# Surely removeMovieClip also removes duplicates of that movieClip?

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**Created:** [May 8, 2007, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/surely-removemovieclip-also-removes-duplicates-of-that-movieclip/225041 "2007-05-08T12:18:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![PrinceTaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@PrinceTaj](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/PrinceTaj)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/surely-removemovieclip-also-removes-duplicates-of-that-movieclip/225041/1 "2007-05-08T12:18:11Z")

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Hi guys,

I’m getting rather disgruntled with Flash’s contradictory statements. I just need someone to clarify one thing for me; is it true that if you apply removeMovieClip to a movieClip instance, it also removes all of its duplicate instances? When I try to apply this principle, for some bizarre reason, it only just deletes the original instance and NOT any of its duplicates:

```auto

function stopSimulation():Void {

    cell_mc.swapDepths(999);
    cell_mc.removeMovieClip();

}

```

Can somebody please fill me in.

Many thanks

TAJ