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* Jade from ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' once used magic to make a copy of herself to get out of her chores so she could go with Jackie to fight the bad guys. Not only did [=Jade2=] sneak along (because that's what Jade would do), but Jade's duplication spell was imperfect and her clone started making additional clones. Before you know it, there's thousands of Jades running around.

** The "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS35E5TreehouseOfHorrorXXXIV Treehouse of Horror XXXIV]]" segment "Loutbreak" has Homer eating a contaminated donut at work, and after he belches into Ned Flanders' face, it infects him with a virus that turns him into a Homer clone, and soon, everybody in Springfield is turning into Homer clones except for Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, who are immune to the virus. Despite Professor Frink's best efforts, he's unable to stop the spread, and soon, ''the entire planet'' turns into Homer clones.

** [[spoiler:[[BigBad All For One]] has his original Quirk implanted in Shigaraki, resulting in his 'vestige' inside of it to begin merging with Shigaraki and assume control. As such, there are technically two All For Ones existing at the same time.]]

** In [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] comics, Superman employs a number of {{Robot Me}}s to cover for him to conceal his SecretIdentity. Their intelligence varies from one story to the next, but it is tacitly accepted that they are not truly self-aware (and are, therefore, expendable). When occasional [[AppliedPhlebotinum Phlebotinum]] causes one to ''become'' [[InstantAIJustAddWater genuinely self-aware,]] it's a big problem and HilarityEnsues. In UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}, the [[ExecutiveMeddling editors decided]] the robots were too much of a DeusExMachina, so they start malfunctioning (officially due to increased pollution levels in Earth's atmosphere) and Superman stops using them.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Dota 2}}'', illusions are weaker copies of heroes that generally deal less and take a lot more damage than regular heroes and can't use active abilities of heroes and items (illusions inherit passive abilities on a case-by-case basis). Some patches ago, illusions gained no benefit from damage bonuses from item stats, meaning builds taking advantage from illusions needed to be designed differently than usual. They're also instantly dispelled by some of the utility abilites that would deal no damage to actual heroes such as Lion's Mana Drain, [[BalefulPolymorph Hex]] or Disruptor's Glimpse. Heroes that make extensive use of multiple illusions of themselves include Naga Siren, Chaos Knight, Terrorblade, and most prominently, Phantom Lancer, whose illusions can ''create more illusions''. All heroes can create illusions of themselves with the active ability of Manta Style item or by activating an Illusion rune.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E1TreehouseOfHorrorXIII Treehouse of Horror XIII]]" has Homer do this using a magic hammock (which the clones themselves end up using, causing them to degrade in quality until one of them comes out as [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter]] [[TakeThat Griffin]] until they all run off a cliff when baited by a giant donut). The {{twist|Ending}} is that it isn't the original Homer who survives at the end. The real one was the first over the cliff, despite hearing Lisa tell everyone the plan.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Dota 2}}'', illusions are weaker copies of heroes that generally deal less and take a lot more damage than regular heroes, and can't use active abilities (it inherits passive abilities on a case-by-case basis). Heroes that primarily utilize multiple illusions of themselves include Naga Siren, Chaos Knight, Spectre, and most importantly, Phantom Lancer, whose illusions can ''create more illusions''. All heroes can create illusions of themselves with the Manta Style item or picking up an Illusion rune.
** Also there is a hero called Meepo whose ultimate skill is a passive called "Divided we Stand." Every time you take a level in this skill, a copy of Meepo will appear. Unlike Phantom Lancer whose copies are all expendable and far weaker than the original, each Meepo clone (up to five Meepos total) is almost as powerful as the original, sharing most of his stats as well as whatever boots Meepo is wearing. Each Meepo can be controlled individually to collect experience and gold across the map, as well as serving as a teleporter pad for other Meepos to arrive at. The tradeoff for this is that if a single Meepo is slain, every Meepo on the map instantly drops dead and you get put out of the action for a while. Meepo is generally considered a LethalJokeCharacter and is rarely played due to his high difficulty.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Poptropica}}'', this is Copy Cat's power on Super Power Island. The clones disappear when you touch them, though.

** In ''ComicBook/AvengersStandoff'', there are two [[spoiler:Maria Hills]] running around, one who was [[spoiler:rescued by the Unity Squad]] and one who is [[spoiler:recruited the ANAD Avengers]] It's later revealed that there are actually ''three'' of them -- the real one [[spoiler:is still in Pleasant Hill]].

-->-- '''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}''', ''Which Prue Is It, Anyway?''

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'': It's a natural state for them (or as natural as {{Artificial Human}}s ever get), but each of the Significant Seven Cylon models has an army's worth of clones. Most are essentially extras, but some get development as individuals, including several Sixes and two Eights in particular (Boomer and Athena).

* This happens a couple of times on ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'':
** In the episode "Which Prue is it Anyway?", Prue decides she needs a power boost, and casts a spell to triple her power. Unfortunately, she doesn't realize that what it actually does is create three of her. It turns out to be useful, after all, because the two clones end up dying instead of the original Prue.

