History Main / SecretProjectRefugeeFamily

* The Durona sisters in LoisMcMasterBujold ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' are ''clones'' of their progenitor Lilly Durona, and are escapees from one of Jackson's Whole robber barons.
** The same series also has Terrance Cee, whose history is a pointed example of why these often don't work in real life (ie, they make you easier to find).

* For another NewWorldOfDarkness example, the recently-announced ''Deviant'' will deal with people who were changed by scientific experiments (or, in some cases, occult rituals) who are on the run from the people who made them, trying to gather the power to strike back.

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

* The heroes of the ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' franchise tend to collect artificially created or illegally-experimented-on people and adopt them into one of several overlapping "families". These include roughly half of the "Numbers" combat cyborgs in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS''; Fate and Erio are both from the same cloning project; Signum, Shamal, Vita, and Zafira were all programmed murder machines until recently; Subaru and Ginga are precursors to the aforementioned Numbers; Agito only remembers back to her time spent in an unethical lab, [[TheyWouldCutYouUp being tested to death;]] and Vivio is a clone bioweapon. So far, that's no fewer than 18 project refugees all living in one big extended family.

* The heroes of the ''Franchise/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' franchise tend to collect artificially created or illegally-experimented-on people and adopt them into one of several overlapping "families". These include roughly half of the "Numbers" combat cyborgs in ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Nanoha StrikerS]]''; Fate and Erio are both from the same cloning project; Signum, Shamal, Vita, and Zafira were all programmed murder machines until recently; Subaru and Ginga are precursors to the aforementioned Numbers; Agito only remembers back to her time spent in an unethical lab, [[TheyWouldCutYouUp being tested to death;]] and Vivio is a clone bioweapon. So far, that's no fewer than 18 project refugees all living in one big extended family.
* From Anime/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.

* Part of the premise of ''KyouranKazokuNikki''. A group of seven (later eight) people, most of them harboring the DNA of a creature that promised to destroy the world and [[DysfunctionJunction all of them]] from a [[DarkAndTroubledPast dark past]], live together under "Operation Cozy Family" to prevent the world from blowing up. Family members include a robot, a {{catgirl}}, a lion, a jellyfish and [[TokenMiniMoe a girl with demon blood]].

* The teens of ProjectARMS end up as one as they are being hunted by Egrgori. Playing this trope even ''more'' straight, they all turn out to be specially bred to have ARMS implanted in them, [[RetCon directly going against the already established backstory]].
* The Gravity Children of Manga/AirGear fit this trope nicely. Particularly [[spoiler: the four "sisters" that live with Ikki when the story begins]]

* Although some still have some family left, most [[OnePiece Straw hats]] are orphans, and they consider the crew their family.

** Byakuren, rejected by humankind, gather quite a band of {{Youkai}} followers that look up at her.

* The heroes of the ''Franchise/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' franchise tend to collect artificially created or experimented-on people and adopt them into one of several overlapping "families". These include roughly half of the "Numbers" combat cyborgs in ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Nanoha StrikerS]]''; Fate and Erio are both from the same cloning project; Signum, Shamal, Vita, and Zafira were all programmed murder machines until recently; Subaru and Ginga are precursors to the aforementioned Numbers; Agito only remembers back to her time spent in an unethical lab, [[TheyWouldCutYouUp being tested to death;]]and Vivio is a clone bioweapon. So far, that's no fewer than 18 project refugees all living in one big extended family.

* The Numbers in ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Nanoha StrikerS]]''.
** And to a lesser extent, the Knights.
** Fate and Erio are both from the same project. Signum, Shamal, Vita, and Zafira were all programmed murder machines until recently. Subaru and Ginga are precursors to the aforementioned Numbers. Agito only remembers back to her time spent in an unethical lab, [[TheyWouldCutYouUp being tested to death.]] Vivio is a clone bioweapon.
*** So far, I count no less than 18 project refugees all living in one big military family.

** Fate and Erio are both from the same project. Signum, Shamal, Vita, and Zafira were all programmed murder machines until recently. Subaru and Ginga are precursors to the aforementioned Numbers. Agito only remembers back to her time spent in an unethical lab, [[TheyWouldCutYouUp being tested to death.]] Vivio is a clone bioweapon. Lutecia may also apply.

* Pretty much the whole premise of ''FamilyProject''.

* This fits Team K' in the ''VideoGame/KingOfFighters'' games fairly well. Well, after they switch Whip out for Kula, anyways.

* This is the backstory for Kadaj and his gang in ''AdventChildren''.

* Holland's crew in the EurekaSeven movie.

