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"Earth. After the War. Three years have passed since I saw your face. I wonder if I come to you, at night, in dreams; in the day, as memories.So the protagonist is forced to part with a love interest for fantastic (supernatural/fantasy/science fiction) reasons. But it's okay! Because at the end of the story they meet a mundane person who happens to look exactly like the person they lost. Usually it's never explained why this person looks exactly the same, but it's a quick way to turn a bittersweet ending into a happy ending. Usually, the new love interest has been relationship-free for some time, or just got out of a long term relationship. If time travel is involved, the love interest in the present is often an identical grandson or grandfather, which also makes for some incestuous implications if you assume they get married and have babies. Not to be confused with Replacement Goldfish. Note that this trope only applies when the new love interest appears by devices not possible in the world as we know it, such as magic, parallel universes, time travel, or cloning. If there's a mundane explanation (or none) for the Suspiciously Similar Substitute, that's plain old Replacement Love Interest. See also Doppelgänger, obviously. See Settle for Sibling for when the old and new love interests are twin brother/sisters. Due to the nature of this trope and its close association with Death Tropes, spoilers are likely.
"Do I haunt your hours, the way you haunted mine? And I wonder if you see me, when you look at her?
"If we have souls, they are made of the love we share; undimmed by time, unbound by death.
"For three years I searched for the house he built. I knew it had to be out there. Because I know him. I am him. I am Jack Harper, and I'm home. "
"Do I haunt your hours, the way you haunted mine? And I wonder if you see me, when you look at her?
"If we have souls, they are made of the love we share; undimmed by time, unbound by death.
"For three years I searched for the house he built. I knew it had to be out there. Because I know him. I am him. I am Jack Harper, and I'm home. "
— Final lines of Oblivion
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- In Gantz, this is subverted with Kurono and Kishimoto. When Kishimoto died during a mission, Kurono thought to try and pursue her original that was still living a normal life. However, she ends up thinking Kurono is a nutty stalker and runs away from him.
- However, this trope is followed in relation to Kato and Kishimoto. It's implied that Kato has finally decided to get together with Kishimoto's original, and she seems to have taken a liking to him.
- And the manga does this to a T with Reika's very own Kurono, who she resurrects with this trope in mind.
- In Threads Of Time, this is what happens to Moon-Bin at the end. Although he isn't able to end up with Atan Hadas from the past, when he goes back into present time, it's implied that he ends up with a girl (that always liked him) who is identical to Atan Hadas.
- In Cross Game, the characters meet Akane who happens to look exactly like Wakaba, Kou's dead love interest and the Tsukushima family's daughter. Subverted in that Kou and Akane don't end up together, and the main characters theorize (somewhat bizarrely) that Akane was sent by Wakaba to let them know that it's okay to move on. Yeah, whatever lets you sleep at night, bub.
- Subverted in the Black Cat anime, where, for an episode, Train meets a girl who is physically identical to Saya. The thing is, he never really shows much romantic interest towards her, and ends up leaving and forgetting about her. Which certainly contributes to the idea of his character — that he loved Saya's carefree way of life, not that he romantically loved her. Therefore, since the girl had a completely different way of life and occupation, he certainly wouldn't be all that interested in her.
- Trigun is an excellent, if subtle, example. The Technical Pacifist protagonist Vash the Stampede refuses to kill anyone because of the teachings of his mother-figure— even though his brother killed her and some (millions of) colonists on their arrival on the world over one hundred years ago and both villains and protagonists point out how unreasonable he is on the Sliding Scaleof Idealism Versus Cynicism. The catch is that one of the two insurance girls following him throughout the series (similarly an idealist and Vash's love interest) in an act of If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him is superimposed with the image of said dead mother figure. Of course, she looks exactly the same, just with much, much, shorter hair (for fans who are half-blind).
- Squick, perhaps, but then again everyone supposedly likes traits from their opposite sex parent. Less disturbing, however, if you subscribe the common fan hypothesis that the mother figure was actually reincarnated as a reoccurring comical black cat.
- Toyed with a bit, and subverted in Full Metal Panic! during The Second Raid. Sousuke is separated from Kaname by Mithril, and goes into his huge Heroic B.S.O.D.. He ends up meeting a Chinese prostitute who looks exactly like Kaname, and decides to hire her to chat with him. The subversion comes in that, as soon as she starts making advances on him and attempts to kiss him, he completely freaks out and runs away.
- Fist of the North Star played around this trope when Mamiya was first introduced, whose resemblance to Yuria (Kenshiro's supposedly dead fiancee) was the first thing he noticed about her. Subverted in that even though Mamiya is in love with Kenshiro at first, his feelings are not mutual. Also, Yuria is later revealed to be Not Quite Dead yet.
- Non-romantic example, in the 2003 anime version of Fullmetal Alchemist after Ed is trapped in our world on the other side of the gate, he befriends a boy named Alfons who is this world's counterpart to his brother Alphonse in his world.
- Also, probably, a non-romantic one. He befriends Noah, who is probably Rose's counterpart.
- Another one from the Bleach movie, Memories of Nobody: After Senna sacrifices herself, Ichigo sees a girl who looks and sounds just like her run past on the bridge.
- InuYasha plays with this trope in the situation between Inuyasha, Kikyo, and Kagome. After Kikyo's death, plenty of characters who knew Kikyo are struck by the similarity between Kikyo and Kagome (justified by the fact that Kagome is Kikyo's reincarnation), resulting in Kagome angsting over being compared to Kikyo. Inuyasha himself was initially repulsed by Kagome because her scent was so similar to Kikyo, something he got over when he realised their scents weren't the same. He didn't actually notice the physical resemblence between the two until he caught Kagome sleeping one time and had the chance to really study her face to see what everyone else was going on about; for him it didn't really factor in to how he handled Kagome. As a result, the trope is played with because while the resemblence is there, it's not the driving force behind their relationship or the reason Inuyasha became attracted to Kagome. The differences between Kagome and Kikyo are, in fact, so stark, that Kikyo and Kagome have trouble understanding each other and Inuyasha never has any trouble keeping the two women straight in his head because their personalities and motivations are very different.
- Toyed with in MÄR with Koyuki being Ginta's love interest from the real world, and he ends up having fallen for Snow, her exact counterpart in the fantasy world. In the end, he decides to return to the real world and, in the anime, starts dating Koyuki, who Snow's spirit has joined with.
- Sorta invoked twice in Fushigi Yuugi:
- Hotohori marries Houki, a young woman from his harem that looks just like a female version of the recently murdered Nuriko (who, according to the Suzaku Hi Den novel and OAV, was Houki's Big Brother Mentor). While Nuriko's affections for Hotohori were mostly unrequited, it does raise some eyebrows.
- It's also explained in Suzaku Hi Den that Houki herself had once been in a relationship with a young man named Shuu, who looked just like Hotohori, save for their hair/eye color. And he's later revealed to be not just Hotohori's long-lost older half-brother, but the rightful heir to the Konan Imperial Throne. It ends in tears.
