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Surprise! Two of the main characters have just had a child! I bet you ''are'' surprised, since they didn't go through pregnancy or anything, might not even be dating, and the kid is already 14!

 

 

 

 

An ''extreme'' form of [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]]. Can develop into a full-blown [[Spin Offspring]].

 

* Trunks from ''[[Dragon Ball]]''. In his case, his parents might have had two scenes together at that point and his mother had been with a different guy for about ten years. Goku's reaction is [[Face Fault|shock and disbelief]]. Neither of his parents actually know who Future Trunks really is until after they've gotten together, as neither Goku nor Piccolo (who overheard due to his superior hearing) said anything.

* Chibi-Usa and Diana from ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. As a result, this trope is sometimes referred to as "pulling a Chibi-usa".

*** {{spoiler|He's not her father, that is certain.}}

** {{spoiler|Recently it's been reviled that her mother might be one of the [[Time Police]] agents sent to apprehend her.}}

* ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' uses a variation of this in chapter 11. Ataru tries to avoid arriving late to school by using time travel, but he ends up 12 years in the future and meets up with his son.

* Nanami in ''[[Soul Link]]'', the [[Half-Human Hybrid]] daughter of Nao and Shuuhei. As it turns out, she and she alone holds the key to defeating the [[Big Bad]]. Even though Nao and Shuuhei only had sex once (and both of them are still high school age), they have no problem taking responsibility as parents for Nanami, who apparently came into being even with Aries being a [[Building of Adventure]].

* Nobita from ''[[Doraemon]]'' basically does Dane Cook's stand up joke from above in an early 90's episode to his parents, who had just had him as a baby, except with less twisted intentions. But hey, might as well warn them their kid's going to grow up into a (ten-year-old) loser, right? Though of course he might've cursed himself this way...

** Sewachi, Nobita's great-great-whatever grandson, is the one who sent Doraemon to his ancestor in the first place. He also spoiled all of Nobita's failure future. Nobita's fate would have been so bad his descendant didn't care of any effect he causes from [[Screw Destiny|screwing destiny]], since he believes he can be born nevertheless.

* In ''[[Steins;Gate]]'' {{spoiler|Suzuha}} is this to {{spoiler|Daru}} although, neither know at first.

 

* Multiple instances with variation in the [[Summers Family Tree]] of [[X-Men]] fame.

** Rachel Summers (Phoenix/Marvel Girl) is this trope played absolutely straight: she's the daughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey in the "Days of Future Past" timeline's future, who goes back in time and joins various X-Teams.

* For a non-X-Men example in the [[Marvel Universe]], this has also happened in ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' with Valeria {{spoiler|Von Doom}}, daughter of {{spoiler|Sue Richards and [[Doctor Doom]] ([[Retcon|or Reed Richards]], though she certainly ''thought'' Doom was her father)}}. Like Rachel Summers, she's a creation of [[Chris Claremont]], and they've even both used the [[Code Name]] "Marvel Girl" (though in all fairness, Rachel had yet to use that name at the time of Valeria's creation). Clearly, Claremont ''loves'' this trope.

* Then, Hyperstorm came. Who is Hyperstorm? Child of Franklin Richards and Rachel Summers in the ''Days of the Future Past'' alternate future. Yes, The two families who did it most in the Marvel Universe are now mixed together!

** Also, Impulse's half-brother, Captain Boomerang Jr.

* Another case of the lead being the child is the current [[Booster Gold]] series, in which his distant ancestors are recurring characters. Booster explicitly references Marty McFly at one point.

* Lara-Su, the daughter of Knuckles and Julie-Su from two different possible futures in Archie Comics' ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'':

** The first version of Lara-Su to appear, also known by the alias "Jani-Ca", first showed up in the early 100's issues. She came from a [[Bad Future]] (a ''very'' bad future recently dubbed "Dark Mobius" by [[Word of God]]), and attempted to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|avert it]] by preventing Knuckles' assassination. Except, when she got back to her time, not only did she find out that she had gone back into [[Alternate Universe|the wrong timeline]], but that her mother had lied to her to protect her - Knuckles hadn't died, he'd pulled a [[Face Heel Turn]] and was responsible for that bad future.

 

 

* Wilbur Robinson from the film ''[[Meet the Robinsons]]''. It wasn't really the ''plan'', but his actions do end up connecting Lewis with his family.

* In the movie ''[[Back to The Future]],'' Marty McFly is the kid from the future. He's also the main character and accidentally nearly prevents his own parents from getting together in the first place.

* The 2011 film, ''Enter Nowhere'' {{spoiler|has a child from the future, grandchild from the future, and a great-grandchild from the future. Tom is Jody's son, Jody is Samantha's daughter, and Samantha is Hans's daughter.}}

 

** In one of the final scenes in the book, Alba visits Henry before he meets Clare. Even after she says she was looking for her father but was apparently too early, he still fails to understand who she is.

* In ''Bones of the Earth'', some time-traveling paleontologists get stranded in the Mesozoic for months. Once rescued, they're welcomed home by hordes of media and friends from many different times ... including an adult version of the baby one of their group gave birth to in the Mesozoic. He doesn't save them, but he gets to hold his infant self.

 

* Wyatt and Chris on ''[[Charmed]]'', the children of Piper and Leo. Future Wyatt only shows up after Baby Wyatt has been born, but Future Chris preceded Baby Chris and his identity was an object of speculation.

** Chris almost causes himself not to exist the same way Marty McFly did, by breaking up his parents. Except he did it on purpose, apparently not ever bothering to do the math and figure out when he was conceived. This was due to [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]. Chris was always going to be their son, and that reveal had already happened, but Piper's actress got pregnant halfway through the season, while Chris was deliberately keeping Leo away so Leo wouldn't figure out who Chris was and what he was doing. So the writers had to scrabble to get in a one-night Leo-Piper hookup arranged by Chris to explain the pregnancy, and Chris looks like a complete idiot for almost erasing himself from existence.

