Youtube user Clonelab79 has posted 37 videos to date, most of them having to do with women and their evil clones. In particular, many of the most popular headlines are "Wife uses double of herself to seduce her husband" or "Blonde superhero clones herself" or "Alien plant grows clone of redhead." (The hair color is part of it apparently — it's just not as hot, for Clonelab79, if the alien plant was cloning a brunette.)

Here's "Wife has clone seduce her husband for her":

And here's "Brunette female cloned impersonated by android robot doppelganger", which is from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:

And here's "Brunette superhero clones herself." The description is great: "Brunette is cloned by scientist to clear her original's name. The clone glitches and the real girl must fight her clone."

Here's "Alien plant grows clone of redhead":

Does anybody know what any of these things are from?

This has been the dream of science-fiction fans and science-fiction authors since the days of "Clone Of My Own" (which is usually attributed to Isaac Asimov, but who knows if it's actually by him?) "Clone Of My Own" goes:

Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And after it's grown,
Then my own little clone
Will be of the opposite sex.

Clone, clone of my own,
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And when I'm alone
With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.

There are about 29 versus more, but you get the idea. Actually, after reading authors like John Varley and Ursula K. Le Guin, the whole idea of the "opposite" sex has been thrown into question — surely, once we can all reconfigure our bodies at will, eventually we'll have some sort of sex tesseract.

But for now, here are the ways that science fiction offers, for us to meet our opposite-sex duplicates (and in some cases, have sex with them):

1) Cloning.

House Of Suns by Alastair Reynolds:

Abigail Gentian, a wealthy woman, decides to explore the vastness of the stars — she she has herself cloned a number of times, and some of the clones are male while others are female. They all share Abigail's memories, and Abigail herself joins them without knowing which of them is the "real" her. And these "shatterlings" have sex — a lot. Especially in the novella Thousandth Night, there are tons of orgies in which all of the clones get together, making it a certainty that the "real" Abigail has been with her clones.

Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein:

Lazarus Long is the world's oldest human, and he decides not to undergo rejuvenation therapy, thus sentencing himself to death. His descendants convince him to keep on living, but he'll only do it if he gets to have a new experience — so two of his descendants become impregnated with opposite-sex clones of Lazarus. And after the opposite-sex clones of Lazarus are born, Lazarus raises them as his own daughters... and then has sex with them, of course.

"Nine Lives" by Ursula K. Le Guin:

This Nebula-nominated novelette, first published in Playboy, features a set of clones of a man named John Chow who died in a car accident, and some of them are female:

"All chips off the old block," Martin said valiantly. "But how can . . . some of you be women . . .?"

Beth took over: "It's easy to program half the clonal mass back to the female. Just delete the male gene from half the cells and they revert to the basic, that is, the female. It's trickier to go the other way, have to hook in artificial Y chromosomes. So they mostly clone from males, since clones function best bisexually."

Sadly, nine out of ten clones are killed, forcing the remaining clone to deal with unaccustomed solitude.

The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley:

The character Tweed has clones who are male and female clones of the same individual, called Vaffa or sometimes Hygeia. They're super-strong, super-big and lethal.

NYX and various other X-Men comics:

X-23, a female clone of Wolverine, first appeared in the X-Men: Evolution animated series, but then made the leap to comics, just like Harley Quinn. Despite looking kind of silly, she's manage to stick around long enough to get her own miniseries and have her backstory explained. I don't think she and Logan ever hooked up, but they have fought, which is almost the same thing when you come down to it.

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy:

As Zaphod Beeblebrox explains, the girl Lintilla "has now been cloned over five-hundred-and-seventy-eight-thousand-million times - and has thus created a problem in some quarters." All of the Lintilla clones are female — but the anti-clones, sent to get rid of the infestation of female clones, are male versions of Lintilla called Allitnil. When a Lintilla and an Allitnil come together, he gets the Lintilla to "agree to cease to be" — but Arthur Dent takes a liking to one of the Lintillas, and kills her particular Allitnil.

Hunted by James Alan Gardner:

Edward York is an illegal clone of one of the Admirals on the High Council, and due to genetic problems he's a bit stupid. But a female clone of the Admiral, named Samantha, turns out super-smart and resourceful. Together, Edward and Samantha travel, as brother and sister, travel to the planet Troyen to try and negotiate a peace between two alien species, the Mandasars and the Fasskisters.

