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* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', [[BigBad Salem]] is the once-human ruler of the [[AnimalisticAbomination Creatures of Grimm]], which are drawn to negative emotions. Salem commands them in her campaign to destroy what humanity has built, and while she didn't create them herself- that would be the GodOfDarkness- she has experimented with them to create several new breeds, such as winged [[KillerGorilla Beringels]] or the [[ItCanThink Hound]].

* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'': Dr. Henry Wu, a senior member of Ingen who worked as a the lead scientist at both Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, he is responsible for creating three known genetically engineered hybrid dinosaurs, two of which were secretly intended to be [[BioweaponBeast living weapons]] for the military that managed to escape containment and ended up causing massive destruction and killing dozens of humans and dinosaurs. The Indominus Rex in Film/JurassicWorld, the Indoraptor in Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom and the Scorpius Rex in WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous.

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* ''Literature/FateApocrypha'': Caster of Black/Avicebron has the Noble Phantasm "Golem Keter Malkuth: Royal Crown, the Light of Wisdom", which allows him to create golems using incredibly rare materials. Darnic has the means to obtain these materials en masse to allow Avicebron to mass produce his golems as an army for the Great Grail War. The "villain" aspect of this trope is downplayed as GreyAndGrayMorality is in play and while a MisanthropeSupreme, Avicebron is a CoolTeacher to his Master, Roche. [[spoiler:[[FauxAffablyEvil Or so it seems]], as he later uses Roche as HumanResources for the creation of the golem Adam as part of his EvilPlan, which even he admits is something Roche should hate him for.]]
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': Both versions have a BigBad who does this:
** In the manga, Father creates the homunculi to make himself perfect and further his goals by having a group of sociopathic, super-powered immortals to carry out his will. Father created them by removing his own sins and personifying them, creating loyal followers, though there are only seven of them. While the majority are humanoid, several count as {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and all take quite a while to get rid of.

* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
** Creator/DougMoench's villain [[Characters/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1977 Dr. Demonicus]] creates {{Kaiju}} and HumongousMecha as his shtick. He's best known for getting into fights with [[ComicBook/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1977 Godzilla]] and the Comicbook/ShogunWarriors.
** In ''Spider-Man and the X-Men'' #2, the heroes go up against a villain named Sauron who turned some people into dinosaurs and is planning to repeat the trick on a massive scale.

* ''ComicBook/{{Elfquest}}'': Winnowill creates many horrible creatures over the years, to prey on other elves or humans.

* ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'': [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Dr. Jumba Jookiba]] is an alien MadScientist and self proclaimed EvilGenius who created Experiment 626 specifically to cause destruction and wreak havoc wherever he goes (he freely admits that he has no higher purpose for this). [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries The sequel series]] reveals that he had created [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments 625 other such creatures]], each engineered to sow chaos in specific and amusing ways.

* ''Literature/JoeLedger'': In ''Dragon Factory'' there are the [[EvilutionaryBiologist Jacoby twins]], the owners of the titular Factory, who create fantastic hybrids through genetic engineering. Some they sell to the highest bidder, some are used in hunts for the bored elite (a literal hunt for a unicorn plays an important part in the plot), and some are aimed to be perfect soldiers.

** The Purple Witch, a.k.a Pandora, possesses a magic box from which she can conjure monsters to do her bidding.

* ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}} Metallix'' divides this role between the criminal cartoonist Less Fortunes, who draws the MonsterOfTheWeek and BigBad Nukus, who brings it to the real world with his sword.

** ''Series/KamenRider'': Shocker are a NebulousEvilOrganization that splices human test subjects with plant or animal DNA to create an army of [[MonsterOfTheWeek Kaijin]], one of which gets sent out each week to fight our heroes.

*** Lolth, Demon Queen of Spiders, is the patron goddess of the dark elves, and has the power to transform those that displease her into [[SpiderPeople elf/spider hybrids]] called Driders. She also has a race of demons who are exclusively formed within her lair and act as her servants - the shape-shifting {{Blob Monster}}s known as Yochlol.

* Creator/GamesWorkshop games:
** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': The Skaven of Clan Moulder specialize in the creation of horrific rat monsters through the use of selective breeding, alchemical and magical mutagens and Frankensteinian surgeries, coupled with weapon implants provided by the {{magitek}} engineers of Clan Skyre. These can range from "regular" RodentsOfUnusualSize and hulking Rat Ogres to immense and bloated Brood Horrors or the horrific, writhing behemoths known as Hell Pit Abominations. All of these monstrous creations are then sold to other Skaven clans for hefty prices to be used as war animals and living siege engines.
** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The Haemonculi of the [[TheFairFolk Drukhari]] habitually create horrific monstrosities through arcane and nightmarish processes designed to be as painful as possible. Their most common creations include Grotesques, hulking Frankensteinian horrors created from those that have crossed a Haemonculus; and the floating, biomechanical horrors known as the Engines of Pain that harvest raw materials for their creators.

