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What effect this has on the child varies from story to story, and how [[The Reveal]] happens.
See also: [[Luke, I Am Your Father]], [[Luke, You Are My Father]], and [[Stigmatic Pregnancy Euphemism]]. Compare [[Cain and Abel
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== Anime ==
* In ''[[
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* ''[[Chinatown]]'', though here {{spoiler|they were both sisters and mother and daughter; the father, [[Complete Monster|Noah Cross]] had raped his daughter, and she gave birth to a girl.}}
* ''[[Shara]]'': A teenage girl's mother tells her she's actually her aunt.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Tromeo and Juliet]]'', the title characters find out they are, in fact, brother and sister. [[Incest Is Relative|They decide to continue their romantic relationship anyway.]] It is a ''Troma'' movie, after all.
* In ''[[Digging to China]]'', the protagonist learns that {{spoiler|her sister is really her mother after her grandmother (who she thought was her mother) dies.}}
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== Literature ==
* The ''[[Codex Alera]]'' has {{spoiler|Tavi's "aunt", Isana,}} who hides their real relationship from everyone (including her son). She had a damn good reason to do so, though, given that {{spoiler|the boy's father is the presently deceased heir to the realm, meaning that [[Secret Legacy|he's now the sole legitimate heir to the throne]]. Since Septimus was assassinated, she felt that the only way to protect Octavian was via obscurity; as part of this she suppressed his growth to make it appear that he was born too late to be Septimus' offspring. Unfortunately, this accidentally suppressed his [[Person of Mass Destruction]]-level [[Elemental Powers]] as well, leaving him as [[The Call Put Me
* In ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' Lyra's {{spoiler|"Uncle" Lord Asriel was actually Lyra's father, her mother was Mrs. Coulter, making Lyra have a case of both this trope and [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]}}. This masquerade was to cover up an affair.
* The [[Alex Delaware]] novel ''Blood Test'' by Jonathan Kellerman.
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* ''[[Maximum Ride]]'': {{spoiler|Jeb Batchelder is Max's biological father as well as her guardian, and Dr. Martinez is her biological mother.}}
* In ''[[Shanghai Girls]]'', which takes place in the 1920's, {{spoiler|May's daughter is raised by her sister Pearl as her child, since even though May was married, she had never had sex with her husband.}}
* Inverted in the ''Wildflowers'' series by [[
* Chris Crutcher did this in two of his stories. In ''Deadline'', {{spoiler|Dallas}} is really the mother of her younger brother; this is kept a secret because {{spoiler|he was the result of being raped by her uncle at a young age.}} In ''Ironman,'' {{spoiler|Stacy Ryder's}} younger brother is really her and {{spoiler|Preston's}} son.
* Jayfeather, Lionblaze, and Hollyleaf of the ''[[
* In ''[[Great Expectations]]'', {{spoiler|Molly}} and {{spoiler|Abel Magwitch}} are revealed to be the parents of {{spoiler|Estella.}}
* In [[Rafael Sabatini|Sabatini's]] ''[[Scaramouche]]'', {{spoiler|Mme. la Comtesse de Plougastel}} to Andre-Louis.
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'''Kat Slater:''' (Zoe's "sister") ''Yes I am!'' }}
* Similarly on ''[[Playing The Field]]'', a BBC TV drama series about a women's football team. Because there's only so long you can get women to watch a series about football, it fairly quickly wound up as a series about sex, relationships, and Aren't Men Awful, and this trope naturally turned up in due course: two of the team members were actually mother and daughter and not sisters as the younger one thought. (The mother wasn't raped, except in the statutory sense; she had an under-age but fully consensual affair with a much older man, and refused to identify him when she fell pregnant. Naturally, he's about the place in the series too.)
* Happened in an episode of ''[[Millennium (TV series)|Millennium]]''.
* The Janitor in ''[[Scrubs]]'' claims to have made several traumatic discoveries along these lines. He's a compulsive liar, though.
* Occurred in the ''[[CSI]]'' episode "Blood Drops," although the child in question is not privy to [[The Reveal]].
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* An episode of ''[[Numb3rs]]'' revolving around a polygamist cult featured a pair of women who were sisters ''and'' mother and daughter (unknown to the daughter until some way into the episode).
* The 1990 TV miniseries version of ''[[Phantom of the Opera]]'', with Charles Dance. In it, it is revealed that the operahouse's old manager is Erik's father, but he has pretended to be a more distant relative, 'out of cowardice'. Towards the end, he reveals the truth to Erik, who in a slight subversion says he'd known it, and wondered when he would tell the truth. The same thing happens in the Yeston-Kopit musical version, which had the same writer.
* Oddly enough, [[Played for Laughs]] - sort of - in ''[[30 Rock
* On ''[[Veronica Mars]]'', Jackie's 'younger brother' is revealed to be her son--a fact he is not aware of, as he calls his grandmother 'mom'.
* In the Australian soap ''[[Home and Away]]'', Charlie is revealed to be Ruby's mother, born after Charlie was raped. Charlie's parents raised the baby as their daughter. When Ruby finds out, she goes ape about it, before finally forgiving Charlie for the deception.
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* On ''[[The Parkers]]'' (a spin-off of ''Moesha,'' above), Nikki is shocked to discover (on a family trivia [[Game Show]], no less) that she was adopted. Her biological mother turns out to be her aunt.
* Occasionally encountered in ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]''.
* Original ''[[Law
* In ''[[Neighbours]]'', Lyn Scully discovered that her Aunt Valda was actually her mother, who had gotten pregnant with her at a young age and been forced by her family to give baby Lyn to her older, married sister.
* ''[[
* ''[[Frasier]]'' discussed this trope when Roz got pregnant and decided to raise her kid on her own.
* On ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'', {{spoiler|Elena}} learns that her uncle is actually her biological father; she was born when he was a teenager, and after the mother left town, he gave his daughter to his much-older brother and his [[But I Can't Be Pregnant|supposedly infertile]] wife to raise as their own child.
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== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[
* ''[[
** And then {{spoiler|after the scratch, we have the original kids swapped with their ectbiological parents. Jane Crocker is raised by Dad, who is now her grandson. Jake was adopted by his daughter, Jade. [[Time Travel|Time]] [[Precision F-Strike|fucking]] [[Time Paradox|shenagins]].}}
* In ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/Dragon_City Dragon City]'', {{spoiler|Beatrix's case is a little different. She and her "older sister" Erin traveled back in time to when Beatrix's egg was laid. It was at this point that Erin lays Beatrix's egg, though she ends up getting raised by their mother of that time period (who mistook it for one of her own eggs).}}
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== Western Animation ==
* One episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
* ''[[The Venture Bros]]'' has the reveal that {{spoiler|Dermott is the son of Rusty Venture and the fifteen-year-old president of his fanclub}}, and was raised by the mother of his biological mother.
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