Immortal Cloning

Immortal Cloning
Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious (Star Wars) cheated death by transferring his essence into multiple clone bodies.
Power/Ability to:	Cheating death by transferring one's mind/soul into a clone.

"The dying is painful... the transition is not an enjoyable experience. But the suffering is a small price to pay... for eternal life."

― Palpatine/Darth Sidious (Star Wars Legends)

"Studying his methods, I learned how to transfer my own consciousness, through the Force, from one mortal vessel to another. Even if my flesh was doomed to fail, my spirit would be eternal!"

― Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious (Star Wars)

The ability to transfer one's mind/soul into a clone to cheat death. Variation of Immortality and Consciousness Transferal. Not to be confused with Parasitic Immortality.

Also Called

• Transferal Immortality
• Immortal Consciousness Transference
• Immortality via Cloning
• Reinvigoration

Capabilities

The uer can transfer their mind/soul into a clone, gaining a form of immortality.

Applications

• Clone Appearance Alteration
• Consciousness Transferal (clones only)
• Regenerative Replication
• Reincarnation
  • Identical Self-Reincarnation
  • Immortal Rebirth
  • Multi-Reincarnation
• Replication
  • Decoy Creation
    • Substitution Creation
  • Extension Creation
    • Avatar Creation
  • Group Creation
    • Horde Creation
      • Army Creation
  • Inorganic Duplication
    • Object Replication
  • Self-Replication
    • Multipresence
      • Multitasking
  • Varied Replication
    • Attribute Replication
      • Property Replication
• Self-Resurrection
• Soul Transferal (clones only)

Associations

• Clone
• Cloner
• Consciousness Transferal
• Soul-Puppetry
• Soul Transferal
• Superior Human Physiology

Limitations

• May take time to transfer to a new body.
• Immortal Slayer
• May be weaker in a clone body due to non-familiarity to it.
• They may lose chunks of their soul the more they transfer/the longer they wait to transfer.
• Soul Destruction can kill the user.
• New body may be unstable.
• May have a limited number of clone bodies available.

Known Users

See also: Body Backup Drive

• Michael Drucker (The 6th Day)
• Cortical Stack users (Altered Carbon)
• Anton (The Amazing World of Gumball)
• Trace (Axiom Verge); via the Rebirth Chamber
• Humanoid Cylons (Battlestar Galactica)
• Vreedle Brothers/Octagon and Rhomboid Vreedle (Ben 10)
• Martyr (The Citadel); technically
• Furons (Destroy All Humans!)
• Meca One (Exo-Force)
• Robots (Futurama); via the wireless backup unit
• Jimmy (Hardcore Henry)
• Overlord (H.I.V.E.); via Animus
• Otto Apocalypse (Honkai Impact 3rd)
• Kate Cha/Dupli-Kate (Invincible)
• Paul Cha/Multi-Paul (Invincible)
• Funny Valentine (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run); via Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap/D4C, technically
• Kuroto Dan/Kamen Rider Genm (Kamen Rider Ex-Aid)
• Astra Crew Parents (Kanata no Astra)
• Touko Aozaki (Kara no Kyoukai)
• Bai Yin/Faceless (Karakuri Circus)
• Shen Wulong (Kenganverse)
• MPN Arena Mode Protagonist (Madness Combat); as Creber
• Subject 1v02P_6 (Madness Combat)
• Takeru Yamato (Maken-Ki!)
• Annihilus (Marvel Comics)
• En Sabah Nur/Apocalypse (Marvel Comics)
• Johann Shmidt/Red Skull (Marvel Comics)
• Maelstrom (Marvel Comics)
• Mister Sinister (Marvel Comics)
• Zero (Mega Man X/Zero); once
• Sigma (Mega Man X)
• Professor (Metal Slug)
• Mickey (Mickey 17)
• Orochimaru (Naruto)
• Rei Ayanami (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
• Angels (Preacher)
  • DeBlanc
  • Fiore
  • Susan
• Roswaal A. Mathers (Re:Zero ~Starting Life in Another World~)
• Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty); via Operation Phoenix
• Alucard (Rosario + Vampire)
• Omanushi (Samurai 7)
• Grand Karcist Ion (SCP Foundation)
• Mortimer J. Denning Von Kronecker/Blackbird/The Black King/The Fifth Overseer/O5-5 (SCP Foundation)
• Samsara (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-001 - Djoric-Dmatix Proposal - Thirty Six (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-515 - Sleeper (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-3396 - The Empyrean Parasite (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-4470 - Endure (SCP Foundation)
• Sophia/Olympia/Subject/Zero/Olympia Zero/The Original/Europa (SCP Foundation)
• Horde Prime (She-Ra and The Princesses of Power)
• Homer Simpson (The Simpsons); via Professor Frink's intervention
• Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious (Star Wars); via "Transference"
• Palpatine/Darth Sidious (Star Wars Legends); via "Transfer essence"
• Asgard (Stargate SG-1)
• M. Bison (Street Fighter)
• Baxter Stockman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 TV series)
• Agent Bishop (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 TV series)
• Dr. Tiger Ninestein (Terrahawks)
• Rimururu Tempest (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime); via Soul Corridor and Multi Existence
• Lewis/Xephos (Yoglabs)
• Simon/Honeydew (Yoglabs)

Gallery

Everyone (Altered Carbon) essentially has Cortical Stack that records their consciousness and memories of the individuals, which is what ultimately sources their transference into another body, however only the wealthy can afford to live forever as they buy new numerous bodies for themselves.

Anton (The Amazing World of Gumball)

As Creber, the MPN Arena Mode Protagonist (Madness Combat) is granted false immortality by creating clones unless they are all killed.

Subject 1v02P_6 (Madness Combat) will be cloned again when he is killed during the experiment.

Annihilus (Marvel Comics)

En Sabah Nur/Apocalypse (Marvel Comics)

Nathaniel Essex/Mister Sinister (Marvel Comics)

Zero's (Mega Man X/Zero) mind was transferred to a copied body of his during the Elf Wars, allowing him to reawaken, and this only happened once.

The Professor (Metal Slug) has a lot of cloned spare bodies that he uses when he dies.

Every time Mickey (Mickey 17) dies, he is cloned by a replicator that creates an exact copy of his body to which his memories and personality stored each week in a brick-like device are transferred.

Rei Ayanami's (Neon Genesis Evangelion) soul transfers into one of many dormant clone bodies upon physical death.

Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty)

Operation Phoenix (Rick and Morty)

A younger clone of Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars Legends), serves as a temporary vessel for the Sith Lord's spirit.

To extend their lifespans, The Asgard (Stargate SG-1) began to use cloning technology "downloading" them into memory crystals and then in new cloned body. Making them effectively immortal at the cost of the ability to reproduce sexually.

Due to the Psycho Power putting a physical strain on his body, M. Bison (Street Fighter) had replacement bodies made to transfer his essence into them.

Baxter Stockman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 TV series) successfully transfers from being a brain in a jar to a cloned body...

...before it went horribly wrong on him.

Born in the early 19th century, Agent Bishop (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 TV series) uses cloned bodies to live as the years go by.