- Played with in the second half of Fushigi Yuugi. After Miaka encounters a man who looks identical to Tamahome, named Taka, in her own world, it's said that he's Tamahome's reincarnation. After Taka suffers from some Cloning Blues, Suzaku admits that Taka Sukunami is not Tamahome's reincarnation, but a regular man who was meant to unite with Tamahome's memories. It appears as if the trope is averted at first, but then plays itself straight.
- Ultimately averted in Project ARMS. Almost immediately after the apparent death of Katsumi, a girl named Kei is introduced. She looks exactly like Katsumi (to the point where it's later revealed that she was Katsumi's clone and Ryo is obvious struck by this resemblance. But then Ryo and Kei only ever are friends, while Hayato becomes her love interest. Katsumi, meanwhile, turns out to be alive, and Ryo spends the series trying to rescue her.
- In Mahou Sensei Negima! Eva from the future states that one of her goals is to find an "extra Nagi", after she gets a dimension jumping machine from Chao.
- Subverted in Mobile Suit Gundam 00: following the death of Neil Dylandy (AKA Lockon Stratos), his twin brother Lyle is recruited by Celestial Being to take Neil's place as the team's sniper. When he first arrives on the Ptolemaios, Lyle meets his brother's Love Interest Feldt Grace and acts like a jerk to her, driving her off in tears. Lyle later apologizes, revealing that he did it because he recognized that she was in an emotionally fragile state and didn't want her to form a misguided attraction to him based solely on the fact that he looks exactly like the man she loved. The two make peace, and they end up with completely different love interests.
- In the ending of Future Diary, Yuno dies, but Yukiteru eventually gets together with her 3rd World counterpart, who was given her memories. As a bonus, since her counterpart had a happier life, she is not a Yandere.
- In Yuu Watase's earlier manga Zoku Shinshunki Miman Okotowari, the trope is defied and probably deconstructed. Kazusa, who once had a huge Big Brother Attraction towards her brother Manato, once has the chance to date a boy named Takanari who looks JUST like Manato, plus glasses. However, this utterly and painfully fails, and Kazusa later concludes that she missed out on many prospect boyfriends because of her Big Brother Attraction.
- Yakou from Yurara No Tsuki fell in love with the title character's Superpowered Alter Ego, but couldn't get together with her because she's a Guardian spirit. In the sequel, Rasetsu no Hana he becomes romantically involved with Rasetsu, who looks almost exactly like Yurara (but with slightly different hairstyle).
- In Detective Conan, Inspector Shiratori tries to pursue Kobayashi-sensei after previously failing to court Miwako. When Kobayashi saw Miwako while visiting the station, and saw how much they look alike, she assumed that Shiratori just saw her as Miwa's Replacement Goldfish and tries to avoid him afterwards. However, it was revealed that the girl Shiratori first fell in love with was actually Kobayashi, and his initial pursuits of Miwako was a case of Wrong Girl First.
Comic Books
- In the X-Men comics, after Jean Grey "died" in The Dark Phoenix Saga, her boyfriend, Scott Summers, met and married Maddie Pryor, a girl who looked just like her. Of course, it's not a straight example because 1) Maddie turned out to be a clone of Jean created by an enemy, and 2) Jean wasn't really dead and later came back to marry Scott. The original script would've had Maddie be someone who looked like Jean. That's it. No reincarnation, no clone, just someone who happens to look like her. Unfortunately, an anniversary was rolling around, and Marvel wanted something big. So, they retconned Maddie into a clone for the sake of a story.
- In The Incal, John Difool meets, falls in love and loses a beautiful "Aristro" (she goes off with another guy.) Later he meets Animah, who exactly resembles her. (Strangely, given the metaphysical manipulations that occur in reference to John, this seems to have happened by accident.)
- In Countdown to Final Crisis The Atom Ray Palmer ended up in a parallel universe where his counterpart had just died. He tried to make a new life for himself there and got together with the counterpart of his insane ex-wife Jean Loring. Amazingly enough, things were actually going pretty well — but since this is Countdown, which was described on this wiki as DC's love letter to Kill 'em All, it didn't last.
- In RASL, the protagonist's girlfriend is killed and then he finds himself in a parallel universe where she's still alive — and so is his longer-dead wife. This being RASL, this only makes his troubles more complicated.
- In Runaways, Xavin once impersonated Nico, knowing that Karolina had a crush on her and thinking that this might make their betrothal easier. It backfired pretty badly, creeping Karolina out and making her even more aware of the differences between her and Xavin.
- When Earth-1 was destroyed the original Black Canary's husband was killed. When she was transported to a new Earth she met their version of him and instantly began flirting with him.
- In Injustice: Gods Among Us, Black Canary was in a relationship with Green Arrow, but he died in their home universe. At the end of the second year she gets brought Back from the Dead and meets an alternate universe Arrow, while Doctor Fate explains that this Arrow lost his own Canary five years ago. While Fate says knows the two have never met and that he cannot guarantee them happiness, he can give them each other. The scene ends with Arrow calling her "Pretty Bird", the original's pet name for her.
Fan Fiction
- At the end of Code Geass: Mao of the Deliverance, C.C. takes Mao to C's World while he is unconscious and leaves him there with the mental version of herself so he can be happy. Mao's reaction, however, is a subversion as he, while grateful for the gesture, is ultimately NOT satisfied and determined to get back.
- In the infamous My Immortal, when Draco is kidnapped by Voldemort, Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way mentions how Vampire looks exactly like Draco... before screwing him in front of the class. Which is even more ridiculous when you remember that "Vampire" is supposed to be Harry and he doesn't look like Draco.
- The Monsters University Alternate Universe fanfic A Sinister Mind (part of a series of AU stories written by Crazybird 101) reveals that Johnny Worthington had a childhood friend named Marcus, who eventually became his lover. He was a lizard with crimson scales, red eyes, and four fronds. Marcus is forced to leave his abusive aunt and move to a different home, and Johnny doesn't see him for years. When the events of the movie come around, Johnny meets Randy Boggs, who looks almost like Marcus.
- Marcus of course doesn't die; he shows up in another fanfic called A growing bond. He is the main villain in A fighting bond, but in Silent obsession, it is revealed he had died in childbirth.
- In Susie Q, Zach falls for Susie, a ghost who needs to settle her family's unresolved affairs before moving on to the afterlife. With the help of Zach, she succeeds and moves on to the afterlife and is reunited with grandfather and boyfriend. The next day at school, Zach runs into a new student named Maggie (played by the same actress). It's strongly implied that she's Susie's reincarnation, sans Susie's memories. The situation prompts Zack to give a baffled glance to the camera
- Xanadu has the protagonist parting with a muse played by Olivia Newton John, only to meet an identical waitress at the end. Or the waitress actually is said muse, trying for a version of the relationship her family can at least pretend they don't know about. Some of her parents' remarks leave it a bit ambiguous.
- A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court (1949). Bing Crosby's character meets and falls in love with Alisande La Carteloise ("Sandy") in King Arthur's time. When he returns to the present, he meets a woman who looks just like her.
