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Self-Duplication is an ability to split oneself into duplicates. Me's a Crowd is a stock plot, in which a character makes a large number of duplicates of themself, thinking it will make their life easier.
Self-Duplication might be about the power to clone ones self, in the Emerge From One Body sense, although, cloning's cloning.
I rember some example where the character blurs, then a clone appears, so then there's the limit that the clone has to appear physically close to the original...
And then can fuse back in to one person later...
But examples might not be confined to such a form of cloning... Would have to check.
Edited by Malady Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576For a brief history lesson:
Me's a Crowd came first, and was originally a catch-all trope for anything that had to do with self-duplication, self-cloning, or doppelgangers. The trope eventually ran into decay and misuse, and Self-Duplication was created to be the general trope about being able to split oneself into others. I believe other tropes also came about from the split, but I can't remember any from the top of my head.
Me's a Crowd was repurposed to be a specific stock plot, as described above.

Me's a Crowd and Self-Duplication are both about the same thing—that is, self-replication. Would a TRS article about this work?