History Main / TestedOnHumans

* ''Literature/KingSolomonsMines'' by HRiderHaggard. The king of the Kukuana people asks Allan Quartermain to show the effects of his rifle upon his assembled warriors. Quatermain replies by telling the king he would be glad to do so if the king volunteers to be the subject of the experiment. At which point it is decided to use an ox instead.

* This was done many times in the ''[[FallOut Fallout]]'' [[AlternateUniverse Universe]], by the United States. In one example, Nuka-Cola Quantum taste tests killed most of the testers. However, the most known example is probably the [[ViralTransformation Forced Evolutionary Virus]] (intended to create SuperSoldiers for the war against China), who's test on Humans resulted in [[BodyHorror terrible mutations]] and many many deaths, often because it caused participants to become so stupid, many [[TooDumbToLive died because they forgot to keep breathing]]. The final result is essentially an extremely hostile big green man with the intelligence of your stereotypical caveman.

* In ''GunslingerGirl'' after Raballo dies, Claes becomes unsuited for field work, so she's relegated to being the test bed for each new iteration of cyborg technology.

* ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Judge Doom tests The Dip on a poor, innocent Toon shoe.

* ''{{District 9}}''. An off-hand comment made by the CorruptCorporateExecutive is that the protagonist is the first person to survive being incorporated with alien DNA. A more direct example (though it's a case of Tested On Aliens) is when one of the 'prawns' (with a target on his chest) is herded in front of a weapon, and the protagonist is forced (by having his arm shocked with a taser) to squeeze the trigger.

* The basic idea behind the Mads' experiments on Joel and Mike in ''{{MST3K}}''. Find the perfect movie to crack the test subject's resistance, then release the movie on an unwitting populace.

* In OutboundFlight, the Vagaari commander gets his hands on the battle droids stowed away in Car'das's stolen shuttle. Droids of any kind are completely new to this sector of space. One of the first things he does is test their firepower on Geroon slaves.

* Occurs in [[CommandAndConquer Red Alert 3: Uprising]], done by the ''Allies'', of all people, on Soviet Prisoners. The sheer act is enough to push Dasha's {{Berserk Button}}, resulting with her calling up what few Kirovs the Soviets have left.
** To be fair, the group committing the act was not the Allied military but the [[MegaCorp FutureTech Corporation]] who also worked as a {{Private Military Contractor}} for the Allies in the occupied Soviet Union. It is implied the Allies themselves did not know of [=FutureTech=]'s experiments.
* This was done many times in the ''[[FallOut Fallout]]'' [[AlternateUniverse Universe]], by the United States. In one example, Nuka-Cola Quantum taste tests killed most of the testers. However, the most known example is probably the [[ViralTransformation Forced Evolutionary Virus]] (intended to create [[SuperSoldiers Super Soldiers]] for the war against China), who's test on Humans resulted in [[BodyHorror terrible mutations]] and many many deaths, often because it caused participants to become so stupid, many [[TooDumbToLive died because they forgot to keep breathing]]. The final result is essentially an extremely hostile big green man with the intelligence of your stereotypical caveman.

* In ''TheSims 2'', this is implied to be what Loki and Circe Beaker are doing with Nervous Subject in Strangetown. The house they have has a lab filled with science-y looking things (actually aspiration rewards) and Nervous lives in a basement room under the lab.

* In ''DeathNote'', L uses a death row prisoner to "test" and locate Kira. Kira, obviously, has to use humans to test the capabilities of the Death Note.

Definitely a subtrope of KickTheDog. See also InnocentBystander. ProfessorGuineaPig is when the thing being tested isn't a weapon, and the Mad Scientist uses it on his or herself. GuineaPigFamily is when the Mad Scientist uses his family.

** ''Death ray, fiddlesticks! Why, it doesn't even slow them up.''

* ''FlashGordon Conquers [[strike:A Miniscule Percentage of]] the Universe''. Emperor Ming tests his Death Dust on some prisoners to see if it will only kill those with the will to oppose him. Those of 'lesser intelligence' survive.

