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Designer Babies

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Designer Babies	comment	One of the big downfalls of LEGO Genetics is that it's hard to modify an adult. The majority of "genetic action" (cell differentiation, growing body parts, etc.) occurs during gestation and childhood. Once you're done with puberty, your body's basically just on maintenance duty from then on. This makes it hard to bio-augment you into growing a third arm or whatever, because you just aren't doing much growing at all. It's a bit like trying to put berries into a muffin after it's already been baked. The better way, therefore, is to modify people before they're born. Fetuses are mostly stem cells that have yet to differentiate, so they're easier to work with (especially if you have some Applied Phlebotinum on hand). Designer Babies are what occurs when you create or genetically engineer embryos with desired traits. Then simply return them to their womb (or a Uterine Replicator if unavailable) and watch the child grow. The resulting person is usually seen either as a more perfect and awesome Transhuman than normal people, or as a freak/monster who should never have existed and must now be destroyed — and sometimes both at the same time by different groups of people. Superpowers are a common thing to give your Designer Baby. They're also frequently the purview of the Evilutionary Biologist, who believes that humanity could be "improved" so much if they would only allow him to tinker a bit. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Better hope the Designer Babies don't decide they don't need their designers any more... It's not uncommon, especially in Science Fiction of the Dystopian variety, to have settings where most or all humans are produced as Designer Babies, sometimes forced into physical and mental specializations similar to a Hive Caste System. This is often done in an effort to "perfect" humanity, in a belief that nature is stronger than nurture. Parallels with Nazi eugenics are likely. In almost all of these settings, there will be a group of people who want to make babies the "natural" way. Whether they're right depends on which side of Science Is Bad the work's Aesop falls on. See also The Social Darwinist and Evilutionary Biologist. Compare Darwinist Desire and Genius Breeding Act. Artificial Human is a related trope.
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Designer Babies / int_104a2197	comment	In The Court of the Air, female slaves in Cassarabia wish their wombs were used to incubate this trope, and not the monstrous Mix-and-Match Critters which the local bio-wizards dream up.
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Designer Babies / int_10d30395	comment	Most of the main cast in Shin Megami Tensei II, created by the Archangels in a hilariously misguided attempt to fulfill their duties. Whatever the path chosen, they never get what they expect.
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Designer Babies / int_1463a028	comment	In a two-part crossover of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order, the casts encountered a character played by Estella Warren who was conceived as a genetically superior Transhuman by her scientist father. As an adult, she became a con artist who date-raped handsome and talented men in order to continue her father's work (one character in SVU even mentions this trope by name).
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Designer Babies / int_18784d92	comment	Captain Earth has the aptly named Designer's Children, a group of children whose genetic structure was specifically altered so that other people could install their consciousness into them, effectively rendering these individuals immortal if the process is repeated. However, this genetic structure made them the perfect prey for the alien Kiltgangs, who installed their consciousnesses into them to infiltrate Earth and ultimately drain all of humanity's life force. The children know nothing of that and their Kiltgang personality is latent until they're awakened, but even unawakened, they possess supernatural abilities, called Singularities. Once they come in contact with another Kiltgang or libido, they awake.
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Designer Babies / int_19ac551d	comment	A subtle example with X-23. When she decided that an exact clone of Wolverine would be impractical, if not outright impossible (the only genetic sample they had available of Logan was degraded, particularly in the Y chromosome), to make in the timeframe she was given, Dr. Sarah Kinney instead decided to duplicate his X chromosome and create a female instead. It's subtly implied that she also took measures to ensure that the clone would not only be positive for the X-gene, but that she would be born with the same mutation as Logan.note Mutant offspring of other mutants don't always share their parent's power set, i.e. Quicksilver vs. Magneto Considering Laura is The Ugly Guys Hot Opposite-Sex Clone, that she's generally depicted as having a genius-level intellect, one wonders what other sorts of modifications were made to ensure she was ideally suited for her purpose. Given that Laura bears some physical resemblance to Dr. Kinney, there's a lot of fan speculation that she used her own X chromosome in creating Laura rather than doubling Logan's like she claimed. This is later shown to be true, and Laura is stated to genetically be Logan's daughter with Sarah.
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Designer Babies / int_1b021fcb	comment	Tokyo Ghoul: The Sunlit Garden is revealed to be a facility that breeds Half-Human Hybrid Tyke Bombs for the CCG. These children are typically born nearly identical to their human parent, but possess the superhuman physical attributes of their ghoul parent. In exchange, however, they suffer from a significantly shortened lifespan and begin to break down internally by the time they reach their 30s. This makes them ideal as disposable Child Soldiers, trained from birth to fight and sent into the field as Ghoul Investigators around the age of 15. The mysterious Rize Kamishiro was also bred at the facility, and is stated to possess an unique and powerful kagune. The purpose of her creation hasn't been revealed.
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Designer Babies / int_1bdeb9de	comment	Nate Grey/X-Man was created by Sinister from the genetic material of Scott Summers and Jean Grey in the Age of Apocalypse reality, specifically to be the ultimate weapon and destroy Apocalypse. Considering how Nate started out as a Person of Mass Destruction and, after many years of hijinks, became someone who could not only destroy Apocalypse, but treat him like a puppet and, at most, a mild inconvenience.
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Designer Babies / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: A subtle example with X-23. When she decided that an exact clone of Wolverine would be impractical, if not outright impossible (the only genetic sample they had available of Logan was degraded, particularly in the Y chromosome), to make in the timeframe she was given, Dr. Sarah Kinney instead decided to duplicate his X chromosome and create a female instead. It's subtly implied that she also took measures to ensure that the clone would not only be positive for the X-gene, but that she would be born with the same mutation as Logan.note Mutant offspring of other mutants don't always share their parent's power set, i.e. Quicksilver vs. Magneto Considering Laura is The Ugly Guys Hot Opposite-Sex Clone, that she's generally depicted as having a genius-level intellect, one wonders what other sorts of modifications were made to ensure she was ideally suited for her purpose. Given that Laura bears some physical resemblance to Dr. Kinney, there's a lot of fan speculation that she used her own X chromosome in creating Laura rather than doubling Logan's like she claimed. This is later shown to be true, and Laura is stated to genetically be Logan's daughter with Sarah. Nate Grey/X-Man was created by Sinister from the genetic material of Scott Summers and Jean Grey in the Age of Apocalypse reality, specifically to be the ultimate weapon and destroy Apocalypse. Considering how Nate started out as a Person of Mass Destruction and, after many years of hijinks, became someone who could not only destroy Apocalypse, but treat him like a puppet and, at most, a mild inconvenience. The Stepford Cuckoos are genetically modified clones of Emma Frost. Fantomex who was bred by the same people that created the Stepford Cuckoos. His modifications also go beyond mere genetics as nanomachines are an integral part of him before even conception. In the Secret Wars (2015) version of the New X-Men storyline "E is for Extinction", creating babies with the perfect X-Gene activated is something of a chic thing. However, it's not perfect — a baby born with one ability would end up with a completely different and unknown secondary mutation, so you could have a baby with hyper intelligence, who ended up as a bag of skin later on in life.
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Designer Babies / int_1f76648	comment	A Certain Magical Index: The Sisters and Misaka Worst are all clones, and genetically made to grow faster, at the expense of lifespan. After the Level 6 Shift project was shut down, they all underwent hormone balance adjustment to slow their growth down and give them more normal lifespans.
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Designer Babies / int_226f4e41	comment	Hanna: This is how Utrax creates its "trainees". They aren't just genetically modified, they've also been spliced with wolf DNA to enhance them.
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Designer Babies / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington: Manpower, Inc. specializes in these. Everything from technicians to miners to jugglers and entertainers. Skrags in the backstory are a mix of Designer Baby and Transhuman, with the nastiest containing so many artificial improvements they were sterile and long dead. Many characters are actually somewhat 'Genie' as Honor herself. But due to the horror of the Skrags, anything Transhuman is looked down on. The new Arc is a war between Transhumanists and baselines that started as a break in philosophy. There are essentially two (or possibly three, depending on how you count) kinds of Designer Baby. First, there are genetic slaves, Manpower Inc's product. These are humans who have been genetically engineered (and psychologically conditioned) to specialize in some specific service, usually at the cost of having all kinds of other health disorders (for example, slaves designed for heavy labor are both grotesquely over-muscled and have more efficient muscle fibers, but at the cost of a much-increased appetite and a high chance of kidney and liver failure). Then you have the Mesan Alignment, the end-product of millennia of genetic engineering and selective breeding aimed at producing humans who are better at everything than baseline humans. Finally, you have what might be described as minor genies, human bloodlines who have experienced very low-scale genetic modification, usually to allow settling worlds that would otherwise have too high a gravity or too little oxygen or whatever.
