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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* "I have no Daughter" when it comes to Alluka from ''HunterXHunter''. The Zoldyeks were notably known for, among many things, having only sons, & Alluka was presumed to be one as well, but she is "not to be thought of as human or as family."
* Genma has done this to [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma]] a few times. However Genma does this for petty reasons, like Ranma stealing his food, or being beaten in a sparring match.
** Or if, y'know...he's a girl at the moment.
*** This is Genma's default threat and response for all petty grievances, although in something of a subversion, whenever Ranma really is in trouble or needs help Genma is the one that he always turns to and has gone to lengths to help his son.
*** Taking anything in Ranma 1/2 seriously leads directly to NightmareFuel, but Genma is a hideously abusive parent, and probably the main reason Ranma relies on him at all is that with the long training trip he's never known anyone else long.
*** He's not abusive. He's so stupid that it's a miracle he can put his pants on in the morning.
*** So THAT'S why he spends so much time as a panda! No pants!
* In ''CodeGeass'' Lelouch gives up his claim to the Brittanian Imperial Throne in outrage after his father (the Emperor) shows complete indifference to Lelouch's mother and sister, who were killed and crippled, respectively. The Emperor then verbally demolishes his ten-year-old son with a particularly harsh declaration of this trope, before sending Lelouch and his sister to Japan to serve as hostages, meant to be killed if Brittania ever invades. Less than a year later, Brittania ''does'' invade, and (as far as the Emperor knows) condemns his children to death.
-->'''The Emperor:''' You are dead. You have always been dead to me, dead from the moment you were born. Who gave you the fine clothes you wear, a comfortable home, the food you eat, and your very life? All of those, ''I'' have given to you. In short, you are nothing to me because you ''have never existed!''
** This trope is more directly inverted when [[spoiler: Lelouch accidentally forces princess Euphemia to commit genocide against the Japanese population, an act which causes the Japanese people to rise up in open revolt, giving Lelouch the chance to drive Brittania out of Japan once and for all. His father's reaction to this? ''Ha! Finally, an act which proves him worthy to be my son!'']]
** Also remember that out of all his children, [[spoiler: Charles actually liked Lelouch and Nunnally the most and sent them over to Japan for their safety. The Nightmare of Nunnally manga reshapes them into more sympathetic characters, as well.]] 
* In ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'', [[spoiler: Minagi's mother]] does this, although to be completely fair [[spoiler: this was after the dream she had about the time she miscarried Michiru caused her to ever forget she had a daughter,]] and they make up later.
* UptownGirl Nadeshiko Kinomoto was cut off from her highly wealthy family after she married a poor, humble student-teacher (and protagonist's father) in ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura''; more hatred was directed at the husband (both for being of a lower class and because [[MayDecemberRomance she was a school student when she married him]]), but she was disowned anyway. Interestingly, she wasn't upset with this, and her living family, especially her cousin, talk of her as if she were a saint.
* Inverted in ''OnePiece'' with Portgas D. Ace and his father. Ace disavows his father so completely that he uses his mother's surname, Portgas, and says that "my only dad is [[AFatherToHisMen Whitebeard]]."
** Also played straight in chapter 576. Whitebeard [[AFatherToHisMen considers every member of his crew, past and present, to be his son.]] For the crime of killing another member of Whitebeard's crew, Blackbeard is the only one to ever be disowned. To put things into perspective, he even still considers [[spoiler:the man who got manipulated into stabbing him]] his son.
* Another inversion occurs in ''Manga/YuGiOh'' in the Milliennium World arc when Seto's father, Akhenaden, was trying to have his son join TheDarkside and kill Kisara, who harbors the Blue-Eyes White Dragon as her soul. Seto [[CallingTheOldManOut calls him out]] by telling him his real father died bravely in the battlefield. In the anime, Seto says this after Akenaden kills Kisara, who then proceeds to stabs him with a knife (not the Millennium Rod's hidden knife).
* Played straight and just a bit literally in ''WanderingSon.'' CoolBigSis Yuki is shown to have a tough time with her mother, whose visits are just stressful, and her father, who's more or less told Yuki not to come home, because she's a {{Transsexual}}. The fact that she's "Mama" of a gay bar probably doesn't help, either.
