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{{trope}}
{{quote|''He said, I'm from mars and I come in peace,''
''I have something to ask and it's not discrete''
''There's a mutated strain in our DNA helix''
''And you three kids are the ones who can heal it''
'''''But were just thirteen man what can we do?'''''
''Umm, how should I put this - I think we should screw''
'''What?'''
''On my home planet we can no longer breed''
''I've been sent as a receptacle to store your seed''
'''''Storing our seed!?'''''
'''''Yo, I think he means sex'''''
'''''Man I'm a virgin'''''
'''''We all are - BET'''''|
Oh, boy.
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Sister Trope of [[Adam and Eve Plot]].
{{noreallife|sorry, we have to impose Wikipedia's "reliable sources" rule on this one.}}
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
* Poor Aono Tsukune of ''[[Rosario
▲== Anime and Manga ==
▲* Poor Aono Tsukune of ''[[Rosario to Vampire]]'' is the target of a Succubus ''and'' a [[Youkai|Snow Girl]], ''both'' species of which are well known for their poor responses to rejection. To make matters worse, Snow Girls are an endangered species, and [[Unwanted Harem|he's in love with a third girl]].
* A rather disturbing adventure in ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'': A group of borderline [[Eldritch Abomination]] Digimon summon 11-year-old (13-year-old in the dub) Hikari to the Dark Ocean with hopes that she can help them to resist the "Dark God who is not a god". Okay, that didn't sound too bad at first... Until they say how she'd be helping. In the dub, they ask her to be their bride; in the original, though, they explicitly say that they want her to ''[[Squick|bear their descendants]]'' so that they can fight the "Dark God".
* This is what the Mina's cousins want to do to her (willing or no) in ''[[Dance in the Vampire Bund]].''
* In ''[[DearS]]'', male lead Takeya becomes this {{spoiler|after leaving with Ren and the now fertile
* This is how Kurama is introduced into ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]''. Ataru was chosen, and isn't very reluctant.
== Comic Books ==
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* ''[[XXXenophile]]'' hints that for one couple this was a sexy role-playing scenario.
* Maxima when she is hitting on [[Superman]]
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* Played for laughs in the ''[[Power Girl]]'' comics. The ''[[Zardoz]]'' expy "Vartox" is a ladies' man from outer space - except his sense of style is stuck firmly in the discotheque-ridden 70s. He wants Power Girl to help him repopulate his planet, but explains that she need not physically sleep with him - it is achieved by way of a ''pregno-ray''. It's hilarious because Vartox really is a nice, if clueless and shallow, guy, who means no harm to Karen who is constantly amused by him.
* The comic book ''Brain Camp'' in which human incubators were only hope of repopulating a race of alien birds.
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== Literature ==
* Spoofed in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[
* A female variant appears in [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s "[[Heralds of Valdemar|Oathbound]]" stories. An oath-sister of the last survivor of a Shin'a'in Clan agrees to physically reestablish the bloodline (with great success). Though she doesn't provide all the clanmembers - many were immigrants from other clans. They just needed a core of people from the original clan, and evidently unrelated oathsisters count. Since the oath itself is agreed to by the Shin'a'in goddess, it's probably a case of [[A Wizard Did It|a goddess did it]]. Plus the fact that not only do other clans exist for the blood to be introduced, but the clans are bound as much by tradition as blood, not to mention that most are inter-married anyway.
* [[Older Than Steam]]: Appears during a hilarious incident in ''[[Journey to the West]]''. Slight subversion: while the women are still able to reproduce, Xuanzang was still the first man ever to come to their kingdom. Pity he's a monk.
* Variant: In Garth Nix's ''[[Old Kingdom]]'' trilogy, it is revealed as the end of ''Lirael'' that Lirael's mother Saw her child in a prophetic vision, and knew two things: 1. The child had to be fathered by the Abhorsen, and 2. The entire world would end if this child did not exist. Fortunately, the Abhorsen seemed to be a rather... understanding gentleman about it all...
* The [[Unfortunate Implications]] of this trope usually never enter the picture. ''[[The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect]]'' is an exception. {{spoiler|Having just [[Moral Dissonance|wiped out the rest of humanity]] by [[Logic Bomb
* Also dealing with the [[Unfortunate Implications]], in Octavia Butler's ''[[Lilith's Brood]]'' series, humanity has been [[It Makes Sense in Context|basically sterilised by aliens who intend to interbreed with them]]. A small pocket of runaway humans is surprised when a young girl becomes pregnant after a sexual assault by a passing stranger. Deciding that this is the only way to perpetuate the pure-human species, the rest of the group {{spoiler|separates the mother and child, raising the baby until puberty, when they then force him to impregnate his mother. By the time anyone finds this little colony, the resulting generations are suffering nasty mutations.}}
* After killing off most of the members of his father's race, including all the men, [[Cal Leandros]] finds out that the only surviving Auphe are females, and guess what they want him for now...
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* [[Poul Anderson]]'s ''After Apocalypse'' handles the need for a gene pool. A handful of women survive, and when they find a ship of men, discussion almost immediately begins about the way they will need to practice polyandry to maximize the number of genes they save for the next generation.
* In [[Roger Zelazny]]'s story "A Rose for Ecclesiastes", the protagonist falls in love with a woman of the dying Martian race; he doesn't learn until afterwards that the whole thing was this trope and that the woman was not happy about having to sleep with him (each of them fulfilled a described role in a Martian prophecy about the only way to save their race, even her not being in love with him was part of it).
== Live-Action TV ==
* Some elements are averted in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Delta and the Bannermen". Delta and her daughter are the last of her species, but don't take any action to do anything about that. Billy secretly takes Chimeron royal jelly to transform himself into a Chimeron-Human hybrid without Delta's knowledge so that he can mate with Delta. The variation here is that ''he'' is perfectly willing to go through with all this, whereas Delta is
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' had "Wink Of An Eye," where a species of [[Human Aliens]] has become [[Super Speed|hyperaccelerated]] until [[Time Stands Still]] for them, but it left their males infertile, and so they need to steal Kirk ''et al'' for breeding purposes.
** And another episode had the inversion of
*** A slight variation in the original pilot "The Cage," where the Talosians were breeding a race of ''humans'' as slaves to rebuild their planet for them. When Captain Pike resisted mating with the only female available, they brought down two of his crewman, so he could chose from a blonde, a brunette, and a redhead (although logically they wouldn't have ''wanted'' him to pick just one, this was network television in 1965).
* A ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode has perennial [[The Chew Toy|Chew Toy]] Harry Kim kidnapped by [[Lesbian Vampire|Lesbian]] [[Recycled in Space|Space]] [[Lesbian Vampire|Vampires]] for breeding purposes.
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* In ''[[Fans]]!'', one character, a pudgy, hairy ubernerd-type, had a sort of what-if mini-arc where he was the last human being alive, and aliens asked him to re-sire humanity, using reproductions of his friends made using his memories. {{spoiler|It skips to decades later, as the "Allfather" is managing the burgeoning human population, and taking steps to reduce the inevitable effects of inbreeding due to the limited gene pool
* ''[[Cracked.com|Cracked]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_19796_6-disturbing-unanswered-questions-from-childrens-movies_p2.html 6 Disturbing Unanswered Questions from Children's Movies] shows what would probably happen after ''Rio'': the implied [[Brother-Sister Incest]] in the next generation would result in infertility.▼
== Web Original ==
▲* ''[[Cracked.com
== Western Animation ==
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