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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Vandread]]'', this is revealed to be the underlying reason for the creation and maintenance of the sex-segregated planets of Meger and Talark where children are [[Designer Babies]] artificially engineered through mixed-cloning of the original
* In ''[[
* Inverted in ''[[Franken Fran]]'': Fran generally considers both the original and the clones equally expendable as long as there is at least one copy of the person left (though she will try to keep all involved alive).
* Found in ''[[Afterschool Charisma]]''. Rockswell thinks 'redundant' clones are unnecessary. After {{spoiler|his suicide attempt}}, Mozart becomes bitter when he realizes this. [[Clones Are People, Too|Shiro and Mr. Kuroe disagree]].
* ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' usually follows the [[Clones Are People, Too]] route, but ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
* Played straight in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': Rei has several dozen clones ready to swap her out if she dies or decides to not play along with her superiors' [[Assimilation Plot]]. All three of her superiors who know about it ([[The Chessmaster|Gendo]], [[Number Two|Fuyutsuki]], [[Evilutionary Biologist|Ritsuko]]) treat her like a tool and she lets them because she knows her replaceability too and [[Extreme Doormat|considers resistance useless]]. Really, only Shinji treats her nicely with genuine intentions - which later comes back to [[Apocalypse Maiden|bite everyone else in the ass]] [[The End of the World as We Know It|in a MAJOR way]].
* ''[[Puella Magi Kazumi Magica]]'' has Nico during her combat with Kazumi against the Soujus.
== Comic Books ==
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* ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]: The Series'' plays this [[Played for Laughs|for comedy value]] with the Quick-Clones, which are explicitly expendable clones, meant for short-term uses, and even if they aren't killed, melt into goo after a certain amount of time. They don't seem to mind their short lifespan, though; in one episode, a group of them play basketball after their job was done, saying that their lifespan is too short to worry about much.
* In one of the ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' Halloween specials, Homer buys a hammock that creates clones of him, except lacking belly buttons. Initially he uses them to help him do chores around the house, but eventually they get out of hand and he drives them to a field and abandons them, after shooting a few. In the end, {{spoiler|all but one of the Homers go off a cliff after a giant donut and are killed. Marge and the remaining Homer are relaxing in bed when she discovers... he doesn't have a belly button!! Marge: "Then the real Homer was..." Clone Homer: "First off cliff."}}
* An episode of ''[[
* The Republic troopers from ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'' are treated as pretty much expendable, [[Cloning Blues|and they know it.]] You can tell who is supposed to be a good guy and who is supposed to be a jerk based on who treats them as expendable or not.
* In ''[[Centaurworld]]'' the centaurs of the main herd sometimes shoot tiny versions of themselves. In "The Rift: Part 1" they run around panicking and fall off a floor and it's not clear how far their fall is and aren't seen again.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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