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* ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'': In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}: The Man of Steel'' Annual #5, Luthor the 60th tells Kaleb that his Imperial Guard are clones created from the best fighting stock in the Empire.

* In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/{{Crucible}}'', [[BigBad Korstus]] captures ComicBook/{{Superboy}} and creates dozens of Kryptonian clones with the intent of policing the universe.
-->'''Korstus:''' "The clonelings are not fully formed, but gene sequencing is almost complete. When they awake, I will have an army of obedient, all-powerful soldiers ready to keep the peace throughout the galaxy. I am sure this is as exciting to you as it is to me. After all, it is the DNA of the House of El that courses through them. I know you yearn for your dead family, [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]]. You should be pleased that it will now have hundreds of new members."

* In Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/{{Crucible}}'', [[BigBad Korstus]] captures ComicBook/{{Superboy}} and creates dozens of Kryptonian clones with the intent of policing the universe.

* In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', Grand Admiral Thrawn recovered some Spaarti cloning cylinders capable of growing a clone to adulthood in a matter of weeks and giving it the original's memories. Regular humans come out OK if shielded from the Force during growth, but cloned Jedi invariably go insane.

* 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. Unfortunately the manufactured humans just ate anyone they happened across, the army included]].

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe'' has War Dragons and their human counterparts 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 ''[[FanFic/SovereignGFCOrigins Origins]]'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[=/=]''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Halo=]'']] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, Atlas and later Jakobs used cloning technology to produce hordes of [[SuperSoldier commandos]] with only the [[GeneticMemory best training]].
* In the ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' fanfic ''FanFic/ThePowerThatsInside'', all the Officers Jenny and Nurses Joy are programmed to be this.

* In the military science fiction novel ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'', the futuristic LadyLand Azania's [[AmazonBrigade armed forces]] are, technically speaking, increasingly becoming this, as more clones are recruited. Subverted, in that the clones are individually designed by their parents, not made according to one template ordered by the military authorities, since cloning is Azania's [[HomosexualReproduction normal mode]] of reproduction.

* In the ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' games, the Replicas you commonly fight throughout the series are clones of Paxton Fettel developed by Armacham.

* ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'': In ''[[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Superman: The Man of Steel]]'' Annual #5, Luthor the 60th tells Kaleb that his Imperial Guard are clones created from the best fighting stock in the Empire.

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* Empires that research cloning in ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' can create clone armies. They're slightly better than ordinary assault armies.

** DependingOnTheWriter, the Death Korps of Krieg may all be clones of the exact same guy, a fact they hide from outsiders and the AdeptusMechanicus (who don't want that kind of technology running loose) [[GasMaskMooks by wearing gas masks everywhere]].

* In the fic based on the Beetlejuice Cartoon, Lydia Deetz finds a cloning perfume made by Beetlejuice for his own selfish reasons, she uses it on herself so she could end up enjoying her summer vacation in the Outerworld and the Neitherworld, but it works too well as [[MesACrowd/WesternAnimation the spell wasn't tested yet, prompting the perfume to produce more clones]], and some of the clones behave more childlike and playful than the original Lydia, much to Beetlejuice's annoyance.
** BONUS: This was also part of [[Fanfic/ToonCity Toon City's universe, FYI.]]

* In the fic based on ''WesternAnimation/Beetlejuice'', Lydia Deetz finds a cloning perfume made by Beetlejuice for his own selfish reasons, she uses it on herself so she could end up enjoying her summer vacation in the Outerworld and the Neitherworld, but it works too well as [[MesACrowd/WesternAnimation the spell wasn't tested yet, prompting the perfume to produce more clones]], and some of the clones behave more childlike and playful than the original Lydia, much to Beetlejuice's annoyance.

* In the fic based on [[WesternAnimation/Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: The Series]], Lydia Deetz finds a cloning perfume made by Beetlejuice for his own selfish reasons, she uses it on herself so she could end up enjoying her summer vacation in the Outerworld and the Neitherworld, but it works too well as [[MesACrowd/WesternAnimation the spell wasn't tested yet, prompting the perfume to produce more clones]], and some of the clones behave more childlike and playful than the original Lydia, much to Beetlejuice's annoyance.

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* In ''Film/{{Oblivion 2013}}'' the [[spoiler: Tet cloned an army of astronaut Jack Harper to conquer earth, then switched to drones and had the Jacks maintain them.]]
* ''Film/PootieTang'': Parodied with the fake Pooties. Only an idiot couldn't tell they were fakes, but they fool everyone anyway.

