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Clone Degeneration

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Clone Degeneration	comment	When dealing with fiction that clones things, the assumption is often made that clones must, after time, decay. That is, with each copy you make whatever Applied Phlebotinum you are using to create the clones will either decrease in effectiveness, or the clones themselves become less coherent since eventually everything is just a copy of a copy. This goes double for dead clones, who tend to dissolve because they're "less than human" rather than leave a proper corpse. When dealing with a character who has the ability to create clones apparently out of thin air, this weakness is usually the only thing holding them back from whatever it is they're trying to do. Uses very similar logic to Super Prototype and Conservation of Ninjutsu. The Super Prototype, when it is a one-of-a-kind machine, is awesome and unstoppable. Clones, likewise, seem really great at first— but the more of them you get, the more common and boring the idea of a clone is in the first place. As a result, they inevitably lose effectiveness because several copies of the same thing just wouldn't be all that interesting. In some instances, it may be a Justified Trope: the creator may "program" a shortened lifespan into the clone to protect their property from getting away or trying to take his place. Relatedly, the degeneration may be because the process used to make the clone resulted in a Flawed Prototype, making all the clones a form of Keystone Army that will croak on some future date or circumstance. If the hero has qualms about killing clones, their degeneration lays them to rest. Whether out of being a Mercy Kill or making them seem less real varies. See also Power Degeneration, which also applies to clones designed with powers. Compare Possession Burnout, when being possessed damages the host in an accelerated manner each time it's done. Note that this trope does have some grounding in Real Life: Cloning isn't a fully documented science yet, and genetic kinks in the cloning process, such as shortened telomeres and genomic imprinting, remain factors that may lead to clones having shorter life expectancies than their originals. Clones of clones tend to be even worse off.
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Clone Degeneration / int_1145d0f7	comment	Who Censored Roger Rabbit?: Toons can make duplicates of themselves for doing stunts, but the duplicates are very short-lived.
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Clone Degeneration / int_1367cea0	comment	Worm: Oni Lee's power allows him to instantly create a new clone of himself within eyesight, with the old body turning to ash after a few seconds. However, this power can't perfectly copy his mind and over time his mind dulled, eventually leaving him little more than a machine following orders from Lung. Worst of all, he knew what was happening but couldn't think of a way to reverse it. Echidna creates clones of any living creature which she has either touched or swallowed. These clones are all mentally imbalanced, hating the original and wanting to destroy everything they loved, and are often physically deformed.
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Clone Degeneration / int_1493735a	comment	Zanki Zero: Partially inverted, as the clone protagonist grow stronger with each Extend they go through as the Extend Machine corrects for how they died. However, the machine is also imperfect and will generate "Waste" clones until it creates a successful human. The rest, mindless monsters called Creatures, are released into the wild.
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Clone Degeneration / int_160b4833	comment	One of the clones in Clone High is hideously deformed because her donor, Marie Curie, presumably had some genetic damage from the radiation exposure.
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Clone Degeneration / int_16712475	comment	In The Jetsons, George had a clone made in one episode, only to find it could do stuff far better than him. He wanted to leave his life to the clone, but it turned out that the clone has a very limited lifespan and soon vanishes into thin air.
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Clone Degeneration / int_18923c16	comment	Lost Universe: In the manga, this is the fate of Anise, who was created as a clone of Kane's grandmother, Alisia. Or at least, it would have been if it hadn't been for her using the Swordbreaker's ultimate attack and disappearing forever. The Spreader of Darkness averts this. But then again, he's secretly Dark Star in a human body.
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Clone Degeneration / int_19ac551d	comment	X-23: X-23, Wolverine's Opposite-Sex Clone, possesses two claws on each hand instead of three. Things gets more complicated when Laura herself starts getting cloned. Most of her clone "sisters" are killed because Gabby was the only one who also inherited Laura's Healing Factor, and additionally she only has one claw in each hand. Also, genetic degeneration is the entire reason why X-23 came to be, since Wolverine's genome was too damaged to make a perfect copy of him (her creators went through 22 attempts before producing a viable clone, hence the name).
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Clone Degeneration / int_1ac6ad40	comment	Hitman: Blood Money has clones becoming relatively commonplace. However, Agent 47 (a clone himself but not an example) stole his creator's notes in order to prevent further Agents from being made. As such, these clones are created with an imperfect procedure, which has resulted in a number of flaws — all the clones are albino, they suffer various physical ailments, and none of them can survive for more than a few years.
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Clone Degeneration / int_1e6653ca	comment	The God of one of the worlds in The Neverhood eventually ended up creating that whole world's population this way. He was trying to duplicate himself, but the duplicate just assumed that he was really God, and went through the whole process all over again. This continued until eventually a duplicate was created that was not alive.
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Clone Degeneration / int_1eb6c857	comment	Transformers: Fall of Cybertron: The Insecticons have the ability to copy themselves (a nod the G1 Insecticons) in a manner vaguely similar to reproduction, but as Shockwave's audio logs reveal they become progressively inferior. The original Insecticons are sentient and can transform but the rest are just a hungry mindless swarm under the control of the original three.
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Clone Degeneration / int_1f76648	comment	The Sisters in A Certain Magical Index have to go through body adjustments specifically to prevent this. Justified because they were only made so that Accelerator could kill them.
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Clone Degeneration / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: The "Treehouse of Horror XIII" segment "Send in the Clones" has Homer with a cloning mechanism which results in him creating duplicates who are progressively dumber than he is. Eventually, they get to be so stupid that one of them is Peter Griffin. Special mention should be made that the surviving Homer is a clone. The original Homer, who knew of the plot to fly a fake giant donut over a cliff to have the clones run after it and off the cliff, was the first one off the cliff.
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Clone Degeneration / int_26ef42e7	comment	In Kevin & Kell, Corrie's clone, Dolly, begins Rapid Aging as a result of being a clone. Dolly becomes concerned about how her adoptive parents (who don't know she's a clone) will feel about this, so Corrie switches with Dolly, who poses as her birth mother to take her away. An accident with a Time Machine results in Dolly reverting to a baby, which gives her a fresh start on life even if her rapid aging resumes (which is somewhat unlikely to happen, given how little time progresses in the strip).
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Clone Degeneration / int_2817ca8b	comment	In The Killers of Krypton, Harry Hokum takes a tissue sample from a captured Supergirl and orders his head scientist to grow an army of Kryptonian clones immediately, ignoring his warnings that accelerating their incubation is risky. When the Supergirl clones engage their template, their cellular structure is so unstable their bodies break down into puzzles of organic matter after being hit by a Shockwave Clap.
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Clone Degeneration / int_2a4c791e	comment	Ah! My Goddess: In the Adventures of the Mini-Goddesses manga, one of the goddesses is able to make a duplicate of herself, which can make a duplicate of herself, etc., each of which is a bit shorter and squishier than its parent. In the main series, goddesses and demons can also divide themselves into avatars — smaller, less powerful versions of themselves. Before leaving, Hild splits off a 1/1000 avatar of herself in the form of a child to keep track of things on Earth. In chapter 248, her 1/1000 avatar then splits off a 1/1000 avatar which takes the form of a small crystal. The main manga and series feature a clone of Urd. The Urd clone can use all the same magic as Urd, but her inferior body can't handle the stress.
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Clone Degeneration / int_2d316ba2	comment	This seemed to be inherent to present-day cloning in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003). In the fourth season of the show, it's revealed that Agent Bishop's body is slowly degenerating, and therefore he needs to transfer his mind to a new one, which eventually happens, dissolving skin and all. Later on, Baxter Stockman clones himself a new body to replace the one he had systematically lost during the course of the series, only to find it decaying as well.
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Clone Degeneration / int_2d316bc0	comment	Done with the incomplete April clones in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), as they tend to turn into black goo when damaged, and one "reject" (who the turtles call "April Derp") is a giant monstrosity with extra heads and mouths. However, these were incomplete clones created from partial DNA, and presumably, if the Kraang managed to get their hands on her complete DNA sequence, these issues would not occur.
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Clone Degeneration / int_2d944503	comment	Young Justice: Slo-Bo admitted to suffering from this near the end of the series. He would have died soon anyway had Darkseid not Omega Beamed him. Might have been preferable.
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Clone Degeneration / int_2ef7cb74	comment	Lyrical Nanoha: This is the reason why Zest Grangaitz of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS was considered an imperfect Artificial Mage. He got the memories, abilities, and personality of the original, but his body was suffering from severe health problems. Averted with Fate Testarossa, who appears completely healthy over a decade and a half after her creation, as well as Erio Mondial, who has been alive for at least a decade as of Force. The former is an interesting example: although she has none of the issues seen in this trope, she isn't a perfect clone, either. Changes in personality, which hand is dominant, and other small details mark her as a distinctly unique individual, which led to her ultimate classification as 'failed clone' despite the fact that her incredible raw magical aptitude perhaps make her an even better mage than the original. Although that was because her creator wanted a Replacement Goldfish and didn't care about anything else.
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Clone Degeneration / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Naruto can create up to a couple thousand copies of himself, but they dispel whenever they take a direct hit. He also doesn't trust them enough to let them out of his sight, which suggests that they're not as smart as the original — which is saying something, considering who we're dealing with. Given how they can fight against each other, they're probably capable of independent thought and, given Naruto's natural rebelliousness, prone to disobeying. By the time of manga chapter 550, his clones have received a sizeable upgrade, becoming capable of taking out Kage-level opponents on their own without the original present. In the special chapter, which happens before the beginning of the Road to Ninja movie, Naruto plays a card game with two clones. Naruto claims if he or one of his clones wins, he says they all win since they are him. The clones think otherwise about it. After they vanished, even Naruto is confused if he actually lost or won.
