History Main / CopiedTheMoralsToo

-->'''Clone''': I envy you, Ned. Ever since I robbed that bank, I've felt my evil programming waning. I guess the goodness I inherited from you was too much, even for that nasty wasty old Rigellian technology.

* In the Ryo-Ohki series of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'', Dr. Clay has his robot Zero copy the body of Ryoko and infiltrate the Misaki house to kidnap Washu. However, she also copied the emotional feelings Ryoko has for Tenchi, and Zero ends up being paralyzingly flustered around him, and eventually refuses Dr. Clay's orders to assassinate Tenchi. After Dr. Clay is defeated, Washu convinces the real Ryoko to willingly merge with a dying "Zero Ryoko", while feeding the others a story about Zero being something between an EvilKnockoff and a PsychoPrototype to get them to accept it. (In the end, it boils down to Ryoko [[DefrostingIceQueen becoming more]] ''[[{{Tsundere}} dere]]'' after the merge.)
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': this happens to Buu in the backstory when he absorbs the Grand Supreme Kai. He intended to gain the Kai's power, but he also got the Kai's [[IncorruptiblePurePureness innocence]]. While Buu had always been simple-minded, this caused him to lose his psychotic killer instinct and act more like a young child, blindly trusting authority figures and doing bad things merely because he didn't know any better.
** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': During the Potaufeu mini arc, the Commeson manages to absorb Vegeta's power and creates a duplicate of him. However, the copy also winds up inheriting Vegeta's massive ego, HonorBeforeReason fighting principles, and his love for Trunks, which makes him unable to be easily controlled by the Commeson and constantly defies his master's orders in favour of fighting Goku fairly.
* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': Chimera Ants are born made up of whatever the Queen eats which is inserted into her genetic coding, allowing them to obtain the traits and abilities of those organisms. Ants made from humans wind up inheriting not only their intellect and ability to use Nen, but also their own sense of compassion and individuality. This results in the collapse of the Chimera Ant colony and several cases of rebellion towards the Queen and King.

* ''Manga/DoctorSlump'': The evil Dr. Mashirito creates the robot Obotchaman, originally supposed to be an EvilKnockoff of Arale, and who has her same powers (including the SuperStrength). However, he also has her same IncorruptiblePurePureness, and despite being created only to destroy Arale, he really can't do it because she's too nice and cute. He eventually ends up befriending Arale and siding with her against Dr. Mashirito.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** ''ComicBook/TheLifeStoryOfSuperman'': Defied. Lex Luthor grows a Superman clone and transfers Superman's memories into him; though, Luthor alters the memories involving their feud specifically to prevent the clone from turning on him.
** When Creator/GeoffJohns was writing for ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', ComicBook/{{Superboy}} was {{retcon}}ned to be a sleeper clone created by Lex Luthor using a combination of his own DNA as well as Superman's. Despite being conditioned to obey Luthor, Superboy desired to be a hero like Superman and rejected Luthor's purpose for him.

* ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'': Qlippoths are shades created by [[EldritchLocation the Below-Place]] (i.e., Hell) from the memories of people in it, taking the forms of dead people important to the targets to upset them. While they are mindless and just acting out the roles without thought, the copying process is so precise that the qlippoths genuinely behave the way the real person would, even when this is counterproductive to [[EldritchAbomination their creator's]] goals. One based on Rick Jones actively helps the Hulk simply because it's programmed to act like Hulk's best friend, and in the GrandFinale, [[spoiler:another based on Jackie [=McGee's=] father encourages her onwards to save the day, even helping her understand her powers better]].

* ''VideoGame/Destiny2'': Averted with [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Clovis Bray I]]'s robotic Exo clone. [[TheSociopath Clovis]], who also [[BrainUploading converted himself into an AI]], had expected his Exo self to be just like him. However, the clone was created without his memories at first, but after experiencing things for a time before the memories were uploaded, the Exo-Clovis rejected AI-Clovis and his ways, becoming a defender of his people. [[spoiler: After fighting the Vex through 43 iterations of himself, Exo-Clovis eventually asked to be "reset" one more time, including having his designation changed, and thus became Banshee-44, [[UltimateBlacksmith the Tower Gunsmith]].]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', Dr. T.O. Morrow created a human-like android to infiltrate the heroes to defeat them from within. It was so good at its infiltration that it gave its life to save the heroes. Then he created Red Tornado, reasoning that an android that knew what it was would work better. Red Tornado likewise went full hero. Finally, he gave up and just created an android that was outright evil. That one immediately killed him (or rather, his robot duplicate) for being an inferior human.
-->'''Red Volcano:''' [[IronicEcho No more Pinocchios.]]
** There was one other Android early on that was programmed to be neutral, neither extremely heroic, nor evil like Red Volcano. This one failed due to being apathetic and aloof as a result of it's neutral programming, neither good enough to really fit in with the heroes nor evil enough to want to bother with the infiltration plan.
* During one mission early in ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'', a rookie pilot named Alice Noretti who joined TheSquad goes missing and is presumed dead when her drop ship crashes. Later in the series BigBad Phaeton used her remains to engineer [[HalfHumanHybrid a human/Neo-Sapien hybrid]] that would have Noretti's appearance and could infiltrate the human fleet with the goal of [[DecapitationStrike assassinating]] [[BigGood Admiral Winfield]]. The hybrid finds herself horribly conflicted about carrying out the orders, and while she does kidnap Winfield she eventually refuses to go through with her programming to kill him as well, and commits suicide instead.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[=CopyBob DittoPants=]," Plankton makes clones of [=SpongeBob=] in an attempt to get the secret formula from Mr. Krabs; as [=SpongeBob=] is Mr. Krabs' best employee, Krabs would tell him the formula if he asked. The clone interacts with the real [=SpongeBob=] and has his exact same personality, then doesn't want to tell Plankton the formula once he learns it. Plankton sends another clone, with the same results. Eventually, he sends in an entire army of [=SpongeBob=] clones, but they disappear before he can learn the formula from them.
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' has an episode where [[BigBad Hordak]] uses a creature which replicates She-Ra's powers. At a critical point in the battle, it turns out too much of her personality was copied as well.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' has a villain make "evil clones" of the heroes. However, Uncle later discovers that a spell was used to make the clones evil, and once it is broken, they promptly side with the originals.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The creation of Gecko Moria's zombies involve removing a person's shadow and inserting it into a lifeless corpse, giving it life again and [[PowerCopying allowing it to use the owner's non-Devil Fruit based fighting style]]. In addition, the zombie will also inherit the owner's personality and morals such as the zombie created from Sanji's shadow inheriting his policy to never kick a woman, Zoro's inheriting his principles about being a swordsman, or Oars inheriting Luffy's desire to be King of the Pirates. This makes them difficult to control in their early state, but its {{downplayed}} in that most of these personality traits eventually vanish and the zombies become completely loyal to Moriah and his officers.