History Main / KidFromTheFuture

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' episode "Last Christmas", Dewey ends up traveling back in time and meeting young versions of his mother Della and Uncle Donald. While he tries to hide his identity, Della figures out pretty quickly that he's a relative from the future, with Donald being nonplussed at the notion, both noting that they're [[WeirdnessMagnet the Duck family]]. They refuse to learn Dewey's exact relation to them so they don't create a time paradox, but [[spoiler:it is hinted that Della suspects that he might be her future son, while Donald figures out who "Bluey" was in the intermediate years.]]

* Played straight twice and then ''inverted'' on ''Series/{{Haven}},'' all within the same season 3 episode. In "Sarah," Duke is [[AccidentalTimeTravel sent back in time]] to 1955 and runs into his grandfather. He almost upsets the timeline before learning the whole thing is a StableTimeLoop. When Nathan travels back in time to help, he runs into his father as a child. The inversion is not revealed until episodes later, when [[spoiler: Nathan meets James and does the math and figures out he fathered a child--James--with Sarah, a past incarnation of Audrey, meaning his son is about 20 years ''older'' than he is.]]

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13877472/1/Reapers-Among-Fairies Reapers Among Fairies]]'': Madeline Dragneel, daughter of Natsu and Lisanna, travels to the present to try to save the world from the event that ended up killing her parents and several others.

* In ''Manga/FairyTail100YearsQuest]'', [[spoiler:the protagonists return to Edolas and meet with their counterparts, who are seven years older since they were never frozen like their Earthland selves. It's revealed that Edolas Lucy and Natsu got married and have a daughter named Nashi, while Edolas Gray and Juvia got married and have a son named Greige]].

* ''[[https://snowhirl.tumblr.com/post/188974269498/mom-dad-chaos Mom? Dad? Chaos]]'' (set in the Fanfic/MaribatAU) has this as its main premise: the children of Marinette and Damian, Chloé and Kagami, and Adrien and Jon accidentally go through a time portal and end up smack-dab in the middle of Mme. Bustier's class.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' has Ken Tennyson, Ben's son from the FlashForward episode in the [[WesternAnimation/Ben10 original series]], arrive in Ben's timeline under the guise of a costumed hero named "Spanner" in an attempt to prove himself to his father in the future as well as ensure that his parents end up together.

** [[ComicBook/{{Impulse}} Bart Allen (Impulse/Kid Flash II)]] was Wally West's (The Flash III) cousin from the 30th Century--and the grandson of Barry Allen (The Flash II) who had spent a long time in the 30th Century before his death. Bart is also technically also the great-great-great (you know how this goes) grandson of the Eobard Thawne (The Reverse-Flash I) on his mother's side.

* ''Fanfic/JonathanJoestarTheFirstJoJo'': [[Manga/PhantomBlood Johnathan Joestar]] learns that [[Manga/GoldenWind Giorno Giovanni]] is his biological son, and happily accepts him as his child.

** River Song, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary first]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead introduced]] to (''and'' killed off soon after meeting) the Tenth Doctor in 2008, turns out to be the daughter of Eleventh Doctor companions Amy and Rory, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour introduced]] in 2010. Her example is among the most extreme on this page — thanks to the TimeyWimeyBall ''and'' [[TheNthDoctor Time Lord regeneration]], she actually [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler spends her entire teenage years]] growing up alongside her parents as their contemporary friend, even playing a role in getting them together. She also visited her parents' wedding and later married the Really700YearsOld Doctor herself, making her 20+ something old parents his in-laws.

* "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11306606/1/Avengers-The-Impossible-Child Avengers: The Impossible Child]]" features a complicated variation of this when Clint finds a little girl outside his farm, with a piece of paper identifying the girl as Laura Fury Romanoff-Banner, DNA tests confirming that the girl is the daughter of Bruce Banner and Natasha Romanoff despite both being sterile. Eventually [[spoiler:it is revealed that Laura comes from an alternate future where Bruce never became the Hulk (among other changes) which led to Earth being decimated by Thanos; the Banner and Coulson of that future came back in time to change history and make Earth better equipped to fight off Thanos, but retrieved Laura and sent her to the Bartons so that she would still exist]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil The Stronger Evil]]'' has Drago, Shendu's son from the future, as per JCA canon. Here, however, it's further expanded on by showing that [[spoiler: the Chan family's friend [[OriginalCharacter Valerie Payne]] is his mother]].