- Likewise, Black Knight has Martin Lawrence meeting a modern ringer for the love interest he left behind in the past. Nicky also has a scar on her neck at the exact same spot where Percival held a sword to Victoria's throat.
- Played With in A Kid in King Arthur's Court: Calvin falls for Princess Katey in the past, and back in his time her doppelganger seems to recognize him, and there's also a doppelganger of her father King Arthur. The implication seems to be that they time traveled with him, though the novelization plays this trope straight with Katey being a lookalike with the same name.
- Done in Bedazzled (2000), even though his dream girl is actually a normal person who was already taken, he still ends up with a woman who looks exactly like her except brunette, while the dream girl was a blonde. Made all the more interesting because the whole plot is based around his wish to be with his dream girl, especially after finding out that she just broke up with her boyfriend. His final wish (for her to live a happy life) results in the break-up never happening.
- Some onscreen adaptions of The Nutcracker end like this, with toymaker's nephew looking exactly like the eponymous prince (Note, in the original story they are actually the same person.)
- In The Forbidden Kingdom, the protagonist's love interest dies in her attempt to assassinate the villain, but in the ending, he meets an identical girl in the present.
- Meet Joe Black seriously inverts this trope. At the very beginning of the movie, Death takes on the aspect of a man who gets hit by a truck just after the female lead falls madly in love with him. Death then proceeds to fall in love with her, and at the end of the movie when he must leave to get back to work, he resurrects the real Love Interest to take his place.
- At the end of Mirrormask, Helena runs into someone who looks exactly like Valentine in the And You Were There ending.
- At the end of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, where Larry happens to meet a young woman who looks exactly like Amelia Earhart, and also has a poor sense of direction.
- In the film The One, Jet Li fights his Evil Twin from an alternate dimension. Evil Jet kills Good Jet's wife, frames him, and tries to kill him to become a god. After much chop-sockey, good Jet Li ends up in a version of Los Angeles where the original copy of him has long since been killed off and meets a version of his former wife exactly as he did in his world.
- This was the plan by Jason Statham's character, who knew that sending him back to his own universe would result in him being put away for his wife's murder.
- Subverted at the end of The Purple Rose of Cairo.
- Sort of used in Dark City — Emma Murdoch gets all her memories erased and she becomes Anna, and John Murdoch decides to start over with her. Justified, since their relationship beforehand was fake—Emma's memories of the marriage were no more real than Anna's past, and John had already lost his fake memories. So this replacement relationship is more real than the original one.
- Subverted at the end of Date With An Angel; Jim is stunned when he meets a nurse who is a dead ringer for the angel he's been caring for the entire movie — and then she reveals that she is the angel, she's now on indefinite leave to be with him and has left her wings at home. (And has traded in her bird call speech for inexplicably French-accented English.)
- She was played by French actress Emmanuelle Beart. Mystery solved.
- Given a dark twist in Vertigo. Scottie, despondent over the death of Madeleine, finds a woman named Judy who looks almost exactly like her. The two begin dating, but Scottie starts pressuring Judy to dress exactly like Madeleine. However, what he doesn't know is that Judy actually IS Madeleine, who faked her death but now is struck with a terrible case of Loves My Alter Ego.
- In BeerFest during a series of events Landfill is killed, he is eventually replaced by his brother who happens to look exactly like him (he even asks to be called Landfill in honor of his departed brother) and his widow ends up marrying him and subsequently forgets about the original.
- She replaces Landfill's photo on her nightstand with his twin's... as the twin is doing her from behind.
- In one of the post-credits scenes of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin finds Felicity with another man - his 10 minute-younger duplicate from the moon.
Austin from 10 minutes ago: Technically it's not cheating, baby.
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension begins with this situation. Buckaroo's lover had already died at the hands of some supervillain and her twin sister, Separated at Birth, appears for the sake of the story.
- In the 1984 film of A Christmas Carol (1984), the man Belle ended up marrying after leaving Scrooge looks just like his past self, possibly played by the same actor.
- Bicentennial Man involves Andrew, a Ridiculously Human Robot played by Robin Williams, watch the family that owns him grow. When the owner's young daughter has grown, she subtly reveals that she has feelings for Andrew. Having only begun his journey to understand what it means to be human, Andrew has no idea what she means and suggests that she marry her fiancé. She does so. Years later, he is freed by his owner and leaves to find others like him. In the process, he meets an inventor who changes Andrew's appearance to that of a human (his organs are still artificial). He comes back to his former owner's home and kisses the woman he assumes to be the daughter. She freaks out, and it's revealed that many years have passed, and the woman he kissed is her grown-up granddaughter (played by the same actress). And yes, they end up together.
- Jack 52 in Oblivion (2013). He's the one who said this trope's quote.
- Technically, so is Jack 49, as both are clones of Julia's dead husband.
- In Captain America (1990), Steve's love interest from the 1940s waited 15 years after he disappeared to marry and have a daughter (played by the same actress). Steve and the daughter are a couple by the end of the film.
- The whole plot of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp turns on this, although the main character never really realises it.
- At the end of Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet, when the hero has to leave his love interest Kvetuska behind, a doppelgänger of him suddenly appears out of nowhere, except he's blond. Kvetuska quickly changes one dashing man for another.
- Calvin loses his fictional love interest in Ruby Sparks, but finds an identical real-life counterpart at the end, played by the same actress with shorter hair.
- In Andrew M. Greeley's Angel Fire, Sean Desmond meets an Irish woman who is a dead ringer for Gabriella, the angel who has shepherded him through the entire book, after she leaves for good. It's implied that Gabriella knew of this coming meeting and used the woman's appearance in order to prime Sean for a relationship with her.
- In Heir Apparent, the protagonist is trapped in a virtual reality game and ends up developing a bit of a crush on one of the characters. For obvious reasons, they can't exactly be together once she's escaped the game. Luckily he looks just like the game's Teen Genius creator, who shows up to apologize to the heroine personally and seems flattered that she liked the character based on him...
- In Stephenie Meyer's The Host, one human has his girlfriend taken over by a Soul. The free humans then remove the Soul, but the girlfriend is brain-dead due to the possession by this point—so they just stick the Soul back in the body. The original mind's boyfriend then stays with the Soul-in-the-body, despite said Soul being the reason that his girlfriend died at all.
- In the Last Herald-Mage trilogy of the Heralds of Valdemar series, The Hero Vanyel loses his first Love Interest, Tylendel, in a truly epic tragedy that starts him on the path to becoming the most powerful Herald-Mage in the history of the kingdom. Seventeen years later, he finds a new love interest, Stefan, who is physically dissimilar, but still bears an uncanny psychic resemblance to Tylendel, up to and including forming a lifebond with Van. It turns out that 'Lendel was reincarnated as Stefan, though most of the main characters are ignorant of this until close to the end of the story.
- John Perry from Old Man's War is very upset by his wife's death. Near the end of the book he meets a special forces soldier who has a body cloned from his his wife's DNA, who looks exactly like her. They end up together.
