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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Freefall]]'' robots don't care much about backups. [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff400/fv00383.htm Want to know why?]
* While actual teleportation is possible in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', the wormgate network used for it prior to the invention of the teraport could also be used as a [[Matter Replicator]] (given enough energy) and created clones of those who used it without the traveler's knowledge. {{spoiler|This became a major plot point when it turned out the Gatekeepers were interrogating and executing the clones, and using the information gained to control the galaxy's wealth and suppress rival teleporter technology. The current Kevyn Andreyasn is a clone created in this manner shortly before the original made a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], who simply took over his original's life without a single care about the existential issues.}}
** Similarly, later on {{spoiler|Schlock is killed off, and a new Schlock is created to replace him. The new Schlock thinks it's kind of cool, "but not cool enough to do twice."}}
** In later chapters,
== Web Original ==
* In the ''[[Mortasheen]]'' universe, [[Knight Templar|Wreathe]] uses portal technology, which preserves the teleported person intact but is incredibly inefficient. Meanwhile [[Crazy Awesome|Mortasheen]] utilizes teleportation that makes a twin of the user somewhere else and destroys the original. Mortasheen being [[Crapsack World|what it is]], no one there is bothered by this and the twin is considered and treated as the original. Wreathe, however, is revolted.
* An one-shot [http://goldenage.comicgenesis.com/d/20100919.html short story] on ''[[Golden Age of Adventurers]]''.
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