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A more pitiable variant of the Super-Soldier or Human Weapon, the Sympathetic Sentient Weapon is given increased combat ability by someone with power over them at the cost of their happiness and basic autonomy. The acquisition of their combat abilities is involuntary and often unpleasant or dangerous. More often than not, some branch of Research, Inc. will be behind it — either For Science!, or for profit, and usually at the behest of their malevolent benefactor, as part of some sinister plot. Or it could be the result of any manner of shady business the victim wouldn't voluntarily be a part of. Their enhancements make them formidable, perhaps even nigh unstoppable, but they're still under control of their masters and have no real way to refuse their commands, no matter how traumatizing or morally abhorrent. Because of the inherent risks of keeping traumatized Super Soldiers with multiple reasons to hate them, their masters often control them through some form of coercion, ranging from blackmail, Mind Manipulation or by outright making them mindless — often by way of cybernetic enhancements. There's usually an element of dehumanization, as the victim is likely treated as a weapon, an expendable asset, or an Attack Animal rather than a human being. So expect them to be broken on the inside. While this character is, by definition, in an unhappy situation, if they're sufficiently emotionally numb, under heavy enough brainwashing, or Conditioned to Accept Horror, they might not consciously realize how unfortunate they are. There are multiple scenarios on how this is played: Alice the Dark Magical Girl was raised by the overlord to be a lethal Tyke-Bomb despite a kindhearted nature, leaving her a miserable Broken Bird who only fights the heroes because she is told to. The heroes know she can be saved. Bob the Elite Mook Cyborg is a Living Weapon who has no control over his own actions and laments he Was Once a Man, making him pitiable even as he tries to kill you. Carl the retired Super-Soldier is haunted by the things he did in the war. Debbie was one of the hero's allies, but was captured by the overlord some time ago. Now she resurfaces with an Evil Makeover and a Restraining Bolt, as a Mook Lieutenant. The heroes know she can be saved. See also Tyke Bomb and Human Weapon. Subtrope of Made a Slave and Forced into Evil. Compare I Am Not a Gun, when this is lampshaded, Phlebotinum Girl, and Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds. Henchmen Race combined with Woobie Species results in an army of these. Related to Face–Monster Turn which covers turning someone into something monstrous against their will with variety of reasons and methods. |
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Gunther in Collar 6 was "Project Vojna," a Super-Soldier prototype who was being conditioned into a mindless, remorseless killer. Unfortunately for his handlers, they pushed him too far, and he bolted. | |
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The protagonists of WE 3 are a cat, a dog, and a rabbit who have been turned into killer cyborgs by the military. They are not happy with their situation, and this sci-fi plot device is used to address the larger issues of animal testing and animal rights. | |
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X-23 is a textbook example. She was cloned from Wolverine to be a Tyke-Bomb and has been forced to kill a number of people, including her mother and her sensei. | |
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In the "Homeschooling" arc of Runaways, Klara Prast, whose Back Story included rape, physical abuse, and forced labor, lost control of her plant-controlling powers after an accident and managed to take out a squad of paramilitary thugs. | |
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The version of Deathlok in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is just an average guy who is given killing powers by HYDRA, and is forced to use them on their behalf or else they'll kill his son. | |
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Danny in Danny the Dog, with an emphasis on the dehumanization aspect, since he was raised as a brainwashed human attack dog. | |
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Shining Resonance: It's unknown exactly how long Marion and her twin brother, Ette, were subjected to Joachim's cruel experiments, but she was the only one who survived. Joachim conditioned her to serve as his tool, by giving her enhanced speed and analytical ability. Thankfully, she was eventually rescued by Yuma and his companions. | |
