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Cloning Blues renamed to Clone Angst as per TRS, specifically about angst from a character discovering that they're a clone.


* CloningBlues: Mercier often thinks about what clones may feel, but we never really see what they are thinking about being clones and slaves.

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* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:It's not entirely sure if the majority of the people at the Schliffkopf are actually nazis or just paid actors, but the ones Tycho meets seem nice despite never breaking character as SS officers and the like. The SS officer even says he's glad that he (a German) and Tycho (a French) can celebrate Gentschels Third Reich reenactment without worrying about their different nationalities.]]

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* BornIntoSlavery: All clones
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Gentschel]]
* BigFancyHouse: Gentschels house at the Schliffkopf.

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* CoolPlane: To Gentschel at least...

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* LandOfOneCity: The Schliffkopf

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* MicroMonarchy: The Schliffkopf

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* NaziGrandpa: [[spoiler:Gentschel, before he goes full out PuttingOnTheReich]]
* NaziNobleman: [[spoiler:Gentschel]]

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* %%* NaziGrandpa: [[spoiler:Gentschel, before he goes full out PuttingOnTheReich]]
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* YouClonedHitler: There are 12 clones of Adolf Hitler which were later made illegal and called back.

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* YouClonedHitler: There are 12 clones of Adolf Hitler which were later made illegal and called back.back.
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* LastOfHisKind: Dolfi is the last known Hitler clone, due to them being outlawed and Hitler's DNA being destroyed.
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* YouClonedHitler: There are 12 clones of Adolf Hitler which were later made illegal and called back.
* YourCheatingHeart: Phoebé, the ex-wive of the protagonist, cheated on him with several men when they were still married.

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* YouClonedHitler: There are 12 clones of Adolf Hitler which were later made illegal and called back.
* YourCheatingHeart: Phoebé, the ex-wive of the protagonist, cheated on him with several men when they were still married.
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* WorldWarII: The topic of the book Tycho is writing, and given that we are dealing with a clone of Hitler a big topic in the plot.
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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, divorced history professor Tycho Mercier lives with his son Bruno in a small town near Paris. One day when he returns home, he has a strange guest: Adolf Hitler. Of course, it is only a clone, because by the time of the book, you can buy clones of famous dead people and his ex-wife one Hitler in a lottery using his name. Since the A.H.-series is illegal, he tries to get rid of the clone but while doing so, he also gets a clone of Creator/MarilynMonroe. HilarityEnsues

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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, divorced history professor Tycho Mercier lives with his son Bruno in a small town near Paris. One day when he returns home, he has a strange guest: Adolf Hitler. Of course, it is only a clone, because by the time of the book, you can buy clones of famous dead people and his ex-wife one won Hitler in a lottery using his name. Since the A.H.-series is illegal, he tries to get rid of the clone but while doing so, he also gets a clone of Creator/MarilynMonroe. HilarityEnsues

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* ServantRace: The clones are treated as this, but genetically they are not different from the free humans.



* SlaveRace: The clones are treated as this, but genetically they are not different from the free humans.

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* SlaveRace: The Since the clones are treated as this, but genetically essentially human, they are not different from the free humans.may be counted as slave race instead of ServantRace.

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* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:It's not entirely sure if the majority of the people at the Schliffkopf are actually nazis or just paid actors, but the ones Tycho meets seem nice despite never breaking character as SS officers and the like.]]

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* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:It's not entirely sure if the majority of the people at the Schliffkopf are actually nazis or just paid actors, but the ones Tycho meets seem nice despite never breaking character as SS officers and the like. The SS officer even says he's glad that he (a German) and Tycho (a French) can celebrate Gentschels Third Reich reenactment without worrying about their different nationalities.]]


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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Both title characters are clones of real historical characters, namely UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and Creator/MarilynMonroe.
* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: Played with. It's stated very often that Hitler was a monster and what he and the Nazis did was extremely cruel. But Dolfi, Hitlers clone, is obedient and generally a nice guy.
**[[spoiler:On another note, Gentschel gives Hitler and the Nazis an in-universe HistoricalVillainDowngrade as he talks about how they weren't as evil as everybody says and thinks they are the victims of HistoricalVillainUpgrade and WrittenByTheWinners. Tycho, as a history professor, strongly disagrees.]]
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* [[VisitByDivorcedDad VisitByDivorcedMum]]: The plot gets set in motion when the protagonists son is away with his mother and they win a clone of Adolf Hitler in a tombola. The protagonists ex-wive shows up several times over the course of the book.

