History SuperSoldier / VideoGames

** Unlike their predecessors, the Spartan-[=IVs=] introduced in ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'' are the first iteration of the program to successfully utilize adult volunteers, and are all equipped with an even more advanced version of MJOLNIR ([=GEN2=], to be precise) in order to compensate for their relatively inferior augmentations. Due to their comparatively normal backgrounds, the [=IVs=] are far more socially-adjusted than the [=IIs=] and [=IIIs=].

** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeHunters'' introduces six new bounty hunters, one of whihc is Kanden, a lab experiment who was designed to be an unkillable super soldier. Unfortunatly for the program, Kanden escaped and destroyed the lab, killing everyon involved in his creation.

** ''Literature/HaloShadowOfIntent'' reveals that the Covenant had their own super-soldiers in the Prelates, genetically modified Prophets capable of potentially matching even ''Spartans'' in a direct fight. However, they risk going into seizures if they remain in prolonged combat, making them useful only in short bursts.

** Let's face it, in her universe she's a combination of Franchise/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/IronMan, Franchise/{{Batman}}, Franchise/{{Wolverine}} and Franchise/GreenLantern. No wonder most people don't even think she's real anymore. The alliance soldiers think she's just a myth of propaganda, and the Space Pirates perception of her seems to be leaning towards an EldritchAbomination that exists solely to torment them for all eternity. It's [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Not like they don't deserve it, though...]]

** In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', Institute Coursers are Franchise/{{Terminator}} expies designed to look exactly like humans but be superior to them in every way and tasked with hunting down wayward Synths. At one point in the game, you have to track down one of these murder-machines. You know the Gunners, those ruthless mercenary types who serve as {{Elite Mook|s}} versions of Raiders? The Courser you're looking for is inflicting a CurbStompBattle on an entire platoon of them when you find him, and no, it's ''not'' GameplayAndStorySegregation: he's a hell of a fight, even with a companion and power armour. [[spoiler:X6-88, who is a Courser you can recruit, has a SPECIAL stat total of ''98 points'', almost twice as much as your other companions' sums]].

* The protagonists and bosses of the shoot-em-up ''VideoGame/{{SUGURI}}'' and its prequel ''VideoGame/{{sora}}'' are all "altered humans" who have been modified to have superhuman strength, agility and durability, flight, and various other powers depending on the individual. The trope is emphasized more in ''sora'', which takes place during a ForeverWar in which the major characters are all fighting; the titular character in particular was designed to be the ultimate weapon of her country's military.

* The protagonists and bosses of the shoot-em-up ''VideoGame/{{SUGURI}}'' and its prequel ''VideoGame/{{sora}}'' are all "altered humans" who have been modified to have superhuman strength, agility and durability, flight, and various other powers depending on the individual. The trope is emphasized more in ''sora'', which takes place during a ForeverWar in which the major characters are all fighting; the titular character in particular was designed to be the "ultimate weapon" of her country's military.

* ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' has a couple of examples

** By extension of a little logic, Sami's Infantry can become this during her [[LimitBreak Super CO Power]], which allows infantry of any health capture any property in a single turn. By graphical interpretation, a single, wounded infantry can on a heavily guarded opponent HQ in a single day...and win.

*** They also had radically different results. Sephiroth was by far the strongest of the three. Eventually, he gained the ability to control the Jenova Cells perfectly....in exchange for losing all his humanity. Angeal received a weaker power boost, but inherited Jenova's ability to infuse other organisms with his cells to give them some of his power and vice versa. Genesis was a FlawedPrototype who shared Angeal's abilities but also suffered from degradation (as did his copies) -- and boy does this cause problems.