* ''TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful:'' While most Darkspawn are created from those who crossed (or were pushed across) the MoralEventHorizon, one of the more terrifying powers of the [[FallenHero Dethroned]] is the ability to create new Darkspawn ''ex nihilo''. It's mentioned that often one of the first clues to the presence of a Dethroned is a heretofore unknown specie of Darkspawn popping up.

* ''Videogame/BaldursGateDarkAlliance II'': Luvia Bloodmire is an insane alchemist who has developed surgical techniques for transferring limbs and organs from one creature to another. Most of her FleshGolem creations are fought in the Bloodmire Manor level, and another villain, Lady Arogazia, sometimes contracts her to make custom monsters to further her plans.
* ''VideoGame/Borderlands1'': In ''The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned'', the titular doctor's experiments are responsible for the zombies and few wereskags, a.k.a alien weredogs, of Jakob's Cove, which he uses to defend his lab.
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness'': The Devil Forgemasters Hector and Isaac were once part of [[BigBad Dracula's]] army, using their talents to create monsters. In fact, it's hinted throughout the lore that Hector and Isaac (along with any heretofore unseen Forgemasters) were responsible for the ''entirety'' of the enemies that the player faces throughout the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series, save for unique ones like bosses. Their method for doing so here is described as creating creatures out of "pure darkness", with the creatures forged being completely loyal to the Forgemaster.

* ''Videogame/FallenLondon:'' The strangest of the Tracklayer factions during the Great Hellbound Railway storyline is composed of bizarre visionaries with expertise in [[BioManipulation Shapeling Arts]] who call themselves the Prehistoricists. Rather than the anarchic and aggressive Liberationists and the simply unionized Emancipationists, they believe in the system, ''all'' of the system down to [[spoiler:the Great Chain of Being]], and are simply convinced it's missing given parts to it. Namely, that while humans shouldn't be subjected to the dangerous and exhausting working conditions of having to lay railroad track in the Neath (among other such dangerous jobs), ''something'' should take that role instead, and are more than willing to whip up monstrosities to be that "something" since [[spoiler:the Chain]] sure didn't provide any. The giant track-laying mammoth with railway iron instead of tusks (their leader Cornelius calls it a Ferrocephalus) is but one example.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

* ''{{VideoGame/Majesty}}'' has a few VillainousLegacy-style examples, where the creators are long dead but their monsters are still roaming free to cause problems – the sorcerer Andravus created the Minotaurs to be his shock troops, and the Grisnot Goblin Tribe bred the first Giant Spiders to use as guard animals. The most prolific and successful was an infamous dark wizard named Pyrog the Shadowed. He started with [[PlantMooks Flowering Strangleweeds]], moved on to [[OurMonstersAreWeird Rustspitters]], then [[{{Oculothorax}} Evil Oculi]], and died under mysterious circumstances while creating something even more powerful and dangerous (hinted to be [[EldritchAbomination the Abomination]]).
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': The Umbrella Corporation is responsible for creating Bio Organic Weapons, animals and humans transformed into monstrous beasts. Some of their products include Cerberus, highly aggressive mutated dogs; the Hunters, hulking reptilian humanoids; and human-derived monsters such as the Lickers and the Tyrant, in addition to manufacturing different viruses such as the T and G strains which are used to create the monsters.

* ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998'': It's mentioned in the intro cutscene that the Gnorcs that Spyro faces on his journey (and possibly other enemies as well) were created by Gnasty Gnorc from the treasure hoard he stole from the dragons prior to the start of the game to build his own army. This explains why they drop gems upon defeat.
* ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon:'' The first boss, Buzz, is created by Bianca, one of the villains, turning a rabbit into said monster with sorcery. The next 2 bosses, Spike and Scorch, are created by the BigBad Sorceress by transforming 2 of her Rhynoc subjects, again using sorcery.
* ''VideoGame/StringTyrant'' Pygmalie made all of the dolls and traps in the manor. Most of the sequences where Mary is defeated involves a visit to Pygmalie to finish the transformation.
* ''Videogame/XCOM2'': The "Alien Hunters" DLC reveals that Dr Vahlen becomes one of these after finding an abandoned genetics laboratory at some point after the events of ''Videogame/XCOMEnemyUnknown''. She finds three cryogenically frozen aliens within the lab and begins to perform unethical gene-splicing experiments on them, eventually mutating them into KingMook versions of some of the game's regular enemies: the Viper King, Berserker Queen and Archon King.
* Alhazad from ''VideoGame/WildArms1'' is notorious for this. [[spoiler: Horribly mutilating unfortunate humans until they are nothing more than a mindless monster is his idea of entertainment. He makes enough monsters to overrun Saint Centaur and, later on, attempts to do the same thing to [[OrphanageOfLove Court Seim.]]]]

* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft: Shadowlands'', the Necrolords of Maldraxxus are adept at turning leftover bodies from allies and enemies alike into [[FleshGolem Flesh Golems]] to be inhabited by a new Maldraxxi soul. The House of Constructs are specialists in this art with scientists like Stitchflesh leading the efforts. None are more skilled at reshaping flesh than Margrave Gharmal. His talent is so great that [[spoiler:after his death, his heart is given to the Kyrian of Bastion to use as a power source to create better Ascended.]]

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* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Most Sparks (i.e. {{Mad Scientist}}s) end up transforming wildlife and/or people into monsters with which to terrorize the local populace, unless they spend their time making terrible machines instead. The most talented do ''both''. Of all Sparks specializing in the creation of monsters, [[SocialDarwinist Dmitri Vapnoople]] was perhaps the most dangerous in the modern era, to the point even the otherwise unflappable Albia of England feared him.

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* Kirk Odd from''ARG/TheNoedolekcinArchives'' created his underlings, known as wardens. Each warden shares a different aspect of his powers: Gabore shares his hunger for organic beings, Hypsypops has his power of [[DreamWeaver dream weaving]], and the unnamed warden shares his ability to shapeshift.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania|2017}}'': Like in the games, Hector and Isaac are Devil Forgemasters who join (and lead) Dracula's war against humanity, creating the vast army of creatures that Dracula requires for the effort. Unlike in the games, however, their methods are more fleshed-out and distinct here: Hector is seen using surgical tools to bring once-living things back to life with full memories and personality intact, while Isaac is shown using a magical dagger to tear the souls of the damned out of Hell itself to occupy the body of someone or something that was once alive -- immediately mutating them into twisted abominations. These methods double as PersonalityPowers: Hector is the nicer and meeker of the two, and wants to use his abilities to give those who died a second chance at life, while Isaac is a devout Muslim who took UsefulNotes/{{the prophet Muhammad}}'s teachings that "one day there will be no human beings left in Hell" literally and believes his abilities to be the key to fulfilling that prophecy while also punishing the wickedness of mankind on Earth.

* ''WesternAnimation/CyberSix'': [[EvilutionaryBiologist Von Riktor's]] bio-engineered forces pose a regular danger to Meridianna. In addition to his normal {{Mooks}}, the Fixed Ideas and the Technos, Von Riktor also makes hyper-sonic gargoyles, a deadly werewolf, a living wave of mud, and other monstrosities to take out the heroine. In fact, Cyber Six herself and her ally Data Seven are also creations if Von Riktor's that went rogue.

* Discussed in ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower''. Morgoth created the Orcs be enslaving and twisting Elves from Beleriand into an EvilCounterpartRace. After his defeat, Sauron made sure they still multiplied in great numbers.

* ''VideoGame/Majesty'' has a few VillainousLegacy-style examples, where the creators are long dead but their monsters are still roaming free to cause problems – the sorcerer Andravus created the Minotaurs to be his shock troops, and the Grisnot Goblin Tribe bred the first Giant Spiders to use as guard animals. The most prolific and successful was an infamous dark wizard named Pyrog the Shadowed. He started with [[PlantMooks Flowering Strangleweeds]], moved on to [[OurMonstersAreWeird Rustspitters]], then [[{{Oculothorax}} Evil Oculi]], and died under mysterious circumstances while creating something even more powerful and dangerous (hinted to be [[EldritchAbomination the Abomination]]).

The Maker of Monsters is a character, usually a villain, who is notable for creating monstrous creatures, whether ''ex nihilo'' or through breeding or mutation of preexisting beings. These monsters may be unique, one-off beings, but more commonly large numbers of similar creatures will be created together or over time. In either case, the Maker of Monsters will likely shape numerous creations over their career, instead of only making one or two beasts in isolation.

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': The Umbrella Corporation is responsible for creating Bio Organic Weapons, animals and humans transformed into monstrous beasts. Some of their products include Cerberus, highly aggressive mutated dogs; the Hunters, hulking reptilian humanoids; and human-derived monsters such s the Lickers and the Tyrant, in addition to manufacturing different viruses such as the T and G strains which are used to create the monsters.

* Abomination magic in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is primarily used to create {{Muck Monster}}s to follow the caster's commands, though more skilled witches can directly manipulate the abomination goo as a MorphWeapon. It's also a rare non-malicious example, as it is treated as being no better or worse than any of the other forms of magic. [[spoiler:In fact, pretty much every named abomination witch in the show goes on to be one of Luz's major allies.]]

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* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In numerous seasons, Big M. has some kind of device at his disposal to create monsters. In Season 1, he has the Black Jewel, which has the ability to turn objects into monsters; in Season 2, he has the Evil Egg, which creates an object that turns another object into a monsters if it touches it; and in Season 5, he has the Planet Gray virus to infect people and turn them into monsters against their will.

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