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** {{spoiler|Recent chapters seem to confirm this; or at least imply it as strongly as possible without actually saying it.}}
** Interestingly, it isn't his creation of life in the first place that's portrayed as being objectively "wrong", but his behaving as if he has the authority to do with that life as he pleases that is wrong.
* In ''[[Pokémon: theThe First Movie (Anime)|Pokémon the First Movie]]'', the first part alludes to many failed attempts to [[Create Life]], with Mewtwo being the lone survivor. {{spoiler|1=The [[Mad Scientist]] Dr. Fuji only agreed to attempt a clone of Mew in order to get funding for the project. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gUvTa8Lx98 It's true purpose was to bring the good doctor's daughter, Amber/Ai, back from the dead].}} Ends with them [[Gone Horribly Right|suceeding in creating the world's most powerful Pokemon]].
* ''[[Zombie Loan]]'' has a [[Mad Scientist|character]] who creates [[Golem|golems]] out of [[Our Zombies Are Different|zombie]] parts. They're not very nice.
** One of them is nice, and rather [[The Woobie|woobie-ish]]. {{spoiler|She doesn't last long.}}
* Type Blue Mu from [[Toward the Terra]] manga have ability to create living organism from organic matter via [[Mind Over Matter|telekinesis]]. Tony uses this power to show Artella they still can have children, even if doctors have said otherwise.
* In ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]'', Dr. Gero/{{spoiler|Android 20}} creates Androids 16, 17, 18, and Cell. Androids 17 and 18 {{spoiler|rebel and kill him}}, while Cell {{spoiler|reaches his perfect form, threatens to destroy the universe, and ultimately kills Goku in a case of [[Gone Horribly Right]]}}
 
== Comic Books ==
 
* In the [[Silver Age]] [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] comics, this formed part of Lex Luthor's origin. Young Lex Luthor was an aspiring scientist who resided in Smallville, the hometown of Superboy. Luthor saved Superboy from a chance encounter with Kryptonite. In gratitude Superboy built Luthor a laboratory, where weeks later he manages to create an artificial form of life. Grateful in turn to Superboy, Luthor created an antidote for Kryptonite poisoning. However, an accidental fire broke out in Luthor's lab. Superboy used his super-breath to extinguish the flames, inadvertently spilling chemicals which caused Luthor to go bald; in the process, he also destroyed Luthor's artificial life form. Believing Superboy intentionally destroyed his discoveries, Luthor attributed his actions to jealousy and vowed revenge.
* The title character from [[Omega the Unknown]] was created to be a real [[Ubermensch]] by an ancient race of aliens.
 
== Fan Works ==
 
* A major part of the Fourth Movement of ''[[With Strings Attached (Fanfic)|With Strings Attached]]''. {{spoiler|Brox}} discovers a spell that will turn inorganic items into living creatures; {{spoiler|she}} wants to use it to repopulate Baravada with monsters for the skahs to kill. To that end, {{spoiler|she}} mind-controls Paul, who seems to be able to boost spells well beyond their parameters, and teaches him the spell so he can boost it and then channel it through the Vasyn, which will boost it exponentially.
 
== Film ==
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** Also, the creation of the clone army is arguably this with the clones eventually making [[The Empire]] possible.
* ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'', of course, has Dr. Frank N Furter creating a sentient (Though, [[Brainless Beauty|not that bright]]) playmate named Rocky.
* The silent film ''[[The Golem (Film)|The Golem]]'' features the creation of the Golem of Prague. The eventual rebellion of the Golem is already forecast by the warning the Rabbi finds in his book: "If you have brought the dead to life through magic, beware of that life."
 
== Literature ==
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* Urtho, Mage of Silence (from the [[Mercedes Lackey]] book The Black Gryphon) actually does this quite well; his creations love him, and honor him long past his death.
* In the ''[[Dragonlance]]'' saga, in the second set of novels ("Legends," I think), Raistlin tries to create life in his tower lab. It's not a very big point in the book, and he's not very successful, but there are pitiful, slithery things in the tower that he created. This is probably done to illustrate his evilness and his ambition--the major plot of the trilogy is that he's trying to become a god, after all.
* In [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[The Monster Men (Literature)|The Monster Men]]'', what Professor Maxon is up to. In the opening, he is disposing of one that died, and goes on a long ocean voyage to repair his nerves. Alas, it works, and he decides to try again, and even marry off his daughter to one.
{{quote| ''He believed that he had reached an unalterable decision never again to meddle with the mighty, awe inspiring secrets of creation; but with returning health and balance he found himself viewing his recent triumph with feelings of renewed hope and anticipation. ''}}
 
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* [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|The Cylons were created by man...]]
* The immortal Flint in ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]'' created an android who went on to achieve proper sentience...and then died as she couldn't deal with her newfound emotions. He doesn't revel in the fact that he created new life, which is impressive all by itself. Bear in mind this is about 75 years before Data was created and you'll appreciate why this is slightly unrealistic.
** In "[[Star Trek (Franchise)/Recap/S2 E9 Metamorphosis|Metamorphosis]]", a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] says that she can't create life because "that is for [[God|the maker of all things]]".
* In [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]], the evil overlords known as The Founders created the Vorta and the Jem'Hadar.
* The Greeed in ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'' were created 800 years ago by human scientists out of human desire forged into Medals. They were just non-sentient entities until the humans thought it was a bright idea to destroy one of each of their Core Medals, which caused them to go out of control and try to devour everything in their path to fill the void it left.
* The second episode of the first season of [[Fringe]] is all about immoral attempts to create humans in labs. One such created human is active, and [[Our Vampires Are Different|needs to consume parts of human brains to stay young]]. The episode ends with [[An Aesop]] where the main scientist guy babbles about how we scientists must always remember the boundary between our domain and God´s, no matter how easy it is to forget.
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== Music ==
 
* [[Blutengel (Music)|Blutengel]]'s song "The Oxidizing Angel" twists the Frankenstein myth a bit: The created woman is exquisitely beautiful, and unlike Frankenstein her creator doesn't abandon her. However, she have a mind without having a soul, and this is utterly traumatic for her. Her creator, being selfishly in love with her, refuse her plea to kill her. And thus she end up killing him instead.
 
