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** [[spoiler:Evie Cho in the season four finale]] was likely similarly mourned by very few, even though, as with [[spoiler:Tomas]]'s death in season two, it came across as a case of KickTheSonOfABitch rather than PayEvilUntoEvil.
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** [[spoiler:Evie Cho in the season four finale]] was likely similarly mourned by very few, even though, as with [[spoiler:Tomas]]'s death in season two, it came across as a case of KickTheSonOfABitch rather than PayEvilUntoEvil.few.
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In April 2022, a SequelSeries titled ''Orphan Black: Echoes'' was announced, which premiered on the Australian streaming service Stan on November 3, 2023 and is set to air on AMC and BBC America in starting from June 23, 2024.
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Chimerism is not very rare, estimated to being present in as much as 10% of the population. If you created clones from the two separate sets of DNA in a chimera, they would not technically be twins as they did not come from the same womb, and would not be identical to their source (though the one that was cloned from the "dominant" DNA would be close).
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* BizarreHumanBiology: The Leda [[spoiler:and Castor]] clones' original [[spoiler:turn out to be the same person, Kendall Malone, a genetic chimera who absorbed her male twin's DNA in the womb and thus has two cell lines present in her blood. This means that the Leda and Castor clones are genetically twins.]]
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* OurClonesAreDifferent: centers on a group of identical-looking women who discovered that they were clones in adulthood and are working together to uncover numerous mysteries surrounding their existence. They discover that a sinister movement called Neolution and a MegaCorp called the Dyad Institute were involved in their creation as part of an experiment called Project Leda. As embryos, the Leda clones were implanted into women who had no idea they were part of a cloning experiment. Consequently, the Ledas have a wide variety of personalities due to growing up in different environments. The scientists who carried out of the experiment [[spoiler:had modified the Ledas to ensure they would be infertile, with only Sarah and Helena not receiving the modification. This had the unintended consequence of [[CloneDegeneration causing the clones to develop a terminal respiratory disease]] for which they need to find a cure]]. All the Ledas who know about each other view themselves as sisters (with the exception of Rachel because she's an antagonist). The series places a heavy focus on the ethics (or lack thereof) of human cloning and [[ClonesArePeopleToo frames the clones as otherwise normal people who deserve the same rights as anyone else]].
** At the end of season 2, the Ledas discover that there is a second batch of clones who all happened to be male, this time called Project Castor. Unlike the Ledas, who had relatively normal childhoods, the Castors were [[{{Tykebomb}} raised from birth to be a group of perfect soldiers]]. Because the Castors grew up in the same environment and have always known that they're clones, they have very similar personalities and view each other as brothers (with the exception of Ira, who was raised separately from the rest). However, like the Ledas, [[spoiler:the Castors also have a life-threatening illness due to their modifications. In their case, it's a prion that targets their brains and can be passed to others through sexual intercourse (causing infertility) or blood transfusions]].
** In season 3, it's revealed that the original genetic donor [[spoiler:for both Project Leda and Project Castor is the same person, a woman named Kendall Malone. Kendall is a chimera, [[BizarreHumanBiology a person born with two sets of DNA because she fused with her twin brother in the womb]]. This is a real, albeit extremely rare, condition. Kendall's unique situation makes her valuable scientific specimen with the potential to help cure both sets of illnesses. This is confirmed when a cure is synthesized using her cancer cells in season 5]].
** At the end of season 2, the Ledas discover that there is a second batch of clones who all happened to be male, this time called Project Castor. Unlike the Ledas, who had relatively normal childhoods, the Castors were [[{{Tykebomb}} raised from birth to be a group of perfect soldiers]]. Because the Castors grew up in the same environment and have always known that they're clones, they have very similar personalities and view each other as brothers (with the exception of Ira, who was raised separately from the rest). However, like the Ledas, [[spoiler:the Castors also have a life-threatening illness due to their modifications. In their case, it's a prion that targets their brains and can be passed to others through sexual intercourse (causing infertility) or blood transfusions]].
** In season 3, it's revealed that the original genetic donor [[spoiler:for both Project Leda and Project Castor is the same person, a woman named Kendall Malone. Kendall is a chimera, [[BizarreHumanBiology a person born with two sets of DNA because she fused with her twin brother in the womb]]. This is a real, albeit extremely rare, condition. Kendall's unique situation makes her valuable scientific specimen with the potential to help cure both sets of illnesses. This is confirmed when a cure is synthesized using her cancer cells in season 5]].
