History Main / PygmalionPlot

* ''Manga/{{Kannagi}}'': Jin sculpts Kannagi out of a sacred tree, the goddess possesses the statue and thus the romantic comedy begins.

* ''Manga/{{Gunnm}}'' had shades of this very early on, though it was not a straight example in that Dr Ido saw Gally/Alita more as a daughter than a would be bride. The protagonist's name in the original Japanese, Gally, is actually a refference to this

** The female bot is named Galatea. However, [[SubvertedTrope it's never indicated that her owner is in love or in a relationship with her]], although he did reprogram her to display more "human" quirks.
** Andrew himself is closer to an [[InvertedTrope inversion]], as he's really a RobotMaid who develops sentience by accident and as he slowly becomes more human he starts to desire human love and eventually marries the great-granddaughter of his former owner.

* Part of what fuels Miranda Lawson's [[{{Yandere}} obsession]] for [[VideoGame/MassEffect Commander Shepard]] in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10465330/1/Miranda-s-Obsession Miranda's Obsession]]'' is the fact that she was the head of the project that brought him back to life, and thus [[EntitledToHaveYou she views him as her property]]..

* Part of the cause behind Miranda Lawson's [[{{Yandere}} obsession]] for [[VideoGame/MassEffect Commander Shepard]] in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10465330/1/Miranda-s-Obsession Miranda's Obsession]]'' is the fact that she had a major part to play in bringing him back to life, and thus [[EntitledToHaveYou she views him as her property]]..

* Part of the cause behind Miranda Lawson's [[{{Yandere}} obsession]] for [[VideoGame/MassEffect Commander Shepard]] in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10465330/1/Miranda-s-Obsession Miranda's Obsession]]'' is the fact that she had a major part to play in bringing him back to life.

* Implied with [[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T2-bVLYsFW8/VIWVMGo87yI/AAAAAAAAD-I/1T9xv77r6oc/w640-h400-p-k/IMG_8104597802444.jpeg these]] [[http://img05.deviantart.net/e47d/i/2012/311/0/8/if_my_drawings_come_to_life_by_mysticswordsman21-d5kbo4n.jpg four]] [[http://40.media.tumblr.com/c43f14f7ce8dd5cb09682b2a15d9c980/tumblr_n651ac6uJQ1rfs2duo1_500.jpg images]][[http://img08.deviantart.net/711b/i/2014/051/a/5/i_m_sorry_but_you_re_real_by_thurosis-d778qtz.jpg online.]] And explicit in [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/a6/77/07/a6770748ae2cad5119763c0aed210827.jpg these]] [[http://data.whicdn.com/images/14635097/large.jpg two.]]

** There's an episode parodying ''My Fair Lady'', of course, 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.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', the Toyman creates a perfect toy mate for himself named Darci (complete with creepy implications that she's basically a sex slave). However, she rebels against him and runs away, working as a runway model. It doesn't end well.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Galatea" is a GenderFlip.

* ''Literature/ShamanBlues'' has a [[KabbalicGolem golem]] animator who tries to invoke this - she creates golem after golem, hoping that one of them will prove to be her perfect love.

* ''Literature/ShamanBlues'' has a {{golem}} animator who tries to invoke this - she creates golem after golem, hoping that one of them will prove to be her perfect love.

* In ''Film/PixelPerfect'', Roscoe programs the artificial intelligence Loretta (though she's a hologram, not a robot). He develops feelings for her, [[spoiler:but only because he used the personality of his best friend Sam as template for Loretta's personality, and the latter realizes that Sam is the girl for Roscoe.]]
* ''Film/VictorFrankenstein'' features a figurative and non-romantic variation. After Victor rescues Igor from the circus, he essentially "transforms" the latter into a younger version of himself. Victor fixes the hunchback's deformity so that Igor is no longer a cripple, Victor gives Igor fashionable clothing which is very similar (if a little less ostentatious) to his own, and encourages Igor's scientific talent by having him work as his lab assistant. Victor gradually grows to care for Igor, and Victor ends up needing Igor more than Igor needs him.

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' has shades of this, depending on [[how you play the PC/Revan, whose memories have been wiped by the Jedi Council. Bastila is tasked with moulding him/her into the perfect Jedi, which either works or fails depending on the player's choices, in order to find out what Revan had been up to before being captured, but it gets subverted when the Force Bond between the two of them influences Bastila and easens her fall to the Dark Side when she is captured by Malak.]]

** The [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 New 52]] changed this into a cover story to her being raped by Zeus. [[ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth Rebirth]] changed it back, but then James Robinson ignored this making current continuity a bit iffy on the subject.

** The New 52 changed this into a cover story to her being raped by Zeus.

* ''Webcomics/TheArtOfMonsters'' is designed as a "reverse" Pygmalion story, where a monstrous creature who has been civilized (sort of) by a mountain hermit tries to return the favour. It doesn't end well..