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Designer Babies / int_2a8c5591	comment	In Ars Magica, A character who researches and recovers an ancient fertility magic tradition will be able to create rituals to endow unborn children with nearly any virtue or flaw.
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Designer Babies / int_2af56ed8	comment	In Century City, a fertility specialist is sued for having his clients' babies turn out gay.
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Designer Babies / int_2ba1d958	comment	The Matrix: "Humans are no longer born. We are grown." However, the fact that people look the same inside and outside the Matrix suggests that the sexual decisions they make in the Matrix are replicated in the real world by the machines artificially conceiving new humans.
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Designer Babies / int_2ee053b1	comment	Yes, Your Grace: The Player Character, who's a middle-aged King lacking a son in a Heir Club for Men setting, can participate in a ritual meant to ensure that his youngest child, conceived during the game itself, is male. According to the book describing the ritual, it can also be used to change things like the baby's eye or hair color. Notably, if the ritual is skipped entirely or reversed, the child is a girl due to the mother being under a spell that keeps her from having sons.
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Designer Babies / int_3089da71	comment	In This Alien Shore, Terran embryos are genetically modified to prevent them from developing the physical and mental abnormalities the Variants have. Two of Jamisia's genes were altered, one an insulin regulator and one a predisposition to neural decay.
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Designer Babies / int_310d6df7	comment	Stand Still, Stay Silent has a proto-example in the Dagrenning program. Set up by the Icelandic government to ensure population growth, genetic diversity and immunity to The Virus, the program consists of a number of sperm and/or ova banks which only take material from immune donors, from which anyone who wishes to concieve a child can draw freely.
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Designer Babies / int_31313512	comment	ANNO: Mutationem: The Consortium secretly engineered a proposition called The Gatekeeper Project that conducted experiments on seven young subjects by enhancing their dna to grant them inter-dimensional abilities that would be utilized in various methods to destroy Hinterland. The project was soon halted after an incident resulted in a facility's destruction, while the seven subjects that obtained their powers were discarded and left on their own.
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Designer Babies / int_353bdeb0	comment	In the Humanx Commonwealth universe, the outlawed Evilutionary Biologists known as the Meliorare Society used this method to produce their "test subjects", including the series' primary protagonist, Flinx.
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Designer Babies / int_35a5e53f	comment	An old DOS game called Gender Wars plays off this trope — in the game world, human males and females are embroiled in a literal battle of the sexes, each intent on exterminating the other. Because traditional reproduction is effectively banned, each side uses artificial means of conception and incubation to maintain their populations. The twist, of course, is that neither side possesses the means to reproduce without "help" from the other; the males routinely attack female storage facilities to steal frozen eggs, while the females do the same to male bases to get sperm samples.
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Designer Babies / int_3692a9bd	comment	Genocide Man: Most types of "genetic deviant" are made this way. Such as the Ugandan Deviants who were the result of witch doctors "blessing" pregnant mothers with a teratogenic virus.
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Designer Babies / int_36ee2abe	comment	Paranoia, in which everyone's a clone. Six times over, in fact. Well, sort of... some times. In early editions there were clone families of six that were decanted and raised in the same environment, and treated more or less as one person. This did not make sense (not that Alpha Complex ever does), as we're left wondering where the other five are most of the time (it was occasionally addressed, but mostly just left off-camera). Later editions have it so every citizen is, theoretically, cloned when they die (except traitors that have earned an erasure), but the red tape delays it to the point of never happening, but Troubleshooters have six immediate backups because they are in highly lethal situations, but with important missions that must be completed. Higher ups tend to buy more packs of six clones when needed, and Ultraviolets are so important the Computer gives them an essentially infinite number of quick clones. This still doesn't make sense, but in a way that works.
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Designer Babies / int_3805309f	comment	Pilgrennon's Children: Pilgrennon created most of the titular children as part of his research on the genetics of autism by switching the eggs and sperm of people at a fertility clinic with the eggs and sperm of autistic teens who went to his center. If the parents found the resulting children unmanageable, they would sometimes be returned to the center, where Pilgrennon could run experiments on them, which included implanting a Brain/Computer Interface in their brains. Meanwhile, he was working on a clone of himself that was modified to have autism genes, but when the clone was born, it died. Pilgrennon decided that he must have accidentally copied a fatal recessive and decided to steal the ova of Jananin Blake, a brilliant scientist with Asperger's, in order to combine her DNA with his clone. The results were Dana and Cale. Jananin refers to his efforts as eugenics experiments.
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Designer Babies / int_3b05a9de	comment	Ransik's villain motivation in Power Rangers Time Force is that, in the year 3000, where all are perfect designer babies, the process sometimes goes wrong and creates mutants like him. He was a pariah growing up, ending up living on the street. In fact, every Monster of the Week is a mutant accident.
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Designer Babies / int_3b11e340	comment	It is quite heavily implied that Aoi Hidaka, the main heroine of Dancougar Nova, was born this way.
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Designer Babies / int_3c65a1d1	comment	The Abh from Crest of the Stars are all Designer Babies. Most embryos are created in a lab, but some are created naturally and then later taken out and adjusted in a lab. These "love children" are seen as a beneficial and generally preferred way to reproduce.
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Designer Babies / int_3fbd173e	comment	Freefall: Winston Thurmad was born to well-meaning parents who were convinced that humanity was going to be living exclusively in space by the time he grew up, so they splurged on all manner of genetic modifications optimized for life in zero-G. Most of them are internal modifications to protect against various forms of atrophy and otherwise optimize him for life on a spacecraft, but he can't grow hair either.
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Designer Babies / int_400469e	comment	Parodied in Calvin and Hobbes, when Calvin asked his dad where babies come from and was told that hopeful parents just buy a kit from Sears and assemble them. Calvin, on the other hand, was a marked-down knock-off brand from K-Mart. This is yet another lie Calvin's dad says to torment his son.
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Designer Babies / int_41c3475f	comment	Eve and Adam: There are genetic modifications to make a child heal faster, and some characters had it from birth. There is also the ability to genetically engineer whole people, leading to the titular Adam.
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Designer Babies / int_44fe781e	comment	Rei Ayanami and Kaworu Nagisa from Neon Genesis Evangelion fit this trope, minus the whole metaphysical mumbo jumbo that accompanies them and their superpowers, of course. In the manga, Asuka Langley Soryu is one as well.
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Designer Babies / int_463672a8	comment	My Sister's Keeper features an extremely mild version of this. Anna was genetically engineered to be an exact donor match for her cancer-stricken older sister Kate. The main plot of the book is Anna suing her parents to escape having to donate a kidney to Kate.
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Designer Babies / int_4e9aa9f9	comment	The scientists in Twins (1988) were aiming to do this, but because their effort were done in the beginnings of genetic science something went wrong, the "perfectly engineered" gamete divided into two babies, who grew up to look like Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Designer Babies / int_5050b585	comment	The Child of Love: Gendo made sure that Asuka's Eva's cockpit was filled with a new type of LCL blended with special DNA agents to alter Asuka's baby. Due to this, Teri started to develop Psychic Powers before her birth.
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Designer Babies / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: All four kids are revealed to be these, John and Jade being made from Grandpa's and Nana's combined DNA, and Rose and Dave being made from Mom's and Bro's. According to the trolls, anyone who's destined to play Sburb is created in this manner. The only exception are the two Cherub players, likely because their species isn't supposed to play Sburb at all. In the same sequence, it's revealed that the Guardians (Grandpa, Nana, Mom, and Bro) are all clones of themselves. It's not clear from what, if any, source the genetic material of the kids destined to play the game comes, but it seems to some degree to be tailored to success at Sburb.