** When Piper finds out that [[TheGrimReaper the Angel of Death]] is after her husband Leo in the episode "Vaya con Leos", she decides to cast a spell to hide him. While the spell does confuse the Angel of Death, it had an unintended effect: ''every man in San Francisco'' got turned into a clone of Leo.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E63TheMindAndTheMatter The Mind and the Matter]]", Archibald Beechcroft eventually hits on the idea of creating a world full of Beechcrofts using his [[RealityWarper ability to manipulate reality]] but he quickly discovers that a lot of him is as bad as a lot of everyone else.

* One of Franchise/{{Lobo}}'s lesser-known abilities is this trope. Should Lobo shed blood, the blood will reconstitute itself into another Lobo. Thus, a battle that could go poorly for the Main Man could quickly turn in his favor. Then, keeping with Lobo's desire to be the only one around, they'll murder each other until one survives. Vril Dox of [[ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics L.E.G.I.O.N.]] disabled this power, but was unwittingly reactivated after the events of ''Sins of Youth''.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13556307/chapters/31107378 Manynette]]'' has an overworked Marinette Dupain-Cheng akumatized into being Manynette, a legion of Marinette copies, one for each of her responsibilities; serving as class president, helping with the family bakery, working on her fashion designs, caring for her friends, attending class and doing her chores, getting enough sleep [[spoiler:(that's the real Marinette)]], and being a superhero.

** In ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'', there are at least three Spider-Men (Peter, Miguel and Miles) running around, although at least one interview implies that there's a fourth and he/she is the one in the current costume.

** A story had all the different models of Brainiac, whose mind not only inhabits every version of himself through the years (except the rebellious Brainiac 2/Vril Dox), but also an entire army of robotic drones.

* A variation with ComicBook/{{X 23}}, herself an OppositeSexClone of ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}: Laura lacks the ability to generate clones of herself, but the scientist heading the project to create her intended to mass produce her and sell the additional copies to the highest bidders. Laura's mother put a stop to this by sending her to destroy the embryos during her escape from the Facility while they were still in their test tubes. Later, the demon Blackheart ''actually'' succeeded in cloning her (and even worse, bonding these clones with a [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote]]). During Laura's confrontation with her "sisters", she briefly mused on whether they were sentient beings with the same right to exist as she did, but decided that regardless they were a significant threat that needed to be destroyed.

** Alicorns are capable of creating Avatars of themselves, though of the known one who can play this straight is Luna, who's noted as being exceptionally skilled at making Avatars that can act independently of the original. Celestia can make ones that can act separately of herself, but aren't nearly as good.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13556307/chapters/31107378 Manynette]]'' has an overworked Marinette Dupain-Cheng akumatized into being Manynette, a legion of Marinette copies, one for each of her responsibilities; serving as class president, helping with the family bakery, working on her fashion designs, caring for her friends, attending class and doing her chores, getting enough sleep, and being a superhero.
* ''Fanfic/NotTheIntendedUseZantetsukenReverse'': Most people from Sumaru City have at least one AlternateSelf from another timeline running around because they used a portal to escape their doomed reality first chance they got. They try to [[AlternateSelfNameChange use nicknames]] to differentiate.

* In ''Literature/TalesOfTheOtori'', some tribe members can split in two, leaving behind a second-self as a distraction that will fade from existence when the user stops concentrating.

** Variation: thanks to TheNthDoctor, there's currently fourteen[[note]]counting the War Doctor[[/note]] different incarnations of the Doctor running around space/time... it's extremely rare for them to meet (TimeyWimeyBall, actors dying and all that), but when they do the result tends to be similar to this trope. ''Webcomic/The10Doctors'' is an artist's rendition, shall we say, of how the first ten Doctors[[note]]pre-the War Doctor being retconned in[[/note]] would act if forced to cooperate.

* ''Series/RoundTheTwist'' has a character make only one clone to win a running competition. However, a rabbit starts cloning an army of itself with the machine. All the objects used in the machine, cloned or original, begin to dissolve eventually, due to a fault in the machine. At least one rabbit survives, though, because in the final scene we learn what happened when Bronson put her with a male rabbit.

* In ''Series/YoungSheldon'' S4 E17, Sheldon imagines having a second Sheldon to work with on a new theorem. They get along great, until they argue over which Sheldon gets credited first, which leads to an all-out brawl (as imagined by Missy).

* In the ''Adventure!'' pulp RPG from White Wolf, this is the secret power of YellowPeril villain [[MeaningfulName The Ubiquotous Dragon]]. Being a universe where the power scale is rather low, this is not only a very powerful ability, but he also uses it in a much more low key way than most examples on this page. Essentially, every one of his local CoDragons is himself, which means they are perfectly loyal and coordinated, and even if you [[NeverFoundTheBody find the body]], he will still be there.

