History Main / RaisedInALab

* 'WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' The title main character was raised by a scientist who wanted space dogs, so standard cartoon plotline.

* ''Film/{{Logan}}'': The child mutants were raised as bioweapons in a Mexican lab, with any attempt by the nurses to treat them like normal humans severely reprimanded by higher-ups.

** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol.3'': Rocket Racconn was created and raised by the high evolutionary

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* Meta Salmhofer from the ''Music/EvilliousChronicles'' was created in a lab by Seth Twiright, and grew up without a mother or father to take care of her. When Seth selected her as the new Ma and she saw the children she bore being tested on, she remembered her loveless childhood, and, not wanting her children to suffer the same fate she did, [[spoiler: kidnapped them and ran to the forest to raise them herself]].

* Ace from the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episodes "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E21And22WildCards Wild Cards]]" and "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E13Epilogue Epilogue]]" was born with incredible psychic abilities that left people in a state of catatonic insanity simply by making eye contact with them. She was taken into Project Cadmus' custody when she was a toddler. They subjected her to constant testing to examine the limits of her abilities and find a way to control her. In her final days, she expresses rese
ntment for being cheated out of her childhood by something out of her control, which Batman empathizes with.

* 'WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' The title main character was raised by a scientist who wanted space dogs, so standard cartoon plotline

* Ace from the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episodes "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E21And22WildCards Wild Cards]]" and "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E13Epilogue Epilogue]]" was born with incredible psychic abilities that left people in a state of catatonic insanity simply by making eye contact with them. She was taken into Project Cadmus' custody when she was a toddler. They subjected her to constant testing to examine the limits of her abilities and find a way to control her. In her final days, she expresses resentment for being cheated out of her childhood by something out of her control, which Batman empathizes with.
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** ''Film/SpeciesII'': While Sil's clone Eve was also raised in a lab, but much more care was taken to make her a relatively well-adjusted alien-human genetic hybrid, and it works out much better for the humans in the end (mostly).

** ''Film/SpeciesII'': WhileSil's clone Eve was also raised in a lab, but much more care was taken to make her a relatively well-adjusted alien-human genetic hybrid, and it works out much better for the humans in the end (mostly).

* ''Film/{{Species}}'' series

-->'''Laura''': Well, she wasn't exactly smothered with a mother's love or taught good manners.
** While Sil's clone Eve was raised in a lab in ''Film/SpeciesII'', much more care was taken to make her a relatively well-adjusted alien-human genetic hybrid, and it works out much better for the humans in the end (mostly).

* Sergeant Taura, from the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga''. In "Labyrinth," when her age was sixteen and her designation was Nine, she describes her upbringing as "I lived with hired fosterers till I was eight. Like the clones do. Then I started to get big and clumsy and break things -- they brought me to live at the lab after that. It was all right, I was warm and had plenty to eat."
* In ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'' series, most of WICKED's subjects were raised at the organisation's laboratory complex after being taken from their families as young children. [[note]]The second prequel to the original trilogy reveals that at least one of them was already a teenager when he became part of the Trials.[[/note]] WICKED are searching for a cure for a deadly brain disease called the Flare, the result of a virus which was unleashed as a means of population control in the wake of the world being devastated by solar flares. The majority of the subjects were chosen because they had a rare immunity to the Flare and WICKED hoped that studying their brain patterns might lead to a cure; a few non-Immunes were chosen as control subjects.

* ''Series/ThePretender'': Believing that some children were born geniuses at "pretending" to be other people, the mysterious laboratory Centre raises up and educates promising youngsters to be Pretenders, geniuses with the ability to become anyone they want to be. Then one day, their star pupil escaped...

* Eleven in ''Series/StrangerThings'' was abducted at birth due to her telekinetic abilities. She was taken into experimentation and trained to use her powers, deprived of all contact with the outside world. As a result, her language is stunted and her social skills are non-existent. At then start of the series, she EscapedFromTheLab and is found by a group of boys her age.

* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'': [[spoiler:The protagonist, Jack, is [[TheReveal revealed]] not to be an ordinary human who ended up in Rapture by accident, but the biological son of the city's founder Andrew Ryan, who was taken from his mother upon birth by Doctors Suchong and Tenenbaum. They performed a number of experiments on him, such as installing FakeMemories and {{Trigger Phrase}}s, subjecting him to RapidAging, and more.]]
* ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'': Due to her ability to [[ThinkingUpPortals create portals]] to {{Alternate Universe}}s, Elizabeth was locked in a tower deprived of human contact and kept under observation by many scientists, who kept very careful watch over her to the point of invading her privacy. This started when she was an infant, and she only escapes in her early 20's with assistance from Booker. However, she was never subjected under direct experiments.
* This is implied to be the case with Ragna and his siblings in ''Videogame/BlazBlue''. The earliest record and memory that they have is that they used to be confined in a lab as little children before Jubei rescued them and put them under Celica's custody. As they are revealed to be [[spoiler:the "children" of the 5th [[ArtificialHuman Boundary Interface Prime Field Device]]]], it's implied that the three were raised in a lab due to their nature.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Aerith Gainsborough, along with her mother, was one of [[MadScientist Professor Hojo's]] test subjects in the Shinra labs as a child. Little is told of her time there, just that her mother was killed when they escaped when she was seven, and her father died trying to prevent Shinra from taking them when she wasn't even a month old. What we see of Hojo and her experience when she's briefly recaptured give just enough hints to let players [[NothingIsScarier fill in the gaps themselves]].

* Grace from ''WebComic/ElGoonishShive'' is a classic example -- a genetically-engineered [[HeinzHybrid human/alien/squirrel hybrid]] created by a shady corporate lab. She was supposed to be trained into a badass VoluntaryShapeshifting SuperSoldier, but proved not to have the [[TechnicalPacifist temperament]] for it. What happened next is... complicated. In short, by the time she actually made good her escape, it wasn't really a laboratory anymore, and she is still only slowly learning to pick up on the cues and references of normal society.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'' both Helen and Artie. She is a [[CloningBlues clone]] created for study of mad genius, he's an UpliftedAnimal and before getting turned into human(oid) hardly left the lab.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Ace was born with incredible psychic abilities that left people in a state of catatonic insanity simply by making eye contact with them. She was taken into Project Cadmus' custody when she was a toddler. They subjected her to constant testing to examine the limits of her abilities and find a way to control her. In her final days, she expresses resentment for being cheated out of her childhood by something out of her control, which Batman empathizes with.
* To some extent C2 from ''WesternAnimation/CarlSquared''. While a lot of his immature and socially ignorant behavior is attributed to his being younger than he looks. Some of his nerdier behavior like a love of school can be related back to the set of triplet doctors that raised him. The opening theme song shows he things a bowtie is acceptable for a teenagers year book photo, when we finally meet "the lab guys" they do infact all wear bowties.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Ace was born with incredible psychic abilities that left people in a state of catatonic insanity simply by making eye contact with them. She was taken into Project Cadmus' custody when she was a toddler. They subjected her to constant testing to examine the limits of her abilities and find a way to control her. In her final days, she expresses resentment for being cheated out of her childhood by something out of her control, which [[HurtingHero Batman]] empathizes with.

** In his ''ComicBook/New52'' origins, ComicBook/{{Superboy}} Conner Kent/Kon-El was raised in a lab as an ArtificialHuman with Superman's DNA and later released as a HumanWeapon.

* In the ''ComicBook/FlashpointDCComics'' universe, Clark Kent was captured as a child and raised in a lab. Before the Flash and his allies freed him, Clark had never even seen sunlight.

* In the ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' universe, Clark Kent was captured as a child and raised in a lab. Before the Flash and his allies freed him, Clark had never even seen sunlight.

