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So you're given the ability to live forever and now you want to become a parent...and then you find out that you can't sire or even have children. Well, [[Blessed with Suck|that totally sucks!]] However, for those who become immortal and either want to live hedonistically or just see the possibility that whatever children they may have may not inherit immortality, this may come as a blessing.
The reason for this is that a race that reproduces but doesn't die will eventually overcrowd the world. Also, immortal characters [[Captain Obvious|aren't
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* [[Marvel Comics]]' [[The Eternals]] are not only immortal but nearly indestructible as well; however they can only have Eternal children with other Eternals, and even then, only once every millennium or so.
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲== Film ==
* The Immortals of the ''[[Highlander]]'' series of films face this trope as the downside of their having immortality.
== Religion ==
* Implied through Jesus' teachings in [[The Bible|the Gospels]] that those who are worthy of the resurrection will "neither marry nor be given in marriage, but will be like the angels in heaven", indicating that there [[Asexuality|won't even be the desire for sexual intercourse]] among believers in their resurrected forms.
** Sometimes used by Bible students to argue the case that the "sons of God" in Genesis chapter 6 could not be angels, but rather be the children of Seth's lineage marrying those of Cain's lineage (the "daughters of men").
** This doesn't stop an Other Light member in the [[Left Behind]] book ''Kingdom Come'' from trying to impregnate a female "glorified" through an [[Attempted Rape]] that God foils by causing him to die in her arms before being incinerated.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' there are multiple types of creatures immortal to various degree. "Immortals" (previously known as "Fairies") ''can'' have children with humans, always producing an [[Our Elves Are Better|elf]] - immune to old age, but sterile. At least, that's the relatively common knowledge - [[Unreliable Expositor|how reliable it is this time]] remains to be seen.
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