History Main / GenderEqualsBreed

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZrkp2La3FA In a Japanese commercial]] for the heavily advertised ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'' (a mecha game feature anthro characters), this trope is illustrated at first between an interspecies couple and then subverted when a hybrid is shown! Here’s to hoping [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction Cheetahs and Bulldogs]] never mate.

Compare JacobAndEsau. See also BicolorCowsSolidColorBulls.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingworldOfGumball'': The main family very much inverts this trope, while also [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagging]] the BlueBoyPinkGirl trope, as Nicole and Gumball (the mother and son) are both blue cats, while Richard and Anais (father and daughter) are pink rabbits.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': One episode shows two young [[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals Nurse Joy]] sisters who have a Joy for a mother and a normal-looking father.

* Since the late '90s, Jack in the Box commercials have featured the eponymous "Jack" who has a ping pong ball head. In later commercials, his blonde normal-noggined wife Cricket was introduced. However their son Jack Jr. has the same gender-specific head defect as his father. Jack's own father was also shown to have the ping pong ball head. His (normal head-ed) mother even asks him: "Have I ever told you how difficult your birth was?" Similarly, Jack's brother (seen in prison once, and then at a family photo) has one of the large heads. To make matters the more confusing, "Grandma Box" gave them the long-pointed nose (as she has a normal head but a long nose). We also were introduced to his cousin from Philly who has the same ping-pong head with a mullet. He too has a normal human wife.

** ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'': Subverted. In Piggy's ImagineSpot, she and Kermit have a piglet daughter and a frog son, but unlike in ''The Muppet Christmas Carol'', the daughter is green and the son is pink.

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* ''Series/TheMuppets'':

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* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': The children of [[spoiler:Delbert and Amelia]] display this. The three girls are clearly modeled after their mother and the boy is clearly modeled after his father (even inheriting his [[spoiler:poor eyesight]]). They aren't even the same species! [[WildMassGuessing Unless they are, and the species has that particular sexual dimorphism.]]

Compare JacobAndEsau.

* In ''Literature/MythAdventures'', trolls and trollops are the same species. Trolls are seven-foot tall {{Genius Bruiser}}s that are covered in shaggy green fur and use ObfuscatingStupidity when outside of their home dimension so that people think they're DumbMuscle. Trollops are {{Statuesque Stunner}}s with [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green hair]] but otherwise look like normal humans and have a reputation for [[ReallyGetsAround promiscuity]]. Which is not because they dislike trolls: they find trolls very attractive,they just happen to find the men of many other races [[BoldlyComing equally attractive]].

* ''Anime/TweenyWitches'': Downplayed with [[spoiler:Lennon]]. [[spoiler:He is the son of a {{witch|Species}} and her human husband. He has blonde hair, grey eyes, fine features, and magical powers from his mother's side of the family, but Sheila manages to discover his human heritage because he lacks the vestigial wings of the witches and warlocks.]]

* The adverts for the [[Advertising/SilentnightBeds Silentnight]] range of beds and mattresses feature a cartoon family consisting of a Hippo father and a Duck mother (who is much smaller than her husband) with a duck daughter and two hippo sons, one slightly larger than her, and one who is a baby that is practically the same size as her.. [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction Just think about that for a while]] (or rather, don't).

* The adverts for the [Advertising/SilentnightBeds Silentnight] range of beds and mattresses feature a cartoon family consisting of a Hippo father and a Duck mother (who is much smaller than her husband) with a duck daughter and two hippo sons, one slightly larger than her, and one who is a baby that is practically the same size as her.. [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction Just think about that for a while]] (or rather, don't).

* The adverts for the Silentnight range of beds and mattresses feature a cartoon family consisting of a Hippo father and a Duck mother (who is much smaller than her husband) with a duck daughter and a (large) hippo son. [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction Just think about that for a while]] (or rather, don't).

* ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}'': The Mesutchi and Osutchi played this straight, with only the baby and child stage characters looking alike. In the 2000-era toys, it's primarily used for the babies, but later versions made some gender-neutral breeds into gender-exclusive. For example, Mametchi was neutral from V1 through V3, but exclusively male from the Entama/V4 onward.

** If a dryad conceives with a satyr, there's an even chance of the child being either a dryad girl or a satyr boy.
** This is often true of [[OneGenderRace one-gender]] fey like satyrs, nymphs, sylphs or dryads. Dryads and nymphs, for example, can have children with satyrs; if these are boys they'll be satyrs, but if they're girls they'll belong to their mother's species.

