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The concept of clones or copies being made to replace original people, usually to teleport by creating a copy somewhere else and destroying the original or creating clones to replace a dying or dead original. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Twin Maker is often a convenient way of bringing a dead character back from the dead without needing to invoke any trope that revives the old character. In manner and appearance, they are almost always perfect doppelgangers, indistinguishable from the original. This trope is often used in a science-fiction setting, where it can be readily justified by any amount of technobabble on cloning, teleportation devices, copying machines, and the like. Fantasy and other works involving magic are also natural habitats for this trope. When an original is not dead yet, there may be some interaction between them and their clone, but usually it's a case of Never the Selves Shall Meet. Where this trope gets interesting is how the moral status of the new copy and the moral implications of disposing of the original are handled. First, the treatment of the twin: Some characters won't see the problem with treating them both as if they were the same person, whereas others will point out that it only works from an external viewpoint: the person will seem exactly the same to everyone else, but the actual stream of consciousness has been severed,note Probably. Maybe. Perhaps. It's difficult to tell, because even from the point of view of the person at the far end of the device, there is no break in consciousness. As far as they are concerned, they went into the device and came out the other end, the same as ever. The person at the near end, if they weren't destroyed, is similar, as from their perspective the teleportation simply failed to work. And if they were destroyed... well, they're not around to share their perspective anymore, are they? And so their experience of the event remains unknown (and unknowable, barring the use of a spirit medium, which opens up a whole new can of worms in and of itself) and the new copy is, in this sense, a completely different person. Sometimes it will be argued that the copy doesn't count as the original person, though given how interchangeable they would be if the paperwork for their birth certificates were ever mixed up, this argument is harder to hold up for long. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Second, the ethics of disposing of the original: If this matter is addressed at all in fiction, the Uniqueness Value and Cloning Blues tropes may well be invoked or played with as part of the story. A teleportation machine that worked in the manner of the short story To Be (see quotation above) would probably be regarded as a killing machine, but if there is any doubt about whether the stream-of-consciousness continues or not, the issue may well be sidestepped. If nothing in the device suggests anything sinister, it's generally treated as harmless. Occasionally, the dilemma may even be taken a step farther, if the Twin Maker in question doesn't make it clear which of the two is the "Twin". If it's just as feasible that the device teleports the person who uses it to the new location, still alive and themselves, while simultaneously producing an identical duplicate at the starting point, then which one is the "original" person may be impossible to determine. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })If the Twin Maker is kept a secret, it will probably be part of The Reveal. Particularly devious characters may exploit the Twin Maker for their own ends, perhaps to create decoys to lure out assassins, or to dispose of an Unwitting Pawn by "tweaking" it mid-way through its creation. Often involves Cloning Blues. Clone Jesus and You Cloned Hitler! are related, but not subtropes. If there is a sizeable distance between the "twins" then it may be a form of Mental Space Travel. Examples: |
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Sam Vimes objects to using magic anyway, but in Thud!!, even when he gives in and goes to the wizards for help, he absolutely refuses to use teleportation because he's paranoid about the idea that the person at the other end isn't the same person as the one who was teleported. Considering Rincewind once got badly battered by oncoming debris mid-transit during a teleport, Vimes's fear probably wasn't justified, but the Wizzard wasn't on hand to point this out. | |
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An interesting variant occurs in Worm with Oni Lee. Whenever Lee teleports, his new body is formed at the target destination and his old body continues on for several seconds before dissolving into carbon ash. But those seconds can be a long time in combat... | |
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In The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton the cabal that secretly controls Earth ensure their immortality by creating young clones when they get too old, downloading their memories (editing out anything bad) then destroying the clone. However the protagonists have already discovered that the human soul survives after death, so rather than ceasing to exist those souls would become trapped in an Afterlife Antechamber. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995) made "Think Like a Dinosaur" (see Literature section) into an episode. | |
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The Fast Travel stations in Borderlands 2 may work like this. One of the callouts from the New-U station mentions that your new body is just a reconstruction of your original body that died the first time you respawned. And since fast travel stations also incorporate this tech, it's likely they work on the same principle. | |
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Paranoia: Every player character has six identical clones, and when one dies, the next one is sent in to replace it. | |
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Fate Testarossa of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha was developed as a Replacement Goldfish after the originals' death. It didn't go exactly as planned, and her creator wasn't thrilled. | |
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In Freefall robots don't care much about backups. Want to know why? | |
