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** The SPARTAN-II SuperSoldier project that produced the Master Chief is another strange subversion. When originally conceived, there was never a SPARTAN-I project -- the name was chosen to paint them as successors to the Spartans of Ancient Greece in both [[ChildSoldiers upbringing]] and fighting skill. The "prototypes" of the SPARTAN-II project were lab animals. Then it turned out there ''was'' a SPARTAN-I project, except it was called ORION. It turned out underwhelming [[FlawedPrototype Flawed Prototypes]] and was renamed SPARTAN-I retroactively, ''after'' the SPARTAN-II project got off the ground.

** The SPARTAN-II SuperSoldier project that produced the Master Chief is another strange subversion. When originally conceived, there was never a SPARTAN-I project -- the name was chosen to paint them as successors to the Spartans of Ancient Greece, in particular referencing the Battle of Thermopylae, where a small number of Spartans legendarily defeated a much larger enemy. Plus there ''were'' prototypes of their augmentations, they were tested on apes. Then it turned out there ''was'' a SPARTAN-I project, except it was called ORION. It turned out underwhelming [[FlawedPrototype Flawed Prototypes]] and was renamed SPARTAN-I retroactively, ''after'' the SPARTAN-II project got off the ground.

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* Machine-Man in Creator/MarvelComics, also known as "X-51" or Aaron Stack (made famous by ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}''). We never really find out about the previous 50, though ''Nextwave'' shows a joking page about one of his predecessors who is a partly-human looking killbot who happens to be employed as a priest. Somehow.

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* The T-Series PoweredArmor from the ''{{Videogame/Fallout}}'' series essentially starts off with T-45'''d''' being the first Power Armored Suit developed by West-Tek that was rated for combat at the beginning of the Sino-American War, skips six steps ahead to the ever-iconic T-51'''b''' that premiered during Operation: Anchorage which helped to push the Chinese invaders out of Alaska, before skipping another 9 more Power Armor iterations to reach the T-60 Variant that was being distributed throughout the Army in most of the New England Commonwealth during late 2077. Taking the lettered-affixes out of the equation, that leaves a grand total of 57 other T-Series Power Armor variants completely undocumented and unaccounted for.

* The T-Series PoweredArmor from ''Videogame/Fallout'' essentially starts off with T-45'''d''' being the first Power Armored Suit developed by West-Tek that was rated for combat at the beginning of the Sino-American War, skips six steps ahead to the ever-iconic T-51'''b''' that premiered during Operation: Anchorage which helped to push the Chinese invaders out of Alaska, before skipping another 9 more Power Armor iterations to reach the T-60 Variant that was being distributed throughout the Army in most of the New England Commonwealth during late 2077. Taking the lettered-affixes out of the equation, that leaves a grand total of 57 other T-Series Power Armor variants completely undocumented and unaccounted for.

* The T-Series PoweredArmor from ''VideoGame/Fallout'' essentially starts off with T-45'''d''' being the first Power Armored Suit developed by West-Tek that was rated for combat at the beginning of the Sino-American War, skips six steps ahead to the ever-iconic T-51'''b''' that premiered during Operation: Anchorage which helped to push the Chinese invaders out of Alaska, before skipping another 9 more Power Armor iterations to reach the T-60 Variant that was being distributed throughout the Army in most of the New England Commonwealth during late 2077. Taking the lettered-affixes out of the equation, that leaves a grand total of 57 other T-Series Power Armor variants completely undocumented and unaccounted for.

* Subject Delta of ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|2}}'' already qualifies as a SuperPrototype, but the name "Delta" implies that there were three before him. Knowing what the people of Rapture were screwing around with, it couldn't have been pretty.