Line #9 PlayingWith/LegoGenetics


1	'''Basic Trope''': Changing a few chemicals in DNA give fantastic abilities.
2	* '''Straight''': Sarah Miller has wings because scientists put bird genes in her.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Sarah has wings and a beak because she was injected with bird blood.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Sarah has altered bone marrow DNA and blood cells. It gives her a host of benefits such as being very disease resistant due to the abundance of white blood cells, quicker recovery from blood loss, and fantastic endurance.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** Sarah is actually an alien who can easily take on other species' attributes through DNA injection.
7	** The Genetic Engineering used on Sarah is highly advanced.
8	** Blind luck had the few changes cascade into a fantastic result.
9	* '''Inverted''': In the future, a person's DNA has to be modified to make them 'normal'.
10	* '''Subverted''': A winged person is involved with a genetic engineering plot, but they got their wings from magic.
11	* '''Double Subverted''': Said magic is just a magical way to alter DNA.
12	* '''Parodied''': Sarah dissected a radioactive bird and got wings!
13	* '''Zig Zagged''': Sarah and everyone else in the story engage in a MultipleChoicePast explanation of her abilities.
14	** Sarah's wings involved genetic modification but were actually [[RequiredSecondaryPowers needed mostly so her body didn't reject them]] and were made later induced and and supported the growth. The scientists expected if she could have children they would just have unusual immune reactions but surprisingly her daughter Alice came out with wings as a natal environment - these relied upon the genes to set the shape which resulted in a different [[ShownTheirWork more accurate wing for the source bird]]. Later DNA from shapeshifting aliens allows for 'replaying' later modified gene sequences to get a result similar to what it would be if they were born with them. The shapeshifter DNA based gene modifications make the prior techniques obsolete - unless they want to integrate something that DNA cannot produce.
15	* '''Averted''': Genetics are never brought up concerning a character's strange abilities.
16	* '''Enforced''':
17	** [[ExecutiveMeddling Meddling Executives]] don't think the audience could understand proper genetics, and so demand that when genetic engineering occurs, it has to be simple and Lego-style.
18	** Or the writers don't understand proper genetics and legitimately believe they work like that.
19	* '''Lampshaded''': "Really? Instant wings, just add bird DNA? That's how genetics work now?"
20	* '''Invoked''': Alice was designed from the ground up as a platform to shift to reconfigure her body to match what it would be if a mod was in place since birth.
21	* '''Exploited''': The resident MadScientist takes advantage of the ease with which genetic traits evidently can be transferred by genetically engineering MixAndMatchCritters to do his bidding.
22	* '''Defied''': "No, no, no, you can't just magically acquire wings by squirting bird DNA around. Also, ew."
23	* '''Discussed''': "Where'd I get my wings? Well, from bird DNA of course!"
24	* '''Conversed''': "Are we really expected to believe there's suddenly exactly one 'wing gene' in birds that you can just stick in a person with no horribly deformed consequences?"
25	* '''Deconstructed''': Genetic splicing experiments rarely creates anything viable, and when it does, the results are horribly twisted abominations.
26	* '''Reconstructed''': Sarah is one of the only subjects of DNA experimentation to form correctly, and the experimenters value her very highly.
27	* '''Implied''': Sarah has wings, and is referred to as a hybrid, but no one ever directly says the words "DNA" or "genetic engineering".
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