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{{quote|'''Ellen''': MOMMY!!!
'''Elliot''': [http://egscomics.com/?date{{=}}2003-02-19 I'M TOO YOUNG AND TOO MALE TO BE THE MOTHER OF A SEVENTEEN
While clones and most other sorts of sci-fi duplicates are identical to the original character and, by definition, the same sex, exceptions do exist. The idea dates at least from ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'' by Robert Heinlein, where the [[Screw Yourself|opposite sex clones become sexual partners]] of the original; nowadays the trope is more used as a quick way of producing a [[Distaff Counterpart]] rather than for titillation. Merely being of the opposite sex of his or her original greatly increases the chance of the clone surviving the denouement and showing up in a future story. This way writers can invoke the [[First Law of Gender Bending]] without sacrificing an originally sex character they've grown fond of.
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Biologically, this is somewhat plausible for male-to-female cloning, because a male has an X-chromosome that can be doubled to produce a female clone, as in Garrett's poem and Heinlein's novel. (Two X-chromosomes are not even strictly necessary! ...Unless you don't want the clone to have Turner syndrome.) (Or alternatively, the SRY gene, which causes maleness, can be removed from the Y chromosome.) For female-to-male cloning, the Y chromosome would have to either come from another subject, and thus one would [[Mix-and-Match Man|not have a pure clone]], or be formed from one of the X-chromosomes, which would require absurd amounts of genetic engineering and amount to simple fiat anyway. (Alternatively, the [[wikipedia:XX male syndrome|SRY gene can be implanted in one of the X chromosomes]] to create a sterile clone that appears male.) Another solution would be to use the Y chromosome from the subject's father, as that chromosome passes from father to son relatively unchanged.
If the
See [[Cloning Blues]]. Compare [[Distaff Counterpart]], [[Half-Identical Twins]] and [[Screw Yourself]].
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* In ''[[
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* After accidentally looking into an enchanted mirror, [[Ranma
▲* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'', [[Evil Genius|Uno]] of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Numbers]] [[Hollywood Cyborg|Cyborgs]] was revealed in [[All There in the Manual|the Sound Stages]] to have been created by [[Big Bad|Jail]] through cloning, using his own genetic material.
* Through the power of cyborg bodies, Sechs in ''[[Gunnm|Gunnm Last Order]]'' becomes the male (or rather
▲* After accidentally looking into an enchanted mirror, [[Ranma One Half|Ranma]] creates a copy of his female self. She, of course is infatuated with him. In the end he accidentally copies his male self and the two copies fall for each other. In an anime episode, [[Dirty Old Man|Happosai]] attempts to split Ranma into male and female forms for his own selfish reasons. However, he misses the fact that, A: Ranma despises him and would never obey him no matter the form, and B: the incense he uses is called [[Literal Split Personality|Personality Splitter]]. The result is an [[Enemy Without]] situation, as the Clone is a vampiric ghost-like entity that is the living embodiment of Ranma's evil.
▲* Through the power of cyborg bodies, Sechs in ''[[Gunnm|Gunnm Last Order]]'' becomes the male (or rather [[Transsexual|female-to-male transsexual]]) clone of Gally/Alita.
* Oddly averted by the civilization in ''[[Saber Marionette J]]'', which consists entirely of men who reproduce via genetic manipulation and artificial wombs. One might expect them to have technology and know-how to remove the Y chromosome from an embryo and replace it with an X chromosome, but it doesn't work.
** If they had done that, {{spoiler|there would have been no reason to rescue the female still in hibernation on the nearly-wrecked spacecraft that brought them to their new home.}}
* The female Nemu is the clone of the male Mayuri Kurotsuchi in ''[[Bleach]]''.
