Cloning Blues: Difference between revisions

* ''[[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.

** 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.

''"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 mind]] [[Fate Worse Than Death|which leaves fragments of their identity behind]] [[And I Must Scream|and their soul bound up with hers]] [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|so that she can utilize their life force to increase her personal power]] and be almost impossible to kill.