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{{quote|''The world gave me no child, so I built one.''|''[[The Megas]]'', "The Message From Dr. Light/Level Select"}}
[[Mad Scientist
This applies particularly to mad scientists of the [[Evilutionary Biologist|Evilutionary]] variety, and appears to be a primarily literary trope, probably because of the difficulty in finding plausible-looking pairs of actors.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Father created his "children", the homunculi by splitting off various facets of his personality - specifically, the [[Seven Deadly Sins]].
* Ryouko in ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' ([[OVA
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'':
** There's an unusual case of this; the cloning was done without the parent's knowledge and {{spoiler|when Quint Nakajima discovered Subaru and Ginga, she raised them as her daughters in a normal, loving environment with her husband since she couldn't have children anyway.}}
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* In ''[[Gundam Seed]]'':
** {{spoiler|Rau le Creuset is the clone-son of Al da Flaga, who was such an egotist that he despised his naturally-born son Mwu because he felt that the child was "impure" thanks to the genes he got from his mother. Two other Al da Flaga clones turn up in other parts of the series: Rey za Burrell in ''Gundam SEED Destiny,'' and Prayer Reverie in ''[[Gundam SEED Astray]]'', although some evidence points to the possibility that Prayer is instead a clone of ''Mwu''.}}
** Kira was {{spoiler|initially a natural son of Ulen and Via Hibiki, but his [[Mad Scientist]] father tampered with his genome so much (up to including parts of his employer Al da Fraga's genome, which is where Kira got his [[Psychic Powers|Newtype powers]], and which makes him sort of Mwu's half-brother), that he should count as his
* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Nemu is the artificially-created vice-captain of Kurotsuchi Mayuri. It's implied that she's an [[Opposite Sex Clone]] of Mayuri, to the point where her level of free will is debatable.
* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' has {{spoiler|Shura, who's a clone of his father, Yomi. He doesn't act exactly as his father does, but that's because he's still a kid, and it's stated that Yomi used to be more impetuous before he got blinded.}}
* Appears in Hiroyuki Morioka's ''[[Crest of the Stars|Seikai]]'' series. The Abh, though they are aloof, arrogant and imperialistic, are not as much evil, as they are ''odd'' by the standards of the most of the Galaxy, including even their own subjects. One of their oddities is that all their babies are essentially custom-made for the person who just happened to want to reproduce. As they generally do not practice marriage, this makes that person a
* Although the audience doesn't get to see much of the [[Sailor Moon|Silver Millennium]], Queen Serenity may well qualify for this trope, albeit an unusually benevolent example. She has no husband, no one ever asks who or where Princess Serenity's father is, and she and her daughter look exactly alike. This is more obvious in the manga, where Princess Serenity is frequently drawn with silver hair, and much of the Moon Kingdom's resources include advanced technology.
** There's a panel in the manga that shows Queen Serenity bringing the shell of a star to the Galaxy Cauldron, then Princess Serenity's birth.
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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* In ''[[Aeon Natum Engel]]'' a ''truly''
* In the Harry Potter fanfic one-shot [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4746187/13/What_a_Bunch_of_Nonjon I Got Soul But I'm Not A Soldier], Harry {{spoiler|creates his son Marvin in order to remove the piece of horcurx stuck in his head, which after Voldemort's defeat is effectively inert metaphysical goop that is slowly killing him, so both Harry and Marvin are part Harry, part horcrux.}}
== [[Film]] ==
* Jango Fett from the ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels is by no stretch of the imagination a [[Mad Scientist]], but other than that he's a classic
** Also Schmi Skywalker, as Anakin is conceived through the Force, and thus has no father.
** The novelization of ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'' movie makes it clear that Rotta is Jabba's son - and his alone: Hutts are hermaphrodites.
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* Two examples from [[John Varley]]:
** {{spoiler|Kenneth "Sparky" Valentine}} from John Varley's ''The Golden Globe'' turns out to be an (illegal) clone of his father.
** The Titanides from Varley's ''Gaia'' trilogy, while technically male and female, actually have three sets of genitals making for an absolutely rediculous number of possible reproductive permentations one of which
* The Ullerans from [[H. Beam Piper]]'s ''Uller Uprising'' are a hermaphroditic race. Self-impregnation is difficult but not impossible though it is generally considered taboo. The chief of the one Ulleran tribe that practices it refers to his offspring as "little me".