* The "Mr. [=LeThuys=]" in ''TabletopGame/OverTheEdge'', who are a not-so-secret conspiracy of an old, potbellied, nihilistic Vietnamese man named Mr. [=LeThuy=] who had a mad scientist create a retrovirus using his genetic material that would slowly change anyone injected with it into an identical copy of him. His/their goal is to gradually convince everyone else to join him/them, so that he/they could then [[SuicidePact end the human race]] and end the chaos of existence. He/they is/are also ''very'' convincing...

* The ''VideoGame/FreedomForce'' villain Déjà Vu, who spoke in rhyme and could clone himself indefinitely until the original was knocked out (said original being easily detectable since he's the only one with a full life bar). The sequel, ''VideoGame/FreedomForce Vs The Third Reich'' featured the WWII era Japanese villain Red Sun who had a slight variation of this power: he couldn't clone himself indefinitely but the clones became stronger and regained health whenever one fell in battle, hence they had to be dealt with one at a time. This variation in powers was most likely a reaction to the fact that some players would grind Déjà Vu's clones for [[GameBreaker infinite prestige points]].

** Also there is a hero called Meepo who's ultimate skill is a passive called "Divided we Stand." Every time you take a level in this skill, a copy of Meepo will appear. Unlike Phantom Lancer who's copies are all expendable and far weaker than the original, each Meepo clone (up to five Meepos total) is almost as powerful as the original, sharing most of his stats as well as whatever boots Meepo is wearing. Each Meepo can be controlled individually to collect experience and gold across the map, as well as serving as a teleporter pad for other Meepos to arrive at. The tradeoff for this is that if a single Meepo is slain, every Meepo on the map instantly drops dead and you get put out of the action for a while. Meepo is generally considered a LethalJokeCharacter and is rarely played due to his high difficulty.

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' has Mileena, a clone of Kitana. Raised to replace the latter in [[VideoGame/MortalKombatII the orginal,]] [[VideoGame/MortalKombatX making a name for herself in the remake.]] Also, Kano gets this treatment in ''X,'' much to his [[EvenEvilHasStandards chargin.]]
* One of the three human civilizations in the ''VideoGame/EndlessSpace'' is ''the'' Horatio, after a beauty obsessed trillionaire discovered a Precursor cloning machine, and used it to build a massive {{Egopolis}}. Naturally, one of his faction traits is having a higher population cap than normal.

* ''VideoGame/BloodRayne'' featured Hedrox the Infinite, a bestial vampire that had the power to duplicate himself whenever he is dismembered. Coupled with his extremely fast regenerative powers and new Hedrox clones being created out of his severed limbs, its nearly impossible to defeat him... [[spoiler:Unless if him and his clones are dropped on water, which is like acid to him]].
* The two Styx games ''Videogame/StyxMasterOfShadows'' and ''VideoGame/StyxShardsOfDarkness'' make use of this. Goblin protagonist Styx can vomit out clones of himself which serve a multitude of purposes. If you are chased, they get killed instead of you. You can control them and let them explode as smoke bombs to get cover. In the second game you can make the smoke poisonous and later let clones explode to kill everything in a 2 meter radius. Also in the second game you can assume the control of a clone when you die, provided you have spawned one beforehand. [[spoiler: It is also important to the plot, as the player character of the first game is just a backup clone of Styx, which you find out halfway through the game. At the end of the first game you fall into the magic soup you use to create clones and unleash the goblin plague that is a plot point of the second game on the world.]]

** Blake Belladonna's Semblance "Shadow" allows her to create a temporary shadow clone that takes the hit while she dodges away. She [[HeroicSelfDeprecation bitterly]] says that it's [[PersonalityPowers a perfect Semblance for a coward]]. She can also push off the clones for a DoubleJump, and with the help of [[AppliedPhlebotinum Dust]] she can make her clones solid with elemental effects.

* ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': [[AffablyEvil Your pal]] [[TheWormThatWalks Gog-Agog]] is a being made of an innumerable number of worms forming billions of humanoid bodies. She has a solid grasp on the entertainment industry in the multiverse and is all around a rare example of a [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} rather happy go lucky fellow]] in a [[CrapsackWorld terrible multiverse to live in]]. This is reason enough for many desperate people to [[DealWithTheDevil consume one of Gog-Agog's many worms]] and [[CloneByConversion become her]].

*** After the arrival of the Prospitian warship in the Alpha session, [[spoiler:Jane and Nanna are the only Sburb Players to have both of their instances (post-Scratch player and pre-Scratch ancestor/guardian, respectively) alive in the same universe simultaneously. Beta Jack Noir, Spades Slick and Alpha Jack Noir also all end up together in the Alpha session as well.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' gained a duplicating alien form named Ditto. Anything that happens to one Ditto is felt by all of them. Given what happens to the Stinkfly clones, if one Ditto is destroyed, the rest will presumeably follow.

