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You and your fellow [[Artificial Human|Artificial Humans]], kidnap victims or [[Guinea Pig Family|siblings]] have just escaped from [[Playing with Syringes|the lab you all grew up in/were experimented on]]? Where the heck do you go now? Chances are slim that any of you still have a family in the normal world. If that wasn't bad enough, not many people will want to put up with [[All of the Other Reindeer|freaks like you.]]
So what do you do? Adopt each other as a family! Because, let's face it, you more or less have nobody else (unless you got lucky and got [[Motherly Scientist|one of the project scientists]] to take care of you, but without nasty experiments this time).
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Alternatively, in more mundane settings without [[Mutants]] and [[Mad Scientist|mad scientists]], the "family" will instead be made up of the [[Crazy Homeless People|homeless]], the [[Disposable Vagrant|destitute]], [[I Just Want to Have Friends|the lonely]], [[Parental Abandonment|the abandoned]] and [[The Mad Hatter|the crazy]]. Essentially, everyone who gets [[Acceptable Hard Luck Targets|left behind]] by society, regardless if it is [[Society Is to Blame|the fault of society itself]], or their own. As in the "secret project" variety, the group of strangers or acquaintances will be [[Breakfast Club|brought together by the collective suckiness of their lives]], and the advantages of pooling resources to ensure their survival. But unlike the "secret project" variety, members of the group will likely address their personal problems, while trying to [[Somebody Else's Problem|ignore everyone else's]].
Most of the initial conflict will arise from extremely volatile personality clashes, dealing with the [[Dysfunction Junction|collective angst the group has accumulated]], attempts to cross the line between stranger and family, or outside forces threatening to disrupt or even dissolve their group. In most cases, the group will eventually come to [[Nakama|trust one another]] as if [[Super Family Team|they were real family]], possibly even more than their real relatives (if they still have any); disproving that blood is [[Thicker Than Water]].
Expect to hear lengthy discourse on [[Wish Fulfillment|getting what you want]], [[Inherent in the System|the flaws of society]], and the meaning/purpose of love and family, depending on how seriously the medium treats these issues.
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== [[Fanfic]] ==
* The title group in the [[Naruto]] fanfic [[Hakumei]].
== [[Film]] ==
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* This fits Team K' in the ''[[King of Fighters]]'' games fairly well. Well, after they switch Whip out for Kula, anyways.
* Strega from ''[[Persona 3]]'': They aren't actually artificial humans, but they were the only survivors of a secret project to create Persona-summoners out of humans who weren't born with the talent..... too bad they ended up with something a bit closer to Team Rocket instead.
* {{spoiler|Jack, the Little Sisters, and presumably Tenenbaum}} in the good ending of ''[[
* The Cybran Nation of ''[[Supreme Commander]]'' began as this, complete with the mad scientist/genius (Dr. Gustaf Brackman) responsible for creating them as their father figure - and said father figure is still alive and kicking one thousand years later. Although really now, they're more of a Obvious Project Refugee Country now.
** Albeit Brackman has been reduced to a brain + spinal column + cybernetic enhancements inside a vat of unknown liquid. He can only communicate with others through a life-sized 3D hologram of himself, though this troper heard something like the Cybran commander being Brackman's clone.
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