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* On ''StarTrek'', taking organic oversight out of the command decision loop is almost invariably a catastrophic mistake (except when it's Data). [[WeWillUseManualLabourInTheFuture Humans in the Federation almost do more manual labor than we do.]]

* On ''StarTrek'', human genetic engineering is banned, and most of the products of it are dangerously deranged.

* The Genesis Planet from ''StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' didn't exactly turn out well in the end.

* ''StarTrek'' , while future medical science is sophisticated enough that characters almost routinely come back from clinical death. However, some extreme attempts have fallen into this trope, such as Kira wanting her boyfriend, Vedek Bareil, to be rejuvenated by using artificial parts to replace decaying brain tissue. This is progressive and further replacements leave him less and less Bajoran till he asks to be allowed to die.

* StarTrekDeepSpaceNine : Jem'Haddar and Vorta are genetically bred (see above) to regard Founders as gods.

* Surprise, surprise, ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', albeit in an unconventional fashion: the Immortal God-Emperor of Man. The fallen Primarchs may also think of themselves this way, though they didn't elevate ''themselves'' to levels just shy of a PhysicalGod.

* ''[=~Frankenstein's Monster~=]'' - though debatable, since the Monster was created as a blank slate in the book.

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** It all depends on how close they where to death. Those who suffered brain damage, tend to mistake people for others, suffer memory loss and in general act like hollow imitations of the original person. Those who didn't have their brains affected are almost as normal as any other Space Marine (even if they are kind of slow on the uptake) Davian Thule for example.

** It all depends on how close they where to death those who suffered brain damage tend to mistake people for others suffer memory loss and in general acting like hollow imitations of the original person. Those who didn't have their brains affected are almost as normal as any other Space Marine even if they are kind of slow on the uptake they tend to be almost exactly the same e.g Davian Thule.

* NeonGenesisEvangelion gives us the [[spoiler: [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Mass Production Evangelions]].]]

* The ''ElGoonishShive'' universe makes some sort of GeneticEngineering easy, given some of its non-human (but not alien) residents. Still, Project Lycanthrope starts up to make weird hybrids to go on missions and assassinate. Before AmericaSavesTheDay, though, the intended target (Damien) shows up, 'liberates' (read: enslaves) the results, and kills everyone else save one. Note that in an alternate universe, one of the Project Lycanthrope products is hinted to be the reason it's now ruled by an EvilOverlord.

* Also on ''Series/DoctorWho'', the Daleks were a GeneticEngineering horror story. The Kaled people were being mutated by a millennium-long nuclear/biological/chemical war. One of their scientists, Davros, came up with (or stole) the brilliant idea of accelerating the mutations to see where they would finally end up. And, while at it, he couldn't pass up the opportunity to improve on his creations, making them stronger and more determined. In one version of the story, he was explicitly trying to turn the Kaled race into gods, based on a prophecy he'd read. In all versions, the result was the Daleks, whose sole motivation was to exterminate any lesser (i.e., non-Dalek) forms of life. Starting with Davros himself. (Although of course [[IGotBetter he got better]].)

** Interestingly, [[TheFederation the TSB]] only comes down hard on the people that built and commissioned artificial mages/cyborgs. The creations themselves are only punished if they're found to have been gleefully kicking dogs or something. Otherwise, they're treated same as any other person, with no limits on what they're allowed to do. Also interestingly, the majority of these created beings seem to turn out to ultimately be pretty nice people; turning out as well as they do when built and raised by insane women and/or mad scientists, one has to wonder how well off they'd be if the process WASN'T illegal and thusly only used by madsci types.

* This is ultimately the goal of the Human Instrumentality Project in ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', and it is most certainly portrayed in a fairly negative light. [[ScienceFictionVersusFantasy Of course, the scientificity of this sin is somewhat questionable.]]

* This trope is extensively played with in ''GhostInTheShell'' - the empact of extensive technical progress in the area of AI and cybernetics on society forms the premise of the series.

** Faking the death triggered signal nets you a body in the "vegetable state". If the original dies afterwards, the previously "vegetable" body will nigh-instantly come to sentience. As Arthur, the A-Than MegaCorp heir notes, the Church gave A-Than their blessing because they had "scientifically proven the existance of immortal souls".

* ''[=~Frankenstein's Monster~=]'' - though debateable, since the Monster was created as a blank slate in the book.

** It all depends on how close they where to death those who suffered brain damage tend to mistake people for others suffer memory loss and in general acting like hollow imitations of the original person. Those who didnt have their brains affected are almost as normal as any other Space Marine even if they are kind of slow on the uptake they tend to be almost exactly the same e.g Davian Thule.

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* ''StarTrek'' , while future medical science is sophisticated enough that characters almost routinely come back from clinical death. However, some extreme attempts have fallen into this trope, such as Kira wanting her boyfriend, the Kai, to be rejuvenated by using artificial parts to replace decaying brain tissue. This is progressive and further replacements leave him less and less Bajoran till he asks to be allowed to die.

* Averted and played straight in BuffyTheVampireSlayer. When Dawn revives their recently deceased mother while it is never seen it is implied it would have [[GoneHorriblyWrong gone poorly]]. Buffy's resurrection on the other hand didn't have any major consequences.

* ''IAmLegend'', the movie: we cured cancer and everybody died. And turned into an evil horde of zombie-vampires.

* Aside from the ghouls, ''{{Hellsing}}'' has [[spoiler: The Major's Body. Schrödinger (Schroedinger) may or may not count]]

* The resurrection gauntlets (the second, Weevil related one moreso than the original Risen Mitten) of ''{{Torchwood}}''.

* ''DoctorFaustus'' set out to "gain a deity" through the study of [[ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow forbidden magic]] and the consequently-named [[DealWithTheDevil Faustian Pact]]. To say it [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong]] would be an understatement, but then the terms of his bargain were [[TooDumbToLive pretty stupid to begin with]].

* DeusExHumanRevolution focuses on this as its primary setting. Whether or not human augmentation is evil is up for the player to decide, but it does make the world worse to a degree.

* Marquis [=DeSinge=] in ''[[MonkeyIsland Tales of Monkey Island]]''.

* Many of the mooks (and some of the bosses) you face in ''{{Mother 3}}'' are either unnatural crosses of animal species (eg., Cattlesnake, Batangutan, Kangashark) or mechanised animals (eg., Steel Mecharilla). They only exist because [[spoiler:Porky ]] deemed regular animals as uncool, and so had his Pigmask army to alter them genetically.

* ''{{Dune}}'' - where humanity was enslaved by its own machines and who outlawed anything approaching sentient machines on pain of death.In the Duneverse's religion, this is an actual sin."Thou shall not create a machine to the likeness of Man" is their main commandement

* ''{{Dune}}'' - where humanity was enslaved by its own machines and who outlawed anything approaching sentient machines on pain of death.In the Duneverse's religion ,this is an actual sin."Thou shall not create a machine to the likeness of Man" is their main commandement

* ''{{Dune}}'' - where humanity was enslaved by its own machines and who outlawed anything approaching sentient machines on pain of death.