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** Prue develops the power of AstralProjection in Season 2, but it's treated more like SelfDuplication (her astral-body is still on our plane, corporeal and can be seen by others).

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** Prue develops the power of AstralProjection in Season 2, but it's treated more like SelfDuplication (her astral-body is still on our plane, corporeal and can be seen by others). It's implied late in Season 3 that Prue's Astral Projection would have eventually evolved into true self-duplication [[spoiler:if she hadn't died.]]
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Possible side-effects include LiteralSplitPersonality. May be used in a DoppelgangerAttack, a BreatherEpisode might go for MesACrowd. Not to be confused with IAmLegion. PowerPerversionPotential means this naturally leads to ScrewYourself. This will usually be part of a MonkeyKingLite's arsenal, owing to Sun Wukong himself being a famous user of this power.

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Possible side-effects include LiteralSplitPersonality. May be used in a DoppelgangerAttack, DoppelgangerAttack or to make a DisposableDecoyDoppelganger, a BreatherEpisode might go for MesACrowd. Not to be confused with IAmLegion. PowerPerversionPotential means this naturally leads to ScrewYourself. This will usually be part of a MonkeyKingLite's arsenal, owing to Sun Wukong himself being a famous user of this power.

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There may or may not be some idea of a central self, one copy who is the "proper" version for whatever reason: you have to kill that one to kill them all at once, one gives all of the commands, etc. The other copies, conversely, rarely [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman count as persons]] in and of themselves; see also CloneAngst. If they ''are'' counted as actual people, expect WhichMe.

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There may or may not be some idea of a central self, one copy who is the "proper" version for whatever reason: you have to kill that one to kill them all at once, one gives all of the commands, etc. The other copies, conversely, rarely [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman count as persons]] in and of themselves; see also CloneAngst. If they ''are'' counted as actual people, expect WhichMe. \n Examples where there is no central self, or at least a central self tied to one particular body, tends to overlap with the HiveMind, where all the copies essentially sharing a single mind and consciousness.


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* ''WebComic/KillSixBillionDemons'': Gog-Agog is an insane GodEmperor [[AnimalisticAbomination made of worms]]. ''Trillions'' of worms, spread across the myriad universes of TheMultiverse, [[TheWormThatWalks which she uses to make bodies for herself]] and [[TheAssimilator to convert other beings into more Gog-Agog]]. Because killing her would require destroying every single worm, Gog-Agog is near-unkillable, [[spoiler:and has survived [[EternalRecurrence the repeated destruction of the multiverse]] and the ensuing ResetButton an unknown number of times.]]
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* ''Literature/ThePerfectRun'':
** Bloodstream, Len's father, had the Green power to control his own blood and the Blue power to turn himself into pure information. Combined, he ''became'' his own blood, and he could infect others to turn them into copies of himself. Only about ten copies at a time, though, and he could only infect humans. [[spoiler:Both turn out to be psychological limits. It was predicted that if Len died, he'd go insane and infect the entire world, killing every living thing within months. Then Dynamis used him to make their knockoff elixirs, turning all their customers into potential new Bloodstreams.]]
** Psyshock technically does this, though it's more of a BodySurf. After observing Bloodstream's ability, he realized he could use his psychic and cybernetic powers to turn people into latent clones of himself. He can only have one active body at a time, but if one dies he'll just reshape the nearest thrall into a new copy of himself.
** [[spoiler:The Alchemist]] turns out to have the ability to create an unlimited number of copies of herself from simulated timelines, with any skills or abilities she might need. She was a worldwide conspiracy of a single person. As it turns out, spending decades with no one but yourself for company leaves you rather narrow-minded, which is why she never saw anything wrong with any of the terrible things she did.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Poptropica}}'', this is Copy Cat's power on Super Power Island. The clones disappear when you touch them, though.
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* ''Fanfic/LittleHandsBigAttitude'': One of [[spoiler:Kaia]]'s many abilities is to create duplicates of herself. She can only consciously control one at the time, but she can transfer her consciousness between her clones with no issues. Such abilities are quite easy when [[spoiler:you're made of water.]]
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* Manson Haight, a small-time paragang member from ''[[WebOriginal/AcademyOfSuperheroes ASH]]'', has the power to make one duplicate every day.