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Designer Babies / int_565db169	comment	In Blindfold, the Truthsayers are a group of genetically engineered people trained from birth with the use of the Veritas drug, which temporarily increases their brains' receptive abilities, allowing them to detect another brain's EM impulses (i.e. read thoughts). While it is possible for a normal person to use the drug, the results are unpredictable. There is also the fact that it is a gross violation of privacy. Since the Truthsayers have no familial or genetic ties to anyone outside their group, they are used as Living Lie Detectors. Their verdict in court cases is final. However, not all trainees become Truthsayers, meaning the genetic engineering process is not perfect.
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Designer Babies / int_578be4e1	comment	In The Irregular at Magic High School, this trope explains the "divine" beauty of Miyuki and her opportunity to become a couple with her brother Tatsuya, being his own sister and at the same time being able to give him healthy offspring. She really was born of the same parents as him, but since, as a consequence of genetic modifications, her genes have been so altered that they are different from Tatsuya genes enough that the incest between them does not cause problems to their children. To a lesser extent, this also applies to the youth of the other 10 leading clans, since for generations they have been subjected to various genetic modifications, ranging from the most banal ones to the illegal and immoral ones, as in the case of the Kudou clan.
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Designer Babies / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: The Patriots started the Les Enfantes Terrible project because they wanted to create perfect soldiers identical to Big Boss. They succeeded, and ended up with three individuals who sought to destroy or either control them.
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Designer Babies / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: Dr. Bunnigus was a Designer Baby as the result of eugenic laws; her inbred and mentally limited parents were required to improve their child, so they gave her a genius IQ and a stripper's body. Her first name, Edward, is because the parents read "E.D." on her genetic profile (for Exotic Dancer) and thought Ed was her proposed name; wanting to show class, they went with the full name "Edward" instead. What's more, she's black (or some brownish ethnicity), and they're both white hillbillies, so apparently their many social problems did not include racism.
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Designer Babies / int_5e97dfa3	comment	The Far Side Of Utopia: In the story's setting of Palindra, Designer Children are exactly that; children who were genetically modified from birth (perhaps before) to have enhanced abilities. Most of these children are usually more physically fit or smarter than a regular child (though there is no guarantee of this), and some of them also have enhanced or specific magical abilities. Making a Designer Child is an expensive process, so often they are seen as a sign of wealth, status, or both, with the Families have a large population of Designer Children among their ranks. Not much about the laws regarding Designer Children except that they have to have unusual hair color and eye color as a sign that they're Designer Children.
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Designer Babies / int_5ec06c65	comment	Jurassic World Dominion offers a case that actually started after conception: Maisie Lockwood received from her Truly Single Parent Charlotte (who created and carried to term a clone of herself) a treatment to cleanse her DNA from a genetic disease that Charlotte discovered during gestation and would take her life when Maisie was little.
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Designer Babies / int_60156176	comment	In the Vorkosigan Saga, the Cetagandan Haut-lords reproduce entirely without sex or even coupling being involved. Every child is created through contracts arranged by high-ranking family members, frequently with positive genetic alterations added, then the baby cooked up in a Uterine Replicator and handed to the appropriate parent. The Haut are practically considered a superhuman sub-race at this point.
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Designer Babies / int_617e92c0	comment	Advanced Variable Geo: For reasons unknown, Miranda Jahana is determined to create the ultimate fighting machine, so she founded Section-9 as her top-secret R&D department, where she began by experimenting on her own daughter, Reimi and also successfully created K-1 and K-2. All three were defeated by Yuka Takeuchi, who then became the focal point of Miranda's hatred. After disposing of the K units, she created the Material Twins as her revenge.
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Designer Babies / int_623d2843	comment	Everyone in Skinned is like this. One couple is considered the futuristic version of hippies because they chose to conceive naturally. While there's nothing wrong with their son, he's quite physically flawed when compared to everyone else (for instance, he's basically the only person in the city who wears glasses because he needs them, not because they look cool).
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Designer Babies / int_63db9049	comment	The Sivadians in Otherspace have taken genetic modification in two directions. First, to create beautiful, intelligent, athletic offspring. Second, to create specialized slaves, designed to be the best there is at what they do to better serve their masters.
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Designer Babies / int_679b6cab	comment	Brave New World: All the people in New London are genetically engineered as zygotes to serve future social roles. The series opens on an image of an ovum being artificially fertilized, with it being shown as a future Beta (i.e., one caste), alongside the list showing them all.
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Designer Babies / int_68f45eab	comment	The Idlewild series has the Ten and their children, Waterbabies. Both generations are engineered with the single purpose of surviving Black Ep.
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Designer Babies / int_691be369	comment	Played with a lot on The X-Files. There are many attempts to make a human/alien hybrid. Most notable was Emily, Scully's daughter, who ends up dying soon after she meets her. And though many attempts are made, nothing sticks. All the hybrids die. This becomes a problem when Scully conceives William, who is what everyone involved in the conspiracy has been after — a human alien hybrid gestated naturally. And why the hype? After realizing that their deal with the aliens has gone south and the world will be taken over by an alien virus in 2012, the good guys seek to use William to find a way to stop that from happening. The bad guys want to stop the good guys. Which equals many near-death experiences for itty bitty William.
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Designer Babies / int_694ab80	comment	The Batman Beyond two-parter "Curse of the Kobra" has Zander, whom the terrorist organization Kobra created in a Uterine Replicator and raised so that they could have a perfect leader.
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Designer Babies / int_6e012371	comment	In the Xandri Corelel series, most people are created in a petri dish so they can be genetically tweaked in whatever way the parents wish, from preventing a disability to making sure the child has the same eye color as its father. Xandri herself was born during a short-lived natural conception fad, resulting in her status as one of the last autistics in the universe.
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Designer Babies / int_7038c36b	comment	Danger 5: Holly was genetically created to be the perfect Aryan woman.
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Designer Babies / int_7129b6f9	comment	Stardoc follows a young female doctor named Cherijo Torin, who discovers in the first novel that she is a genetically modified clone of her "father", who eventually wanted to marry her. That's right, not only did he want to screw himself (and later novels indicate that he already did that with his male clones), but he wanted to do it with someone he raised as his daughter. Cherijo (who name is, actually, an acronym meaning "Comprehensive Human Enhancement Research ID: J Organism") discovers that she is immune to any disease, as her body actively fights against any foreign organism in her (which causes problems when she gets pregnant), and has a Healing Factor (in a later novel, she is perfectly willing to throw herself from a big height in order to get a winged friend to save her, even though her colleague later points out that, while her body would probably heal, any brain damage would be permanent). Oh, and genetic engineering is forbidden in human space (except by her "father", who has helped to pass the law and received special dispensation), and any "freak" is to be caught and executed as a non-person. When the colony finds out that she is a clone, some of the Jerkass characters immediately start calling her "it", claiming that her "intelligence" is merely an imitation programmed into her.
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Designer Babies / int_72587203	comment	The Bene Gesserit are shown to have a horror of artificial insemination in Dune Messiah less out of ethics than because using sex to control powerful men is at least as important as having their babies.
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Designer Babies / int_74c659e6	comment	Rocket Age: The Nazis are breeding perfect Aryans for their army on Mercury.
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Designer Babies / int_7559ae0b	comment	Dune: The Tleilaxu are a race of humans whose hat is genetic engineering — their stock in trade is custom-designed organics. People, animals, living furniture; you name it, they'll make it. This is held in stark contrast with the rest of Galactic society where all breeding is strictly natural by taboo. The Tleilaxu are therefore tolerated for their usefulness but are considered disgusting and degraded by most people. It gets even worse in the sequels when it's revealed exactly what the "axolotl tanks" they use to grow their products are. Even the Bene Gesserit, an all-female group obsessed with breeding programs, will only use natural methods of impregnation, to the point of forcing the openly-gay Baron Harkonnen to have sex with one of them. This gets ludicrous when they're worried that bloodlines may die out when all they'd have to do is obtain sperm samples and keep those in nullentropy capsules to use in worst-case scenarios. These women claim to be entirely rational (they despise love because it clouds reasoning) but refuse to break irrational taboos. In fact, the only time this is broken is by one of them who does it out of love. Tessia offers to impregnate herself with Rhombur Vernius' half-brother's preserved semen, as Rhombur himself is unable to have children. The Bene Gesserit are shown to have a horror of artificial insemination in Dune Messiah less out of ethics than because using sex to control powerful men is at least as important as having their babies.
