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* In ''DeusEx'', Anna Navarre and Gunther Hermann both have mechanical body augmentation, whereas the player character is one of the first agents to be augmented using new nanotechnology. Gunther in particular resents the fact that his generation of augmentations is supposedly being rendered obsolete, although this resentment is probably not his primary motive.

** Dr Wily from ''Mega Man Battle Network'' lost his robotics research's government funding to Dr Light Hikari's network research, making him bent on world domination in order to get revenge on the society that ignored his robotics research

* [[{{ptitletxowvywhdbcy}} Frankenstein's Monster]] is an OlderThanRadio example. In the original book, his murderous rage is fueled by his feeling of inhumanity.

* Tekkaman Evil in ''TekkamanBlade'' is the main character's identical twin brother. He's got a hell of a brother complex - in addition to ridiculously amplified sibling rivalry, he's also decided that the world can only handle one of them and that it's destined that one will kill the other. These motivations are greater factors in his drive to kill Blade than alien possession.

* In Gregory Macguire's {{Wicked}}, it is suggested that Elphaba's more villainous deeds were motivated by her belief that she lacked a soul.

A villain whose main, often hidden, motivation is that he feels incomplete. This character is ashamed or enraged at the thought that he was seen as obsolete or surpassed by someone in front of him. This can be anything from a teacher who found a new student to a scientist who builds a [[AiIsACrapShoot "better" android]], and is a common tragic fate for a ReplacementGoldfish.

* This was a fairly hefty chunk of {{Spider-Man}}'s Clone Saga.

* Several of the homunculi in the ''FullMetalAlchemist'' anime are motivated by a desire to become fully human, and will do anything they feel will further this goal. Lust explains that without a human soul, she feels incomplete. Envy in particular burns with a fanatical desire to personally murder his creator for this feeling. There's also a lot of friction between lesser homunculi and the "better" versions, who can more convincingly pass as human.

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* Half the villains in SaintSeiya.
* Several of the homunculi in the ''FullMetalAlchemist'' anime are motivated by a desire to become fully human, and will do anything they feel will further this goal. Lust explains that without a human soul, she feels incomplete. Envy in particular burns with a fanatical desire to personally murder his creator for this feeling. There's also a lot of friction between lesser homunculi and the "better" versions, who can more convincingly pass as human.

* Ritsuko of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion''. And her mom. Even though neither was actually a villain, per se. Of course, the lines between good, evil, and who-knows get blurred all to heck once you get that far into Eva.

* Cell from ''DragonballZ'', actually literally.
** On the contrary; Cell was supposed to be the ultimate creation of Dr. Gero, superior to all of his previous creations. Even the fact that he starts out in an inferior state does nothing to diminish his feelings of superiority to the other androids. This trope is played straight with how Androids 17 and 18 react to the vastly stronger Cell, who is designed to replace them. The trope is subverted earlier in that 16, 17, and 18 are far stronger than 19 and 20, but the former three were taken out of order to be replaced by the latter two. And the trope is thoughtfully subverted in that Android 16, the strongest of the androids (not counting Cell), at no point is jealous or resentful of the fact that 17 and 18 think they are stronger than him or that Dr. Gero kept him deactivated.

* Ulquiorra from {{Bleach}} is hinted to have this motivation, since he always pierces "interesting" opponents in the same place where his Hollow hole is located.
* Ranban from SpacePirateMito was driven to perform a coupe d'etat in the form of blowing up an entire planet and taking over the Galactic Patrol due to the fact that he was imprisoned because his body never settled on a gender (his species is gender neutral until puberty).

* The King of Kou in TheTwelveKingdoms, who suffers a massive inferiority complex towards a king (Shoryu) and a Queen (Youko/Sekishin) who are actually people TrappedInAnotherWorld.

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* Wodan Ymir from ''SuperRobotWars: Original Generation 2'', an artificial being from an alternate universe [[spoiler:who was a made from the corpse of the alternate version of one of the heroes of the game, Sanger Somvold. Similarly, Lemon Browning was made from the corpse of the alternate Excellen Browning.]]

** Because they are. They're Nobodies, who lack hearts and technically don't exist, their main motivation is that they want to fix themselves, they just aren't very nice about it since they don't have any sort of emotions to tell them that they are doing anything wrong. The arguments about them on the WhatMeasureIsANonHuman discussion page is terrible. Some of them are not TOTAL dicks about it, Axel is at least capable of understanding friendship and even sacrifices himself to help Sora out due to him hosting Roxas (Despite the fact that had done some rather nasty things in the past while on the road to getting his heart back), Demyx, despite being ThatOneBoss is really more of a PunchClockVillain who just wants to kick back with his Sitar, and those who are monsters have no reason not to be; they don't feel that they are doing anything wrong in the first place.

