"I don't know," she says, and as soon as her voice sounds, she knows it is the wrong answer. This goes about as well as one would expect. In Meredith Bronwen Mallory's rather disturbing little Star Wars fan fic Deep As You Go, Darth Vader has utilized the cloning facilities at Kamino to clone his late wife Padmé.He nevertheless resolves to never use someone in such a way, to deliberately kill them even if it can be fixed, because that's how his father thinks. It isn't until after the scheme is complete that Shinji realises he got Rei killed, and suffers a severe My God, What Have I Done? moment until Rei reminds him that not only was it merely one of her bodies that was destroyed, her soul unharmed, but also that she agreed to do it, and Shinji calms down. In Shinji And Warhammer 40 K, one of Shinji's first Batman Gambits involves manipulating Gendo to kill the current Rei and activate one of her replacement clones.She then eats their mind which leaves fragments of their identity behind and their soul bound up with hers so that she can utilize their life force to increase her personal power and be almost impossible to kill. Kodachi Kuno of Divine Blood doesn't quite clone herself, but fertilizes her own eggs with genetic material gathered from psychics so that she can produces daughters that have superpowers and look like her.She also expresses a lot of self-loathing that her existence came at Saya's expense. When Ruby discovers her poetry journal, she sees that her poems have gone from cheesy and goofy, to existential and nihilistic, questioning her existence and if it's all a lie, which itself eventually devolves into scratched out repeating of "clone", "fake", and "monster" over and over again. BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant: Noel goes through this after she learns she's a Murakumo Unit and a clone of Saya.Warning: This trope is often introduced as a Plot Twist, so expect spoilers. One of the most common sub-tropes to Supernatural Angst. Contrast with Clones Are People, Too, where they do get to live their own lives.
See also Scale of Scientific Sins, Creating Life and Existential Horror. Science fiction tends to ignore this requirement competely, which only enforces the Trope. Note that all instances of actual cloning in Real Life require a live animal of the same or similar species with a womb to carry the cloned animal to term. How much logical sense it makes that this would be possible depends on what flavor of Applied Phlebotinum was used to make the clones, but it's common to see this solution used even when the clone was clearly not physically "split" off of the original. This is seen as a way to solve their problem without anybody dying. Sometimes a story resolves the issue by having the original and the clone(s) fuse "back" into a single being. These have more reason to be exact xerox copies - but they get even less respect.
Some clones aren't biological clones at all - they're robot doubles, or copies created by the good old transporter. And let's not debate how Our Souls Are Different, in which case clones (especially of the deceased) will be soulless abominations before God and nature. In this case, it's more like coming Back from the Dead - although if the clone has a mind of its own at the start, this is yet another reason its life sucks. Sometimes a clone is an Empty Shell without the original's soul, and exists only so that the creator can overwrite their mind and personality onto it in case of accident. This assumes the clone ever had a mind of its own, of course. Interestingly, on the question of What Measure Is a Non-Unique? the only clone that matters is the last one. In the question of What Measure Is a Non-Human?, most clones rank somewhere between the Big Creepy-Crawlies and the Mecha-Mooks. Heroes who hesitate at killing intelligent life might still kill their evil clone. Because of all this (or possibly as a cause of all this), clones get very little respect.
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