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The two may be lovers, who have now become a family through adoption, a helpful donor, or [[Homosexual Reproduction|through the wonders of magic or science]]. The two may be close siblings (but not ''[[Incest Is Relative|that]]'' close) or the best of friends, with one of them wishing to help out their single parent buddy. The two may be in that very fine line between the previous two examples, giving much [[Ship Tease]] and [[Ho Yay]] to the delight of their fans.

* ''[[Lyrical Nanoha|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' has Vivio with Nanoha and Fate (pictured above). Vivio calling them both "Mama" for the first time was accompanied by the sound of the Nanoha/Fate shippers going '''[[Squee]]'''. The Has Two Mommies trope is later [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by a minor character.

{{quote| "Ah I see, so she's their daughter... [[Fridge Logic|wait a second here...]]"}}

** Fate once tells Vivio that she has two mothers herself, albeit in a different sense, mentioning Precia as her biological mother and Lindy as her adoptive one.

** And before all of that, we have Reinforce Zwei, who Hayate created based off of data from the original Reinforce and herself.

* ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]'''s second and third seasons center around four/five 10/11 year old girls (Doremi, Aiko, Momoko, Hazuki and Onpu) and a 5/6 year old girl (Poppu) taking care of the baby Hana-chan.

* The main character of the CLAMP manga ''[[Man of Many Faces]]'' has two mothers who were twin sisters, which he called Mommy A and Mommy B. He also had a father who's mostly a [[Disappeared Dad]] except one time he disguised himself as Santa to see his son on Christmas Eve.

* Two of the women in ''[[Iono the Fanatics]]'' [[Homosexual Reproduction|have a child together]] through the power of science in the epilogue.

* The Arume in ''[[Blue Drop]]'' have [[Homosexual Reproduction|two female parents]] by definition, since [[One-Gender Race|that race only consists of women]]. They also only interbreed with earth women, so their hybrid offspring has two mothers as well.

** Another episode had a Smoochum with ''three'' [[One-Gender Race|mommies]].

* ''Almost'' there in ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'': Regardless of Leon being Chris's brother, he's a parental figure... and so is Count D.

* The behind-the-dust-cover [[Omake]] to ''[[The Day of Revolution]]'' features a child referred to only as 'Junior,' who was raised by Megumi and Makoto. Various origins for the kid are proposed in order of increasing unlikelihood.

* Not a straight example ([[Ho Yay|har]]) but Fay D. Flourite of ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' likes to think of himself and Kurogane (Dad) as parental figures to Syaoran and Sakura.

* {{spoiler|Cibo and Sana-Kan}} from ''[[Blame]]''. In a very literal sense, considering the child is composed of genes from both of them, with {{spoiler|Cibo}} as the mother, and {{spoiler|Sana-Kan}} as the father. Somehow.

* Motoko Gettou in ''[[Change 123]]'' has ''three'' fathers, and it is each of their training that lead to... her [[Split Personality]] problem.

* One more from CLAMP, though it was more of a joke: an omake of ''[[Legal Drug]]'' was an alternate universe in which Kakei explained to his son Kazahaya that he was remarrying to Saiga (Rikuo's father), and asked Kazahaya to call him "Mommy" from now on, "to avoid confusion". Kazahaya's brain protested.

 

 

** [http://rinacat.deviantart.com/art/KP-Agni-and-Shego-77254514 Potentially Agni] (If Kim ends up as adoptive mother)

** [http://kigo-kids.deviantart.com/ Now there is even a group for the kids of Kim and Shego]. Popular indeed.

* The anonymous fanfic on the ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' [[Kink Meme]] ''[http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/3274.html?thread=3701194#t3701194 Are You There God? It's Me, Canada]'' has privately [[Deadpan Snarker|Snarky!]]Canada growing up with his two dads, England and France. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

** For that matter, several fanfics have Canada and America being raised by England and France, making the [[Fan Nickname|FACE family.]]

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4676211/1/The_Fetus_Factor This] ''[[Soul Series|Soul Calibur]]'' fanfic has Talim getting adopted by [[Brother-Sister Incest|Cassandra, Sophitia]] ''and'' [[OT 3|Taki]]. And that's not the wierdest thing that has happen so far.

* Shinji in ''[[Aeon Natum Engel (Fanfic)|Aeon Natum Engel]]'' was taken care of by two female agents before Gendo summons him.

* Some ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' fics have Hakoda and Bato as Katara and Sokka's two daddies, raising them after their mother was killed. There are others meanwhile that portray the whole mentality of a village being like a big family, Katara, Sokka, and the rest of the children in the Water Tribe all to some extent having more than one mother and father.

** And in this fanfic about the future, [http://vick330.deviantart.com/art/The-Latent-of-Korra-2-180825895 because we know how much Ty Lee loves Azula]. [[Sarcasm Mode|Of course this is perfectly justified]].

