History Main / ThatThingIsNotMyChild

* In ''TheMarvelousLandOfOz'', Tip, a boy who's "small and rather delicate in appearance," creates a huge pumpkin-headed scarecrow man named "Jack Pumpkinhead" to frighten a witch, who uses magic to bring it to life. This leads to Tip being very uncomfortable with the creature calling him "Father", although he does consider Jack a good friend. At the end [[spoiler: it turns out that Tip is a girl, Princess Ozma, who's been under a spell since she was younger to protect her identity. After being changed back into Ozma, she's thrilled that Jack Pumpkinhead can no longer refer to her as "father".]]

* Horrifically averted with ''DeadSpace2'', where a woman calls lovely to her [[BodyHorror necromorph]] baby . . . only to get her entrails splattered against the wall when it goes kaboom.

* In ''{{Gargoyles}}'', Xanatos created a clone of Goliath, who reacted in disgust, calling him a "thing" and an "abomination". Elisa immediately pointed out that "[[SdrawkcabName Thailog]]" could be considered his son, and Goliath reluctantly agrees they should help free him from Sevarius. Unfortunately, Thailog had already learned [[XanatosGambit a few tricks]] from his [[TheChessmaster other]] [[CompleteMonster daddies]]...

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* In an episode of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', the crew were kidnapped and their DNA used to make clones. They ended up killing the clones, and were accused by the former kidnappers of genocide (and certain RealLife groups of showing an abortion on TV).
** In another episode of TNG, Ryker murders the not-yet-awake clone of himself produced by the colony that reproduced by cloning (their initial population was too small to provide adequate genetic diversity). Ryker cites some "diminished my uniqueness" excuse. The tranporter-accident clone fares better, having been stranded on a planet for years and thus diverged from the "original" Ryker.

* This is Kitana's reaction towards Mileena's insistence of 'being a family' in her Story Mode chapter in {{Mortal Kombat 9}}.

* Averted in the VorkosiganSaga. In ''Brothers in Arms'', Miles discovers that a Komarran terrorist cell has cloned him as part of a Byzantine plot. Miles immediately declares the clone his brother, informs him of the automatically determined DeadGuyJunior name Vor tradition gives him, and goes out of his way to protect and support him. His mother and father do the same, when they meet him.

* Averted in the VorkosiganSaga. In ''Brothers in Arms'', Miles discovers that a Komarran terrorist cell has cloned him as part of a Byzantine plot. Miles immediately declares the clone his brother, gives him his appropriate DeadGuyJunior name, and goes out of his way to protect and support him. His mother and father do the same, when they meet him.

* This seems to be much how Guts reacts in ''{{Berserk}}'', after[[spoiler:his unborn child is defiled when Casca is raped by Femto.]] Unlike most examples on the list, it actually ''is'' his child, but merely corrupted by events outside of his control.

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* Trope Namer: "Father, you show me Regan's identical twin: same face, same voice, same smell, same everything down to the way she dots her i’s, and still I'd know in a second that it wasn't really her! I'd know it! I'd know it in my gut and I'm telling you I know ''[[TheExorcist that thing upstairs is not my daughter!]]''"

* Trope Namer: "Father, you show me Regan's identical twin: same face, same voice, same smell, same everything down to the way she dots her i’s, and still I'd know in a second that it wasn't really her! I'd know it! I'd know it in my gut and I'm telling you I know ''that thing upstairs is not my daughter!''"

* Averted ''hard'' in a ''WeirdScience'' story. The children on a new colony are systematically taken from their mothers at birth, and the mothers aren't allowed to see them. The women's leader eventually forces the head doctor to admit why this is happening: The children are malformed and mutated, and the medical staff was trying to protect the mothers from the horror and trauma. The women basically storm the nursery, and accept the children with open arms. The leader turns to the head doctor, and with a mix of pity and contempt says to him "Did you truly believe we could not love our [[GrotesqueCute own children]]?"

* Averted ''hard'' in a ''WeirdScience'' story. The children on a new colony are systematically taken from their mothers at birth, and the mothers aren't allowed to see them. The women's leader eventually forces the head doctor to admit why this is happening: The children are malformed and mutated, and the medical staff was trying to protect the mothers from the horror and trauma. The women basically storm the nursery, and accept the children with open arms. The leader turns to the head doctor, and with a mix of pity and contempt says to him "Did you truly believe we could not love our [[GrotequeCute own children]]?"

* Horrifically averted with ''DeadSpace 2'', where a woman calls lovely to her [[BodyHorror necromorph]] baby . . . only to get her entrails splattered against the wall when it goes kaboom.

* In ''TheMarvelousLandOfOz'', Tip, a boy who's "small and rather delicate in appearance," creates a huge pumpkin-headed scarecrow man and uses magic to bring him to life. This leads to him being very uncomfortable with the creature calling him "Father". At the end [[spoiler: it turns out that Tip is a girl, Princess Ozma, who's been under a spell since she was younger to protect her identity. After being changed back into Ozma, she's thrilled that Jack Pumpkinhead can no longer refer to her as "father".]]

* Averted in the VorkosiganSaga (''Brothers in Arms''), Miles discovers that a Komarran terrorist cell had him cloned for a substitution plot, but Miles very emphatically views Mark as his brother. Mark is surprised.

* In ''{{Gargoyles}}'', Xanatos created a clone of Goliath, who reacted in disgust, calling him a "thing" and an "abomination". Elisa immediately pointed out that "[[SdrawkcabName Thailog]]" could be considered his son, and Goliath reluctantly agrees they should help free him from Sevarius. Unfortunately, Thailog had already learned [[XanatosGambit a few tricks]] from his [[TheChessmaster other]] [[CompleteMonster daddies]]...

* In ''{{Gargoyles}}'', Xanatos created a clone of Goliath, who reacted in disgust, calling him a "thing" and an "abomination". Elisa immediately pointed out that "[[SdrawkcabName Thailog]]" could be considered his son, but while he agreed the damage had already been done and the clone turned against him.

* Averted in the VorkorsiganSaga (''Brothers in Arms''), Miles discovers that a Komarran terrorist cell had him cloned for a substitution plot, but Miles very emphatically views Mark as his brother. Mark is surprised.

-->--''YoungJustice'', "Schooled"