They Would Cut You Up: Difference between revisions

 

== Comic Books ==

* A different example has [[Deadpool]] supporting character Montgomery at the mercy of a corporation that keeps him hooked up to machines, the better to utilize his precognition to their advantage.

* In ''[[G.I. Joe]] vs. the [[Transformers]]'', the Joes are ordered to do this to [[Kid Appeal Character|Bumblebee]] and Wheeljack by their superiors, who [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|only see them as machines]]. They almost carry them out, until a stunned Wheeljack reveals that the army's plans of nuking Cobra Island will have disastrous consequences...

== Live-Action TV ==

* This is pretty much the reason the Diffy family in [[Phil of the Future]] try to hide the fact that they come from the year 2121.

** Besides which, if anybody found out how his powers worked, he'd be arrested for murder (probably third degree) for reviving Chuck when he knew that it would result in an [[Equivalent Exchange|innocent person dying.]]

* In a less extreme example, the main character of ''[[Kyle XY]]'' keeps his abilities a secret because he wants to live a normal life, rather than spending all his days being tested by scientists.

 

== Theater ==

 

 

* The resident [[Mad Scientist]]s of the [[Fallout: New Vegas|Big Mountain Research Facilty]] were fond of this, needing no real excuse other than to [[For Science!|do Science]]. [[Memetic Mutation|Vivisection can get boring!]]

* In [[Infamous (video game series)|inFAMOUS,]] Cole receives several warnings that the government wouldn't treat him kindly if they got their hands on him. It turns out to be a subversion: they already know how to endow someone with superpowers, they just want to control Cole and choose what direction he's pointed in since his powers are already very offensively oriented. Between the games, every government agent who has this goal for him is killed anyway. The mentalist Alden Tate, however, ''is'' vivisected.