History Main / CloneDegeneration

* [[MahouSenseiNegima Negi]] employs several paper doll clones of himself in chapter 36, without knowing exactly how it works. This trope ensues..

*** I'd argue that one was CopyProtection.

* {{Naruto}} can create up to a couple hundred 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. [[IdiotHero Which is saying something, considering who we're dealing with.]]

* ''[[LupinIII Lupin III: The Secret of Mamo]]'' plays this straight, when Mamo reveals towards the end that even his methods of cloning come with its limits.

--->'''Dying Mamo clone:''' The transfer of the chromosomal data is never accomplished with complete fidelity. There are anomalies, infectiously small in each case, with accumulative effect of such chaotic pollution, can be observed after only a dozen or so generations and what you see before you is a 130th generation facsimile. I am but a faint, distorted echo of myself.
--->'''Lupin:''' But you are always distorted by your obsession.
--->'''Dying Mamo clone:''' But is it not... everyone's obsession?

* [[MahouSenseiNegima Negi]] employs several paper doll clones of himself in chapter 36. Hilarity ensues.
** It would have worked fine, but he messed up the activation the first few times and left them without instructions. Then again, he didn't really have a very good idea how to use them in the first place.

* The Sister in ToAruMajutsuNoIndex have to go through body adjustments specifically to prevent this. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because they were only made so that [[spoiler: Accelerator could kill them]].

* In [[Creator/WilliamSleator William Sleator's]] ''Literature/TheDuplicate'', the 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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* In William Sleator's ''The Duplicate'', the 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.

*** I'd argue that one was CopyProtection.

* Kull Warriors in ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'' are created in nonliving form and animated via Ancient technology They live for several days or weeks, though they're [[SuperSoldier extremely hard to kill]] before their time.

* ''{{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 deformity, and (worst of all in Alpha Complex) colour blindness. Luckily, BLUE-clearance PCs can pay to have the template cleaned up. Others have to depend upon secret societies and underhanded business that may well result in termination for treason.

* The Michael Keaton film ''Multiplicity'', about a man who has himself cloned, has one of the clones cloned, and he came out rather... [[RalphWiggum special]].

* In ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', 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.

Uses very similar logic to SuperPrototype and ConservationOfNinjitsu. The SuperPrototype, 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.

* [[MahouSensieNegima Negi]] employs several paper doll clones of himself in chapter 36. Hilarity ensues.

* TruthInTelevision: Some speculate that this occured with the cloned sheep dolly, that she died early due to being born with a genetic age of six. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)#Death The Roslin Institute disagrees, however.]]

* In GhostInTheShell it is possible for people to 'clone' their ghosts (what amounts to their souls) by copying the memory data their cyberbrains, however this process leads to the eventual corruption of both the original and the copies created.

* [[DannyPhantom Danni]] [[OppositeSexClone Phantom]] melts whenever she uses her superpowers. [[spoiler:IGotBetter She gets better.]]