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Cloning
Abo and Kado cloning
分身
Bunshin
Debut "The Four Faces of Tien"
Inventor Many Fighters
Users Tien Shinhan
Piccolo
Krillin
Dodoria
Nail
Cell
Chapuchai
Kid Buu
Majin Buu
Janemba
Gogeta
Abo
Kado
Class Cloning
Similar techniques Fission
Multi-Form
Tri-Form

Cloning (分身) is the general ability to split into several identical duplicates to fight as a group.

Overview[]

PiccoloCloning

Piccolo and his sparring partner in Break Wasteland

The cloning technique is encountered quite often in anime, but the only usage in the original manga was Tien Shinhan's Multi-Form (it is also used in the official manga adaptation of Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!).

Piccolo uses this technique to sprout identical sparring partners (notably in the Break Wasteland, during the Garlic Jr. Saga, and in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber during the Cell Games Saga). During the battle against the Saiyans Vegeta and Nappa, Piccolo and Krillin use a specific cloning technique called the Tri-Form, splitting themselves into three identical duplicates to fight as a group. This is similar to the Multi-Form technique used by Tien Shinhan, which divides its user into a total of four separate beings.

ChapuClones

The 7 Chapuchai

Ninja Murasaki uses an alleged cloning technique called Bunshin no Jutsu, however his 'clones' are actually his brothers in disguise.

The South Galaxy fighter, Chapuchai, has the ability to create seven clones of himself. Abo and Kado, the main antagonists of Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!, used this technique during their fight against Goten and Trunks.

Video game appearances[]

In Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiya Densetsu, Nail was training with an identical sparring partner in a cave on Namek, when Gohan and his friends met him.

TienClones(UB22)

Tien's Meteo Brute Combo in Ultimate Battle 22

In Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu, Dr. Gero's used informations coming from his remote tracking device to create clone of the Saibamen, Banan and Sūi. He releases those clones while on Amenbo Island and while regaining his lab to activate Android 17 and Android 18.

In Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden 2, in the "Resurrection! Galaxy Warrior" story, Bojack and Zangya use evil clones of Gohan, Future Trunks, Vegeta, and Piccolo to trick the Z Fighters into fighing each other and get the Dragon Balls from them. In Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22, Tien clones himself to perform his meteor attack, the Meteo Brute Combo.

Variations[]

  • Fission – The user creates a clone completly independent from himself.
  • Multi-Form – The user creates four clones of himself.
  • Tri-Form – The user creates three clones of himself.

Trivia[]

  • One of Lord Slug's henchmen, Medamatcha, creates "clones" that absorb their opponents' ki. Medamatcha's method of cloning is similar to the one used by Cell to produce Cell Juniors. It is similar to a Surinam Toad's way of giving birth; this can be supported by the fact that Medamatcha looks like a frog/toad.
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