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** Cammy White is a female clone of [[Characters/StreetFighterMBison M. Bison]], a CardCarryingVillain who wants to TakeOverTheWorld with [[TheSyndicate Shadaloo]]. After [[Characters/StreetFighterII Dhalsim]] breaks his MindControl over her, she now works for the British government to rescue Shadaloo's victims.

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed'': several characters in the Seed sub-series are clones of Al da Flaga, who was an extremely narcissistic man who wanted an heir, but considered any children he had with his wife to be "contaminated" by her genes, so he turned to cloning instead to produce a copy of himself. With the possible exception of [[OmnicidalManiac Rau le Creuset]], the primary villain of the first series, all the clones produced by this program turn out to be much more moral people than Al himself. And even Rau hates his "father", considering Al to be representative of the evils of humanity.

* In one issue of ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'', Nazis [[YouClonedHitler create a mature clone of Hitler]] who they have watched over by a simple-minded Jewish girl. They then show him movies of his predecessor's accomplishments, intending for him to kill the girl once his memories return. The clone, whom the girl had saved from choking on his food at one point, [[DrivenToSuicide shoots himself out of horror]] once he understands his origins. Turns out clones aren't really the same person the original was.
* In ''ComicBook/BatmanLastKnightOnEarth'', while we do follow Batman, we're not exactly following Bruce Wayne. The protagonist is a Batman clone/copy, while Bruce Wayne ended up becoming the BigBad Omega. The Batman clone soon becomes a RedeemingReplacement after ultimately defeating and killing Omega.
* Issue 95 of ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery'' had a villain called Professor Zaxton use an invention of his to create an EvilKnockoff of Thor. He ultimately [[DisneyVillainDeath falls to his death]] while his machine is destroyed, but not before said contraption creates a benevolent clone of Zaxton to take the scientist's place after his demise.
* Downplayed in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Dredd is not a villain, but he ''is'' a hardline enforcer of the fascist Judge System, seeking to keep people in line more than to keep them happy. One of his clones, Dolman, decides to opt out of this life and walk his own path, and grows up to be happier and more well-adjusted for it.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'': Conner Kent falls under this, in addition to CopiedTheMoralsToo, as he is a clone of both ComicBook/{{Superman}} and Lex Luthor. Luthor believed that the clone possessing his genes would be both easier to control and behave more like a "Luthor" than Superman. For added insurance, he also subconsciously conditioned the clone to act as a ManchurianAgent that he could directly control. But Superboy's desire to be a hero like Superman was far stronger than whatever was imprinted on him by Luthor.
* The second incarnation of Terra from ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' is basically exactly what [[TheMole the original]] had appeared to be before turning out to be EvilAllAlong. It's [[AmbiguousCloneEnding inconsistent]], though, on whether she's supposed to be a clone or the resurrected original [[AmnesiacVillainJoinsTheHeroes who lost her memories]].

Compare CopiedTheMoralsToo, for when a clone of a hero that is ''supposed to be'' evil fails at whatever purpose they were created for because they inherited too much of the hero's personality. Also compare MirrorCharacter, which is a character who significantly reflects another's traits. Related to IAmNotMyFather, where the child rejects their parent's morality. See also EvilTwin, for when identical twins are moral opposites, and PreferableImpersonator, which is when someone is replaced by an impersonator who is preferred over the original. Not to be confused with TheMoralSubstitute, which deals with creating a version of something that's in line with a given group's values.

** Cammy White is a female clone of [[Characters/StreetFighterMBison M. Bison]], a CardCarryingVillain who wants to TakeOverTheWorld with [[TheSyndicate Shadaloo]]. After [[Characters/StreetFighterII Dhalsim]] breaks his MindControl over her, she now works for the United Kingdom government to rescue Shadaloo's victims.

** Cammy White is a female clone of [[Characters/StreetFighterMBison]], a CardCarryingVillain who wants to TakeOverTheWorld with [[TheSyndicate Shadaloo]]. After [[Characters/StreetFighterII Dhalsim]] breaks his MindControl over her, she now works for the United Kingdom government to rescue Shadaloo's victims.

* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'': Abel was born as a replacement body for [[BigBad M. Bison]], who wants world domination and is responsible for almost every bad thing that happens in [[Franchise/StreetFighter the series]], committing multiple murders and abducting teenage girls. Eventually, Abel is taken in by [[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Charlie Nash]], who trains him to be a hero.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E06TreacheryFaithAndTheGreatRiver Treachery, Faith, and the Great River]]", Weyoun 6 was the lone Weyoun clone who disagreed with [[BigBad the Founders]]' genocidal stance and attempted to defect to the Federation by reinterpreting his genetically programmed loyalties to said Founders as applying as well to [[WhiteSheep Odo]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE23BewareTheCreeper Beware the Creeper]]", Ryder is doing a [[{{Dramatization}} reenactment]] of the Joker's origin when the Clown Prince decides to crash it with Smylex gas to present his own version of events, with Ryder taking his role. Result; a bizarre-looking lunatic, but as Ryder was a decent, compassionate man before his transformation, he became a CloudCuckoolander IdiotHero as opposed to Joker's deranged sociopathy. From a production standpoint, the crew decided to introduce Creeper the DCAU, had trouble designing him as he kept looking like the Joker, and decided to just run with it.

* In an issue of ''[[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders Outsiders]]'', Nazis [[YouClonedHitler created a mature clone of Hitler]] that they had being watched by a simple-minded Jewish girl. They then showed him movies of his predecessor's accomplishments, intending for him to kill the girl once his memories returned. The clone, whom the girl had saved from choking on his food at one point, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone shot himself out of horror]] once he understood his origins. Turns out clones aren't really the same person the original was.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': The endgame of Harry Osborn in the 2009-2010 version of ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'' was to bring his father, ComicBook/NormanOsborn, back via cloning. However, the Norman clone quickly becomes horrified by what the original warped Harry into, talking Kaine into returning baby May, trying to talk Harry out of his madness, and eventually performing a HeroicSacrifice to save Peter from the Goblin Glider in the same way Ben did in the mid-1990s story (and thus die similarly to how the original Norman went out in ''ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied'').
* ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'': Conner Kent falls under this, in addition to CopiedTheMoralsToo, as he is a clone of both Franchise/{{Superman}} and Lex Luthor. Luthor believed that the clone possessing his genes would be both easier to control and behave more like a "Luthor" than Superman. For added insurance, he also subconsciously conditioned the clone to act as a ManchurianAgent that he could directly control. But Superboy's desire to be a hero like Superman was far stronger than whatever was imprinted on him by Luthor.
* The second incarnation of Terra from ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' was basically exactly what [[TheMole the original]] had appeared to be before turning out to be EvilAllAlong. It was [[AmbiguousCloneEnding inconsistent]], though, on whether she was supposed to be a clone or the resurrected original [[AmnesiacVillainJoinsTheHeroes who lost her memories]].
* Evil robot ComicBook/{{Ultron}} always comes back because he has equipment stashed away that will build a replacement duplicate if he is destroyed. He ''used to'' program that equipment to upgrade him with each iteration... until one version came out sensible enough to realize that all of his OmnicidalManiac schemes were idiotic and pointless, and wouldn't it be better to just put all the cackling supervillainy aside and reconcile with his father, Hank Pym? Unfortunately, the previous Ultron wasn't actually dead, and evil Ultron absolutely ''freaked out'' at the existence of nice!Ultron, killing him and vowing that there would never, ever be another Ultron like him. Pity, he was actually a really nice guy.

* Invoked in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', when Calvin duplicates only his good side (after learning from [[CopiedTheMoralsToo his first time copying himself]]). HilarityEnsues when the duplicate runs up against the bad reputation of the original Calvin, but things ''really'' get spicy when his good side turns out to have a crush on Susie. When Calvin finds out, he ends up fighting with his duplicate, which abruptly vanishes in a PuffOfLogic after being goaded into acting as mean-spirited as his original.

