Clone High

Clone High is a Canadian-American animated TV series that ran from 2002 to 2003, then was rebooted in 2023 and is currently ongoing.

Plot
ORIGINAL

Clone High takes place in a high school in the fictional city of Exclamation, USA. The high school, as assumed by the name, is full of successful cloning experiments. Each student is a teenage clone of a famous historical figure that has been made by the United States government for some mysterious goal. The school is monitored by a segment of the government known as The Secret Board of Shadowy Figures, and is run on-campus by Principal Cinnamon J. Scudworth, a mad scientist that has plans of his own to go behind the backs of the government to use the clones for his own devices. Principal Scudworth has a sidekick and friend he created called Vice Principal Lynn Butlertron, a robot butler that acts as the school's vice principal. The main cast consists of five clones: Abe Lincoln, Joan of Arc, Cleopatra, JFK, and Gandhi. Abe, JFK, Cleopatra and Joan are in consistent love triangles, and Gandhi acts as the comedic third wheel in all relationships. After 13 episodes, the show was cancelled unexpectedly, so the finale consisted of every clone being frozen at their winter prom by Principal Scudworth to keep the government from taking the clones from him.

REBOOT

20 years after the original clones were frozen in 2003, government official Candide Sampson works with the newest Secret Board of Shadowy Figures to enact Operation Spread Eagle, a new plan to thaw out and then groom the clones into later being able to rule the world to replace all other world leaders. She returns to Clone High to discuss the plan with Principal Scudworth. Candide discovers that Scudworth and Butlertron have continued to run Clone High by continuing to clone other historical figures without the authorization of the US government. Candide appoints herself the superintendent of the school to watch over Operation Spread Eagle and they thaw out the original clones. The clones then have to acclimate themselves back into student life in the year 2023, and with all new clones. The new main clones are Frida Kahlo, Harriet Tubman, Confucius and Topher Bus, a clone of Christopher Columbus. Because of part of the reason the original series was cancelled, Gandhi is absent and is still frozen where the others were originally.

Characters
Introduced in the Original Series


 * Will Forte as Abe Lincoln
 * Phil Lord as Principal Dr. Cinnamon J. Scudworth
 * Christopher Miller as JFK and Vice Principal Mr. Butlertron
 * Nicole Sullivan as Joan of Arc
 * Michael McDonald as Gandhi
 * Christa Miller (2002-2003) and Mitra Jouhari (2023-) as Cleopatra

Introduced in the Revival Series
 * Ayo Edebiri as Harriet Tubman
 * Kelvin Yu as Confucius
 * Neil Casey as Topher Bus
 * Vicci Martinez as Frida Kahlo
 * Christa Miller as Candide Sampson

Fanon
The original series was a small passion project between the three creators, Phil Lord, Bill Lawrence and Christopher Miller picked up by MTV. The show was given mixed and average ratings from multiple outlets but was not very popular when it was airing. After a controversy with the Gandhi character by some people in India, MTV apologized to India and privately asked the creators to create a second season without Gandhi, but none of the ideas for the second season were picked up. From there, the show was cancelled because of the Gandhi controversy and then fell into obscurity. However, years later, the show would grow to gain a large cult following on the internet mainly through the spreading of memes and soon there was discussion of a potential reboot of the show. The reboot came to be in 2023, exactly 20 years after the cancellation of the original series.

Shipping characters on the show was less common in 2002-2003 as opposed to the present day, where shipping characters in the original and reboot is now far more common. The most common ships of the series include JoanFK and Kahlopatra, mostly because of their canonicity. Fan fictions for Clone High are less common than fan art. Most fan fictions of the show were written in 2020-2023, and are mostly written on Wattpad rather than AO3. The dialogue about shipping surrounding the show is still ongoing, as the reboot is slated for a third season in 2024 and could possibly receive a fourth after that.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

FAN ART