History Main / SelfDuplication

''Anime/GaoGaiGarFINAL'', The 11 Planetary Masters of Sol are revived with dozens of copies of themselves in the last battle after Palus Abel orders Pisa Sol to use the Pas-Q machine to its fullest. [[spoiler:Which is ''exactly'' what GGG [[BatmanGambit wanted them to do]], by having them overuse the Pas-Q to have it weaken enough to a state where it and the Sol Masters can be destroyed]].

* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun'', the arc's BigBad [[spoiler:[[PresidentEvil President]] Funny Valentine]] stand allows them to pull copies of themselves to fight and to remain effectively immortal (as all clones share the same memories) or of others to [[spoiler:''[[ExpendableClone blow]] [[NeverTheSelvesShallMeet them up]]'']]

* Nico Robin has acquired to do the ability to do this during the TimeSkip in ''Manga/OnePiece''.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'' has the Multi-Form Technique, developed by Tenshinhan, which splits the user into four bodies ([[ConservationOfNinjutsu though each body is only 1/4 the strength of the original]]). Krillin, Piccolo, and others utilize the technique or variations of it throughout the series.

** Bizarro can do this, but only under the light of a blue sun. He used this ability to create his own versions of Superman's friends and enemies, [[OppositeSexClone including Lois Lane]]. This is how [[BizarroUniverse Bizarro World]] was populated.

* In ''Film/{{Supergirl}}'', Selena creates magical shadows of herself during the battle at the amusement park.

* Penny from ''Film/SkyHigh2005'', a film about a high school for superheroes, uses her power to make herself into her own one-woman [[TheCheerleader Cheerleading team]] and GirlPosse.

* ComicBook/ShangChi recently gained this power during ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers.

* ''Animation/EjenAli'': The young INVISO agent named Moon has holographic technology embedded in her suit that allows her to cause clones of herself to appear, which proves useful in confusing enemies.

* ''Manga/AizawaSanMultiplies'': Title character Shino Aizawa gains the ability to duplicate herself after falling into a ditch. Each of her duplicates are based off of the specific emotions she felt at the time of their manifestation. The biggest trait they all share are romantic feelings for Souta Mizutani, leading to comic situations as he deals with Shino and her duplicates.

* ''Manga/AizawaSanMultiplies'': Title character Shino Aizawa gains the ability to duplicate herself after
after falling into a ditch. Each of her duplicates are based off of the specific emotions she felt
at the time of their manifestation. The biggest trait they all share are romantic feelings for Souta Mizutani, leading to comic situations as he deals with Shino and her duplicates.

* ''Literature/PostSelf'': The uploaded can fork themselves fairly easily, and by the 24th century have adopted two general philosophies. Taskers create short-term forks for specific tasks and then re-integrate them, while Dispersionistas form whole "clades" of long-lived forks that can diverge to significant degrees from their originals.

** Twice can make copies of himself and other people as well, except he has no control over them and refuses to use his power on himself ever since his copies rebelled against him in the past, [[PowerIncontinence and has to wear a mask in order to prevent himself from splitting involuntarily]]. [[spoiler: He gets over it in the Meta Liberation Army Arc, when Skeptic tries to kill Toga, and creates a truly ''[[ZergRush massive]]'' swarm of clones to crush the Army]].

** ''Comicbook/{{Hardware}}'' villain Reprise can duplicate himself, as well as his weaponry.

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** Tiol, as a result of his EmergencyTransformation at the hands of MadScientist Yatsubiyashi turning him into a TragicMonster human hybrid, serves as a MookMaker using the resources he eats as an ExtremeOmnivore which get recycled by {{Nanomachines}} into new bio-mechanical machines that spring from his body. These eventually get refined enough to be RemoteBody copies of Tiol, and an entire swarm of them dog-pile Akira from the rooftops of the ruins.
** Pamela, a RobotMaster who is a prodigy at handling RemoteBody RobotMaid automatons (maids are part of her company’s theme), eventually makes a unit of them that not only share her face, but creepily [[UncannyValley all perfectly match her current expression]].

