History Main / CloneByConversion

* In an episode of ''Manga/{{Dorohedoro}}'', Chota is forcefully transformed into Nikaido in order to fool En and Chidaruma. However, he does not become a mental clone of Nikaido and therefore [[DifferentForGirls has to act like he is her]].

* In ''Literature/ThePerfectRun'' Bloodstream was able to do this, having both the Blue power to turn into pure information and the Green power to control his blood. Due to being his own blood, [[Dynamis made a knockoff elixir that would eventually transform the drinker into a Bloodstream]]

* ''Assimilation'' is a ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' fanwebcomic focusing on what the bluepills were doing during the Smith virus (see the example for ''The Matrix'' below), as the title suggests.

* An episode of ''Series/Crackanory'' shows a postman unsatisfied with life meet a new girl named Zoe, whom he begins to transform into as he reads her mail.

** ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': The first villains who the Justice League ever face off against in [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] continuity (though it wasn't the first story about them published) are seven alien warlords who choose Earth as their battleground for a winner-take-all free-for-all. They each vary wildly in appearance and abilities, except for one: they each can turn any humans (or super-humans) they focus on into loyal, miniature {{Mook|s}} versions of themselves. Thankfully, this also has NoOntologicalInertia (it ''was'' [[LighterAndSofter the Silver Age]], after all).

* In 2003, the [[UsefulNotes/MTVMovieAndTVAward MTV Movie Awards]] did [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5OfG_wxkJI a parody]] of ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' in which, among other things, [[Film/AmericanPie Seann William Scott]] as Agent Smith did this to Wanda Sykes. He later tries to do this to Music/JustinTimberlake, but Justin is The One and proceeds to beat the crap out of all of the Agent Scotts, which causes the original to snap out of it and go back to normal.

* In ''Literature/MoreAndMoreAndMoreTalesToGiveYouGoosebumps'', this starts happening to Beth's family when they watch the Christmas tape in "A Holly Jolly Holiday" -- as they continue watching, they gain her personality and her looks.

* An episode of ''Series/{{Crackanory}}'' shows a postman unsatisfied with life meet a new girl named Zoe, whom he begins to transform into as he reads her mail.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In "Dancin' A-With My Cell", Stan tries to make his family more like him by using the CIA's CRISPR tech to alter their DNA with his. [[GoneHorriblyRight This works too well]] when, not only do they turn into even bigger [[LanternJawOfJustice big-chined]] [[{{Jerkass}} assholes]] than him, but they soon start CRISPR-ing everyone in town with the goal of creating a world full of Stans.

* in ''WesternAnimation/KuuKuuHarajuku'', [[GirlGroup HJ5]] a record deal from a record company named Monotone Records, which is owned by [[AIIsACrapshoot a robot named Monotone]]. The girls receive a makeover that makes them look nearly like exact duplicates of one another, with the only noticeable differences being in their skin tone, makeup, and eye color. Monotone then attempts to brainwash the girls. Fortunately, the girls put on earbuds and begin to do their own dances to reverse the brainwashing.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jumanji}}'': The protagonists manage to drop [[GreatWhiteHunter Van Pelt]] into a bottomless pit. However, afterwards Peter slowly begins to look and act more like him. Eventually Van Pelt Peter explains that there must ''always'' be a Van Pelt in the game -- even if Alan kills Van Pelt Peter, ''he'll'' just become Van Pelt instead. They eventually save Peter, at which point the old Van Pelt manages to climb out of the pit and goes back to hunting Alan.

* ''Film/LaPielQueHabito'' is about a DeadlyDoctor using a MagicPlasticSurgery technique he invented to turn [[spoiler:a young man]] into a ReplacementGoldfish for his dead wife.

'''Thompson-Smith:''' Me too.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFA6_uaAlzQ In]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7H_knHmoAY these]] Absolut commercials, a type of medicine known as [=BeKanye=] is advertised, which transforms the person who takes it into ''Music/KanyeWest''.

* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'', the Enhanced Person #4 [[spoiler:Elan Ceres]] is in fact a poor fellow who got hired to serve as a BodyDouble for the original, undergoing a memory wipe and surgical procedure to look just like them. [[spoiler:Once #4 outlives his usefullness, he is immediately killed and replaced with #5]]. This notably also raises some questions about main character Suletta Mercury, who's [[spoiler:perfectly identical to Ericht Samaya who was {{Brain Upload|ing}}ed several years before Suletta was supposedly born]].

* ''Franchise/YuGiOh''

* The ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/FelixsGuideToApocalypseSurvival'' is about this, with Carol, one of the [[GameMod game's mods]], becoming the vector of a pathogen that slowly assimilates everybody on Earth into clones of herself. By the end of the story, [[spoiler:[[AndThenJohnWasAZombie Felix himself gets fully assimilated, but earlier in the story he was partially assimilated]]]]. Apparently, this story was inspired by the example from ''Franchise/TheMatrix''.

Expect all the usual CloneAngst, since the copy has to deal with a LossOfIdentity on two levels; both as a copy of someone else and from losing their original identity (if they can even remember it).

Compare and Contrast; {{Humanshifting}} (when someone has the ability to transform into another person), WeWillNotUseStageMakeupInTheFuture (when this is used where a simple disguise would have sufficed), BodySurf (when there is always only one of the "surfer", barring accidents), GrandTheftMe (when someone takes over another person's body), TheVirus (which transforms the victim into a member of the Virus' type, rather than into a specific individual, although this distinction may be blurred if the Virus has a HiveMind), FaceStealer (who forcefully transforms themselves into the original rather than the other way around), SelfConstructedBeing (when any material can be used as well as focusing on the being in question), and KillAndReplace (when the killer transforms into or impersonates the victim).

* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhwzLBD-yk4 commercial]] for Sissy Boy Jeans involves a woman [[MedicalHorror operating on a man to transform him into herself]]. [[SkipTheAnesthetic He is fully aware of what's happening to him the whole time,]] but by the end of the commercial she doesn't seem to mind, in fact even [[ScrewYourself kissing the woman she is now a copy of, hence the commercial's Love Yourself tagline]].

* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FLw-zvZYnlwaB8bWvZA_WYLQ&v=YhwzLBD-yk4&itct=CBQQxjQYASITCMzbyofE7dECFRTanAodbp4CWDIKcGxwcF92aWRlb1oaVkxGTHctenZaWW5sd2FCOGJXdlpBX1dZTFE%3D&hl=pt&client=mv-google&gl=BR&app=desktop commercial]] for Sissy Boy Jeans involves a woman [[MedicalHorror operating on a man to transform him into herself.]] [[SkipTheAnesthetic He is fully aware of what's happening to him the whole time,]] but by the end of the commercial she doesn't seem to mind, in fact even [[ScrewYourself kissing the woman she is now a copy of, hence the commercial's Love Yourself tagline.]]

* In an episode of ''Manga/{{Dorohedoro}}'', Chota is forcefully transformed into Nikaido in order to fool En and Chidaruma. However, he does not become a mental clone of Nikaido and therefore [[DifferentForGirls refuses to act like he is her]].

* In an episode of ''Manga/{{Dorohedoro}}'', Chota is forcefully transformed into Nikaido in order to fool En and Chidaruma. However, he does not become a mental clone of Nikaido, therefore he [[DifferentForGirls to act like he is her.]]

* ''Assimilation'' is a ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' fanwebcomic focusing on what the bluepills were doing during the Smith virus (see the example for ''The Matrix'' below), as the title suggests.

* In the {{Light Novel|s}} ''The Brave Man's Plan for Conquest'', the protagonist Rain Shudo [[spoiler:loses a battle with a demon lord. However, he keeps her alive]] and clones her as in many ways as possible [[spoiler: to create world peace]]. Rain agrees, and eventually, she learns SelfDuplication magic, and creates spells and potions to transform others into her copies.
* In ''https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/MoreAndMoreAndMoreTalesToGiveYouGoosebumps'', this starts happening to Beth's family when they watch the Christmas tape in A Holly Jolly Holiday, as they continue watching they gain her personality and her looks.