* Sibling version in ''Manga/{{Saki}}'': Teru constantly denies that she has a sister (Saki).
* [[{{Godchild}} The Cain Saga]] has one played for both comedy ''and'' drama during the Red Ram arc, when Oscar is introduced initially as one of Emmeline's suitors. He takes Mary off on a trip fairly late in the story, when it's become pretty clear JackTheRipper is one of the people in the story, and when Cain telephones the baron Oscar said was his father to ask if he knows where his son is right now he gets "there's no one called Oscar in this household." Cain understandably ''freaks''.
** After everything is sorted out with the real culprit and Cain has lost another LoveInterest, Oscar's line when confronted is the spectacularly unclear "Aargh! That old bastard denied I was his son?"
** Turns out Oscar was pretty-much-disowned for being useless and dissolute and getting kicked out of college repeatedly after his fiancee died. No reconciliation is ever shown, but then apart from coming under suspicion over the Rose Scar thing Oscar is a comic relief character for the rest of the series.
* [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendo Ikari]] is the unholy godfather of this trope. He never flat-out says this line, but it's pretty clear that he sees his son as a tool, and refuses to acknowledge the fact they're related. In the end, it becomes pretty clear that he actually feared his son, making it a simultaneous subversion.
** And as if poor Shinji didn't get enough shit from his ''biological'' parents both of whom can be said to have abandoned him [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou (if, tragically, with his best intentions in mind, and a warped understanding thereof) ]], the third RebuildOfEvangelion movie has [[spoiler: his ParentalSubstitute Misato]] all but disown him, to the point that [[spoiler: she]] refuses to aknowledge his presence, refers to him as 'Testsubject DM-03' and straps an ExplosiveLeash to his throat. Unlike Yui and Gendo, she does not do it for what she thinks is his own good, but because [[spoiler: she]] genuinely loathes him after a ''mayor'' NiceJobBreakingItHero moment, even if [[spoiler: she]] ultimately cannot bring [[spoiler: her ]]self to [[OffingTheOffspring off the offspring.]]
* Manga/PandoraHearts: [[AbusiveParents Zai Vessalius]] is this way to his son, Oz Vessalius, calling him "it" and saying he's filthy. Though, actually, it's more of a subversion considering [[spoiler:that the real Oz Vessalius was stillborn and Zai replaced his dead child with Jack Vessalius, who was trapped in an ever-repeating FountainofYouth due to the Abyss rejecting his soul, and also that Oz himself is the Bloodstained Black Rabbit who was responsible for carrying out the Tragedy of Sablier, there's no reason why Zai WOULDN'T consider him filthy. Not only that, it seemed like an example of EvenEvilhasStandards when he is revolted by Jack asking him to "replace" his dead son and dismissing his son's death. Basically, Jack just rubbed his son's death in the dirt and asked him to replace him with an imposter. JustifiedTrope indeed.]] 
* In FruitsBasket, [[spoiler: Kyoko Katsunuma]] is told this by her parents because [[spoiler: she tarnished their rep by being a [[SubculturesInJapan sukeban (delinquent girl)]].]] She sorta was luckier than other examples, though: [[spoiler: this happened ''right'' when her counselor and until-then BigBrotherMentor, Katsuya Honda, was about to ask them for permission to marry her (she was a minor back then); once he saw how badly the Katsunumas treated her with his own eyes, he gave them a '''very''' deserved [[WhatTheHellHero tongue-lashing]] and took Kyouko into his home.]]
* In ''Manga/{{Kotoura-san}}'', [[{{telepathy}} Haruka]]'s parents disown her, after she ([[InnocentlyInsensitive innocently]]) reveals that they are both having affairs. It is implied that Haruka's grandfather then disowned her own daughter, i.e. Haruka's mother, and took Haruka under his care.
* In ''Manga/{{Shibatora}}'', "Surprise Acquittal" Kuma Gorou, a defense attorney with his own TV show, implied to be an AmoralAttorney, is called in by his son, who's been arrested for violation of juvenile prostitution mediation, juvenile prostitution solicitation, and anti-child pornography laws, to be his defense attorney. However, it turns out that Kuma Gorou is actually a CrusadingLawyer, who immediately recognizes his son's guilt and disowns him, saying that he encouraged his son to study law, not because he needed a successor, but because he hoped it would improve his son's character. He rescinds his disownment, to the detriment of his own career and public image, on the condition that his son confess to everything.
