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== Tabletop Games ==
* The original ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' included a spell called
** 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.
** 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'':
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** 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 ==
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