- The Redwall novel Martin the Warrior has an odd case of this. In the end, it's revealed that the traveler narrating the story is a dead ringer for Rose, Martin's love interest who was killed by the Big Bad in the final battle. The catch? The two will never meet, as Martin lived and died many generations before the traveler told the story. Slightly better than most examples in that the two characters are, you know, mice.
- Disturbingly handled in the Scorpion Shards trilogy by Neal Shusterman. The titular "Shards," pieces of a Starfish Character, can only truly love each other. Dillon, the leader of the group, attempts to start a relationship with an outsider, but is haunted by memories of a female Shard who died in the first book. The solution is best summed up by the tropes involved: Death Is Cheap for the female Shard, Death of the Hypotenuse combined with Deader Than Dead and Heroic Sacrifice for the outsider, and Freaky Friday plus That (Wo)man Is Dead just to up the weirdness.
- Inverted in Solaris—a doppelganger is created to remind the protagonist of a love interest he failed to save, and he eventually falls in love with her. This is not a case of Replacement Goldfish, as he remains well aware that the copy isn't the same person as the original. It still ends rather badly, though.
- Subverted in Harry Harrison's To the Stars trilogy. Starworld (the third in the trilogy) has the protagonist sent to Israel to meet a contact, and he at first is shocked to see Sarah, his dead love who was killed in the first book. He then starts to see differences and, after talking to her, finds out that she's Sarah's sister. They end up having sex, but it turns out they're both married (he got married in book two) and have no intention of leaving their spouses.
- In both the novel and subsequent TV movie TekWar, Jake Cardigan falls in love with an android built in the image of Beth Kittridge. The android dies in a Heroic Sacrifice. Then Jake meets the real Beth.
- In The Vampire Diaries, Stefan initially fell for Elena because she looked just like his long-dead love interest, Katherine.
- In the final book of The Dark Tower, Susannah Dean travels to an alternate New York City where she meets an alternate version of her (deceased) husband Eddie, their young (also deceased) friend Jake, and even an Earth-dog version of their (guess) billy-bumbler Oy.
- Zig-zagged in the penultimate volume of Reflections of Eterna: Robert's love interest, Baroness Marianna, is killed during the Ollarian riots—but he never actually learns of it, since he is busy elsewhere, dealing with the rioters and helping the refugees. After escaping the city, however, a fulga (a shapeshifting elemental being) finds him and assumes Marianna's form to comfort him and help him recuperate after the Trauma Conga Line he just suffered, without adding any more trauma to it. The Magnificent Bastard Marcel Valme actually sees through her disguise and confronts her, but after confirming that she has no ulterior motive for Robert, he lets her carry on, since he wants Robert up and running ASAP.
Live Action TV
- In episode 4 season 3 of Charmed, "All Halliwell's Eve" The sisters meet a nice guy in the past, who helps them out a lot. When they travel back to the present (several hundred years later) Prue meets an exact look alike (also played by the same actor) in P3.
- The Outer Limits (1995):
"If I look like her, if I sound like her, I might be her? The answer is no."
- Subverted in "Second Soul". One man's wife dies and donates her body to an alien race (they can occupy and revive recently dead bodies, and need to do so to live). He meets the recipient, and finds out that they do sometimes inherit random memories from their hosts, but she does not fall in love with him, becomes bothered by him following her around and eventually gets a restraining order against him. It's even hinted that the process is set up to prevent the aliens from being close to family members of their hosts, presumably to prevent this from becoming a regular occurrence.
- In "In Another Life", a man mourning the death of his wife gets sent to a parallel universe. He quickly tries to find the alternate version of her, only to discover she already has a boyfriend. In the end, when he decides to stay, he meets the alternate version of his wife again and they strike up a friendship, leaving him hopeful that they may get together in the future.
- Avoided in Chou Ninja Tai Inazuma Spark, the samurai from the Edo period lost his sister in an alien attack, then at the end of the story goes to live in the future, where he finds out that someone who looks just like his sister is an actress. At first he's elated to be "reunited" with his dead sister but goes running off screaming when he finds out that she's The Ditz.
- Happens to Adam in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. The Rangers are sent back in time, he meets a girl, then meets a girl who looks exactly like her when the Rangers are returned to the present.
- In Power Rangers Time Force, Jen was initially engaged to Alex, but after he is (supposedly) killed by Ransik, she time travels to the past and meets Wes, who looks exactly like Alex. Though at first hostile towards him, Jen begins warming up to and ultimately finds her Second Love with Wes.
- In The 4400, Richard was in love with and planning to marry a woman named Lilly when he was abducted in 1953. he was later returned in 2003, and his lover had died many years before. However, he met and later married a fellow returnee who had been abducted in the 90s who was identical to his beloved. Her name? Lilly. She was the grandaughter of the woman he had been involved with. As they grow closer he admits that at first he was drawn to her because of the resemblance but later it was all about her.
- Doctor Who:
- Jackie Tyler became a widow while her daughter was a baby. In a parallel universe, Pete Tyler lost his wife during the Cybermen incident. When the former ended up in the universe of the latter, the two paired up, meaning that each was the other's Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest.
- As pictured, Rose gets her own Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest in the form of a half human clone of the Doctor who looks exactly like him and has all his memories, but who ages like a human and is willing to stay with her in the parallel world.
- Invoked in "The Caretaker" - the Twelfth Doctor assumes that Clara's new boyfriend is the Adorkable floppy-haired history teacher who wears a bow tie and can't talk without gesturing heavily with his hands. He gives her his blessing while thinking this. When he discovers that her boyfriend is actually a charismatic former soldier who looks and acts absolutely nothing like he ever did - and Clara claims that the other man is not her type - he is not pleased.
- A variation was overused to the point of boredom on the original Fantasy Island, when Rourke reveals that a visitor's fantasy love interest just happens to be another visitor to the island.
- Daytime soaps do this a lot. Most of the time it's not supernatural, just a way to bring back an actor who has been killed off, such as when Angie Hubbard of All My Children and The City met and married a man who looked exactly like her late husband Jesse. An example of the supernatural sort was on General Hospital when Anna's alien friend Casey had to return to his home planet, and then Anna met a lookalike human, Shep Casey.
- Used in Wonder Woman when the series moved from WW2 to the (then) present day. WW's long-time Love Interest Steve Trevor had been established as an Army officer in the 1940s, so in order to have "him" around in The '70s, he had to be replaced by his identically-named son — both played by the same actor, of course.
- Averted in the pilot episode of Time Trax, where Darien's Love Interest in his own time is killed by the Big Bad. He goes back to the 20th century, chasing the escaped criminals only to encounter her Identical Grandmother. Nother happens between them, although she helps him in a later episode.
- In Fringe, "our" Lincoln Lee and "their" Olivia Dunham become this for each other.
- In one episode of Friends, we meet Russ, Rachel's latest boyfriend who has the same face, voice and mannerisms as Ross but has a slightly different haircut. (After Rachel breaks up with Russ, he runs into Ross's ex, Julie, and it's suggested that they will also have a relationship.)