Kyle XY:

Kyle and his fellow vat-baby Jessi aren't strictly speaking clones, because I think they had different genetic stock — as far as I can remember, Kyle came from Adam and Jessi came from Sarah. But they do come from the same vat, and they resulted from the same super-baby program. So they could be considered akin to clones, sort of. Worth mentioning, anyway.

Ultimate Spider-Man: Ultimate Clone Saga:

Can't believe I forgot this one, since I have the trades at home. In the Ultimate version of the Clone Saga, they clone Peter Parker several times... including a female version called Jessica Drew. And Jessica has all of Peter's memories — S.H.I.E.L.D. wants to erase Jessica's memories and set her up with a new identity, but she escapes and takes on the identity of Spider-Woman. Thanks, kwschuttler!

2) Alternate universes

Parallellities by Alan Dean Foster:

Max, the main character of this novel travels through the multiverse, and finally meets an alternate female version of himself — and has sex with her. Later, he manages to find an entire planet populated by copies of himself. As the back cover copy explains:

Now Max was lost in a virtual sea of collateral worlds, confronting man-eating aliens, dinosaurs, talking frogs, dead Maxes, girl Maxes, old Maxes, even ghost Maxes. His only chance to escape the space-time continuum was to find Boles and hope the loony genius could rescue him. But how could he be sure which world was real, which Max was Max, and which Boles was the Boles who could stop the madness—or trap Max in the wrong world forever. . . ?

Red Dwarf, "Parallel Universe":

Our gang finds a device that's supposed to transport them home to Earth instantly — but instead it zaps them into an alternate universe. There, they meet alternate versions of themselves, including female versions of Lister and Rimmer (and Cat's counterpart is a Dog.) Rimmer has to fight off his female counterpart's sexual advances, while Lister actually does wind up in bed with his female version, Deb. And because in this alternate universe, it's the men who get pregnant, Lister winds up carrying his alternate self's baby.

Sliders:

Thanks to Xicer for pointing out this one: in the episode "Double Cross," Quinn meets an evil female duplicate of himself from (of course) another universe, and almost makes out with her:

Transition by Iain Banks:

This dimension-jumping novel mentions that it's quite common to enter the body of your alternate-universe self and find that the alternate self is the opposite sex. This is a known syndrome, which causes some discomfort or confusion among the universe-hoppers whom it happens to.

3) Time travel

"All You Zombies" by Robert A. Heinlein:

This story features a young man who's tricked into impregnating his younger, female self — because it turns out he had a futuristic sex change at some point, which the reader doesn't realize at first. And then it turns out that he's actually the child of that union, meaning that he's his own mother and father — the mother of all time paradoxes, in other words.

The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold:

Daniel Eakins travels backwards and forwards in time many times, meeting himself and having sex with himself — over and over and over. But after a ton of trips, he actually meets an alternate-universe version of himself who was born female, and they shack up together at the beginning of time. It goes great for a while, until they get fed up with each other, and then Daniel's time-traveling female counterpart manages to erase herself completely from Daniel's timeline, so Daniel can never find her again.

Needless to say, this post would not have been nearly as fascinating without TVTropes.org, the fountain of all greatness. Additional reporting by Josh C. Snyder.

Smith announced back in February that he was about to start work on Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf's first English-language feature, about a woman (Casino Royale's Eva Green) so stricken with grief after her husband's death that she decides to clone him in the hopes of bringing him back. Now the trailer has been released, along with a more detailed synopsis:

When Rebecca returns to her grandfather's house, she meets her childhood sweetheart Thomas again. Thomas leaves his girlfriend Rose and their love picks up where it left off, until Thomas dies in a car accident. Devastated, the young woman contemplates suicide until she finds consolation in the idea of cloning. Although society does not fully accept it yet, she plans to give birth to Thomas, bringing her lost love to life (again). Living in Rebecca's grandfather's remote old house, Thomas grows up believing his father died in an accident. Rebecca never mentions cloning. In spite of their secret, Rebecca and Thomas lead an almost normal life until Rose finds out about them …

Certainly, with this blurring of lover and offspring, Womb will likely veer into some seat-squirmingly uncomfortable territory, but unlike certain other movies about trying to bring back loved ones via cloning (read: Godsend), it actually sounds like Womb will explore the ethical issues that surround human cloning, and the relationships and expectations that could severely impede a cloned person's individuality. And, though we get disappointingly little Matt Smith in the trailer, Womb could be an excellent opportunity to watch him spread his emotional wings.