** The reboot introduces Slapback, whose copies are simultaneously shorter, heavier and stronger for every time he duplicates himself.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow'' had an episode based around this, where Brak and Zorak spend all weekend playing video games, and then when the family decides to go out to Brak's favorite restaurant, Brak and Zorak are told they can't come because they didn't finish their homework. After the parents are gone, Zorak talks about needing a [[TimeTravel time machine]], and Brak reveals that Thundercles left him the key to his Time Shed. They go back to the beginning of the weekend to warn their past selves to do their homework, but get caught up in video games until they're called down for dinner, causing Brak to panic as he realizes he's out of time. This repeats many times until his room is completely filled with copies of Brak and Zorak, at which point they decide the only viable solution is to go back in time and prevent the invention of homework. They also inadvertently prevent Brak's favorite restaurant from ever being made, but the one that appears in its place is pretty good too, so it all works out in the end.
* Subverted in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CareBears1980s'', where Shreeky gets her partner/lackey, Mr. Beastly, thrown out of No Heart's Castle for something that was ''her'' fault. Shreeky ends up having all of Mr. Beastly's menial chores foisted upon her, and comes up with the genius idea to magically clone herself. She introduces her legion of Shreekys to No Heart, each with its own responsibility...but when she explains that the last one's job is to take the ''blame'' for making messes, the Shreekys start bickering to the point that No Heart declares that ''"one Beastly is better than five Shreekys any day! Get them out of here, and get Beastly back!"'' (Though since this means she's gotten out of doing chores, she still got what she wanted anyway...plus a little catharsis out of vaporising her misbegotten legion of clones, who immediately start bickering again over whose genius plan it all was.)

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In "Timephoon!", Gyro Gearloose created a clone army, revealed when [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial denies that he's making one to Scrooge when explaining about someone stealing the time tub]]. The clones return in "Moonvasion!" to fight against tye Moonlanders, though almost all (and possibly the original) are killed in the effort.
* In one of the pilot shorts of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Timmy wishes for "a ton" of copies to do chores. His LiteralGenie godparents divide 2000 pounds by his body weight to get 44.5 clones (the .5 is rendered as [[TheRuntAtTheEnd a half-sized Timmy]]). The result follows the second case of the trope, so that Timmy has to get all the clones rounded up into a room and [[ResetButton wish them away]] before someone sees more than one Timmy at once.

* Multi Man in the Creator/HannaBarbera cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheImpossibles'' had self-duplication as a super power. The Multi Man concept was later recycled as one of the heroic identities of WesternAnimation/TheSuperGlobetrotters.

* Happens in the ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' episode "Dupe", where one of the experiments has the power to duplicate anything multiple times. Originally, the protagonists think that this is a wonderful way to get everything they want done at once, but eventually they realize that every duplicate divides the sum power of the original between the dupes. It becomes ChekhovsGun later in the episode, where they invoke ConservationOfNinjutsu against Gantu and the team of very dangerous experiments he managed to gather by dividing them into uselessness. At the end Dupe's one true place is an ice cream cart so there will be twice the delicious treats but half the calories.

** One episode has Candace decide to give up busting her brothers, and goes into a musical number which climaxes with several copies of herself forming a gospel choir.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E1TreehouseOfHorrorXIII Treehouse of Horror XIII]]" has Homer do this using a magic hammock (which the clones themselves end up using, causing them to degrade in quality until one of them comes out as [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter]] [[TakeThat Griffin]], until they all run off a cliff when baited by a giant donut). The {{twist|Ending}} is that it isn't the original Homer who survives at the end. The real one was the first over the cliff, despite hearing Lisa tell everyone the plan.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E05AnEmbarrassmentOfDooplers An Embarrassment of Dooplers]]": Dooplers involuntarily duplicate in response to emotional stress. That includes being stressed by duplicating. Naturally, the duplication quickly snowballs. After the entirety of the ''Cerritos'' is filled by an depending crowd of duplicates, forcing its crew to seek refuge on high ledges and furniture, Freeman eventually snaps and starts insulting them, which turns out to be the key to making them recombine.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In "Steven and the Stevens", Steven finds a hourglass that lets him travel through time, eventually leading to him "kidnapping" himself from other timelines to make a band. When the original gets kicked out of the band, he decides to reverse himself ever getting the hourglass, only to have a copy get it, soon filling the entire room with Stevens. In contrast to the normal trope though, when the original Steven realizes how scared and confused the "current" Steven (who is about to take the hourglass) is, he destroys the hourglass, [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing himself and the other Stevens]] besides the current one.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', Starscream gains the ability to make clones of himself that each possesses one facet of his personality. There's a sycophant, a compulsive liar, a coward, an egomaniac, and an OppositeSexClone ("YouDoNOTWantToKnow," she says... though she seems to be the part of him that's actually competent). Upon getting to know his clones better, he realizes one thing: "This is gonna be a long orbital cycle."

