History Main / LaserGuidedTykebomb

* The Franchise/{{Terminator}}, time-travelling tykebomb.

* All of the Vessels in ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'', are this, created as [[EmptyShell hollow shells]] with no mind, will, nor voice in order to be able to contain an infection that preyed on dreams. [[spoiler: They include the player character, the titular Hollow Knight, and the Lost Kin. All are children of the Pale King, thrown into the Abyss to make them Vessels- a process that claimed the lives of most of them. The Hollow Knight was supposed to be the perfectly empty 'Pure Vessel', but somehow he gained an idea that made him not completely hollow (the game implies it's a familial connection to either the Pale King or the player character), giving the infection a foothold and leading to the situation at the start of the game.]]

* Leeloo from ''Film/TheFifthElement'' is another example of LGT targetting the BigBad.

** The Scorpion is a petty crook who got a regrettable upgrade into a powered but ultimately self-serving assassin. and ** The Spider-Slayer robots are specialized mindless arachnicides built by Spencer Smythe and his son Alistair.

* The Scorpion and the Spider-Slayer robots in the animated ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' series as well as the comics, the former as a petty crook who got a regrettable upgrade into a powered but ultimately self-serving assassin and the latter as specialised mindless arachnicides.
* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse has the Sentinels, a series of robots built for the sole purpose of hunting mutants.

** In ''Comicbook/{{AXIS}}'', [[spoiler:Inverted Tony Stark]] unleashes new Sentinels specifically designed to neutralize [[spoiler:his fellow heroes.]]
* Marvel also has Drax the Destroyer, created for the sole purpose of killing [[OmnicidalManiac Thanos]]. [[spoiler:He succeeds. Thanos [[DeathSeeker doesn't seem to mind]].]]
* Inertia/Thaddeus Thawne II counts as this (as well as an EvilTwin) in ''ComicBook/{{Impulse}}''. Cloned from the eponymous protagonist Bart Allen by the evil Thawne family, he was specifically created to take down the Allens (the Thawnes' [[FeudingFamilies rivals]]) and more specifically Bart. [[spoiler:Inertia later realizes that he will never earn the Thawnes' approval or be loved by anyone and (understandably) gets ''very mad''. He still wants to and later succeeds to kill Bart, though.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' had the hero being followed by a young kid with no head. The hero (and the future) is so off the wall nobody is too surprised by the lack of head. The hero throws the kid out a window, wherein he explodes. Turns out it was literally a laser guided tyke bomb, created by one of his many, many enemies.
* The [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage original incarnation]] of the Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles were originally the "good guys" version of this trope: Splinter had trained them from birth (or rather, from the moment they had been mutated) in order to kill the Shredder.
* A very unusual kind of [=LGT=] was used in ''Jabba the Hutt: The Art of the Deal''. The first issue had the Hutt travel to a meeting with another crime lord, Gaar Suppoon, to trade valuable resources. After a small ceremony in honor of Jabba, the negotiations started off with Suppoon insulting the Hutt for deigning to threaten him with a bomb. Just in case the threat had been real, he had the Empire send one of their best explosives experts, Kosh Kurp, to search the place, and he turned up nothing. The bartering then began in earnest, with each gangster double-crossing and cheating the other, until Suppoon, having been outmaneuvered by Jabba, lost his temper and attempted to have the Hutt killed. Jabba warned him that if he did not regain his temper, he would detonate his bomb. Suppoon, unimpressed, told Jabba to do so, at which point the Hutt called him "Sonopo Bomoor". After a [[BeatPanel beat]], Kosh Kurp turned to Suppoon and asked if he really was ''the'' Sonopo Bomoor, the one who [[DoomedHometown razed the city of Bonaka Nueno on Intuci]], [[YouKilledMyFather and encouraged his blood crazed minions to slaughter Kurp's family]] [[ForcedToWatch as he, a mere child, watched]]. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge The whole situation does not end well for Suppoon.]]
* In ''Comicbook/TheBoys'', [[spoiler:Black Noir, a Homelander clone who is slightly more powerful thanks to refined SuperSerum]], was created specifically to kill Homelander if he went rogue. Problems arose when Homelander ''didn't'' go rogue. [[spoiler:Black Noir]] wanted to fulfill his purpose [[spoiler:so he gaslit Homelander by committing atrocities in Homelander's costume (like raping Butcher's wife or eating children) and sending the photos to Homelander,]] hoping to drive him insane. [[spoiler:It worked, and Homelander went full ThenLetMeBeEvil.]]