* In the ''[[Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko]]'' TV series, Yohko's male clone, Yousuke appears. {{spoiler|He turns out to be female and in disguise, but then actually becomes male later.}}
* ''[[Getter Robo|Getter Robo Armaggedon]]'' has {{spoiler|Go}}, the OSC of {{spoiler|Michiru, who is ''dead''.}}
* In the [[Hentai]] [[Manga]] ''Alice's Adventures in Sexland'', obviously an erotic retelling of [[Lewis Carroll]]'s book, there was a furniture maker whose furniture was special because it would spring to life and play with the user. Her "masterpiece" was a mirror, which sprung a magical clone of Alice, because, as the creator says, ''Who knows best what you like and what you need, [[Screw Yourself|if not yourself]]''. Only it wasn't [[Hermaphrodite|an exact clone]]. She does state, however, that the mirror would have given a perfect clone if that was what Alice had wanted.
* The trope picture is from the artist [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/index?tags=pisipisi Pisipisi] ([[Content Warning|NSFW]]!), and is of a series of drawings where a perverted [[Mad Scientist]] college student clones the girl he's
* Keith Violet of ''[[Project ARMS]]'', the one female amongst the many clones of Keith.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'', it isn't a clone exactly, but the digital copy of Mokuba Kaiba that Seto creates in a video game is ''Princess'' Adina. It makes a bit more sense in the Japanese version, where the Big 5 programmed the female Mokuba rather than Seto.
* The Innovators in [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]. They are all technically genderless but come in pairs; out of the four pairs only one has both members having adopted a persona of the same gender (both male), so each of the other six Innovators has their own opposite sex clone of sorts.
* One of [[Naruto]]'s techniques involves either transforming into, and occasionally summoning several more, scantily clad female versions of himself. And by "scantily clad", we mean "[[Censor Steam|clothed in convenient smoke]]".
* ''[[Darker
== Comic Books ==
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* X-23 is an Opposite Sex Clone of [[Wolverine]], developed by Dr. Sarah Kinney as a solution to not being able to recreate a Y chromosome from a sample of Wolverine's DNA. She instead buffed up and doubled the X chromosome, making a "genetic double" that's pretty much what Wolverine would be as a girl. As for why her eyes are green and Wolverine's are blue, the simplest explanation (other than [[Did Not Do the Research]], [[Artistic License]] or miscommunication) is that Dr. Sarah Kinney, frustrated by the continuous failures, inserted part of her own DNA in the mix, as suggested by the two women looking much alike (''and'' having the same eyes). That would make her "sort of" a clone, but not 100% genetically identical to Logan (much like Cammy, below). There was initially some confusion about Laura's third claws being in her feet, but considering that {{spoiler|Daken, Wolverine's son, has the third claw come out of his wrist, there's a chance that this specific mutation is prone to, well, mutation.}}
== Fan Works ==
== Literature ==
* In Neil Gaiman's [[Interworld]], Joseph Harker, after accidentally traveling between dimensions for the first time, realizes that he has been replaced in this dimension by Josephine Harker, an almost-exact female copy of himself.
* The character of Lazarus Long in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s book ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'' is the world's oldest living human. At the beginning of the book, he is trying to kill himself by avoiding "rejuvenation therapy", and a squad of his descendants rescue him. He makes a deal with them: he will go through rejuvenation therapy if they can unearth one experience he could do that he hadn't done already. Two of his female descendants arrange for Opposite Sex Clones of him to be implanted in them; both are born, and he finds himself raising twin female versions of himself. They end up sleeping with him by the end of the story. ''Every'' female character in the story sleeps with him. Even the computer (long story) and {{spoiler|his own mother, after he travels back in time}}. He's a <s> sexual</s> [[Marty Stu]].
* In [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Otherland]]'' series, one of [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Felix Jongleur's early attempts to make himself immortal involved cloning. The idea was to have a clone of himself implanted in a surrogate mother. Of course, the clone would only be a genetic copy; the child would need a similar upbringing to his own to produce an effective copy. To this end, Jongleur wanted the surrogate mother to be like his own mother. Unfortunately, he couldn't bring himself to unearth her body... so instead, he made an
* Not quite the same, but it's stated in various novels in [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s [[Vorkosigan Saga]] that opposite-sex clones are possible, and that the corrupt rich people who choose to have their brains transferred into a younger clone sometimes pick this option (with optional plastic surgery beforehand, to make sure it's a ''pretty'' clone).
