It Takes Two?

I have a friend that's so afraid of clowns, that every time there's a storyline with a clown, good or evil, (usually evil), she'll watch or read enraptured, hating every minute but unable to put it down.

It's really odd. I think everyone has something like that though. Some kind of storyline or situational quirk that really gets to you, for whatever reason.

Mine is the evil clone storylines.

I HATE evil clone storylines. I hate how no one ever seems to be able to tell the evil clone from the good one until long after the clone would have given itself away to anyone paying a half bit of attention. I hate how invariably the evil clone causes a whole mess of trouble and then dies/gets captured leaving the poor original person to deal with it. I just hate it.

And every time I watch/read one I'm on the edge of my seat.

I don't get it really. I HATE those stories. I groan whenever I hear of one. I have never actively sought an "evil clone" story. But whenever I encounter one I simply can't change the station. I'm hooked. I keep watching, breathlessly, going "Oh god, they're going to figure it out, right?! He/she's not going to ruin everything, right?! Oh no!!!"

It's really odd.

I dunno, maybe it resonates with a deep seated fear of being unmemorable and replaceable, or being blamed for something I'm innocent of. You honestly got me. As far as I know, I'm not consciously afraid of any of those things.

(I also really like "good clone" stories. Especially ones where the clone/robot/duplicate thinks they're the original. I always get attached and feel bad when they die/go away. It's not their fault they're not the genuine article. I'm a sap.)

I don't know what it is, but "evil clone" stories get me every time. Creepy!