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Duplica has appeared in two anime episodes. {{Ash}} and {{ashfr}} first met Duplica in ''[[EP037|Ditto's Mysterious Mansion]]'' after taking shelter from a storm in a mansion. Duplica owned the mansion, called the "The House of Imite", which serves as a rest stop and performance space for her imitation shows. She showed Ash, Misty, and Brock {{p|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 and with threats, 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 reopen 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 [[Johto]] town for a Pokémon Acting Competition. She had another Ditto, Mini-Dit, with another unique problem. It could transform into perfect miniature replicas of other Pokémon including a tiny, handheld {{p|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 in order to receive a powerful Pokémon in return. Duplica recovered Mini-Dit, using it in a [[Double Battle]] against Jessie and James. She and Ash then sent Team Rocket flying. In the end, Duplica decided that Mini-Dit's unusual transformations made it unique; the audience seemed to agree.

Duplica aims to become a Ditto Master, and collect Ditto with various and unique transformation abilities. Although she 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}} initially could not alter its face. Though thanks to Team Rocket's frustrations it learned to {{m|transform}} into perfect [[Pokémon]] replicas.}}

|desc='''Mini-Dit''' (Japanese: '''メタぴょん''' ''Meta-pyon'') is the second Ditto owned by Duplica. Unlike other Ditto, it cannot alter 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.