The ability to replicate oneself. Sub-power of Replication. Not to be confused with Alternate-Self Creation.
Also Called[]
- Self-Cloning/Copying/Duplication/Multiplication
- Literal One-Man Army
Capabilities[]
The user can instantly and perfectly replicate themselves, often numerous times. These self-duplicates are sometimes created directly from the user, often by them splitting into multiple individual beings while also being able to recombine their clones at will. Most users have both of these abilities (if subconsciously), copying their clothes/equipment along with their body and every ability or other attribute the user has or wants their replicas to have. Usually, the original user will be able to maintain control over all copies.
Applications[]
Variations[]
- Assimilative Replication
- Astral Self-Replication
- Consumptive Cloning
- Demi-Cellular Division
- Kinetic Replication
- Regenerative Replication
- Resurrection Replication
- Shrinking Replication
- Teleportation Clones
Associations[]
- Alternate-Self Creation
- Multi-Shapeshifting
- Omnireplication
- Quantity Manipulation
- Replication
- Self-Fission
Limitations[]
- Pain or struggle to the user may cause the copies to become distressed as well.
- The reverse could also happen, with the copies' pain being transferred to the user.
- Replicates may develop individual thoughts and personalities that may go cross-purpose to the original.
- Replicates that exist for a long time and/or are away from their creator may be especially prone to this.
- Splitting replicates may proportionately split power, causing each individual to be weaker every time more replicates are made.
- There may be a limit to the number of replicates user can have at a time.
- User cannot replicate anything other than themselves though they can copy their clothes/equipment along with their body.
Known Users[]
See Also: Self-Duplication, Me's a Crowd.
Folklore/Mythology[]
- Sun Wukong (Journey to the West)
Anime/Manga/Manhwa
- Jeong Sangu (Auto Hunting With My Clones)
- Gremmy Thoumeaux (Bleach); via Mentifery
- All-Killing users (Chained Soldier)
- Mira Kamiunten
- Kuusetsu
- Himari Azuma
- Kurumi Tokisaki (Date A Live); via Temporal Duplication
- Saiki Kusuo (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.)
- Copipemon (Digimon Universe: App Monsters)
- Beerus (Dragon Ball series)
- Goku Black (Dragon Ball series)
- Majin Buu (Dragon Ball series)
- Users of the Multiform Technique (Dragon Ball series)
- Cell
- Piccolo
- Tien Shinhan
- Briar (Fairy Tail); via Replication Magic
- Jin Mori (God of High School)
- Shinobi/Ninjas (Naruto); via cloning jutsu
- Boruto Uzumaki
- Gaara; Psammokinetic Cloning
- Hashirama Senju; Xylokinetic Cloning
- Itachi Uchiha; Exploding Clones
- Kakasi Hatake; Electrokinetic Cloning & Hydrokinetic Cloning
- Madara Uchiha; Xylokinetic Cloning
- Naruto Uzumaki
- Zabauza Momochi; Hydrokinetic Cloning
- Han Sooyoung (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint)
- Nico Robin (One Piece); via the Hana Hana no Mi
- Raizo (One Piece)
- Ramia (Ramia-Yana: Hero and Demon Lord Chronicles)
- Kyouka Eden (Scarlet Nexus)
- Land (Frieren: Beyond Journey's End)
- Meliodas (The Seven Deadly Sins); via Lostvayne
- Fuwa (Star Twinkle Pretty Cure); via hiccuping
- Users of Body Double (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken)
- Charys
- Ifrit
- Rimuru Tempest
- Souei
- Kuriboh (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
- Jeong Sangwoo (Auto Hunting With My Clones)
Cartoons/Comics[]
- Mo and Sam (50/50 Heroes)
- Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb); with Copy and Paste-Inator
- Rogu (American Dad); if eats candies
- Gwen Tennyson (Ben 10)
- Ekoplektoids (Ben 10)
- Slapback
- Nosedeenians (Ben 10)
- Sonorosians (Ben 10)
- Echo Echo
- Ultimate Echo Echo; Comics' continuity.
