History Main / CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen

* In ''Film/TronLegacy'', Flynn [[CreatingLifeIsAwesome creates life on purpose, and all is well]]. Then a whole new species emerges from the grid's complexity without any conscious input, which he thinks is ''even cooler''. And then one of his original creations, acting on the flawed remit to "create the perfect system", comes to see these new beings as "imperfect"...

[[folder: Fanfic ]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In a pastiche of an episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', there was a HalloweenSpecial where Lisa manages to accidentally create a tiny living civilisation in a "tooth in cola" experiment, along with a convenient [[LightningCanDoAnything spark of static electricity]].
* WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse reveals in a flashback that Galvan-B, Galvan Prime's Moon, was once an uninhabitable dry rock before [[InsufferableGenius Azmuth]] performed a successful {{Terraform}} experiment, rendering the Moon suitable for life. It worked beyond expectations, as a new alien species, the Galvanic Mechamorphs, rose on the Moon's surface.

** This carries over to the sequel short, ''Disney/FrozenFever'', where Elsa, having come down with a flu, ends up spawning snowgies (much smaller {{snowlem}}s than even Olaf) every time she sneezes. And she sneezes a lot here.

* In ''Film/TronLegacy'', Flynn [[CreatingLifeIsAwesome creates life on purpose, and all is well]]. But then his actions cause a new species to evolve...

->'''Elsa:''' Wait, what is that?! ''[Olaf comes running inside]''

->'''Elsa:''' ''Olaf?''

->'''Elsa:''' And you're alive?

->'''Anna:''' He's just like the one we built as kids.
->'''Elsa:''' ''[smiles]'' Yeah...

* In addition to being able to create ice and snow, Elsa from ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' can create sentient life in the form of snow people. This happen when she conjures up hers and Anna's childhood snowman Olaf during "Let It Go", completely unaware that her abilities mean she's given him life, which Anna and Kristoff end up finding out first. Subsequently, when Anna does arrive at Elsa's ice castle and Olaf inadvertently barges in prematurely (after [[ExactWords giving Anna]] [[LiteralMinded a minute]]), Elsa is surprised to find that she even brought Olaf to life. Her creation of Marshmallow on the other hand is not at all accidental, and [[spoiler:much less benign]].

* In a pastiche of an episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had a HalloweenSpecial where Lisa manages to accidentally create a tiny living civilisation in a "tooth in cola" experiment, along with a convenient [[LightningCanDoAnything spark of static electricity]].

[[folder: Animated Film ]]

[[folder: Film ]]

[[AC:ComicBooks]]

[[AC:ComicStrips]]

[[AC:Fanfic]]

[[AC:AnimatedFilm]]

[[AC:{{Film}}]]

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]

[[AC:Multiple Media]]

[[AC:TabletopGames]]

[[AC:VideoGames]]
* In ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable: The Gears of Destiny'', [[spoiler:Amita and Kyrie]] were revealed to have been created as RidiculouslyHumanRobots by accident. Their creator was just planning to create non-sentient automatons, but he kinda overdid their programming. Once he realized what had happened, [[spoiler:[[RoboFamily he adopted them as his daughters instead]]]]. He toned down the programming for later batches, since he still needed [[SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence non-sentient robots]] [[spoiler:to work on the restoration of [[DeathWorld Eltria's]] deadlier regions]].

[[AC:WebComics]]

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]

[[AC:RealLife]]
* Not all pregnancies are planned, after all. Some people handle the revelation that they accidentally created another human being better than others.

* In Disney's ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/HopeForTheHeartless'', [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Creeper]] is revealed to have come into existence by accident. [[VillainProtagonist The Horned King]] was preparing a concoction for an unstated purpose. A little statue fell off the decaying castle that served as the work area and Creeper was born. That experiment had taken centuries to get to that point, and the Horned King [[BadBoss despises]] Creeper so much for ruining it like that.

* The entire point behind the ''{{BIONICLE}}'' story was that Mata Nui, AKA a planet-sized space-robot whose body houses the Matoran Universe, was meant to function as a sentient but ''lifeless'' robot, along with everyone living inside him. Instead, they built up cultures, began worshiping Mata Nui as a deity, developed relationships, formed alliances, fought wars... Sadly, this didn't prevent another creation of the Great Beings, Marendar, from seeing them as more than just robots, and began to carry out his task of shutting them off. Well, "slaughtering" would be a more fitting expression.

