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You and your fellow [[Artificial Human
So what do you do? Adopt each other as a family! Because, let's face it, you more or less have nobody else (unless you got lucky and got [[Motherly Scientist|one of the project scientists]] to take care of you, but without nasty experiments this time).
A [[Breakfast Club]], expect one to be [[Promotion to Parent|(self)-promoted to the role of parent]]. Commonly the
Alternatively, in more mundane settings without [[Mutants]] and [[Mad Scientist|mad scientists]], the "family" will instead be made up of the [[Crazy Homeless People|homeless]], the [[Disposable Vagrant|destitute]], [[I Just Want to Have Friends|the lonely]], [[Parental Abandonment|the abandoned]] and [[The Mad Hatter|the crazy]]. Essentially, everyone who gets [[Acceptable Hard Luck Targets|left behind]] by society, regardless if it is [[Society Is to Blame|the fault of society itself]], or their own. As in the "secret project" variety, the group of strangers or acquaintances will be [[Breakfast Club|brought together by the collective suckiness of their lives]], and the advantages of pooling resources to ensure their survival. But unlike the "secret project" variety, members of the group will likely address their personal problems, while trying to [[Somebody Else's Problem|ignore everyone else's]].
Most of the initial conflict will arise from extremely volatile personality clashes, dealing with the [[Dysfunction Junction|collective angst the group has accumulated]], attempts to cross the line between stranger and family, or outside forces threatening to disrupt or even dissolve their group. In most cases, the group will eventually come to [[Nakama|trust one another]] as if [[Super Family Team|they were real family]], possibly even more than their real relatives (if they still have any); disproving that blood is [[Thicker Than Water]].
Expect to hear lengthy discourse on [[Wish Fulfillment|getting what you want]], [[Inherent in the System|the flaws of society]], and the meaning/purpose of love and family, depending on how seriously the medium treats these issues.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The Numbers in ''[[
** And to a lesser extent, the Knights.
** Fate and Erio are both from the same project. Signum, Shamal, Vita, and Zafira were all programmed murder machines until recently. Subaru and Ginga are precursors to the aforementioned Numbers. Agito only remembers back to her time spent in an unethical lab, [[They Would Cut You Up|being tested to death.]] Vivio is a clone bioweapon. Lutecia may also apply.
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*** He is so distressed that [[Beyond the Impossible|''Gluttony loses his appetite!'']]
** In the manga and ''Brotherhood,'' Gluttony is so upset by {{spoiler|Lust's death}} that he goes [[Ax Crazy]] when he realizes he's in the same room with her killer. But on the flip side, Pride thinks nothing of {{spoiler|''devouring'' Gluttony}} when it's convenient for him.
* The Schiff in ''[[Blood
* The cyborg characters in ''[[Cyborg 009]]''.
* It could be argued that this applies to the Soul Society in ''[[Bleach]]''. They're not artificial, but they pretty much have no way to find actual relatives ({{spoiler|except for Rukia's sister}}), so end up adopting each other as families.
** This is actually stated by Yuichi when he talks to Chad upon Ichigo and his group arriving in the Soul Society.
*** As stated by many fans of [[Bleach]]: Worst...afterlife...EVER!
* Part of the premise of ''[[Kyouran Kazoku Nikki]]''. A group of seven (later eight) people, most of them harboring the DNA of a creature that promised to destroy the world and [[Dysfunction Junction|all of them]] from a [[Dark and Troubled Past|dark past]], live together under "Operation Cozy Family" to prevent the world from blowing up. Family members include a robot, a [[Catgirl]], a lion, a jellyfish and [[Token
* The cast of ''[[Read or Die]]'' becomes this by the end of the series: the Paper Sisters, Yomiko, Nancy and Junior. With Nenene as the "normal" one. (Don't ever call her that.)
* The teens of [[Project ARMS]] end up as one as they are being hunted by Egrgori. Playing this trope even ''more'' straight, they all turn out to be specially bred to have ARMS implanted in them, [[Retcon|directly going against the already established backstory]].
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== [[Fanfic]] ==
* The title group in the [[Naruto]] fanfic [[
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* A typical throng of [[Promethean: The Created]]
* This is also how a motley or Freehold of [[Changeling: The Lost|Changelings]] can tend to look in ''Changeling: the Lost''. They can afford to be a little pickier than the poor Prometheans, but honestly, when you've been kidnapped by beautiful and terrible Eldritch Abominations, tortured into a more pleasing (and utterly ''not'' human) form to suit their whims, survived this process, escaped back to Earth, and then found at ''best'' some ''Thing'' with your face in your place, and at worse found that Time has screwed you over quite severely in the bargain... well, as the book says, Changeling society tends to be pretty dang forgiving of its members' little.. ''quirks''. Oh, and of course, we have the Summer, and to a lesser extent, Autumn Courts....
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* This fits Team K' in the ''[[King of Fighters]]'' games fairly well. Well, after they switch Whip out for Kula, anyways.
* Strega from ''[[Persona 3]]'': They aren't actually artificial humans, but they were the only survivors of a secret project to create Persona-summoners out of humans who weren't born with the talent..... too bad they ended up with something a bit closer to Team Rocket instead.
* {{spoiler|Jack, the Little Sisters, and presumably Tenenbaum}} in the good ending of ''[[
* The Cybran Nation of ''[[Supreme Commander]]'' began as this, complete with the mad scientist/genius (Dr. Gustaf Brackman) responsible for creating them as their father figure - and said father figure is still alive and kicking one thousand years later. Although really now, they're more of a Obvious Project Refugee Country now.
** Albeit Brackman has been reduced to a brain + spinal column + cybernetic enhancements inside a vat of unknown liquid. He can only communicate with others through a life-sized 3D hologram of himself, though this troper heard something like the Cybran commander being Brackman's clone.
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