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3# Characters.TheRoboutianHeresyLegionesAstartes: Just like his canon counterpart, his speciality is cloning and gene-forging. This version also exaggerates it with the Black Legion, that in this time is composed of a significant numbers of warbands derived from clones and modified astartes.
4# Fanfic.StreetsOfRageSaga: Spoken verbatim by Shiva.
5# VideoGame.KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance: Xehanort's true plan for Org. XIII is to make them essentially all clones of himself.
6# ComicBook.{{Exiles}}: One storyline featured the use of an army of alternate reality Wolverines to deal with an alternate reality Wolverine. The Annual in which the Exiles find out about an alternate reality team of Exiles. How do you defeat an evil Hyperion? Why you send two good Hyperions to fight him of course!
7# Recap.PhineasAndFerbRunAwayRunway: To wait in line for you.
8# VideoGame.MegaManBattleNetwork2: During the final act, [=ProtoMan=] is briefly seen fighting many duplicates of Gospel navis. When the heroes go Storming the Castle, Gospel is able to send in clones of [=MegaMan's=] allies as well.
9# Characters.MarvelComicsMadelynePryor: A story set shortly before the events of Avengers vs. X-Men had Mr. Sinister create six clones of her to control the Phoenix Force with. These clones had none of Maddie's personality though, and were mostly just soulless husks following whatever orders Sinister gave them.
10# Characters.MayorVine: Vinny speculates that she was cloned after she first left Da Burbs, as she doesn't recognize Mayor Vine when he visits her in another town, and when she moves back to Da Burbs she still doesn't recognize him, nor does she remember even living there.
11# VideoGame.BackToTheFuture1986: The many copies of Biff that terrorise you throughout the levels.
12# Manga.GiantRobo: In The Siege of Babel, a mass produced army of GR-1's are commanded by Daisaku to be his personal body guards replacing his previous 3 servants during his time as Big Fire.
13# ComicBook.UltimateSpiderMan: The Clone Saga, 'natch. Which thankfully was handled much better here then the original series. For one thing, rather than running for several years, it was tied up in less than 10 issues. And for another, they make it pretty clear who the clones are, and there's only five of them.
14# Music.DestinyFulfilled: The premise of the “Lose My Breath” music video. Three versions of Destiny’s Child appear to dance battle each other: a prim and proper version in identically stylish red suits; an urban version donning streetwear; and a “fierce” version, styled in furs and heels, appears towards the end of the video to join the fray.
15# Literature.{{Otherland}}: Not only are there versions of Finney and Mudd in almost every part of Otherland, Dread makes thousands of virtual copies of himself for the express purpose of destroying everything in sight.
16# ComicBook.{{Valerian}}: Expecting a high attrition rate for his mission in "On the False Earths", Valérian was cloned into dozens of short-lived copies. Most of them were expended in one go when the mission manager dressed them up as German soldiers, and sent them to battle in a live-action reenactment of a [=WW1=] trench charge.
17# Manga.AzurLaneComicAnthology: Chapter 2, Volume 14 has San Diego using super-deformed clones of herself to act as her back-up dancers.
18# Recap.StargateSG1S9E7ExDeusMachina: The team discovers that Ba'al has been experimenting with cloning, and the final scene shows that there are at least four of him on Earth.
19# Characters.SupermanGeneralZod: In Pre-Crisis continuity, he tried to take over Krypton with an army of Bizarro clones of himself.
20# Anime.DragonBallPlanToEradicateTheSaiyans: Hatchiyack in one of the multiple paths.
21# Characters.{{Otherland}}: Of himself, in Otherland, once he gains control of the system.
22# VideoGame.PhantasyStarUniverse: Renvolt Magashi is actually a Copy CAST of Howzer... and there's more than one of him. Helga is revealed to be a clone made from SEED cells. And, like Magashi, there's more than one of her.
23# Podcast.TheOldOilhouse: Adam has often brought up his plans to clone an army from Matt (aka King Grimmy, podcaster from a different transformers podcast). His reasoning for cloning him range from Take Over the World to just for something to put on the shelf.
