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Whenever someone decides to make an invention, they usually don't get it right [[Flawed Prototype|the first time]]. Sometimes, it may result in [[Super Prototype|Super Prototypes]] that have to be scaled down and depowered for easy mass-production capacity. Other times, it may go wrong. [[Gone Horribly Wrong|Horribly, horribly wrong,]] resulting in a string of machines ending in Mk. VIII, Mk IX, until it's finally (relatively) safe. Then, when someone shows you the Mk. X, you ask [[Fridge Horror|what happened with 1-9?]]
And there you have the Unseen Prototype(s). They are rarely mentioned in story, but come to mind once you realize that to get this far in an invention, there had to have been a lot of failures.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The previous tests of the teleporter in ''[[Half Life]] 2''. "What cat?!" Though, things don't go quite as planned with it even when it is seen.
* Subject Delta of ''[[
* There have been at least 13 Murakumo units produced in ''[[Blaz Blue]]''. Only the 13th, 11th, and 12th ever appear on-screen.
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'''McCoy:''' The M-1 through M-4, remember? Not entirely successful. That's the way Daystrom put it. }}
* In ''The Dr. Steel Show'' Episode 2, [[Doctor Steel]] calls his hamster, "Hamster 65". In Episode 1, he had a previous hamster "experiment" (referred to elsewhere as Hamster 42), which had died. One wonders what happened to all the other ones?
* ''[[Babylon 5]]''. We do eventually find out what happened to Babylons One through Four.
* ''The [[Benny Hill]] Show''. Benny (as Fred Scuttle) is displaying his homemade, backyard rocket in which he plans to fly to the moon.
{{quote|'''Scuttle:''' May I present...''Indestructable the Second''!
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== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', this is a frequent joke about Riff's robots. First there was Mark I ([[Mundane Utility|which he built to do his laundry]] [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|but was nevertheless capable of taking on an army]]), then Mark II (which fought [[Axe Crazy|Oasis]]). Then Mark V (which fought [[Demonic Possession|a possessed Gwynn]] and [[Mega Corp|Hereti-Corp]]); Riff doesn't want to talk about [[Noodle Incident|Mark III and IV]]. After the robot's long absence from the comic, Riff revealed ''Mark XVII''. We don't know much about the intervening models, save that one of them was made of ''cheese''.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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