[via Quiet Earth]

The canine six-pack, each named "Toppy" (short for "Tomorrow's Puppy"), were cloned from a Canadian sniffer named Chaser. Three of the dogs have reported for duty at Incheon International Airport, and the rest have been placed at customs offices in South Korean cities.

So why use clones, in lieu of dogs specially bred to sniff drugs? Customs spokesman Park Jeong-Heon said the clones simply proved superior:

They showed better performances in detecting illegal drugs during the training than other naturally-born sniffer dogs that we have.

No word yet on whether South Korea's glowing canine clone has similarly found employment.

South Korean customs deploy six cloned sniffer dogs [PhysOrg]

To some, Henstridge will always be the half-alien/half-human/all-hottie Sil, but her debut in Species was 14 years ago. Now 34, she's done a lot since then, much of it in the genre arena.

Like her forthcoming Impact, a four-hour ABC miniseries that debuts June 21. In Impact, a spectacular meteor shower hits the moon and throws it out of orbit; it's up to a team of scientists led by astrophysicist Maddie Rhodes (Henstridge) to save the earth from a lunar collision. (Watch the trailer here.) Henstridge called us this morning from Los Angeles to talk about the project.

What appeals to you about science fiction that keeps you coming back to the genre again and again?

Well, I think the science fiction community just supports me, so why the heck not? No, there is an attraction to some of the stories. In this particular case, I just thought it was a really cool story: interesting, educational — and not even fiction at the end of the day, as I found out. I think that kind of curiosity – there are stories that keep you turning the page, stories that make you think "What if?" And that kind of natural curiosity we all have as humans. Whatever it is — in my case, an alien-human hybrid thing, or many other things that I've done — they're just action-packed, they're exciting, they keep you on the edge of your seat, and they're page-turners. So I always find it interesting to see how they'll turn out. And there are great fanbases as well.

What did you find out was accurate about the science behind Impact?

Up in Canada, I was working at an observatory, and I met an astrophysicist, and we went through the script, just so that I could really sink my teeth in, understand more, and know what the hell I was talking about when I was giving these big speeches. Basically, we're just not quite as protected as we like to think we are, and technology is advanced, but it's not quite as advanced as we think it is. We don't have an eye in the sky everywhere, we don't know what's coming, and things like meteors can be very erratic. So we're not as safe as we think we are, and that was very eye-opening. [Laughs nervously]. And that's what makes this movie even slightly possible.

And how plausible was the solution the scientists reach about how to save the earth?

That might be a little more far-fetched. That one I'm not 100 percent sure on.

Are you trying to extend your range now beyond the sexy roles that have largely defined your career? In Impact, you're a scientist in a heavy sweater.

Most people who work at observatories wear warm clothes because it's very, very cold, so that was just based in reality. But I get what you're saying. I feel very, very fortunate to have been able to step away from the sex symbols, the young it-girl kind of place, and to realize — and for people to realize — that I can do other things. That has been a real gift for me, because you get pigeonholed, and then where do you go when you're not 19 and hot, and you're aging? It's inevitable. So to be able to do other roles that challenge me more – I got to play a lawyer on Eli Stone, which was fantastic, and getting to play an astrophysicist, which I admit is a bit of a stretch. But what an amazing thing to be able to play. To get to play these really smart female characters is fantastic, and I just feel really fortunate. I do, of course, try to stretch, because it would be silly for me to compete with 20-year-olds for roles. It's not going to happen. I'm in a different place in my life. It's just great that the business has supported me enough to be able to do that as well.

Are there any sorts of science fiction stories you'd like to tell?

I wouldn't say so specifically in science fiction, but I'd be lying if I didn't say that [I'm fascinated with] cloning. People always ask me if I'm a science fiction fan, and I'm not a huge science fiction fan, but there is something kind of interesting about cloning and what it will do to society. I've read about it, and whenever there's a film or an article in the paper about the latest thing that's been cloned, it makes me think about God vs. science and all of those kind of questions. It's interesting because the planet gets more and more full, and yet we try to find more and more ways to keep people alive. It's all so fascinating. And yet, if it was my child or my mother, I'd want to do the same thing. So there are all sorts of interesting questions that cloning brings up. Can you imagine, "Oh, I'm going to get myself a new heart from my cloned counterpart"?

Can you think of recent films or books that have handled the subject well?

Not really. I'd like to see some things that are really well done.

What else do you have in the pipeline?

