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Most of the initial conflict will arise from extremely volatile personality clashes, dealing with the [[DysfunctionJunction collective angst the group has accumulated]], attempts to cross the line between stranger and family, or outside forces threatening to disrupt or even dissolve their group. In most cases, the group will eventually come to [[TrueCompanions trust one another]] as if [[SuperFamilyTeam they were real family]], possibly even more than their real relatives (if they still have any); disproving that blood is ThickerthanWater.

* ''Literature/Gypsies'', by Creator/RobertCharlesWilson, is about the children and grandchildren of two world walkers who wandered into our world decades ago. The original married couple never told their kids where they were from, and punished them for the use of their powers. But the grandson of the first generation is starting to display his powers, and the last world walker from a really, really nasty dystopia has finally found them…

* ''Gypsies'', by RobertCharlesWilson, is about the children and grandchildren of two world walkers who wandered into our world decades ago. The original married couple never told their kids where they were from, and punished them for the use of their powers. But the grandson of the first generation is starting to display his powers, and the last world walker from a really, really nasty dystopia has finally found them…

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' had both the Chimeras and the Homunculi.
** The Homunculi didn't seem to be on exactly familial terms with one another. Lust never showed any affection outside of "pet" for Gluttony, Envy was seriously hostile, Greed had severed all ties, Pride was more of a boss, and Sloth was an assistant. Wrath alone seems to fit this trope only because he had the mind of a child. In the manga, the other homonculi are outright terrified of Pride, and Sloth is really just a slave. The entity they call "father" seems to be called as such more out of fear than affection.
** Gluttony is so upset by [[spoiler:Lust's death]] that he goes AxCrazy when he realizes he's in the same room with her killer. But on the flip side, Pride thinks nothing of [[spoiler:''devouring'' Gluttony]] when it's convenient for him.
** In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]], Wrath and Sloth's relationship does seem to fit this.
*** Likewise, Gluttony seems to show this in the 2003 anime, in which he is visibly distressed about the knowledge that [[spoiler:Lust has died. He pretty much shuts down, to the point where Dante has to remove his mind so he will finalize the Philosopher's Stone that Alphonse's body has become.]]
**** He is so distressed that ''[[BeyondTheImpossible Gluttony loses his appetite!]]''

* The cast of ''{{Runaways}}'' sort of fits this trope. After running away from their evil parents and not being satisfied with the foster care system they adopted each other as a family.

** From the second season on, Celestial Being seems to have become this. It's explicitly stated that Feldt, at least, considers the group her family, but then she was literally born and raised in Celestial Being.

* ''FullMetalAlchemist'' had both the Chimeras and the Homunculi.

** But Wrath and Sloth's relationship in the anime does seem to fit this.
** Likewise, Gluttony seems to show this in the anime, in which he is visibly distressed about the knowledge that [[spoiler: Lust has died. He pretty much shuts down, to the point where Dante has to remove his mind so he will finalize the Philosopher's Stone that Alphonse's body has become.]]
*** He is so distressed that [[BeyondTheImpossible ''Gluttony loses his appetite!'']]
** In the manga and ''Brotherhood,'' Gluttony is so upset by [[spoiler: Lust's death]] that he goes AxCrazy when he realizes he's in the same room with her killer. But on the flip side, Pride thinks nothing of [[spoiler: ''devouring'' Gluttony]] when it's convenient for him.

Alternatively, in more mundane settings without {{mutants}} and {{mad scientist}}s, the "family" will instead be made up of the [[CrazyHomelessPeople homeless]], the [[DisposableVagrant destitute]], [[IJustWantToHaveFriends the lonely]], [[ParentalAbandonment the abandoned]] and [[TheMadHatter the crazy]]. Essentially, everyone who gets [[AcceptableHardLuckTargets left behind]] by society, regardless if it is [[SocietyIsToBlame the fault of society itself]], or their own. As in the "secret project" variety, the group of strangers or acquaintances will be [[BreakfastClub brought together by the collective suckiness of their lives]], and the advantages of pooling resources to ensure their survival. But unlike the "secret project" variety, members of the group will likely address their personal problems, while trying to [[SomebodyElsesProblem ignore everyone else's]].

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* The Morlocks from {{X-Men}}.
** A fair number of the {{X-Men}} themselves. Wolverine, X-23 . . . I'm sure a bunch of the others.

* [[spoiler: Jack, the Little Sisters, and presumably Tenenbaum]] in the good ending of ''{{Bioshock}}''.

* The MarvelUniverse's ''{{Livewires}}'' and TheDCU's ''LabRats''.

* The mutants who live in the fringes in ''TheChrysalids'' seem to adopt each other as a sort of 'tribe'/family.

