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* In ''WebComic/ElGoonishShive'', Ellen [[http://www.egscomics.com/comic/2002-08-02 tried to do this]] to Elliot when she was first created for the purpose of ruining his reputation since she believed herself to be an EvilTwin. Instead of holding him captive though she merely stranded him (along with Tedd) in an isolated facility with no quick and easy way to get back home.
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* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S3E14Foothold Foothold]]" the SGC is invaded by an unidentified[[note]]in the show; the tabletop RPG dubbed them the Stragoth[[/note]] race of HumanoidAliens that imprisons its personnel and uses them to create holographic disguises. The prisoners are kept alive to allow the aliens to mimic their normal behavior via {{technobabble}}.
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** In the''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S3E14Foothold Foothold]]" the SGC is invaded by an unidentified[[note]]in the show; the tabletop RPG dubbed them the Stragoth[[/note]] race of HumanoidAliens that imprisons its personnel and uses them to create holographic disguises. The prisoners are kept alive to allow the aliens to mimic their normal behavior via {{technobabble}}.{{technobabble}}.
** This turns out to be what has really happened in the episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S7E3FragileBalance Fragile Balance]]", where a teenage O'Neill shows up at the base and claims to have been [[FountainOfYouth de-aged overnight]]. The Asgardian alien Loki had captured the real O'Neill to experiment on him and created a clone to replace him, but something went wrong in the process causing the clone to [[CloneDegeneration degenerate]].
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** This turns out to be what has really happened in the episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S7E3FragileBalance Fragile Balance]]", where a teenage O'Neill shows up at the base and claims to have been [[FountainOfYouth de-aged overnight]]. The Asgardian alien Loki had captured the real O'Neill to experiment on him and created a clone to replace him, but something went wrong in the process causing the clone to [[CloneDegeneration degenerate]].
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* Happens twice in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', both times in Part 3, though the person replicated is simply away, not captured:
** Kakyoin splits off from the group in Singapore to do his own sightseeing. During this time, a shapeshifting mercenary disguises himself as Kakyoin to infiltrate our group of heroes to try to off them from the inside, one at a time. He starts with Jotaro but winds up almost drowning in the ocean, persuading him to retire from assassination.
** Oingo (also known as Zenyatta, no relation to [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} the other Zenyatta]]) is another shapeshifting mercenary, albeit more intelligent. This time, he disguises himself as Jotaro when the rest of the gang force him into the car as they drive to the hospital. He spends his entire trip trying desperately not to blow his cover as the others unintentionally make him do weird, humiliating, or painful things. He is ultimately [[HoistByHisOwnPetard done in by him leaving the car and getting blown up by the bomb he was trying to use to kill the others]].
** Kakyoin splits off from the group in Singapore to do his own sightseeing. During this time, a shapeshifting mercenary disguises himself as Kakyoin to infiltrate our group of heroes to try to off them from the inside, one at a time. He starts with Jotaro but winds up almost drowning in the ocean, persuading him to retire from assassination.
** Oingo (also known as Zenyatta, no relation to [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} the other Zenyatta]]) is another shapeshifting mercenary, albeit more intelligent. This time, he disguises himself as Jotaro when the rest of the gang force him into the car as they drive to the hospital. He spends his entire trip trying desperately not to blow his cover as the others unintentionally make him do weird, humiliating, or painful things. He is ultimately [[HoistByHisOwnPetard done in by him leaving the car and getting blown up by the bomb he was trying to use to kill the others]].
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* Happens twice in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', both times in Part 3, though the person replicated is simply away, not captured:
** Kakyoin splits off from the group in Singapore to do his own sightseeing. During this time, a shapeshifting mercenary disguises himself as Kakyoin to infiltrate our group of heroes to try to off them from the inside, one at a time. He starts with Jotaro but winds up almost drowning in the ocean, persuading him to retire from assassination.
** Oingo (also known as Zenyatta, no relation to [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} the other Zenyatta]]) is another shapeshifting mercenary, albeit more intelligent. This time, he disguises himself as Jotaro when the rest of the gang force him into the car as they drive to the hospital. He spends his entire trip trying desperately not to blow his cover as the others unintentionally make him do weird, humiliating, or painful things. He is ultimately [[HoistByHisOwnPetard done in by him leaving the car and getting blown up by the bomb he was trying to use to kill the others]].
