Her Child, but Not His/Playing With


 * Basic Trope: A couple has a child that looks very different from either parent, implying that he/she was fathered by someone else.
 * Played Straight: Alice is married to Bob, but has an affair with Jamal. Nine months later, she gives birth to a black baby.
 * Exaggerated: Alice has several children that look nothing like Bob.
 * Justified:
 * Alice has been cheating.
 * Alice and Bob used donor eggs and/or sperm to conceive, and they came from someone with very different looks.
 * Alice wasn't cheating, but she was raped, and became pregnant as a result.
 * Alice and Bob are both biracial; it's just the way the genes combined.
 * Bob had unprotected sex with Charlotte, who had had unprotected sex with Jamal just hours before (or they had a threesome), then Bob went and had sex with Alice, which gave her both his own sperm and that of Jamal.
 * Inverted:
 * Alice and Bob have children that look like them.
 * Shaniqua gives birth to a white baby, despite being married to Jamal.
 * Subverted:
 * Any of the reasons under "Justified" that don't involve cheating.
 * The child looks like neither Alice nor Bob, but is stated to be an adopted child.
 * Alice and Jamal use a condom.
 * Double Subverted:
 * But everyone assumes Alice cheated, and judges her (and her children) accordingly.
 * But Alice becomes pregnant by him anyway.
 * Deconstructed:
 * Reconstructed:
 * Parodied:
 * Alice has been cheating with Jamal, and gives birth to a black baby. Bob still thinks it's his child.
 * The baby is a tentacle monster, because of an encounter Alice had with Naughty Tentacles nine months ago.
 * Lampshaded:
 * Averted:
 * Alice and Bob are faithful to one another, or are not in a relationship of any kind.
 * Alice has an affair with Jamal, but does not become pregnant.
 * Enforced:
 * Invoked: Alice finds herself in bed with Jamal, but they have no protection.
 * Defied:
 * Alice and Jamal stop, either out of guilt or lack of protection.
 * Alice is on the Pill, and makes Jamal use a condom.
 * Discussed:
 * Conversed:
 * Played For Laughs: Bob is more surprised than upset.
 * Played For Drama: Almost always is.