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* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': Sentient blob Lamput's birth is seen in "Origins". He forms in a beaker after an accident where young students Fat Doc and Slim Doc ruin a science experiment their teacher and future boss is working on.

* Jyrras of ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' created two different lifeforms, both by accident, in the form of Deebs (a childlike bunny-girl of living, floating pink bubblegum) and a computer that gained sapience and evolved into a RobotGirl. He has to keep both of them a secret because [[CreatingLifeIsEvil creating new forms of life is against the law]].

* Jyrras of ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' created two different lifeforms, both by accident, in the form of Deebs (a childlike bunny-girl of living, floating pink bubblegum) and a RobotGirl.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1048901/42/Stygian-Solace Stygian Solace]]'', [[spoiler:Yami]] is revealed to have been a total accident. He was created when Ansem [[GrandTheftMe body-jacked]] Kairi due to the inability of [[ForWantOfANail Riku]]. Kairi's pure heart purifies Ansem to create someone else entirely.

* ''Fanfic/MiraculousLadybugTalesOfLittlebutAndChatonNoir'': Marinette sews a Chat Noir doll and decides to give it a bit of magic so its eyes will shine on their own. Instead, she accidentally brings it to life. She ends up repeating this subconsciously when she makes a Ladybug and Multimouse dolls for Adrien and Kagami, respectively.

** This happens in ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' when she conjures up hers and Anna's childhood snowman Olaf during "Let It Go", completely unaware that her abilities mean she's given him life, which Anna and Kristoff end up finding out first. Subsequently, when Anna does arrive at Elsa's ice castle and Olaf inadvertently barges in prematurely (after [[ExactWords giving Anna]] [[LiteralMinded a minute]]), Elsa is surprised to find that she even brought Olaf to life.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' has the Warforged, [[{{robot}} android]]-like machines that were built as mindless soldiers but spontaneously developed sapience and became "living constructs", which even gives their mechanical bodies a form of life. Their creators, the artificer House Cannith, were a bit dismayed that their creations developed free will and gained citizens' rights.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''

Supertrope of InstantAIJustAddWater and ItCameFromTheFridge: If the unforeseen intelligence is technological or culinary in nature, see that trope instead. Examples of ambiguous nature go on both pages.

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* ''Literature/DateALive'': Mio Takamiya accidentally created Tohka while trying to purify a Sephira Crystal on her own.
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* In ''Comicbook/JourneyIntoMysteryGillen'' young Loki, in an effort to humanize [[Comicbook/FearItself the Serpent]], an unbeatable enemy, [[RewritingReality added a romantic sub-plot to his biography]]. Said sub-plot, [[spoiler:who was modelled after his best friend Leah,]] later appeared basically to go RageAgainstTheHeavens / RageAgainstTheAuthor on his ass. [[spoiler:At the end it was revealed that she grew up to become the goddess Hela.]]
* In issue #7 of ''ComicBook/InvaderZimOni'', Zim crash lands on a lifeless DeathWorld. Fuel leaking from his ship then [[HandWave somehow reacts]] with the planet to create a primal ooze, from which emerges a rapidly evolving ecosystem, including giant carnivorous ladybugs and sentient amoebas that worship Zim. [[spoiler:When Zim ultimately leaves the planet, he blows it up... at the amoebas' insistence, as they [[InsaneTrollLogic think it's the only way to please him]].]]

* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/HopeForTheHeartless'', [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Creeper]] is revealed to have come into existence by accident. [[VillainProtagonist The Horned King]] was preparing a concoction for an unstated purpose when a little statue fell off the decaying castle that served as the work area and Creeper was born. That experiment had taken centuries to get to that point, and the Horned King [[BadBoss despises]] Creeper so much for ruining it like that.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1048901/42/Stygian-Solace Stygian Solace,]]'' [[spoiler:Yami]] is revealed to be have been a total accident. He was created when [[BigBad Ansem]] [[GrandTheftMe body-jacks]] Kairi due to the inability of [[ForWantOfANail Riku.]] Kairi's pure heart purifies Ansem to create someone else entirely.
* In ''FanFic/AgesOfShadow'', [[FallenHero Jade]]/[[PhysicalGod Yade Khan's]] power reacting with the energies released in the FinalBattle seeds the Shadow Netherworld with simple life, [[spoiler:as well as creating four infants.]]
* In ''Fanfic/TheParselmouthOfGryffindor'', walking catastrophe of a wizard Professor Lockhart tried to "de-spell" a perfectly ordinary statue, believing it to be a disguised monster. Somehow, his backfiring spell ended up actually giving life to the statue instead.
* ''Fanfic/TantabusMarkII'': Princess Luna tried to create an automated dream program that could [[DreamWeaver turn nightmares into good dreams]] and make her own responsibilities a little easier. Then it starts calling her "mom." Luna freaks out and grabs Twilight for advice, [[StatingTheSimpleSolution who suggests just talking to the Tantabus]].
* ''Fanfic/NoPlumbersAllowed'': Nobel being sapient was ''not'' something Taylor was expecting when she made him.

** This happens in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' when she conjures up hers and Anna's childhood snowman Olaf during "Let It Go", completely unaware that her abilities mean she's given him life, which Anna and Kristoff end up finding out first. Subsequently, when Anna does arrive at Elsa's ice castle and Olaf inadvertently barges in prematurely (after [[ExactWords giving Anna]] [[LiteralMinded a minute]]), Elsa is surprised to find that she even brought Olaf to life.

