History Main / CreatingLifeIsAwesome

* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' at first plays up the idea ofrecreating prehistoric animals from fossilized mosquitoes from this angle. However, some of the characters don't agree with this. Ian Malcolm seems to believe that CreatingLifeIsBad. After his experience in the Park, Alan Grant seems to have taken up this mindset as well when we see him in ''Film/JurassicParkIII''. However, creating life in general still comes across as pretty awesome; it's just that attempting to control that life and modify it to suit your tastes will lead to disaster. In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', the herbivorous dinosaurs and even the ''T. rex'' have been successfully contained and put on display, but the ''Indominus rex'' is created [[spoiler:as a LivingWeapon, which [[GoneHorriblyRight Goes Horribly Right]]]].
* In ''Film/{{Tron}}'', we have this guy named Alan. He's a rather meek guy, but he also created the title character, who is this awesome [[ThePaladin holy warrior]]. And they are really fond of each other too, although Tron's perception of Alan as moving in mysterious ways and everything seem a bit strange to those who know Alan from a very different perspective.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': Professor Utonium sought to create "perfect little girls", but thanks to a FreakLabAccident, ended up with the Powerpuff Girls, who are much better, having superpowers no normal human possesses.

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* In ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', Celestia mentions fondly how her mother was SoProudOfYou when she created her first species. Of course her mother is also [[TopGod Fauna Luster]], the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Life itself, so to be expected. One of her very few positive memories she has of Discord is the two of them creating the Crabnasties from G1 together before his FaceHeelTurn. Celestia also recounts how she created the Phoenix species as a tribute to her brother [[DontFeartheReaper Mortis]], who is often considered just the God of Death, while he's ''also'' the God of Rebirth. Her brother Leo is also implied to be the creator of the pony species.

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* In [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} the Disney version of Pinocchio]], the title character is created by the joint efforts of Gepetto (who built his body) and The Blue Fairy (who gave him life). It is all treated as a good thing.
* Played straight in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}'' where Victor brings his beloved dog Sparky back to life. [[spoiler:Subverted into CreatingLifeIsBad with all the other kids in town who try their hand at his process and end up creating a horde of monstrous animals]].

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* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' at first plays up the idea ofrecreating prehistoric animals from fossilized mosquitoes from this angle. However, some of the characters don't agree with this. Ian Malcolm seems to believe that CreatingLifeIsBad. After his experience in the Park, Alan Grant seems to have taken up this mindset as well when we see him in ''Film/JurassicParkIII''. However, creating life in general still comes across as pretty awesome; it's just that attempting to control that life and modify it to suit your tastes will lead to disaster. In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', the herbivorous dinosaurs and even the ''T. rex'' have been successfully contained and put on display, but the ''Indominus rex'' is created [[spoiler:as a LivingWeapon, which [[GoneHorriblyRight Goes Horribly Right]]]].

* In the third book of the ''Literature/YoungWizards'' series, Dairene's ordeal ends in the creation of an entire race of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot sentient robot wizards]], [[spoiler:who then become the first species to outright reject [[{{Satan}} the Lone One]]'s offer]]. Simultaneously subverts AIIsACrapshoot, [[spoiler:as they come close to making the ''spectacularly'' bad move of [[TimeStandsStill freezing the universe]] until [[AlmightyMom Dairene]] talks them out of it]].
* Creating life (well, [[UpliftedAnimal turning existing life into sentient life]], but it's the same idea) is the ''central imperative'' of the entire Galactic culture in ''Literature/{{Uplift}}''. It adds to the spice of it that every one of the thousands of species making up that culture is itself a creation of a previous race, in a chain going back ''billions'' of years.
* In ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'', Daja creates living metal, which is treated as an amazing achievement and is used to make a copper tree that grows and ArtificialLimbs that move amongst other things. She doesn't cross the line into making sentient life though. Later in the books, an inexperienced glass mage accidentally makes a living glass dragon, who is also treated as a marvel. Tris' comments indicate that mages creating life accidentally happens often enough that they have ethics for it and are expected to treat said creations as their children, and she's absolutely infuriated when Keth tries to destroy his creation.

