History Main / KidFromTheFuture

* Sheena is a distant descendant from the future to Damos in the thirteenth ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' movie, ''Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife''.

* In ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'', [[spoiler:Hugtan / Hagumi, aka Cure Tomorrow, is the future Daughter of [[AllLovingHero Hana Nono]], who used up all of her power to travel to the past, reverting her back to a baby. This become a lot more tragic when it's revealed that she did it not only to stop [[BigBad George Cry]] from destroying the future, but to also save her mother from her own despair, which WordOfGod stated that it lead to her death. Despite this, Hana never finds out about her true origins beyond "She came from a BadFuture".]]

* Chibi-Usa (future daughter of Usagi and Mamoru) and Diana (future daughter of Luna and Artemis) from ''Anime/SailorMoon''. As a result, this trope is sometimes referred to as "pulling a Chibi-usa". This concept becomes so familiar to the other characters that when Chibi-Chibi shows up, they speculate on whether she's another daughter of Usagi and Mamoru. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope The answer is no]], but her identity is different between mediums. In the 90s anime she's Galaxia's star seed given human form and isn't from the future at all. In [[Manga/SailorMoon the manga]], she's Sailor Cosmos, a version of Sailor Moon who could either be from the future or another universe entirely. Creator/NaokoTakeuchi has stated that Sailor Cosmos is the "ultimate form" of Sailor Moon, but what exactly that means is unclear.]]

* 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 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.]]
** Later, in season 5's "Just Passing Through," Nathan is again the KidFromTheFuture, but meets his father as an adult, after Nathan has been born, so the reaction is understandably different.

** In the episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS05E13TheSongRemainsTheSame The Song Remains the Same]]", the angels send Anna back in time to kill John and Mary before they can conceive Sam. Castiel sends Sam and Dean back to 1978 so they can stop Anna, and the two brothers are meet with their parents in the past.

* ''Series/TheWinchesters'': [[spoiler:Dean Winchester from the parent show ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has traveled to 1972 and is the one to kick off the events of the series by interacting with his father John Winchester. Although the Season 1 finale reveals that Dean has actually traveled to an AlternateTimeline, which along with Dean's intervention explains why the show unfolds differently from ''Supernatural'''s established backstory - wherein John didn't become a hunter until after Mary died. Here, it's because of Dean that he becomes one early. Dean departs in the finale without revealing to John and Mary that he's their future son]].

* Rikka Iroha, Reika Kujo and Ichinose Saki from ''Manga/MahouNoIroha'' meet their present father, Rikka Naoki. [[spoiler:Two of them meet him probably because his future-self don't spend much time with them. And the another one, meet him for another reason.]]

* Sheena to Damos from the thirteenth ''Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife''. Well, she's more like his Distant Descendant from the Future.

* [[spoiler:Chao Lingshen]] in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', although she's a little further down the family tree. She fulfills the harem-anime version of this trope by pulling out a book detailing her ancestry to deliberately (and successfully) spark total mayhem among Negi's UnwantedHarem. Side Joke: [[HilariousInHindsight Two chapters before we find out their relationship, one of the scanlators released a joke image]] with her doing a LukeIAmYourFather.
* Inverted in ''Negima's'' sequel ''Manga/UQHolder''. Touta ends up meeting and becoming friends with a younger version of his adoptive mother while training at Danna's palace.[[note]]She's actually a temporal echo caused by the dimension they're in existing outside the normal flow of time.[[/note]] Played straight for about five minutes at the end of the arc when he enters a literal window to her past.
* ''Manga/LittleJumper'': It features a high school student (Hiroki) who suddenly meets a girl (Chimari) who illegally time-traveled from the future to cure her ailing mother via genetic manipulation - and he is her (future) father. Two complications: 1) she hates her father (him), and 2) neither of them have any idea who her mother could [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble (will?)]] be. A surprisingly widely agreed-on theory is that [[spoiler:she could very well be her own future mother]], which would effectively [[spoiler:create both a StableTimeLoop ''and'' a decent amount of fan-discomfort.]] How it all concludes: [[spoiler:Chimari isn't actually Hiroki's kid, her mother is actually a TrulySingleParent, via some [[MagicFromTechnology Techno]]-MysticalPregnancy involving time travel. The cause is likely the Time Jumper, but it could some other time travel method.]]

* Chibi-Usa (future daughter of Usagi and Mamoru) and Diana (future daughter of Luna and Artemis) from ''Anime/SailorMoon''. As a result, this trope is sometimes referred to as "pulling a Chibi-usa". This concept becomes so familiar to the other characters that when Chibi-Chibi shows up, they speculate on whether she's another daughter of Usagi and Mamoru. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope The answer is no]], but her identity is different between mediums. In the 90s anime she's Galaxia's star seed given human form and isn't from the future at all. In [[Manga/SailorMoon the manga]], she's Sailor Cosmos, a version of Sailor Moon who could either be from the future or another universe entirely. Creator/NaokoTakeuchi has stated that Sailor Cosmos is the "ultimate form" of Sailor Moon, but what exactly that means is unclear.]]
* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' uses a variation of this in chapter 11. Ataru tries to avoid arriving late to school by using time travel, but he ends up 12 years in the future and meets up with his and Shinobu's son. [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness This plotline seems strange in hindsight]], as the series shifts heavily to the idea of Ataru hooking up with [[BreakoutCharacter Lum]], and even hooks Shinobu up with someone entirely different.
* An episode of ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'''s OAV had Doremi's granddaughter from the future travel to the present. [[note]]This, of course, raises the question of who Doremi hooks up with... and then, whose kid ''their'' kid hooks up with.[[/note]]
* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'':
** Nobita basically does Dane Cook's stand-up joke from above in an early '90s episode to his parents, who had just had him as a baby, except with less twisted intentions. But hey, might as well warn them their kid's going to grow up into a (ten-year-old) loser, right? Though of course he might've cursed himself this way...
** Sewachi, Nobita's great-great-whatever grandson, is the one who sent Doraemon to his ancestor in the first place. He also spoiled all of Nobita's failure future. Nobita's fate would have been so bad his descendant didn't care of any effect he causes from [[ScrewDestiny screwing destiny]], since he believes he can be born nevertheless.
** Also, Shizuka's and Nobita's future son, Nobisuke in Nobita's son ran away from home episode.
*** Later, Doraemon brings [[spoiler:Nobisuke's future son aka Nobita's future grandson]] to the present time in the same episode.
* ''Manga/EdensZero'': The Universe Zero arc reveals that [[spoiler:the BigBad Void]] is the future child of [[spoiler:Universe 2 Shiki (AKA Ziggy) and Rebecca]]. He lacked a physical body thanks to his mother dying before she could give birth to him and was reborn as [[spoiler:the malicious AI of the ''Edens One'']]. Unlike most examples of this trope, he is purely {{Antagonistic|Offspring}} to his parents [[spoiler:as his goal of wiping out all humans will include them]].
* Suzune of ''Manga/KamichamaKarin'' came back to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong and [[spoiler:prevent the eventual death of his father, though he doesn't know that part]].
* Aura of ''Manga/MythicQuest'' is more an [[InstantAIJustAddWater AI]] daughter from another dimension who suddenly introduces herself to her "father," but she plays about the same role in her parents' relationship.

* ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'':
** Rin Kiryuin is the teenaged, time-traveling granddaughter of protagonist Asahi Kuromine, which she quickly proves by [[CannotKeepASecret blabbing her secret to him despite being ordered not to do so]]. She doesn't tell anyone else, though, which results in her cute granddaughter-ly interactions with Asahi [[NotWhatItLooksLike causing some confusion]]. Ironically, the only secret she ''can'' keep is the one that would solve most of Asahi's problems: the identity of his future wife. [[spoiler: It's eventually all but outright stated that she's Asahi's granddaughter by Youko, her mother having been conceived by blood-drinking rather than sex.]]
** 70 chapters later, another kid from the future is introduced with [[HighlyVisibleNinja Momochi]] [[LoveFreak Yuka]], although for a while her being from the future is just shown through obvious hints instead of outright revealed. [[spoiler:Turns out she is the granddaughter of [[LovableSexManiac Shiho]] (friend of Asahi's girlfriend Youko)]].
* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': One episode has Fuyuki and the platoon dragged into the '80s, where Fuyuki meets a younger version of his mother, Aki.
* ''Literature/StrikeTheBlood'':
** Discussed during the "Fiesta for the Observers" arc, when a little girl (actually [[spoiler: Natsuki after a witch turned her into a little girl and stole most of her memories]]) starts following Asagi around and seems to believe she's her mother. Asagi considers this trope, but dismisses it because the girl doesn't look enough like her [[PatientChildhoodLoveInterest or Kojou, the guy she has feelings for]].
** [[spoiler:Played straight]] in the "Empire of the Dawn" arc, with the arrival of [[spoiler: a girl strongly resembling Yukina but with Kojou's eyes named Reina. She also has vampiric abilities similar to Kojou's, and can summon a golden spear that resembles Yukina's. She reveals she was sent twenty years into the past in pursuit of a powerful artificially-created monster intent on retroactively destroying Itogami Island before it can become the titular sovereign nation. After helping the main cast defeat the monster, she returns to the future, but not before unambiguously stating that she's Yukina's daughter. Yukina and Kojou awkwardly try to act like this doesn't establish a ForegoneConclusion for their UnresolvedSexualTension. After the credits, TheStinger reveals that this girl also has a half-sister, the daughter of Koujo and [[BalancedHarem Asagi]].]]
* In ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaINNOCENT'', Vivio travels from the future (along with Einhart) and meets up with her mothers Nanoha and Fate. And unlike in [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha the main canon]] where she's adopted, it's implied that she's actually [[HomosexualReproduction their biological daughter]] in this continuity.
* In ''Manga/{{Chinpui}}'', Eri meets a time traveller who turns out to be the son she will someday have with Prince Lulealv. Twice, in fact - the second time she meets him, [[ItMakesSenseInContext he's a baby]].
* In ''Mirai Shoujo Emomoshon'', main character Hajime is visited by his future daughter, who has come back to the past to cause a breakup between Hajime and his future wife. Unfortunately, she has no idea who said future wife is.
* In ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'', [[spoiler:Hugtan / Hagumi, aka Cure Tomorrow, is the future Daughter of [[AllLovingHero Hana Nono]], who used up all of her power to travel to the past, reverting her back to a baby. This become a lot more tragic when it's revealed that she did it not only to stop [[BigBad George Cry]] from destroying the future, but to also save her mother from her own despair, which WordOfGod stated that it lead to her death. Despite this, Hana never finds out about her true origins beyond "She came from a BadFuture".]]
* ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'':
** In ''Anime/NarutoShippudenTheMovieTheLostTower'', Naruto is sent back in time and meets his father, Minato Namikaze, before he became the Fourth Hokage.
** In episode 128 of ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'' anime, Boruto and Sasuke travel to the time right after Sasuke defected from Konoha; there Boruto meets the 13 year old versions of his parents, Naruto and Hinata.
* 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]].
* In chapter 31 of the manga ''Literature/ShinganNoYuusha'', the protagonist Makoto met his future daughter, with the mother being the Goddess of time Astena. The daughter refuses to reveal her name and her goal is to ensure her father follows the timeline events that ensures she is his first born.

* Multiple instances with variation in the [[TangledFamilyTree Summers Family Tree]] of ''ComicBook/XMen'' fame.
** ComicBook/RachelSummers (Phoenix/Marvel Girl) is this trope played absolutely straight and is probably the TropeCodifier (predating [[Anime/SailorMoon Chibi-Usa]] and [[Manga/DragonBall Future Trunks]], other famous examples of the trope, by about a decade): she's the daughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey in the "Days of Future Past" timeline's future, who goes back in time and joins various X-Teams.
** ComicBook/{{Cable}} is a variation on this. He's the son of Scott Summers and Madelyne Pryor (a clone of Jean Grey). He was actually born in the present (now past), but was taken to the future by the Mother Askani (actually future-future Rachel, his half-sister/genetic full sister). No, not the future she came from, another further distant future. There he gets cloned and grows up, later coming back as Cable to a period not long after he was born (but before he was taken to the future), and winds up biologically ''older'' than both of his parents. His clone Stryfe follows him back. Note that, briefly, Cable and baby Nathan existed concurrently but never interacted.
** Nate Grey (a.k.a. ''ComicBook/XMan'') looks like this, but is not from the future: he's from the present of an alternate timeline, where he was genetically engineered from Scott and Jean's genetic material and given a PlotRelevantAgeUp. He eventually wound up in the main timeline.
** Other ''X-Men'' future Summers kids not tied to ''both'' of the above parents: ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} has a daughter with Emma Frost, in the form of X-Factor's Ruby Summers.
** Also in ''ComicBook/XFactor'', it is revealed that Shatterstar is the son of [[spoiler:Dazzler and Longshot]] who had been raised in the future of another dimension. This had been hinted at many times almost from the moment Shatterstar was introduced. Surprise, surprise! It's now confirmed that Shatterstar is [[spoiler: Longshot's]] son, but also (due to time-travel whackery), that Shatterstar is [[spoiler: Longshot's]] father!
** Another alternate-universe twist on this trope from X-Continuity is [[ComicBook/{{Exiles}} Nocturne]], Nightcrawler's daughter with the Scarlet Witch, of all people.
** Minor case: Bishop of the X-Men is from the future, and turns out to be the grandson of minor character Gateway.
** Reine du Rien is the daughter of Wolverine and Sylvie D'Arqueness from an alternate future. She has his powers and her magic, and fought alongside her parents. Eventually, she travelled back in time and fought alongside ''our'' Wolverine and revealed her parentage to him.
* In ''ComicBook/BattleOfTheAtom'', [[spoiler:Future Kitty is really Mystique and Wolverine's future son Raze, a mutant who inherited both of his parents' powers.]]