24# Characters.Tekken2: Of Armor King mostly. A persistent justification seems to be that Armor King trained him.
25# ComicBook.{{Wolverines}}: With Sinister as the primary antagonist, this goes without saying. The Wolverines encounter an army of Ben Reillys while the Paradise Crew has to deal with a clone of Fin Fang Foom (with a clone of Thor as his tongue). All of Sinister's mooks we see are clones with Theme Naming.In #16 Sinister is revealed to have created clones of Daken using his arm.
26# Characters.{{Nier}}: They manage to create several Kainé copies from the time she still wielded her twin blades. Boy: You are strong. We have taken the liberty of sampling that strength. Girl: We reproduced you from the point in your journey in which you were strongest. Kainé: Son of a... Are those things me!?
27# Characters.TheBatmanAntagonists: His "Quantex" device allows him to do this. He can even produce copies of objects, which allows him to steal pieces of art and replace them with worthless copies.
28# Recap.TransformersPrimeS2E10Armada: Starscream attempts to use this to eliminate Megatron. Even with the death of one clone at the hands of Bulkhead, the plan nearly works until Airachnid's army of Insecticons attack, allowing Megatron to catch them off guard.
29# Webcomic.{{Narbonic}}: Amazon Women of Mars all look the same, because they're template shapeshifters and they only have one template. That of mme Narbon. Later they aquire Madblood's template and happily transform into his shape.
30# ReferencedBy.RobinHood: In 1934, Alex Raymond's comic strip Flash Gordon introduced Prince Barin's land of Arboria, an entire nation of [[SendInTheClones green-clad freedom fighting archers living in a vast forest kingdom.]]
31# VideoGame.FamilyGuyBackToTheMultiverse: Clones of Bertram assist the real one during the final boss fight.
32# Webcomic.SomethingHappens: Two parents feel their son Kyle is so successful they clone him into Kyle II — Kyle III, and Kyle IV: A New Beginning.
33# WesternAnimation.ExoSquad: SurroundedByIdiots: Phaeton usually blames military failures on the incompetence of his Generals. Fair enough, but he also acts surprised when [[SendInTheClones clones]] of those same Generals fail him again.Late in the series, Draconis' clone bemoans that he must pay the price for one of his predecessors betraying Phaeton, having been relegated to a miserable assignment. Draconis is probably the only example of Phaeton learning from his mistakes.
34# VideoGame.CryingSuns: Gehenna production facility allows for this, creating clones of yourself and your crew as well as manufacturing battle ships for them and sending them out into the systems to save the Empire - as well as replacement for those too, if/once you fail. It's been doing this for decades before the game starts and your "first" clone sets out.
35# Characters.SamuraiDeeperKyoJuyushi: MassiveNumberedSiblings: Sort [[SendInTheClones of]]. Sasuke, who disappeared from the lab as an infant, was #15379 of the rare breed children. He has tens of thousands of genetically identical "siblings".
36# Exalted.TropesQToZ: A series of Adorjan Charms in 2nd Edition introduced in The Broken-Winged Crane allow Infernals to create an army of clones. High-Essense Infernals can even use their clones as instantaneous Body Backup Drives in case of unforeseen death.
37# Characters.BlazingSoulsAccelate: Your fight against her has you figthing clones of Zelos in both his Coreless and Ignis variants. And they're SUPER tough to crack with nearly 245k HP each, are immune to status effects, and can perfectly replicate Zelos' Heaven's Drive. The worst part? Her Doppelganger fight pulls the same maneuver with even tougher copies.
38# StargateSG1.TropesSToZ: Ba'al's clones (to great comedic effect) and, to a much lesser extent, the Asgard.
39# Recap.TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003S6E11TheFreaksComeOutAtNight: When Raph notes that the hot dogs taste just like the ones the owner made in their time, Donnie points out that the current owner is a clone of that one.