* ''[[Touhou]]'' [[Fanon]] is that [[Physical God|Kanako and Suwako]] behave as Sanae's parents, and even probably raised her before they all moved to Gensoukyou. Bonus points for {{spoiler|Sanae being a [[Famous Ancestor|direct descendant of Suwako]]}}.

* A popular trope in [[The Social Network]] fandom is to have Dustin react to Mark and Eduardo's issues as if his parents are divorcing. The other characters (especially Chris) usually think he's insane, but he's not entirely wrong.

* In the ''[[Castle]]'' fanfic, ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7176396/1/Of_Finding_Innocence Of Finding Innocence]'', Kate and Meredith come to a peaceful compromise over the issue of custody with Alexis by agreeing that they both be her mothers. So there, young Alexis Castle has two mommies and a daddy.

* Back when ''[[Young Avengers]]'' was still new, fans got a lot of mileage out of the possibility of a Hulking / Wiccan kid, as the former is an alien shapeshifter.

* [[Gender Flipped]] and played with in 'Shadows Of The Past' as {{spoiler|Will}} literally has two sets of parents, {{spoiler|Decepticon}} and human. Though both of the {{spoiler|'Cons are 'male' by default}}.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[The Wedding Banquet]]'' ends with {{spoiler|Wai-tung, Simon and Wei-wei all raising the baby together.}}

* Recent Swedish comedy ''Patrik, Age 1.5'' has a gay couple wanting to adopt a little boy and accidentally ending up with a teenager.

* ''[[The Kids Are All Right]]'' is entirely about one of these families.

* Used humorously at the end of ''[[Best in Show]]''.

* In the Icelandic film ''101 Reykjavík'' a middle-aged lesbian couple decide they want a baby together and will use a sperm donor. Then one of the women has a drunken one-night stand with her girlfriend's son and gets pregnant. The son is dismayed, but feels he can't tell his mother he's the baby's father. {{spoiler|The women end up raising the baby together with the son as part of their household.}}

** One of the interviewed film-makers is a lesbian mother as well -- something she [[Deadpan Snarker|rather snarkily]] makes note of in light of the claims of the Motion Picture Association of America's frequent claims that its ratings board was staffed by 'average' parents, suggesting that their definition of 'average' probably didn't include people like her.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* ''[[Jenny Lives With Eric And Martin]]'' had a similar theme to ''[[Heather]]'' and caused outrage from [[British Newspapers|the Daily Mail]] in 1980s Britain.

* Swindapa and Marion, the interracial lesbian couple in ''[[Island in The Sea of Time]]'', adopt an abandoned baby girl, and name her Heather. They know about the book, they just have an odd sense of humor.

* Claudia in ''[[Interview With a Vampire]]'' has both Lestat and Louis for vampire dads.

* In [[David Eddings]]'s ''[[Elenium]]'' stories, Sparhawk's squire {{spoiler|dies, leaving behind a wife and several sons. His squire also has an illegitimate son with another woman, and after his death, the women move in together and raise the children. The children simply call them their mothers. There is no sexual relationship implied between the women}}.

* Cyrus Finch (CyFi) in ''Unwind'' has two dads.

* In the ''[[Daughters Of A Coral Dawn|Daughters]]'' (of an unusually coloured time of day) books, this is true for just about all the secondary characters, being that they're a bunch of lesbians who've gone off and colonized a distant planet. In fact, the only cast members who have a mentioned father are the Unity, and he's not mentioned after the prologue. The author really was [[Does Not Like Men|that gay]].

* In ''King & King & Family'', the sequel to ''King & King'' (a Dutch book that caused a lawsuit because some ass didn't like that "romantic attraction between two men is being presented to my seven-year-old as wonderful, and good and the way things should be"), the newlywed kings "find a lonely orphaned girl, whom they adopt and raise as a princess".

* Classical Swedish picture book ''Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender'' (with sequels) has the aunts in question adopting two little orphan children.

* Mordred from ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' sort of fits this trope. He has two dads ({{spoiler|Roland}} and the Crimson King) ''and'' two moms ({{spoiler|Susannah}} and the succubus Mia) plus a {{spoiler|semen carrier/impregnator}} extra parent in one of the 6 elemental demons. It fits here because he inherits most of his traits from his fathers, who he calls his White Daddy and Red Daddy.

{{quote| '''Ross:''' No no--one daddy, two ''mommies''.}}

* ''[[Full House]]''. It's right there in the opening paragraph of its page.

** And Claire's biological mom moved in with her and her adoptive family.

*** At the start of Volume Four, Claire had restored contact with the Petrelli family, resulting in Nathan Petrelli becoming her second father. Both here and in Volume Three, Claire had the unenviable distinction of having ''three'' parents involved in her life.