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Clone Degeneration / int_34fd3cf6	comment	Aqua Teen Hunger Force: In "The Cloning", Frylock reveals that he's been cloning televisions every time the other Aqua Teens destroy one. Eventually, the latest television they make turns evil because having to clone the same thing over and over again causes its molecular structure to start breaking down, leading to this trope. Later in the episode, the Aqua Teens clone dollar bills and eventually end up making George Washington out of dollar bills. "Bad Replicant" spoofs the trope with Major Shake, a physically mutated and clearly failed clone of Shake. Not only are his attempts to pass himself off as the original pathetically obvious, he also turns out to be much kinder and more rational than Shake, and Shake's friends actually like him better than the Jerkass original.
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Clone Degeneration / int_36ee2abe	comment	Paranoia XP has this as a mechanic in order to convince characters to try not to get killed quite as much (if the GM is letting the PCs buy clones rather than simply going through a 6-pack and then handing out new sheets.) After the first seven or so, things start to go south in a hurry, with extra fingers, hideous deformities, and (worst of all in Alpha Complex) color blindness. (Everything in Alpha Complex has a color-coded security clearance.) Luckily, BLUE-clearance PCs can pay extra to have the template cleaned up. Others have to depend upon secret societies and underhanded business that may well result in termination for treason.
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Clone Degeneration / int_38974f2	comment	The second arc of The King of Fighters starting from '99 up until 2001 focused on NESTS and their unethical cloning experiments. To see how that panned out, Kyo's clones are obsessed with one-upping the man they were sourced from, and while Zero himself is a Noble Demon who graciously accepts defeat and goes down with his ship, his clone is a complete psychopath willing to destroy a city with his Kill Sat for his own treasonous ambitions of power. It isn't just limited to mental instability — clones are also more often than not unable to fully control their powers. Just ask Nameless, who reduced someone to ashes merely by tapping them on the shoulder.
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Clone Degeneration / int_38eb3d04	comment	Denis and Me: In "Home A Clone", when Denis goes out shopping, Sir Meows-A-Lot finds himself without someone who can open a can of tuna for him. Using a piece of Denis' hair, he decides to make a clone who can open the tuna can. However, he used a cat's brain for the clone's brain, resulting in a clone of a human with the intelligence of a cat... meaning he doesn't know how to open up the tuna can.
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Clone Degeneration / int_3ddddb25	comment	The Ring of the Nine Dragons from Xiaolin Showdown can divide one person into at most nine, but their intelligence is also divided, so in the end, you have nine people with only a ninth of your intelligence... and getting them back together is really hard. The notable thing about said ring is that it only does this to your average person, while Jack Spicer's clones were at least able to operate like normal people except for one bad one, and demons are apparently immune, as Mala Mala Jong's clones didn't display any differing behavior from the original.
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Clone Degeneration / int_3ebe3723	comment	In The Demented Cartoon Movie, this problem plagues Evil Blah's Auto-Damsel-Maker, ultimately resulting in a damsel who's a little... weird.
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Clone Degeneration / int_3f3abe9	comment	Rick and Morty: In "The Ricklantis Mix-up", Citadel morning news is run by Rick D716, Rick D716-B, and Rick D716-C. D716 is normal, D716-B has a long scar on the right side of his face, and D716-C looks like he is seconds away from disintegrating. "Mortiplicity" has "decoys", robotic clones of Rick and the Smith family meant to take bullets meant for them while the others are away. As the episode progresses, it turns out that the decoy Ricks have created decoys of their own, and so on several steps until certain Ricks get lazy and make less convincing decoys made of straw, wood or other styles.
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Clone Degeneration / int_3f734c20	comment	In Dark Matter (2015), Transfer Transit is a relatively common way of travelling to another solar system by having an Expendable Clone with your memories created at the destination via Brain Uploading. The clones disintegrate after three days, or immediately if they're killed. This is used to show whether or not a character who was killed was in clone form. The technology is intended to allow people to take long-distance vacations, but both the protagonists and antagonists abuse it to go into dangerous situations safely. However, the plan was to reveal that CoreLactic can make clones that don't disintegrate, and that both One and the General faked their apparent deaths this way.
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Clone Degeneration / int_402938c3	comment	Ring-Maker: This was par for the course with Noelle/Echidna's clones in canon, but clones of the Ring Bearers are not only dead on arrival, Taylor's clones take the form of her past incarnations: Mairon, Annatar, and Sauron.
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Clone Degeneration / int_40e44a7a	comment	Judge Dredd: This is the implied reason why Rico looks nothing like Dredd and became Ax-Crazy. It was more clearly seen when Rico hatches the first set of clones early. Fargo says that they were both created from his modified DNA, and presumably something went wrong (plus this explains why they all look different).
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Clone Degeneration / int_41f626f9	comment	Your uncle in Quantum Conundrum cloned his cat after its death. The first iteration was okay, but the third iteration earned the nickname "Derp".
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Clone Degeneration / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: SCP-038 is an apple tree that grows clones like fruit of whatever touches its bark. Human and animal clones age rapidly and only last about two weeks. SCP-726 are magically appearing/disappearing maggots which regurgitate clones, but human and animal clones exhibit "expected fly behavior". Enough iterations of cloning results in something resembling a slug.
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Clone Degeneration / int_44fe781e	comment	In her last few scenes in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Rei Ayanami's limbs had a tendency to... fall off. Her body, being a mishmash of Lilith and Yui's DNA, isn't capable to holding together without Rei's AT field to counter the effects of imperfect cloning. After expending so much of her energy to counter Kaworu the previous day, she can't hold herself together.
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Clone Degeneration / int_45501b8c	comment	In Super Metroid, the player encounters "Mochtroids" in the underwater sector, Maridia. They are the Space Pirates' failed attempt to clone Metroids. Mochtroids and distinguishable by their single nucleus, are very slow, lack the Metroids' characteristic Nigh-Invulnerability, and can't even latch on to their target properly.
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Clone Degeneration / int_47b1287b	comment	Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger: In an arc that parodies Star Trek, Quentyn refuses to beam down, for several reasons, one of which is that he doesn't trust the "disintegrating fax machine" to make a perfect copy each time. The Captain cluelessly introduces him to a Red Shirt who has gone through it many times. It shows. Replicating replicators is a risky idea; the first few times you're fine, but past a couple generations they start producing toxic chemicals, radiation and, obviously, unusable products.
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Clone Degeneration / int_47f29170	type	Clone Degeneration
Clone Degeneration / int_47f29170	comment	This is the ultimate fate for the clones of Clyde, Miyuki, and Kyouya in MGLN Crisis, though the latter two perform a Heroic Sacrifice before it can kill them. The former was basically Doomed by Canon anyway, since they were created long before Fate (who was the first successful clone in canon).
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Clone Degeneration / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV has a zigzagged case with "Inspector Brandihild". As a clone of the normal Hildibrand Manderville, he is physically imperfect as he has a blocky, almost '80s esthetic to him. However, the man is super smart, thoughtful and kind.
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Clone Degeneration / int_4afb0af3	comment	World's End Harem: Mira Suou is eventually revealed to be a Modified Clone of Elisa Tachibana. Her body is unstable and needs a medical check-up at least once a week so she won't break down and die. In Part 2, since Elisa was Secretly Dying, she decides to donate her organs to Mira to save her.
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Clone Degeneration / int_4c300a8c	comment	An experiment in Lilo & Stitch: The Series has this when Stitch gets hit by a duplicating ray, splitting into multiple copies of himself. His creator, Jumba, explains that the more duplicates there are, the more their strength is divided between them. Lilo uses this later against Gantu when he gets a hold of the experiment and tries to create an army with the experiments he's captured; they're all so pathetically weak that the heroes easily waltz right through them. This trope is later averted in Leroy & Stitch when the titular Leroy is used as the base for a clone army and the clones are completely identical to the original, save for his outfit.
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Clone Degeneration / int_4d1ba412	comment	In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, the doctor uses this to explain why killing off all his clones wasn't as bad as it seems, because the clones created with the old process were highly unstable. To illustrate this, he shows a video where clone of Benjamin Franklin made with that technology accidentally kills himself by biting too hard into a sandwich. Which causes the top of his head to fall off. Old McNinja, a clone of the Doctor, was created with newer technology, which is greatly improved, but he initially believes himself to be suffering from this.
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Clone Degeneration / int_4e5a4630	comment	Alluded to in Star Wars: Republic Commando whenever the player performs some suicidally dumb action.
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Clone Degeneration / int_4e9f355	comment	Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII is a prequel, giving us background on stuff like why Sephiroth went crazy and destroyed Cloud's hometown. A huge part of it turns out to be the emotional blows he suffered when losing his two closest friends to Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal against Shinra; the primary mistreatment in this case being that Shinra had created them via genetic hacking and then, at some point in their thirties, their bodies started to break down. And that was when they found out they weren't just naturally talented best friends from Banora, where the scientist running the project apparently retired after Hojo got all the funding in order to make Sephiroth. Genesis, the one who actually went Ax-Crazy, may have minded that Sephiroth was perfect and the project that wasn't abandoned as much as the dying part. Never mind that Project G being mostly-canceled meant he got a childhood; he had a Green-Eyed Monster problem. The degeneration condition is like this, but Angeal and Genesis aren't actually clones, as such. Angeal may even be his mother's natural son, she just messed with her own body so much to get the cells to make Genesis that he came out weird. Or not. Incidentally, this means Angeal and Genesis are at least 1/3 brothers, which is not a fraction that's possible in nature and which also makes the fact that they're a popular ship a lot squickier.
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Clone Degeneration / int_4ff41a9c	comment	Very evident in Origins — copies of Athena that are grown too quickly suffer from mental instability, physical deformities, and imprinting defects. Shown in graphic detail to students of Jack and Brick as they tour the facility producing said clones.
