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{{quote|''We're supposed to forget the struggles we've just witnessed and join in the euphoria. After all, a birth represents a joyful new beginning and, conveniently, a happy ending.''|''[http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/29/abortion1.html Bright Lights Film Journal]''}}
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Sometimes you have a [[Happily Ever After]] situation, but it just isn't heartwarming enough. Maybe [[They Do|the marriage]] happened earlier in the season; perhaps the couple was [[Arranged Marriage|already betrothed]] but weren't able to consummate the union. Perhaps you need some [[Denouement]] to confirm that, yes, really, it really was happy. Maybe the [[Bittersweet Ending]] is short on "sweet". Or, maybe, you just want to make things [[Tastes Like Diabetes|as sweet as possible]]. The answer? Skip ahead a bit to show the [[Happily Married]] couple...and their adorable new baby. [[Squee|Awwwww!]]
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Or, if we cut to the future, show them [[Home, Sweet Home|at home]] with their growing children. Generally a whole brood, as a mundane equivalent to [[Fertile Feet]], or demonstrating that [[Mordor]] has [[No Ontological Inertia]]. (See also [[Hope Sprouts Eternal]].) If the ending is not [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends]], unmatched friends often appear in the role of [[Honorary Uncle]]; conversely, [[Weddings for Everyone]] may result in loads of underfoot children. And expect the newborns to be [[Dead Guy, Junior|named after dead friends]] or teammates who had made [[Heroic Sacrifices]] during the course of the story, clearing the path for the heroes' victory at the cost of their own lives.
It seems that the [[Law of Inverse Fertility]] gets inverted once you get past the climax. Even if one or both were confirmed as
The [[Bittersweet Ending]] often shows a [[Dead Guy, Junior]] in this situation. [[Her Heart Will Go On]] may entail the discovery that she is pregnant after the father is dead: he's gone, but he's left her [[Someone to Remember Him By]].
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The rationale for this trope is related to [[Babies Make Everything Better]]. Compare [[Birth-Death Juxtaposition]]. Not to be confused with [[Wave of Babies]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* In the ''[[Itazura na Kiss]]'' anime, {{spoiler|[[media:
* ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'', on the last page of the last chapter. {{spoiler|It's a girl, her parents are Yusaku and Kyouko, and her name is Haruka.}}
* The ''[[Inuyasha]]'' manga ends this way. {{spoiler|Sango and Miroku have twin girls, and then a baby boy!}}
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* At the end of ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' there is Gohan and Videl with their daughter Pan, and Bulma and Vegeta with their second child, Bra.
** And in one [[Non-Serial Movie]], it shows that Goku and Vegita's lines are still around (and [[Identical Grandson|completely identical to their ancestors]] some seven generations later.
* ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]''. The title character (Nadia, married to Jean), the narrator ( {{spoiler|Samson}} of the [[Terrible Trio]], married to [[
* The last chapter of ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]''. It shows a few couples ({{spoiler|Matt and Sora}} and {{spoiler|Ken and Yolei}}) that got together and ones that didn't, [[Ship Sinking|much to the disappointment of some fans.]]
* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''. Awwwww, {{spoiler|Boushin, Emperor Hotohori's cuuute son. Hikari Sukunami. Mom is Miaka Yuuki, Dad is Tamahome's reincarnation Taka Sukunami.}}
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* At the end of ''[[Suzuka]]'', the main couple has a baby. Although it raise a big fuss in their family; at least, it's settled down at the last chapter.
* ''[[Daa! Daa! Daa!|Daa Daa Daa]]'' (a.k.a. ''UFO Baby'') ends with an episode showing Miyu and Kanata, the protagonists, [[Happily Married]] and with a cute little baby of their own {{spoiler|(only a normal human one, though).}}
* In ''[[Kurogane Communication]]'', Haruka and Kitano return to earth with their
* Implied in the manga epilogue of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]''. Azmaria has a grandchild shown in the [[Distant Finale]], and considering his resemblance to Joshua and the fact that they're shown with their hands clasped with a ring on Az's finger, they likely married and had at least one child together.
