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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 (comics)|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.
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== Literature ==
* [[Timothy Zahn]] kickstarted the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] with no knowledge of the cloning system that would be used years later in ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'', so his clones were grown quickly in "Spaarti cylinders" and could be programmed with the original's memories (though the quality of the memory transfer was said to be somewhat variable, accounting for any personality differences that might crop up between the clone and the original). Some other EU authors took this idea up and had various high-ranking Imperials have possession of their own personal cylinders. The most notable one is [[X Wing Series|Ysanne Isard]], who would send out her clone, who believed herself to be the original, to do jobs she could entrust to no one else. When the job was done, she would have the clone killed and prepare another, updating her memories. When a clone survived, she went as far as arranging an [[Enemy Mine]] with her worst enemy, revealing that she ''wasn't'' dead, to take her down. {{spoiler|This didn't work out quite as well as Isard intended; the missing clone was killed, but her enemies figured out exactly how she was planning to double-cross them.}}
* 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|Playing With Fire]],'' {{spoiler|Valkyrie lets Skulduggery shoot her mirror doppleganger to trick the Torment, who wants her dead.}} Slightly subverted in that she has been explicitly assured that her reflection ''cannot'' have a real mind of its own, it is compared to Skulduggery tearing up a photograph of her - even so, she still feels horribly guilty over the plan.
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* It ain't a [[Tomato in the Mirror]] trope without an [[Outer Limits]] episode devoted to it.
** 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: The
** ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]:'' Data dies. However, since B-4 and he shared memories, it's strongly implied Data will 'resurrect' through B4. [[Expanded Universe]] material, such as the prequel comic to the 11th movie, outright states it to be the case.
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** 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.
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== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* The Clone spell in early editions of ''[[Dungeons
* Later ''[[Dungeons
* 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.}}
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* Inverted in [[Girl Genius]]. After Lucrezia gains the ability to upload her mind into multiple bodies, she doesn't mind dying as long as some copies remain elsewhere.
** 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 ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'': An [[Opposite
* Gate-clones in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' are treated as sentient individuals, and the lives of most sentient individuals are often treated pretty cavalierly if they aren't protagonists. They're definitely legally unique; the problem comes from the fact that gate-clones have all the memories of the original up to the cloning. For example, if a man kills someone, then gets gate-cloned, both clones are guilty of murder.
** 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.]]
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Used in ''[[Danny Phantom]]''. No one, least of all Danny, seems particularly bothered when Danny destroys the less-human looking clones. Only the human-looking Danielle gains his sympathy. This is subverted, however, by the fact that Danny also doesn't seem to be bothered when he destroys the so-called "perfect clone" of himself, which would be, in theory, at least as "human" as his [[Opposite
** Danny probably had no problem eliminating Vlad's prime clone because if it had been completed, it probably would've been his [[Evil Twin]] and after the trouble he had with [[Future Me Scares Me|Dark Danny]], the last thing he probably wants is to deal with an evil version of himself.
* 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."}}
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