And you thought your sibling was embarrassing! Jonny Carrera tried to woo Lauren Fenmore (at the time on loan from The Young and the Restless) despite the fact that she’d already run afoul of his twin brother, Rush, a total psycho who was as rape-y as he was unoriginal. Just look at the photos — he copped not only Jonny’s hairdo but his facial hair, too! Weak, bro.
Jabot photographer Rick “Blade” Bladeson thought that he’d left his past behind him after letting evil twin Rick drown. (We know, right? And Blade was the good twin!) Unfortunately, it turned out that Rick was harder to sink than a cork, and once he followed his brother to Genoa City, he pulled more switcheroos on sister-in-law Ashley Abbott (then Brenda Epperson) than you’d get from every Parent Trap movie combined.
We’d have sworn that scheme queen Amber Moore was one of a kind. Heck, she would’ve, too! So her jaw dropped along with ours in 2003 when she made the acquaintance of lookalike April Knight, the twin sister that mom Tawny had never mentioned she had. And whereas there was no low to which Amber wouldn’t stoop, aspiring singer April charted a course that kept her on the high road.
“Anything you can do, I can do badder” was sort of the motto of Shane’s twin brother, Drew. They both trained at the ISA, but whereas Shane chose to walk the straight and narrow, his ne’er-do-well sibling veered so far from the righteous path that he was recruited as an assassin by no less than Stefano DiMera! Drew was even given a scary, Shakespearean henchman handle: Iago.
When Alex Devane was on All My Children, she didn’t seem like much of a conniver at all. But once she joined sister Anna on General Hospital, her true colors shone as brightly as a warning sign, and we came to realize that if one of them had it in her to be a double agent, the other had it in her to be a triple, even a quadruple, agent!
Some evil twins aren’t born, they’re made. Case in point: André DiMera, who had his face rearranged to resemble that of his nephew/brother (it’s complicated!) in order to go on a murder spree for puppetmaster Stefano. And while Tony’s candidacy for sainthood seems unlikely — there’s more tarnish on his halo than there is halo! — André is by far the greater of two evils.
“What does Marlena have that I don’t?” wondered sibling rival Samantha Evans (played by Deidre Hall’s real-life twin sister, Andrea). To find out, the green-eyed monster swapped places with the shrink — and went so far as to have her institutionalized. But karma bit Samantha hard a few years later when she was mistaken for Marlena by none other than — ack! — the Salem Strangler.
You can’t tell from these pictures of Ellen Wheeler and Anne Heche, both of whom won Emmys playing the yin/yang twins, but the Hudson sisters were identical, at least for most of their time in Bay City. Oh, and fun fact: Between Another World stints, Wheeler earned another statuette for her work as Cindy Parker, the ill-fated twin sister of All My Children’s Karen.
Their face is just about the only thing that these polar-opposite siblings have in common. Ryan Chamberlain’s a serial killer whose reign of terror in Port Charles has spanned decades; Kevin Collins is a shrink whose greatest sin was keeping it from his friends and family that his brother wasn’t nearly as dead as they slept easier believing.
The quintessence of good and evil twins, Adam Chandler was ruthless, remorseless and never slipped into one of his schmancy suits without first sticking a trick up its sleeve; his brother was kind, gentle and always paired his trademark cardigans with a smile that was so open, it might as well have been a welcome mat.
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