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The [[Evil Twin]] is not an example of this per se, but it often leads to this just like the Distaff Counterpart might, because the writers may wish to kick things up another notch and make a ''whole army'' of evil twins.
A note: The name of this trope is a pun on "Send in the Clowns", a song by [[Stephen Sondheim]] from the 1973 musical ''A Little Night Music''. Appropriately, the pun has been used so often in various contexts that it's [["Weird Al" Effect|more popular than the song itself.]] Compare with [[The Chosen Many]].
Not to be confused with [[Follow the Leader]], which is when the industry Sends in Clones of a popular work. Does not necessarily have to do with [[Cloning Blues]] or its subtropes.
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== Real Life ==
* Among this awe-inspiring [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103185805/http://www.dogguide.net/25-hero-dogs.php list of] [[Heroic Dog|dogs that achieved heroic feats]] is the dog that sniffed out the last survivor of the 9/11 attacks, which will be cloned for police use. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8158097.stm And he's not even the first].
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