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Twice Dead: Directed by Bert L. Dragin. With Tom Bresnahan, Jill Whitlow, Jonathan Chapin, Christopher Burgard. A family moves into an old house. They start getting harassed by a gang, who eventually invade the house while the parents are away and start terrorizing the kids, but they didn't account for the deadly supernatural presence in the house.
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- Horror, Thriller
- Bert L. Dragin
- 1988-10
Oct 17, 2022 · After a painful confrontation where Twice reflects on his life and questions the heroes’ holier-than-thou attitude, Dabi comes to Twice’s rescue, but it’s not enough.
Mar 13, 2021 · The original trailer in high definition of Twice Dead directed by Bert L. Dragin. Starring Tom Bresnahan, Jill Whitlow and Jonathan Chapin.Blu-ray (Shout Fac...
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Feb 21, 2019 · Twice Dead is a 1988 horror film directed by Bert L. Dragin, starring Tom Bresnahan, Jill Whitlow, and Jonathan Chapin. It was distributed by New Concorde Pi...
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Jin Bubaigawara (分 (ぶ) 倍 (ばい) 河 (がわ) 原 (ら) 仁 (じん) , Bubaigawara Jin?), also known as Twice (トゥワイス, Tuwaisu?), was a major antagonist of the My Hero Academia manga and anime series.
He was a Villain affiliated with the League of Villains, part of its Vanguard Action Squad, and later became one of the nine lieutenants of the Paranormal Liberation Front. He served as an antagonist in the Forest Training Camp Arc, Shie Hassaikai Arc, and Paranormal Liberation War Arc.
Jin was a rather well-built man with blond hair and gray-blue eyes. He had a large scar splitting his forehead from a past incident. He had visible traces of facial hair over his mouth and at the bottom of his chin. Jin's civilian attire consisted of a blue-collared shirt over a white tank top and a standard pair of pants and boots.
His villain costume was a black and gray bodysuit that covered his body completely, along with gray boots. The upper half of his signature mask was gray with white eye sockets, while the lower half covering his mouth was black. Jin also sported red and green wristbands in which he stored his measuring tapes.
Jin had an incredibly unique personality: explosive, lively, and originally having a very comedic demeanor. He enjoyed assuming dramatic poses and eccentric facial expressions. Jin constantly contradicted himself, making a statement in one voice and immediately saying the opposite in another. For example, he insulted Dabi and then praised him in the same sentence.
This juxtaposition was part of a mental instability Jin would embrace as a villain. He believed understanding your own identity is the most essential aspect in life, an understanding he lost during the 9-day conflict with his clones that left him unsure whether he was the original or not. Jin's identity crisis drove him to insanity, changing his overbearing and lazy previous persona into his manic villainous attitude. Without his mask, Jin suffered more heavily from something akin to otherwise specified dissociative disorder type one (OSDD-1): while masked, Jin contradicted himself and acted completely natural about it, but without it, his split personalities argued with each other. He would panic and threaten to "split" until he put his mask back on and become "whole".
During his confrontation with Skeptic's clones, Jin was revealed to have been a lonely individual who created clones to compensate for friendship. He joined the League of Villains because they accepted his craziness and made him feel comfortable in his skin. His desperation to find friends caused him to trust others very quickly. As a side effect, this also left him vulnerable to betrayal and emotionally devastated when people like Overhaul or Hawks turned on him. When injured by the fake clones Skeptic created, he moved past his trauma after realizing that he was the original and didn't hesitate to overcome his fear and create clones of himself to protect Himiko Toga.
However, his clones still displayed conflict over who was the original, although they were willing to work past it for their goals. It is shown that even after conquering his inner demons, Jin still occasionally experienced relapses, suggesting his multiple personality issues. Dabi and Spinner note that Jin forcing his way through his trauma didn't help fix his mental state and may have made it even worse. Despite his still fragile mindset, Twice remained resolute in his loyalty to his friends. Rejecting any offer of support from the heroes who threatened them and giving his life to protecting the League, in his final moments, he was content with his fate, as he had saved his friends until the very end.
Overall Abilities: Jin was a reasonably capable villain and a major asset to the League of Villains. His Quirk was very effective in a supporting role, as he could use his power to create reinforcement for both himself and his allies in battle. Having used his abilities for widespread burglary and theft, Jin became one of the government's most wanted criminals before joining the League. According to Giran, Jin's Quirk granted the potential to take down entire countries. Tomura Shigaraki once claimed Jin's Quirk was crucial to the League's plans. Overhaul and, later, the Meta Liberation Army wanted to recruit Jin to get a hold of his unique Quirk. Even Dabi regarded Double as invaluable to his plans, to the point where he was infuriated by Jin's death at the hands of Hawks. Outside of his Quirk proficiency, Twice was also a skilled acrobat with impressive speed and reaction time, completely evading an ice wave from Shoto Todoroki, one of U.A. High School's most promising students.
Hawks, the No. 2 Pro Hero, believed Jin to be the most dangerous of Tomura's lieutenants, which was the reason he immediately moved in to arrest cloning villain at the start of the Paranormal Liberation War. Sensing the mass casualties that Jin's Quirk could have caused, Hawks was eventually forced to kill him as the villain ran out to join the battle.
Costume: Twice's villain costume was worn by him mainly to help preserve his mental well-being, as wearing his costume and keeping his face covered kept his split personalities from clashing.
•Measuring Tape: Twice kept measuring tape in both of his wristbands. He used them to collect measurements for his cloning and for combat. The tape is extremely sharp and can be used as a weapon, being enough to cut clean through solid ice.
•Twice's preliminary design didn't change much from his current one, having a slightly different costume with four eye openings instead of just two.
•Twice's costume and lively mannerisms may be inspired by Deadpool from Marvel Comics. However, his apparent split personality and using his mask to maintain some level of sanity resembles Rorschach from Watchmen.
•His costume, Quirk, and insanity is also very similar to the Superman villain Riot, who wears a nearly identical costume, can duplicate himself and also became insane.
•His family name "Bubaigawara", is pronounced and written the same as a train station in Tokyo that is jointly run by two separate railway companies, and it contains the kanji for "part" (分, bu?) and "double, twice (as much)" (倍, bai?). The kanji used for his given name "Jin", 仁, is similar to the kanji for the number two, 二. Additionally, his given name might be an allusion for "jinjin" (じんじん, ?), the onomatopoeia for a painful tingle or throbbing, such as that of a headache.
•Twice's rankings in the Popularity Polls are as following:
•Ranked 47th place in the 4th Popularity Poll.
Oct 23, 2022 · Twice dies a few moments later, even after receiving help from Dabi. As Twice is rushing to help his comrades with his clones, Hawks manages to catch up to him and delivers a fatal blow to...
Oct 22, 2022 · Twice did in fact die in the current season of My Hero Academia. He was killed by Hawks as he fought Twice and his partner Dabi during the raid led by the heroes to defeat the Paranormal Liberation Front. Even though Twice died at the hands of a hero, he didn’t always act like a villain.
