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| Clone Slugs | |||||
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| Insurance for death prone children! Available in small, medium and large! | |||||
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| 1st appearance: | Powerless in the Face of Death | ||||
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The Clone Slugs were half-formed clones of Hank and Dean Venture that Dr. Venture created years ago from nail clippings (he thinks). This platoon of clones were held in liquid suspension in an otherwise unused portion of the Venture Compound. They were created by Dr. Venture mainly to be used to replace the boys whenever they die, or potentially for spare parts.
The process is briefly described in Powerless in the Face of Death by Dr. Venture when he explains the situation to a confused Dr. Orpheus who confronted an escaped pair of slugs at his door. Not yet fully formed, the boys were barely cognizant and their bodies were weak, Brock noting that they feel like giant Stretch Armstrongs. By this point the boys had died fourteen times.
Hank accidentally stumbles upon the Clone Slugs in ¡Viva los Muertos! and freaks out before Dr. Venture, thinking quickly, tells him that they are just a Christmas gift for him and Dean.
In The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (Part 2), the Clone Slug army is geared up and sent to battle in an attempt to distract the combined forces of General Treister's OSI troops and The Fluttering Horde henchmen. They are systematically destroyed, mostly by an out of control Monarch in his Death Panoply suit. With all the clone slugs destroyed, Hank and Dean were left with no failsafe if they should ever be killed or injured and are now doomed to live more like normal boys.
