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** Every copy that Molly creates is fully sentient and believes themselves to be the original, and this ends up creating a CloningBlues situation where they all get an existential crisis due to not being able to tell who’s the original anymore. And that’s not even getting into all the problems and consequences on Molly’s life that comes with having several copies of herself just running around the place, thinking that they’re the real Molly and confusing everyone around them.

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** Molly can create copies of herself, but once she does, she can’t make them disappear. Every copy that Molly creates is fully sentient and believes themselves to be the original, and this ends up creating a CloningBlues situation where they all get an existential crisis due to not being able to tell who’s the original anymore. And that’s not even getting into all the problems and consequences on Molly’s life that comes with having several copies of herself just running around the place, thinking that they’re the real Molly and confusing everyone around them.
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** Molly’s duplication powers require her to [[PowerAtAPrice pay a horrible price to do it]]. It may require her to sacrifice bits and pieces of herself via BodyHorror, come in the form of a LovecraftianSuperpower, or maybe every duplicate that she creates [[HumanSacrifice requires an innocent victim to be sacrified]] or [[AssimilationPlot converted into a copy of Molly]] in exchange.

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** Molly’s duplication powers require her to [[PowerAtAPrice pay a horrible price to do it]]. It may require her to sacrifice bits and pieces of herself via BodyHorror, it may come in the form of a LovecraftianSuperpower, LovecraftianSuperpower that involves a lot of {{Squick}}, or maybe every duplicate that she creates [[HumanSacrifice requires an innocent victim to be sacrified]] or [[AssimilationPlot converted into a copy of Molly]] in exchange.

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* '''Played for Drama''': Every time Molly clones herself, she loses a little bit of her [[OurSoulsAreDifferent soul]].

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* '''Played for Drama''': Drama''':
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Every time Molly clones herself, she loses a little bit of her [[OurSoulsAreDifferent soul]].
** Every copy that Molly creates is fully sentient and believes themselves to be the original, and this ends up creating a CloningBlues situation where they all get an existential crisis due to not being able to tell who’s the original anymore. And that’s not even getting into all the problems and consequences on Molly’s life that comes with having several copies of herself just running around the place, thinking that they’re the real Molly and confusing everyone around them.

* '''Played for Horror''':
** Molly’s duplication powers require her to [[PowerAtAPrice pay a horrible price to do it]]. It may require her to sacrifice bits and pieces of herself via BodyHorror, come in the form of a LovecraftianSuperpower, or maybe every duplicate that she creates [[HumanSacrifice requires an innocent victim to be sacrified]] or [[AssimilationPlot converted into a copy of Molly]] in exchange.
** One day, Molly goes insane and decides to create several billions of Molly clones to TakeOverTheWorld. Humanity fights valiantly against this unexpected threat, but unlike Molly, who can create endless waves of clones to fight for her, mankind’s numbers are numbers are limited, and eventually, through a combination of ZergRush and VictoryByEndurance due to having literally infinite soldiers at her disposal, she eventually wins. Now, the world must bow to our new EvilOverlord who can literally be everywhere at once, and who can outnumber us a million-to-one just by wishing it.
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* '''Discussed'':

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* '''Discussed'': '''Discussed''':
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* '''Deconstructed''': Molly's clones are revealed to have sentience of their own, so she [[ExpendableClone feels guilty for treating them as]] [[ClonesAreExpendable expendable]].

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* '''Deconstructed''': Molly's clones are revealed to have sentience of their own, so she [[ExpendableClone feels guilty for treating them as]] [[ClonesAreExpendable as expendable]].
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* '''Deconstructed''': Molly's clones are revealed to have sentience of their own, so she [[WhatMeasureIsAClone feels guilty for treating them as]] [[ClonesAreExpendable expendable]].

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* '''Deconstructed''': Molly's clones are revealed to have sentience of their own, so she [[WhatMeasureIsAClone [[ExpendableClone feels guilty for treating them as]] [[ClonesAreExpendable expendable]].

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Straight: Molly has the ability to duplicate herself, having her many clones to do her bidding.

Exaggerated: Molly can duplicate herself as many as she wants, sometime forming armies of clones of herself to flood the place.

Subverted: Molly can't make perfect duplicates of herself.

Double subverted: Until she learns to.

Played with: Molly can duplicate herself, but her clones have their own personality.

Parodied: Molly can duplicate herself, only for them to be obviously imperfect.

Defied: Molly doesn't like to duplicate herself as it causes identity issues.

Discussed: "So Molly, how many yous can you make, and are you a problem solver?"
"How do I know which Molly is the real Molly?"

Played for laughs: Molly has problems controlling her self duplication, which causes for hilarity ensues scenarios.

Played for drama: Molly learns to accept her duplicates, and work together as a team.

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Straight: * '''Straight''': Molly has the ability to duplicate herself, having her many clones to do her bidding.

Exaggerated: * '''Exaggerated''':
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Molly can duplicate herself as many as she wants, sometime sometimes forming armies of clones of herself to flood the place.

Subverted: Molly can't make perfect duplicates of herself.

Double subverted: Until she learns to.

Played with:
place.
** Molly's clones can create clones.

* '''Downplayed''':
Molly can duplicate herself, but only one clone at a time.

* '''Justified''': Molly is a singe-celled organism.

* '''Inverted''':
** TwoBeingsOneBody
** FusionDance

* '''Subverted''': What appeared to be Molly splitting into two was actually a prank played with
her clones have their own personality.

Parodied:
identical twin.

* '''Double Subverted''': That was just an excuse she used to hide her powers.

* '''Parodied''':
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Molly can duplicate herself, only for them to be obviously imperfect.

Defied:
imperfect.
** Molly, being a single-celled organism, performs mitosis. This is treated as a magnificent superpower.

* '''Defied''':
Molly doesn't like to duplicate herself as it causes identity issues.

Discussed: * '''Discussed'':
**
"So Molly, how many yous can you make, and are you a problem solver?"
solver?"
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"How do I know which Molly is the real Molly?"

Played * '''Played for laughs: Laughs''': Molly has problems controlling her self duplication, which causes self-duplication. HilarityEnsues.

* '''Played
for hilarity ensues scenarios.

Played for drama:
Drama''': Every time Molly learns to accept clones herself, she loses a little bit of her duplicates, and work together as a team.[[OurSoulsAreDifferent soul]].

* '''Deconstructed''': Molly's clones are revealed to have sentience of their own, so she [[WhatMeasureIsAClone feels guilty for treating them as]] [[ClonesAreExpendable expendable]].
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Straight: Molly has the ability to duplicate herself, having her many clones to do her bidding.

Exaggerated: Molly can duplicate herself as many as she wants, sometime forming armies of clones of herself to flood the place.

Subverted: Molly can't make perfect duplicates of herself.

Double subverted: Until she learns to.

Played with: Molly can duplicate herself, but her clones have their own personality.

Parodied: Molly can duplicate herself, only for them to be obviously imperfect.

Defied: Molly doesn't like to duplicate herself as it causes identity issues.

Discussed: "So Molly, how many yous can you make, and are you a problem solver?"
"How do I know which Molly is the real Molly?"

Played for laughs: Molly has problems controlling her self duplication, which causes for hilarity ensues scenarios.

Played for drama: Molly learns to accept her duplicates, and work together as a team.

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