History Main / HumanWeapon

* ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'': Cornelia is an ArtificialHuman, but she still looks and acts human enough to count. She was designed by her creator to be a heartless killing machine, and while he failed ''miserably'' with the “heartless” part of that, (she almost immediately defects to the heroes and becomes an {{Adorkable}} CuddleBug), he most certainly ''didn’t'' fail with the “killing machine” part. Many of her abilities are absolute [[GameBreaker Game Breakers]], especially once she’s been fully upgraded with one of her [[PowersAsPrograms Drives]].

** The Sisters project started as an attempt to clone a level 5 ([[spoiler:Mikoto Misaka]]) for this purpose. When that didn't work, it was recycled into the Radio Noise project, which created a HiveMind of 20,000 espers for use as a military. That was scrapped as well, and the project turned into [[spoiler:LevelGrinding fodder for Accelerator, so that he could become a more effective weapon]].

* Kuma, one of the [[Characters/OnePieceSevenWarlordsOfTheSea Seven Warlords]] in ''Manga/OnePiece'', volunteered to become a human weapon for the World Government.
* All the titular cyborgs in ''Anime/Cyborg009'' but especially 004.

Not to be confused with tropes GrievousHarmWithABody or EquippableAlly. Also not to be confused with {{the History Channel}}'s 2007 tv show ''Human Weapon''.

Not to be confused with GrievousHarmWithABody or EquippableAlly.

* In the first issue of ''[[ComicBook/TheUltimates Ultimates 2]]'', after ComicBook/CaptainAmerica single-handedly frees hostages in the Middle East; the world is worried that the US government might start using the Ultimates in politically-motivated conflicts. Gee, ya think?

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift'' has the Murakumo Units.
* He's not ''human'', but this is how the drell Thane Krios views himself and his chosen profession in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''.
-->''"An assassin is a weapon. A weapon doesn't choose to kill; the one who wields it does."''
* Similar to the above, the assassin Argent from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition''[='=]s multiplayer was trained with this mentality, simply serving whoever wields her and has no loyalty besides.
* Shriekers in ''Videogame/DivinityOriginalSin2'' are former Sourcerers the Magisters captured, purged of Source (which also wipes their personalities), crucified, and "modified" to drain Source from others. The Magisters being willing to do this is one of the big hints that something is ''very'' wrong with the order.

* ComicBook/X23 (a.k.a. Laura Kinney) was born and raised to be a weapon, being a female ModifiedClone of Wolverine. Her mother did her best to ensure that she retained some humanity, and in her final moments bestowed her name upon her.

** In ''Film/{{Logan}}'', Dr. Zander Rice has been performing illegal experiments on child mutants cloned from earlier specimens, including X-23, [[TrulySingleParent Logan's "daughter"]]. They tried killing them all off when they decided the experiment had run its course, which caused all of them to escape from Transigen.

** Season 2 expands on this. While [[spoiler: Irisa]] ''is'' extremely dangerous thanks to the nanotech in her body, her true purpose is to [[spoiler: act as a WetwareCPU for the [[AIIsACrapshoot Kaziri]], enabling it destroy and reshape the planet.]]

Most of the time the people who made the Human into a Human Weapon will not give them much sympathy, treating "{{it|IsDehumanizing}}" as an object rather than a person. This is often due to shame of having to turn their own against their enemies, FantasticRacism, or because they now see {{it|IsDehumanising}} as nothing more than a weapon, a tool for murder. Or just typical MadScientist ethics. Expect AllOfTheOtherReindeer or BullyingADragon to happen. [[SympatheticSentientWeapon These types of people]] are easy to make into [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Woobies]] as a result.

* All the titular cyborgs in [[Anime/Cyborg009]] but especially 004.

* The Asha'man in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' are trained this way, to use their [[FunctionalMagic channeling]] for hugely destructive purposes, because of a dire need to get powerful soldiers in time for the Last Battle, but also because the [[PowerAtAPrice price of their power]] drastically shortens their lifespan. Rand's instruction to the man placed in charge of the Black Tower is, "Make them weapons." He later changes his mind, sending in a messenger to tell them, "We're not weapons. We're men." This has its part in causing them to rally around him.

