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For kids who are raised to be [[Parental Incest|good in bed]], see [[Wife Husbandry]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* [[Big Bad|Gaia]] of ''[[Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin]]'' has an [[Child Soldiers|army of young wolves]] under his command who have been raised to be so loyal to their ruler that they are not afraid to die for him. Usually, this is exactly what they must do since their favored method of attacking is [[Taking You with Me|plunging their enemies along with themselves into lava]].

* Crona in ''[[Soul Eater]]''.

** Possibly Gopher; appears to be young, is explicitly called a tool by his creator Noah, and currently holds enough firepower to stand up to Maka Albarn for a while. Not long, but his comments about his body having been 'created' could make a future upgrade possible.

* Mewtwo in the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime, a genetically engineered ''[[Mons]]'' who blew up an entire island research facility, was recruited to work for Giovanni, then got fed up and blew up Giovanni's secret Gym base.

* Mitsumi from ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure]]'', until Rowan [[Defusing the Tykebomb|defuses her]].

* Kirika Yuumura and Chloe from ''[[Noir]]'' were assassins trained from birth. As young teens, they have no problems with killing people. (In fact, {{spoiler|Kirika was killing people at age ''five'', some of them being ''Mireille's family''}}.)

* The titular [[Claymore]]s are usually child survivors of Youma attacks, the theory being that they have nothing to lose and have the motivation to become the Organization's pet Youma killing machines.

* Fate Testarossa from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''.

** From the third season, we get a rare example of Tykebombs done ''right''. Jail Scaglietti's Numbers were all grown, turned into cyborgs, and used as assassins by him. But they all appear to have genuine loyalty and affection for him, so apparently he wasn't raising them with the 'horrible abuse' school of tykebomb training. Of course, he was also pretty good with mind control, so he might have just programmed them to like him...

* Erstin from ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' is a rare example whose loyalty was not abused, and who never changed sides, though she was sorely tempted and it broke her heart.

* In ''[[One Piece]]'', eight members of the secret government organization Cipher Pol #9, were trained from young ages the martial arts known as Rokushiki (Japanese for "six powers"), pushing their bodies to superhuman levels for the purpose of carrying out covert assassinations in the name of the World Government. Most notable of the group is Rob Lucci: so fearful that legends have been made of him from his efficiency, coldness and brutality to the point that it not only was believed he was the least likely of the group to ever be defeated, but can survive a Buster Call, which to put into perspective ''razed an entire island''.

** Even the protagonist, Monkey D. Luffy and his brother, Portgas D. Ace were technically [[Tyke Bombs]]. At least with Luffy, it was revealed that his inhuman strength, stamina and outright [[Determinator]] status was the result of his grandfather, {{spoiler|Vice-Admiral}} Garp throwing into deep ravines, cliffs and even exposing him to high altitudes by ''tying him up to helium balloons'', all for the purpose of making him a strong Marine (likewise with Ace). Ironically, when Garp's back was turned (''for several years'', apparently) they ran off to become powerful pirates which even caught the World Government's attention. Had Lucci known that Luffy was trained by {{spoiler|Vice-Admiral}} Garp, maybe he wouldn't have taken him so lightly, and [[Oh Crap|then it wouldn't seem such a surprise when he rises from your best attack ready to retaliate]].

** The manga makes it very plain that diclonius have a built in urge to kill normal humans. Nana, the only one that consistently resists this, is actually called a "traitor" by another diclonius precisely for this reason.

** Special mention goes to Mariko, who was {{spoiler|put into a completely sealed armored container with tubes for life support inserted into her, just days after her birth, and freed for the first time when she was six years old. She even came with a safety shut-off in the form of remotely controlled explosive charges implanted in her body.}}

** Played a little more straight with Frieza taking on Vegeta as a child. Admittedly Vegeta decided to switch sides a bit prematurely and thus wasn't exactly a threat to Frieza when he did, but when you consider the fact that {{spoiler|Frieza's eventual demise was at the hands of Vegeta's son, the whole thing still seems rather ill advised on Frieza's part}}

** Played even straighter with Son Goku - sent to Earth as an infant with the intention that he would wipe out the inhabitants as he grew up. Derailed when the first Son Gohan dropped Goku on his head by accident, "defusing" him.

* ''[[Witchblade (anime)|Witchblade]]'' presents the whole [[They Look Just Like Everyone Else|mildly disguised]] Tykebomb Factory and glimpses of their lives, in several variants up to [[Defusing the Tykebomb|trying to self-defuse]]. This life doesn't prevent possible unrelated awesomeness even for ones far enough from any human norms, but apparently more often than not it sucks to be a Neogene. This may have something to do with the head of this project (and consequently the true purpose) being batshit insane.