* In ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', [[spoiler:Hana]] gets temporarily disowned when her mother finds out about her doing tankery, but her mother later comes around and they reconcile. [[spoiler:Miho]]'s mother decides that as she is not living up to the family's standards, she will be disowned, but so far she has not received the news.
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* The first murder victim in Catherine Aird's ''The Religious Body'' is a nun in her forties who converted to Catholicism and entered the convent at eighteen-and-a-half. The police have to visit her mother in person to inform her of her daughter's death, because they can't get her to acknowledge that she ''had'' a daughter long enough to get to her via telephone.
* This is the main character aspect of Barty Crouch, Jr. in ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Though in this case it's less "went into a career his father didn't like" and more "[[spoiler:joined a fascist dark wizard cult and helped torture two dark-wizard catchers (who were also parents) into incurable insanity]]".
** Also Sirius Black, who was disowned by his parents and burnt off the family tree after he ran away.
* In ''[[HeraldsOfValdemar Arrows Of The Queen]]'' by Creator/MercedesLackey, a traditional note is sent to Talia's home after she arrives in the capital and discovers she is to be one of the Heralds of Valdemar. Talia [[RunawayFiancee ran away after hearing she would be married off at thirteen]], dishonoring her family. The letter receives the reply, "Sensholding has no daughter Talia," triggering an opportunity for some angst and subsequent CharacterDevelopment.
* In the ''StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse, Han Solo says this to his son Jacen after the latter [[FaceHeelTurn turns to the Dark Side]].
* The ''{{Dragonlance}}'' series does this twice with the elven king. First he disowns his daughter, (and declares he has no daughter when someone tries to talk to him about it), and later he does the same with his younger son. (This time there's a line that goes along the lines of "He made a gesture as if to indicate that he had only one child now").
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', Tywin tells his son Tyrion: "You are not my son," [[spoiler:while dying, murdered by Tyrion.]]
** Earlier, Tywin disowns his other son Jaime when he [[spoiler:refuses to go along with Tywin's plans and quit the Kingsguard]]. Tywin's not exactly Father of the Year material.
*** Ironically enough, another character states that Tyrion is Tywin's only true son, due to their [[TheChessmaster extremely manipulative natures]].
**** Tywin refuses to speak with her for a very long time after she makes this observation.
* This was actually the title of an early-1970s-vintage ''{{Doonesbury}}'' paperback; it quoted the punchline of one of the included strips, an exclamation by "Marvelous Mark" Slackmeyer's father.
* This happened to Courtney Thane in QuillsWindow. It is not until late in the book, however, that we find out what the cause of estrangement was.
* In the Literature/VorkosiganSaga, General Count Piotr Vorkosigan has no grandson, because Miles was born handicapped. Physical deformities are reviled on Barrayar, and Piotr sees Miles as a mutant. He refuses to allow a deformed boy to become Count Vorkosigan, tried to kill the boy at least once (three times if you count when he attempted to have the Uterine Replicator dumped), and forbids Aral and Cordelia from using his name as Miles's given name, as is Barrayaran tradition. Miles (who would have been Piotr Miles) is renamed Miles Naismith, and gets the last laugh - growing up to become not only Lord Vorkosigan, but a soldier, spy, ''and'' the first Imperial Auditor in the Vorkosigan family.
** The only reason Piotr did not try to disown his son Aral over the matter was because doing so to a confirmed heir to a Countship requires permission from the Emperor or Lord Regent (the former was four, the latter ''was'' Aral). As it stood he threw Aral and Cordelia out of his homes and stripped Aral of his incomes from Vorkosigan district; they did not even begin to reconcile until Miles was five.
*** Although Aral said that if Piotr had petitioned him for permission to disown him, Aral would have granted his request.
