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== Literature ==
* Inversion: The tale of ''[[Beowulf]]'', in which the hero slays a very dangerous monster, and its even more dangerous Mommy goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]].
* A different subversion seems in order in the short story "Honor is All" -- set in the ''[[Dragonlance]]'' [[Role Playing Game Verse]], it follows a noble knight who tracks and slays a dragon, and discovers that it has a hatchling. Just as he is about to do away with the infant dragon, however, he discovers that the creature he just killed was not a ferocious [[
* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[IT]]'', the titular monster turns out to be a female, but that actually makes things worse rather than better.
* Subverted in both the novel and film versions of Michael Crichton's ''[[Jurassic Park|The Lost World]]'' (one of the few plot points they have in common). The team takes an infant tyrannosaur back to the trailer to fix its broken leg; unfortunately, neither Mommy nor Daddy is very grateful for their saving the baby's life.
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== Music ==
* This trope is pretty much the whole point of the [[Voltaire (
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* In the second chapter of ''[[La Pucelle]]'', you may end up killing the guardian of the forest. If you return there in the third chapter, Prier finds the monster's child, a cute bear cub, and chooses to take care of it to make amends. If she returns the cub to the forest, she'll gain a new spell.
* At the end of the First Chapter of ''[[Mother 3]]'' {{spoiler|Flint goes to kill the Drago that killed Hinawa, only to be stopped at the last second by its baby.}}
* The order is reversed in ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]:[[Dark Corners of the Earth]]'', where after meeting the cute (if creepy) little girl, you meet her mother, {{spoiler|a savage purebred Deep One locked in the attic, who proceeds to break out, maul you, and then kill the little girl.}}
* In ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics A2]]'', there is a quest sequence concerning endangered monster species. One of the missions has you protect an attacking Mamatrice and her chicks in a barfight from the corrupt bar-owner.
* In ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]'', when you're helping [[The Scrappy|Prince]] [[Jerkass|Charmless]] acquire an Argon Heart for his rite of passage, you eventually come across a Great Argon Lizard that's heavily implied to be the parent of all the regular Argon Lizards. Charmless, of course, [[Kick the Dog|orders you to slaughter it because he's not satisfied with the regular Argon Hearts you've found.]]
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