History Main / PlayingWIthSyringes

* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': This was the origin of the Cat (better known as Tigra), although her origin involved a triple-cross. Dr. Joanne Tumolo developed a process "for any woman to totally fulfill her physical and mental potential -- despite the handicaps that society places upon her." Dr. Tumulo ran out of funds, but Malcolm Donalbain ("world famous sportsman, eccentric, and entrepreneur...") learned about the project and was "such a fanatic on physical conditioning that he agreed to subsidize further work." Donalbain insisted that his employee, Shirlee Bryant, be their test subject. Here's the double-cross: Shirlee stole the scientist's process so Donalbain could build duplicates of her equipment. Shirlee died in a test of her abilities, but Donalbain planned to open a nationwide chain of health clubs that would create an army of Amazons to carry out his commands. Here's the triple-cross: Dr. Tumolo had wanted her assistant, Greer Nelson, to be her first subject. Greer persuaded her mentor to test her secretly. Using her new powers as the Cat, Greer stopped Donalbain's plans.
* ''ComicBook/DesolationJones'' 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.

* "Project Rainmaker" from ''ComicBook/PS238'', which performed experiments on a non-combative metahuman in order to find out what caused metahuman powers. [[spoiler:Said metahuman then got a power boost when they put a MadScientist in charge of the project, and escaped, destroying the lab in the process.]] The project is later resurrected InNameOnly. This time, it's about helping children whose powers fall on the [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway "heart"]] spectrum find a use for them in the private sector. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, no-one told the now grown-up metahuman, so he heads off to break them out.]]
* ''ComicBook/ResurrectionMan'': "The Lab" is a secret private weapons contractor developing SuperSerum for the US government, going into war zones and using wounded American personnel as guinea pigs. Their concoctions created the [[NighInvulnerable Body Doubles]], [[{{Immortality}} Director Hooker]], and [[spoiler:[[ResurrectiveImmortality Mitch Shelley]], but not the way Shelley wanted]].

* Scientists sponsored by the United States, Britain, and Germany experimented on hundreds of African Americans to reproduce the SuperSoldier serum that created ComicBook/CaptainAmerica after the original formula was lost, as documented in ''ComicBook/TruthRedWhiteAndBlack''.
* V from ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' was created as a result of a bunch of experiments conducted by TheGovernment.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWomanDeadEarth'': AfterTheEnd, Cheetah was captured and experimented on for no discernible end goal other than humans wanting to take out their anger on someone.

May overlap with EyeScream and ColdBloodedTorture. Often overlaps with MeatgrinderSurgery, because what's another dozen hideous violations of medical ethics between friends? A SuperBreedingProgram tends to be this on a grander scale. A literal version may involve a GiantMedicalSyringe.

* In ''Film/FreddyVsJason'', Freddy possesses Freeburg and uses Freeburg's body to inject Jason with two huge syringes filled with the pink tranquilizer in order to knock Jason out.
* ''Film/GreenForDanger'': While [[spoiler:Sanson]] is confessing, [[spoiler:Mr. Eden]] quietly loads a syringe. [[spoiler:Sanson then flees from the room and Eden runs after her, but Cockrill stops him from injecting her. Sanson then collapses and dies; she had poisoned herself with the missing pills, and [[StabTheScorpion Eden was trying to give her the antidote]].]]

* In ''Film/{{Shock}}'', Dr. Cross gives a Janet a series of insulin injections as part of her therapy; intending to [[MedicationTampering kill her with the last one]].

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series, the [[OppressiveStatesOfAmerica pre-War United States government]] routinely rounded up military prisoners, regular prisoners, and political dissidents and subjected them to horrific scientific experiments that resulted in the creation of such things as the [[BodyHorror Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV)]], whose effects can still be felt over 200 years AfterTheEnd.

* In ''Manga/SailorMoon'' and its anime adaptation, ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'', Professor Tomoe, MadScientist and {{Dragon}} to the third arc's BigBad, not only implants monster eggs inside of people to possess them after [[YourSoulIsMine their souls have been extracted]] (searching for a perfect specimen where most of the results turn out to be "defects"), but also used his own daughter in his experiments, eventually resulting in [[spoiler: her being possessed and (temporarily) killed by Mistress 9.]] He even [[OneWingedAngel turns himself into a Daimon]] before [[spoiler:he is destroyed by Sailor Moon]].