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== Comic Books ==
* SHIELD's Life Model Decoys in the [[Marvel Comics]] universe are meant to be completely indistinguishable from the people for whom they are body-doubles.
* Doombots, programmed to act like the real [[Doctor Doom]] in his absence. Arguably, it's not very difficult to achieve perfect resemblance to the real thing when the template himself dresses like a robot with a hood and cape... One thing that helps, a Doombot is programmed to believe itself to actually be Doom, except when in the presence of the real Doom or another Doombot.
** The resemblance is so perfect, various comic book writers have debated which appearances of Doom were actually Doombots. I.e., they're so good at impersonating Doom, even the writer of the story might not know it's really a Doombot.
* Arguably justified to the point of deconstruction by Machine Man, in various [[Marvel Comics]] tales. The X-series robots are supposed to be, essentially, Terminators, but Abel Stack is convinced that a robot that can think as well as a human needs to think like a human; when the other fifty robots develop bizarre psychoses and X-51 remains sane, he's proven right, but X-51 also proves useless as a military device. Much later, in ''[[Earth X]]'', Uatu the Watcher claims Abel made "Aaron" as an extension of himself, hoping to "live forever" in this way.
** ...And then ''[[Nextwave]]'' came along. Aaron Stack's 'sanity', even in the mainstream, can now be said to be somewhat suspect. Ironically, his increasingly 'robot pride' behaviour also came with him stopping to use anything other than his human name as he finds codenames and serial numbers demeaning.
* Both versions of [[The Vision]] from ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'': the original was married to the [[Scarlet Witch]]; it was even believed, for a while, that he was able to sire children, but it turned out Wanda's two sons were actually two soul-shards of the villainous Master Pandemonium. ([[It Makes Sense In Context]], seriously.) The second one spent a year traveling around the world finding himself, likes to be called Jonas in private, and is now dating Stature.
** The Vision's "brother", {{spoiler|[[Runaways|Victor Mancha]]}}, looks and acts so much like a normal teenager that ''he himself didn't know he was a robot for years''. This was justified considering that {{spoiler|he was built as part of an elaborate plot that required him to pass as human for a while.}}
** The Vision was originally believed to be an upgraded form of [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|the original Human Torch]]; this was retconned in order for the Torch to return. He was even more human-like, his teammates in the West Coast Avengers often finding it hard to believe he was an android.
* DC's [[Red Tornado]], who assumed the identity of John Smith, married a human woman and adopted a child with her.
* The android [[Hourman]], Matthew Tyler. He was even programmed with the 'geneware' of Rex Tyler, the original Hourman.
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