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* Manson Haight, a small-time paragang member from ''[[WebOriginal/AcademyOfSuperheroes ''[[Literature/AcademyOfSuperheroes ASH]]'', has the power to make one duplicate every day.
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** One of the Jusenkyo curses is the Spring of Drowned Twins. It presumably creates a clone of the effects whenever they're splashed with cold water that disappears with hot water, but how exactly it works isn't known. The plot concern ''keeping'' it from being used on Happosai by Pantyhose Taro, who's mistaken it for a different spring. [[spoiler:Happosai is eventually splashed with it, but by so little it only duplicates a bump on his head.]]

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** One of the Jusenkyo curses is the Spring of Drowned Twins. It presumably creates a clone of the effects affected whenever they're splashed with cold water that disappears with hot water, but how exactly it works isn't known. The plot concern ''keeping'' it from being used on Happosai by Pantyhose Taro, who's mistaken it for a different spring. [[spoiler:Happosai is eventually splashed with it, but by so little it only duplicates a bump on his head.]]
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There may or may not be some idea of a central self, one copy who is the "proper" version for whatever reason: you have to kill that one to kill them all at once, one gives all of the commands, etc. The other copies, conversely, rarely [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman count as persons]] in and of themselves; see also CloningBlues. If they ''are'' counted as actual people, expect WhichMe.

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There may or may not be some idea of a central self, one copy who is the "proper" version for whatever reason: you have to kill that one to kill them all at once, one gives all of the commands, etc. The other copies, conversely, rarely [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman count as persons]] in and of themselves; see also CloningBlues.CloneAngst. If they ''are'' counted as actual people, expect WhichMe.
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* The Concerto in F sequence of ''Film/AnAmericanInParis'' features Adam (played by Oscar Levant) as every member of the orchestra and audience.
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* A cut scene from the script of ''Film/BruceAlmighty'' featured Bruce creating an army of himself to beat up some thugs.
* In ''Film/CultOfChucky'', [[spoiler: it turns out that Chucky has learned how to copy his soul onto multiple bodies at once. In addition to the original, currently held prisoner by Andy, he possesses three other Good Guy dolls over the course of the film, and ultimately Nica as well. And it turns out that he taught Tiffany the same trick.]]
* Agent Smith from ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' due to his ex-agent ability to hijack blue pills being accidently altered by Neo, he had gained the ability to copy himself, overriding blue pills, red pills and even matrix programs over and over again like a computer virus, needless to say when he meets Neo once again there are a lot more Smiths than Neos.
* Penny from ''Film/SkyHigh2005'', a film about a high school for superheroes, uses her power to make herself into her own one-woman Cheerleading team and GirlPosse.

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* A cut scene from the script of ''Film/BruceAlmighty'' featured features Bruce creating an army of himself to beat up some thugs.
* In ''Film/CultOfChucky'', [[spoiler: it [[spoiler:it turns out that Chucky has learned how to copy his soul onto multiple bodies at once. In addition to the original, currently held prisoner by Andy, he possesses three other Good Guy dolls over the course of the film, and ultimately Nica as well. And it turns out that he taught Tiffany the same trick.]]
trick]].
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'': Agent Smith from ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' due has this ability in ''[[Film/TheMatrixReloaded Reloaded]]'' and onwards. Due to his ex-agent ex-Agent ability to hijack blue pills [[BodySurf hijack]] bluepills being accidently altered by Neo, he had gained gains the ability to copy himself, overriding blue pills, red pills bluepills, redpills, and even matrix Matrix programs over and over again [[ContagiousAI like a computer virus, needless virus]]. Needless to say say, when he meets Neo once again again, there are a lot more Smiths than Neos.
* Penny from ''Film/SkyHigh2005'', a film about a high school for superheroes, ''Film/SkyHigh2005'' uses her power to make herself into her own one-woman Cheerleading cheerleading team and GirlPosse.



* Jamie Madrox/Multiple Man from ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' robbed seven banks at the exact same time. And served as decoy for the authorities.

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* Jamie Madrox/Multiple Man from ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' robbed robs seven banks at the exact same time. And served time and serves as decoy for the authorities.
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* ''Manga/ShimejiSimulation'' has Big Sis, who is revealed that she is able to create clones of herself, as it is shown when the ''original'' Sis, Majime and Shijima were capturing the other rogue Sis clone, as well as her plan to take the Key in an attempt to unlock the humans the ability to change themselves in a whim, which is mostly triggered by Ayaka's performance.

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