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* ''[[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 ''[[
** 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.
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== Fan
* In [http://www.demando.net/ Meredith Bronwen Mallory]'s rather disturbing little ''[[Star Wars]]'' fan fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/913328/1/Deep_As_You_Go Deep As You Go]'', Darth Vader has utilized the cloning facilities at Kamino to clone his late wife Padmé. [[Wife Husbandry|This]] goes [[Replacement Goldfish|about as well]] as [[What Have I Become?|one would expect]].
{{quote|''"Are you an angel?" his voice is the sound of leaves brushing over a tombstone. This the awful question, because if he hadn't asked it, he would still love her. His eyes are so blue, so strange set into the roped scars on his head.''
''"I don't know," she says, and as soon as her voice sounds, she knows it is the wrong answer. The first time he asked, when she was five, she said she was whatever he wanted her to be. Her left arm had never mended right.'' }}
* [[The Virus|Kodachi Kuno]] of ''[[Divine Blood]]'' doesn't quite clone herself, but fertilizes her own eggs with genetic material gathered from psychics so that she can produces daughters that have superpowers and look like her. She then [[Mind Rape|eats their
* In ''[[Shinji and Warhammer40K
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* Matt, in Nancy Farmer's ''[[House of the Scorpion]]'', is treated like crap by most of the people in the world simply because clones are normally reduced to the intelligence level of invalids. They are marked as "property" and treated more like inanimate objects than living things. As you can probably tell, this is a big problem for Matt, who has not had his brain destroyed and is thus a sapient person. It doesn't make it better for him when he discovers that he was not meant to replace El Patron as ruler of Opium, the fictional nation in the book, but {{spoiler|to be harvested for organs once El Patron's went bad.}}
* In the ''[[Deathstalker]]'' novels by Simon R. Green, we have {{spoiler|Evangeline Shreck (cloned before the series starts to replace the Evangeline who was killed by her father when she wouldn't let him rape her), and the clone of High Lord Dram}}. And the clones (and sometimes [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|esper clones]]) that the empire enslaves for labor.
* Clones in the ''[[Dune]]'' novels, called gholas, are realistic to an extent in that they are created as embryos, and must fully gestate and grow up at a normal rate. The similarity ends there, though—a ghola can be "shocked" into recovering all the memories its original had up until the moment of death, even if the original was still alive at the time his cells were harvested. (This applies for ALL humans, not just clones. In ''
** Gholas originally weren't strictly clones. Up until the third book in the series, gholas are the actual bodies of the deceased. They're just placed into axlotl tanks as quickly as possible, which essentially regrows the dead tissue and brain cells enough that the body is brought back to life. The body has no memories of its former life. But then, the Bene Tleilax engineered a [[Xanatos Gambit]] that resulted in the ghola having their psyche exposed to something their former life would vehemently oppose, which shocks their mind into reawakening. The later novels have gholas grown from simple cells, rather than the original body, so they are true clones—but they are still known as gholas because the term evolved over time to encompass a far more complicated definition. They still have the stigma of necromancy, though.
* The clones in [[William Sleator]]'s ''[[The Duplicate]]'' have it rough. First off they get less and less sane the farther from the original they are, and the sanest ones develop black marks on their hands and die abruptly. Since they're not convinced that they are copies (they're physically and mentally identical to the original until the marks appear), this all feels monstrously unfair.
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* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'': ''The Finders Stone Trilogy'' by Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb subverts that trope twice. When main heroine, Alias, {{spoiler|who is herself an artificial, magically created being,}} found out that she has many clones, she is originally angry at being "copied"; the actual clones are much calmer, have their own lives, and don't mope about their origin in the slightest. Even more—the clones would like to be friends with Alias, are unaware of her, or don't care even if they do know. Two clones are seen in the series, a couple more are mentioned, and all of them are confident women with different personalities. Eventually, Alias accepts her "sister" as an equal and seems to be at ease with the whole deal.
** In Alias's defense regarding her views of her "sisters" she'd just learned that she was not, as she thought, a naturally born person (hence feeling like a "thing to be copied"), and had been given the impression that her sisters hadn't existed past the destruction of the last of the five entities involved in her own creation so when one of them popped up in front of her Alias had a bad moment - since said last entity had specifically labeled the others as being more puppets to his whim than free spirits like Alias. As for her sisters being calmer, non-mopy, etc: most of them don't seem to have the first clue about where they really come from. Of the three that have actual screen time in the books, only one knew the full story. The other two both thought themselves simply amnesiac, much like Alias herself when first introduced.
