History Main / CloningBodyParts

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': This sometimes comes up.
** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E15IDatedARobot I Dated a Robot]]", Fry goes to "Handcrafters" to get new hands sewed on after losing the originals in a ''T. rex'' feeding accident.
** In a later episode, Fry and Leela each have an arm ripped off and the Professor grows them new ones.
** When Fry's [[TheNoseless nose gets stolen right off his face]] in "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E17SpanishFry Spanish Fry]]", Leela suggests letting the Professor clone him a new one, but Fry refuses, saying that "It wouldn't be the same, I don't wanna teach a new one how to shoot milk when I laugh."

* In ''Fanfic/RealityIsFluid'', Lieutenant Commander Reshek Gaarra has to have both his lungs replaced with replicated copies after injuries sustained in an EPS conduit explosion.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''

* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}''

** ''Megatraveller Journal'' #3, "Worldguide: Vincennes": On the Tech Level 16 world of Vincennes, cloning of injured and damaged organs and limbs is commonplace.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' episode "Caves", a member of Delta Shift walks into a RapidAging field with a broken leg, which causes the leg to rapidly heal incorrectly before eventually becoming necrotic and falling off. Mariner decides that retrieving the leg isn't worth the trouble and simply takes him back to the ship so Dr. T'Ana can grow him a new one.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StatTrekLowerDecks'' episode "Caves", a member of Delta Shift walks into a RapidAging field with a broken leg, which causes the leg to rapidly heal incorrectly before eventually becoming necrotic and falling off. Mariner decides that retrieving the leg isn't worth the trouble and simply takes him back to the ship so Dr. T'Ana can grow him a new one.

* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'': Overlaps with WalkingTransplant. USG ''Ishimura'' has a whole section dedicated to replacing limbs since it's a mining vessel where injuries can happen very frequently. This facility contains tubes full of green liquid which have infants floating in them. It's never explained if they are conscious or not, and how the process works; however, since we never see any clones of a different age, it suggests that they are simply organ farms without higher mental functions.

* This is the business model for the company in ''Film/TheIsland'', cloning client's body parts into a mindless sack for organ donations. Unfortunately for their bottom line, they discovered that without proper stimulation these sacks inevitably die, so they just went with [[WalkingTransplant full clones]] and started lying to them and the public.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S7E7Replica Replica]]", the company [=TranGennix=] receives a $1 billion contract to produce cloned organs. The process is developed by the husband-and-wife team of Zach and Nora Griffiths, who own [=TranGennix=] with Peter Chandler.

** In one episode, Fry goes to "Handcrafters" to get new hands sewed on after losing the originals in a ''T. rex'' feeding accident.

** When Fry's [[TheNoseless nose gets stolen right off his face]], Leela suggests letting the Professor clone him a new one, but Fry refuses, saying that "It wouldn't be the same, I don't wanna teach a new one how to shoot milk when I laugh."

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* This is possible in the ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'' universe (although natural organ transplants are still used and some people opt for [[{{Cyborg}} cybernetic organs]]). A company in the first season of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' [[WalkingTransplant grows cloned organs in genetically engineered pigs]] for its clients as a combined insurance policy (since you can have the organs implanted in you if there's an accident) and investment (since you can opt to sell your unused cloned organs).

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'', Giorno Giovanna's [[FightingSpirit Stand]] Gold Experience can do this in order to heal people by turning an inanimate object into said body part and inserting it in place.

* This is taken to a bizarre extreme in ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'', where human body part cloning is so commonplace that a fast-food chain called "Long Pig" [[ArtificialCannibalism serves it]], and you can even [[spoiler:grow your own vice-presidential candidate]].
* ''ComicBook/LobsterRandom'' has an arm cloned for him after [[AnArmAndALeg cutting off his left arm]], which he reckons takes a decade off the average age of his entire body. [[spoiler:He chops it off after getting cuffed.]]

* In a [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]]/[[RealPersonFic RPF]] involving the Music/SpiceGirls, ''[[http://fav.me/dd7ow55 Case of the Missing Technology]]'', knowing her original organs were sold on the BlackMarket, [[spoiler:Music/MelanieC]] had them cloned to replace them, thanks to the help of a bio-medical 3D printer. The narrator explains such technology was developed by the military in order to help the soldiers with severe combat injuries, allowing them to recover with less pain and reduce time or probabilities of organ rejection.

* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'': [=GeneCo=] makes artificial organs after an epidemic of organ failures, then has assassins repossess them when the patients miss too many payments.

* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's stories about the Howard Families in the far future, there are several mentions of cloned parts being grown, starting with synthetic blood in ''Literature/MethuselahsChildren'' and getting up to full body replacement by ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove'' 2,000 years later.
* This is fairly common in the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga''. Miles gets a whole new set of internal organs after his chest is blown out by a needle grenade, and Aral has to take some time off, waiting for them to grow him a new heart, after his heart attack. In emergencies, the parts that get installed are often undersized and need to grow ''in situ'', but with advance warning, full-sized parts can be grown.

* In the ''Literature/LegendsOfDune'' series, the early Tleilaxu are known as suppliers of transplantable organs that they [[OrganicTechnology grow on trees]]. However, while this is true, it doesn't provide enough organs to meet demand during the Butlerian Jihad, so most of their products are [[OrganTheft a side of their slaving business]].
* Mentioned to be possible but illegal in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' story [[Literature/TalesOfTheBountyHunters "Of Possible Futures: The Tale of Zuckuss and 4-LOM"]]. Zuckuss needs a new set of lungs, but because therapeutic cloning is illegal, they need a lot of money to get it done on the black market. [[spoiler:After they pull a HeelFaceTurn and help out the Rebels, the Rebels reveal they've worked out a way to trigger the regrowth of the damaged tissues that doesn't require cloning.]]

* The [[HealingVat regrow tanks]] in ''Literature/EarthGirl'' can restore legs, arms, 98% of a person's skin and significantly injured internal organs. As long as your brain did not get squashed, you'd probably survive just fine.
* In Creator/LarryNiven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'' series, this technology eventually ends the practice of [[OrganTheft organlegging]].
* In Creator/DianeDuane's ''Franchise/{{Star Trek|ExpandedUniverse}}'' novel ''Literature/HonorBlade'', Dr. [=McCoy=] is shown harvesting tissue from an injured Romulan to grow him some replacement organs, including a new heart.
* In ''Literature/ThePrideOfParahumans'', the bioprinting processes that were used to produce the parahumans can also make individual organs. [[spoiler:Argentum has the intestine and liver damaged by a harpoon to the torso replaced by bioprinting, but opts for a [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetic hand]] that is quicker to retrain.]]

* Post-[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries TOS]] ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series occasionally mention this.
** Doctor Bashir also mentions cloning organs in season 7 of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', and also requests a sample from Odo (a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]]) so that Starfleet Medical can investigate being able to replicate suitable organs before battles without having to worry about matching types too much.

*** In the early episode "Emanations", the EMH resurrects an alien brain cancer victim by removing the tumor from her brain stem, replicating replacement tissue, then following the standard post-mortem resuscitation procedure for her class of life-forms.
*** {{Defied|Trope}} in "Phage", when after [[TooDumbToLive his own stupidity]] leads him to walk into a Vidiian ambush and [[OrganTheft have his lungs stolen]], Neelix cannot have them replicated as they are too complicated. This forces the Doctor to develop [[HardLight holographic lungs]] as a temporary measure until the crew can either track down his stolen organs or find a compatible donor.
* The episode "Young at Heart" from ''Series/TheXFiles'' has a scientist ''trying'' to do this to prisoners (and removing their limbs so that he can try to clone new ones) using salamander DNA mixed with human. You can probably guess how well this turns out.
* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "The Message", Mal and Zoe's war buddy Tracy has a job smuggling cloned organs. They're illegal because, according to Simon, the technology isn't ready or fully approved yet, so smuggling them requires [[WalkingTransplant implanting them in a host]], who doubles as an incubator.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Replica", the company [=TranGennix=] receives a $1 billion contract to produce cloned organs. The process is developed by the husband-and-wife team of Zach and Nora Griffiths, who own [=TranGennix=] with Peter Chandler.
* In ''Series/TheExpanse'', cloned limbs and organs are readily available to Inner Worlders with enough money, or a military health plan, but [[AsteroidMiners Belters]] are often forced to make do with [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetics]].