* The second iteration of the Newsboy Legion were clones who were created and raised in Project Cadmus where they were constantly meddling in things. They released ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}} "S-13" from the lab before he was completed to Director Westfield's specifications and generally annoyed many of the scientists there by being underfoot.
* In his ''ComicBook/New52'' origins, ComicBook/{{Superboy}} Conner Kent/Kon-El was raised in a lab as an ArtificialHuman with Franchise/{{Superman}}'s DNA and later released as a HumanWeapon.
* ''[[Characters/SupermanJimmyOlsen Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen]]'': Jimmy befriends the Outsiders, {{Modified Clone}}s who were raised in Cadmus with the intent of them becoming Cadmus personnel, but the Outsiders chose to leave the project and become a strange biker gang in the wilderness outside of Metropolis instead.
* Nadia van Dyne, ComicBook/TheUnstoppableWasp, was raised in a MadScientist splinter group of the Red Room, the Russian TykeBomb-factory black ops organization better known for creating the Black Widows. This was an unusual variation, as the intention was not to experiment on her and her cohort, but to raise and indoctrinate them as the next generation of mad scientists.

* Lucy, in the Fairy Tail fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Singularity}}'', was taken at a young age by the Balam Alliance to be experiment on, along with others, to find a way to create [[SuperSoldier Super Soldiers]] for eight years. It seems she went through hell from what they did to her. Possibly worse then any of the other test subjects as she was the only one who came closest to the Alliance's goal. Jellal found out what the Alliance was doing and [[EscapedFromTheLab intercepted the ship transporting Lucy to a new facility and freeing her]] before dropping her on Erza's crew.

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' and its spinoffs, Academy City is a hyper-advanced "world capital of science" founded to research [[PsychicPowers esper abilities]]. Children who were brought to the city and abandoned, known colloquially as "Child Errors", are easily preyed upon by underground {{Mad Scientist}}s in need of test subjects, making this a fairly common background for esper antagonists.

* Shiro, one half of 'The Blank' in ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'', was moved to a lab -- apparently with her mother's consent -- before she turned ''one'', due to her ludicrous intelligence. A ChildProdigy writ large, she was already speaking fluently at that point, and acing every intelligence-test put to her -- rendering her IQ effectively [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale immeasureable]]. While the tests and experiments we see all appear to be fairly ethical and nonintrusive, this nonetheless left her with a sense of profound isolation and disconnect from the rest of humanity, with her first real human connection being the fateful encounter with her step-brother, Kuro -- a prodigy in his own right, though not to the same degree. We never find out how she eventually left the lab, though smart money is on it being thanks to Kuro and his mastery of social manipulation. Either way, those years left their mark -- without Kuro close at hand, she's completely nonfunctional, basically shutting down and going catatonic.

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': In the episode "Pierrot Le Fou", Mad Pierrot was created and born in a laboratory and grew up there. He was given super powers, including {{Flight}} and being ImmuneToBullets, and trained to be an unstoppable assassin.

* Nadia van Dyne, ComicBook/TheUnstoppableWasp, was raised in a MadScientist splinter group of the Red Room, the Russian TykeBomb-factory black ops organization better known for creating the Black Widows.

* Nadia Pym, ComicBook/TheUnstoppableWasp, was raised in a MadScientist splinter group of the Red Room, the Russian TykeBomb-factory black ops organization better known for creating the Black Widows.

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': In the episode "Pierrot Le Fou", Mad Pierrot was created and born in a laboratory and grew up there. He was given super powers, including {{Flight}} and being ImmuneToBullets, and trained to be an unstoppable assassin.

* Lothar of ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'' was this due to being an artificially engineered person. He eventually escaped where he was found by his adoptive father who introduced Lothar to his extended, adoptive family, a large secretive guild of mercenaries.

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': As in [[ComicBook/TheBoys the source material]], Homelander was raised in a lab throughout his childhood. The constant feeling of isolation he felt, and accidental murders of others played a key part in making him into what he is today.

* Meta Salmhofer from the ''Franchise/EvilliousChronicles'' was created in a lab by Seth Twiright, and grew up without a mother or father to take care of her. When Seth selected her as the new Ma and she saw the children she bore being tested on, she remembered her loveless childhood, and, not wanting her children to suffer the same fate she did, [[spoiler: kidnapped them and ran to the forest to raise them herself]].

