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Eminem is by far the weirdest case out of all of them.
Whereas most celebs have 1 replacement in the middle of their career, maybe 2, Eminem seems to have had several ranging from very early on his career. From what I've been able to piece together from various sources including his own lyrics, this is his story:
>The real, original, Marshall Bruce Mathers III committed suicide by hanging in his original universe between October 17th, 1984 and October 16th, 1985. He re-emerged into our universe via quantum immortality, taking over the body of the previous Marshall Mathers, yet some of the original MM's personality and memories were retained, in effect causing two people to live in the same body. This is where Slim Shady originates from.
>MBMIII-2 was then active here until December 2000 when he left our world via a car crash which was chalked down as a hoax. Not so. And it wasn't an accident either. Look at the worldwide cover from the Marshall Mathers LP (not the one with the house, the dark one with him sat down in the distance) and tell me what is being depicted in that image. If you're stuck, watch the last few seconds of 'The Monster' music video from many years later.
They locked him away in a human-sized cage, possibly due to him finding out something he shouldn't have, and only consulted him for lyrics, letting a doppelganger take over for videos and a soundalike to start singing for his songs, from Chronic 2001 (What's The Difference has his MMLP voice; Forgot About Dre has his SSLP voice). In Stan you can differentiate the two singers extremely easily. Obviously, he, like many other sane human beings would, broke down and ended it all. The face he gives us on the album cover, although small, is one of pure fear and despair.
>The first true replacement came in during the Up in Smoke Tour in early 2001 and was reanimated from what was left of the dead body. Notice how 90% of the available footage from those events show him in a Jason mask? Something went wrong with the face and would take time to repair. In his later concerts from that tour, he takes the mask off occasionally. Maybe his facial skin was unnecessarily sensitive and exposure to air/light would cause it to bubble and/or peel off? This clone was partially organic, and died in 2006. He seemed to be semi-conscious about his purpose and knew he was going to die quickly due to the shortened lifespans of clones. This is why he wrote "When I'm Gone", among others. After this point there'd be 0% trace of the original Eminem in any iteration. He'd have to be trained from the very beginning, oblivious to the past.
>Meanwhile, a whole new clone was created for the film 8 Mile. I watched it a couple days ago, and there's no way this is the same Eminem from a couple years prior. It's a different beast altogether. Why the fuck they made two clones of the same person around the same time that looked completely different from each other is beyond me.
>From 2006 - 2007, a couple of human body doubles stepped in that had hardly a passing resemblance to either Eminem nor either of his 2001 clones. An unfinished clone sung a few demos.
2008 is where shit starts to get fucking crazy. I honestly can't pin it down accurately. The only thing I can say is I count at least 4 different humanesque clones from then until present. How many exactly is anyone's guess.
One theory I've come up with to try and explain this insanity is that like how a big-name Monster Truck such as Gravedigger or Bigfoot has multiple versions of itself active round the world at the same time, the same applied (and perhaps still applies) to Eminem. There was always more than one instance of him running around, probably from the very beginning of his relationship with Dr. Dre, who had to put his third album Detox (later Compton) on hold for a long-ass time, dedicating most of his waking hours to managing an Eminem factory.