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== Live-Action TV ==

* The ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]'' two-parter "[[Doctor Who ~~(TV)~~/NS/Recap/S1 E9 The Empty Child|The Empty Child]]"/"[[Doctor Who ~~(TV)~~/NS/Recap/S1 E10 The Doctor Dances|The Doctor Dances]]" is the former [[Trope Namer]]. It involved a young woman who was haunted by a little boy zombified-by-{{spoiler|nanotech}}, who {{spoiler|turned out to be her son. He was only healed of his zombification after Nancy admitted to him that she was his mother, and the nanogenes recognized the literal 'mother genes' and heal him and everyone else based on their new knowledge.}} Prior to this he'd been walking around spreading [[The Virus]] and calling out "Are You My Mummy?" (and being [[Creepy Child|pretty damned creepy]] while doing so), hence the (former) trope name.

* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' two-parter "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 E9 The Empty Child|The Empty Child]]"/"[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 E10 The Doctor Dances|The Doctor Dances]]" is the former [[Trope Namer]]. It involved a young woman who was haunted by a little boy zombified-by-{{spoiler|nanotech}}, who {{spoiler|turned out to be her son. He was only healed of his zombification after Nancy admitted to him that she was his mother, and the nanogenes recognized the literal 'mother genes' and heal him and everyone else based on their new knowledge.}} Prior to this he'd been walking around spreading [[The Virus]] and calling out "Are You My Mummy?" (and being [[Creepy Child|pretty damned creepy]] while doing so), hence the (former) trope name.

** Bear in mind, this "zombie" had a soulless gas-mask-face, as did every single person who was contaminated. It literally sprouted from their face, leaving them as hypnotized drones who wandered around repeating the former trope title.

* ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' : Bree hides the pregnancy of her teenage girl and pretends to be the mother of her grandson.

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** Bayard Rustin.

* The Guinness Book of Records refuses to accept many well-known historical claims for "oldest mother to successfully carry a child to term" out of suspicion that they were examples of this trope.

* [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Jaycee_Lee_Dugard~~ Jaycee Lee Dugard's] two daughters,(ages 15 and 11) by her rapist and kidnapper Phillip Garrido believed their whole lives that Jaycee was their older sister and that Garrido's wife was their mother. They had to find out the horrible truth after the police finally caught and arrested Garrido.

* [[wikipedia:Kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard|Jaycee Lee Dugard's]] two daughters,(ages 15 and 11) by her rapist and kidnapper Phillip Garrido believed their whole lives that Jaycee was their older sister and that Garrido's wife was their mother. They had to find out the horrible truth after the police finally caught and arrested Garrido.

* Upon the announcement of her candidacy for Vice-President of the United States in the 2008 elections, rumours began to circulate that Gov. Sarah Palin was actually the grandmother of her youngest son, and that his oldest sister was actually his mother. Subverted, as the rumours were soon proved completely unfounded, but it did lead to the announcement that Palin's eldest daughter was pregnant out of wedlock.

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