** Heck, the whole ''franchise'' has a lot of this going on. The closest we get to an explanation as to what the Programs are is the scene where Encom's founder [[CoolOldGuy Walter]] [[HonestCorporateExecutive Gibbs]] rants at [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Dillinger]] that "Our spirit remains in every program we design!" The old man didn't mean it literally; the Encom programmers had no bloody idea that they were coding up sentient beings.
* Weebo the flying computer from ''Film/{{Flubber}}'' was a "glorious accident," and [[KilledOffForReal can't be repaired when she is damaged]]. However, she designed an improved version of herself that shows up at the end. The Flubber itself is far more alive and intelligent than intended.
* In ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', Frank claims that it was an accident that made everything fall into place when he was trying to create [[FrankensteinsMonster Rocky]].

* In the Franchise/CthulhuMythos:

** Also in the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, it is suggested that all organic life on Earth is an unintended offshoot of the Elder Things' decision to cook up some shoggoths.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Sort of the whole point of ''Literature/TheDollmaker''.
* David Eddings' Sparhawk universe (the Elenium and Tamuli trilogies) features the Child Goddess Aphrael, who ''willed herself into existence'', although it's not made clear whether this was a deliberate act. Given how whimsical she can be, it's not impossible that she did it inadvertently.

* In ''Literature/ImpliedSpaces'', [[spoiler:the discovery of the Inept as the creator of the universe and the fact that they accidentally created all life in the universe, and the loss of his version of Daljit (they are both clones with other copies being sent to colonize various nearby star systems, whose originals stayed back in the Solar System), is a big reason why Vindex is so adamant about coming back from the destroyed Epsilon Eridani colony to conquer the Solar System: to get enough people behind him to confront the Inept about the sorry state of the universe that led to his love's death without the possibility of resurrection.]]

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''' ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' Campaign Setting has the Warforged, [[{{robot}} android]]-like machines that were built as mindless soldiers but spontaneously developed sapience and became "living constructs", which even gives their mechanical bodies a form of life. Their creators, the artificer House Cannith, were a bit dismayed that their creations developed free will and gained citizens' rights.

* In ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable: The Gears of Destiny'', [[spoiler:Amita and Kyrie]] were revealed to have been created as RidiculouslyHumanRobots by accident. Their creator was just planning to create non-sentient automatons, but he kinda overdid their programming. Once he realized what had happened, [[spoiler:[[RoboFamily he adopted them as his daughters instead]]]]. He toned down the programming for later batches, since he still needed [[SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence non-sentient robots]] [[spoiler:to work on the restoration of [[DeathWorld Eltria's]] deadlier regions]].

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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Arthur intended to create a talking wand for training wizards. It didn't work at the time, but when the properties of magic slightly shifted, it suddenly started working. Thing is, it was originally supposed to simply verbalize lessons, but it instead became a SnarkyInanimateObject that calls itself "Kevin". Arthur takes it reasonably well, saying that "as my daughter would assure you, I ''support'' life I have unintentionally created", and since Kevin has decided he wants to train Ashley, Arthur allows it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In a pastiche of an episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', there was a HalloweenSpecial where Lisa manages to accidentally create a tiny living civilization in a "tooth in cola" experiment, along with a convenient [[LightningCanDoAnything spark of static electricity]].

* PlayedForLaughs on ''WesternAnimation/{{Spliced}}'' in the episode "Bowled Over". Peri makes a sandwich, which then randomly grows insect-like legs and wings and begins attacking people. Later, he attempts to fix Patricia's car, but he ends up giving it sentience instead. Also in the episode "Living Hellp", Entree attempts to microwave a microwave, which results in the microwave coming to life and attacking him.

* The obscure late 80s cartoon show ''WesternAnimation/LittleWizards'' has three of the four protagonists being this; as the ExpositoryThemeTune explains/shows, Prince Dexter accidentally knocked over a bunch of magical potions and reagents into a cauldron already filled with a magical brew whilst overburdened with assorted magical grimoires and wands. The result was a huge explosion and the creation of his allies and fellow students; the magical monsters Winkle, Gump and Boo.

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* ''LightNovel/DateALive'': Mio Takamiya accidentally created Tohka while trying to purify a Sephira Crystal on her own.

** [[KingOfAllCosmos Azathoth]] created ''reality itself'' [[TheDitz by accident]].

This new person or species is benevolent, and quite obviously worthy of human rights. Obvious to the audience, that is. The creators might fail to understand this, thus causing all kinds of trouble. However, in some cases, rejection from the creators may [[StartOfDarkness lead the created character to resentment or worse]]. They may also end up with PinocchioSyndrome or wanting to BecomeARealBoy.

* In issue #7 of ''ComicBook/InvaderZimOni'', Zim crash lands on a lifeless DeathWorld. Fuel leaking from his ship then [[HandWave somehow reacts]] with the planet to create a primal ooze, from which emerges a rapidly evolving ecosystem, including giant carnivorous ladybugs and sentient amoebas that worship Zim. [[spoiler: When Zim ultimately leaves the planet, he blows it up... at the amoebas' insistence, as they [[InsaneTrollLogic think it's the only way to please him]].]]

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1048901/42/Stygian-Solace Stygian Solace]]'', [[spoiler: Yami]] is revealed to be have been a total accident. He was created when [[BigBad Ansem]] [[GrandTheftMe body-jacks]] Kairi due to the inability of [[ForWantOfANail Riku.]] Kairi's pure heart purifies Ansem to create someone else entirely.
* In ''FanFic/AgesOfShadow'', [[FallenHero Jade]]/[[PhysicalGod Yade Khan's]] power reacting with the energies released in the FinalBattle seeds the Shadow Netherworld with simple life, [[spoiler: as well as creating four infants.]]