* Agent Smith from ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' due to his ex-agent ability to hijack blue pills being accidently altered by Neo, he had gained the ability to copy himself, overriding blue pills, red pills and even matrix programs over and over again like a computer virus, needless to say when he meets Neo once again there are a lot more Smiths than Neos.
* In ''Film/CultOfChucky'', [[spoiler: it turns out that Chucky has learned how to copy his soul onto multiple bodies at once. In addition to the original, currently held prisoner by Andy, he possesses three other Good Guy dolls over the course of the film, and ultimately Nica as well. And it turns out that he taught Tiffany the same trick.]]
* In ''Film/SmartHouse'', the holographic PAT demonstrates the ability to appear in multiple places at the same time.
* In ''Film/{{Supergirl}}'', Selena creates magical shadows of herself during the battle at the amusement park.

* In ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'', the ubiquity of BrainUploading technology means that anyone can copy their mind-state and download it into a secondary body. This process is known as 'forking'. People can generate several types of forks - alpha forks are full, one-to-one copies of the primary ego. Beta forks are 'pruned' copies of the ego, usually with reduced skillsets and substantial memory loss, and are often created to perform a specific task. Delta forks are the most rudimentary type of fork, more like generic AIs with a personality template than full beings. When a fork's task is complete, it is usually merged back into the primary ego. However, depending on how long it's been since the fork was generated and how much the two minds have diverged, reintegration may be more difficult or even impossible. Up to a day of separation is acceptable, but at a week or more, substantial mental damage becomes a risk. The legality and morality of forking is disputed within the setting, and varies depending on which polity the characters are in - under some governments, forks are considered property, not sentient beings in their own right, or vice versa. Forking is a taboo subject in many places.

%%* ''VideoGame/Run3'': The Duplicator does exactly what you think he does.
* ''VideoGame/{{Grow}}'': The onkies can sometime do this, which allows them to do some teamworks.

* [[https://competor.itch.io/duplicators This Puzzlescript game.]] Too bad the monsters can do the same. You can even TeleFrag yourself again if you [[VideoGame/{{Sokoban}} stand in the way of yourself]] (but make sure that it aren't your last two personas).

* Cassidy/Flash Cut's main power in ''WebComic/SleeplessDomain'': she uses her [[ShearMenace giant scissors]] to split herself into two people, each clone wielding half the pair of scissors as a sword.

* Troika of the Literature/WhateleyUniverse can split into three identical people, while OMAG can split into at least six people but the duplicates don't seem to have the autonomy that Troika's dupes do.

* Sebastian from ''WebVideo/ThePlatoonOfPowerSquadron'' can multiply herself. She mostly uses her power to get off work and to have someone to play video games with. Unfortunately, after a certain number of copies they get a little unstable and less like herself. [[spoiler:One of them even left to move in with her boyfriend due to constantly being treated like she's just a clone.]]

* Flynt Coal from ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' can create four copies of himself, typically to amplify his trumpet weapon.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Too Many Pinkie Pies", Pinkie finds a magic pool that allows her to do this. She ends up cloning herself to be able to spend more time with her friends. Then things get worse.

** Most notable of these is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_%28tree%29 Pando]], a 100 acre large connected Quaking Aspen colony with 43,000 individuals estimated to be over [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 80,000 years old]].

** A Mutant called Clay who has similar duplicating abilities as Jamie Madrox was hired to assassinate the latter, in the series ''Madrox''.

* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': The title character can create 2 extra copies of himself that function independently so he can use 3 elemental powers at once. [[spoiler: Later in the series he can now have 7 copies active at maximum, and at minimum 2 when he uses fusion.]]

** ComicBook/{{Firestorm}} villain Multiplex, who gets this power as well as super strength.

* ''Franchise/{{Ben 10}}'':
** Ditto from the [[WesternAnimation/{{Ben10}} original series]] could do this but if one of the copies was harmed it would affect everyone of them.

** In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' we get to see Ditto's natural predator who can also self duplicate.

* Figment has this ability in ''Ride/JourneyIntoImagination'' at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Epcot]], with there being an entire scene of his own clones running around.