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* TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja has the Mayor who traveled from the future to save the world from ninja zombies. [[spoiler: Then, he discovered that alternate versions of himself had also traveled into the past to save their timelines from various things like Rogue Super Vacuums. Usually, they finish their mission and live a peaceful life away from the city.]]

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* TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' has the Mayor who traveled from the future to save the world from ninja zombies. [[spoiler: Then, he discovered that alternate versions of himself had also traveled into the past to save their timelines from various things like Rogue Super Vacuums. Usually, they finish their mission and live a peaceful life away from the city.]]
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* The premise of the short story ''The Wheels of If'' by L. Sprague de Camp is that, as part of a ploy to discredit a political rival, someone in an AlternateUniverse comes up with a way to cycle the consciousnesses/souls of seven people in seven universes who happen to be similar enough to count as Alternate Selves. The rival is one of these, ending up with the mind of a man from our timeline. Unfortunately for the villain, the man from our timeline is himself a capable political operator and knows tricks that haven't yet been thought of in the alternate universe.
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* There's a few of these in an AlternateUniverse during the new series of ''DoctorWho''. (In particular, Mickey's alternate version is a bit of a {{badass}}.) However, by the end, enough people have gotten killed off that there's only one version of each character running around. But then go forward a couple seasons, and we get into the pure, undiluted weirdness surrounding [[spoiler:[[FanNickname 10.5/10.2/Handy]]/[[CloningBlues Other Doctor]]]].

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* There's a few of these in an AlternateUniverse during the new series of ''DoctorWho''.''Series/DoctorWho''. (In particular, Mickey's alternate version is a bit of a {{badass}}.) However, by the end, enough people have gotten killed off that there's only one version of each character running around. But then go forward a couple seasons, and we get into the pure, undiluted weirdness surrounding [[spoiler:[[FanNickname 10.5/10.2/Handy]]/[[CloningBlues Other Doctor]]]].

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* In ''TheTalisman'' people in our world tend to have a twinner in the Territories. Fundamentally the two people will be at least similar.
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* A routine occurrence in Series/{{Sliders}}.

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* A routine occurrence in Series/{{Sliders}}.
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* A routine occurrence in Series/{{Sliders}}.

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* Two different Ranmas meet and talk in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1041573/18/ Girl Talk]]




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Two different Ranmas meet and talk in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1041573/18/ Girl Talk]]
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** Kevyn did the gate-cloning trick once before, but only made one copy of himself. The original was killed soon thereafter. [[RuleOfFunny Kevyn puts down the successful suicide mission on his resume]].
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* Archer of FateStayNight is this to [[spoiler: Emiya Shirou]]. He is only able to exist in the same era due to being summoned from outside of the timeline.

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* Archer of FateStayNight is this to [[spoiler: Emiya Shirou]]. He is only able to exist in the same era due to being summoned from outside of the timeline.timeline.

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Two different Ranmas meet and talk in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1041573/18/ Girl Talk]]
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** The "Original"/"Duplicate" is subjective. The John on screen is thought the original, the one off-screen is the duplicate. It makes sense with the treatment of the character.
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* Well presented in the third book in the RogueAgent series, WizardSquared, where the reader is presented with an alternate take on the climax of the first book, and the DominoEffect shows how terribly poorly that universe went when the characters crossover.

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* Well presented in the third book in the RogueAgent series, WizardSquared, where the reader is presented with an [[AlternateTimeline alternate take take]] on the climax of the first book, and the DominoEffect [[ButterflyOfDoom domino effect]] shows how terribly poorly that universe went when the characters crossover.
crossover. Interestingly, the point of divergence was a possibility that the character in the original timeline discounted as too dangerous. Cue EvilOverlord.
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* Well presented in the third book in the RogueAgent series, WizardSquared, where the reader is presented with an alternate take on the climax of the first book, and the DominoEffect shows how terribly poorly that universe went when the characters crossover.
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**It's actually implied there's no original or duplicate. It's probably called being twinned for a reason.
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** Also, at one point [[MadScientist Kevyn Andreyasn]] managed to go back in time to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. The timeclone accomplished this, and then retired.