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Designer Babies / int_7668653a	comment	Miranda Lawson from Mass Effect 2 is one of these. She was genetically engineered to the summit of human perfection (looks, brains, social skills, biotics, etc.) by her father, using his own DNA as a template, for reasons that had as much to do with satisfying his own ego as securing an heir for his "dynasty". Unfortunately, Miranda suffers from an inferiority complex due to all her abilities being hand-tailored from birth, which causes her to feel that all of her accomplishments were made possible by her father's influence, and that the only things she can take credit for are her mistakes. It's also implied that Daddy may have put in some "Fabrication Rights Management" into Miranda, as the Shadow Broker dossier on her indicates that she is infertile. If so, he did it by a probably rather painful means: noncancerous tumors have wrecked her reproductive system. No wonder she hates him.
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Designer Babies / int_76c6fb6f	comment	Beastars: We learn that after a war in the past between carnivores and herbivores, there were experiments to genetically alter carnivorous species into more docile creatures. Jack, the main character's best friend, as a Labrador, is the result of such experiments. He finds that he tends to be more intelligent than other natural carnivores and less aggressive. It led him to be bullied by other natural predators. He also discovers he can't really feel negative emotions, which he discovers after he learns the Awful Truth about the war and finds himself unmoved. This horrifies him, ironically.
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Designer Babies / int_76e539c2	comment	In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, Fate, Erio, Subaru, Vivio, and Scaglietti himself are all the products of genetic engineering of one kind or another. The technology is experimental and illegal, but the children created by Project F and its descendants have full human rights.
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Designer Babies / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: Miranda Lawson from Mass Effect 2 is one of these. She was genetically engineered to the summit of human perfection (looks, brains, social skills, biotics, etc.) by her father, using his own DNA as a template, for reasons that had as much to do with satisfying his own ego as securing an heir for his "dynasty". Unfortunately, Miranda suffers from an inferiority complex due to all her abilities being hand-tailored from birth, which causes her to feel that all of her accomplishments were made possible by her father's influence, and that the only things she can take credit for are her mistakes. It's also implied that Daddy may have put in some "Fabrication Rights Management" into Miranda, as the Shadow Broker dossier on her indicates that she is infertile. If so, he did it by a probably rather painful means: noncancerous tumors have wrecked her reproductive system. No wonder she hates him. Grunt is another example, designed to be a Super-Soldier even by krogan standards. Thanks to Neural Implanting, he's "born" with the body and vocabulary of a young adult. However, much like Miranda, being an artificially created "ultimate krogan" has left him with a fair bit of angst; several conversations imply that deep down, he's simply trying to figure out what he wants out of his own life, since he is supposed to be a strong Krogan but feels nothing for the information imprinted in him by Okeer, leading him to overcompensate as a result. Humanity as a whole is moving towards this. By the twenty-second century, genetic engineering has advanced to the point where the majority of genetic disorders have been cured. Governments provide free screening and genetic modification to prospective parents, and as a result everything from near-sightedness to cystic fibrosis has been cured. While IVF is the preferred method of modification, it can also be done on embryos and newborns out of respect for personal belief.
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Designer Babies / int_7a59fbeb	comment	Azrael: Jean-Paul Valley wasn't born but as much as engineered, conceived in a vat his genetics were altered with those of animals by The Order of St. Dumas, to give him strength, speed and resilience beyond human.
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Designer Babies / int_7b706e62	comment	In Himawari!, most of the ninjas, including the title character, are test tube babies, designed to be perfect ninja.
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Designer Babies / int_7dad3a85	comment	Total Recall 2070: In one episode, the Citizen's Protection Bureau is taken over by a mysterious hacker who turns out to be the result of a failed human gene modification experiment. Rather than creating the perfect transhuman, it ended up creating intelligent children with severe psychological disabilities.
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Designer Babies / int_7dc116eb	comment	Kris Longknife: The antagonistic Peterwald dynasty turn out to have been engaging in this for generations, making cycle after cycle of functionally identical blond men named Henry Smythe-Peterwald. However, by a Contrived Coincidence, the mother of Hank (Henry XIII) got pregnant naturally around the same time Hank's embryo was implanted, resulting in him having a twin sister named Victoria.
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Designer Babies / int_7de8951a	comment	Traveller: Extreme genetic engineering is uncommon. The Solomani are considered to be the masters of life sciences in the setting, having made Variant Human races for specific tasks, like the Acheron for heavy metal world mining, or the heavily modified Wuans. Others from the GURPS Humaniti splatbook include the Nexxies and Otrai. The Ancients also made a pair of genetically modified races known as the Floriani.
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Designer Babies / int_7f640c59	comment	The Sims 3, in the time travel expansion pack, gives you the option to go to the hospital in the future and create one of these.
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Designer Babies / int_7f87dafc	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED derives much of its drama from the fact that Designer Babies (Coordinators) exist alongside naturally-born humans (Naturals), leading to racial strife and outright warfare. A war the Coordinators have an upper hand in because while their modifications don't make them Super Soldiers per se,note For the most part, Coordinators' physical abilities aren't outright beyond what's possible for a Natural. It's more that they're innately good at everything, and even the most talented Naturals would need to devote themselves to intense training to match Coordinators in a single category. it works well enough, especially when all your soldiers have it. However, the Coordinators still grow in a mothers womb and are genetically modified shortly after conception (not before). The one true Designer Baby is Kira, who was grown in a Uterine Replicator and free of the influence of a mother's hormones during pregnancy, thus becoming the 'perfect' Coordinator.
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Designer Babies / int_7f8a38b6	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, all of the Winner family's children except Quatre were test tube babies, due to the then-current difficulties of natural birth in space. The story implies that the difficulties were slowly sorted out as mankind got acclimated to space, but because the Winner family had been in space the whole time, they still had to deal with them.
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Designer Babies / int_81692f99	comment	In the Star Trek franchise, Earth suffers a terrible series of Eugenics Wars in the near future between normal humans and genetic "augments". By the logic that "superior ability breeds superior ambition", these young Ubermenschen all tend to suffer a Napoleon complex, leading them to war not just with mankind, but with each other (a similar story plays out in Gene Roddenberry's posthumous series Andromeda). Humanity wins, with the lasting result that genetic engineering of human beings is outlawed and held in universal contempt for centuries afterward. The two most well known augments in Star Trek are Kirk's archnemesis Khan Noonien Singh, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's doctor Julian Bashir, who was augmented illegally. Apparently genetic resequencing is allowed for medical purposes such as preventing birth defects, but forbidden for "cosmetic" or "augmenting" reasons. In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Lineage", the Doctor uses resequencing to eliminate a spinal defect in B'Elanna's child, but balks at making changes to eliminate or suppress the child's Klingon DNA. A more benevolent group of genetically engineered humans, who separated and isolated themselves from humanity before it was outlawed, is discovered in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Masterpiece Society". Like the augments, these humans initially believe that their breeding made them superior to normal humans, but after seeing the Enterprise's superior technology, which they could never have even dreamed of despite being designed to be smarter than normal humans, many of them realize that they aren't superior after all and decide to rejoin the human race.
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Designer Babies / int_846beec3	comment	In Vandread, humanity has split into a planet of all males called Tarak and a planet of all females called Mejare. DNA from a couple is manipulated to give a new baby. On Tarak, this means a factory birth, while on Mejare, the baby is implanted in the womb to be born normally. This makes them effectively a pair of One Gender Races, though normal breeding could be resumed. Note that these are not the only colony worlds left, just the main ones we see. This is later revealed to be due to an Ancient Conspiracy involving the mass organ-harvest of Walking Transplant Expendable Clones. Each colony had various restrictions and often cultural manipulations due to the parts they were expected to "produce". Tarak and Mejere were intended to produce sexual organs.
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Designer Babies / int_8485ad1e	comment	In Paradigm, DUPA Genetics sells these to rich parents. The titular character is a failed example.
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Designer Babies / int_8673ea18	comment	One of the cards in Beecarbonize is this, which has medium production speed for the Science Sector and emits 1 greenhouse emission per production cycle. However, the card description points out the risks of genetic defects in future generations and the rise of social inequalities due to genetics-based discrimination. The game will even call you out if you win it while having this card on the playmat.
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Designer Babies / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: While it has not been confirmed it has been implied and on a couple of occasions outright stated that both Agatha and Tarvek were designed to the Other/Lucrezia's specifications before their births. The first as a future host and the second to have his mind altered to make him her loyal pet Storm King with and, judging by Lucrezia/Agatha's actions, a boy toy for the bedroom.
