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{{trope}}
[[Alice and Bob|Alice desires Bob.]] Well, more Bob's DNA than Bob, himself. She totally believes that her genes + his genes = [[Alice and Bob]] Squared - a child that contains the best of both of them. [[You Fail Biology Forever|Genetics tend not to work that way]], but don't tell that to Alice. In this scenario, it is almost always the female chasing the male's genes<ref>In the absence of a surrogate mother, this ''is'' the significantly less [[Squick|Squicky]] way to do it.</ref>. As often as Alice will openly state her intentions, she'll also work to secretly procure Bob's DNA (which usually leads to a [[Luke, You Are My Father]] scenario).
A frequent variant is that [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness]] want to get [[Alice and Bob]] together for the purpose of conceiving [[The Chosen One]] and/or a [[Tyke Bomb]]. This scenario almost always involves a [[Gambit Roulette]] or a [[Gambit Pileup]] if there are other OCOVs looking to prevent said conception.
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To qualify as an example of this trope, the pursuit with intent to breed is the thing -- said wunderkind actually coming to be is a bonus.
[[The Chosen One]], [[Half
Do not confuse with [[Playing With Syringes]].
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If [[The Bad Guy Wins]] with this sort of motivation, their victim may proclaim, "[[That Thing Is Not My Child]]!"
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* This is the basis of the plot of ''[[Maburaho]]''; Yuna, Rin and Kuriko were all ordered to get their hands on Kazuki's powerful genes for the good of their upper-class family bloodlines. On the other hand, Yuuna at least had already been in love with him since childhood. And as the series goes on, Rin and Kuriko start to love Kazuki unconditional as well.
* A possible example in ''[[Kaze no Stigma (Light Novel)|Kaze no Stigma]]''. Ayano's dad might just be trying to set up the [[Bodyguard Crush]] between her and ultra-powerful Wind Contractor Kazuma for the short-term gain of entering someone that powerful into the family, but it seems rather more likely that he's planning for the long term - unfortunately, the series ended with an [[Author Existence Failure]] before we could find out what the offspring of a Wind Contractor and a top-notch Fire Mage would be like...
* Washu Hakubi of ''[[Tenchi Muyo]]'' has a combination of reasons for being interested in Tenchi. Part of it is [[For Science!]], since {{spoiler|she's trying to find the entity that made her and her sisters, and Tenchi doing some nice hax during his battle against Kagato is what sparks her interest}}, part is wanting to harvest his DNA (with or without his consent), and part is that she genuinely loves him (but is just a lonely introvert who has no idea how to treat people outside of the context of a lab) and wants to have Tenchi's baby, and only his. Plus, she gets to annoy her daughter Ryoko, who also loves Tenchi.
** ''Tenchi'' spinoff ''[[Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari]]'': In the [[Trapped in Another World|world]] of Geminar, males who can pilot the [[Humongous Mecha]] are exceedingly rare, and are treated more like stud horses than warriors, expected to be paired with other pilots to create a stronger new generation of future pilots; political control of a strong male pilot is a large bargaining chip. Later, it's revealed that {{spoiler|1=the [[Neglectful Precursors]] who created the mecha also created ArtificalHuman pilots, and could even send them to other worlds to breed with the natives to create still stronger children to be brought back -- which is ''apparently'' how series hero Kenshi Masaki, Tenchi's half-brother, was conceived.}}
* In the [[Hentai]] anime ''DNA Hunter'', Mai and her co-workers are basically contracted to carry out this trope: they sleep with specific men in order to obtain sperm for female clients. Mai herself is an more benign example, since her fiancee Yuji died in an accident and she's working to get enough money to have a procedure done that will allow her to use Yuji's DNA (extracted from a cigarette) to have his child.
* Becomes a major plot point in ''[[The Five Star Stories]]'', where budding [[Mad Scientist]] Meeth Silver Ballanche uses a sample of Sword Saint Douglas Kaien's DNA to impregnate herself. Their offspring, [[Overly Long Name|Maximum HOLTFORS Ballanche Kaien]] does indeed grow up to be the ultimate lifeform and even ascends to become a member of the series' small collection of [[Physical God|Physical Gods]].
* {{spoiler|Ringo Oginome}}'s real goal and the corollary of {{spoiler|1=her "Project M" (in which "M" = "maternity")}} in ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum (Anime)|Mawaru Penguindrum]]''. {{spoiler|Ringo's dead sister Momoka had planned her whole life with the goal of being happy with her boyfriend Tabuki, culminating with her writing in her diary that she and Tabuki would have kids. Desperate to get her and Momoka's parents back together, Ringo took up Momoka's goals to [[My Sibling Will Live Through Me|"become Momoka"]] and mend her broken family life, therefore she wanted to be impregnated by Tabuki. [[Plucky Girl|And she didn't]] [[Attempted Rape|stop at ANYTHING]] to try getting her "happy ending"... at least until her friend Shouma [[What the Hell, Hero?|LOUDLY called her out on it]] and then [[Taking the Bullet|got hit by a car to protect her]].}}
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* In the [[Superman]] comics (and at least one episode of ''[[Superman the Animated Series]]''), alien queen Maxima wanted Supes, both as a perfect mate and a genetic goldmine. His consent was purely optional, as far as she was concerned.