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Viciously subverted by Eveline in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. She's a living bioweapon conditioned to seek out a "family" as a means of spreading her contagion (and as we learn in the sequel, was originally created as a Replacement Goldfish for the Big Bad's late daughter, but was rejected for being an imperfect copy), which is plenty sympathetic for a backstory, but her behavior throughout the story perfectly illustrates the quote "There's a difference between having a sympathetic backstory and actually BEING sympathetic." For as much pathos as is packed into her origin, Eveline is also an absurdly cruel and sadistic Smug Snake who derives outright glee from enslaving, torturing and butchering scores of innocent people, laughing and taunting her victims all the way. To cite one example out of many, she seems especially fond of forcing the protagonist to defend himself with force against his possessed wife and then letting her return to normal right as she collapses and "dies" just to be extra cruel and sadistic, doing this to them twice in the opening sequence and then again in the (non-canon) Downer Ending. Only one of her victims (Jack Baker himself) is shown in-game to feel measurable pity for her in light of this, and even that speaks far more to his sympathetic qualities than it does hers. | |
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The Asura Machina, armor-like magical beings, from Asura Cryin' are this, while they're usually formerly human beings who communicate with their handler via ghost-like astral projection, when summoned into battle, they went into a deep-sleep like state as the Asura Machina is summoned. | |
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In Attack on Titan, this turns out to be the true nature of the Colossal, Armored, and Female Titans. Their nation keeps their people in slavery, keeping them alive as fodder for their war machine and not even considering them human beings. Their families volunteered them for a Tyke-Bomb program as small children, having been promised their freedom in exchange. The children were subjected to Training from Hell and extensive indoctrination, then given a power that will kill them in 13 years. They were sent on a mission to exterminate the people living within the Walls, based on false promises and a made-up threat against the world. Over the years, Bertolt, Reiner, and Annie all begin to psychologically fall apart under the strain of their mission....but are unable to disobey their superiors out of fear for their own lives and those of their families. In the end, only Reiner returned from the mission, becoming a Shell-Shocked Veteran forced to "prove" his usefulness and loyalty by fighting on the front lines of a major war. Even after getting back into his superiors' good graces, he is left simply waiting for his superiors to pick his replacement and kill him. In a private conversation, he breaks down and describes being one of Marley's Warriors as a cursed existence with a "black future". | |
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In Neon Genesis Evangelion, the EVAs are human souls forced into mecha bodies and are forced to do horrible things for questionable reasons, regardless of what they want. | |
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In BioShock Infinite, the Handymen are disabled humans grafted into huge robotic suits and go into a berserk screaming rage when they attack you. However, the human is not in full control. If you listen very carefully, some of their screams are pleas to kill them and warnings to get away. Near one of them you can find a recording from his wife telling him she still loves him. | |
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Most Valkyria in the Valkyria Chronicles series. They're highly sought-after by both sides of the Europan War due to the destructive powers they possess, but those that end up in an army's employ are treated more like weapons that human beings, often up to being referred to as "it". And that's the best case scenario. At worst, they're experimented on in labs (often from childhood) or used as living batteries. It's no wonder most of them are downright broken: Selvaria from the first game is a Love Martyr to the Big Bad, while Crymaria from the 4th game suffers from severe self-worth issues and a desire to be praised, along with not being able to fully control her powers. Noble Demon enemy general Klaus Waltz is the only one to call out her superiors for their treatment of her, and the two end up surviving and becoming a couple after the war. | |
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In Hurog, Oreg is a slave who is bound by dark magic to do everything his master orders him to do. Everything. Someone notices, after watching him fight, that he has been trained as assassin. Not so much a sentient weapon as a sentient swiss knife; he can do a lots of other things besides fighting. While he can materialize a seemingly human body, the dark magic his father inflicted on him turned him into the forsaken child in the Powered by a Forsaken Child castle Hurog. | |
