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Line 36: * ''[[RahXephon]]'' has {{spoiler\|Isshiki Makoto, who, in both flashbacks and his final breakdown, is shown to take the fact that he's an inferior clone...rather hard, to say the least. Indeed, he almost directly causes humanity to lose the Human-Mu war out of a need to prove that he was more than an imperfect copy of his "father"}} * In a truly staggering example of the clone inferiority complex, after the villain of first season of ''[[Slayers]]'', Rezo the Red Priest, makes a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and dies on the apocalyptic magics of the protagonists to allow the destruction of the demon he was host to, the clone created by his spurned former lover becomes obsessed with convincing the same protagonists to use the exact same potentially world-ending spell on him so that, in the unlikely event of his survival, he can claim to have achieved something the original had not. The dubiousness of trying to one-up a self-sacrificing gesture by surviving your own is apparently lost on the mind of a megalomaniac. * Turns up in ''[[~~xxxHolic~~×××HOLiC]]'', where it is eventually revealed that {{spoiler\|Watanuki}} is a time-travel duplicate of {{spoiler\|"Syaoran"}}, and was so depressed about being a clone that his suicidal thoughts and desires turned on his {{spoiler\|[[Weirdness Magnet]]}}ness- he's only being {{spoiler\|haunted}} because he wants {{spoiler\|the ghosts and demons}} to kill him. ''The character in question had [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] the entire time.'' That's right, he was so depressed about being a clone that it attracted {{spoiler\|ghosts}}, even though he ''didn't remember that he was depressed about it, or that he was a time travel duplicate in the first place.'' ** Likewise in the companion series, ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'', where the {{spoiler\|Syaoran we start out with is a clone of the Syaoran from the latter half of the series. The clone first sacrifices his life for the original and then is [[My Own Grampa\|reincarnated back into the original's father]]}}. * The contestants in ''[[Gantz]]'' were all clones created at the time of death of their originals, with all memories intact. Sometimes Gantz makes mistakes, and so sometimes the 'dead' originals get better. Line 240: == Tabletop Games == * The original ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' included a spell called "''Clone"''. It made a magical duplicate of someone, and when they became aware of each other's existence, each was filled with an unrelenting desire to kill the other - most wizards use this spell in order to cheat death, not intending for it to come to life until their original body dies. As of Third Edition, the "Clone" spell now just creates a lifeless copy of the user's body. It needs to be preserved somehow or it will rot (a relatively simple spell takes care of that), but if it is still intact when the original dies, they reincarnate in that body (though the clone does not gain any knowledge—i.e. experience or abilities—that the original gained since the clone was created). However a similar effect is preserved in the expensive item "Mirror of Opposition". It creates a temporary clone whose only purpose is to kill the original. Not too surprisingly, the original psycho-jealous-killer-clone rule still applies in the [[Ravenloft]] setting, even in the 3E products. In ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' Manshoon was an [[Evil Sorcerer]] and member of the Zhentarim who was so paranoid of his own death, he created dozens of ''clones'', possibly as many as 40<ref>The exact number varies depending on the source, but it was clearly a large number.</ref> Obviously, he intended for only one of them to come to life should he be killed, but when [[Properly Paranoid\| he was indeed killed]] by his rivals Fzoul and Lord Orgauth, some sort of malfunction caused all of them to activate at once. These clones all went insane and turned on each other in what is now called the Manshoon Wars; most of them perished, until finally, only three remained. One of them is now trying to research a new version of ''clone'', hoping to correct the problem, another has abandoned that specific spell, preferring to use ''simulacrums'' as his [[Actually a Doombot\| Doombots]], while the third - who is now known Orbahk - is now a powerful vampire, and has abandoned that strategy completely. Regardless, all three have the sense to avoid each other. In [[Forgotten Realms]] Manshoon's many clones still went on a rampage against each other, but seem to have stabilized at three; they stay away from each other. Other ways of "cloning"—such as Simulacrum—don't have this problem. The dwarves used deepspawn to quickly churn out lots of adult and skilled troops during [http://www.candlekeep.com/fr_faq.htm#_Toc16090581 The Spawn Wars]. This may have more insidious side-effects, though. From Eric Boyd's Q&A on ''Drizzt Do'Urden's Guide To The Underdark'': Line 333: Played with even ''further'', when it turns out that the clones all remember what Franz did to their people. [[Turned Against Their Masters\|But at least something is being played straight.]] * Used, abused, subverted, and played straight in [https://web.archive.org/web/20190118100705/http://www.applevalleycomic.com/ Apple Valley]. An early accident causes secondary character Doyle to be able to split into "quantum doubles", which Dr Hubris (the resident evil scientist and Doyle's boss) takes extreme advantage of as an unexhaustable supply of expendable test subjects. Later it's mentioned that they dispose of the dead Doyles by blackmailing companies they claim contributed to Doyle's deaths. For his suffering, Doyle does manage to pick up a Doppleganger Attack later on, making him useful as something other than a meat dispenser. * Zigzagged in ''[[League Of Super Redundant Heroes]]'' Given the vast number of superhumans in Shitopolis, the creation of unnatural duplicates seems to happen so often that [http://superredundant.com/?comic=737-formalities the DMV has a form for any who needs an ID], the first question being if they were created by "cloning, magic, or other". == Web Original == Line 395 ⟶ 396: * BitchStewie and BitchBrian in ''[[Family Guy]]''. ** And Stewie's evil clone. * On ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy ~~and~~& Mandy]]'', future Mandy is a [[It Makes Sense in Context\|giant worm Empress]] who keeps having Billy cloned, as these copies' tendency to idiotically get themselves killed provides her with amusement. ("We lose more Billys that way...") ''Not'' a case of clones being inherently stupid, as the original Billy was just as dumb. * [[Superboy]] in ''[[Young Justice (animation)\|Young Justice]]'', being [[Superman]]'s clone. Superman himself [[That Thing Is Not My Child\|is]] [["Well Done, Son" Guy\|not]] [[Parental Neglect\|pleased]]. Interestingly, Superman currently uses this as a rationalization why he shouldn't mentor Superboy—he thinks that if he does, Superboy will feel the need to live up to him. However, it's pretty clear that Superman really just finds his clone's existence disturbing. By the end of the first season, {{spoiler\|Roy Harper/Red Arrow. The one we've been following throughout the show was revealed to be a clone from Cadmus, while the real Roy was put in stasis for three years. He does not take the news about his true nature, along with being an unwilling traitor, very well.}} * On ''[[American Dad]]'' Stan uses CIA technology to create a clone of his son Steve to prove to his wife his way of raising him is better. * Both this and the [[Cloning Gambit]] are taken to [[Up to Eleven\|their logical conclusions]] in ''[[Rick and Morty]]'' episode "Mortyplicity" - Rick even refers to the other Ricks' discovery of their decoy nature (including creating decoys of their own) as an "Asimov Cascade". == Real Life == Line 418 ⟶ 420: {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Applied Phlebotinum~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Speculative Fiction Tropes]]▼ [[Category:Our Clones Are Identical]]▼ [[Category:Make My Index Live]]▼ [[Category:Acting for Two]] [[Category:~~Cloning~~Applied ~~Blues~~Phlebotinum]]▼ [[Category:Artistic License Biology]] ▲[[Category:Make My Index Live]] ▲[[Category:Our Clones Are Identical]] ▲[[Category:Speculative Fiction Tropes]] [[Category:You Hate What You Are]] ▲[[Category:Cloning Blues]]