* The kitty variation shows up in ''[[Princess Tutu]]''. The tomcat teacher who is so desperate to marry is shown as a normal cat now, walking with a white cat and a line of kittens following them.
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* Shows up a lot in fan art, especially for series where the [[Official Couple]] is subject to a [[Bittersweet Ending]] or [[Downer Ending]].
* Subverted in ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5996745/1/Fullmetal_Alchemist_Forever Fullmetal Alchemist: Forever]''. Granted this fanfiction is a sequel to canon and nearly everyone couple has children at some point, but this isn't a [[WAFF]] at all: {{spoiler|Al exclaims that he hates his brother, Ed and Winry consider a divorce, Al has to go back into his suit of armour, and one of the babies in question is knocked up by the other at age twelve}}. Every heartwarming moment that comes attached to the kids is balanced by something darker.
* ''[[DC Nation]]'' has several child
* ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'' has this for the ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' cast.
* The freeware Mario game ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Mario Forever]]'' (Not to be confused with the [[Platform Hell]] hack known as Super Mario Forever) featured, as part of the ending, Mario and Peach disappearing into a castle, and then, accompanied by the text "Nine Months Later", several baby versions of Mario ran out of the front door.
* ''[[A Growing Affection]]'' has a [[Distant Finale]] showing two-thirds of the couples have had kids and/or are currently expecting.
* Averted in ''[[Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'' fanfic ''[
* [[Subverted]], [[Deconstructed]], and otherwise completely [[Playing with a Trope|demolished]] into a [[Squick
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* Animated Disney movie examples:
** The ending of ''[[The Lion King]]'', with Simba and Nala's cute little cub, who becomes the main character in the sequel. That cub [[Retcon|becomes]] [[Bratty Half-Pint|a lot]] of [[Gender Flip|things]].
** The end of Disney's ''[[Bambi (Disney film)|Bambi]]'' has Faline giving birth to twin fawns with Bambi looking on.
** ''[[Lady and the Tramp]]''.
** The sequel to ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' shows this is the case for Ariel and Eric.
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* At the end of ''That Touch of Mink'', with Cary Grant and Doris Day, with the added little twist that a psychologist thinks the baby is the product of two men who married.
* Also at the end of ''Lover Come Back'', with Rock Hudson and Doris Day. That Doris got around.
* Doc and Clara introduce their two boys, [[Shout Out| Jules and Verne]], at the end of ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future
* ''[[Look Who's Talking]]'' ends with the complaints of the infant protagonist's newborn baby sister.
* ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'' ends with the [[Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born|births]] of [[The Hero|Luke]] and [[Lady of War|Leia]], and features a [[Continuity Nod]] to a famous scene from ''[[A New Hope]]''.
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* ''Turner And Hooch''. This does not compensate for the [[Downer Ending]] which even [[Tom Hanks]] has admitted was a mistake.
* ''[[French Kiss]]'' ends with Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan romping in the vineyard with their son.
* Awesomely [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in ''[[The Big Lebowski]]''
* In the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] of ''[[Little Nicky]]'', Nicky (Adam Sandler), the son of Satan, is revealed to be raising a bouncing baby hellspawn with his love interest.
* The epilogue of ''[[Big Daddy]]'', another Sandler film, is set over a year later at Sonny's birthday party. Julian is accompanied by his father and [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|stepmother]], and Sonny and Layla are married with a new baby.
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* In the end credits for the Shelley Long [[Rom Com]] ''Hello Again'', we see the heroine with her doctor husband, bouncing their baby twins on her knee.
* ''[[Immortal (film)|Immortal]]'' by [[Enki Bilal]] ends with Jill having {{spoiler|Horus' baby. Whom, even has an infant, can turn into a hawk and hunt Parisian pigeons}}.