* In another ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' storyline, Reed and Sue's son Franklin Richards pulls a Cable, getting sent into the distant future and returning as the adult "Psi-Lord". Oddly enough, during the brief time that the adult Franklin was in the modern era, he never encountered Rachel Summers despite his "Days of Future Past" counterpart being her boyfriend.
* Then, Hyperstorm came. Who is Hyperstorm? Child of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Franklin Richards]] and ComicBook/RachelSummers in the ''Days of the Future Past'' alternate future. Yes, The two families who did it most in the Marvel Universe are now mixed together! Unfortunately, he's a completely insane villain. He's also the reason the 616 version of his father is a kid again, having pulled a RetGone on the adult version.

* Another case of the lead being the child is the current ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'' series, in which his distant ancestors are recurring characters. Booster explicitly references Marty [=McFly=] at one point.
** In addition to this, Rip Hunter, who's playing mentor to Booster, has been revealed as [[spoiler:''Booster's son''. The mother remains a mystery thus far.]] He deliberately keeps his parentage a secret so that other time travelers can't RetGone him by targeting them.
* In one ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' plotline, several versions of Jack-In-The-Box's son from the future appear (The Box, The Jackson, and Jerome Johnson). They [[spoiler:grew up without a father]] because, in their timelines, [[spoiler:Jack-In-The-Box died before his son's birth. One turned out to be a bloodthirsty vigilante, another ended up totally insane, and the third, 'normal' one was clearly emotionally wounded]]. This convinces Jack-In-The-Box to [[spoiler:[[PassingTheTorch hand off his identity to a younger protege]] and concentrate on his family.]]

* Done in the final issue of ''ComicBook/BillAndTedsExcellentComicBook'', where the two main characters are visited by their grown-up children from the future.
* Lyra is the daughter of ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk and the parallel universe future AntiHero Thundra.
* In ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'', Brianna Digger's daughter Roquette came back in time to stop her mother from marrying the wrong person! ... only to discover Brianna was merely ''planning the wedding'' of some other person and Roquette's timeline was unthreatened. Oops?
* Lord Chaos, the BigBad of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' storyline "Total Chaos" is a future version of Donna Troy's son, who travels back to ''the day she gives birth'' (he's pursuing the Team Titans who are attempting their equivalent of "killing Hitler as a baby").

* ''Fanfic/AbsoluteTrust'': Alec has a vision of his future son, Roku by name, in the Foggy Swamp. The information Roku shares helps Alec figure out that Ty Lee is his soul mate.
* This is the whole point of the ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' fic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6254986/1/The_Anagram_of_Suzumiya_Kurumi The Anagram of Suzumiya Kurumi]]. Notably, it is ''much'' more of a MindScrew than it seems at first, due to ridiculous amounts of time-travel-related AnachronicOrder.
* ''Fanfic/HigherLearning'': Subverted. [[spoiler:Kaoru]] is a descendant of Shinji and Asuka came from the future, but he is not their child but their grandchild, and he is an adult.
* ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'': Variant. Aki Ikari is Shinji and Asuka's future child and she gets sent back in time about a day before SEELE launches their attack on NERV. However, [[spoiler: her parents were already aware of her existence, having been [[MentalTimeTravel sent back in time]] themselves months earlier. Aki being sent back happens halfway through the story and is a major source of relief for the couple, who between their PeggySue exploits had been agonizing over her safety and wondering if she even still existed.]] Her character is explored further in the sequel ''Webcomic/AkiChansLife''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4229235/1/Tea_With_Destiny Tea With Destiny,]] Iroh travels to the Spirit World following the death of his son and intends to stay there forever. His son, however, doesn't think that's a good idea and takes him to visit with a very wise old man who turns out to be future!Zuko (Iroh isn't aware of this, as Zuko is currently ten years old in the real world). Future!Zuko advises Iroh to go back to the mortal world and be his mentor, because he's [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor really]] going to need it.

* In ''Fanfic/TheChaoticThree'', the time-displaced Rey (here Luke’s daughter [[spoiler:rather than Palpatine’s granddaughter]]) takes this role as she begins bonding with the young Anakin during the flight from Tatooine to Coruscant, although she doesn’t tell him about their true relationship.
* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse fic "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/48835003/ Spider Family: The Next Generation]]" features an anomaly in the web of life sending Spider-Man's children from various possible futures into the present day. The children include Mayday/Spider-Girl (Mary Jane), Felicity/Night-Spider (Black Cat), Nathaniel Parker-Romanoff/Spider-Widow (Black Widow), James (Laura/X-23), Anastasia Sablinova Parker (Silver Sable) and Victor Kravinoff Parker/Apex Spider (Ana Kravinoff).
* ''[[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]].
* ''Fanfic/TaarokosBuffyTheVampireSlayer Season 8'', Chapter 14 sees [[spoiler:Buffy, Angel, Willow and Oz meet their children from the future when a time-travel spell intended to let Buffy and Angel’s children see their aunt backfires to send the four children from 2024 back to 2004; Angel spends time sparring with his teenage daughter Kathy, Buffy takes care of her ten-year-old son Liam, and Willow and Oz meet their twins Daniel and Tara Osborne, until Buffy and Willow’s future selves come back to retrieve them and erase their younger selves’ memories]].
* The ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8965827/1/Far-From-Home-and-All-Alone Far From Home and All Alone]] uses this trope with Remus Lupin, his future son Teddy and Harry's future daughter Lily. The two are sent to the past while Teddy is supposed to be protecting Lily and instead get in the middle of some dark wizards' nefarious schemes. [[spoiler: Remus does not learn Teddy is his son until the end though.]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8063381/1/The-Path-Unfolding The Path Unfolding]]" features an adult version of Alexander Xanatos coming back to the present from the future, accompanied by unfamiliar gargoyle Katana and Adam Gargan, a human who can transform into a gargoyle form at night and when sufficiently angered. It's only in the final chapter that Adam's identity is confirmed; he is [[spoiler:the son of Elisa and Goliath, but Elisa literally just learns she's pregnant during these events]].
* In ''Fanfic/TwistOfFate'', the time-traveler Moses declares that Gunha Sogiita is Touma Kamijou and Misaki Shokuhou's son from the future who was brought into the present. The incredibly shocked and embarrassed Touma and Misaki suspect Moses was just messing with them, especially since Moses was snickering when he said it, but the incredibly gullible Gunha immediately believes it. Touma and Misaki are essentially forced to take responsibility for Gunha, even though they are roughly the same age, even going to a parent-teacher conference for him. It helps that they are much more mature than him. On the other hand, the girls in Touma's harem are not pleased because if Moses was telling the truth, this means Misaki won. [[spoiler:Much later, Gunha somberly admits that he knew Moses was lying, but he went along with it because he liked Touma and Misaki and ''really'' wanted them to be his parents.]]
* Suzaku is a variant of this trope in ''FanFic/MyMirrorSwordAndShield'' as he's Cecile's [[HappilyAdopted adoptive son]] from the future. This is lampshaded by Lloyd who wonders how Suzaku could be her kid when he doesn't look like her. Suzaku deconstructs this as he decides not to help his biological parents. He acknowledges that he could meet his father and make sure he doesn't die and prevent his mother from becoming a neglectful drug addict but he much rather help his adoptive family.
* ''Fanfic/CardinalKing'', being a ''Anime/SailorMoon'' fanfic, has an example. As the story revolves around Mamoru being the HenshinHero and not Usagi, the kid in question is [[OriginalCharacter Mamorin]], a boy with [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow red hair and red eyes]], instead of Chibi-Usa.
* ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'': Nightdrake Bannerette, a grown-up, alternate universe version of Spike, appears and saves Rarity and the Cutie Mark Crusaders from Abandon. Before he leaves, he asks the CMC to tell Spike not to give up on pursuing Rarity. When they tell him, Spike mistakenly believes Bannerette is his and Rarity's kid from the future and that this proves he and Rarity are destined to be together. The CMC attempt to explain that this is not the case, but give up and just let him think that.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4363514/1/Flashback Flashback]]'', [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Beast Boy and Raven]]'s son goes back in time to help his parents with an alien invasion. [[spoiler:In the end, he performs a HeroicSacrifice to get rid of the aliens... and two years later, Raven gives birth to a girl.]]
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7172115/1/Surprise-of-your-Life Surprise of Your Life]]'' Remus's son Teddy and Harry and Charlie Weasley's son Connor accidentally show up at Grimmauld Place during the summer after Harry's fourth year.

