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{{quote|''"I am a clone, I am not alone...<br />
''If you had ever seen us you'd rejoice in your uniqueness<br />
''And consider every weakness something special of your own"''|'''Robert Calvert ([[
In [[Speculative Fiction]], being a clone absolutely ''sucks''. It's enough to make a clone sing the blues.
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Though real [[Artificial Human|artificial clones]] have to start at conception and go through childhood all over again, and can even have phenotypes that vary from their parent, [[Speculative Fiction]] clones are like perfect meta-xerox copies of the cloned person. They are ''exactly'' like the target at the moment of cloning, (possibly excused by [[Younger Than They Look|age acceleration]]) with all their forebearers' [[Genetic Memory|memories]] [[Soul Fragment|and skills]], although their personalities can develop from there.
As a result, many clones brood about how they're [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|not "real,"]] just [[What Have I Become?|hollow imitations of the original]]. The clones tend to deal with this rather badly. Some make desperate attempts to act different. Others go mad and try to murder the original to take their place. (Emphasis on "try" -- hardly any succeed.) If the clone is a main character, they will spend the whole show angsting about how they're the [[Tomato in
That's for the lucky clones who are created properly. In many shows, cloning is an imprecise science, so there is a high probability that any clone will turn out to be an [[Evil Twin]] -- almost as high as the probability of creating an [[AI Is a Crapshoot|evil computer]] (Because everyone knows that [[Science Is Bad]]). Other unlucky clones will just have [[Glamour Failure|birth defects]], [[Resurrection Sickness]] or be [[Clone Degeneration|increasingly inexact duplicates]].
And that's for the clones who are just unlucky. The really unlucky clones have [[Evilutionary Biologist|malevolent creators]] who can make [[Designer Babies|custom clones]] [[Uterine Replicator|grown in a vat]], sometimes [[Send in
Because of all this (or possibly as a cause of all this), clones get very little respect. Heroes who hesitate at killing intelligent life might still kill their evil clone. In the question of [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]], most clones rank somewhere between the [[Big Creepy
This assumes the clone ever had a mind of its own, of course. Sometimes a clone is an [[Empty Shell]] without the original's [[Our Souls Are Different|Soul]], and exists only so that the creator can overwrite their mind and personality onto it in case of accident. In this case, it's more like coming [[Back From the Dead]] -- although if the clone has a mind of its own at the start, this is yet ''another'' reason its life sucks. And let's not debate how [[Our Souls Are Different]], in which case clones (especially of the deceased) will be [[The Soulless|soulless abominations]] [[Came Back Wrong|before God]] and [[Scale of Scientific Sins|nature.]]
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'': in the manga, a villain grows a Ryoko clone named Minagi who has a nearly opposite personality from the original, being very sweet and kind (though no less brave than Ryoko). Minagi suffers the requisite existential angst in the beginning, but gets over it and goes off to live her own life, reappearing in the manga occasionally as Ryoko's "sister." Her biggest problem is being a dead ringer for a notorious [[Space Pirates|Space Pirate.]]
* ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' had direct cloning be highly illegal, in contrast to simple genetic modification, though it didn't stop a powerful politician from cloning himself several times, believing the clones would be superior successors to his biological son. At least three have been seen, and of those one became a manipulative nihilist that attempted to wipe out the human race, and another became a pawn of the secret [[Big Bad]] of the sequel. All of them apparently suffer from birth defects that prematurely accelerate their aging and cause intense pain if not treated with medication.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' and its sequels have Fate Testarossa. Near the end of the first season, she's a [[Tomato in
** In fact, Nanoha takes this trope to the extremes, as number of clones begin to outnumber the natural born characters. At least ten of the characters in the series are clones. In [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': Rei Ayanami is a tragic cocktail. She's a [[Half-Human Hybrid]] with [[Easy Amnesia]]. Her isolated upbringing with Gendō Ikari left her with [[No Social Skills]]. Her Male Counterpart, Kaworu Nagisa is a mysterious cocktail of [[Dissonant Serenity]], [[Ambiguous Innocence]], and [[Half-Human Hybrid]]. Then again, everybody in that mess of a show a tragic cocktail of at least three different tropes, clone or no clone. And she hates it to boot. After being cloned (again) she is just pissed off and tired, wanting to die. But she isn't allowed to.
** The second ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]'' film even has a scene of Rei floating in an LCL tank, wearing a collar engraved with "REI-02".
* ''[[Pokémon:
* ''[[
* 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.
* Ukiyo in ''[[Samurai
* Christmas in ''[[Kurau Phantom Memory]]'' is Kurau's "pair". As a Rynax, she is an [[Energy Beings|energy being]] and has to borrow Kurau's genetic material to form her human body, making her technically her clone. Kurau loves her immensely and will do anything to protect her "little sister", but Christmas still gets her share of grief when {{spoiler|Kurau loses her Rynax, causing Christmas to be terribly lonely for many years}}.
* The Zentradi of the ''[[Macross]]'' universe (and the Macross part of ''[[Robotech]]'') are initially all artificially-generated beings. Some cloning remains in practice, even if it's strongly hinted that many are reproducing biologically by the time of ''Macross Frontier''. They don't seem to suffer any angst about it, even the ones who are obvious clones of important characters from the original series.
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* In ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'', Mikoto feels sorry for the clones that have been created {{spoiler|using her genetic material, referring to them as her sisters}}. She goes to great lengths to try to save their lives. It's not a total subversion though, since the clones suffer immensely as victims of a cruel experiment.
** In another interesting development, the only ones who view them as less than human are the scientists who created them and the clones themselves, possibly linked to {{spoiler|identity crisis with shared memory/perceptions. Even the bad guy of that arc would ''always'' try to talk to them as individuals (unsuccessfully) before deciding to kill them.}}
* This comes up towards the end of ''[[
{{quote| '''Marco''': Your worth hasn't changed. And it never will.}}
* In the second season of ''[[Darker Than Black]]'', it turns out that {{spoiler|Suou is [[Tomato in
* The premise of ''[[Afterschool Charisma]]'' is a lot like ''[[Clone High]]'' if that was done seriously; that is, a school in the near future is populated by teenage clones of historical figures as a research/social experiment. And yes, [[You Cloned Hitler|they cloned Hitler]] (Who, surprisingly enough, is actually one of the most kind-hearted clones; go figure). There is enormous pressure on the clones to live up to their originals. Marie Curie, who wants to study music, [[Released to Elsewhere|transfers out]], while Mozart, who [[Fantastic Racism|embraces his fate and looks down on non-clones]] can't handle the pressure and {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide|attempts suicide]]}}.
