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{{quote|Isn't it strange
{{quote|Isn't it strange
Feels like I'm lookin' in the mirror
Feels like I'm lookin' in the mirror
What would people say
What would people say
If only they knew that I was
If only they knew that I was



Part of some geneticist's plan (plan-plan-plan)
Part of some geneticist's plan (plan-plan-plan)
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There in a petri dish late one night
There in a petri dish late one night
They took a donor's body cell and fertilized a human egg and so I say
They took a donor's body cell and fertilized a human egg and so I say



I think I'm a clone now
I think I'm a clone now
There's always two of me just a-hangin' around
There's always two of me just a-hangin' around
I think I'm a clone now
I think I'm a clone now
'Cause every pair of genes is a hand-me-down|'''[["Weird Al" Yankovic]]''', ''I Think I'm a Clone Now''}}
'Cause every pair of genes is a hand-me-down
|'''[["Weird Al" Yankovic]]''', ''I Think I'm a Clone Now''}}


{{quote|Yeah, I resulted to be a clone of myself from an alternative-future-imaginary-world or something like that. Listen, is this going to affect my welfare check?|'''Alan Moore''', ''Tomorrow Stories''}}
{{quote|Yeah, I resulted to be a clone of myself from an alternative-future-imaginary-world or something like that. Listen, is this going to affect my welfare check?
|'''Alan Moore''', ''Tomorrow Stories''}}


{{quote|Tears... tears. Why am I crying? What... did this mean to me?|'''Rei Ayanami''', ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''}}
{{quote|Tears... tears. Why am I crying? What... did this mean to me?
|'''Rei Ayanami''', ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''}}


{{quote|If I die, I can be replaced.|'''Rei Ayanami''', ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''}}
{{quote|If I die, I can be replaced.|'''Rei Ayanami''', ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''}}


{{quote|Are you kidding? [[Super Soldier|Military clones?]] [[Lampshade Hanging|This is why nobody takes us seriously!]]|'''Spen Jankowski''', ''[[F.E.A.R.]]''}}
{{quote|Are you kidding? [[Super Soldier|Military clones?]] [[Lampshade Hanging|This is why nobody takes us seriously!]]
|'''Spen Jankowski''', ''[[F.E.A.R.]]''}}


{{quote|'''Han Solo:''' So what's it like being a clone?
{{quote|'''Han Solo:''' So what's it like being a clone?
'''Carib:''' About as you'd expect. It's the sort of secret that gets heavier with time and age.
'''Carib:''' About as you'd expect. It's the sort of secret that gets heavier with time and age.
'''Han Solo:''' Yeah. I can imagine.
'''Han Solo:''' Yeah. I can imagine.
'''Carib:''' Excuse me, Solo, but you can't possibly imagine it. Every time one of us leaves this valley it's with the knowledge that every outside contact puts our lives and those of our families at risk. The knowledge that all it will take will be one person suddenly looking at us with new eyes, and the whole carefully created soap bubble of the ever-so-close Devist family will collapse into the fire of hatred and rage and murder.|'''A clone of [[Ace Pilot|Baron]] [[Farm Boy|Fel]]''' in [[Timothy Zahn|Zahn]]'s ''[[Hand of Thrawn|Vision of the Future]]''}}
'''Carib:''' Excuse me, Solo, but you can't possibly imagine it. Every time one of us leaves this valley it's with the knowledge that every outside contact puts our lives and those of our families at risk. The knowledge that all it will take will be one person suddenly looking at us with new eyes, and the whole carefully created soap bubble of the ever-so-close Devist family will collapse into the fire of hatred and rage and murder.
|'''A clone of [[Ace Pilot|Baron]] [[Farm Boy|Fel]]''' in [[Timothy Zahn|Zahn]]'s ''[[Hand of Thrawn|Vision of the Future]]''}}


{{quote|If we outlaw cloning, then only outlaws will have clones.|'''Sifl''', ''[[The Sifl and Olly Show]]''}}
{{quote|If we outlaw cloning, then only outlaws will have clones.|'''Sifl''', ''[[The Sifl and Olly Show]]''}}