- Splixsons (Ben 10)
- Duplication Users (Danny Phantom)
- Vlad Plasmius
- Carggites (DC Comics)
- Luronu Durgo/Triplicate Girl/Duo Damsel
- Multiplex (DC Comics)
- Kid Amazo (DC Comics)
- Lobo (DC Comics);via Regenerative Replication
- Riot (DC Comics)
- Star Conqueror species (DC Comics)
- White Rabbit (DC Comics)
- Joseph Meach/Composite Superman (DC Comics)
- Starbreaker (DC Comics)
- Billy Numerous (DC Comics/Teen Titans)
- Lucifer (Hazbin Hotel)
- Dupli-Kate (Invincible)
- James Madrox/Multiple Man (Marvel Comics)
- Janus (Marvel Comics)
- Shang-Chi (Marvel Comics)
- |Vermin (Marvel Comics)
- Owen Reece/Molecule Man (Marvel Comics); via alternate versions
- Multi Man (The Impossibles)
- Genie (Disney's Aladdin)
- Jafar (Disney's Aladdin)
- Duplication Users (Danny Phantom)
- Danny Fenton/Phantom
- Vlad Masters/Plasmius
- Kwan; briefly
- Billy Joe Cobra (Dude, That's My Ghost)
- Dupli-Kate (Image Comics/Invincible)
- Multi-Paul (Image Comics/Invincible)
- Extroyer (Max Steel); via Scorpion Mode
- Margo Kess (Marvel Comics/Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)
- Marinette Dupain-Cheng (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir); as Multimouse
- Chloé Bourgeois/Penalteam (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir)
- Akumas (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir); when not purified
- Discord (My Little Pony Series)
- Starlight Glimmer (My Little Pony Series)
- Enid (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes)
- Hekapoo (Star vs. the Forces of Evil)
- Raphael (Rise of the TMNT)
- Johnny Marrow/Replay (Static Shock)
- Vertigo (Winx Club); via Illusion Manipulation
- Guardians (W.I.T.C.H); via Astral Drops
- Yin (Yin Yang Yo!)
- Yang (Yin Yang Yo!)
- Everywhere Man (The Batman)
- Sun Wukong (Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny)
- Cassidy Tailor/Flash Cut (Sleepless Domain)
- Copy Girl (Reboot)
- Wego Twins (Kim Possible)
- Jenny McCambridge (Top Ten)
- Elemental Master of Figment (“Ninjago: Dragons Rising”)
Movies[]
- Jack-Jack Parr (The Incredibles)
- Penny Lent (Sky High)
- Agent Smith (The Matrix)
- Rev-9 (Terminator: Dark Fate)
Live Television[]
- Julian Dumont (Heroes)
- Eli (Heroes)
- M.F. Harris (Heroes Reborn)
- Elizabeth "Z" Delgado (Power Rangers S.P.D.)
- Adam Baker (Splitting Adam)
- Gabriel (Supernatural)
- Replicators (Stargate)
- Wolvermean (Power Rangers Ninja Super Steel)
Video Games[]
- Meta Grandmas (Cookie Clicker)
- Marina Arusu (Date A Live: Ars Install)
- Cater Diamond (Disney: Twisted-Wonderland); via Split Card
- Bloody Mary (Fables: The Wolf Among Us)
- Andira (Granblue Fantasy)
- Yae Sakura (Honkai Impact 3rd)
- Jizo Mitama (Honkai Impact 3rd)
- Paper Mario (Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam)
- Copy Cat (Poptropica)
- Toyo Momochi (Taimanin)
- Flandre Scarlet (Touhou Project)
- Sekibanki (Touhou Project); head only
- Yuuka Kazami (Touhou Project)
- Dr. Kevin Clamely/The Patriarch (Killing Floor Series)
- Dr. Hans Volter (Killing Floor 2)
- Mephiles the Dark (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Wind Dinosaurs/Small Theropods (Dinosaur King)
- Monica Rappaccini (Marvel's Avengers)
- Chili Bean (Plants vs. Zombies); via Plant Food
- Potato Mine (Plants vs. Zombies); via Plant Food
- Muelsyse (Arknights)
- Player (Madness: Project Nexus); as Creber
Web Animation[]
- Blake Belladonna (RWBY)
- Sun Wukong (RWBY)
- The Letter X (Alphabet Lore) via the Asterisk (*) Gemstone
- Wilder (Spirits Excel!)
Web Original[]
- Slender Man (Creepypasta)
- SCP-008 - Zombie Plague (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-157 - Mimetic Predator (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-173 - The Sculpture (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-217 - The Clockwork Virus (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-457 - Burning Man (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-682 - Hard-To-Destroy Reptile (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-682-J - THE BESTEST LIZERD EVER! (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-871 - The Self-Replacing Cake (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-1887 - Quantum Mechanic (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-2624 - Laika's Sweetheart Space-Beacon (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-2875 - The Town That Got Fucked By Bears (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-2946 - Overly Large E. Coli (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-3456 - The Orcadian Horsemen (SCP Foundation)
- Dr. Jack Bright (SCP Foundation); via SCP-963-2
Known Objects[]
- Fractal Engine (Cookie Clicker)
- Hana Hana no Mi (One Piece)
- Origin Bomb (Marvel Comics)
- Quantex (The Batman)
- Tanning Bed (Splitting Adam)
- World Devastators (Star Wars Legends)
- Duplicatus Plantus (Pair of Kings)
- Copy and Paste-Inator (Phineas and Ferb)
- Cloning machines (Various media)
- Astral Drops (W.I.T.C.H)
- Yellow Stone (Kid cosmic)
Gallery[]
Slender Man (Creepypasta) can create countless copies of himself throughout existence thanks to his quantum and metaphysical nature.