* In ''[[Appleseed]] Ex Machina'' Briareos and Tereus, [[Artificial Human|a bioroid]] made from his genetic material are identical right down to birthmarks (though since Bri is a cyborg now, it's not immediately obvious to anyone who didn't know him before the fact), and share quirks and tendencies to a ridiculous degree. Genetics Do Not Work That Way! Naturally Tereus feels angsty about his lack of uniqueness, even though millions of other bioroids demonstrate no such issues, and are treated as fully equal to humans - to the point that the government mostly consists of bioroids!
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* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' has Jean Grey being copied by the Phoenix Force, and a direct clone with Madelyne Pryor, the latter of whom would [[Go Mad From the Revelation]].
** Stryfe is a clone of Cable, who's the son of Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor. As a baby, Cable got infected with a techno-organic virus and sent to the future to be cured. Well that turned out to be a lie. The future doctors didn't think he could be saved, so they cloned him. The clone was then kidnapped by [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Apocalypse.]] This classic villain wanted to raise the boy as his heir, then take over his body. When he found out Stryfe was a clone, he got discarded. Well...to make a long story slightly less long, Stryfe went nuts, traveled back in time to before he was even born, and began playing at being an ineffectual mutant terrorist, running an organization staffed with losers. Turned out the whole thing was a [[Xanatos Gambit]] to turn X-Men on each other, frame Cable for murder, and Mr. Sinister and Apocalypse as the masterminds behind it all, while he kidnapped his own mother and father, beat the snot out of the Big-A, and finally unveiled himself to the cast. The reason for all his Machiavellian manipulation and tomfoolery? To avenge himself on his parents, both physical (Cyclops & Phoenix) and spiritual (Sinister & Apocalypse). The kicker? It's technically subverted because Stryfe believed he was the ''original'' and that Cable was the clone who stole ''his'' life.
** X-23, a [[Tyke Bomb]] [[Opposite Sex Clone]] of Wolverine. Her [[There Are No Psychologists|psychological issues]] could fill a whole storyline themselves. And that's in the ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' original. [[Canon Immigrant|In the comics]] it gets even worse: {{spoiler|after escaping from the lab she was created in (and being triggered to kill her 'mother' along the way), then is held and interrogated by S.H.I.E.L.D. When she gets away from ''them'', she ends up as a streetwalker (specializing in [[Power Perversion Potential|cutting and/or being cut]] by her clients) for a time}}. In this case however, they managed to avoid the whole clone-is-immediately-of-DNA-donor-age, having to go through childhood and developed and born from within a real womb, and discarded the 'I'm not real!' aspect of this trope approximately an issue after first feeling a twinge of it.
* This trope is what the plot of the ''[[Spirou and Fantasio]]'' album {{spoiler|"Machine qui rêve"}} is revealed to be about at the end.
* {{spoiler|Marika Utika}} of ''[[Twin Spica]]''. Not only is human cloning illegal by international treaty, the whole [[Replacement Goldfish]] status doesn't help.
* The Mauler Twins of ''[[
** Things get a bit more insane from that point on. The Maulers have always been obsessed with not noticing any differences between them; the cloning process overloads the senses so it's never quite actually clear what is what or who is who or so on...
* In the classic Goodwin/Simonson ''Manhunter'' run, the bad guys have an army of brainwashed clones of the hero, providing them with useful cannon fodder and him with a desire to kill every last clone to reclaim his individuality. Somewhat creepily, after his death his friends attempt to hunt down and kill all the remaining clones--with the apparent approval of ''Batman'', one of the most stringent advocates of [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]] in [[The DCU]].
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** And then there's the fact that the children of his clones are also considered clones of him. Jamie found that out the hard way when he accidentally absorbed the baby one of his clones had with Siryn, to her obvious horror.
* ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' uses braindead clones for rather...[[I'm a Humanitarian|specific purposes.]]
* In ''[[
* Some versions of [[Superman]]'s enemy, Bizarro, are a clone of the Man of Steel.
* Also from the ''[[Superman]]'' mythos, Superboy (Kon-El/Conner Kent) is a clone made from half-Superman's DNA, and half Lex Luthor's DNA (before this was revealed, there were some...''complications''). That's right, ''Superman and Lex Luthor technically had a kid.'' This is the stuff ''[[Smallville]]'' shippers live for... Superman was dead at the time
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** Dredd himself also has clones.
** The thinking behind this seems to be that if a clone doesn't work out as planned, they'll just put out another. Logical, really..
* The ''[[Star Fox (
** In the first 1992 ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' comic by Benimaru Itoh, Andross is killed when the Dodora he is controlling steps on his ship. His two assistants, one of whom is named Herbert, take a hair sample and revive his DNA, creating two copies of him. Trouble arises when one turns out to be a softy when it comes to Fox's mom (Vixy). The other wants to remain extra-ruthless.
** There was a short ''Star Fox 64'' manga, but with only one Andross.
** The Japanese-only ''Star Fox: Farewell Beloved Falco'' has Captain Shears trying to resurrect Andross on Titania. A successful clone is almost made, until {{spoiler|Slippy Toad stops the process right before it finalizes}}.
* [[Batman|Damian Wayne]] finds out that {{spoiler|his mother had actually created several clones of her son upon realizing that he has chosen Dick and Batman's ideals over hers. Then, [[Parental Abandonment|she kicks him out]] out of the House of Al Ghul.}}
* ''[[
** This thankfully won't ever happen {{spoiler|since Toby used his powers to make sure Tyler's parents would still love him. Unfortunately, thanks to the [[Equivalent Exchange]] nature of his powers, Toby had to sacrifice any chance of being friends with Cecil.}}
* At the end of Marvel's massive Avengers story arc, the "Kang War", an imprisoned Kang reflects on his imminent execution with oddly detached satisfaction: He will die, but his son Marcus will be a worthy successor. However, he is then freed by him...and Kang then kills him, because his son had betrayed him in a minor way during the story. He explains that such betrayal would have been acceptable if he had claimed the crown of Kang instead of freeing him...and then reveals to his dying son that the 22 identical Marcuses before him suffered similar flaws...and that he'll have to keep trying. He is not happy about it, however...not happy at all.
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* Namorita, Namor's cousin and member of [[The New Warriors]] became distressed when she discovered she was not the daughter of Namor's cousin Namora but her clone. Namora, being half Atlantean and half Human, could not conceive a child so she enlisted the aid of a banished scientist to help her give birth to her own clone.
