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* In ''[[Aquarion Evol]]'': [[Nice Guy]] and [[The Hero]], Amata Sora, barely even knew his mother, believing her to have abandoned him at a young age due to his levitation powers. Then it turns out that {{spoiler|she never abandoned him and is with the [[Alien Invasion|Altairians]],}} but also that {{spoiler|his father is in fact the LEADER OF THE ALTAIRIANS!!!}} How's ''that'' for [[Beyond the Impossible]]?

* In ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' Part 2, it is revealed that {{spoiler|Ripple master Lisa Lisa is actually Joseph Joestar's mother.}}

* [[Played With]] in ''[[Princess Principal]]'': The parent and child involved knew that they were related, but nobody else knew until after one was dead at the other's hands.

 

* Eighteen years after their creation, it was revealed that [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers]] [[Scarlet Witch]] and [[Quicksilver]] were actually the children of their former leader, long-time [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] antagonist [[Magneto]]. Their feelings over this revelation were mixed, [[Understatement|to put it mildly]].

** Polaris, of the X-Men, was revealed early on to be {{spoiler|Magneto's daughter, too}}. But then that was revealed to actually be a plot by the villain {{spoiler|Mesmero, who was using a Magneto robot to make that claim}}. Then later it was again revealed that she ''is'' {{spoiler|his daughter}}... {{spoiler|then once again not}}. Currently, she is once again {{spoiler|revealed to be Magneto's daughter}}... ugh.

* Pre-''Flashpoint'', [[Wonder Woman]] discovered that one of the [[Eldritch Abomination|Hechatonkaires]] was her "father": the clay that was used to create her came from his imprisoned body.

 

* Lampshaded in ''A Rose and a Thorn 3''.

{{quote|'''Ashura:''' I am your father Luke -- I mean, Shadow.

* In ''[http://percyjacksonfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Whispers_in_the_Dark Whispers in the Dark]'', a popular ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' fanfiction, Luke pulls a "{{spoiler|Taylor}} I Am Your Father."

* In the ''[[Coraline (animation)|Coraline]]'' fanfiction ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5840525/1/ Right Beside You]'', [[Complete Monster|the Beldam]] managed to capture Wybie and now Coraline and the Cat had to enter in the [[Crap Saccharine World|the Other World]] to rescue him and there, Coraline learns that Wybie's true father is {{spoiler|the Cat, actually named Richard. The Beldam killed his mother and transformed his father in a cat.}} Although it's based on a [[Wild Mass Guessing]], it works very well.

* In ''[[A Cure for Love]]'' V, an [[Original Character]] [[Action Girl]] that is later revealed to be {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]]}} is also revealed to be {{spoiler|Mello}}'s mother. [[Create Your Own Villain|She wasn't there for him growing up because Wammy's House wouldn't let her near her son, deeming her "too broken to fix" and so trained her to be an assassin instead.]]

 

* [[The Parody|Parodied]] in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story 2]]'' with a Buzz Lightyear action figure and his archnemesis Evil Emperor Zurg reenacting a [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|slightly modified]] version of the ''[[Star Wars]]'' reveal.

{{quote|'''Zurg:''' Surrender Buzz Lightyear! I have won!

* In the direct-to-video sequel of Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', ''Aladdin and the King of Thieves'', Aladdin discovers his father is head of the 40 Thieves.

* In the 2007 adaptation of ''[[Beowulf (film)|Beowulf]]'' by [[Neil Gaiman]] and Roger Avary, {{spoiler|the Dragon reveals to Beowulf that he is actually the hero's long-lost son from his deal-with-the-devil dalliance with Grendel's Mother}}.

* As mentioned above, [[It Was His Sled|everybody knows]] about [[The Reveal]] from the second part of the original ''[[Star Wars]]'' trilogy. The reason that this reveal worked and a lot of the imitators fell flat was that a big part of Luke's story revolved around his [[Tell Me About My Father|Jedi Knight father]], whom he sought to emulate as a Jedi himself, which was ''why'' Luke let out the [[Big No]] in response to the [[Awful Truth]] about said father being revealed. It also gives new light to Uncle Owen's reasons for refusing to let Luke accept the [[Call to Adventure]], in particular his "That's what I'm afraid of" response to Aunt Beru's assessment that "he's got too much of his father in him."

