History Main / CloneJesus

* During Marvel's ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' crossover, [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]], and [[ComicBook/MightyAvengers Hank Pym]] use a single hair to create a clone of [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]. He was basically a cyborg killing machine ''loosely'' under their control - one of the first things he did was kill Bill Foster. [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] considered him an insult to the real deal, and when Thor got back he outright [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] Tony for the move.

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* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'': Vivio Takamachi was cloned by the villains from the genetic material of the messiah figure of the Saint Church, the Sankt Kaiser/Sei'ou Olivie Sägebrecht. The villains just wanted her so they could overcome the genetic lock on the Messiah's personal spaceship, though. After she is rescued, those in TheChurch who know about her heritage call her by her full title, which she's extremely embarrassed about. She has, by ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'', gotten used to it, accepting it as a term of respect and affection. For their part, the Saint Church [[SaintlyChurch has lived up to their name]], treating her as her own person rather than a copy of their Jesus analogue and letting her live her life as she and [[HasTwoMommies her mothers]] see fit. Officially, they've declared Vivio to be a "descendant" of their religious figure, rather than a reincarnation. The manga also gives more information about Olivie, making it clear that while both she and Vivio are KungFuWizard heroines, they each have their own personality.

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* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' episode "The Shroud" has a religious zealot try to recreate Jesus via artificial conception... it's implied he succeeds, but the surrogate mother and her husband run off with the baby in classic Mary and Joseph-style to prevent the minister, who is also the mother's father, from raising the child and twisting him to his own ends.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' has a Klingon religious caste try to use cloning and [[FakeMemories memory construction]] to recreate their local Messiah Kahless, so that they (with Kahless as their puppet) could take over the Klingon Empire and "[[GloryDays restore it to greatness]]". When Worf finds out, the monks ask him how he knows that's not how the prophesy of Kahless' return was ''supposed'' to be fulfilled. The episode ends with the truth being revealed and a compromise being reached: Kahless II is allowed to become the figurehead Emperor (a previously vacant position).
** Half-way into ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' Worf figures out how powerless Kahless II ''actually'' is. The figurehead Emperor thing was also his idea.

* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', Vivio Takamachi was cloned by the villains from the genetic material of the messiah figure of the Saint Church, the Sankt Kaiser/Sei'ou Olivie Sägebrecht. The villains just wanted her so they could overcome the genetic lock on the Messiah's personal spaceship, though. After she is rescued, those in TheChurch who know about her heritage call her by her full title, which she's extremely embarrassed about. She has, by ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'', gotten used to it, accepting it as a term of respect and affection. For their part, the Saint Church [[SaintlyChurch has lived up to their name]], treating her as her own person rather than a copy of their Jesus analogue and letting her live her life as she and [[HasTwoMommies her mothers]] see fit. Officially, they've declared Vivio to be a "descendant" of their religious figure, rather than a reincarnation. The manga also gives more information about Olivie, making it clear that while both she and Vivio are KungFuWizard heroines, they each have their own personality.

* This is part of the plot underlying ''Anime/AmazingNurseNanako'', a six-episode series that mixed ''Series/TheXFiles'' with ''Series/ILoveLucy'' and served it with a healthy side order of {{fan service}}.

* According to an article in "New York Magazine," (April 5, 2004), "Stories about cloned Jesuses (Jesi?) first surfaced in 1988 when the sci-fi novel ''Children of the Shroud'' was published." That novel, by Garfield Reeves-Stevens, had dozens of teenage Jesus clones being hunted by a televangelist on behalf of a U.S. president eager to start the war of Armageddon. Each clone was slightly different because of the DNA reconstruction technique used to create them, with the kicker being [[spoiler:some of them were female]].

* Bill Myers' ''Blood of Heaven'' features a lighter version, in which the dried blood on a religious artifact (a thorn preserved in a wax cube) is discovered to contain foreign chromosomes (specifically, the Y). Replicating the blood through genetic engineering and transfusing it into first animals, then humans, has... [[TheAntichrist interesting results]].
* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Obviously]] used in the ''Literature/ChristCloneTrilogy'' by James Beauseigneur, [[spoiler: except he's the Antichrist.]] Like the example above, this also uses the Shroud of Turin as the source of DNA.
* In Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski's novel ''Literature/TheKillingStar'', one of the few groups of humans who survived an alien attack against Earth is [[spoiler:a habitat orbiting Jupiter, led by a clone of Jesus and his best friend, a clone of the Buddha, who were created by a cult some years earlier]].
* In ''American Desert'' by Percival Everett, this doesn't quite work out, and most of the clones are horribly deformed physically and mentally. One researcher on the project appears in-story, despairing at his failure-until the main character asks how one mouthless clone can eat, and the researcher realizes that it's survived without anyone ever feeding it.
* This is pretty much the entire point of the 1993 novel ''Literature/TheBloodOfTheLamb'', as the protagonist Peter Careza grapples with the implications that he is Christ on Earth. By the end of the book, it's fairly clear that [[spoiler:he's the AntiChrist]].

* In "The Divinity Gene", a short story by Matthew J. Trafford, the DNA sequence of Jesus is used to create numerous Jesus clones or "Jesi."
* In "Born-Again Jesus," a short story by Robert Flynn, a secret group plans to clone Jesus so that he can preach a gospel more in line with current American values.
* In "The Gospel According to Jimmy", by French writer Didier van Cauwelaert, a 32-year old pool cleaner in L.A. finds out he's a clone of Jesus.
* In one story in the Church of the [=SubGenius=]'s anthology ''Three-Fisted Tales of "Bob"'', "Bob" Dobbs stops the Deroes from [[YouClonedHitler cloning Hitler]] with a little sleight of hand to replace the bloody cloth they were using as a DNA source with a scrap of the Shroud of Turin.