** New Warriors also had two other members who were clones: Scarlet Spider aka Ben Reilly who at the time of his joining was under the mistaken assumption that he was the real Spider-Man and Darrion Grobe a future descendant of Speedball who created a clone of Speedball and placed his mind inside of it and sent back in time to replace the original only to be killed by Darrion's evil time traveller father Ardent. Oddly enough Speedball's cloning history is much less complicated than Nita and Ben's...
* In [[Alejandro Jodorowsky]]'s ''[[
* In the DCnu reboot [[Superboy]] has it even worse than he did before. According to [[Supergirl]], Kryptonian clones ''always'' become insane killers sooner or later. The name "Kon-El" is Kryptonian for "abomination of the house of El". And this is without considering the whole NOWHERE organization trying to manipulate him.
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{{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.''<br />
''"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 ''[[
* In ''[[Shinji and Warhammer 40 K (Fanfic)|Shinji and Warhammer 40 K]]'', one of Shinji's first [[Batman Gambit|Batman Gambits]] involves manipulating Gendo to kill the current Rei and activate one of her replacement clones. It isn't until after the scheme is complete that Shinji realises he ''got Rei killed'', and suffers a severe [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment until Rei reminds him that not only was it merely one of her bodies that was destroyed, her soul unharmed, but also that she agreed to do it, and Shinji calms down. He nevertheless resolves to never use someone in such a way, to deliberately kill them even if it can be fixed, because that's how his father thinks.
== Films -- Live Action ==
* The Kubrick/Spielberg film ''[[
* Occurs in ''[[Alien (
* The five brothers in ''[[The City of Lost Children]]'', who can't figure out who is the original and who are clones.
* ''[[The Island]]'' starts off in an [[City in
** This entire premise is ripped off from the late '70s b-movie ''[[Parts the Clonus Horror]]''. [[
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Species]] 2'', Eve, a clone made from the half-alien hybrid Sil, is kept in [[Lady Land|a female-only environment]] and studied for weaknesses so that if another incident occurs like it did in the first movie, the attacker can be destroyed efficiently. [[Hilarity Ensues|Things go badly for all concerned]].
* This is the central plot point of ''[[
* Played with rather disturbingly in ''[[The Prestige]]'': {{spoiler|a magician has a machine built that creates an exact duplicate, memories and all, in order to perform an amazing "teleportation" trick. The duplicate, essentially being the same person, would go on to complete the show while the ''original'' falls through a secret trap door and ''drowns'', his corpse secretly disposed of every night. The magician essentially clones himself and then commits suicide for the sake of his magic/revenge.}} And actually, {{spoiler|since all of his memories are copied along with the body, the clone magician never feels like he commits suicide. The clone still beleives he've performed the same trick dozens of times and that the one who actually drown is the real clone.}} Little does he know!
* In ''[[The
** The woman in the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]], upon awakening after coming out of the clone tank, is pissed that she was obviously killed and has to get her ears pierced and hair coloured again.
* In ''[[
* The Clone Army in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels is (uncharacteristically for the series) a rather dark version of this, essentially ''millions'' of men mass-produced and conscripted to fight and die for a war in which they have no stake and no choice as to whether they want to fight (and, thanks to accelerated aging, they're technically [[Child Soldiers]] as well). The general impression from the films (and more explicitly stated in various [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] materials such as ''[[Star Wars:
** Boba Fett was also part of that cloning project, but is a precise genetic copy of his "father" Jango, unlike the clone troopers who were intricately modified for various reasons. Thus, Boba ages at a normal rate but still contracts "clone degeneration" at the age of 71 in the novel ''Bloodlines'' (which has [[wikipedia:Hayflick limit|some precedence]] in our reality).
* The excellent (although visibly low, ''low'' budget) film ''Anna To The Infinite Power'' is about an emotionless [[Child Prodigy]] girl who discovers she was born as part of a cloning experiment by some ''very'' unpleasant people. Adapted from a novel of the same name. The haunting end theme is [[Crowning Music of Awesome]].
* ''[[Judge Dredd (
== Literature ==
* Matt, in Nancy Farmer's ''[[
* 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 ''[[Dune]]'', you [[Genetic Memory|possess all the memories in your entire lineage]]).
** 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 protagonist cloned himself. Unfortunately, the clone believed ''he'' was the original and in turn cloned himself, and that clone ALSO thought he was the original. Unfortunately for them, clones tend to develop mental illnesses quickly. The second clone became clinically depressed; the first one was the original's [[Evil Twin]].
* In ''Xenocide'', one of the sequels to ''[[Ender's Game]]'', Ender enters a dimension that allows you to create anything that you can hold perfectly in your mind. Ender unintentionally creates copies of his siblings. The copies eventually deduce that they aren't clones of the original siblings per se, but manifestations from Ender's mind: the personification of Ender's innocence and kindness in his sister, and of his ambition and ruthlessness in his brother. This causes both copies to angst endlessly until {{spoiler|they are re-integrated by Ender's death and the copy-sister's loss of her body}}.
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* Kazuo Ishiguro's ''[[Never Let Me Go]]'' depicts the kids growing up in a special boarding school, carefully told and not told about the total lack of any real future and any choice in their life as they will all go on to be carers for donors and then donors themselves (they seem to be universal donors). Strangely, none of them ever try to run away or escape their fate.
** They do display a great deal of interest in finding their "possibles" (how they refer to their originals; the term "clone" is, interestingly, almost never used in the book), and seem to attach a lot of importance to who their models were. At one point Ruth horrifies the others by voicing what seems to be a universal, unspoken fear: that they're modeled on "trash", and if they want to look properly for their possibles, they should look "in the gutter".
* Speaking of clones who get it rough, hardly anyone could compare with ''[[Honor Harrington
* The replacement clones from Jackson's Whole in [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s [[Vorkosigan Saga]] series hardly have anything better; they are raised in crèches to be not just slaves, but also [[Walking Transplant|replacements]] for the aging bodies of the rich and powerful through brain transplants. Guess where their original brains go. Elsewhere in the Galaxy, cloning, while unpopular, is a somewhat tolerated and well-regulated practice, and clones enjoy all the basic rights.
