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Let’s just make a supposition: When Czarnia was still populated (before Lobo kill everybody) in order to create clones nonstop the Czarnians couldn’t only die from natural causes , and so on, during your whole life, they could neither have a scratch or a cut. It’s all right the Czarnians is a pacific people, very pacific, but it’s suffice a child stumble and hurt him/herself to generate sets of ten clones and leave their parents full of children. The first Lobo's appearance, still as an Omega Men secondary character, his origin was a little different from the current one. His home planet was called Velorpia and he wasn’t the responsible for his own destruction, however the characteristic of “self-cloning” already existed. In this version of the character origin, Velorpia was destroyed because of the huge volume of clones that arose, which happened to take space from everybody in the planet and made the psions (other ETs, but it’s not the case to detail it) to crumble away all the Velorpians (unique way of destroying them), only remaining Lobo. In the current origin of Lobo, Czarnia was destroyed by himself, after creating insects that cause a frightening disease. This disease didn’t allow the origin of clones because it avoided people to bleed or things like this.
Until being avoided by Vril Dox (from L.E.G.I.O.N.) of creating clones, Lobo had the capacity working at ease. During all the time taken for him to join the Dox`s group (according to the DC chronology, almost 400 years), obviously several clones were arisen, at least by bloodshed during fights. What would Lobo had done? Would he had killed any clone that arose in order to keep being the only Czarnian of the universe? Of course. However, as the Velorpians, a Czarninan only dies once and for all if he is totally disintegrated (as he can be checked in “L.E.G.I.O.N.” #8, when Vril Dox disintegrates “troops” of Lobo’s clones).
But let’s remember a detail: Lobo is immortal! He has managed that because
neither heaven nor hell had accepted him. From that there comes the question: If
he can’t die, how can his clone do that? DC Comics has never given this
explanation. On the contrary, some stories helped to make the confusion bigger
(see the clone that quickly appears in “Lobo Annual” #3 and that Lobo knock out
with a simple blow, without any posterior explanations). One of two things: Or
the clones don’t have soul or they share the same soul as Lobo.
And talking about rare cases, why dona E. Tribb (the Lobo’s ex-primary teacher in the “The Last Czarnian” mini-series ) didn’t generate clones when Lobo had cut his legs? Was she treated by Vril Dox order to not be duplicated? The ones who read the magazines know it wasn’t. One last question: If Li’l Lobo could create clone because, when he turned to a teenager, reverted the Vril Dox’s treatment, has adult Lobo (he kept growing again, without more explanations, from these teenage clonings) could create clones again? Only the next Lobo’s magazine will be able to explain that – only if its writer would care about this detail. Of the Lobo’s powers, perhaps his capacity of “self-cloning” is the one which causes more confusion to the character coherence. It was explored in an interesting way in the beginning of L.E.G.I.O.N. and has generated some good stories (like the saga published in “Lobo” #7-9), but maybe a small reformulation would be necessary to not leave so many loosen tines.
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Lobo
was born in the lovely planet Czarnia. As all Czarnians, Lobo is able to
regenerate any part of his body besides being able to create clones from
himself, for it with a single blood drop. Therefore, with several blood drops,
how many clones from the same Czarnian couldn’t be made? Apart from the clones
and so on. Summing up, we are before a little logical problem.
Even if we accept the fact
that during all the period Czarnia existed, everybody was worry to don’t allow a
clone overpopulation, the logical problem persists thanks to Lobo himself.
What can we say about Slobo,
the teenage clone that is a member of Young Justice? He appeared in “Young
Justice” #38, from the Li’l Lobo’s clones (Main Man magically transformed in a
teenager), however, besides being weaker and “restrained”, he still has yellow
eyes. He himself explains, in this same edition, that his case is one in one
billion, still “blaming” a recessive gene. Even so, it’s a story very badly
told.