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Designer Babies / int_877465cb	comment	SOKO Potsdam: Discussed in "Let Live": the Body of the Week was a researcher working on CRISPR gene-editing, which could be used to customize human embryos. Samir mentions the possibility of editing out genetic disabilities, which annoys Luna. Which turns out to be foreshadowing: the murder was motivated by the victim's attempt to sell the research to a company interested in designer human embryos, enraging her girlfriend and coworker, who has a brother with Down syndrome.
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Designer Babies / int_8976f8e2	comment	In Courtship Rite, some clans do perform genetic manipulation to try to improve themselves, but since the results can be unpredictable, and the techniques are expensive and difficult, it's not all that common. Genetic screening for undesirable traits is common, but even there, the Getans are aware that diversity is a boon in the long run.
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Designer Babies / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED derives much of its drama from the fact that Designer Babies (Coordinators) exist alongside naturally-born humans (Naturals), leading to racial strife and outright warfare. A war the Coordinators have an upper hand in because while their modifications don't make them Super Soldiers per se,note For the most part, Coordinators' physical abilities aren't outright beyond what's possible for a Natural. It's more that they're innately good at everything, and even the most talented Naturals would need to devote themselves to intense training to match Coordinators in a single category. it works well enough, especially when all your soldiers have it. However, the Coordinators still grow in a mothers womb and are genetically modified shortly after conception (not before). The one true Designer Baby is Kira, who was grown in a Uterine Replicator and free of the influence of a mother's hormones during pregnancy, thus becoming the 'perfect' Coordinator. The show's resident Char Clones are a product of this as well, with one being a clone of the other's father, who was dissatisfied his own son because his DNA was "tainted" with that of his mother. The spinoff Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray shows a darker side to this with Kaite Maddigan, a freelance mercenary who was abandoned by his parents because his mods didn't come out right. What's his problem, you ask? His hair is two-toned (blond and black). It's implied that this is a common occurrence, since Kaite is a former member of a mercenary group made entirely of Coordinators who got discarded for similarly petty reasons. The Astray series have shown off other imperfect Coordinators. Recurring character Elijah Kiel of Serpent Tail ended up coming out without the usual superior physiology of a Coordinator and only became a competent pilot once he joined the mercenary team. Another minor character, ZAFT test pilot Riika Sheder, has very poor eyesight and must wear a pair of glasses. In X Astray, we are given Canard Pars. A failed attempt in the Perfect Coordinator project, but the only one besides Kira Yamato to survive. At first, his entire reason for existence was to hunt down Kira, and defeat him, to prove that he isn't a worthless, failed experiment. In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, all of the Winner family's children except Quatre were test tube babies, due to the then-current difficulties of natural birth in space. The story implies that the difficulties were slowly sorted out as mankind got acclimated to space, but because the Winner family had been in space the whole time, they still had to deal with them.
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Designer Babies / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: In Superman's Post-Crisis origin, Kryptonians are born in a "birthing matrix". Jor-El attached a star drive to Kal-El's. This essentially allowed Superman to be "born" on Earth, which was coupled with a severe winter which isolated the Kent family farm for months; this allowed the Kents to claim he was their natural son and eliminated all the hassle adoption of a foundling would entail in the modern world. It also allowed for an alternate future storyline where Superman is elected President of the United States, which only people born in the United States can do. This has since been undone. In Krypton No More, Superman is made to believe that his cousin Linda — alias Supergirl — and he have powers due to genetic modification.
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Designer Babies / int_8dfbdff2	comment	A latter season episode of Law & Order had a perp whose main motivation was preventing the "gay gene" from being discovered, which he believed would lead to the elimination of all future gay people in the womb.
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Designer Babies / int_90304058	comment	The inhabitants of Sulva (Earth's Moon) are said to be born this way in That Hideous Strength. Apparently, they can only be turned on by sexbots and therefore can't make babies the normal way.
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Designer Babies / int_90887d43	comment	XenoGears: Ramsus was created as the epitome of humankind and as an Artificial -Contact- until he literally gets trashed as a fetus when Krelian discovers the actual -Contact- had already been born.
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Designer Babies / int_90a9bc9f	comment	In Superman's Post-Crisis origin, Kryptonians are born in a "birthing matrix". Jor-El attached a star drive to Kal-El's. This essentially allowed Superman to be "born" on Earth, which was coupled with a severe winter which isolated the Kent family farm for months; this allowed the Kents to claim he was their natural son and eliminated all the hassle adoption of a foundling would entail in the modern world. It also allowed for an alternate future storyline where Superman is elected President of the United States, which only people born in the United States can do. This has since been undone.
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Designer Babies / int_940bf2ba	comment	In Daughter of Fire and Steel, Kryptonians are test-tube babies grown in pods. Kara was genetically engineered to be a soldier, but something went "wrong" with the process and she was born with emotions.
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Designer Babies / int_9838249c	comment	Transhuman Space: Nearly everyone (at least in the Fifth Wave) is at the very least "genefixed"; no genetic disorders. There are also parahumans, who range from "like humans, only better" (in theory; some of them grow up to have serious personality problems) to genetically-altered humans for different environments, such as Mars or the deep ocean.
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Designer Babies / int_9d3a804e	comment	In Legacies, one of the main characters, Landon Kirby, is revealed to be a result of his father's millennia-long quest of creating the perfect son. Partially crafted from the DNA his father, Malivore, has absorbed over time and born to a human mother, Landon is what all his half-siblings failed to be before him; flawless, immortal and capable of continuing the bloodline.
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Designer Babies / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: All children of Vinsmoke Judge were genetically modified to be superhumans with near-limitless potential, in order to become perfect generals for his Clone Army. They're also psychologically engineered to be essentially emotionless sociopaths so they'll become ruthless killers and warriors. Sanji was the only one of his siblings to be born normal thanks to a Heroic Sacrifice his mother took in her attempt to protect her quadruplet sons, but was viciously bullied as a result. Reiju received the same psychological alterations her brothers received, but was still able to feel empathy like Sanji thanks to frequent interactions with her mother. The Seraphim are altered clones of the Warlords of the Sea, hybridized with the mysterious Lunarian race along with being given cybernetic enhancements. The World Government created them to replace the Warlords, who as pirates were considered unreliable and untrustworthy but had previously been an essential part of the government's military power. Creating upgraded versions of them who were programmed for absolute loyalty neatly solved that problem.
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Designer Babies / int_9f1db30b	comment	This trope is a big part of the premise behind Saber Marionette J, with all of the male inhabitants of Terra II except for Hess being born via recombinant DNA and cloning technology. Interesting considering that men were the only survivors, which doesn't make a lot of sense considering that females can be cloned from males. If women were the only survivors, it would make more sense. But at the end of the day, that's not really important.
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Designer Babies / int_9fb9bec4	comment	Outsider: The Umiak mostly reproduce through cloning and, through a combination of genetic tailoring and mechanical implantations, artificially design their new generations to fit whatever needs arise. This has gone on so long that they've become less a single species and more a complex of specialized breeds and "models", sometimes quite different from each other, and it's not know if they even have a natural reproductive cycle anymore.
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Designer Babies / int_9ffb41a9	comment	Galerians: The titular Galerians are this, where the trait bred for is "able to use Psychic Powers without drug-induced assistance". It was very important to their creator, the supercomputer Dorothy, that they be designer babies — she has a literally religious belief that anything you create has to serve you.
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Designer Babies / int_a15ee289	comment	Last Child of Krypton: The exact method varies depending on the version (original story or redux), but Shinji was genetically altered with Kryptonian DNA before he was born. As a result he is, well, Superman.
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Designer Babies / int_a263faa	comment	Baldr Sky: The minor side character Mohawk is routinely noted to look almost like the spitting image of a traditional portrayal of a Native American. This is not an accident as he is revealed to have been the product of a nationalist group using genetic engineering and a very controlled upbringing to try and make him the perfect representation of the idealized Native American warrior.
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Designer Babies / int_a2a386c9	comment	The superiors, tweaks, splices/rianths and most nearbaselines in Orion's Arm were created through generations of germline genetic engineering. Since it's been going on for thousands of years now, it's regarded as normal and no one has any problem with it — indeed, almost no true completely unmodified baseline humans are around any more.
