Characters.The Roboutian Heresy Legiones Astartes: Just like his canon counterpart, his speciality is cloning and gene-forging. This version also exaggerates it with the Black Legion, that in this time is composed of a significant numbers of warbands derived from clones and modified astartes.
ComicBook.Exiles: One storyline featured the use of an army of alternate reality Wolverines to deal with an alternate reality Wolverine. The Annual in which the Exiles find out about an alternate reality team of Exiles. How do you defeat an evil Hyperion? Why you send two good Hyperions to fight him of course!
VideoGame.Mega Man Battle Network 2: During the final act, ProtoMan is briefly seen fighting many duplicates of Gospel navis. When the heroes go Storming the Castle, Gospel is able to send in clones of MegaMan's allies as well.
Characters.Marvel Comics Madelyne Pryor: A story set shortly before the events of Avengers vs. X-Men had Mr. Sinister create six clones of her to control the Phoenix Force with. These clones had none of Maddie's personality though, and were mostly just soulless husks following whatever orders Sinister gave them.
Characters.Mayor Vine: Vinny speculates that she was cloned after she first left Da Burbs, as she doesn't recognize Mayor Vine when he visits her in another town, and when she moves back to Da Burbs she still doesn't recognize him, nor does she remember even living there.
Manga.Giant Robo: In The Siege of Babel, a mass produced army of GR-1's are commanded by Daisaku to be his personal body guards replacing his previous 3 servants during his time as Big Fire.
ComicBook.Ultimate Spider Man: The Clone Saga, 'natch. Which thankfully was handled much better here then the original series. For one thing, rather than running for several years, it was tied up in less than 10 issues. And for another, they make it pretty clear who the clones are, and there's only five of them.
Music.Destiny Fulfilled: The premise of the “Lose My Breath” music video. Three versions of Destiny’s Child appear to dance battle each other: a prim and proper version in identically stylish red suits; an urban version donning streetwear; and a “fierce” version, styled in furs and heels, appears towards the end of the video to join the fray.
Literature.Otherland: Not only are there versions of Finney and Mudd in almost every part of Otherland, Dread makes thousands of virtual copies of himself for the express purpose of destroying everything in sight.
ComicBook.Valerian: Expecting a high attrition rate for his mission in "On the False Earths", Valérian was cloned into dozens of short-lived copies. Most of them were expended in one go when the mission manager dressed them up as German soldiers, and sent them to battle in a live-action reenactment of a WW1 trench charge.
Manga.Azur Lane Comic Anthology: Chapter 2, Volume 14 has San Diego using super-deformed clones of herself to act as her back-up dancers.
Recap.Stargate SG 1 S 9 E 7 Ex Deus Machina: The team discovers that Ba'al has been experimenting with cloning, and the final scene shows that there are at least four of him on Earth.
Characters.Superman General Zod: In Pre-Crisis continuity, he tried to take over Krypton with an army of Bizarro clones of himself.
Characters.Otherland: Of himself, in Otherland, once he gains control of the system.
VideoGame.Phantasy Star Universe: Renvolt Magashi is actually a Copy CAST of Howzer... and there's more than one of him. Helga is revealed to be a clone made from SEED cells. And, like Magashi, there's more than one of her.
Podcast.The Old Oilhouse: Adam has often brought up his plans to clone an army from Matt (aka King Grimmy, podcaster from a different transformers podcast). His reasoning for cloning him range from Take Over the World to just for something to put on the shelf.
Characters.Tekken 2: Of Armor King mostly. A persistent justification seems to be that Armor King trained him.
ComicBook.Wolverines: With Sinister as the primary antagonist, this goes without saying. The Wolverines encounter an army of Ben Reillys while the Paradise Crew has to deal with a clone of Fin Fang Foom (with a clone of Thor as his tongue). All of Sinister's mooks we see are clones with Theme Naming.In #16 Sinister is revealed to have created clones of Daken using his arm.
Characters.Nier: They manage to create several Kainé copies from the time she still wielded her twin blades. Boy: You are strong. We have taken the liberty of sampling that strength. Girl: We reproduced you from the point in your journey in which you were strongest. Kainé: Son of a... Are those things me!?
Characters.The Batman Antagonists: His "Quantex" device allows him to do this. He can even produce copies of objects, which allows him to steal pieces of art and replace them with worthless copies.
Recap.Transformers Prime S 2 E 10 Armada: Starscream attempts to use this to eliminate Megatron. Even with the death of one clone at the hands of Bulkhead, the plan nearly works until Airachnid's army of Insecticons attack, allowing Megatron to catch them off guard.
Webcomic.Narbonic: Amazon Women of Mars all look the same, because they're template shapeshifters and they only have one template. That of mme Narbon. Later they aquire Madblood's template and happily transform into his shape.