* The obscure late 80s/early 90s cartoon show ''WesternAnimation/LittleWizards'' has three of the four protagonists being this; as the ExpositoryThemeTune explains/shows, Prince Dexter accidentally knocked over a bunch of magical potions and reagents into a cauldron already filled with a magical brew whilst overburdened with assorted magical grimoires and wands. The result was a huge explosion and the creation of his allies and fellow students; the magical monsters Winkle, Gump and Boo.

* The obscure late 80s/early 90s cartoon show ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleWizards'' has three of the four protagonists being this; as the ExpositoryThemeTune explains/shows, Prince Dexter accidentally knocked over a bunch of magical potions and reagents into a cauldron already filled with a magical brew whilst overburdened with assorted magical grimoires and wands. The result was a huge explosion and the creation of his allies and fellow students; the magical monsters Winkle, Gump and Boo.

* Jyrras of ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' created two different lifeforms, both by accident.

* Ben10Omniverse reveals in a flashback that Galvan-B, Galvan Prime's Moon, was once an inhabitable dry rock before [[InsufferableGenius Azmuth]] performed a successful {{Terraform}} experiment, rendering the Moon suitable for life. It worked beyond expectations, as a new alien species, the Galvanic Mechamorphs, rose on the Moon's surface.

* In ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'', Kagehime created the first Shadowkhan from her shadow accidentally.

* The entire point behind the ''{{BIONICLE}}'' story was that Mata Nui, AKA a planet-sized space-robot whose body houses the Matoran Universe, was meant to function as a sentient but "lifeless" robot, along with everyone living inside him. Instead, they built up cultures, began worshiping Mata Nui as a deity, developed relationships, formed alliances, fought wars... Sadly, this didn't prevent another creation of the Great Beings, Marendar, from seeing them as more than just robots, and began to carry out his task of shutting them off. Well, "slaughtering" would be a more fitting expression.

[[quoteright:303:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vol370.jpg]]

* In ''Comicbook/JourneyIntoMystery'' young SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}}, in an effort to humanize [[Comicbook/FearItself the Serpent]], an unbeatable enemy, [[RewritingReality added a romantic sub-plot to his biography]]. Said sub-plot, [[spoiler:who was modelled after his best friend Leah,]] later appeared basically to go RageAgainstTheHeavens / RageAgainstTheAuthor on his ass. [[spoiler:At the end it was revealed that she grew up to become the goddess Hela.]]

-->'''Olaf:''' ''[outside]'' ....58, 59, 60!
-->'''Elsa:''' Wait, what is that?! ''[Olaf comes running inside]''
-->'''Olaf:''' Hi! I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs!
-->'''Elsa:''' ''Olaf''?
-->'''Olaf:''' You built me! Remember that?
-->'''Elsa:''' And you're alive?
-->'''Olaf:''' Yeah, um, I think so? ''[Elsa looks at her hands in surprise and wonder]''
-->'''Anna:''' He's just like the one we built as kids.
-->'''Elsa:''' ''[smiles]'' Yeah...
-->---''Disney/{{Frozen}}''

If this trope leads to DeityOfHumanOrigin, expect it to come with a dose of GodIsFlawed. Contrast PlayingGod and CreatingLifeIsAwesome, where creating sentient life was the goal.

-->'''Elsa:''' Wait. What is that? ''[Olaf comes running inside]''

* Jyrras of ''DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' created two different lifeforms, both by accident.

* In addition to being able to create ice and snow, Elsa from ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' can create sentient life in the form of snow people. This happen when she conjures up hers and Anna's childhood snowman Olaf during "Let It Go", completely unaware that her abilities mean she's given him life, which Anna and Kristoff end up finding out first. Subsequently, when Anna does arrive at Elsa's ice castle and Olaf inadvertently barges in prematurely (after [[ExactWords giving Anna]] [[LiteralMinded a minute]]), this happens:
-->'''Olaf:''' ''[outside]' ....58, 59, 60!
-->'''Elsa:''' Wait, what is that? ''[Olaf comes running inside]''
-->'''Olaf:''' Hi! I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs!
-->'''Elsa:''' ''Olaf''?
-->'''Olaf:''' You built me! Remember that?
-->'''Elsa:''' And you're alive?
-->'''Olaf:''' Yeah, um, I think so? ''[Elsa looks at her hands in surprise and wonder]''
** What she creates after that is not at all accidental, and [[spoiler:much less benign]].