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* 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.
** More importantly, he did lousy job with it, cutting several corners, refusing to make any contingency plans and generally forgetting nearly all the safety guidelines such an effort should have as a matter of course.
* Explored in the ''[[
* In ''[[Otherland]]'', this is Mr. Sellars' dark secret, explaining his obsession with Otherland. He created virtual reality lifeforms as a forcibly accelerated "hothouse" experiment, and then panicked when his playthings were stolen by the Other.
* Urtho, Mage of Silence (from the [[Mercedes Lackey]] book The Black Gryphon) actually does this quite well; his creations love him, and honor him long past his death.
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== Live Action TV ==
* [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined
* The immortal Flint in ''[[Star Trek the Original Series]]'' created an android who went on to achieve proper sentience...and then died as she couldn't deal with her newfound emotions. He doesn't revel in the fact that he created new life, which is impressive all by itself. Bear in mind this is about 75 years before Data was created and you'll appreciate why this is slightly unrealistic.
** In "[[Star Trek (Franchise)/Recap/S2 E9 Metamorphosis|Metamorphosis]]", a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] says that she can't create life because "that is for [[God|the maker of all things]]".
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