* ''Film/TheIsland2005'': The premise of the film revolves around clones created from wealthy people to serve as an extra set of organs to preserve their lives. Lincoln and Jordan seek out the help of Lincoln's progenitor, Tom Lincoln, who suffers from liver cirrhosis and signed on to the project to obtain a replacement liver, to expose Dr. Merrick's cloning experiments. However, while Tom is surprised to find that Merrick Biotech made a complete sapient clone of him and not the vegetative mass of organs he was made to believe, he tries to turn Lincoln and Jordan over to Merrick's men to keep the experiments secret and save his own life.
* The Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme film ''Film/{{Replicant}}'' revolves around a CowboyCop who, driven to capture a terrorist (played by Van Damme) at any cost, greenlights an illegal cloning of the terrorist in the hopes the clone will lead him to the villain. The clone quickly grows from being child-like to having a full understanding of what is being asked of him, and completely refuses to follow the morals of his genetic donor (who goes as far as to invoke CloneAngst on him in the hopes to recruit him), [[FinalBattle eventually leading]] to [[MirrorMatch a full-blown brawl]] in which the terrorist gets killed.
* {{Deconstructed}} in ''Film/{{Us}}.'' The original Adelaide was abducted and replaced by her Tethered during the introduction, and the Adelaide we've been following the whole time is actually the fake. However, despite the film's main character initially being a CreepyChild who [[ChangelingTale stole Red's life]], [[NatureVersusNurture she grew to be a loving mother and wife]] while Red became a vengeful DarkMessiah who schemes to KillAndReplace her double.

* In ''Literature/TheGhostBrigades'', the authorities make a clone of a rogue scientist, implanted with a copy of the original's memories from just before he went rogue, in the hope that the clone will be able to tell them what the scientist is up to and how to stop him. The memory copy seems at first not to have taken, so the clone is given his own name and allowed to start building a life for himself, and by the time the memories do start surfacing he's formed his own moral code and freely chooses to oppose his progenitor.
* ''Literature/GrandCentralArena'': Marc C. [=DeQuesne=] was created by the Hyperion project primarily as an incarnation of the villain from ''Literature/SkylarkSeries'' with the same name. They leavened him with personality traits from Martin Crane of the same series and Kimball Kinnison from Literature/{{Lensman}}. Because of the personality shifts and the moral choices he has made over the years, Marc uses his talents for much less selfish goals than his namesake-- though he does retain the original [=DeQuesne's=] capacity for ruthlessness when he deems it necessary.
* The novelization of the film ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' reveals that Rey's father was a clone of Palpatine, the Dark Lord of the Sith. He appears to have been far less nefarious than the original, dying in the process of trying to hide his child from being found by the Emperor.

* ''Series/KnightRider'' contains a rare non-biological example: KARR, the original prototype for KITT, lacked the imperative to protect human life and as result was ruthless, selfish and arrogant. KITT by contrast was kind, selfless and valued all life, despite being the [[InsistentTerminology inferior production line copy]].

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River" Weyoun 6 was the lone Weyoun clone who disagreed with [[BigBad the Founders]]' genocidal stance and attempted to defect to the Federation by reinterpreting his genetically programmed loyalties to said Founders as applying as well to [[WhiteSheep Odo]].
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': In "Nothing Human" the Doctor needed to create a consultant to work with to solve a medical crisis that was going to kill B'lannna Torres. He conjured up a holographic version of the best exobiologist known to the federation, a Cardassian named Crell Moset. The hologram is kind, courteous, funny and extremely gifted in the field of medicine. His inspiration was also an immoral monster who mimiced Josef Mengele's crimes. The Doctor calls out the new Moset for this even though he's only 3 days old at this point, and discovers that the holographic creation was based on what the Cardassians released to the federation which left out all the really negative stuff. As such, this part of Moset was never integrated into new Moset's programme and he's genuinely shocked and disgusted by his inspiration's actions. Even though he was an innocent, the Doctor deletes his programme anyway.

