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Occasionally, both clone and original will have a deep seated loathing akin to [[There Can Be Only One]]. May be justified if the clones are [[Came Back Wrong|naturally]] [[Empty Shell|Empty Shells]] or [[The Soulless|soulless and psychotic]].
Compare [[Dream Apocalypse]] and [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]. See also [[Uniqueness Value]] and [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]. Related to [[Ambiguous Clone Ending]], [[Cloning Gambit]], [[Tomato in
Contrast [[Clones Are People, Too]].
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* 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
* 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
* [[Puella Magi Kazumi Magica]] has Nico during her combat with Kazumi against the Soujus.
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* The [[Spider-Man]] [[The Clone Saga|Clone Saga]] went out of its way to avert this: Ben Reilly - and Peter Parker - whichever one was convinced [[Flip-Flop of God|at any given moment]] that he wasn't the original - couldn't go for more than two seconds without [[Wangst|crying]] about how he was nothing more than a clone, even though almost everyone around him repeatedly insisted he was just as much of a man as the original.
* By the 1970's, two members of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes]] had been [[Killed Off for Real]]. The Legion created clones of them, knowing that the clones lasted 48 hours and then ''exploded'', in order to test whether they have the same bravery as the originals. The Legion seemed to think there was nothing wrong with creating sentient beings who die after 48 hours and think they're their old teammates, as long as they're clones.
* In [[Alejandro Jodorowsky]]'s ''[[
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* Sent up in the second ''[[The Gamers]]'' movie, when the [[Spoony Bard]] uses the nigh infinite resurrections the DM granted him out of sheer pity to tank a powerful demon… And even provide a fellow party member cover behind the resulting ''mountain'' of his own corpses!
* ''[[Never Let Me Go]]'': In the film (as well as the original book), the main characters are {{spoiler|clones created by the government to serve as medical organ donors for "real" people. As children they meet at a boarding school at which they spend their time creating artwork, a project designed to prove whether or not clones have souls}}.
* In Duncan Jones's ''[[
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* Played with in [[Richard K Morgan]]'s ''[[Altered Carbon]]'' with it being a major criminal offense to have your self copied into more than one body at a time. The protagonist does it anyway near the end because his plan to bring down the [[Big Bad]] requires him to be in two places at once (also the copy doesn't even look like him). They discuss what they will have to do after it is over, assuming that they both survive, as they will be too different to be reintegrated. In the end {{spoiler|they settle it with a game of rocks/paper/scissors, with the loser being the one who gets deleted.}}
** Played with again in ''Woken Furies'', except this time the [[Big Bad]] has brought out an illegally obtained backup of the protagonist that was made a long time before the events of ''Altered Carbon'' and sends this older, more sociopathic version after the original.
* In ''[[Skulduggery Pleasant
** Also, the reflection need only be returned to a mirror to revive it.
* In the short story ''Identity Theft'', people can opt to have their minds transferred into robot bodies. One character is copied twice (so that another character can secretly interrogate the extra one). Despite the fact that he's also technically a copy, the legal copy is horrified at the thought of an extra him running around. To keep him from demanding that the illegal copy be destroyed, the hero helps the extra copy assume a new identity.
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{{quote| '''Victor!Topher:''' Maybe I could provide a second opinion...<br />
'''Topher:''' But it wouldn't be a second opinion, it would be the ''same'' opinion twice! }}
* It ain't a [[Tomato in
** Though the Revivial series episode Replica averted the trope; when a bioengeener's wife emerges from a coma that was incorrectly thought to be terminal she states that the clone (who has her memories) created prior to her awakening needs to be "disposed of". She quickly notes that she does not mean termination: she is instead suggesting erasing the clone's memories and leaving her in a far away city where she can hopefully start a new life (in the end, the clone ends up with a clone of the bioengineer himself and [[Everybody Lives]]).
* ''[[Star Trek:
** ''[[
** ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
** ''[[Star Trek: Voyager
** ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise
** The teleporters can be considered this. They create a clone of you somewhere else and destroy you where you are.
* An episode of ''[[Friday the 13th: The Series]]'' had a guy using a cursed artifact to create duplicates of himself and send them to kill people while he himself was on live TV (perfect alibi). He'd destroy the duplicates after. One dup' who knew what was coming decided to kill the original and thereby become a real boy, but forgot he'd been shot earlier. He bled to death immediately after becoming real.
* [[Wizards of Waverly Place]] (yes a ''[[Disney]]'' show) where it's implied in an episode that Alex does this to her own magic copy.
* Surprisingly averted in ''[[
* An episode of ''[[Earth: Final Conflict]]'' had [[Half-Human Hybrid|Liam]] split in two using a side-effect of quantum teleportation, although Street notes that the duplicate will be erased out of existence at some point in the future. For the rest of the episode, the duplicate assumes the role of Liam, while the original is in an induced coma to fool [[The Dragon|Sandoval]] and [[Big Bad|Zo'or]]. The duplicate is treated no differently than the original, but chooses to sacrifice himself in the end to save [[Action Girl|Renée]]. The duplicate is [[Status Quo Is God|not mentioned after that]].
