Twin Maker

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• Fate Testarossa of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha was developed as a Replacement Goldfish after the original's death. It didn't go exactly as planned, and her creator wasn't thrilled.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion:
  • Ayanami Rei actually appears as three different clones over the course of the show. This isn't known until The Reveal.
  • Furthermore, a Freeze-Frame Bonus reveals that the missing lower half of Lilith was actually used to create Unit-01◊.

• Invincible (2003):
  • Self-enforced with Robot. He is actually a deformed human living in a fluid tank, who's secretly been collecting genetic material in order to clone himself. The final product is a normal, healthy teenage boy with the exact same memories and mind as the original—and he immediately goes through with what he'd planned to do in this situation, killing the original.
  • The Mauler Twins, the supervillains Robot recruited to make his clone, are a clone and original team who designed the mind-copying process specifically to make it impossible to tell which one is the clone. Apparently one iteration of the pair was able to figure out which one was which, leading the original to lord it over his clone until the clone poisoned him.
• Superman:
  • In The Boy of Steel vs. the Thing of Steel, Professor Dalton's Duplicator Ray, is capable to create copies of anything, but they are imperfect, defective duplicates as Bizarro.
  • In Computo the Conqueror, Brainiac 5 uses Professor Dalton's Duplicator Ray to create an imperfect duplicate of the titular villain.
• In Transmetropolitan, the telefactor speed-grows a clone of the subject and forms a telepathic link between them so the clone acts as a Remote Body while in use. Spider uses it to covertly meet with the President's wife on the other side of the country without the Secret Service noticing him leaving the City.

• A Different Outcome: Jayfeather raises the possibility that Cinderheart is a genetically identical duplicate of Cinderpelt that sprang into existence right before the former's birth to facilitate the latter's reincarnation.

• In Canadian animator John Weldon's terrifying short To Be, a scientist is demonstrating his new "Murdering Twinmaker"-style teleporter. The heroine claims that the machine is immoral, and to assure her that there's no need to worry, he agrees to delay the "murdering" part of the machine by a few minutes. The original and the clone come out and meet each other, they play a game of chess, and then each fights tooth and nail to push the other into the machine. She just grabs one of them and helps the other scientist push him in as he kicks and screams and begs for his life. They end up shutting him in with his arm slammed in the door and nuking him, causing his arm to visibly disintegrate. Then it gets quiet. The surviving scientist realizes the immorality of such a device and walks away, but the heroine feels guilty and decides that she has to atone for what she did, and enters the machine.

• In Æon Flux, everyone who has ever lived in the past 400 years is a clone of a small pocket of humans left after a worldwide plague. Only a select few Ancient Keepers are permitted to know this.
• Live Forever As You Are Now with Alan Resnick: Alan's plan for eternal life revolves around creating computerized clones of himself and other people, attempting to make them as similar as possible to the original person, so when that person dies the clone can take over. It... doesn't really work out.
• In The Prestige, a machine is invented that creates a duplicate of whatever's put inside it, and it's unclear whether it teleports the original away or it creates the copy some distance away. It's revealed that a magician uses the machine as part of his Transported Man illusion, each time drowning whichever one remains in place. (The first time he uses the machine, the Angier who stays in place shoots the one who appears at a distance, meaning the "original" is dead either way.)

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• In some of Greg Egan's stories, characters deal with things by imagining a line of continuity from the death of the first copy to the creation of the second, despite the lack of causal connection; this shows up in Permutation City and in Schild's Ladder, and possibly elsewhere.
  "I'm embodied, not deranged! If a copy of my mind experiences a few minutes' consciousness, then is lost, that's not the death of anyone. It's just amnesia."
  • In Permutation City, after launching Elysium, the Paul left behind on Earth kills himself, apparently having only ever cared about his Elysian copy. Meanwhile, Peer is happy to sign up to become two people, seeing it as a new way of breaking away from the "quintessentially human" experience.
  • In the short story "The Extra", the protagonist inadvertently condemns himself by transferring what he thinks are the key portions of his brain to a younger cloned body, not realizing that his consciousness will continue in the old body as well as in the clone.
• Sean Williams has written several novels (including The Resurrected Man and the aptly-titled Twinmaker) and short stories that explore the use and abuse of so-called "d-mat booths" that work by breaking the person who steps into them down into little bits of data called a "pattern" and then using the pattern to create an exact copy of the person in another location. Everything about the person is the same, down to their thoughts, feelings, and memories, so that those who come out of the booth believe themselves to be the same person who stepped in it, effectively making it a form of teleportation. The Resurrected Man is the origin of the phrase "Murdering Twinmaker", which in the novel is both a nickname for the teleporter and the nickname for a serial killer who uses the data in the sending teleporter to create his own copies, which he murders for pleasure.