== Literature ==
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* There's plenty that's dark about the final act of ''[[Jane Eyre]]'', but in the last two pages or so nearly all of that is swept aside in favor of [[WAFF]]. Not only is Jane and Rochester's newborn son one of the last images we get, we also get {{spoiler|Rochester miraculously regaining his sight in his one remaining eye so he can see the face of his child.}}
* By convention Victorian novels had a [[Tastes Like Diabetes|saccharine]] last chapter in which this was a frequent occurrence. Wilkie Collins's ''[[The Woman in White]]'' and ''[[The Moonstone]]'' end this way, though in the latter it's followed by an epilogue with the ''proper'' ending.
* In [[Charles Dickens]]' ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]'', David is united with {{spoiler|Agnes}} at the end of the book. Cue time lapse and a heartwarming scene of them living with their young children.
* In [[Charles Dickens]]'s ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'', Sydney Carton's death will be followed Charles and Lucy Darnay having another child, [[Dead Guy, Junior|who will be named for him]].
{{quote|''I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, [[Tear Jerker|in that England which I shall see no more]]. I see Her with a child upon her bosom, who bears my name. ''}}
* [[Charles Dickens]]'s ''[[Hard Times]]'' ends with asking weather each character imagines various events will happen to them in their future, then after each paragraph says "such things were to be". Then a fairly typical
{{quote|''[[Subverted Trope|Such a thing was not to be.]]
[[Double Subversion|But, happy Sissy's happy children loving her]]; all children loving her...'' }}
* Meyer's ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' ends on this. Notable for being incredibly [[Squick|repulsive]] instead of heartwarming.
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* Will and Eleanor have three daughters in the epilogue to ''[[The Road to Wellville]]''.
* In Philip Reeve's ''Predator's Gold'', Hester is pregnant at the end.
* Not exactly an ending trope, but in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] just about anyone who has gotten married, be they a main from the movies, an [[Ascended Extra]], or an original, has had children at some point. Almost always one boy, or a set of male-female twins. The exception to that would be [[X Wing Series|Wedge and Iella]], who had two nontwin daughters. The only [[Happily Married]] couple who didn't have kids would be Winter and
* ''[[Little Women]]'': Although Meg had her twins earlier in the book, the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] chapter shows Jo now with two young sons (and a school full of surrogate sons) and Amy with a baby daughter. Interestingly, only Meg has any more children in the sequels set after this chapter.
* Very common theme in ''[[Ender's Game|The Ender Wiggin Saga]]'', with the author [[Author Filibuster|explicitly and shamelessly inserting long speeches about how saving humanity is nothing compared to extending your line]]. Even people completely uninterested in sex (i.e. a man with no interest whatsoever) will settle down and get married, satisfied with adopted children but still hoping for a turkey baster miracle. This is because Mormonism places emphasis on having children.
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* ''[[The Hunger Games (novel)|The Hunger Games]]'': At the end of ''Mockingjay''. There is [[Someone to Remember Him By]] for {{spoiler|Annie}}, and {{spoiler|it takes fifteen years, but Peeta persuades Katniss}}.
* Very odd example in ''[[Goblin Market]]''. Both Lizzie and Laura have children in later years, but we aren't told anything about the children's fathers. Sisterhood is depicted as more important than marriage, despite the fact that both characters are now married.
* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[Prospero's Daughter|Prospero Regained]]'', {{spoiler|Astreus}} observes at the end that he and {{spoiler|Miranda}} can both
* The ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel "The Fire and the Rose" ends with {{spoiler|Spock and his love interest in the story, Alexandra, with a baby girl after they get married}}. This book is part of a self-contained trilogy separate from both established canon and the [[Star Trek Novel Verse]].
* In the ''[[Age of Fire]]'' books, the first novel ends with the dragon AuRon settling down with Natasatch, lovingly embracing around a clutch of eggs. In the last lovel, set decades later, the novel ends with his now-pregnant sister Wistala and her mate [[Dhar Sii]] flying off to their home cave.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'': Played
* At the end of ''[[Coupling]]'', the main couple Steve and Sue have a baby. It's an ending which tends to divide
* ''[[Spaced]]'' has an epilogue where Tim and Daisy [[Hooked Up Afterwards|have a child]].