I am doing a really interesting series of really small, five-minute episodes of a Stan Lee cartoon, in which Stan Lee and myself will be voicing the two characters. My character is called Charity Vyle. And it's a super cool character. It's a show called Time Jumper. We're going to do about 10 episodes. I'm not exactly sure of the format; I think it's coming out through the phone. I'm with an absolute legend, and I'm really excited about that. My character is actually brilliant as well, as these cartoon characters – I mean, as these comic book characters often are. She knows how to jump through time, and she does that for some very selfish reasons.

Would you say the message of Impact is that international cooperation is necessary to solve global crises?

I think that is the exact message of the film, all the countries in the world working together for one common goal. That's the political, moral message of the film, and I think that's a really interesting part of the film.

The video appeared on the website of British newspaper the Independent last week, immediately followed by scientists calling the procedures irresponsible, unethical and also just simply unreal. The doctor who's conducting the cloning experiments, Panayiotis Zavos, is unrepentant, however:

There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen... In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do.

So far, none of Zavos' experiments has resulted in a successful pregnancy, but he claims it is only a matter of time:

We think we know why those four transfers didn't take. I think with better subjects – and there are hundreds of people out there who want to do this – if we choose 10 couples, I think we will get some to carry a pregnancy.

Fertility expert: 'I can clone a human being' [Independent.co.uk]

The Birth of Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars): Pulling a chapter from Joseph Campbell, George Lucas gave his tragic hero a mystical birth. Virginal slave Shmi Skywalker couldn’t figure out how she became pregnant with Anakin, who seemed to have no father. Qui-Gon Jinn realized that the midi-chlorians were likely responsible for Anakin’s conception and that the boy was the Force’s prophesized, albeit obnoxious, messiah.

Reproduction on Stratos (Glory Season by David Brin): Lysos, the founder of the colony on Stratos, is a genetic engineer who creates a new strain of human being. Humans may reproduce sexually, or women may reproduce parthogenetically, creating a society that is largely female. But this leads some of the women of Stratos to wonder why they need men at all.

The Birth of the Children (The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, adapted as Village of the Damned): After everyone in the town of Midwich falls unconscious, all the women of childbearing age find themselves suddenly and mysteriously pregnant. The Children are all born on the same day and appear human except for their strange hair and eyes. It soon becomes clear that these evil, telepathic Children are being born all over the world in an attempt at subtle invasion.

Reproduction on the Virgin Planet (Virgin Planet by Poul Anderson): After a spaceship full of female explorers crash on an uncharted planet, the survivors set up a new society and develop a way to reproduce through parthenogenesis. Generations later, descendants of the female colonists have never seen a man and the powerful doctors hold the secrets to parthenogenesis. But when a lone man lands on the planet, many of the women are eager to try an alternative method of reproduction.

The Birth of the Alien Queen (Alien Resurrection): The Alien xenomorphs generally take a rather forceful approach to pregnancy, literally shoving their embryos down a host’s throat. But Ripley’s clone is born pregnant, a circumstance that results in an Alien Queen with a healthy dose of DNA and a womb of its very own.

The Birth of Ian Troi (Star Trek: The Next Generation “The Child”): Deanna Troi’s uterus attracts the interest of an energy alien passing by the Enterprise. One night it enters her womb, triggering a speedy pregnancy. The pregnancy appears to be parthenogenic, since the resulting child is, like Troi, half human and half Betazoid, but it is inexplicably male.

Reproduction in Herland (Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman): The prototypical colony of self-replicating females, Herland is a man-free utopia. When a trio of men arrive in Herland, they manage to find wives who are interested in sexual reproduction. But there’s trouble when the women assert that sex between men and women is purely for procreative purposes.

Reproduction on GP (Ammonite by Nicola Griffith): A gender-specific virus attacks the planet GP, which both kills off the male population and gives the women the ability to reproduce. But triggering the reproductive process is less a physical act than a mental one.

The Birth of the Brood (The Brood): Nola Carveth sees a psychotherapist who has developed a bizarre, body-altering therapy called psychoplasmics. When her therapist encourages her to allow her negative emotions to take over, she gives birth to the Brood, deformed children who act out those emotions.

Vita-Lerp Induced Parthenogenesis (Sex and the High Command by John Boyd): A drug called Vita-Lerp not only allows parthenogenesis, but gives women an orgasm as well, causing some women to view men as obsolete. A battle of the sexes breaks out as a women’s crusade emerges to wipe out men and eliminate males from the future gene pool.

