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* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' Poor {{spoiler|Daughter/Dog/Wife.}} Shou became a [[Complete Monster]] right then and there.

* ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano!]]'''s [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|Chane Laforet]] was actually born as the ''result'' of an experiment -- namelyexperiment—namely, her [[Mad Scientist]] father Huey was curious as to [[Lamarck Was Right|whether or not his immortality could be inherited]]. It's not exactly known if he continues to experiment on her (besides the obvious [[Abusive Parents|emotional manipulation]]), but Huey does refer to her as a guinea pig on a regular basis.

** Not his family, but Mayuri's (less) [[Evil Counterpart]] in the Espada, Syazel Apporo Granz, modified and created his Fraccion ([[Mooks]]) so that, if he was injured, they can regenerate him...[[I'm a Humanitarian|by eating them.]] However, Szayel does play this straight--hestraight—he has an older brother, Yylfordt, whom Szayel conducted his research on without Yylfordt knowing. Of these, Szayel seems most proud of surveillance bugs placed inside Yylfordt to where Szayel refers to his brother as a "box" that was opened through his death.

* ''[[ToA AruCertain Kagaku no Railgun (Manga)|To Aru Kagaku noScientific Railgun]]'' reveals {{spoiler|Telestina}} as the subject of experiments by her grandfather.

* The ''[[Code Geass]]'' novels seem to take this route, a bit: {{spoiler|Nunnally's hinted at, but never explained in the anime, psychic powers}} are a result of experimentation with Geass while she was in the womb, and her {{spoiler|psychosomatic blindness}} was an attempt to get her to use those abilities. For the record, they seem to be {{spoiler|reception-only touch telepathy and some sort of sensory ability.}} Considering the number of elements added to the second series from other spin-offs - specifically, Lost Colour's Knight Of Nine, and Cornelia's two wing-girls who join the Valkyrie squadron after her disappearance - it's not completely impossible that it was added into the background. Just look through the two seasons and count how often {{spoiler|Nunnally}} seems to be able to detect something that she shouldn't really be able to.

** [[Fanfic|Fanfiction]]tion also sometimes takes the route of certain Imperial Family members unusual hair colours being a result of basic genetic modification. Even if it's gotten to the point where no one really questions pink and purple hair, it's nice for it to make sense every now and again.

* ''[[Cyborg 009]]'''s Ivan Whiskey was experimented on by his father Gamo and turned into Cyborg 001, a [[Psychic Powers|powerful psychic]]. Because he was converted into a cyborg when he was just a few months old, he'll be [[Not AllowedGrowing toUp Grow UpSucks|stuck in the body of an infant]] ''forever''. This is also a case of {{spoiler|[[Love Makes You Evil]], as Gamo first converted Ivan in order to [[Ill Boy|save his life]]}}.

* [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]: By accident, though.

* One of the origin stories from ''[[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]]'''s Mr Freeze had him experimenting cryogeny on this ill wife to keep her alive until a cure was found of her illness. It could have worked, if not for outer influence.

* Timberwolf of [[DC Comics]] [[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Bookcomics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]].

* ''[[Repo! theThe Genetic Opera]]'' has the Repo Man try to save his wife this way... she dies. {{spoiler|Of course, Rotti had a hand in that failure.}}

* In the 2003 ''[[Hulk (Filmfilm)|Hulk]]'' film, Bruce's origin story is expanded upon: the [[Freak Lab Accident]] doesn't give him super-powers by itself, but triggers a mutation caused by his father experimenting on him when he was a baby. There was also some overlap with [[Professor Guinea Pig]], as his father had initially been experimenting on himself, and some of the resulting mutations were passed on to Bruce.

* The scientist Will Rodman in ''[[Rise of the Planet of Thethe Apes]]'' uses an experimental drug on his father, who has Alzheimer's. {{spoiler|Poor [[John Lithgow]].}}

* The novel ''[[Gladiator (Literaturenovel)|Gladiator]]'' explores some of the consequences of this trope.

* Simon and River Tam of ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' are a more benign version of this as it was part of being [[The Caretaker]] and of course she knew perfectly well that he would have to learn on the job because getting outside help was impossible, and he obviously hated it very much. One hesitates to put this here as it was clearly not the same sort of thing as the more sinister examples and there were no other options. But the description above does say that this would fit.

* Kevin Fawkes implants the Quicksilver gland in his [[Boxed Crook|brother Darien's]] head, turning Darien into the [[The Invisible Man (TV series)|Invisible Man]].

* On ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'', Juliet tests her fertility research on her sister Rachel, who is infertile due to chemotherapy. It pays off for Rachel, though, when the research works and she ends up getting the baby she always wanted.

* Played with in ''[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]''. Fayt and Maria were experimented on by their parents and subsequently given [[Reality Warper|reality bending superpowers]]. Their parents are not malicious in nature however, as they were trying to give them the abilities to save the universe from being destroyed. They also explicitly state that they used their own children as they felt it would be wrong to ask another person's child to shoulder their sins.

* [[Complete Monster|Relius Clover]] from [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]] turned his daughter into a mechanical super weapon and then used the data to turn his wife into an even more powerful machine.

* [[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Aperture Science]] eventually resorted to using its own employees as test subjects, not because of any malicious intent, but simply because its star had fallen so low that it was barely hovering above sea level. And this was ''after'' a period where they used homeless people off the street.

* This is the central premise of ''[[Johnny Test]]'', with far more [[Snap Back|Snap Backs]]s than usual for the trope.

* Richard Impossible of ''[[The Venture Brothers (Animation)|The Venture Brothers]]'' at the very least uses his brother in law, whose skin ignites in fire when in contact with air as a power source. Also Dr. Venture uses his sons basically as walking organ banks and had dozens of clones of them, until all the clones were destroyed.