** The lesser reveal in ''Return of the Jedi'', that Leia is Luke's sister.

* ''[[The Terminator]]'': Kyle Reese is John's father by [[Time Travel]].

 

* Inverted in the ''[[Prydain Chronicles]]'', where Taran goes on a search for his parents. He encounters a crippled shepherd who reveals that he is Taran's father {{spoiler|but after a few months of living with Taran, the guy has a fatal accident and reveals that he was lying, that his son died years ago and that he told Taran this because he was so lonely.}}

** Inverted again at the end of the series, when {{spoiler|it's revealed that the identity of Taran's parents will never be known.}}

** Even though it turns out that Schedoni isn't Elena's father, {{spoiler|he does turn out to be the brother of her long-deceased father whom he closely resembles, making him her uncle. Thus, this is perhaps an example of ''[[Everyone Is Related]]''.}}

* ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]'': {{spoiler|Murtagh reveals that the evil Dragon Rider Morzan was Eragon's father, making Eragon and Murtagh brothers. This is subverted in the third book, when it turns out that Morzan is not Eragon's father, and it was actually Brom, who fell in love with Selena, Morzan's consort (also known as the Black Hand), thus making Murtagh and Eragon only half-brothers. There is also a scene where Arya is revealed to be the daughter of the elf queen Islanzadi, but this may or may not qualify since both Arya and Islanzadi knew about it even if the reader did not.}}

* Subverted in ''[[Low Fantasy|Joris of the Rock]]'' (1928) by Leslie Barringer; the title brigand, murderer, and rapist never manages to get the words out ... because his son, [[And This Is For|who has numerous grievances, is furiously hacking him with a sword]].

 

* ''[[Carnivale]]'' Where to begin? {{spoiler|The mysterious Henry Scudder is Ben's father. Lucius Belyakov (AKA Management) is the father of both Justin and Iris. And, Justin is Sofie's father, having raped her mother.}}

* ''[[Lost]]'': {{spoiler|Claire and Jack are half-siblings. And it seems their father (or his ghost, or [[Mind Screw|SOMETHING like it]]) is close to the mysterious Jacob}}.

* ''[[Sanctuary]]'': While the audience learns in episode 1 that {{spoiler|John Druitt (AKA Jack the Ripper) is Ashley's father,}} she doesn't get the news until later in the season when he kidnaps her.

* The second-season finale of ''[[The Pretender]]'': Miss Parker learns that she has a twin brother she was never told about because he supposedly died at birth—and not only is he still alive, he's one of the recurring characters! (All four of the series' season finales feature a "He's the brother you never knew you had" [[The Reveal|reveal]] for one of the lead characters—counting the clone in the third season finale as a brother—but this is the only one where the brother is an already-established character.)

* ''[[The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog]]'': Maeve, the [[Big Bad]], reveals she is [[The Chosen One]] Rohan's mother. There is no indication at what point she learned this; Maeve seemed as shocked as anyone when Lugad told her Rohan told him they were brothers. The line is almost identical to the movie's with the names changed appropriately.

* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' has been fond of this one and uses it regularly since it was so successful the first time around:

* [[The Parody|Parodied]] on ''The Brak Show'' episode "All That I Desire You", itself a [[Whole-Plot Reference|complete send-up of soap operas]]; Dad is revealed to be living a double life as billionaire oil baron Drake Gainway, and is father to Zorak, Clarence, and his secret third wife Cynthia - in addition to Brak and the Gainway children.

** And just for extra craziness, when ''The Brak Show'' was "hosting" [[Adult Swim]]'s New Year's Night, it was revealed that Thunderclese's father was none other than Frylock from ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'', ''a completely different show''.