** Kakyoin splits off from the group in Singapore to do his own sightseeing. During this time, a shapeshifting mercenary disguises himself as Kakyoin to infiltrate our group of heroes to try to off them from the inside, one at a time. He starts with Jotaro but winds up almost drowning in the ocean, persuading him to retire from assassination.
** Oingo (also known as Zenyatta, no relation to [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} the other Zenyatta]]) is another shapeshifting mercenary, albeit more intelligent. This time, he disguises himself as Jotaro when the rest of the gang force him into the car as they drive to the hospital. He spends his entire trip trying desperately not to blow his cover as the others unintentionally make him do weird, humiliating, or painful things. He is ultimately [[HoistByHisOwnPetard done in by him leaving the car and getting blown up by the bomb he was trying to use to kill the others]].
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* In ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', the Ditto Five are a group of criminal Ditto who have such a twisted admiration of humans that they look for random people and replace them wherever they live and work. There is one crucial weakness that prevents them from accomplishing much: They cannot imitate human speech.
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* Happen to Shrinking Violet in the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' (pre-ComicBook/ZeroHour). She is kidnapped by Imsk-native radicals and replaced in the Legion by Yera, a Durlan actress who used her native shapeshifting abilities to assume Violet's identity (the radicals had told her that Violet wished to go on a secret vacation). Legion deputy leader Element Lad and Science Police liaison Shvaughn Erin became suspicious of the fake Violet when Yera, wearing Violet's form, suddenly fell in love with Colossal Boy, who harbored an unrequited crush on the real Violet for years. Yera's charade is exposed and the real Violet rescued.
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** The Zygons from episodes "Terror of the Zygons" and "The Day of the Doctor" are shapeshifters, but need to keep the original person they're replacing alive so they can have a psychic link with the victim, in order to have access to the original person's body print.
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** The Zygons from episodes "Terror of the Zygons" and "The Day of the Doctor" are shapeshifters, but need to keep the original person they're replacing alive so they can have a psychic link with the victim, in order to have access to the original person's body print. Later on, though, it's revealed that the Zygons, who have settled on Earth, have learned to retain the body print even without a link to the original.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E15IDatedARobot I Dated A Robot]]", Nappster (actually Kidnappster) holds celebrity [[BrainInAJar heads]] in order to transfer copies of their personalities and appearances onto blank robots (as a parody of the [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil original]] Nappster website). In this case, the users know they're downloading copies, but not that the originals are being held captive, and painfully shocked whenever a copy is made.
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* ''ComicBook/DuckTales'': Magica creates a clone of Launchpad using a potion, a piece of hair, and a button, and lures the real version to an abandoned building to trap him so she can sneak the clone in and finally get Scrooge's NumberOneDime.
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* ''ComicBook/DuckTales'': Magica creates a clone of Launchpad using a potion, a piece of hair, and a button, and lures the real version to an abandoned building to trap him so she can sneak the clone in and finally get Scrooge's NumberOneDime.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': This is the modus operandi of Ethereal Doppelgangers, a more powerful version of the classic ''D&D'' {{Doppelganger}}s. Their Assume Identity power allows them to not only takes the appearance, but also copy the mind, memories and personality of a person. Since it's a lengthy process, and easier on a willing subject, they usually try to broke a deal with kidnapped people, treating them correctly and releasing them unharmed once they obtain what they want. Though are LawfulEvil monsters, they can be trusted to keep their part of the bargain.
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* In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' Datamon captures Sora and soon afterwards makes a copy of her to use against Etemon thinking Biyomon will fight for him.
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* ''Film/{{Oblivion2013}}'': Jack and Victoria were astronauts on a mission to Titan when Mission Control picked up the Tet and sent them to investigate. [[spoiler:They were captured, cloned and then sent back to Earth to take it over.]] Years after, clones are still used to maintain equipment while the Tet drains the world of water to power itself.
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* ''Film/{{Oblivion2013}}'': ''Film/Oblivion2013'': Jack and Victoria were astronauts on a mission to Titan when Mission Control picked up the Tet and sent them to investigate. [[spoiler:They were captured, cloned and then sent back to Earth to take it over.]] Years after, clones are still used to maintain equipment while the Tet drains the world of water to power itself.
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** In another episode Martok, the right-hand-man of Klingon Chancellor Gowron, is discovered to be a Changling and killed. Later Worf discovers a Changeling prison camp where the real Martok is being held captive along with other prisoners.