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': During ''The Ellimist Chronicles'', we finally get a good look at the war between [[SatanicArchetype Crayak]] and [[BigGood the Ellimist]]. Before they became gods, anyway. Crayak ran around space, creating games and using the SadisticChoice against the Ellimist as much as possible. The Ellimist rarely won, and even when he did, people still died. Eventually he gave up and settled on a distant planet, where the [[HigherTechSpecies Andalites]] were still at pre-stone age technology levels. There he was reminded of the simple truth that every living species knows instinctively: If you can't stop the thing killing your children, compensate by making more children. He returns to the stars, seeding every world he comes across with primitive life, which means no radio or Z-space signals to attract Crayak. Then he created the Pemalites, a species still known as the greatest paragons of virtue millennia after their extinction.
-->To the Pemalites I gave technology. They became an advanced species within a few decades of my creating them. As their creator, I gave them laws: They would never practice violence, and they would conceal their existence as long as possible.\\
And I gave them a mission: to carry life everywhere.
* The ''Literature/RobotSeries'' stories present robots in a generally positive light, occasionally comparing the [[ThreeLawsCompliant Three Laws of Robotics]] to the ethical and social guidelines observed by civilized humans and lamenting widespread "Frankenstein Complex" anti-robot sentiment.

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* In ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' "neogenesis" is the ultimate biogenesis technology and classified as [[TechnologyLevels TL11]] development, the creation of a truly viable species doesn't occur until [=TL12=].
* In ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'' creating life is considered perfectly acceptable. Creating intelligent life is considered a modest Transgression more because it's socially frowned upon than because it's automatically unethical. Mad Scientists tend to do both anyway.
* In ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'' The nature mysteries of the Merinita and the research of the Maga Ierimyra, (in the Broken Covenant of Calebais adventure) both allow the creation of breeds of supernatural animals with intelligence and/or magical powers with no drawback to the creator aside from the effort it takes to do the job and the responsibility of having to deal with the resulting race of super animals. Also, golems can be created by Kabbalists as in folklore.

* In ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' [[spoiler: Cid of The Lufaine]] used his peoples science and magic to create [[spoiler: Chaos]], his "son" whom he and his wife cared for like any human child. Sadly, [[spoiler: Cid]] and his wife were unable to prevent the government from using [[spoiler: Chaos']] powers for destruction. This (among other things) eventually led [[spoiler: Chaos]] to hate his "father". Later he successfully repeated the experiment and created the [[spoiler: Warrior of Light]], whose life took a more positive direction.

* In ''Webcomic/CountYourSheep'', Laurie capped off an angry rant against {{God}} by claiming to have all of his powers since she can also create life, holding up her daughter Katie as an example.

If ''other'' created individuals are evil by nature, then both tropes apply. If all the created individuals are good (and remain reasonably good, instead of falling into the Frankenstein tradition), but [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer all humans]] [[FantasticRacism hate them]], then it's TorchesAndPitchforks or CloningBlues rather than CreatingLifeIsBad.

* The original ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' series and Marvel comic often do what humans would consider unforgivable acts of playing god. Many robots were created in moments of "We need someone to do X; let's build 'em!" Their society just sees this thing differently from humans. The things that go wrong when humans do it seldom show up - the result is usually perfectly sane ''and'' treated as an equal from day one. Of course, before everything we knew about 'sparks' and 'protoforms' came to be, FridgeLogic dictated the necessity of this trope, since how else could robots reproduce? The comic even has an instance of five Autobots who allowed full copies of their data to be made, to be placed in new bodies if Optimus needed extra backup on Earth. No sign of CloningBlues, though unfortunately we don't get to meet the versions of them who are still on Cybertron.

* The original ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' series and Marvel comic often do what humans would consider unforgivable acts of playing god. Many robots were created in moments of "We need someone to do X; let's build 'em!" Their society just sees this thing differently from humans. The things that go wrong when humans do it seldom show up - the result is usually perfectly sane ''and'' treated as an equal from day one. Of course, before everything we knew about 'sparks' and 'protoforms' came to be, FridgeLogic dictated the necessity of this trope, since how else could robots reproduce? The comic even has an instance of five Autobots who allowed full copies of their data to be made, to be placed in new bodies if Optimus needed extra backup on Earth. No sign of CloningBlues, though unfortunately we don't get to meet the versions of them who are still on Cybertron.

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* In Spike's issue of the ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries, he accidentally turns his pet "Sea Beasts" into intelligent creatures. This is not portrayed as a bad thing, especially when Spike realizes that there are no shortcuts to growing up.