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Designer Babies / int_a4274674	comment	In Man of Steel, the Kryptonians were genetically engineered to fill out different roles in their society and were all artificially conceived and birthed from a Genesis Chamber. Kryptonian scientists Jor-El and Lara Lor-Van believed that the element of choice was lost in converting over to such a system, which, combined with the resulting Creative Sterility and impending self-inflicted destruction of Krypton, led to their conceiving and birthing Kal-El, the first naturally conceived and born child in centuries.
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Designer Babies / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Fate/Grand Order: Mash Kyrielight, the player's first unit, is explicitly called one of these by Dr. Roman. She was one among many attempts to create a living catalyst that could summon a certain Heroic Spirit as a Demi-Servant. While her fusion succeeded, the spirit in question refused to cooperate with Chaldea under its previous director. She will also die by the time she turns 18.
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Designer Babies / int_a574e145	comment	The Draka: Starting in the late 20th century, the Draka gene-engineer their own babies for physical strength, speed and endurance, their serfs' babies for docility, all babies for intelligence. By the 25th Century humanity in the solar system has split into two distinct species, which by design are not interfertile: Homo drakensis and Homo servus. The drakensis are designed for war and survival, almost impossible to kill, do not age physically after the age of 25, and exude pheromones they can use to emotionally dominate servus and unmodified Homo sapiens. (They're also constantly horny, incredibly sexy, and universally bisexual.) A Draka female, ordinarily sterile, is still capable of bearing their own babies, if she takes a month to get her uterus up and running by biofeedback techniques, but it is considered perverse; all drakensis are gestated by implanting fertilized ova into servus host-mothers, or mechanical "orthowombs".
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Designer Babies / int_a647ce4f	comment	In Krypton No More, Superman is made to believe that his cousin Linda — alias Supergirl — and he have powers due to genetic modification.
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Designer Babies / int_a65d40ad	comment	In the Moreau Series, the U.N. forbids human genetic engineering. Several countries did so anyway, and the results are called "Frankensteins". They aren't popular.
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Designer Babies / int_a73a2606	comment	Deconstructed in Children of an Elder God. Since most people went mad or mutated horribly when they tried to control an Evangelion, NERV created genetically mutated fetuses and implanted them in volunteers. One of them killed Asuka's mother.
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Designer Babies / int_a9804feb	comment	Alliance/Union has the Union using genetically engineered "azi" to rapidly increase their population. Azi are separated into castes designated by Greek letters (with alphas being geniuses) but the differences in intelligence don't necessarily breed true when they are freed and have children. In fact, Resune's Azi program is a bit more complete than just Designer Babies. It's revealed in Cyteen that Resune doesn't merely design babies, but the entire population to ensure a healthy mix of genetics and bias the populations towards Resune's political aims.
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Designer Babies / int_aa855418	comment	In Almost Human, the so-called "Chromes" are genetically-engineered to have perfect health and above-average intelligence. One of the main characters is a Chrome, which is unusual as Chromes never go into police work, thinking it a waste of their talents. Chromes have a lot of influence, as a number of politicians and judges are Chromes. One episode involves a Chrome dying of what appears to be a heart attack. This threatens to start a panic, as Chromes are not supposed to be susceptible to such things.
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Designer Babies / int_aa930998	comment	Serix: Seems to be how many new humans are made, though in regard to disposition rather than body and controlled by the government. Rees's character sheet states that her personality was designed by "civil planning algorithms" to generate consumption and economic growth.
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Designer Babies / int_aba7ffb9	comment	Milluim is implied to be this in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel. In one of her bonding events in the sequel, she mentions that she has siblings, but no parents. (And a member of the Quirky Miniboss Squad shares her surname and has the same fighting style) She has difficulty even comprehending the concept of crying. She's a surprisingly effective spy despite her extreme eccentricity. Claire, who has ties to the Intelligence Division, knows more about her origins but isn't at liberty to talk about it. Said Quirky Miniboss Squad member is only able to give one hint as to their origins: "Black Workshop".
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Designer Babies / int_aecab	comment	In Gattaca, the former Trope Namer, gamete selection technology is routinely used to create the "best possible" child a pair of parents could potentially conceive. Naturally occurring conceptions are unusual, and the people born from them are regarded as inferior and suffer from discrimination, including insults such as "faithbirths", "degenerates", and "godchild" (referring to their parents' decision to throw caution to the wind and trust in faith or God to give them a healthy child).
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Designer Babies / int_af46a4b7	comment	The Gate to Women's Country: The women's government "corrects" fetuses with a genetic preposition for homosexuality or violent tendencies in utero.
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Designer Babies / int_af816544	comment	The spinoff Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray shows a darker side to this with Kaite Maddigan, a freelance mercenary who was abandoned by his parents because his mods didn't come out right. What's his problem, you ask? His hair is two-toned (blond and black). It's implied that this is a common occurrence, since Kaite is a former member of a mercenary group made entirely of Coordinators who got discarded for similarly petty reasons. The Astray series have shown off other imperfect Coordinators. Recurring character Elijah Kiel of Serpent Tail ended up coming out without the usual superior physiology of a Coordinator and only became a competent pilot once he joined the mercenary team. Another minor character, ZAFT test pilot Riika Sheder, has very poor eyesight and must wear a pair of glasses.
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Designer Babies / int_afaf61e1	comment	Team Summer A and its candidates in 7 Seeds were all created by picking only superior sperm and eggs to fertilize, so they would have inherently improved skills, reflexes and looks from birth onward.
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Designer Babies / int_b6ba8ee	comment	In Lucifer's Star, this is the hat of the Archduchy of Crius, who have genetically engineered their society to be a Feudal Future society with superhumans on top and specialized humans in various "castes". It's complicated by the fact that they rule regular humans, and the various castes reproduce with each other or "normal" humans.
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Designer Babies / int_bb478d5e	comment	Bait and Switch (STO): Brought up when Rachel Connor is arrested and tried for being a genetic augment: she interacts with a college-aged girl who was turned into a Khan-style augment in utero. Kanril Eleya also mentions having had a couple of recessive alleles increasing her cancer risk edited out in utero, which she says is part of standard prenatal medical screening in the Federation.
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Designer Babies / int_bbd25dac	comment	In Friday, human society has learned to grow custom-tailored humans and other creatures; these are known as "Artificial Persons" if they are superficially human and "Living Artifacts" if they are clearly not human. Both are subject to a great deal of Fantastic Racism; the eponymous protagonist is an AP and suffers from a crushing inferiority neurosis because of it.
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Designer Babies / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: The God Emperor created each of the twenty Primarchs, using his own DNA, to embody a portion of himself, and deliberately eningeered them to be living demigods. The Lamenters chapter of Space Marines are descended from the Blood Angels who managed to more or less eradicate the Black Rage that plagues their parent chapter thanks to genetic manipulation. Unfortunately, this comes at the cost of suffering From Bad to Worse at every opportunity: getting caught in a Warp storm after a bloody siege, being branded traitors due to a misunderstanding, losing two thirds of their chapter due to said misunderstanding and sent on a crusade as penitence, running into hive fleet Kraken on said crusade... The Leagues of Votann reproduce through mass cloning, using samples taken from their vast genepool to create clone templates called Cloneskeins that are specifically engineered to create whatever type of Kin the Leagues of Votann may need at any given opportunity. However not all of these Cloneskeins are strictly practical, as some are even designed for fashion or cultural indicators; these types of Cloneskeins can manifest in a multitude of ways and can vary from Kin to Kin. The Tau practice this trope on a racial level: parents are preselected based their genetic qualities, mate, and then their child is sent to the education center for indoctrination. The parents take no part in raising it, but some take an interest in their progress. Inverted: Most of the Dark Eldar are grown en masse in People Jars. "Trueborn" children, who are born via the natural breeding process, are a luxury afforded only to the upper class.
