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KD Since: May, 2009
17th Feb, 2024 11:46:42 AM

Since the root cause was cloning and their genes being messed with, I'd look toward Designer Babies for the general concept.

The "accidental" part could be a dash of Gone Horribly Wrong in the sense of "I'm just going to do a little cloning" or "I'm just going to do a little genetic tampering", and a singular error has dire consequences.

Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
17th Feb, 2024 12:02:05 PM

This is the "nature wins" side of Nature Versus Nurture. Note that tropes like Villainous Lineage and In the Blood do, however, include examples where there's no specific relative they take after, but it's instead a generalized inheritance thing- say, in an Urban Fantasy setting, Orcs have known sets of genes that relate to their aggression and impulsiveness, and those with even distant orc ancestry often struggle with both actual Enemy Within issues as these genes express themselves and accusations that their "orc blood" is showing when justifiably angered.

Clone Degeneration for the aspect where it's caused by an issue in the cloning process

Ner0014reN Since: Aug, 2023
17th Feb, 2024 06:51:02 PM

Strictly speaking, "evil" is more abstract than "sociopathy". I'm saying this because I see you throwing the word "evil" nilly-willy

There are reports that sociopathic tendencies IRL can be caused by some rare genetic mutations, but in general there's no "normal gene that causes sociopathy"

molokai198 Since: Oct, 2012
17th Feb, 2024 08:33:47 PM

There was a "born evil" trope in TLP a few months ago but I'm not sure what happened to that.

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