*** And while there, he also discovers that the Dominion has had [[spoiler:Doctor Bashir]] in the camp as well, [[WhamEpisode and that he's been there for at least a month or two]]- [[OhCrap which means his impersonator has had that long to wreak all kinds of havoc unsuspected]].
*** And while there, he also discovers that the Dominion has had [[spoiler:Doctor Bashir]] in the camp as well, [[WhamEpisode and that he's been there for at least a month or two]]- [[OhCrap which means his impersonator has had that long to wreak all kinds of havoc unsuspected]].
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* ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': An [[AIIsACrapshoot evil A.I.]] called [=HARDAC=] captures several prominent citizens of Gotham City and replaces them with androids.
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* Turns out to be what had happened to [[spoiler: the real Roy Harper]] on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': The ''real'' one had gone missing on a mission and had been captured by Cadmus. They sent a clone in his place (and halted his aging) as a ManchurianAgent against the League, whose members were none the wiser until he unwittingly turned against them.
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* Jafar does this in the Aladdin's sequel, ''Disney/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'', as part of his to frame Aladdin for the murder of the Sultan. He capture Jasmine and disguise himself as her to appear at the execution.
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* In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc3KxTXp3Ss Secret Door]]" of the ''WebVideo/RoosterTeethShorts'', Gavin enters a secret closet to find captive clones of himself, which his coworkers have been making. His coworker Ben is also held captive in there, the others claiming they couldn't tell him apart from Gavin because of their BritishAccents.
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* ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': A group of aliens capture Captain Picard and replace him with a double in the episode "Allegiance". This was part of an experiment to examine the nature of authority, as they were a HiveMind with no concept of individuality or hierarchy. The real Picard was locked in a cell with three others to see if they could work together to escape; the fake Picard on the ''Enterprise'' gives his officers increasingly insane orders to test their loyalty.
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* In ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' this was Cobra's plot [[spoiler:when they used agents in the President's Secret Service detail to capture him]] so that Zartan can shape his physical appearance after him and use his name to accuse the Joes of being {{rogue agent}}s in ''GI Joe: Retaliation''.
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The LighterAndSofter version of KillAndReplace, for works that are more optimistic or whose casts have stronger contracts.
A character is replaced by a {{Doppelganger}} (clone, robot, or just a MasterOfDisguise with LatexPerfection) for the purpose of espionage, assassination, or other infiltration; but the {{phlebotinum}} that makes this possible depends on a persistent connection to a living subject, making their capture and imprisonment a necessity.
This means that when the person's allies find out about the switch, they have to not only get rid of the fake, but then find a way to rescue the original. Or conversely, they can free the original, thus rendering the copy inoperative, unless it's taken on an identity of its own and become an EvilKnockoff or RobotMe, since AIIsACrapshoot. A clone may also be a ManchurianAgent, leading to a TomatoInTheMirror reveal.
Rather than making a single copy, some villains will use the captive as a template to pump out [[CloneArmy an army of mooks]] for nefarious purposes. Some captors don't actually need to keep the original alive but do so anyway: to interrogate, as an eventual bargaining chip, because the villain has an iota of mercy or is a WellIntentionedExtremist who believes they're working toward the greater good; or just because it's a show that doesn't allow characters to get killed.
Compare ReforgedIntoAMinion, contrast ReplicantSnatching.
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!!Examples:
[[AC: Anime and Manga]]
* In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' Datamon captures Sora and soon afterwards makes a copy of her to use against Etemon thinking Biyomon will fight for him.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' movie ''Anime/MewtwoStrikesBack'', Mewtwo captures the Pokemon of the trainers he lures to his island so that he can clone them all.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': [[spoiler: Akane Tendou]] is captured and replaced with a double via Jyusenkyo Spring.
*''Anime/TenchiMuyo'': In the ''"Zero Ryoko"'' two part mini-arc, Dr. Clay becomes curious about Washuu's interest in Tenchi. So he kidnaps her daughter, [[TheLadette Ryoko]], then has his android assistant (Zero) take her form and assimilate her memories, in order to spy on Washuu. Clay had intended to dispose of Ryoko immediately, once the replication was complete, but when Zero notes that a portion of Ryoko's memories was missing and couldn't be accessed, it piques his scientific interest again, so he begrudgingly decides to keep her alive.
* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' gets considerably darker when it turns out that the Syaoran and Sakura who had been traveling with Fai and Kurogane ended up being clones of the originals, whom Fei Wong Reed had captured sometime previous.
[[AC: Film - Animated]]
* In ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', part of the plot involves Naveen's servant Lawrence passing as him. This is done thanks to a talisman that lets Lawrence look just like Naveen, but needs a drop of Naveen's blood once a day or so to continue working. However, Naveen escapes early in the movie and the bad guys spend some time trying to find him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'': Towards the end, Rothbart has Odette locked up as a swan in a dungeon, and turns Brigit into a look-alike of Odette, sending her to trick Prince Derek.
[[AC: Film - Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' this was Cobra's plot [[spoiler:when they used agents in the President's Secret Service detail to capture him]] so that Zartan can shape his physical appearance after him and use his name to accuse the Joes of being {{rogue agent}}s in ''GI Joe: Retaliation''.
* ''Film/{{Oblivion2013}}'': Jack and Victoria were astronauts on a mission to Titan when Mission Control picked up the Tet and sent them to investigate. [[spoiler:They were captured, cloned and then sent back to Earth to take it over.]] Years after, clones are still used to maintain equipment while the Tet drains the world of water to power itself.
[[AC: Literature]]
* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series, Polyjuice Potion can allow one to mimic any person, but it requires [[SympatheticMagic a piece of the person]], usually a hair. The piece must be recent and taken while the subject is alive, so in order to impersonate them for more than a few hours, it's necessary to keep them captive somewhere. In ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'', [[spoiler: Barty Crouch Jr.]] does this with [[spoiler: Mad-Eye Moody]] in order to impersonate him throughout an entire school year.
* In ''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}'', the reason why President Ryman hasn't been responding to the After the End Times team's calls for help is that [[spoiler:his wife and children are being held captive and have been replaced by docile clones for public appearances. All they do is smile and wave.]]
* Appears in the German SF novel ''Der Verbannte von Asyth'', whose plot revolves largely around aliens replacing important individuals on Earth with masked infiltrators of their own kind. The originals are kept alive at the aliens' hidden base and thus remain conveniently available for questioning.
[[AC: Live-Action TV]]
* Done occasionally on ''Series/DoctorWho''. Specific cases include:
** The Zygons from episodes "Terror of the Zygons" and "The Day of the Doctor" are shapeshifters, but need to keep the original person they're replacing alive so they can have a psychic link with the victim, in order to have access to the original person's body print.
** In the two-parter "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem The Sontaran Strategem]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E5ThePoisonSky The Poison Sky]]", Martha Jones is put into some kind of slime vat and a clone is grown from a nearby pod. The clone gradually becomes an independent being and the Doctor is able to talk it into helping him save the day.
** There's a two-parter that examines the ramifications of workers putting their minds into synthetic bodies, called Flesh, for their own safety, when a power surge causes the duplicates to become independent. At the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople The Almost People]]", Amy is revealed to have been a Flesh duplicate for a significant part of the series, with her actual body held [[spoiler: by the Silence organization in order to take her newborn child and raise it as a LaserGuidedTykeBomb]].
* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S3E14Foothold Foothold]]" the SGC is invaded by an unidentified[[note]]in the show; the tabletop RPG dubbed them the Stragoth[[/note]] race of HumanoidAliens that imprisons its personnel and uses them to create holographic disguises. The prisoners are kept alive to allow the aliens to mimic their normal behavior via {{technobabble}}.
* ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** In the episode "Whispers", Chief O'Brien is captured and replaced by a clone. The replacement is ''too'' perfect of a copy, and has all of O'Brien's memories and emotions, and doesn't know that it's supposed to be working for the captors, and instead disrupts his own scheme when he becomes aware that something is amiss.
** In another episode Martok, the right-hand-man of Klingon Chancellor Gowron, is discovered to be a Changling and killed. Later Worf discovers a Changling prison camp where the real Martok is being held captive along with other prisoners.
[[AC: Tabletop Games]]
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Ironclaw}}'' the druid spell "Steal Guise" allows one to impersonate another, but only so long as the real one is alive. The adventure "The Rescue of Miranda Devoisier" has a side quest where the head of a family is kidnapped and impersonated by a rogue druid using that spell.
