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The important thing is '''Artificial Humans''' look like humans, they move like them, etc. Some may be bullet proof, but you wouldn't be able to tell from touch. Sometimes the only physical indicator is eye-color, which may be red, yellow or purple, or an unusual skin/hair pigment. Not always, though, and given the range of [[Technicolor Eyes|eye]] and [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|hair color]] in anime, it's not a perfect indicator.
But many of them have more in common with humans emotionally than robots. They are often outsiders, so their emotional states are often in the [[Cloning Blues|"angst" category]], which leads to bonding with the kind-hearted hero(ine) or [[Kill All Humans]]. If in a society that fully accepts them, there is usually no emotional difference.
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Like robots outside anime, it doesn't matter what they're created for, they'll usually have increased strength, speed, and other powers. See [[Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids]].
Note that the very first use of the word "robot" in fiction, the eponymous "robots" from Karel Capek's ''[[R.U.R.|RUR]]'' (for ''Rossum's Universal Robots''), were actually
Just like most robotic characters,
See also [[Creating Life]], [[Robot Girl]] and [[Spaceship Girl]]. Compare [[Ridiculously Human Robot]]. Contrast [[Forgot He Was a Robot]].
{{examples}}
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* The Mibu Tribe in ''[[Samurai Deeper Kyo]]''.
* In ''[[Bleach]]'', there are a few examples. Mayuri's "daughter", Nemu. Then there are the modsouls. And there are some fan theories that Ururu and Jinta are artificial people as well.
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** That's right, #17 and #18 were normal human twins until Gero messed with them. That's why #18 and Krillin could have a kid so easily. It's not obvious in the English dub because the Japanese word meaning "artificial human", used for both Gero's robots and Gero's cyborgs, was translated as "Android". #16 and #19 are robots.
*** It's worth noting that #20 (Gero) isn't a cyborg in the same sense of #17 and #18. #20 is actually a entirely robotic construct, the same type as #19, except with Gero's brain in a jar... in #20's head.
* ''[[
* ''[[Key the Metal Idol]]'' claimed to be an android, although her exact nature isn't revealed until much later.
* Ryoko from ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' was grown from a test-tube by Washuu.
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* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'', it is heavily hinted that the Innovators, along with {{spoiler|Tieria Erde and Nena Trinity}} may be like this due to their innate ability to interact with the supercomputer VEDA.
** {{spoiler|Hinted no more in Season 2.}}
* Touko of ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:
** {{spoiler|As usual - with Kinoko Nasu that is - the 'truth' is more complex. Touko achieved a level of sophistry in "copying" herself, that the copy is no longer distinguishable from the original hence it ceases to be a copy and Touko can no longer tell which self is really "her".}}
* Twice in ''[[Hell Teacher Nube]]'':
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* In ''[[Osamu Tezukas Metropolis]]'', {{spoiler|Tima states "I'm an artificial human"}} after being shot by Rock and {{spoiler|Noticing that the bruise she got was not blood or flesh, but her "inner skeleton"}}.
* In ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' you have the second Exorcists which include {{spoiler|Yu Kanda and Alma Karma}}
* [[Chobits]] - The Persocoms play with this trope, in that they're personal computers in humanoid cases.
* The Neogenics from the ''[[Witchblade (anime)|Witchblade]]'' anime, who are specifically designed to be Witchblade bearers. They age rapidly, which means Maria is basically a 5 year old girl with the body of a teenager.
* Pinoko from ''[[Black Jack]]'' is a special variation: She was ''supposed'' to be born as a normal human being (the [[Always Identical Twins|Identical Twin]] to an unnamed other girl, to be exact), but a bad case of the medical condition "Fetus in Fetu" occured during their mother's pregnancy, and Pinoko's organs (including her entire, ''working'' nervous system) ended up within her sister's body. After managing to plea Black Jack for help [[Psychic Powers|telepathically]], he removed the cyst containing her from her twin's body and built an artificial body for Pinoko, effectively making her a "full" person.