* Gilbert Gosseyn (pronounced 'go sane' - get it?) of A.E. van Vogt's books ''[[The World of Null-A]]'' and ''[[The Players of Null-A]]''. When he's killed, he 'wakes up' in a new cloned body with all his old memories right up to his death. And he has a superpower too.
* In ''[[Accelerando]]'' and ''Glasshouse'' by [[Charles Stross]], duplication of individuals is relatively common. Replicator-type devices are used, which results in perfect duplicates. Different "instances" of a person can be recombined in a process referred to as "merging deltas" (taken from real life software version control systems)
** In one particular inversion of this trope, one instance of a person returns to the solar system to find they have been made bankrupt by one instance of themselves, and are being sued by the children of another instance. The other clones are dead or missing, leaving them to take the rap...a person is explicitly "jointly and severally liable" for the actions of their other selves.
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* In ''[[Otherland]]'', the members of the Grail Brotherhood conspire to produce the perfect computer simulation, into which they can clone themselves via [[Brain Uploading]] and hence achieve [[Immortality]]. To avert this trope, they arrange for their "real" bodies to commit suicide in various ways upon activation of their virtual clones (never mind that this plan goes horribly wrong when [[Psycho for Hire]] Dread takes over the system).
** The trope is played straight in the case of {{spoiler|Paul Jonas}}, who spends most of the story wandering through various simulated worlds, unaware that he's a virtual copy and the original is still alive in an induced coma. When he finds out, he realizes that everything he's accomplished is meaningless from a personal perspective, as his real body will [[Relationship Reset Button|have none of the accumulated memories]] and his virtual self can't ever be considered a real person. This sends him across the [[Despair Event Horizon]] but gives him the resolve to perform a [[Heroic Sacrifice]].
* The main character in ''[[Blueprint (novel)|Blueprint]]'' by Charlotte Kerner suffers from depression ever since she's a child, seeing as how she's just a clone of her mother. Her mother was a famous piano-player who couldn't use her fingers anymore after a disease crippled them—desperate for her legacy to live on, she had herself cloned and raised the protagonist to be a great piano-player, all the while [[Abusive Parents|making it very clear that she was a clone and this was why she was brought into the world.]] Unfortunately, the protagonist quickly develops the same disease and loses the use of her fingers.
* Fabricants in the futuristic segment of ''[[Cloud Atlas]]'' are bred to perform all the unpleasant jobs humans no longer want to do (the ones we see the most of work in the fast-food industry, but there are mentions of others in even worse positions). They're bred and raised not to question their lot in life, and anyone who tries is faces intense opposition, the most obvious bit of [[Fantastic Racism]] being Sonmi's attempts to attend university lectures. {{spoiler|Oh, and once they finish their "careers", they get recycled into the "soap" that other fabricants eat.}}
* ''[[Alex Rider]]'': In the second book, ''Point Blanc'', the [[Big Bad]] plans to take over the world by {{spoiler|cloning himself sixteen times (actually done properly, having started the project fourteen years earlier), then giving each of the clones plastic surgery to look like the sons of influential men and having them take their places}}. In ''Scorpia Rising'' {{spoiler|Alex's double, Julius, reappears, and we are told how the clones were raised to be killers, and physically abused if they did anything wrong}}. Furthermore, {{spoiler|Julius is completely twisted, with no morals, consumed by hating Alex, and previously tried to scratch his own face off because he couldn't bear looking like him}}.
* In Frank Herbert's ''WorShip'' series, clones are second-class citizens at best, disposable labor resources at worst. When there's a crisis or shortage, they always get the short end. They all have some identifiable mutation, adding [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]].
* Wil McCarthy's "The Policeman's Daughter" is a short story in which a copy takes legal action against his source material when he is unwilling to be reintegrated (as the ''Accelerando'' example above). The original's lawyer is copied for the copy's lawyer, and legal questions involve the potential personhood of a copy and whether their "deletion" is murder or just file maintenance.