* In the series ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Claire is revealed to be {{spoiler|the daughter of Nathan Petrelli.}}

** The earlier reveal, when HRG/Noah comes home and we find out that he is Claire's father. (He adopted her, but she considers her adopted parents her "real" parents)

* Subverted in an episode of ''Las Vegas'' where Mike finds evidence that the Montecito's new owner, AJ Cooper, is Piper's father. Piper confronts Cooper and he vehemently denies it. It turns out that {{spoiler|Cooper knew her father from when they served in the Marines together and promised that he would keep an eye on her.}}

* Also subverted in ''[[Life On Mars]]'', where DCI Morgan takes Sam to a graveyard. {{spoiler|He shows Sam two graves which have the name Williams on them, telling him that these are his parents, he is not Sam Tyler, but Sam Williams, working for him undercover. Sam shrugs this off and is about to leave when he spots three graves behind him, one of which says 'Here lies Sam Tyler', the other two with his parents names, Vic and Ruth Tyler. He's a little upset by this.}}.

* In the series ''[[Night Court]]'' it is revealed after several seasons that Harry's {{spoiler|mentally unbalanced step-father "Buddy" is actually his ''biological'' father}}.

* Parodied by the Melty Man (an [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of [[The Loins Sleep Tonight|male impotence]], complete with black glove and [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]] voice) in ''[[Coupling]]''.

* Subverted in ''[[Veronica Mars]]''. Paternity tests confirm that Keith Mars is Veronica's father.

** And then played straight with Logan's adopted sister in an interesting way that somehow managed to avoid the usual cliché of the trope.

* This happens on ''[[Green Wing]]'', where Guy discovers that {{spoiler|Joanna}} is his mother, making him and {{spoiler|Martin}} brothers. Unfortunately, he only finds this out ''after'' they have sex, leading to a complete meltdown on Guy's part.

* In ''[[Jonathan Creek]]'', an actress attempts to covertly help the son that she secretly gave up for adoption many years ago by having him cast in the movie she is currently starring in, only to learn that he has developed a bit of an obsession with her, unaware that she is his mother. He's embittered when she rejects him in this sense, understandably a bit [[Squick]]ed out; unfortunately, she confesses this to her ex-husband who, holding his own grudge, manipulate the son into murdering her.

* Averted in ''[[Without a Trace]]'': Agent Malone is captured and tortured by conwoman who thinks he's an enemy out to get her and her partner who is, naturally, her son. I can't recall all the facts, but in the end the conwoman dies and asks Malone not to tell her son the truth (it probably would've been squicky for him anyway).

'''Fry:''' Exactly. Devlin's half-sister's wife's doctor's cousin's niece.

'''Laurie:''' Well then, who the hell am I? }}

* Played straight in ''[[Reaper]]'' with {{spoiler|The Devil}} revealed to be {{spoiler|Sam}}'s father at the end on season one.

* Parodied in an episode of ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'', "Journey to the Centre of the Punk": Howlin' Jimmy Jefferson, the Spirit of Jazz, claims to be Howard's father, then uncle, then second cousin twice-removed on his sister's side, in an attempt to keep Howard from killing him. Only the last one works.

* ''[[Bones]]'' has this in one episode, where {{spoiler|Bones discovers that the priest who has been helping them on a case is actually her long-lost father, who is also the murderer they are hunting for.}}

 

* Parodied brilliantly in ''[[FoxTrot]]''. [[Geek|Jason]] is wearing his Darth Vader helmet to see [[Star Wars|Episode III]], but gets stuck in his helmet. His father helps him get free, commenting that he had that problem with his Vader helmet when he was Jason's age.

{{quote|'''Jason:''' Wait, you're saying that you were a ''Star Wars'' fan long before I was?

'''Susanita:''' ''(disheveled and bruised)'' I don't understand, [[TV Never Lies|it works in the soaps]]! }}

 

 

* The 2005 feud between [[Eddie Guerrero]] and [[Rey Mysterio]] included an angle where Rey's real-life son Dominick was revealed to be the (kayfabe) biological son of Guerrero.

{{quote|'''Guerrero:''' I'M YOUR ''PAPI!''}}

 

* ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'' has an instance of this that's similar to the one from ''The Italian'' above: Marcellina is about to force Figaro to marry her in lieu of paying off a debt, when a casual comment he drops about a birthmark reveals that she's his mother. They embrace and make up, leading instantly to a classic [[Not What It Looks Like]] scenario...