* The last guardians of the Pyramid in ''[[Yaiba]]'', namely Ruby, Sapphire, Diamond {{spoiler|and Emerald}}. The Platina Company is also apparently working on building the Ultimate Fighter.
* ''[[Rosario + Vampire]]'' revealed {{spoiler|Outer Moka}} to be a partial example. {{spoiler|She's a "fake personality" created to care for the sealed Inner Moka, but is also noted to be possibly the most lifelike one ever created, and was probably derived from her mother's personality}}.
* In ''[[Toward the Terra]]'', everyone could technically be considered
* Two characters in the final story arc of ''[[A Certain Scientific Railgun]] S'' are "chemicaloids", artificial humans created with a biochemical flaw.
== Comic Books ==
* [[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Comic Book)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]] was originally this; one comic story explained that she was created by Hilda and Zelda by accident.
* It explained that [[Sophie|Sophie Karamazout]] was created by her father in his laboratory.
* Judge Dredd, both Judge Ricos and all of Dredd's clones, in ''[[Judge Dredd]]''. In the spin-off audio dramas from [[Big Finish]], it's mentioned that much of Justice Department is made up of clones. Also, there's Mean Machine Angel, a cyborg nutcase with an emotion dial on his forehead.
* The Genetic Infantrymen from ''[[2000 AD]]''
* [[Wonder Woman]] was a "perfect woman" created from clay by her "mother", Hippolyta.
** Justified, as Wonder Woman's mythos is based heavily off of [[Greek Mythology]].
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* The <s>titular</s> <s>main</s> title character in ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''.
* Boba Fett and the clone army of ''[[Star Wars]]'' are all artificial clones of Jango Fett.
* The upcoming{{when}} [[Crisis Crossover]] movie between ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'' and ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'' will feature an artificial human who is apparently a cell-medal-based clone of Oda Nobunaga, who was responsible for the unification of Japan in the late 16th century.
* In ''[[Transformers]]'' Decepticons utilize Facsimile which created from humans the Decepticons kidnapped, they are used to fulfill the Decepticons' needs which involve them infiltrating human society. When they die they disintegrate into green goo.
== Literature ==
* The Robots in Karel Capek's ''[[R.U.R.
* In David Wingrove's ''[[Chung Kuo]]'', the GenSyn corporation makes brutish animal-men, as well as attractive female servants.
* The title character of [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s novel ''[[Friday (novel)|Friday]]''.
{{quote|"My mother was a test tube, my father was a knife."}}
** Except that the entire point of the story was {{spoiler|Friday coming to recognize that she was, in fact, human, and always had been.}} It was stated as clear that despite how Friday saw it, Friday ''was'' human, just genetically engineered and grown in an artificial womb. [[The Mentor|Boss]] even chided her for thinking she was anything other than human in his first appearance.
* In the Discworld book ''[[
* Rei Toei from [[William Gibson]]'s cyberpunk novel ''[[Idoru]]'' is a sentient artificial intelligence whose "body" is a hologram.
* The DADOs from ''The Pendragon Adventure'', who act as the bad guy's personal army from Book 7 on.
* Several characters in Bernard Werber's novels and short stories are androids or part of an artificial-life simulation software but don't know it. In fact, some of his works suggest that ''all'' of the characters and even {{spoiler|all of humankind, the gods, and the whole known universe}} might unwittingly be part of a giant software and/or experiment. Yup, Werber is a fan of [[Philip K. Dick]].
* ''[[Second Apocalypse]]'' features artificial humans of the [[Our Souls Are Different|soulless (literally)]], [[Psycho for Hire]] type.
* [[Frankenstein]]'s monster is one of the most classic and well known examples. While it is stressed at certain points throught the book that the monster is an entirely unique species, he certainly has a human intelligence and personality.
* The androids owned by [[The Protagonist]] in ''[[Fondly Fahrenheit]]''.
* R. Daneel Olivaw, Dors Venabili and some other humanoid robots in [[Isaac Asimov]]'s Robot and Foundation series.
* ''[[Hyperion]]'' has biroids, biologically manufactured androids. They're bright blue to keep them out of the uncanny valley.