* In ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'' series, most of WICKED's subjects were raised at the organisation's laboratory complex after being taken from their families as young children. [[note]]The second prequel to the original trilogy reveals that at least one of them was already a teenager when he became part of the Trials.[[/note]] WICKED are searching for a cure for a deadly brain disease called the Flare, the result of a virus which was unleashed as a means of population control in the wake of the world being devastated by solar flares. The majority of the subjects were chosen because they had a rare immunity to the Flare and [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext WICKED hoped that studying their brain patterns might lead to a cure]]; a few non-Immunes were chosen as control subjects.

This person spent their formative years in a laboratory, as a test-subject or experiment. Maybe they were [[PlayingWithSyringes created there]], maybe they were taken there as infants due to there being [[CapturedSuperEntity something special about them]] - either way, they've got next to no experience with the world outside the lab. Of course, given that there likely was a reason they were IN that lab in the first place, they probably also have a severe case of SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining... which can, in combination, lead to that classic CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass setup. Rare is the person who was Raised In A Lab and turns out to be completely harmless!

They may be badly traumatized due to the [[TheyWouldCutYouUp torturous experiments]] that were performed on them regularly, or they may have been raised by a MotherlyScientist who provided a pleasant, if offbeat, childhood. And while they may end up [[EscapedFromTheLab escaping from the lab]], that's far from a given - they may initially turn up as an obedient TykeBomb, or in more darkly comedic works, may simply have been kicked out on the streets after the project they were part of got defunded by the shady corporation or government who started it. Either way, they're a FishOutOfWater, and even many years after (if being Raised In A Lab is part of an adult character's DarkAndTroubledPast) it is likely to color their outlook and personality to a high degree. May lead to them being NotUsedToFreedom and SkilledButNaive.

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "Pierrot Le Fou". Mad Pierrot was created and born in a laboratory and grew up there. He was given super powers, including {{Flight}} and being ImmuneToBullets, and trained to be an unstoppable assassin.

* All three of the titular girls of ''Manga/ZettaiKarenChildren'' were placed in government facilities from a very early age due to their incredible PsychicPowers. After years of experimentation and training, they got turned into an obedient squad of government-sponsored [[TykeBomb Tyke-Bombs]], but it was only with the start of the series and the arrival of their new manager, Minamoto, that they started getting treated as PEOPLE and not dangerous test-subjects/weapons. No wonder they all [[LivingEmotionalCrutch fixated so heavily on him]]...

* ''[[ComicBook/JimmyOlsen Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen]]'': Jimmy befriends the Outsiders, {{Modified Clone}}s who were raised in Cadmus with the intent of them becoming Cadmus personnel, but the Outsiders chose to leave the project and become a strange biker gang in the wilderness outside of Metropolis instead.
* Nadia Pym, the ComicBook/UnstoppableWasp, was raised in a MadScience splinter group of the Red Room, the Russian TykeBomb-factory black ops organisation better known for creating the Black Widows.

* ''Film/{{Logan}}'': The child mutants were raised as bioweapons in a Mexican lab, with any attempt by the nurses at dealing with them like normal humans severely reprimanded by higher-ups.

* Shiro, one half of 'The Blank' in ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'' was moved to a lab - apparently with her mother's consent - before she turned ''one'', due to her ludicrous intelligence. A ChildProdigy writ large, she was already speaking fluently at that point, and acing every intelligence-test put to her - rendering her IQ effectively [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale immeasureable]]. While the tests and experiments we see all appear to be fairly ethical and nonintrusive, this nonetheless left her with a sense of profound isolation and disconnect from the rest of humanity, with her first real human connection being the fateful encounter with her step-brother, Kuro - a prodigy in his own right, though not to the same degree. We never find out how she eventually left the lab, though smart money is on it being thanks to Kuro and his mastery of social manipulation. Either way, those years left their mark - without Kuro close at hand, she's completely nonfunctional, basically shutting down and going catatonic.

* Sergeant Taura, from the Literature/VorkosiganSaga. In "Labyrinth," when her age was sixteen and her designation was Nine, she describes her upbringing as "I lived with hired fosterers till I was eight. Like the clones do. Then I started to get big and clumsy and break things--they brought me to live at the lab after that. It was all right, I was warm and had plenty to eat."