** Something similar happens in ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]'', as the Centurion was intending to marry Hero's love interest. Turns out in the ending that not only was the blind man that Pseudolus attempted to distract by having him run across the hills of Rome seven times was his father, but the Centurion and the love interest were actually siblings (they were kidnapped and separated while they were very young, and it was presumably at a time that they simply had no way of remembering due to not knowing this until after he told them). This was more than enough to allow the Centurion to allow Hero to marry the love interest.

* In the opera ''Lucrezia Borgia'', the title character turns out to be the mother of the protagonist, the young noble Gennaro, by a previous relationship.

 

* Spoofed in ''Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music'' when, after a series-long [[Running Gag]] about Mitch's rivalry with fellow musical satirist Richard Stillgoe, the final episode features him as a special guest, and a showdown between the two performers.

{{quote|'''Stillgoe:''' Punt and Dennis never told you what happened to your father.

'''Stillgoe:''' No, of course I'm not. Whatever gave you that idea? }}

 

* Comedian Gad Elmaleh parodied this in his stand-up show. His mother, he said, used to tell him that "your father is no Rothschild", i.e. "he's no millionaire, we can't waste money." He then says that he later met Rothschild, only to scream at him: "I know! You're not my father!"

* There's an old joke about a boy who figures out that he can get adults to give him stuff simply by saying a sly "I know the truth..." and leaving it at that, allowing their minds to jump to "What could he know?" and pay him off without confirming what it is he "knows". Then he tries this on the milkman, who, rather than paying him off, drops down in tears of joy and exclaims "SON!" as he hugs him.

 

* ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'': {{spoiler|Bowser Jr. claims early on that Princess Peach is his mother. This is inverted after you defeat Bowser, when he tells Bowser Jr. that Peach is, rather, ''not'' his mother, and further subverted when Jr. in turn reveals that he knew she wasn't his mother.}}

* After the first ''[[Art of Fighting]]'', Yuri Sakazaki revealed to her brother Ryo and his friend Robert Garcia that, the game's final boss, Mr. Karate, was Takauma Sakazaki, Ryo and Yuri's father. Good thing too, Ryo was about to kill him for thinking he was the [[Big Bad]]. That honor belonged to Geese Howard who blackmailed Takuma by arranging for Yuri's kidnapping, so he could work for him.

* ''[[BlazBlue]]: Calamity Trigger'': Jin is Ragna's brother, not just some phycho using [[Japanese Sibling Terminology]]. Nu, and therefore {{spoiler|Noel}} are clones of their [[Dead Little Sister|Missing Little Sister]], Saya.

** ''[[BlazBlue]]: Continuum Shift'': Lambda is another clone of Saya. The Imperator of the [[The Empire|Novus Orvus Librarium]] is {{spoiler|Saya herself.}}

* ''[[Double Switch]]'': {{spoiler|Lyle the Handyman is Eddie's father, and Elizabeth, the apartment manager, is Eddie's mother}}. All three of them know this, but the player and the other characters did not know about that.

* In ''[[Bayonetta]]'', {{spoiler|Father Balder}} reveals that he is the titular character's father towards the end of the game.

* Inverted in the main campaign of ''[[Battle for Wesnoth]]'': {{spoiler|[[The Reveal]] is that prince Konrad isn't actually related to the King at all}}.

 

* In Proxicide's ''MK vs. SF 3'', it is revealed at the very end that {{spoiler|Akuma and Ryu are father and son}}.

** This deviates from ''[[Street Fighter]]'' canon a bit—in canon, {{spoiler|Gouki is Gouken's younger brother and Ryu's adoptive uncle}}.

* ''[[Broken Saints]]'': More like {{spoiler|I Am ''Her'' Father''. [[Big Bad]] Lear Dunham tells the other heroes that he is Shandala's biological father in his [[Just Between You and Me]].}}

 

* ''[[Girl Genius]]''

** At the end of the first major arc, Agatha escapes from Baron Wulfenbach with the newfound knowledge that she is the daughter of famous adventurer Bill Heterodyne.

