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The Duplicants

A Duplicant is one of the tiny, frustrating, but also endearing clones that the player manages in Oxygen Not Included. Each is generated or printed to be unique and has specific needs and vitals that must be fulfilled so they can survive. A new game begins with a selection dialog where the player has to select three randomly generated duplicants (or dupes), with more obtainable as the game progresses.—-

• A Day in the Limelight: The animated shorts give the spotlight to certain individual Duplicants. Ada, Banhi, and Meep are some notable Dupes who've gotten multiple animations.
• Cast of Snowflakes: Each Duplicant has a unique name, stress reaction and happy reaction, and a unique design that helps them stand out. Although some of them do share hairstyles and other traits on occasion, it's not hard to tell each Duplicant apart from each other. Some like Mi-Ma, Meep and Stinky are completely unique in design, too.
• Clone Angst: Averted. None of the Duplicants have any issues being clones. In fact, they gain a small boost to morale everytime a Duplicant is printed.
• Genius Ditz: Capable of creating and operating complex scientific apparatuses, but they will pee themselves on the spot if they can't find a bathroom, get stuck in corners and stand around until they die if you don't intervene, and overall be incredibly frustrating to keep alive.
• Hereditary Hairstyle: Each Duplicant has a unique hairstyle that repeats for every instance of themselves no matter what. Sideburns, hairbuns, color streaks.
• Our Clones Are Different: They're two feet tall, humanoid looking clone people created by a powerful 3D printer. They're born fully grown, but with several mental deficiencies and mutations (no feet for one) due to skipping out on the formative years. You can end up with multiple of a given Duplicant on any given run. They're also actual clones from several Gravitas employees from before the events of the game. You can discover in data logs employees that have their names.
• Manchild: Due to being born fully grown, most Duplicants aren't all there in the head. The animations plays around with this trope, with some Duplicants being more mature than others.
• Me's a Crowd: You can end up with multiple of a given Duplicant during a run depending on how RNG is feeling. Their individual descriptions acknowledge this, referring to them as an instance of their name, like "every Ren", "a Catalina", and so on.
• Too Dumb to Live: The Duplicants are not bright. They will dig wherever you point at them without regards for where they're doing it, will break important equipment if they get too stressed out, pee in your water supply when you're not looking, and many other stupid mistakes that will either kill the Duplicant or outright end the colony. It's justified due to them being born as adults, meaning a lot of their mental faculties aren't up to snuff.