* The ''Series/EvenStevens'' special A Very Scary Story has Rn convert everyone in the school into exact copies of herself, not even sparing her family

* An episode of ''Series/Crackanory'' shows a postman unsatisfied with life meet a new girl named Zoe, whom he begins to transform into as he reads her mail.

* In ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'', Nandor uses a series of [[JackassGenie wishes from a djinn]] to bring his favorite wife, Marwa, BackFromTheDead. While the djinn [[BenevolentGenie returns Marwa with no baggage or angst]], Nandor turns out to have liked her as a person much less than he remembers. Throughout the season, Nandor wishes for Marwa's appearance and tastes to morph to match his own, ultimately [[DeathOfPersonality wishing that she were a copy of Guillermo's boyfriend, Freddy, in body and mind]].

* A willing version of the process is ''very'' common in VisualKei. Whether out of their admiration for other artists or out of wanting in on their success, this happens with some artists who take FollowTheLeader to an extreme and become, in effect, clones of other artists' personas and sometimes even scarily close to their actual selves. Some common artists that pick up a lot of this are [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]] of Music/XJapan - to the point that hides clones and cosplayers are almost their own subculture within visual kei - Music/{{Kyo}} of Music/DirEnGrey - who was himself one of Music/{{Kuroyume}}'s Kiyoharu - and Atsushi Sakurai of Music/BuckTick.

** Leoneil of Music/{{Vaniru}} is probably the most famous Atsushi Sakurai clone yet - to the point that it is widely rumored the two are father and son.

*** In the [[spoiler:caster]] questline of ''Endwalker'', it's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:the bishop attempted to summon Thordan as a primal, but has only succeeded in transforming a person into a clone of one of the Heaven's Ward knights - with memories of all of them, to boot]].

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', it is revealed that the BigBad Xehanort's plan is to create an AllianceOfAlternates by gathering thirteen incarnations of himself from across space and time, with most of them being preestablished antagonists subjected to this trope by having them host a fragment of Xehanort's [[AnatomyOfTheSoul heart]].

* A Creepypasta titled “Nurse Joy” explains that this is how there are so many Nurse Joys in Franchise/{{Pokemon}}.

* [[AdorableAbomination Mr. Frundles]] in ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is a living GreyGoo scenario: anything it bites grows a living, sentient Mr. Frundles face. When it bites Season 2 Jerry's ankle, his ankle becomes Mr. Frundles and it gets control of just his leg, but when it bites him on the face his ''face'' changes and it takes over his entire body. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The entire world is Mr. Frundles about 30 seconds later]].


* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV" segment ''Lout Break'', Homer eats a "radioactive garbage donut" that creates a burp-borne virus that turns everyone ([[TheImmune except Bart, Lisa and Maggie]]) into fat, balding, lazy idiots like himself.
-->'''Homer!Ned:''' I've been neighbor-ino'd into Hom-diddly-omer! And why am I in church when football is on?

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'': Albedo is a [[TheGreys Galvan]] who turned into a copy of Ben thanks to making his own Omnitrix copy and the original setting Ben's DNA as the default form. He also retains his original personality while playing TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody completely straight, hating Ben because his body gives him irrational impulses, hormones, and chili fry cravings (that last one being his own quirk that [[NeverMyFault he chooses to blame on Ben]]).

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFA6_uaAlzQ In]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7H_knHmoAY these]] Absolut commercials, a type of medicine known as BeKanye is advertised, which transforms the person who takes it into ''Music/{{KanyeWest}}''.

* ''Webcomic/{{Assimilation}}'' is a ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' fanwebcomic focusing on what the bluepills were doing during the Smith virus (see the example for ''The Matrix'' below), as the title suggests.