** In ''Brothers in Arms'', we learn that a clone was made from {{spoiler|Miles Vorkosigan}} years ago, when the original was just six years old, in a long-running [[Xanatos Gambit]] to substitute the clone for the original once the clone was adult enough that the six-year age difference wouldn't matter. The clone goes through (relatively) normal growth and receives regular briefings on the original's activities so that his impersonation will be realistic. The original eventually defeats the plot by treating the clone as a real person with an identity (and a name) of his own, something the clone's creators never did; this triggers the clone's [[Heel Face Turn]], but takes about four books.
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* In Alfred Slote's ''Clone Catcher,'' clones are walking organ banks for the rich (and since there's no magic aging, they have a good long time to know that). The guy who hunts them down if they run ''is the book's protagonist''. And it's a children's book. (Almost every character in the book comes to condemn these practices, but it's still an awfully creepy premise.)
* In ''[[The Goodness Gene]]'', the main protagonist discovers he is a {{spoiler|a clone of Hitler, created solely to lead a dictatorship in the Dominion of the Americas}}; he--understandably--goes into [[Heroic BSOD]] mode.
* In the ''[[
* In [[Dean Koontz]]'s ''Frankenstein'' trilogy, Victor Helios, {{spoiler|alias Frankenstein, has created a "New Race" of genetically-engineered beings that are devoid of morality and feelings except for anger, envy, fear, and hate. They cannot disobey his commands, kill themselves, or kill others unless ordered to do so. Courtesy of direct-to-brain data downloading for the sake of knowledge, a great many of the New Race are replicants of people like politicians, police officers, and ministers. But the programming of many members of the New Race is breaking down, allowing them to act as they shouldn't in one way or another...}}
* In the novel ''[[Altered Carbon]]'', digital copies of human psyches can be replicated and transferred to other bodies. This happens two ways: the first is a form of remote storage used as emergency backup by the ultrarich to circumvent the "real death" usually caused by the destruction of the cortical stack. The plot is, initially, driven by an investigation commissioned by someone attempting to find out what occurred between their last back-up and the time of their death. The second involves the duplication of a single pysche into two bodies, a highly difficult and illegal process. It is said to be much loved of a notoriously paranoid assassin named "Dimi the Twin", who uses this technique to provide trustworthy backup for himself. {{spoiler|It is also used by the main character, Takeshi Kovacs, in the climactic events of the novel. While not provoking any existential angst in itself- both versions are, as digital copies, as "real" as the other -- it does require one copy to be destroyed to avoid unwanted attention from the authorities, provoking a difficult discussion about which version has gained more "worthy memories" since the duplication. The dilemma is eventually resolved by a game of rock, paper, scissors.}}
* The novel ''[[Brave New World (
** They technically ''were'' twins -- none of the manipulation was genetic, and the technique essentially created a dozen sextuplets. Again, this was pretty damn visionary, since the purpose of DNA wouldn't even be discovered for 20 years.
* The Ira Levin novel ''[[The Boys
** The Nazis who made the clones considered the nurture bit -- all the clones are placed in families where the husband is much older than the wife, as was the case with Hitler's parents. To round things off, {{spoiler|the adoptive fathers are killed when the clones have reached the age Hitler's father died.}}
* [[John Scalzi]]'s ''[[Old Mans War]]'' trilogy features extensive cloning, though most of the time the clones are never brought to consciousness before having their progenitors' consciousness transferred. But ''[[The Ghost Brigades]]'' has an unusual example in which a clone develops consciousness overlaid with a failed attempt to transfer a progenitor's consciousness, causing internal conflicts.
* A series of sci-fi novels written by Steven L. Kent explores this trope. All enlisted men in the future armed forces (not officers or NCOs) are clones, and the main character is a special kind of clone. All the regular clones have no idea they're clones and are biologically programmed to die if they ever find out.
* The ''Regeneration'' book series by L. J. Singleton features five cloned teenagers who aged naturally. One of them {{spoiler|was cloned from a serial killer and struggles with his violent urges}}, and all of them have some form of {{spoiler|minor superpower}}.
* In the [[
* ''Anna to the Infinite Power'', a YA novel (and later movie), provides a thoughtful take on how the attempt to clone a single genius multiple times might be hampered by the distinctive personalities of her clones.
* A duology of novels, ''Farthest Star'' and ''Wall Around A Star'' by [[Frederik Pohl]] & Jack Williamson, feature a form of [[Teleporters and Transporters|teleportation]] that sends a copy of you elsewhere but leaves the original intact. The copy can be modified ''en route,'' since all you're transmitting is information. Interestingly, this is how most physicists figure real-life teleportation might work.
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** Another curious incident has someone obviously unfamiliar with "running" multiple instances of themselves failing to realise that what they thought was one of their clones was actually someone else entirely using a copy of their body.
** In a robotic version, the protagonist of ''Saturn's Children'' is a sexbot who describes how she, and other [[A Is]] similar to herself are created. AI's with human level intelligence take as long as a human would to develop, so no [[Instant AI, Just Add Water|instant AI]], with one loophole: an AI can be duplicated easily. The standard procedure for artificial beings like her was to raise one prototype as desired than clone the AI into identical bodies.
* The Beta clones get varying degrees of this in ''[[
* In Mary E. Pearson's ''[[The Adoration of Jenna Fox]]'', {{spoiler|the title character}} is a physical double of {{spoiler|the original Jenna Fox}} who is almost entirely constructed of a substance called BioGel. Her exterior parts--like skin and hair--have been cloned from the original girl's cells. Even her brain is 90% artificial; {{spoiler|it contains 10% of the brain of the original Jenna--the only portion of the original that could be saved}}.
* In [[John Varley]]'s universe they have a law that only one person can own a genotype: all copies must be destroyed. So if you discover that you're an illegal clone, your only hope is to kill your progenitor and replace him/her. Cue several plots.
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* The main character in ''Blueprint'' 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.}}
* [[
* 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 [[Mc Carthy]]'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.
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** {{spoiler|Auton!Rory}} has his normal personality, but gets overridden by the Nestene Consciousness, which is then overridden by [[The Power of Love]].
** The episodes "The Rebel Flesh" and "The Almost People" are ''made'' of this trope.
* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'': A sentient, mentally identical clone of Salem is casually destroyed magically by Hilda in the episode "Thin Ice"; in the much earlier episode "A Halloween Story" a magic spell creates a copy, but this double is essentially mindless and soon absorbed back into its creator.