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Clone Degeneration / int_50bcf7a6	comment	In Homestuck, Rose Lalonde's mother's attempt to clone her cat Jaspers resulted in a four-eyed kitten. When Roxy Lalonde tried this on a mass scale, it created a bunch of four-eyed cats, and more than a few seriously deformed ones.
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Clone Degeneration / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars reveals that not all clones come out in perfect condition. Some, like 99, are malformed and unfit for combat (although 99 shows one does not need to be in perfect health to be heroic). With the death of Jango Fett in the first hours of the Clone Wars, the Kaminoans only have a small sample of his DNA kept in stasis which is undergoing natural cellular degradation, making such irregularities more common as they stretch out the remaining stock.
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Clone Degeneration / int_567ff89	comment	The 6th Day: Most of the clones are actually perfect copies with the memories of the original uploaded into them, but in the climax the villain is forced to clone himself again before he dies of a gutshot. Adam then sabotages the cloning tanks which creates an incomplete, embryonic-looking clone of Drucker. Dr. Weir also alludes to an early experiment years before wherein scientists unsuccesfully tried to clone a human, the result of which was eventually put out of its misery.
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Clone Degeneration / int_56ea1362	comment	Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang centers around this, in a way. A post-apocalyptic society rendered sterile by disease discovers that though clones do display this in the form of sterility after a few generations, they actually reverse the trend after a few more. The society uses this to attempt to set up a sustaining population of fertile humans. The clones display a form of this in another way, as well: after deciding that cloning is superior to sexual reproduction and building a society based around the health of the group and the destruction of the individual, they find that the younger clone generations lose the ability for abstract thought, to the point where the youngest generations are incapable of drawing maps or devising solutions for problems.
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Clone Degeneration / int_587db2f9	comment	This is the reason you don't make copies of AIs. In Halo: First Strike, Cortana actually weaponizes this; she used alien technology to create new (slightly flawed) instances of herself in a Covenant warship so she could be in two places at once. The copies made copies. The copies of the copies made copies. The quickly-growing swarm of AIs started forking off copies for specialized tasks, having those copies be overwhelmed by Covie AIs, and spinning off more copies. Eventually the alien ship filled its computers to the roof with Cortana clones, segfaulted, and blew up. On top of that, those flawed copies did actually manage to complete their assigned missions. What's really wacky is that it's implied that Cortana got the copy program from one of her own (completely insane) time-lost copies, thanks to the presence of a Forerunner time-manipulation device.
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Clone Degeneration / int_59151283	comment	Solid Snake, Liquid Snake, and Solidus Snake from Metal Gear are clones of Big Boss. Liquid got killed off prior to degeneration; however, Solidus' aging has accelerated to the point that he looks like someone in his sixties or seventies despite only being in his 30s. By Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Solid Snake's aging has accelerated to the point that Big Boss himself, who is about 79 by that point, looks younger than Snake, who is only 42, does. Compounding this, Snake goes through a truly horrific gauntlet throughout the game (and yet he still gets the job done). Unlike some other cases, this degeneration was deliberate. The clones were made with genetic flaws designed to limit their lifespan in hopes of keeping them under the Patriots' control.
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Clone Degeneration / int_5bfa9c98	comment	The Grineer Empire in Warframe collectively suffers from it, due to every single Grineer being a clone of a clone of "perfection" birthed in industrial quantities. Their degeneration is so bad that they have to use extensive cybernetics to survive; Grineer soldiers almost always have cybernetic feet, and the only thing left of the Grineer Councilor Vay Hek is his (visibly cracking and flaking) face and lungs. Even then, the process that clones the Grineer has its occasional hiccup, creating "defective" clones that lack the fanatical devotion to the Grineer Queens, albeit they prove much healthier compared to the normal Grineer. Clem is one such "defect", as are the Kavor. Grineer Scientist Tyl Regor is trying to not only reverse the degeneration, but begin creating even stronger and potentially immortal Grineer, and he's already got his Manics up and running about...
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Clone Degeneration / int_5c07d6ab	comment	Several gangs and factions in Saints Row: The Third have clones of a hugely muscular man that is so strong and large that the clones can shrug off most weaponry, vehicular assaults, and explosions, which would make them perfect candidates for gang warfare. Because the cloning process hasn't been perfected, all the clones lack intelligence and are nothing more than mindless monsters who can barely speak, in comparison to their template, Genius Bruiser Oleg Kirrlov.
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Clone Degeneration / int_5d354f8	comment	The Red Dwarf episode "Demons and Angels" features a triplicator which creates two versions of whatever is placed inside of it: one sublime and perfect, one disgusting and unpleasant. For example, Lister tries it out on a strawberry, making one that's delicious and one full of maggots. The kicker is that these cloned objects last for very short amounts of time before being destroyed, which causes chaos when Lister accidentally triplicates the entire ship.
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Clone Degeneration / int_5d6fc0d1	comment	Zondag Met Lubach: The trailer for one of the seasons is a weird-ass sketch showing a bunch of defective Arjen Lubach clones being tested in a laboratory before Arjen concludes that you simply can't beat the real deal.
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Clone Degeneration / int_5e65e707	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion: In her last few scenes in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Rei Ayanami's limbs had a tendency to... fall off. Her body, being a mishmash of Lilith and Yui's DNA, isn't capable to holding together without Rei's AT field to counter the effects of imperfect cloning. After expending so much of her energy to counter Kaworu the previous day, she can't hold herself together. In the Rebuild of Evangelion films, the Rei Ayanami clones must regularly bathe in the mysterious liquid called LCL; if they go for too long without doing so, they will completely dissolve into LCL themselves. This eventually happens to the clone called "Rei Q" who accompanies Shinji and Asuka to the survivors' town in 3.0 + 1.0.
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Clone Degeneration / int_5f0c7ed4	comment	The Tommy clones Dinko creates in the Pet Alien episode "The Night of Two Tommys +1" look identical to Tommy, but lack his personality and are much dumber than he is. One of them also has a blue face for some reason.
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Clone Degeneration / int_60996c02	comment	Spider-Man: The Animated Series: Miles Warren experiments with cloning but finds that clones deteriorate and die over time. He thinks Hydro-Man's ability to reform his body is the key, so he makes a clone of Hydro-Man and a clone of Mary Jane Watson with some of Hydro-Man's DNA. Unfortunately, this only delays the process, and both clones end up dying.
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Clone Degeneration / int_6196490	comment	In the Ghost in the Shell universe, it is possible for people to 'clone' their ghosts (what amounts to their souls) by copying the memory data of their cyberbrains, however this process leads to the eventual corruption of both the original and the copies created, and ultimately leads to the death of the original. As a result, the process, known as "ghost dubbing," is highly illegal, punishable by life in prison or brain-wipe.
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Clone Degeneration / int_624523ec	comment	Discussed in Black Legion, as Khayon notes that Primarchs' genome is so unusual and complex that any attempts at cloning them end like this with the first clone. Ultimately, however, inverted — while first attempts failed, the final clone of Horus is nearly indistinguishable from the original.
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Clone Degeneration / int_6362ed12	comment	Total DramaRama: In "For A Few Duncans More", Duncan finds a way to make copies of himself using Chef's new copier, and some of the later ones are less faithful to the original.
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Clone Degeneration / int_6494bbdc	comment	In Kiln People, humans are able to create duplicates of themselves that are fashioned from a type of clay. The duplicates, called golems or "dittoes", possess the memories of their original from the time of their creation, but degrade after a day. Before this happens, golems are able to reintegrate their accumulated memories with their original using a special device. Attempting to make a ditto of a ditto generally results in a mindless invalid; it's noted early on that the main character, Albert, is highly unusual because when his dittos make dittos, they come out perfectly fine. The process in general isn't perfect; dittos that come out with little to no resemblance to their original's personality are called "Frankensteins" or "frankies".
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Clone Degeneration / int_64ddf294	comment	This is a gameplay mechanic in EVE Online. If your Escape Pod gets destroyed and you have only a cheap clone back at your home station to use as backup, you run the risk of losing a lot of skill points, which can take years of real time to build up. It is therefore highly recommended that, once you've built up your skills, you invest in a higher-quality clone, especially if you're regularly venturing out into deep space beyond the reach of the Space Police.
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Clone Degeneration / int_671d5c19	comment	The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In the episode "Knock it Off", Dick Hardly, an old friend of the Professor's steals the Chemical X formula to make his own versions of the girls to market as superheroes. However, Hardly skimps on the materials and the more he makes, the more deformed and less like the originals they become, and it's said in the episode they only live a couple of hours.
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Clone Degeneration / int_68196440	comment	In Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly, Android #18, Goten, Trunks and Mr. Satan end up meeting the clone of the Legendary Super Saiyan Broly. However, he isn't completed and, when he spots Goten and mistakes him for Goku, Broly breaks out of his pod and immediately starts falling apart when he goes Super Saiyan. He gets worse when he's doused in the fluid that held him and is ultimately defeated when normal old water (or rather, sea water) is brought into the mix, destroying him and ending the evil legacy of Broly.
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Clone Degeneration / int_68237790	comment	The Pathfinder Adventure Path Rise of the Runelords features a minor villain named Vraxeris who suffered from this. Imprisoned for millennia in the extra-dimensional laboratory Runeforge, he outlasted all his colleagues by use of the Clone spell, creating a young and healthy duplicate that his soul would migrate to on the moment of his death. Like all but the most powerful resurrection magic, this left him down a level, but he had decades to earn it back before needing to repeat the process. However, after cloning himself so many times, he discovered that with each body the dementia that tended to affect him in old age was happening earlier and earlier in his lifespan. Eventually this prevented him from regaining enough power in time to create a new clone. When the heroes enter his domain, Vraxeris is dead and all that remains are some Simulacra of him (inferior, robot-like duplicates that themselves could qualify as this trope), mindlessly repeating their programmed tasks in their master's absence.