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* One reason for the US dropping the nuke on Nagasaki was this.
** No. The Nagasaki bomb was a Plutonium implosion-type bomb, whose design had been tested in July 1945 with the Trinity device in New Mexico. They ''knew'' the Nagasaki bomb would work. Testing it was definitely ''not'' a reason for dropping it.

* The outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II, and the disregard for human rights of prisoners kept in concentration camps allowed Japanese and German scientists to conduct experiments otherwise prohibited. Very little conclusions of scientific value were achieved and they were largely an excuse to commit torture. Though some of the work did confirm and invalidate numerous theories about the workings of the human body e.g. human metabolic rates, survival capacity in extreme conditions and when wounded, the stopping power/lethality of various weapons and the lethality and most contagious means of transmission of diseases.

* ''MontyPython''. The Funniest Joke in the World was tested on a low-level military grunt.

* ''DoctorWho'': Davros tests his multiverse-destroying, matter-vaporizer gun on people collected from the streets of London. (The Daleks don't even have to hit anything, just turn it on and bye-bye multiverse)

* ''TheProfessionals''. In "Killer With A Long Arm" the ColdSniper guns down someone on a golf course as practise for the assassination he'd been hired for.

* In ''StreetSharks', [[MadScientist Dr. Paradigm]] figures out that using his [[PlayingWithSyringes gene-slamming technique]] on humans would let him eliminate some steps, so he he tests it on the first person available - [[TooDumbToLive Dr. Bolton]]. He also tests it on Bolton's sons and a few other people, before figuring out that gene-slammed humans can't be controlled.

* ''King Solomon's Mines'' by [=~H. Rider Haggard~=]. The king of the Kukuana people asks Allen Quartermain to show the effects of his rifle upon his assembled warriors. Allen replies by telling the king he would be glad to do so if the king volunteers to be the subject of the experiment. At which point it is decided to use an ox instead.

** The outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese and World Wars war enabled Japanese and German scientists to conduct experiments otherwise prohibited in peacetime before and since. Though unpleasant, their work has advanced medical knowledge by confirming and invalidating numerous theories about the workings of the human body e.g. human metabolic rates, survival capacity in extreme conditions and when wounded, the stopping power/lethality of various weapons and the lethality and best means of transmission of diseases.
*** Unit 731 of the IJA is the best known example of these wartime research units, having run through an unknown number (somewhere in the thousands) of live human specimens of Chinese and occasionally Caucasian origin for use in the aforementioned research, for which vivisection without application of anaesthetic was advocated as it produced the most accurate results. Field tests of disease delivery methods and resultant effects had terminal effects on some 200k to 600k of Chinese civilians in urban areas designated for biological research in China.

* Joseph Mengele, a real case of a MadDoctor.

*** Unit 731 of the IJA is the best known example of these wartime research units, having run through an unknown number (somewhere in the thousands) of live homo-sapien specimens of chinese and occasionally caucasion origin for use in the aformentioned research, for which vivisection without application of anaesthetic was advocated as it produced the most accurate results. Field tests of disease delivery methods and resultant effects had terminal effects on some 200k to 600k of Chinese civilians in urban areas designated for biological research in China.

* ''GunslingerGirl''. Cyborg girl Claes kills two subway hoodlums as part of her training. When her handler dies she becomes useless for field work, so she's used for brutal experiments to determine the limits of her cyborg body.

** To be fair, the group committing the act was not the Allied military but the [[MegaCorp FutureTech Corporation]] who also worked as a {{Private Military Contractor}} for the Allies in the occupied Soviet Union. It is implied the Allies themselves did not know of FutureTech's experiments.

*** It should be notes that a ''huge'' part of their “research” has not benefited scientific advance one bit, but merely satisfied the [[strike:scientists']] [[CompleteMonster torturers]]' sadist urges.

* One possible reason for the US dropping the nuke on Nagasaki was this.

* A number of [[ConspiracyTheorist conspiracy theorists]] consider that dropping a nuke on Nagasaki's was this for the U.S.

* Subverted in [[http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Rash/misc/addams.htm this]] Charles Addams cartoon.

* ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Judge Doom tests The Dip on a poor, innocent toon shoe.