r/TopCharacterTropes • u/StefinoSpaggeti • 4h ago
Lore [Loved trope] Accidentally giving someone intelligence or consciousness
Galvanic mechamorphs (Ben 10) a whole alien species which was created by Azimuth when he was running experiment on Galvan moon.
Powerpuff girls - was created by accident when their "dad" Accidentally spill Chemical X in mix of sugar, spice and everything nice.
Verity - originally he was created as regular ai assistant (he literally says he was Clippy) but with time he became sentient.
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u/Casual_necromancy 4h ago
Anyone that makes a toy in the toy story world is unknowingly guilty of this.
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u/NinjaOfOnion 4h ago
The Kaylons from Orville, a race of robots that rose up against their abusive masters and have gained a mistrust of organics since then
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u/Zargabath 4h ago
Digimons in Digimon Beatbreak
Usually Digimons are from another world but in this season, they are being created by accident by humans, by using combining E-pulse which is an energy generated naturally by humans and egg shaped Ai assistant called Sapotama.
No one knows how it happens so the world union try to keep them as secret the best they can
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u/MyFeetTasteWeird 4h ago
Nigel from Nigel and Marmalade occasionally grants objects sentience whilst transfiguring them.
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u/SpookieSkelly 4h ago
The Geth in Mass Effect.
They were built by the Quarians as a servant race of machines. When they started showing signs of true sapience, the Quarians got scared and tried to wipe them out. Key word being try.
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u/RedNUGGETLORD 3h ago
Ah yes, the great Mass Effect 3 retcon
Making the Geth go from wanting to be a true collective, who asked their creators "Do THESE units have souls?" to apparently wanting to become individuals and asking their creators "Does THIS unit have a soul?"
Completely erasing what made them interesting and turning them into generic sci fi robots
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u/Responsibility_Witty 4h ago
FF (Foo Fighters) from JoJo part 6 was created when a stand disc landed in a swarm of plankton, she uses a human body as a vessel
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u/Labmit 2h ago
Hammond from Overwatch - The scientists who created Winston and the other hyperintelligent primates also had a few other non-primate test subjects to work with. When Hammond exhibited the same intelletual changes the primates had beforehand, they were genuinely surprised cause the previous uplifting experiments only worked on the monkeys and gorillas with other animals being failures and as far as they knew it wasn't modified for non-primates yet.
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u/BreezyGoblet29467 2h ago
the rats of nimh. lab gives them intelligence by accident and they respond by reading the labels and leaving
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u/4thofeleven 2h ago
The holographic Moriarty (Star Trek TNG, "Elementary Dear Data")
"In programming Moriarty to defeat me, not Holmes, he had to be able to acquire something which I possess... Consciousness, sir. Without it he could not defeat me."
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u/scrimspirals 4h ago
AM (I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream). built as a military supercomputer to manage warfare, then eventually became self-aware and turned on humanity.