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Duplica has appeared in two anime episodes. Her first appearance was in ''[[EP037|Ditto's Mysterious Mansion]]''. {{Ash}} and {{ashfr}} were traveling through [[Kanto]] when they sought shelter from the rain in an abandoned mansion. The house was actually called "The House of Imite" and it was owned by Duplica and her {{p|Ditto}}. She showed them Ditto's ability to transform into any Pokémon. A skeptical Ash sent out his {{AP|Bulbasaur}} to battle Duplica's Ditto. Surprisingly enough, Bulbasaur lost against the imitation. Duplica then explained that her Ditto had trouble transforming one aspect of it — its face. No matter what Pokémon it {{m|Transform}}ed into, it always retained the beady eyes and wobbly mouth of a Ditto.

{{TRT}} kidnapped the Ditto. They wanted to have Duplica's Ditto Transform into a {{p|Dratini}} so they could give it to {{an|Giovanni}}. After a while, they were able to train it to Transform perfectly. After Ash, {{an|Brock}}, Duplica, and {{an|Misty}} dressed up as Team Rocket and rescued Ditto, Duplica felt she was ready to open up her mansion as a theater to entertain passing Pokémon Trainers.

Later, in ''[[EP174|Imitation Confrontation]]'', Brock noticed that a [[Nurse Joy]] they were talking to was an imitation. It turned out to be Duplica, who had come to the local town for a Pokémon Acting Competition. She had another Ditto, Mini-Dit, with another problem. It could Transform into perfect replicas of other Pokémon in every way but size. So when it transformed into an {{p|Onix}}, she had a tiny, hand-held Onix.

Team Rocket stole Mini-Dit and planned to have it transform into a Pokémon that they could pass off as a rare, pygmy version so they could get a rare and powerful Pokémon in return. Duplica recovered Mini-Dit and decided that its unusual transformations made it unique; the audience seemed to agree.

Although Duplica sometimes performs by imitating Pokémon herself, her usual shows feature her imitating a Pokémon Trainer while her Ditto imitates that Trainer's Pokémon. She did an excellent impression of Ash and [[Nurse Joy]], for instance.

|desc=Duplica's first and main {{p|Ditto}}. Unlike most Ditto, it could not change its face when it {{m|transform}}ed into other [[Pokémon]], but it eventually learned.}}

|desc='''Mini-Dit''' (Japanese: '''メタぴょん''' ''Meta-pyon'') is the second Ditto owned by Duplica. Unlike other Ditto, this one doesn't change its [[List of Pokémon by height|size]] when it {{m|transform}}s. However, its other powers are all the same as a normal Ditto's.