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'''Spoony''': ''Eww!'' The androids need Yor's seed?! What kind of sick ass future is this? |''[[Yor, the Hunter from the Future]]'', as reviewed by [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony.]] }}
A character (or more) creates a "superior" being through the good old-fashioned way (i.e. [[Don't Explain the Joke|sex]] (or at least something involving a womb, [[Uterine Replicator|artificial]] or not)). This can take multiple forms, such as making it multi-generational or including supernatural/[[Transhuman|technologically augmented]] parents. This usually is an attempt to make [[Super Soldier
This shouldn't be confused with [[Designer Babies]], which are artificially created to be better. Though, this is not to say that you can't have [[Designer Babies]] as part of the "experience". [[Stalker with a Test Tube]] is a more individual based [[Sub-Trope]], while
See also [[Superpowerful Genetics]] and [[Transhuman]]. May be the result of crossbreeding two species, creating a bunch of [[Half Human Hybrids]] or [[Heinz Hybrid
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* In [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[Known Space]]'' series, the "Teela Brown gene", which makes a human being who possesses it amazingly lucky, is the product of a very long-term breeding program performed in secret by the [[Manipulative Bastard|Pierson's Puppeteers]] on the entire human race. By the chronologically last story in the series, "Safe at Any Speed", the gene has spread to the point that nearly 90% of all humans in the galaxy are lucky.
* In the Future History stories by [[Robert A. Heinlein]], the Howard Families are a breeding project for longevity.
* In ''[[The Witcher]]'' there's an not-so-[[Ancient Conspiracy]] of [[Long Lived|long-living]] sorcerers who bred their own [[Ultimate Lifeform|uber-mage]] manipulating a few "interesting" ancestries via arranged marriages, "random" quarrels and love potions. One sorceress who was induced into the secret immediately expressed her opinion on the idea very
* ''[[Counselors and Kings]]'' trilogy tells about Halruaan tradition of divining for good marriages and tradition of occasionally arranging the births of [[Anti-Magic|antimagical]] Jordain. The first was generally suspected to be a work of [[Ancient Conspiracy]] breeding the desired talents and preventing undesirable, the second turned out to go much deeper and darker than the public believed.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* [[Ancient Conspiracy|The Familiars]] from ''[[Dark Angel]]'' had been running one of these for millennia.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' implied this is how Khan and his ilk came about. They were called the "Eugenics Wars," after all. ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]]'' [[
* The [[Mutant Draft Board|Psi Corps]] in ''[[Babylon 5]]'', among other things, bred telepaths for psionic ability.
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