Birth of the Adipose (Doctor Who “Partners in Crime”): Adipose is a revolutionary diet pill that causes seemingly miraculous weight loss. That’s because the pill causes people to birth the alien Adipose, sentient fat blobs that pop off the body and literally walk away. But if the process goes too far, the dieters don’t merely gestate the Adipose; they are transformed into dozens of the infant creatures.

The Birth of Adria (Stargate SG-1): The Ori are a godlike race who command the worship of lesser beings. Looking to maintain a presence on the mortal plane, they do what godlike beings do: impregnate a mortal woman. Vala Mal Doran becomes mystically pregnant by the Ori and gives birth to Adria, who performs the will of the Ori.

The Birth of the Babylon Babies (Babylon AD): A geneticist engineered the fetal Aurora, programming her to give birth at a certain point in time without the contribution of male DNA. This gave the Noelite order a genuine virgin birth, which is necessary for their relgion.

The Whateley Twins (The Dunwich Horror by HP Lovecraft): It’s actually not clear how Lavinia Whateley became pregnant. But given that the father of her monstrous children is Yog-Sothoth, an Outer God locked out of our universe, it is safe to assume that mystical forces were at work.

In 2005, the UN General Assembly adopted the non-binding Declaration on Human Cloning, which urges member states “to adopt all measures necessary to prohibit all forms of human cloning inasmuch as they are incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life.” At the end of the month, the UN’s International Bioethics Committee will gather in Paris to debate the UN’s position on human cloning and advise the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on how it should proceed. Among the issues the IBC will have to consider are:

Should the UN explicitly permit therapeutic human cloning?
Pros: The use of somatic cells and eggs to replicate human tissue has promising implications for the treatment of spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders, and organ failure, meaning it could fall under the umbrella of “protection of human life.” And, since several member states were unwilling to submit to any resolution that could be interpreted as banning therapeutic cloning, the UN may be missing an opportunity to regulate such cloning or enacting a binding ban on reproductive cloning.
Cons: Because the process requires the creation of a blastula, many view therapeutic cloning as violating human dignity on the same grounds as embryonic stem cell research. And others reject it because the embryos it creates could potentially grow into a cloned fetus, making it perhaps one step removed from reproductive cloning.
Likely Outcome: It is likely that the IBC will recommend that the UN avoid attempting to ban therapeutic cloning in favor of encouraging member states to adopt certain restrictions on cloning research.

Should the UN regulate therapeutic human cloning?
Pros: Because human eggs are required for somatic cell nuclear transfer, there is some concern that researchers could exploit women in order to obtain a sufficient supply of eggs. The General Assembly explicitly stated in its resolution that it sought to avoid the exploitation of women in the application of life sciences. Other aspects of therapeutic cloning may similarly risk exploitation of human life and should be investigated.
Cons: Regulating certain aspects of therapeutic cloning at an international level, such as those limiting the development of the blastula, could unduly hamper medical research. Any regulations would have to balance the dual goals of protecting human dignity and preserving human life.
Likely Outcome: An IBC working group set up to analyze the issue has questioned the adequacy of international regulations on human cloning, and recommended that the international community develop guidelines for cloning regulation.

Should the UN enact a binding resolution to ban reproductive human cloning?
Pros: Separating the issues of reproductive and therapeutic cloning could create the appearance of legitimacy for therapeutic research and encourage bright line rules for what the international community is willing to accept.
Cons: Depending on how broadly reproductive cloning is defined, a ban on reproductive cloning could negatively impact therapeutic research. Banning all reproductive cloning would also mean banning reproductive cloning for medical purposes without first exploring how the concepts of human dignity and protection of life might apply in such situations.
Likely Outcome: The working group has recommended that the UN address reproductive cloning as a separate issue from therapeutic cloning and that the General Assembly pass a binding convention to ban reproductive cloning.

UN Ethics Panel To Reconsider Human Cloning Ban [Scoop]

In 2004 and 2005 Hwang was regarded as top mind in human cloning. His research seemed to show that he'd been able to clone human embryonic stem cells, a huge accomplishment that would open the door to a new era in cloning and medicine.

That all changed in 2006 when news surfaced that he had fabricated his data and unethically obtained eggs from female researchers working in his lab. Disgraced, he left his prestigious position in academia to go work in animal cloning.

And now he's back, promising to keep your beloved K-9 around in cloned perpetuity for nothing more than a huge outlay of cash. Nevermind that he's already shown himself to be an utterly unethical scientist who will stop at nothing for personal gain (that says something abut the BioArts International's CEO Lou Hawthorne, too, who's got three copies of his dog Missy, pictured). Nevermind the valuable lessons Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to teach us all about the evils of cloning pets in the movie "The Sixth Day."

