History Main / SendInTheClones

Not to be confused with FollowTheLeader, which is when the industry Sends in Clones of a popular work. Does not necessarily have to do with CloneAngst or its subtropes. May overlap with OpeningACanOfClones or MesACrowd. Compare FountainOfExpies.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/367889.html#cutid1 Baron Fel]] was introduced as the Empire's best pilot since Vader died. He compared himself to Luke Skywalker, and not entirely without cause -- both of them were farmboys who loved to fly, both of them found unexpected familiar ties to the other side. When the [[Literature/XWingSeries Rogue Squadron]] comics ended, Creator/TimothyZahn took the character in the Literature/HandOfThrawn duology and had clones of Fel stationed on various Imperial-held worlds. They turned out to be good guys.

* In ''Series/DarkAngel'' many of the X-5s have several clones, in the first season finale Max destroyed the stockpile of embryos so more wouldn't be born. When she was recaptured they tried breeding her the old fashioned way.

Not to be confused with FollowTheLeader, which is when the industry Sends in Clones of a popular work. Does not necessarily have to do with CloneAngest or its subtropes. May overlap with OpeningACanOfClones or MesACrowd. Compare FountainOfExpies.

Not to be confused with FollowTheLeader, which is when the industry Sends in Clones of a popular work. Does not necessarily have to do with CloningBlues or its subtropes. May overlap with OpeningACanOfClones or MesACrowd. Compare FountainOfExpies.

** "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E1Rebirth Rebirth]]" opens with the entire cast except Prof. Farnsworth being mutilated in a horrible shipwreck. Farnsworth dumps the remains into a vat of [[HollywoodScience "adult stem cells harvested from perfectly normal adults whom he killed for their stem cells"]] and reincarnates his entire team. Later, after most of the episode was centered around CloningBlues via a robot double of Leela, it turns out that [[spoiler:Fry]] wasn't really reborn, but is actually [[RobotMe a robot double himself]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "Kimitation Nation", [[MadScientist Dr. Drakken]] initially wants to create an army of Shego clones. She rejects the idea, so instead he creates [[EvilKnockoff clones of Kim herself]], accidentally creating several clones of Bonnie, Ron, and Rufus as well.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' ends with Batman visiting several {{Alternate Universe}}s to gather a half-dozen counterparts of ''himself'' to defeat a large gang of villains (including his EvilTwin) and rescue the captured heroes. Cue ClimacticBattleResurrection. For added Awesome the other Bats were all {{Shout Out}}s to several ''{{Elseworlds}}'' comic versions of Batman.

** "I Dated A Robot" has an army of robo-Lucy Lius.
** In "Benderama", Bender does this with a machine that makes two smaller duplicates of himself. Those duplicates repeat the process ''ad infinitum'' creating uncountable Benders at increasingly smaller sizes. They eventually turn into a GreyGoo.
** "Rebirth" opened with the entire cast except Prof. Farnsworth being mutilated in a horrible shipwreck. Farnsworth dumps the remains into a vat of [[HollywoodScience "adult stem cells harvested from perfectly normal adults whom he killed for their stem cells"]] and reincarnates his entire team. Later, after most of the episode was centered around CloningBlues via a robot double of Leela, it turns out that [[spoiler:Fry]] wasn't really reborn, but is actually [[RobotMe a robot double himself]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode, "Double Dipper", Dipper finds that Grunkle Stan's copier can make human clones. Dipper uses it on himself in an overly complicated attempt to impress Wendy at a dance. The Dipper clones all have a slightly lighter hue, all have numbers drawn on their cap and can be destroyed with water; other than that, there's absolutely no difference between the Dippers both mentally and physically [[CloneDegeneration (except for the one who got caught in a copy jam)]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E3TooManyPinkiePies "Too Many Pinkie Pies",]] Pinkie clones herself with a legendary Mirror Pool in order to spend maximum hanging out time with her friends. All the clones look identical to the original Pinkie, but behave like [[{{Flanderization}} flat, exaggerated versions of the original]].
* An episode ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' has the titular mice meeting hundreds of hundreds of themselves, but caused by time travel, not cloning.

* One of the ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' specials from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had Homer buy a magic hammock that cloned him whenever he sat in it. He starts off using clones for doing chores for him, but once one of them murders Ned Flanders, Homer has to get rid of it. He abandons the clones (numbering about 15) and the hammock in a back country road, and then the clones proceed to use it to make more and more clones. When this starts being a problem, they fly giant donuts from helicopters and all the clones fall into a canyon lemmings style. The short itself was called [[NameDrop "Send in the Clones".]]

* This was what Zander Rice of the Facility intended to do with Comicbook/{{X 23}}: he created another thirty-odd clones to sell to the highest bidder and rake in the cash. When Sarah turns X loose to destroy the Facility and escape, shutting down the cloning project is one of her mission objectives.

* In the VideoGame/StarCraft / WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic crossover ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/101250/the-koprulu-sector The Koprulu Sector]]'' the Dominion uses cloning to fuel their rapid population growth. Since the DNA has to be taken from foals it's not uncommon for parents to sell their kids' genomes. Jet Stream for instance is a clone of Scootaloo, and the side story [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/122953/born-of-sin Born of Sin]] reveals that [[spoiler: Scoots is actually a clone herself, the original Scootaloo was a stillborn [[OppositeSexClone colt]] and she was part of the parents' compensation for allowing a SuperSoldier project to use their child's genes to produce an army.]]

* ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', in which 578,000 million clones of a girl Lintilla were produced due to a malfunctioning cloning machine.

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* Fighter in Webcomic/EightBitTheater puts himself on multiple teams, once even multiple times, appearing in multiple places at once, [[AchievementsInIgnorance because he didn't know he couldn't]].

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Misaka Mikoto. Actual army of clones, another loli-clone, yet another clone who is the first, original clone [[spoiler: and an upgraded clone army.]], plus a similar-looking mom, if that counts. Because getting her own SpinOff manga wasn't enough for her fans, it seems.

* In a ''[[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Slayers Book Of Spells]]'' episode concerning chimeras and copies (magical clones), Naga the White Serpent was cloned ten times. Cue eleven Nagas performing her signature NoblewomansLaugh.

Not to be confused with FollowTheLeader, which is when the industry Sends in Clones of a popular work. Does not necessarily have to do with CloningBlues or its subtropes. May overlap with OpeningACanOfClones.

* Frank Herbert's ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' books: [[spoiler: Duncan Idaho. In a series that spans ten thousand years, Duncan Idaho is the only character to survive all six books, even though he dies in the first]].

* At the end of ''VideoGame/HitmanCodename47'', 47, who is a clone himself, has to kill a pack of other upgraded clones before taking out their creator.

* [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex Misaka Mikoto]] takes this UpToEleven. Actual army of clones, another loli-clone, yet another clone who is the first, original clone [[spoiler: and an upgraded clone army.]], plus a similar-looking mom, if that counts. Because getting her own SpinOff manga wasn't enough for her fans, it seems.