* In the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, Grand Admiral Thrawn recovered some Spaarti cloning cylinders capable of growing a clone to adulthood in a matter of weeks and giving it the original's memories. Regular humans come out OK if shielded from the Force during growth, but cloned Jedi invariably go insane.
* In the ''Literature/AllianceUnion'' series the Union military relies heavily on azi, mass-produced DesignerBabies intended to help make up the population difference between the Union and [[TheWarOfEarthlyAggression Earth]]. They're not all clones per se, but many genotypes are copied many times.
* At least one novel in the ''Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse'' mentions the Arcturians, who provide clone soldiers for the Federation military.
* in ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', after the Slaughterhouse Nine are decimated, Jack had Bonesaw create an army consisting of ten clones of every member the Nine have ever lost, each with the original's powers and a reasonable attempt at their personalities. Bonesaw also created a couple of {{Hybrid Monster}}s [[AllYourPowersCombined combining two members' powers]] just for fun.

* ''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.]]
* In the military science fiction novel ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'', the futuristic LadyLand Azania's [[AmazonBrigade armed forces]] are, technically speaking, increasingly becoming this, as more clones are recruited. Subverted, in that the clones are individually designed by their parents, not made according to one template ordered by the military authorities, since cloning is Azania's [[HomosexualReproduction normal mode]] of reproduction.

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** The two-part special ''The End of Time'' features [[spoiler:the Master Race]], an army of six billion [[spoiler:humans transformed into loyal clones of the Master.]]

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' the second season premiere revealed [[spoiler: that the boys were clones, and Doctor Venture kept a room of clones for when they inevitably die]]. In the season 3 finale, Sergeant Hatred takes the preformed clones and leads them as a RedshirtArmy. This also serves to remove the safety net from the show.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', for obvious reasons. However this actually goes into the ethics of the trope, which go less addressed in the films. The clones' wages are constantly delayed (making them effectively slaves), the fact that they were artificially aged and are still aging faster is giving them issues that are going unfixed (and stay unfixed after Order 66), Jango Fett's death means no more fresh genetic material and thus more and more clones are defective, clones are treated as defective simply for not wanting to fight in the war, most people outside the Jedi and a handful of senators treat them as utterly expendable despite their sentience, and the Order 66 arc reveals that there are chips in their heads--designed to give out a variety of Orders with 66 being the one that gets selected in the end--that can malfunction and impair their thinking at any time OR just force them to obey.
** WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels reveals that after the war ended the remaining clones were "decommissioned", although this seems to be functionally the same as being mustered out. It also makes a point of directly comparing them to stormtroopers; the stormtroopers are nowhere near the skill level or training, their weapons aren't as good, vision in their helmets is so bad it interferes with their aim, and their armor is of such a lower quality that it's little more than a uniform.

* The Nixels from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'', save for their king, the army's major, and a genetically modified muscular minion, consists of multiple clones of three base models, primarily used for swarm attacks.

** DependingOnTheWriter, the Death Korps of Krieg may all be clones of the exact same guy, a fact they hide from outsiders [[GasMaskMooks by wearing gas masks everywhere]].

A common source of soldiers in science fiction is cloning. This can make sense if you want to mass produce one exceptionally good soldier or don't want to spend much time creating and raising an army of DesignerBabies from scratch. Typically they grow to adulthood at an accelerated rate as well. FridgeLogic, however, may reveal that given how difficult assembling a single amoeba would be, mass chemical fabrication of multiceular human bodies would be the most counterproductive thing ever, and so choosing to do this rather than recruit them from amongst the populace where all that has already been done for them like normal is far costlier.

A common source of soldiers in science fiction is cloning. This can make sense if you want to mass produce one exceptionally good soldier or don't want to spend much time creating and raising an army of DesignerBabies from scratch. Typically they grow to adulthood at an accelerated rate as well. FridgeLogic, however, may reveal that given how difficult assembling a single amoeba would be, mass chemical fabrication of multiceular human bodies would be the most counterproductive thing ever, and so choosing to do this rather than recruit them from amongst the populace where all that has already been done for them like normal is far superior.

* In ''[[FanFic/SovereignGFCOrigins Origins]]'', a ''MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[=/=]''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Halo=]'']] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, Atlas and later Jakobs used cloning technology to produce hordes of [[SuperSoldier commandos]] with only the [[GeneticMemory best training]].

* The Kaldor, a race of [[ANaziByAnyOtherName blonde humanoids]] who believe they are a MasterRace "Spacejack", the villains of the first ''Star Quest'' novel by Creator/TerranceDicks. Dicks may well have had the Sontarans in mind when he wrote it, given his work on ''Doctor Who'' and fondness for a RecycledScript.

* The villains of "Spacejack", the first ''Star Quest'' novel by Creator/TerranceDicks, allied with a WeHaveReserves mentality. Dicks may well have had the Sontarans in mind when he wrote it, given his fondness for a RecycledScript.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Gems' [[BizarreAlienReproduction asexual machine production]] makes basically all of members of a given [[HiveCasteSystem caste]] clones, military included. In particular, Rubies are all low-ranking common soldiers who are especially similar-looking to each other. Additionally, Quartzes also serve as soldiers, though as there are more varieties of Quartz there is a little more variation between them.