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Atlantean Lara Copy
Occurrence	Tomb Raider Atlantis Tomb Raider Anniversary Lost Island - The Great Pyramid Tomb Raider Underworld Croft Manor Andaman Sea Arctic
Enemy Type	immortal enemy
Classification	Mutants, Atlantean
Distinctiveness	This enemy cannot be killed by conventional means. It must be tricked to fall down a shaft hidden below a trapdoor.
Weapons	The creatures copies all of Lara's moves, so she is safe unless she attacks it.

Atlantean Lara Copy (also known as Doppelganger; and by fans often called Bacon Lara due to its looks) is an Atlantean copy of Lara Croft and can be seen as an immortal Enemy.

This copy is encountered in the Atlantis / Lost Island part of Tomb Raider / Tomb Raider Anniversary. It has the red skinned, hairless appearance of all Atlantean "mutants", but is noticeably female. It mimics Lara's movements exactly, like a mirror image. It is unaggressive, and cannot be killed by conventional means, as any damage done (caused by Lara shooting at it), is inflicted on Lara as well. So if the Doppelganger is killed this way, Lara dies too. Lara manages to outsmart the Atlantean by tricking it into a pit of lava covered by a trapdoor.

In Tomb Raider, it seems to shoot bullets - although it has no guns, the same animations are used for it as for Lara. However in Tomb Raider Anniversary, it shoots fireballs (which still inflict damage equal to that caused by Lara's bullets).

There are differences between Lara and the Atlantean copy; one is that Doppelganger/Bacon Lara does not have the equipment Lara does, like guns or backpack. More obviously it does not have hair, skin, clothing or shoes.

In Underworld

In Tomb Raider Underworld, Natla sends the doppelganger to kill Lara. She blows up her mansion and infiltrates it, shooting Zip, and killing Alister. She fights Lara and ends up disarming her before taking off. She's encountered twice near the end of the game. She is also a main villain and appear several times and always is able to flee before Lara is able to hit her, this doppelganger also has its "own concience", coping Lara's moves only when it interests her. She will appear in Croft Manor and the Arctic level, but when she tries to kill the real Lara, Amanda used her powers to send her into the void.

Fan speculation

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One possible explanation for the Doppleganger's existence is that it was a trap specifically designed by the Atlanteans and/or Natla to trick Lara into killing herself, or at least make it impossible for her to pass due to the placement of various switches and pressure pads around the room that the copy would operate by mirroring Lara's actions. However, given that Natla probably assumes that Lara has been killed after diving from the cliff outside the Sanctuary of the Scion and that the Atlanteans have never seen Lara before, it seems unlikely that the mutant would be hatched on the off chance that Lara would show up. Although the mutant mimics Lara's movements - maybe it has just hatched and is learning or "programming" itself by copying the first thing that it sees - it doesn't resemble Lara particularly in TR1, and its encounter with Lara may just be an unfortunate accident.

Gallery

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  In Underworld