SCP-173 - The Sculpture (SCP Foundation) can replicate itself thanks to its strange substance, a mixture of feces and blood, each copy gradually increasing in number and can create hundreds of thousands of copies if given enough time.
If it splits itself in half, SCP-682 - Hard To Destroy Reptile (SCP Foundation) becomes two separate entities and becomes fully sentient.
Splixsons (Ben 10)
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Gremmy Thoumeaux (Bleach) with The Visionary he can replicate himself to increase his imagination powers.
Sonorosians (Ben 10)
Gwen Tennyson (Ben 10)
Celestalsapians (Ben 10: Alien Force)
Ekoplektoids (Ben 10)
Nosedeenians (Ben 10)
Like Vlad and Dark Danny, Danny Fenton/Phantom (Danny Phantom) can duplicate his form into 4 duplicates that share all of his powers and characteristics.
Unlike Danny, Vlad Masters/Plasmius (Danny Phantom) mastered this power before Danny and can create four duplicates while being invisible to over a hundred of clones of himself that have all of his powers and characteristics.
Kurumi (Date A Live) can create temporal clones of herself.
Billy Numerous (DC Comics/Teen Titans)
Luornu Durgo/Triplicate Girl (DC Comic)
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Joseph Meach/Composite Superman (DC Comics) possesses Triplicate Girl's replication.
Abo and Cado (Dragon Ball series) can create clones of themselves.
Beerus (Dragon Ball) creates twelve duplicates of himself to attack Goku.
Chapuchai (Dragon Ball series) creates clones of himself as his fighting style.
Goku Black (Dragon Ball Super) replicates himself.
Janemba (Dragon Ball series) makes replications of himself.
Majin Buu (Dragon Ball series) is able to duplicate himself.
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Piccolo (Dragon Ball series) can create replications of himself for training and fighting.
Dulpi-Kate (Invincible)
Multi Man (The Impossibles)
Jack-Jack (The Incredibles)
Paper Mario (Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam) can create multiple copies of himself with the Copy Block.
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Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) makes clone of himself in his Jinchūriki Form Version 2.
Enid (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes) can create immobile clones of herself that turn to wood once touched.
Shou (Pretty Rhythm) can create replicas of himself using Infinite Hug
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With her Avatar skill, Han Sooyoung (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint) can create and remotely control clone-like avatars of herself.
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Blake Belladonna (RWBY) typically uses this ability for distraction.
Sun Wukong's (RWBY) Semblance, Via Sun, allows him to create clones of himself for aid in combat.
Penny (Sky High)
Hekapoo (Star vs. the Forces of Evil)
Body Double (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken) is an ability that allows the user to make multiple copies of themselves.
Using the Copy and Paste inator Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb) can make copies of himself to do all of his waiting in lines for him.
Dupli-Kate (Image Comics)
Johnny Morrow/Replay (Static Shock)
Copipemon (Digimon Universe: App Monsters)
Copy Girl (Reboot)
Composed of a solid exoskeleton surrounded by a "skin" of mimetic polyalloy, the R-9 (Terminator: Dark Fate) is able to split apart into two fully autonomous Terminator units.
Mephiles the Dark (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Carnotaurus/Ace (Dinosaur King)
Lucifer (Hazbin Hotel)
Chloé Bourgeois/Penalty (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir)
Wego Twins (Kim Possible)
Raven (Tekken)
Margo Kess (Marvel Comics/Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)
Wolvermean (Power Rangers Ninja Super Steel) has many ninja abilities he can use in battle including substitution and cloning techniques to create solid doppelgangers to assist him in battle against multiple opponents.
Jamie (Black Sands Entertainment) Earth Summon Clay Clone
Adam Baker (Splitting Adam) found a tanning bed that was actually a clone machine and created 5 clones of himself.
King Lion (Versus)
As Creber, the Player (Madness: Project Nexus) can create clones of him up to 4 using Replication Support Gas (RSG) inside his body to help him fight enemies.
Muelsyse (Arknights) can create Flowing Shape clones of herself.
Flandre Scarlet (Touhou Project) using Taboo "Four of a Kind".
Videos[]
SCP-157 - Mimetic Predator (SCP Orientation)-2
SCP-682 Indestructible Creature (SCP Animated)
SCP-682 - Ways SCP Foundation Tried to Kill Hard To Destroy Reptile-2
Termination Attempts SCP-682 (SCP Animation)-2