Shapeshifter vs Doppelganger - What's the difference?
shapeshifter | doppelganger |
(fantasy, mythology) A creature capable of changing its appearance or form at will
* 2000: Glen Cook, Water Sleeps
* 2003: Michael Bathgate, The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Folklore: Shapeshifters, Transformations and Duplicities
* 2004: Devin Grayson, Smallville: City
A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts such a person.
An evil twin.
A remarkably similar double.
(fantasy) A monster that takes the forms of people, usually after killing them.
As nouns the difference between shapeshifter and doppelganger
is that shapeshifter is a creature capable of changing its appearance or form at will while doppelgänger is an alternative spelling of lang=en.shapeshifter
English
(Shapeshifting)Noun
(en noun)- The shapeshifter Lisa Bowalk, unable to shed the guise of a black panther, had gone onto the plain as a prisoner but was not now to be found among the dead above or the Captured down below.
- Like the teller of shapeshifter' stories—who conjures a shifting world of perceptions and expectations for his or her audience that is strikingly similar to the worlds created by the ' shapeshifter for its victims—the cultural practice of imagination...is an inherently shifty enterprise....
- There have also been verified reports of fire-starters and ice-makers and a shapeshifter so powerful she was able to frame another Smallville citizen for a bank robbery!