* Terrence Cee (and his sister/wife Janine) in [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Ethan of Athos]]'' is one of these; he suffers some identity problems because he was genetically engineered from a careful selection of genes by a secret military project. But as Ethan points out, we're all a mishmash of our ancestors' genes, and everyone in his society is born from replicators (and donated eggs) anyway. So Terrence is completely normal - well, except that {{spoiler|he's telepathic}}.
* In [[Jack Vance]]'s ''[[Dying Earth (novel)|Dying Earth]]'', T'Sain and T'Sais are some kind of magically created human being.
* The [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel ''Interference'' introduces a whole society of these. See, when one of them dies, a new copy is created based on what those who knew them remember about them. (Side-effects include [[Creative Sterility|infertility]].) This seems to be a surprisingly accurate process, as when one of the Doctor's companions gets lost and ends up joining them, he's still vaguely recognizable several iterations later, so the Doctor puts him back to the way he was before he got lost. He handles it quite well... for a while. Eventually, [[Loss of Identity]]-based [[Angst]], [[Heroic BSOD]], and referring to himself as "it" ensues. He's also quite [[Living Forever Is Awesome|disappointed to discover he's not even immortal.]] Indeed, he's basically unchanged except for the fact his dreams are excessively normal and he has a new knack for anagrams and crossword puzzles, and is entirely indistinguishable from a normal human.
* The ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' books feature these as good (The Metathran), and bad (Phyrexian Sleeper Agents). The Sleepers had a more frightening creation process, by far. And the scariest bit about the Sleepers is some ''don't even know they are agents.'' One particular Sleeper from ''[[Black and Grey Morality|Time]] [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|Streams]]'' basically tested the characters and us in the matter of just to what measure a nonhuman is, being portrayed alongside Karn, future main character, and in the end, Karn (a silver golem) was more human than many of the human (or human-looking) characters.
* In a short story{{context}} about a man who decides to create an artificial human, he brings his creation to the city leader. The leader commends his effort but points out the flaws, such as lack of aging and the skin's inability to tan. He then shows the inventor an old video of a young boy and a group of old scientists. He reveals that they are the last true humans. He is that boy, the first artificial human. Unlike the flawed creation, he can do all the things real humans can. Realizing that everyone he knows, including himself, is an artificial human, the protagonist is shocked. The leader then proceeds to wipe his memory of the meeting, so that he can continue living in blissful ignorance.
* The wizard protagonist of [[Jorge Luis Borges]]'s "The Circular Ruins" manages with the help of the fire god to create an artificial human. In the end {{spoiler|it turns out he's an illusion as well}}.
* The misnamed "androids" of [[Robert Silverberg]]'s ''Tower of Glass''. They're visually distinguished from "normal humans" (whom they call "womb-born", and themselves "vat-born") by red skin and lack of body hair.
* In ''[[Forgotten Realms|Azure Bonds]]'', {{spoiler|Alias}} is revealed to be this, and spends the rest of the novel doubting she has a soul and feeling guilty that her friends have risked their lives to help a soulless automaton. Her friends, of course, think this is ridiculous, since she obviously has a soul; [[Aura Vision|one of them can even ''see'' it]]. She feels better at the end.
* "Androids" in ''[[A Tale of Time City]]'' are artificially-created people. They are made of flesh and bone, but are engineered. As a result, they're somewhat more pale than regular humans and they [[The Spock|feel emotions less strongly.]] However, Elio, the android character, is still personable in his weird way, and even bonds with the protagonist over [[Fan of the Past|their shared love of movies.]]
== Live-Action TV ==
* The most advanced models of Cylons on
* ''[[Caprica]]'' reveals that realistic humanoid (but not biological) Cylons could have existed 50 years ago (the accidental prototype was a [[Replacement Goldfish]] for a scientist's daughter), but their creators ultimately chose the "toaster" design because the realistic androids were too [[Uncanny Valley|unsettling]].
** They later change their minds ...
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* ''[[Space: Above and Beyond]]'' has the "In Vitros" or "Tanks": genetically designed clones grown in [[People Jars]] as forced laborers. Naturally, a Tank is made part of [[The Squad|the main cast]]. Conflict ensues, until they [[The Power of Friendship|learn to work together]].
