Genius Breeding Act: Difference between revisions

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== Literature ==

* In [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[Known Space]]'' stories, the Earth is so overpopulated that in order to have children at all, one has to be extraordinarily talented (high intelligence, good teeth, superior eyesight, cancer resistance, etc.). A very few Einstein-level geniuses get Unlimited Breeding Licenses that basically allow them to have all the kids they want.

* The Arisians of ''[[Lensman]]'' have been running massive breeding programs for millions of years to develop humans with enough mental ability (both in intelligence and [[Psychic Powers]]) to finally defeat the Eddorians. To do this, they have used infiltrators in human society, control over the [[Amplifier Artifact~~|Amplifier Artifacts~~]] that allow Lensmen to use their [[Psychic Powers]], and outright [[Mind Manipulation]] to make sure that the right people breed with each other (and, even more importantly, that people who aren't supposed to breed before it's time ''don't''). When it comes time for Kimball and Clarissa to be married and produce the Children of the Lens, virtually the entire Galactic Patrol and the universe itself seem to [[Shipper on Deck|start shipping them together]].

* The Arisians of ''[[Lensman]]'' have been running massive breeding programs for millions of years to develop humans with enough mental ability (both in intelligence and [[Psychic Powers]]) to finally defeat the Eddorians. To do this, they have used infiltrators in human society, control over the [[Amplifier Artifact]]s that allow Lensmen to use their [[Psychic Powers]], and outright [[Mind Manipulation]] to make sure that the right people breed with each other (and, even more importantly, that people who aren't supposed to breed before it's time ''don't''). When it comes time for Kimball and Clarissa to be married and produce the Children of the Lens, virtually the entire Galactic Patrol and the universe itself seem to [[Shipper on Deck|start shipping them together]].

* In ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'', it's briefly suggested that the four members of the ''Gay Deceiver'' crew ought to have babies together, as they're all extremely intelligent and would presumably pass that on to their offspring. By the time we meet them in the sequel, ''[[The Cat Who Walks Through Walls]]'', they have, and the kids are indeed geniuses.

* ''[[Brave New World (novel)|Brave New World]]'' has a very developed version of this trope. Embryos are created in labs, and people are born into different classes: Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma, and Epsilon. These groups are engineered to have different intelligence levels both through genetic selection and differences in their artificial fetal environment; for example, an Alpha is made from Alpha gametes ''and'' incubated in an optimal fetal environment.

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== Film ==

* The premise behind the 1994 romantic comedy ''I.Q''. [[Albert Einstein]] does some [[Playing Cyrano]] when his niece is attracted to a garage mechanic but insists on marrying an intelligent stuck-up [[Jerkass]] so their children will have a high IQ. Einstein and his fellow scientists make the mechanic look smarter than he ~~is -- she~~ eventually sees through the ruse [[All's Well That Ends Well|but marries him anyway]].

* The premise behind the 1994 romantic comedy ''I.Q''. [[Albert Einstein]] does some [[Playing Cyrano]] when his niece is attracted to a garage mechanic but insists on marrying an intelligent stuck-up [[Jerkass]] so their children will have a high IQ. Einstein and his fellow scientists make the mechanic look smarter than he is—she eventually sees through the ruse [[All's Well That Ends Well|but marries him anyway]].

== Live Action TV ==

* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', Rattigan explains his master plan for a new world to the other [[Teen Genius~~|Teen Geniuses~~]] he'd collected, and mentions that he's written up a breeding program. They are appropriately appalled.

* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', Rattigan explains his master plan for a new world to the other [[Teen Genius]]es he'd collected, and mentions that he's written up a breeding program. They are appropriately appalled.

* In the first scene of the first episode of ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' Sheldon & Leonard go to a sperm bank that only accepts donations from people with high IQs.

* One episode of ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' dealt with smart and/or successful men getting sperm-jacked by an unscrupulous woman and her mother for use at a geniuses-only sperm bank.