* In the [[Backstory]] of [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[The Golden Oecumene|The Golden Age]]'', main character Phaethon was "born" when a computer simulation of his father Helion's personality became self-aware. [[My God, What Have I Done?|After causing an]] [[Earthshattering Kaboom]].
* Not a cloning scenario, but in ''The Bad Place'', by [[Dean Koontz]], {{spoiler|hermaphroditic Roselle, who is the product of brother-on-sister rape and fully reproductively functional as both male and female, self-impregnates three times, resulting in two sons (one the villain, the other a co-protagonist) and a pair of twin daughters}}.
* "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ subverts this: in spite of being a [[One-Gender Race]], the women had discovered how to replace cloning with merging ova.
* In [[Stephen Hunt]]'s ''The Rise of the Iron Moon'', Lord Starborn to
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]] provides several examples in his works.
** "[[All You Zombies]]" features a character that, through some truly amazing feats of [[Time Travel]], is simultaneously {{spoiler|[[My Own Grampa|his own mother, father, daughter, and son]]}}.
** In ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'', protagonist Lazarus long has this pulled on him by the people involved in his latest rejuvenation, as a way of getting him out of the ennui of [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]. They conspire to bear twin [[Opposite Sex Clone
* [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Otherland]]'' features a character who attempted this as part of an [[Immortality]] scheme. He commissioned ''two'' clones of
* This has been mentioned as having happened in the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series. There are even laws in place stating that a clone is legally the child of the tissue donor and can legally inherit from them - so long as the cloning was authorized by the donor or the donor's estate. That caveat is to prevent cases where someone clones a rich man, kills the rich man, and then has the clone claim his 'father's' fortune on behalf of his creator.
* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[Hermetic Millenium|Count to a Trillion]]'', Menelaus deduces that the story about the princess's mother is nonsense, and her only parent must have been her
* In [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[The Monster Men]]'', Professor Maxon to the men he created. (He also wants to create a perfect one to marry to his own daughter.)
{{quote|''"Though there are twelve more," continued Professor Maxon, "you were my first born son and I loved you most, dear child."
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* Arceus from [[Pokémon]]. In one event you can see Arceus create an egg for you ([[Mind Screw|using a ritual that apparently involves Google images]]). Said egg becomes a level 1 legendary, which can double as a [[Disc One Nuke]].
* In ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'', somewhat in the original series and especially in [[Fanon]], Mega Man, Roll, and to a lesser extent Proto Man are all treated as Dr. Light's children, despite merely being [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]] created by him. (Though this may be partly because he simply has more regard for his creations than the series's [[Big Bad|other major robotics genius]].)
* In ''[[Digital Devil Saga]]'' Angel is the
* {{spoiler|Kuchiki Toko}} in ''[[Kara no Shoujo]]'' has no father, though her mother didn't realize because she had been having sex with someone. However, this man was completely sterile.
* ''[[Ever 17]]'' has {{spoiler|You'haru}}, whose daughter is a clone of herself.
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* While they're not clones, ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' father, Professor Utonium, could still qualify as a Truly Single Parent by adoption if nothing else. At least if you consider "Made in a lab out of sugar and spice and everything nice, plus Chemical X" to be adoption.
* Dr. Von Reichter from ''[[Cybersix]]'' creates his "son" José with science. Von Reichter doesn't seem to consider José his son so much as José thinks of [["Well Done, Son" Guy|him as a father]].
* Subverted in ''[[Transformers Animated]]''. It is strongly hinted throughout seasons 1 and 2 that Isaac Sumdac is a
* The ''[[Transformers]]'' continuities in general do this a lot with their robot characters, given that they only need a single set of hands (or even no hands, in some cases) to build them.
* Theorized about Hank and Dean from ''[[Venture Brothers]]'', but [[Jossed]] by [[Word of God]]. The boys were born the old-fashioned way some time ago; Rusty is just very secretive about who the mother is.
* In ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' Dr. Robotnik creates a [[Ridiculously Human Robot]] son in the form of Robotnik Jr.
* On ''[[Invader Zim]],'' [[Hero Antagonist|Dib]] may well have been created by his father Membrane as an experiment, according to [[Word of Saint Paul|Eric Trueheart]]. (Technically he only says that he was created as an experiment, but [[Fanon]] holds cloning because the two look basically identical. Fans are left to their own guesses where [[Creepy Child|Gaz]] came from.)
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