* ''[[The Tracey Ullman Show]]'' had a recurring skit with a teenage girl and gay dads.

* ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'': Jake lives with his mother during the week, and with his father and paternal uncle on the weekends.

** The US version also had Ben and Michael adopting {{spoiler|Hunter, an HIV-positive teen hustler}}.

* ''[[Less Than Perfect]]'''s Owen Pronsky was raised by his two lesbian moms.

* Olivia and Natalia on ''[[Guiding Light]]''. Started out as a platonic version of this, but has lately become [[Suddenly Sexuality|something more]].

* The Henrickson kids on ''[[Big Love]]'' have three mommies, who often seem more emotionally involved with each other than with their mutual husband; some of the other polygamist families are even more complicated.

** It is also, however, quite clear that she has formed some kind of bond with Spike, as he actually has allowed her to hang out at his crypt now and then and has, at least once, told her stories about his past exploits (as in, murdering entire families), and has been trusted with watching over her a few times.

** In the canonical "Season 8" comic series she actually tells [[Promotion to Parent|Buffy]] that she sees Willow as her mother-figure, prompting some angst from Buffy. (Tara, by this point, {{spoiler|[[Bury Your Gays|has died]]}}).

{{quote| "So no, that girl wasn't your mother. She ended up being someone else's mother. They both did."}}

* Franky Fitzgerald in the Third Generation of ''[[Skins]]'' kids has two ex-army dads, who already appear to be the only parents in the entire series who take an interest in their kids.

{{quote| '''Reese:''' Two dads as your parents? That house has to be a dude's paradise!}}

* Hal from ''[[Being Human]]'' was raised by six whores in a brothel, he didn't know which one was his actual mother, but loved them all anyway.

== Theatre ==

* In the Australian play ''Pinball'', a lesbian mother and her lover are battling for custody of her child. The mother's own family side against her and support the father in court.

* In the George Bernard Shaw play ''Misalliance'', [[The Ace]] attributes his vast knowledge to the fact that he had three fathers -- his biological father, his father's "pet philosopher" who lived in their house, and a priest with whom his mother was having an affair.

* Marie, in the comic [[Opera]] ''[[La Fille Du Regiment|La Fille du Régiment]]'' was raised by an entire brigade of career soldiers, who found her abandoned on the battlefield. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when her [[Missing Mom|long lost mother]] discovers her ''hundreds'' of dads.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* One of the ads on a ''[[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas]]'' radio station was for a TV sitcom featuring an orphaned girl living with her 5 adoptive "uncles". ''GTA'' being ''GTA'', it was pretty blatant that only one guy at most was an actual uncle.

{{quote| '''Girl:''' I'm an emotionally abused orphan! Can't I get in on any of these groups hugs?<br />

** And for the terms of the Everstone exploit (equipping the mother Poke with an Everstone causes its nature to carry to the young), Ditto is considered the mother. Even if the other Poke is female.

* In ''[[Persona 4]]'', the main protagonist lives for a year with his uncle and his younger female cousin. From there onwards, it gets confusing when you ask yourself who's raising who.

* Possible in ''[[The Sims]]'' series, through various means.

* Possible and quite common with [[One-Gender Race|the asari]] in ''[[Mass Effect]]''. They breed through melding of nervous systems, and are capable of doing it with any species or gender. Though their society frowns upon having two asari parents ("pureblood" is a racial slur among them), but it's not as uncommon as they would like to pretend, and females of other species are fair game, in any case.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

** "It would be like ''[[My Two Dads]]'' but instead of 'Dads' it is 'horrible monsters'. And instead of 'Two' it is '''horrible'''."

* Winter from ''[[Girly]]'' has [[Homosexual Reproduction|two biological female parents]] as described but not explained [http://girlyyy.com/go/18 here].

* {{spoiler|Berlinetta}} of ''[[Other Peoples Business]]'' {{spoiler|has two daddies}}.

* Pluto from ''[[Star Guys]]'' has two mothers. Apprently making Pluto was "a long and expensive process".

** There are several other examples in Drow society since [[Everyone Is Bi]], and it's implied that Ariel's sister Lael'aelle was raised by her mother Quain'tana and the Ill'haress of the Sullisin'rune, Ash'waren.

* The [[Samus Is a Girl|son]] of Kronar, [[Homosexual Reproduction|son of man]], in ''[[Oglaf]]''.

** Kronar's entire tribe has reportedly been "free of woman's taint" for generations. [[Mister Seahorse|It's probably best not to think to hard about how]].

* While they did not consult each other on their pregnancies, the two leads from ''[[Moon Over June]]'' gave birth on the same day and are effectively raising their daughters together. [[Maternally Challenged|There is room to dispute whether this is a good thing]]

* Leanne from the [[Furry Comic]] Rasvaar has two mothers: one her biological mother, and the other her 'mad' ([[Don't Explain the Joke|a portmanteau of mum and dad]]).