** Still later, Jean [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20080503.html reveals that] {{spoiler|because Molly shares some of her DNA, Jean ''is'' her mommy, "just a little bit."}}

* Revolver Ocelot tells this to Psycho Mantis at one point in ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]''. Mantis, [[Self-Made Orphan|having killed his father at the age of eight]], states that he isn't. Ocelot concedes the point since the only reason he said it was to rip up in Mantis' old wounds.

* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' references it in [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=436 this strip].

* In ''[[Looking for Group]]'', when Richard is in the demonic court on the Plane of Suck, he is asked why he travels with Cale. He responds with a mumbled "He's my mother." This gets a "What?" reaction from everyone in the room, including Richard. Probably just a joke, though. But they said that about the rabbit, too, so...

* A variation in ''[[The Whiteboard]]'': Jinx friend, unnamed at the time, turned out to have been Howie's stepdaughter. Both of them knew, but it was certainly unexpected for the readers.

* In ''[[Gastrophobia]]'', Philia reveals that she is Phobia's [[Kid From the Future|daughter from the future]].

* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' has it [http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-04-02 used] as a stereotypical [[Soap Opera]] plot element.

 

* In "[[The Angry Video Game Nerd|AVGN]] vs [[The Nostalgia Critic|NC]]", the Nostalgia Critic tries pulling this on the Nerd. It fails.

{{quote|'''NC:''' Wait! Wait! Would you let your brother die?

* ''[[Sockbaby|Sockb4by]]'' - Doug Jones, to Ronnie Cordova.

* In Red vs Blue Season 6, Washington's line that {{spoiler|"there's no such thing as ghosts, Church. You're the last AI. You're the Alpha."}}

* ''[[The Gungan Council]]'' has Darth Apparatus doing this to both Ryori Holloway and Delilah Nepenthe.

 

** Also, kind of inverted in that Numbuh Zero, who we haven't seen before, is {{spoiler|Nigel's dad}}, who we have.

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': In "The Avatar and the Firelord", it is revealed that {{spoiler|Avatar Roku, Aang's spiritual predecessor, was the great-grandfather of Prince Zuko on his mother's side, making Aang Zuko's great-grandfather in spirit, if not in body.}} Did we mention that Mark Hamill voices ''{{spoiler|Zuko's}}'' father? Cue run-in-the-family memes.

** Some time after the end of the original animated series, the minicomic ''The Search for Keldor'' dropped hints that Skeletor is really King Randor's long-lost brother Keldor, making him Adam/He-Man's uncle. In the 2002 remake, Skeletor was originally named Keldor, but there is no indication that he is related to Randor.

*** While never stated in the show, the writers have since revealed that Keldor was intended to be Randor's half-brother. Same father, different mothers.

** Hades also tries to do this with Wonder Woman, with a twist that he had to resort to a technicality when WW pointed out her origin story doesn't ''allow'' her to have a father (she was sculpted of clay and made flesh by the breath of her mother, Hippolyte, instead of born; Hades claimed he was there during the sculpting, but not the life-granting).

* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'': It is revealed just before the Season 2 finale that Franz Hopper, creator of Lyoko, is actually [[The Chick|Aelita]]'s father. This also reveals that she is human, and not an A.I. as everyone originally thought.

** And an...odd version later: {{spoiler|Hermes was the one that approved Bender in the production line (Even though he shouldn't have been), making him, in a bizzare sense, Bender's father.}}

** This

* Parodied in ''[[Teamo Supremo]]'' when Skate Lad corners the CheapSkate.

{{quote|'''CheapSkate:''' You can't turn me in, Skate Lad.

{{quote|'''Darth Vader knock-off''': I did not destroy your second cousin. I ''am'' your second cousin!

'''Johnny''': Nooooooooooooooo!!! }}

 

* Recent evidence has backed claims that a Frenchman, Jean-Marie Loret, was the product of an affair between [[Adolf Hitler]], who was a German soldier in World War I, and his mother when she was 16 in 1917.

* The great Hawaiian king Kamehameha's biological father may well have been his rival, Kahekili.

 

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