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In one Æon Flux episode, the titular character's archenemy and lover creates a clone of her. The clone and the original meet and conspire against him. In the end, one of them gets gunned down in front of Trevor. It wasn't the clone. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion Ayanami Rei actually appears as three different clones over the course of the show. This isn't known until The Reveal. Furthermore, a Freeze-Frame Bonus reveals that the missing lower half of Lilith was actually used to create Unit-01◊. |
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In an episode of Earth: Final Conflict, Liam is implanted with a tracking device by Sandoval at Zo'or's request, as they have grown suspicious of him. In order to allow them to continue their investigation and keep Sandoval and Zo'or in the dark, Street puts Liam into a mini-coma and uses a modified ID portal to create a quantum duplicate of him without the tracking device, although she claims that the universe will eventually erase him out of existence. The duplicate Liam is identical to the original in every way and doesn't seem to mind being the copy. At the end of the episode, he makes a Heroic Sacrifice to save Renee. Just before the Earth-Shattering Kaboom, he sends a message to Sandoval, which confuses the latter to no end, as he knows thanks to the tracking chip that Liam is nowhere near that location. He later questions the real Liam, who has no memories of these events, before dismissing the matter. Like many devices introduced in the series, this is never mentioned again, even though it would have been very helpful in many other circumstances. |
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While it's not touched upon by the game itself, Wendy from Don't Starve mentions this whenever she teleports. Surprisingly, she doesn't do so in any dialogue involving revival altars or meat effigies, which are much more in line with this trope. | |
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In Sonic Heroes, at the end of Team Dark’s story, Rouge and Omega stumble upon a room full of Shadow clones sealed in the same kind of sleep as Shadow was at the beginning of the game, implying that Shadow may also have been a clone, especially given that he seemingly died at the end of Sonic Adventure 2. In Shadow the Hedgehog, however, Eggman confirms that the Shadow going through the events of those games was the original all along. | |
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While actual teleportation is possible in Schlock Mercenary, the wormgate network used for it prior to the invention of the teraport also created clones of those who used it without the traveler's knowledge.note It's (strongly) implied that the gates only do this due to an added logic function: send the original to their destination, and produce the copy at a preset location, using energy from a local star to make the needed mass. This became a major plot point when it turned out the Gatekeepers were interrogating and executing the clones, and using the information gained to control the galaxy's wealth and suppress rival teleporter technology. The current Kevyn Andreyasn is a clone created in this manner shortly before the original made a Heroic Sacrifice, who simply took over his original's life without a single care about the existential issues. He did put it on his resume, though. Similarly, later on Schlock is killed off, and a new Schlock is created to replace him. The new Schlock thinks it's kind of cool, "but not cool enough to do twice." Eventually the technology to do this comes into common use throughout the galaxy. Suddenly everyone starts cheating death through cloning, prompting a few identity crises. Captain Tagon's clone is quite emphatic that he's not the same person who carried a ship-to-ship missile into a enemy beachhead, because he was produced from a mind backup taken around 45 minutes earlier. | |
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Miles Vorkosigian has one of these in the Vorkosigan Saga. He was created to replace Miles, but when Miles and his family found out they broke the clone out and adopted it into the family. He's treated by everyone as Miles' brother. | |
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Path of Exile: the Bodyswap spell causes the original to explode and a clone to appear by using the mass of an unfortunate enemy or corpse. | |
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In the Star Trek: Titan novel Fallen Gods, Star Trek transporters are redesigned by the novel's antagonist (a commander of Andorian Intelligence working with traditional enemy the Tholians) in order to create duplicates of a transport subject. Assigned to repatriate officers of the starship Titan to their homeworld to aid in a reproductive/population crisis, he secretly duplicates the reluctant officers and makes off with perfect copies, leaving the originals unaware. | |
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In Grrl Power Harem's super powers are teleportation that doesn't necessarily disintegrate the original, and a Hive Mind with all her copies. Most of the time she has five of herself with different hair colors and outfits. | |
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In Dungeons & Dragons, the Clone spell could be used to create copies of a creature, normally as a form of resurrection when the original is lost completely. Only One Me Allowed Right Now effects imply that it's more than just an identical body, though. Stasis Clone (a unique spell from Forgotten Realms) makes the revival of one stored copy upon death automatic and allows the caster to "update" inactive clones. As of 3E the Clone spell simply creates an inert duplicate that the original's soul transfers to at death. | |
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In The Prestige, a machine is invented that creates a duplicate of whatever's put inside it, and it's unclear whether it teleports the original away or it creates the copy some distance away. It's revealed that a magician uses the machine as part of his Transported Man illusion, each time drowning whichever one remains in place. (The first time he uses the machine, the Angier who stays in place shoots the one who appears at a distance, meaning the "original" is dead either way.) | |
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The Venture Twins have this kind of immortality in The Venture Bros., but they're unaware of it. As of Season 3, when the clones were used as an army during an attack on the Venture compound, this is no longer true. | |