* Secondary character [http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2012/04/26 Yvette] in ''[[Precocious (Webcomic)|Precocious]]''. As explained by [[Word of God|Chrispy]] Eva is her biological mother and Candy's brother was the sperm donor.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' has another non-homosexual two-daddy family.

* ''[[Time Squad]]'' has inept, [[Testosterone Poisoning|overly macho]] [[Time Cop]] Buck Tuddrussell and his vitriolic, ambiguously [[Camp Gay]] robot buddy The Larry 3000 taking in an orphaned history buff who was living in an [[Orphanage of Fear]] with an evil nun. It didn't start out as a [[Has Two Mommies|Has Two Daddies]] situation until Sigmund Freud analyzed Tuddrussell and Larry as a dysfunctional couple whose fighting will mentally and emotionally scar Otto for life on the third episode ("The Island of Dr. Freud"). From then on, the writers did everything they could to imply that the living arrangement could be construed as a "Has Two Daddies" situation.

* One episode of ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' featured the eponymous duo raising a child created from their combined DNA thanks to a malfunction in Brain's cloning machine.

** Another episode had them in Kansas stumbling upon an alien spacecraft containing a [[Superman|baby with mysterious powers]]. Intrigued by the baby's abilities, Brain tried to raise him with Pinky; obviously it didn't work out. In the end, Pinky and the Brain put him back in the ship so that a childless couple could find him...

** Another explanation offered was that her parents were divorced and her birth mother was visiting her.

** And it wasn't like this was James Dobson raising a shit fit. No, the ''Secretary of Education'' was behind this clusterfuck, and even tried to get all funding pulled for ''Postcards From Buster''.

{{quote| '''Charlotte:''' Since you're already the mommy, I'll be the daddy! We can spend a~ll our time together, like one big happy family~!<br />

'''Vendetta:''' WHAT!? }}

* Mojo Jojo, [[Arch Enemy]] of the ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'', created the [[The Psycho Rangers|Rowdyruff Boys]] in an attempt to destroy said girls. Instead, it was the boys who got destroyed. Years later, the [[Ultimate Evil]], Him, resurrected the boys and improved upon them. This came to a head in the episode "Custody Battle", where Mojo discovers that the Rowdyruffs were brought back, tries to take back his place as their father (the day happens to be Father's Day, by the way), and he and Him end up trying to [[Eviler Than Thou|out-evil each other]]. The boys have enough of this and announce that they only care about destroying the Powerpuff Girls, causing Mojo and Him to [[Ho Yay|embrace]] and exclaim, "I'm so proud of them!"

** Jojo in fact served as a father to the girls themselves as he kicked open the flask of chemical X that created them (and made Jojo intelligent). Later, his [[Stable Time Loop|chronologically-altered attempt]] to erase the girls's existence failed, ensuring two elements of primacy.

** Also keep in mind, gargoyles raise their young communally. A gargoyle that has been raised traditionally by gargoyles standards has many mothers and many fathers.

* One episode of ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' had Ren participating in a social movement called "Fake Dad", basing on the idea of a man (dog?) with no offspring caring for an orphan for a weekend. Ren even says the line "Now that we're one happy family, let's spend some quality time together!" himself, putting Stimpy in the place of the mommy/second daddy.

* The episode of ''[[South Park]]'' "Follow That Egg", where Stan and Kyle, and Wendy and Bebe, have to take care of an egg to prove Mrs. Garrison's point that gay couples can't raise children. At one point Wendy calls Kyle saying "I want to see my egg" to which he replies "it's not your egg anymore, Wendy".

 

* Lionesses in a pride all raise cubs as an egalitarian community; every lioness treats each cub as a mother would.

* The famous female Crow Chief, [[Meaningful Name|Woman Chief]] (born Pine Leaf of the Gros Ventre and abducted by a Crow raiding party as a child), got children with one of her four wives through surrogate fatherhood. According to their culture, the first one who sleeps with a woman who gets pregnant is officially the father. Using this, Woman Chief went through the preliminary motions and got a male volunteer to take over for the rest.

* [[Gangsta Rap|Gangsta Rapper]] [[Fifty Cent]] had a lesbian mother who had a relationship with another woman.

* Villages and small communities with children probably fit in this category. Instead of it just being the parents job of providing and caring for a child, it is also the job of the rest of the village to help care for them.

* Owing to complicated political maneuvering, the young [[Dynasties From Shang to Qing|Guangxu Emperor]] had "mother" Ci'an and "father" [[Dragon Lady|Cixi]]. Both women had been wives of a previous emperor and were combining their Dowager Empress powers to rule together.