* The series finale of ''[[Lois and Clark]]''. They came downstairs to find said baby mysteriously in their living room with no idea of where it came from. {{spoiler|Had the promised fifth season gone ahead, Word of God has it that it would have turned out to be one of their descendants, brought to the present by H G Wells to avoid it dying in the future.}}
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* There's a pretty creepy one in the [[Distant Finale]] of ''[[Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!|Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job]]''. After an elderly Tim and sex-changed Eric reunite fifty years later, there's a montage featuring their wedding and the absurd amount of babies they have together. ([[Downer Ending|followed by Tim's slow death and Eric finding another man, much to the dismay of Tim's ghost]].)
* ''[[Doctor Who]]''
** Subverted '''extremely''' cruelly in the series 3 episode ''[[Doctor Who
** And subverted again in ''Amy's Choice'', a Season 5 episode where the Doctor, Amy and Rory wind up in what initially appears to be a flash-forward in Amy and Rory's lives to a time when they're happily married and settled in an idyllic village, with a baby on the way. However, it soon turns out to be a nightmarish dream-world construction specifically deigned to torture Amy into making a choice between her life with the Doctor and her potential life with Rory.
* Variant in ''[[Dollhouse]]'': the [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] couple(Priya/Sierra and Tony/Victor) had a son between "The Hollow Men" and Epitaph One. {{spoiler|All three survive to the end of the series.}}
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* ''[[The Nanny]]'' ends with not only Fran and Maxwell having twins, but C.C. and Niles discovering C.C.'s pregnant.
* Teased in the penultimate episode of ''[[Firefly]]''. {{spoiler|After the [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|events]] of [[The Movie]] becomes [[Someone to Remember Him By]] in the comics.}}
* The series finale of ''[[Star Trek:
* During the finale of the TV mini-series ''[[The Tenth Kingdom]]'', [[Little Bit Beastly|Wolf]] reveals to Virginia that he [[Mysterious Animal Senses|knows]] she's "got a little wolf cub growing inside" of her. Wolf also makes the none-too-subtle comment to Tony of "See you soon, grampa!" before stepping into the traveling mirror.
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== Video Games ==
* ''Dragon's Lair II'' begins with numerous children of varying ages, which makes ''[[Dragon's Lair]]'' qualify as
* After the final battle in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', {{spoiler|Raiden}} is recuperating from his injuries when {{spoiler|Rose introduces him to their son, who had previously stated to be miscarried.}} Turns out it was all a cover to protect the kid from the Patriots.
* The endings of both ''[[Grandia (video game)|Grandia]]'' and ''[[Grandia III]]'' show the children of the two lead characters. One kid in the third game, but ''five'' in the first, apparently a pair of twins and a set of triplets.
* Ending Tu fui ego eris in ''[[Haunting Ground]]''... Zigzagged in a terrible and creepy way. Followed by [[Laughing Mad]].
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* This is how ''[[Fire Emblem]] 7'' ends, which also serves to give the protagonists of ''[[Fire Emblem]] 6'' a cameo role, seeing as FE7 is a prequel to FE6.
* ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'' ends with the hatching of the Yoshi eggs that Mario saved.
* One of the endings of ''[[Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al
* In ''[[Aquaria (video game)|Aquaria]]'', the protagonist ends up having a child with her [[Love Interest]], {{spoiler|that is then set up as the protagonist for the sequel in the [[Multiple Endings|secret ending]].}}
* Implied in the end of ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'', as the ending cutscene includes the wedding of the [[Official Couple]], and confirmed in the [[Sequel]], given [[Spin Offspring|who a major character in it is]].
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* This trope is completely inverted in ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon|F.E.A.R.]] 2''. The game ends with Alma pregnant with the {{spoiler|protagonist}}'s baby because she {{spoiler|raped him while he was busy [[Battle in the Center of the Mind|fighting the final boss within his mind]].}} Since this sets up the story for the third game, ''this is not a good thing''.
