History PlayingWith / TheyWouldCutYouUp

* '''Implied''': [[DarkActionGirl Alice]] slaughters MenInBlack casually and says that she knows what they want to do her with a tone of utter disgust. [[NonActionGuy Bob]] wants to find out but Alice refuses to answer and she refuses to leave even a single agent anything but definitively dead. This or a SuperBreedingProgram are the most common fan guesses.

** Alice is a career labrat, her money comes from taking bribes from drug companies[=/=]the government so they can do human testing on her. Her most recent round of tests was a SuperSerum or enhancment surgery.

** "Put that scalpel down, YouFool. Put her in the MRI, that's what it's there for; so we don't ''have'' to chop anyone open."

* '''Reconstructed''': The government sending agents to experiment on Alice is already {{dystopia}}n, and ''[[PayEvilUntoEvil deserves]]'' their fate.
** After an ...exhaustive period of dissections and biopsy, the scientists realise this, and start PlayingWithSyringes instead.

** See Exaggerated.

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': ???

'''Basic Trope''': People with interesting powers are captured and experimented on.

* '''Justified''': There's a VisionaryVillain who wants to make some {{Super Soldier}}s.

* '''Inverted''': Alice willingly volunteers for tests, but the government refuses, saying she's more useful as a superhero than as a labrat.

* '''Parodied''': Alice stays "captured" only long enough to demonstrate that her powers make her immune to the testing methods.

* '''Deconstructed''': The attempts of the government agents to experiment on Alice are her StartOfDarkness. She butchers the agents, and swears to bring down the government they represent, killing anyone who stands in her way.
** The source of Alice's power is external to her, such as a magical curse, and no matter how many powered people the government vivisects, the scientists will never be able to duplicate it.
* '''Reconstructed''': The government sending agents to experiment on Alice is already {{dystopia}}n, and ''[[PayEvilUntoEvil deserves]]'' their fate.

* '''Defied''': Upon gaining her super powers, one of the first things Alice does is go straight up to the president and inform him, in no uncertain terms, that if any government agents try to dissect her, she will kill them... and him.

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'''Basic Trope''': People with interesting powers are captured and experiment on.

* Alice is a career labrat, her money comes from taking bribes from drug companies[=/=]the government so they can do human testing on her. Her most recent round of tests was a SuperSerum or enhancment surgery.

* Alice is a career labrat, her money comes from taking bribes from drug companies[=/=]the government so they can do human testing on her. Her most recent round was a SuperSoldierSerum.

* '''Inverted''': Alice willingly volunteers for tests, but the government refuses, saying she's more useful as a superhero than as a labrat.

** "Put that scalpel down, YouFool. Put her in the MRI, that's what it's there for. So we don't ''have'' to hurt anyone."

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** The Agents sent to research Alice specifically treat her with kid gloves because she can't be replaced. They might keep her locked up, but anything invasive is out of the question, as it risks damaging the test subject.

* '''Reconstructed''': The government sending agents to experiment on Alice is already {{dystopia}}n, and ''deserves'' their fate.

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* '''Justified''': There's a VisionaryVillain who wants a to make some {{Super Soldier}}s.

* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Reconstructed''': The government sending agents to experiment on Alice is already {{dystopia}}n, and ''deserve'' their fate.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': "Trying to make a labrat out of a superhero?"

* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???