- On Star Trek: The Original Series, the end of the episode "Mirror, Mirror' had Kirk meet a counterpart of Marlena Moreau, a female crew member who had been his counterpart's "woman" in the Mirror Universe.
- This comes up again in some of the Mirror Universe stories of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Sisko meets the counterpart of his dead wife, Jennifer, and Kira meets the counterpart to her dead lover, Vedek Bareil.
- On Dark Shadows, Barnabas would attempt to invoke this trope several times and try to turn his love interests into his long lost love, Josette. The most notable of these attempts was Maggie Evans, who really was a doppelgänger for Josette.
- A rather weird example occurred in Farscape. At one point, John Crichton gets split in two, with the implication that they are both "real." Soon after, the crew gets separated into two groups, each with one Crichton. Aeryn, who'd been growing closer to Crichton during the course of the series, finally consummates her relationship with the Crichton she's with. He eventually performs a Heroic Sacrifice, and the remaining Crichton finds it an uphill battle to win back her love.
- Happens in Eureka when Henry and some others travel to 1947 and back, arriving at an alternate present. Henry finds his Alternate Universe self is married to a girl he barely knows. He tries to play the part of husband, but she confronts him and he spills the beans. She's married to a guy who doesn't know her. They get better.
- This is, essentially, what starts the plot of The Vampire Diaries: Stefan returns to Mystic Falls after finding out about the existance of Elena Gilbert, a human girl who looks exactly like his deceased ex Katherine Pierce (later explained to be because they're descendants, since Elena was adopted, and both are Doppelgangers). However, he subverts this slightly in that he falls in love with her because she's the opposite of Katherine.
- There's a perfect example of this trope in How I Met Your Mother, when it's revealed that Scooter, Lily's high school boyfriend who all series long has had a crush on Lily, ultimately goes on to marry Stripper Lily, her doppelgänger from "Double Date" and "46 minutes".
- In Home and Away, Curtis leaves with a girl who's the exact double of his dead girlfriend (it's the same actress).
- A variation in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Ripple Effect." Among the dozen other SG-1s from alternate realities who show up on the base, one of them has Martouf, a Tok'ra who developed quite an interest in Samantha Carter. Though they don't hook up in the episode, it does provide some nice closure for Sam (and the fans) since the regular-universe Martouf was killed before the relationship had a chance to develop.
- Zoey 101 has Zoey moving to England and Chase becoming friends with a blonde girl who resembles Zoey in appearance, but personality-wise, she is rude and repulsive. The rest of the characters know Chase is hanging out with her for this reason, but Chase was in denial.
- In Highlander, one episode had Duncan meet a girl looking exactly like the long deceased Tessa It was actually a case of Surgical Impersonation as part of an elaborate plot to kill Duncan.
Tabletop Games
- This often happens with laterally reincarnated innerwalkers in Feng Shui.
Video Games
- Deconstructed in Silent Hill 2, where James can choose to be with Maria, who is an idealized doppelganger of his dead wife Mary. In the ending Maria starts to cough, implying that James is doomed to relive the pain of her dying from a terminal illness just like his wife did. The game implies that this is what James just deserves for clinging to an image of his wife instead of moving on. Or, in another interpretation, refusing to accept responsibility for what he did, and failing to understand why what he did was wrong and selfish.
- In the game version of Da Capo this happens in the Miharu route. Girl gets hit by car, girl gets replaced by robotic duplicate. Boy loves robot. Robot malfunctions. Girl comes back. Boy gets together with girl...
- The NES game Astyanax ends with the hero back in his normal highschool world, but the new student is a dead ringer for the fairy companion who pulled a heroic sacrifice.. but the game never says whether perhaps she was just reborn or what.
- Super Paper Mario lets you purchase a robotic doppelganger to replace the Fairy Companion who turns out to be the villain's love interest.
- At the end of Sam & Max: Freelance Police: The Devil's Playhouse, Max is Killed Off for Real. The cutscene shows the devastated Sam leaving all his friends and walking aimlessly through the town. Suddenly, he sees the Time Travel elevator from Season Two and finds there Max from an Alternate Timeline, in which Sam is the one who died. After an awkward moment, they decide to resume their mischief and pretend none of this happened.
- By Poker Night 2, they remember the events with laughter, possibly blocking out the memory of losing their best friend.
- In Princess Debut, either of the universe's love interests you end up with. Sabrina can either remain in the parallel universe and marry the prince she's closest to or return to her own world and marry the real-world version of the prince. Or the prince is the doppelgänger replacement of her classmate.
- In .hack//G.U., after Haseo loses Shino to Triedge, he meets Atoli who happens to have the near exact same avatar design, save a color change. However, while her looks are similar, her personality is very different from Shino's, which causes Haseo to (initially) hate her. This trope is more justified in most instances in that it takes place in a video game where, like in real games, many characters are near Palette Swaps of others.
- In Winter Shard, if Frederone's love interest Rosetta dies, Zewoe creates a clone of her to please him. This enrages Federone, either because he promised Rosetta that he wouldn't try to resurrect her or because he did resurrect her only for her to be Driven to Suicide because of her religious beliefs, and he actually orders Marliene to wear a mask at all times when around him because he doesn't want to be reminded of how much she resembles Rosetta. He can either come around to accept Marliene as a legitimate love interest in her own right, or he can reject her.
- Injustice: Gods Among Us:
- The alternate Harley Quinn falls for the main universe's Joker, as her Joker had been killed, but eventually dumps him and moves on when she realizes what an asshole he is.
- The evil alternate Superman declares he will kill the main universe's Superman and take his Lois Lane. When Superman points out she would be disgusted and terrified of him, evil Superman says he doesn't care as long as Lois is alive again. Fortunately, Superman defeats the evil one.
- Time Hollow has one for Kori after the timeline is finally repaired. Ethan meets another pink-haired girl, implied to by Kori's daughter and his cousin.
Web Comics
- In Sluggy Freelance, both Zoe and her Dimension of Lame counterpart are this for Torg. First Torg has a Cannot Spit It Out crush on Zoe, then he gets trapped in the Dimension of Lame and hooks up with that universe's Zoe, then Alt-Zoe is killed by Lord Horribus and Torg returns to his home universe, and starts crushing on Zoe all over again.
- And it turns out Torg is this for Alt-Zoe as well, since her dimension's Torg vanished long ago after the two were romantically involved.
- Danielle in Kevin & Kell.
- Averted in Cuanta Vida. After Red dies, the new spy, Rojo, shows up. It doesn't end well.
- In Relativity, Anne ends up treating Irina like this after she arrives from her Alternate Universe, since Anne was in the process of divorcing her universe's version of her, while Irina had last left Anne on good terms.
Western Animation
- Parodied in Johnny Bravo. He wakes up in the hospital to find a nurse that looks identical to the girl in his dream... then he wakes up again.