* In ''Film/NeverLetMeGo'', the cloned humans are kind and compassionate, and so are the humans who try to help them. Ironically, society doesn't ''want'' them to be good - it's easier to justify exploiting them if one can pretend that they are soulless.

* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' at first plays up the idea ofrecreating prehistoric animals from fossilized mosquitoes from this angle. However, some of the characters don't agree with this. [[Creator/JeffGoldblum Ian Malcolm]] seems to believe that CreatingLifeIsBad. After his experience in the Park, Alan Grant seems to have taken up this mindset as well when we see him in ''Film/JurassicParkIII''. However, creating life in general still comes across as pretty awesome; it's just that attempting to control that life and modify it to suit your tastes will lead to disaster. In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', the herbivorous dinosaurs and even the ''T. rex'' have been successfully contained and put on display, but the ''Indominus rex'' is created [[spoiler:as a LivingWeapon, which [[GoneHorriblyRight Goes Horribly Right]]]].

* In the third book of the Literature/YoungWizards series, Dairene's ordeal ends in the creation of an entire race of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot sentient robot wizards]], [[spoiler: who then become the first species to outright reject [[{{Satan}} the Lone One's]] offer.]] Simultaneously subverts AIIsACrapshoot, [[spoiler: as they come close to making the ''spectacularly'' bad move of [[TimeStandsStill freezing the universe]] until [[AlmightyMum Dairene]] talks them out of it.]]
* Creating life (well, [[UpliftedAnimal turning existing life into sentient life]], but it's the same idea) is the ''central imperative'' of the entire Galactic culture in the {{Literature/Uplift}} series by Creator/DavidBrin. It adds to the spice of it that every one of the thousands of species making up that culture is itself a creation of a previous race, in a chain going back ''billions'' of years.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's robot stories present robots in a generally positive light, occasionally comparing the [[ThreeLawsCompliant Three Laws Of Robotics]] to the ethical and social guidelines observed by civilized humans and lamenting widespread "Frankenstein Complex" anti-robot sentiment.

* Ziv Zulander, the protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/BotsMaster'', is a GadgeteerGenius who fights the show's villain with the aid of the robot companions he built, collectively known as the Boyzz Brigade. He and the Boyzz Brigade are unambiguously the heroes of the story.

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* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' at first plays up the idea of [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs recreating prehistoric animals from fossilized mosquitoes]] from this angle. However, some of the characters don't agree with this. [[Creator/JeffGoldblum Ian Malcolm]] seems to believe that CreatingLifeIsBad. After his experience in the Park, Alan Grant seems to have taken up this mindset as well when we see him in ''Film/JurassicParkIII''. However, creating life in general still comes across as pretty awesome; it's just that attempting to control that life and modify it to suit your tastes will lead to disaster. In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', the herbivorous dinosaurs and even the ''T. rex'' have been successfully contained and put on display, but the ''Indominus rex'' is created [[spoiler:as a LivingWeapon, which [[GoneHorriblyRight Goes Horribly Right]]]].

--->'''Lemongrab 2:''' It just felt so pretty okay inside greeting each new placid face!
--->'''Lemongrab:''' And ''hearing'' each new, ''piercing'' song!

* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', the mage known as "the Lifemaker" got his title for a reason: [[spoiler:the Magical World, with its own entire ecosystem and intelligent ensouled beings numbering nearly a billion, was created by him]]. His creating life is never portrayed as a bad thing... it's the fact that he now wants to ''end'' said life that makes him the villain.

* In ''Film/NeverLetMeGo'', the artificial humans are kind and compassionate, and so are the humans who try to help them. Ironically, society doesn't ''want'' them to be good - it's easier to justify exploiting them if one can pretend that they are soulless.

* The whole premise of ''Franchise/MegaMan''. Robots (And later on, Reploids) are basically helpful to humanity, even if humanity misuses them. The villains are either humans or products of human folly, and even the most cynical protagonist in the series is just a case of GoodIsNotNice. In the end, humans and machines always work together to build a brighter tomorrow with everlasting peace.

* This is the entire goal of the field of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology synthetic biology]]. Specifically, the "ultimate goals of being able to design and build engineered biological systems that process information, manipulate chemicals, fabricate materials and structures, produce energy, provide food, and maintain and enhance human health and our environment." Not exactly Frankenstein.