* ''Fanfic/OversaturatedWorld'': Dinky Doo is Ditzy's, sent back from the future by Ditzy's future self so Dinky can spend time with a version of her mother.
* ''Fanfic/TheBridge'': A future Flurry Heart, whom hasn't even been born yet in the setting, ''Empress'' Flurry Heart temporarily time travels using a spell taught to her by her aunt, Twilight Sparkle. While trying to avert a BadFuture, her method of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong is less her direct actions and more arranging events to happen right.
* The ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14043388/1/Spoiler-Alert Spoiler Alert]]" opens with Max, Kim and Ron's son from the future, being sent back to his parents' sophomore year in high school when a revived Monkey Fist uses the Tempus Simia in an attempt to deal with Hana before she is adopted by the Stoppables. Max's main concern is that knowledge of their future relationship would affect Kim and Ron's current dynamic and prevent them coming together, although he admits his identity to Kim's mother Anne so that he can share the secret with someone on the grounds that Anne's removed enough from the situation that knowing who he is won't affect much.
* Near the climax of the StoryArc of the fifth ''Fanfic/HalloweenUnspectacular'', the heroes are joined by Tammy Turner, the future daughter of Timmy Turner [[spoiler: and Dani Phantom]], who has come back in time to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong avert]] the horrible BadFuture she's from.
* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4105120/1/This-Time-Around This Time Around]]", Jaina Solo and Kyp Durron are sent back to the events of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' and manage to avert Anakin's fall to the Dark Side. As a result, Jaina is present when Padme gives birth to the twins and is able to 'assure' her infant uncle and mother that she'll take care of them, which Leia in particular seems to understand to the extent that she shows a particular reaction when Jaina is in danger. Padme is the first to deduce Jaina's identity as her granddaughter, although she is briefly mistaken and assumes Jaina is Luke's child as all she knew was that Jaina's mother was from Alderaan.

* At the start of the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14173524/chapters/32670501 She's My Mom]]'' Marinette is visited by Louis, the child she'll have with Adrien... And the ones she'll have with Lila in another future, Emma and Gino (only Gino is adopted). The latter two are older than she is in the story. As it's a companion story to the harem story ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14042649/chapters/32344605 A Very Oblivious Marinette]]'', those are only the first three.
* Very common in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' fanfictions written after the series finale. These tend to feature [[spoiler: Kanan]] interacting with [[spoiler:his son]] Jacen. The prevalence of this trope in SWR fanfiction is due to the fact that they never met due to the former's death.
* Also very common in ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' fanworks following the second season, with many of these fics usually having ''groups'' of kids from various alternate timelines coming back at the same time for a number of reasons, with these children being ones that [[LauncherOfAThousandShips Marco]] had with different female characters. Within the fanbase, this was popularized by ''Webcomic/ShipWarAU'', where the daughter of Star and the son of Jackie come back to make sure their father gets with the correct girl, securing their timeline. The same creator also brought together all the community's {{Original Character}}s to form the ''Webcomic/SVTFOEMetaverse''.
* ''Fanfic/MultiversalConstants'' has [[ComicBook/SuperSons Damian Wayne and Jon Kent]] accidentally falling into [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Earth-16]], which freak everyone there.
* The ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' fic “[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3025668/1/Tunnel-Vision Tunnel Vision]]” features Kim and Ron doing this by proxy when they’re accidentally sent time-travelling through various periods of history, such as saving Bonnie Rockwalker’s ancestor from drowning on the ''Titanic'' or being helped by Josh Mankey’s ancestor when they’re separated in the American Civil War.
* ''Fanfic/MyMasterEd'' focuses on a [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist teenage Hohenheim]] being [[SlaveLiberation bought, freed and taken in]] by Edward. Unlike most examples of this trope, [[spoiler: because Ed's ultimate goal is to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong stop the destruction of Xerxes]] and keep the Homunculus (and by extension, Hohenheim himself) from becoming immortal, he is actively preventing his parents from ever meeting]].

* A variant occurs in the ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2336553/1/After-the-fall-of-Giants After the Fall of Giants]]'' - the child in question happens to be Mousse's nephew and Ranma's adopted brother, having come back to prevent the events that lead to the Amazons being wiped out in his timeline.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12744695/1/Little-Insane-Gudako Little Insane Gudako]]'' is a ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' fic where Shirou ends up summoning Gudako from ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' as his Servant. Gudako reveals she is Shirou and Rin's daughter.

* In the fourth chapter of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/25553830/chapters/62007700 Thunderrod week 2020]]'', [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Rodimus and Thunderclash]] meet a strange young femme who turns out to be their daughter from a timeline where Thunderclash died shortly after her birth.
* In ''FanFic/TrollCops'', Maggie is the "daughter of Strider", although since Dave has a literal entire mafia made of clones of himself, there remains the question of ''which'' Dave is her father. Maggie herself is staying tight-lipped on the subject.
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21726907/chapters/51828595 Howl of the Dragonwolves]]'' is a ''Series/GameOfThrones'' fic where Lyaella and Torrhen Snow ends up travelling back in time to save their parents, Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow.
* ''Fanfic/ProtectingThePast'': A mysterious organization travels back in time to acquire certain individuals and change history. They're followed by a group of allies who team up with the student of UA to stop them. Who are they? The future children of Izuku Midoriya, who've traveled back to protect their father and his wives. [[{{Polyamory}} All eleven of them.]]

