Doppelganger

Cooper's doppelganger in 1989

Doppelgangers were evil counterparts of individuals, originating from the Black Lodge.

During his time in the Black Lodge, Dale Cooper encountered doppelgangers of Laura Palmer, Leland Palmer, the arm, Annie Blackburn, Maddy Ferguson, Caroline Earle, and himself. His own doppelganger escaped from the Lodge and assumed his identity.

Doppelgangers had identical appearances to their counterparts, with the exception of their eyes. Within the Lodge, their irises were white, and outside the Lodge, they were black.

These were distinct from tulpas, which were deliberately manufactured duplicates of people.

Behind the scenes

The only times the word is used in the franchise, it is written "doppelganger" without umlauts, but in other fiction and folklore it is written "doppelgänger".

A doppelgänger is a paranormal double of a living person, typically representing evil or misfortune. In modern vernacular, it is simply any double or look-alike of a person, as is the original German meaning of the word.

Gallery

The arm's doppelganger in its initial form

Laura's doppelganger

Caroline's doppelganger

Leland's doppelganger

BOB with Cooper's doppelganger

Cooper's doppelganger

The arm's doppelganger in its evolved form