* The MarvelUniverse has the Sentinels, a series of robots built for the sole purpose of hunting mutants.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', [[spoiler: [[CelibateHero Solid Snake]] is one. His [[TheVirus modified FOXDIE virus]] planted by [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Naomi Hunter]] was made to kill EVA, Ocelot and Big Boss by merely contacting them, and it would have lost control if it wasn't for Snake's rapid aging. This is also the exact reason why he DidNotGetTheGirl, being a '''Walking FOXDIE''' makes you a CartwrightCurse, after all.]]

Subtrope of {{Tykebomb}}.

** The bad guys constructed a robot version of Afro able to mimic all of his abilities specifically to kill him

* In ''Comicbook/TheBoys'', [[spoiler:Black Noir, a Homelander clone who is slightly more powerful thanks to refined SuperSerum]], was created specifically to kill Homelander if he went rogue. Problems arose when Homelander ''didn't'' go rogue. [[spoiler:Black Noir]] wanted to fulfill his purpose [[spoiler:so he gaslit Homelander by committing atrocities in Homelander's costume (like raping Butcher's wife) and sending the photos to Homelander, hoping to drive him insane. It worked.]]

* ''[[Literature/{{Dragaera}} Vlad Taltos]]'' is slowly being revealed as being trained to be one, including through the form of [[spoiler:his previous reincarnations]], for and unknown purpose. Possible guesses including [[spoiler:killing Verra, since he's now in possession of "Godslayer", predicted to be her downfall]] (as of ''Issola''), and [[spoiler:destroying the Cycle that controls Dragaeran society]]. The second one has some evidence towards having already started, according to [[spoiler:Verra herself]] (in ''Vallista'').

'''Iczer-2:''' Your death. I was created for one purpose alone - ''kill Iczer-1''. Ready to die?

%%* Iczer-2 in ''[[Anime/{{Iczer}} Iczer -1]]''.

* Schrodinger from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', [[spoiler:who was created for the sole purpose of poisoning Alucard.]]
* Hakaider, ''Series/{{Kikaider}}'''s EvilCounterpart. This backfires when Hakaider repeatedly [[NotWorthKilling spares Kikaider]], [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou even attacking other]] [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the week]], so that he could [[BloodKnight eventually fight -- and defeat -- Kikaider at his strongest]], bringing the most meaning to his (Hakaider's) existence.

* The [[CloneArmy Clone Troopers]] of ''Franchise/StarWars'' were designed as the perfect weapons to kill the Jedi. The Clone Wars conflict was deliberately arranged to provide an excuse to allow the clones to ingratiate themselves with the Jedi and grant them all the battle experience they could ever need in preparation. The Jedi and clones themselves were unaware of any of this, but the clones were implanted with biochips at birth that programmed them to turn on their Jedi allies the moment that they heard [[BigBad Chancellor Palpatine]] say the now-infamous phrase [[TriggerPhrase "Execute Order 66"]].

* The [[CloneArmy Clone Troopers]] of ''Franchise/StarWars'' were designed as the perfect weapons to kill the Jedi. The Clone Wars conflict was deliberately arranged to provide an excuse to allow the clones to ingratiate themselves with the Jedi and grant them all the battle experience they could ever need in preparation. The Jedi and clones themselves were unaware of any of this, but the clones were implanted with biochips at birth that programmed them to turn on their Jedi allies the moment that they heard [[BigBad Chancellor Palpatine]] say the now-infamous phrase [[TriggerPhrase Execute Order 66]].

* The [[CloneArmy Clone Troopers]] of ''Franchise/StarWars'' were designed as the perfect weapons to kill the Jedi. The Clone Wars conflict was deliberately arranged to provide an excuse to allow the clones to ingratiate themselves with the Jedi and grant them all the battle experience they could ever need in preparation. The Jedi and clones themselves were unaware of any of this, but the clones were implanted with biochips at birth that programmed them to turn on their Jedi allies the moment that they heard [[BigBad Chancellor Palpatine]] say the words [[TriggerPhrase Executive Order 66]].

* The Scorpion and the Spider-Slayer robots in the animated ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' series as well as the comics, the former as a petty crook who got a regrettable upgrade into a powered but ultimately sel-serving assassin and the latter as specialised mindless arachnicides.

* In the second season of ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperheroes'', ComicBook/{{Superman}} X is a heroic version whose sole purpose is to defeat [[BigBad Imperiex]].

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' had Project 87, which was started by F.O.W.L. to defeat Scrooge once and for all by [[spoiler:creating an OppositeSexClone of him known as April so they could obtain a powerful magical artifact known as the Papyrus of Binding that could only be found by his direct descendant.]] The project would be put on hold when [[spoiler:Mrs. Beakley (back during her days as Agent 22) found the infant April during a raid on a F.O.W.L. base and -not knowing her exact purpose- decided to raise her as her own granddaughter so she wouldn't be used for evil, giving her the name [[TomatoInTheMirror Webby Vanderquack]].]]