* While usually a Fetch from TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost is somehow... ''off'' compared to the changeling it was made to replace, there are cases where the Fetch is missing a character Flaw and is generally a better person than the original, making it even harder for the changeling to remove them to resume their old life in the rare cases not much time has passed in the real world or Arcadia.

* ''[[VideoGame/AdvanceWars Advance Wars: Days of Ruin]]'' have Catleia (in the PAL translation) and Isabella (in the US translation). In both translations, she's a clone of a significantly more evil character, essentially starting out as a blank state, and making the choice to become good (or possibly neutral, but with her actions having primarily good consequences). Oddly, though, the details vary somewhat from translation to translation – in the PAL version it's clear that there were plenty of spare clones available and this particular one was being used as an experiment as to what would happen if one was added to the "good side" of the storyline, due to the villain considering the individual clones to be mostly worthless.
* ''VideoGame/AxiomVerge:'' The Trace the player controls is actually a genetic copy of Athetos, the original Trace who became a scientific abomination and committed genocide against an alien race. The player Trace makes it his goal to stop Athetos for good.

* ''{{VideoGame/Halo}}'' has the [=IsoDidact=], a CloneByConversion of the original Didact created after the original Didact was executed and his wife, the Librarian, deemed the Didact's expertise necessary to fight [[TheVirus the Flood]]. To this end, she chose a young man named Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting and overwrote his memories and personality with the Didact's, promising to return his body once they were done. Eventually, the original Didact turns up alive, but had since been driven insane, becoming hateful and genocidal towards humans and appalling both his wife and his clone. Additionally, Bornstellar's personality resurfaced and the [=IsoDidact=]'s personality became a [[SplitPersonalityMerge balanced mix]] of his original personality and the Didact's, causing him to become more moral than the original.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'', the player character [[HumanoidAbomination Alex Mercer]] is an AntiHero at best and a VillainProtagonist at worst. Once it's revealed that the Alex you're playing is little more than an AnthropomorphicPersonification of TheVirus taking over the city with a couple of the real Alex's memories, even he's disgusted by the [[MadScientist original Alex's]] actions.

* In the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series, Big Boss eventually resolves that soldiers can only find satisfaction in the act of warfare itself (whereas higher ideals, such as patriotism, are more often than not tools used by corrupt men to manipulate soldiers into dying for worthless causes). His clone/son Solid Snake strives to transcend Big Boss' cynicism by proving that a more peaceful world is both possible and desirable.

* ''WebAnimation/GenLock'': [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] The original Julian Chase was captured and corrupted by the Union, transforming the once noble Lieutenant into the vicious, violent Nemesis. The Polity, however, made a clone of Chase, who, due to not ever being captured by the Union, retains his heroism and battles Nemesis, effectively taking his original's place as the true hero of the Polity.

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Melonpool}},'' Ralph Zinobop is a colossal, irresponsible selfish jerk. So naturally, when he was accidentally duplicated by a machine that makes opposite personality clones, the result was Ralphie, an incredibly nice guy and conscientious worrywart. Both versions stick around as main characters.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "Beware the Creeper", Ryder is doing a [[{{Dramatization}} reenactment]] of the Joker's origin when the Clown Prince decides to crash it with Smylex gas to present his own version of events, with Ryder taking his role. Result; a bizarre-looking lunatic, but as Ryder was a decent, compassionate man before his transformation, he became a CloudCuckoolander IdiotHero as opposed to Joker's deranged sociopathy. From a production standpoint, the crew decided to introduce Creeper the DCAU, had trouble designing him as he kept looking like the Joker, and decided to just run with it.
-->'''Joker''': Let's show the folks at home what ''really'' happened 7 years ago. I'll be Batman, you be me! ''(chucks Ryder over the railing into vat of chemicals)''

* The ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "Send in the Clones" has a MadScientist create dozens of Johnny clones. Since Johnny is a BrainlessBeauty, CasanovaWannabe, and JerkJock, the scientist decides to increase the clones' empathy and intelligence. Everyone in Johnny's life prefers the clones--even after discovering that they're fake--and decide to let the scientist keep up his work; it's ultimately Johnny who [[NiceJobBreakingItHero screws things up]] by messing with the machinery, which instantly disintegrates all of the copies.

* ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'': When Logan and Hawkeye arrive to Las Vegas, they encounter Hawkeye's ex-wife, who married a copy of Ultron who was nice (and a bit CampStraight), who had even been a surrogate father to Hawkeye's daughter. If Ashley "Spider-Bitch" Barton became an awful individual, it surely was not because of him.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': The endgame of Harry Osborn in the 2009-2010 version of ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'' was to bring his father, ComicBook/NormanOsborn, back via cloning. However, the Norman clone quickly becomes horrified by what the original warped Harry into, talking Kaine into returning baby May, trying to talk Harry out of his madness, and eventually performing a HeroicSacrifice to save Peter from the Goblin Glider in the same way Ben did in the mid-1990s story (and thus die similarly to how the original Norman went out in ''ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied'').

* In ''Webcomic/ScoobAndShag'', the Shag we have been following for the run of the comic is revealed to be a clone of the original Shag, who died under still unexplained circumstances years ago and just the latest line of clones that Scoob secretly commissioned from Velm. An earlier clone generation of Shag is coerced into serving under BigBad Mick by [[CloningBlues showing Shag that he's not the original]] and is sent to Earth to act as a secret mole that will free Mick for his plans in taking over Earth. He also holds onto the original Shag's Ballyhoo, Jump Cut, and reveals that our Shag can't get that power until he, the earlier clone, is dead.

* The Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme film ''Film/{{Replicant}}'' revolves around a CowboyCop who, driven to capture a terrorist (played by Van Damme) at any cost, greenlights an illegal cloning of the terrorist in the hopes the clone will lead him to the villain. The clone quickly grows from being child-like to having a full understanding of what is being asked of him, and completely refuses to follow the morals of his genetic donor (who goes as far as to invoke the CloningBlues on him in the hopes to recruit him), [[FinalBattle eventually leading]] to [[MirrorMatch a full-blown brawl]] in which the terrorist gets killed.

* ''Film/TheIsland2005'': The premise of the film revolves around clones created from wealthy people to serve as an extra set of organs to preserve their lives. Lincoln and Jordan seek out the help of Lincoln's progenitor, Tom Lincoln, to expose Dr. Merrick's cloning experiments. However, while Tom is surprised to find that Merrick Biotech made a complete sapient clone of him and not the vegetative mass of organs he was made to believe, he tries to turn Lincoln and Jordan over to Merrick's men to keep the experiments secret and save his own life.

More often than not, this will be the provenance of a duplicate that is unaware of their true origin (and [[AmnesiacHero everything else about their history, to boot]]). The revelation of their status as a clone or other duplicate, as well as the crimes of their original self, are likely to trigger a massive TomatoInTheMirror moment or the CloningBlues. If the original is still around, expect them to claim that the copy is NotEvenHuman and try to force a HeroicBSOD.

* ''VideoGame/Destiny2: Beyond Light'' gives us [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Clovis Bray I]]. Obsessed with becoming the last universal common ancestor for humanity, he developed the BrainUploading technology that would create the [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Exos]], also part of his bid to escape death with immortality. He ultimately created two copies of himself, an A.I. copy of his mind, which would oversee the facility called the Deep Stone Crypt, and an Exo duplicate with his basic personality but not his memories. Clovis I's Exo, when he discovered what a [[LackOfEmpathy heartless]] [[TheSociopath monster]] his antecedent was, chose to reject his philosophies after getting Clovis I's memories uploaded to him. The Exo Clovis -- after going to war against the Vex, shutting down their portal in the Glassway on Europa, and suffering numerous resets in the process -- underwent one last reset, but requested that his Clovis memories be removed, [[MeaningfulRename taking a new identity]] as [[TheBlacksmith Banshee-44]].