Casual variant, as both Cloneblades and Excons/iWeapons are fruits of research which began when Dohji Industries and NSWF were allies and ended before they came to blows (i.e.

The Cloneblades from the Witchblade anime are an odd case, being clones of an artifact instead of a character.

Hell created a robotical doble of Kouji and sent it to the Photon Atomic Power Research Institute to wreak havoc and kill the heroes stealthily. Interesting in that the schiff themselves are vampire 'knockoffs' who've become a Phlebotinum Rebel Secret Project Refugee Family.

The Corpse Corps from Blood+ are clones of the Schiff.

This prompts the question of just what talismanic property of the hero's appearance is actually getting copied into 'Mecha-Hero.' The reason why is some absurd and never clearly articulated theory that 'nothing can be as strong as the hero but the hero- or something that kinda looks like him!' In the least justified cases, the Big Bad produces an obviously mechanical copy with superficial visual resemblance to The Hero but little functional similarity for example, a robot 'copy' of a human ninja could rely on hidden machine guns and rocket launchers.

(Big Bads do tend to obsess about this stuff.)įor a character to be an Evil Knockoff, it must be a copy created at least partly for the purpose of defeating The Hero in combat, on the principle of fighting fire with fire. his own, personal, mindlessly loyal copy of the hero! This is based on the theory that there's something about the hero personally that makes them unbeatable. The Evil Knockoff is what happens when the Big Bad decides that he could finally beat that frustratingly tenacious hero if only he had.

Gobot knockoff