40# Webcomic.BadGuyHigh: Paradox's army of Superdan clones.
41# Characters.SentinelsOfTheMultiverseVillainsIToW: OutOfFocus: The Skinwalker Crisis Crossover has Gloomweaver raise Spite from the dead, then assume direct control of his corpse as part of his plan to return to the world of the living... or that's what was supposed to happen, had the [=OblivAeon=] event not cut the Skinwalker storyline short in the metafiction. With Spite dead again and Gloomweaver trapped in the oblivion shard of Doctor Medico, neither play any part in the battle with [=OblivAeon=] (on either side), the game's only non-team villains other than the Chairman not to appear. Of course, at least in the Tactics timeline, that means it's time to [[SendInTheClones create a small army of drug-fueled Spite]] clones after the fact.
42# VideoGame.AgeOfWondersPlanetfall: QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything: Focuses on a variety of features that let your units walk through cover or shoot through cover, [[SendInTheClones making phantom copies of your units]] or your citizens back at home, and messing around with time and space in general.
43# Characters.IAmSetsuna: Sends her clone, Aeterna, to guide the sacrifice to the Last Lands.
44# BlueAndOrangeMorality.AnimeAndManga: And then there's the whole [[SendInTheClones Desty Nova bunch]]. An inconcievably brilliant scientist who's equally inconcievably insane, hellbent on scientifically determining what's good, what's bad, and how to put this knowledge to use. The scariest thing about him (or them sometimes) is that he's getting close to succeeding.
45# ComicBook.Superboy1994: Agenda's plans involve making a ton of clone soldiers, which they consider a disposable resource.
46# ThePowerOfLove.AnimeAndManga: Pokémon: The First Movie, Ash is apparently killed, by being turned to stone by a stray attack from Mewtwo and Mew. It is the tears of Pikachu and the other Pokémon that return Ash to normal. In the Mewtwo backstory [[SendInTheClones Ambertwo]] says that Pokémon tears are said to be full of life.Averted in Mewtwo's forgotten backstory. His tears did nothing to save his four best friends.
47# Characters.XMenMarauders: What Sinister does whenever one of them dies. This has also resulted in at least one instance where an X-team stumbled upon one of Sinister's old hideouts where multiple clones were unleashed. More recently Sinister himself created multiple clones of assorted individuals whose DNA he has collected over the years to swell his ranks.
48# OneDegreeOfSeparation.StarWars: [=R2-D2=] was owned by Queen Amidala and C-3PO was built by Anakin Skywalker. Boba Fett, as well, is the clone-son of Jango Fett, who is the original model for the entire [[SendInTheClones Clone Army]]. Chewbacca knew Yoda from the Battle of Kashyyyk near the end of the Clone Wars.
49# Literature.BraveNewWorld: Humanity is mass produced in batches of "identical twins" on the order of hundreds at a time.
50# Characters.DragonBallOnline: Some of the leaders are robotic clones of the originals.
51# Characters.{{Kuromukuro}}: InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: With Yukihime and Muetta. In Episode 20 it's been strongly implied that their body is actually one of a standard patterns of Efidolg's clone warriors.
52# Characters.JackJackAntonucci: Send in the Clones: In one comic Robbie was fighting against an unknown threat,only to reveal it's an army of R2s. After
53# Film.IronManFilms: A major motif in the sequel, where different rogue states, corporations and individuals try to create their own, preferably mass-produced Iron Men, with varying (lack of) success. Foreshadowed in the first movie: Raza, the terrorist leader, asks Obadiah Stane for "a gift of iron soldiers" based on Tony Stark's suit.Also foreshadowed by Raza's 'iron soldiers' comment, Iron Legion. To elaborate: Tony's featured suit for 3 reads Mk 42. Marks I through VII go down with his house. At the climax, all other 34 suits of Powered Armour fly in and start going to town on the Extremis experiments.
54# VideoGame.LostPlanet: Late defecting NEVEC team Task Force First Descent are clones of Ivan Solotov, blamed for several betrayals in the first game.
