A Doppelgänger is a being in fiction (such as literature and movies), folklore and pop culture that is a virtually exact copy of another person. Usually, but not always, this personality is a (supernatural) malignant counterpart, does he symbolize the evil or is the appearance of a dump thrower a sign of it. The term comes from German and should not be confused with the double-use word used in German.
The term Doppelgänger was conceived by German writer Jean Paul, who used it for the first time in his book Siebenkäs from 1796. The main character in that story has a friend who is actually his Doppelgänger. Other examples of narrative stories include Poltergeist II (film), Twin Peaks (television series), The Vampire Diaries, Prometheus Unbound (poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley) and Dichtung und Wahrheit (autobiography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ).
Examples of direct to the concept include the 1960's Doppelgänger movie and the Doppelganger, a character featured in the six-part Miniserie Infinity War (Marvel Comics), which is a strange version of Spider-Man. When using the word Doppelgänger in English, the umlaut above the a is regularly omitted. In the animation Black God, thought is about the subject of Doppelgänger, which is a system of gods to suppress the human race. Also see
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