== Tabletop Games ==
 
* The game ''[[Promethean: The Created]]'', loosely based on ''Frankenstein''. Each of the major lineages of Prometheans was created because somebody started channeling the Divine Fire and decided to create life, either for purposes of companionship, servitude, just rule, an idea of what was happening on "the other side," or [[For Science!|just plain because]]. Every promethean is essentially a walking [[Came Back Wrong]] on many levels. Humans instinctively hate them, they rot the environment, and are prone to cause destruction. They have to earn a [[Soul]] and become fully human to end the karmic pain from merely ''existing''.
* In ''[[Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game)|Genius: The Transgression]]'', creating life is one of the first things you can learn. Creating ''intelligent'' life is a bit tougher, although any two-bit [[Mad Scientist]] could create shambling zombies to handle really menial tasks.
* The [[Eberron]] Campaign Setting has artificial life in the form of living constructs called warforged. It's unlikely their creators ever intended to create truly sapient life, though.
 
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* There are two forms of this in [[Edelweiss]]. The first is apparently not ''that'' big of a deal, creating plants spontaneously. The second is the extremely difficult task of creating a homunculus. {{spoiler|One of the heroines is a homunculus created accidentally in an attempt to revive a girl who died. She [[Came Back Wrong]], but in a good way.}}
* According to the characters of the first [[Mana Khemia]], alchemy is a science (as opposed to black magic) because it can't be used to create life. {{spoiler|[[The Reveal|Turns]] [[Artificial Human|out]] [[I Am Who?|it]] [[Tomato in Thethe Mirror|can]].}}
* ''[[Geneforge]]'' is all over this, since your [[Mons]] come from genetic engineering. The relationship between [[Slave Race|serviles]] and humans is repeatedly paralleled to institutionalizes slavery in America (albeit with an open race war starting in the third game.) This can even work its way into gameplay--you might [[Video Game Caring Potential|find yourself unwilling]] to make a [[Olympus Mons|drakon]] if the MP requirement means you'll have to dissolve that [[Mascot Mook|Fyora]] you've been keeping around for ten levels.
* In [[Return to Krondor]], {{spoiler|The necromancers encountered throughout the game turn out to be doing this. The sewer monsters were humans that were transformed into green beasts with poisoned claws that could make eggs if a male one and female one came together. It is possible to transform one of them back to a human via an alchemical catalyst. Also, in the middle of the game, it is possible to encounter a two-headed red beast that seems to be similar to an Air Elemental but this one can inflict fire damage. Jazhara comments that that thing was an abomination. That creature may have been one of the experiments conducted by Sidi's necromancers.}}
* In [[BaldursBaldur's Gate]] II, the PC wakes up in the dungeon of the wizard Irenicus and has to fight his way out. Some of the things he encounters suggest that Irenicus was trying to create life in that dungeon. Most prominently, one can stumble upon a clone of an elven lady, apparently abandoned and gone crazy there. When you find out ''who'' othe original is, that abandonement serves to underline just how lacking in empathy Irenicus has become: {{spoiler|she was the love of his life, who turned against him when he tried to grab power}}. Several pods are said to hold other clones... though not all pods hold ''created'' life: one who begs you to let him die states that he was a servant who was put in there until Irenicus could get around to healing him.
* In ''[[Solatorobo]]: Red the Hunter'' the hybrids were created by [[Big Bad|Baion]] and Merveille, two of them are [[Omnicidal Maniac|Omnicidal Maniacs]] {{spoiler|and the third is the hero}}. Merveille really feels bad about it though.
** Also, the Juno {{spoiler|''re''created the entire world population after wiping it clean, thanks to humans destroying the planet with their wars.}}
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* A [[Mad Scientist]] in ''[[Cyanide and Happiness]]'' demonstrates [http://www.explosm.net/comics/1841/ the right approach to the life].
* In ''[[The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat (Webcomic)|The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat]]'' it happens in the very first strip.
* ''Inhuman'' has this in its backstory. A company that until then created equivalents of the [[Star Wars|droid army]] had the bright idea of creating the equivalent of the ''clone'' army for theocratic clients. Furious, they had the whole company exterminated, from CEO to janitor. The protagonist's parents worked there.
* Parodied in the [[Alt Text]] of [http://xkcd.com/983/ this] ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'' strip.
 
== Web Original ==
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== Western Animation ==
 
* [[Gargoyles (Animation)|Coldstone]], a sort of cyborg zombie gargoyle made from the shattered pieces of three long-dead gargoyles and animated through both science and sorcery, probably counts. Xanatos, watching him twitch, smiles hugely and shouts "It's ALIVE! ALIIIVE! [[I Always Wanted to Say That|I've ALWAYS wanted to say that."]]
* Rudy Tabootie of [[Chalk Zone]] makes it a rule not to create any living creatures in the Zone.
 
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