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Author: kjnoren

Jan 3rd 2014 at 12:58:34 PM

Stab at a revised description:

A character who has the escape from a laboratory as an important part of their story or backstory. He or she might have been conceived there, been raised there, or spent a significant part of their life there. The character might have served in the lab as an interesting specimen, an object of study, a subject of experimentation, or the ultimate goal of the lab.

Depending on how the lab functions and its purpose, a character with this kind of background is likely to have trouble connecting or relating to other people, or seriously warped morals, especially if they were raised in the lab since childhood.

A common story for a PhlebotinumRebel. If a group of characters escape together, they may form a SecretProjectRefugeeFamily. See also PlayingWithSyringes and MadScientistLaboratory.

Indexes: MakeMyIndexLive, MedicalHorror

ComicBook:

* ComicBook/LutherArkwright: In the backstory in ''The Adventures of Luther Arkwright'', we are told how Luther was abducted from the maternity ward right after being born, and then raised and nursed by machines. He ends up quite amoral.
--> From infancy to adolescence, no family, no comforts, no natural emotive response patterns. Feelings subliminated. Reinforced by therapy and drugs. His name Alph. Rigorous martial training, reparation for the role planed for him.

Literature:

* Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath: Jame is a rare fantasy example. After she ran away from her (mad) father as a child, she was picked up by the BigBad (also her uncle) and brought to his castle in ''Perimal Darkling'', spending several years there, and taught the soul-ripping dance of her mother, so she could take her mother's place later on.
* In ''This Alien Shore'' by Creator/CSFriedman, the main character jamisia escapes from the lab where she was raised from age six with the help of her tutor, when the lab is invaded by a rival corporation. She spends the rest of the novel on the run from the invaders. The goal of the lab was to make Jamisia the first one able to pilot FTL crafts not from the Outspace Guild.