* [[FragileSpeedster Bart Allen/Impulse]] in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' is [[ComicBook/TheFlash Barry Allen/The Flash]]'s grandson from the future. Coincidentally this occurred mere hours after Iris found out she was pregnant; she had not even had a chance to tell Barry yet. And ''she'' didn't realize she was having twins.
** Not so coincidental: [[spoiler:turns out Bart comes from a BadFuture, where Earth is a wasteland, and all the heroes are dead. Bart specifically went back to the day that Barry would have been killed, [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong as the first step of setting things right]]. Bart not only stops his grandfather's death, but [[BroughtDownToNormal takes away the powers]] of the guy who would've killed him (in the BadFuture, he become TheAtoner and helped Bart build the time machine)]].

** In ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', William, Mia, and Connor are transported by the Monitor from 2040 to 2019, meeting Oliver, Diggle, Rene, Dinah, Curtis, and Laurel. It's a little more awkward for Connor, since Diggle hasn't adopted him yet. But they also tell them that Diggle's biological son, J.J., ends up becoming a villain in the BadFuture and kills Rene's daughter Zoe. William seems to adapt quicker than the others and pretty much takes over his stepmom's role on Team Arrow.

** A rumor says that Chris was originally supposed to be ''Phoebe and Cole's'' son from the future, meant to give Phoebe a reason to have hope for her bad luck in romance. It makes sense given his original actions earlier in the season--he had strong connections to demons and moved around in the underworld to access magic that would protect his identity from the Charmed Ones. The pressure was really on to identify whose kid he was after Creator/HollyMarieCombs became pregnant though, and it's incredibly fortunate that the series hadn't revealed Chris' origins beforehand for the writers' sake. (It's also worth noting that the writers ''originally'' intended to use Wyatt, who was already born by that point, but thought it would be too obvious.)
** In one episode, Future Chris' girlfriend Bianca shows up, and runs into her mother at one point.
** The girls themselves also went back in time at one point and met their mother (who had died when they were young children). They figured out that she'd already be just barely pregnant with Phoebe at this point, and Piper sort of spoils it for her when trying to prove they have a connection (their mother believed she couldn't get pregnant anymore after Piper; [[HilariousInHindsight this was before backstage conflicts made it necessary to reveal that she had a secret fourth child]]).

** The second generation from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' is normally aged up by [[YearInsideHourOutside other means]], but ''Fates'' contains a DLC chapter which takes place before the start of ''Awakening''. This allows Lissa from ''Awakening'' to meet [[spoiler:an Ophelia-mothered Kana]] from ''Fates'', who is her great-granddaughter, along with a few other cases dependent on ''Awakening'' pairings.

Surprise! Two of the main characters have just had a child! I bet you ''are'' surprised, since they didn't go through pregnancy or anything, might not even be dating, and the kid is already 14!

This trope is also used in {{fanfiction}} (especially {{Fix Fic}}s), often to push together the author's [[OneTruePairing OTP]], pair the MarySue with her chosen love interest, or even as the origin for the [[AuthorAvatar self-insert]] or MarySue.

An ''extreme'' form of PlotRelevantAgeUp. Can develop into a full-blown SpinOffspring. The inverse is LivingDistantAncestor, when someone lives long enough to meet their distant descendants through either immortality or time travel in a forward direction.

* ''Series/Lucifer2016'': Season 6 features Rory, Lucifer and Chloe's angel daughter from an unspecified time in the future.

* In ''Fanfic/LifestyleOfARose'', Ruby travels back to when her parents are teenagers in Beacon.

* The Creator/SeananMcGuire song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXp-q7iVG6I Time Travel Girl]] is about the singer (presumably a MadScientist)'s daughter stealing his time machine and traveling back to make sure her parents stay together.