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Between February and August 2015, a canonical tie-in ComicBook ran from Creator/IDWPublishing. This was followed between November 2015 and May 2016 with another limited series, ''Orphan Black: Helsinki'', which gives the canonical backstory of the character MK. In 2017 another comic series, "Orphan Black: Deviations," showed an AlternateContinuity where Sarah is able to save Beth from her suicide (short version: nowhere near as happy an outcome as you'd think).
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Between February and August 2015, a canonical tie-in ComicBook ran from Creator/IDWPublishing. This was followed between November 2015 and May 2016 with another limited series, ''Orphan Black: Helsinki'', which gives the canonical canon backstory of the character MK. In 2017 another comic series, "Orphan ''Orphan Black: Deviations," Deviations'', showed an AlternateContinuity AlternateTimeline where Sarah is able to save Beth from her suicide (short version: nowhere near as happy an outcome as you'd think).
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Between February and August 2015, a canonical tie-in ComicBook ran from Creator/IDWPublishing. This was followed between November 2015 and May 2016 with another limited series, ''Orphan Black: Helsinki''. Helsinki'', which gives the canonical backstory of the character MK. In 2017 another comic series, "Orphan Black: Deviations," gave showed an AlternateContinuity where Sarah is able to save Beth from her suicide (short version: nowhere near as happy an outcome as you'd think).
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Between February and August 2015, a canonical tie-in ComicBook ran from Creator/IDWPublishing. This was followed between November 2015 and May 2016 with another limited series, "Orphan ''Orphan Black: Helsinki." Helsinki''. In 2017 another comic series, "Orphan Black: Deviations," gave an AlternateContinuity where Sarah is able to save Beth from her suicide (short version: nowhere near as happy an outcome as you'd think).
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, specifically about angst from a character discovering that they're a clone.
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* CloningBlues: Alison seems to be particularly afflicted by this and it is implied to be what pushed Beth over the edge into suicide. Subverted by the series itself, however, because the clones are entirely individual persons who are the product of a realistic cloning process.
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* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Évelyne Brochu in Season 2, Kristian Bruun and Ari Millen in Season 3, Josh Vokey mid-way through Season 4.
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* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Évelyne Brochu in Season 2, Kristian Bruun Creator/KristianBruun and Ari Millen in Season 3, Josh Vokey mid-way through Season 4.
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* MommyMobile: Alison actively tries to fit the stereotypical image of a middle-class suburban housewife, which includes driving her kids to extracurricular activities in an unassuming minivan. When Sarah first sees her, she's shocked to see a woman who looks identical to her as a soccer mom.
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* Season two contains an example which starts out as particularly disturbing and manages to get ''worse''. [[spoiler:A religious cult severely drugs Helena, who is shown to have the mentality of a child. Her eggs are extracted from her without her consent, and they evidently plan to artificially inseminate her, but she escapes before this can happen. The responsible parties proceed to cross the MoralEventHorizon further by threatening their own daughter, who is still a teenager, with being forced to carry Helena's child instead, a threat that is eventually carried out. It's revealed that the embryos were fertilized by the girl's father's sperm and he planned to force more women to be surrogates for his and Helena's children ''en masse'']].
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* TwinSwitch:
** Constantly. In the first season we get to see Sarah as Beth, Sarah as Katja, Alison as Sarah, Sarah as Alison, Helena as Sarah and Helena as Sarah as Beth.
** Over the course of season 2, we also see Sarah as Cosima, Sarah as Rachel[[note]] imitating her voice on the phone[[/note]] and Rachel [[spoiler: posing as Sarah to kidnap Kira from the hospital]].
** Hilariously invoked in the second season premiere when Sarah leaks Alison's location, and the make of Alison's van to Daniel. When Daniel captures Alison, he is forced to let her go when he realizes he has been had.
** The season 3 premiere gives us [[spoiler:Sarah as Rachel in person this time, and also Alison as Sarah once again]].
** Over the course of season 3, [[spoiler: we see Cosima as Alison, Helena as Alison, Rachel having Krystal kidnapped in her place so she could secretly escape Dyad]], and in a first for the Castor clones, [[spoiler: Mark as Rudy]].
** Season 4 has Helena as Alison, Sarah as Krystal, Sarah as Beth.
** Constantly. In the first season we get to see Sarah as Beth, Sarah as Katja, Alison as Sarah, Sarah as Alison, Helena as Sarah and Helena as Sarah as Beth.
