Basic Trope: A character can make copies of themselves without external apparatus.
- Straight: Molly can duplicate herself, having her many clones do her bidding.
- Exaggerated:
- Molly can duplicate herself as many as she wants, sometimes forming armies of clones of herself to flood the place.
- Molly's clones can create clones of their own.
- Molly can clone herself From a Single Cell.
- Downplayed: Molly can duplicate herself, but only one clone at a time.
- Justified: Molly is a singe-celled organism.
- Inverted:
- Subverted: What appeared to be Molly splitting into two was actually a Twin Switch prank played with Jessica.
- Double Subverted: That was just an excuse she used to hide her powers.
- Parodied:
- Molly can duplicate herself, only for them to be obviously imperfect.
- Molly, being a single-celled organism, performs mitosis. This is treated as a magnificent superpower.
- Invoked: Molly is a Mad Scientist who tests her self-duplicating formula on herself.
- Defied: Molly doesn't like to duplicate herself as it causes identity issues.
- Discussed:
- "So Molly, how many versions of yourself can you make, and are you a problem solver?"
- "How do I know which Molly is the real Molly?"
- Played for Laughs: Molly has problems controlling her self-duplication. Hilarity Ensues.
- Played for Drama:
- Every time Molly clones herself, she loses a little bit of her soul.
- Molly can create copies of herself, but once she does, she can’t make them disappear. Every copy that Molly creates is fully sentient and believes themselves to be the original, and this ends up leading to all of them getting an existential crisis due to not being able to tell who’s the original anymore. And that’s not even getting into all the problems and consequences on Molly’s life that comes with having several copies of herself just running around the place, thinking that they’re the real Molly and confusing everyone around them.
- Played for Horror:
- Molly’s duplication powers require her to pay a horrible price to do it. It may require her to sacrifice bits and pieces of herself via Body Horror, it may come in the form of a Lovecraftian Superpower that involves a lot of Squick, or maybe every duplicate that she creates requires an innocent victim to be sacrified or converted into a copy of Molly in exchange.
- One day, Molly goes insane and decides to create several billions of Molly clones to Take Over the World. Humanity fights valiantly against this unexpected threat, but unlike Molly, who can create endless waves of clones to fight for her, mankind’s numbers are numbers are limited, and eventually, through a combination of Zerg Rush and Victory by Endurance due to having literally infinite soldiers at her disposal, she eventually wins. Now, the world must bow to our new Evil Overlord who can literally be everywhere at once, and who can outnumber us a million-to-one just by wishing it.
- Deconstructed: Molly's clones are revealed to have sentience of their own, so she feels guilty for treating them as expendable.
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