History Main / PsychoPrototype

** The NT-D system arguably qualifies for this as well - its full name is the Newtype Destroyer system, and will forcibly activate in the presence of Newtype brainwave activity. The main problem? Well, first off, a pilot lacking sufficient mental fortitude will end up getting overwhelmed by the system and pretty much end up as a WetwareCpu for the five minutes the system is active. There's also the fact that the system requires a large psychoframe to be integrated into the machine itself. While it does allow the pilot to control the machine by thought alone, it comes with the side effect of both amplifying the pilot's emotions as well as making them extremely hypersensetive. Case in point, activation of NT-D made Riddhe even more unstable than he already was, and something as simple as his Beam Magnum accidentally bumping the arm of his MS was enough to make him completely lose it.

* ''VideoGame/SilhouetteMirage'' has [[spoiler:the Guardian Angels, who are all prototypes of Shyna who were discarded and left to die when she was chosen to be the Messenger of Justice/Destruction until Har made them his bodyguards.]]

* Alpha on ''{{Series/Dollhouse}}''. Carl Craft accepted an offer to reduce his sentence in exchange for being a prototype doll. His first personality upload went badly and increased his psychotic behavior. They tried to erase his imprint but he kicked his handler into the machine and got 48 personalities uploaded at once. He was already psychopathic and knife happy and this cranked it up dramatically. He was manipulative, smart, able to access many different skills from his personas and had an AGodAmI complex going on. He also had combat skills, though Echo usually [CurbStompBattle handed him his ass]] when they fought.

* Alpha on ''{{Series/Dollhouse}}''. Carl Craft accepted an offer to reduce his sentence in exchange for being a prototype doll. His first personality upload went badly and while they tried to erase him, he kicked his handler into the machine and got 40 personalities uploaded at once. He was already psychopathic and knife happy and this cranked it up dramatically. He was manipulative, smart, able to access many different skills from his personas and had an AGodAmI complex going on.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'s'' River Tam is the most advanced and successful version of the psychic assassins produced by the Academy, and while it isn't stated outright, both River and the methods used to create her have all the trappings of a prototype, including uncertain technology, unpredictable side effects, and crippling flaws. Naturally, River is also insane.

* The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' sourcebook ''Book of Vile Darkness'' features the Vashar as an example of an utterly evil [[HumanSubspecies subrace of humans]]. The legend goes that when the gods created the first human, he immediately went looking for food, and chased down and killed an animal with his bare hands. The gods were disturbed, then morbidly fascinated as the man proceeded to eat the beast raw, then tear into the animal's carcass and fashion crude weapons from its bones and sinew. Then the first man turned and charged at the watching deities with his grisly weapons, screaming his first words, war cries and blasphemies. The gods effortlessly slew the human, but were so disgusted with their project that it was eons before they took another crack at humanity. However, some fiend spirited away the first man's remains and revived him - in some stories it was the work of a demon lord, in others a [[HornyDevils succubus]] who proceeded to bear the man's children. At any rate, the Psycho Human Prototype's descendants are the Vashar, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Always Evil]] human sociopaths with no morals or taboos, united only by their goal of finishing their forebearer's attempt at [[KillTheGod deicide.]]

** ... and [[BrokenBird emotionally unstable]]. Grunt also comes across as a Pscyho Prototype at first, but is actually "just" a [[DesignerBabies vat-bred]] SuperSoldier who's psychologically normal for a member of a [[PlanetOfHats race]] of {{Blood Knight}}s.
* ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand:'' A subversion, possibly even a double subversion. [[spoiler: Fecto Forgo was captured and contained after having put itself in a weakened state, going so far as to make a tourist exhibit out of it. Even in its weakened state, it was more than capable of escaping its containment and even influencing those around it before resorting to escape as a last ditch effort, and a player's initial thought would likely be that the lab would've been the epicenter of the seeming apocalypse the Forgotten Land went through. However, before it got the chance, its captors had reverse engineered its spacial warping abilities and left, meaning it was not an apocalypse after all, but a mere abandonment. These captors were not the only intelligent beings on the planet though, and so Forgo's manipulation and eventual rampage were left to be the problem of the Beast Pack they left behind.]]

* Lore, the prototype for Data in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration '', was designed to express the full breadth of human emotion. He was nonetheless considered a failure, due to his lacking empathy and considering himself superior to humanity.

* [[spoiler: Number One, "Cavil"]] from ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. [[spoiler: As the first of the new humanoid Cylons made by the Final Five, he exhibited bitterness at not being 100% machine, envy of his brothers and sisters (even entirely destroying the Sevens) and a deep desire for his creators to come around to his genocidal viewpoint to the point where he reprograms them to think they're humans and launches a genocidal attack on humanity.]] And those are just ''some'' their sins. Chiefly, this Cylon's actions resulted in the near-extinction of the human race.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'s'' River Tam is the most advanced and successful version of the psychic assassins produced by the Academy, and while it isn't stated outright, both River and the methods used to create her have all the trappings of a prototype, including uncertain technology, unpredictable side effects, and crippling flaws. Naturally, River is also insane.
* Adam from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. The very first thing he does when he awakes is kill his creator.

