History Main / CloneJesus

* The show ''{{Zero Hour}}'' involved cashing in the {{plot coupon}}s for this.

Contrast with YouClonedHitler

* The RobertRankin novel ''The Brentford Chainstore Massacre'' had Jesus cloned from DNA found on the Turin shroud.

* The {{Riverworld}} series is set on a world populated by clones of everyone who ever lived, into which their dead spirits have been transplanted. A short story based on the novels reveals what happens to the Riverworld's re-created Jesus.

* 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 [[TheMightyThor Thor]].

* During Marvel's ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' crossover, [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]], and [[MightyAvengers Hank Pym]] use a single hair to create a clone of [[TheMightyThor Thor]].
* The entire point of ''NoGods''.

* 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.

* An Ongoing DC Vertigo Miniseries called ''Punk Rock Jesus'' 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.

* The main plot point in ''ShinMegamiTenseiII''.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' episode "The Shroud" has a religious zealot try to recreate Jesus via artificial conception...it's implied he succeeds, but a couple run off with the baby in classic Mary and Joseph-style.

* Downplayed in Robin Cook's ''Seizure'' where a conservative U.S. senator suffering from Parkinson's disease is undergoing a therapy (which he was about to ban in first place) in which a patient with an incurable disease is returned to health through the injection of cloned stem cells. He wants the stem cells injected into his brain to come from the Shroud of Turin. Afterwards, he indeed experiences some messianic visions but it turns out that were temporal lobe epilepsy-seizures caused by dislocated injection, not by the origin of cells. So, no copy of Jesus in this book, only His cells.

** 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 her parents see fit. Though she's still highly respected for being the last descendant of the Sankt Kaiser.

* 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]].

* ''FLEMComics'' had an arc about a mutant Jesus Clone, with many tentacles. [[spoiler:They had him have sex with a prostitute, and she used the wrong tentacle]]

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 collective "screw this."]]

* Used in the 2001 film ''Revelation'', where the KnightsTemplar attempt to clone Jesus from DNA left on the four nails used to crucify the original in hopes of using the clone as a puppet messiah to rule the world. It's implied at the end of the film that the cloned Jesus is TheAntichrist while the baby born from Mira and the late Jake's union is the true messiah since Mira was Mary Magdalene's descendant and Jake was Christ's descendant via the Merovingian dynasty. As predicted by Revelation 12.4, the baby is kept a secret from the order until he can oppose them and the Grand Master's puppet Christ.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' episode "The Shroud" has a religious zealot try to recreate Jesus via artificial conception...it's implied he succeeds, but a couple run off with the baby in classic Mary and Joseph-style.

* An odd version in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': [[spoiler: Karkat]]'s ancestor, The Sufferer, is a CrystalDragonJesus, and while he isn't meant to be an exact clone of the Sufferer in terms of purpose (in fact, he's ''[[MyOwnGrandpa his own]]'' clone), they're genetically (and presumably physically) identical and he was heralded by the Sufferer as his second coming. However, because of how paradox cloning works, the Sufferer is ''Karkat'''s clone and also qualifies for this trope.

* Accidentally invoked in the movie ''Film/TheFifthElement''-the Embodiment Of Love was sent to Earth to protect us from a Big Ball Of Darkness. Ended up getting vaporized, but the forensics who cloned her material to find out what was going on happened to accidentally create a perfectly functional replacement (but with more [[{{Badass}} badassery]] and {{fanservice}}).
** Wasn't the original Fifth Element exactly the same physically as Leeloo, she was just only ever seen inside that suit-of-armour-sarcophagus thingy?
*** Probably the same mentally too, since she was "born" [[GeneticMemory already knowing a language and a number of details about what had transpired recently]].

* An odd version in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': [[spoiler: Karkat]]'s ancestor, The Sufferer, is a CrystalDragonJesus, and while he isn't meant to be an exact clone of the Sufferer in terms of purpose, they're genetically (and presumably physically) identical and he was heralded by the Sufferer as his second coming. And, because of how paradox cloning works, the Sufferer is his own clone and also qualifies for this trope.

* Whether God or just channeling him, [[spoiler:Mokona]] from ''MagicKnightRayearth'' visited Clow Reed and Yuuko of ''{{xxxHolic}}'' and ''{{Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle}}''. They were allowed to make copies.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' episode "The Shroud" has a religious zealot try to recreate Jesus via artificial conception...it's implied he succeeds, but couple run off with the baby in classic Mary and Joseph-style.

* Accidentally invoked in the movie ''Film/TheFifthElement'', the Embodiment Of Love was sent to Earth to protect us from a Big Ball Of Darkness. Ended up getting vaporized, but the forensics who cloned her material to find out what was going on happened to accidentally create a perfectly functional replacement (but with more [[{{Badass}} badassery]] and {{fanservice}}).
** Wasn't the original Fifth Element exactly the same physically as Leeloo, she was just only ever seen inside that suit-of-armour-sarcophagus thingy.

* Used in the 2001 film ''Revelation'', where the KnightsTemplar attempt to clone Jesus from DNA left on the four nails used to crucify the original in hopes of using the clone as a puppet messiah to rule the world. It's implied at the end of the film that the cloned Jesus is TheAntichrist while the baby born from Mira and the late Jake's union is the true messiah since Mira was Magdalene's descendent and Jake was Christ's descendent via the Merovingian dynasty. As predicted by Revelation 12.4, the baby is kept a secret from the order until he can oppose them and the Grand Master's puppet Christ.

* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Obviously]] used in the ''ChristCloneTrilogy'' by James Beauseigneur, [[spoiler: except he's the Antichrist.]] Like the example above also uses the Shroud of Turin as the source of DNA.

* 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 1993 novel 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]].

* An odd version in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': [[spoiler: Karkat]]'s ancestor, The Sufferer, is a CrystalDragonJesus, and while he isn't meant to be an exact clone of the Sufferer in terms of purpose, they're genetically (and presumably physically) identical and he was heralded by the Sufferer as his second coming.

* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS'', [[spoiler: Vivio Takamachi]] was cloned by the villains from the genetic material of the messiah figure of the Saint Church, the Saint King Olivie. 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 her parents see fit. Though she's still highly respected for being the last descendant of the Saint King.

* A major subplot in the 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]].

* The show ''{{Zero Hour}}'' involved cashing in the ''plot coupon''s for this.

* The ''{{Zero Hour}}'' involved cashing in the ''plot coupon''s for this.