** It's implied in ''Mirror Dance'' that some people order clones of themselves chiefly for the purposes of sexual experimentation, although the opposite-sex option isn't brought up at that point. It's also stated outright that he mass produced Durona Group are of both sexes, although there seem to be more females than males. (The original is a woman.)
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** Well, not quite. Man was made from the dust of the earth according to Genesis, or, at least was made after everything else. Fun how that trope taken literally in this context is [[Missed Him by That Much|so close it hurts.]]
▲== Live Action TV ==
* [[Red Dwarf]]:
** One episode had Rimmer try to go the pervy route with this when he wound up stranded on an unoccupied planet. He screwed up the cloning, though... several times. Even when he got it "right", the clone still had his (male) face, but by that time he was a prisoner of his own male clones and thus had bigger problems...
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** Another episode has opposite sex versions of the whole crew, where Rimmer's female double ([[Alternate Universe]] rather than cloned) comes on to him in a spectacularly unsubtle way, and where Lister proceeds to ''[[Mister Seahorse|sleep with and get pregnant by his female counterpart]]''. Although to be fair to Lister, he is marooned 3 million years into deep space with only a male hologram and a super evolved Cat-Man for company, so his options are ''quite'' limited, plus he was very drunk. This episode also featured an obvious joke:
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'''Arnold Rimmer''': Well, [[A Date with Rosie Palms|why break a habit of a lifetime]]? }}
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', in the episode "The Doctor's Daughter", a female [[Truly Single Parent]]-offspring is made of the Doctor, although she is not a clone. The relationship between them is presented as father/daughter throughout, as she was created from splitting his chromosomes then randomly recombing them - like sexual reproduction but him being both parents. The Doctor calls her a "generated anomaly". Donna calls her Jenny and the clone takes it as her own.
* An episode of [[Sliders]] has Quinn meet Logan, his [[Distaff Counterpart]]. Turns she actually ''is''
** In another episode Quinn is on a talk show and mentions meeting Logan, and of course the host immediately asks if [[Screw Yourself|he slept with her]]. They did kiss, though for his part Quinn was unaware of the connection at the time.
== Music ==
* ''The Clone Song
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With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And when I'm alone
With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex. }}
== Video Games ==
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** Occam's Razor explanation: Since that wasn't part of her backstory in ''[[Street Fighter II]]'', it's probably just a poorly thought-out [[Retcon]], like most sudden plot twists involving clones.
* [[Super Robot Wars]]
** Villeta of Alpha/Original Generation was [[Cloning Blues|created]] is the
** [[Super Robot Wars W|Kazuma Ardygun]] gets the short end of both the romantic stick (stuck in an crossover with a lot of Ho Yay Mecha Animes) as his only valid options is his underage sister and his data clone Aria Advance. Fans are optimistic, though, about his possible options in future games (namely Ibis and Sleigh).
* ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' series has Kula Diamond, one of the many clones of Kyo Kusanagi. In addition to the sex flip, Kyo's powers over fire became Kula's powers over ''ice''.
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* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls|The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind]]'', Divayth Fyr (a very powerful wizard), made four female clones of himself: [[Theme Naming|Alfe, Beyte, Delte, and Uupse]]. They're variously described as wives or daughters. Surprisingly this isn't particularly played for [[Squick]]...at least in his tower.
** There's enough Squick there already, what with the [[And I Must Scream|Corprusarium]] and all...
* Caulder/Stolos from ''[[Advance Wars|Advance Wars: Days of Ruin]]'' has his 'daughters',
* In ''[[The Sims 2]]'', a cheat can be used to impregnate a Sim by him/herself. Doing this will produce offspring that is a clone of the parent, but it will always be of the opposite sex.
* In ''[[Xenosaga]]'' URTV #668, named Citrine is the opposite sex clone of Dimitri Yuriev, as were all of the female variant URTVs.
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* The [[Purely Aesthetic Gender|female version]] of Alex in ''[[Deus Ex: Invisible War|Deus Ex Invisible War]]'' is a clone of Paul Denton.
=== Visual Novels ===
* {{spoiler|Mordred}} from ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' was a male homunculus created using {{spoiler|Saber}}'s DNA.