** Over the course of season 2, we also see Sarah as Cosima, Sarah as Rachel[[note]] imitating her voice on the phone[[/note]] and Rachel [[spoiler: posing as Sarah to kidnap Kira from the hospital]].
** Hilariously invoked in the second season premiere when Sarah leaks Alison's location, and the make of Alison's van to Daniel. When Daniel captures Alison, he is forced to let her go when he realizes he has been had.
** The season 3 premiere gives us [[spoiler:Sarah as Rachel in person this time, and also Alison as Sarah once again]].
** Over the course of season 3, [[spoiler: we see Cosima as Alison, Helena as Alison, Rachel having Krystal kidnapped in her place so she could secretly escape Dyad]], and in a first for the Castor clones, [[spoiler: Mark as Rudy]].
** Season 4 has Helena as Alison, Sarah as Krystal, Sarah as Beth.
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* TwinSwitch:
** Constantly. InTwinSwitch: ''Constantly''. It's the first season we get to see inevitable result of multiple identical clones all fighting each other
** Sarah asBeth, Beth is the original, which resulted in the wild Helena-as-Sarah-as-Beth. Sarah as Katja, also imitates all the other clones, and gets Alison as Sarah, to be her for Kira, who actually sees right though it.
** Rachel does her own Sarahas Alison, Helena as impersonation in Season 2 [[spoiler:imitating her to kidnap Kira.]]
** Sarah has imitated every major clone ''except'' M.K.. Alison can do a pretty good Sara, and Helena asSarah Alison is a PaperThinDisguise, as Beth.
** Over the course of season 2, we also see Sarah as Cosima, Sarah as Rachel[[note]] imitating her voice on the phone[[/note]] and Rachel [[spoiler: posing as Sarah to kidnap Kira from the hospital]].
** Hilariously invokedeven in the second season premiere when Sarah leaks Alison's location, right clothes her accent is still there. Cosima is ''terrible'' at this, as she ''really'' [[BlindWithoutThem needs her glasses]] and the make of Alison's van to Daniel. When Daniel captures Alison, he is forced to let her go when he realizes he has been had.
bumble through the impersonation.
**The season 3 premiere gives us [[spoiler:Sarah Invoked in Season 3, as Rachel in person this time, and also Alison as Sarah once again]].
** Over the coursehas Krystal (still unaware of season 3, [[spoiler: we see Cosima as Alison, Helena as Alison, Rachel having Krystal Clone Club) kidnapped as a body double, placing Krystal in her place so she could secretly escape Dyad]], and in a first for an artificial coma as Rachel escapes to the Castor clones, [[spoiler: Mark as Rudy]].
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** Season4 has Helena 3 sees the only case of Castors switching, as Alison, Mark plays Rudy
** Due to the circumstances of Beth's death (suicides are under-reported to discourage copycats, and the body was initially identified as Sarah), Sarah and even Alison manage to ''accidentally'' imitate Beth to old contacts asKrystal, late as Season 4. This leads to an old contact of Beth's mistakes Alison for Beth, cluing the Clone Club onto [=BrightBorn=]. Cosima then goes undercover as a surrogate, while Krystal manages to simultaneously blunder her way in on a separate investigation and is mistaken for Sarah, resulting in her brief detainment.
** In Season 5, Sarah does Rachel to rescue Kira from school, resulting in her teacher asking the real Rachel if she'd lost Kira. Sarah flees the scene, accidentally leading Ferdinand to M.K. The result is an epic {{Oner}} in which Sarah and M.K. swap identities ''on screen'', resulting in the tragically brief [=MK=]-as-Sarah-as-Rachel.
** Our heroes pull this one last time in the series finale, this time combining it with TrojanPrisoner. Sarah plays Rachel one last time asBeth. a distraction. When the deception is uncovered, Coady doesn't even seem that surprised.
** Constantly. In
** Sarah as
** Rachel does her own Sarah
** Sarah has imitated every major clone ''except'' M.K.. Alison can do a pretty good Sara, and Helena as
** Over the course of season 2, we also see Sarah as Cosima, Sarah as Rachel[[note]] imitating her voice on the phone[[/note]] and Rachel [[spoiler: posing as Sarah to kidnap Kira from the hospital]].
** Hilariously invoked
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** Over the course
** Season
** Due to the circumstances of Beth's death (suicides are under-reported to discourage copycats, and the body was initially identified as Sarah), Sarah and even Alison manage to ''accidentally'' imitate Beth to old contacts as
** In Season 5, Sarah does Rachel to rescue Kira from school, resulting in her teacher asking the real Rachel if she'd lost Kira. Sarah flees the scene, accidentally leading Ferdinand to M.K. The result is an epic {{Oner}} in which Sarah and M.K. swap identities ''on screen'', resulting in the tragically brief [=MK=]-as-Sarah-as-Rachel.