** Geralt can also brew potions that temporarily, or with rare ingredients permanently, further boost his augmented abilities. Unfortunately they're also toxic to varying degrees, and deadly to non-witchers

* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomClashOfTheSuperheroes'': The SecretCharacter known as Shadow Lady is [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] from an AlternateUniverse where she was [[ReforgedIntoAMinion forcibly turned into a]] [[UnwillingRoboticisation brainwashed cybernetic minion]] for Shadaloo. Before she was forcibly roboticized, Chun-Li routinely foiled Shadaloo's plans at every turn, and in retaliation, Shadaloo kidnapped, experimented and {{cyborg}}ized her for the sake of turning her into a pawn against Interpol. When the task was completed, they turned her into a living weapon, complete with a new name and transformed her into M. Bison's [[TheDragon top operative]]. Unlike Shadow--a roboticized Charlie Nash, who escaped shortly after being transformed--Shadaloo added a RestrainingBolt to Shadow Lady's programming and internal systems so the cyborg would [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul remain fully obedient and loyal to Bison]], and complete her missions by having her body be remotely controlled, essentially making her a [[DarkActionGirl Dark Action]] RobotGirl. As Shadow Lady, [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul Chun-Li's formerly cheerful personality was obliterated, and her body's physiology altered so it]] [[EmotionlessGirl experienced no emotion apart from being a ruthless but highly effective killing machine]] and assassin for Shadaloo - in essence, she is essentially a completely different person inhabiting her body and mind (being more machine than human), and serves as nothing but a weapon against her former allies and Interpol. It's also been implied that deep down, [[AndIMustScream the old Chun-Li is still there on some level]], and is at least partially aware of what she has done. Even if her allies ever managed to revive her, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Chun-Li would have to deal with the]] [[HeelRealization guilt of being a tool for Shadaloo]], not to mention the fact that [[RealityEnsues being a brainwashed robotic minion wouldn't go away overnight]] should she become a good person again. Aside from retaining a few moves from her non-cyborgified variant, she has built-in high tech weaponry, and all of this was augmented to her robotic body, like the T-X from the ''{{Franchise/Terminator}}'' series, thus making her more faster and stronger than Shadow, but at the cost of becoming a brainwashed minion for Shadaloo. She shoots [[HomingProjectile homing]]/[[MissileLockOn heat-seeking missiles]] from [[BackpackCannon her back]], thrusts forward with [[ThisIsADrill a drill]], encases herself in a [[ShockAndAwe electric barrier]] (that also [[DeflectorShields deflects attacks]] and stuns opponents), miniaturized Vernier thrusters in her feet that enable her to jump much higher (and allow her to kick more rapidly) and fires a large beam ([[ArmCannon Big Bang Laser]]) from [[HandBlast her palms]]. [[spoiler:In her ending however, she manages to [[HeroicWillpower overcome Shadaloo's brainwashing,]] [[HeelFaceTurn regain her original memories as Chun-Li]], and join forces with Shadow in taking down Shadaloo. Despite this, she retains her robotic parts even after the brainwashing broke.]]

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': In the ''[[VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga Dark Forces]]'' games, the Dark Troopers, though in practice the first two generations were battle droids, the third generation could function as PoweredArmor, and the resulting combo could be called Super Soldiers.

** Solid Snake himself. Big Boss was the single greatest soldier to have ever lived, but the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb experiment in 1954 rendered him sterile. The Les Enfantes Terrible project was an attempt to clone him, and Solid Snake and his brothers were the result. Snake is not explicitly superhuman [[BadassNormal but he is a]] GeniusBruiser with an IQ of 180, fluency in six languages, a polymath with an impressive knowledge of military science, genetics, biology, firearms and [[ZenSurvivor philosophy]]. He is [[WeDoTheImpossible "the Man Who Makes The Impossible, Possible"]]. In ''Metal Gear Solid'' alone, he faces a tank, a Hind gunship, a world-class Kurdish sniper, a renowned gunslinger, the world's most powerful psychic, a giant of a man who effortlessly wields a rotary cannon normally found on the nose of a jet, a {{Cyborg}} {{Ninja}}, and a 100ft tall prototype HumongousMecha with an arsenal of advanced weapons, and he beats '''all of them'''. [[spoiler:While also infected with a virus that is ''specially designed'' to target, weaken and kill him. ''He survives that too''.]]