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Warframe: The Dax were the elite soldiers of the Orokin Empire, given enhanced physical abilities with the cost of a Restraining Bolt that keeps them from defying orders or raising a blade against their masters. Some served willingly, but the Orokin didn't exactly believe in concepts like "free will". This is demonstrated in The War Within quest, where the Grineer Queens, former Orokin nobles, force the Old Master Teshin to betray his Tenno pupil and deliver them to the queens for a Grand Theft Me. When the Tenno takes away the Elder Queen's staff, the symbol of her Orokin heritage, at the end of the quest, Teshin is free to slice her head off if you allow him to. Another Dax you can meet outright says that she's glad the Orokin are all gone. The original Warframes are also examples of this, only less successful. The Old War forced the Orokin to find ever more desperate means to fight off the Sentient threat, eventually deciding to forcefully infect their greatest Dax with the Infestation in an effort to make powerful Super Soldiers. While it technically worked, the painful and horrifying transformation process drove these soldiers completely mad, becoming uncontrollable savages that attacked Orokin and Sentient alike. The Orokin tried their usual methods of Cold-Blooded Torture to force them into obedience, but nothing worked and the project was deemed a failure until the Tenno came along and managed to control them. Turns out all they needed was something the Orokin lacked: basic human empathy. |
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In The Order (2007), poor Mulholland Black was turned into a living WMD by the Black Dahlias. | |
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Newtypes (and their counterparts in AU verses) in the Gundam metaseries are often this. They're usually Psychic Children who are forced to pilot extremely powerful units after being raised as soldiers or test subjects. They usually suffer mentally and physically from their powers, and a common storyline is The Hero befriending — or falling in love — with the Newtype and being forced to fight them. | |
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In the Animorphs series, the Hork-Bajir were peaceful, dopey race of herbivores that happened to be living incarnations of the Lightning Bruiser and Absurdly Sharp Claws tropes- making them the perfect shock troops for the Yeerks after being conquered and enslaved. | |
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The Unsullied from A Song of Ice and Fire: They are slave soldiers that are castrated, hooked on medieval magical steroids and put through a brutal regimen of training which most of them do not survive. They are also brainwashed to be obedient and personality-less. Much emphasis is put on how inhumane is their very existence and how Daenerys Targaryen did a good thing by freeing all Unsullied from slavery, encouraging them to develop personality and putting a stop to producing any new ones. | |
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Hell Girl: Ichimoku Ren is a literal example. He's a tsukumogami— i.e., a tool that has gained sentience to become a Youkai. In this case, he used to be a sentient sword, and he can do nothing but watch silently while his wielders used him to slaughter in times of war. | |
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Painwheel from Skullgirls was a young schoolgirl who was kidnapped and turned into a monstrous mind-controlled cyborg Super-Soldier — and boy, is she mad about it! | |
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In Believe, there is Sean, a Tyke-Bomb from Project Orchestra who was being held in reserve because he lacked the emotional stability of the candidates ahead of him. Of course, with Bo having been rescued and Joshua stuck in a coma, Sean automatically moved to the head of the line, and it's clear that he's not happy about it. | |
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Super Robot Wars Z: The Sphere of Leo grants its power from any machine as long as the user is in pain. After many millennia in battle, it wants to not fight anymore and decides to reside in a human, specifically the original character Mail. | |
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Grace from El Goonish Shive. She was created specifically to kill Damien (she has fireproof fur that makes her immune from his fire-based attacks, and special claws that reduce his healing factor), but is naïve, "bubbly", and hates violence. | |
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The cyborgs in Gunslinger Girl have elements of this, considering that they're young girls who didn't consent to any of this, and the side of effects of cyberneticization and associated conditioning will eventually cost them their personalities and lives. Unusually for the trope, some of them have horrific enough backstories that this isn't the worst thing to ever happen to them. | |
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Doctor Who: Rory, a companion and Amy's Love Interest returns from being retgoned as an Auton. It turns tragic when his programming forces him to shoot Amy. Downplayed as he had been brought back for espionage purposes rather than becoming a weapon. The Cybermen, who are essentially Muggles enslaved and forcibly made to Take a Level in Badass. Downplayed, since the Cybermen are more focused on Immortality than becoming living weapons. The Gunslinger in A Town Called Mercy was turned into a One-Man Army cyborg in order to fight in a war, and was discarded once it was won. He resents the man responsible for his transformation for having turned him into a monster with no way of going back. |
