Law of Inverse Fertility: Difference between revisions

 

{{quote|''"Once on a time there was a king and a queen who had no children, and that gave the queen much grief; she scarce had one happy hour. She was always bewailing and bemoaning herself, and saying how dull and lonesome it was in the palace.

 

''The fertility of a couple is inversely proportional to their desire to have a child.''

 

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* The ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' franchise has an uneven history with this trope. Trunks was apparently the result of a one-night stand between Bulma and Vegeta. And given the amount of time Goku spends either dead, traveling through space, training in the wilderness, or bedridden with a killer virus between and during the Freeza and Android / Cell sagas, it's amazing that he and Chichi ever found time to conceive Goten.

** [[Word of God]] is that Goten was conceived in the ten day span between the virus and Goku's second death. Though whether this was planned or not is never stated. It was probably just an off-screen [[Pre-Climax Climax]].

 

 

* Theseus's father visited an oracle to find out why he was childless. Theseus was conceived on the way home.

* [[The Bible|Genesis]] is ripe with examples of this trope; in fact, the only matriarchs who don't have problems conceiving are Eve and Leah (who in fact subverts this trope, having at least seven children). Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel were all infertile, and all three required divine intervention in order to have children.

** Apocryphal stories say that Mary's mother was also infertile for a number of years before having Mary at a relatively old age.

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