Super Breeding Program: Difference between revisions

{{quote|'''[[Evil Overlord|Overlord]]''': You are to be the forefather of a new race, together along with Kar-La, this [[Ultimate Lifeform|genetically perfect woman]] as your mate. As I said; I am experimenting with a new type of android that requires the ''[[Large Ham|seed]]'' of a [[Mighty Whitey|specimen such as yourself]] to produce a '''new race'''... superior to these rather [[Mecha -Mooks|slow witted models]]. <br />

'''Spoony''': ''Eww!'' The androids need Yor's seed?! What kind of sick ass future is this? |''[[Yor, the Hunter Fromfrom Thethe Future]]'', as reviewed by [[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|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|Super Soldiers]]s, but not always.

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 Withwith a Test Tube]] is a more individual based [[Sub -Trope]], while [['''Super Breeding Program]]''' usually means creating many super people that may or may not take several generations. [[The Social Darwinist]] likes to use this trope since it's basically what they want.

See also [[Superpowerful Genetics]] and [[Transhuman]]. May be the result of crossbreeding two species, creating a bunch of [[Half Human Hybrids]] or [[Heinz Hybrid|Heinz Hybrids]]s. Usually results in [[Superpowered Mooks]]. May require a [[Disposable Superhero Maker]]. Contrast [[Lego Genetics]] and/or [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke]]. Inevitably creates a [[Super Prototype]]. Usually works on the assumption of [[Evolutionary Levels]].

* In ''[[Comic Book/The Invaders (Comic Book)|The Invaders]]'' comic in the [[Marvel Universe]], [[Adolf Hitler]] wanted to marry his two most perfect warriors Master Man and Warrior Woman to breed a race of Nazi supermen.

* In some versions of [[Spider -Man]], Lizard was a reptile-supremacist [[Mad Scientist]]. This resulted in some wacky hijinks like cloned dinosaurs or poisoning humans with "instant lizardman" formulae.

* The ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' movie's antagonist was attempting to create a new breed of soldiers by transforming the denizens of his universe into large mooks with tiny heads.

* Saruman's Uruk-hai in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]: The Two Towers.''

* In the Dystopian/science fiction classic ''[[Brave New World (Literaturenovel)|Brave New World]]'', a future society where people aren't even allowed to breed on their own, they use Uterine Replicators to genetically and biologically control the development of the fetus, and have multiple castes of humans, some vastly different in appearance and intelligence, based on what jobs they can have.

* In the ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'', a Barrayaran Count sets up a breeding program using cast off female eggs and his own sperm in Uterine Replicators to create dozens of his own daughters, not as a bid to create some kind of pure or super race, but to...make more taxpayers for his county? The wife (who'd already given him a few legitimate children) whose consent he did this without wasn't very happy about it either.

* 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 graphically -- bygraphically—by swirling the visual representation of the bloodlines into complete chaos and stating that's how this works [[Bastard Bastard|outside the official genealogy books]]. As in ''[[Dune]]'', they ended up with something too hot for them to handle -- buthandle—but weren't wise enough to drop it before some got burns.

* ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]'' implied this is how Khan and his ilk came about. They were called the "Eugenics Wars," after all. ''[[Star Trek II: theThe Wrath of Khan]]'' [[Retcon|retconnedretcon]]ned it to have been modern genetic engineering.

* The [[Mutant Draft Board|Psi Corps]] in ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]'', among other things, bred telepaths for psionic ability.

* The [[Super Soldier|Dragon-Bloods]] in ''[[Exalted]]'' tried to keep their blood "pure" by only mating with each other in an earlier time in the setting. This loosened somewhat as the Second Age rolled on, and they started sleeping with mortals, at a corresponding cost to their power. The Dynasty is noted to have the purest blood of the Terrestrial Exalted in Creation, since they descend from the Empress (who was either of unusual purity or completely pure-blooded, [[Depending Onon the Writer]]) and keep tighter track of their genealogies.

* El Seed from ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' had an ultimate goal of creating an army of super-strong animated plants.

** Arguable. He was going for "Aryan", which was defined by an aesthetic look instead of a set of parameters based on performance. Any superiority was assumed to be in the Aryan model of human, which was not the case. His program was flawed from the beginning.

* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Eugenics |Eugenics]] in general.

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