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Simulacrum
Simulacrum noun - A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture).
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Bonus points if an inhabitant of the last simulacrum builds another one, or the original creator's world turns out to be a model itself.
Source: Recursive Reality - Other ways of "cloning" — such as Simulacrum — don't have this problem, although such spells do not duplicate the original as well.
Source: Cloning Blues -
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Shore Leave", Kirk's old Academy classmate Finnegan (or rather a simulacrum of him on the planet the Enterprise visited in the episode) fits this trope as he gives Kirk a hard time taunting him into a fight.
Source: Fighting Irish
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