Clone Degeneration: Difference between revisions

*** By the time of manga chapter 550 his clones have received a sizeable upgrade, becoming capable of taking out Kage-level opponents on their own without the original present.

* ''[[Lupin III]]: [[Lupin III/Recap/The Mystery of Mamo|The Secret of Mamo]]'' plays this straight, when Mamo reveals towards the end that even his methods of cloning to reach immortality come with their limits.

'''Dying Mamo clone:''' [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|But is it not... everyone's obsession]]? }}

 

* ''Fallout 3'' gives us Vault 108, which contains nothing but very aggressive clones. Notes left throughout the vault state that the first clone was fine, but copies made after that became more violent the farther they were from the original.

* Alluded to in ''[[Republic Commando]]'' whenever the player performs some suicidally dumb action.

* Justified in the usual manner in ''[[Dystopia (video game)|Dystopia]]'', where clones are given a maximum life span of about 20 minutes, and their bodies decay very rapidly. This prevents enemies from finding any of the technology hidden in their bodies or any information hidden in their brains. In addition, combat clones are hastily assembled from cheap materials in about 15 seconds; and normal clones can take a few weeks to build but are intended for use by soldiers after they shed their combat clone bodies. At least, that's what they're promised by their [[Mega Corp|employers]].

* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]] [[Crisis Core]]'' is a prequel, giving us background on stuff like why Sephiroth went crazy and destroyed Cloud's hometown. A huge part of it turns out to be the emotional blows he suffered when losing his two closest friends to [[Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal]] against [[Mega Corp|Shinra]]; the primary mistreatment in this case being that Shinra had created them via genetic hacking and then, at some point in their thirties, their bodies started to break down. And that was when they found out they weren't just naturally talented best friends from Banora, where the scientist running the project apparently retired after Hojo got all the funding in order to make [[Super Prototype|Sephiroth]].