* ''[[Farscape]]'' plays with this trope on a number of occasions. Played straight, the Scarrens have "bioloids" that they mostly use as [[Evil Twin]] duplicates. Sikozu is also revealed to be a kind of bioloid.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer
* Cameron from ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles
* Data from ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' is one of these who strives to [[Become a Real Boy]]. He has real hair that grows and needs shaving, his body mimics human breathing patterns, his positronic brain can get "drunk" from the same intoxicating particles as everyone else's. Data is ''so'' physically
** He always seeks to understand humanity but there are some episodes where becoming fully human tempts him (''[[Star Trek: First Contact|First Contact]]'') and other episodes where he considers his unique being to have added to the substance of the universe (see "Measure of a Man")
* The Vorta and Jem'Hadar of [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]. No, they are not Artificial Humans, just Artificial Humanoids. Keeping that distinction in mind, they completely fit the trope: from their fanatical loyalty to their creators, to their utter lack of aesthetic sense.
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* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episodes "The Rebel Flesh" and "The Almost People" featured a very real version of this. They are clones of the originals created by a jelly-like substance.
* [[The Sixties]] British sci-fi serial ''[[A for Andromeda]]''. The title character is a beautiful [[Emotionless Girl]] created by a [[Master Computer]] according to a design transmitted from another galaxy.
== Music ==
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''She tastes like the real thing''
''My fake plastic love'' }}
* The song "Coin Operated Boy" by The Dresden Dolls:
{{quote|''Made of plastic and elastic''
''He is rugged and long-lasting''
''Who could ever ever ask for more?'' }}
* The Mr. Bungle songs "Golem II: The Bionic Vapour Boy" and "None of Them Knew They Were Robots".
* [http://www.madmusic.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=7408 "My Girlfriend is Inflatable"] by [[John Mammoser]].
== Mythology ==
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** And from the same universe, we have the fetches of ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'', fake humans made by [[The Fair Folk]] to cover up their abductions. They're usually made from whatever stray garbage seems appropriate and a piece of the abductee's soul. They believe themselves to be the person they're meant to replace, but always seem to lack one feature (positive or negative) that went into the character of their template.
* [[Eclipse Phase]]'s Pod morphs—short for "pod people", since they are assembled out of vat-grown limbs and organs and equipped with a computer brain.
** Actually, all biomorphs (except flats and splicers) probably qualify as
* The bioroids - "biological androids" - in ''[[GURPS]] [[Transhuman Space]]''.
** Guidelines for designing your own bioroids - and infinite other forms of [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke|gengineered]] life - reappear in ''GURPS: Bio Tech''.
== Video Games ==
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* A.B.A. in ''[[Guilty Gear]]'', a homunculus.
* In ''[[Haunting Ground]]'', {{spoiler|The first three antagonists ([[And Call Him George|Debilitas]], [[Ax Crazy|Daniella]] and [[Evil Uncle|Riccardo]], and even Fiona's ''father'' are all Artificial Humans created by the [[Big Bad]]. The latter two are his ''[[Cloning Blues|Clones]]''.}}
* ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka de]]''{{'}}s Abe no Yasuaki was created by his teacher [[Onmyodo|Abe no Seimei]] to assist the main character (his [[Expy]] Abe no Yasutsugu from ''Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 2'' has the same origins). In the manga version, Yasuaki occasionally explains just how, [[Magi Babble|because he wasn't born from a woman, he is "incomplete"]] [[Our Souls Are Different|and doesn't possess a heart]] [[The Stoic|or emotions]], even after [[Character Development|certain events that proved otherwise]]; of course, there's always the main character to help with such cases...
* In the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' games, Organization XIII member Vexen builds several Replicas; humanoid "puppets" made for various purposes. Two recurring traits among said Replicas are the ability to drain power from other people, and a tendency towards [[Beta Test Baddie|feeling incomplete or "borrowed"]].
* {{spoiler|Quote}} in ''[[Cave Story]]'', sort of.
