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* ''[[Armitage III]]: Dual Matrix'' has robot ''[[Cloning Blues|clones]]'' of the [[Ridiculously Human Robot|android]] lead. Their world has [[Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence|three kinds of robots]], dumb mechanical ones, menial work bots, and the outlawed Thirds which are organic/mechanical robots and can bear children. Armitage herself is a [[Replacement Goldfish]] of their creator's dead daughter, and [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] steals her father's notes and makes more of her. Yech. Of course, since they were more like "twins" than Robot Me's, they were [[Evil Twin|Evil.]]

* ''Perman'' by Fujiko F. Fujio (creator of [[Doraemon]]). Each of the three superheros (an everyday school kid, a girl child star—and a chimp) is given a morphing robot that serves as a stand-in, so that when they come back from their call, they don't have to answer the embarrassing question of "where have you been?".

* Hilariously [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Trouble Chocolate]]'' when Mint creates a killer robot version of Deborah and no one can tell it's not her (despite it being blindingly obvious). Even Murakata can't tell the difference.

 

== Comic Books ==

 

* In the [[Ray Bradbury]] short story ''Marionettes, Inc.'', a man acquires a Robot Me to stand in for him at home while he goes away. (A very sophisticated robot that eventually develops sentience, but still one that, if you place your head to the chest, you can hear a clock ticking instead of a heart beating.) However, the robot decides that he likes the original man's life and doesn't want to be stored away in a box in the basement. The solution? He betrays his owner by locking HIM in the box forever while he (the robot) lives the life of the owner, his family completely unaware of the switch.

* Beth Kittridge's simulacrum from ''[[Tek War]].'' {{spoiler|The robot gets destroyed, but [[Doppelganger Replacement Love Interest|Jake meets the real Beth not long after.]] True, the robot only cared about protecting Beth's life, but even so... [[Cloning Blues|poor, poor l'il robot.]]}}

* [[The Adventures Of Electronic]] by Russian author E. Veltistov have a robot built after a real boy. The robot escapes and meets said boy, who is very happy to have his Robot Me go to school instead of him and then...

* Alfred Slote's ''My Robot Buddy'' series involves a kid named Jack who is given a [[Robot Buddy]], Danny, as a present; at his request, Danny is made to look exactly like him. Much use is made of this throughout the series.

 

 

* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': Robo SG-1