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Hmmm... The description looks okay, but you're right. The examples could use some cleaning up.
I reject your requirement for a witty statement or fanboyish squealing in my signature.
Should we just make a clone trope, expand Our Clones Are Identical to fit as a Super-Trope, or do nothing but clean the page?
edited 20th May '11 6:37:27 PM by Ekuran
Robotic clones, I think, would feel different than a biological clone. 'I'm not even human! ' sort of thought. At least a soft split for them.
I took a look at the examples and there's a lot of missue. Some examples should go to 'send in the clones' and still others to 'me's a crowd'. This trope is just about clones angsting about being clones. A supertrope, All Clones Are Identicial, would be a good idea
necrobumb. Did anyone do anything about this?
I vote for making Our Clones Are Identical a Super-Trope. Angst about being/having a clone is a specific thing. A lot of these entries are simply "this character is a clone". Clone Are People Too and Send in the Clones also have this problem to a lesser extent.
Sounds good to me.
Bumping to try and get this resolved. Clean up this one to make it just for being depressed about being a clone, and try and sort out the cloning tropes?
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My only gripe with this proposal is the "identical" part; either we remove it from the title of the Super-Trope, or make a subtrope about Non Identical Clone, where characters are referred to as "clones" either in-universe, via All There in the Manual, or by Word of God, and yet they are very different in appearance from the original person.
This seems to be the go-to trope for clones and cloning in general. The tone and the Laconic entry both seem to boil down to "Being a Clone is Bad", but the description breaks down into what seems to be several distinct Clone Tropes, and anything clone-related that doesn't necessarily fit the "Sad Clone is Sad" tone tends to link here anyway. Heck, check the Real Life examples under the main article: Do you think those bugs and plants are at all perturbed by being copies of their parents?
Guys...we may need to start cloning more Clone Tropes.