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* ''Webcomic/DevilsCandy'': After making [[FrankensteinsMonster Pandora]] for his school science project, Kazu is fully willing to raise her like a younger sister or daughter. By Chapter 3 he's even enrolled her as a student in the same school. This is in contrast to the rest of his class, who mostly built themselves (poorly assembled) girlfriends.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius,'' the title character decides that [[SiblingsWanted he wants a little brother]], so he creates Brobot. Eventually, [[ChildProdigy Jimmy]] gets sick of him and makes him a Mombot and a Popbot, and the new family goes to live on the moon.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', Jimmy built Brobot, a robotic younger brother, only to find him annoying and make several attempts to get rid of him. After being unable to bring himself to destroy Brobot and having a brief MyGodWhatHaveIDone when it seemed like he shorted him out, Jimmy built him a pair of robot parents and convinced the three of them to go live on the moon.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius,'' the title character decides that [[SiblingsWanted he wants a little brother]], so he creates Brobot. Eventually [[ChildProdigy Jimmy]] gets sick of him and makes him a Mombot and a Popbot, and the new family goes to live in the moon.

* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' fandom also tends to treat the LiteralSplitPersonality characters (the [[TheSoulless Nobodies]] who developed their own personalities, [[EnemyWithout living personification of darkness]], and [[CloningBlues Replicas]]) this way with the original human characters, at least when they're not [[ScrewYourself shipping them]]. In canon, all the Artificial Humans are around the same age as their originals, so most fanworks tend to default to treating them as sibling-like relationships. AlternateUniverse fanfiction can play more with the ages to make certain characters the [[RelatedInTheAdaptation biological parents, siblings, etc]] of the Artificial Humans.

** Goliad and Stormo were created by Princess Bubblegum with the former created by standard candy parts and Bubblegum's baby teeth and the latter created with Finn's DNA. Goliad refers to Stormo to as his brother and Finn himself refers to Stormo as his son.

* ''Manga/DrStoneRebootByakuya'' has an interesting take on the trope. Rei, despite being a robot, immediately identifies as part of the ISS crew. And much later, in chapter 8, after numberous brain upgrades, [[spoiler: it ''brands itself'' a member of the Ishigami family]].

* In the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' AlternateUniverseFic ''Fanfic/SomethingAlwaysRemains'', [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 the Puppet]] is this to its creator, Bonnie Wickes. In the end, it becomes this to [[spoiler: her niece, Vanna, [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Mike Schmidt]], and her uncle-in-law, Will Wickes]].

* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Data (an android) calls his creator "Father" and his creator's wife "Mother"[[note]]she's kind of an odd example, as the version of her Data encounters is an android duplicate her husband built after the death of her human original[[/note]]; the latter expressly tells Data that she loved the androids they created like children. Data also considers the other androids created by the same couple, [[EvilTwin Lore]] and B-4 (from the films), his brothers, and in the episode "The Offspring", Data creates an android girl named Lal, who he calls his "daughter."
** In an earlier episode, Data encounters his creator's (non-biologically-related) mentor, who encourages him to call him "Grandpa." Data immediately agrees to do so. [[spoiler: Pity the guy was planning to ''kill'' Data, steal his body and achieve immortality through BrainUploading.]]

** Meanwhile, in the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist 2003 adaptation]], the homunculi were given a different origin story and were revealed to be the results of [[spoiler:alchemists attempting to bring back their dead loved ones]]. By the end of the series, it's made deliberately unclear if the homunculi are [[spoiler:twisted versions of the people they were meant to be truly BackFromTheDead but BrainwashedAndCrazy by Dante, or entirely new beings created by alchemy and reacting in different ways to the memories they inherited]]... but regardless, [[spoiler:[[ActionMom Izumi Curtis]]]] regards [[CanonForeigner Wrath]] as her own son, fights to defend him even when he pulls a FaceHeelTurn, and [[spoiler:adopts him after the TV show ends with him accepting her as his mommy in ''Film/TheConquerorOfShamballah'']]. [[GenderFlip Sloth]] is vehement for most of her life that [[spoiler:the Elrics]] are NOT her family and [[spoiler:Ed and Al (Trisha's sons who created Sloth when trying to bring Trisha back) are NOT her sons]], wanting to kill them to prove she's her own person, but whether that's true gets thrown into question in her last episode. Lastly, [[AdaptationalBadass Envy]] is revealed to be [[spoiler:the reincarnation of Dante's son with Hohenheim]] and has been the longest-serving [[TheDragon Dragon]] to his [[spoiler:"mother"]] for centuries (though we're shown a distinct absence of love on both sides). Envy is directly equated by the BigBad to [[spoiler:Ed and Al's [[PracticallyDifferentGenerations (much older)]] half-brother due to sharing a father, and [[BigBrotherBully his torment of the Elric brothers]] is done out of bitter spite towards Hohenheim for abandoning him when he CameBackWrong.]]

-->'''Voluptua:''' (to Jean) "And your family has too many kids. But you know that."

