History Main / CloneByConversion

* In ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'', Nandor uses a series of [[JackassGenius 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]].

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kkiOfLUIUY this]] Medicus commercial, a woman is talking to a babysitter, explaining everything she needs to know. As time goes on, the babysitter begins transforming into the mother.

* 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 has 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.

* 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 has 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 seemingly resurrected, is really just possessing the EmptyShell that ''was'' once Amy.

* ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'': Agent Smith can be seen copying a female civilian onto himself multiple times in cutscenes during the Burly Brawl segment.

* A Creepypasta titled “Nurse Joy” explains that this is how there are so many Nurse Joys in [[Franchise / Pokémon Pokémon]]

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

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

** In the Venom's Taste trilogy, a yuan-ti psion used this power a lot. Anyone could be one of her minions (since they keep their original body). She converted chieftains, and once threatened a character's baby with it. ParanoiaFuel indeed.

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

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

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* ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'':
** Those marked by Kama will turn eventually turn into the Ōtsutsuki who marked them, erasing their genetic profile and personality in the process.
* ''Anime/YuGiOh''
** A character willingly subjects themselves to this in ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds''. [[spoiler:[[BigBad Z-One]], [[HopeBringer in an attempt to bring hope]] to the BadFuture he came from, converted himself both physically and mentally into an exact duplicate of [[MagneticHero Yusei Fudo]], even to the point of being able to use the powers of both the Crimson Dragon and even ''Clear Mind'', [[AllForNothing though it ultimately amounts to nothing]], as eventually, only four survivors -- [[Anime/YuGiOhBondsBeyondTime Paradox]], Aporia, Antinomy and Z-One himself -- remained, and eventually [[LastOfHisKind only he remained]]. In his final duel with Yusei, he uses the fact that he now thinks exactly like Yusei to deadly effect, leading to Yusei having to rely on tactics he'd never use just to stay alive.]]
** In ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'', the card Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon can take control of enemy monsters and change their names, appearance, and stats to mirror it.

* 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]].
* In ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', this is one of the powers within the ability Convert Hands: Transfer Student. If the user touches someone with the palm of his or her right hand, that person becomes a physical duplicate of the user. Chrollo uses this ability as part of a trap for Hisoka, who was pursuing him, by turning a bystander into a copy of Chrollo so Hisoka would target the bystander instead of him.[[note]]The palm of the left hand is the [[InvertedTrope inversion]], allowing the user to [[HumanShifting take on the likeness of the person touched]]. Chrollo actually used both of them at once, effectively turning it into a FreakyFridayFlip in which the bodies are swapped.[[/note]]

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
** The infamous ''Clone Saga'' has ComicBook/NormanOsborn creating a copy of Aunt May via a "genetically-altered actress" while keeping the real Aunt May captive as part of his AssPull-errific master plan.
** Previous to this, the original ''Clone Saga'' was retconned by way of The Jackal using a retrovirus to create his clones, not the virtual instant clones as originally portrayed. Once ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'' kicked off, that retcon was unceremoniously dismissed in an "ILied" reversal.
* The Convert, one of the ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague3000'''s main enemies, does this ''en masse'' as his primary ability. [[spoiler:It's also how the future versions of the Justice League were created.]]
* The first villains that the ComicBook/JusticeLeague ever faced off against, in Silver Age continuity (though it wasn't the first story about them published) were seven alien warlords who chose Earth as their battlegrounds for a winner-take-all free-for-all. They each varied wildly in appearance and abilities, except for one: they each could turn any humans (or super-humans) they focused on into loyal, miniature {{Mook}} versions of themselves. Thankfully, this also had NoOntologicalInertia (it ''was'' [[LighterAndSofter the silver age]], after all).
* In ''Creator/DCComics'', this was the EvilPlan of four aliens who formed an alliance to take over the galaxy. They used ray guns that convert objects and people into loyal copies of themselves, possessing their powers. Their plans were fortunately thwarted by a man who caught wind of their evil schemes and got caught in a crossfire between the four of them. This left each quart of his body transformed, granting him FlyingBrick, ShockAndAwe and SelectiveMagnetism powers, [[SuperHeroOrigin so he became Ultra the Multi-Alien]].
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': Queen Atomia's "Proton Chamber" turns those of her victims that are forced into it and put through the chamber's process all into identical clones which are near mindlessly loyal to her and extra susceptible to her mental commands.
* ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'': The Karma Project's army of superhumans is made of numerous people who were injected with [[AdaptiveAbility Darwin]]'s DNA and transformed into exact copies of him. Fortunately, they all begin [[CloneDegeneration breaking down]].
* ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'': A story arc has the nanomachines that give Cyclone [[BlowYouAway her powers]] suffer a malfunction that makes them transmissible and convert other women into copies of her. She eventually works out the problem and reverts the victims, but not before someone she went to for help exploited the situation to try and copy her powers.