* In ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}: TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'', cybernetics are considered obsolete; nearly everyone waits a couple weeks for a cloned body part instead of just printing off a prosthesis.
* In ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'', most parts can be regenerated after a few days in a HealingVat -- a severed head can get a new body in a week or two. There are also "Pods" that are {{Artificial Human}}s assembled from vat-cultured organs and cybernetics as a cheaper alternative to purely biological biomorphs.
* In ''TabletopGame/HcSvntDracones'', replacing limbs counts as General Surgery, as does adding tails or other non-prehensile appendages; a second pair of arms or legs requires Augmentation Surgery that costs twice as much. You can get an {{Artificial Limb|s}}, but it costs five times more than regeneration and has no special advantages aside from concealing weapons, being more of a fashion statement than anything.
* In ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', the highest echelons of the old Star League had and the modern Clans have access to this level of tech, but it's [[LostTechnology LosTech]] elsewhere.

* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'': Overlaps with WalkingTransplant. USG ''Ishimura'' has a whole section dedicated to replacing limbs since it's a mining vessel where injuries can happen very frequently. This facility contains tubes full of green liquid which have infants floating in them. It's never explained if they are conscious or not, and how the process works. But since we never see any clones of a different age, it suggests that they are simply organ farms without higher mental functions.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' games have this in their lore, in a process called "Flash cloning". It can recreate organs, skin, and even blood in a short amount of time with the use of cells from the same area, preventing transplant rejection because the body will still recognize it as its "organ". The facilities used can be the size of a ''shoe box,'' and the process can even clone entire human beings, though they suffer from accelerated aging or medical problems as they get older and start to wear out due to the process not being designed to create such a large number of cells. This was used in an unusual way by Dr. Catherine Halsey, who cloned her own brain to use as the basis for Cortana.

* ''Webcomic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger'': {{Matter Replicator}}s can be used to make replacement organs, at least one company gave employees full scans as part of their medical benefits. [[spoiler:One character uses that data to create a full clone of his dead wife.]]
* In ''Webcomic/MyLifeAtWar'', one of the "Gunrat Girls" was sent back to Treadhaven to get a new arm from "the tanks" for two more years on her contract.

* This sometimes comes up in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', like when Fry goes to "Handcrafters" after a T. rex feeding accident, or in a later episode when Fry and Leela each have an arm ripped off and the Professor grows them new ones.

* In "The Engineer's Thumb" of ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'', Moriarty's [[OrganTheft organ-legging]] turns out to be using cloned parts, which are illegal due to CloneDegeneration.
* Starscream of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' [[OrganTheft loses his Transformation Cog]] and struggles to find ways to compensate for his new handicap. After cloning himself to create loyal minions fails, he harvests the T-Cog of one of his dead clones as a replacement.

* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetics]] are generally temporary and only issued when cloning tanks are unavailable or the HMO doesn't cover them.

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* The trope is implied to be in use in ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', as Jet is occasionally asked why he got a prosthetic arm instead of a cloned arm.
* This is possible in the ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'' universe (although natural organ transplants are still used and some people opt for cybernetic organs). A company in the first season of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' grows cloned organs in genetically engineered pigs for its clients as a combined insurance policy (since you can have the organs implanted in you if there's an accident) and investment (since you can opt to sell your unused cloned organs).
* This appears to be possible in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', as it's stated [[spoiler:Louise]] could have replaced her [[AnArmAndALeg lost arm]] if not for contact with ToxicPhlebotinum.
* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'', Giorno Giovanna's [[FightingSpirit Stand]] Gold Experience can do this in order to heal people by turning an inanimate object into said body part and inserting it in place.

* Taken to a bizarre extreme in ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'', where human body part cloning is so commonplace that a fast food chain called "Long Pig" [[ImAHumanitarian serves it]], and you can even [[spoiler:grow your own vice presidential candidate.]]
* ''ComicBook/LobsterRandom'' has an arm cloned for him after [[AnArmAndALeg cutting off his left arm]], which he reckons takes a decade off the average age of his entire body. [[spoiler: He chops it off after getting cuffed.]]

* In a [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]]/[[RealPersonFic RPF]] involving the Music/SpiceGirls, ''[[http://fav.me/dd7ow55 Case of the Missing Technology]]'', knowing her original organs were sold on the BlackMarket, [[spoiler: Music/MelanieC]] had them cloned to replace them, thanks to the help of a bio-medical 3D printer. The narrator explains such technology was developed by the military in order to help the soldiers with severe combat injuries, allowing them to recover with less pain and reduce time or probabilities of organ rejection.