* The Demoreans of ''TabletopGame/{{Timemaster}}'' can do a short-term shapeshift without capturing their model first, but for a shift that's expected to last any length of time the model needs to be stuffed in a sleep pod.
[[AC: Video Games]]
* The plot of ''VideoGame/{{Jumper}} Two'' revolves around an enigmatic hooded person known as The Boss trying to capture Ogmo, "[[SuperSoldier the ultimate soldier]]", to create an army of [=OgmoBots=] with which he is going to TakeOverTheWorld.
* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug 3'': Halfway through the 5th stage, one of the player characters will get kidnapped by the Mars People. Later, as you storm the Martian Mothership, you'll find clones of said character as your enemy; much later, you'll find said character in an aquarium-esque confinement where you have to rescue him/her while clones of said character attack you en masse.
* In one side quest in ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'', a woman asks you to deliver a divorce notice to her husband, who has been acting strangely towards her lately. If you investigate their home, you find out that he has been locked up in the attic for days, while a criminal mage assumed his appearance and used his home as a hub for his drug trade.
* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', TheSyndicate captures Oleg Krilov--a giant of a man--and keeps him sedated in their labs to mass-produce [[TheBrute clones of him]] and throw them at the Saints. One mid-game mission sees the Saints infiltrating said labs and freeing Oleg to stop the clone production.
[[AC: Webcomics]]
* ''WebComic/MagickChicks'': Midway into chapter 16, [[LaResistance The Ninja Club]] abducted [[spoiler: [[TheDragon Dark]] [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/location_unknown Skye]]]] and had [[spoiler: Rain]] take her place, by using [[spoiler: his]] shapeshifting ability to imitate her. Which allowed them to spy on [[spoiler: [[EvilRedhead Cerise]]]] and [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/a_stubborn_few undermine her authority]] during the school's takeover.
[[AC: Web Original]]
* In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc3KxTXp3Ss Secret Door]]" of the ''WebVideo/RoosterTeethShorts'', Gavin enters a secret closet to find captive clones of himself, which his coworkers have been making. His coworker Ben is also held captive in there, the others claiming they couldn't tell him apart from Gavin because of their BritishAccents.
[[AC: Western Animation]]
* ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': An [[AIIsACrapshoot evil A.I.]] called [=HARDAC=] captures several prominent citizens of Gotham City and replaces them with androids.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E15IDatedARobot I Dated A Robot]]", Nappster (actually Kidnappster) holds celebrity [[BrainInAJar heads]] in order to make copies of their personalities in robots for consumers. In this case, the buyers know they're buying fakes, but not that the originals are being held captive, and painfully shocked whenever a copy is made.
* In the animated ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda'', one of Ganon's plots to steal the Triforce of Wisdom was with a magic mirror that created a copy of Zelda and also allowed her to be taken to his realm, where she was tied to a spike in Ganon's chamber, but managed to escape.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'': in the episode "Bro Bots", Dr. Wily's latest scheme is to kidnap the newly-elected Governor on election night, and replace him with a robotic duplicate. Megaman, despite having been incapacitated earlier, manages to stop him and save the Governor-Elect.
* Turns out to be what had happened to [[spoiler: the real Roy Harper]] on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': The ''real'' one had gone missing on a mission and had been captured by Cadmus. They sent a clone in his place (and halted his aging) as a ManchurianAgent against the League, whose members were none the wiser until he unwittingly turned against them.
A character is replaced by a {{Doppelganger}} (clone, robot, or just a MasterOfDisguise with LatexPerfection) for the purpose of espionage, assassination, or other infiltration; but the {{phlebotinum}} that makes this possible depends on a persistent connection to a living subject, making their capture and imprisonment a necessity.
This means that when the person's allies find out about the switch, they have to not only get rid of the fake, but then find a way to rescue the original. Or conversely, they can free the original, thus rendering the copy inoperative, unless it's taken on an identity of its own and become an EvilKnockoff or RobotMe, since AIIsACrapshoot. A clone may also be a ManchurianAgent, leading to a TomatoInTheMirror reveal.
Rather than making a single copy, some villains will use the captive as a template to pump out [[CloneArmy an army of mooks]] for nefarious purposes. Some captors don't actually need to keep the original alive but do so anyway: to interrogate, as an eventual bargaining chip, because the villain has an iota of mercy or is a WellIntentionedExtremist who believes they're working toward the greater good; or just because it's a show that doesn't allow characters to get killed.