* In ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'', Mrs. Ferrars first disowns her eldest son Edward when [[spoiler:he refuses to break off his engagement to the eminently unsuitable Lucy Steele]]; later she disowns her younger son Robert when ''he'' [[spoiler:steals Lucy's affections away from Edward and marries her himself!]] She eventually is persuaded to accept them both back into the family, but never restores to Edward the inheritance that she took from him and conferred upon Robert.
* Played with in ''Literature/{{Airman}}''. The villain arranges for the protagonist, Conor, to hear his father declaring "I no longer have a son". Conor believes that his father has disowned him, but his father said it because he believed Conor to be dead.
* The sibling variant occurs in ''NewFrontier'', soon after Captain Calhoun discovers that [[spoiler: his ManipulativeBastard little brother has contrived to get him into a DuelToTheDeath.]] All the more powerful for its [[TranquilFury calm, flat delivery.]]
* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[ProsperosDaughter Prospero Lost]]'', when Miranda appeals to Theo on the grounds his brother is poisoned and dying, Theo says he has no brother.
* In GoneWithTheWind, middle daughter Suellen has been brow-beating her dementia-stricken father into signing a document proclaiming his loyalty to the Union, thus enabling the family to receive restitution for loss of property. This would be a major affront to any hard-core Southerner, but Suellen is taking advantage of her father's weak mind in order to accomplish this. However, just as he's about to sign the papers, she slips up, revealing what they are. This is enough to snap her father out of his dementia, confront her over what she's done and declare, "You're no daughter of mine!" before storming out.
* ''Literature/LegacyOfTheForce'': after Jacen tortured to death Boba Fett's daughter, Han Solo tells him he is no longer his son. Later, he will state that Dath Caedus is not Jacen Solo, in the "ThatManIsDead" sense.
* Done twice in ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
** Rainflower renames her son Crookedkit and disowns him after he badly breaks his jaw, because she can't see past his disfigured face.
** [[spoiler:When it is revealed to Crowfeather that Lionblaze, Hollyleaf, and Jayfeather are his (illegitamite) kits, he refuses to believe it, saying in front of the whole Gathering that his only son is Breezepelt.]]
* In Creator/GeneStrattonPorter's ''Literature/{{Freckles}}'', his grandfather's attitude. When he gets a letter telling him that his disobedient son and his wife are dead, leaving an infant grandson, he files the letter away. Nothing is done until he dies and his other son finds the letter.
* In Stephen King's short story "Word Processor of the Gods", the protagonist discovers a typewriter which [[spoiler: makes everything typed on it come true. He then erases his son from existence with it]], and thinks "I have no son". The narration then states: "How many times had he heard that melodramatic phrase in bad novels?"
* Inverted in the HorusHeresy novel "Know No Fear", when the primarch Lorgar responds to an invocation of his father, the Emperor, with a whisper of "I am an orphan".
* In Creator/SeananMcGuire's Literature/OctoberDaye novel ''A Local Habitation'', Sylvester says his only blood relatives are his daughter and niece; Toby starts to object, and he says he has no brother. (And after what the brother did to his wife, and daughter, and Toby, no wonder.)

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* The ''Music/{{Genesis}}'' song "No Son of Mine".
** Also, band member Mike Rutherford's solo hit "The Living Years".
* Victor Lundberg's [[VietnamWar Vietnam]]-era spoken-word hit "Open Letter to My Teenage Son" ends with the narrator-father telling his kid, "If you decide to burn your draft card, then burn your birth certificate at the same time; from that moment on, I have no son!"
* Inverted in the Music/PearlJam song "Daughter", where the aloof speaker tells her mother, "Don't call me daughter." Theories abound.
* In [[Music/{{WASP}} W.A.S.P.'s]] 1992 concept album ''The Crimson Idol'', the protagonist Jonathan calls his estranged parents one last time after realizing how unfulfilling his life as a rock star is. The conversation ends with "we have no son." Jonathan then [[spoiler:kills himself on stage during the concert later that night]].
* The Courtyard Hounds' song "Ain't No Son," which deals with a father disowning his son, directly references this trope.
-->He said "You ain't no son to me
-->You ain't no son to me
-->Eight pound baby boy I bounced on my knee
-->No, you ain't no son of mine

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* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' used this line when they riffed on the educational short film "A Date With Your Family". To hear Mike and the bots describe it, all three kids were disowned by the end of the meal.
