Misaka 10032: Misaka cannot comprehend your actions...if the right materials and drugs are available, Misaka can be automatically created with the push of a button...an artificial body...an artificial mind...each unit is 180,000 yen, with as many as 9,968 left in storage. Yet, for something like that...
Touma: That doesn't matter. That your body's artificial...that your mind's artificial...that you can be made with the push of a button...small things like that aren't even interesting. There's only one you in this world, and I'm here to help you. So don't go dying by yourself.
Touma: That doesn't matter. That your body's artificial...that your mind's artificial...that you can be made with the push of a button...small things like that aren't even interesting. There's only one you in this world, and I'm here to help you. So don't go dying by yourself.
Fate: An artificial life form that isn't a familiar or a human... Is that something like me?
Lindy: No, it's not! Fate just had a slightly different way of being born. You are a human who was properly granted life into this world.
Lindy: No, it's not! Fate just had a slightly different way of being born. You are a human who was properly granted life into this world.
"No matter how you were born, the Vivio that's there crying isn't a fake or something that was merely created. She's the spoiled girl who cries all the time and can't even get up on her own when she trips. The girl who hates her green peppers, the girl who pats me on the head when I'm lonely. My beloved Vivio."
— Nanoha, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
Mooney: Last week, four of our experiments—
Laura: Four people.
Mooney: I'm sorry?
Laura: Your experiments are people.
Mooney: I wouldn't call them that.
Laura: Start calling them that if you want my help.
Laura: Four people.
Mooney: I'm sorry?
Laura: Your experiments are people.
Mooney: I wouldn't call them that.
Laura: Start calling them that if you want my help.
— All-New Wolverine #2
"I'm not X-23. I'm not your experiment. I'm not your *** property! You are the last person who will ever think they can own me. No one owns me! I'm not a thing! I'm Laura Kinney. I'm the daughter of Sarah! I'm the daughter of Logan! I'M WOLVERINE!"
— Laura Kinney, All-New Wolverine #18
I'm a broken thing they made out of Peter Parker. And that's what we have in common— Men of science, who don't give a damn about anything but themselves, messed with the natural order of all things... And that's why we have a Hulk and you and me and Captain America and mutants and pretty much every other problem we have today. I wasn't ready to talk about this because it's hard to say out loud. It's hard to admit that I'm— I'm not a real person. I don't have a mother or father. I'm not Peter Parker. I'm... this thing. It's hard to— to process myself let alone get you to. I have years of Peter Parker's childhood memories rolling around in my head... And time has gone by, and those memories have faded, and my feelings about my connection to him have faded and—- And I've become this other thing. I'm not Peter Parker. I'm not Peter Parker. I'm not even a boy. I'm Jessica Drew.
— Spider-Woman, Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 2 #25
Maxima: Why are you suddenly defending the clone?
Supergirl: Stop calling him that. He has a name.
Maxima: Ah, yes. "Kon"— Or should I say "Abomination". Isn't that what your people called clones?[...]
Superboy: It's true, Kara. You have called me that.
Supergirl: "That was... before. I know you better now. Kon has a new meaning for me.
Supergirl: Stop calling him that. He has a name.
Maxima: Ah, yes. "Kon"— Or should I say "Abomination". Isn't that what your people called clones?[...]
Superboy: It's true, Kara. You have called me that.
Supergirl: "That was... before. I know you better now. Kon has a new meaning for me.
— Crucible
Thunderstrike: Let us see if thou canst handle Mjolnir II!
Maestro: (catches it) Looks like I can. Which is odd, since I'm not the worthy kind. The power of the Iso-Sphere or...? (tears Mjolnir II apart) Ah! It's a fake hammer. Which would make you a fake Thor.
Thunderstrike: I... am a clone of that great hero - tis true. But thou dost not need to say it like that.
Maestro: (catches it) Looks like I can. Which is odd, since I'm not the worthy kind. The power of the Iso-Sphere or...? (tears Mjolnir II apart) Ah! It's a fake hammer. Which would make you a fake Thor.
Thunderstrike: I... am a clone of that great hero - tis true. But thou dost not need to say it like that.
"Rei, you being a clone is like... the third weirdest thing at NERV, at best. And you know we love you. You're still our Rei."
— Asuka, Advice and Trust
Jango: He was a copy of me?
Ben: They were not copies! Every one of them, Jango Fett, every single fucking one of them was his own man, his own person. They had your genetics and your training and that was it. The rest of them, every bit of it they were allowed to keep, that was their own.
— The Desert Storm series
Film — Animation
"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."
— Mewtwo, Pokémon: The First Movie
Film — Live-Action
"You're the only you who ever was."
— Claire Dearing (to Maisie Lockwood), Jurassic World Dominion
Live-Action TV
Killing your own clone is still murder.
— Odo, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "A Man Alone"
"The whole epic rampage of revenge? Isabel Lovelace wouldn't do that. The terrible wretch that you people made Isabel Lovelace into? Oh, she'd do that. But I'm not going to be that person anymore. I'm going to be Isabel Lovelace, again. Even if I never have been before."
— Lovelace, Wolf 359
Roxas: This could have been the other way around. But it really has to be you.
Sora: Huh?
Roxas: There are so many hearts connected to yours. You're me, so you can feel what I felt.
Sora: No. Roxas, you're you. We're not the same. That's what I wanted to tell you. That you deserve, just as much as I do, to be your own person.
Sora: Huh?
Roxas: There are so many hearts connected to yours. You're me, so you can feel what I felt.
Sora: No. Roxas, you're you. We're not the same. That's what I wanted to tell you. That you deserve, just as much as I do, to be your own person.
"Listen, Rizer! Don't let his words rattle you. You know who you are. And how you live your life dictates who you are. You're not a fake if you risk your life fighting for your ideals. You are a true hero. You are Contra."
— Mystery G, Neo Contra
And lo, Fate's origin story is revealed. And, upon learning that the girl in their midst is no natural child born of woman, but a creation of science; unnatural and unholy... the rest of the cast is primarily concerned with this NOT being a good way to tell her, and how badly she's been hurt. Because in this franchise, all sentients are people, dammit, and deserving of respect.
Ellen: Really. The spontaneous creation of a female clone with all your memories. That was simple.
Elliot: "She's family. Help her." Not that complicated.
Elliot: "She's family. Help her." Not that complicated.
TT: You don't just make a clone of yourself to live in a dead end existence where it has no chance to thrive as an individual or surpass its limitations.
TT: That'd be sick.
TT: That'd be sick.
CT-5555 "Fives": Where is the "honor" in marching blindly to our deaths!?
CT-7567 "Rex": It is not our call. We are part of something larger. We are not independent of one another.
Fives: I'm sorry. I cannot just follow orders when I know they're wrong. Especially when lives are at stake!
Rex: You will if you support the system that we fight for.
Fives: I do support it! I do! But I am not just another number! None of us are!
CT-7567 "Rex": It is not our call. We are part of something larger. We are not independent of one another.
Fives: I'm sorry. I cannot just follow orders when I know they're wrong. Especially when lives are at stake!
Rex: You will if you support the system that we fight for.
Fives: I do support it! I do! But I am not just another number! None of us are!
"I am not your 'brother'. You made me in your image, but I am more than that. I gave myself a name! I made a life of my own! I made... a friend. I am Hordak, and I defy your will!"
— Hordak, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
David Xanatos: Well, I should have known that no copy could live up to the original.
Goliath: That copy was a living being.
Goliath: That copy was a living being.