Webcomic.Something Happens: Two parents feel their son Kyle is so successful they clone him into Kyle II — Kyle III, and Kyle IV: A New Beginning.
WesternAnimation.Exo Squad: Surrounded by Idiots: Phaeton usually blames military failures on the incompetence of his Generals. Fair enough, but he also acts surprised when clones of those same Generals fail him again.Late in the series, Draconis' clone bemoans that he must pay the price for one of his predecessors betraying Phaeton, having been relegated to a miserable assignment. Draconis is probably the only example of Phaeton learning from his mistakes.
VideoGame.Crying Suns: Gehenna production facility allows for this, creating clones of yourself and your crew as well as manufacturing battle ships for them and sending them out into the systems to save the Empire - as well as replacement for those too, if/once you fail. It's been doing this for decades before the game starts and your "first" clone sets out.
Exalted.Tropes Q To Z: A series of Adorjan Charms in 2nd Edition introduced in The Broken-Winged Crane allow Infernals to create an army of clones. High-Essense Infernals can even use their clones as instantaneous Body Backup Drives in case of unforeseen death.
Characters.Blazing Souls Accelate: Your fight against her has you figthing clones of Zelos in both his Coreless and Ignis variants. And they're SUPER tough to crack with nearly 245k HP each, are immune to status effects, and can perfectly replicate Zelos' Heaven's Drive. The worst part? Her Doppelganger fight pulls the same maneuver with even tougher copies.
StargateSG1.Tropes S To Z: Ba'al's clones (to great comedic effect) and, to a much lesser extent, the Asgard.
Characters.Sentinels Of The Multiverse Villains I To W: Out of Focus: The Skinwalker Crisis Crossover has Gloomweaver raise Spite from the dead, then assume direct control of his corpse as part of his plan to return to the world of the living... or that's what was supposed to happen, had the OblivAeon event not cut the Skinwalker storyline short in the metafiction. With Spite dead again and Gloomweaver trapped in the oblivion shard of Doctor Medico, neither play any part in the battle with OblivAeon (on either side), the game's only non-team villains other than the Chairman not to appear. Of course, at least in the Tactics timeline, that means it's time to create a small army of drug-fueled Spite clones after the fact.
Characters.I Am Setsuna: Sends her clone, Aeterna, to guide the sacrifice to the Last Lands.
BlueAndOrangeMorality.Anime And Manga: And then there's the whole Desty Nova bunch. An inconcievably brilliant scientist who's equally inconcievably insane, hellbent on scientifically determining what's good, what's bad, and how to put this knowledge to use. The scariest thing about him (or them sometimes) is that he's getting close to succeeding.
ComicBook.Superboy 1994: Agenda's plans involve making a ton of clone soldiers, which they consider a disposable resource.
ThePowerOfLove.Anime And Manga: Pokémon: The First Movie, Ash is apparently killed, by being turned to stone by a stray attack from Mewtwo and Mew. It is the tears of Pikachu and the other Pokémon that return Ash to normal. In the Mewtwo backstory Ambertwo says that Pokémon tears are said to be full of life.Averted in Mewtwo's forgotten backstory. His tears did nothing to save his four best friends.
Characters.X Men Marauders: What Sinister does whenever one of them dies. This has also resulted in at least one instance where an X-team stumbled upon one of Sinister's old hideouts where multiple clones were unleashed. More recently Sinister himself created multiple clones of assorted individuals whose DNA he has collected over the years to swell his ranks.
OneDegreeOfSeparation.Star Wars: R2-D2 was owned by Queen Amidala and C-3PO was built by Anakin Skywalker. Boba Fett, as well, is the clone-son of Jango Fett, who is the original model for the entire Clone Army. Chewbacca knew Yoda from the Battle of Kashyyyk near the end of the Clone Wars.
Literature.Brave New World: Humanity is mass produced in batches of "identical twins" on the order of hundreds at a time.
Characters.Jack Jack Antonucci: Send in the Clones: In one comic Robbie was fighting against an unknown threat,only to reveal it's an army of R2s. After
Film.Iron Man Films: A major motif in the sequel, where different rogue states, corporations and individuals try to create their own, preferably mass-produced Iron Men, with varying (lack of) success. Foreshadowed in the first movie: Raza, the terrorist leader, asks Obadiah Stane for "a gift of iron soldiers" based on Tony Stark's suit.Also foreshadowed by Raza's 'iron soldiers' comment, Iron Legion. To elaborate: Tony's featured suit for 3 reads Mk 42. Marks I through VII go down with his house. At the climax, all other 34 suits of Powered Armour fly in and start going to town on the Extremis experiments.