* ''Fanfic/JonathanJoestarTheFirstJoJo'': [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Jonathan Joestar]] learns that [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Giorno Giovanna]] is his biological son, and happily accepts him as his child.
* ''Fanfic/ReapersAmongFairies'': 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.

* Invoked for a prank in ''Fanfic/AshesOfThePast'' -- Brock's Zorua uses an illusion to pretend she's Brock's future daughter sent back in time by Dialga.
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20651030 days in the sun]]'' has a variant of this trope where [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Erina Pendleton]] meets her stepson from the future, [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Giorno Giovanni]].
* ''WebVideo/MasakoXDragonBallWhatIf'' will often have different time travelers aiding the present-day Z-Fighters in place of Trunks, especially if the changes are before the events of the Android saga.
** ''Fanfic/WhatIfRaditzTurnedGood'': The duo of Future Trunks and the future version of Ranch, Raditz and Launch's daughter.
** Subverted in ''Fanfic/WhatIfGokuMarriedBulma'', where the time-traveler is Trunks from an AlternateTimeline closer to canon, and is shocked to discover the differences in the past he ended up in.
** ''Fanfic/WhatIfGokuWasFemale'': The time-traveller is a half-Saiyan named Kuroda, [[spoiler:the daughter of [[GenderFlip Goku]] and Krillin]].
** ''Fanfic/WhatIfBulmaTrainedLikeGoku'': A time-traveler implied to be Bulma's son has a nanomachine armor, an evolved version of Bulma's own PoweredArmor. [[spoiler:In part 10 he introduces himself as Kombu, and after he leaves Piccolo confirms that he is Bulma and Yamcha's son]].
** ''What if Trunks met Kid Bulma?'' is about Trunks, thanks to a glitch in his time machine, ending up during the events of ''Dragon Ball'' and meets his mother when she was a teenager.
** ''What if Hercule was a Z-Fighter?'': [[FutureBadass The older versions of Gohan and Videl]] are the ones to come back and aid the Z-Fighters.
** ''What If Raditz Went To Earth Instead of Goku?'': Future Bulla, the daughter of Raditz and Bulma.
** ''What if Chi-Chi was a Z-Fighter? '': The future version of Goten, conceived and born before Goku's death from the Heart Virus because the latter didn't spend that long in space.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/24756169/chapters/59855599 JoJo's Bizarre War Against The Machine (A Very Mad World)]]'': The protagonist of the first arc, Amanda, is from a future taken over by [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Skynet]] and ends up in the past to stop a Terminator that [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced Dio]] from killing [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Jonathan Joestar]]. [[spoiler:In her [[HeroicSacrifice final moments preventing Will A. Zeppeli's death]] against Tarkus, she reveals her full name to be Amanda ''Zeppeli'', a descendant of Will from the future. The Baron is devastated finding this out in the midst of her demise]].
* ''Fanfic/WhereWeDontBelong'': Mio is all but stated to be an unknowing one to [[spoiler:Nia and Rex.]]

* In the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel ''Return of the Living Dad'', Keith Kane-Summerfield makes his first appearance as a baby shortly after his parents' marriage. He makes several subsequent appearances in ''Literature/BerniceSummerfield'' stories, despite the fact the timeline in which he was born no longer exists.

* Claire Bennet plays this role in a season 3 episode of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', as does Hiro Nakamura.
* Wataru becomes one to Otoya in ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'' when he decides to travel back in time both in-series and in-movie. Ironically, he does so because [[spoiler:he's in despair at accidentally killing his love interest Mio, so he tries to convince [[ReallyGetsAround Otoya]] and [[TheVamp Maya]] ''not'' to have him. In the end, both convince him to choose to live.]] Given the strong GenerationXerox Kiva has, [[spoiler:Wataru's son from 22 years in the future appears in the finale, along with Kivat the 4th, who gives him the power to become New Kiva.]]
* ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'' is a natural candidate for this, given its plot. The series proper has [[spoiler:Hana, who as the child of Yuto and Airi, is Ryotaro's future niece, which makes all that ShipTease turn a little sour in retrospect...]]. TheMovie ''Final Countdown'' introduces Kotaro, Ryotaro's grandson, who is also New Den-O.
* ''Series/KamenRiderDrive''[='s=] summer movie ''Surprise Future'' involves Shinnosuke's son Eiji traveling back in time from 2035 to prevent a BadFuture apparently caused by [[TheMentor Krim Steinbelt]] and an EvilCounterpart of Drive. [[spoiler:And then it turns out the Eiji we've been following most of the movie is actually the BigBad in disguise, and the ''real'' Eiji was defeated in the future and had his Belt taken.]] Eiji also teases at his mother's identity when he tells Shinnosuke [[spoiler:[[WhenSheSmiles "She doesn't smile very often, but when she does it's very meaningful"]], which is a spot-on description of Shinnosuke's partner Kiriko.]]
* This may be what happens in the final episode of ''Series/KamenRiderGhost''. Ayumu, a mysterious boy seemingly from a [[BadFuture dystopian future]], armed with knowledge of who Takeru is and what he did as Ghost, appears searching for a powerful object capable of changing the course of history. [[EarlyBirdCameo With the help of]] [[Series/KamenRiderExAid his successor]], Takeru sets the boy's sullen attitude straight and convinces him that the future can be changed if people work together. Ayumu thanks Takeru as he steps back into the portal to his own time; although his words become inaudible at this point, he is very clearly mouthing "otou-san"[[note]] dad[[/note]] as he vanishes, though unlike in the other cases on this page, it's never explicitly stated until later in a stage show.

** Dean in the episode "In the Beginning".
** And both Sam ''and'' Dean in the episode "The Song Remains the Same".

* ''Series/TheWinchesters'': [[spoiler:Dean Winchester from the parent show ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has traveled to 1972 and is the one to kick off the events of the series by interacting with his father John Winchester. Although the Season 1 finale reveals that Dean has actually traveled to an AlternateTimeline, which along with Dean's intervention explains why the show unfolds differently from ''Supernatural'''s established backstory - wherein John didn't become a hunter until after Mary died. Here, it's because of Dean that he becomes one early. Dean departs in the finale without revealing to John and Mary that he's their future son]].

* Inverted in the sequel ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'': the 6-year-old Leah, a {{Pint Sized Powerhouse}} {{Jungle Princess}}, is implied to be Ayla's ''mother''.

* Nanami in ''VisualNovel/SoulLink'', the HalfHumanHybrid daughter of Nao and Shuuhei. As it turns out, she and she alone holds the key to defeating the BigBad. Even though Nao and Shuuhei only had sex once (and both of them are still high school age), they have no problem taking responsibility as parents for Nanami, who apparently came into being even with Aries being a BuildingOfAdventure.