55# Characters.GoAnimateCaillou: In some videos, Caillou will have additional brothers like Daillou and Baillou. Sometimes exaggerated by adding even more "-aillous", reaching to one for each letter of the alphabet, though it isn't uncommon for the letter A to remain excluded.note In cases that do include A, the "A" child is named Aillou.
56# Characters.{{Xenosaga}}: She has a veritable army of android body doubles which she uses to interact with the outside world.
57# Characters.DestinyTheDarkness: Said in the Showcase to be freshly minted, mass-produced clones of Rhulk, and it shows in their slender builds and choice of weapon.
58# Characters.SuperRobotWarsV: Gardim "Soldiers" and "Commanders" resemble and sound just like Ghuli and Jamie, respectively. The difference between Ghuli and a Soldier are the latter's pupils being obscured by fake contact lenses. Meanwhile, the Ahlforz seen before the final scenario is not the real one, but rather a machine.
59# Webcomic.SwitcherooAU: This version of Pearl weaponizes her holopearls in combat.
60# Characters.IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDeviceTheImperialPalace: The Ecclesiarchy seems to be composed of dozens upon dozens of Decius's clones. And a Jokaero.
61# Characters.MarvelsSpiderManAntagonists: Just like in the comics, he has a big liking for clones. In this case, he repeatedly uses clones of himself as decoys, and intends to create an army of them with Spider-Man's abilities.
62# Characters.Portal2: Because of the multiverse, there are infinite Caves out there.
63# Animation.MotuPatlu: In "Chingam Hi Chingam", Inspector Chingum gets several clones made of himself, to help in stopping crime in Furfuri Nagar. In "Motu Ke Clones", Dr. Jhatka clones Motu to give him help renovating his house.
64# Characters.SuperRobotWarsW: Male clones of Aria called "Deceiver" are made to pilot mass-produced versions of the Arm Arcus and Arm Stora after Aria and Regulate defect.
65# Manga.{{Needless}}: DeathIsCheap: Pretty much anyone can be cloned and brought back through such a manner. Though how they come [[SendInTheClones back]] is a different story.
66# VideoGame.{{Zorbus}}: You can clone yourself using found elixirs or a randomly encountered room. The clone has 90% of your powers and abilities but not your equipment and cannot gain experience.
67# VideoGame.TheGame2008: After unlocking all of the achievements in Reimagine, you can not only fully customize a character, you are also granted the option to replace every character in the game with that particular one.
68# VideoGame.SailorMoonRobotFrenzy: Zoycite throws a twist on the Monster of the Week, this time creating an army of robots based on Game Machine Man.
69# Characters.{{Necroverse}}: Dr. Eprho, Necropsychologist. Treats Dan and Stan. Dr. Epchi, Necroanthropologist. Shows up to provide more exposition, and reveals that the dupes are Deadpan Snarker misanthropes when not being held responsible for their patients' mental balance.
70# VideoGame.FightingEXLayer: When playing as Skullomania in Arcade Mode, three other Skullomanias will be fought. His arcade ending reveals this as happening in-story when Skullomania discovers that "The Dark Organization was mass producing Skullomania clones!" Though it is followed by "(It was just a dream)".
71# Characters.ElfenLied: They are sent to capture Lucy.
72# Recap.BigHero6TheSeriesS2E11WriteTurnHere: This episode stars Noodle Burger Boy and tons of copies of him.
73# Recap.PhineasAndFerbTerrifyingTriStateTrilogyOfTerror: After the first evil clone of Perry is created, that clone then makes even more clones by pouring grape juice on himself. Soon, there’s an army of evil platypuses.
74# WebVideo.GrayStillPlays: DeathWorld: Gray turns Los Santos into one in "i built a stairway to hell in GTA 5". After first building a giant stairway down from his Fluffy Cloud Heaven full of strippers, he decides to turn the surface world into Hell, and creates a world of nonstop thunderstorms, meteor strikes, tornado force winds, flying megalodons, and [[SendInTheClones clones of his own super-powered GTA avatar, causing endless mayhem]].