VideoGame.Lost Planet: Late defecting NEVEC team Task Force First Descent are clones of Ivan Solotov, blamed for several betrayals in the first game.
Characters.Go Animate Caillou: In some videos, Caillou will have additional brothers like Daillou and Baillou. Sometimes exaggerated by adding even more "-aillous", reaching to one for each letter of the alphabet, though it isn't uncommon for the letter A to remain excluded.note In cases that do include A, the "A" child is named Aillou.
Characters.Xenosaga: She has a veritable army of android body doubles which she uses to interact with the outside world.
Characters.Destiny The Darkness: Said in the Showcase to be freshly minted, mass-produced clones of Rhulk, and it shows in their slender builds and choice of weapon.
Characters.Super Robot Wars V: Gardim "Soldiers" and "Commanders" resemble and sound just like Ghuli and Jamie, respectively. The difference between Ghuli and a Soldier are the latter's pupils being obscured by fake contact lenses. Meanwhile, the Ahlforz seen before the final scenario is not the real one, but rather a machine.
Characters.Marvels Spider Man Antagonists: Just like in the comics, he has a big liking for clones. In this case, he repeatedly uses clones of himself as decoys, and intends to create an army of them with Spider-Man's abilities.
Characters.Portal 2: Because of the multiverse, there are infinite Caves out there.
Animation.Motu Patlu: In "Chingam Hi Chingam", Inspector Chingum gets several clones made of himself, to help in stopping crime in Furfuri Nagar. In "Motu Ke Clones", Dr. Jhatka clones Motu to give him help renovating his house.
Characters.Super Robot Wars W: Male clones of Aria called "Deceiver" are made to pilot mass-produced versions of the Arm Arcus and Arm Stora after Aria and Regulate defect.
Manga.Needless: Death Is Cheap: Pretty much anyone can be cloned and brought back through such a manner. Though how they come back is a different story.
VideoGame.Zorbus: You can clone yourself using found elixirs or a randomly encountered room. The clone has 90% of your powers and abilities but not your equipment and cannot gain experience.
VideoGame.The Game 2008: After unlocking all of the achievements in Reimagine, you can not only fully customize a character, you are also granted the option to replace every character in the game with that particular one.
VideoGame.Sailor Moon Robot Frenzy: Zoycite throws a twist on the Monster of the Week, this time creating an army of robots based on Game Machine Man.
Characters.Necroverse: Dr. Eprho, Necropsychologist. Treats Dan and Stan. Dr. Epchi, Necroanthropologist. Shows up to provide more exposition, and reveals that the dupes are Deadpan Snarker misanthropes when not being held responsible for their patients' mental balance.
VideoGame.Fighting EX Layer: When playing as Skullomania in Arcade Mode, three other Skullomanias will be fought. His arcade ending reveals this as happening in-story when Skullomania discovers that "The Dark Organization was mass producing Skullomania clones!" Though it is followed by "(It was just a dream)".
WebVideo.Gray Still Plays: Death World: Gray turns Los Santos into one in "i built a stairway to hell in GTA 5". After first building a giant stairway down from his Fluffy Cloud Heaven full of strippers, he decides to turn the surface world into Hell, and creates a world of nonstop thunderstorms, meteor strikes, tornado force winds, flying megalodons, and clones of his own super-powered GTA avatar, causing endless mayhem.
GhostsOfThePast.Tropes A To H: In chapter 73 of Ghosts, Harry nods back to his obliteration of the Red Army, and reveals that he considers it to be his greatest regret because while they were programmed Human Weapons, they were people (which he knew) and they never got the chance to live.
Anime.Dragon Ball Z The Return Of Cooler: Just after Goku and Vegeta defeated Cooler and sat back in victory, they notice yet another Cooler on top of the cliffs above them. They then learn why the Japanese title of this movie is 10,000,000,000 Powerful Warriors, as an entire army of Coolers start sliding down the cliffs.
VideoGame.Cave Story: As you progress through Cave Story+'s Wind Fortress, the only enemies you'll be fighting through the last end of the level are naked clones of Curly.
ComicBook.Destroyer Duck: The Cogburns, who are a group of clones originated from an employee of Godcorp that disappeared. The way how they reproduce another copy... it is rather unpleasant.Later, Duke suspects that the same thing happened with the Little Guy, and believes he is still alive in somewhere.
LetsPlay.Eexecute: Brick Joke: In part 9 of Turok 3, Eex finds a man in a lab tank and dubs him "Bob". This scene is accompanied by the text: "This is Bob. Remember him, he's important." In the next part, we find Bob in another tank, this time in the dam control room. A clone, perhaps? In part 4 of HeXen, Charles is teleported into a room full of Wendigos. He uses a Banishment Device to warp one to a random location on the map, to make the room merely bullshit rather than straight-up Unwinnable. Later, while leaving the piston room after opening up the Secret Level, he runs into the Wendigo on the elevator. Cue death.
