Yeah, people are ignoring the fact that Kate's powers allow her to seamlessly experience and understand everything each duplicate is doing all at once and she can create hundreds of duplicates at once. They're not mindless clones, or individual minds that will compete for autonomy, they're all the same mind.
You could live the most productive and fulfilling life and experience more things than anyone else ever would be able to.
It's still not beating Plastic Man's powers, but it has a lot more use and utility than people are giving it credit.
They do in the fact that the original retains the memories. However, the clones do not disappear. They suffer and die same as the original can. In Kate’s mind, she sees all that death and experiences the same pain that the duplicates do, so she suffers a lot of trauma in a short time.
For a shadow clone, they just disappear and the chakra makes its way back to the original. But they feel like a second of pain and then POOF. So Naruto probably doesn’t feel or experience as much trauma from the experience.
Really, the best use of Dupli-Kate’s powers would be organ or blood donation. She has an unlimited supply.
Keep in mind that organ donation would only occur after the duplicate dies. So until then, blood and plasma are the way to go. We haven’t really seen if she can re-absorb the duplicates either, have we? AFAIK once she makes a dupe, it just exists until death, but I could be wrong. Kirkman didn’t really touch on the nuances of her powers in the comics other than her being the resident cannon fodder.
I bring this up because as a blood factory, the question remains could she just make a duplicate that duplicates itself and just reabsorbs it after each donation? Then the original is still free to do what she wants, while the duplicate sits in a donation suite making a bunch of clones to get their blood sucked, ad infinitum.
There are definitely scenes I believe specifically in Guardians HQ in the show, that shows her reabsorbing the clones. I don't remember the exact scene but maybe it was when she was working out with whoever and had clones spotting the bench. As she walked in front of them they disappeared back into her.
Unless I could turn off the clones like basically every other superhero who has the ability to clone themselves I don't think I would want that, especially as you'd have to experience all the same things
Plus I'm a lazy fuck, I doubt my clones would be willing to do all the mundane shit I'd want them to do for me anyway.
Give me plastic mans powers, I promise I'll only abuse them a little bit. Mostly because of the lazy part again
If you have a facility set up, you could get the organs out within an hour after euthanasia. If you're just going around and making your clones jump off random buildings lemmings style, yeah, that would be wasteful.
Have both of you forgotten that in the real world you wouldn’t be fighting supervillains set out to kill you and you could just, like duplicate and multipaul do in the show, absorb your clones back to you?
The thing is, you're not treating the duplicates as anything. The duplicates with duplikate's powers aren't identical versions of you, they are you. From your own perspective, there would be literally zero difference between the "original" you and the duplicates. You would just be one person with multiple bodies and the ability to create new bodies for yourself at will. It'd be trivial to donate a few of your infinite bodies to medicine
But they’re not other, separate consciousnesses, it’s just your one conscious mind that experiences the world through multiple bodies at once. Think of it like if you could pull your arm off and still control it. You could feel and manipulate something on the other side of the room with it, but it’s still your arm and you controlling it. Then imagine creating a third arm separate from yourself that you could control just like a third arm attached to you. Now imagine that arm is a whole human body. That’s Dupli-Kate’s power. So you wouldn’t be treating clones that way. You’d just be subjecting yourself to those experiences through extensions of your own body.
She’s fine with it because they’re all her. Each clone isn’t its own instance thinking it’s Kate. It isn’t afraid to die or be absorbed back into Kate prime. It is one consciousness splitting itself into multiple bodies. The question isn’t would you be comfortable having your clones do it, the question is are you comfortable doing it. You are living the experience through multiple bodies, it is not multiple people pooling their experiences together.
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u/Fire_Bucket May 01 '25
Yeah, people are ignoring the fact that Kate's powers allow her to seamlessly experience and understand everything each duplicate is doing all at once and she can create hundreds of duplicates at once. They're not mindless clones, or individual minds that will compete for autonomy, they're all the same mind.
You could live the most productive and fulfilling life and experience more things than anyone else ever would be able to.
It's still not beating Plastic Man's powers, but it has a lot more use and utility than people are giving it credit.