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* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' Poor {{spoiler|Daughter/Dog/Wife.}} Shou became a [[Complete Monster]] right then and there.
* One of [[Rumiko Takahashi]]'s short stories involved a boy whose parents kept experimenting on him as part of their 'get rich quick' schemes.
* ''[[Baccano!]]'''s [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|Chane Laforet]] was actually born as the ''result'' of an experiment -- 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.
* ''[[Franken Fran]]'' has Fran turn her "little sister" Veronica into one of these over their differing opinions on life (i.e. Veronica thinks it's better to let someone die than subject them to a [[Fate Worse Than Death]]).
* Poor, poor [[Soul Eater|Crona]]. Mom's [[Moral Event Horizon]] got crossed when she used you for her black blood experiments, didn't it?
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* ''[[To Aru Kagaku no Railgun]]'' reveals {{spoiler|Telestina}} as the subject of experiments by her grandfather.
* Professor Watabe of ''[[Psychic Academy]]'' treats his daughter Mew like this. It's so extreme that ''he never bothered to name her'': Mew Baurra is the first two pieces of her Aura Code, not an actual name. She is technically nameless until Ai arbitrarily gives her a name... when she's about 16. Watabe's experiments grant her considerable power - at the cost of her powers being uncontrollable while in certain mental states, capable of damaging her own health if she uses them too much, and the sprinklers that went off whenever she lost control during experiments and set the room on fire gave her a crippling fear of rain.
* 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]] 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 Allowed to Grow Up|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]]}}.
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* 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 Blue]] turned his daughter into a mechanical super weapon and then used the data to turn his wife into an even more powerful machine.
* [[Portal (series)|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.
** That's because when they were using hobos, they were still paying their test subjects (Sixty bucks a head, and a whole twenty minutes in the breakroom if you survive the test! Wow!). Whether or not the employees are still getting paid or if they're just under some kind of contractual obligation whether the paycheck is coming in or not isn't made clear. It does explicitly mention that the CEO isn't exempt; he's the guy who got to discover that if you grind moon rocks into powder and put it in Mobility Gel base, it's poisonous.
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