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[[Mad Scientist]]s, being the rampant egotists that they are, tend to [[Cloning Blues|clone]] themselves when they want children. Inevitably the children in question are as [[In the Blood|brilliant as their parent]], though there seems to be only about a 50% chance of their brilliance being [[Lamarck Was Right|of the same sort]]. The clone's childhood, if [[Younger Than They Look|portrayed at all]], is frequently awful as they're forced to live up to their parent's seemingly-[[Why Couldn't You Be Different?|impossible expectations]]. Often, there's some attempt to subject them to the [[Compassionate Critic|same childhood traumas]] as their parent had, in order to further force them on an identical path.

 

Compare [[Replacement Goldfish]] and [[Homosexual Reproduction]]. Not related to normal single parenthood: normal single parents have one parent (or more, depending on how many you start with) leaving for whatever reason.

 

== [[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]].

* ''[[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.}}

** 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.

* The ''[[Soul Eater]]'' manga suggests this might be the case for {{spoiler|Shinigami to Death the Kid. Kid is described by the Great Old One and the Book of Eibon's Index as a "fragment of Shinigami".}}

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

 

 

* In ''[[Aeon Natum Engel]]'' a ''truly'' Truly Single Parent's child appears on a talkshow. It's not nice; gender-swap-magic combined with artificial impregnation which makes it possible for parents to impregnate themselves and get children with horrible genetic diseases.

* 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.}}

'''Milhouse:''' Yeah, I guess... }}

* Chan of [[The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan]]. It's never told whatever happened to the mother unless giving birth to ten children sent her off the deep end.

 

== Real Life ==

* This can happen in some species of animals (and plants) through the various means of [[wikipedia:Asexual reproduction|asexual reproduction]], including [[wikipedia:Parthenogenesis|Parthenogenesis]].

 

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