AbusiveParents.Superman: The clone is all Knight Templar, so he goes rogue from Lex after that, and the first thing he does is dig the kryptonite bomb out of his skull with laser vision (incidentally, apparently the hemispheres of his brain aren't linked?), and then he saves Lois and Jimmy from Lex...and then rather horribly slaughters Lex's incipient clone army, ranging from oversized fetuses to nearly-mature specimens, with the ironic comment "Evil Supermen? Not on my watch!" The line of clones at the stage of development Conner was when he entered the scene were especially nasty to see die, although it was obvious as soon as they were introduced that they'd all have to be massacred somehow.
Recap.HTF Autopsy Turvy: Hundreds of Flippys and Fliqpys appear at the climax of the episode and they all brutally murder each other.
ComicBook.Prophet: The Empire's strategy with their thousands of John Prophet sleeper clones. Different types of clone are used for different missions – super-intelligent "Father Johns" lead armies while giant "Magnus Johns" are used as siegebreakers.
WesternAnimation.Gargoyles: Thailog, and the Manhattan Clan clones. In The Goliath Chronicles episode "Genesis Undone", Sevarius makes this request when he appears to be ready to cure the clones of their illness. Talon makes the same request in Gargoyles #3 when Goliath comes to check on the clones.
HoistByHisOwnPetard.Anime And Manga: Accelerator defeated Kakine Teitoku the first time by using Kakine's own Dark Matter constructs on him. The second time, Kakine overwhelmed both Accelerator and Mugino with his Dark Matter clones, but in the process, he spread his consciousness too thin among the constructs to control them. One of his rhinoceros beetle constructs developed its own free will and was able to take control of his mind and body from him.
Roleplay.Waking Up From The Dream: Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: The God of Plenty, which is basically a giant, much more aggressive Kirby that floats in the sky. It consumes anything that catches its eye, which includes delicious food and shiny objects. Also includes rabbits down on their luck, fairies and anyone else that looks appetizing. The God of Plenty's appearance is what ruined Reimu's preparations for the Reitaisai festival in the first place, and it can even split after being attacked, leading to various shenanigans and pursuits. Turns out it was created and sent into the virtual world by RAI as an ominous yet experimental threat.
Website.Platypus Comix: "The Phelps Olympics" has Mulberry try to make the 2016 Summer Olympics more interesting by replacing every competitor with Michael Phelps (with help from "Disney magic" in duplicating him), and prompting viewers to guess/discover which Phelps will win each match.
VideoGame.Terra Battle: The Oxsecian secret weapon, the trio of super-soldiers known as the Zero Series, attack their opponents by overwhelming them with clones of themselves.
LaserGuidedAmnesia.Anime And Manga: Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- appears to do this to Princess Sakura regarding her relationship with Syaoran; the truth is much, much more complicated.
WesternAnimation.Vampirina: The plot of the episode "Mirror Mirror" has Vee create a clone of herself using a magic mirror so that she can be in two places at one. In an interesting take on this plot, none of the clones can talk. Not only that, more clones are accidentally created after Vee got through her day, not during it.
Characters.Transformers 2019: While the clones Shockwave made from him weren't able to teleport the Skywarp drones as they are called did prove useful as an army which he led and also prompted the creation of the seeker clones to fight them.
Fanfic.Ponies One Half: Discord creates these on the Mane Six as his first trick. He didn't know the Mane Six took some badass levels, though. Done again in Chapter 63, only they're Opposite Sex Clones. They have free will, though, and rebel, but are taken out. Discord tries this AGAIN, creating one "superclone." Queen Cosmos, said clone, stabs him in the back, though. Discord does this AGAIN in ch.115, as he recreates the Mane Six's clones, along with clones of Ryoga, Ranma, and Shampoo with fake memories based on the fake memories trick Discord pulled as Discord's last gambit to stop them from restoring Akane's memories.
Characters.The Gamers Dorkness Rising: Leo's bard dies quickly and often. Tired of losing levels every time he's resurrected, he asks Lodge if he can just replace his character with another when he dies. He then prepares 50 bards, sending in a new one every time the last one dies. Leading to an incident during a large battle where the party needs to seek cover from an exceptionally powerful enemy and Leo advises them to "hide behind the mound of dead bards." And it works.
TransformersPrime.Tropes S To Z: Starscream does this with five clones of himself. Unlike Transformers: Animated though, they aren't that distinct from each other, which probably contributes to why they come within a few seconds of actually terminating Megatron if Airachnid hadn't chosen to attack as well.