* In ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', the clone of a [[Tonight Someone Dies|previously killed off character]] joins the team. He looks exactly like the old character and has the same personality and most of his memories. The catch? Without the regular injection of a special chemical, he'll eventually die because his cloned tissue can't regenerate fast enough to counter natural cell damage. Because of this, he was [[Put
** ''Stargate'' characters seem to have two default reactions to duplicates: (A) it's the same person in another body, or (B) it's a disposable fake. They never seem to consider (C) it's an identical twin sibling, which real clones are. "Disposable fake" is how the plot treats them - except in Carson's case, again proving the "so long as there's just one in the end" rule.
** Ba'al and his many clones on ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' have clones of both the host and the symbiote. They are completely indistinguishable, and they even set up a [[Xanatos Gambit]] by pretending that the clones are fighting against the "real" Ba'al, convincing SG-1 to capture every single one (with a string of puns). Then each one claims to be the real one.
** Also in ''Stargate SG-1'', the entire Asgard race is a race of clones portrayed fairly realistically. They don't have magical "clone memories"; those need to be transferred ''via'' computer from the original body. (Thor undergoes this procedure almost as often as Daniel dies.) Also, the Asgard have been cloning themselves for so long that they have suffered severe genetic degradation and are no longer capable of reproducing in any way other than by cloning themselves.
** {{spoiler|When a rogue Asgard genetic scientist leaves a botched (as in too young) clone of O'Neill in an attempt to study his genetic makeup to try and help his species sexually reproduce again, everyone's only worried about the original O'Neill back and doesn't care that the clone's pre-programmed to die. It's only when the original asks Thor to save his clone's life does anyone seem to care.}}
* ''[[
** Both the Jem'Hadar and the Vorta in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
** ''[[Star Trek:
** ''[[
** ''[[Star Trek:
*** In another case Worf convinces the noble Klingon empire to install a clone of Kahless some Klingon monks cooked up to the position of Emperor. This is stated to be a purely ceremonial, if potentially influential, position (equivalent to head of state), and not to be confused with the position of ''Chancellor'' (occupied at the time by Gowron), who is at the top of the Klingon Empire's ''actual'' government.
** In the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager
**** A later episode reveals that the clones quickly forgot their true identity, assumed the identities of the Voyager crew and tried to "get home" to Earth as well. A new technology causes their bodies to destabilize, which leads to their memories resurfacing and, obviously, lots of angst. {{spoiler|They die just after their time capsule destabilizes and their attempt to hail the real Voyager fails, so it is as if they never existed, maybe suggesting that the writers didn't want to admit that clones were worth being remembered.}}
** In the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
** In ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise
* An episode of ''[[
* Kyle and Jessie of ''[[Kyle XY]]'' are clones grown in a lab, but the cloning itself is realistic; they were grown at normal speed, not fast (spending a lifetime unconscious in tubes), and they don't have clone memories. The word "clone" is never used; but cloning is clearly described, and they look exactly like the originals from many years ago. (Now, the explanation of their intelligence and powers, on the other hand....) Strangely enough, the third season finale strongly suggests that neither are clones, but simply [[Identical Grandson|identical versions]] of their same-sex parents. It is even stated that an unseen character is Kyle's biological mother, who was never even hinted at before in the show.
* In ''[[
** An earlier ''[[
** The revival series episode ''Replica'' had a scientist create a perfect duplicate of his (apparently) terminally comatose wife; the duplicate is completely unaware she is a clone until the original wakes up and is presented as a sympathetic character. {{spoiler|In a subversion of this trope, she even gets one of the few unambiguously happy endings in the series; the scientist stays with his original wife, but clones ''himself'' so that the cloned wife can stay with 'him'.}}
* Some [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke|genetically engineered]] X5 [[Super Soldier|supersoldiers]] in ''[[Dark Angel]]'' have clones, who are treated (by the narrative) as identical twins with their own unique identities. But it still sucks to be them because Manticore (the [[Government Conspiracy|evil organization]] that made the X5s) punished them for the escape of their originals. Alec has had a particularly rough time, because he's a clone of the [[Serial Killer]] Ben.
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* "My Clone Sleeps Alone" by [[Pat Benatar]]. Her clone lives in [[Dystopia|a sterile sexless future]].
* The Leo Kottke/Mike Gordon song "Clone" (from the album of the same name) has fun with this idea.
* The parody song "I Think I'm a Clone Now" by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] details a transition; for one of the clones, it starts with embarassment:
{{quote| "...What would people say<br />
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* In ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' reproductive cloning is outlawed by the Adeptus Mechanicus (unless you ''are'' the AdMech) due to certain ...bad experiences with the technology in the setting's pre-history. Given the nature of the "current" 40K universe, they must have been ''really'' bad. However, if you are a clone in this universe, it's OK because you probably won't be aware of this fact because you will have been created specifically so that you can have one or more of your limbs surgically replaced with crude-but-effective bionic augmentations and have your brain hard-wired with programming circuitry so that you can be used as a disposable assembly line robot/slave, or in order to be used as a growth-bed for reproducing the genetically engineered organs that are used to create the Space Marines, a painful procedure that usually amounts to vivisection, ''twice''. Unless you were '''really''' unlucky and were created by the bad guys.
** 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...
* In ''[[
** Another ''[[
== Video Games ==
* In the ''[[Advance Wars]]'' series, [[Big Bad|Black Hole]] has a tendency to enjoy making clones of your commanding officers and pitting them against you towards the endgame. The clones have all the same statistical points of their counterparts, but their personalities are seriously lacking; they regularly proclaim, in an almost morose and self-defeating way, that their only purpose is to take orders and fight. Afterwards they're invariably destroyed. {{spoiler|Except for the Andy Clone, who expresses that he hoped that he was true to his counterpart's personality.}}
** ''[[Days Of Ruin]]'' provides a different version, in which {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]] [[Mad Scientist]] Caulder/Stolos is a [[Truly Single Parent]] and views his [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|clone children]] as expendable minions and test subjects, as he can always replace them if they die. Isabella/Catleia turns out to be [[Tomato in
*** It gets better: {{spoiler|Even Caulder/Stolos is a clone of the original, and it seems highly likely that the side-effects of cloning are partly responsible for his insanity}}.
* The Riku replica in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories]]'' lives a sad existence, constantly trying to live up to or replace "the real thing". There's a funny omake at the end of the manga that jokes about just how sad it is.