** It gets pretty messed up in the comic, when the Astral Drops suddenly gain independent souls, causing the original girls to be haunted by the spirits of their copies whenever they absorb them. The oracle eventually decides on turning the Astral drops into independent people with their own bodies, appearances and identities, which, however, leaves the girl's without cover-ups for their missions.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Sleepy Time", [=SpongeBob=] duplicates himself a million times in Patrick's dream to show him all the things he can do while dreaming. In "[=CopyBob DittoPants=]", Plankton clones [=SpongeBob=] and uses him a part of a plan to obtain the Krabby Patty Secret Formula, the failed attempt due to the real deal interacting with the first clone leads to Plankton cloning a whole bunch of [=SpongeBobs=].

* One [[HotAsHellDesire Demon]] in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' can create illusory duplicates of itself.
* Agent 47 of ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' is a clone of himself, being the 47th one. He ends up fighting a lot of himselves and in some cases his clones are trying to assassinate him. Er, it's complicated. Anyhow, he's apparently the superior clone.

->''"The best thing about being me: there's so many of me!"''
-->-- '''Agent Smith''', ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded''

* In ''VideoGame/TheFall'', One is part of a mass-produced series of androids who all cohabitate a region of the planet where they gradually develop a Hive Mind based on personal experiences which then filter into the server, being replicated by the Many.

These copies rarely count as persons in and of themselves. See CloningBlues and ExpendableClone. If they ''are'' counted as people, expect WhichMe.

** Twice, a supervillain with the power to duplicate people. However, he both plays the trope straight and subverts it: While he's fully capable of duplicating himself, he refuses to do it due to the fact that the last time he did it, [[CloningBlues the clones began killing one another]] and he sustained a near-lethal head injury. He's been driven to insanity ever since, to the point he's not sure whether he's himself or a clone anymore. [[spoiler:It turns out he is the real one, and this realization is what helps him start cutting loose with his self-duplication again.]]

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' turns this up to the max. Gav stepped through a duplicator device with ''950 million outputs'', and the clones now form a major sapient ethnicity and marketing demographic. CloningBlues eventually gets to Gav, and they start funding and implementing a program to physically and mentally distinguish themselves.

* The ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E7DoubleDipper Double Dipper]]" has Dipper making clones of himself with a strange copier machine. Avoids the EvilTwin trope because all of them are nice, but they insist on his carrying out a pre-arranged plan and try to stand in for him when he doesn't go along. There is also a damaged clone created by a paper jam. They have very little CloningBlues even though they know they are temporary and can be destroyed by water.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' uses this in the Riddler episode "What Is Reality", where he controls a virtual reality universe that follows his every whim. In the end, Batman faces off against the Riddler, who demonstrates his mastery of the domain by duplicating himself. Batman realizes he can do so as well, and the two get into a ridiculous arms race of clones. Eventually the Riddler's consciousness is spread too thin for him to maintain the simulation, and it collapses, with Riddler's mind still inside.

* Seen in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Benderama". Professor Farnsworth invents a machine that makes two smaller copies of any object. Bender uses it on himself to make two smaller clones to do his work for him. Then each of the clones makes two clones. And those clones make two more clones, and so on until the Earth is threatened by a GreyGoo of microscopic Benders.
* The ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Double Dipper" has Dipper making clones of himself with a strange copier machine. Avoids the EvilTwin trope because all of them are nice, but they insist on his carrying out a pre-arranged plan and try to stand in for him when he doesn't go along. There is also a damaged clone created by a paper jam. They have very little CloningBlues even though they know they are temporary and can be destroyed by water.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'', the MIB have the technology to produce "quickclones" that function as perfect copies of the original. The downside? After a few hours they start spitting [[TalkativeLoon Word Salad]] and melt into goo.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' "Too Many Pinkie Pies": Pinkie Pie is frustrated because she sometimes have to choose between different fun things that her friends are doing at the same time. She uses a magic pond to clone herself. Then the clone decides to clone itself, too, and so on. Pretty soon Ponyville is overrun with Pinkies and HilarityEnsues.

* The concept of ''[[WesternAnimation/ShortyMcshortsShorts The Imperfect Duplicates of Dodger Dare]]'' was that the titular Dodger found a magic photocopier that allowed him to create as many different duplicates of himself as he wanted. Hilariously, each of the copies looked nothing like Dodger, but no-one seemed to notice - they could also be destroyed by water.
* One of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Treehouse of Horror specials had Homer do this using a magic hammock (which the clones themselves end up using, causing them to degrade in quality until one of them comes out as [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter]] [[TakeThat Griffin]], until they all run off a cliff when baited by a giant donut). The {{twist|Ending}} was that it wasn't the original Homer that survived at the end. The real one was the first over the cliff, despite hearing Lisa tell everyone the plan.

