YMMV / Refractions

• Spiritual Antithesis: Despite predating the show for 24 years, the short story Exo-Genesis has a very similar premise to Westworld (the TV series, not the film, despite its premise is quite similar): Both works, especially in the case of the comic from which the Exo-Genesis is based to are about anthropomorphic beings created by the human race, in the first case, the beings are sentient androids created, and in the second case, they are humanoid animals. Also, in both cases, they were created by some enigmatic old scientist with very mysterious purposes (Robert Ford in Westworld and Charles Ambrose Komatsu in Exo-Genesis and both men despise humanity, and both having homicidal tendences). But this is when the similarities ends: Komatsu, despite his own flaws, wants to be alone with his own creations, so he could observe them from a close range, with the help of The Net, and the only reason he resorts to mass-murder was because the rest of the human staff members who left Toma-Aki wanted to return there in order to arrest him, since his sole presence would had jeopardized the whole project, so he didn't have other choice besides trying to kill them. Outside this, he is not interested on trying to destroy the human race or anything like that, and his own plans involves his creations and his creations exclusively. On the other hand, Dr. Ford from Westworld is a even more complex character, for put it in better words, and he is somewhat more insanier than Komatsu is, and, unlike the Albedo counterpart, he wants to use his creations in order to replace the human race.