{{quote|As long as you're around, I'll be nothing more than a mere shadow!|'''[[Fan Nickname|Repliku]]''', ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories|Chain Of Memories]]''}}
{{quote|As long as you're around, I'll be nothing more than a mere shadow!
|'''[[Fan Nickname|Repliku]]''', ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories|Chain Of Memories]]''}}


{{quote|"These people you're copying are already superfluous. You're trafficking in excess."
{{quote|"These people you're copying are already superfluous. You're trafficking in excess."
"The issue is not excess but ''access''. Others take away reproductive rights, I ''grant'' them!"|'''[[Aeon Flux]]''' and '''Trevor Goodchild'''.}}
"The issue is not excess but ''access''. Others take away reproductive rights, I ''grant'' them!"
|'''[[Aeon Flux]]''' and '''Trevor Goodchild'''.}}


{{quote|Oh well, even if we all died tomorrow, there's still another batch of clones to take our place. C'est la vie...|'''floating robot head thingy''', ''[[Dead Leaves]]''}}
{{quote|Oh well, even if we all died tomorrow, there's still another batch of clones to take our place. C'est la vie...
|'''floating robot head thingy''', ''[[Dead Leaves]]''}}


{{quote|''Everything I know is what I need to know'',
{{quote|Everything I know is what I need to know,
''everything I do has been done before''.
everything I do has been done before.
''Every sentence in my head''
Every sentence in my head
''Someone else has said.''|'''[[The Who|John Entwistle]]''', "905"}}
Someone else has said.
|'''[[The Who|John Entwistle]]''', "905"}}


{{quote|You look in the mirror, but someone else looks back. You remember a life you never had, one that cannot be yours. You are the piece that does not fit, you don't belong in this game. The board has been knocked over, you shall be swept away...
{{quote|You look in the mirror, but someone else looks back. You remember a life you never had, one that cannot be yours. You are the piece that does not fit, you don't belong in this game. The board has been knocked over, you shall be swept away...
| ''[[El Goonish Shive]]''}}
| ''[[El Goonish Shive]]''}}


{{quote|
{{quote|'''[[The Captain|Tagon]]''': [[Mad Scientist|Kevyn]] and, um...Kevyn, do you have any suggestions for how I handle paying you? I mean, there are two of you now.<br />
'''[[The Captain|Tagon]]''': [[Mad Scientist|Kevyn]] and, um...Kevyn, do you have any suggestions for how I handle paying you? I mean, there are two of you now.
'''Timeclone!Kevyn''': No. There is one of me, and one of him.
'''Timeclone!Kevyn''': No. There is one of me, and one of him.
| ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''}}
| ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''}}

{{quote|There's lots of him. Who'd miss this one?
{{quote|There's lots of him. Who'd miss this one?
| '''[[Action Girl|Elf]]''', on [[Me's a Crowd|the Gavs]], ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''}}
| '''[[Action Girl|Elf]]''', on [[Me's a Crowd|the Gavs]], ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''}}
{{quote|

