The 1985 movie D.A.R.Y.L. is about a boy who was grown in a lab

The 1985 movie D.A.R.Y.L. is about a boy who was grown in a lab and enhanced with artificial intelligence.

This is what "Puppets" are. Rapidly-grown, controllable clones.

In the movie, he was created by a group called TASCOM, meant to represent DARPA.

Cloning and mind-control have become a part of so many fictional movies that people have disconnected from the idea that it's all real science.