. Vincent has little formal education and is short and chubby, but he has street smarts in spades and is not naive. At the end of the film, they're running a successful firm together. | |
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Tiger & Bunny: In the second season, twin brothers Hugan and Mugan have NEXT powers that compliment each other in battle — Hugan absorbs force used against him, but not when it comes from himself, and Mugan can warp them both to sneak up on opponents — and ensure Hugan is fully powered up to attack. The twins are typically only defeated when they can be separated. | |
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The Mario & Luigi games are deliberately designed to be significantly more difficult whenever the eponymous twins are separated, since you're not only locked out from using powerful Bros. Attacks but your action economy is effectively halved. Sometimes this is enforced by the storyline to challenge the player, but if one of them is knocked out in battle, the player is heavily incentivized to either escape or revive him as fast as possible, as the conscious brother is left to protect the other at great cost to his combat reflexes. | |
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The Littlest Pet Shop (2012) episode "Books & Covers" reveals that the normally ditzy Biskit twins are math whizzes when working together; Whittany translates the equations into shopping terms that Brittany can understand, allowing the latter to solve them. When Blythe realises this, she recruits them for the school Mathletes team. Unfortunately, they're rendered useless when Brittany is incapacitated by an allergic reaction. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: The Tyler Sisters are twins who specialize in Tag Duels, where two players on the same side share the same field and Graveyard (GY). The two sisters both use the Amazoness archetype, with Gloria summoning most of the monsters, while Grace will use most of the Spell and Trap Cards, which reduces the likelihood of them having bad hands. Since they use the same archetype, they can perfectly support each other because they both run the same gameplay strategy. Most of their opponents they play against don't use matching archetypes, especially Gongenzaka and Sawatari who end up losing to the Tyler Sisters off-screen because of their two decks being especially at odds with each other.note Gongenzaka's deck relies on not having Spell/Trap Cards in his GY or else many of his monsters' effects won't work, while Sawatari's deck heavily relies on using Normal Spell Cards or else his monsters do nothing, which makes them incompatible partners | |
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Haikyuu!!: The renowned Miya twins from Inarizaki High School are able to figure out and near perfect Kageyama and Hinata's freak quick in the same match they first encounter it. Up until this point, no other team that Karasuno has faced has been able to pull it off, let alone in the middle of a match. This trope is explicitly discussed as being the reason why they managed to do so and why they are a nigh-unbeatable duo to play against. | |
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In the Backyard Sports games, putting twin sisters Ashley and Sidney Webber on the same team will give them both a random boost and improve their overall performance. | |
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Droners: When twin brothers Sun and Monk split after a series of arguments, they significantly underperform each in his domain of expertise when piloting Lotus. This is justified by Sun controlling Lotus using his bindi as a Psychic Link; him being upset with Monk makes him unable to establish a connection with Lotus. Once they resolve their issues and are reunited, they reach their usual level again. | |
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Twitches: Twin witches Cam and Alex are capable on their own, each having an affinity with magics related to either the sun (Cam) or the moon (Alex) in a Solar and Lunar contrast. However, when they are together, their magic gets stronger and they can even cast spells they can't do when they're alone. | |
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Lost Tracks of Time: Twins Ingo and Emmet are noted to have incredible teamwork in battles as soon as they reunite. Even Irida and Sneasler are impressed with their talent. Though Ingo and Emmet are strong battlers individually, some of their best moments involve them working together. | |
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Bakuten Shoot Beyblade: G-Revolution: F-Sangre only consists of the twin siblings Julia and Raul, who are at their best when they play in double matches. They will often goat their opponents into fighting them in doubles, and they will most likely beat them due to their superior teamwork. Even those who do have good team chemistry with each other are in a disadvantage against the two siblings, making them an effective Dual Boss near the end of the Tournament Arc. In singles they're not nearly as good. While Julia is competent enough in single battles, Raul heavily struggles in singles, and he has to take a level in badass in order to not end up as The Load of the team. | |
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Tinker: identical twin sisters Louise and Jillian Mayer, AKA "Lemon-Lime Jel-lo". While individually exceedingly brilliant Child Prodigies in their own rights, these two leverage their near-identical appearances and ability to cross-delegate tasks to each other's strengths to pull off a rather insane list of accomplishments. In their debut book alone, they plan and execute two successful heists (one of which is at the American Museum of Natural History), engage in cross-dimensional sleuthing, routinely hack everything from their Robot Dog nannybot to classified government databases, and strip the series Big Bad of most of his earthside liquid assets (over a billion dollars). They're nine and the summer isn't even over yet. | |
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: Subverted in the Sex Bob-ombs' battle against the Katayanagi twins. The twins' coordinated and synchronized attack of summoning a double dragon of sound at first overwhelms Scott and the Sex Bob-ombs, but it doesn't last. Scott's fury that Ramona came to the concert with Gideon and him hitting the amp allows for him to counter with his own sound beast. This is a small departure from the comic book, where the twins explicitly have Wonder Twin Powers via the move "Twin-Link" (they still lose in that version, though). | |
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In Children of the Lens, the titular children are two pairs of twin sisters plus their older brother. Once grown, they can form a Mental Fusion called the Unit, at one point described by Mentor of Arisia as "the most powerful and the most nearly perfect creation this universe has ever seen." Unusually for twin tropes, the twin sisters are non-identical. | |
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Captain Tsubasa: The Tachibana twins rely on their innate understanding of one another as the basis for their combination attacks. However, this gets deconstructed as Coach Gamo points out that their dependency on each other is a Crippling Overspecialization and borderline Wonder Twin Power that is ultimately holding them back. | |
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Gravity Falls: Deconstructed and reconstructed with twin siblings Dipper and Mabel Pines. On the one hand, while the two are separately capable individuals, with Dipper being The Smart Guy and Mabel being an Eccentric Artist Action Girl, together they balance out each other. Mabel's outgoing impulsiveness encourages Dipper to get out of his head and have fun, while Dipper's forward-thinking helps Mabel focus her energies and face the future. Wendy admires this, while Grunkle Stan thinks they get along freakishly well. This is especially highlighted when Stan's secret twin brother Ford returns, as the two had a falling out as teenagers and are much more prone to arguing and dysfunction than Dipper and Mabel are. However, the deconstruction comes in Season 2, as Mabel's shortsightedness and Dipper's hyperfocus on the mysteries of Gravity Falls cause issues between them. In addition, Ford points out to Dipper that relying too much on his twin can be stifling to his and Mabel's individual endeavors and achievements. Mabel's reliance on Dipper indeed causes her to break down when she finds out that Dipper is thinking about staying in Gravity Falls, causing her to make a deal that inadvertently brings about the apocalypse. However, once they talk out their issues and work together again, they inspire the Stans to reconcile and help reverse the apocalypse once again. They end the series with a healthier dynamic than they started with, reconstructing the trope. | |
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