** Really, they use it all the time, especially in the shorts (one boy got disowned for driving before his license came in).
* Parodied on ''Series/TheDailyShow'' with the "Jew-o-meter". The lowest score is "I have no son!", the highest is "My son, the doctor."
** Another episode had an Even Stevphen segment deteriorating, [[RunningGag as they so often did]], into a highly emotional revelation about one of the Stevphens' personal lives. The question is whether Elián González should be sent back to Cuba to live with his father, and they start out agreeing that he shouldn't, which obviously won't do as the basis for a shouting match. While Stephen's argument is the typical anti-communist one, [[FreudianSlip it soon becomes clear]] that Steve's "reasoning" is based on his fraught relationship with his own father. Stephen immediately engages him in therapeutic role-playing to "work through these feelings," until Steve breaks down in his arms sobbing, "I love you, Daddy!"
-->'''Stephen:''' Shhh. ''[strokes Steve's hair]'' Hush, little baby, don't say a word... Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird.\\
'''Steve:''' He should go back with his daddy! Elian should be with his daddy!\\
''[beat]''\\
'''Stephen:''' What?\\
'''Steve:''' Elian should be with his daddy!\\
'''Stephen:''' ''[pushes him away]'' I raise some kind of commie pinko?\\
'''Steve:''' But... Papa!\\
'''Stephen:''' You're weak! ''[slaps him]'' Like your mother! Why don't I get you a bra and some panties, and you can dance around, you ''fairy''?\\
'''Steve:''' Not again! ''[begins to rock back and forth]''\\
'''Jon:''' Guys...\\
'''Stephen:''' Not now, Jon, I'm making a breakthrough here! ''[turns back to Steve]'' "Ohhh, my daddy doesn't love me! Ohhh, boo-hoo-hoo!" Well, MY SON IS DEAD! ''[turns brightly to camera]'' I'm Stephen Colbert... ''[pause where Steve would normally say, "I'm Steve Carell"; this time it's filled only with wordless keening]'' ...and this has been Even Stevphen!
* An episode of ''HeadOfTheClass'' had Arvid Engen's father come to teach the class. He's a genius but, even though he makes an effort, he's a lousy teacher. Arvid tells him this, and concludes with, "But I still am your son." To which his father stands up and says, "Son? I have no son!" Arvid is taken aback, and then his father laughs and says, "Sorry, IAlwaysWantedToSayThat."
* Parodied on ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' where Robin's father utters this line with full pathos after he sees Robin kissing a boy. It would be a perfectly straight example if not for the fact that Robin ''is a girl'', and her dad ''literally'' has no son. He just spent most of her childhood trying to pretend that wasn't the case.
* On ''{{Glee}}'', after Finn (awkwardly) announces to Quinn's parents that she's pregnant, her father disowns her. The line is never said, but it's obvious what happened.
** Happens again in season three when Mike's dad finds out he wants to be a dancer instead of going to medical school.
** Santana's ''grandmother'' pulls an I Have No Granddaughter when [[spoiler: Santana comes out as a lesbian.]]
* The ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "In Purgatory's Shadow" sees [[spoiler: Enabran Tain]] use the phrase "You're not my son!" on [[spoiler: Garak]] when [[spoiler: Garak]] insists they have a genuine father/son moment before it's too late [[spoiler: since Tain is on his deathbed. Tain eventually agrees, but - even though he's dying - Garak had to fight him tooth-and-nail to obtain the reconciliation he wanted.]]
* In ''Series/{{House}}'', the father of a Chinese girl with a mysterious brain aneurysm claims to have no daughter when told of her condition, while the mother just looks confused; Wilson assumes that the father has just disowned her, but House deduces that [[spoiler: the girl's biological parents literally attempted to murder her so they could try having a son without being penalized by China's [[PopulationControl one child law]]]].
* Subverted at the end of ''Series/{{Fresno}}''. When Charlotte disowns her son, she says this, but then amends it because she has another son.
* In one episode of ''TheLeagueOfGentlemen'', sleazy newsstand owner Pop berates his younger son for [[FelonyMisdemeanor failing to prevent a handful of chocolates from being stolen]]. He then leads away his other son, saying "You are my son. My only son."
