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* ''[[Magic the Gathering]]'''s Innistrad set has a card named Cloistered Youth with the ability of transformation.<ref>It is a double-sided card that can be flipped when certain conditions are met.</ref> When transformed, it becomes Unholy Fiend.

{{quote| ''"I heard her talking in her sleep, pleading, shrieking, snarling. It was not my daughter's voice. That is not my daughter."''}}

** This is a clear [[Shout Out]] to ''[[The Exorcist (Film)|The Exorcist]]'' (see below). Many cards in Innistrad are based on horror movies.

** This is a clear [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[The Exorcist (Film)|The Exorcist]]'' (see below). Many cards in Innistrad are based on horror movies.

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== Literature ==

* Played brutally, horribly straight in ''[[Duumvirate]]''. Luke ''agrees'' with this sentiment when {{spoiler|killing his parents}}.

* Averted in the [[Vorkosigan Saga]]. In ''Brothers in Arms'', Miles discovers that a Komarran terrorist cell has cloned him as part of a Byzantine plot. Miles immediately declares the clone his brother, informs him of the automatically-determined [[Dead Guy Junior]] name Vor tradition gives him, and goes out of his way to protect and support him. His mother and father do the same, when they meet him.

* Averted in the [[Vorkosigan Saga]]. In ''Brothers in Arms'', Miles discovers that a Komarran terrorist cell has cloned him as part of a Byzantine plot. Miles immediately declares the clone his brother, informs him of the automatically-determined [[Dead Guy, Junior]] name Vor tradition gives him, and goes out of his way to protect and support him. His mother and father do the same, when they meet him.

* In ''[[The Marvelous Land of Oz (Literature)|The Marvelous Land of Oz]]'', Tip, a boy who's "small and rather delicate in appearance," creates a huge pumpkin-headed scarecrow man named "Jack Pumpkinhead" to frighten a witch, who uses magic to bring it to life. This leads to Tip being very uncomfortable with the creature calling him "Father", although he does consider Jack a good friend. At the end {{spoiler|it turns out that Tip is a girl, Princess Ozma, who's been under a spell since she was younger to protect her identity. After being changed back into Ozma, she's thrilled that Jack Pumpkinhead can no longer refer to her as "father".}}

* [[The Exorcist]] : "Father, you show me Regan's identical twin: same face, same voice, same smell, same everything down to the way she dots her i’s, and still I'd know in a second that it wasn't really her! I'd know it! I'd know it in my gut and I'm telling you I know ''that thing upstairs is not my daughter!''"

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== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* In "''[[Doctor Who ~~(TV)~~|The Doctor's Daughter]]''", the Doctor originally reacts this way to his "daughter", actually an [[Opposite Sex Clone]].

* In "''[[Doctor Who|The Doctor's Daughter]]''", the Doctor originally reacts this way to his "daughter", actually an [[Opposite Sex Clone]].

* In an episode of ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'', Riker kills the still-in-development clone of himself produced by the colony that reproduced by cloning (their initial population was too small to provide adequate genetic diversity). Riker cites some "diminished my uniqueness" excuse, (and the fact this was done without his permission). Later, a tranporter-accident clone fares better, being recognized as much as Riker as the one on Enterprise. The two act... [[Subverted Trope|like brothers.]]

* ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'': Vala Mal Doran eventually develops this attitude towards Adria, the [[Dark Messiah|Orici]] offspring implanted in her by the [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|Ori]].

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