* Wisp from ''ComicBook/{{Dreamkeepers}}'' has this as her power, splitting up parts of her personality as needed.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'' gained a duplicating alien form named Ditto. Anything that happens to one Ditto is felt by all of them. Given what happens to the Stinkfly clones, if one Ditto is destroyed, the rest will presumeably follow.
** In the ReTool into ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', the form called "Echo Echo" takes this role (minus the part about feeling each other's pain), but combines it with a weird look, a creepy voice and [[MakeMeWannaShout sonic powers]].

* This trope more or less sums up [[ComicBook/MultipleMan Jamie Madrox's]] power (triggered via physical impact), especially once he learned that his duplicates were independent and developed their own personalities the longer they remained separate from him. Only he doesn't stop with "at least one evil twin". ''Any'' personality trait can be literally embodied in one of his "dupes"; as well, he sent out dupes to master certain occupations and skills, which after the dupes are reabsorbed, he learns as well. (The latter is distinctly implied to be the cause of the former--though the "independent duplicate" problem had some prior precedents, but those had involved external factors interfering with Jamie's powers--it became a permanent issue after he had reabsorbed many of the dupes sent out to learn new abilities.)
** Warning: Combining the 'master certain occupations' and the 'evil twin' problem is VERY BAD!
** In the ''ComicBook/EarthX'' continuity, Madrox is an information broker, said to have a dupe in every major city on the planet. However, under dire circumstances and threat of starvation, Madrox is forced to [[ImAHumanitarian eat one of his dupes]], and [[EvilMakesYouMonstrous falls victim to the curse of the]] {{Wendigo}}--which is passed to every duplicate around the world. The heroes of Earth are forced to KillItWithFire to eradicate the threat of self-duplicating, flesh-eating monsters.
** At one point, Jamie is fighting a guy who claims to have "[[SuperStrength the strength of a hundred men]]". Jamie quips that in a second, so will he, then swarms the guy with a hundred dupes.
** He appeared in ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' cartoon (called Multiple Man) leading to this great one-liner when using his powers against ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}:
-->'''Wolverine:''' What is this, a two-for-one sale?
-->''{Madrox creates ten more copies of himself}''
-->'''Madrox:''' No, more like a baker's dozen!
** Damian Tryp also falls into this category, even though he's only pulled two versions of himself into the past. Doesn't stop him from causing a hell of a lot of trouble for Madrox and his team.
* One ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' story had all the different models of ComicBook/{{Ultron}} sharing a consciousness. In more recent years he's taken to creating entire armies of himself.
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Happened to Ben Grimm once, when his exoskeleton began shedding larvae that turned into clone-Grimms. The problem? They were almost ''all'' {{Evil Twin}}s. Reed was forced to trap Grimm and his duplicates in an alternate dimension while he looked for a solution. Ben, meanwhile, fought off his evil versions with the help of the few good clones he could find.

