clone as a motif is very widespread in the pages of Marvel Comics . reference get cloned rather effortlessly when the plot demand it , by villains or other third party who , clearly , require the powers of the superheroes for themselves or whatever logic it is that baddie lam on . It is a trope mirthful book writer devolve back on often to introduce twists into the story , but is something of an overused concept .

Most clones that are present are quickly forget until   the next story bow that set up the focal point on them , but there are exceptions like X-23 who have managed to make a name for themselves and grown beyond the identity of just being a clone .

Max Eisenhardt (Magneto) - Joseph

Joseph first seem inX - MenVol 2 # 46 ( 1995 ) and soon after join the X - Men temporarily , ab initio thought to be an amnesiac Magneto despite being decades jr. than him . Then , after , in matter # 86 it is revealed that he is in reality a clone of Magneto created by one of his former allies Astra to further her own ulterior motives after she had rescued his life story in an incident .

Joseph sacrifice himself in a fight against the real Magneto , dying a Hero of Alexandria . eld later , he is brought back again by Astra , with the office being change by reversal this time , Magneto on the side of the good guy and Joseph as a villain .

En Sabah Nur (Apocalypse) - Evan Sabahnur (Kid Apocalypse)

Apocalypse is one ofthe best ten - Men comic villains , with a running criminal record of dying and then being resurrected again quite a few times . In one such instance , he was bring back in the form of a youthful son with no past memory and basically a white slate . Fantomex kill the tike on a mission inUncanny X - Force#4 , but also secretly takes a blood sample from the body which he habituate to create a clone .

This clone is then brought up by Fantomex to be a good person , an   antithesis of everything   Apocalypse remain firm for , and he ultimately proves his heroic nature after sacrificing his biography in a fight against the villain Omega Red .

Jean Grey (Marvel Girl) - Madelyne Pryor

During the 1980s , at a time when the actual Jean Grey was numb , Scott Summers adjoin and fell in lovemaking with a woman named   Madelyne Pryor who put up an uncanny resemblance to Jean . The two married and were happy for a clock time , and even had a kid together ( Cable ) . But as revealed in the Thomas Nelson Page ofUncanny X - MenVol 1 # 241 ,   Madelyne was actually a clone of Jean Grey made by   Mister Sinister specifically to descend in love and have a   nestling with   Scott .

Madelyn would go on to become one ofthe most underrated ten - Men villainsas Goblin Queen , and afterwards on the   Red Queen .

Nathan Summers (Cable) - Stryfe

Even disregarding the fact that he is the boy of a ringer himself ( Madelyne Pryor ) ,   Cable ’s history is still convoluted enough to confuse anyone . After being infected at a untried age with the   Techno - Organic Virus by Apocalypse , he is have   2,000 eld into the future by an alternate reality interlingual rendition of his sister where he is brought up .

While there , a clone of Cable is created , something only comic book rooter will roll in the hay , who is adopted by the Apocalypse of the future . Stryfe subsequently goes on to become an X - Men villain   responsible for , besides other affair , the facing pages of the life-threatening Legacy Virus that killed many mutants .

James Howlett Logan (Wolverine) - Laura Kinney (X-23)

Wolverine ’s powerful healing agent have his genes a worthful   commodity in the optic of many , thus making him a incessant target of cloning attempts in the comedian , and   X-23 symbolize the best of them .

Trained to shoot down from birth and abused from a untested years always , it is for the respectable that writers have let her to settle into a more traditional superhero role now . Neither Logan nor Laura fit into the standard father - daughter   roles due to their very nature , but the two still make for a wholesome pair in the comedian .

Laura Kinney (X-23) - Gabrielle Kinney (Honey Badger)

Taking the cloning mischief related to Wolverine even further , even his clone   Laura Kinney has a clone in the comics in the form of   Gabrielle Kinney . Gabby first appear inAll - New Wolverine#2 besides many other clones of X-23 ,   dubbed The Sisters , create by Alchemax to be the sodding killing machine just like Laura .

After miss their capturer together , Laura and Gabby went on to live together as babe and had many escapade in X-23 ’s solo comic streak . Gabby has   Laura ’s healing ingredient but only a   single osseous tissue claw on each arm , and she is ineffectual to feel pain in the ass .

Emma Frost - The Stepford Cuckoos

First inaugurate inNew X - Men#118 ( 2001 ) ,   the   psychic sisters Stepford Cuckoos were an interesting addition to X - Men comics and their powers mirror that of Emma Frost , one ofthe strong telepathic mutants . But as revealed during the limited seriesX - Men Phoenix Warsong(2006 )   their relationship go deeply than just having blonde hair and similar powerfulness , and in world , the Cuckoos are part of a huge pile of ringer make by the villain Sublime from Emma ’s gene .

Out of the one thousand of ringer make , only five were made active , and now   the three that remain have become a even part of the 10 - Men card .

Fantomex

The mysterious past of Fantomex is a big part of his collection , and it ’s rarefied for him to show his face even , but what is known about the character is that he was created by the same program that made Wolverine , Weapon Plus . In a engagement against the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants , Fantomex is killed inUncanny X - ForceVol 1 27 ( 2012 ) while sample to save Psylocke .

In the final issue of the serial , he is brought back but due to an error triggered by Deadpool ’s interference , his three brains are split into three different knockoff body , creating a Lady Fantomex and Dark Fantomex .

Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow)

Natasha Romanoff died at the hand of Evil Captain America during the events ofSecret Empire . In the effect of her death , it is revealed that the Red Room , the governance that take aim Black Widow , proceed ringer of all ofits   most powerful membersin the event of their death , and that is how   Natasha is brought back .

Clone Natasha is contribute all the retentiveness of the original Natasha , and after discover her origin as a clone she turns against the Red Room and ruin all the other ringer transcript , as explore in the Red Ledger story arc .

Peter Parker (Spider-Man) - Benjamin Reilly And Kaine Parker (Scarlet Spider)

There have been multiple major clone - tie in event in Spider - Man ’s recollective chronicle , which only run to show how tangled he is as a character with the concept . Chronologically ,   Ben Reilly is the first one to appear , in 1975’sAmazing wanderer - Man#149 , but later comic strip reveal that the imperfect tense clone who would go on to call himself   Kaine Parker was the first to be created .

Ben was also the first to put on the   nickname   Scarlet Spider , in his attempt to mark himself , and presently , Kaine go by that name .   After years of trial run and tribulations ,   the three Peter Parkers have contend to make their own place in the Marvel Universe .

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