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{{quote|''The big difference between "SEAL training" and "Attempted Homicide" is that with an attempted homicide you don't expect the guy to survive and escape.''

 

[[Training from Hell]] on an industrial scale.

* The Peacekeepers of ''[[Farscape]]'' are usually raised this way. In most cases, procreation is assigned, parental love is frowned upon if not outright illegal, and children are trained from birth to be [[The Stoic|stoic]], [[Tyke Bomb|obedient]] [[Punch Clock Villain|goons]], with emotional attachment seen as an unforgivable weakness. Heroine Aeryn Sun's entire character arc is about overcoming the mindset this loveless, violent upbringing has given her. In an interesting subversion, [[Anti-Villain]] Crais was drafted as a boy along with his doomed younger brother - he was actually raised on a farming colony, by a clearly loving father.

* It could be argued Dean and Sam Winchester of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' were raised this way after their mother's death when Dean was four and Sam six months old.

* On ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]'', most of the subjects are claimed to have gone through something like this, having fought since childhood and/or been trained harder than anyone else. [[Hollywood History|The accuracy of these claims varies from case to case.]]