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Clone Degeneration / int_68ab8d50	comment	In The Clone Saga, every clone created by the Jackal is subject to degeneration. Some of them are almost identical to the originals but aged/disfigured, while others last so long and then spontaneously collapse into a pile of mush — Jackal triggers this in his Mini-Me Jack as punishment for giving Ben Reilly information. It even drives one, Kaine, insane. Ben Reilly succumbs to it when he dies (and in Spider-Girl, passes it on to his kid).
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Clone Degeneration / int_694ab80	comment	The Batman Beyond episode "Meltdown" sees Mr. Freeze cloned into a new body that seemed to lack the condition that he requires a special suit for survival in above zero temperatures, but the body began to show signs of this trope as it redeveloped the condition. Considering that a piece of Backported Development was Victor Fries being bald despite a pre-Freeze Victor having hair in Batman: The Animated Series, the baldness might've been an early sign of this.
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Clone Degeneration / int_69b0b659	comment	In one episode of Sabrina: The Animated Series, Sabrina makes clones of herself, but one of the clones points out that the original's powers become limited when cloned, as shown when Sabrina tries to hypnotize Gem into forgetting she ever saw the clones — due to her magic being drained, Gem is able to regain her senses.
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Clone Degeneration / int_6bf8941a	comment	Averted in The Prestige. Tesla's cloning machine is so perfect that it's impossible to tell which is the original, even after years of cloning clones of clones.
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Clone Degeneration / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3 gives us Vault 108, which contains nothing but very aggressive clones of a dweller named Gary who can only say their own name as they attack. Notes left throughout the vault state that the first clone was fine, but copies made after that became more violent the farther they were from the original.
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Clone Degeneration / int_6e1d5f36	comment	The single-clone degeneration is addressed but ultimately averted in Farscape. When Crichton is "twinned" during season three, the Mad Scientist Kaarvok claims that the resulting duplicates are "equal and original", with no defects or imperfections. However, in a later episode, one of the two Crichtons experiences spontaneous bleeding and blackouts, leading him to believe this is at work: fortunately, it's just the villain of the week causing chaos across Moya. As one of the Crichtons has died in a Heroic Sacrifice and the other has suffered no ill effects, it can be assumed that Kaarvok was correct. However, the multiple-clone degeneration is used in the episode Kaarvok was introduced in, specifically in the form of the feral, degenerate remains of the crew of the ship he'd been imprisoned aboard. Apparently after "twinning" the twin of a twin and so on a certain amount of error did emerge.
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Clone Degeneration / int_6ef03be6	comment	In one episode of My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Jake makes a clone of himself and Adam so they do all the work while the real things can lounge about. It backfires horribly when the clones turn out to be immature jerks who get the two in trouble. The jig is up when the clones start to rapidly age. Adam and Jake are spared from detention, but since bringing clones to Charles Darwin Middle School is illegal, they are instead punished by washing cars to pay for the Old Clones Home.
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Clone Degeneration / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: The Asgard are a benevolent race who once looked like six-foot humanoid elf folk. They've repeatedly transferred their consciousness into new clone bodies for tens of thousands of years, with increasingly diminishing returns, so that in the present they're tiny, fragile aliens of The Greys kind. Despite their best efforts, the degeneration proves untreatable, and they commit mass suicide. Beckett's cellular degeneration issues were eventually solved, effectively making him the original Back from the Dead. O'Neill was kidnapped and replaced with a younger clone by the rogue Asgard scientist Loki. Loki's clones have accelerated growth, so they resemble the missing person by the time they're discovered, but it fails with O'Neill, leding to a teenage clone.note This is due to the Asgard tampering with O'Neill specifically to prevent rogue experimentation when he visited them in "The Fifth Race". The degeneration is a case of having You Have Outlived Your Usefulness literally encoded in the clone's genes. In fact, the O'Neill clone is overcome with pain within minutes of being recovered by Loki. Kull Warriors are created in nonliving form and animated via ancient technology. They live for several days or weeks, though they're extremely hard to kill before their time.
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Clone Degeneration / int_708d9e55	comment	In Satellite Reign, you possess an earlier iteration of the Big Bad's resurrection technology, which means it still has some bugs. Specifically, your agents' clone bodies take increasing stat penalties with each death, meaning you have to abduct people off the streets to provide new cloning stock.
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Clone Degeneration / int_74c5b2f3	comment	Nintendo Wars: Caulder/Stolos has "children" that are actually clones of him in Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. As Dr. Morris explains in the epilogue, he expresses concern of Isabella's survival and lifespan if a pessimistic viewpoint of her life is a short and fleeting one. In addition, both Penny and Tabitha are clearly not right in the head, with the former shattered from many experiments, referring to her teddy bear as sentient beings. The final battle reveals that he himself is a clone of the original doctor, which explains his lunacy.
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Clone Degeneration / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: This is the reason you don't make copies of AIs. In Halo: First Strike, Cortana actually weaponizes this; she used alien technology to create new (slightly flawed) instances of herself in a Covenant warship so she could be in two places at once. The copies made copies. The copies of the copies made copies. The quickly-growing swarm of AIs started forking off copies for specialized tasks, having those copies be overwhelmed by Covie AIs, and spinning off more copies. Eventually the alien ship filled its computers to the roof with Cortana clones, segfaulted, and blew up. On top of that, those flawed copies did actually manage to complete their assigned missions. What's really wacky is that it's implied that Cortana got the copy program from one of her own (completely insane) time-lost copies, thanks to the presence of a Forerunner time-manipulation device. This also applies to human clones. Individual organs can be cloned and used for transplants without a problem, it's when you clone the whole body that things go south. Flash-cloning (which is the only method of cloning seen in the Halo universe) is when the clones are aged up to the original person who supplied the DNA. The clone will have the mind of an infant, given that it has zero memories, and the body will deteriorate and usually die within a couple months. Apparently, the cloned body's metabolism just can't stabilize itself correctly. Despite this procedure being highly illegal, flash clones were used to cover up the SPARTAN-II project; ONI took the children, and replaced them with flash clones. As far as any of the parents could guess, their children inexplicably went into a vegetative state and died from an unknown disease. Human-made "smart" AIs are an interesting example, as they are usually created by brain-scanning dead people (though Cortana herself was created from the flash-cloned brain of the still-alive Dr. Halsey). After a period of roughly seven years, all "Smart" AIs will eventually accumulate so much information that they basically think themselves to death; during this terminal phase, the AI falls into a state of "rampancy" in which it develops both "delusions of godlike power" and utter contempt for its mentally inferior makers. Much of Halo 4's plot is about Cortana dealing with her ever-worsening rampancy. The novel Halo: The Cole Protocol also demonstrates a "Smart" AI past its lifespan. Juliana, the AI of the Rubble (a conglomeration of hollowed-out asteroids joined by tubes), has been active for at least 8 years and is definitely showing signs of instability. The only thing keeping Juliana "sane" is her primary task of keeping the Rubble from breaking apart and protecting the people living there. After the Rubble is evacuated so that it can be Colony Dropped on the local Covenant base, Juliana chooses to go down with the "ship", as she no longer has anything to keep her from going into full rampancy. The novel also establishes that it's common among humans to indicate that an AI is going into rampancy by showing "seven" with their fingers.explanationThe aforementioned seven year lifespan that it takes for UNSC AIs to start showing symptoms of rampancy. Oh, and the AIs also know the gesture, and Juliana gets pissed off when a Spartan shows it to his team.
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Clone Degeneration / int_75b0acd3	comment	The Dom Reviews: The Dom's hunchback clone butler Reginald's backstory is revealed to be a result of this in Lost in Adaptation. After discovering a clone machine in a deep underground expedition, The Dom decided to use it to make a clone of himself to do chores. Said clone was not content with his lot, so he made a clone of himself to replace himself so he could sneak off without The Dom noticing. The next clone did the same thing, and the one after that, and the one after that, until eventually, the newest Reginald couldn't figure out how to operate the cloning machine (it's powered a green and red "On/Off" button), so he's stuck in The Dom's service.
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Clone Degeneration / int_76e539c2	comment	This is the reason why Zest Grangaitz of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS was considered an imperfect Artificial Mage. He got the memories, abilities, and personality of the original, but his body was suffering from severe health problems.
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Clone Degeneration / int_778a73b9	comment	The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: One of Saiki's many powers is the ability to make a single imperfect copy of himself. His copy also can copy himself once, and so on. Each copy in the chain looks and acts less like the original until the last copy that is still capable of copying himself looks like a fishman, and that copy's copy who can't copy himself anymore is a Blob Monster.
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Clone Degeneration / int_78d6f120	comment	This is the premise of Destroy All Humans!. Unregulated use of nuclear weapons during the Martian War against the Blisk mutated Furon DNA so that they can't propagate due to lack of genitalia. Fortunately, the Furons perfected the art of cloning, rendering them virtually immortal. Unfortunately, each new clone has degraded DNA, making the results more unpredictable and eventually leading to the extinction of the Furon race. Fortunately, this could be fixed via infusion of uncorrupted DNA, and eons earlier, a Furon mothership happened upon another planet and... frolicked with the planets' inhabitants, leaving their descendants with bits of pure Furon DNA. Unfortunately for us but fortunately for them, that planet is Earth.
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Clone Degeneration / int_793e3d3e	comment	In The Grossery Gang, Doc Broc's cloning machine creates clones that only last for an hour, before expiring into a cloud of dust.
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Clone Degeneration / int_7a59fbeb	comment	Azrael: Azrael buys it from a combination of this (he was artificially engineered and grown) and poison bullets, but they Never Found the Body, and it's implied that he Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence.
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Clone Degeneration / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: One of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's "Evil Plans" involves cloning himself so that he can... stand in multiple waiting lines at once. His first three attempts go wrong; one is too pale since there wasn't much print, the other is completely jagged due to a paper jam, and the third is disfigured and mentally impaired since Doof wasn't sitting correctly.