* The ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/FelixsGuideToApocalypseSurvival'' is about this, where Carol, one of the [[GameMod game’s mods]] becomes 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 Matrix example.
* In the ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' fanfiction ''[[{{Fanfic/Luminosity}} Radiance]]'', Elspeth accidentally does this. She can use her powers to [[MindRape implant thousands of memories into a given person]]. [[spoiler: With a bit of makeup, it's not to hard to mislead them as to which set of memories are their own.]]

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

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* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', [[spoiler: the Joker implants his DNA and consciousness into a special chip installed into Tim Drake during his torture of him, causing him to turn into a copy of him many years later. Batman saves Tim and destroys Joker once and for all by shorting out the chip.]]

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* In ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' movie and [[Film/TheMatrixRevolutions onwards]], Agent Smith gains the ability to do this (in [[Film/TheMatrix the first movie]] he could only BodySurf people who were 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]]. In ''Revolutions'', [[spoiler:by the end of the movie, he's more or less assimilated everyone in the Matrix [[ZombieApocalypse into a copy of himself]]]].
* The Spanish thriller ''Film/LaPielQueHabito''(''The Skin I Live In'') has a similar premise, although the doctor in question is using a MagicPlasticSurgery technique he invented to turn his victim into a copy of his dead daughter.
* The 2010 horror movie ''Film/Victim2010'' is about a DeadlyDoctor transforming a young man [[spoiler:who his daughter]] into a copy of his dead daughter through plastic surgery and brainwashing. [[spoiler:The ending reveals that the daughter survived the attacked but was left in a coma.]]

* In ''Literature/{{Stardoc}}: Plague of Memory'' Cherijo's long-dead first love, Kao Torin, is sighted on the Hsktskt homeworld. [[spoiler:He turns out to be a genetically altered Hsktskt, created from DNA extracted from Kao's corpse which was [[BurialInSpace buried in space]] by Jorenian custom.]]
* In the LightNovel The Brave Man's Plan for Conquest, the protagonkst 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.

* The ''Literature/{{MARZENA}}'' Series lay down the concept that certain people with neurochemically similar brains can form empathic states and become a singular mind when mentally linked up using the Bremen Chip. Connecting two similar brains together can cause the less-dominant brain to become more dominant-like (although the full effects can take months to manifest). [[spoiler: This is what happens to Lauren when she connects to Marian's brain, fully maturing an Independent Psychological State allowing her brain to mimic Marian's brain activity, and thus break into Marian's brain-locked computer.]]
* In ''Literature/{{Slimer}}'', Charlie is a genetically-engineered shapeshifting shark who absorbs the minds and bodies of his victims. [[spoiler:Near the end, as his original body is dying, he "impregnates" the body of a Brinkstone helicopter pilot instead of absorbing him. The original body dies, while the cells implanted into the pilot convert the man's body into an exact duplicate of Charlie, with his memories and personality.]] Overlaps with BodySurf a little.
* In [[Creator/PaulFeval Paul Feval's]] ''Literature/VampireCity'', being turned into a vampire can have this effect on the victim, which can be [[GenderBender a little weird]] if they were originally a different sex than the vampire that bit them.

