Her Child, but Not His: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"Prince Chid is my son... What? My genes are just recessive, that's all. ''All'' of them."''

|'''The Duke of Fried'''|''[[Vision of Escaflowne Abridged]]''}}

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.

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* On ''The Practice'', a woman was accused of murdering her husband. Her neighbor alibied her, and she was acquitted. This trope comes in because {{spoiler|the woman was nine months pregnant and insisted on going through the trial even when she was in labor. She would not take a plea deal. She was white, as was her dead husband. The neighbor who alibied her was African-American. The acquittal happened just before she was rushed to the hospital, where she delivered a dark-skinned baby.}}

* One episode of ''[[Too Cute]]'' focused on a family of Siberians: proud white and gray-furred parents Maksim and Solomeya... and their litter of black-and-white kittens, whom the narrator notes look more like the handsome black tom next door.

* On ''[[Switched at Birth]]'', one of the main characters is abandoned by her father in her early childhood because of this trope—the Latina mother can't explain to the Latino father why they have a pale-skinned, red-haired, blue-eyed baby. (It turns out that [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|she was, of course, switched at birth]] with another baby, who grows up dark and busty in a houseful of pale, waifish redheads. ''Her'' parents explained away her strange coloring as a sudden recurrence of the family's Italian heritage.)

* On ''[[Switched at Birth (TV series)|Switched at Birth]]'', one of the main characters is abandoned by her father in her early childhood because of this trope—the Latina mother can't explain to the Latino father why they have a pale-skinned, red-haired, blue-eyed baby. (It turns out that [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|she was, of course, switched at birth]] with another baby, who grows up dark and busty in a houseful of pale, waifish redheads. ''Her'' parents explained away her strange coloring as a sudden recurrence of the family's Italian heritage.)

* A variation in ''[[Roots]]''. When Kunta Kinte finds Fanta as an adult, she refuses to have sex with him since she is her master's bedmate and any children she has have to be brown (indicating that they are the product of a mixed race couple.)

* In ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', Robert Baratheon’s wife cheats on him. Robert Baratheon doesn’t realize this. His King’s Hand Jon Arryn catches on and sends a letter saying “the seed is strong”.