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Clone Degeneration / int_7c60fb0f	comment	The Simpsons: In a crossover of Simpsons Comics and Bartman, Celebrity Troy McClure gains the radiation explosion-created identity of "The Sequelizer". His sequel-generating powers allow him to create duplicates of himself, but each copy is only half as strong as the previous one. A "Treehouse of Horror" story has Frink invent a ray-gun that duplicates things perfectly... for a moment, before it turns into a perfectly imperfect duplicate, a la Superman and Bizarro below. Not such a problem when used on someone like Homer, with the result being Clark Kent. With someone like Marge, the result is worse — much worse.
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Clone Degeneration / int_7d122312	comment	Fred is cloned by an alien in one episode of The Flintstones. The clones look just like him and are never seen physically degenerating, but are little more than mindless mooks, incapable of anything other than following their creator's orders, causing trouble and saying Fred's catchphrase in a very monotonous fashion.
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Clone Degeneration / int_7ea4fd21	comment	Wasteland 3 has a man who turns out to be a fourth-generation clone of a villain from the first game. He is actually friendly and an aspiring scientist with some skill, but he himself admits that his intelligence and ability is nowhere near his progenitor because of this trope — as is evident by his own attempts at cloning experiments (both on himself and on members of your squad if you ask) producing less than stellar results.
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Clone Degeneration / int_7f6d17a2	comment	We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Not quite degeneration, but each Bob clone has different elements of Bob's core personality emphasized. Riker is pragmatic, Bill enjoys pure science, Milo is less cautious, and Mario is anti-social. Their clones continue to be variants of the original Bob; Riker's clone Homer, for example, has a big sense of humor while Riker has practically none.
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Clone Degeneration / int_7f87dafc	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Clones tend to have physical or mental problems. Case in Point: Rau Le Cruset. Another example would be Prayer Reverie in the Astray Mangas, who was okay in the head, but was basically ailing for most of the Astray X series, and was able to convincingly fake a death of "natural causes" at the apparent age of nine.
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Clone Degeneration / int_80f224a5	comment	The novel Halo: The Cole Protocol also demonstrates a "Smart" AI past its lifespan. Juliana, the AI of the Rubble (a conglomeration of hollowed-out asteroids joined by tubes), has been active for at least 8 years and is definitely showing signs of instability. The only thing keeping Juliana "sane" is her primary task of keeping the Rubble from breaking apart and protecting the people living there. After the Rubble is evacuated so that it can be Colony Dropped on the local Covenant base, Juliana chooses to go down with the "ship", as she no longer has anything to keep her from going into full rampancy. The novel also establishes that it's common among humans to indicate that an AI is going into rampancy by showing "seven" with their fingers.explanationThe aforementioned seven year lifespan that it takes for UNSC AIs to start showing symptoms of rampancy. Oh, and the AIs also know the gesture, and Juliana gets pissed off when a Spartan shows it to his team.
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Clone Degeneration / int_81692f99	comment	In an arc that parodies Star Trek, Quentyn refuses to beam down, for several reasons, one of which is that he doesn't trust the "disintegrating fax machine" to make a perfect copy each time. The Captain cluelessly introduces him to a Red Shirt who has gone through it many times. It shows.
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Clone Degeneration / int_847bc578	comment	Mitosis of The Reckoners Trilogy can clone himself an infinite number of times, but the clones grow molecularly unstable if too many exist at any one time.
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Clone Degeneration / int_855dc627	comment	In The Duplicate, duplicates are less sane the farther they are from the original. They also get black markings on their hands shortly before they die, but they tend to go crazy and get themselves killed before that step occurs.
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Clone Degeneration / int_85b855e2	comment	Problems occur with the Spaarti cloning cylinders which appear in The Thrawn Trilogy. A clone that is aged too quickly succumbs to what gets termed "clone madness," leaving them insane, and which proved to be a major problem during the Clone Wars. Thrawn eventually discovers that this is caused by some strange interaction with the Force as the clone matures, and growing the clones in an environment completely devoid of the Force such as that created by the salamander-like ysalamiri (or at least, one where the Force is suppressed, it seems to vary widely within the literature how exactly it works) will prevent the deterioration.
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Clone Degeneration / int_85eecea0	comment	In the fifth The Garden of Sinners chapter, Enjou learns of his clone status the hard way. And then his arm falls off. The same movie contains a notable aversion with Touko, who is revealed to have created several clones of herself identical to the original in every way. This is a big deal, since the magical laws of the Nasuverse normally enforce this trope, i.e., that any copy (clone) is always weaker than the original, so Touko is the pretty much the only living magus to circumvent this law.
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Clone Degeneration / int_86c3beca	comment	Agatha's Dingbots in Girl Genius can build more of themselves out of spare parts and bits, but each subsequent generation is of slightly lower quality, maxxing out at about six generations. It's eventually discovered that the first generation Dingbots are the clank equivalent to Sparks.
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Clone Degeneration / int_86e789f9	comment	Multiplicity is about a man who has himself cloned, has one of the clones cloned, and he came out rather... special.
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Clone Degeneration / int_872b468e	comment	Ace Ventura: Pet Detective: In "Ace Off", after a particularly intense dance competition, Ace's evil clone starts to melt and is...absorbed by him.
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Clone Degeneration / int_8ae566f4	comment	Infinity Abyss: Thanos deems the Thanosi clones a failure due to an intellectual deficiency that drives them to cause unnecessary destruction and be obsessed with death and nihilism like Thanos used to be before The Infinity Gauntlet.
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Clone Degeneration / int_8d6da726	comment	Madman: Dr. Flem tries to clone himself. Because of the chemicals that he uses to try and make the clones grow more rapidly, almost all of them end up going berserk. For added horror, one of them bites him, infecting him with a disease that ravages his body.
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Clone Degeneration / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: Bizarro sometimes starts off looking like a normal duplicate of Superman before his skin turns pale, his powers get mixed up and he becomes Dumb Muscle, but other times he begins at his most degenerated state and acts from there. In The Killers of Krypton, Harry Hokum takes a tissue sample from a captured Supergirl and orders his head scientist to grow an army of Kryptonian clones immediately, ignoring his warnings that accelerating their incubation is risky. When the Supergirl clones engage their template, their cellular structure is so unstable their bodies break down into puzzles of organic matter after being hit by a Shockwave Clap. In the early 1990s, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, Lex Luthor fakes his own death and comes back as a younger clone, posing as his identical son. He eventually contracts a degenerative illness due to a flaw in the cloning process. Superman volume 1, issue #137 involves a villainous duplicate of Superman raised by criminals named Super-Menace. In the end, he makes a Heelâ€“Face Turn and a Heroic Sacrifice... and just dissolves into energy. In early Post-Crisis comics, cloning isn't completely perfect, especially with Kryptonians. The only perfect clone was that of James Harper, the Golden Age hero known as the Guardian — he bolted soon after and Cadmus ended up making other clones of him that weren't perfect. Kryptonian clones, because their DNA wasn't fully understood, fell apart after awhile, as was the case of the original Bizarros and later of Match. Superboy ended up becoming a successful case because human DNA from Luthor himself was mixed into his genetic makeup, stabilizing it.
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Clone Degeneration / int_8edda83f	comment	Rise of Paonne and Renard Rouge: Renard Rouge is able to create illusionary copies of other people, but looking close enough at them allows people to notice imperfections in the illusions.
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Clone Degeneration / int_90a3a7f4	comment	In one episode of Kim Possible, Drakken makes "clones" (the show admits it isn't really cloning but called that for simplicity) of Kim, Ron, Rufus, and Bonnie and modifies them to be mindless attack drones. It works until it's revealed that they're weak against soda, dissolving into green puddles when it's sprayed on them. Later on, they're renamed "synthodrones", which becomes a major plot point of the movie.
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Clone Degeneration / int_90a9bc9f	comment	In early Post-Crisis comics, cloning isn't completely perfect, especially with Kryptonians. The only perfect clone was that of James Harper, the Golden Age hero known as the Guardian — he bolted soon after and Cadmus ended up making other clones of him that weren't perfect. Kryptonian clones, because their DNA wasn't fully understood, fell apart after awhile, as was the case of the original Bizarros and later of Match. Superboy ended up becoming a successful case because human DNA from Luthor himself was mixed into his genetic makeup, stabilizing it.
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Clone Degeneration / int_925296da	comment	In The True Meaning of Smekday, the Gorg, having reproduced via cloning, have degraded from superstrong aliens with Nigh-Invulnerability to superstrong aliens with a severe cat allergy.
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Clone Degeneration / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000: Segment 3 of "Reptilicus" involves Crow taking one of Tom's arms and creating duplicates of him. However, the copies start turning into different variants, like an Opposite-Sex Clone and an Evil Knockoff. Ultimately, Crow opts to destroy them and calls them over. The Tom who sticks behind tells Jonah that he's probably not the original Tom.
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Clone Degeneration / int_9a7a61a	comment	Sonic the Comic: In the story "Future Shock", Dr. Robotnik created a clone of Sonic that aged prematurely. He used this to his advantage by implanting a false memory into the clone, making him believe himself to be Sonic from the future. Use of his high speed aged his body faster, with the clone ultimately sacrificing himself to hold off Robotnik while the real Sonic saved his friends.
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Clone Degeneration / int_9df82dea	comment	In I, Warrior, this turns out to be why the Master's body is slowly rotting, as he's revealed to be an evil clone of Anakin Solo.
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Clone Degeneration / int_9e52d282	comment	Justified in the usual manner in Dystopia; clones are given a maximum life span of about 20 minutes, and their bodies decay very rapidly. This prevents enemies from finding any of the technology hidden in their bodies or any information hidden in their brains. In addition, combat clones are hastily assembled from cheap materials in about 15 seconds; and normal clones can take a few weeks to build but are intended for use by soldiers after they shed their combat clone bodies. At least, that's what they're promised by their employers.