* Wataru becomes one to Otoya in ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'' when he decides to travel back in time both in-series and in-movie. Given the strong [[Generation Xerox]] Kiva has, {{spoiler|Wataru's son from 22 years in the future appears in the finale, along with Kivat the 4th, who gives him the power to become New Kiva.}}

* ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'' is a natural candidate for this, given its plot. The series proper has {{spoiler|Hana, who as the child of Yuto and Airi, is Ryotaro's future niece, which makes all that [[Ship Tease]] turn a little sour in retrospect...}}. [[The Movie]] ''Final Countdown'' features Kotaro, Ryotaro's grandson, who is also New Den-O.

* Claire Bennet plays this role in a season 3 episode of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', as does Hiro Nakamura.

* On ''[[Lost]]'', time travel begins playing a role in the fifth season. After being transported back to the 1970s:

** Even though the same episode had DNA testing establish that Clark could never have a child with a human woman. Of course, it's not entirely unlikely that an advanced species like the Kryptonians could have devised a way to make such a pairing work.

* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Father's Day" has companion Rose meet her mother, father, and infant self.

'''Pete:''' Oh, for God's sake, look! It's the SAME Rose! }}

** ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' episode "The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith" uses [[Recycled Script|the same plot]], incorporating both Kid and Grandkid From The Future.

*** This example is notable, much like the ''Charmed'' one above, in that {{spoiler|River was introduced onto the show -- [[Timey-Wimey Ball|and killed off!]] -- two years before her parents}}.

 

* Arguably, Silver from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]''. It's implied that he's the descendant of either Sonic or Shadow, but it's never specified which.

** [[Ho Yay|Both]] [[Mister Seahorse|of them]], if a good portion of the fandom has anything to say about it.

* In the Ambitions expansion pack for [[The Sims]] 3, it is possible to end up with one of these when using the time machine.

* ''[[Inazuma Eleven]] 3: the Orge'' features Endou Kanon, a kid from the future who try to stop an evil organization that tries to get rid of Kanon's great great grandfather, Endou Mamoru, and his Japanese international soccer team.

* ''[[Achron]]'' has a partial example. It's possible for a factory (parent) to produce a unit (child) which then gets sent back to before it was built (born) to defend the factory.

 

* In ''[[Narbonic]]'', {{spoiler|Dave}} and {{spoiler|Helen}}'s child abuses her parents' [[The End of the World as We Know It|Universe-consuming]] time machine ("We siphon it from universes where they probably don't want to exist as much") to {{spoiler|spy on her parents before they got married -- and arguably creates a [[Stable Time Loop]] by convincing Dave to get back with Helen, a decision without which she wouldn't have been conceived}}.

** Similarly, in ''[[Umlaut House]]'', Rhonda goes into the past to {{spoiler|settle an argument with Pierce, who follows her to keep her from meddling in the past (as it happens, he shouldn't have bothered)}}.

* [http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=342 J.J.] from ''[[Casey and Andy]]''.

* Todd from ''[http://www.gpf-comics.com/ General Protection Fault]''.

* {{spoiler|John}} Taylor from [[Coga Suro]], in a direct homage to [[Dragonball Z|Trunks]]

* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', Jade's 'penpal' {{spoiler|claims to be her future grandson.}} What this truly means remains to be seen. {{spoiler|[[Happily Adopted|Parentage is]] [[Stable Time Loop|a strange]] [[My Own Grampa|thing in]] ''Homestuck''.}}

* In ''[[Sore Thumbs]]'', Fairbanks' son had come from the future [http://sorethumbs.keenspot.com/d/20110214.html in this strip.]

* ''[[Gastrophobia]]'': {{spoiler|Philia}} is revealed to be this, and a member of the [[Time Police]], to boot.

** A second, more straightforward example: Nimue, also a time traveler, brings Galahad from the future to meet Lancelot.

 

* Cassandra Cain from [http://cass-cult.deviantart.com/ Cass Cult] is on fairly good terms with the Legion of Cass Daughters, which includes her daughters from every possible timeline.

* In ''[[Red Panda Adventures]]'', {{spoiler|The Red Squirrel}} reveals in her first appearance that {{spoiler|The Flying Squirrel}} was her great-grandmother, but it's not until later that she also confirms that {{spoiler|The Red Panda}} was her great-grandfather, since she didn't want to affect the timeline by interfering in the [[Will They or Won't They?]].

 

** Technically there was two such cases in that episode, as a later episode tells us that {{spoiler|Terry Mcginnis [[Batman Beyond|(Batman II)]] is Batman's biological son created by Amanda Waller.}}

* In ''[[Time Warp Trio]]'', the original trio of Joe, Sam and Fred sometimes cross paths with their great-granddaughters from the future: Jodie, Samantha and Freddi.

* Destructicus, son of Hector and Dr. Ghastly, from ''[[Evil Con Carne]]''. This raises questions on how this happned however as Hector is a brain (and stomach) in a Jar attached to a circus bear....

** [[Lampshade Hanging|This is addressed.]] [[Hand Wave|The given explanation is that]] [[The Power of Love|"love finds a way".]]

** Danny himself does this when he travels back in time and prevents the accident that gave Vlad ghost powers. His mother ends up marrying Vlad instead, and they have no children. Danny has to convince her to help him fix things so he can go back to his own timeline.

* The version of Impulse in ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' is Flash's grandson from the future. Which technically he is in most versions, but this version follows the trope by surprising Barry and his wife, who just found out she's pregnant and didn't get to tell Barry yet.

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