Maybe [[Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}} the streams crossed]], the SuperSerum is actually of the [[PsychoSerum Psycho]] or [[ToxicPhlebotinum Toxic]] flavors, the janitor [[BullyingADragon tossed rotten tomatoes at it]], the psych evaluations weren't [[CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure as rigorous]] as they should have been, or an honest to goodness [[DidntSeeThatComing unforeseen complication]] happened during Alpha Testing (if there was any, that is). Whatever the case, the experiment has GoneHorriblyWrong and the first and eldest of a nascent [[TheChosenMany Chosen Many]] has gone rogue ([[PhlebotinumRebel and not in the good way]]), is evil, and likely wants to kill its makers ''and'' younger siblings.

* In ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'', the old animatronics are placed in storage as they are replaced by newer models. But they aren't deactivated, and will continue to stalk the player at night.

* Prototype Jack in ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 1'' is designed to be a super powerful robot that's gone haywire and its owner has lost control of it. The one in 2 and Tag Tournament is more of an army drone and so isn't as evil as it's just following orders.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' cartoon [[AdaptationalVillainy revises]] Proto Man's character from a FlawedPrototype to one whose malfunctioning caused him to side with Dr. Wily.

** The first known example would be the EXAM system, which is noted to be extemely unstable and hard-to-control, with mobile suits equipped with it known to have gone berserk with extended usage, and that's all without mentioning that the primary component of the thing is [[PoweredByAForsakenChild a Newtype's '''soul.''']]

** The first known example would be the EXAM system, which is noted to be extemely unstable and hard-to-control, with mobile suits equipped with it known to have gone berserk with extended usage, and that's all without mentioning that the primary component of the thing is [[PoweredByAForsakenChild a Newtype's ''soul.'']]

* Come to think of it, ''Franchise/Gundam'' has a lot of these.

* Albert Wesker from the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' films is implied to be this to Alice. Like Alice, he is injected with the T-Virus, and it is strongly implied that Wesker was injected long before Alice was. Likewise, after surviving a huge explosion, he regularly [[ImAHumanitarian commits cannibalism]] in order to keep an imbalance of the T-Virus at bay as a result of the stress of surviving the explosion.

* This is the case with [[spoiler: Mercutio]] in ''Literature/{{Idlewild}}'' by Nick Sagan. While he's not the alpha himself, the prototype's bitterness and jealousy bled into him and he goes insane. Eventually he kills several of his supposed friends as his grip on reality (such as it is in this MindScrew of a book) slackens.
** In the third book in the series, "Everfree", one of the [[spoiler:thawed-out Gedaechtnis employees admits to tampering with Mercutio's DNA to make him more dominant, because he was the only pure white subject.]]

* The process that gave [[{{ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire}} Luke Cage]] his steel skin was used earlier in the Vietnam on a soldier who called himself Warhawk.

** Alpha in ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork 3'' is the prototype of ''the Internet itself'' given form and AI.

* Eliza, from ''Series/IAmFrankie'' is the first functional prototype of the Gaines series androids, psychopathically violent, hates humanity and is entirely selfish. In contrast to her successor Frankie, who is all-loving, a friend to humanity and considers the needs of others.

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** Knight Rider sequels follow the KARR formula. In Team Knight Rider the TKR AI car prototype KRO went crazy because his driver was crazy. In Knight Rider 2008 the second KITT had to face his own KARR predecessor which can transform to a robot. KARR (Knight Automated Roving Robot), KRO (Knight Reformulation One) and KARR 2008 (Knight Auto-Cybernetic Roving Robotic-Exoskeleton) are all prototypes that went rogue.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}}'': Kon-El was designated "S-13" at Cadmus, in relation to being the thirteenth (and only successful) clone of ComicBook/{{Superman}} and while he does have to fight "S-01" once that's mostly over a misunderstanding due to S-01's lack of knowledge and SelfDemonstrating/{{Bizarro}} traits. The trope is inverted with him having to fight off the prideful amoral attempt to recreate him with improvements and more obedience named Match on multiple occasions.

* In the Anime/YuGiOhVRAINS fanfic Fanfic/ReCoded, the Laplace [[spoiler:is actually created from Lightning, who becomes too intelligent for his own good and caused so many malfunctions that Dr. Kogami restructured Lightning to remove this part of his programming. Unfortunately, this part of him survived and Queen managed to extract it from Lightning to use it for her own ends.]]

* Eliza, from ''Series/IAmFrankie'' is the first functional prototype of the Gsines series androids, psychopathically violent, hates humanity and is entirely selfish. In contrast to her successor Frankie, who is all-loving, a friend to humanity and considers the needs of others.

* Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce''. There's a very unstable prototype of the Omnitrix that tends to go wild and has less time limitations (Transformations can last much, much longer), but is not sentient or evil itself, it is Albedo who is the one that uses for evil purposes.

* Obviously, ComicBook/NormanOsborn, ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' foe.