** "Pop will have a daughter, as well as sons! ...I mean, a son." *spits on the floor*
* ''{{Series/Firefly}}'': It's never confirmed directly in the show, but a flashback show's Simon's father warning him that if he gets himself in trouble with the law over [[CassandraTruth this ridiculous notion of his about his sister being in trouble at the prestigious Blue Sun Academy]], he's on his own. It seems likely that he made good on this threat, not that he could have bailed Simon out if he'd wanted to after breaking River out of there. Canon is as yet silent upon how the events of ''Serenity'' will affect father-son relations.
* Variant used in a {{Narm}} way on ''SeventhHeaven''. When the entire family reveals to matriarch Annie that they won't be home for Thanksgiving, she announces, "You are not my family"--her minor-aged children included, no less.
* Happens to the [[LesCollaborateurs traitor]] Daniel in ''{{V}}: The Final Battle''. One of the few cases where the claim is made and the audience accepts it without even blinking.
* Subverted in ''LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'', when a man initially suspected of being an infamous serial killer testifies to Goren and Eames that his father is actually the one guilty. In fact, the son's life has been made hell, growing up in fear that he's a sadist like Dad. When his father declares, "You're no son of mine!" as he is being dragged away in handcuffs, Eames comments, "That's the nicest thing he could have said to him."
* Atia to Octavia in the second season of ''Series/{{Rome}}'': "I have no son."
* King Henry VIII throws one of these against his sister in TheTudors when he learns that she has betrayed him by [[ValuesDissonance marrying without his permission.]]
--> "How dare you look at me? I am your Lord and Master; ''not'' your brother! You are both banished from court. You will relinquish your London houses. You will remove yourself from my sight. [...] And Margaret! I have yet to decide whatever to make your bed-mate [[OffWithHisHead a head shorter.]]"
** Of course, he forgives them later. (In real life, it was his sister Mary who pulled this stunt, not Margaret.)
* Rickie on ''MySoCalledLife'' comes out to his uncle, his adoptive parent. Said uncle immediately kicks him out of the house. Onto the street. At ''Christmastime''. Then his uncle ''moves away without him''. Bear in mind that this is a 15-year-old kid we're talking about; this is KickTheDog at its worst.
* Anybody remember this story from an old TV Western series (or possibly movie)? Setup: A young son is intrigued when a native policeman from an Indian Reservation rides into town looking for some outlaws from that reservation. It turns out that he is actually his half-brother; their mother was abducted by Indians in her youth and lived as part of the tribe for a few years before being rescued and returned to "Western Civilization", in the meantime having given birth to a boy. But to her white husband and later children she pretended that she had been rescued mere days after her abduction. When confronted with the Indian lawman, she tells him that she may have given birth to him, but that he is not her son. Only when he comes close to being killed by the outlaws does she acknowledge and show that she cares for him.
* Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus spoofed this by having an playwright express disapproval of his son for pursuing his dream of becoming a coal miner.
* ''TrueBlood''. 15-year-old Sam Merlotte's shapeshifting powers manifest, to his adoptive family's horror. Shortly thereafter, he comes home one day to find that the [[ParentalAbandonment entire family has moved away without him]], leaving the house completely empty except for Sam's bedroom, which was left untouched.
* Inverted in ''{{Fringe}}'', where Peter Bishop tells his father Walter, "I am not your son." Subverted because [[spoiler:Peter is from an AlternateUniverse, and "Walternate" is his father]].
* ''MarriedWithChildren'': When Kelly started working as a waitress, Peggy was disappointed that she'd get a job instead of keeping the Wanker family's tradition of the women freeloading on men and said that she had no daughter. If she had one, she wouldn't work.
* In the ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone Twilight Zone]]'' episode "And When The Sky was Opened", Harrington, shortly before he is [[RetGone erased from history]], calls his parents, only for them to tell him they don't have a son.
* Duncan [=MacLeod=] got this in ''HighlanderTheSeries'', after dying his first death and becoming immortal, but only from his father (the clan chieftain). His mother felt differently.
-->'''Duncan [=MacLeod=]''': He banished me. I have no right, I have no clan. I'm not even your son...