* ''Webcomic/Assimilation'' is a ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' fanwebcomic focusing on what the bluepills were doing during the Smith virus (see the example for ''The Matrix'' below), as the title suggests.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In the "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E22FamilyGuyViewerMailTwo Family Guy Viewer Mail #2]]" story "Fat Man and Robin", Peter gains the ability to transform anyone he touches into a clone of Robin Williams.

* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FLw-zvZYnlwaB8bWvZA_WYLQ&v=YhwzLBD-yk4&itct=CBQQxjQYASITCMzbyofE7dECFRTanAodbp4CWDIKcGxwcF92aWRlb1oaVkxGTHctenZaWW5sd2FCOGJXdlpBX1dZTFE%3D&hl=pt&client=mv-google&gl=BR&app=desktop commercial]] for Sissy Boy Jeans involves a woman [[MedicalHorror operating on a man to transform him into herself.]] [[SkipTheAnesthetic He is fully aware of what's happening to him the whole time,]] but by the end of the commercial she doesn't seem to mind, in fact even [[ScrewYourself]] kissing the woman she is now a copy of, hence the commercial's Love Yourself tagline.

* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FLw-zvZYnlwaB8bWvZA_WYLQ&v=YhwzLBD-yk4&itct=CBQQxjQYASITCMzbyofE7dECFRTanAodbp4CWDIKcGxwcF92aWRlb1oaVkxGTHctenZaWW5sd2FCOGJXdlpBX1dZTFE%3D&hl=pt&client=mv-google&gl=BR&app=desktop commercial]] for Sissy Boy Jeans involves a woman operating on a man to transform him into herself.

* In an episode of ''Manga/{{Dorohedoro}}'', Chota is forcefully transformed into Nikaido in order to fool En and Chidaruma. However, he does not become a mental clone of Nikaido, therefore he has to act like he is her.

* ''Webcomic/PeopleTurningIntoSmithClones'' is a ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' fanwebcomic focusing on what the bluepills were doing during the Smith virus (see the example for ''The Matrix'' below), as the title suggests.

* In season 2 of ''Series/{{Legion}}'', there is the ongoing mystery of how Lenny seems to have been resurrected, as she was killed in Season 1 and Farouk took her form when tormenting David. It turns out that Farouk had absorbed her mind when she died, and kept her imprisoned within himself. After regaining his own physical body, he kidnapped David's sister, Amy, and murdered her by using a machine that physically transformed her body into an identical copy of Lenny's. Then he placed Lenny's mind inside said body. This means that Lenny, while effectively resurrected, is really just possessing the EmptyShell that ''was'' once Amy.

* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'': In ''[[Film/TheMatrixReloaded Reloaded]]'' and onwards, former-Agent Smith gains the ability to do this (in [[Film/TheMatrix the first movie]], he can only BodySurf people who are still plugged into the Matrix, like all the other Agents). He can do this not only to Agents and other programs, but [[spoiler:also to Free Minds to use them to gain access to the Real World]]. By the end of ''[[Film/TheMatrixRevolutions Revolutions]]'', [[spoiler:he's [[AssimilationPlot turned more or less everyone in the Matrix into Smiths]]]].

'''Smith:''' Yes, me. ''[transforms him into another Smith]'' Me, me, me.\\
'''Agent Thompson-Smith:''' Me, too.

'''Agent Smith:''' Yes, me. ''[transforms him into a Smith copy]'' Me, me, me.\\
'''Copy Smith:''' Me, too.

* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'': In ''[[Film/TheMatrixReloaded Reloaded]]'' and onwards, Agent Smith gains the ability to do this (in [[Film/TheMatrix the first movie]], he can only BodySurf people who are still plugged into the Matrix, like all the other agents). He can do this not only to his fellow agents and other programs, but [[spoiler:also to Free Minds to use them to gain access to the Real World]]. By the end of ''[[Film/TheMatrixRevolutions Revolutions]]'', [[spoiler:he's more or less [[AssimilationPlot assimilated everyone in the Matrix into a copy of himself]]]].