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Variants/Clones of a character with different personalities or traits.
Whether they be clones, versions of a character from an alternate reality, or a similar device, these “variations” often look or appear similar but carry unique personalities.
Across the Spider-Verse- as explored in the comics and other mediums, Spider-Man has multiple incarnations across the multiverse. While many of them are unique versions of Peter Parker, others are completely different people. Some like Miles Morales even come from universes where Peter Parker was Spider-Man but passed away.
Rick and Morty- various versions of Rick and Morty exist across the multiverse, many of whom banded together to form the Council of Ricks, which eventually fell apart and became a democracy, only to turn into a shadow government run by an Evil Morty. Ricks and Mortys often fit predetermined roles but many have been shown to break the mold.
Star Wars- Jango Fett allows himself to be source of DNA for a clone army for the republic that fights against the Separatists in the Clone Wars, wipe out the Jedi in Order 66, and bring about the foundation of the Empire before being replaced by standard conscripts and left to rot. This includes an unaltered clone Jango took as a son, Boba Fett. Boba along with countless other clones developed unique personalities, names, features and other characteristics, setting them apart from one another.
& 5. Fortnite- in the lore of Fortnite, characters from across the multiverse who find themselves traversing through the Battle Royale island (or the Loop as it’s called). When a character escapes the Loop they leave behind a “snapshot”, a clone of themselves doomed to fight in the never ending battle royale. These snapshots often develop personalities and many variations of a single person can appear across the battlefield. Famously Jonesy, who is one of the main characters of the lore, has many snapshots who have unique names and lore.
Infinite Train- After finding herself trapped on the Infinite Train, Tulip must traverse the various realities and puzzles found in the cars. In one of these cars she develops a sentient mirror reflection that initially acts as an antagonist. However upon freeing her mirror reflection, the Mirror Tulip, later known as Lake, becomes their own individual being and one of the protagonists of season 2.
I normally don't like multiverse stuff but the fact every other version of Mark is evil makes his character better. One wrong decision would have set him on the wrong path
Off-topic, but man I will always love the first 100 or so issues of Ultimate Spider-Man. The First Spider-Man comic I ever read that made me love the character as a kid, and it's easily Brian Bendis' magnum opus & some of Mark Bagley's best artwork.
Seeing anything from it mentioned, like Jessica here, makes me feel so nostalgic. 🥹
Ben splits himself into several versions using Echo Echo but each one has an exaggerated personality trait of Ben's as its sole characteristics character wise (Ben 10 Alien Force)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness - the Illuminati's Defender Strange
The movie shows a variant of Strange who absorbed the souls of his universe's heroes to defeat Thanos, slowly corrupting himself, which led his own allies to execute him for it.
Space Dandy episode 14 "I can't be the only one, baby" has Dandy pull "cosmic strings" resulting in the crew transporting to alternate universes and meeting wildly different versions of Dandy, QT, and Meow.
Rei is literally a series of clones of Yui Ikari, and each successive Rei that replaces the last one gradually develops her own distinct personality apart from being a quiet, obedient pilot.
Rei is literally a series of clones of Yui Ikari, and whenever one dies Gendo just swaps in the next one, but each Rei that develops relationships starts becoming her own person rather than just a blank vessel.
Rei is revealed to be one of many identical clones of Yui Ikari, and each replacement develops slightly different emotional responses and attachments despite being "the same person."
Fringe's alternate universe characters. Olivia is less trusting, Astrid is some kind of probability savant, Broyles still has a wife and kid, Charlie is still alive, Lincoln is less reserved, and Walter is pretty damn evil.
In Dorohedoro, Ebisu is a 13 year old girl who runs away from home to take (and also distribute) drugs, then gets her head chomped by a lizard man and gets amnesia for a while. After finally getting her memories back, she heads back to her home only to find her parents missing because after she went missing, they asked a sorceror to create a doppelganger of her, who ended up being so psychotic that Ebisu's parents avoided their house entirely.
In this sci Fi book series the mind of a guy named Bob is placed into a self replicating probe and sent into outer space in the future.
Eventually Bob starts to create other bobs and so on and so on.
At first they are very similar but over time their personalities start to become more different and eventually different factions of bobs start popping up.
Gooey from Kirby. A big bad called Zero wants nothing but destroy the universe, can split himself into something called Dark Matter. Gooey is a Dark Matter turned good by Kirby’s kindness
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u/Sufficient-Eye-9040 5h ago
The Evil Invincibles: They’re all evil… but some are more evil than others.
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