** ''Film/RepoMen'' has the exact same concept.
* In ''Film/The6thDay'', the benefits of organ cloning is used as a plea to try to drive down the "[[TitleDrop Sixth Day]] Laws", that forbid the cloning of complete human beings. In reality, [[spoiler: the owner of the cloning corporation only wants to [[ImmortalitySeeker achieve immortality]] via [[BrainUploading uploading your memories]] into the brains of {{Expendable Clone}}s]].
* This is the business model for the company in ''Film/TheIsland'', cloning client's body parts into a mindless sack for organ donations. Unfortunately for their bottom line, they discovered that without proper stimulation these sacks inevitably died, so they just went with [[WalkingTransplant full clones]] and started lying to them and them public.

* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's stories about the Howard Families in the far future there are several mentions of cloned parts being grown. Starting with synthetic blood in ''Literature/MethuselahsChildren'' and getting up to full body replacement by ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove'' 2,000 years later.
* This is fairly common in ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga''. Miles gets a whole new set of internal organs after his chest is blown out by a needle grenade, and Aral has to take some time off, waiting for them to grow him a new heart, after his heart attack. In emergencies, the parts that get installed are often undersized and need to grow ''in situ'', but with advance warning, full-sized parts can be grown.
* ''Literature/HyperionCantos'' mentions it, apparently, it is too expensive for most people though.
* In the ''Literature/LegendsOfDune'' prequels the early Tleilaxu were known as suppliers of transplantable organs that they grew on trees. However, while they did do that it didn't provide enough organs to meet demand during the Butlerian Jihad so most of their products were a side of their slaving business.
* Mentioned to be possible but illegal in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' story [[Literature/TalesOfTheBountyHunters "Of Possible Futures: The Tale of Zuckuss and 4-LOM"]]. Zuckuss needs a new set of lungs, but because therapeutic cloning is illegal they need a lot of money to get it done on the black market. [[spoiler:After they pull a HeelFaceTurn and help out the Rebels, the Rebels reveal they've worked out a way to trigger the regrowth of the damaged tissues that doesn't require cloning.]]
* In ''Literature/OryxAndCrake'' "pigoons" are chimeric pigs with human organs, several human organs in fact, based on one possible method of producing artificial organs.
* The regrow tanks in ''Literature/EarthGirl'' can restore legs, arms, 98% of a person's skin and significantly injured internal organs. As long as your brain did not get squashed, you'd probably survive just fine.
* In Creator/LarryNiven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'' series this technology eventually ended the practice of [[OrganTheft organlegging]].
* In Creator/DianeDuane's ''Franchise/{{Star Trek|ExpandedUniverse}}'' novel ''Literature/HonorBlade'' Dr. [=McCoy=] is shown harvesting tissue from an injured Romulan to grow him some replacement organs, including a new heart.
* In ''Literature/ThePrideOfParahumans'' the bioprinting processes that were used to produce the parahumans can also make individual organs. [[spoiler: Argentum has the intestine and liver damaged by a harpoon to the torso replaced by bioprinting, but opts for a prosthetic hand that is quicker to retrain.]]

* Post-TOS ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series occasionally mention this.
** Doctor Bashir also mentions cloning organs in season 7 of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', and also requests a sample from Odo (a shapeshifter) so Starfleet Medical can investigate being able to replicate suitable organs before battles without having to worry about matching types too much.
** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' mentions that replicators are capable of this in some cases.
*** In the early episode "Emanations" the EMH resurrects an alien brain cancer victim by removing the tumor from her brain stem, replicating replacement tissue, then following the standard post-mortem resuscitation procedure for her class of life-forms.
*** Defied in "Phage", when after [[TooDumbToLive his own stupidity]] led him to walk into a Vidiian ambush and have his lungs stolen, Neelix cannot have them replicated as they are too complicated. This forces the Doctor to develop holographic lungs as a temporary measure until the crew can either track down his stolen organs or find a compatible donor.
* The episode "Young at Heart" from ''Series/TheXFiles'' has a scientist ''trying'' to do this to prisoners (and removing the limbs from them so he could try to clone new ones) using salamander DNA mixed with human. You can probably guess how well this turns out.
* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "The Message", Mal and Zoe's war buddy Tracy has a job smuggling cloned organs. They're illegal because, according to Simon, the technology isn't ready or fully approved yet, so smuggling them requires implanting them in a host, who doubles as an incubator.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Replica", the company [=TranGennix=] receives a $1 billion contract to produce cloned organs. The process was developed by the husband and wife team of Zach and Nora Griffiths, who own [=TranGennix=] with Peter Chandler.
* In ''Series/TheExpanse'' cloned limbs and organs are readily available to Inner Worlders with enough money, or a military health plan, but Belters are often forced to make do with prosthetics.