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Marsh from Mistborn: The Original Trilogy. Like all Inquisitors, he is inhumanly strong and fast, virtually unkillable, not to mention things like flying through the air thanks to Allomancy. But the process of gaining those powers was gruesome and while for some time he enjoyed autonomy, in later books he is controlled by cosmic entity Ruin, whose aim is basically to bring the world to ruin. He can still think on his own but most of the time he is fully under control of Ruin — and when it is busy somewhere else, he just stands in the middle of a plain, being slowly covered by ash. However, he is instrumental in bringing Ruin's ultimate downfall, and by the time of Wax and Wayne, he is a legendary figure. | |
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Child of the Storm has Maddie in the sequel, who's a textbook example of the 'Alice' variant, a psychic version of the Dark Magical Girl who was raised and programmed to be a weapon after being kidnapped at birth. | |
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier: The Winter Soldier turns out to be Bucky Barnes, Steve's presumed-dead Heterosexual Life Partner. HYDRA turned him into an amnesiac cyborg super-assassin. And it gets even more tragic from there. Not only is he being (essentially) forced to serve the organisation he gave his life to stop, but Captain America: Civil War reveals that he's also a Manchurian Agent — even once he's left HYDRA and assassination behind and regained enough of his memories to navigate his life, he's still forced to carry out whatever reprehensible acts the forces of evil want him to commit, so long as they know the correct trigger words. Activation appears to be something of a painful experience. | |
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Several times throughout the Eleutherophobia series, Tom is disturbed by the idea that he's now the perfect host because the Yeerks turned him into a weapon when they gave him the morphing power. | |
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Variable Geo: Once The Jahana Group becomes aware of Satomi's immense spirit energy, they pressure her into entering the VG Tournament by going after her brother. Damian causes his condition to relapse, then offers to cover the procedure needed to cure him... on the condition that Satomi enter the tournament. She's left with no choice but to accept their terms and is subjected to the "Black Goddess" project, which turns her into a vessel for Miranda Jahana's disembodied spirit. | |
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The titular creature of The Iron Giant is an alien robot with a Gentle Giant personality who really Does Not Like Guns. However, when he faces the human army, it's revealed that he's actually a war machine with hidden weapons that get activated against his will. | |
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The Asurans in Stargate Atlantis are Nanomachines-based life forms that were created by the Ancients to combat the Wraith. As they evolved more human, they've requested to remove the Hate Plague from their programming, only for their creators to respond with wiping them out and erasing from history. They've survived, and decided to take their hate on Ancients' descendants. | |
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When The Authority ran into an evil Captain Ersatz version of The Avengers, the Midnighter managed to talk the Iron Man equivalent away by making him realize he was this ("you're just a weapon with a larynx"). In the epilogue, he writes a letter thanking Midnighter for saving him, having found a home and a family. | |
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Darth Maul in Star Wars Legends most definitely embodies this trope, and is hinted to in current canon, as well. | |
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River Tam in Firefly was a gifted young girl who got turned into a psychic assassin with serious mental health issues. Fortunately, her brother rescued her and is doing his best to help her, but she's still a pretty broken cutie. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager. Captain Janeway convinces the Hirogen, a species whose 'hat' is Hunting the Most Dangerous Game, to use Federation holographic technology instead. However a later episode "Flesh and Blood" reveals the Hirogen increased the sentient ability of the holograms so much that they became self-aware and Turned Against Their Masters. While trying to convinces Voyager's holographic doctor to help them, they run him through a simulation so he can experience what it was like to be hunted and killed constantly, only to be reactivated and go through the whole process again. | |
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YuYu Hakusho. During the Dark Tournament, Team Urameshi encounters a team of fighters who had their minds suppressed as part of Dr Ichigaki's experiment they agreed to in exchange for healing their ill master and were subsequently turned into killing machines. Kuwabara via a psychic link could tell that they were suffering being forced to watch as they killed other people against their will and at one point they stopped fighting long enough to ask for Yusuke to kill them. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Roga Danar, from the episode "The Hunted". | |
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