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Clone Degeneration / int_a1393f54	comment	In an episode of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids that seems to have been loosely based on Multiplicity, Wayne creates a molecular duplication machine that has the side effect of making the target's molecules unstable, causing them to create more duplicates whenever they are bumped hard against something or jolted. This results in a good number of extra Waynes, nearly all of which are a bit dense. This is explained as the clones having Wayne's knowledge, but none of his practical experience - when Wayne tells his duplicate that the moon's made of green cheese, he buys it, even though he always thought it was made of various strata of rocks and magma around an iron core. "Why are my clones such dorks?"
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Clone Degeneration / int_a1a8f917	comment	Foundation (2021): Cleon XIV (the Brother Dawn for most of Season 1) is revealed to be an imperfect product of the genetic dynasty, with many attributes that differentiate him from his predecessors, such as colorblindness and having a different dominant hand. He lives in terror of this being discovered and being killed and replaced with a backup clone. It turns out that his genes were tampered with by a resistance group, counting on his fear driving him into their Honey Trap so they can replace him with their own clone that's been indoctrinated to hate the Empire. While this ultimately fails, with the whole group (clone included) being wiped out, it's later revealed that they'd successfully tampered with the entire genetic template, meaning that there can be no more perfect Cleon clones.
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Clone Degeneration / int_a34863aa	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: This seemed to be inherent to present-day cloning in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003). In the fourth season of the show, it's revealed that Agent Bishop's body is slowly degenerating, and therefore he needs to transfer his mind to a new one, which eventually happens, dissolving skin and all. Later on, Baxter Stockman clones himself a new body to replace the one he had systematically lost during the course of the series, only to find it decaying as well. Done with the incomplete April clones in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), as they tend to turn into black goo when damaged, and one "reject" (who the turtles call "April Derp") is a giant monstrosity with extra heads and mouths. However, these were incomplete clones created from partial DNA, and presumably, if the Kraang managed to get their hands on her complete DNA sequence, these issues would not occur.
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Clone Degeneration / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII is a prequel, giving us background on stuff like why Sephiroth went crazy and destroyed Cloud's hometown. A huge part of it turns out to be the emotional blows he suffered when losing his two closest friends to Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal against Shinra; the primary mistreatment in this case being that Shinra had created them via genetic hacking and then, at some point in their thirties, their bodies started to break down. And that was when they found out they weren't just naturally talented best friends from Banora, where the scientist running the project apparently retired after Hojo got all the funding in order to make Sephiroth. Genesis, the one who actually went Ax-Crazy, may have minded that Sephiroth was perfect and the project that wasn't abandoned as much as the dying part. Never mind that Project G being mostly-canceled meant he got a childhood; he had a Green-Eyed Monster problem. The degeneration condition is like this, but Angeal and Genesis aren't actually clones, as such. Angeal may even be his mother's natural son, she just messed with her own body so much to get the cells to make Genesis that he came out weird. Or not. Incidentally, this means Angeal and Genesis are at least 1/3 brothers, which is not a fraction that's possible in nature and which also makes the fact that they're a popular ship a lot squickier. Final Fantasy XIV has a zigzagged case with "Inspector Brandihild". As a clone of the normal Hildibrand Manderville, he is physically imperfect as he has a blocky, almost '80s esthetic to him. However, the man is super smart, thoughtful and kind.
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Clone Degeneration / int_aaa65d7e	comment	In the Rebuild of Evangelion films, the Rei Ayanami clones must regularly bathe in the mysterious liquid called LCL; if they go for too long without doing so, they will completely dissolve into LCL themselves. This eventually happens to the clone called "Rei Q" who accompanies Shinji and Asuka to the survivors' town in 3.0 + 1.0.
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Clone Degeneration / int_aabf6d1d	comment	Darkest Dungeon: The Final Boss has the power to clone themselves during their first phase; the copies are considerably weaker, but they make the boss invulnerable, and up to three can be created every turn. However, this flash-cloning causes a few of the clones to be 'imperfect', as they are clearly covered in scars and boils, and killing them will cause feedback that damages the boss, which is the only way to progress to the next stage.
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Clone Degeneration / int_ab9ec4d0	comment	Orphan Black: Many of the clones suffer from a mysterious lung disease and all but two of them are infertile as far as anyone knows. Statements made by one character in the second season imply that the latter is intentional (or at least to be expected) because the only exceptions are Sarah and Helena, who were twins. If they came from the same cloned fertilized egg that split into two embryos the way that non-cloned identical twins do, that technically could be considered to make them into copies of a copy. The male clones of Project CASTOR suffer from a neurological disorder that causes seizures and also can pass on a protein that causes infertility.
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Clone Degeneration / int_abc6c9e7	comment	Towards the end of The Mystery of Mamo, when Mamo reveals that even his methods of cloning to reach immortality come with their limits.
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Clone Degeneration / int_ac6de3c2	comment	In World of Tomorrow, future Emily explains that clones deteriorate more and more with each generation.
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Clone Degeneration / int_af816544	comment	Another example would be Prayer Reverie in the Astray Mangas, who was okay in the head, but was basically ailing for most of the Astray X series, and was able to convincingly fake a death of "natural causes" at the apparent age of nine.
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Clone Degeneration / int_b2700e28	comment	In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, Fabius Bile makes a clone of Ahriman and presents it to him on live television. The clone wasn't finished, was in immense pain, and has Ahriman's psychic powers. Goes as well as you would imagine.
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Clone Degeneration / int_b36dc97b	comment	Moon: Each Sam Bell clone begins to break down physically and emotionally after three years. It's not clear whether this is a limitation of the cloning process or a built-in fail-safe in case the clones discover their true nature. Either way, each clone believes they're the real Sam Bell, and after putting themselves in the hibernation chamber for return to Earth are painlessly incinerated and replaced by another Sam Bell who believes he's at the beginning of his three-year contract on the Moon.
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Clone Degeneration / int_b3e81703	comment	The space arc version of the False Guenevere storyline in Arthur, King of Time and Space suffers this, paralleling the illness of the one in the fantasy arc.
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Clone Degeneration / int_b4816c2e	comment	Not necessarily clones, but close enough: In the Legacy of Kain series, Kain uses parts of his soul to resurrect a group of long-dead Sarafan warrior priests as his lieutenants, each receiving a smaller part of his soul than the last, which directly affects their evolution in vampiric unlife. Raziel receives the most of his soul and evolves the quickest, while Melchiah receives the smallest part, making his body vulnerable to decay.
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Clone Degeneration / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: In The Clone Saga, every clone created by the Jackal is subject to degeneration. Some of them are almost identical to the originals but aged/disfigured, while others last so long and then spontaneously collapse into a pile of mush — Jackal triggers this in his Mini-Me Jack as punishment for giving Ben Reilly information. It even drives one, Kaine, insane. Ben Reilly succumbs to it when he dies (and in Spider-Girl, passes it on to his kid). In Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy, the Jackal has almost figured out how to stop this and decides to figure out how by resurrecting and killing Ben Reilly multiple times. Doing so causes Ben to go insane and take over the Jackal's plans, becoming the Jackal himself. He's able to get it to the point where those with clone bodies have to take a special medication every 24 hours to prevent cloning degeneration and ultimately turn into Carrion Clones. He does make one perfect body without those flaws, but Dr. Octopus steals it for his own.
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Clone Degeneration / int_b59451de	comment	Played straight and inverted in House of Cosbys. The Bill Cosby clones get increasingly bizarre defects; however, the main character keeps making them, as every tenth Cosby has superpowers, with each "Super Cosby" being more powerful than the last. Unfortunately, Cosby #100 happens to be pure evil.
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Clone Degeneration / int_b68b1547	comment	The Styx Drones from Colony are this. Each batch suffers from further deterioration of intelligence, leaving the present batch Too Dumb to Live.
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Clone Degeneration / int_b9b796cf	comment	In Fate/stay night, Ilya will eventually die young because of her nature as a modified homunculi Holy Grail.
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Clone Degeneration / int_b9dc08f3	comment	The Thundermans: The downside to clones is that they tend to be fragile. The clones of Phoebe and Dr. Colosso were fully cognizant, until a simple Tap on the Head turned them into complete idiots.
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Clone Degeneration / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Danny Phantom: Danny's Opposite-Sex Clone Dani Phantom melts whenever she uses her superpowers. She gets better.
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Clone Degeneration / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: In "CopyBob DittoPants", Plankton photocopies a bunch of SpongeBob clones to get the Krabby Patty formula. He used cheap toner to make them, so after a while, they all roll up and disappear from existence. In "Snooze You Lose", SpongeBob and Patrick attempt to make a clone of Squidward, which ends up being a mindless, gigantic version that escapes from their lab and goes on a rampage. At the end of the episode, he's shown to be a better clarinet player than the original Squidward when he uses a building as one.
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Clone Degeneration / int_bd310eaa	comment	Subverted in El Goonish Shive when Elliot accidentally creates a female version of himself dubbed Ellen. Ellen realizes that the effect that led to her creation was only intended to last a month and decides to become Elliot's greatest rival and villain. Shortly after this completely fails, she learns that she won't die after a month, and is offered a life as Elliot's twin sister, which she gladly accepts. She's been a part of the main cast ever since.
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Clone Degeneration / int_c0a760c6	comment	Dark Empire: Palpatine's clones suffer from this. As each generation is less natural than the last, they have diminishing ability to withstand the detrimental effects of his Dark Side powers, resulting in shorter and shorter lifespans before they burn out. This is in part because one of his guards betrayed him and sabotaged the cloning machine.