* Seen several times in the [[Stargate Verse]]. Once with [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Teal'c]] when he shot his [[Alternate Universe]] [[Doppelganger]], saying that theirs was "the only reality of consequence.". Inverted with an alternate universe SG-1, who try to steal "our" universe's [[Applied Phlebotinum|ZPM]] in order to save their reality. Also inverted with alternate Woolsey in "Vegas", who doesn't care that their failure to find a [[Our Vampires Are Different|Wraith]] threatens other Earths. Additionally, Ba'al does this with his own clones at the end. Slightly subverted with the clone of Jack O'Neill, though his two other doubles weren't so lucky.
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* Played with on the April Fools special [[Penny Arcade]] Witchalok class, which has the following spell description:
{{quote| Create two duplicates of yourself, and place them in adjacent squares. Each duplicate is a real person with his or her own hopes and dreams. These duplicates die at the start of your next turn.}}
* ''[[
* In ''[[Paranoia]]'' every character starts with six expendable clones. The Computer recognises the need to have backups in case of accidental loss or erasure. Six is generally insufficient to survive a session.
** Depending on GM interpretation, the non-player clones are either stored in [[People Jars]] until needed, or actually holding down productive jobs in Alpha Complex society, which means they can get up to all sorts of things out there. One scenario had the clones actually accompany the players en masse (they were going into space to determine if "Mars the red planet" was a Commie enclave). Having five times as many NPCs as PCs hanging around messing with everything they can find is bad enough, but when they realize they can become prestigious Troubleshooters through [[Klingon Promotion]]...
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* A scene during the finale of ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'', when the protagonist's personality is shattered and has to convince the "other hims" to merge back with him so that he can continue his quest. One is particularly persistent about making ''you'' merge with ''him''.
** The Paranoid Incarnation, who was [[Exactly What It Says
* Deconstructed in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''. {{spoiler|Luke, upon finding out he is a replica of the REAL Luke fon Fabre (now called Asch), begins to view his life as [[Cloning Blues|expendable]] because of his sub-human status.}} His [[True Companions|friends]] however, don't accept such perspectives because they feel he is human based on the time and memories they share together.
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' (the first US release) features this to almost [[Tear Jerker]] effect in the form of Nergal's Morphs.
{{quote| '''Limstella ''[upon dying]'':''' ''I am not human. This body and mind are constructs. Yes, as is this sorrow.''}}
* The clones of P.B. Winterbottom in ''[[The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom]]'' which are only there to get him his pie. They disappear once they're done.
* The entire point behind the Replica in ''[[
* ''[[Eve Online]]'' subverts (Averts?) this, as clones are a way to cheat death, but each one is equally valuable, and forgetting to keep them updated results in losing knowledge you've learned, requiring you to spend time re-learning it. Compounded by the fact that EVE trains skills ''in real time.''
* Played with in ''[[Advance Wars]]: Days of Ruin''. [[Big Bad]] Caulder/Stolos has created multiple [[Truly Single Parent|clone offspring]] of himself, and seems to view them all as ultimately expendable. {{spoiler|Isabella/Catleia is one of them, or to be specific she is the "backup" of one of his children who got killed in one of Caulder/Stolos' experiments. We later learn that Caulder/Stolos himself is, in fact, one of many identical clones the original Caulder/Stolos made of himself: The clones decided [[There Can Be Only One]] and killed each other, and the last surviving clone then killed the original.}}
* ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Inverted in [[
** Also, she really doesn't want to kill/commit suicide in Agatha's body, as it will cause her to lose ''very'' valuable knowledge that she had gained, and that knowledge will not transfer to her other copies, nor back to the device that she uses to create the copies in the first place.
* Subverted in ''[[
* Gate-clones in ''[[
** The trope is played [[Just for Pun|dead]] straight by the F'Sherl-Ganni, who created the gate-clones; they made a practice of duplicating people, interrogating the duplicates, and then disposing of them. [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-04-05 This practice] killed about fifteen billion people ''every three hours and thirty-nine minutes'', for ''hundreds of thousands of years''. They murdered the equivalent of the entire galaxy's population several times over. [[Would Be Rude to Say Genocide|Good thing they were just clones.]]
** The Gavs are something of a special case. Given their sheer number (950 ''million'' to start with) a certain amount of attrition could be expected to random chance.
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* Pan can create copies of himself and others in ''[[Thalias Musings]]''. The copies are explicitly stated to be like shadows or projections in nature, incapable of feeling. {{spoiler|He creates a copy of Echo to help her fake her death in front of [[God Save Us From the Queen|Hera]]}}.
* In [[Doppelganger (
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* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' movie ''Bender's Big Score'', not only can you kill yourself in another time without messing up your life history, but there's actually a plot point that time duplicates are always doomed and will die in some random accident shortly after they are created. {{spoiler|Note that "random" and "shortly" can extend up to "suicide" and "one thousand years later."}}
** This feature of the ''[[Futurama]]'' [[The Verse|verse]] shows up again in "The Late Phillip J. Fry." Fry, Bender, and the Professor travel so far into the future that the universe ends, a new Big Bang occurs, and a universe exactly identical to the one they left emerges. When they arrive in this new universe's "present day" their time machine accidentally lands on and kills their new universe equivalents. They don't seem at all upset about this.
* ''[[Men in Black (
* In one of the ''[[The Simpsons|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 ''[[Aeon Flux]]'' has Aeon captured and her DNA used to make clones for Travis Goodchild. The initial clone escapes and trades places with the real Aeon. {{spoiler|Inverted at the end of the episode, when the real Aeon is killed and the clone becomes the show's new protagonist.}}
* The Republic troopers from ''[[Star Wars:
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