** Also, {{spoiler|Xion from ''358/2 Days''}}.
* ''[[
* It turns out in ''[[Overblood]]'' that {{spoiler|both Milly and Raz are clones. The labs had actually been cloning loads of Raz's as [[Super Soldiers]] and to look after her. Milly is actually the clone of the original Raz's wife, who died. Both of them argue with the real Raz that they aren't simply clones and can't be forced to do whatever their originals did/what Raz wants them to do.}}
* The ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' series ''loves'' clones. Liquid Snake feels inferior to his 'brother' Solid Snake because Solid was supposedly given all the dominant 'soldier genes' and Liquid got all of the recessive ones from their clone-source (they mean alleles, but hey: turns out it was the other way around, [[An Aesop|showing genes aren't the only thing that determine your fate]]). While MGS-verse clones still have to grow up from scratch, once they hit about thirty they start undergoing [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up|rapidly accelerated aging, which seems to work at the speed the character designers dictate]].
** Ac!d-verse Snake gets a [[Tomato in
* In ''[[Street Fighter]]'', depending on which plot twist you're in, BBEG M. Bison (known as Vega in Japan) has an army of clone soldiers, including Juni, Juli and Cammy. However, the term "clone" is used inconsistently and it's been stated that Juni and Juli are girls kidnapped from Germany.
** They're probably "clones" in the sense that Saddam Hussein had body doubles, of Cammy -- who, however, does actually look like M. Bison (well, aside from the [[Opposite Sex Clone|gender difference]]).
** More appear in ''[[
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' Original Generation 2 had Wodan Ymir, a W Number android, based both physically and mentally on Sanger Zonvolt who died in the Shadow Mirror universe. Outside the fourth wall, the character was created so that the game could use Sanger's incarnation in Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden incarnation as the 'Sword of Magus' without it feeling wrong based on his characterisation and development in the previous Original Generation game.
** Also, Wodan resolves his [[Cloning Blues]] at the conclusion of the Earth Cradle arc, and not only is it [[Badass]], it's pretty damn touching. Even Sanger, the original, wept [[Manly Tears]] at Wodan's death as a true warrior fighting for his cause.
** Ingram Plissken. There have been so many clones of him made by the Balmar empire in order to keep possessing over the Time Diver, that a lot of them have identity issues.
* ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' has an analogue of cloning known as fomicry, which uses pure magic to create an identical copy of an original at the time of replication (dodging the aging issue) and without any memories. Most of the game's replicas use many of the pitfalls of this trope, including plenty of [[Wangst]] about not being real. In one case it's even two-sided between replica and original: {{spoiler|Luke's [[Tomato in
** It's also worth noting that replication {{spoiler|has a tendency of permanently weakening the person being cloned, as demonstrated by the cheagle original and clone.}} If that isn't a good reason to have being-replicated [[Cloning Blues]], what is?
** Aside from this, however, ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' does take a serious look at the [[Cloning Blues]] trope, including the [[Replacement Goldfish]] factor, and the cast generally treat the replicas with the respect they're due as living beings. {{spoiler|It would be hard for them ''not'' to, what with the protagonist being one and all...}}
* In ''[[Freedom Force]]'', the futuristic robot hero Microwave has the ability to generate weak clones of himself, and the mad villain Deja Vu can create clones of anyone, from civilians to himself to even the game's main hero Minuteman. The final boss {{spoiler|Timemaster generates "temporal twins" of himself to besiege the heroes}} as well. As this game is based on the carefree Silver Age of comics, nobody bats an eye at any of this and no serious moral issues come into play.
* In the ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' 'Hordes of the Underdark' it appears that the mad wizard Halaster has been taken captive by the drow. But after the player kills the drow keeping him captive, another Halaster teleports in, and informs you that you ruined his brilliant plan to trap the [[Big Bad]] using a clone. The two Halasters then begin to bicker about who is the original, and who is the clone - all the while [[Rhymes
** The funny part is that normally it's done via ''simulacrum'' and that in [[Canon]] Halaster used to have multiple semi-autonomous body replicas all over the Undermountain and control them more or less at will.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Miranda Lawson]] of ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' is a heavily-modified clone of a ridiculously rich businessman with two duplicates of his X chromosome, and has some major confidence issues on the subject. She also has a genetic twin sister, who is (quite realistically, actually) sixteen years younger and an exact clone. She has fewer issues, primarily because she doesn't know that Miranda exists ({{spoiler|Unless you take the Paragon ending to her Loyalty Quest}}). Lair of the Shadow Broker adds more to this, as it turns out {{spoiler|she's infertile, most likely as a result of her genetic engineering.}}
** Shepard himself/herself was "resurrected" by the Lazarus Project in the beginning of [[
{{quote| I don't remember anything. Maybe they really just fixed me... Or maybe I'm just a high-tech VI that thinks it's Commander Shepard.}}
* [[My Hero Zero|Zero]], the star of two series in [[Capcom]]'s ''Mega Man'', is cloned twice, once in each series:
** Played straight in ''[[
{{quote| '''Zero:''' You should have studied the blueprints closer, Sigma! There is only one Zero!}}
** Subverted in ''[[
** ''[[
* ''[[Ever 17]]''. The character in question is referred to as a clone and views the 'original' as a parent. The two are immensely similar in personality and thought processes, but due to slight differences in how they were raised, their beliefs and behaviors are slightly different. The older of the two has grown since the time when they were nearly indistinguishable and become quite different. There is no social stigma (cloning is legal here), nor any angsting over being a copy. The clone ''does'' wonder what they mean to the original, though.
* ''[[Destroy All Humans!]]'' is centred around cloning, but clones are also used when Crypto dies during gameplay. Each clone has a number, with Crypto, starting at 137 because 136 was shot down near [[Area 51|Area 42]]. While each clone is made after the other dies, there is no personal difference between them besides their numbers and in the beginning of the game, after learning of 136's disappearance, 137 wants to go rescue himself and confuses the pronouns a lot. When he does find his remains, he laments his loss referring to 136 as himself and takes revenge on the humans for killing him.
* Astaroth from the ''[[Soul Series]]'' undergoes this during 3 and before 4, when he learns that his template was Rock he goes on a berserk rampage, destroying his creation place and eventually finding Rock and almost killing him.
* In the MMO ''[[Tabula Rasa]]'', all of a player's characters on one server are clones of each other to explain why they all have the last name and share a supposedly rare special ability. Despite that, clones don't share memories by default. Players must earn special credits to use the ubertech necessary to share experience and training from one character to a new clone; even then, there can be differences in how that knowledge is applied. Clones can also look different or even be a [[Opposite Sex Clone|different gender]].
** Prior to their introduction, it was stated that AFS scientists were working on the creation of [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]] using this technology. In [[Perpetual Beta|Deployment 9]] they were released, playing all the related tropes straight.