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* In ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'', Daja creates living metal, which is treated as an amazing achievement and is used to make a copper tree that grows and ArtificialLimbs that move amongst other things. She doesn't cross the line into making sentient life though. Later in the books, an inexperienced glass mage accidentally makes a living glass dragon, who is also treated as a marvel. Tris' comments indicate that mages creating life accidentally happens often enough that they have ethics for it and are expected to treat said creations as their children, and is absolutely infuriated when Keth tries to destroy his creation.

* In ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'', Daja creates living metal, which is treated as an amazing achievement and is used to make a copper tree that grows and ArtificialLimbs that move amongst other things. She doesn't cross the line into making sentient life though. Later in the books, an inexperienced glass mage accidentally makes a living glass dragon, who is also treated as a marvel.

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* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', the mage known as "the Lifemaker" got his title for a reason: [[spoiler:the Magical World, with its own entire ecosystem and intelligent ensouled beings numbering nearly a billion, was created by him]]. His creating life is never portrayed as a bad thing... it's the fact that he now wants to ''end'' said life that makes him the villain.

* In Fanfic/{{Mutant}}, [[MotherlyScientist Kittery Abigail]] believes this.
* In the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfic Fanfic/{{Ruin Value}}, [[spoiler:Celestia, Luna, and Discord were all created by the last living human scientist]].

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* In ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', both the Traditions and the Technocratic Union create intelligent lifeforms in a benevolent manner. These creations can even become playable characters without any drawbacks from their artificial origins.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' "neogenesis" is the ultimate biogenesis technology and classified as [[TechnologyLevels TL11]] development, the creation of a truly viable species doesn't occur until [=TL12=].
* In ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'' creating life is considered perfectly acceptable. Creating intelligent life is considered a modest Transgression more because it's socially frowned upon than because it's automatically unethical. Mad Scientists tend to do both anyway.
* In ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'' The nature mysteries of the Merinita and the research of the Maga Ierimyra, (in the Broken Covenant of Calebais adventure) both allow the creation of breeds of supernatural animals with intelligence and/or magical powers with no drawback to the creator aside from the effort it takes to do the job and the responsibility of having to deal with the resulting race of super animals. Also, golems can be created by Kabbalists as in folklore.

* The original ''{{Transformers}}'' series and Marvel comic often do what humans would consider unforgivable acts of playing god. Many robots were created in moments of "We need someone to do X; let's build 'em!" Their society just sees this thing differently from humans. The things that go wrong when humans do it seldom show up - the result is usually perfectly sane ''and'' treated as an equal from day one. Of course, before everything we knew about 'sparks' and 'protoforms' came to be, FridgeLogic dictated the necessity of this trope, since how else could robots reproduce? The comic even has an instance of five Autobots who allowed full copies of their data to be made, to be placed in new bodies if Optimus needed extra backup on Earth. No sign of CloningBlues, though unfortunately we don't get to meet the versions of them who are still on Cybertron.

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* Played with in ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward''. [[spoiler:[[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Luna's]]]] creation is not portrayed as morally wrong, but her enslavement [[spoiler:by Sigma and June]] is. (They programmed her to always follow their orders, no matter how unethical those orders were. She has just enough humanity to know that what they're doing is wrong, but not enough to rebel against them without being shut off permanently.)

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* In ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', the "rightness" of creating life through magic varies depending on the mage's mindset. For example, when Elsa is upset, she conjures up Marshmallow, a hulking {{snowlem}} that is easily angered (you can piss him off merely by lobbing a snowball at him) and attacks Anna. When Elsa is happy, as seen in "Let it Go," she creates Olaf ([[CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen unintentionally]]), a friendly creature that is PurityPersonified and helps Anna and Kristoff. It's basically the logical conclusion of PersonalityPowers -- a mage's feelings and desires come through in whatever they make.

* In [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} the Disney version of Pinocchio]], the title character is created by the joint efforts of Gepetto (who built his body) and The Blue Fairy (who gave him life). It is all treated as a good thing.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Aww, who's a cute little ''Velociraptor''?"[[labelnote:*]]Oh, yeah. Ooh, ah, that’s how it always starts. [[GoneHorriblyWrong Then later there’s running and screaming[[/labelnote]]]].]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"Aww, who's a cute little ''Velociraptor''?"]]