- Teen Titans may have done a variant: Beast Boy's love interest, Terra, is turned to stone. Then, in the series finale (several seasons later), he suddenly sees a girl who looks just like her and is convinced she's the real Terra (whose petrified body has vanished), even though she at least claims to not know him or remember anything about being a superhero. They do not wind up getting together in the end, and whether the girl really was Terra or just a lookalike is left ambiguous. Word of God says she is. It's a throwback to the comics, however the second Terra was a clone and the first really was dead.
- ReBoot: After Glitch-Bob's attempt to split apart via portal goes explodey, Dot decides to marry the other Bob. Dot was already leaning towards choosing the other Bob, and Glitch-Bob's accident pushed her the rest of the way. Then it turns out that the other Bob is actually the Big Bad. Whoops.
- On Futurama, Fry (and the Professor and Bender) get hurtled into the future so far, they reach the end of the universe and watch a new, identical one come into existence. Fry gets together with the Leela from that universe (after the native Fry is killed by their time-machine's arrival). Uncharacteristically for this trope, though, we actually get to see the original Leela spend the rest of her life miserable and alone.
- At the end of The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones, Judy Jetson is pining for her stone-age boyfriend Iggy Sandstone (met during a time-travel mishap), and then meets his identical space-age descendant, who's no less cool. Both boys are into rock music, of course.
- In an early episode of The Simpsons Homer becomes the manager for a country singer named Lurleen Lumpkin, who falls in love with him and tries to get him to have an affair with her. Several seasons later, she appears again, and it's revealed that she's been married 5 times since, and all her ex-husbands (and her current boyfriend) look just like Homer.
- Played with in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. Twilight Sparkle is sent to the human world and Humanity Ensues. During her adventure, she and a human named Flash Sentry become attracted to each other. At the end, when she returns home and returns to pony form, she runs into Flash's pony counterpart, making her blush.
- In the third film My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Friendship Games the human Flash Sentry meets the human Twilight Sparkle and believes her to be Princess Twilight. He tries talking to her a few times but she is too busy doing her research to really talk to him. Flash does not realize this is a different Twilight till the end of the film.
- In the first Monica's Gang films, one of the stories involves Monica, who is dressed as a mouse for Franklin's costume party, getting hit by his shrinking ray and saving several mice from a group of hungry and apparently malevolent cats. One of the mice ends up falling for her, but when he kisses her, she grows back to her usual size and is escorted back to the party by Maggy. After an extended sequence in which he silently mopes about losing her, he saves a female mouse who looks remarkably similar to Monica, complete with a red dress, from a mouse trap, she kisses him, and they prance into the sunset together, as the live-action Mauricio de Sousa watches them from nearby. The entire final part can be found here.
- Parodied in the Adventure Time episode "The Suitor", in which Princess Bubblegum is annoyed by a Dogged Nice Guy pick-up artist who won't stop courting her. She finally makes him happy by giving him a Sex Bot in her form that only cares about romance.


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In honor of this week's Avengers vs. X-Men, this week's topic is just that, Avengers vs. X-Men…at anything BUT just outright brawling. Pick an Avenger then pick an X-Men and then pick something for them to compete it (chess, checkers, skiing, staring contest, arm wrestling, etc.)
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bdbdbdbd and PBPJFC suggested:
Audrey Hepburn as Catwoman
Bill Walko drew this one. His website is here.
kevinchiat suggested:
Clint Eastwood as Roland Deschain from Stephen King's Dark Tower series (the Marvel comics series means he counts right?)
Our Eagle Award-nominated Axel Medellin drew this one (click here to vote for him!). His website is here.
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kevinchiat suggested:
Make Mark Millar's hoax a reality, Orson Welles as Batman
Nick Perks is the artist for this one. Here is his website.
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starpilotsix suggested:
Summer Glau as X-23
Steve Howard is the artist for this one. Here is his website.
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thefarlander suggested:
Bruce Lee as Shang Chi
Michael "Mic?" Magtanong is the artist for this one. Here is his website.
thefarlander suggested:
Bill Murray as a Guardian of Oa
Cynthia "Thea" Rodgers drew this one. Her website is here.
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Daniel Cox ALSO took a crack at this one. Here is his website.
therealAstrozac suggested:
Bruce Willis as Dark Knight Returns Batman with Chloë Moretz as Robin
Phillip Sevy drew this one. Here is his website.
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therealAstrozac suggested:
Errol Flynn as Green Arrow
John Trumbull drew this one. Here is his website.
therealAstrozac suggested:
Will Ferrell as Thor
Marco D'Alfonso drew this one. Here is his website.
therealAstrozac suggested:
William Shatner as Green Lantern
Yukinori Xum drew this one. Here is his website.
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(Psssssssst….Nick Perks drew up a riff on the Shatner as GL bit, too, just not intended as being part of this feature. Just a practice piece, of sorts. Would you all like to see it? If enough of you want to see it, I'm sure Nick will be forced to let me show it you all.)
Great work, everyone! Okay, folks, go tweet us your suggestions!
Great drawings!
And Summer Glau is right, she's broadening her acting range by guest starring in medical drama Grey's Anatomy or filming a drama pilot fot TNT;
But the queen of sci-fi has not given up on the genre since she announced at recent Emerald City Comicon that she was going back to Alphas (Syfy).
Can't wait to see Summer Glau as Skylar Adams in Alphas season 2!
Fansite Summer Glau Wiki says filming is this month for a release of new episodes in July 2012.
I really love Nick Perks' take on Orson Wells. He really nailed each character.
I don't normally care for posters, but I'd love to have Break In At Tiffany's grace my wall.
I agree with AS. That poster is awesome.
Daniel Cox's Bill Murray as a Guardian nailed it! Great illustration and he made a reference to Ghostbusters! Honorable mention to Marco's Step Brothers gag.
Of *course* we want to see Nick's Shatner GL.
Walko nails it once again. And John Trumbull, while I love his TLIID, should really be doing his own comic, I would totally buy it.
And I second the Nick Perks GL!
@Michael P – Ehhh… Now I've seen Xum's version mine seems even more puny.
I especially like the dialogue: the… dramatic pauses…which are… so Shatner… it's.. perfect…
No… way, NICK! We… have to see… your… Shatner! (Even if my post sounds more like Kevin Pollak…)
Somehow, Ganthet in hotel slippers in Tokyo just makes sense… the Guardians have been dense ever since Denny O'Neil called them out 40 years ago!
But that Trumbull Green Arrow — THAT'S a reboot I could buy! Ollie actually being the swashbuckler he's always seen himself as being; he'd be in like Flynn at last…
Mic? obviously knows the source material of Shang-Chi — all we need is Warren Ellis to write the book, and we have a Marvel comic actually worth buying again!
As wonderful as the Batman casting is, what makes the piece perfect is the Welles quote at the bottom — and can you imagine John Houseman — also part of the Mercury Players — as Alfred? Millar's hoaxes are better than most of his comics!
@BeccaBlast – Credit… where it is… due. The Welles' quote… was taken…verbatim from the… spoof article written… by Millar… It was a…. …. …. great hoax, and a… great quote.
1. Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern, please! He's voiced the character and even dressed as him.
2. Adam Baldwin as Captain America. In my opinion, the greatest Cappy we haven't had…yet.
3. Gina Torres or Christina Hendricks as Wonderwoman
4. Alan Tudyk as the Compleat Traveller in Black
5. Lucy Lawless as Catwoman
Great… Guardians! What… have I… unleashed?!!
Those are too cool! The Orson Welles one is great, and probably would have been a great movie as well. The Shatner Green Lantern is hilarious, and yes, by all means, let's see Nick's Shatner!
Great job, everyone!
SHOW US YOUR SHATNER PIECE, NICK!!! You can never have enough Shatner!
This is going to be a such… an anti-climax…
AAARGH – I have to stop the tension! http://www.sketchpad.org.uk/comic%20stuff/sketches/kirk-gl1.jpg
I hope no one was coming back for that specially! As you will see, it isn't just about Shatner….
Brian, feel free to delete this post if you want to handle it differently.
Looks great, NickP, I like the new choice for Green Lantern, but I thought I told you the satanic-looking guy with the ears had to go!
Love it, Nick!
Ferrel/Reilly as Thor/Loki is so wrong it's right.
I should have suggested Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury.
Nick, thanks for your drawing. It looks more like Shatner than Xum's, although i totally laughed at Xum's piece too!
My fave was Mic's, as it was dead on brilliant. Great job to all!
Does everyone yelling at Nick to "show his Shatner" sound perverted to anyone else, or just me?
Can't wait to see Mickey Rooney as Egg-Fu in Break in at Tiffany's.
Ohh, this week's topic has a lot of potential- for good And ill! Let's see…
Audrey Hepburn as Catwoman: Oh yeah! I always wondered if I was the only one who got this idea! And Walko's art is perfect for the classic Hepburn movie poster!
Clint Eastwood as Roland Deschain from Stephen King's Dark Tower series: OK, I have no idea who this character is. But nice rendition of Clint.
Make Mark Millar's hoax a reality, Orson Welles as Batman: despite coming from Millar, this is actually an intriguing idea. I'm not 100% happy with the castings, but still, nice job.
Summer Glau as X-23: Don't know the actress; I guess she plays a similar character somewhere? Whatever, I like the art.
Bruce Lee as Shang Chi: This is a natural one, as is Mic to draw it.
Bill Murray as a Guardian of Oa: I don't get these ones. What do Murray and the Guardians have in common? At least the Guardians I remember, they have been disrespected a lot in recent years.
Bruce Willis as Dark Knight Returns Batman with Chloë Moretz as Robin: Ok, this made me giggle. But you know, it might work.
Errol Flynn as Green Arrow: another natural one. Love the old-style poster art.
Will Ferrell as Thor: HATE this movie (Stepbrothers, not Thor) so no.
William Shatner as Green Lantern: another one that made me giggle. Thanks.
Overall, VERY good week on the art side, and I liked most of the choices. My favorite is definitely Hepburn as Catwoman. ?
William Shatner as Green Lantern – – EPIC!
Thanks. Do you mean Money Supermarket EPIC or Epic Win game show EPIC?
Great work by all involved, always exciting as well when a couple of my suggestions are used. Axel's Clint as Roland picture is my new desktop. Nick blew it out of the Park on the Welles as Batman poster, major props for going back to all of Millar's casting from his hoax article and putting them all in the poster.
"Bruce Lee as Shang Chi"? Anyone ever read Paul Gulacy's run on "Master of Kung Fu"? Bruce Lee was who Gulacy based his Shang Chi on.
Great work all around. I especially love Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as Thor and Loki. I'd kill to see hat come true even as just a Funny or Die video.
I vote for Clint Eastwood (from Heartbreak Ridge) as Batman from Frank Millers The Dark Knight.
He could really carry off the role of a middle aged, broken, but unbowed Batman.
I keep thinking that George Cloney would be a great Dr. Strange
Bruce Campbell as Nick Fury. If they hadn't gone Ultimate Nick for the movie, he'd be the only choice.
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The lack of a protagonist in which you can identify with.
This means if the people in the movie are stupid, and you know longer care about them in some fashion, the movie is doomed from start to finish.
Such can be said about a movie I just purchased.
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Iran pioneers natural gas bank in ME
While much of the world is concerned about Iran's nuclear ambitions, Iran is moving ahead quickly with other energy alternatives. Very soon Iran will open up the first major natural gas storage facility in the Middle East. The Iranian government announced it is ready to officially dedicate the grand unveiling of an underground natural gas storage facility just south of the nation's capitol of Tehran.
This natural gas storage unit is a monumental achievement for Iran, but will also mark the first major storage facility in all of the Middle East. This new development will have the ability to provide over four million cubic meters of natural gas into the nation's natural gas network. The National Iranian Central Oil Company noted that the storage would consist of nine deep wells ready to receive and store approximately 1.5 billion cubic meters in the summer and 4.5 billion in the winter. The natural gas company also said they want to further their gas storage by making use of underground salt domes near the city of Qom. While using old salt mines or domes has been used for oil in some regions of the world, this would be the first of its type to exist in the Middle East for natural gas.
While Iran has a good supply of oil and natural gas, they are also researching the ability to create nuclear energy. However, many nations are leery to believe Iran's nuclear ambitions are for noble reasons. Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon recently told a radio news program that talks with Iran were essentially over and he insinuated that Israel was considering a preemptive attack on Iran's nuclear fuel production sites. While Israel does agree that the sanctions put on Iran have hurt their economy, their mission for nuclear capability has not slowed down whatsoever.
Whatever Israel decides to do on Iran, there is no doubt that an attack would lead to horrific and cataclysmic economic effect on the world market. The world's economy has been hurting since the market crash in 2008, and more talks of war in the Middle East would only hasten a worsening world economy.
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A health advocacy group is studying whether Mississippi should start a program to provide nurse visits to the homes of all low-income, first-time parents and their children.
The Mississippi Health Advocacy Program, a nonprofit public policy organization, has received a $400,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to conduct the study, which will include a series of forums across the state to gauge health care needs.
The group wants to determine if Mississippi could sustain a Nurse-Family Partnership program, which already operates in 25 other states.
The program touts numerous benefits including improved prenatal health, fewer subsequent pregnancies, fewer childhood injuries and improved school readiness. It's paid for with public funds.


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Slang for Buffalo Wild Wings.
Want some wings? Let's go to bdubbs and get some of those yummy caribbean jerk wings.
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The slang name for Buffalo Wild Wings. The "B" is for Buffalo and the "Dubbs" is for the double W's.
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Kodiak Oil & Gas (KOG +4.6%) says its net oil and gas sales averaged ~22K boe/day during the last two weeks of November. Several of the recent well completions occurred in late Nov.-early Dec., and thus did not materially contribute to stated November oil and gas sales averages. UBS starts coverage of KOG with a Buy rating.