* The character Flashback, has a similar power--but he pulls his 'clones' from his own future.
** One of Flashback's future selves gets killed during a battle with ComicBook/AlphaFlight. This causes the original to go into [[HeroicBSOD Villainous BSOD]] because he now knows HOW he's going to die but not WHEN, which causes him to become afraid of being pulled into the past (which apparently he cannot control) because that could be the time he dies.
* ComicBook/{{Loki}} has has this power since the first Avengers story, though he uses it more frequently in the movies.
* ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} gained this as part of his new power set after exposure to the Terrigen Mists. He became a TimeMaster, able displace himself out of mainstream time and "jump" into the future as well as summon several time-displaced duplicates of himself.
* A variation with ComicBook/{{X 23}}, herself an OppositeSexClone of ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}: Laura lacks the ability to generate clones of herself, but the scientist heading the project to create her intended to mass produce her and sell the additional copies to the highest bidders. Laura's mother put a stop to this by sending her to destroy the embryos during her escape from the Facility while they were still in their test tubes. Later, the demon Blackheart ''actually'' succeeded in cloning her (and even worse, bonding these clones with a [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote]]). During Laura's confrontation with her "sisters", she briefly mused on whether they were sentient beings with the same right to exist as she did, but decided that regardless they were a significant threat that needed to be destroyed.
* This was shown in Marvel's LighterAndSofter ComicBook/MarvelAdventures imprint when, via some contrived means involving the aforementioned Jamie Madrox, the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] ended up with his power (including the physical impact trigger), filling the city with hundreds of different-personality Hulks wreaking havoc, due to the majority of the Hulks (predictably) reacting to duplicates of themselves by hitting them. There was even a hopeless romantic Hulk.
* In ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'', there are at least three [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Spider-Men]] (Peter, Miguel and Miles) running around, although at least one interview implies that there's a fourth and he/she is the one in the current costume.
* In ''ComicBook/AvengersStandoff'', there are two [[spoiler: Maria Hills]] running around, one who was [[spoiler: rescued by the Unity Squad]] and one who is [[spoiler: recruited the ANAD Avengers]] It's later revealed there are actually ''three'' of them - the real one [[spoiler: is still in Pleasant Hill]].
* In ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'', Doctor Strange casts a spell on Peter that allows him to talk to every noteworthy scientist, mystic, and healer in the Marvel universe at the same time, in an attempt to find a cure for Aunt May.
* In ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'', the objective behind the Jackal's "Carrion Bomb" is to turn the entire world's population into clones of Peter Parker.
** The Jackal himself uses entirely human clones of himself as minions.
* In issue #4 of the second volume of ''ComicBook/MsMarvel2014'', Kamala uses Bruno's artificial "human" experiment in order to clone herself and perform all her responsibilities (school, superheroing, being an Avenger, her brother's wedding).
* In ''ComicBook/GhostRider'', Lucifer's re-entry to Earth split him into six hundred and sixty six different fragments.
* [[ComicBook/SpiderMan The Sandman]] is capable of making clones of himself out of his sandy body. The drawback is that his different bodies can act out subconscious urges without him even being aware of it.
* In ''ComicBook/TheTombOfDracula'', Deacon Frost has the power to create doppelgangers out of his victims.
* Once Reed of the ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'' becomes The Maker, he becomes able to create false bodies from a hair-thin tendril. And after ComicBook/SecretWars2015, he gains a more cosmic form of this trope as his consciousness is linked across every alternate universe version of himself (Plus a deal with Molecule Man guarantees that ''every'' alternate universe has a Maker.)
* ComicBook/AnimalMan possesses the power to take on the abilities of any animals in his immediate vicinity. During the Creator/GrantMorrison run, in an arc where he was trapped in a cell with no animals nearby, he took on the attributes of a single-celled organism within his digestive system. Notably the ability to replicate himself through mitosis. Within ten seconds, he was able to outnumber his opponent.
* New Franchise/{{Batman}} villain White Rabbit is revealed in ''Batman The Dark Knight'' #7 to be [[spoiler:the duplicate of Jaina "Jai" Hudson. Jaina's pretty smart about this: her "duplicate" has different skin tone, eye color, and hair color, and wears an incredibly distracting PlayboyBunny outfit. Even then, Batman nearly figured out the truth, but was thrown off when "White Rabbit" appeared while he was on a date with Jaina.]]
* The ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyond'' comic introduces a LegacyCharacter of Catwoman, who is actually Multiplex's daughter and [[SuperpowerfulGenetics inherited his powers]]. This gets tied into her cat theme by calling her duplicates her [[CatsHaveNineLives nine lives]].

* Dr Bedlam (later Baron Bedlam) from ''ComicBook/NewGods'' is a disembodied intelligence who can possess a number of robot bodies.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** In [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] ComicBook/{{Superman}} comics, Superman employs a number of {{Robot Me}}s to cover for him to conceal his SecretIdentity. Their intelligence varies from one story to the next, but it is tacitly accepted that they are not truly self-aware (and are, therefore, expendable). When occasional [[AppliedPhlebotinum Phlebotinum]] causes one to ''become'' [[InstantAIJustAddWater genuinely self-aware,]] it's a big problem and HilarityEnsues. In UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}, the [[ExecutiveMeddling editors decided]] the robots were too much of a DeusExMachina, so they start malfunctioning (officially due to increased pollution levels in Earth's atmosphere) and Superman stops using them.
** A story had all the different models of ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}, whose mind not only inhabits every version of himself through the years (except the rebellious Brainiac 2/Vril Dox), but also an entire army of robotic drones.
** The villain Riot's powers work the same way as Madrox, with the added ability to clone himself at will.
** Alexander Luthor, Jr. can use his RealityWarper powers to create duplicates of himself that can exist independently of his main body.
* Triplicate Girl from ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' can, of course, split herself into three. [[ReTool Sometimes]] they're color-coded orange, white, and purple, (all of them are real regardless, but the cool thing is that the combined TG has a tricolor costume which splits into three mono color ones) and sometimes one of them dies while they're separated, making her into Duo Damsel. In the Threeboot continuity, the original Triplicate Girl was the sole intelligent survivor of some sort of apocalypse on her homeworld and could split and reemerge any number of selves, but when she/they was/were contacted by the United Planets, she/they split off the Legion's Triplicate Girl, who can only split out to three and won't be reabsorbed by any of her home selves because she's become too different and it worries them.