-->'''Mary [=MacLeod=]''': No! It matters not who bore you, you are my son!
* In Peter Kay's ''Series/TheXFactor'' and ''Series/PopIdol'' spoof ''BritainsGotThePopFactor'', the mother of [[spoiler: the {{transsexual}}]] Geraldine [=McQueen=] gives us this wonderful line: [[spoiler: "she is no son of mine!"]]
* In ''Series/{{Banshee}}'' Kai Proctor is a ruthless crime lord who comes from a pacifist Amish community. The community has disowned him and when Kai tries to talk to his father, Proctor Sr. refuses to even acknowledge that his son is there.

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* This is played with quite often in the Wrestling/{{WWE}} dynamic between TheUndertaker, Wrestling/{{Kane}} and PaulBearer. As it turned out, PaulBearer was Wrestling/{{Kane}}'s biological father, but at various times, he favored either one. At WrestleMania XX, he told Wrestling/{{Kane}} before introducing an again-reanimated Undertaker, "You're no son of mine!"
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* Season 1 of Young Justice, in 'Schooled', Batman insists on speaking to Superman privately about Superboy. They later meet in a diner, and the conversation is ended suddenly when Bruce mentions that "The boy needs his father." To which Clark replies loudly, "He's not my son!" before standing up abruptly and taking his pie to go. [[spoiler: Superman gets his act together five years later.]]
* Parodied in ''TheSimpsons'' episode quoted at the top of the page.
** It is a [[ShoutOut parody specifically]] of the scene in ''The Jazz Singer.''
** Parodied again in, when Agnes Skinner learns that the real Seymour Skinner was imprisoned in Vietnam and the man she has raised as her son is an impostor; her dramatic declaration that she has no son is somewhat undercut by Homer rather acerbically pointing out that she obviously has at least ''one'' son. She responds by saying "No, I have one stranger, and one fraud!"
*** We're not supposed to talk about that, on pain of torture!
** Parodied in another episode when Patty declares that if Marge doesn't come to [[spoiler:her gay wedding]] then "I have no non-identical sister!"
** Played relatively straight when Abe blames Homer for dragging him away on his girlfriend's birthday and causing her death by [[strike:burst ventricle]] broken heart.
** Parodied in yet another episode when the Squeaky-Voiced Teen working at the Bowling Alley says that he can't even give a lane to his own mother on League night. Lunchlady Doris walks past and says, "I have no son!"
** Played seriously with Homer's long-lost half-brother Herbert, who lets Homer design a car that will make or break his company, assuming Homer knows what TheEveryman wants. Homer botches it, leading Herb to tell him rather venomously, "As far as I'm concerned, I have no brother." They patch things up in a later episode, after which Herb is [[NegativeContinuity never seen again]].
* Referenced in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'':
-->'''Mr. Frensky:''' If you win, I'm taking you out for ice cream. If you lose--
-->'''Binky:''' [[DoorstopBaby You'll take us to the outskirts of town]] [[ParentalAbandonment and leave us there]]?
-->'''Mr. Frensky:''' No Binky. If you lose, I still take you out for ice cream.
-->'''Binky:''' [[CloudCuckoolander I'll never get to see the outskirts of town]]...
* In ''RockosModernLife'', Ralph Bighead's decision to become a cartoonist results in his being disowned by his father, and he isn't particularly interested in reconciling. It requires intervention by Rocko and friends to restore the family relationship.
** The title of the episode is, "I Have No Son!" Ed Bighead even says it word-for-word a couple of times.
* One episode of ''PinkyAndTheBrain'' has Brain giving this treatment to a clone who has decided that he doesn't want to take over the world -- "I have no clone".
* ''CloneHigh'' has this happen to Gandhi and his foster father.
* ''FamilyGuy'' lampshades this by having Peter gradually admit that even if Chris isn't his son, he still has Stewie and Meg.
** Another episode revealed that this happened...to ''[[TheGrimReaper Death]] himself''
--->'''Death''': You know, actually, kid, I kind of fell into this gig. You know, I really wanted to be a wood nymph. But, man, the second Dad found out, he started in with the whole: "I have no son. I have no son," and Mom...Mom just stood there.