* In Jeff Long's ''Year Zero'', adult human clones are created using ancient DNA, then used as expendable guinea pigs for research to cure an unstoppable plague. Not only are these clones fully sentient, but they retain the memories of their entire lives, up to and including their deaths, and so assume they're being punished in the afterlife.
* ''[[The
* The title character of ''[[Joshua, Son of None]]'', a 1973 novel by Nancy Freedman, is Joshua Francis Kellogg, the apparent son of a rich and ambitious man who is actually the clone of a [[John F. Kennedy|coyly unidentified President]] who died in an assassination in Dallas, TX in the early 1960s. Joshua's "father" spends the money and influence necessary to recreate the critical events of JFK's life, so as to shape Joshua into the same kind of man as the President he was cloned from. Joshua eventually learns the truth, reveals it to the world, and becomes a politician whose career ''still'' has eerie echoes of his forebear's.
* The rebooted ''[[Battlestar Galactica
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▲* The rebooted ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' goes to town with this one with Cylon Number Eight (aka Sharon "Boomer" Valerii). While the other Eights are well-adjusted Cylons, Boomer is a sleeper agent and can't understand the crazy things that are happening to her, like waking up in a water tank with no idea of how she got there, or discovering multiple stolen explosives among her personal possessions. Interesting because all the identical Cylons are clones.
** Interestingly, the Cylons are never seen to make clones of existing human characters, rather they were based around certain archetypes of personality and appearance. All people revealed to be Cylons were that way from the beginning. They were either self-aware but passing for human or had fake memories. By the end, it is strongly implied that the Cylons would not even have known how to go about cloning an individual human; most of them didn't know how their own system of downloading functioned.
*** The Number Eight models were unique among Cylons in that they disagreed with each other. All other Cylons were, apparently, similar enough in personality that they could be counted on to have any member of the model vote for the entire model line in a representative system, even though some of them had different individual experiences that might have affected their personalities. Then again, Boomer is also the only model of which any copies worked as unconscious sleeper agents, so that might explain the difference.
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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'':
{{quote|In those days, the dwarven gods were each associated with a particular clan. The Spawn Wars saw the use of deepspawn to produce vast numbers of dwarven troops quickly which were then hurled into battle against each other. Eventually, the dwarven kingdoms abandoned their internecine strife and came together, although not all the deepspawn were destroyed. It should be noted that the Spawned (as they were called) were treated as second-class citizens at best and banned from breeding. However, a few did, and some suspect that a taint of weakness was introduced into the dwarven race in this fashion that now contributes to the declining birth rate.}}
* In ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'', all PCs are clones, and on death are replaced with duplicate clones with the character's memories and personality. They have much reason to get the blues, as repeated cloning can lead to personality quirks and full-blown psychoses. Oh, and being a mutant is treason—this leads to the situation of mutants executed by other clones for treason when discovered, but their replacement clone instantly arriving can't be executed again until it's proven to also be a mutant. Due to inherent problems with the cloning system, they may come back with a ''different'' mutation!
** Getting the Cloning Blue is Treason. (Unless you're Level Blue or higher.)
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''
** In
** There also is the Death Corp of Krieg, who are more or less just like the [[Star Wars]] clones only its more than one template (what was left after their civil war) they hide this by wearing [[Gas Mask Mooks|Gas masks]] all the time. Maybe...
** Kabals of the Dark Eldar use vats to make sure they always have enough of high-quality cannon fodder and slaves, since with their way of life actual pregnancies are… not very affordable. Thus the "Half-Born" are the Kabalite rank-and-file warriors (if they prove capable enough), while the "Trueborn" are effectively nobles, more valued and better trained.
* In ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'', a 'clone' is left so the original won't be missed. This clone must be killed for the original to reclaim their place in the real world.
** Another ''[[New World of Darkness]]'' game, ''[[Promethean: The Created]]'', states that lab-made human clones have not yet been created by conventional science. Unconventional science, however, has been able to create them since some point in the 20th century, by capturing Prometheans, stealing their internal fire (or Azoth), and using that to fuel the growth of a clone. In fact, this particular kind of clone can go from embryo to mature adult (about twenty-five years old) in a few days. These particular types of clones are definitely not seen as people, not having a soul (which, as might be expected in a supernatural horror setting, is a very real concern).
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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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* BitchStewie and BitchBrian in ''[[Family Guy]]''.
** And Stewie's evil clone.
* On ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* [[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".
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