History Main / DoppelgangerAttack

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** M. Bison ("[[FanNickname Dictator]]")'s ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' incarnation has this with his Knee Press Nightmare supermove, which summons two duplicates of himself which perform knee presses all together. In the ''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX'' series, the fact that Shin Bison also has this variation of the attack is supposed to be an indicator of [[SuperMode just how powerful he is]].

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* ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'': Angela's Grand Diviner class's Double Magic is not, as the name suggests, a doublecast but instead splits Angela in two, doubling the enemy's pain. This is also the Nightblade's skill.
%%** This is done by the [[spoiler:Goremand]].

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Compare DoppelgangerSpin, MesACrowd and WeaponizedOffspring. [[TwinThreesomeFantasy Expect lots of]] PowerPerversionPotential. If the Doppelganger attacking is of the player, it's a MirrorBoss.

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->''"I can be one or one-hundred!"''
-->-- '''Naruto Uzumaki''', ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}''

* In the original ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' show, Billy Numerous can split himself into many duplicates. Unlike most other examples of this trope, the clones do not diminish in power until they reach triple-digit quantities. As a result, he can take on and overwhelm the entirety of the Teen Titans. After his own episode though, he joins other villainous groups as a minor character and doesn't display nearly as much competence as in his debut.

* The tabletop RPG ''TabletopGame/{{Continuum}}'' does this in a way: since all characters are time travellers, they're within their rights to resolve that they'll come back to this moment later on, and watch as their temporal double pops in out of nowhere. The risk is that this means committing to a return into a dangerous situation, and if you see your older self get killed, then that's a pity, isn't it?
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has a huge number of abilities that allow the players to pull it off.
** The [[PsychicPowers Psionic Power]] Fission is this trope in a nutshell.
** One of the Swordmage powers in the supplement book Arcane Power creates three copies of you that you can use as starting points for your other powers, though they all share your action pool.
** The first edition supplement book ''Oriental Adventures'' also has the Conjuration spell "Body Outside Body", allowing a Wu Jen to create a few clones of himself. Those have less HitPoints than the caster and cannot use spells, but they have all of his martial prowess.
** Trickery Devotion, a feat from 3.5, lets you clone yourself 1/day. It's a very frail clone, but still...
* In the 7th Edition of ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'', one of the origins, Doppelganger, focuses on such powers. At 1st-level, you could briefly have three of yourself simultaneously. (It's an at-will power.)

* In ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}} and the Pirate's Curse'', one of the attacks of the [[TrueFinalBoss Pirate Master's True Form]] involves conjuring three phantom copies of his humanoid form that will attack you in his place.

* This is pretty much the whole point of Phantom Lancer, one of the heroes in ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'' - two of his skills are passive and give him a chance of creating an illusory copy of himself (that can still damage enemies) with every hit against an enemy (the second boosts the chance and gives his illusions a chance of creating illusions of their own). Sadly, the illusion-count tops out at 8 or so, meaning no army of angry {{Catfolk}} charging across the battlefield.

* Yin can create duplicates during her battle in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesZeroNoKiseki''. Fortunately they have less HP and fewer attacks than the original. Unfortunately, they still have the attack with the 90% chance of inflicting Death. [[spoiler: Rixia manages to lose this ability when she joins you, both masked as Yin and as herself, probably because it would break the difficulty otherwise.]]

* An oblique version pf this occurs in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheRound'', when Phantom's second group of escorts appears. Two of them are Sky Walkers, Mooks that look just like him—and these are a one-time case where even the colors are the same! However, they do not attack in the same fashion, their only special attack being to throw a dagger straight ahead.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''

** ''Multiple Man'' from ''ComicBook/XFactor''. Especially recently as his clones tend to reflect part of the typical human personality. His libido manifested with a clone and much sex (not with clones) ensued.

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* Nanase of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has a "decoy summon spell." It is a partially sentient puppet that can be controlled directly or behave based on the user's mental state at the time of summoning.
* [[spoiler:Jin Mo-Ri]] of ''Webcomic/TheGodOfHighSchool'' uses this in conjunction with his MagicStaff to wipe out 99.7% of an invading angel army in less than thirty seconds.
* Harem from ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'' is a resident teleporter who has the ability to create up to five extra bodies. Each body has a different style and damage done to one of them is felt by all of them.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', [[RobotGirl Aradia]] builds an army of her doomed time travel clones in order to fight her session's [[FinalBoss Black King]]. [[spoiler: They don't do much good against Jack, though.]]
** Fellow Hero of Time Dave Strider is also fond of creating time clones through stable time loops to fight alongside him. [[spoiler: His aren't much good against Jack either -- Dave's original self dies fighting him this way.]]
** Member number 12 of the TimeMaster gang The Felt, Eggs, has an egg timer which allows him to travel back in time for increments of up to one hour. This basically allows him to create near-infinite past and future copies of himself to aid him in battle.
* In one plotline of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', Doctor Schlock assists Bun-Bun in a fight by firing a gun loaded with countless plush Bun-Bun dolls. As a result, once Bun-Bun is knocked out, the dolls remain, obfuscating his opponent's efforts to finish the real Bun-Bun off.

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Ever since her earliest appearances Di has been able to move fast enough to seem to interact with at least two of herself, which she normally used to help maintain her secret identity.

* Yin can create duplicates during her battle in ''VideoGame/ZeroNoKiseki''. Fortunately they have less HP and fewer attacks than the original. Unfortunately, they still have the attack with the 90% chance of inflicting Death. [[spoiler: Rixia manages to lose this ability when she joins you, both masked as Yin and as herself, probably because it would break the difficulty otherwise.]]

* Shredder at the end of ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame''. The number of fakes depends on the number of players. The fakes have all the same moves, but fewer HitPoints, so if his [[TurnsRed helmet comes off]], you probably have one of the fakes.