History Main / PlayingWIthSyringes

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 Unit 731.]] One of the most horrific war crimes of the 20th century. Not only that, they added {{Karma Houndini}} to the mix, with many members being pardoned in exchange for handing over their research data to the Allies.

* Tongpu, alias Pierrot Le Fou, from ''CowboyBebop'' was the fatally-botched result of an attempt to create a SuperSoldier.

* The titular rats from ''MrsFrisbyAndTheRatsOfNIMH''. Having gained superintelligence and much longer lives, some rats developed a sense of ethics and dissatisfaction with a life of theft. But others used their abilities to thieve on a much higher level than before [[spoiler:which ultimately got them killed]]

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 Unit 731.]] One of the most horrific war crimes of the 20th century.

See also TheydCutYouUp, for when people with superhuman powers fear this happening to them. When animals are involved, this may be combined with PoundsAreDoggyPrison.

* Oasis in ''SluggyFreelance''.

* Bioshock is the poster boy of this trope in Video Games. Just think back to how many EVE injections are used throughout the game by the player. And that's without delving into Plasmids and Gene Tonics.

* [[Bioshock]] is the poster boy of this trope in Video Games. Just think back to how many EVE injections are used throughout the game by the player. And that's without delving into Plasmids and Gene Tonics.

* ''Bioshock'' is the poster boy of this trope in Video Games. Just think back to how many EVE injections are used throughout the game by the player. And that's without delving into Plasmids and Gene Tonics.

** Not to mention his "info card" which describes his "trembling enthusiasm for plunging needles into exposed flesh"

* {{Team Fortress 2}}'s Medic has the aptly named Syringe Gun which shoots syringes at enemies. He also has an unlockable gun called the Blutsauger that shoots syringes that drain the life of the victim.

* ''Rocky IV'' Drago! Drago!
* ''Soldier'' The Soldiers in the Soldier Program were mindless killing machines, and who were given drugs to help them stay that way.
* ''Batman and Robin'' Bane
* ''28 Days Later'' A chimp was strapped to a table at the beginning of that, after being infected with...

* ''TheSecretofNIMH'', as mentioned above. The film version goes out of its way to make the lab a bit more [[NightmareFuel nightmarish]], with close-ups of abused animals cowering in their cages and rats reacting with agony to their injections.

---> "'Cause really, there's nothing as pure and cruel as a child."

---> "'Cause really, there's nothing as pure and cruel as a child."

** It worked, but only in the same way that training an attack dog works if you don't know how to train an attack dog-Tongpu became incredibly dangerous, but they had no way to direct or order him. This, coupled with his regression into childhood, turned him into the demented killer we all know (remember being a kid? Clearly, bad people should die. Why the world doesn't work that way is a mystery. Now, imagine you're a kid ''with the power to enforce this notion, and a child's idea of what constitutes a bad person.'' Meet Pierrot.)

* WarrenEllis's ''Desolation Jones'' is about an ex spy who, after being fired for constant drunkenness, "volunteered" to have this done to him. He emerges from it a hallucinating, insomniac, sociopathic albino with a completely withered body.

* The ''MassEffect'' universe is rife with instances of PlayingWithSyringes, and [[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]] seems to run afoul of every single one. Dr. Saleon, [=ExoGeni=], Binary Helix... and of course Cerberus, a rogue black-ops group that does things like arrange for a platoon of marines to be positioned right on top of a whole nest of [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel thresher maws]] just to see what happens. (Here's a hint: [[EverybodysDeadDave they all die]].)

* Taura from LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Vorkosigan'' books is the last survivor of a SuperSoldier project of this sort.

* Audition... [[XJustX just Audition]]

** More like they wanted Evil Government Conspiracy backstory for Wolverine, but they already had Canada locked in as the country. SoYeah.

* {{Felidae}} features a lab that is purely HighOctaneNightmareFuel, as a scientist has SanitySlippage and begins doing experiments on stray cats, [[{{Gorn}} cutting the cats open]] [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable on the examination table]] as they screech in agony. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids Every bloody, gory detail is shown.]]