Talk:Summer Rose/@comment-39997281-20190702231230/@comment-26018514-20190716184109

Maria no longer has her eyes, youth, or powers, now sure they could replace Maria with Summer by making her a Maria clone... but is there any show with a large cast that becomes more interesting by cloning existing characters only to replace the original? I can think of 2 where that almost happened, Future Diary and Naruto.

The former was just "time/dimension travel shenanigans" which made the original dimension make no sense(seriously, certain diaries were claimed impossible to beat without the fact that one character dimension hopped, yet we are to believe that she somehow did so with only the MC's help when both of them knew nothing... despite in the reality the show is set her foreknowledge should make things easy as she knows her targets, yet she barely scrapes by).

The second has Sai introduced as a rather distinct character from Sasuke with many similarities, so I don't think it can even be claimed to be what you are suggesting despite working out.