'''Kowalski''': How many [Brain Uploading|brain-clones]] of mine died out there?
'''Admiral Emm''': Plenty. If souls exist, you launched your own, personal invasion of Hell.
'''Kowalski''': So the place will be secure when the three of us eventually arrive.
| ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', November 30, 2012}}
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'''Kowalski''': Besides, you've sent me to my death ''thousands'' of times now. I'm only sending you there once.
| ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''}}
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'''Kowalski''': I <u>''hate''</u> this part. I've cloned my selfstream hundreds of times, and ''still'' I hate it.
'''Kowalski''': I <u>''hate''</u> this part. I've cloned my selfstream hundreds of times, and ''still'' I hate it.
'''Kowalski''': There's a fifty-fifty chance ''I'll'' be the version that wakes up disposable, [[Body Snatcher|downjacking a sleeper]]. <br />
'''Kowalski''': There's a fifty-fifty chance ''I'll'' be the version that wakes up disposable, [[Body Snatcher|downjacking a sleeper]].
'''Kowalski''': One mission, then I'm lucky she'll get to [[Brain Uploading|upload a gestalt]]. A gestalt, but ''not'' the selfstream. <br />
'''Kowalski''': One mission, then I'm lucky she'll get to [[Brain Uploading|upload a gestalt]]. A gestalt, but ''not'' the selfstream.
'''Kowalski''': I'll remember the mission, right up until the moment I die. ''Again''. <br />
'''Kowalski''': I'll remember the mission, right up until the moment I die. ''Again''.
'''Admiral Emm''': Take solace in the fact that you've saved more lives than you've lost. <br />
'''Admiral Emm''': Take solace in the fact that you've saved more lives than you've lost.
'''Kowalski''': I'm just happy that I've killed more times than I've died.
'''Kowalski''': I'm just happy that I've killed more times than I've died.
| ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''}}
| ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''}}
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|'''[[Star Wars]]''', ''[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/HoloNet_News_(podcast) Holonet News: A Galaxy Divided]''}}
|'''[[Star Wars]]''', ''[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/HoloNet_News_(podcast) Holonet News: A Galaxy Divided]''}}


{{quote|Today I slew my twin brothers seven times and nearly died four times at the hands of my twins. [[War Is Hell|What kind of war is this]] <br />
{{quote|Today I slew my twin brothers seven times and nearly died four times at the hands of my twins. [[War Is Hell|What kind of war is this]]
that we replicate ourselves time and again, only to waste our own lives on axe blades dulled by endless internecine fighting? <br />
that we replicate ourselves time and again, only to waste our own lives on axe blades dulled by endless internecine fighting?
Which one of us represents the hopes and dreams of our shared parents? Is it truly death if I am reborn time and again? <br />
Which one of us represents the hopes and dreams of our shared parents? Is it truly death if I am reborn time and again?
Am I more worthy of living or is my twin? Might we not [[Turned Against Their Masters|ally ourselves - the Spawned - against the Firsts]] who recline on golden thrones, <br />
Am I more worthy of living or is my twin? Might we not [[Turned Against Their Masters|ally ourselves - the Spawned - against the Firsts]] who recline on golden thrones,
stirring themselves only to order us into fratricide? <br />
stirring themselves only to order us into fratricide?
... <br />
...
Perhaps we are no longer even dwarves. When a work of art is copied, and that copy is copied again and again, the results become gross parodies of the original. <br />
Perhaps we are no longer even dwarves. When a work of art is copied, and that copy is copied again and again, the results become gross parodies of the original.
I fear that I am but a pale imitation of the First I once was, willingly killing myself in an absurd parody of narcissism.
I fear that I am but a pale imitation of the First I once was, willingly killing myself in an absurd parody of narcissism.
| A record of the Spawn Wars, ''[[Forgotten Realms|Grand History of the Realms]]''}}
| A record of the Spawn Wars, ''[[Forgotten Realms|Grand History of the Realms]]''}}

Revision as of 05:27, 19 December 2014


Isn't it strange
Feels like I'm lookin' in the mirror
What would people say
If only they knew that I was

Part of some geneticist's plan (plan-plan-plan)
Born to be a carbon copy man (man-man-man)
There in a petri dish late one night
They took a donor's body cell and fertilized a human egg and so I say

I think I'm a clone now
There's always two of me just a-hangin' around
I think I'm a clone now
'Cause every pair of genes is a hand-me-down

"Weird Al" Yankovic, I Think I'm a Clone Now

Yeah, I resulted to be a clone of myself from an alternative-future-imaginary-world or something like that. Listen, is this going to affect my welfare check?

Alan Moore, Tomorrow Stories

Tears... tears. Why am I crying? What... did this mean to me?

Rei Ayanami, Neon Genesis Evangelion
If I die, I can be replaced.
Rei Ayanami, Neon Genesis Evangelion

Han Solo: So what's it like being a clone?
Carib: About as you'd expect. It's the sort of secret that gets heavier with time and age.
Han Solo: Yeah. I can imagine.
Carib: Excuse me, Solo, but you can't possibly imagine it. Every time one of us leaves this valley it's with the knowledge that every outside contact puts our lives and those of our families at risk. The knowledge that all it will take will be one person suddenly looking at us with new eyes, and the whole carefully created soap bubble of the ever-so-close Devist family will collapse into the fire of hatred and rage and murder.

