Genius Breeding Act: Difference between revisions

* In the ''[[Relationships Series]]'', The "Higher Ups" actually were pushing Yuuno to get with Nanoha and trying to keep Fate from being near Nanoha to push this through.

* 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]]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''). There's even a mention that the fact that humans breed back towards the mean isn't a concern, because a side-effect of the breeding program is that the mean (''very'' slowly) approaches the result that the Arisians need with every generation. 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 ''[[Ender's Game]]'', this is mentioned as one reason the government allowed Ender to be born, despite being a usually illegal third child. His parents and siblings were so intelligent, they figured any future kids would have to be around the same intelligence, and they still needed their genius military commander.

* 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.

* ''[[Sequence]]'' {{spoiler|The entire plot of the game is the main leads are in a [[Batman Gambit]] arranged to make them fall in love and reproduce.}}

* ''[[Futurama]]'' mentions a Genius Breeding Act from a time when aliens landed on Earth and forced the smartest members to mate continuously. Farnsworth was disappointed that the latest alien invasion wasn't going to involve this.

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