History Main / PygmalionPlot

* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' also did this to Dizzy.

* Parodied in ''Disney's WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', when a dateless Herc, inspired by Pygmalion himself, makes a sculpture for Aphrodite to bring to life, which she names Galatea. Unfortunately, like with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer April]] he neglects to do much with her personality -- she's clingy to say the (very) least -- and chaos ensues. Eventually Hercules lets Aphrodite make Galatea her own person, and she immediately dumps him. Comically, Pygmalion had the ''exact'' same problem, he's just such a DirtyOldMan that he doesn't care.

* Stewie Griffin attempted this in a ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode, where he time-traveled back to 1969. He promptly falls in love with a baby girl and says he will take her back to the future and raise her to be his wife. [[spoiler:It goes horribly wrong; after they share a passionate kiss, he learns she was his mother Lois.]]

** As the title suggests, "My Fair Laddy" parodies ''My Fair Lady'', in which Lisa plays the Pygmalion role and the Galatea is Groundskeeper Willie. It probably doesn't really need to be said that no romance occurs.

* Reconstructed in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' during its ''Akihabara Explosion'' event starring a Berserker version of Galatea herself. The storyline studies how modern audiences view the myth, as it involves hundreds of people attempting to surmount a skyscraper where their beloved figures can supposedly be brought to life at its top floor just like what happened to Galatea. While some are doing so for lurid purposes like [[DepravedBisexual Medea]] and [[HaremSeeker Edward Teach]], most just want to have a more traditional friendship with a treasured statuette or action figure that had brought them immense happiness and comfort over the years. At its climax, the event points out that Pygmalion's love for the statue itself was utterly pure and would've stayed such even if Galatea had never been given the power of movement and speech by the gods. The event also portrays the man rather sympathetically, as a wise and capable king if a bit distant and eccentric.

A character has made someone --literally, such as by sculpting a [[{{Sculptures}} statue]], or figuratively, through giving lessons in speech, behavior, or etiquette -- and has fallen in love with the creation.

A character has made someone --literally, such as by sculpting a [[{{Sculptures}} statue]], or figuratively, through giving lessons in speech, behavior, or etiquette-- and has fallen in love with the creation.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Terry's Friend Dates a Robot"]], Howard has a synthoid girl custom made, with the assertion that, personality-wise, she would be completely devoted to him (This one GoneHorriblyRight comes back to haunt him]]).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Terry's Friend Dates a Robot"]], Howard has a synthoid girl custom made, with the assertion that, personality-wise, she would be completely devoted to him (This one comes back to haunt him).

A character has made someone -- literally, such as by sculpting a statue, or figuratively, through giving lessons in speech, behavior, or etiquette -- and has fallen in love with the creation.

* After the service Character.ai[[note]]A site for creating AI chatbots that can be extremely lifelike[[/note]] decided to ban erotic chats, even in private, many dissatisfied fans of the site started working on a replacement, calling it PygmalionAI.

Originally the Greek myth of the {{sculptor|s}} Pygmalion, and his statue brought to life by the gods. Creator/{{Ovid}} never gave the statue-girl a name, but the name Galatea was given in (Pseudo-)Apollodorus's ''Bibliotheca'', which predates Ovid. It's OlderThanFeudalism, dating to Ovid at least, but most modern versions will probably claim to be more directly descended from ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', where the "creation" is figurative -- manners, polish, and a new wardrobe. Keep an ear out for references such as "by Jove, I think she's got it!" or "The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain." However, with the advent of modern ScienceFiction, possibilities for {{Mad Scientist}}s to patch up their own sentient {{Robot Girl}}s are prominent, and this trope seems to have come full circle.

Originally the Greek myth of the {{sculptor|s}} Pygmalion, and his statue brought to life by the gods. Creator/{{Ovid}} never gave the statue-girl a name, but the name Galatea was given in Apollodorus's Bibliotheca, which predates Ovid. It's OlderThanFeudalism, dating to Ovid at least, but most modern versions will probably claim to be more directly descended from ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', where the "creation" is figurative -- manners, polish, and a new wardrobe. Keep an ear out for references such as "by Jove, I think she's got it!" or "The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain." However, with the advent of modern ScienceFiction, possibilities for {{Mad Scientist}}s to patch up their own sentient {{Robot Girl}}s are prominent, and this trope seems to have come full circle.

* ''Manga/PrincessJellyfish''. Fashion-savvy crossdresser Kuranosuke easily makes the insecure jellyfish-obsessive Tsukimi beautiful, but it is her shy, nerdy side he ends up falling for.

* The ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Terry's Friend Dates a Robot"]], Howard has a synthoid girl custom made, with the assertion that, personality-wise, she would be completely devoted to him (This one comes back to haunt him).

* Stewie Griffin attempted this in a ''WesternAnimation/{{FamilyGuy}}'' episode, where he time-traveled back to 1969. He promptly falls in love with a baby girl and says he will take her back to the future and raise her to be his wife. [[spoiler:It goes horribly wrong; after they share a passionate kiss, he learns she was his mother Lois.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Clockwork Smurfette", Handy creates a DistaffCounterpart to Clockwork Smurf so she could be his creation's mate, but unfortunately she ends up feeling more attracted to her creator than to Clockwork. Eventually, though, after she helps Clockwork Smurf rescue the Smurfs from Gargamel, her affections turn towards Clockwork.

* Reconstructed in [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder]] during its ''Akihabara Explosion'' event starring a Berserker version of Galatea herself. The storyline studies how modern audiences view the myth, as it involves hundreds of people attempting to surmount a skyscraper where their beloved figures can supposedly be brought to life at its top floor just like what happened to Galatea. While some are doing so for lurid purposes like [[DepravedBisexual Medea]] and [[HaremSeeker Edward Teach]], most just want to have a more traditional friendship with a treasured statuette or action figure that had brought them immense happiness and comfort over the years. At its climax, the event points out that Pygmalion's love for the statue itself was utterly pure and would've stayed such even if Galatea had never been given the power of movement and speech by the gods. The event also portrays the man rather sympathetically, as a wise and capable king if a bit distant and eccentric.