* In ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'', [[spoiler:Suzuha]] is this to [[spoiler: Daru]], although neither know at first, as the kid in question has very little information to go on regarding the identity of their parents, since it would have to be a very carefully-guarded secret to prevent rival time-travelers from being able to target them.
%% ZCE * Baby from ''VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall''.

%% Needs Context * The main plot of the best-forgotten game ''VideoGame/TimeDiver''.

* ''[[Webcomic/WalkyVerse It's Walky!]]'' has Bobby "Machete" [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110805040700/http://www.walkypedia.com/index.php/Bobby_Walkerton Walkerton]]. At one point, Willis parodies the trope and its paradox potential: there are actually a ''ton'' of kids from the future from the various SEMME couples, and they pop in and out of existence depending on the Head Alien's current whim as to whether to kill their parents.

* [[http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=342 J.J.]] from ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy''.
* ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'': Todd is the future son of Nick and Ki. He helped prevent the BadFuture he came from, but survives due to living outside spacetime.
%%* In ''Webcomic/QIce'' (readable [[http://www.q-ice.com/ here]]), Vivio went back in time to [[http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/4199/nano104trwg1.jpg screw]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20130730152224/http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/9425/nano105tryy0.jpg around]] with her mothers.
* [[spoiler: John]] Taylor from ''Webcomic/CogaSuro'', in a direct homage to [[Anime/DragonballZ Trunks]].
* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Jade's 'penpal' [[spoiler: claims to be her future grandson.]] What this truly means remains to be seen. [[spoiler: [[HappilyAdopted Parentage is]] [[StableTimeLoop a strange]] [[MyOwnGrampa thing in]] ''Homestuck''.]] We later meet him in Act 6, where it turns out [[spoiler:Jade is his grandmother - except it's an AlternateUniverse version of Jade. And Jake's counterpart in the original universe was Jade's grandfather... who was also her genetic father. And he's effectively cloned from Jade and her genetic brother, so his existence and parentage tells us nothing about Jade's future love life.]]
* In ''Webcomic/SoreThumbs'', Fairbanks' son had come from the future [[http://sorethumbs.keenspot.com/d/20110214.html in this strip.]]
* TimePolice officer [[spoiler:Philia]] from ''Webcomic/PepsiaPhobia'' turns out to be this for [[spoiler:Phobia and Klepto]]. When they break up and her father starts getting into a ShipTease with his childhood friend [[spoiler:Mania]], she agonizes over the possible TimeParadox. [[spoiler:Fellow time traveler Lord Nightsorrow decides to take Klepto's sperm cells with Phobia's egg cells, incubate them with magic, and allow the child to be adopted by Mania]], which everyone decides to accept.
* ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'':
** The space arc has a variation: Morgan has been brought forward in time to serve as Merlin's apprentice. While there, she and Arthur conceive a child, not realizing that they're [[BrotherSisterIncest half-siblings]]. When Merlin finds out, he returns Morgan to the past and she gives birth to Mordred... who in the present day is already serving aboard the ''Excalibur'' and doesn't know any of this. Also, Morgan met Squire Mordred while on the ''Excalibur'', and was so impressed by his ambition, she [[StableTimeLoop named her son after him]].
** A second, more straightforward example: Nimue, also a time traveler, brings Galahad from the future to meet Lancelot.
* In the comic ''[[http://transypoo.com/comic/ Transypoo!]]'' Acey's daughter from the future, [[http://transypoo.com/comic/?p=48 Jo Smit]], goes back in time, seemingly, to provide futuristic armor to the main cast, and possibly just to have fun.
* All known members of [[TimePolice TACT]] in ''Webcomic/LsEmpire'' are kids of members of the present cast. Hector is Rib and Bow's son, Pix is [[spoiler: Dark Star and Phala's son]] and Rosa is [[spoiler:Luigi and Daisy's daughter]]. Subverted in [[spoiler: Rosa's case. By the time she traveled back to the present, Daisy was already pregnant with her. And we don't find out that Dark Star and Phala are Pix's parents until after he's born.]]
* In [[http://nonadventures.com/2010/01/23/like-mother-like-slaughter/ this]] ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'' comic strip, Dana's evil daughter comes from the future to kill Dana out of revenge for Dana always dismissing her and never letting her become Wonderella. Dana negates her daughter's entire existence by deciding to go back on birth control. (Of course, as Bianca points out, killing Dana now would have negated her existence anyway, but hey, kids are stupid.)
* Brady "Honey" Smith from ''Webcomic/SailorSun'' is a parody of this trope, and specifically Chibi-Usa.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' work ''Webcomic/ShipWarAU'', two kids from alternate futures arrive. Elizabeth, the daughter of Marco and Star, and Jam, the son of Marco and Jackie. They attempt to protect their parents and fight each other over getting their respective parents to come together, while on a mission to fix their timelines.

* Cassandra Cain from [[http://cass-cult.deviantart.com/ Cass Cult]] is on fairly good terms with the Legion of Cass Daughters, which includes her daughters from every possible timeline.

*** Season 3 has two arc-important examples. The first is Nora Darhk, Damien's daughter who time traveled from 2039 to resurrect her father and summon Mallus. The second is Kuasa, sister of [[ComicBook/{{Vixen}} Mari [=McCabe=]]] and granddaughter of Amaya Jiwe, who is recruited as part of the Cult of Mallus, opposing the Legends and Amaya by extension. Kuasa is an inversion, as she is a modern-day person while Amaya came from TheForties (well, from Amaya's perspective, she's still from the future, but so is everyone else).
*** After John Constantine joins the Legends, he deliberately goes back to a point before his conception to try to save his mother by preventing his own birth; he fails to achieve this because the nature of time travel means that when he tries to stop his father being able to conceive with a GroinAttack he is temporarily erased for the moment of the actual kick.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20651030 days in the sun]]'' has a variant of this trope where [[Manga/PhantomBlood Erina Pendleton]] meets her stepson from the future, [[Manga/GoldenWind Giorno Giovanni]].

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/24756169/chapters/59855599 JoJo's Bizarre War Against The Machine (A Very Mad World)]]'': The protagonist of the first arc, Amanda, is from a future taken over by [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Skynet]] and ends up in the past to stop a Terminator that [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced Dio]] from killing [[Manga/PhantomBlood Jonathan Joestar]]. [[spoiler:In her [[HeroicSacrifice final moments preventing Will A. Zeppeli's death]] against Tarkus, she reveals her full name to be Amanda ''Zeppeli'', a descendant of Will from the future. The Baron is devastated finding this out in the midst of her demise]].

