That Thing Is Not My Child: Difference between revisions

This can become the progeny's source of angst or their [[Freudian Excuse]] for turning evil. For this trope to be in effect, it has to be clear that the "child" is considered a new creation outside of the "parent's" control (i.e., rape, cloning, or some sort of freak accident). If the parent willfully mated, cloned themselves, or did [[For Science!|brutal experiments]] on their own child, only to disown them later, that is a different matter.

 

 

Do not confuse with [[I Have No Son]], in which the parent disowns a disappointing child.

 

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* This seems to be much how Guts reacts in ''[[Berserk]]'', after {{spoiler|Casca miscarries and gives birth to a hideously deformed child after the events of the Eclipse where she was raped by Femto}}. Unlike most examples on the list, it actually ''is'' his child, but merely corrupted by events outside of his control.

* In a particularly [[Tear Jerker|heartbreaking]] example, ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' features [[Stepford Smiler|Momiji]]'s mother reacting this way (using the almost exact quote) upon discovering that her child [[Involuntary Shapeshifting|turns into a rabbit when she holds him]] because he's under the zodiac curse. Momiji's father had {{spoiler|her memory of her son cleared}} to aid her failing health brought on by the emotional stress of all this.