Kid From the Future: Difference between revisions

{{trope}}

 

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!

 

 

If the series involves a [[Love Triangle]], or, worse yet, an [[Unwanted Harem]], expect all hell to break loose as those involved try to figure out who the child's mother or father is.

 

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]].

* 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.

** 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.

** The second version of Lara-Su was from the much nicer "Mobius: X Years Later" timeline. She was one of the few people [[Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory|not affected]] by the [[Cosmic Retcon]] and helped Future Sonic depose [[Knight Templar|King Shadow]], and a while after that became a member of the Future Freedom Fighters.<ref>It should also be noted that this version of Lara-Su never went back in time - so she's not so much a Kid From The Future as she is a Future Kid.</ref>

 

* ''[[Glee]]'' - It's become a Brittana fandom meme that Sugar Motta is actually [http://wheresmynaya.tumblr.com/post/114237255464 Brittany and Santana's time-traveling daughter]. Variations include whether she ended up in the past on purpose or by accident. Vanessa Lengies thinks it's hilarious.

** Other fanfics include [https://web.archive.org/web/20120730074152/http://teamklaine.tumblr.com/post/14073439700/happyinyourarms-back-to-the-future-part-iv Rory as the adopted son of Kurt and Blaine], and Harmony as the daughter of either Rachel and Quinn, or Rachel and Jesse St.James

 

* 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.}}

 

* Alba from ''[[The Time Traveler's Wife]]'' (approximately—she appears after Henry and Clare are married but when they think they can't have kids, and Henry comes forward in time to see her about as much as she goes back to see him).

** 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.

*** 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 ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable]]: The Gears of Destiny'', [[Les Yay|Nanoha and Fate]] meet [[Has Two Mommies|their (adoptive) daughter]] Vivio from the future. The real kicker is that all three of them are ''about the same age'' (that is, ten years old). Oh, and to make the matters worse, Vivio brings her own girlfriend Einhalt along for the ride.

* ''[[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.

 

* ''[[Walkyverse|It's Walky!]]'' has Bobby 'Machete' Walkerton [https://web.archive.org/web/20110805040700/http://www.walkypedia.com/index.php/Bobby_Walkerton].

* 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}}.

* [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''.}}

* ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]'''s space arc has a variation: Morgan has been brought forward in time to serve as Merlin's apprentice. While there, she and Arthur conceive a child, not realizing that they're [[Brother-Sister Incest|half-siblings]]. When Merlin finds out, he returns Morgan to the past and she gives birth to Mordred... who in the present day is already serving aboard the ''Excalibur'' and doesn't know any of this.

** 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?]].

 

* Warhawk in the animated version of ''[[Justice League]]'' was [[Green Lantern]] (John Stewart) and Hawkgirl's Kid From The Future—which came as a surprise because they had stopped dating quite some time before traveling to the future and running into him.

** 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.}}