* Solid Snake and several of the villains in the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series. All were the [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke products of genetic engineering]], and many were just plain freaks of science.

** Not to mention the Genome soldiers [[spoiler: an attempt to create a army of Big Bosses quality soldiers]] from ''Metal Gear Solid''.

* The Doom Slayer of ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' at first just appears to be a really strong and fast guy who can run circles around demons and punch them to LudicrousGibs but ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' goes into more detail about his past and it's revealed [[spoiler:he's actually the ''original'' "Doomguy" from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' and, after spending years and years in hell slaughtering demons as a BadassNormal, he came to live on Sentinel Prime with the other Night Sentinels and became one of their best soldiers. However at one point during a great war, a mysterious man named "Samur Maykr" put the Doomguy into a machine that gave him the power of the Maykrs, a race of hyper-advanced forerunner aliens. By doing this, he turned the otherwise unmodified human into a human-Maykr hybrid capable of the insane feats he's come to be known for]].

** Volkov was paired with a super ''attack dog'', Chitzkoi, who underwent the same augmentations that he did. In game mechanics, Chitzkoi behaves like a regular attack dog, but has almost ten times the health and can leap much further.

* Agent 47 of the ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' series is a clone with DNA [[LegoGenetics donated]] by five high-profile criminals (A German mad scientist, a Chinese Triad boss, a Colombian drug lord, an Austrian terrorist-for-hire, and a Kazakstanian arms dealer.)

** Geralt can also brew potions that temporarily, or with rare ingredients permanently, further boost his augmented abilities. Unfortunately they're also toxic to varying degrees, and deadly to non-witchers.

** Even regular {{mook}}s in the setting undergo extensive gene therapy to boost their strength, endurance and healing. Also standard is full-body heavy armor with full NBC protection and a sensor suite, plus other devices such as personal DeflectorShields that can take several hits from their own weapons and recharge within seconds, wrist-mounted matter fabricators, and grenades ''many'' times more powerful than any modern ones. Their weapons are mostly coilguns with effectively unlimited ammo that fire microcaliber projectiles at hypersonic speeds, that nonetheless generate recoil comparable to modern firearms (indicating that the rounds they fired are several times as energetic as their modern counterparts). These guns, from sniper rifles to [[HandCannon heavy pistols]] to light machine guns, be easily modded on the fly to fire [[GrenadeLauncer homing rockets and grenades]] or [[AbnormalAmmo various ammo types]] (armor-piercing, poison, incendiary, electric, etc.) with a flick from their aforementioned wrist-mounted matter fabricators. Many standard troops also have various other abilities, such as greatly enhanced shields, the ability to deploy autonomous drones, various heavy weapons spawned from the wrist fabricator, psychic powers, superhuman strength and durability, the ability to shoot [[ShockAndAwe lightning]] and [[PlayingWithFire multi-megajoule incendiary plasma rounds]] from their wrists, highly potent PowerPalms, invisibility, and so on. The only reason they're not thought of as super solders within the setting is that every other military threat out there is just as deadly.

** While ''all'' Forerunner Warrior-Servants were this, the Prometheans were this even relative to other Warrior-Servants, as they had the Ecumene's most advanced combat armor and mutations. As seen in ''Halo 4'' and ''ComicBook/HaloEscalation'', [[spoiler:even a full squad of the best Spartan-[=IIs=] are no match for a single unarmed Promethean]].

** Even regular Systems Alliance Marines undergo extensive gene therapy to boost their strength, endurance and healing. On top of that they all have personal kinetic barriers and weapons with effectively unlimited ammo that fire projectiles at relativistic speeds. The only reason they're not thought of as super solders within the setting is that every other military threat out there is just as deadly.