* In ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'', when a Fused spirit kills a singer and takes their body, the singer's form shifts to something unique to the Fused.
* Literature/WhateleyUniverse: Blood transfusions from someone with a high-level HealingFactor carries the risk of this, with or without the DeathOfPersonality aspects.
** Knockoff was fortunate; while he became a [[GenderBender physical copy of his mother]] after she was forced to give him a life-saving transfusion, his/her own mutation manifested as a result, which meant that not only did she retain her own memories and personality, she also developed powers that differed from her mother's.[[https://whateley.academy/index.php/story/mama-s-boy]]
** A more tragic example was Adavia Taylor, who became contaminated with a male superhero's blood during a supervillain battle. For the next several months, she slowly became an almost-exact copy of the hero, in both body and mind, eventually forgetting his previous life entirely.[[https://whateley.academy/index.php/story/slipping-away]]

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Similarly to the ''Matrix'' example, the Master does this to [[spoiler:almost the entire human race]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]].
** In [[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor "The Power Of The Doctor"]] the Master does this again [[spoiler: to the Doctor herself, using a machine to force her to regenerate into a copy of the Master that has the Master's brain. He then travels the universe trying to ruin the Doctor's reputation. Eventually the Doctor [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind (with the help of her past selves)]] is able to reverse the regeneration.]]

* In an episode of ''Series/TheGoodPlace'', many characters have been transformed into the Maid Janet
* In 2003, the Creator/{{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.
-->'''Wanda:''' Hey, you're that guy that got peed on in ''Film/{{American P|ie}}''- ''<Agent Scott shoves his fist into Wanda's gut and starts transforming her into an Agent>'' Mmm, ooh, you're hittin' the spot! How big is your fist? Good lord! Hey, wait a minute, man, [[SkewedPriorities this shit is dry-clean only]]!\\
'''Agent Scott:''' You'll like being a dude. ''<The transformation finishes>''\\

* ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters'' has an unusual example of a villain doing this to ''himself'': late in the show [[spoiler:Enter]], attempting to gain ThePowerOfHate for himself, deliberately begins copying more and more of Hiromu's abilities, fighting style, and eventually even his Buster form. It even reaches the point where his face begins to morph into Hiromu's at times.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' third edition introduces the psionic power "Mind Seed" which, after a week-long incubation, turns the target into a mental duplicate of the psion (though eight levels lower than the psion when s/he infected the target).
** This power, in turn, is one of the tools the Dreaming Dark uses in ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}''.

* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=254133 Essence of the Wild]] from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' operates this way, turning any other creature you cast or otherwise put into play into a copy of itself. Since they will then also have the copying ability...
** [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=447196 Metamorphic Alteration.]] Interestingly, while all clone spells encourage copying the strongest creature on the battlefield, this spell also rewards turning an opponent's best creature [[ForcedTransformation into a copy of the weakest creature]].

-->'''Hydraxon to Pridak''': You don't get it. It doesn't matter who I was before. All that counts is who I am now - Hydraxon. Your enemy, your jailer, your nightmare for 90 millennia, and for every day that's left to you.

* This happens to [[spoiler: Alcatraz]] in ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}} 2'' who was given [[spoiler: Prophet's nanosuit as the two were dying. Through the game, the suit heals him, at the expense of turning him ''into'' Prophet]]. The effect has fully completed by the time of ''VideoGame/Crysis3'', with no mention of who the current [[spoiler: Prophet]] used to be.
* In ''VideoGame/CytusII'', Phoenix Wyle has access to MagicPlasticSurgery technology that lets him turn a person into a doppelganger of someone else, so long as they have the same gender and blood type. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:PAFF/Aroma White]] as we know her is the result of this technology being applied: [[spoiler:after she was mortally injured in a car accident, another girl named Kaori was kidnapped and turned into a copy of Aroma, as well as being subjected to brainwashing to overwrite her memories, though this was incomplete and left her with small fragments of Kaori's memories which eventually allow her to learn the truth about herself.]]