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* The [[PortalNetwork wormgates]] in ''SchlockMercenary'' could link one input to multiple outputs, creating "gate-clones". The most extreme case was a scientist named Gav, who went through a clone-gate with nearly a billion outputs, and is now an [[MesACrowd entire marketing demographic]].
-->Gav-285074072: "There are still over 900 million Gav-clones out there. My activities of the last year can only be understood statistically."
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* There's a few of these in an AlternateUniverse during the new series of ''DoctorWho''. (In particular, Mickey's alternate version is a bit of a {{badass}}.) However, by the end, enough people have gotten killed off that there's only one version of each character running around. But then go forward a couple seasons, and we get into the pure, undiluted weirdness surrounding [[spoiler:[[FanNickname 10.5/10.2/Handy]]/[[CloningBlues Other Doctor]]]].
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* The {{GURPS}} Infinite Worlds sourcebook has an over-the-top version of this, in which a large number of Alternate Selves of {{LordByron}} - including a sea captain, a republican revolutionary, a vampire, and a female vampire hunter - all meet each other.

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* The {{GURPS}} Infinite Worlds sourcebook has an over-the-top version of this, in which a large number of Alternate Selves of {{LordByron}} {{Lord Byron}} - including a sea captain, a republican revolutionary, a vampire, and a female vampire hunter - all meet each other.
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* The {{GURPS}} Infinite Worlds sourcebook has an over-the-top version of this, in which several alternate selves of Lord Byron - which include a sea captain, a republican revolutionary, a woman, and a vampire - all meet each other.

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* The {{GURPS}} Infinite Worlds sourcebook has an over-the-top version of this, in which several alternate selves a large number of Lord Byron Alternate Selves of {{LordByron}} - which include including a sea captain, a republican revolutionary, a woman, vampire, and a female vampire hunter - all meet each other.
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* The {{GURPS}} Infinite Worlds sourcebook has an over-the-top version of this, in which several alternate selves of Lord Byron - which include a sea captain, a republican revolutionary, a woman, and a vampire - all meet each other.
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* Most of the characters in the sixth season of ''{{LOST}}'' are presented this way: Living very different lives in the two timelines while still being the same persons. Subverted in [[EsotericHappyEnding the season finale]], but presented this way troughout the season non the less.
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* Most of the characters in the sixth season of ''{{LOST}}'', living very different lives in the two timelines while still being the same persons.
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** Note that calling them alternates instead of mirrors does not reflect very well on "our" Olivia's character, since her alternate does some pretty nasty things.

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* In ''{{Farscape}}'' John is duplicated by an alien device. They are created perfectly identical, but split up from that point, probably for reasons of preserving sanity. It's not made clear which of them is the original and which the duplicate.
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* ''BackToTheFuture'' features multiple alternate versions of Marty's family and recurring antagonist Biff Tannen. Biff, in particular, is first a corrupt middle-management bully, then a timid goofball, and finally a murderous CorruptCorporateExecutive with enough money and power to completely screw up Hill Valley and its surroundings.
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** There's also Dr. McNinja's clone who had lived a peaceful life as a farmer. His name is [[IncredibllyLamePun Old McNinja]].

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** There's also Dr. McNinja's clone who had lived a peaceful life as a farmer. His name is [[IncredibllyLamePun [[IncrediblyLamePun Old McNinja]].
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* TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja has the Mayor who traveled from the future to save the world from ninja zombies. [[spoiler: Then, he discovered that alternate versions of himself had also traveled into the past to save their timelines from various things like Rogue Super Vacuums. Usually, they finish their mission and live a peaceful life away from the city.]]

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* TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja has the Mayor who traveled from the future to save the world from ninja zombies. [[spoiler: Then, he discovered that alternate versions of himself had also traveled into the past to save their timelines from various things like Rogue Super Vacuums. Usually, they finish their mission and live a peaceful life away from the city.]]
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** There's also Dr. McNinja's clone who had lived a peaceful life as a farmer. His name is [[IncredibllyLamePun Old McNinja]].
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* TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja has the Mayor who traveled from the future to save the world from ninja zombies. [[spoiler: Then, he discovered that alternate versions of himself had also traveled into the past to save their timelines from various things like Rogue Super Vacuums. Usually, they finish their mission and live a peaceful life away from the city.]]
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* Occurs in the Stargate SG1 episode "Ripple Effect" when several alternate SG1s end up in the SGC.

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* Occurs in the Stargate SG1 StargateSG1 episode "Ripple Effect" when several alternate SG1s SG1 teams end up in the SGC.
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* Occurs in the Stargate SG1 episode "Ripple Effect" when several alternate SG1s end up in the SGC.
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* Archer of FateStayNight is this to [[spoiler: Emiya Shirou]]. He is only able to exist in the same era due to being summoned from outside of the timeline.

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