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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]].

* ''[[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.

* 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.

* Done in the final issue of ''[[Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book|Bill and Teds Excellent Comic Book]]'', where the two main characters are visited by their grown-up children from the future.

 

 

== Literature ==

** 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.

 

== Webcomics ==

 

* 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)}}.

 

== Western Animation ==

** 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.}}

*** These two are actually inversions, given that, as mentioned above, their parent came to ''them''. This actually causes John to attempt a [[Screw Destiny]] by not getting back together with Hawkgirl over the course of the series just so he doesn't feel [[You Can't Fight Fate|pressured to do so]] just by Warhawk's existence. [[Word of God]] says that's okay, given that Warhawk is still only in his twenties by the ''Beyond'' time period, which is still a good forty years off.

* 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.