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Designer Babies / int_bcd27544	comment	In Genome, many parents choose to "specialize" their children before they're born, if they can afford it. The protagonist mentions that, by law, every Spesh has a right to remove his or her specialization. However, in practice, this never happens. For one, many of the changes in mind and body that occur at puberty and determine their life path are simply irreversible. Furthermore, very Spesh loves his or her job — they're programmed to love it. These modifications range from enhanced logical reasoning for detectives to extra joints for fighters, not to mention enhanced reflexes and strength. Also, starship pilots, detectives, and tax inspectors are incapable of love, as it clouds judgment. On the other hand, hetaeras (call girls) are conditioned to fall in love with their clients and be unable to fall out of love until their client reciprocates. There is plenty of distrust between the Speshs and the Naturals, even though everyone has some sort of gene therapy done on them as a fetus, like corrected eyesight and fixed genetic defects. Some jobs simply cannot be done by Naturals, like power specialists who are genetically modified to handle high doses of radiation (mostly by shielding it with their skin and long hair). Interestingly, at least one job that is assumed to be Spesh-only can be done by an extremely skilled Natural. This is shown in the novel where a Natural becomes a starship navigator, a job that requires one to memorize the multidimensional map of the galaxy and be able to plot a safe and fast course through FTL. He turns out to be a pretty good navigator.
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Designer Babies / int_bd67c74c	comment	Like in CthulhuTech, the first Nazzadi are this in Aeon Entelechy Evangelion. Concerning the 'fic itself, unlike in the game, the Migou didn't stop making new Nazzadi after the mass defection, they just genetically made them better than the traitors and most importantly, absolutely loyal.
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Designer Babies / int_c007e9c8	comment	Space: Above and Beyond had "Tanks", vat-grown, genetically selected humans made to fill a worldwide labor shortage after a partial Depopulation Bomb, and then abandoned when no longer needed. Naturally, they are the target of prejudice and stereotype.
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Designer Babies / int_c095f21d	comment	An interesting variant occurs in Simoun, in which one of the enemy nations has replaced the traditional method of sex selection among the Human Aliens who populate the world: instead of everyone being female until 17, and choosing a sex then, the enemy nation assigns sexes to babies shortly after birth through hormones and surgery.
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Designer Babies / int_c18bfdae	comment	Blade Runner gives us Replicants, artificial humans engineered to perform particular roles, such as heavy laborers, soldiers, and sex workers. In the original film, they're only allowed in the off-world colonies, so special detectives like our protagonist, Rick Deckard, are employed to seek out and "retire" any that make it to Earth. The Nexus 6 series featured in the first film also have a built-in 4-year lifespan as a "safety feature". Rachael is revealed to be a Replicant programmed with false memories to think she was human, and Deckard is implied to potentially be an unwitting replicant as well.
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Designer Babies / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In the episode "The Doctor's Daughter", there's an entire society created by machines which spilt one person's cells into a set of haploid cells and recombines them to make a new adult in seconds. The Time Lords as well if you consider the Expanded Universe Canon. It reveals that Time Lords have been inflicted a species-wide Sterility Plague by a magical queen who was overthrown by Rassilon. So the Time Lords avoided extinction with by using this, even when the curse wears off. Mind you its not like they can't have sex, its because that they have been using this trope for so long they decided to avoid the whole pregnancy process when you can get an instant baby. Ridiculously, the reason for this is because the Doctor's Celibate Hero status is something fans and some writers had already become very protective of by The '80s — but he's got a granddaughter. There were even plans to reveal Susan as not his biological granddaughter onscreen, simply a girl he'd rescued as a child who called him Grandpa or something like that, but Carole Ann Ford said she'd not return for "The Five Doctors" unless she was still his granddaughter. The whole "'looming' babies" thing is all so the Doctor can be said to have never done what most of us must do to have children and therefore grandchildren.
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Designer Babies / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm has the unusual variant of someone — Maddie Pryor a.k.a. Rachel Grey thinking that they're this, when actually, she was stolen at birth.
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Designer Babies / int_c6dbe98e	comment	Monster includes a more realistic variation on the concept — the babies produced by Franz Bonaparta's program including Johan and Anna/Nina are conceived in the normal way and carried by their own biological mothers, but their parents were handpicked by the program's supervisors and manipulated into falling in love.
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Designer Babies / int_c6f7e804	comment	In Blake's 7, crewmember Cally is from Auron, a world where parents clone themselves to create their children. Auron had only started to do it several decades previously, so there were also people who were 'born of natural birth'. Cally herself had a twin sister, Zelda.
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Designer Babies / int_c83a00e4	comment	Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: Asuka is born via artificial insemination from an unknown father. She began to figure out what her genetic makeup had been tinkered with when she started bending titanium with her bare hands and seeing through walls.
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Designer Babies / int_c9617c05	comment	Blade Runner: Blade Runner gives us Replicants, artificial humans engineered to perform particular roles, such as heavy laborers, soldiers, and sex workers. In the original film, they're only allowed in the off-world colonies, so special detectives like our protagonist, Rick Deckard, are employed to seek out and "retire" any that make it to Earth. The Nexus 6 series featured in the first film also have a built-in 4-year lifespan as a "safety feature". Rachael is revealed to be a Replicant programmed with false memories to think she was human, and Deckard is implied to potentially be an unwitting replicant as well. Blade Runner 2049 has seen some changes to the Replicant line. The Nexus 8 series had the lifespan limitation removed, and were allowed to live on Earth for a time, but they were banned as well after The Blackout. A few are still living under the radar on Earth three decades later. Nexus 9 models, such as Officer K and Luv, are designed to be more obedient so as not to be a threat to baseline humans. The film's plot hinges on the potential of replicants to have kids of their own; the heirs of the Tyrell corporation would love to have self-replicating slave labor, but the government is worried about increasingly rebellious slaves being able to breed and raise a generation of rebels — and the possibility of Replicants cross-breeding with humans scares the hell out of them; Replicants only squeeze past the laws against slavery because they're artificial. The revelation that Rachael died of complications from a C-section drives the entire plot. The possibility of Deckard being a replicant is raised again, but left unresolved.
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Designer Babies / int_c97b59d9	comment	In the Secret Wars (2015) version of the New X-Men storyline "E is for Extinction", creating babies with the perfect X-Gene activated is something of a chic thing. However, it's not perfect — a baby born with one ability would end up with a completely different and unknown secondary mutation, so you could have a baby with hyper intelligence, who ended up as a bag of skin later on in life.
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Designer Babies / int_cc503e93	comment	In BattleTech, the "trueborn" warriors of the Clans are an entire caste of super soldiers who are created this way, descendants of the 800 loyalists who served Nicolai Kerensky after the Star League Defense Force exodus — led by his father — collapsed into anarchy. Only those who have proven themselves in battle have the honor of having their "genetic legacy" preserved in the breeding program; between this and being raised in The Spartan Way, perhaps only one trueborn in a hundred actually has any descendants (at least in the warrior caste itself), especially since they are considered to be over the hill at 35 — those over 35 are given just an outdated rifle and used as Cannon Fodder. However, the effectiveness of the program outside of their enormous "Elemental" Powered Armor soldiers is debatable, as physical strength means little in the cockpit of a BattleMech or Aerospace Fighter. In fact, their aircraft pilots are noticeably worse than their normal counterparts in the Inner Sphere.
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Designer Babies / int_cc547db9	comment	In one episode of Picket Fences, it's discovered that a reproductive services clinic is gestating human babies inside of cows. One infertile woman who has contracted for her child to be grown this way says that this is done to bypass the legal minefields associated with hiring a human surrogate mother. ("I own the cow!") Subverted in that nothing is said about selecting for superior genetic traits, and the use of cows as surrogates is voluntary on the part of the parents, albeit done in secret to avoid controversy.
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Designer Babies / int_cdedd56a	comment	Exo Squad has an interesting reversal. While humans are born naturally, the Genetically-engineered Neosapiens are artificially grown by the "brood." At the end of the series, one of the Neosapiens, Marsala, lobbies with the government to allow the creation of one final brood that's capable of natural breeding.
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Designer Babies / int_cf8b8d98	comment	In God Clads, the physical fun of sex and general lust have stopped because of a terrible condition called "wombrash" a condition that kills people if they even think of a lustful thought. Thus, babies have been transitioned to being vat grown for them to not die immediately. Of course, the higher-ups of the settings use genetic modification for the best looks, abilities and more.
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Designer Babies / int_d27550f2	comment	All Coalition (Ourkind) soldiers are created this way in Unlikely Eden.
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Designer Babies / int_d40e472e	comment	In Infinity Beach, genetic engineering is common. The main character, Kimberly, is a clone of her older sister Emily.