* In ''[[Albion]]'', NED's primary means of communication is using an android body to interact with his crew. He even has an entire army of them prepared to slaughter everyone on board should they rebel.
* {{spoiler|The Observers and Trackers}} from ''[[Infinite Space]]'' are {{spoiler|created by the Overlords to watch the progress of humankind in fulfilling their role to stabilize the universe}}. Five characters are identified as them throughout the game {{spoiler|(Yuri, Kira, Valantin, Taranis, and Bogd)}}, although given the story, there are probably more of them.
* ''[[Deus Ex]]'' {{spoiler|the Denton 'brothers' are revealed to be completely artificially engineered.}}
* In the ''[[Mega Man Legends]]'' games, it's revealed that {{spoiler|all the humans you see in the game are
* In ''[[
* The Demi-Gods (Both the
== Visual Novels ==
* Several characters from the Einzbern family in ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'' and ''[[Fate/Zero]]'' are homunculi created through magecraft.
** Also in the [[Nasuverse]], {{spoiler|Aozaki Touko}} from ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:
** Arcueid in ''[[Tsukihime]]'' is an artificial <s>human</s> True Ancestor, created for the purpose of killing Demon Lords and Dead Apostles. She doesn't get all angsty because she doesn't seem to possess [[Angst? What Angst?|that]] emotion.
*** Wasn't Arcuied only "created" to hunt Dead Apostles in the sense that she was carefully raised from birth to be a killing machine, rather than actually created as an artificial being? Now her Dead Apostle "sister" Altrouge on the other hand...
**** It's kinda tricky. True Ancestors as a whole were created by Gaia (and corrupted by Brunestead, the Type of the Crimson Moon) as an Artificial Type (A planet's Ultimate One) in response to humanity, and probably aren't even born naturally. It seems that Arcueid was "created" to hunt Demon Lords in both senses; she was trained to do so, without any other unnecessary education, but it also seems that the True Ancestors guided her creation, causing her to be a perfect vessel for the Crimson Moon, something that the original Crimson Moon couldn't even manage himself.
** Finally, also in ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]''{{'}}s Heaven's Feel scenario, {{spoiler|Shirou is reduced to this in the True ending}}.
** Almost all the Servants {{spoiler|with the notable exception of Saber}} are basically Artificial Themselves, created by taking a copy of their minds and putting it in a body created by the Holy Grail. And then there's {{spoiler|false}} Assassin, who is an Artificial Servant, created in the form of a Hero that never actually existed in the world of [[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]].
* All furniture in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' is supposed to be some variant of this.
* Tanya, the android love interest from ''[[Bionic Heart]]'' has a metal skeleton, but she has artificial organs identical to a human’s. They don’t function, however. But Tanya does have a working human brain that is the [[Amnesiac Dissonance|cause of her memories]].
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Artifice]]'', android soldier Deacon looks and for the most part acts completely human (even though he rejects the term) and, in the opening scene, two security guards debate whether he deserves the title of being called an "Artificial Person".
*
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Belphoebe of the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''. A cloned body based on Jobe's secret drow transform serum. A mental copy of Belphegor is (accidentally) imprinted onto the body, and it wakes up. It's adapting quite nicely so far.
== Western Animation ==
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* Synergy of ''[[Jem]]'' is a super-computer type of this.
* Cobra "synthoids" in ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' could perfectly mimic real people and were key to several episodes where a [[Faked Rip Van Winkle]] or [[Body Snatcher]] plot was in effect. They were apparently organic in nature, being constructed of a grey goopy matter called "Pseudoplasm" which they would [[Nightmare Fuel|terrifyingly revert]] back into by ''melting'' if killed or self-destructed.
** The Synthoid technology was also put into use in an episode of ''[[Transformers]]'', in which Rodimus Prime, Arcee and Ultra Magnus had their minds
* There are three examples of this in ''[[Code Lyoko]]'':
** Aelita was thought to be one of these (specifically, an AI) for two seasons, until it was revealed that she was, in fact, human, not to mention the daughter of the supercomputer's creator.
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