* In ''[[Bleach]]'' the [[Big Bad]] revealed that Wonderweiss Margera, a very childlike arrancar, was modified to be exactly this, exchanging his ability to speak or reason for pure power. {{spoiler|In something of a play on words, he literally explodes on his defeat.}}

* Seta Soujiro in ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]''.

* In ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'', {{spoiler|Albert Maverick}} had a spare NEXT kid on his hands {{spoiler|after murdering the kid's parents}}. Not wanting to let things go to waste, he used his own NEXT powers to doctor the kid's memory a bit, set himself up as their [[Parental Substitute]], and raised the child in a manner that would guarantee their fierce loyalty to his cause. {{spoiler|This child was Barnaby Brooks Jr.}}

* Thanos from ''[[Marvel Comics]]'' and Gammora. Thanos raised a daughter from childhood to have a perfect assassin. As a subversion he did try to otherwise be a decent father to her, though she rebelled anyway.

* Most Sith from [[Star Wars Legacy]]. Specifically Darth Talon, who is a [[Ms. Fanservice|Tyke Sex Bomb]].

* [[Dreadstar]]'s daughter was a very straight example, and a major plot point of the second series.

* Present in Garth Ennis' ''[[The Boys]]'' in the form of the G-Men: "gifted" children selected from orphanages <ref>read- ordinary kids snatched from the street by the nice man with the toys and candy and big shiny black limo</ref> and trained <ref>injected with the [[Phlebotinum Overload|potentially fatal mutagen]] [[Super Serum|Compound V]] and repeatedly sexually abused</ref> by John Godolkin and the senior members of the G-Men to become superheroes. Also implied in a less [[Squick|creepy]] fashion with those supes whose powers were the result of pre-natal/parental exposure to the setting's [[Super Serum]], with foster parents raising and training them in a manner reminiscent of the culture around (child) beauty pageants.

 

 

* Adria in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' is a genetically engineered child that the Ori made in order to have a messenger in the Milky Way without dealing directly with the Ancients. She was also engineered to [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up|not stay a child for long]].

** In the first season SG-1 found a literal Tyke Bomb which would blow up the second she was returned to her home planet. She was adopted by Dr. Frasier.

** [http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/House_Xorlarrin House Xorlarrin] of Menzoberranzan used to start early arcane training for all male offspring with high magical talents (by the way, other male children are either sacrificed or sold).

** Halruaa got Jordain, anti-talents their order raise and train from very young age. With amount of [[The Masquerade]] surprising for such a presumably nice place. When in ''[[Counselors and Kings]]'' one of them discovered how they are really created and saw what happens to their mothers in process, he mentioned it's good that his wizard dad is anonymous—he'll probably live longer this way. That's not counting some... "little details" (or rather lack thereof) concerning Jordain themselves.

 

 

* The main character in ''[[Overlord]]'' 2 started out as a [[Creepy Child]] in the little town of Nordberg. The Minions eventually found him and brought him back to the Netherworld. Then Gnarl raised him for 13 years to become the Overlord that they needed. The ''Minions'' being in charge of his early development goes a long way to explaining why the new Overlord is more explicitly evil than {{spoiler|his canonically [[Noble Demon]] father, the previous Overlord}}.

* In ''[[F.E.A.R.]]'', both {{spoiler|the Point Man}} and Paxton Fettel were raised as these. In additional, Project Harbinger involved {{spoiler|all of Team Dark Signal}}, including {{spoiler|Michael Bekett, the player character in ''Project Origin''}} were raised as psychic Tykebombs, and {{spoiler|Wade Elementary}} is a {{spoiler|school devoted to creating Tykebombs through use of drugs to generate psychic abilities.}}

* In a way, [[Pokémon]] the player creates through the in-game breeding system. You can breed them to have optimal move-sets via [[Lamarck Was Right|egg moves]] and then EV train to get their stats right.

** Mewtwo deserves another mention. Its story in the games involves it being the embryo of a pregnant Mew. Mewtwo was tampered and gene-spliced until it turned vicious and was made into a battling machine. It later went berserk and destroyed Dr. Fuji's Pokémon Mansion on Cinnabar Island. It then took shelter in Cerulean Cave (a place both it and Mew seem naturally attracted to).

