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{{quote|"Was he the real Aoi or just a clone?"

 

[[Cloning Blues|Clones have often gotten the short end of the stick]] in [[Sci Fi]]. When they're not soulless abominations or [[Evil Twin|evil dopplegangers]], they tend to be seen as just back-up copies of the original and nothing more.

* The Vision is a [[Brain Uploading|mental clone]] of Wonder Man (even though, in practice, [[Informed Ability|the two have never actually behaved very much alike)]], and his entire character arc has revolved around his attempts to live his own life. His lot in life has varied a lot over the years [[Depending on the Writer]]. Some writers give him a fair shake, but others seem to just inexplicably hate the poor guy.

* At the end of the [[Spider-Man]] [[Clone Saga]], Peter and Ben have pretty well reconciled themselves to their situation and decided to consider each other brothers. [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|Then Ben melts.]]

* The ''[[X-Men]]'' had Madelyne Pryor, the clone of Jean Grey, who unfortunately became [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|evil]] due to psycho-emotional baggage involving this trope: she was created by [[Evilutionary Biologist]] Mr. Sinister to replace Jean Grey in order to continue the propagation of the [[Superpowerful Genetics|Summers-Grey]] mixed bloodline), and was callously abandoned by her husband, Scott Summers, when Jean literally returned from the dead. There's also Joseph, the [[Raise Him Right This Time]] clone of [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] Magneto, who was secretly created as part of an [[Xanatos Gambit]] to [[Take Over the World]] by a former [[Fan Girl]] of Magneto (and who was thought by everyone to be a de-aged and amnesiac Magneto<ref>This perception was reinforced by Joseph having periodic flashes of the real Magneto's memories.</ref> until the original was revealed to be alive), who made a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] [[Saving the World]] the world from Magneto.

* Namorita of the [[New Warriors]] is the clone of Namora, [[Sub-Mariner]]'s seldom-seen cousin, a [[Distaff Counterpart]] who failed to catch on. Namorita is a much more of a major character, appearing continually whereas Namora sometimes goes decades without having her existence acknowledged. Until recently anyway. Namorita has died and now Namora appears more frequently. Basically, Namora couldn't have children, so she had her science folks implant her with an embryo made entirely from herself. The plot has always treated her like more of a daughter, though her clone status has been discovered and caused trouble at times.

** The examples we see are [[Jessica Alba]] as the main protagonist Max/X5-452 and Sam/X5-453 (a Season 2 one-shot character), and [[Jensen Ackles]] as Ben/X5-493 (a Season 1 one-shot character) and Alec/X5-494 (a regular cast member in Season 2).

** At least some of the X-7 series are clones of the X-5s (we see Max's and Zack/599's mini-mes) and are certainly different from their grown-up originals, but in the sense of being 10 year-old hive-minded soulless killers.

** They also vary on the memory-sharing factor. Athena downloaded Boomer's up to the point of the Miniseries and "Fakeathena" downloaded Athena's up to the point of "Rapture", but they don't do this automatically and ([[All There in the Manual|according to the producers]]) models vary on how often they do it. Even sharing a good chuck of memories didn't stop Boomer and Athena from developing in radically different directions.

 

** Averted when Roberta was cloned, as the machine had been ''fixed'' by then, so the two were completely indistinguishable (much to their own frustration). They were eventually fused back together.

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had a lot of people facing these problems first with gate-clones, and later with brain backups.

 

== Western Animation ==