* Chibi-Usa (future daughter of Usagi and Mamoru) and Diana (future daughter of Luna and Artemis) from ''Franchise/SailorMoon''. As a result, this trope is sometimes referred to as "pulling a Chibi-usa". This concept becomes so familiar to the other characters that when Chibi-Chibi shows up, they speculate on whether she's another daughter of Usagi and Mamoru. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope The answer is no]], but her identity is different between mediums. In the 90s anime she's Galaxia's star seed given human form and isn't from the future at all. In the manga, she's Sailor Cosmos, a version of Sailor Moon who could either be from the future or another universe entirely. Creator/NaokoTakeuchi has stated that Sailor Cosmos is the "ultimate form" of Sailor Moon, but what exactly that means is unclear.]]

* Nanami in ''VisualNovel/SoulLink'', the HalfHumanHybrid daughter of Nao and Shuuhei. As it turns out, she and she alone holds the key to defeating the BigBad. Even though Nao and Shuuhei only had sex once (and both of them are still high school age), they have no problem taking responsibility as parents for Nanami, who apparently came into being even with Aries being a BuildingOfAdventure.

* In ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' [[spoiler:Suzuha]] is this to [[spoiler: Daru]], although neither know at first, as the kid in question has very little information to go on regarding the identity of their parents, since it would have to be a very carefully-guarded secret to prevent rival time-travelers from being able to target them.

** ComicBook/RachelSummers (Phoenix/Marvel Girl) is this trope played absolutely straight and is probably the TropeCodifier (predating [[Franchise/SailorMoon Chibi-Usa]] and [[Manga/DragonBall Future Trunks]], other famous examples of the trope, by about a decade): she's the daughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey in the "Days of Future Past" timeline's future, who goes back in time and joins various X-Teams.

* ''Fanfic/CardinalKing'', being a Franchise/SailorMoon fanfic, has an example. As the story revolves around Mamoru being the HenshinHero and not Usagi, the kid in question is [[OriginalCharacter Mamorin]], a boy with [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow red hair and red eyes]], instead of Chibi-Usa.

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

* While there's no example in ''Fanfic/WhiteDevilOfTheMoon'''s main story, an omake features Picoha, future daughter of [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Nanoha]] (in this fic the reincarnation of [[Franchise/SailorMoon Princess Serenity]]) and Mamoru coming back in time to prevent an event from occurring that would prevent Crystal Tokyo from forming and her from existing. Unfortunately for her, Vivio (Nanoha's canon future adopted daughter) ''also'' went back in time to ensure the canon timeline stays intact. [[spoiler:She subdues Picoha, the event-Nanoha and Fate meeting-occurs, and Picoha is erased from existence.]]

* ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven'': It's possible to team up 20-year-old Dio or Jonathan with [[ItMakesSenseInContext their]] 15-year-old son Giorno ([[{{Immortality}} who wasn't conceived for another hundred years]]), 18-year-old Joseph with his 16-year-old son Josuke ([[HeroicBastard who wasn't conceived until Joseph was in his 60's]]), and 17-year-old Jotaro with his daughter Jolyne, who is ''three years older than him'' at the point he meets her in the timeline. Beyond direct parent-child teamups, it is also possible to team up a 50-year-old Will Zeppeli with his 20-year-old grandson Caesar who wasn't born until 20 years after Will's death, as well as any combination of members of the Joestar family, such as Jonathan with his grandson (Joseph), great-grandson (Josuke), great-great-grandson (Jotaro), and great-great-great-granddaughter (Jolyne). Jolyne and Jotaro are of special significance to the plot, as in her time period, he's her DisappearedDad, and they don't have the best relationship, but she's still worried about him. [[spoiler: Meeting, fighting alongside, and subsequently losing her to the villain is what causes him to try and become a better father once the timeline rectifies itself.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Space Quest IV|Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers}}'', Roger is saved by his future son. Roger meets the mother in Part V and [[http://tmd.alienharmony.com/rw/sq5/pictures/ledgea4.gif will cease to be]] if she gets killed.

* The main plot of the best-forgotten game ''VideoGame/TimeDiver''.

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* The Kingdom Titans who show up in ''ComicBook/Titans1998'' are the possible future kids of the current Titans, although this is a complicated example, because Lian and Robert already existed, and Robert was already ''dead'' in the present (he was also Lord Chaos, mentioned above). This is the sort of thing that happens with [[TimeyWimeyBall Hypertime]].

* The Kingdom Titans who show up in ''ComicBook/{{Titans}}'' are the possible future kids of the current Titans, although this is a complicated example, because Lian and Robert already existed, and Robert was already ''dead'' in the present (he was also Lord Chaos, mentioned above). This is the sort of thing that happens with [[TimeyWimeyBall Hypertime]].

* [[FragileSpeedster Bart Allen/Impulse]] in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' is 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:it turns out that 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)]].
--->'''Bart:''' [[RunningGag Oops! Spoilers]]...

* ''Guest From the Future'', the seventeenth installment of the ''Grim Tales'' series from Creator/ElephantGames, hinges on this trope. Anna's future daughter Alice comes back in time to get her mother's help in preventing a disease from wiping out their entire family.

* In the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel ''Return of the Living Dad'', Keith Kane-Summerfield makes his first appearance as a baby shortly after his parents' marriage. He makes several subsequent appearances in ''Franchise/BerniceSummerfield'' stories, despite the fact the timeline in which he was born does not, in fact, exist.

* ''WesternAnimation/DorgVanDango: In "Dorg Rewinds", after overshooting with Patronella's time potion, Dorg ends up thirteen years in the past. He meets his own pregnant mother and seems to be unwittingly responsible for his own name simply by introducing himself.

* 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 unbothered by the notion, both noting that they're [[WeirdnessMagnet the Duck family]]; [[NoodleIncident a future relative is only the fourth weirdest thing that's ever happened to them on Christmas]]. 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.]]

** An inversion is briefly discussed as part of a gag in "Any Sport in a Storm" when Luz and Amity are trying to figure out how the ''Good Witch Azura'' series is published in both the Human and Demon realms, with Amity positing that the author is Luz's mother Camila as a teenager sent forward in time to train her in the ways of witchcraft.
** [[spoiler:Lilith unknowingly does this during her and Luz's trip to the past to meet Philip Wittebane in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", as it's implied in-series (and confirmed by the show's creator) that Philip's older brother Caleb is her direct ancestor.]]