* ''Literature/TheStormLightArchive'': Szeth-son-son-Valano, Truthless of Shinovar, also known as [[RedBaron The Assassin in White]], is one of these. Among his people, warriors and soldiers are despised and treated like slaves, and [[GravityMaster Szeth]] is an [[PersonOfMassDestruction exceptionally]] [[OneManArmy powerful]] case. But as a Truthless, he is still bound to obey anyone who possesses his Oathstone.

* In ''Series/DarkAngel'', Max and the other X-5s were treated as though they were biological warbots rather than people.
* [[spoiler:River Tam]] in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' was engineered to kill people on order. Subverted because the crew of the ''Serenity'' seem to treat her rather well.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
** Vorlons used telepaths for their war with the Shadows. Most of the telepaths were of "regular" "read thoughts, cause headache" kind, and their only combat use was to disrupt the link Shadow battleships had with their pilots. However, (at least) one telepath, [[spoiler: Lyta Alexander]], was upgraded UpToEleven and became the equivalent of a DoomsdayDevice. Thankfully, [[InformedAbility we never learn what exactly they were capable of]].

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* ''Literature/TheStormLightArchive'': Szeth-son-son-Valano, Truthless of Shinovar, also known as [[RedBaron The Assassin in White]], is one of these. Among his people, warriors and soldiers are despised and treated like slaves, and [[GravityMaster Szeth]] is an [[PersonOfMassDestruction exceptionally]] [[OneManArmy powerful]] case. But as a Truthless, he is still [[SubmissiveBadass bound to obey]] anyone who possesses his Oathstone.

* Kuma, one of the [[Characters/OnePieceTheSevenWarlordsOfTheSea Seven Warlords]] in ''Manga/OnePiece'', volunteered to become a human weapon for the World Government.

* The "Codes" of ''Manga/CodeBreaker'' are people of mass destruction under the control of [[OrganizationIndex EDEN]] and protect Japan; the "Re-Codes" are TerroristsWithoutACause [[spoiler:led, ironically, by the AloofOlderBrother of the JerkAssFacade character]]. People in both groups were [[BullyingADragon abused]] because of their powers, and now feel useful and free, respectively.

* ''Franchise/MetalGear'' has this as the main theme. The plots of the games usually revolve around the protagonist ''and'' their direct opposition being manipulated by politicians, conspiracies, and other forces, and being treated as expendable tools with no goal or aspirations of their own.

-->-- ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps3''

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* Wardens from ''ThePowderMageTrilogy'' are ordinary people warped with sorcery into nigh- invulnerable juggernauts of destruction which can take on entire squads of infantry and are designed specifically to combat the titular Powder Mages. They are however not very intelligent and can still be taken down by a lucky shot to the eye or just by being swarmed and stabbed to death. The later books also give us black wardens, who were instead created from Powder Mages and possess much of their abilities, making them even deadlier.

* [[spoiler: River Tam]] in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' was engineered to kill people on order. Subverted because the crew of the ''Serenity'' seem to treat her rather well.
* ''Series/BabylonFive''

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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[Characters/SCPFoundation [=Characters/SCPFoundation=]]], [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-001 SCP-001]] ("[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/djkaktus-s-proposal djkaktus's Proposal]] - The Children"). The Children had their souls replaced by alien entities, turning them into {{Reality Warper}}s who could destroy a target at any distance away on command.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has Eversor Assassins, essentially a human weapon of mass destruction massively modified with augmetics and drug injection systems. They're kept in stasis at all times, and are mentally programmed with various targets for their next mission. Once activated, they will attempt to kill their assigned targets, but will also kill every living thing they see along the way, exploding upon death. Even once their mission is over, they won't stop looking for things to kill until their handlers show up and shut them down with a code word.

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* Shriekers in ''Videogame/DivinityOriginalSin2'' are former Sourcerers the Magisters captured, purged of Source (which also wipes their personalities), crucified, and "modified" to drain Source from others.

* Numerous example in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' with various attempts to weaponize mutants as part of the U.S. military's "Weapon X" and their successor [[EvilInc Transigen]].