** The TabletopGame/{{Eberron}} campaign setting uses this to escape having to make stats for half-Kalashtar. {{Justified|Trope}} by the spirits which define a Kalashtar bloodline having clearly defined genders; this means a female spirit only manifests itself in the females of its host-lineage, and vice-versa for a male spirit. This trope technically applies to intra-Kalashtar mating as well; sons inherit the spirit-lineage of their father, and daughters that of their mother.
** In the Tormenta setting, minotaurs are a playable race with their own nation inspired on Rome. There are no female minotaurs. They mate with humans (generally their slaves) or Half-Elves, and the males are minotaurs, while the females are from their mother's race.
** This was true of ''AD&D'' 2[-[[superscript:nd]]-] edition in general for [[OneGenderRace One-Gender Fey Races]] like satyrs, nymphs, sylphs or dryads. Dryads and nymphs, for example, can have children with satyrs; if these are boys they'll be satyrs, but if they're girls they'll belong to their mother's species.
** Hags -- a humanoid species based off of fairytale witches -- reproduce by ([[VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2 usually]]) kidnapping and raping human males. Female children of such pairing are always hags, while male offspring are brutish hagspawn that serve hags.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Hags are AlwaysFemale, and thus need to mate with humanoids, monstrous humanoids or fey to reproduce. The female children resulting from these unions are always hags, while the male children are always members of the father's species, albeit sterile and appearing... [[UncannyValley wrong]], somehow. This is in contrast to ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''Pathfinder''[='=]s [[SpiritualSuccessor Spiritual Predecessor]], where the hags originate from and where the results of hag/other unions are either a) AlwaysFemale and always hags, or b) result in female children who become hags and male children who become hulking, misshapen monsters called hagspawn, with little resemblance to their father's species.
* ''[[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040JHT06 Zodiacs]]'': In the campaign guide, it is mentioned that any child has roughly a 3 in 4 chance of being the same species as their mother.

[[InterspeciesRomance Two-species couples]] open up a lot of questions about what [[ArtisticLicenseBiology their children]] will look like. This is avoided in many cases by having all boys look like their fathers and all girls look like their mothers. [[note]]No one ever considers the intersex and nonbinary children (though granted that their relative rarity may be a contributing factor)...[[/note]] This can also apply to different types within the same species (e.g., in ''Lady and the Tramp'', the eponymous dogs are of different breeds. Female offspring look like their mother, the one male like his father).

** In the same series, it was remarked in one of the earlier novels that no one had ever seen a female Cane (giant wolf person from another continent), leading to rumors that there just weren't any. Turns out there are plenty of females, Canim society is just male-dominated — and the discovery of women and children in their unprecedented, massive invading army is the first sign that [[InvadingRefugees they’re fleeing something worse in their homelands]].

** In the same series, it was remarked in one of the earlier novels that no one had ever seen a female Cane (giant wolf person), leading to rumors that there just weren't any.

** ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'': Subverted. In Piggy's ImagineSpot, she and Kermit have a piglet daughter and a frog son, but the daughter is green and the son is pink -- unlike in ''The Muppet Christmas Carol''.

* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'': Subtly utilized (all previous pairings being same-species) when Ino (a pig) and his wife (a... [[CartoonCreature round-eared animal]]) are later shown with their daughter, a round-eared animal like her mother. According to {{Word of God}}, it always works like that--women are always the same kind of animal as their mothers, and men as their fathers.

* "ComicBook/DinoBoy": Invered. Dino-Boy is a human with a dinosaur body (or a dinosaur with a human head) who married a human woman. Their kids are both half-dinosaurs -- but the son has a human body and a dinosaur's head, while his daughter is like her father.

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* Hinted at in a painting that Painter Smurf had created of Papa Smurf and his prospective bride Flowerbell the woodnymph in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "Papa's Wedding Day", with their offspring male Smurfs. The painting was done to dissuade Papa Smurf from marrying Flowerbell, as the other Smurfs knew the whole thing was a setup.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Inverted in the television movie ''Channel Chasers'', where in an improved future shows a grown-up Timmy (who has married his AbhorrentAdmirer Tooty), with two children; Timmy s' son looks like him, but wears a different hat, has black hair like Tootie, and a pointy nose. Timmy's daughter looks like a female version of himself, with better teeth and tweezed eyebrows, and wears similar sunglasses and clothes to Tootie, and has a hairstyle similar to Timmy's childhood crush Trixie (as Timmy's eventual marriage was meant to be a secret at this point)

* Hinted at in a painting that Painter Smurf had created of Papa Smurf and his prospective bride Flowerbell the woodnymph in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Papa's Wedding Day", with their offspring male Smurfs. The painting was done to dissuade Papa Smurf from marrying Flowerbell, as the other Smurfs knew the whole thing was a setup.

* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'': Inverted in an unusual case with the Nebraska Family. It's unusual in that the two species in question are not animals, but human and giant: the human father and giantess mother have a normally-proportioned human daughter and several giant sons.

* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': This is sort-of the case of Hiei and Yukina, as Yukina is an Koorime, like their mother, while Hiei is a fire demon, like his unseen father. However, the Koorime are an all-female species of ice demon that reproduce asexually, meaning Yukina doesn't actually have a father. It's suggested that any male who mates with a Koorime will result in a child of the father's species, which is why mating at all and the children that result are taboo.

* Inverted with ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'': Franny and Cornelius [[spoiler: (later revealed to be Lewis)]] have a child named Wilbur. Appearance wise, Wilbur takes after his mother.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', the children of [[spoiler:Delbert and Amelia]] display this. The three girls are clearly modeled after their mother and the boy is clearly modeled after his father (even inheriting his [[spoiler:poor eyesight]]). They aren't even the same species! [[WildMassGuessing Unless they are, and the species has that particular sexual dimorphism.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/RoverDangerfield'' appears to have the "breeds" version of this, Daisy (a collie) has a litter to Rover (a basset hound) and produces several apparently male basset hounds and one possibly female collie.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SongOfTheSea'', Ben and Saoirse are both half-[[SelkiesAndWereSeals selkie]], half-human. However, Ben is identified as a human, like his father, and Saoirse is identified as a selkie, like her mother. [[spoiler: Saoirse [[BroughtDownToNormal becomes completely human]] at the end, though, since she had to give up her selkie powers in order to stay in the human world.]]