75# GhostsOfThePast.TropesAToH: In chapter 73 of Ghosts, Harry nods back to his obliteration of [[SendInTheClones the Red Army]], and reveals that he considers it to be his greatest regret because while they were programmed Human Weapons, they were people (which he knew) and they never got the chance to live.
76# Anime.DragonBallZTheReturnOfCooler: Just after Goku and Vegeta defeated Cooler and sat back in victory, they notice yet another Cooler on top of the cliffs above them. They then learn why the Japanese title of this movie is 10,000,000,000 Powerful Warriors, as an entire army of Coolers start sliding down the cliffs.
77# VideoGame.CaveStory: As you progress through Cave Story+'s Wind Fortress, the only enemies you'll be fighting through the last end of the level are naked clones of Curly.
78# ComicBook.DestroyerDuck: The Cogburns, who are a group of clones originated from an employee of Godcorp that disappeared. The way how they reproduce another copy... it is rather unpleasant.Later, Duke suspects that the same thing happened with the Little Guy, and believes he is still alive in somewhere.
79# LetsPlay.{{Eexecute}}: BrickJoke: In part 9 of Turok 3, Eex finds a man in a lab tank and dubs him "Bob". This scene is accompanied by the text: "This is Bob. Remember him, he's important." In the next part, we find Bob in another tank, this time in the dam control room. A clone, perhaps? In part 4 of [=HeXen,=] Charles is teleported into a room full of Wendigos. He uses a Banishment Device to warp one to a random location on the map, to make the room merely bullshit rather than straight-up Unwinnable. Later, while leaving the piston room after opening up the Secret Level, he runs into the Wendigo on the elevator. Cue death.
80# AbusiveParents.{{Superman}}: The clone is all Knight Templar, so he goes rogue from Lex after that, and the first thing he does is dig the kryptonite bomb out of his skull with laser vision (incidentally, apparently the hemispheres of his brain aren't linked?), and then he saves Lois and Jimmy from Lex...and then rather horribly slaughters [[SendInTheClones Lex's incipient clone army]], ranging from oversized fetuses to nearly-mature specimens, with the ironic comment "Evil Supermen? Not on my watch!" The line of clones at the stage of development Conner was when he entered the scene were especially nasty to see die, although it was obvious as soon as they were introduced that they'd all have to be massacred somehow.
81# Recap.HTFAutopsyTurvy: Hundreds of Flippys and Fliqpys appear at the climax of the episode and they all brutally murder each other.
82# ComicBook.{{Prophet}}: The Empire's strategy with their thousands of John Prophet sleeper clones. Different types of clone are used for different missions – super-intelligent "Father Johns" lead armies while giant "Magnus Johns" are used as siegebreakers.
83# Recap.EdEddNEddyS4E9TheyCallHimMrEd: Ed generates a clone of himself to help add more material to the elevator.
84# WesternAnimation.{{Gargoyles}}: Thailog, and the Manhattan Clan clones. In The Goliath Chronicles episode "Genesis Undone", Sevarius makes this request when he appears to be ready to cure the clones of their illness. Talon makes the same request in Gargoyles #3 when Goliath comes to check on the clones.
85# Characters.Tekken1: Armor King and the Rogers borrow from him a lot.
86# VideoGame.ResidentEvilOutbreak: SecretCharacter: Every NPC you encounter can be unlocked and controlled. But...SendInTheClones: Functionally, they mimic the eight primary characters, even being described in-game with terms like "KEVIN Type".
87# HoistByHisOwnPetard.AnimeAndManga: Accelerator defeated Kakine Teitoku the first time by using Kakine's own Dark Matter constructs on him. The second time, Kakine overwhelmed both Accelerator and Mugino with his [[SendInTheClones Dark Matter clones]], but in the process, he spread his consciousness too thin among the constructs to control them. One of his rhinoceros beetle constructs developed its own free will and was able to take control of his mind and body from him.
