Evil Twin

Willow has an evil twin? Of course, if anyone were to have an evil twin, it would be Willow. Her character is extremely one dimensional, always the good girl. In Doppelgangland, Willow’s evil twin was brought to us from the alternate universe. The good Willow verses the bad new Willow, though not the evil new Willow. The new Willow is considered as an opposite to Willow due to her radically inverted moralities to that of Willow’s. Willow is the nice girl in school who always gets pushed around. Willow was intimated by the Principal to tutor Percy. Then, she was intimated by Percy to write his paper for him. It is inherited in Willow’s nature that she just does want other people tells her without raising objection. Right after Willow complained about how she’s always getting pushed around, Giles asked Willow to fetch something for him. To this Willow answered gladly, without realizing she was getting pushed around again.

The new Willow was a leader who intimidates people to get what she wants, not the other around. On her first day in the Buffy world, the new Willow was able to intimidate vampires that were sent to kill Willow to work for her. When Percy met the new Willow in the bar and demanded to know why she wasn’t writing his paper for him, she schooled him with a single hand. At the end, Willow was embracing her evil twin because she also realized that the new Willow was not evil.

In a similar fashion, an evil twin of the protagonist was presented in Transformation from seemingly another world, though who was the evil one here? The protagonist, handsome and rich, squandered all his money living a luxury life. After he got broke and his plan to carry off Juliet failed, he wondered along the seashore, imagining a stark future for himself as a beggar. When his life seemed to be slipping away from him, he met a dwarf who had distorted features and deformed body. The sight of the dwarf was so repulsing that our protagonist his blood froze in his heart. The evil twin this time possessed the radically inverted physical appearance to that of the protagonist. After the protagonist switched his body with the dwarf, the dwarf, in protagonist’s body, was able to win Juliet back. After protagonist discovered dwarf’s success, he killed the dwarf to get married with Juliet. In both cases, the evil twin was the stronger character, where they appeared evil at first, but in the end helped their opposite to regain control over their lives. The new Willow tamed Percy for Willow, while the dwarf won Juliet back for the protagonist. Those were things that our original characters can’t do, due to their personalities.