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* The truth is never revealed, leaving everyone uncertain.

 

 

A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe]].

 

{{examples}}

* [http://www.marriedtothesea.com/091906/LOVE-SEAT.gif This] ''Married To the Sea'' comic.

* Played with in ''[[Spider Girl]]'', when a "new" Spider-Man shows up. After lots of hints that he's Peter's illegitimate son with ex-girlfriend [[Dating Catwoman|Felicia Hardy]], it turns out he's really {{spoiler|the son of the first Spider-Woman, Jessica Drew}}.

* Done with Lori Grimes from ''[[The Walking Dead]]''. The truth is speculated on, but never revealed.

* Jotaro in ''[[Usagi Yojimbo]]''.

 

== Films ==

* In ''[[Local Hero]]'', the protagonist asks a gang of punks whose baby is with them (the mother being the one female punk in town). They just look at each other.

* [[The Miracle of Morgan's Creek|The Miracle of Morgans Creek]] is an odd example: She bumps her head at a farewell party for draftees, gets married and pregnant in her [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|temporarily poor judgment]], and then never remembers who her husband is.

** Considering Woof was holding the baby at the end, this troper always assumed it was him.

* ''Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell''

 

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[Maury|The Maury Povich Show]]'' once had varied topics, [[Jump the Shark|but nowadays]] seems to deal with ''nothing'' but women giving men paternity tests. Sometimes one woman will take up the entire show testing seven or eight men, find out it's none of them, and ''return another day.'' Of course, they could be making it up... ''Lord,'' please tell me they're making it up.

** All things considered, would that ''really'' be an improvement for the poor kids stuck with these morons as parents?

* Sue Ellen became pregnant on ''[[Dallas]]'' after an affair with Cliff Barnes. Turned out the baby was indeed JR's. And they did it ''again'' years later when Cliff bumped into old girlfriend Afton and her daughter. Despite Cliff's hopes this child too turned out to be someone elses daughter.

* On ''[[The Secret Life of the American Teenager]]'', there were two candidates for the father of Anne's son: George, her ex-husband and her new boyfriend. The boyfriend had been told he was sterile, but George had gotten a vasectomy years earlier, so everyone assumed that the boyfriend was, in fact, not sterile and the father. Then George confessed that he had lied about getting a vasectomy. This led the boyfriend to conclude that George was the father. The boyfriend [[Put on a Bus|broke up with Anne and left]] and that was that. There was a brief instant right after the baby was born where George wasn't sure if the baby looked like him, but that was quickly dropped. They never did a DNA test, but the show has made it clear that George is the father.

* ''Nip/Tuck'' has this with {{spoiler|Julia}} and the paternity of {{spoiler|Matt}}. After finding out that {{spoiler|Christian}} is his father, due to a one night stand before {{spoiler|Julia's}} wedding to {{spoiler|Sean}}, she hides it from her husband. She reveals it to her son's father, her son, and her husband (in that order) causing her husband to kick her out. Her husband doesn't treat her son any differently and eventually forgives both his wife and his son's father for the affair.

* The central concept of ''[[My Two Dads]]'' - the mother died without knowing who the father was, and a judge ruled both potential fathers had to raise the daughter together. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

** Note that the show took place before DNA testing was created. In fact by the end of the series, DNA testing has come out and they took one, but ended up throwing away the results without reading them, thinking it was better that way.

* A big part of the plot during season 8 of [[The X-Files]]. Though, being a paranormal show, and with Scully not actually supposed to be able to have children, it was both this and a 'How the heck did this happen?'

* A subplot in ''Oh, Dr. Beeching'', involved a new station master at a rural English train station finding an old flame running the canteen. She has a daughter who could be the new station master's, and it turns out that the mother was seeing both her husband and the station master at the same time. The paternity was never disclosed.

* Shows up in ''[[Supernatural]]'' of all places. Dean meets an old flame who has a son who acts and looks like a mini-Dean and was born roughly nine months after they were together. The woman assures him that the son is not his and the real father left them shortly after her son was born. Some fans, however, [[Wild Mass Guessing|theorize]] that she was lying, although this possibility is never addressed in-show. Dean eventually {{spoiler|settles down with them after Sam's death, but leaves when Sam comes back and winds up having Cas erase their memories of him to protect them.}}

* The paternity of Aeryn's pregnancy became a prevalent source of angst during season four of [[Farscape]]. Thanks to [[Fantasy Contraception]], Peacekeeper females can hold an embryo in stasis for up to seven cycles (years), so Aeryn had no way of knowing if the child was Crichton's until she made it to a medical facility near the end of the season.

* This pops up with Claudia Black again in season 9 of [[Stargate SG-1]]. Vala, upon accidentally arriving in the Ori galaxy, finds herself pregnant with no explanation and gets married to avoid punishment from the incredibly religious townspeople. Vala and her husband do eventually find out that the child is "the will of the Ori", making Vala's pregnancy a rather dark take on [[You Keep Using That Word|immaculate conception]].

 

 

== Theater ==

** And [[Hilarity Ensues]]!

*** {{spoiler|[[Word of God]] says Bill was, and in [[The Movie]] they resemble each other most.}}

 

 

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[[Category:Pregnancy Tropes]]

[[Category:Parental Issues]]

[[Category:Luke, I Am Your Index]]