* Zoe and Twinsen's baby is born at the end of ''[[Little Big Adventure]] 2''.
* The ''[[Wild
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* Several female characters are pregnant or have already given birth by the ending of ''[[Ōkami|Okami]]''. Later becomes [[Spin Offspring]] with ''[[Ōkamiden|Okamiden]]''.
* One of the final scenes of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'' shows this happening to Rusl and Uli. Granted they were married with a child for the course of the game and Uli's pregnancy is both visually noticeable and plot-related, the fact that they show the baby at the end makes it count.
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* In the end of ''[[Baldur's Gate|Baldurs Gate]]: Throne of Bhaal'', {{spoiler|Aerie}} gave birth to CHARNAME's son and, later in the epilogue, his daughter. {{spoiler|Viconia}} also give birth to his son in the epilogue and, if you have installed the Ascention mod, so is {{spoiler|Jaheira}} If you've installed her mod, {{spoiler|Saerileth}} has a LOT of children with CHARNAME, and if you've installed the Ascention mod, a female CHARNAME can have a daughter with {{spoiler|Anomen.}}
* In the epilogue of ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'', {{spoiler|Welkin and Alicia}} have one. Their daughter is also called {{spoiler|Isara in memory of his sister.}} It's nice to hear that {{spoiler|Welkin}} got laid.
* ''[[Final Fantasy X
* In the ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' DLC for ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', if you romanced Liara in the first game and stayed faithful, you can suggest this as a possibility in the future (presumably after the Reapers are defeated).
{{quote|'''Liara:''' So, tell me what you want. If this all ends tomorrow, what happens to us?
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* ''[[G Senjou no Maou]]'' subverts a [[Bittersweet Ending]] in the epilogue by having the main character meet his 7 year old daughter after being imprisoned for 8 years.
* In the ''[[Toradora!]]'' PSP game, Taiga will get pregnant with Ryuji's child if you choose to play her route.
* In ''[[Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai!|Oreimo]]'' PSP game, Ayase will be pregnant with Kyosuke's child if you choose to play her route and acquire the true ending.
* {{spoiler|Mizuki's}} Good Ending in ''[[Yume Miru Kusuri]]'', though it's cruelly subverted in the Bad Ending.
* ''[[Ever 17]]'' ''technically'' ends this way. {{spoiler|While the kids in question were already teenagers by the ending, it was the first time their father had met them and it had been many years since they were last reunited with their mother, so it still counts.}}
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== Web Original ==
* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5D4G4jk5_I&feature=channel this video] from ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* Shaggy fantasizes this trope in ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby Doo]] and the Alien Invaders'', imagining himself and Crystal with Shaggy Jr. Scooby and Amber, Crystal's golden retriever, likewise have puppies. {{spoiler|Averted because Crystal and Amber turn out to be aliens, albeit benevolent ones.}}
* In one animated short called ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy-a_cZxq3I Monkey Love]'', you see that a human sailor and his monkey princess are [[Happily Married]], and their kids are [[Half-Human Hybrid
* ''[[Wakfu]]''
** The season 1 [[Where Are They Now]] ending reveals that Miranda is pregnant with Kabrok's child.
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* Some studies show that this is true for a lot of major conflicts. Some scholars even claim the ending of the biblical story of [[Cain and Abel]], with Cain building a city and naming it after his newborn son, as an allegory for this phenomenon.
** The Baby Boom after [[World War II]].
** Averted after [[World War I]],
* Happened after the Black Plague ended in Europe. After the epidemic, reports stated that one could look around and have a hard time seeing a woman of child bearing age who ''wasn't'' pregnant. At the time, a baby had a greater chance of dying at some point in its childhood than it did of surviving to adolescence. The Baby Factory model was likely the only way to ensure a stable population. Though the drastic reduction in population also meant there was plenty of food for the ones that survived.
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