* It is suspected that the protagonist in the game ''[[Portal (
* In ''[[Fallout]] 3'', Vault 108 has lots of Garys. They're all violent, capable of only saying "Gary"--in angry tones and curious tones, but ''always'' "Gary."
* ''[[Halo]]''. Master Chief and all the other Spartans were kidnapped as six year old children to begin their training. To prevent any questions from being asked, they were all flash-cloned; the parents got the clones. In the Halo universe, cloning single organs is simple, but cloning a full human isn't; they are born with no memory, are mindless vegetables and, after several months, die. So, as far as the Spartans' parents know, they all suddenly suffered major brain damage and died tragically. Only a handful of Spartan trainees ever found out about this, and half of them (count 2) ended up killing themselves after finding out the truth. ''Halo Legends''. The true tragedy of this is explored more thoroughly in the ''I Love Bees''.
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* ''Neo [[Contra]]'' has its moment when {{spoiler|Bill Rizer}} finds out that he was really just part of an experiment to replicate a legendary hero...''Sounds [[Metal Gear Solid|familiar]]''?
* ''[[Parasite Eve]]''. The {{spoiler|Eve/Aye clone}} is a little girl in a research facility where even her damned toys were designed to frustrate and antagonise her -- pegs too big for their holes and building blocks with rounded sides that wouldn't stack; but she did have one ordinary, well-loved teddy bear.
* In ''[[
* At the end of ''[[Gaia Online|zOMG!]]'', {{spoiler|[[Mad Scientist|Labtech]] [[Let X Be the Unknown|X]] reveals his plot to create an army of Animated [[Humongous Mecha]] and take over Gaia...and also his motivation: he's a clone of [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Johnny K. Gambino]], who abandoned him in favor of his naturally-born son Gino.}}
* In ''[[Star Wars]]: [[The Force Unleashed]] 2'' the protagonist is a clone of the original Starkiller from the first game. He's not particularly happy about this.
* In ''[[Blaz Blue]]'', {{spoiler|Noel Vermillion/Mu-12, Nu-13, and Lambda-11 are all clones of Saya.}} While they don't express much angst over it, {{spoiler|the original's brothers, Jin and Ragna,}} most certainly do.
* In ''[[Tomb Raider]]: Underworld'', Croft Manor is destroyed by a seemingly sadistic clone of Lara, created by {{spoiler|Jacqueline Natla}}. Lara tangles with her doppelganger more than once, but finds later that she and the copy think a lot alike--the copy's simply stuck under {{spoiler|Natla}}'s control. {{spoiler|Lara manages to free the doppelganger of her mental domination and then sics her on Natla. It doesn't end well for Natla.}}
* In ''[[
* Subverted in the ''[[Hitman]]'' series, where the protagonist uncovers at the end of the first game that he's the end-result of a dedicated cloning program. His origin is cause for significant strife later in his life, but he's never all that choked up over it - he just kills everyone.
* All the robot personalities aboard [[Starship Titanic]] are copies of real peoples personalities stuck in art deco robot bodies and placed on a doomed starship, after working their way up though speak your weight machines and on screen help.
* [[Hell MOO]] has almost all of the characters as clones; in fact, the majority of the population of Freedom City was alive before the nuclear apocalypse and have been unable to die because the cloning banks still work and just shuffle their consciousness into a fresh body every time they day. Even the suicide booth provided is useless because it only provides a few seconds of peace before being harshly thrown back into the world. As long as the cloning continues, the people of post-apocalypse Freedom City are trapped in their little slice of hell and unable to get out.
* Subverted/Averted depending on the server in the ''[[BYOND]]'' game ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* Subverted in ''[[
* In ''[[
** He's just the most extreme example. The entire webcomic is full of clones -- mostly gate-clones like Gav (created by exact sub-atomic-level duplication), but also a time-clone: time-traveller meets his old self, and because the timeline is changed, they both continue to exist. Also, biological cloning is possible, but outlawed.
* ''[[Its Walky]]'' initially played it straight, when the saintly, innocent girl Joyce gets a "reverse" clone, thanks to accidental exposure to [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]]. The clone is not so much evil as sluttish, but still manages to be a complete antithesis to Joyce, who then shoots her. In the head. The subversion comes in much later, when an Evil Lawyer catches wind of the incident -- and suddenly, she's wanted for murder.
* Parodied in ''[[The Non
* Subverted in ''[[Final Blasphemy]]''; {{spoiler|Wily uses numerous robotic doubles of himself and one true biological clone just to make sure he's not targeted. These are pretty standard applications of the trope, and when Jeremy is captured, he finds out that he killed that biological clone of Wily rather than the genuine article; he's frustrated but relieved as he doesn't think that counts as murder. Unfortunately, the law ''does'' think that counts as murder. Cue [[Big No]].}}
* Molly's doppelganger Galatea in the "There But For the Grace" story arc in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]''. Raised in an unloving environment, she grew up to be paranoid with an [[Ubermensch]] complex {{spoiler|but now seems to have calmed down and gotten a reasonably happy ending?even if she has, for the moment at least, been [[Put
* ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' actually includes a sheep clone named Dolly who eventually started aging quickly. But thanks to a certain sci-fi device, {{spoiler|she became a lamb again (albeit with her memories intact). It is not clear whether she still ages quickly}}.
* ''[[Narbonic]]'': The title character, Helen B. Narbon, is a clone of her mother. (The "B" stands for "Beta".) [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when Helen gets an invitation to her high school reunion:
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** Considering Helen Alpha (a boxed-wine-swilling, antagonistic shrew of the most hilarious sort), there's more to this notion than just facetious antagonism. ''Narbonic'' actually offers a unique perspective on [[Cloning Blues]], however; rather than spending her time locked in an identity crisis, Helen faces a supercharged version of every woman's fear that she will one day turn into her mother.
* In ''[[
* ''[[
{{quote| '''McNinja:''' How'd it go? Did we do it?!<br />
'''Ben Franklin (also a clone):''' You're one of the clones. Get in line.<br />
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== Web Original ==
* In ''[[
* Los Hermanos of the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' is able to create a near-infinite number of duplicates of himself, but they are all ''him'' when it comes to memory and knowledge (they share a mass-mind...talk to any of his duplicates, and you're talking to all of his duplicates). Imagine his shock and surprise when he encountered the [[Super Villain]] known as El Unico, and it turned out to be one of his duplicates, who had somehow separated from the mass mind but otherwise retained all of his powers.