** Our heroes pull this one last time in the series finale, this time combining it with TrojanPrisoner. Sarah plays Rachel one last time as
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Work page descriptions shouldnt have critical reception
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''Orphan Black'' was very successful during its run, amassing widespread acclaim from viewers and critics, a strong internet fandom dubbed [[FanCommunityNickname #CloneClub]], a Peabody Award, a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) for the episode "By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried", and an Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series for Maslany for her work in the fourth season. The Emmy was her second nomination (she had also received a nod for the third season), with both nominations following a complete lack of recognition for her during the first two seasons that [[AwardSnub led to widespread protest]].
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** Rachel's devastating situation in Season 3: [[spoiler:Suffering from brain damage and aphasia to the point of barely being able to form words, and being at the complete mercy of her former colleagues as she has become just one more lab rat to them has earned her sympathy from many fans.]]
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** Rachel's devastating situation in Season 3: [[spoiler:Suffering [[spoiler:suffering from brain damage and aphasia to the point of barely being able to form words, and being at the complete mercy of her former colleagues as she has become just one more lab rat to them has earned her sympathy from many fans.]]
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** Beth [[spoiler:was suspended from active duty because of a line-of-duty shooting of a civilian. This seemed to be subverted, as evidence suggested the shooting wasn't accidental. It turned out to be a double subversion, as a flashback episode in Season 4 finally confirmed it had been an accident the entire time]].
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** Beth [[spoiler:was suspended from active duty because of a line-of-duty shooting of a civilian. This seemed to be subverted, as evidence suggested mounted suggesting the shooting wasn't accidental.accidental after all as the victim had been working for the Proletheans. It turned out to be a double subversion, as a flashback episode in Season 4 finally confirmed it had been an accident the entire time]].
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''Orphan Black'' is a Canadian [[ScienceFiction science fiction]] {{thriller}} TV series created by screenwriter Graeme Manson and director John Fawcett, and Creator/TatianaMaslany. Distributed internationally by [[Creator/TheBBC BBC America]], and airing in Canada on Creator/SpaceChannel, the series premiered in March 2013 and ran for all five of its planned seasons through August 2017.
Sarah Manning (Maslany), a StreetSmart English orphan fostered in Canada, is heading home when she witnesses a woman throw herself in front of a train. Reeling as the woman looked exactly the same as her, Sarah takes advantage of the resulting panic and takes the woman's discarded handbag. Examining the purse's contents, Sarah identifies the woman as Beth Childs (also Maslany) and due to their eerie resemblance, decides to assume her identity in order to rob her home and clean out her huge savings account with her foster brother, Felix (Jordan Gavaris).
Sarah Manning (Maslany), a StreetSmart English orphan fostered in Canada, is heading home when she witnesses a woman throw herself in front of a train. Reeling as the woman looked exactly the same as her, Sarah takes advantage of the resulting panic and takes the woman's discarded handbag. Examining the purse's contents, Sarah identifies the woman as Beth Childs (also Maslany) and due to their eerie resemblance, decides to assume her identity in order to rob her home and clean out her huge savings account with her foster brother, Felix (Jordan Gavaris).
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''Orphan Black'' is a Canadian [[ScienceFiction science fiction]] {{thriller}} TV series created by screenwriter Graeme Manson and Manson, director John Fawcett, Fawcett and actress Creator/TatianaMaslany. Distributed internationally by [[Creator/TheBBC BBC America]], and airing in Canada on Creator/SpaceChannel, the series premiered in March 2013 and ran for all five of its planned seasons through August 2017.
Sarah Manning (Maslany), a StreetSmart English orphan fostered in Canada, is heading home when she witnesses a woman throw herself in front of a train. Reeling as the woman looked exactlythe same as like her, Sarah takes advantage of the resulting panic and takes the woman's discarded handbag. Examining the purse's contents, Sarah identifies the woman as Beth Childs (also Maslany) and due to their eerie resemblance, decides to assume her identity in order to rob her home and clean out her huge savings account with her foster brother, Felix (Jordan Gavaris).
Sarah Manning (Maslany), a StreetSmart English orphan fostered in Canada, is heading home when she witnesses a woman throw herself in front of a train. Reeling as the woman looked exactly