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* [[VisitByDivorcedDad VisitByDivorcedMum]]: Visit by divorced Mum]]: The plot gets set in motion when the protagonists son is away with his mother and they win a clone of Adolf Hitler in a tombola. The protagonists ex-wive shows up several times over the course of the book.
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* WhosYourDaddy: [[spoiler:When he finds out Marilyn has a child, Tycho wonders if it could be his. This gets disproven pretty fast as he finds out that the child is only a year old and they haven't seen each other for three years.

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* WhosYourDaddy: [[spoiler:When he finds out Marilyn has a child, Tycho wonders if it could be his. This gets disproven pretty fast as he finds out that the child is only a year old and they haven't seen each other for three years.]]

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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, divorced history professor Tycho Mercier lives with his son in a small town near Paris. One day when he returns home, he has a strange guest: Adolf Hitler. Of course, it is only a clone, because by the time of the book, you can buy clones of famous dead people and his ex-wife one Hitler in a lottery using his name. Since the A.H.-series is illegal, he tries to get rid of the clone but while doing so, he also gets a clone of Creator/MarilynMonroe. HilarityEnsues

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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, divorced history professor Tycho Mercier lives with his son Bruno in a small town near Paris. One day when he returns home, he has a strange guest: Adolf Hitler. Of course, it is only a clone, because by the time of the book, you can buy clones of famous dead people and his ex-wife one Hitler in a lottery using his name. Since the A.H.-series is illegal, he tries to get rid of the clone but while doing so, he also gets a clone of Creator/MarilynMonroe. HilarityEnsues



* ButICantBePregnant: [[spoiler:Marilyn has a child with Dolfi, though both should be neutered by their manufacturers. Tycho suspected that Marilyn's manufacturer didn't do this, given that she's an illegal copy, but Dolfi came from an official manufacturer of clones, so this was most likely a mistake.]]



* CoolPlane: To Gentschel at least...



* EducationMama: Tycho really hopes his son will become a historian like him.

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* EducationMama: Tycho really hopes his son Bruno will become a historian like him.



* LateForSchool: Tychos son when Tycho sleeps in after a night with Marilyn and fails to wake him.

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* LateForSchool: Tychos son Bruno when Tycho his father sleeps in after a night with Marilyn and fails to wake him.



* LikeFatherLikeSon: Tychos son shares his interest in history

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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Bruno shares Tychos son shares his interest in historyhistory.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:The plane crash in the epilogue is strongly hinted to be anything but an accident.]]


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* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. When Marilyn doesn't visit Tycho in bed, he suspects she's on her period. Then he wonders if clones are even fertile and have a period.[[spoiler: Later, it turns out that she is indeed fertile.]]


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* ReleasedToElsewhere: It's not really known to the public what happens to clones who get called back. When a politician shows it to Tycho, he looses his job.


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* SweetTooth: Dolfi likes chocolate a lot.


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* WhosYourDaddy: [[spoiler:When he finds out Marilyn has a child, Tycho wonders if it could be his. This gets disproven pretty fast as he finds out that the child is only a year old and they haven't seen each other for three years.


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* YouAreNumberSix: All (legal) clones have a serial number. Dolfi's is A.H.6. When Tycho finds out that Marilyn doesn't have one, this tips him off that she is an illegal copy.
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* BeautifulSlaveGirl: Marilyn, given that all clones are essentially slaves.


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* BornIntoSlavery: All clones


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* EvilVegetarian: It's mentioned that Hitler was a vegetarian while Dolfi isn't.


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* FeminineWomenCanCook: Marilyns talent for cooking is mentioned several times as an example for her attractivity.


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* HappinessInSlavery: It's not entirely sure, but it seems that their "programming" makes clones unable to not like their situation. Especially Marilyn looks pretty happy as long as she lives with Basompierre and Tycho.