* ''[[Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!
▲** This ironically happens to {{spoiler|Mordred}} himself in ''[[Fate Nuovo Guerra]]''. A mix-up in his summoning caused the Holy Grail to plant him in a copy of {{spoiler|Saber}}'s body instead of his own. This case is arguable, as in the [[Nasuverse]], Servants are merely copies of heroic spirits, rather than the real deal, and as such, nearly all Servants summoned in a Grail war are clones, in a sense.
▲* ''[[Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!|Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai]]'' has [[wikipedia:Minamoto no Yoshitsune|Yoshitsune]] and [[wikipedia:Benkei|Benkei]], as per their namesakes, are the female clones of the famous historical figures. Seiso is likely this as well, though it's not yet revealed who she's a clone of.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' had protagonist Elliot using an ancient magical artifact to try to undo a [[Magitek]] gender bender, inadvertently creating
* The community-driven interactive fiction ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'': ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'' introduces a trio of detectives: Problem Sleuth, Ace Dick, and Pickle Inspector ("pickle" in this context is meant to connote "problem"), who, through spirit quests, are psychically linked with female counterparts of themselves, whom they eventually meet in person and are instantly attracted to. Problem Sleuth gets Hysterical Dame, Pickle Inspector gets Nervous Broad, and Ace Dick, lacking the imagination to think of a female counterpart, simply becomes linked to another male version of himself (albeit one who owns a blonde wig).
* In ''[[Dragon Tails]]'', when Norman the squirrel orders a clone of himself, he marked the sex box with an F (for "Fine the way it is") and got a female clone. The clone is also a child, since this was done with genetics.
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* The web-toon series ''[[Bonus Stage (web animation)|Bonus Stage]]'' featured a female clone of main character Phil Argus as a [[One-Scene Wonder|gag character]], once as a "[[Relationship Sue|perfect girlfriend]]", the next as a "[[Shoo Out the New Guy|cheap ploy for additional viewership]]" (applified by [[Playboy Bunny|bunny ears]] and [[Furry Fandom|fox ears]] (presumably to appeal to a wider spectrum of viewers).
* A Bleach Fanfiction has the Sonoma (the original universe introduced in Tite Kubo's work) and Kan'na, an alternate dimension, where alternate dimension versions of the Sonoma inhabitants exist. In some cases, they will be reversed gendered versions of the original. In the case of [http://bleachfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Dyan_Arashi Dyan Arashi] from Sonoma, he has a [http://bleachfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Dyan_Arashi/Kan%27na female counterpart] in Kan'na under the same name.
== Western Animation ==
* X-23, a female clone of Wolverine, and an eventual [[Canon Immigrant]] from ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' to the comics. See the entry under [[Comic Books]] for more detail.
* Dani(elle) Phantom in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', a [[Captain Ersatz]] of X-23. She and Danny seem to settle on calling each other "cousins."
* ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'': The Rowdyruff Boys, in a twisted-[[Evil Counterpart]] way. They aren't so much clones as bargain-basement knockoffs, made when Mojo Jojo imitated the Powerpuffs' creation using more "manly" ingredients. Some fans consider them romantic counterparts to the girls as well.{{color|white|They're not}}
* Each of {{spoiler|Starscream's}} clones in ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' [[Me's a Crowd|represents]] [[Small Name, Big Ego|some facet]] [[Smug Snake|of his]] [[Dirty Coward|personality]], which includes a female one (who [[You Do NOT Want to Know|refuses to explain what part of his personality she represents]]).
{{quote|"Ugh, [[Other Me Annoys Me|this is going to be a long orbital cycle]]..."}}
* Dr. Finklestein from ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' builds a female version of himself out of body parts around his lab. While not a genetic clone, he does give her a half of his brain, so that counts.
* In a Valentines episode of ''[[House of Mouse]]'', Ludwig Von Drake deduces that the perfect partner for someone would be an
* ''[[The Fairly
* ''[[Bionic Six]]'': Dr. Scarab's attempt to create a female companion resulted in this. Later, his
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