History Main / ArtificialAnimalPeople

* The hybrids from ''Webcomic/MyLifeWithFel'' ([[https://mylifewithfel.com/index link here]]) are comprised of [[HalfHumanHybrid a human base spliced with animal DNA]], and were secretly developed by governments such as Hedron (the fictional setting of the story), the United States and China with the purpose of creating super-soldiers with specialized abilities. However, following the election of a new government to Hedron, one which realized that this project was a ''massive'' breach of human rights (indoctrination of humans from birth against their will) and international law (human experimentation without consent or protection), the project was ordered to be scrapped, and most of the hybrids were [[ThePurge gunned down by the military]] barring a few dozen that escaped and survived prior to the beginning of the story.

* The hybrids from ''Webcomic/MyLifeWithFel'' ([[https://mylifewithfel.com/index link here]]) are comprised of [[HalfHumanHybrid a human base spliced with animal DNA]], and were secretly developed by governments such as Hedron (the fictional setting of the story), the United States and China with the purpose of creating super-soldiers with specialized abilities. However, following the election of a new government to Hedron, one which realized that this project was a ''massive'' breach of human rights (indoctrination of humans from birth against their will) and international law (human experimentation without consent or protection), the project was ordered to be scrapped, and most of the hybrids were gunned down by the military barring a few dozen that escaped and survived prior to the beginning of the story.

* The hybrids from ''[[https://mylifewithfel.com/index My Life With Fel]]'' are comprised of a human base spliced with animal DNA with the purpose to create super-soldiers, having been development by the government of Hedron (the fictional setting of the story), along with the United States and China independently. Hedron, however, changed their minds on the matter, and purged all of them barring a few dozen. Of particular note is that [[OneGenderRace all the successful hybrids are female]], due to the augmentation process messing with testosterone and making any male hybrids especially violent.

* The Ferin of ''Webcomic/{{Aurora}}'' are a fantasy variant of this trope. They were created by a mysterious mage who would curse people into half-animal beings with enhanced strength and healing abilities but no magic for the slightest reasons, they were treated as monsters at first until people realized they were victims and started treating them better, that is until they discovered they could have children that would also be Ferin and they were driven out of human settlements due to being seen as an existential threat. They are treated somewhat better now but there is still heavy discrimination, especially for predator Ferin.

* The Blood (later known as Bar Sinister) from ''ComicBook/ShamansTears'' were artificially created human/animal hybrids; each designed to have specific traits from the animal side (wings on the bat hybrid, prehensile feet on the monkey hybrid, et cetera). The evil corporation that created them felt justified in treating them as possessions as they had a court ruling stating that [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman they weren't human]] -- merely a higher form of animal -- and therefore [[InhumanableAlienRights do not have human rights]].

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* In the ''Literature/ChildrenOFsteel'' series, a group of genetically-engineered "animorphs" are created by major corporations as [[WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture indentured servants]] for humanity's exosolar colonies.

* Felicia-class bioroids from ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'' are nanite-assembled cat people originally designed as {{supersoldier}}s and bodyguards, with a version developed after the ban on weaponized bioroids intended more as pilots. While the Felecias are the most common and standardised version, there are also bioroids that resemble other any other kind of animal-person that someone's prepared to pay for.
* The Tek-Rat in ''GURPS Bio-Tech'' is a genetically engineered creature that resembles a small rodent with the intelligence and dexterity required to be a starship engineer.
* Some of the campaign suggestions in ''GURPS Furries'' have furries as human creations, and some of the templates are designed with this in mind.

* The bestial enemies in ''Vivisector: Beast Within'' are [[HalfHumanHybrid human-animal hybrids]] created as [[SuperSoldier soldiers]] by renegade geneticist Dr. Morhead.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'', the evil Godmother transforms a wolf into a tragic wolf/human hybrid, capable of pretending unconvincingly to be someone's grandmother, simply because that's how [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood the story]] goes. (Animals [[HumanityEnsues transformed into humans]] start [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody thinking a bit like humans]], but still [[[MyInstinctsAreShowing have their own nature]] beneath it; the wolf, on the other hand, doesn't know ''what'' it is.)