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* SlaveRace: The clones are treated as this, but genetically they are not different from the free humans.
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**[[spoiler:Tycho also suspects this for Dolfi, since he doesn't seem to understand the ideology he talks about and only is a puppet for Gentschel]]


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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Gentschel]]


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* LandOfOneCity: The Schliffkopf


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* MicroMonarchy: The Schliffkopf
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* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:It's not entirely sure if the majority of the people at the Schliffkopf are actually nazis or just paid actors, but the ones Tycho meets seem nice despite never breaking character as SS officers and the like.]]


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* BenevolentConspiracy: [[spoiler:The organisation that searches for the last clone of Adolf Hitler.]]
* BigFancyHouse: Gentschels house at the Schliffkopf.


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* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:The plane with Gentschel and his wive, Pölzl, Dolfi and Marilyn crashes and it's implied that a secred organisation is to blame. The reader learns all of this through the epilogue.]]


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* EccentricMillionaire: Gentschel [[spoiler:until you find out that he is a Nazi and wants to revive the Third Reich.]]


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* Fiction500: Gentschel is rich enough to buy some land and found a new country in the middle of Germany.


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* JustAStupidAccent: The clones of Adolf Hitler are produced in France and they are taught to speak French with a ridiculous German accent.


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* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:This is how Gentschel plans to make Hitler immortal. He just wants to create new clones as soon as the current one gets to old.]]


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* OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding: [[spoiler:What Gentschel has created at the Schliffkopf]]


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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: [[spoiler:How Gentschel is able to recreate the Third Reich atop the Schliffkopf without anybody intervening]]


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* StupidJetpackHitler: [[spoiler:Gentschel is the last surviving person who lived during World War II and wants to use modern technology to revive the Third Reich]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: [[spoiler:Tycho suspects that Gentschel sees Marilyn as a substitute for Eva Braun since there are no clones of the latter.]]


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* WorldWarII: The topic of the book Tycho is writing, and given that we are dealing with a clone of Hitler a big topic in the plot.
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* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Tycho is a history professor, which implies he's pretty smart, and his only social contacts are his son, his ex-wive and the clones. He even mentions that he doesn't really have any friends.
* LateForSchool: Tychos son when Tycho sleeps in after a night with Marilyn and fails to wake him.
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* ScienceHero: Downplayed. Tycho is a scientist (a historian) and he is the protagonist, but he isn't really a hero and he doesn't use his knowledge to solve the plot.
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* AbsentMindedProfessor: Tycho sometimes acts like this, but not because he thinks about his studies but because he has so many problems with his private life after he wins Dolfi.


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* AmicableExes: Tycho and Phoebé are still on good terms despite being divorced because she cheated on him with several men.


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* EducationMama: Tycho really hopes his son will become a historian like him.


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* GlorifiedSpermDonor: [[spoiler:Dolfi leaves Marilyn as soon as he finds out that she's pregnant, but later they get married]]
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Tychos son shares his interest in history


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* [[VisitByDivorcedDad VisitByDivorcedMum]]: The plot gets set in motion when the protagonists son is away with his mother and they win a clone of Adolf Hitler in a tombola. The protagonists ex-wive shows up several times over the course of the book.
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* NaughtyByNight: Tycho and Marilyn have sex nearly every night as long as she lives with him, but don't show any attraction by day.



* PrimalScene: Tychos son doesn't catch him and Marilyn during sex, but when he sees that she sleeps in his bed, he understands what happened last night.



* ReallyGetsAround: Marilyn had sex with every male character she ever lived with. Also Phoebé, who cheated on Tycho with several men.
* RescueSex: Since she doesn't know what will happen to her (as an illegal clone) after her owner Basompierre dies, Marilyin views Tycho as her rescuer when he allows her to live with him. And they have sex in the first night of her living with him.
* SexEqualsLove: Tycho already was somewhat attracted to Marilyin before, but after they had sex, he slowly falls in love with her.
* SexForServices: This is probably Marilyins reason why she sleeps with Tycho [[spoiler:and Dolfi]], because they provide her with a home and some protection from prosecution.



* SexyDiscretionShot: Only in the next morning the reader learns that Tycho and Marilyin did indeed have sex.



* YouClonedHitler: There are 12 clones of Adolf Hitler which were later made illegal and called back.

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* YouClonedHitler: There are 12 clones of Adolf Hitler which were later made illegal and called back.back.
* YourCheatingHeart: Phoebé, the ex-wive of the protagonist, cheated on him with several men when they were still married.