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Farscape had a subplot of Crichton's twinning. Although in this case, neither one was a copy or original exactly. Crichton really was just duplicated/"twinned" into two identical Crichtons (they play rock-paper-scissors and draw some 100+ in a row). The episode where this occurs explores the trauma involved in the concept in some depth; being twinned just once is shown as quite traumatizing, and most of the people encountered in this episode are hopelessly insane after having lived through being twinned and having their twins killed multiple times. They even use this in the next episode to have one twin impersonate the other to "prove" Crichton was never at the scene of an explosion (since he is of course, completely unhurt). The rock-paper-scissors thing is referenced later to show how they have diverged from each other, one (having died) sends the other a holographic recording which he closes by offering to play again, throwing rock as the other Crichton throws paper. |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Weyoun has died and been replaced with a clone several times over the course of the series. One episode dealt with two Weyoun clones existing at the same time (one had gone AWOL, so his next clone was activated early). Near the end of the series, he's deeply frightened when the Dominion's cloning facility is destroyed, allowing him to be Killed Off for Real. | |
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In The End of Eternity, the eponymous organization considers replicators as undesirable as nuclear wars - because there can be no satisfactory solution to the problems caused by this trope. | |
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The "Immortality Through Cloning" version is used as a plot point and gameplay mechanic in Destroy All Humans!. The reason the Furons are harvesting human brains is because it contains a strain of DNA vital to their cloning process, and every time you die in-game, your name increases by one digit. There's even a level about recovering your own remains. | |
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The Cloning Bay introduced in FTL's Advanced Edition update replaces the standard medbay on certain ship layouts, and is also available for purchase in in-game shops. True to form, it creates a clone of any deceased crew member when they die, with a small penalty to their skill experience. It also takes advantage of "micro-cloning" technology, which heals a small amount of all crew members' health each jump. | |
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Heat Signature: All teleporters work on this principle. | |
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Towards the end of the Sith Inquisitor storyline in Star Wars: The Old Republic, the Inquisitor's body starts dying quickly (not that it affects the gameplay) as a result of acquiring too much power from absorbing Force Ghosts too quickly, so you have to find a device (the Mother Machine on Belsavis) that basically replaces your entire body with a genetic duplicate, transferring your consciousness to it. | |
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In the Star Trek Expanded Universe novel Federation, when Zefram Cochrane is first transported aboard the Enterprise, he immediately thinks he is a duplicate of the original, assuming transporters to work like replicators. Instead, a crew member calms him down, explaning that the process works on the quantum level, meaning he is still the original Cochrane. | |
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Invincible: Self-enforced with Robot. He is actually a deformed human living in a fluid tank, who's secretly been collecting genetic material in order to clone himself. The final product is a normal, healthy teenage boy with the exact same memories and mind as the original—and he immediately goes through with what he'd planned to do in this situation, killing the original. The Mauler Twins, the supervillains Robot recruited to make his clone, are a clone and original team who designed the mind-copying process specifically to make it impossible to tell which one is the clone. Apparently one iteration of the pair was able to figure out which one was which, leading the original to lord it over his clone until the clone poisoned him. |
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The teleporter in Red Space Blues has a significant delay between copying and "clean-up", which is rather messy too. | |
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Transfer Transit in Dark Matter puts you in stasis and scans you and transmits your data to another planet to construct a clone with a lifespan of three days. At the end of that lifespan the clone, ideally, returns to the facility and their memories are transmitted back to the original you. But, as Six discovered, if the clone dies before returning their memories are lost. | |
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A mysterious alien artifact in the space arc of Arthur, King of Time and Space appears to have this as its only function. In-universe, the reason for this is unknown, out-of-universe it's to set up the space arc version of the False Guenevere story. | |
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The Horatio faction in Endless Space. Horatio the First, an androgynous, beauty-obsessed narcissist, left society to set up shop on a planet by himself, where he found Imported Alien Phlebotinum. He then proceeded to clone an entire society of himself and then decided that the rest of the universe could only be improved by the presence of more of his beauty. Their "hat" is high population growth and density. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, touching the Dewitchery Diamond while under a "curse" (broadly defined) results in two almost identical individuals: one without the curse and one under the curse's effects as if it's a part of their default form. "Curse" in this case includes any spell that changes one's appearance, abilities or behavior. | |
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This how the Auds from Phaeton have survived for so long, and why they look like kids, of course it didn't go too well for one of them. | |
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In Illium, "faxing", a means of teleportation utilized by old-style humans, works on the principle of disintegrating the original and recreating them from a pattern scan at their destination. This is how the Firmary can bring back Daeman even after he has been eaten by a genetically-engineered Allosaurus. It basically just recreates him using the scan taken from the last time he used a fax node. There is a hint in the fact that his memories do not include the events leading up to his being eaten, because that was after he was faxed. | |
