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Things can get even [[Squick|Squickier]] if the "offspring" is a full-size, adult clone. Many people in real life have identical twins, so most would consider a copy that's close to their age (or even older) a "sibling" rather than a "child"... although that's moot if this trope is played straight, of course.
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.
This trope is often the result when [[The Bad Guy Wins]] in a story with a [[Stalker With a Test Tube]], or after a character catches a [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]]. A common reaction is ~But I Can't Be Pregnant!~, and sometimes happens in [[Real Life]] with a [[Child By Rape]].
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Do not confuse with [[I Have No Son]], in which the parent disowns a disappointing child.
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* In ''[[Inception (Film)|Inception]]'', {{spoiler|Mal and Cobb both react this way when they're faced with children they believe to be fake, while they may or may not be dreaming. The jury's still out on which interpretation, if either, was correct.}}
** [[Word of God]] has a [http://collider.com/inception-christopher-nolan-explains/61972/ strongly implied conclusion] and a definite final answer.
* In the [[B
* This may have been the motive for the Cobblepot family from ''[[Batman Returns (Film)|Batman Returns]]'' to throw baby Oswald over a bridge in its wicker bassinet.
* The mother in ''[[AI Artificial Intelligence]]'' reacts this way to the robotic "child" her husband brings home.
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* Done in the stage adaptation of ''[[Wicked (Theatre)|Wicked]]''. Elphaba's father undisguisedly loathes her with a passion and dotes on her younger sister Nessa merely because Elphaba is green. The moment she's born he screams [[This Is Sparta|"TAKE! IT! AWAY!"]] at the nurse before angrily storming off.
** To be fair{{spoiler|he isn't Elphaba's real father anyway.}}
* In ''Batboy: The Musical'', {{spoiler|a woman has [[Child By Rape|twins by different rapists]] from the night of a [[Freak Lab Accident]] with pheromones. She loves one baby, because the father isn't so bad ([[Moral Event Horizon|yet]]); the other is a [[Half
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* This is [[Metal Gear|Big Boss's]] initial reaction to the Snake brothers, who are his clones. He eventually comes around, though. {{spoiler|Sadly, by the time he does, only one of the three is still alive. And then Big Boss dies before he can really spend any time with him.}}
** To be fair, Big Boss claimed to always respect Solid Snake as a man and a soldier, and it's pretty obvious, given that Big Boss took the trouble to train Snake and teach him CQC, that Big Boss played his role as a father for at least part of Snake's life. Trying to kill Solid Snake just seems to be a pre-requisite for being part of the Snake family, the only family member who didn't try to kill Snake was EVA (his mother).
* Averted in ''[[Parasite Eve]] 2'', when Aya Brea finds out that an evil cult has cloned her in order to create a new 'Parasite Eve' with the ability to control NMC's... despite having standing orders to destroy the girl, and despite said girl going [[One
* Played with in ''[[Tales of the Abyss (Video Game)|Tales of the Abyss]]'', with "replicas" (clones) in general.
* Horrifically averted with ''[[Dead Space 2 (Video Game)|Dead Space 2]]'', where a woman calls lovingly to her [[Body Horror|necromorph]] baby... only to get her entrails splattered against the wall when it goes kaboom.
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* This is [[Superman]]'s reaction to [[Superboy]] in ''[[Young Justice (Animation)|Young Justice]].''
** Though he's at least nicer than most examples of this trope--so far he has never blamed Superboy or considered him a "thing," but he also clearly doesn't want to consider him his child (see page quote). He's also rationalized this as a way to avoid giving Superboy [[Cloning Blues]], claiming that it would be better if [[Batman]] or someone took on a mentoring role instead.
* In ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'', Xanatos created a clone of Goliath, who reacted in disgust, calling him a "thing" and an "abomination". Elisa immediately pointed out that "[[Sdrawkcab Name|Thailog]]" could be considered his son, and Goliath reluctantly agrees they should help free him from Sevarius. Unfortunately, Thailog had already learned [[Xanatos Gambit|a few tricks]] from his [[The Chessmaster|other]] [[Morally
** Which actually makes this an [[Inverted Trope|inversion]]--it really only takes Goliath about a minute or two to accept Thailog as a son, but Thailog refuses to accept Goliath as a ''parent,'' claiming he's too weak for him to admire. He rejects Xanatos and Sevarius too, but that's more because his own ambitions oppose theirs.
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