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{{trope}}
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A robotic version of an existing character. May have vastly different abilities and personality, especially if it's developed as an [[Evil Knockoff]]. Sometimes, this robot may simply be a [[Replacement Goldfish|stand-in for the original]] with a justification either sinister or mundane. The key point of this trope is for there to be interaction between the original and the robot, even if it is simply the original having knowledge of the robot's existence.
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== Advertising ==
* Flobot, a robotic version of Flo from [https://web.archive.org/web/20140506115050/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvnMnMYDloE this] Progressive Insurance ad▼
== Anime
* ''[[Armitage III]]: Dual Matrix'' has robot ''[[Cloning Blues|clones]]'' of the [[Ridiculously Human Robot|android]] lead. Their world has [[Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence|three kinds of robots]], dumb mechanical ones, menial work bots, and the outlawed Thirds which are organic/mechanical robots and can bear children. Armitage herself is a [[Replacement Goldfish]] of their creator's dead daughter, and [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] steals her father's notes and makes more of her. Yech. Of course, since they were more like "twins" than Robot Me's, they were [[Evil Twin|Evil.]]
* ''[[Hyakko]]'''s Mecha-Torako.
* Amanatsu from ''[[Gakuen Alice]]'', Mikan's robotic copy as created by Hotaru.
* [[Afro Samurai
* Robo-Pecola from ''[[Pecola]]''
* ''Perman'' by Fujiko F. Fujio (creator of [[Doraemon]]). Each of the three superheros (an everyday school kid, a girl child
* Hilariously [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Trouble Chocolate]]'' when Mint creates a killer robot version of Deborah and no one can tell it's not her (despite it being blindingly obvious). Even Murakata can't tell the difference.
▲* Flobot, a robotic version of Flo from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvnMnMYDloE this] Progressive Insurance ad
== Comic Books ==
* [[Iron Man|Tony 2.0 (Sentient Armor)]]
* [[Superman|The Superman Robot Duplicates]]. Made by Superman to fill in when he's unavailable and help him maintain his secret identity.
** And, [[Captain Ersatz|inevitably]], the [[Supreme|Suprematon Decoys]]. Unlike the Superman dupes, one of the Supreme's robots, S-1, is self aware, though.
* Mecha-Dawn, from [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] Season Eight
* The [[
** Recurring character Fiona Fox also had one of these, though in that case the [[The Real Remington Steele|android double was introduced before the original]].
* [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Dr. Doom's]] Doombots.
* ''[[What's New with Phil and Dixie]]'' from ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' magazine #63 (July 1982) had "[https://web.archive.org/web/20150428205535/http://www.airshipentertainment.com/growfcomic.php?date=20070520 replacements]" for them two (see also the next page). Later this became a [[Running Gag]].
* Kang's robot spider-man was made with the assumption it would not meet the original. The robot was created to trick [[The Avengers]] into believing he was the real deal.
== Film ==
* [[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure|Evil robot us's]]
** [[Bill and Teds Bogus Journey|Also good robot us's]]
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== Literature ==
* In the [[Ray Bradbury]] short story ''Marionettes, Inc.'', a man acquires a
* ''[[Star Wars]]'': Leia Organa II{{context}}▼
▲* In the [[Ray Bradbury]] short story ''Marionettes, Inc.'', a man acquires a [[Robot Me]] to stand in for him at home while he goes away. (A very sophisticated robot that eventually develops sentience, but still one that, if you place your head to the chest, you can hear a clock ticking instead of a heart beating.) However, the robot decides that he likes the original man's life and doesn't want to be stored away in a box in the basement. The solution? He betrays his owner by locking HIM in the box forever while he (the robot) lives the life of the owner, his family completely unaware of the switch.
▲* ''[[Star Wars]]'': Leia Organa II
* Beth Kittridge's simulacrum from ''[[Tek War]].'' {{spoiler|The robot gets destroyed, but [[Doppelganger Replacement Love Interest|Jake meets the real Beth not long after.]] True, the robot only cared about protecting Beth's life, but even so... [[Cloning Blues|poor, poor l'il robot.]]}}
* [[The Adventures Of Electronic]] by Russian author E. Veltistov have a robot built after a real boy. The robot escapes and meets said boy, who is very happy to have his
* In ''[[
* Asimov's story "Evidence" (the second last in the "I, Robot" collection), is about a man being suspected of being a robot created after the real man was crippled in a traffic collision.