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Eclipse Phase uses Brain Uploading for both pseudo-immortality and most interplanetary "travel". Unless they're really rich, someone rarely gets downloaded into a clone. Rather, they are downloaded to a "used morph" that happened to be lying around at the body bank. Making more than one active copy of a person is fairly easy and highly illegal, but slightly edited copies are sometimes used for a form of real-time interplanetary communication. | |
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In the live-action In Name Only Æon Flux movie, everyone who has ever lived in the past 400 years is a clone of a small pocket of humans left after a worldwide plague. Only a select few Ancient Keepers are permitted to know this. | |
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The death mechanics of the EVE Online player characters are based around this: Once you are about to die, your escape pod kills you and awakens a previously contracted copy of yourself somewhere else, that has a printed brainscan of your life's memories up until the very moment of death. | |
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The Goblin Reservation has Peter Maxwell, who was abducted to a mysterious crystal planet and finds, upon his return, that "he" is a duplicate brought to the planet while the original died a week after returning from the original journey in a suspicious accident. | |
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In MARZENA, Digital Clone = Bremen Mind Merging Chip + Brain Osmosis Infusion on a Blank G-Net AI. | |
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VVVVVV has a number of teleporters, and while it doesn't really explore the mechanics or morality of them (they're just a gameplay mechanic), one of the rooms containing a teleporter is named "Murdering Twinmaker" as a direct reference to the trope. | |
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In SOMA, this trope (Specifically, how it relates to human consciousness) turns out to be central to the plot: the protagonist finds himself "transported" to an underwater base in the post apocalyptic future after a brain scan due to the scan having been donated to science and made into a standard template by his long deceased original self and the base's malfunctioning AI experimenting in creating new forms of life. Later on, he believes he is transferring his consciousness to another body in order to get to a deep sea trench without being crushed by the pressure and apparently succeeds, only to discover that actual transfer is not possible: only copying, which now means there is another Simon (that the player might decide to Mercy Kill or spare). At the end of the game, he experiences the flip side of this, when he believes he is transferring his consciousness to a paradisaical virtual world...only to remain in the same place, since another copy was created inside it, meaning he is now trapped forever in the bottom of the ocean. | |
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In System Shock, the main character can perform a DNA upload in a quantum entanglement booth (called a "Quantum Bio-Reconstruction Machine" in System Shock 2). Then, if they die, they are cloned at the booth with the stats they had while they were there last, like a checkpoint. | |
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Family Guy: In Roads to Vegas Stewie attempts to use his new teleporter to send himself and Brian to Las Vegas, but unbeknownst to them it duplicates them, leaving the originals thinking it didn't work and taking the long way to Vegas while their duplicates think it worked and have fun. | |
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In Transmetropolitan the telefactor speed-grows a clone of the subject and forms a telepathic link between them so the clone acts as a Remote Body while in use. Spider uses it to covertly meet with the President's wife on the other side of the country without the Secret Service noticing him leaving the City. | |
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On Legends of Tomorrow, Season 6 Big Bad Bishop does this regularly, making a new clone of himself whenever he dies, and thinks nothing of killing himself whenever he sustains even a minor injury. Then it turns out he also made a half-alien clone of Sara after she died. The clone Sara quickly decides to make another, fully human clone to replace herself with. When that didn't work, the clone Sara went back to the Legends and just took over the deceased original Sara's place. | |
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In Hc Svnt Dracones "Digitrans" transmits a copy of your character's genome and brain scan to another planet for growing a clone, then euthanizes the original. You can make arrangements to sell your organs to recoup some of the cost. | |
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In the Star Trek: Armada games, Nebula-class ships have a special ability called the "Gemini Effect", which temporarily creates a duplicate of the target ship. With some quick thinking, this ability can be used to get free resources by duplicating a vessel and then scrapping the duplicate for parts. The game designers, apparently, did not think of this possibility. | |
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Live Forever As You Are Now with Alan Resnick: Alan's plan for eternal life revolves around creating computerized clones of himself and other people, attempting to make them as similar as possible to the original person, so when that person dies the clone can take over. It...doesn't really work out. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation had Thomas Riker, William T. Riker's transporter duplicate, created during a pre-show mission when someone tried doubling up the transporter-lock to get a better chance of beaming him off a planet with tons of interference during an emergency. One transport-beam made it to the ship, the other got bounced back to the surface. Nobody realized at the time that they had created two Rikers, one of which was marooned for years as the other advanced his career and went on living his life. Interestingly, Thomas claimed that he would never leave Deanna, as Will has done, even though up until the split they were the same person. This was probably Thomas trying to distance himself from Will, hating that he chose to advance his career instead of maintaining his relationship with Deanna. Also interesting in that technically both Rikers are copies of the original who first went through the transporter due to the way the transporter works, so neither is technically any less real than the other. | |
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