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== Literature == |
== Literature == |
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* Spoofed in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[ |
* Spoofed in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Interesting Times]]''. Rincewind is stuck on a tropical island and is found by a tribe of lovely Amazons (a regional curiosity for their white skins and blonde hair) who have lost all their men to a highly specific plague and require him to repopulate their tribe. Sadly, Rincewind is magically "rescued" before he can obtain his greatest fantasy ([[It Makes Sense in Context|potatoes]]). |
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* 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. |
* 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. |
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* [[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. |
* [[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. |
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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. |
* [[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. |
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* 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). |
* 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). |
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== Live-Action TV == |
== Live-Action TV == |
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