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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 ~~procedures--the~~ main (and eventually proven meaningless) difference being that Sephiroth's cells were used, rather than Jenova's. Hojo only did it to prove his Jenova Reunion Theory and to see if more people with Sephiroth's unusual powers could be produced (as we all know, they couldn't). This is probably the reason why the term "copies" was used in Crisis Core, rather than "clones."

*** That is actually a huge misnomer. The "clones" are simply individuals from Nibelheim put through the SOLDIER procedures—the main (and eventually proven meaningless) difference being that Sephiroth's cells were used, rather than Jenova's. Hojo only did it to prove his Jenova Reunion Theory and to see if more people with Sephiroth's unusual powers could be produced (as we all know, they couldn't). This is probably the reason why the term "copies" was used in Crisis Core, rather than "clones."

* 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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* 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 ~~Connors--Peter~~ might actually be the clone. This news pushes him over the edge, attracts the Carnage symbiote to him, and sends of the path towards [[Omnicidal Maniac|destroying]] [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum|all reality]] [[Apocalypse How|in a Class Z apocalypse]].

* ''[[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 Connors—Peter might actually be the clone. This news pushes him over the edge, attracts the Carnage symbiote to him, and sends of the path towards [[Omnicidal Maniac|destroying]] [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum|all reality]] [[Apocalypse How|in a Class Z apocalypse]].