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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, divorced history professor Tycho Mercier lives with his son in a small town near Paris. One day when he returns home, he has a strange guest: Adolf Hitler. Of course, it is only a clone, because by the time of the book, you can buy clones of famous dead people and his ex-wife one Hitler in a lottery using his name. Since the A.H.-series is illegal, he tries to get rid of the clone but while doing so, he also gets a clone of Marilyn Monroe. HilarityEnsues

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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, divorced history professor Tycho Mercier lives with his son in a small town near Paris. One day when he returns home, he has a strange guest: Adolf Hitler. Of course, it is only a clone, because by the time of the book, you can buy clones of famous dead people and his ex-wife one Hitler in a lottery using his name. Since the A.H.-series is illegal, he tries to get rid of the clone but while doing so, he also gets a clone of Marilyn Monroe.Creator/MarilynMonroe. HilarityEnsues



* CaptureAndReplicate: Hitlers DNA has been destroyed, but Dolfi survives as the last clone, so Gentschel wants to use him to create a dynasty of Hitler clones.
* ClonesArePeopleToo: One of the main themes of the book. The clones are treated like slaves, but the protagonist often thinks about what they may think and if it is okay how people treat them.
* CloningBlues: Mercier often thinks about what clones may feel, but we never really see what they are thinking about being clones and slaves.



* DifferentlyDressedDuplicates: When Dolfi first arrives at Merciers house, he wears Lederhosen instead of a more typical nazi uniform.
* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: It is mentioned that some people want clones for this reason, but it's illegal to clone anybody who didn't die at least 70 years ago.
* ExpendableClone: Clones who get called back a liquified. Also, Mercier thinks about buying another Marilyin clone as a substitute for his Marilyn.
* MesACrowd: The clones grow up among others of their series.



* NaziProtagonist: Averted. Adolf Hitler (or Dolfi) is the title character, but he doesn't know much about the real Hitler or the Third Reich.

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* NaziProtagonist: Averted. Adolf Hitler (or Dolfi) is the title character, but he doesn't know much about the real Hitler or the Third Reich.Reich.
* NeverSayDie: In-universe: Clones are liquified, which means they get killed.
* PuppetKing: [[spoiler:Dolfi as chancellor the Schliffkopf. Inverted since everybody knows that Gentschel is behind everything, but they accept Dolfi nonetheless because he looks like Hitler]]
* PuttingOnTheReich: [[spoiler:The Schliffkopf, Gentschels own little Nazi Germany.]]
* SexSlave: One of the reasons why people buy clones. Mercier suspects this to be the reason why Basompierre bought Marilyn.
* SingleMomStripper: [[spoiler:Being left alone with her baby after Dolfi leaves her, Marilyin has to resort to this.]]
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The book is set in the year 2060.
* TwinMaker: [[spoiler:This his how Gentschel plans to continue his Reich after Dolfi will eventually be to old]]
* YouClonedHitler: There are 12 clones of Adolf Hitler which were later made illegal and called back.

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* NaziGrandpa: Gentschel, befor he goes full out PuttingOnTheReich

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* NaziGrandpa: Gentschel, befor [[spoiler:Gentschel, before he goes full out PuttingOnTheReichPuttingOnTheReich]]
* NaziNobleman: [[spoiler:Gentschel]]
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* NaziGrandpa: Gentschel, befor he goes full out PuttingOnTheReich
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* AdolfHitlarious: Dolfi looks like Hitler, but his awkward behaviour as a clone gets played for laughs.
* CreepyChild: Dolfi is only eleven years old, but looks like 35 year old Adolf Hitler.
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Dolfi et Marilyn (French for ''Dolfi and Marilyn'') is a French novel by François Saintonge.

TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, divorced history professor Tycho Mercier lives with his son in a small town near Paris. One day when he returns home, he has a strange guest: Adolf Hitler. Of course, it is only a clone, because by the time of the book, you can buy clones of famous dead people and his ex-wife one Hitler in a lottery using his name. Since the A.H.-series is illegal, he tries to get rid of the clone but while doing so, he also gets a clone of Marilyn Monroe. HilarityEnsues

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!! This book provides examples of:
* NaziProtagonist: Averted. Adolf Hitler (or Dolfi) is the title character, but he doesn't know much about the real Hitler or the Third Reich.

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