* A religious cult in ''Series/ReGenesis'' tries to clone Jesus from some blood on one of the nails used to affix him to the cross.

* The ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' DLC ''Citadel'' reveals [[spoiler:Cerberus cloned Commander-freaking-Shepard, the universe's closest thing to a MessianicArchetype, as backup/[[WalkingTransplant source of parts]] to bring them BackFromTheDead. Said clone is unhappy about this and seeks to KillAndReplace the original]].

* This trope was parodied in ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', when Frylock uses his cloner with a strand of what a museum claimed was Jesus' hair. He ended up with a very effeminate man in a too-short toga, who reveals he's actually Jesus' hairdresser.

* The main plot point in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII''. Aleph is [[spoiler:a fake Messiah used by the Archangels to draw everyone into Arcadia. Their actual chosen, Gimmel, is a DarkMessiah. And then there's [=YHVH=] Messiah, Zayin, who is to become Satan]]. And yes, all of them are [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Humans]].
* The ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' DLC ''Citadel'' reveals that Cerberus had cloned [[spoiler:Commander-freaking-Shepard]], the universe's closest thing to a MessianicArchetype, with a goal to KillAndReplace the original if said original proved too hard to manipulate.

* Wiki/SCPFoundation: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2782 SCP-2782]] is the aftermath of a number of religious zealots' attempt at creating a RealityWarper who has the ability to replicate all of Jesus' miracles, with the assumption that this would bring about the Second Coming.

* The RealLife Jesus-cloning conspiracy theory is discussed [[http://www.snopes.com/religion/clone.asp here.]]
** And parodied [[http://web.archive.org/web/20080610025216/www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/clone.html here.]]

* The entire point of ''ComicBook/NoGods''.

* A major subplot in the Creator/ChuckPalahniuk novel ''Literature/{{Choke}}'' involves the main character discovering that he may have been created as a clone from Jesus' foreskin. Which may or may not explain why he's [[IncrediblyLamePun such a prick]].

* An Ongoing DC Vertigo Miniseries called ''ComicBook/PunkRockJesus'' Deals with a Clone of Jesus being raised on reality television, rebelling against the show and then using his fame to form a punk rock band.

* According to an article in "New York Magazine," (April 5, 2004), "Stories about cloned Jesuses first surfaced in 1988 when the sci-fi novel ''Children of the Shroud'' was published." That novel, by Garfield Reeves-Stevens, had dozens of teenage Jesus clones being hunted by a televangelist on behalf of a U.S. president eager to start the war of Armageddon. Each clone was slightly different because of the DNA reconstruction technique used to create them, with the kicker being [[spoiler:some of them were female]].

%%* The show ''Series/ZeroHour'' involved cashing in the {{plot coupon}}s for this.

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Someone has gotten ahold of a DNA strand of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} or his [[CrystalDragonJesus equivalent]] and has decided, hey, let's make another! Maybe they actually want to speed along the SecondComing a little, or maybe they want to throw in a little [[ForScience Mad Science]] with Religion.

If said scientists really do end up with Jesus Part Two, expect the baby to be spirited away by protagonists to be raised in a more wholesome manner, with the implication that the [[{{God}} Big Guy Upstairs]] is moving this operation to more traditional pastures.

Of course, since cloning [[ClonesArePeopleToo doesn't make]] the [[ArtisticLicenseBiology same person again]] one might end up with someone who uses their powers [[DarkMessiah For Evil]] or giving a [[AntiAntiChrist "screw this."]] Alternately, they might not even ''have'' any powers.

Contrast with YouClonedHitler.

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Of course, since cloning [[ClonesArePeopleToo doesn't make]] [[ArtisticLicenseBiology the same person again]] one might end up with someone who uses their powers [[DarkMessiah For Evil]] or giving a [[AntiAntiChrist "screw this."]] Alternately, they might not even ''have'' any powers.

* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', Vivio Takamachi was cloned by the villains from the genetic material of the messiah figure of the Saint Church, the Sankt Kaiser/Sei'ou Olivie Sägebrecht. The villains just wanted her so they could overcome the genetic lock on the Messiah's personal spaceship, though. After she is rescued, those in TheChurch who know about her heritage call her by her full title, which she's extremely embarrassed about. She has, by ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'', gotten used to it, accepting it as a term of respect and affection. For their part, the Saint Church [[SaintlyChurch has lived up to their name]], treating her as her own person rather than a copy of their Jesus analogue and letting her live her life as she and [[HasTwoMommies her mothers]] see fit. Officially, they've declared Vivio to be a "descendent" of their religious figure, rather than a reincarnation. The manga also gives more information about Olivie, making it clear that while both she and Vivio are KungFuWizard heroines, they each have their own personality.

%%* The main plot point in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII''.
* The ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' DLC ''Citadel'' reveals that Cerberus had cloned [[spoiler:Commander-freaking-Shepard]], the universe's closest thing to a MessianicArchetype, with a goal to KillAndReplace the original if said original proved too hard to manipulate.

Of course, since cloning [[ClonesArePeopleToo doesn't make]] [[YouFailBiologyForever the same person again]] one might end up with someone who uses their powers [[DarkMessiah For Evil]] or giving a [[AntiAntiChrist "screw this."]] Alternately, they might not even ''have'' any powers.