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[[File:zoom.gif|frame|There had been signs previously, but it was at this point that Mr. M. Dairy knew that he could not ignore it any longer.]]
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* Pre-empted in [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1993#comic this] ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' strip.
* Guinness from ''[[Krakow]]''
* Very...odd example in ''[[Dueling Analogs]]'' [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2010/11/24/other-m-part-iii/ here].
** In this case, it's because Samus is part Metroid. The bigger question is: what is she doing with ''[[Shotacon|Mega Man]]''?
* In ''[[Pokémon-X]]'', it's indicated that {{spoiler|Brendan gets his white hair from Mailman Joe.}}
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* A famous example is [[wikipedia:Sandra Laing|Sandra Laing]]—the "Black Afrikaner"—who was the natural daughter of two conservative white Afrikaner parents in [[The Apartheid Era|Apartheid South Africa]].
* There's a historical anecdote about a white upper class woman who lived in West India in the 17th century. She gave birth to a black child that died shortly after birth - people put the blame on her drinking too much chocolate during her pregnancy. Nobody ever suspected that the black male slave serving the chocolate to her bedroom might have had something to do with it.
** Or the paternity was the [[Elephant in
* An inversion of the typical setup: a British Nigerian couple [http://www.aolnews.com/science/article/genetic-mystery-black-british-couple-birth-white-blue-eyed-baby/19561047?icid=main gave birth to a white, blue eyed baby girl.]
* There was a special on cheaters on Discovery Health channel and there was a Chinese-American woman who was married to a Chinese-American man. However, they had trouble having children. She began having an affair with a black man and her husband did not find out until she had a dark skinned baby.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20141016001924/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Chestnut Mary Chestnut], a Southern woman, kept a diary during the [[American Civil War]]. [[Every One Remembers the Stripper|One of the things it's most remembered for]] is a comment on the situation of slave owners raping their female slaves and fathering children with them (who of course would become slaves themselves):
{{quote|This is only what I see: like the patriarchs of old, our men live all in one house with their wives & their concubines, & the Mulattos one sees in every family exactly resemble the white children-& every lady tells you who is the father of all the Mulatto children in everybody's household, but [[Implausible Deniability|those in her own, she seems to think drop from the clouds or pretends so to think]].}}
* Noted footwear designer [[All Women Love Shoes|Christian Louboutin]] initially assumed that he was adopted according to a 2012 interview, feeling that he didn't blend well with the rest of his family who was "very French". Because of this, he made up his own backstory based on Egyptian culture as he was into the pharaohs. In an ironic twist, one of his sisters [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/facts-we-learned-from-christian-louboutin-documentary/ revealed] in a 2014 interview that his biological father was ''indeed'' Egyptian, whom his mother had a secret affair with.
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