** {{spoiler|It's also worth considering that the whole thing was the idea of Flemeth. She is unique in having her spirit merge with that of a demon who possessed her, whill still remaining her own self, and also one of the most powerful mages who ever lived. To prolong her life, she transfers her spirit into that of her daughters, and had the archdemon appeared a generation later, she would have done the ritual to create a child in with the Old God is bound. That child would have been a nuclear tyke arsenal.}}

 

* Miles Edgeworth in ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' had a happy, normal childhood until he was eight years old and his father was murdered. He was adopted by Manfred von Karma and raised to be a perfect, ruthless prosecutor who would do nearly anything for a guilty verdict {{spoiler|specifically because von Karma hated Edgeworth's father so much that he not only murdered him, but spent fifteen years twisting his son into everything Gregory Edgeworth stood against.}} Why? {{spoiler|[[Disproportionate Retribution|Because Gregory Edgeworth made him take a penalty in court.]]}}

* Ilya in ''[[Fate/stay night]]'', raised from around the age of eight to take part mercilessly in the Holy Grail War and to hate her father for abandoning her, though in truth he always tried to go back to her and the Einzberns would not allow it. {{spoiler|So now she has mixed feeling of wanting love from Shirou and wanting to dismember him for being her father Kiritsugu's adopted son and seemingly taking her place. Shirou can never truly bring himself to see her as an enemy even oblivious to the circumstances.}}

* Arcueid Brunestud of ''[[Tsukihime]]'' was bred to be the strongest (and purest, without the innate desire for blood that plagued the rest of her race) of the True Ancestors, with the intent of having her hunt down their fallen brethren who had become insane blood drinkers, and the Dead Apostle vampires that ''they'' had spawned. In a slight twist on the trope, they had fully intended to give her a proper education and a normal (by True Ancestor standards, anyway) life after she'd finished her job, and had in fact started on doing so when things [[Gone Horribly Wrong|got out of control]].

 

 

* Several chimerae in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' were [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-03-17 created with this in mind], ending with Shade Tail as [[Laser Guided Tykebomb]]—but the indoctrination didn't take, and she eventually escaped as a total innocent with [[Shapeshifting]] powers, supposedly due to hippie metabolism. {{spoiler|Others weren't too good in their roles either}}.

* Bell from the ''[[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi]]'' is strongly hinted to be one of these. Project Rowdy also seems to be a government project that resurrected the Rowdy Ruffs to serve this very purpose (the Ruff resurrection happened before the canon resurrection by Him, which explains the difference).

* The Monster in the Dark in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' was raised by the Big Bad since he was very young.

** Subverted, {{spoiler|he's pretty much harmless so far.}}

* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', the Handmaid (aka {{spoiler|Aradia Megido}}'s ancestor) was raised from a grub by Doc Scratch in order to be a servant of Lord English. Under English's orders, she sowed chaos throughout Alternian history and became regarded as a demon.

 

* A rare example of a Tykebomb for good is {{spoiler|1=Terry McGinnis}} from ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' as [[Retcon|revealed]] in the [[Fully-Absorbed Finale]].

* Azula from ''<nowiki>[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]</nowiki>'' is the Tyke Bomb of her father [[Evil Overlord]] Ozai. This is one of the most successful examples, as Ozai made sure to "coddle and praise" her rather than "abuse her and insist she is made to serve him" (that's what [[The Unfavorite|Zuko]] is for.)

* The ''[[Justice League]]'' episode "Wild Cards" features a Tykebomb of sorts in the form of [[Creepy Child|Ace]], who was raised to be, essentially, [[Nightmare Fuel|as terrifying as possible]]. The Royal Flush Gang in this episode is arguably a mega-Tykebomb. In [[Justice League]] the Gang originated in Cadmus, whose specialty is creating and raising up super-powered opponents ''just in case'' the League starts abusing its power {{spoiler|or, as the case may be, Lex successfully schemes to make it appear as if the League has}}. From their (chronological) introduction in this episode, they go on to become a staple of the [[Batman Beyond]] [[Rogues Gallery]].

* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' character Karai is turned into one of these in the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|2003 cartoon]]. An orphan found and adopted by the Shredder at an early age, he turned her into one of his most loyal and capable lieutenants. The Shredder, surprisingly enough, turns out to be a rather good parent (at least from her account) and the ensuing loyalty she feels to him is at the core of her character arc.

* Hana, Ron's adoptive baby sister in the 4th season of ''[[Kim Possible]]''. In the prophecies about her, she's even called "the weapon".

* Superboy in ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]''. He has Superman's strength and speed but [[Unskilled but Strong|lacks the discipline]] to use them properly. He has some anger issues that needs to be worked out and the part where his "father" Superman doesn't [["Well Done, Son" Guy|even acknowledge him]] makes him more [[Iron Woobie|upset and frustrated]]. He disrespected Black Canary, believing that he could win any fight based on his power and can be fairly harsh on his teammates. But he is [[Character Development|learning]], now respects Black Canary (after she made him swallow his words) and is more friendly with the rest of the Young Justice.

 

== Real Life ==

 

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