Yahoo News Mean Girls is actually a sinister fairytale about an evil double
Listen up, because cult teen comedy Mean Girls is being compared to a dark fairytale, with Lindsay Lohan's character supposedly harbouring a sinister secret.
Released in 2004, Mean Girls stars Lohan as Cady Heron, a 16-year-old high school newcomer who's spent her whole educational life being homeschooled. Her eventual integration into a clique catalyses some surprising changes in Cady's personality, but have fans been missing her true nature this whole time?
Warning: you may need to re-evaluate everything you know about Mean Girls.
According to io9, Cady is one of those gothic fairytale doppelgängers relentlessly pursuing a target who has what they want, in this case Rachel McAdams' Regina George.
The definition of the word 'doppelgänger' has altered throughout history, with the best-known iteration meaning an uncanny lookalike. But no, Mean Girls offers a different take than say, Jordan Peele's upcoming horror Us – which sees a family hounded by a group of murderous identical versions of themselves.
Here, Cady takes on the doppelgänger mantle through appearing in Regina's life in hope of destroying her. Not convinced? Well, in association with doppelgänger superstition – which states if a person sees their doppelgänger, it's a sign of ruin or death – Cady's nearly hit by a bus during her first day at school.
And later on in the film, Regina is struck by the same vehicle (although she survives).
There's more, too: throughout the narrative Cady slowly morphs into Regina, taking on her personality traits and even changing her fashion sense to mimic her 'target'. She upstages her in the clique and eventually ends up replacing Regina as the head of the Plastics.
Regina's role is systematically reversed into that of which Cady previously had, becoming an insecure and timid girl in the process.
To make things even stranger, in Irish mythology, doppelgängers are known as 'fetch'.
You do the math!
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