* The MarvelUniverse's ''{{ComicBook/Livewires}}'' and TheDCU's ''LabRats.''
* ''{{Gen 13}}''. [[GeodesicCast Mirrored by]] [[ThePsychoRangers DV8]] and the Mongolian Barbeque Horde.
* The Morlocks from ComicBook/{{X-Men}}.

* ''{{Nocturnals}}''. Some are refugees from secret projects. Others are supernatural entities. All of them have nowhere else to go.

* ''InfinityInc'' had recurring antagonists Helix; an evil geneticist had mutated them in the womb, kidnapped them at birth, and then raised them in isolation. When he died, they took stock of their options and decided on crime.

* Connor, Risa and Lev in Neal Shusterman's ''{{Unwind}}'', though what they are running away from is not a secret. They are running away from being "unwound", or having every body part taken away from them.

* The clone commandos who desert in the ''[[RepublicCommandoSeries Republic Commando]]'' series count as this, though the [[StarWars Grand Army]] is far from secret by that time.

* It's consciously averted in the first season of ''DarkAngel'', as the escaping X-5's decide to split up to avoid capture. However, Max acquires one of these in the second season with Alec and Joshua and later a whole city of transgenics.
** DarkAngel also played it straight, with a squad of younger transgenics who stayed together (giving Max a chance to be MamaBear).

* Kyle and Jessi from ''{{Kyle XY}}'', to some extent. Partially subverted in that they had a normal, human family as well, and probably didn't see each other in quite such a brother/sister way in the end...
* In later seasons of ''ThePretender'', Jarod was joined at various points by a young fellow escapee and his own father, a former Centre employee.

* This fits Team K' in the ''KingOfFighters'' games fairly well. Well, after they switch Whip out for Kula, anyways.

* Strega from ''{{Persona 3}}'': They aren't actually artificial humans, but they were the only survivors of a secret project to create Persona-summoners out of humans who weren't born with the talent..... too bad they ended up with something a bit closer to Team Rocket instead.

* The Renegades in ''ElfBlood'' somewhat qualify, with Ixnay acting as a kind of den mother. Only TKO and JN were ever experimented upon, however, and the only real family within the group are the Whittle sisters.

* Double Subversion: ''BionicSix''. They were a blended family brought together when the parents adopted an Asian son and a black son. Then they were turned bionic to save their lives, after which point they were pressed into service for the government. So they were willing, given that they owed the government their lives, [[JumpedAtTheCall and the teen members got a kick out of being superheroes]].
* The animals from ''IAmNotAnAnimal''.

* ''JusticeLeague'' features two approximate examples. SelfDemonstrating/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.

* In ''StaticShock,'' She-Bang is a test tube baby engineered to have super powers, and her "parents" are actually the [[MotherlyScientist motherly and fatherly scientists]] who liberated her from her makers so she wouldn't be used as a weapon.

* The main characters in James Patterson's ''MaximumRide'' series.

* The Schiff in ''BloodPlus''.

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.]]

* A particularly unusual (and nonhuman) example: ''{{We3}}''.

A BreakfastClub and more often than not a FamilyOfChoice, expect one to be [[PromotionToParent (self)-promoted to the role of parent]]. Commonly the SecretProjectRefugeeFamily will become {{Phlebotinum Rebel}}s as they either try to elude or take revenge on their creators... and [[PsychoPrototype elder siblings]]. Or hey, they're just one EvilOverlord recruitment away from becoming a QuirkyMinibossSquad. Not to be confused with GuineaPigFamily.

A BreakfastClub, expect one to be [[PromotionToParent (self)-promoted to the role of parent]]. Commonly the SecretProjectRefugeeFamily will become {{Phlebotinum Rebel}}s as they either try to elude or take revenge on their creators... and [[PsychoPrototype elder siblings]]. Or hey, they're just one EvilOverlord recruitment away from becoming a QuirkyMinibossSquad. Not to be confused with GuineaPigFamily.

** Albeit Brackman has been reduced to a brain + spinal column + cybernetic enhancements inside a vat of unknown liquid. He can only communicate with others through a life-sized 3D hologram of himself, though this troper heard something like the Cybran commander being Brackman's clone.

* The gang of runaway robots in ''AIArtificialIntelligence''.
* The three precogs at the end of ''MinorityReport''.

* A case could be made for the surviving members of ''TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', in the film at least.

* Cloud, Seraph and Harridan initally appeared as this in ''TheDefenders''; being on the run from the Secret Empire. Cloud would later join the Defenders.

* John Byrne's ''NextMen'' comic.