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'''Gwen:''' But...how can you tell?
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At some point in the story, the hero was [[Cloning Blues|cloned.]] At the climax of the story, the hero fights their clone and one lives while the other dies. However, whether the survivor is the clone or the original is left uncertain. This usually leaves a lot of uncertainty and angst because the survivor fears seeing a [[Tomato in
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Happens to {{spoiler|Paz}} in an episode of ''[[Ghost in
** [[Fridge Logic]] should sort out which is which when you consider the skills that go into being on the Major's squad, and that the doppleganger in question only took on the character's appearance. In reality, the fight between the two shouldn't even have been close but for some [[Hand Wave]] about {{spoiler|Paz's}} supposed ennui.
* In ''[[
** Though if you pay ''really'' close attention, {{spoiler|[[Fridge Brilliance|they have different dominant hands.]]}}
* The first ''[[Lupin III]]'' movie, ''[[
* In ''[[My Hero Academia]]'', the villainous Twice has this as his ''backstory''. His quirk lets him make duplicates of ''anything'', and he can easily clone himself. Unfortunately, he did this so often, that he and his clones forgot who the real Twice was. They started arguing, and the argument turned violent, until most of them killed each other. Only one survived, and while he'd like to ''think'' he's the original, he knows the odds are very much against it. This self-doubt and questionable self-worth soured his personality, leading to his [[Start of Darkness]].
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Doing this ultimately led to the ''[[Spider
** And, by extension, to the somewhat shorter ''Brand New May'' saga in the [[Spider
* It happens in ''[[Lobo]]''.
** For a while there, even one drop of Lobo's blood would grow into a clone. Whenever this happeeds, the Lobos would team up to kill all of their enemies and then turn on each other. The lone surviving Lobo would be declared the "real" Lobo. Since it didn't matter to
*** Except for Slo'bo. See, at one point Lobo was de-aged to about fifteen and hanging out with [[Young Justice (
* In ''[[
* An odd case occurs in a ''[[
== Literature ==
* The end of the [[
** See the WMG which ties the [[Cerebus Syndrome|more dramatic plot]] to the fact that Alex's clone won the battle.
* ''Android at Arms'' by [[Andre Norton]].
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Something similar, the ''[[
* Well, this isn't exactly a case of actual clones, but alternate universe doubles, but in one episode of ''[[Sliders]]'' (titled "Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome"), the characters find themselves on a world that's just like their own Earth, but with only a few differences. One of those differences is that that world's Professor Arturo missed the opportunity to go sliding through other dimensions with Quinn Mallory and the others, and has regretted it ever since. This world's Arturo gets in a fight with the regular Arturo just as it's time to slide. Before the portal closes, one of the Arturos leaps through and joins the other Sliders while the other is left behind. It's never made clear whether the Arturo who joins them at the end is the same one they started with.
** Would the other Arturo have made a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] for Quinn?
*** The other Arturo was a jerk but he wasn't evil. Plus he could have Become the Mask.
* In an episode of ''Psi Factor'', a main character thinks his resurrected wife is actually possessed by an "Ancient", so he banishes her and resurrects her again. The ending heavily implies that it's still the same Ancient...
* Played with in the third season of ''[[
** D'Argo and Chiana are also "twinned", but their doubles are killed during the same episode. They are both seen to be grappling with questions of "What if that was the real me and I'm just a copy?"
* In the [[Downer Ending]] of the ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'' episode "The Tale of the Chameleons", the Chameleon turns into a clone of Janice, and Sharon must decide which one to spray with water. She picks the real Janice, who is turned into a chameleon and drowned in a well, while the clone has plans to turn Sharon and her family into chameleons as well.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In [[Tsukihime
* In ''[[
* ''[[Star Wars]]: [[The Force Unleashed]] 2'' lives on this. In short, the protagonist dies in the canonical ending of the first game and is then cloned by the beginning of the second. The clone was imprinted with memories of the original up until to some point, essentially making him the same person. Midway through the game confusion arises when another character states that it is impossible to clone a Jedi (although [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] has it ''possible'', they just wind up crazy and evil). Then more clones of the original are revealed, going mad from their conflicting personalities, which you have to fight. And while the Light Side ending is pretty straightforward, the Dark Side ending is a guaranteed [[Mind Screw]] on the first playthrough: the main character is killed by another clone of the original, who succumbed to the [[Dark Side]]. It is implied that he exists in the Light Side version of the game as well but does not attack you because of your actions. And then the bonus cinematics hint that you already played as a clone in the first game...
** The protagonist (of the second game) himself believes himself to be a clone, and at one point (at least in the novelization) refutes Rahm Kota's claims that Jedi cannot be cloned (at least not without physically degenerating) by pointing out that is as far as he knows. While the game and the novelization are deliberately vague, the supplementary material tend to state that he is a clone. The unlockable ''Distant Thunder'', which detail the Dark Apprentice's training, feature Darth Vader displaying Galen Marek's corpse to the Dark Apprentice. Since the cinematics occur before the game's ending, and have no impact on the game's events themselves, and due to the fact that Databanks and a Force vision (in the novelization) confirm the existence of the Dark Apprentice, it is probable that ''Distant Thunder'' is canon, which means that the second game's protagonist is, in fact, a clone.
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** Then subverted again when Chris thinks he has to either shoot Peter or an old man. [[Cloudcuckoolander|This being Chris]], he's completely ignoring how neither of them look anything alike!
* One Halloween short on [[The Simpsons]] involving a magical hammock that made multiple Homer Simpson clones ends with all the Homer clones being sent plummeting down a cliff. {{spoiler|However, it turns out that ''the real Homer'' was amongst the clones who fell to their doom. However, Marge doesn't seem to mind, making love in bed with the clone Homer that survived in the real Homer's stead.}}
* Invoked in the Season 4 finale of ''[[Rick and Morty]]'', where it is revealed that Rick did indeed make a clone of Beth in the previous seaso after "The ABCs of Beth". It turns out that when he made the offer to Beth to clone her so she could live her own life rather than stay with the family, she asked him to choose for her. Unable to make that choice, Rick cloned Beth, then shuffled the clone and the real Beth so nobody, himself included, would know who was who. Then he gave one of the two choices to each of them. ([[Word of God]] claims that Rick just couldn't handle the decision, so he made a non-choice and doubled down on it hard.]]) Fortunately, by the end of the episode, neither "Earth Beth" nor "Space Beth" really cares who is who, and everyone except Rick sees a bright side to having both around.
* Played for laughs in [[DuckTales (2017)|the 2017 reboot of ''DuckTales'']]; Gyro has made an army of clones, and none of them can remember who the real Gyro is anymore, one of them even mentioning that one of the two who are vaporized during "Moonvasion" might be the real one. None of them seem to be all-too concerned about it.
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