Examples by title:

• The Anomaly deals with the personal and social repercussions after a civilian aircraft is somehow duplicated after a storm, with the two copies landing within months of each other. The mechanism for the duplication is unknown (although it's speculated to be a test by whoever is simulating their reality), but ultimately, the US government decides that the duplicates are legally distinct individuals, but both with the same rights to family and property they had before the incident.
• This is combined with Mental Space Travel in Competitors, where a travel agency promises anyone who signs a contract several years of adventure in space. They explain that the person's body will be duplicated on a distant Space Station, at which point the double can start flying and working, experiencing all the wonders of space adventure, while the original on Earth can track the double's progress through a browser-based online game. Of course, everyone thinks it's all crap. They pass through the door, and nothing happens. Their doubles' reaction is of the "Holy shit, it's all true!" variety. The people at the agency don't understand how it works, as the device is provided by their alien benefactors. According to the claim, after 3 years, the double's consciousness is merged with the original's, allowing the original to experience 3 years' worth of extraordinary memories. Then again, life is cheap out there, so not many actually survive so long.
• Cyteen explores the difficulties of using cloning to make an exact duplicate. In order to produce a clone genius on par with the original, the scientists raising the clone have to duplicate the original's upbringing as closely as possible.
• In The End of Eternity, the eponymous organization considers replicators as undesirable as nuclear wars — because there can be no satisfactory solution to the problems caused by this trope.
• The Goblin Reservation has Peter Maxwell, who was abducted to a mysterious crystal planet and finds, upon his return, that "he" is a duplicate brought to the planet while the original died a week after returning from the original journey in a suspicious accident.
• In Illium, "faxing", a means of teleportation utilized by old-style humans, works on the principle of disintegrating the original and recreating them from a pattern scan at their destination. This is how the Firmary can bring back Daeman even after he has been eaten by a genetically engineered Allosaurus. It basically just recreates him using the scan taken from the last time he used a fax node. There is a hint in the fact that his memories do not include the events leading up to his being eaten, because that was after he was faxed.
• The title character of Joshua, Son of None by Nancy Freedman is a clone of John F. Kennedy whose upbringing and experiences are "managed" by his creators. The plan starts to go off the rails when he discovers this.
• This turns out to be the case in Knights of the Forty Islands, in which children are abducted by a strange man with a camera, who takes their picture, after which they end up on an island chain somewhere. The protagonist meets a girl he knows, who claims to have been on the island for months, except he had seen her mere days before. They realize they're copies, so no one actually misses them or tries to find them. One guy's original is likely dead, as he claims to have been taken while falling out of a window.
• Kraken has a nasty subplot based on this idea, about an Urban Fantasy magician who develops a teleportation spell consciously inspired by Star Trek transporters. He doesn't realise that the method actually kills the original and creates an unaware, perfect copy until the vengeful spirits of his dead former versions start haunting him. The hero finally deliberately submits to this as a Heroic Sacrifice, as it's the only fast enough way to get him where he needs to be to save the world.
• Averted in Line of Delirium, in which the aTan machine re-creates people after their deaths by replicating their bodies from the previous molecular scan and downloading the stored memories into the new brains. Originally, it is claimed by the aTan Corporation that each re-created person is indeed new, although they are considered to be the heir to the dead person's life. However, it is revealed later that re-creating the same person twice only results in one having a consciousness, while the other is a mindless zombie, only able to passively answer questions and perform routine tasks. This is due to something the aTan people call the "x-factor" that is present in humans and several other races. When a person dies and his or her body is re-created by aTan, this "x-factor" locates the new body and inhabits it, giving this new body the same consciousness as the dead person. For some reason, the aTan Corporation decides to keep this a secret from the general public, only informing the Church of the One Will of their findings. Needless to say, the Patriarch immediately gives full blessing to aTan. After all, it's not every day that someone proves the existence of the soul.
