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== Comic Books ==

* [[MODOK]] creates clones of himself in order to generate a steady supply of backup organs.

* Usually but not always averted with Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man. His mutant power is [[Me's a Crowd|creating duplicates of himself]], which become more independent the longer they are separate. In the current series of ''[[~~X-Factor (Comic Book)|~~X-Factor]]'', in which Madrox is the lead character, the duplicates embody aspects of Jamie's personality at random. Jamie usually regards the duplicates as extensions of himself, but occasionally as independent people depending on circumstances. The duplicates themselves, however, are all over the map on how they think of him, themselves and each other.

* Usually but not always averted with Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man. His mutant power is [[Me's a Crowd|creating duplicates of himself]], which become more independent the longer they are separate. In the current series of ''[[X-Factor]]'', in which Madrox is the lead character, the duplicates embody aspects of Jamie's personality at random. Jamie usually regards the duplicates as extensions of himself, but occasionally as independent people depending on circumstances. The duplicates themselves, however, are all over the map on how they think of him, themselves and each other.

* [[Calvin and Hobbes|Calvin]] intentionally created a duplicate to do tasks that he doesn't want to do, like clean his room. Predictably, the duplicate doesn't want to do them either, and runs off to misbehave, knowing the original will get all the blame. A few clones later, it turns out Calvin ''really'' doesn't get along with himself, and ends up turning them all into worms (but, as Calvin knows, this makes them happy, because now they're gross). Later, Calvin creates a ''good'' duplicate of himself that doesn't mind doing his chores, but ends up driving Calvin crazy anyway by trying to be nice to Suzie. Calvin and his good copy get so mad at each other that they get into a fight, since fighting is bad, the good duplicate self-destructs in a [[Logic Bomb]]. Hobbes comments on the irony that even Calvin's ''good'' version is prone to doing bad. Later still, Calvin meets "duplicates" of himself through time travel, and of course gets into a fight with those past and future selves as well, because none of them want to do a creative writing homework assignment, but each of them has "good" excuses for not being the one to do it. Meanwhile Hobbes gets along perfectly well with his past version, and they actually work together to complete the homework themselves by basically writing a story about how foolish Calvin's time-travel scheme is.

* 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.