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* Subverted in ''[[Dark Lord of Derkholm]]''. The protagonist Derk is a wizard who specializes in creating creatures like [[Cue the Flying Pigs|winged pigs]] and horses, intelligent, talking pigeons, and enormous partially-human griffins. To all the other wizards, Derk is considered a freak and somewhat disturbed, and most of them either don't "get" his projects or think they're weird. However, he takes great pride in them, and considers his five intelligent, talking griffins to be every bit his children as much as his biological son and daughter. Derk is shown to be sympathetic AND generally in the right.
* [[Frankenstein's Monster]] was not beautiful, though he was meant to be so:
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** The original novel doesn't precisely explain how the Creature is brought to life, but it implies very clearly that the [[Phlebotinum]] used was a modern day equivalent to the alchemist's elixir of life. Victor does mention though that he is being specifically vague because he doesn't want anyone replicating his experiment.
* Arguably ''[[Jurassic Park]],'' though there is also the interpretation that it wasn't Hammond returning the dinosaurs to life that was the problem, but his belief they could be controlled.
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* 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]]'', 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.
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