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** Padmé uses the strategy again as a senator in ''[[Attack of the Clones]]''; {{spoiler|sadly, her decoy must fulfill her true duty this time when an assassin strikes, and is killed taking a bullet meant for Padmé.}}
** In ''[[The Last Jedi]],'' {{spoiler| Luke Skywalker managed to delay Kylo Ren and the First Order on Crait via astral projection. And despite the illusion being directly fired upon by the First Order's heavy walkers, the charade ends with an enraged Ren slashing at air as the illusion dissolves and the real Luke collapses from exhaustion on another planet.}}
* In the French Revolution segment of ''[[History of the World, Part I]]'', King Louis has Jacques (both roles played by [[Mel Brooks]]) act as his stand-in, seeing as he - rightfully - fears the revolutionaries will behead him. This almost works, Jacques only escaping due to the movie's [[Gainax Ending]].
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Used with the Buffybot from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', a robot replica of the title heroine. A good example is the end of season 5, where Buffy apparently gets decapitated by the Big Bad, Glory. Lo and behold, the real Buffy then reveals herself, showing the first one to be a fake.
** An odd inversion of this occurs in "Intervention" where the real Buffy poses as the Buffybot to get information from Spike.
** Season nine opens with Buffy's arms feeling funny. Later in the series we see a shot of Andrew working on a robotic arm, then in a fight Buffy's arm is torn off to her horror. When it turns out that it's a robotic arm, remembering how upset she was when there was a robot version of her before, Buffy/Robobuffy gets even more upset.
** When Buffy creates an entire organization of Slayers, at [https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Buffy_Summers_(Rome_decoy)#cite_note-1 least two] [https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Buffy_Summers_(underground_decoy) of them] act as decoys to protect the real Buffy. Their methods of doing so seem to vary, with the first being ''very'' public to purposely draw attention from Buffy, the second being a more covert operative. The second one clearly managed to be a hero in her own right.
** Warren - the [[Evil Genius]] who built the Buffybot - also made a robot duplicate of himself specifically for this reason. It wasn't exactly his best work.
** An instance of this appears on ''[[Angel]]'', as well. A cyborg uses a [[Glamour]] to imitate {{spoiler|Wesley's father}}. When the cyborg threatens Fred, Wesley shoots it dead, revealing its true nature. Unlike most cases of this trope, the duplicate was not operating on behalf of the original.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': System Lord Ba'al inherited Asgard Cloning Technology from his old master, Anubis. This let the writers kill him at least once almost every time he appeared after that. One episode revolved around SG-1 tracking down the lot of them. Or did they? {{spoiler|Turns out, they didn't. Either that, or he just made more clones afterward.}}
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Used on more than one occasion in episodes of ''[[Superfriends]]'' to explain how the latest scheme by [[Lex Luthor]] didn't actually work, since the heroes were being represented by android duplicates. [[Fridge Logic|Raises the question]] of why the Legion of Doom doesn't bother with autopsies, or why they throw away their latest superweapon the minute the [[Superfriends]] "appear" to be dead.
** ''Challenge Of The Superfriends'' had an excellent example of good guys using this trick. The Legion of Doom found out about a sealed away weapon that could act as a lethal death ray to the heroes and tricked Superman into breaking the vault open. (That's right, this episode suspended the show's [[Never Say "Die"]] policy.) The Legion of Doom was apparently then able to decimate the heroes mercilessly, often in front of terrified citizens. When it seemed all the heroes had perished and the villains had achieved complete victory, Luthor saw no further need for the thing, and casually threw it away. A ''terrible'' mistake. A day later, the Superfriends reappeared, and after pulping the villains, revealed that they had been hiding in their satellite base (presumably a sort of precursor to the Watchtower) while using android duplicates created by Superman in the Fortress of Solitude to make the Legion believe they had been killed. Once Luthor threw it away, the Apache Chief went into the sewer in protective clothing and destroyed it, permanently. Of course, when you think about it, the Legion of Doom should have been suspicious when they seemed to win so easily, but then, as anyone who has seen the show can attest, [[Villain Ball| the bad guys here aren't very bright.]]
* In the first season finale to [[Filmation]]'s ''[[Flash Gordon (animation)|Flash Gordon]]'', Ming appears to die, but the corpse is revealed as a Ming-bot, and the real Ming flies away cackling that he will regain his throne and have revenge. The implication, at least, is that it was the real Ming who had lost a fight with Flash a few minutes earlier, but that he had pulled the switch when he and Flash were briefly separated.
* ''[[Megamind]]''. {{spoiler|In the final battle against Tighten, Megamind rescues Roxanne but is killed—only to be revealed as Minion wearing a holographic disguise.}}
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* In the ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' episode "Welcome To Happy Harbor", Miss Martian [[What the Hell, Hero?|shockingly executes Bromwell Stikk]], the pilot of the Mister Twister mecha. We quickly discover that Stikk himself was an android built to resemble the real pilot, and that he had a built-in camera meant to spy on the kids.
* ''[[Loonatics Unleashed]]'': Otto the Odd utilized plenty of these, enough to fall well into the realm of [[Crazy Prepared]].
* Seeing as Doom himself is the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[The Super Hero Squad Show]]'', Doombots appear on the show rather often.
* Doom also used the trick when he appeared in the 1981 ''[[Spider-Man]]'' cartoon in the episode "The Doctor Prescribes Doom", the Doombot here holding a bomb he tried to use when Spidey confronted him.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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