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Clone Degeneration / int_c18bfdae	comment	The Nexus 6 generation of replicants in Blade Runner, though potentially physically and mentally superior to humans, have four-year life expectancies thanks to kill switches designed into their genes. Their creator describes it as "the light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very brightly". The androids of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, upon which the movie was loosely based, have a similar life expectancy, but this is due to technological limitations.
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Clone Degeneration / int_c2297a9c	comment	Judge Dredd: Nimrod from Total War is a Dredd clone who has been modified with Super-Senses. However, neural decay happens frequently with genetically modified clones and Nimrod has seizures a lot. And Mega City One's cloning programme is the world's most advanced — Soviet clones are apparently subject to Sturgeon's Law.
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Clone Degeneration / int_c4282b71	comment	In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Too Many Pinkie Pies", Pinkie uses the reflection in a magic pool to clone herself (and that clone clones herself, and those clones clone themselves...). The first clone is actually a reasonable facsimile of Pinkie Pie that can pass for the real thing, if slightly more childish and excitable, but when that clone starts cloning herself it produces flat, exaggerated versions of the original that just hop around, chanting "FUN FUN FUN", and basically destroying things. However, the later episode "The Saddle Row Review" shows that one clone survived, apparently having matured enough to be living a life of her own in Manehattan.
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Clone Degeneration / int_c47a07c7	comment	Sealab 2021: In "Lost in Time", Stormy and Quinn go through a fifteen-minute "Groundhog Day" Loop repeatedly trying (and failing) to prevent the accident that destroyed Sealab and blew them back into the past, with multiple time-clones of Stormy and Quinn eventually ending up in the brig. After over a dozen iterations, the timeline gets so screwed up that strange alternate versions of Stormy and Quinn start appearing, including pixie versions, ones dressed as a cowboy and an Indian, and a pair where Quinn and Stormy resemble Jabba the Hutt and Salacious Crumb.
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Clone Degeneration / int_c51cb60a	comment	The fetches of Changeling: The Lost are always missing something of the personality they were meant to replace. It could be a negative trait (quickness to anger) or a positive trait (dedication to a task), but there's always going to be something missing.
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Clone Degeneration / int_c6bbf3f6	comment	Rooster Teeth Shorts: In Secret Door, Gavin is cloned to improve efficiency, but when they find out, they're bound and gagged, and thrown into the closet. When Gavin finds out, they throw him in there, but remember they need the original, otherwise the clones will degenerate. Problem is, they grab Ben for re-cloning instead, who was mistaken for a Gavin clone due to their British Accents.
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Clone Degeneration / int_c7912cea	comment	In the Jimmy Two-Shoes episode "Too Many Jimmys", when Jimmy borrows Heloise's people copier, the resulting clones are deformed and misshapen. For example, one had no head, another had legs for arms with an oversized nose, and another one had a single eye with no body separating his limbs from his head. The justification for this though is that Jimmy had damaged the machine before the cloning process was completed. Yet for some reason, everyone in Miseryville seems oblivious to the differences between the clones and the real Jimmy.
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Clone Degeneration / int_c7a2f584	comment	Axiom Verge: A subversion occurs. Most of the game's bosses are all clones of the Big Bad, but the cloning process isn't the reason they became biomechanical monsters with human faces — rather, it's the effect of the pathogen he released on the game's world. Nonetheless, he still exploits this to create new soldiers for his defense forces. The Player Character is also one of his clones and nearly suffers the same fate as the rest before the Rusalki intervene. The game also plays this straight with the Aborted Clone, whose cloning was hastily disrupted and is little more than a pile of red organs and half-formed gun with a human face and spine. If left alone, the clone will die on his own.
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Clone Degeneration / int_ccae327f	comment	The Spoony Experiment: While watching The Clones of Bruce Lee, Spoony points out the logic gap in the mad professor cloning Bruce Lee several times, only to demand they fight to prove who's the strongest. He points this out while sharing a sofa with two of his other characters.
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Clone Degeneration / int_cdedd56a	comment	In Exo Squad, Neosapiens ran a risk of contracting a disease where their bodies decompose. Seeing as their entire species is a clone race, it made coming Back from the Dead via implanted memory recordings a bit of a gamble.
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Clone Degeneration / int_d0799db8	comment	Some scientists speculate that this will take so long that by the time it happens, we won't need men and women for reproduction. Or maybe we'll be able to change gender at will, like in Jurassic Park. It's important to remember that the Y Chromosome has existed for more than 100 million years (far longer than the human species) with no apparent issues.
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JurassicPark	hasFeature	Clone Degeneration / int_d0799db8
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Clone Degeneration / int_d3e3e38a	comment	In She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, this is a major problem for Hordak, who is one of countless clones of Horde Prime. Hordak served as Horde Prime's chief general, but suffered from pain and physical degeneration due to a flaw in his cloning. Horde Prime, who despised weakness, sent Hordak to die on the front lines of battle, only for Hordak to fall through a portal and find himself stranded on Etheria. Hordak uses cybernetic armor to keep his body functional, but his health is deteriorating at a rapid rate.
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Clone Degeneration / int_d5166b45	comment	Much of Halo 4's plot is about Cortana dealing with her ever-worsening rampancy.
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Clone Degeneration / int_d9fe7328	comment	The Outsiders: In Outsiders (2003), the clone of Jay Garrick (the original Flash) created by The Brain, has to wear a suit that excretes a powerful anti-bacterial solution to keep his body from eating itself.
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Clone Degeneration / int_dba1e8d8	comment	Akatsuki Blitzkampf: This is what happens to the playable Elektrosoldat. He's one of several clones of the local albino, Adler, and is revealed in his ending to be unable to heal from his injuries.
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Clone Degeneration / int_dc17fc41	comment	In The Persistence, every clone printer sans one has gone haywire and started printing aberrant and murderous clones of the crew non-stop. Some lack eyes, some are abnormally large, and some weep loudly enough to cause physical harm, but all of them lack any of the intelligence or compassion of the crew they're cloned from.
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Clone Degeneration / int_ddad77ae	comment	Astro City: Gloo is a Blob Monster who was originally created by criminals in an attempt to clone the heroic Jack-in-the-Box and make him into the ultimate henchman. They failed spectacularly.
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Clone Degeneration / int_df07d96e	comment	There are two types of clones that Lex Luthor can make in Lois & Clark, the first type can live up to 70 years and the second only two weeks. Sadly, the Lois clone is the latter type.
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Clone Degeneration / int_e02d5288	comment	Invincible (2021): The Mauler Twins enjoy giving each other grief about the idea, as part of their bickering about who's the clone and who's the original; whenever one makes a mistake or neglects to think of something, the other enjoys claiming that the degeneration clearly got to the other and they, as the original, wouldn't have made such a blunder. However, it's entirely averted in practice: they're so good at cloning that there is essentially no difference between each other whatsoever, not even in their memories (which is why they can keep the bickering going).
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Clone Degeneration / int_e0a751a0	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Birth of Mewtwo expands upon Mewtwo's origins from PokÃ©mon: The First Movie and how cloning works in the PokÃ©mon World. Because Mewtwo has an immortal life force taken from Mew's fossilized hair, he is the only one of the five clones to survive the process completely. Those other clones being the Kanto starters and Ambertwo; the clone of Dr. Fuji's deceased daughter. Ambertwo is just one of many failed attempts by Dr. Fuji to resurrect her through the process, as the radio drama reveals that none of his Amber clones have ever lived past four years; even then they can only survive while in test tubes.
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Clone Degeneration / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: Problems occur with the Spaarti cloning cylinders which appear in The Thrawn Trilogy. A clone that is aged too quickly succumbs to what gets termed "clone madness," leaving them insane, and which proved to be a major problem during the Clone Wars. Thrawn eventually discovers that this is caused by some strange interaction with the Force as the clone matures, and growing the clones in an environment completely devoid of the Force such as that created by the salamander-like ysalamiri (or at least, one where the Force is suppressed, it seems to vary widely within the literature how exactly it works) will prevent the deterioration. It's worth noting that Timothy Zahn wrote the Thrawn Trilogy before the prequels, at a time when George Lucas forbade authors from exploring the Clone Wars era. Even before Disney's acquisition of the property and the Thrawn trilogy being rebranded under the Legends alternative continuity, Clone Degeneration really didn't have any effect on the Clone Wars. Lesser-quality clones who are grown more rapidly do exist, and are used by the new Empire in the weeks following Revenge of the Sith. However, Imperial Commando: 501st, the final book in the Republic Commando Series, details interactions between the battle-hardened Kamino clones and a fresh clone created on Coruscant's moon as members of the newly minted Squad 40 and presents these alternative cloning methods used after Order 66 as basically the reason why the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy exists.
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Clone Degeneration / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Negi employs several paper doll clones of himself in chapter 36, without knowing exactly how it works. This trope ensues... This trope may be the reason of Quartum's and Quintum's Curb Stomping.
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Clone Degeneration / int_e8919b51	comment	In Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy, the Jackal has almost figured out how to stop this and decides to figure out how by resurrecting and killing Ben Reilly multiple times. Doing so causes Ben to go insane and take over the Jackal's plans, becoming the Jackal himself. He's able to get it to the point where those with clone bodies have to take a special medication every 24 hours to prevent cloning degeneration and ultimately turn into Carrion Clones. He does make one perfect body without those flaws, but Dr. Octopus steals it for his own.
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Clone Degeneration / int_e8970723	comment	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: The Indoraptor was cloned from degraded DNA, including from the Indominus rex that had been dead for a while. Because of this, he looks rather thin and sickly, his scales are constantly flaking, and he is often gasping for breath. However, he is still incredibly dangerous.
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Clone Degeneration / int_e9d04d4e	comment	In Timeline, the time travel mechanism is based on scanning the time-traveler and then sending the information back to be reconstructed. As is explained, like a fax, the time traveler will inevitably accumulate transcription errors, which leads to greater and greater disorders as more and more travels occur. This is explained to potentially cause everything from fatal heart defects to incurable mental illness.
