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Evil doppelgängers can emerge from anywhere—they pop out of parallel dimensions, are crafted by alien technology, or burst into the present as time-traveling robots. Even worse, sometimes they just exist for no reason, other than to duplicate (and inevitably torment) a story’s main character.