• Maps in a Mirror: In "Fat Farm", people believe that they're signing up for a miraculous procedure that restores them to perfect health and youth. What really happens is that they're cloned, their memories are implanted into the clone body, and the clone leaves believing they're the original while the original is put into a forced labor camp.
• In MARZENA, Digital Clone = Bremen Mind Merging Chip + Brain Osmosis Infusion on a Blank G-Net AI.
• In The Night's Dawn Trilogy, the cabal that secretly controls Earth ensure their immortality by creating young clones when they get too old, downloading their memories (editing out anything bad) then destroying the clone. However, the protagonists have already discovered that the human soul survives after death, so rather than ceasing to exist those souls would become trapped in an Afterlife Antechamber.
• In Brian Evenson's short story "No Matter Which Way We Turned" aliens do this to a little girl, albeit in a surreal way: they abduct the front half of her body, leaving behind a twin made of two copies of her back half.
• This how the Auds from Phaeton have survived for so long, and why they look like kids. Of course, it didn't go too well for one of them.
• In the novel The Prestige that was adapted into the film mentioned above, this is mostly averted. The machine creates a duplicate in the new location, leaving an inert but perfect copy behind.
• In The Punch Escrow, this is part of the secret of how the teleportation technology works, although the eponymous "Punch Escrow" is how the company who runs it claims they avoid it. When protagonist Joel is seemingly destroyed at his destination due to a terrorist bombing, he initially thinks that the teleportation process failed, but in actuality, there are now two of them, and the company is willing to kill to make sure that no one realizes the truth, not only that teleportation involves killing the person at the origin point, but that the company is also engaging in editing the pattern to ensure that who arrives at the destination is not the same as the original.
• Star Trek:
  • In Star Trek: Federation, when Zefram Cochrane is first transported aboard the Enterprise, he immediately thinks he is a duplicate of the original, assuming transporters to work like replicators. Instead, a crew member calms him down, explaining that the process works on the quantum level, meaning he is still the original Cochrane.
  • In the Star Trek: Titan novel Fallen Gods, transporters are redesigned by the novel's antagonist (a commander of Andorian Intelligence working with traditional enemy the Tholians) in order to create duplicates of a transport subject. Assigned to repatriate officers of the starship Titan to their homeworld to aid in a reproductive/population crisis, he secretly duplicates the reluctant officers and makes off with perfect copies, leaving the originals unaware.
• In James Patrick Kelly's novelette "Think Like a Dinosaur", reptilian aliens give us teleportation, but insist on "balancing the equation" (destroying the original afterward) or they'll cut us off from the network. Normally the original is unconscious, but one is revived after the teleport is mistakenly believed to have failed, invoking this trope in full.
• Thud!: Sam Vimes objects to using magic anyway, but even when he gives in and goes to the wizards for help, he absolutely refuses to use teleportation because he's paranoid about the idea that the person at the other end isn't the same person as the one who was teleported. Considering Rincewind once got badly battered by oncoming debris mid-transit during a teleport, Vimes's fear probably wasn't justified, but the Wizzard wasn't on hand to point this out.
• An interesting variant occurs in Worm with Oni Lee. Whenever Lee teleports, his new body is formed at the target destination and his old body continues on for several seconds before dissolving into carbon ash. But those seconds can be a long time in combat...