* Doctor Manhattan exhibits this ability in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', being intimate with his girlfriend Laurie with a copy of himself while a third is continuing to work in the lab.
* Seven Deadly Brothers of the ''ComicBook/GreatTen'' is one guy who can split into seven copies, and each copy retains a certain skill-set from the original.
* In the ''ComicBook/TeenTitansGo'' story "Pieces of Me", Raven's "emoticlones" are let loose by accident, and several of them run amuck throughout the city.
* One of ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'s lesser-known abilities is this trope. Should Lobo shed blood, the blood will reconstitute itself into another Lobo. Thus, a battle that could go poorly for the Main Man could quickly turn in his favor. Then, keeping with Lobo's desire to be the only one around, they'll murder each other until one survives. Vril Dox of [[ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics L.E.G.I.O.N.]] disabled this power, but was unwittingly reactivated after the events of ''Sins of Youth''.
* In ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'', the Engineer can create clones of herself. It got to the point where she makes herself into a literal [[OneManArmy army]]. There are instances in which she has sex with Jack Hawksmoor while giving a speech at United Nations, or destroying entire fleets of mooks while resuscitating a kid.
** Her case is a little different, though, as she creates robots, not clones - all her other selves are still controlled by her.
* In ''ComicBook/DarkEmpire'', Luke Skywalker is able to make one doppleganger to rescue his friends and help them escape the BigBad while he stays behind to fight said BigBad. The doppleganger dissolves into light soon after entering hyperspace. He never has this power again, and Leia refers to it as a Sith technique.
* Wisp from ''ComicBook/{{Dreamkeepers}}'' has this as her power, splitting up parts of her personality as needed.
* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'': Villainess Array has the ability to not only create multiple bodies, but also give them different skills/abilities (or even a different ''species''). Her name comes from the side effect of this power: when she recalls the ''body'', it's ''consciousness'' stays behind in her head. Fortunately, they're all pretty much of the same mind (they all love her boyfriend, for example), and if she needs the same ability again, she can re-create any of them when needed, so her mind only gets more crowded if she needs some new power/skill set.
* ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' has the Mauler Twins, who are apparently a super-strong villain/mercenary type and his clone, neither of whom knows which is which because the original's memories were duplicated along with his body. This results in them working together relatively peacefully aside from the constant dispute, because while the idea was for the clone to serve the original, their shared memories essentially make them equals. [[spoiler:Eventually, one of them is killed and the other has his body half burned and tries again, resulting in the original lording it over the new, obviously unburned clone until he gets poisoned and the ''clone'' tries again and manages to restore the status quo with the argument becoming about which is the lower-generation clone but once more unsolvable.]]
** [[MeaningfulName Dupli-Kate]] from the same series is a heroic version. [[spoiler:Her brother Multi-Paul is out there somewhere, as well. Also, she's not as dumb as any of the guys who send all their selves off to battle. Among other things, she normally keeps her real self ''far'' away from the fighting, so that even if all of her clones are killed she'll be completely safe.]]
* In the Danish ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'' story ''All Of Me'', Mickey uses Eega Beeva's copying gun to make a clone of himself so that he could help Minnie shopping and go to a video arcade with Goofy. Unluckily, the clone starts replicating himself on its own and soon enough, there's a dozen of Mickey clones that keep replicating. When it gets out of control, the clones steal the gun and try to replicate the whole Earth for themselves... from an airplane. It only results in a copied piece of land appearing in the middle of a river as a new island, which the clones decide to inhabit anyway, until there's so many of them that the island begins to sink under their weight. Eventually, Eega Beeva saves the clones by teleporting them all to a nice uninhabited planet he saw once, making sure to stop the cloning process first.

* ''ComicBook/NinjaHighSchool'' had Jeremy accidentally photocopy himself into 100 variations, each one with different aspects of his personality.
* Dr. Positron in ''ComicBook/PS238''. There are several Dr Positron androids, with slightly different personalities.

* Minor ''ComicBook/TopTen'' character Multi-Woman can make several versions of herself, each with a different superpower.
* ''Legends of Webcomic/ZitaTheSpacegirl'' introduces Doppelganger, a small alien circus performer, who as his name suggests can make multiple copies of himself. As a bonus, each copy has a leotard with a unique symbol and/or color. (See WebComics folder for another Zita example.)
%% Needs Context * In ''ComicBook/PrideHigh'', this is Unison's power.
* In ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'', PK's new suit can generate "trididensomorphic holograms", which are in fact solid and can act on their own. The downside is that it consumes a lot of energy.
* In ''ComicBook/StreetFighter Unlimited'', Vega attacks the heroes with Doll-like clones of himself.
* The [=PSmith=] of ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'' have a cloning-based reproduction system. As a consequence, every individual is physically and genetically identical.
* In ''ComicBook/LesLegendaires'', Dark Shimy can use her elemental powers to produce a seemingly infinite amount of earth-based clones of herself in order to attack.
* In the ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'' series, Buster Rog G. can make three copies of himself.
* In ''ComicBook/NineteenSixtyThree'', Crystal Man can grow separate clone-bodies of his crystal form.

* ''Series/Charmed1998'': One story in the Zenescope comic has Wyatt making clones of his mother Piper to do her chores for her so she can spend more time with him.

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''
** Bill Watterson had a storyline like this, where Calvin uses a "duplicator" to make copies of himself, who turn out to be disobedient jerkasses like the original. Eventually he gets fed up with the copies, and turns them into earthworms (but Calvin being Calvin, the clones aren't inclined to complain: they're all "Cool! Let's go gross someone out!"). This story appears in the collection ''Scientific Progress Goes Boink'', which is apparently named after and based on this story.