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Known to be the case for the Homelander, who was raised in a lab equipped with an atomic bomb as a failsafe (as befitting a SupermanSubstitute, the official story is that he'd been found and raised by a rural couple). Strangely enough, his upbringing isn't what eventually drove him off the deep end, that was [[spoiler:his clone gaslighting him into an official FaceHeelTurn was solely to have a reason to kill him, justifying the clone's existence.]]
* ''Series/ThePretender'' mentions this in their [=SagaCell=]. Believing that some children were born genuises at "pretending" to be other people, the mysterious laboratory Centre raises up and educates promising youngsters to be Pretenders, geniuses with the ability to become anyone they want to be. Then one day, their star pupil escaped...

* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'': [[spoiler:The protagonist, Jack, is [[TheReveal revealed]] not to be an ordinary human who ended up in Rapture by accident, but the biological son of the city's founder Andrew Ryan, who was taken from his mother upon birth by Doctors Suchong and Tenenbaum. They performed a number of experiments on him, such as installing FakeMemories and {{Trigger Phrase}}s, subjecting him to RapidAgeing, and more.]]
* ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'': Elizabeth, Comstock's daughter, due to her ability to [[ThinkingUpPortals create portals]] to {{Alternate Universe}}s, she was locked in a tower deprived of human contact and kept under observation by many scientists, who kept very careful watch over her to the point of invading her privacy. This started when she was an infant, and she only escapes in her early 20's with assistance from Booker. However, she was never subjected under direct experiments.

* ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'': Dylan Faden was taken as a child by the [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction FBC]] to be groomed into the next Director due to his innate supernatural power. Unfortunately, the FBC was unfit to handle a child. Dylan ended up being treated as little more than a resource to be used by staff, keeping him in a cell with his every action monitored. Even their [[SubvertedKidsShow more benevolent efforts]] to help him adjust to his new way of life [[StylisticSuck failed miserably]]. [[spoiler: Worse still, a fatal injury-inducing outburst due to this treatment caused the FBC to deem him [[AllForNothing unfit for the role]] but kept him locked up.]] By the events of the game itself, almost ''two decades'' later, he has become TheResenter.

* Tamara from ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'' spent her childhood in a lab and was ostensibly [[CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen created accidentally as the result of an eccentric scientist's experiment]], however, it doesn't seem to have any effect on her except for the fact that [[CartoonCreature her species is hard to define]], she's super-intelligent and has electrical powers, and growing up in a lab seems to have inspired her to become a scientist herself.

* Selvaria from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' was raised in a laboratory because of her [[PreCursors Valkyria blood]]. Emperor Maximillian personally rescued her from spending her entire life there, earning her UndyingLoyalty.

* Grace from ''WebComic/ElGoonishShive'' is a classic example - a genetically-engineered human/alien/[[PettingZooPeople squirrel]] hybrid created by a shady corporate lab. She was supposed to be trained into a badass ShapeShifting assassin-slash-GodSlayer, but proved not to have the [[TechnicalPacifist temperment]] for it. What happened next is... complicated. Enough said, by the time she actually made good her escape, it wasn't really a laboratory anymore, and she is still only slowly learning to pick up on the cues and references of normal society.

* Meta Salmhofer from the ''Franchise/EvilliousChronicles'' was created in a lab by Seth Twiright, and grew up without a mother or father to take care of her. When Seth selected her as the new Ma [[spoiler: after she was sentenced to death for killing the previous Ma's actually stillborn children]] and she saw the children she bore being tested on, she remembered her loveless childhood, and, not wanting her children to suffer the same fate she did, [[spoiler: kidnapped them and ran to the forest to raise them herself]].

* ''Series/ThePretender'' mentions this in their [=SagaCell=]. Believing that some children were born genuises at "pretending" to be other people, the mysterious laboratory Centre raises up and educates promising youngsters to be Pretenders, geniuses with the ability to be become anyone they want to be. Then one day, their star pupil escaped...