• Black Mirror: In "Be Right Back", Martha becomes attached to a program that replicates her late lover Ash's personality and eventually loads this bot into an Artificial Human that is nearly identical to him.
• Dark Matter (2015): Transfer Transit puts you in stasis, scans you and transmits your data to another planet to construct a clone with a lifespan of three days. At the end of that lifespan, the clone ideally returns to the facility, and their memories are transmitted back to the original you. However, as Six discovered, if the clone dies before returning, their memories are lost.
• In an episode of Earth: Final Conflict, Liam is implanted with a tracking device by Sandoval at Zo'or's request, as they have grown suspicious of him. In order to allow them to continue their investigation and keep Sandoval and Zo'or in the dark, Street puts Liam into a mini-coma and uses a modified ID portal to create a quantum duplicate of him without the tracking device, although she claims that the universe will eventually erase him out of existence. The duplicate Liam is identical to the original in every way and doesn't seem to mind being the copy. At the end of the episode, he makes a Heroic Sacrifice to save Renee. Just before the Earth-Shattering Kaboom, he sends a message to Sandoval, which confuses the latter to no end, as he knows thanks to the tracking chip that Liam is nowhere near that location. He later questions the real Liam, who has no memories of these events, before dismissing the matter. Like many devices introduced in the series, this is never mentioned again, even though it would have been very helpful in many other circumstances.
• Farscape has a subplot about Crichton being twinned, although in this case, neither one is a copy or original exactly. Crichton is really just duplicated/"twinned" into two identical Crichtons (they play rock-paper-scissors and draw some 100+ in a row). The episode where this occurs explores the trauma involved in the concept in some depth; being twinned just once is shown as quite traumatizing, and most of the people encountered in this episode are hopelessly insane after having lived through being twinned and having their twins killed multiple times. In the next episode, this is even used to have one twin impersonate the other to "prove" that Crichton was never at the scene of an explosion (since he is of course, completely unhurt). The rock-paper-scissors thing is referenced later to show how they have diverged from each other, one (having died) sends the other a holographic recording which he closes by offering to play again, throwing rock as the other Crichton throws paper.
• Legends of Tomorrow: Season 6's Big Bad Bishop does this regularly, making a new clone of himself whenever he dies, and thinks nothing of killing himself whenever he sustains even a minor injury. Then it turns out he also made a half-alien clone of Sara after she died. The clone Sara quickly decides to make another, fully human clone to replace herself with. When that didn't work, the clone Sara went back to the Legends and just took over the deceased original Sara's place.
• The Outer Limits (1995) made "Think Like a Dinosaur" (see Literature section) into an episode.
• Star Trek:
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation: Thomas Riker from "Second Chances" is William T. Riker's transporter duplicate, created during a pre-show mission when someone tried doubling up the transporter-lock to get a better chance of beaming him off a planet with tons of interference during an emergency. One transport-beam made it to the ship, the other got bounced back to the surface. Nobody realized at the time that they had created two Rikers, one of which was marooned for years as the other advanced his career and went on living his life. Interestingly, Thomas claimed that he would never leave Deanna, as Will has done, even though up until the split they were the same person. This was probably Thomas trying to distance himself from Will, hating that he chose to advance his career instead of maintaining his relationship with Deanna. Also interesting in that technically both Rikers are copies of the original who first went through the transporter due to the way the transporter works, so neither is technically any less real than the other.
    • Adding to this, behind the scenes there was serious consideration given to sending William Riker away to captain his own ship and inserting Thomas Riker as a lower-ranking crewmember on the Enterprise to maintain the actor on the show.
  • In the Star Trek universe, the transporter only becomes a Twin Maker as a result of freak accidents. Replicators are an offshoot of transporter technology, but the technical manual says that replicators cannot be used to duplicate living organisms because they don't scan objects at the "quantum resolution" necessary to keep the duplicates alive.
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Weyoun has died and been replaced with a clone several times over the course of the series. One episode deals with two Weyoun clones existing at the same time (one has gone AWOL, so his next clone is activated early). Near the end of the series, he's deeply frightened when the Dominion's cloning facility is destroyed, allowing him to be Killed Off for Real.

