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* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':

** In ''ComicBook/TheGirlWithTheXRayMind'', General Zod reveals he was banished into the PhantomZone because he created an army of Zod clones to take over Krypton.
--->'''Dru-Zod:''' I, General Zod, devised a duplicator ray and created an army of duplicates of myself to take control of Krypton!
** In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'', Darkseid raises an army of Doomsday clones to keep the Amazons busy while he kidnaps Kara.

* ''ComicBook/TheBoyWhoWantedWar'' had a scientist create a clone army based off his son's DNA. But there are still drafting from the population because it was not enough.
* The ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' universe features extensive cloning by the police force to which the titular Judge Dredd belongs. Dredd is a clone himself and on occasion has to fight his "brothers" who have gone rogue. The clearest example of an actual army however are the Judda, a clone army built by a rogue genetic engineer in Australia.

* ''ComicBook/RogueTrooper'' has this as its backstory. The whole regiment was dropped into the Quartz Zone and promptly massacred thanks to the [[BigBad Traitor General]] with Rogue as the SoleSurvivor.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has a variation where the clones aren't meant to win against their intended opponent. The Sisters are a group of 20,000 clones who are created to fight and die to [[PersonOfMassDestruction Accelerator]], to make the latter more powerful. Misaka Mikoto, their gene-source was horrified when she discovered what was happening, and with Touma's help the project got shut down before Misaka-10032 was killed; 10031 still died. Mikoto and her doctor then managed to convince the city to distribute the clones across the world, where they could hopefully live something like normal lives. [[spoiler:This is eventually revealed to be no more than a cover for their real purpose. The Sisters form a HiveMind with their electricity powers, which the BigBad exploits in order to summon a HumanoidAbomination needed for his plan.]]

** ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch'' shows that in the aftermath of the Clone Wars and the rise of the Empire, there are still some senators advocating for the fair treatment of the clones (including retirement packages). Unfortunately, it all comes to naught, as the clones are unceremoniously discarded and any whose obedience to the Empire falters gets executed.

* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has a variation where the clones aren't meant to win against their intended opponent. The Sisters are a group of 20,000 clones who are created to fight and die to [[PersonOfMassDestruction Accelerator]], to make the latter more powerful. [[spoiler:This is eventually revealed to be no more than a cover for their real purpose. The Sisters form a HiveMind with their electricity powers, which the BigBad exploits in order to summon a HumanoidAbomination needed for his plan.]]

** The Clone Trooper Army made by the Kaminoans are first introduced in the aptly titled ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' and ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', all cloned from the famed bounty hunter Jango Fett, with some even being personally trained by him. They are genetically engineered for obedience, also age at twice the normal rate and are trained to be a BadassArmy to take on the Separatist Droid Army. Most don similar-looking white armor and obviously bear similar faces. However, some clones do go out of their own way to try and make themselves be their own individuals in order to stand out, by painting their armor, dyeing their hair, shaving their head or growing their hair out to try different hairstyles and even getting special tattoos on their faces. In fact, there were so many of them made that the first generation of stormtroopers were mostly veteran clone troopers.

** The updated "Humanoids" DLC adds the Clone Army Origin, where a species was created as a clone army by a vanished {{Precursor|s}} race and they use ancient clone vats to reproduce. They're very good soldiers but short-lived and limited to 100 [=POPs=]. [[spoiler: And have an archaeological quest line that can lead to a choice of two "cures" for their CloneDegeneration, one that makes them improved clones and another that allows them to reproduce naturally.]]

** Most Dark Eldar are vat-grown. "Trueborn" units have special stats.

--->'''Lama Su:''' 200,000 units are ready, with a million more on the way.

* In ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'' an Amestrian general explains that the actual reason human alchemy is outlawed is not the associated dangers, but that it could be used to create an army. [[spoiler:Which is exactly what the Central Amestris army did, and it gets activated to help them fight off a coup. Unfortunately, the manufactured humans turn out to be a completely insane zombie-like horde that eats anyone they come across, the army included.]]

* In the ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ThePowerThatsInside'', all the Officers Jenny and Nurses Joy are programmed to be this.