* HK-47 from ''StarWars: KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' has elements of this trope, lamenting his incompleteness in the first game, and outraged that the HK-50's, based on him, exist. Only, he does not feel inferior to them in any way, decrying them as in fact being lesser than he in most respects, such as behavior and, well, color. Even more infuriating, they fall within his ICannotSelfTerminate programming.

* Liquid Snake from ''MetalGearSolid'' probably falls under this. He believes himself to be an inferior clone of Big Boss, ''and'' genetically inferior to his brother, Solid Snake, due to having received "recessive genes" while Solid got the "dominant genes". Of course, as it turns out, it was really ''Liquid'' who was supposed to be the superior brother, but he doesn't know that. Despite being [[NighInvulnerability Nigh Invulnerable]], MadeOfIron and an ImplacableMan, all at once.

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* Umbria/Zaedalkaah, from ''{{Our Little Adventure}}''. Umbria's main quest is to reclaim her power with 'The Brotherhood' and getting her old body back. The form she is currently using is an imperfect copy of Julie's [[SpoonyBard Bard class]] and appearance, though Umbria [[GlamourFailure looks little more evil]] than the original Julie.

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-> ''"I'm me," he says. Must be nice, being real. A fake like me could never get away with saying that. That's right, I'm a phony, a fake! The way I look, the way I feel, everything I remember! And even this newfound power! I thought that by finding some new strength, I could finally ''be'' someone -- someone who's not at all you! But... nothing changes... I'm still just empty! Everything about me is borrowed. As long as you're around, I'll never be more than a shadow!''
->-- '''[[spoiler:Riku Replica]]:''' ''KingdomHearts: Re: Chain of Memories''

** Because they are. They're Nobodies, who lack hearts and technically don't exist, their main motivation is that they want to fix themselves, they just aren't very nice about it. The arguments about them on the WhatMeasureIsANonHuman discussion page is terrible.

* Blackwargreymon from ''DigimonAdventure02'', being created from nothing but strands of the curent BigBad's hair combined with the remains of the preceeding BigBad's control spires has this problem. Much of the drama of his story arc comes from the protagonists trying to convince him that no matter how he was born, he's certainly a real person now.

* FrankensteinsMonster is an OlderThanRadio example. In the original book, his murderous rage is fueled by his feeling of inhumanity.

* ''{{Stargate Atlantis}}'' has the humanoid Replicators of the Pegasus Galaxy who grew to hate humans because the Replicators cannot AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, and they see themselves as the red-headed stepchildren of the [[{{Precursors}} Ancients]].

* Ramsus from ''{{Xenogears}}'' initially appears as the BigBad, although as the game progresses and he gets defeated by Fei [[spoiler:and his SplitPersonality, Id]], Ramsus develops an inferiority complex to Fei, going so far as to ruin the plans of one of the game's real Big Bads by ignoring his orders and attempts to kill Fei (he gets completly and utterly trounced, which doesn't help his issues). [[spoiler:It turns out that Ramsus was going to be an artificial ChosenOne before Fei was born, but after Fei was conceived, Krelian gave up on Ramsus to focus on Fei, which was the initial result of the infiriority complex.]]

** Even more so, [[spoiler: The air-freshener was only put in because the aliens that had built him could smell an oder. Everyone who worked with him were incapable of noticing the change once the device was removed.]]

* Wodan Ymir from ''SuperRobotWars: Original Generation 2'', an artifical being from an alternate universe [[spoiler:who was a made from the corpse of the alternate version of one of the heroes of the game, Sanger Somvold. Similiarly, Lemon Browning was made from the corpse of the alternate Excellen Browning.]]

* In LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Diplomatic Immunity'', the villain is the genetically engineered near-clone/test run for [[spoiler: the Emperor of Cetaganda]], and is motivated in part by this trope.

** Because they are. They're Nobodies, who lack hearts and technically don't exist, their main motivation is that they want to fix themselves, they just aren't very nice about it. The arguments about them on the WhatMeasureIsANonHuman discussion page is terrible, OrSoIHeard.

* [[HIVESeries H.I.V.E.]] has the first version of HiveMind (H.I.V.E.'s sentient computer system), the Overlord project, which upon activation, immediately killed most of the scientists who created it.

* A Mexican movie called "Una pel?la de huevos y un pollo" ("A movie of eggs and a cock", innuendo made completely on purpose). The bad guy is a stone egg who needs a chicken's heart to make a spell to have feelings.