• In Dungeons & Dragons, the Clone spell could be used to create copies of a creature, normally as a form of resurrection when the original is lost completely. Only One Me Allowed Right Now effects imply that it's more than just an identical body, though. Stasis Clone (a unique spell from Forgotten Realms) makes the revival of one stored copy upon death automatic and allows the caster to "update" inactive clones. As of 3E the Clone spell simply creates an inert duplicate that the original's soul transfers to at death.
• Eclipse Phase uses Brain Uploading for both pseudo-immortality and most interplanetary "travel". Unless they're really rich, someone rarely gets downloaded into a clone. Rather, they are downloaded to a "used morph" that happened to be lying around at the body bank. Making more than one active copy of a person is fairly easy and highly illegal, but slightly edited copies are sometimes used for a form of real-time interplanetary communication.
• In Hc Svnt Dracones, "Digitrans" transmits a copy of your character's genome and brain scan to another planet for growing a clone, then euthanizes the original. You can make arrangements to sell your organs to recoup some of the cost.
• Paranoia: Every player character has six identical clones, and when one dies, the next one is sent in to replace it.

• The Fast Travel stations in Borderlands 2 may work like this. One of the callouts from the New-U station mentions that your new body is just a reconstruction of your original body that died the first time you respawned. And since fast travel stations also incorporate this tech, it's likely they work on the same principle.
• Destroy All Humans!: The "Immortality Through Cloning" version is used as a plot point and gameplay mechanic. The reason the Furons are harvesting human brains is because it contains a strain of DNA vital to their cloning process, and every time you die in-game, your name increases by one digit. There's even a level about recovering your own remains.
• Don't Starve: While it's not touched upon by the game itself, Wendy mentions this whenever she teleports. Surprisingly, she doesn't do so in any dialogue involving revival altars or meat effigies, which are much more in line with this trope.
• The Horatio faction in Endless Space. Horatio the First, an androgynous, beauty-obsessed narcissist, left society to set up shop on a planet by himself, where he found Imported Alien Phlebotinum. He then proceeded to clone an entire society of himself and then decided that the rest of the universe could only be improved by the presence of more of his beauty. Their "hat" is high population growth and density.
• The death mechanics of the EVE Online player characters are based around this: Once you are about to die, your escape pod kills you and awakens a previously contracted copy of yourself somewhere else, that has a printed brainscan of your life's memories up until the very moment of death.
• FTL: Faster Than Light: The Cloning Bay introduced in the Advanced Edition update replaces the standard medbay on certain ship layouts, and is also available for purchase in in-game shops. True to form, it creates a clone of any deceased crew member when they die, with a small penalty to their skill experience. It also takes advantage of "micro-cloning" technology, which heals a small amount of all crew members' health each jump.
• Heat Signature: All teleporters work on this principle.
• Path of Exile: The Bodyswap spell causes the original to explode and a clone to appear by using the mass of an unfortunate enemy or corpse.
• Phantasy Star II has the standard RPG churches replaced with cloning labs, and as such, instead of paying a priest to resurrect dead party members, you pay a scientist to make a clone of said party member. The setting is very nonchalant about this, and clones are just treated as if they were the original, and they seem pretty content to just be a copy of a dead person. This is brutally deconstructed halfway through, when Nei dies in a mission that also happened to destroy all the data on her DNA, and as such, the labs can no longer clone her, horrifying the rest of the party, having never had to deal with someone being gone for good before.
• In SOMA, this trope (specifically, how it relates to human consciousness) turns out to be central to the plot: the protagonist finds himself "transported" to an underwater base in the post-apocalyptic future after a brain scan due to the scan having been donated to science and made into a standard template by his long deceased original self and the base's malfunctioning AI experimenting in creating new forms of life. Later on, he believes he is transferring his consciousness to another body in order to get to a deep-sea trench without being crushed by the pressure and apparently succeeds, only to discover that actual transfer is not possible: only copying, which now means there is another Simon (that the player might decide to Mercy Kill or spare). At the end of the game, he experiences the flip side of this, when he believes he is transferring his consciousness to a paradisaical virtual world... only to remain in the same place, since another copy was created inside it, meaning he is now trapped forever in the bottom of the ocean.
• Sonic the Hedgehog: In Sonic Heroes, at the end of Team Dark's story, Rouge and Omega stumble upon a room full of Shadow clones sealed in the same kind of sleep as Shadow was at the beginning of the game, implying that Shadow may also have been a clone, especially given that he seemingly died at the end of Sonic Adventure 2. In Shadow the Hedgehog, however, Eggman confirms that the Shadow going through the events of those games was the original all along.
• In the Star Trek: Armada games, Nebula-class ships have a special ability called the "Gemini Effect", which temporarily creates a duplicate of the target ship. With some quick thinking, this ability can be used to get free resources by duplicating a vessel and then scrapping the duplicate for parts. The game designers, apparently, did not think of this possibility.
• Towards the end of the Sith Inquisitor storyline in Star Wars: The Old Republic, the Inquisitor's body starts dying quickly (not that it affects the gameplay) as a result of acquiring too much power from absorbing Force Ghosts too quickly, so you have to find a device (the Mother Machine on Belsavis) that basically replaces your entire body with a genetic duplicate, transferring your consciousness to it.
• In System Shock, the main character can perform a DNA upload in a quantum entanglement booth (called a "Quantum Bio-Reconstruction Machine" in System Shock 2). Then, if they die, they are cloned at the booth with the stats they had while they were there last, like a checkpoint.
• VVVVVV has a number of teleporters, and while it doesn't really explore the mechanics or morality of them (they're just a gameplay mechanic), one of the rooms containing a teleporter is named "Murdering Twinmaker" as a direct reference to the trope.

