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{{trope}}
A villain whose main, often hidden, motivation is that he feels incomplete. This character is ashamed or enraged at the thought that he was seen as obsolete or surpassed by someone in front of him. This can be anything from a teacher who found a new student to a scientist who builds a [[
In the android / [[Cloning Blues|clone]] / other [[Doppelganger]] scenario, the typical reason for this assumption is that the character lacks some vital component to be truly great or [[To Become Human|human]], and might even [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|be considered dangerous because of the lack]]. The typical subversion is that the original was ''too'' willful and independent, and subsequent models were made much more compliant.
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** Shagia and Olba Frost from ''[[After War Gundam X]]'' are a pair of Category F Newtypes who were rejected by the government because their [[Psychic Powers]] weren't strong enough. They're now planning to kill every Newtype in existence to prove their own value.
* The King of Kou in ''[[The Twelve Kingdoms]]'', who suffers a massive inferiority complex towards a king (Shoryu) and a Queen (Youko/Sekishin) who are actually people [[Trapped in Another World]].
* ''[[Death Note]]'''s Mello and Beyond. Mello join the mafia and confronts Kira because he wants to surpass Near, because he thinks Near is a more perfect successor to L. The latter's {{spoiler|entire motivation for killing 3 people and setting himself on fire is to beat L as a criminal, since he could never beat him as a successor.}}
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** Word of God has explained these are literally incomplete copies of Sephiroth. He tried to reincarnate himself in full, but he wasn't strong enough and had sacrificed too many of his memories to keep himself alive in the Lifestream to create a perfect copy. So he created three copies that were as close to him as he could get with the memories of himself that he had to work with: Loz is his strength & masculinity (completely ignoring his crying fits), Yazoo is his cruelty & "enigmatic allure," and Kadaj is his insanity & childishness (which is notable in that Kadaj is the only one who shares the original's cocky refusal to use firearms).
** Hojo also mentioned something about Sephiroth clones in the original ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''.
*** That is actually a huge misnomer. The "clones" are simply individuals from Nibelheim put through the SOLDIER
* A Mexican movie called "Una película de huevos y un pollo" ("A movie of eggs and a cock", innuendo made completely on purpose). The bad guy is a stone egg who needs a chicken's heart to make a spell to have feelings.
* Mewtwo's circumstances in ''[[Pokémon: The First Movie|Pokémon the First Movie]]'' are much the same as Blackwargraymon's in the ''Digimon'' example above; he was cloned from Mew's DNA in a lab, and spends the majority of the movie railing against the implications of his origin. His eventual [[Heel Face Turn]] is triggered by the revelation that the manner in which one came to be is not as important as what one does with the life they have.
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** Not to mention Mark, though {{spoiler|he did a [[Heel Face Turn]] quickly enough.}}
* Achilles of the Shadow books in the [[Ender's Game|Enderverse.]]
* Inverted in [[Shade's Children]]. A beta version of an [[
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: In ''[[The Bible]]'', Cain slew his younger brother Abel because he was jealous of Abel's sacrifice receiving greater praise from God. "The Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but He did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he was downcast." Genesis 4:4-5.
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== Live Action TV ==
* The android Lore from ''[[Star Trek: The
** In the TV series, Dr. Soong himself said Lore was the earlier model. Later Star Trek episodes suggested that there were previous models that didn't even get to Lore's sophistication (or crashed and burned before getting a chance to develop). The tenth movie ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' introduced one of these named "B-4", who only had a very crude artificial brain.
* ''[[Knight Rider]]'' featured not one, but two examples of this trope. KARR, the [[Evil Twin]] of KITT, was a flawed prototype that was mothballed for its indifference to human life, and harbored a lingering resentment against its creator and its replacement, which it called an "inferior production-line model." Garthe Knight was disowned by his father when he became a criminal, and later replaced as Wilton Knight's heir and son by series hero Michael Knight. Michael's face, which had been destroyed by a gunshot, was also reconstructed in Garthe's image. Garthe always bore a lingering resentment against Michael, who he considered a usurper and an inferior copy.
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'': Sylar's motivation for being a superhuman serial killer is that after his parents forced him into a boring, menial, unspecial job and he was let go by Chandra after Chandra concluded that Sylar wasn't special, Sylar wanted to be special. His idea of special just happened to be having every power he can get his hands on.
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== Web Comics ==
* A more literal version of this trope occurs in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'': [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=031019\]. Though it isn't a ''major'' villain in this case.
* Subverted in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', where [[Opposite
** Ellen ''tried'' to be this for a little while, but [[Poke the Poodle|she wasn't very good at it]].
* Umbria/Zaedalkaah, from ''[[Our Little Adventure]]''. Umbria's main quest is to reclaim her power with 'The Brotherhood' and getting her old body back. The form she is currently using is an imperfect copy of Julie's [[Spoony Bard|Bard class]] and appearance, though Umbria [[Glamour Failure|looks little more evil]] than the original Julie.
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* Played with in ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]''. One episode's plot revolves around [[Evil Twin|XL]] stealing the one part that heroic XR has and he doesn't- [[Nightmare Fuel|by grabbing XR and ripping it out of his chest, while he's still fully conscious]]. This sends XR into a manic-depressive state over losing this part, as he now thinks ''he's'' the worthless one. {{spoiler|It turns out the part was a worthless air-freshener device.}}
** Even more so, {{spoiler|The air-freshener was only put in because the aliens that had built him could smell an odor. Everyone who worked with him were incapable of noticing the change once the device was removed.}}
* ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]'': Spider-Carnage is a demented [[Evil Twin]] of Spider-Man. Hailing from an [[Alternate Universe]] he is his world's version of Peter Parker...maybe. An encounter with Miles Warren resulted in Peter (already highly unstable following the deaths of Uncle Ben and Aunt May) being cloned. The clone took up the identity of the Scarlet Spider and became a productive member of the superhero community, while Peter became enraged, feeling that it's existence threatened his own. And then [[The Reveal]] came in from Curt
{{quote|Spider-Carnage: "I really, really ''hate'' clones."}}
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