* ''JusticeLeague'' features two approximate examples. TheJoker's Royal Flush Gang was a group of metahuman teens (modelled on the powers of the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' and using the same voice actors from that show) which the Joker had liberated from the government's Project Cadmus and trained in supervillainy. The Ultimen (who were in turn a pastiche of the EthnicScrappy characters from ''{{Superfriends}}'' (and the Wonder Twins) are a borderline case, since technically they never quite succeeded in escaping the secret project.

Most of the initial conflict will arise from extremely volatile personality clashes, dealing with the [[DysfunctionJunction collective angst the group has accumulated]], attempts to cross the line between stranger and family, or outside forces threatening to disrupt or even dissolve their group. In most cases, the group will eventually come to [[TrueCompanions trust one another]] as if [[SuperFamilyTeam they were real family]], possibly even more than their real relatives (if they still have any); disproving that blood is [[ThickerthanWater thicker than water]].

* From MobileSuitGundam00, Allelujah and the [[spoiler:Human Reform League supersoldier test subjects]] are implied to have tried to be this. Their very short-lived attempt doesn't work out very well.

* It could be argued that this applies to the Soul Society in ''{{Bleach}}''. They're not artificial, but they pretty much have no way to find actual relatives ([[spoiler:except for Rukia's sister]]), so end up adopting each other as families.

*** As stated by many fans of {{Bleach}}: Worst...afterlife...EVER!

* The title group in the {{Naruto}} fanfic FanFic/{{Hakumei}}.

* The replicants in ''BladeRunner''.

* ''{{Babylon 5}}'': Telepaths who were not in Psicorps attempted to run away. Some were more successful than others.

* The Cybran Nation of ''VideoGame/{{Supreme Commander}}'' began as this, complete with the mad scientist/genius (Dr. Gustaf Brackman) responsible for creating them as their father figure - and said father figure is still alive and kicking one thousand years later. Although really now, they're more of a Obvious Project Refugee Country now.

* The TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles. And [[TeenageMutantSamuraiWombats various imitations]].

* Grace and her brothers from ElGoonishShive form one, at least after Damien is killed.

* In IlGoonishShive, the lab created chimaeras form one after Damien is killed.

Most of the initial conflict will arise from extremely volatile personality clashes, dealing with the [[DysfunctionJunction collective angst the group has accumulated]], attempts to cross the line between stranger and family, or outside forces threatening to disrupt or even dissolve their group. In most cases, the group will eventually come to [[{{Nakama}} trust one another]] as if [[SuperFamilyTeam they were real family]], possibly even more than their real relatives (if they still have any); disproving that blood is [[ThickerthanWater thicker than water]].

* The Durona sisters in LoisMcMasterBujold ''VorkosiganSaga'' are ''clones'' of their progenitor Lilly Durona, and are escapees from one of Jackson's Whole robber barons.

You and your fellow {{Artificial Human}}s, kidnap victims or [[GuineaPigFamily siblings]] have just escaped from [[PlayingWithSyringes the lab you all grew up in/were experimented on]]? Where the heck do you go now? Chances are slim that any of you still have a family in the normal world. If that wasn't bad enough, not many people will want to put up with [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer freaks like you.]]

Most of the initial conflict will arise from extremely volatile personality clashes, dealing with the [[DysfunctionJunction collective angst the group has accumulated]], attempts to cross the line between stranger and family, or outside forces threatening to disrupt or even dissolve their group. In most cases, the group will eventually come to [[{{Nakama}} trust one another]] as if [[SuperFamilyTeam they were real family]], possibly even more than their real relatives (if they still have any); disproving that blood is [[ThickerthanWater thicker than water]].

* The title group in the {{Naruto}} fanfic FanFic/{{Hakumei}}.

* The Mutates from ''{{Gargoyles}}'' [[spoiler: except Fang after his FaceHeelTurn-- or, perhaps, after Maggie, Claw, and Talon's HeelFaceTurn, depending on one's point of view. Its complicated.]] Later, most of the Gargoyle clones join them.

* The cast of ''ReadOrDie'' becomes this by the end of the series: the Paper Sisters, Yomiko, Nancy and Junior. With Nenene as the "normal" one. (Don't ever call her that.)

* The Cybran Nation of ''{{Supreme Commander}}'' began as this, complete with the mad scientist/genius (Dr. Gustaf Brackman) responsible for creating them as their father figure - and said father figure is still alive and kicking one thousand years later. Although really now, they're more of a Obvious Project Refugee Country now.

* The gang of runaway robots in ''[=~A.I.: Artificial Intelligence~=]''.

* The Gravity Children of AirGear fit this trope nicely. Particularly [[spoiler: the four "sisters" that live with Ikki when the story begins]]

* One ''QuackPack'' episode has a regular ordinary family, a dad, wife, and a girl. And they're secretly armed robots hiding from the military.

* The Teen Titans from 1996 were half-human, half-alien sleeper agents that instead banded together to fight the aliens. They then stayed together, with a deaged Atom as their mentor. Other DCU characters would join them over the course of the series.