** There are also mass-produced "Type O" transplants produced from the cells of one Owen Whiting who lacks the proteins that trigger immune reactions.

** Regrown limbs and basic prosthetics cost the same and have practically the same statistics, the difference is thematic.
** ''Megatraveller Journal'' #3, "Worldguide: Vincennes". On the Tech Level 16 world of Vincennes, cloning of injured and damaged organs and limbs is commonplace.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}: TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'' cybernetics are considered obsolete, nearly everyone waits a couple weeks for a cloned body part instead of just printing off a prosthesis.
* In ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' most parts can be regenerated after a few days in a HealingVat, a severed head can get a new body in a week or two. There are also "Pods" that are ArtificialHumans assembled from vat-cultured organs and cybernetics as a cheaper alternative to purely biological biomorphs.
* In ''TabletopGame/HcSvntDracones'' Replacing limbs counts as General Surgery, as does adding tails or other non-prehensile appendages, a second pair of arms or legs requires Augmentation Surgery that costs twice as much. You can get an {{Artificial Limb|s}} but it costs five times more than regeneration and has no special advantages aside from concealing weapons, more of a fashion statement than anything.

* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'': Overlaps with WalkingTransplant. USG ''Ishimura'' has a whole section dedicated to replacing limbs since it's a mining vessel where injuries can happen very frequently. This facility contains tubes full of green liquid which have infants floating in them. It's never explained if they are conscious or not, and how the process works. But since we never see any clones of a different age, it suggests they are simply organ farms without higher mental functions.

** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' Garrus asks Shepard for help tracking down a Salarian MadScientist who was cloning his patient's organs for the black market, growing them inside of individuals and not removing them if they failed to develop properly.
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', it's implied that during the Lazarus Project, Shepard's skin and possibly eyes might have been replaced via cloning.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' games have this in their lore, in a process called "Flash cloning." It can recreate organs, skin, even blood in a short amount of time with the use of cells from the same area, preventing transplant rejection because the body will still recognize it as its "organ." The facilities used can be the size of a ''shoe box,'' and the process can even clone entire human beings (though they suffer from accelerated aging or medical problems as they get older and start to wear out due to the process not being designed to create such a large number of cells.) This was used in an unusual way by Dr. Catherine Halsey, who cloned her own brain to use as the basis for Cortana.

[[folder:Web Comics]]
* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', prosthetics are generally temporary and only issued when cloning tanks are unavailable or the HMO doesn't cover them.
* In ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'' it is possible to clone biological body parts, but most CORE troops prefer to upgrade with cybernetics.
* ''Webcomic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger'': {{Matter Replicator}}s can be used to make replacement organs, at least one company gave employees full scans as part of their medical benefits. [[spoiler:And one character used that data to create a full clone of his dead wife.]]

* Sometimes comes up in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', like when Fry went to "Handcrafters" after a T. rex feeding accident, or in a later episode when Fry and Leela each had an arm ripped off and the Professor grew them new ones.
** When Fry's [[TheNoseless nose gets stolen right off his face,]] Leela suggests letting The Professor clone him a new one, but Fry refuses saying, "It wouldn't be the same, I don't wanna teach a new one how to shoot milk when I laugh."
* In "The Engineer's Thumb" of ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'', Moriarty's [[OrganTheft organ-legging]] turns out to be using cloned parts. Which are illegal due to CloneDegeneration.
* Starscream of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' loses his Transformation Cog and struggles to find ways to compensate for his new handicap. After cloning himself to create loyal minions fails, he harvests the T-Cog of one of his dead clones as a replacement.

* This is the business model for the company in ''Film/TheIsland'', cloning client's body parts into a mindless sack for organ donations. Unfortunately for their bottom line, they discovered that without proper stimulation these sacks inevitably died, so they just went with full clones and started lying to them and them public.