* A [[Spider Robinson]] short story about a company that rents sexbots makes one to represent the secretary who takes people's orders (because she ends up being the most popular request). She's rather upset about this and steals it. Then [[Screw Yourself|the inevitable happens]].
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* Alfred Slote's ''My Robot Buddy'' series involves a kid named Jack who is given a [[Robot Buddy]], Danny, as a present; at his request, Danny is made to look exactly like him. Much use is made of this throughout the series.
== Live
▲* [[Stargate SG 1|Robo SG-1]]
** And Repli-Carter
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer
* Robot Rangers in both ''[[Power Rangers Turbo]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]''. The former were [[Ridiculously
** Don't forget Cyber Cam from [[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]
* Android Kirk in the ''[[Star Trek:
* A robot Kermit (with a wind-up key in his back) took over hosting duties in one episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]''.
* Data, Lore, B4, and presumably all the other previous prototypes in Star Trek: The Next Generation were exact (if Palette Swapped) duplicates of their creator, Dr. Soong (also played by Brent Spiner, the actor who portrays Data, et al).
* Unsurprisingly for such a long-lived show, ''[[
* In the [[Buck Rogers in
== Video Games ==
* [[Nasuverse|Mech Hisui]]
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Metal Sonic]]
** Plus [[Sonic the Hedgehog 2|Silver Sonic]], [[Sonic 3 and Knuckles
*** Don't forget about [[Shadow the Hedgehog|the Shadow Robots]]
* [[Guilty Gear|Robo Ky]]
* The robot Invaders that assist Earth's Final Weapon in ''[[Space Invaders]] Get Even''.
* Miharu and robot Miharu in [[Da Capo]]. Miharu knew about her robo version but they never really interacted because the second Miharu only came out when she was in a coma. The personalities were almost exactly, but not quite, the same. Robo Miharu is also apparently somewhat less intelligent due to limitations on the design nor does she possess any superior strength or abilities.
* Axel has an evil robot knockoff as a boss fight in ''[[Streets of Rage]] 3''. The robot has the exact same appearance as Axel, except for the color of the gloves. The robot clone has all of Axel's techniques, and it can do them a ''lot'' faster than Axel can.
* The Mini-Mario toys from ''[[Mario
* ''[[Metroid]] Zero Mission'' introduces the aptly-named Ridley Robot, a [[Exactly What It Says
== Web Original ==
* Mecha Mario, of the Flash series ''[[Super Mario Bros Z]]''. Made by none other than Robotnik.
** Not to forget the [[Big Bad]] of the same series: Mecha Sonic.
* The evil video game directors send robotic versions of their games' critics at them to kill them in the third ''Declin of video gaming''. See the Page quote.
* [[Atop the Fourth Wall
* ''[[Ansem Retort]]'' has a one-off appearance by an android version of Zexion, set up to provide "political talking points" while Zex was otherwise occupied.
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* In the ''[[Touhou]]'' doujin ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* Inverted in ''[[
* The Phinedroids and Ferbots from the ''[[
▲* Inverted in ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'', where Dinobot meets a flesh clone created by Megatron to infiltrate the Maximals' ship.
** Also, the "platyborg" version of Perry in [[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across
▲* The Phinedroids and Ferbots from the ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "I, Brobot".
▲** Also, the "platyborg" version of Perry in [[Phineas and Ferb The Movie Across The Second Dimension|The Movie]] might also qualify, though he's technically a brainwashed cyborg.
* In one episode of ''[[The Snorks]]'', the villains create two robotic Snorks as part of a scheme. Unusually, the robo-Snorks pull a [[Heel Face Turn]] and become regular characters.
* The British government once gave [[
** In another episode, one of Dangermouse's enemies covertly replaced Penfold with a robot double who was braver and more confident. The downside was that at the villain's command, the robot would transform into a [[Humongous Mecha]] form and follow its true programming....destroy Dangermouse!
* Mr. T had one in ''[[Mister T (
* In one episode of the ''[[Teen Titans (
* Herbie and Jane from ''[[
* An episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' had Heloise build a [[Do-Anything Robot]] double to be her lab assistant. Jimmy falls in love with it, completely missing its similarity to Heloise.
* On ''[[Catscratch]],'' The cats build robot versions of themselves to help around the house. [[
== Real Life ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WijMCSfX0RA This Japanese researcher
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