* In ''VideoGame/EndlessSpace2'' the [[CloneArmy Horatio]] faction unlocks the unique "Genetic Resequencing" technology in the late game. Each use converts one population unit of another species into a Horatio, even if they're robots or constructs of rock.
* The cloning pod in ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'' works by copying the Evil Genius's appearance onto one of the many [[WeHaveReserves disposable]] {{mooks}} in your employ. The purpose of this is to get the mook killed in order to make the World Powers believe your Evil Genius is dead and lower your heat level.
** The ID Eliminator arguably as well, though it turns its victims into boilerplate template mooks instead of into a copy of the Evil Genius.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', [[spoiler:Cloud Strife]] turns out to be this kind of clone of Sephiroth (along with countless others who were implanted with Jenova's cells, with the amount they were injected with determining whether they just get a little power boost [[spoiler: like everybody in SOLDIER]], or end up crippled, insane, and vulnerable to having their body completely taken over by Sephiroth).
*** Cloud is also one, to a lesser degree, of [[spoiler: his dead friend Zack, whose personality and memories he partly absorbed, repressing his own due to guilt and shame after the resident MadScientist messed up his head. This kind of mimicry is part of the whole Jenova-cell package apparently, but it combined with Cloud's psychological trauma and major pre-existing self-esteem issues, to create a real mess of his identity.]]

*** This is how [[spoiler:the Weapons' Oversoul]] works - it overwrites [[spoiler:the pilot's]] personality with that of the person whose combat data was chosen as the template, and reshapes their body into a more monstrous and bizarre version of that person. Over the course of the questline, the player has to contend with clones of [[spoiler:Nael van Darnus, Gaius van Baelsar (whose original, still-alive self is decidedly ''not'' amused) and Regula van Hydrus.]]
*** 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.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' reveals in ''Literature/TheForerunnerSaga'' that [[spoiler:the Didact from the ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' terminals]] was the result of [[spoiler:the Ur-Didact (the one from ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'')]] imprinting his consciousness upon a younger Forerunner. Unusually for this trope, the original personality still maintains some influence (most notably in his ''much'' more friendly attitude towards humanity compared with the original), and the act itself is portrayed as a necessary one, with the [[spoiler:Didact]] imprint even promising his host that he'll return control when his mission is over, though, by the time that happens, their personalities seem to have become [[SplitPersonalityMerge irrecoverably merged]]. [[spoiler:And he's ''still'' much better off than his progenitor]].

* In ''VideoGame/LoopHero'' the Priestess Sigma is the personification of faith in god. When her physical body dies, a suitably faithful host undergoes a slow physical conversion as their soul is gradually supplanted by Sigma.

* Agent Smith can be seen copying a female civilian onto himself multiple times in cutscenes during the Burly Brawl segment of ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo''

* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' AncientConspiracy leader, Simmons created a clone of [[spoiler: his employee, Ada Wong (whom he was [[StalkerWithACrush a little obsessed with]])]] by testing out the C-Virus on his lover, and employee, [[spoiler: Carla Radames]]. When she got her memories back, she was [[TheStarscream not amused.]]
* The Tarr from ''VideoGame/SlimeRancher'' will attempt to devour any slimes in its vicinity. Upon devouring a victim, it expands, and spawns a clone of itself. [[KillItWithWater Water will sterilize them, and can potentially destroy them altogether.]]

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', it turns out that [[spoiler: the entire Journey of Regeneration is actually just a front for the villain to resurrect his sister via this method. The [[TheChosenOne Chosen Ones]] are really just people specifically bred to have bodies as similar to his sister as possible.]]

* In ''WebComic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' [[spoiler: King Radical's]] plan turns out to be to do this on a massive scale. More specifically [[spoiler:he would replace people by summoning inhabitants of the Radical Lands, where he came from, in their place]].
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' introduced the "[=REDHack=]" technology in the "Random Access Memorabilia" arc; StateSec's plan to capture a BigDumbObject was to [[spoiler:use a combination of SuperSoldier and advanced medical technology to stream [[BrainUploading mind backups]] of one of its agents into the skins of the civilian research staff, allowing them to physically convert each victim into a SuperSoldier duplicate of the agent when the [[TriggerPhrase activation signal]] was sent.]] A later storyline reveals that the same agency has regularly been creating sleeper agents using the same technology, who would be overwritten on-demand by the mind of the same agent. In theory, the sleeper is supposed to have a backup gestalt so they can be restored after the mission and only lose a few days of memories. In practice, the gestalts are often too out of date to be useful, and the agent usually dies during the mission anyway.

