Editing Doppelgänger (section)

===Video games===
The 1987 [[Nintendo]] game ''[[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link]]'' features an enemy known as Dark Link, also known as Shadow Link, who serves as the final boss of the game. Dark Link has since made appearances as boss characters in the following titles, and as a cameo appearance in the ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' series.

The 1995 video game ''[[Alone in the Dark 3]]'' features a nameless enemy that Edward Carnby calls "his double", a doppelgänger that mirrors the protagonist's moves to stop him from climbing the Water Tank. He is fused to Carnby after they touch hands.

The 1997 [[Konami]] game ''[[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]]'' features an enemy boss known simply as "Doppelganger", a duplicate of the main protagonist [[Alucard (Castlevania)|Alucard]]. The enemy mimics the movement and attack patterns of the player.

The 1998 computer role playing game ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' employs doppelgängers as a plot device, and as a type of enemy monster that antagonizes the player's party of characters, as do both of the games major sequels. The game series uses ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' mechanics, in which the existence of doppelgängers as evil magical creatures is a feature.

In the 1999 game ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'', SeeD mercenaries and [[Characters of Final Fantasy VIII#Forest Owls|Forest Owls]] resistance fighters devise a complicated plan to kidnap the president of Galbadia [[Characters of Final Fantasy VIII#Minor characters|Vinzer Deling]], which includes switching the presidential train wagon from its tracks and replacing it with a mockup. Deling foresees the plan and sends a [[shapeshifter]] monster to take his place, who attacks the game protagonists. The monster is ultimately killed, but the plan's failure forces the Forest Owls into hiding.

The 2002 MMORPG ''[[Ragnarok Online]]'' features a boss-type monster named "Doppelganger", a demon who summons Nightmares that looks like a shadow of the default appearance for the male Swordsman class.

The 2005 [[Capcom]] game ''[[Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening]]'' also features an enemy boss known as "Doppelganger" that is fought near the end of the game. Resembling [[Dante (Devil May Cry)|Dante]]'s Devil Trigger form, it also mimics several of Dante's moves. Upon defeating the demon boss, Dante acquires a style "referred to as the Doppelganger style" that allows him to create a shadow copy of himself to assist him in battle in exchange for consuming Dante's Devil Trigger Gauge.

The 2007 videogame ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' features a doppelgänger named Cosmic Mario, where he appears in Honeyhive Galaxy, Freezeflame Galaxy, Gold Leaf Galaxy, and Sea Side Galaxy under the effect of the Cosmic Clone comet effect, and challenges Mario to a race.

The 2010 video game ''[[Alan Wake]]'' and its 2012 sequel ''[[Alan Wake's American Nightmare]]'' feature the character of Mr. Scratch, a doppelgänger of protagonist Alan Wake created as a supernatural manifestation of negative rumors spread about the character after his disappearance at the end of the first game, and who seeks to take over and ruin Wake's life.

The 2010 and 2011 videogames ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' and ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'' features Cosmic Mario clones that chases Mario through some levels.

The 2015 [[Konami]] game ''[[Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain]]'' plot revolves around the story of [[Venom Snake|Punished "Venom" Snake]] who has been chosen as a decoy to replicate and take on the persona of the legendary soldier [[Big Boss (Metal Gear)|Big Boss]]. He is referred to as Big Boss's Doppelgänger going forward. Venom Snake was originally a Combat Medic who worked closely with Big Boss before being selected to be physically altered via plastic surgery to become Big Boss's Doppelgänger/Stand-in and also brainwashed to believe himself to actually be Big Boss.

The 2015 and 2017 Touhou games ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'' feature the character of Sumireko Usami, whose legendary attack is labeled "Doppelganger".

The 2016 game ''[[Dishonored 2]]'' features a character, Duke Luca Abele of Serkonos, who in the second-last mission of the game is revealed to have employed a "body double" as protection. Players must make a choice to either eliminate the Duke or work with his body double for a non-lethal approach to the mission.