* During a role-playing exercise on ''DrawnTogether'' where Xandir came out of the closet to his parents (played by Toot and Captain Hero), Toot (his father, for some reason) says "I have no son!", tears her sleeve and recites the Kaddish, reflecting the tendency of this trope to be centered on Jews.
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' when Tai Lung, who was all but a son to Master Shifu, confronts Shifu at the temple with "I'm home, Master." With barely restrained grief, Shifu retorts to his "son" with "This is no longer your home. And I am no longer your master."
** This is definitely an example of the second version of this trope: Tai Lung certainly crossed some lines that justified him being disowned, and his bitterness and vengeance do cause him to reject the offer when Shifu tries to reconcile with him not long afterward. Of course [[StartOfDarkness as seen in flashback]], it was not exactly easy for Shifu to disown him, let alone attack his "son", and the audience may be inclined to dislike him for it anyway because, rather than growing up wrong, Tai Lung was raised wrong.
** [[KungFuPanda2 Lord Shen]] was also essentially disowned by his parents when they banished him from his ancestral home. It's rather hard to blame the parents in this case as this was in response to Shen ''committing genocide''. Despite this, it's later revealed that Shen's parents truly did care about him as the pain of having to do this to their son [[DeathByDespair literally killed them.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' had one episode with Stan and Francene getting roped into a situation with their gay neighbors Greg and Terry when the latter's father comes to visit who oblivious of his son homosexuality. When Stan drunkenly reveals this, Terry's father in a rather calm manner states he has no son. Even when presented in front of a stadium full of people, Terry's father refuses take back his claim. Terry eventually say "Forget him" and gets on with his life with Greg.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Ozai clearly had no regard to his son Zuko. Stating he was "Lucky to be born" and even burning his face when Zuko questioned his logic during a war meeting. Zuko at first tries to get his [[WellDoneSonGuy respect]] for most of the series. [[spoiler: But in the end realizes he's a JerkAss, gives an [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome absolutely awesome]] example of CallingTheOldManOut, and helps the main heroes in stopping him.]]
*** [[spoiler: In the spinoff comics, it is revealed why Ozai didn't care for Zuko to an even deeper extent...Zuko is literally not his son. He is the illegitimate child of his mother's late relationship.]]
* Previously, on ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': When Angela tells [[KnightTemplar Demona]] that she is Demona's biological daughter, Demona responds with "I have no daughter!" In this case, though, it's not based on disapproval--Demona honestly did not realize her child (last seen as an egg with people she considered her enemies) was still alive.
* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' as part of the parents' hysterical, [[FelonyMisdemeanor intense reaction]] to the news that the boys have been smoking. Stan tries to bring Randy back to earth, but as soon as he calls him "dad," Randy shouts, "I DON'T HAVE A SON!"
* Darkseid pulls this in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' after sending his son to a slave pit with his Omega beams. His exact words in response to Desaad saying that Kalibak was his son, "A technicality of birth. As far as my destiny lies, I have no son." (This may or may not have been a subtle reference to Orion, another of his sons and one of his worst enemies.)
* On the BrokeEpisode of ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'', Lucius tells Beezy "You're no son of mine," after he causes him to lose his fortune.
* ''KingOfTheHill'' [[PlayedForLaughs Played This For Laughs]] in one episode between Kahn and [[GenderBlenderName Kahn Jr.--aka "Connie,"]] his daughter. He said she wouldn't be his "son" anymore if she didn't go through with YouGoGirl-style wrestling match against her best friend. (As you can probably tell, he wanted a boy. The wrestling thing was her idea, though.)
* This trope is one of the main reasons Dr. Doofenshmirtz from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' grew up to be a villain. The worst part was he didn't really deserve it. His parents were [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood so ridiculously negligent]], they were never around for any of his birthdays, ''even the day he was actually born''. He was completely ignored when he failed to jump off a high dive at the city pool (which was considered a rite of passage). Heck, his father even named the family dog "Only Son"!
* In the movie of ''CuriousGeorge'', Mr. Bloomsbury says "Ted, I am so proud of you. You're like the son I never had." His son Junior says "Father, I'm your son, remember?" to which Bloomsbury replies "Yes, but I had you."
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