What's important, Hwang and Hawthorne are telling us, is that instead of saying goodbye to our pets, they can effectively live forever. Profit motive aside, I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not.

Source: Associated Press

Rorvik told the fascinating story of how an anonymous billionaire had approached him with the desire to make a clone of himself. With all his connections in the medical world, he was able to gather up a team of scientists who could do this. The team, code named Darwin, flew to a secret island in the Pacific and holed up for five years until it successfully created a human egg with the billionaire's DNA. They then injected the egg into the uterus of a woman with code name Sparrow. Nine months later, a baby was born. Or so the story went.

The March 3, 1978 edition of the New York Post bore a glaring headline declaring the birth of the first human clone. But scientists didn't buy it — they read the book and felt it was full of shit. Rorvik had based his cloning technology on one that was only known to work with frogs — there was no way that this could have been used to clone a human. Then an Oxford geneticist cited in the book sued Rorvik for making false claims and won, and the courts ruled that Rorvik's book was "a fraud and a hoax."

To this day, we don't really know why Rorvik wrote the book. Rorvik continues to claim that his book is telling the truth, and some believe him. And by the way, he's still writing medical books.

What do you think? Is the man a total liar or just slightly ahead of his time? The Cloning of Man [Museum of Hoaxes]

The technique is actually designed to prevent certain genetic diseases associated with the mother's mitochondrial DNA (a small amount of DNA that lives outside the cell nucleus). One woman contributes her nuclear DNA, one contributes mitochondrial DNA, and the father contributes the typical chunk of his own nuclear DNA. Presto: a baby with three genetic parents.

No three-parent babies have been born yet, but the researchers say they've done enough testing that they plan to make the procedure available in the next three to five years. Here's how it works:

The process involves in vitro fertilization (IVF) and the subsequent removal of the egg's nucleus. The nucleus is then placed into a donor egg whose DNA has been removed. The resulting fetus inherits nuclear DNA, or genes, from both parents but mitochondrial DNA from a third party.

Scientists create three-parent embryos [Reuters]

If you're a mad scientist with cloning technology at your disposal and you're hell-bent on cloning someone to represent your organization, Hitler would probably be at the top of your list. Just rest assured that you wouldn't be the first to try it. Check out the list of some of the better-known Hitler clones.

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• They Saved Hitler's Brain: This 1966 film features Nazi scientists removing Hitler's brain and sending it to South America so he can later be cloned. Too bad the movie didn't deliver on the promise of the title. it features numerous scenes of men talking. And talking. And talking. In fact, you don't even see Hitler's still-living head until the film is almost over. Talk about your wasted opportunities.
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• The Boys From Brazil: This 1978 film features a real gem of a plot. Dr. Joseph Mengele, the Angel of Death of Nazi concentration camps, has survived and has been feverishly working to clone Hitler himself. In fact, he's created 94 of them. These clones have been placed around the world and raised by families. However, in order to mirror Hitler's childhood, each of the clones fathers have to be killed when they reach age 14, since Hitler lost his own father at that age. The film features terrific performances from Gregory Peck and Sir Laurence Olivier, but the Hitler clone is only a background device, and we never get to see an adult Hitler tromping around.
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• Wonder Woman: In the Wonder Woman episode Anschluss '77, Wonder Woman stumbled onto a ring of Nazis in the 1970s trying to clone Hitler. They manage to pull it off, although the scene where Hitler's body rises up to fill his old uniform is laughable at best. While we love sci fi gadgets that can pump out clones at the flick of a switch, the ghostly resurrection of Hitler looks more like magic than quasi-science. Check out the episode below: the cloning happens about 28 minutes in.
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• The Hate-Monger: Marvel comics offered up this Hitler clone who used a "Hate-ray" to make love and other emotions turn into hate. Hoo-boy. He even wore a huge "H" belt-buckle, just to make sure you knew he wasn't a loving kind of guy. He also wore a Ku Klux Klan style hood and often exchanged fisticuffs with Captain America.

• Sadly, we haven't seen a good book or movie that nails the Hitler clone storyline. In fact, the most evil clone movie that Hollywood has given us was 1996's Multiplicity, featuring Michael Keaton as multiple clones of himself. It's been eleven years, and we're still not able to wash the taste of it from our mouths.