A clone of Baron Fel in Zahn's Vision of the Future
If we outlaw cloning, then only outlaws will have clones.

As long as you're around, I'll be nothing more than a mere shadow!

"These people you're copying are already superfluous. You're trafficking in excess."
"The issue is not excess but access. Others take away reproductive rights, I grant them!"

Aeon Flux and Trevor Goodchild.

Oh well, even if we all died tomorrow, there's still another batch of clones to take our place. C'est la vie...

floating robot head thingy, Dead Leaves

Everything I know is what I need to know,
everything I do has been done before.
Every sentence in my head
Someone else has said.

John Entwistle, "905"

You look in the mirror, but someone else looks back. You remember a life you never had, one that cannot be yours. You are the piece that does not fit, you don't belong in this game. The board has been knocked over, you shall be swept away...

Tagon: Kevyn and, um...Kevyn, do you have any suggestions for how I handle paying you? I mean, there are two of you now.
Timeclone!Kevyn: No. There is one of me, and one of him.

There's lots of him. Who'd miss this one?

Kowalski: How many [Brain Uploading
—brain-clones]] of mine died out there?

Admiral Emm: Plenty. If souls exist, you launched your own, personal invasion of Hell.
Kowalski: So the place will be secure when the three of us eventually arrive.

Schlock Mercenary, November 30, 2012

Kowalski: Besides, you've sent me to my death thousands of times now. I'm only sending you there once.

Kowalski: I hate this part. I've cloned my selfstream hundreds of times, and still I hate it.
Kowalski: There's a fifty-fifty chance I'll be the version that wakes up disposable, downjacking a sleeper.
Kowalski: One mission, then I'm lucky she'll get to upload a gestalt. A gestalt, but not the selfstream.
Kowalski: I'll remember the mission, right up until the moment I die. Again.
Admiral Emm: Take solace in the fact that you've saved more lives than you've lost.
Kowalski: I'm just happy that I've killed more times than I've died.

My name is Jennifer Lucas. I'm not a factory part. I had toast for my breakfast. I wrote a letter to my mum. [...] I am Jennifer Lucas! I remember everything that happened in her entire life! Every birthday, every childhood illness. I feel everything she has ever felt, and more! I'm not a monster. I am me! Me! Me! Me! ME!

Jennifer Lucas' Ganger, Doctor Who

Dani: Stop fighting. I know you're too weak to beat me!
Danny: I'm not going to fight you! Every time I fight a clone they turn to goo!
(Dani looks down and sees she's starting to melt)
Danny: But you're not mindless, like the other clones. I don't want to fight you!
Dani: Then let my father have your morph DNA! So he can save me!
Danny: He's not going to save you! He's using you! You're nothing but a mess he's not gonna clean up!
Dani: You're LYING! (blasts him)

Danny Phantom being rather insensitive to his cousin/clone Danielle, Kindred Spirits

Nasdra Magrody: "While the loss of material is extremely taxing, as well as the many navy crews who have lost their lives.
Lyrax Pentigure: "Not to mention our clone troops."
Nasdra Magrody: "As I said, material, yes."

Today I slew my twin brothers seven times and nearly died four times at the hands of my twins. What kind of war is this
that we replicate ourselves time and again, only to waste our own lives on axe blades dulled by endless internecine fighting?
Which one of us represents the hopes and dreams of our shared parents? Is it truly death if I am reborn time and again?
Am I more worthy of living or is my twin? Might we not ally ourselves - the Spawned - against the Firsts who recline on golden thrones,
stirring themselves only to order us into fratricide?
...
Perhaps we are no longer even dwarves. When a work of art is copied, and that copy is copied again and again, the results become gross parodies of the original.
I fear that I am but a pale imitation of the First I once was, willingly killing myself in an absurd parody of narcissism.

— A record of the Spawn Wars, Grand History of the Realms