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Two parents, who are the same race or species, are having a child. Except when the child is born, it visibly does not resemble either of the parents.
Usually implies adultery on the woman's part. Even before [[Daddy DNA Test|DNA testing]], this can resolve the question of [[Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe]]. If she's the main character, expect her to either have been raped, or not know why she had a child that doesn't look like its father. In very old stories, the theory of "[
The most well-known subtype of this is a white couple that gives birth to a black child. The title comes from a scene in the movie ''Life'' where the (white) warden of an all-black prison sees his illegitimate grandson for the first time, and is revolted to see that the kid is ethnically mixed. However, this trope can also be played for laughs when the father [[What an Idiot!|has no idea the kid isn't his]] when it's clear to everyone else.
As these are sure to be [[Three
In [[Real Life]] if the parents are purely white the children will be white, making it justified to doubt her faithfulness but if the parent are of mixed race, then their hidden recessive genes can come out to the point of having a fair child. [http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/17/1205061.aspx Sometimes] the infant's parents are of different races, while sometimes both parents are themselves mixed race.<ref>In one instance in the Netherlands, a white couple who underwent IVF found themselves the parents of a black infant because the lab hadn't sanitized its equipment adequately after performing an IVF procedure for a black couple.</ref> However, the old wives' tale of a white parent and a light-skinned black parent (possibly passing as white) giving birth to a dark-skinned baby is extremely improbable in real life, due to the genetics involved.
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* As a real life example, there have been [http://www.hoax-slayer.com/black-white-twins.html incidents] in which couples have given birth to twins: one white, one black.
** A less-innocent example [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9438648/ns/dateline_nbc/t/worlds-least-alike-twins/ here]; both the mother's husband's sperm and the sperm of an ethnically-African man were used in the in-vitro fertilization. The likely cause was accidental contamination.
* A famous example is [
* 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. (So it was a real [[Chocolate Baby]] then.) Nobody ever suspected that the black male slave serving the chocolate to her bedroom might have had something to do with it.
** [[Fridge Horror|Or the paternity was the]] [[Elephant in The Room|elephant in the room,]] [[Fridge Horror|and the baby's death wasn't due to natural causes.]]
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