** Later, when Los Hermanos encountered Aryan Nation (a controversial white supremacist ''superhero''...yes, you read that right...who shares Los Hermanos's powers), the similarity of Nation's powers nearly convinced the Global Guardian that Aryan Nation was yet another one of his dupes who managed to gain a separate consciousness. (He found out later this wasn't true.)
** Mob Rule, a South African super villain from the same setting, has a similar power. His copies, however, are independent individuals, and they occasionally get into ''very'' violent arguments.
** Colony, a British super villain, can create a dozen duplicates. Like Mob Rule, his copies are independent and sometimes aren't all that cooperative with each other.
* The idea of a stereotypical, perfect-copy clone is used in a fantastically original manner in the web-novel ''[[John Dies
* Cloning can be done fairly easily for people in the civilized regions of ''[[Orions Arm]]'', memory transfer optional. This isn't commonly done, since property laws get all iffy when cloning comes into the picture: most of the time, the copies can own property but have no property to begin with. Other times, if the clone is given the original's memories, property can be split down the middle if a disagreement arises. It varies A LOT depending on region. Nonetheless, one person cloned himself hundreds of times and is in the process of making a documentary on the myriad ways his copies have gone. On the net or in virches (virtual environments), copying is done very frequently. These are not usually included in population counts for this reason.
** The notes on population suggests that if you count virtual clones, 90% of the population would consist of ''five people''.
* Belphoebe of the ''[[Whateley Universe]]'' was a forced-aging clone of Jobe's perfect drow girl, with no memories. Then a fat, neurotic nerdboy tried to copy a girl's mind into Belphoebe so he'd have someone who'd like him and accidentally copied ''his own'' mind in. It takes Belpheobe a while to get her act together at that point.
* After [[The Spoony Experiment
* Aurora from [[Trinton Chronicles]] is technically {{spoiler|one of many failed clone of the mysterious Messianic figure known only as 'Jade'}}. It's also very strange as she has the power of [[Me's a Crowd]] on top of being a genetic copy.
== Western Animation ==
* The DNA Delivery clones employed by Bedlam in ''[[
* ''[[
** Later, Thailog and Demona work together to recover the other Manhattan Clan's DNA and then hand them over to Dr. Sevarius to make their own clones: Malibu (a clone of Brooklyn), Brentwood (clone of Lexington), Hollywood (clone of Broadway) and Burbank (clone of Hudson). They lack smarts, as they were programmed only to "obey Thailog". Without Demona's knowledge, Thailog also creates a clone from DNA merged between Demona and Elisa Maza named "Delilah" to act as his new partner to replace Demona; Demona is not happy when she finds this out. After Thailog and Demona are defeated, the clones join the Labyrinth Clan; but in the comics, they temporarily betray their clan to ally with Thailog. After Delilah helps them recover their senses, all but Brentwood return to the Labyrinth Clan (Brentwood prefers Thailog because "Thailog smart").
** In the ABC continuation, the clones turn to stone, apparently permanently, because of a malfunction in their cloned DNA. But, since this was the [[Canon Dis Continuity|ABC continuation]], [[Word of God|it didn't happen]].
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* Scourge of ''[[Transformers]]'' has the [[Red Shirt|Sweeps]], physical clones who are supposedly his huntsmen. However, they all have different voices and different personalities. As wary as Scourge is, the Sweeps are even worse. He occasionally has to ask Cyclonus for help ordering them around.
** Cyclonus was also supposed to have a clone "armada". One clone shows up in the movie when he is first created, but it is never seen again. This is the subject of much fan discussion.
* ''[[
** "So, which part of me did you come from?" "Don't ask!"
* In ''[[Superman: The Animated Series
* This was parodied by ''[[The Simpsons (
* ''[[
** Also, in "Bender's Big Score," time travel clones have a high "doom factor" that causes them to be destroyed.
* In the second season ''[[WITCH (
** Nerissa later makes an Altermere of [[Mentors|Yan Lin]], who survives and is introduced to Yan Lin's family as her long-lost twin sister Mira.
** "[[Meaningful Name|Mirror]]?"
** In the original ''[[
* In the ''[[
** He'd originally wanted to clone Shego, but she had a no-cloning clause in her contract. When he kept pressing the issue, she [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|walked out on him]] for the rest of the episode.
* In ''[[Justice League (
* In the third season of ''[[
* Parodied in the Season Two opener of ''[[
** Although it is implicitly played straight. If Orpheus' trip to the nether in an attempt to resurrect {{spoiler|the Venture Brothers}} is any indication, then Dr. Venture's cloning experiments rendered {{spoiler|the Venture Brothers soulless casks of themselves, since Orpheus is unable to find their spirits therein.}}
** {{spoiler|Their souls were located inside the learning machine; their souls just hadn't been transferred to their bodies yet.}}
* One episode of ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* Many people may have forgotten, but the AndrAIa who appears in all episodes of ''[[
** There is also a clone of Enzo due to a system restore, and a clone of Bob due to {{spoiler|Megabyte stealing Bob's code}}. Surprisingly enough, the clone of Enzo doesn't have the "I am not real" complex most clones have. Everyone just treats him like the original Enzo's younger brother, which is fair thanks to the original's [[Time Skip]]. Original Bob on the other hand, starts to think ''he'' is the clone, until the clone is revealed to be {{spoiler|Megabyte}}.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Carl Squared]]'', C2 has a significantly different personality from Carl. C2 also 5% DNA from car's dog Rex, which causes him to catch frisbees in his mouth and scratch behind his ear with his foot.
* Jim Gaffigan and Conan O'Brian's animated short series ''Pale Force'' has an episode where NBC president Jeff Zucker attempts to clone Conan several times, with several unintended side effects. One clone is a human fly, one is hideously mutated, and one even has breasts. The supposedly "perfect" clone, called "Clonan O'Brian" has a desire for human flesh.
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* The chief ability of ''[[Captain Scarlet]]'' villains The Mysterons was to kill and recreate people and objects so that the copies were under their control. However, a building collapse/[[Lightning Can Do Anything|electric shock]] plus some [[Heroic Willpower]] might just get you your man back.
* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' had an episode where Jimmy makes several imperfect copies of himself thanks to his lackluster use of [[Mad Scientist|Heloise's]] machine. Near the end, Jimmy dumps them all in the ocean.
* ''[[Star Trek:
* BitchStewie and BitchBrian in ''[[
** 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 (
** 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.}}
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