


note Although either can appear in either genre, and in practice the two tend to be used for wildly different tones. Just kill and replace the hapless guard, then the sergeant, then his lieutenant superior.įantasy cousin of Twinmaker. If the murderer has full-on Voluntary Shapeshifting, this technique may well be employed iteratively to pierce increasing layers of security. If they're quick and quiet, nobody will suspect a thing until it's too late. Dark Bowser, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside StoryĪ Doppelgänger, shapeshifting being (in a speculative fiction setting), or an identical twin (for more mundane stories) seeks to kill the original and take their place.
