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* Variant in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'': King Robert Baratheon has black hair. Queen Cersei is blonde. All three of their children are blonde. It's explained that every other time Robert sired a child (illegitimately), the child had black hair, leading to the discovery that the royal kids aren't his. {{spoiler|They were fathered by her [[Brother-Sister Incest|brother]], Jaime}}
* The ''[[Conqueror]]'' books do this with eye colours - Chagatai, Ogedai, and Tolui all have the same [[Eyes of Gold|golden]] eyes as their father, Genghis Khan, but Jochi, the eldest brother, has brown eyes. The fact that Borte fell pregnant with him around the time of her kidnapping doesn't help matters, and Chagatai takes great pleasure in telling everybody that Jochi is a 'Tartar bastard'.
* In A.B. Guthrie's novel ''[[The Big Sky]]'', Boone's wife gives birth to a red-headed baby, which makes him think she cheated on him with his red-haired friend. In a rage he kills his friend, beats up and abandons his wife, and goes back home to Kentucky... {{spoiler|where he finds out that red hair runs in his family. Whoops.}}
* In ''Passing'', Nella Larson's exploration of black women who engage in or resist passing themselves off as white, the fear passing women have of giving birth to children who could not pass comes up in conversation.
* In ''The Sacrifice of Tamar,'' Tamar's grandchild is born with dark skin. Her Orthodox Jewish son is filled with righteous wrath, believing his wife cheated on him; the daughter-in-law can only cry and deny it. Then Tamar confesses to her son that he was conceived when she was raped by a black man. She never told anyone, because she had made love to her husband that same night and always hoped the baby was his.
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