* You can do this in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 5e [[GameBreaker by abusing the combination of the spells Simulacrum and Wish]]. Simulacrum is used to create a copy of the caster with half the HP and all of the spell slots (though with no ability to regain spells), and Wish can be used to duplicate the effects of any spell. To create the clone army, you cast Simulacrum, creating a clone of yourself with the ability to use Wish. The clone uses Wish to duplicate the effects of your spell, creating another clone who can ''also'' use Wish. That clone also duplicates the Simulacrum spell, resulting in yet another Wish-capable clone, and so on.[[note]]The older editions of D&D would put checks in place against game-breaking loopholes like this[[/note]]
* The history of the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' had the Spawn Wars between several shield dwarven subkingdoms, so called because the warring factions made heavy use of legions spawned with the help of deepspawn, creatures capable of creating copies of creatures they eat. This ultimately turned out to be a terrible idea, as eventually the copied dwarves [[ClonesArePeopleToo got integrated with regular society one way or the other]] -- with the implied result that genetic variety amongst the shield dwarves crashed, contributing to their fertility issues in later eras.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', all humans are this for Friend Computer.
* In ''TabletopGame/StrangeStars'', a space opera setting for OSR and ''[[{{UsefulNotes/Fate}} Fate Core]]'', The Radiant Polity's military consisted of only one man, Hannibal Tecumseh Early. An insanely skilled soldier, the Radiant Polity cloned entire armies from him in times of war. Cryogenically preserved caches of his clones can occasional be reprogrammed to be loyal to whoever finds them.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'', Oscar Mike and Whiskey Foxtrot are two clone soldiers who are remnants of a clone army from a long-forgotten war. The difference between the two apart from [[ClonesArePeopleToo personalities]] is that Oscar Mike is a regular clone, and Whiskey Foxtrot is [[CloneDegeneration a defective one]].
* In ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'', the Lab Assistants are revealed to be this in the Secret Warp Room, where the production line of them is shown.
* In ''VideoGame/Disgaea5'', [[spoiler:generic [[TheCameo Asagis]]]] are recruitable, thanks to a surplus of them being created from the [[MirrorUniverse Double Illusion]] netherworld. This is encouraged with the [[spoiler:Asagi Fan Club squad, which gives all squadmates bonus stats for every Asagi assigned]].
* While not mentioned in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'' itself, the Pudgedevil enemies are clones of [[DiscOneFinalBoss Murdaw]], created by [[spoiler:Mortamor]] via growing his cells ,which are granted further power via magical amplification.
* In ''VideoGame/EndlessFrontier'', it was revealed that the [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAdvance Shadow-Mirror]] had originally envisioned their W-Series forces to be this. They got as far as the prototype before realizing they had no way to accelerate his growth, so decided to go with androids instead.
* Done on a literally galactic scale in ''VideoGame/EndlessSpace''. The Horatio faction was founded by a massively {{narcissist}}ic, massively eccentric trillionaire named Horatio, who left the Mezari empire all to discover his own star cluster to "settle". Fortunately for him (and unfortunately for everyone else), he awoke from suspended animation near an [[{{Precursors}} Endless]] citadel, which inside had genetic experiments, which he used to change himself into his twisted idea of "perfection". Boredom set in after a few years, so he decided to fill his planet with the most beautiful person to ever exist... Horatio. So not only is his army entirely Horatios, but his ''entire empire'' is populated by an unending tide of the perfect man, Horatio.
* The ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' Elibe games have [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade War Dragons]] and their human counterparts [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Morphs]] who could be considered a fantasy version of this, being life created from artificial means using recycled quintessence(life force) for the purpose of being expendable soldiers.
* In the ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' games, the Replicas you commonly fight throughout the series are military clones created by Armacham Technology Corporation to serve as mass-produced, disposable and professional soldiers. They were originally designed to be voice-controlled but were also later modified to be controlled by a psychic commander, which went ''disastrously'' wrong.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has a variation where the clones aren't meant to win against their intended opponent. The Sisters are a group of 20,000 clones who are created to fight and die to [[PersonOfMassDestruction Accelerator]], to make the latter more powerful. [[spoiler:This is eventually revealed to be no more than a cover for their real purpose. The Sisters form a HiveMind with their electricity powers, which the BigBad exploits in order to summon a HumanoidAbomination needed for his plan.]]