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Pulled: (comic books)

• Jamie Madrox of X-Factor can be temporarily incapacitated when a foe kills any of his duplicates in proximity to him. That would be within a few miles, rather than, say, across the planet or in another dimension.

(literature)

• His Dark Materials: In an alternate universe, humans have shape-shifting animals called "Daemons" that are basically the other side of their soul. Because of their metaphysical connection, most human-daemon pairs can't bear being separated for more than a few yards as it causes pain and severe mental and emotional trauma. If either the daemon or human dies, the other dies with it also.
• In the Animorphs prequel book The Ellimist Chronicles, Toomin (the Ellimist back when he was mortal) is captured for years and years by Father, a massive tentacled sea monster which has absorbed the minds of everyone it's every killed. Eventually Toomin learns to fight back and absorb the minds into himself. He states that the last mind he absorbed was Father himself, which turned out to be nothing.

(webcomics)

• This is referenced in the webcomic Freefall that Florence's species would need 50 individuals for short-term survival and 500 for long-term. Her creators only made 14 Bowman's Wolves total so far, hence one of her main objectives is to ensure they continue.

(western ani)

• Ben 10: One of Ben's alien forms was Ditto, which had the ability to clone itself without limit. Unfortunately their link means that if one clone is hurt, the other clone feels the same pain. In "Divided We Stand", one Ditto was captured by Mad Scientist Dr. Animo and and powers taken to multiply his mutant army, which all died after one was defeated.
  • Later duplicating alien Echo Echo doesn't have this problem. All of the Echo Echos we saw in one fight were wiped out by the enemy (namely a Not Himself Kevin) but Ben survived by keeping one of himself in the trunk of his car.

(rl)

• If any population of a single species is reduced below a certain limit, that population will die out. Humans need at least 1,700 people to repopulate the earth.

because they're Not An Example.

(Oh, folders don't work in comments...?)

Note: Toomin might be an example, the information given is unclear. Echo Echo clearly is an example, but it's written as a response and I don't know enough about Ben 10 to rewrite it as standalone like it should be.