* The baddies in ''[[Webcomic/AsteroidQuest Polo Quest]]'' are able to convert people into clones of the badass warrior Rokoa, provided they're of the same species as her. As the payload contains her personality and memories, it involves a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind. The results vary depending on how that confrontation went.
* Chris Daily’s guest strip of ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' involves multiple characters transforming into copies of the same woman, before [[ScrewYourself making out with each other]]
* ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': Anyone who eats one of [[WormThatWalks Gog-Agog's]] worms becomes Gog-Agog. It's presently uncertain whether those who have become Gog-Agog but do not look like her are Gog-Agog mentally but just look like their old self (meaning the host is effectively dead), or if Gog-Agog's personality remains latent within them until she feels like emerging (consuming the host's body in the process and reforming it into another Gog-Agog). Either way, Gog-Agog is [[MesACrowd a population of her own]], and with titles like "Queen of Worms" and "The Great Devourer" she definitively falls on the 'villain' part of the spectrum.

* ''WebVideo/{{Oxventure}}'': In the episode "Sect Appeal" [[spoiler: this turns out to be the cultist's plan; rather than grow Egbert clones from scratch, they're going to inject townsfolk with a serum to transform them into them.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The Gaang are given a [[StepfordSmiler creepy]] guide called Joo Dee when they visit the Earth Kingdom. When her veneer breaks, she's taken away and replaced by an eerily similar guide who answers to the same name and insists she's the same person. [[spoiler: It's revealed that the city in question has an entire [[NightmareFuel room]] full of "Joo Dee"s being brainwashed into similar guides. It's never made clear if they're based off someone, but it certainly fits the spirit of the trope.]]
* ''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’s choosing to blame]] on Ben).
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In one episode, Peter gains the ability to transform anyone he touches into a clone of Robin Williams.
* ''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 VP!Peter explains that there must ''always'' be a Van Pelt in the game -- even if Alan kills VP!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.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': This is MonsterOfTheWeek Reflekta's primary ability. Fortunately for the victims, they keep their personalities and simply transform physically into her. Fortunately for her, they do not get her superhuman powers but are robbed of any they might have. [[spoiler: It also has a logical weakness; since her powers are based around turning people into her, it does nothing further to whomever it's already affecting, especially if they act as human shields or get their hands on other equipment.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans'': One episode features a plague that's turning New Yorkers into clones of Larry King. Apparently the plague is a rare side effect caused by the original Larry King taking too many medications that interacted in an unexpected way.
* 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.

* Agent Smith can be seen copying a female civilian onto himself multiple times in cutscenes during the Burly Brawl segment of ''VideoGame/TheMatrix:PathOfNeo''

* This is [[BigBad Junko Enoshima]]’s goal in ''VideoGame/Danganronpa2:GoodbyeDespair''

* in ''WesternAnimation/KuuKuuHarajuku'', [[GirlGroup HJ5]] a record deal from a record company named Monotone Records, which is owned by 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.

* A virus transforms many demons in ''VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten'' into clones of [[GoldfishPoopGang Axel]], first just acting like him, but later sounding and looking like him. The protagonists do manage to turn everyone back. Or not.

* in ''WesternAnimation/KuuKuuHarajuku'', the main GirlGroup HJ5 gets a record deal from a record company named Monotone Records, which is owned by 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.

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ7GxfpZ2Vg This]] GE commercial uses Agent Smith (see ''The Matrix'' below) as a visual metaphor for their medical assistance software's ability to be "everywhere".

* In the LightNovel The Brave Man's Plan for Conquest, the AntiHero Rain Shudo starts to loathe humanity and decides the only way to perfect it is to transform everyone into her clones, similar to how Agent Smith does.

Expect all the usual CloningBlues, 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).

* The 2010 horror movie ''Film/Victim2010'' is about a DeadlyDoctor transforming a young man [[spoiler:who murdered his daughter]] into a copy of his dead daughter through plastic surgery and brainwashing.
* The Spanish thriller ''Film/LaPielQueHabito''/''The Skin I Live In'' has a similar premise, although the doctor in question is using a MagicPlasticSurgery technique he invented to turn his victim into a copy of his dead wife.

* In an episode of''Anime/{{Dorohedero}}'', 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.