History Main / ArtificialHybrid

* In ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' "temping" technology allows people to give themselves animal traits on a temporary basis, while the Transient subculture use similar technology to gradually transform themselves into TheGreys. Unfortunately the alien physiology doesn't mesh particularly well with human and no Transient has ever completed the change, so most wind up as some chimera stuck between the two species.

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* The warrioresses in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' are created in this way. They are half human and half a yoma. And they are trained to kill pure yoma because [[ToServeMan they eat human guts]].

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* In ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'', Humans could become Atavus hybrids by being placed in a regeneration chamber with an Atavus. Later, this was refined into a serum that could be injected into a human to transform them. Renee tries to use this process to save Todd, intending on reversing it later, but it fails and he dies.

* ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'': The new Moon Maid. She was originally Glenna Ermine, the daughter of villain Poise Ermine. She won second place in a look-alike contest for the original, long deceased Moon Maid, and subsequently was kidnapped, had the original Moon Maid's DNA superimposed over her own, had facial surgery, and was given the original Moon Maid's memories. The scientists involved were using her as part of a plot to steal Diet Smith's Space Coupe.

* In ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'', Humans could become Atavus hybrids by being placed in a regeneration chamber with an Atavus. Renee tries to use this process to save Todd, intending on reversing it later, but it fails and he dies.

* ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'' had a process where humans became hybrids by infusing Atavus [=DNA=] into them. Renee tries it on her boyfriend when he’s mortally wounded, hoping it will help him heal, after which they’d reverse the process. Unfortunately, his body can’t handle it and he dies.

* ''{{Series/EarthFinalConflict}}'' had a process where humans became hybrids by infusing Atavus [=DNA=] into them. Renee tries it on her boyfriend when he’s mortally wounded, hoping it will help him heal, after which they’d reverse the process. Unfortunately, his body can’t handle it and he does.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'', [[Film/MonsterVerse Vivienne Graham]] is transformed into a human-Ghidorah {{Kaiju}} "chimera" inside San's severed head, with [[TwoBeingsOneBody two brains to house]] [[MultipleHeadCase both their minds]].

* In the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' fanfiction ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/ Abraxas]]'', Vivienne Graham is transformed into a human-Ghidorah {{Kaiju}} "chimera" inside San's severed head, with [[TwoBeingsOneBody two brains to house]] [[MultipleHeadCase both their minds]].

* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': [[spoiler:Ryuko Matoi]] was born human, but [[spoiler:Ragyo]]'s experiment turned [[spoiler:her]] into a human/Life Fiber hybrid.

* Creator/NnediOkorafor's ''Literature/{{Binti}}'': The StarfishAlien Meduse genetically engineer some of their traits into the title character so she can communicate with them [[spoiler:(including through their HiveMind)]]. This gives her tentacular AlienHair and some of the Meduse's emotions, the latter of which cause her some difficulty since they're much more prone to anger than she.
* The first mendrites in the German SF series ''Literature/{{Maddrax}}'' were still created artificially, hybrids of humans and [[FishPeople hydrites]]. The mendrites seen later in the plot have been naturally born.

* At the end of the first season of ''Series/Babylon5'', Minbari Ambassador Delenn uses a mysterious biotechnological device to enter a cocoon. At the beginning of the next season, she emerges from it to reveal that she's turned herself into a Minbari/Human hybrid, to be a living bridge between the species.
* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', the fourth season has Adam. He is a mix of humans, machines and demons, and was assembled in an underground secret lab.
** ''Series/{{Angel}}'' later shows Cordelia. She magically becomes a half-demon. As a result, she has powerful, magical powers, unlike the naturally born half-demons, but no [[SuperStrength super strength]].

* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': [[spoiler:Ryuko Matoi]] was born a human, but [[spoiler:Ragyo]]'s experiment turned [[spoiler:her]] into a human/Life Fiber hybrid.