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* ''Series/KamenRiderExAid''

* ''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne''

** [[GreatDetective Wazu]] [[BunnyEarsLawyer Nazotoku]] was a prototype of Izu and considered himself her older brother. Izu returned the sentiment [[spoiler:shortly before his death.]]

** In "I, Robot", Mina Link testifies that the robot Adam is like a brother to her.
** In "Simon Says", Gideon Banks considers the robot with his late son Simon's memories to be his actual son.
** In "Family Values", the Millers (with the exception of Jerry) come to view their household robot Gideon as a member of the family after less than a month.

* 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.]]

** 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.

* ''Radio/DimensionX'''s "[[Recap/DimensionX40DwellersInSilence Dwellers in Silence]]": To help against his loneliness (Dr Cornelius Hathaway is the only survivor on Earth), he created [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots robot copies]] of his deceased wife and children; Alice, Susan, Marguerite, and John.

* 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. When the clone asked for a mother, he built a RidiculouslyHumanRobot to fulfill the role, but the clone refused to see her as anything more than JustAMachine and latched on to Klim's female colleague as a mother figure instead.

* Played with in ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence''. Henry and Monica Swinton are employees of Cybertronics, the company that manufactured RobotKid David. David was intended as a ReplacementGoldfish for the couple's comatose son Martin, but after some initial tension Monica grows to care for him.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': It is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:Adrien Agreste, his cousin Felix and Kagami Tsurugi]] are all Sentimonsters created by the Peacock Miraculous [[spoiler:which was broken and thus their parents CastFromLifespan to create them]]. While [[spoiler:Adrien and Kagami]] were completely unaware of this revelation, [[spoiler:Felix was not so lucky, with his father using this fact as the centerpoint of his abuse of him as the former was dying.]]

** [[spoiler:Helga herself believes that she became the mother of Brion and Tara because she activated their meta genes]].

** The ever TangledFamilyTree that started with [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]] and his rebellious robot son, ComicBook/{{Ultron}} who has an OedipusComplex on Pym. He once attempted to create a wife by using the brainwaves base on Hank's wife [[ComicBook/TheWasp Janet]] and naming her Jocasta. Then there is Ultron's sons ComicBook/TheVision and [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} Victor Mancha]]. Vision himself marries ComicBook/ScarletWitch and with the use of her Chaos Magic, created two sons for themselves. And later on, Vision creates a RoboFamily consisting of a wife, a son, a daughter, and a dog. And the wife's brainwaves are base on Scarlet Witch's. And then there was the time Hank Pym was in a relationship with Jocasta which squicked others out since he is technically her grandfather. Though, she sees it as being with God.

** The clone gargoyle Thailog had three "fathers." Goliath is his DNA template, Dr. Anton Sevarius is the one who created him, and David Xanatos gave him his education. While Goliath was enraged at him, Elisa points out he is more or less his son. Though, Thailog attempted to kill him and his other fathers after finding them a disappointment. He also has an OedipusComplex with Goliath as he hit on Elisa Maza, Goliath's LoveInterest, enter a relationship with Goliath's ex, Demona and created Delilah, a clone combining the DNA of both Demona and Elisa.

** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with [[Literature/FateApocrypha Sieg]], a Homonculus that Siegfried [[LiteralChangeOfHeart implanted with his own heart to help him survive]]. Siegrain's wife, Kriemhild, recognizes the scent of her husband on Sieg and develops maternal instincts for him... [[MyBelovedSmother through wanting Sieg to change his name to not match Siegrain and making sure he doesn't die a horrible death like her husband]].

* The Aerial in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'' boasts a highly sophisticated AI by mech standards, enough that she functionally raised the protagonist, Suletta Mercury. For this reason, she tends to refer to her as "little sister", which is ironic given that [[BigLittleSister the Aerial is eighteen meters tall]]. Her often-absent mother Prospera is no less fond of it, and refers to Aerial and Suletta as "my daughters." Most people just think this is weird, CompanionCube-esque affection. [[spoiler:It's not--Aerial's AI is [[BrainUploading Ericht Samaya]], a child who was drawn into the Aerial at a young age, and who is Prospera's real daughter, with Suletta being a clone of her.]]

* The Aerial in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'' boasts a highly sophisticated AI by mech standards, enough that she functionally raised the protagonist, Suletta Mercury. For this reason, she tends to refer to her as "little sister", which is ironic given that [[BigLittleSister the Aerial is eighteen meters tall]]. Her often-absent mother Prospera is no less fond of it, and refers to Aerial and Suletta as "my daughters." Most people just think this is weird, CompanionCube-esque affection. [[spoiler:It's not--Aerial's AI is [[GhostInTheMachine Ericht Samaya]], a child who was drawn into the Aerial at a young age, and who is Prospera's real daughter, with Suletta being a clone of her.]]

** A [[HasTwoMommies two mommy variation]] with Reinforce Zwei from ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs''. She was created by Hayate Yagami by using the left over Unison Device of Reinforce Eins. She's often treated as the baby of the Yagami family even if she says she is an adult.

*** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Vivio Takamachi, the adopted daughter of both [[HasTwoMommies Nanoha and Fate]]. At first glance, she would seem to be their biological kid since [[PatchworkKids she looks very similar to them]]. She's really just a clone of a long ago ruler and has zero blood relation to Nanoha and Fate.