88# Roleplay.WakingUpFromTheDream: GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The God of Plenty, which is basically a giant, much more aggressive Kirby that floats in the sky. It consumes anything that catches its eye, which includes delicious food and shiny objects. Also includes rabbits down on their luck, fairies and anyone else that looks appetizing. The God of Plenty's appearance is what ruined Reimu's preparations for the Reitaisai festival in the first place, and it can even [[SendInTheClones split after being attacked]], leading to various shenanigans and pursuits. Turns out it was created and sent into the virtual world by RAI as an ominous yet experimental threat.
89# Website.PlatypusComix: "The Phelps Olympics" has Mulberry try to make the 2016 Summer Olympics more interesting by replacing every competitor with Michael Phelps (with help from "Disney magic" in duplicating him), and prompting viewers to guess/discover which Phelps will win each match.
90# Characters.SuperjailCitizens: ADayInTheLimelight: A Day in the Limelight "Best Friends Forever", where him and Jailbot are stranded in the outer dimensions and they a form a shaky friendship. "Oedipus Mess", where The Warden [[SendInTheClones clones hundreds of him]] and they wreak havoc across the globe.
91# Recap.ThePowerpuffGirlsS6EP6LittleMissInterpretsNightMayor: Pretty much everybody in the Mayors dream looks like him (his waking self that is, not his dreamself).
92# VideoGame.TerraBattle: The Oxsecian secret weapon, the trio of super-soldiers known as the Zero Series, attack their opponents by overwhelming them with clones of themselves.
93# Recap.ThePowerpuffGirlsS5EP4ToastOfTheTownDivideAndConquer: The Amoeba Boys find out how they can make many copies of themselves.
94# LaserGuidedAmnesia.AnimeAndManga: Tsubasa [=-RESERVoir=] [=CHRoNiCLE-=] appears to do this to Princess Sakura regarding her relationship with Syaoran; the truth is much, much [[SendInTheClones more]] complicated.
95# WesternAnimation.{{Vampirina}}: The plot of the episode "Mirror Mirror" has Vee create a clone of herself using a magic mirror so that she can be in two places at one. In an interesting take on this plot, none of the clones can talk. Not only that, more clones are accidentally created after Vee got through her day, not during it.
96# Characters.Transformers2019: While the clones Shockwave made from him weren't able to teleport the Skywarp drones as they are called did prove useful as an army which he led and also prompted the creation of the seeker clones to fight them.
97# Recap.KimPossibleS1E16KimitationNation: Drakken produces batches of Bonnie, Kim, Ron, and Rufus clones and sends them to attack Team Possible.
98# Recap.LupinIIIS2E65: EvilKnockoff: Mr. X uses [[SendInTheClones several of Princess Yasmin]]. He also takes Lupin's face for himself at the end of the episode.
99# WesternAnimation.CoconutFredsFruitSaladIsland: The episode "Coconut Freds" involves Coconut Fred finding a magic printer and using it to create multiple duplicates of himself.
100# Fanfic.PoniesOneHalf: Discord creates these on the Mane Six as his first trick. He didn't know the Mane Six took some badass levels, though. Done again in Chapter 63, only they're Opposite Sex Clones. They have free will, though, and rebel, but are taken out. Discord tries this AGAIN, creating one "superclone." Queen Cosmos, said clone, stabs him in the back, though. Discord does this AGAIN in ch.115, as he recreates the Mane Six's clones, along with clones of Ryoga, Ranma, and Shampoo with fake memories based on the fake memories trick Discord pulled as Discord's last gambit to stop them from restoring Akane's memories.
101# Characters.TheGamersDorknessRising: Leo's bard dies quickly and often. Tired of losing levels every time he's resurrected, he asks Lodge if he can just replace his character with another when he dies. He then prepares 50 bards, sending in a new one every time the last one dies. Leading to an incident during a large battle where the party needs to seek cover from an exceptionally powerful enemy and Leo advises them to "hide behind the mound of dead bards." And it works.

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