* The Tek-Rat in ''GUROS Bio-Tech'' is a genetically engineered creature that resembles a small rodent with the intelligece and dexterity required to be a starship engineer.

* Felicia-class bioroids from ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'' are nanite-assembled cat people originally designed as {{supersoldier}}s and bodyguards, with a version developed after the ban on weaponized bioroids intended more as pilots.

* The ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'' are four teenage boys transformed into anthropomorphic sharks by the MadScientist Dr. Paradigm through [[LEGOGenetics "gene slamming"]]. Paradigm's goal is to mutate everyone into fish people.

** [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE42TygerTyger "Tyger, Tyger"]] features as its antagonist a MadScientist who uses his talents to create various human/animal hybrids, including the ape-man Garth and the cat-man Tygrus. He even goes so far as to make Catwoman a literal... well, cat-woman.

* ''Anime/BagiTheMonsterOfMightyNature'' has (of course) Bagi, a cougar with implanted human DNA and the only one of fifteen genetic prototypes not hunted down and killed after [[EscapedFromTheLab Escaping from the Lab]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/RoadRovers'' are a group of stray dogs who have been given humanoid form by a mysterious scientist to fight crime. Unusually, the Road Rovers are able to shapeshift from their anthropomorphic forms into regular dogs, allowing them {{Secret Identit|y}}ies as the pets of various world dignitaries.

Often the result of [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetic engineering]], with human and animal genes [[LegoGenetics mixed and matched]] (either [[ArtificialHuman from conception]] or [[ArtificialHybrid later on in life]]) to create a being with the best of both worlds, a sort of [[HalfHumanHybrid human-animal hybrid]]. A common project for {{Mad Scientist}}s, especially {{Evilutionary Biologist}}s. May be on any point of the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism, from LittleBitBeastly to BeastMan to FunnyAnimal -- however, animals given human intelligence (and often the ability to speak) but no other augmentations belong in the UpliftedAnimal sub-trope, not here. As a rule of thumb, if it walks on two legs, it belongs here. So if they start out as animals, it's AnthropomorphicTransformation via science.

Often the result of [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetic engineering]], with human and animal genes [[LegoGenetics mixed and matched]] (either [[ArtificialHuman from conception]] or [[ArtificialHybrid later on in life]]) to create a being with the best of both worlds, a sort of [[HalfHumanHybrid human-animal hybrid]]. A common project for {{Mad Scientist}}s, especially {{Evilutionary Biologist}}s. May be on any point of the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism, from LittleBitBeastly to BeastMan to FunnyAnimal -- however, animals given human intelligence (and often the ability to speak) but no other augmentations belong in the UpliftedAnimal sub-trope, not here. As a rule of thumb, if it walks on two legs, it belongs here.

* Taura from ''Literature/TheVorkosiganSaga'', who's an eight-foot-tall genetically modified SuperSoldier who is only half jokingly described as a "werewolf." Despite her appearance, she's highly intelligent and not particularly bestial in personality at all.

* One of Franchise/{{Batman}}'s semi-frequent antagonists is Man-Bat, formerly a human scientist who took a bat-DNA serum to cure his deafness and ended up transforming into a [[BatPeople human/bat monster]].
* The inhabitants of the Wild Land in ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'', who are basically the mainstream universe's counterparts to ''ComicBook/{{Kamandi}}'''s animal people, are eventually revealed to be born from a top-secret genetic research firm called Project [[Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau Moreau]], which informally named their creations [[HilariousInHindsight "furries"]].

* In ''Literature/AllTomorrows'', some of the post-human species engineered by the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Qu]] fall into this territory. While they are all technically human, they bear an uncanny resemblance to other Earth mammals, especially the elephant-like Titans, the bat-like Pterosapiens, the dolphin-like Tool Breeders, and the antelope-like Mantelopes.