** Magica De Spell's "niece" Lena is actually her LivingShadow brought to life (and [[TrulySingleParent thus more like her daughter]]). After Lena has a HeelFaceTurn and is [[IHaveNoSon disowned]] by [[AbusiveParents Magica]], she is HappilyAdopted by Violet's [[HasTwoDaddies fathers]].

* ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'':

** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Sieg]], a Homonculus that Siegfried [[LiteralChangeOfHeart implanted with his own heart to help him survive]]. Siegrain's wife, Kriemhild, recognizes the scent of her husband on Sieg and develops maternal instincts for him... [[MyBelovedSmother through wanting Sieg to change his name to not match Siegrain and making sure he doesn't die a horrible death like her husband]].

* The Sisters from ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' are all clones of the Level-5 Esper Mikoto Misaka created from her DNA sample. While Mikoto originally went through a phase of [[ThatThingIsNotMyChild denial]], she now happily sees them all as her little "sisters", a sentiment which they return.

** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Sieg]], a Homonculus that Siegfried [[LiteralChangeOfHeart implanted with his own heart to help him survive]]. Siegrain's wife, Kriemhild, recognizes the scent of her husband on Sieg and develops maternal instincts for him... [[MyBelovedSmother though wanting Sieg to change his name to not match Siegrain and making sure he doesn't die a horrible death like her husband]].

* In ''Comicbook/AstroCity'', [[spoiler:the Gentleman]] is actually a [[DreamPeople Dream Person]] created by his "daughter," based on idealized memories of her real, deceased father. She later imagined [[spoiler:the Young Gentleman]] as a sort of perfect older brother.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''

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** Saber of Red is Mordred, the "son" of King Arthur and Morgan le Fay. However, instead being born naturally she's really a homunculus clone created when Morgan stole sperm from Artoria[[note]] King Arthur is genderflipped in the Fate universe but was transformed into male by Merlin[[/note]] and given birth from Morgan's womb.

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* In ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' (as well as the adaptation ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' by Creator/{{Disney}}), the elderly woodsmith Gepetto creates a sentient puppet named Pinocchio which he treats as his son.
* ''Literature/Aeon14'': Under the Phobos Accords, new sentient ArtificialIntelligence 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.
* In the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' prequel ''The Ellimist Chronicles,'' the title character (pre-[[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Sufficient Advancement]]) is trapped for eons in a sort of mental world, during which he imagines his dead wife being around and thinks up three children for them. He notes that, being inexperienced with kids, they didn't come out as well, sort of disappearing whenever he's not actively thinking about them.
* In ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga Captain Vorpatril's Alliance]]'' the Jewels were both the creation and the children of Udine. Her husband Shiv treats them as his children too, and their (more or less) natural children consider them siblings. Although they all do make a distinction between the "odd sibs" and the "even sibs."
* In ''Literature/DarkLordOfDerkholm'', the wizard Derk's specialty is creating magical hybrids, like pigs with wings. His masterworks are the griffins, built from combinations of avian and feline DNA with a bit of human DNA for intelligence -- they have human-level minds, and he regards them as just as much his children as the ones he fathered by more traditional means.
* {{Inverted}} in ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''--immediately after giving the Monster life, Victor has a WhatHaveIDone moment and essentially abandons it. It's the Monster who comes to see Victor as his "father," and is understandably upset about the way he's been treated. His response is to do everything he can to destroy Victor's life, though at the end he still winds up mourning his "father's" death.
* ''Literature/OctoberDaye'': On paper, May Daye is Toby's twin. May is a personified death omen who didn't wink out of existence when Toby's death was averted. This is a played with example, as Faerie itself created May, not Toby.
* In ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz,'' Jack Pumpkinhead, a PumpkinPerson created by young protagonist Tip and brought to life by AppliedPhlebotinum, refers to Tip as his "father" throughout the book. Tip isn't quite comfortable with this arrangement and is relieved when, [[spoiler:after it's discovered that "he" is actually the kidnapped Princess Ozma who was transformed into a boy to hide her true identity, Jack realizes she can't be his father anymore and drops it.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'': Takes a more darker/sadder twist with Geppetto creating Pinocchio in a depressive and drunken state, attempting to bring his dead son Carlo back who died from a air bomb. When Pinocchio is given life, he instantly saw Geppetto as a father, but he took much longer to see Pinocchio as his son. Pinocchio has falls in the "failed ReplacementGoldfish" when Geppetto tries to force him to be more like Carlo.

* ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'': Takes a more darker/sadder twist with Geppetto creating Pinocchio in a depressive and drunken state, attempting to bring his dead son Carlo back who died from a air bomb. When Pinocchio is given life, he instantly saw Geppetto as a father, but he took much longer to see Pinocchio as his son. Pinocchio has falls in the "failed ReplacementGoldfish" when Geppetto tries to force him to be more like Carlo.

* Like in the book, ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' is a wooden marionette created by Gepetto and who he treats like his own son. The Blue Fairy can also be seen as Pinocchio's mother since she brought him to life.

** Magica De Spell's "niece" Lena is actually her living shadow brought to life (and thus more like her daughter). After Lena has a HeelFaceTurn and is disowned by Magica, she is HappilyAdopted by Violet's fathers.
** 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 his mind once he learned that was his partner's doing, though Gyro doesn't quite refer to Boyd as family.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'''s Galatea was a clone of Supergirl created by Dr. Emil Hamilton for Cadmus. Despite Emil joining Cadmus because eh did not trust supers, he actually loves Galatea like a daughter and she loves him like a father.