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2'' has Kyle, the protagonist, meeting his parents in the past. Stahn even jokes that he'll name his son after Kyle. He never reveals that he's their son, though.
* The main plot of the best-forgotten game ''VideoGame/TimeDiver''.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Space Quest IV|Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers}}'', Roger is saved by his future son. Roger meets the mother in Part V and [[http://tmd.alienharmony.com/rw/sq5/pictures/ledgea4.gif will cease to be]] if she gets killed.
** Interestingly, Beatrice is barely mentioned in ''VideoGame/{{Space Quest VI|Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier}}'', and Roger is trying to get together with another woman, apparently forgetting the time loop. It's possible, of course, that he simply wants to have a fling with Stellar, while Bea is busy elsewhere. The preview for ''Space Quest 7'' (which was never made) once again has Roger trying to save Beatrice.
%% ZCE * Baby from ''VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall''.
* In ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', Marle warps back a few centuries [[spoiler:and is [[IdenticalGrandfather mistaken for her great-great-etc.-grandmother]]. She's also implied to be Ayla's Descendant From The Future.]]
** Inverted in ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'': 6-year-old {{Jungle Princess}} and {{Pint Sized Powerhouse}} Leah is Ayla's future ''mother''.
* In the Ambitions expansion pack for ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', it is possible to end up with one of these when using the time machine.
* ''[[VideoGame/InazumaEleven InazumaEleven 3: the Ogre]]'' features Endou Kanon, a kid from the future who tries to stop an evil organization that tries to get rid of Kanon's great great grandfather, Endou Mamoru, and his Japanese international soccer team.
* In ''Videogame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable: The Gears of Destiny'', [[LesYay Nanoha and Fate]] meet their (adoptive) daughter Vivio from the future. The real kicker is that all three of them are ''about the same age'' (that is, ten years old). Oh, and to make the matters worse, Vivio brings her own girlfriend Einhard along for the ride. Also, Vivio and Einhard are able to transform into [[OlderAlterEgo adults/teenagers]].
** It's even funnier: regardless if Vivio is in her Adult Mode or not, Nanoha acts like a mother to her like she will do in the next 9 to 13 years.
* ''VideoGame/{{Achron}}'' has a partial example. It's possible for a factory (parent) to produce a unit (child) which then gets sent back to before it was built (born) to defend the factory.

* ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven'': It's possible to team up 20-year-old Dio or Jonathan with [[ItMakesSenseInContext their]] 15-year-old son Giorno ([[{{Immortality}} who wasn't conceived for another hundred years]]), 18-year-old Joseph with his 16-year-old son Josuke ([[HeroicBastard who wasn't conceived until Joseph was in his 60's]]), and 17-year-old Jotaro with his daughter Jolyne, who is ''three years older than him'' at the point he meets her in the timeline. Beyond direct parent-child teamups, it is also possible to team up a 50-year-old Will Zeppeli with his 20-year-old grandson Caesar who wasn't born until 20 years after Will's death, as well as any combination of members of the Joestar family, such as Jonathan with his grandson (Joseph), great-grandson (Josuke), great-great-grandson (Jotaro), and great-great-great-granddaughter (Jolyne). Jolyne and Jotaro are of special significance to the plot, as in her time period, he's her DisappearedDad, and they don't have the best relationship, but she's still worried about him. [[spoiler: Meeting, fighting alongside, and subsequently losing her to the villain is what causes him to try and become a better father once the timeline rectifies itself.]]

* In ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch4'', Nate and Katie are able to interact with their daughter from 30 years in the future.
* ''Guest From the Future'', the seventeenth installment of the ''Grim Tales'' series from Creator/ElephantGames, hinges on this trope. Anna's future daughter Alice comes back in time to get her mother's help in preventing a disease from wiping out their entire family.
* In the Arcade mode ''VideoGame/Injustice2'', [[spoiler:Brainiac]] vs Brainiac ends with [[spoiler:TheReveal that the Brainiac that the player has been controlling is actually his heroic descendent Brainiac 5 from the Legion of Super-Heroes, who traveled back in time to defeat the original Brainiac because the latter's atrocities [[FantasticRacism had made their race, the Coluans, despised by the galaxy]]]].
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'': Jörmungandr the World Serpent fought Thor at Ragnarok, but their battle ended up catapulting him into the past, before he was even born. He meets and helps his father, [[spoiler:Atreus aka Loki, who is only a child.]] ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'' reveals that [[spoiler:Atreus is not Jörmungandr's biological father, but he did create him with magic, so he still counts.]]
* In ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'', Bayonetta herself becomes this trope when she travels back in time to the Witch Hunts and winds up teaming up with her mother Rosa -- it's implied that Rosa realizes this and knows that Bayonetta is her daughter, but they mutually decide not to address it in favor of continuing to fight. It also turns out that [[spoiler:the Masked Lumen she's been butting heads with throughout the game is an inversion of the trope; he's actually a younger version of her father, Balder, who came to the present]].

* In the ''WebAnimation/{[RWBY}}'' fanfiction ''Lifestyle of a Rose'', Ruby travels back to when her parents are teenagers in Beacon.

** 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.#

** Warhawk is ComicBook/GreenLantern (John Stewart) and Hawkgirl's Kid From The Future -- which came as a surprise because they had stopped dating quite some time before traveling to the future and running into him. This actually causes John to attempt a ScrewDestiny by not getting back together with Hawkgirl over the course of the series just so he doesn't feel [[YouCantFightFate pressured to do so]] just by Warhawk's existence. WordOfGod says that's okay, given that Warhawk is still only in his twenties by the ''Beyond'' time period, which is still a good forty years off.
** Technically there is two such cases in that episode, as a later episode tells us that [[spoiler: Terry [=McGinnis=] [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond (Batman II)]] is Batman's biological son created by Amanda Waller.]]

** For that matter, [[{{Comicbook/Avengers}} Kang The Conqueror]] always claimed to be a descendant of Doctor Doom. It turns out he's actually a descendant of Reed's dad Nathaniel, making Reed his great-great-great-great-great-great-whatever uncle. Although now a recent RetCon seems to declare that that was only an [[TangledFamilyTree alternate-universe version of Nathaniel!]]

* In one ''Comicbook/AstroCity'' plotline, several versions of Jack-In-The-Box's son from the future appear (The Box, The Jackson, and Jerome Johnson). They [[spoiler:grew up without a father]] because, in their timelines, [[spoiler:Jack-In-The-Box died before his son's birth. One turned out to be a bloodthirsty vigilante, another ended up totally insane, and the third, 'normal' one was clearly emotionally wounded]]. This convinces Jack-In-The-Box to [[spoiler:[[PassingTheTorch hand off his identity to a younger protege]] and concentrate on his family.]]

* Lord Chaos, the BigBad of the ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' storyline "Total Chaos" is a future version of Donna Troy's son, who travels back to ''the day she gives birth'' (he's pursuing the Team Titans who are attempting their equivalent of "killing Hitler as a baby").

** ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': Marty [=McFly=] is the kid from the future. He's also the main character and accidentally nearly prevents his own parents from getting together in the first place.

* An inversion is briefly discussed as part of a gag in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' when Luz and Amity are trying to figure out how the ''Good Witch Azura'' series is published in both the Human and Demon realms, with Amity positing that the author is Luz's mother Camila as a teenager sent forward in time to train her in the ways of witchcraft.

* In chapter 31 of the manga ''Literature/ShinganNoYuusha'', the protagonist Makoto met his future daughter, with the mother being the Goddess of time Astena. The daughter refuses to reveal her name and her goal is to ensure her father follows the timeline events that ensures her birth.

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