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Clone Degeneration / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: A very Squicky version happens in "Quagmire's Baby" when Stewie decides to clone himself, creating "Bitch Stewie", a deformed, moronic servant to the original. Later, Stewie makes one of Brian, which is arguably more messed up. Eventually, both clones melt into a pile of disgusting, fleshy goo. Later, Stewie makes a perfect clone of himself, but this one is immensely eviler than him, complete with Slasher Smile.
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Clone Degeneration / int_ee5582ae	comment	ReGenesis: As a result of his being a clone, Mick has a multitude of ailments, including liver and kidney problems, that give him less than a year to live. His bone marrow is healthy, though, since he was created specifically to donate bone marrow to his brother. Subverted when it's revealed that he's not a clone, but rather a Designer Baby, and his health problems are due to the DNA his dad damaged in the process of fixing the bone cancer gene.
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Clone Degeneration / int_f10619d8	comment	Tales of the Abyss features this, along with everything else from the cloning vat. But since this is a Tales game, it plays around with the trope too: In the best case scenario, the replica is weaker but there is no particular degeneration in the original. In the very worst case, however, that of complete isofons, a different effect occurs. The original and replica are so entirely identical that both gradually begin to destabilize due to the interference of their matching fonon frequencies. Eventually, one or both will die, and their fonons merge, creating an individual with the memories of both the original and the replica. This is what the universe's physics says happened to Luke fon Fabre at the end of the game, according to some easily-missable sidequests with Jade.
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Clone Degeneration / int_f1f0ba56	comment	Legion Of Superheroes: In The Great Darkness Saga, Darkseid's Servants of Darkness are craggy, corrupted versions of their originals.
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Clone Degeneration / int_f2da188a	comment	The Batman: The episode "The Everywhere Man" features a supervillain with a "Quantex" device that allows him to create duplicates of objects and fully sapient copies of people, himself being a clone of his creator John Marlowe who went rogue. Unfortunately, each successive Everywhere Man doppelganger comes out more ill-tempered and megalomaniacal, with some even voicing a desire to use their technology to Take Over the World when the initial Everywhere Man was just content with being an art thief and kidnapper.
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Clone Degeneration / int_f4abd380	comment	BlazBlue: The Kaka clan are all clones of Jubei, but appear to have been made with intentional defects, such as limitations on their reproductive ability that stops their numbers from exceeding 100 individuals. This trope may explain why Taokaka is so very odd, though the rest of the Kaka clan, and especially Torakaka, seem more put together. The Elder of their village seems resigned to the fact that this trope is, in the long run, going to lead to their extinction.
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Clone Degeneration / int_f724b70d	comment	Code Lyoko does this quite a bit with examples being JÃ©rÃ©mie-made clones and people possessed by X.A.N.A. Either the energy sources (usually towers) will be outrunned, leading to either the clone or the possessed person to glitch, or will the heroes hit the latter example so hard that they also glitch.
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Clone Degeneration / int_f7558a18	comment	Men in Black: The Series has Quick Clones. Each clone is indistinguishable from the original, but after time, the clone will begin speaking nonsensically before melting into a pile of goo. The time until melting varies based on stress and physical exertion. Alternatively, any clone can be terminated by pushing a button located behind the ear.
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Clone Degeneration / int_fa46743e	comment	Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis suffers this, and one of the main complaints about the film is that he displays a bizarre lack of urgency over having just a few days left to live if he doesn't complete his plan, while his not-dying ally urges him to hurry things along.
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Clone Degeneration / int_fa6c23b5	comment	In The Proud Family Movie, the evil clone of Dr. John Carver attempts to Take Over the World by using his Peanut Cloning Technology to create an army of Super Genomes. Unfortunately, he has difficulty getting them to stabilize, as they constantly disintegrate into peanut butter almost instantly. Upon learning that Oscar Proud has developed a special sauce that not only keeps nuts from expiring but also has the side effect of causing them to multiply, he sets his sights on claiming it. Upon getting it in the climax, it enables him to create an entire platoon of his Super Soldiers with a single nut.
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Clone Degeneration / int_fada66d	comment	The Haltmann Works Company in Kirby: Planet Robobot experiments with clones of powerful individuals on the planets they invade to convert the organic life into more efficient mechanical beings. However, their cloning process is imperfect. The most apparent case is their clones of King Dedede, in which every single attempt was some form of failure and the one they settled on was molecularly unstable to the point of splitting into three gooey copies of each other. They also made much more successful (though still imperfect) copies of Queen Sectonia and Dark Matter. The latter of the two could only be replicated in its weaker swordsman form, since the original was an Eldritch Abomination so alien in form that even the most powerful supercomputer in the galaxy couldn't properly analyze it.
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Clone Degeneration / int_fdbace96	comment	The Gravity Falls episode "Double Dipper" has Dipper make use of a magic copy machine when he needs a few extra hands. This works fine until he gets a paper jam on the fourth clone, resulting in a lumpy, wrinkled version of himself who speaks in incomprehensible "NYANG NYANG NYANG!" sounds. When Paper Jam Dipper melts near the end, he treats his death as a Mercy Kill.
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Clone Degeneration / int_fe36c8	comment	Hardspace: Shipbreaker's LYNX Corporation has its ship disassembly crews cloned whenever they inevitably die on the job and sends them back in like nothing. The technology was apparently imperfect some time ago, as Weaver used to be a Cutter but some unknown cloning mishap took him off the field; since he sounds entirely normal otherwise, it's most likely something physical. The technology still has imperfections; Hal threatens all salvagers on strike with forcing them into work so deadly they need twenty resurrections a day until "your DNA comes apart at the seams" and they return as a useless blob.
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Clone Degeneration / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Up the Long Ladder", this is what will inevitably doom one planet. The founders, reduced to five in number because of a spacecraft accident, had to resort to cloning themselves in order to have a sustainable population. When they try to "solve" (ultimately, just delay) the problem by getting clones of Riker and Doctor Pulaski, the Starfleet officers are not particularly happy with it, and they destroy their clones.
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Clone Degeneration	processingCategory2	Our Clones Are Identical
Clone Degeneration	processingCategory2	Speculative Fiction Tropes
Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Halo Legends / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Last Exile / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
The Mystery of Mamo / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
All-Star Superman (Comic Book) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Astro City (Comic Book) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Dark Empire (Comic Book) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Earth 2 (Comic Book) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Infinity Abyss (Comic Book) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Legends of the Dead Earth (Comic Book) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Lex Luthor (Comic Book) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2018) (Comic Book) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Outsiders (2003) (Comic Book) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Rat-Man (1989) (Comic Book) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Scarlet Spider (Comic Book) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Superboy (1994) (Comic Book) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Teen Titans: Earth One (Comic Book) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
The Clone Saga (Comic Book) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
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Superman (Comic Book) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Equestria: A History Revealed / Fan Fic / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
A Very Scary Thought (Fanfic) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Danny Phantom Vs The Paranormal (Fanfic) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Empress Ascendant (Fanfic) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Future Tense (Fanfic) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
God Help the Outcasts (Fanfic) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Ring-Maker (Fanfic) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
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Unacceptable Sitch Series (Fanfic) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Vow of the King (Fanfic) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
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Moon / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
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Star Trek: Nemesis / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
The 6th Day / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Virtual Sexuality / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
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Black Legion / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Colony / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Crosscurrent / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
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Kiln People / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Naked Lunch / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Nobody Gets the Girl / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Of Cinder and Bone / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
The Fowl Twins / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
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The True Meaning of Smekday / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
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Red vs. Blue: The Project Freelancer Saga (Machinima) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Ah! My Goddess (Manga) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
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Spiral (Manga) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Superior (Manga) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Well There's Your Problem (Podcast) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
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Debris / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Foundation (2021) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
ReGenesis / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
The Ark (2023) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
The Sifl and Olly Show / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Travelers / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Zondag Met Lubach / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
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Gloomhaven (Tabletop Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Paranoia (Tabletop Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Aliens vs. Predator (2010) (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Destroy All Humans! (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Destroy All Humans! (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Dragon Nest (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Dystopia (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
FTL: Faster Than Light (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
FTL: Faster Than Light Multiverse (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Fallout 3 (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Five Nights at Sonic's (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Hardspace: Shipbreaker (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Hitman: Blood Money (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Monster Rancher (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
My Little Pony (Gameloft) (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
No Time to Explain (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Quantum Conundrum (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
RWBY: Amity Arena (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Saints Row: The Third (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Special Edition (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Star Wars: Republic Commando (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Super Metroid (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Terraria Calamity (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
The Jedi Masters (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
The Persistence (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Triggerheart Exelica (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Vs. Mouse (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Zombie Stories (Roblox) (Video Game) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Corrupted Kingdoms (Visual Novel) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
SHUFFLE! (Visual Novel) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Fallout Lore: The Storyteller (Web Animation) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
House of Cosbys (Web Animation) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Red vs. Blue: The Project Freelancer Saga (Web Animation) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
The Demented Cartoon Movie (Web Animation) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
The Grossery Gang (Web Animation) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Dimension 20 (Web Video) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Gilbert Garfield (Web Video) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Isaac Arthur (Web Video) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Special Edition (Web Video) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
YogLabs (Web Video) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Dr. Brinner: Ghost Psychiatrist (Webcomic) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger (Webcomic) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Rusty and Co. (Webcomic) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Aqua Teen Hunger Force / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Atomic Puppet / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Get Ed / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Hotel Transylvania: The Series / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Jimmy Two-Shoes / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Johnny Test / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Jonny's Golden Quest / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Men in Black: The Series / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Monsters vs. Aliens (2013) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Packages from Planet X / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Pet Alien / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Superman: Doomsday / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Total DramaRama / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
World of Tomorrow / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Spider-Girl (Comic Book) / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Primer / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration

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