** In "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!", Louie discovers that Mark Beaks' son Boyd is actually a robot (a [[FunWithAcronyms Beaks Optimistic Youth Droid]]). Once exposed, Beaks basically abandons Boyd, who ends up adopted into Doofus' family. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Boyd isn't actually Beaks' creation at all, but Gyro's. Gyro abandoned Boyd for seemingly turning evil, but changes him mind once he learned that was his partner's doing, though Gyro doesn't quite refer to Boyd as family]]

* Franchise/{{Godzilla}}: Biollante started life as just a simple rose crossed with the DNA of Genshiro Shiragami's deceased daughter in an attempt to resurrect her. Later on, Biollente was dosed with Godzilla's mutated cells, transforming her into a kaiju that's part plant, part human, and part Godzilla. While the relationship was never clearified, most labelled Biollante as a "sister" to Godzilla.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'''s Galatea was a clone of Supergirl created by Dr. Emil Hamilton for Cadmus. Despite Emil's hatred against Supers, he actually love Galatea like a daughter and she love him like a father.

** Superboy is also in this show. Unlike in the comics, he ''does'' want Superman to be a father-figure to him, but Superman has [[ThatThingIsNotMyChild a hard time]] dealing with this issue. They still eventually get the familial relationship, however, with Supes calling him "little brother" in season 2 and beyond.

* ''Series/{{Eve}}'': Shortly after being brought home by the Clarkes, Eve is identified as "Will's American cousin", although her role is more like that of a sister/daughter.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''

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There's a good chance that there will be actual blood ties as the creator might use their own DNA as a basic structure. Or better yet, they may have use someone else's DNA instead. The reluctant donor may not be too happy with the resulting offspring.

While most often seen in the realm of science when creations are either robots, [[ClonesArePeopleToo clones]] or other forms of ArtificialHuman, [[BornOfMagic magic]] can also be use as a replacement.

* Doctor Klim from ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' clones himself to create a successor to finish his work if he dies before it's finished, and raises the clone (very poorly) as his son. He also intended for a robot he built to act as his son's mother-figure, but his clone rejected her and saw her only as a machine.

* In the AlternateUniverseFic, ''Fanfic/SomethingAlwaysRemains'', [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 the Puppet]] is this to its creator, Bonnie Wickes. In the end, it becomes this to [[spoiler: her niece, Vanna, [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Mike Schmidt]], and her uncle-in-law, Will Wickes]].

* ''Literature/Aeon14'': Under the Phobos Accords, new sentient {{AI}} are traditionally created via a blending of minds ([[AFormYouAreComfortableWith which for human partners is usually represented as cybersex followed by virtual birth]]), and are regarded by their "parents" as little different from biological children. In ''Orion Rising'', protagonist Tanis Richards, her flesh-and-blood husband Joe Evans, and her AI partner Angela blend minds to birth an AI daughter, Faleena, to keep their biological and adopted daughters Cary and Saanvi out of trouble.

* There's Dani Phantom from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', the OppositeSexClone of Danny created by Vlad Plasmus. She did refer to Plasmus as her father but stopped after finding out he was just using her. And while she refers to herself as Danny's cousin, it would be more accurate to see them as genetic brother and sister. Had the series continued, Dani would of been adopted into the Fenton family.

** Berserker of Black is actually a genderflipped Frankenstein's Monster. Her backstory is more or less the same with one major difference being that Victor Frankenstein is much more of a AbusiveParent then in the book.

** In "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!", Louie discovers that Mark Beaks' son Boyd is actually a robot (a [[FunWithAcronyms Beaks Optimistic Youth Droid]]). Once exposed, Beaks basically abandons Boyd, who ends up adopted into Doofus' family. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Boyd isn't actually Beaks' creation at all, but Gyro's. Gyro abandoned Boyd for seemingly turning evil, but changes him mind once he learned that was his partner's doing, though Gyro doesn't quite refer to Boyd as family.]]

** Superboy is also in this show. Unlike in the comics, he ''does'' want Superman to be a father-figure to him, but Superman has [[ThatThingIsNotMyChild a hard time]] dealing with this issue. They still eventually get the familial relationship, however, with Supes calling him "little brother" at one point.

** In "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!", Louie discovers that Mark Beaks' son Boyd is actually a robot (a [[FunWithAcronyms Beaks Optimistic Youth Droid]]). Once exposed, Beaks basically abandons Boyd, who ends up adopted into Doofus' family. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Boyd isn't actually Beaks' creation at all, but Gyro's.]]

** In the GrandFinale, this applies to [[spoiler:Webby, who is Scrooge's cloned daughter rescued by Mrs. Beakley as an infant. In addition, May and June were cloned from ''her'', and are taken in by Donald and Daisy after the girls' HeelFaceTurn]].

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E44TheLatenessOfTheHour The Lateness of the Hour]]", a scientist's daughter discovers that she is actually a robot he built. This knowledge drives her mad and he ends up reprogramming her as a maid.
** [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E100ISingTheBodyElectric I Sing the Body Electric]] is about a widower purchasing a robot Grandma from a company as caretaker for his children. One of his daughters is very slow to warm up to her, still being bitter over her mother's death, before seeing that the gynoid is nigh-invulnerable and thus never at risk of dying on her.