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Designer Babies / int_d54b59cc	comment	Demolition Man: "Eeewww, disgusting! You mean... fluid transfer?" It's not made explicit that babies are vat-grown to be "better" than normal babies. It's rather heavily implied that sex is discouraged to avoid the spread of STDs that make AIDS look like a picnic. However, the world has become such a joyless "nanny state" that another highly plausible reason is Sex Is Evil won to the degree that a less "naughty" way of having children had to be found. Presumably, it was also a means of Population Control, as they say "abortion is illegal but so is pregnancy without a permit".
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Designer Babies / int_d58b1a52	comment	In Utawarerumono, it's eventually revealed that the various Little Bit Beastly races actually descend from a vast series of genetic experimentation projects that was undertaken in a hidden underground lab, apparently as part of a project to reclaim the (for some reason) uninhabitable Earth above. Their ancestors were all grown in the titular jars by the human scientists.
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Designer Babies / int_d5916141	comment	Jedi Academy Trilogy gives us the Khommites, who believed their society was perfect, and froze it by cloning themselves for a thousand years. This changed when the 81st clone of Dorsk was found to be Force-sensitive and left to become a Jedi, eventually bringing Khomm into the galactic war they had avoided up to that point due to their planet's isolation and lack of resources that anybody else cared about. Also they are described as being genderless, something they "forsook" when taking up cloning, though only referred to by male pronouns (it appears they mean Khommites have no biological sex, so this wouldn't preclude them identifying that way socially).
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Designer Babies / int_d98ab15	comment	Rave Heart: After the party clears Kor's Facility, Solielle reveals Klein was created through a special process that uses the DNA of ancient and powerful Ciphers. This required the scientists to inject Solielle with a life serum containing the DNA, making her pregnant with Klein. Unfortunately, this caused Klein to vibrate too much, meaning he would die of an ether overload upon birth. In order to save Klein, Solielle had to move to Kardel and stay with Robert Jancarlo because his lower vibrational frequency would prevent the ether overload.
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Designer Babies / int_e0730aee	comment	Dr. Franklin's Island: Doctor Franklin's dream is to create useful animal-human hybrids. When this trope comes up, he sneers and claims that starting from a scratch just won't do for what he wants.
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Designer Babies / int_e18c00b1	comment	Done in Morphic, since the author was specifically trying to go for a more realistic approach to PokÃ©morphs (which are often done as LEGO Genetics).
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Designer Babies / int_e63c8b18	comment	A 'utopian' example is the city of Diaspar, the last bastion of humanity, in The City and the Stars, where humanity appears to have given up on sexual reproduction, in favor of an unimaginably massive database of personalities. Whenever a new person is to be born, a personality is downloaded into a created body, and assigned a couple to be its parents. When a person dies, they may choose what memories of theirs will be carried into their next incarnation, which may be millennia in the future, such is the size of the database, and those memories will become available to their new incarnation once it becomes an adult and has developed a truly unique personality through its childhood. 'Uniques', personalities seemingly generated during the creation process, do occur, but are viewed either as a wonderful accident, one of many little tricks to prevent stagnation, or as some great and possibly subversive plan by Diaspar's architects. Later on, it turns out that there is a second remaining pocket of humanity, Lys, where humans have chosen to be born naturally, and die without the assurance of artificial reincarnation, living an Agrarian lifestyle and having over time developed empathic capabilities. Interestingly however, neither is presented as 'right', rather, as two distinct, viable versions of utopia. The part the book presents as wrong is the two cultures decision to totally isolate themselves from one another.
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Designer Babies / int_e7827035	comment	Bounders: Mental disabilities were engineered out of the population years ago, until scientists discovered that certain conditions might make a person better suited for space travel. Heterosexual couples with dormant genes for conditions like ADHD and autism were selected by the government to have kids, who were created in a petri dish to make sure they got the right combination of genes. Jasper and his friends are the product of this breeding project.
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Designer Babies / int_e84e2d54	comment	In a number of Robot Series stories, Spacers try to reproduce this way, only to find that the fetus only takes fully and grows when conceived the old-fashioned way.
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Designer Babies / int_e9e265b6	comment	The term has become a running joke among players of Fire Emblem: Awakening, as you can optimize the parent characters' marriages to make the future kids into Game Breakers. It turns out that in-story, the Avatar is one of these, specifically bred to be a perfect vessel for Grima.
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Designer Babies / int_ec9965ca	comment	The Culture: Most denizens of the Culture are designer babies, genetically modified to have increased lifespans, longer and stronger orgasms and the ability to naturally synthetize and use drugs with no ill effects.
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Designer Babies / int_ecba79f	comment	Both Serafina and Henriette in Panopticon Quest are these. They're also common in the Technocracy of Mage: The Ascension in general.
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Designer Babies / int_ed86d97	comment	Blue Planet put them on the market in 2074 with Lavender Organics's Transhuman genetic redesign. They're usualy called "Alphas": they're smarter and healthier than the human baseline, heal faster, sleep less, age slower, are immune to cancer, and are expected to never die of old age. With xenosilicate-assisted gene therapy, LavOrg can even make you one after you're born.
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Designer Babies / int_eec3eb25	comment	Kay Dutch, the protagonist of Line of Delirium, turns out to be a genetically engineered "super". His very existence is in danger if this knowledge becomes public, as genetic engineering is against the Imperial law. He is stronger, faster, and smarter than most humans with an affinity for languages (even alien languages). He mostly uses his abilities for mercenary work. His "test tube sister" Lyka Seiker's abilities are more focused on mental calculations, allowing her to rapidly become the leader of an interstellar crime syndicate.
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Designer Babies / int_ef076a36	comment	Apparently genetic resequencing is allowed for medical purposes such as preventing birth defects, but forbidden for "cosmetic" or "augmenting" reasons. In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Lineage", the Doctor uses resequencing to eliminate a spinal defect in B'Elanna's child, but balks at making changes to eliminate or suppress the child's Klingon DNA.
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Designer Babies / int_ef7b3325	comment	Thundra from Fantastic Four came from a future Lady Land Dystopia where babies are engineered in the "Temple of Genetics".
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Designer Babies / int_eff6b25d	comment	Umlaut House 2: Word of God explanation for Rhonda, who has two biological fathers. A throwaway line by her grandmother towards the end of the first series implied that this is fairly common in their era.
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Designer Babies / int_f5be121	comment	Beyond This Horizon has the same gamete-selection process and discrimination as in Gattaca, but it's treated much better by being actually scientific; traits are studied extensively before being integrated into the general population, there is a protected class of "control naturals" just in case any of the selected genes turn out to be a bad idea, and the gene-selected humans won a war against an empire of caste species to show that individual survival drive trumps Brave New World-style human insect hives with custom-bred units. There's also a condemnation of the Uterine Replicator concept; you don't want to risk the genetics for a healthy womb deteriorating — if civilization ever collapsed and humans had to breed naturally again, a lack of healthy reproductive systems and knowledge of reproductive care would doom the entire species.
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Designer Babies / int_f826285a	comment	In the Zachary Nixon Johnson series, the Thompson Quads are four girls who were designed by Dr. Thompson to be superhumanly beautiful, intelligent, and powerful.
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Designer Babies / int_faf0ebf1	comment	Blade Runner 2049 has seen some changes to the Replicant line. The Nexus 8 series had the lifespan limitation removed, and were allowed to live on Earth for a time, but they were banned as well after The Blackout. A few are still living under the radar on Earth three decades later. Nexus 9 models, such as Officer K and Luv, are designed to be more obedient so as not to be a threat to baseline humans. The film's plot hinges on the potential of replicants to have kids of their own; the heirs of the Tyrell corporation would love to have self-replicating slave labor, but the government is worried about increasingly rebellious slaves being able to breed and raise a generation of rebels — and the possibility of Replicants cross-breeding with humans scares the hell out of them; Replicants only squeeze past the laws against slavery because they're artificial. The revelation that Rachael died of complications from a C-section drives the entire plot. The possibility of Deckard being a replicant is raised again, but left unresolved.
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Designer Babies / int_fdf68b4f	comment	Friends of a Solar Empire gives us Twilight Sparkle.
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Designer Babies / int_ff9ab17f	comment	A more benevolent group of genetically engineered humans, who separated and isolated themselves from humanity before it was outlawed, is discovered in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Masterpiece Society". Like the augments, these humans initially believe that their breeding made them superior to normal humans, but after seeing the Enterprise's superior technology, which they could never have even dreamed of despite being designed to be smarter than normal humans, many of them realize that they aren't superior after all and decide to rejoin the human race.
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