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* The God Warriors from ''[[
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* The God Warriors from ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind]]'' are both nuclear powered & genetically engineered, [[Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie|in addition to being cyborgs]]. At least they were honest-to-goodness products of super-science, designed and built from the ground up to be what they were, not mooks with upgrades.
* The [[Super Soldier]]s in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. Artifical Mages are genetically engineered so they will be born with full combat mage capabilities. [[Hollywood Cyborg|Combat Cyborgs]] are genetically engineered so they can be given cybernetic implants without their bodies rejecting the foreign object.
** The Ancient Kings of Belka qualified too. They altered their own genetics to transform themselves into [[Person of Mass Destruction|persons of mass destruction]] as part of a [[Lensman Arms Race]], and they ensured that their descendants would [[Superpowerful Genetics|inherit these abilities]].
* The girls of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' were "[[The Chosen One|chosen by the earth]]", i.e. born as perfect matches to various endangered animals. They were then injected with the DNA of said animals and became a squad of [[Catgirl|kemonomimi]] [[Magical Girl]]s.
* Euphorics in ''[[Speed Grapher]]'' gain super powers based on their fetishes after being carriers to a virus that is activated by contact with Kagura's bodily fluid.
* ''[[Guilty Crown]]'' gives us the Void Genome, a genetic weapon that allows whosoever it's been implanted in the power to draw weapons known as Voids from anyone seventeen years of age or younger. These weapons can be [[
* ''[[Gundam Seed]]''
* In ''[[Pokémon: The
* In the second season of ''[[Birdy the Mighty]]'' ''Decode'', {{spoiler|it's revealed that DNA taken from the [[Human Alien]] race, the Altirrans, was used to genetically engineered [[Super Soldiers]] for the Space Federation's [[Space Police|law enforcement]] and [[Space Marines|military divisions]], with one of the ones used for law enforcement being the title character.}}
== Comic Books ==
* The ''[[
* In ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', it ends up the entire planet of [[Funny Animal]]s is the result of the alien species called the Xorda dropping a "gene bomb" on the planet, mutating it severely. Yes, the origin story for the heroes homeworld is that Earth was bombarded by genetic engineering weapons that caused fault lines to shift, seas to drain, and left the planet uninhabitable in many places for many years. Which is what you'd expect to happen if a planet got hit by several thousand multi-megaton nuclear weapons. In other words, in the Sonic universe genetic engineering is ''literally'' the new nuke.
** Knuckles the Echidna's origin has a combination of this and [[I Love Nuclear Power]] in the [[Archie Comics]] ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comics; his father, Locke, did genetic and radiation experiments on himself, then irradiated his son's egg with Chaos Energy from the Master Emerald.
* Taken to pretty literal extremes in ''[[Daredevil]]'', where the government's secret genetic experiment is ''named'' Nuke, to give an indication that, yeah, he ''was'' as deadly as a walking megaton bomb.
* The Marvel [[Ultimate Universe]] takes this trope all the way, with genetic engineering being compared to nuclear weapons in other ways, such as international supersoldier escalation & treaties being proposed to curb it. [[Ultimate Marvel]] has even applied this trope to people who weren't even ostensibly super to begin with in regular Marvel. Ultimate [[Iron Man]]'s super genius is explained as the result of genetic experiments his parents were involved in (which resulted in his mother's tragic death) that resulted in him being born with braincells throughout his entire body. Unfortunately, due to a defect in the process it also gave him cancer and constant, agonizing pain.
** To quote [[Nick Fury]]: "The next war will be a genetic one."
* The [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] have always been mutants, but interestingly, the earliest issues of the X-Men comics refer to them as "children of the atom" and say that Xavier is a mutant because of radiation his parents were exposed to before he was born. Current X-Men comics have abandoned the nuclear angle in favor of pure genetics.
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== Film ==
* Biollante from ''[[Godzilla
* The 2002-2007 ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]'' movies.
{{quote|''Is he strong? Listen here/He's genetically engineered.''}}
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* The Shongili family in the [[Petaybee]] books.
* [[Sergey Lukyanenko]]'s ''[[Genome]]'' novel is all about how genetic engineering results in [[Designer Babies]] that are specialized and conditioned to love their "chosen" profession. This ranges from simple mental modifications (e.g. police detectives have a hightened sense of logic and love for truth and law and are unable to form emotional attachments; [[High-Class Call Girl|High Class Call Girls]] easily falling in love with their clients and cannot fall out of love until the client reciprocates) to physical ones (e.g. starship pilots have a well-developed cerebellum for balance and can shrug off a 30-foot fall; fighters can move in the blink of an eye and have extra arm joints; power plant specialists have radiation-proof skin and hair with the males able to [[Squick|"suck in" their genitals]]).
* ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' have several weaponized creatures scattered around both the titular games and the Capitol; of note are ferocious wasps with hallucinogenic venom and wolf "Muttations" with the faces of dead children.
== Live
* New ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has a tendency to use genetics and DNA as a sort of [[Applied Phlebotinum]], especially for the Daleks.
* ''[[Dark Angel]]'': The superhuman abilities of X5 supersoldiers and other Manticore transgenics are the result of mixing genetic material from various humans (generally people who were very strong, smart, or talented) and animals, with some serious tweaking, into DNA cocktails. Genetic engineering is also the explanation for their attractiveness (the ones that don't look half-man half-beast or covered in huge bumps).
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== Video Games ==
* The twisted monstrosities of ''[[Fallout]]'', which in spite of being set in a 1950s-esque retro post-nuclear wasteland, the [[Universe Bible]] credits largely to a mutated bioweapon.
* According to the Pokédex, Mewtwo was genetically engineered to be the most powerful [[Pokémon]] ''ever''. Unlike [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|most of what the Pokédex says]], this was unmistakably true, at least in Generation I. Not only was the [[Game Breaker/Video Games/Roleplaying Games/Pokémon|Psychic-type]] a total [[Game Breaker]], but Mewtwo had ''the'' highest base stat total of all 150+1 [[mon]]s at the time. Later generations have introduced Pokémon that surpass the Genetic Pokémon, but Mewtwo is still one tough bastard.
* The Trigen of ''[[Far Cry]]''.
* The subjects of ''Les Enfants Terribles'' in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' and its sequels. They use the 'genetically engineered from before birth' ''and'' 'nanomachine enhanced' versions.
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