Compare ReforgedIntoAMinion, contrast ReplicantSnatching.
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!!Examples:
[[AC: Anime and Manga]]
* In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' Datamon captures Sora and soon afterwards makes a copy of her to use against Etemon thinking Biyomon will fight for him.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' movie ''Anime/MewtwoStrikesBack'', Mewtwo captures the Pokemon of the trainers he lures to his island so that he can clone them all.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': [[spoiler: Akane Tendou]] is captured and replaced with a double via Jyusenkyo Spring.
*''Anime/TenchiMuyo'': In the ''"Zero Ryoko"'' two part mini-arc, Dr. Clay becomes curious about Washuu's interest in Tenchi. So he kidnaps her daughter, [[TheLadette Ryoko]], then has his android assistant (Zero) take her form and assimilate her memories, in order to spy on Washuu. Clay had intended to dispose of Ryoko immediately, once the replication was complete, but when Zero notes that a portion of Ryoko's memories was missing and couldn't be accessed, it piques his scientific interest again, so he begrudgingly decides to keep her alive.
* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' gets considerably darker when it turns out that the Syaoran and Sakura who had been traveling with Fai and Kurogane ended up being clones of the originals, whom Fei Wong Reed had captured sometime previous.
[[AC: Film - Animated]]
* In ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', part of the plot involves Naveen's servant Lawrence passing as him. This is done thanks to a talisman that lets Lawrence look just like Naveen, but needs a drop of Naveen's blood once a day or so to continue working. However, Naveen escapes early in the movie and the bad guys spend some time trying to find him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'': Towards the end, Rothbart has Odette locked up as a swan in a dungeon, and turns Brigit into a look-alike of Odette, sending her to trick Prince Derek.
[[AC: Film - Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' this was Cobra's plot [[spoiler:when they used agents in the President's Secret Service detail to capture him]] so that Zartan can shape his physical appearance after him and use his name to accuse the Joes of being {{rogue agent}}s in ''GI Joe: Retaliation''.
* ''Film/{{Oblivion2013}}'': Jack and Victoria were astronauts on a mission to Titan when Mission Control picked up the Tet and sent them to investigate. [[spoiler:They were captured, cloned and then sent back to Earth to take it over.]] Years after, clones are still used to maintain equipment while the Tet drains the world of water to power itself.
[[AC: Literature]]
* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series, Polyjuice Potion can allow one to mimic any person, but it requires [[SympatheticMagic a piece of the person]], usually a hair. The piece must be recent and taken while the subject is alive, so in order to impersonate them for more than a few hours, it's necessary to keep them captive somewhere. In ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'', [[spoiler: Barty Crouch Jr.]] does this with [[spoiler: Mad-Eye Moody]] in order to impersonate him throughout an entire school year.
* In ''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}'', the reason why President Ryman hasn't been responding to the After the End Times team's calls for help is that [[spoiler:his wife and children are being held captive and have been replaced by docile clones for public appearances. All they do is smile and wave.]]
* Appears in the German SF novel ''Der Verbannte von Asyth'', whose plot revolves largely around aliens replacing important individuals on Earth with masked infiltrators of their own kind. The originals are kept alive at the aliens' hidden base and thus remain conveniently available for questioning.
[[AC: Live-Action TV]]
* Done occasionally on ''Series/DoctorWho''. Specific cases include:
** The Zygons from episodes "Terror of the Zygons" and "The Day of the Doctor" are shapeshifters, but need to keep the original person they're replacing alive so they can have a psychic link with the victim, in order to have access to the original person's body print.
** In the two-parter "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem The Sontaran Strategem]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E5ThePoisonSky The Poison Sky]]", Martha Jones is put into some kind of slime vat and a clone is grown from a nearby pod. The clone gradually becomes an independent being and the Doctor is able to talk it into helping him save the day.
** There's a two-parter that examines the ramifications of workers putting their minds into synthetic bodies, called Flesh, for their own safety, when a power surge causes the duplicates to become independent. At the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople The Almost People]]", Amy is revealed to have been a Flesh duplicate for a significant part of the series, with her actual body held [[spoiler: by the Silence organization in order to take her newborn child and raise it as a LaserGuidedTykeBomb]].
* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S3E14Foothold Foothold]]" the SGC is invaded by an unidentified[[note]]in the show; the tabletop RPG dubbed them the Stragoth[[/note]] race of HumanoidAliens that imprisons its personnel and uses them to create holographic disguises. The prisoners are kept alive to allow the aliens to mimic their normal behavior via {{technobabble}}.
* ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** In the episode "Whispers", Chief O'Brien is captured and replaced by a clone. The replacement is ''too'' perfect of a copy, and has all of O'Brien's memories and emotions, and doesn't know that it's supposed to be working for the captors, and instead disrupts his own scheme when he becomes aware that something is amiss.
** In another episode Martok, the right-hand-man of Klingon Chancellor Gowron, is discovered to be a Changling and killed. Later Worf discovers a Changling prison camp where the real Martok is being held captive along with other prisoners.
[[AC: Tabletop Games]]
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Ironclaw}}'' the druid spell "Steal Guise" allows one to impersonate another, but only so long as the real one is alive. The adventure "The Rescue of Miranda Devoisier" has a side quest where the head of a family is kidnapped and impersonated by a rogue druid using that spell.
* The Demoreans of ''TabletopGame/{{Timemaster}}'' can do a short-term shapeshift without capturing their model first, but for a shift that's expected to last any length of time the model needs to be stuffed in a sleep pod.
[[AC: Video Games]]
* The plot of ''VideoGame/{{Jumper}} Two'' revolves around an enigmatic hooded person known as The Boss trying to capture Ogmo, "[[SuperSoldier the ultimate soldier]]", to create an army of [=OgmoBots=] with which he is going to TakeOverTheWorld.
* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug 3'': Halfway through the 5th stage, one of the player characters will get kidnapped by the Mars People. Later, as you storm the Martian Mothership, you'll find clones of said character as your enemy; much later, you'll find said character in an aquarium-esque confinement where you have to rescue him/her while clones of said character attack you en masse.
* In one side quest in ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'', a woman asks you to deliver a divorce notice to her husband, who has been acting strangely towards her lately. If you investigate their home, you find out that he has been locked up in the attic for days, while a criminal mage assumed his appearance and used his home as a hub for his drug trade.
* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', TheSyndicate captures Oleg Krilov--a giant of a man--and keeps him sedated in their labs to mass-produce [[TheBrute clones of him]] and throw them at the Saints. One mid-game mission sees the Saints infiltrating said labs and freeing Oleg to stop the clone production.
[[AC: Webcomics]]
* ''WebComic/MagickChicks'': Midway into chapter 16, [[LaResistance The Ninja Club]] abducted [[spoiler: [[TheDragon Dark]] [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/location_unknown Skye]]]] and had [[spoiler: Rain]] take her place, by using [[spoiler: his]] shapeshifting ability to imitate her. Which allowed them to spy on [[spoiler: [[EvilRedhead Cerise]]]] and [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/a_stubborn_few undermine her authority]] during the school's takeover.
[[AC: Web Original]]
* In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc3KxTXp3Ss Secret Door]]" of the ''WebVideo/RoosterTeethShorts'', Gavin enters a secret closet to find captive clones of himself, which his coworkers have been making. His coworker Ben is also held captive in there, the others claiming they couldn't tell him apart from Gavin because of their BritishAccents.
[[AC: Western Animation]]
* ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': An [[AIIsACrapshoot evil A.I.]] called [=HARDAC=] captures several prominent citizens of Gotham City and replaces them with androids.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E15IDatedARobot I Dated A Robot]]", Nappster (actually Kidnappster) holds celebrity [[BrainInAJar heads]] in order to make copies of their personalities in robots for consumers. In this case, the buyers know they're buying fakes, but not that the originals are being held captive, and painfully shocked whenever a copy is made.
* In the animated ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda'', one of Ganon's plots to steal the Triforce of Wisdom was with a magic mirror that created a copy of Zelda and also allowed her to be taken to his realm, where she was tied to a spike in Ganon's chamber, but managed to escape.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'': in the episode "Bro Bots", Dr. Wily's latest scheme is to kidnap the newly-elected Governor on election night, and replace him with a robotic duplicate. Megaman, despite having been incapacitated earlier, manages to stop him and save the Governor-Elect.
* Turns out to be what had happened to [[spoiler: the real Roy Harper]] on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': The ''real'' one had gone missing on a mission and had been captured by Cadmus. They sent a clone in his place (and halted his aging) as a ManchurianAgent against the League, whose members were none the wiser until he unwittingly turned against them.