• A mysterious alien artifact in the space arc of Arthur, King of Time and Space appears to have this as its only function. In-universe, the reason for this is unknown, out-of-universe it's to set up the space arc version of the False Guenevere story.
• In El Goonish Shive, touching the Dewitchery Diamond while under a "curse" (broadly defined) results in two almost identical individuals: one without the curse and one under the curse's effects as if it's a part of their default form. "Curse" in this case includes any spell that changes one's appearance, abilities or behavior.
• Existential Comics addresses this in the first comic.
• In Freefall, robots don't care much for backups. Want to know why?
• In Grrl Power, Harem's superpowers are teleportation that doesn't necessarily disintegrate the original, and a Hive Mind with all her copies. Most of the time she has five of herself with different hair colors and outfits.
• The teleporter in Red Space Blues has a significant delay between copying and "clean-up", which is rather messy too.
• While actual teleportation is possible in Schlock Mercenary, the wormgate network used for it prior to the invention of the teraport also created clones of those who used it without the traveler's knowledge.^note It's (strongly) implied that the gates only do this due to an added logic function: send the original to their destination, and produce the copy at a preset location, using energy from a local star to make the needed mass. This became a major plot point when it turned out the Gatekeepers were interrogating and executing the clones, and using the information gained to control the galaxy's wealth and suppress rival teleporter technology. The current Kevyn Andreyasn is a clone created in this manner shortly before the original made a Heroic Sacrifice, who simply took over his original's life without a single care about the existential issues. He did put it on his resume, though. Similarly, later on Schlock is killed off, and a new Schlock is created to replace him. The new Schlock thinks it's kind of cool, "but not cool enough to do twice." Eventually the technology to do this comes into common use throughout the galaxy. Suddenly everyone starts cheating death through cloning, prompting a few identity crises. Captain Tagon's clone is quite emphatic that he's not the same person who carried a ship-to-ship missile into an enemy beachhead, because he was produced from a mind backup taken around 45 minutes earlier.

• In the Mortasheen universe, Wreathe uses portal technology, which preserves the teleported person intact but is incredibly inefficient. Meanwhile, Mortasheen utilizes teleportation that makes a twin of the user somewhere else and destroys the original. Mortasheen being what it is, no one there is bothered by this, and the twin is considered and treated as the original. Wreathe, however, is revolted.

• In one Æon Flux episode, the titular character's archenemy and lover creates a clone of her. The clone and the original meet and conspire against him. In the end, one of them gets gunned down in front of Trevor. It wasn't the clone.
• Played with in Chaotic. When a player receives a code that they input into their Scanner, the code causes the player's mind/"code" to split in two, one remaining on Earth with their Scanner unresponsive while the other is sent to Chaotic with a functioning Scanner, the one in Chaotic able to reunite with their self on Earth by sending a signal to their Scanner and having their Earth self press a button on it. If either version of a player however is unable to use their Scanner, their selves will remain independent.
  • When Tom gets the code in the first episode and uses it unknowing what it does, his Earth self thinks it just broke his Scanner and proceeds to toss it in the trash, while his Chaotic self finds he can't go back as a result. Tom's best friend Kaz has to quickly return to Earth himself and convince Tom's Earth self that Chaotic is real and retrieve his Scanner from the junkyard, with Tom's code able to reunite once they find it.
  • The two parter "Castle Bodhran or Bust" sees Tom and Kaz find an abandoned Scanner in Perim, getting in contact with it's owner on Earth, the player "ReggieOne"/Reginald Tevington. Reggie states he had sent his code into Chaotic about a month prior but he never came back, so he requests their aid in finding his code and returning the Scanner to him. In that time he was in an accident that left him confined to a motorized wheelchair, stating it will be unlikely he'll ever walk again, whereas his code is still able to walk around and is unaware of the accident, and is likewise unfamiliar with them when they find him held hostage by the Mipedians.
• Family Guy: In "Roads to Vegas", Stewie attempts to use his new teleporter to send himself and Brian to Las Vegas, but unbeknownst to them it duplicates them, leaving the originals thinking it didn't work and taking the long way to Vegas while their duplicates think it worked and have fun.
• The Venture Bros.: The Venture Twins have this kind of immortality, but they're unaware of it until Season 3, when the clones are used as an army during an attack on the Venture compound.