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* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[Hermetic Millenium|Count to a Trillion]]'', Menelaus deduces that the story about the princess's mother is nonsense, and her only parent must have been her father -- she was posthumous, though.

* In [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[The Monster Men]]'', Professor Maxon to the men he created. (He also wants to create a perfect one to marry to his own daughter.)

Professor Maxon looked up sadly. "You do not understand, Dr. von Horn," he replied coldly, "and you will oblige me, in the future, by not again referring to the offspring of my labors as 'things.'" '' }}

* The Solarians in ''[[Foundation]] and Earth'' eventually engineered themselves into a race capable of that, [[Values Dissonance|because their idea of freedom is to depend on no other person and to never meet anyone]]

* On ''[[Invader Zim]],'' [[Hero Antagonist|Dib]] may well have been created by his father Membrane as an experiment, according to [[Word of Saint Paul|Eric Trueheart]]. (Technically he only says that he was created as an experiment, but [[Fanon]] holds cloning because the two look basically identical. Fans are left to their own guesses where [[Creepy Child|Gaz]] came from.)

* In the ''[[Simpsons]]'' episode "[[Christmas Episode|Holidays of Future Passed]]," set [[Distant Finale|thirty years in the future]], [[Dogged Nice Guy|Milhouse]] and [[Wise Beyond Their Years|Lisa]] have a daughter named Zia. However, they arranged to have her made out of only their best genetic material...which means she's just a clone of Lisa.

'''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.