** Also, this [[Foe Yay|can be seen]] as the motivation behind the creation of Connor Kent/Kon-El Superboy, who is a clone made from the genes of Superman and [[Lex Luthor]]. Luthor obviously denies this interpretation vehemently.
* In the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' comics, Mr. Sinister desired a child that combined Scott Summers and Jean Grey's genes, so when Jean Grey [[Only Mostly Dead|"died"]], he [[Send in The Clones|created a clone of her (Madelyn Pryor)]] and sent her after Scott. (Their son got hit by the [[Timey
* [http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2005-12-17/ This] ''[[Dilbert]]'' comic.
* In the [[Incredible Hulk]] comics, Thundra's interest in the Hulk was retconned from her wanting to test her strength against the ultimate opponent to her wanting to procure the Hulk's DNA to conceive a warrior who could break the stalemate between her all-female nation and the all-male opposing one. "Lyra, Daughter of The Hulk" is the result of this.
* When ''[[Batman]]: Son Of The Bat'' was brought back into continuity, a consensual encounter between Batman and Talia Al-Ghul (that happened to result in a child) was retconned into Talia [[Rape Is Love|drugging and raping]] Bruce in order to produce an heir.
* In the old ''Champions'' line of comics, the fact that eventual Champions member Sparkplug, a bit of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] raised and brainwashed by [[Those Wacky Nazis|South American Nazi refugees]], would try to hit on just about every male superhero whose genes she thought would complement hers nicely for purposes of producing 'superior' offspring became something of a (arguably [[Squick|mildly creepy]]) [[Running Gag]].
* One ''[[
* After Thor gave up his soul to save Valkyrie in ''Ultimatum'', Hela the Norse goddess of the underworld wanted him to give her a son. In return, she promised him a favor. The day after the deed, Thor demanded a means to return to the living world, she said that it would require someone else to die in his place. When Thor threatened to kill her to fulfill the requirement, Hela then revealed that she was already heavily pregnant with his son thanks to the fluid nature of time in the underworld. She remarks that their child is already a strong warrior given the way he kicks.
* In ''Red Robin'' #12, it was revealed in [[The Stinger]] that everything Ra's Al Ghul did in the series up till that point was to test Tim Drake. Ra's now knows that Tim will sire a worthy heir -- and a mysterious female companion assures him that she'll "get right on that"...
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* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4]]'', the Patriots conspire to do this to Big Boss, to the point where he reacted almost as if he had been raped and abandoned them. Notably, while Zero was in it as part of a plot to create Big Boss-like heroes through which he could control the populace, and Para-Medic was presumably motivated by [[Evilutionary Biologist|science]], EVA was the most eager to steal Big Boss's genetic material and her motivation was to [[Stalker With a Crush|forcibly have the beautiful children of the man she had a one night stand with years ago]]. It's played as sympathetic.
* The main reason [[Black Magician Girl|Morrigan]] joins you in ''[[Dragon Age]]'' is to {{spoiler|complete a ritual that requires she be impregnated by a Grey Warden before the Archdemon is slain}}. Love and physical attraction are entirely beside the point; [[Love Redeems|at first,]] [[Sex Face Turn|anyway]].
* As the [[Kid With the Remote Control]], ''you'', yes you, are invoking this trope (by orchestrating it) in every ''[[Pokémon]]'' game (starting from [[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|Gold & Silver]]). As many powerful moves can only be passed on via breeding, you'll likely find yourself flinging two hapless Pokemon in a pen together and patiently waiting for them to get it on. [[What Do You Mean
* In ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]'', this turns out to be the motivation of {{spoiler|the Reapers}}, who do this to ''entire species''.
* ''[[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Fire Emblem Seisen No Keifu]]'' sees [[Big Bad|Manfloy]] hunt down the descendants of Lopto in order to breed them together, thereby providing a host for the evil god. {{spoiler|He succeeds.}} This incestuous evil plan works because genetics ''[[A Wizard Did It|do]]'' [[A Wizard Did It|work that way in the game]]. The whole thing is played very much for the [[Squick]], and to show just how much of an [[Complete Monster|irredeemable bastard Manfloy is]] because a) one of the required children is {{spoiler|''[[I Have Your Wife|your wife]]'' (or better said, the main character Sigurd's wife and one of the local [[White Mage|White Mages]], Diadora))}}, b) the other child is {{spoiler|a former [[Well
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* In ''[[General Protection Fault]]'', an splinter group of The Brotherhood Of The Twisted Pair (a group of Illiuminati-like hackers) believed that either Sharon or Fooker was their legendary "Geek Messiah." When a battery of tests failed to show any real difference in Sharon and Fooker's "l33t skillz", the group decided that neither Sharon nor Fooker was [[The Chosen One]] - their future child was. And much to Sharon's annoyance (and Fooker's amusement), the Brotherhood set about making sure said conception happened.
* Elaine of Carbonek in ''[[Arthur King of Time and Space]]'', as above.
* In ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'', the Orcs' chief deity, Gruumsh, was behind the conception of [[Tyke Bomb|Jone]] (and other [[Half
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