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Regarding the sex-dependant blessing shelo asani isha / she'asani kirtzono in the Birkot HaShachar, what does an androginus or a tumtum say? Do these people of ambiguous sex use the text normally used by males, that normally used by females, or some other formulation of this blessing?
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The Mishna Brurah 46:18 writes that while a tumtum and androgynous are obligated in all mitzvos because of a doubt, they do not say "shelo asani isha," because they are a safek [Pri Megadim].
So I looked up the Pri Megadim (Eshel Avraham), who writes a tumtum and androgynous are chayiv in all mitzvos because of a safek; he writes that they do not say "shelo asani isha" because of a safek, and he then writes maybe they should say "kirtzono" (it is interesting the Mishna Brurah left that part out from his peirush).
It may very well be that the Mishna Brurah did this because of safek brachos lhakel (when in doubt, leave it out).


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Our house is relatively new-it was completed in July of 2004. It has excellent privacy and is near numerous things to do and places to see. The house is close to Volcano National Park. It is also very near an excellent snorkel area (less than ten miles). Other nearby attractions are a 'hot pond'-a swimming pool with warm water heated by a lava hot springs. Lava Tree Monument is very interesting and is immediately adjacent to Leilani Estates.
The house has a huge covered deck or lanai which is 10x40'. We eat all of our meals on the deck which has a very beautiful view over the back portion of our property. One additional feature of our house is that it has a master bedroom and master bath at each end of the house, which makes it very nice for two couples. Between the two ends of the house are a small bedroom with bunk beds, a 1/2 bath, the living room and kitchen/dining area.
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Two couples and one child comfortably stayed here for one week in June 2014. The property is beautiful, private, and very clean. We enjoyed eating many meals out on the spacious deck and used the grill several times. In the evening we would sit out on the deck, look at all the bright stars, and it was amazing. The frogs sang us to sleep each night, and because it was so private, we never heard any cars. There were flowering bushes on the property that smelled wonderful (Jasmine?) and the entire house was lightly scented with the perfume. We wished we were able to stay here longer; it was our favorite of the three places we stayed.
What a great place to shake off the stresses of the main land. The house is impeccably clean, with wall to wall tile floors, uncluttered and full of light. You can see nature from every point your standing. But the best part is the complete privacy all around the property. The lanai is just a wonderful place to enjoy meals and conversation while looking at colorful birds in the morning or listening to the jungle sounds at night. Rain or shine we were comfortable, actually we were mesmerized by the rapid switches between sunshine and pouring rain, all while we had dinner. We started most day excursions with a swim at the hot pond in Ahalanui park. We took the short cut and were there in 10 minutes, then off to exploring the lava flow, snorkeling in lava Kapoho tide pools, Hilo, Akaka falls, always coming back to our comfortable house out, take an outdoor shower, walk around the yard, cocktail in hand, smelling the flowers and fruit trees, and the star gazing was amazing. Our 7 year old got into finding constellations after our visit to the Imilioa Astronomy Center in Hilo. Incredibly, there were no mosquitoes. This is a great place to stay. The owner was more than helpful and honest. The care takers seemed genuinely interested in us having a great vacation. Highly recommend.
We were so pleased with this property. The private winding driveway was a big plus for us. To have an acre yard that was Tropical and with no neighbors within view was Great! The citrus in the yard, the pineapples that ripened while we were there, the fragrant gardenia and other flowers, the starfruit tree were all so nice. The split plan bedrooms with their own bathrooms and access to the huge rear covered deck were wonderful. We spent a lot of time enjoying the back deck. We rode the bicycles and were able to use the body board, fins and other goodies that were there for us to enjoy. The pricing of course can't be beat.
Of the many places I have stayed, Makemae house is in the top 3. The owner's description is accurate, and the property is spacious, gracious, clean, comfortable, welcoming. The bird song and frog song are a delight. The garden is a delight, and snorkeling is much closer than 10 miles. Lava viewing is close too. And the many amenities, available to guests, from snorkels to pineapple, make this a "come back again" home.


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* Italian, Spanish yield rise renews bids for Treasuries * Weaker European stocks also feed safe-haven bond demand * U.S. Treasury to sell $72 bln in debt next week * Fed purchases $3.65 bln in 5-to-7-year notes By Richard Leong NEW YORK, Feb 6 U.S. government debt prices rose on Wednesday as weaker U.S. and European stock prices and overhanging worries about possible political shakeups in Italy and Spain rekindled demand for safe-haven bonds. Bond prices climbed also as traders sought to profit from the Federal Reserve's latest purchase of Treasuries, which was part its $44 billion monthly program aimed to lower borrowing costs and unemployment. The U.S. central bank bought $3.65 billion in government bonds to mature in Nov. 2018 to Jan. 2020. "There are still a lot of possible disruptive currents coming from Europe," said Lou Brien, market strategist at DRW Trading in Chicago. "The problems there have not gone away, but the market had just ignored them until this week." In addition to speculation about leadership changes in Spain and Italy, traders have been monitoring comments among European leaders about the euro, which has strengthened against the dollar and yen in the first six weeks of the year. The rise in the single currency, which could hurt the region's exporters, might put pressure on the European Central Bank to act though analysts reckon is highly unlikely at this point. ECB policy-makers will meet on Thursday. These concerns were mitigated by the limited decline in stock prices and a longer-term view that U.S. interest rates will rise as the economy, boosted by the housing sector, is expected to gather momentum later this year, investors and traders said. "You are seeing some trading volatility around this 2 percent yield level" on the 10-year notes, said Jason Rogan, director of Treasuries trading at Guggenheim Partners in New York. Benchmark 10-year notes were 5/32 higher in price at 96-26/32 on average trading volume to yield 1.985 percent, down 2.1 basis points from late on Tuesday when Treasury prices fell. The 30-year bond was up 6/32 in price at 91-12/32 to yield 3.2007 percent, 1.3 basis points lower than Tuesday. The yield on 10-year Spanish government notes ended up 6 basis points to 5.43 percent, while the yield on Italian sovereign debt finished almost 10 basis points higher at 4.55 percent. The index on top European stocks provisionally closed 0.4 percent lower, above its earlier lows, while Wall Street share prices were modestly lower, bouncing off their session lows. In the absence of major economic data, investors received details on the U.S. Treasury Department's debt auctions at its quarterly refunding next week. It will sell $32 billion in three-year notes on Tuesday; $24 billion in 10-year debt on Wednesday and $16 billion 30-year bonds on Thursday, matching analyst forecasts. It added that it plans to release a final decision on selling floating-rate debt for the first time. Treasury expected the notes' debut to occur within the next year. "It shows they are looking for different ways to add supply," Guggenheim's Rogan said. While a major deal on federal spending and taxes in Washington remained elusive, the recent move to temporarily raise the federal debt ceiling has averted a government default. Investors feared another political showdown between U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican lawmakers over spending, which could result in a package of budget cuts worth $112 billion this year to kick in on March 1. Further government reduction could depress economic activity as seen in the fourth quarter of 2012 when the gross domestic product contracted by 0.1 percent due partly to cutbacks in the government's defense spending.
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