History Main / WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe

* Creator/SarahSilverman has said that she doesn't want to have any biological children in order to spare them the possibility of inheriting her clinical depression.

** In the same DLC, Beruka has this concern just about no matter who her child is. She grew up an emotionless assassin and doesn't want her kids to turn out like her.

** Continuation fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12650047/1/Strandpiel Strandpiel]]'' follows the later lives of Johanna and Ponder as parents. Oldest daughter Rebecka has her mother's looks and her father's gentle generally non-violent personality. Bekki ends up in Lancre [[note]]at first[[/note]] training for witchcraft. Middle daughter Famke, from a very early age, [[{{Tykebomb}} displayed an affinity for weapons]] and applied agression. She is sent to the Assassins' Guild School. youngest daughter Ruth appears to have neither magic nor a homicidal streak. She is the one who appraently takes after neither parent.

** Continuation fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12650047/1/Strandpiel Strandpiel]]'' follows the later lives of Johanna and Ponder as parents. Oldest daughter Rebecka has her mother's looks and her father's gentle generally non-violent personality. Bekki ends up in Lancre [[note]]at first[[/note]] training for witchcraft. Middle daughter Famke, from a very early age, [[Tykebomb displayed an affinity for weapons]] and applied agression. She is sent to the Assassins' Guild School. youngest daughter Ruth appears to have neither magic nor a homicidal streak. She is the one who appraently takes after neither parent.

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': ThePlague has been a very real threat for the past ninety years, which cause some people who are not TheImmune to be reluctant to have children that are genetically related to them. To top things off, immunity gives every sign of being a recessive trait, which means that couples made out of an immune person and a non-immune one reproducing naturally will have one chance out of two to have a non-immune child in the best-case scenario.

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': ThePlague has been a very real threat for the past ninety years, which cause some people who are not TheImmune to be reluctant to have children that are genetically related to them. To top things off, immunity gives every sign of being a recessive trait, which means that couples made out of an immune person and a non-immune one reproducing naturally will have one chance out of two to have non-immune child in the best case scenario.

* In the ''Literature/EndersShadow'' series, Bean worries about this after his engagement to Petra, to the point where he calls the MadScientist who altered his genes in the first place to ensure that it doesn't happen.

* This crossed Forrest's mind in ''Film/ForrestGump''. Upon meeting his son for the first time, he asks the mother, "Is he smart? Or is he..." while gesturing to his head. She assures him that he's "very smart".

* This crossed Forrest's mind in ''Film/ForrestGump''. Upon meeting his son for the first time, he asks the mother, "Is he smart? Or is he like..." while gesturing to himself. She assures him that he's "very smart".

* Creator/SarahSilverman has stated that she doesn't want to have any biological kids, to spare them the chances of inheriting her depression.

* If the player marries Dylas in ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'' and hope for a son, Dylas [[spoiler: whose monster form is a unicorn and he has animal ears and a tal]] will say that they can make things right and raise the boy to be nice and not [[NoSocialSkills like him]].

* Creator/SarahSilverman has stated that she doesn't want to conceive kids of her own, to spare them the chances of inheriting her depression.

* [[CalLeandros Cal Leandros]] is so afraid of having a baby with his Auphe blood that he refuses to have sex with any girl who's capable of reproducing.

* In the [[Literature/EndersGame Ender's Shadow trilogy]] (with Bean leading his own life), he worries about this after his engagement to Petra, to the point where he calls the MadScientist who altered his genes in the first place to ensure that it doesn't happen.

* In ''Fear'', the fourth sequel to ''Literature/{{Gone}}'', Diana is particularly concerned that her baby might be evil, like its manipulative, lying mother and its sociopathic, violent father. She's right.

* Creator/AAPessimal's ''{{Discworld}}'' fic '''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11536013/1/Hyperemesis-gravidarum Hyperemesis Gravidarum]]''' [[note]] ''hyperemesis gravidarum'' is the medical term describing vomiting in the morning, common in pregnant women[[/note]] deals with pregnancy in career Assassins. At the time of the story, Assassin Johanna is happily married to wizard Ponder Stibbons. They make contingency plans against the child having either a predisposition to applied violence (mum) or else magic (dad) or ''both''. It boils down to Assassins' School, Unseen University (if a son) or work experience in Lancre (if a daughter). [[spoiler: it's a girl. With hints of magical ability. As you might expect from Ponder's daughter.]]

->''"I hope [the baby] takes after you, love. I would wish this magic on no-one."''

* In ''Comicbook/ThePulse'', ComicBook/JessicaJones friend Carol Danvers sets up a lunch date Q & A with Sue Storm when to assauge any concerns about the baby being "normal". Then it turns out this was the one thing Jessica ''hadn't'' been worrying about.

* ''Film/TheFlyII'': Beth has a nightmare after discovering what Martin's experimenting on, [[spoiler: in which she gives birth to a human-scale maggot baby]].

* Played straight with Remus in ''Literature/HarryPotter''. He expresses a lot of anxiety that his child will be born a werewolf like him (apparently werewolves marrying and having children is extremely rare, so the exact effects on the child are not known). His son turns out normal, except for inheriting his mother's natural shape-shifting ability.

* In ''Fear'', the fourth sequel to ''Literature/{{Gone}}'', Diana is particularly concerned that her baby might be evil, like its manipulative, lying mother and its sociopathic, violent father. She was right.

* Ryan Lavery from ''Series/AllMyChildren'' came from an abusive father, a drunk mother, and his brother is a murderer. Fearful of this, he gets fixed. Bianca Montgomery's first daughter was a child of rape and held the same fear the baby would turn out like the child's father.

* In the song ''Betty and Me'', by Music/JonathanCoulton. Betty is [[YourCheatingHeart pregnant by Doctor Martin]], so she doesn't wind up with offspring like her childish, naïve and lovingly gullible partner.

* In ''Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace'', Mortimer tries to call off his marriage to Elaine when it becomes clear just how severely insanity runs in his family, and is afraid of what their kids would be like. At the end of the movie/play he discovers that he's not genetically a Brewster and changes his mind.

* The ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' expansion "Legacy" reveals that Malcolm Hawke, father of the PC and their siblings, didn't want his kids inheriting his magic. While at least one of them (Bethany) did, he evidently got over it and ensured they knew how to handle their powers responsibly.

* Averted in the ''Film/TeenWolf'' franchise: the trait is a family trait and they all treat it like it's a pretty cool thing to have happen. It enhances your physique to near-peak levels and makes you rockstar-popular, and the only drawback is that you're in desperate need of a razor on the full moon - [[CursedWithAwesome not much to complain about, really]].

* In the ''Child Festival Scramble'' DLC of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' has Azura, if she's the mother of Kana (the Avatar's child), worry that she's afraid of Kana ending up as cold and reclusive as her.
** If Peri is Soleil's mother she'll worry that her daughter could become like her.

* Averted in the ''Film/TeenWolf'' franchise: the trait is a family trait and they all treat it like it's a pretty cool thing to have happen. It enhances your physique to near-peak levels and makes you rockstar-popular, and the only drawback is that you're in desperate need of a razor on the full moon - not much to complain about, really.

* In the original ''Series/{{V}}'', Robin is afraid the baby is like its father [[spoiler:once she's learned that the Visitors aren't as cuddly and human looking as they'd led everyone to believe]].
* When Daphne and Niles were having a baby on ''{{Frasier}}'', Daphne was worried it would turn out to be a sissy like him, while Niles was worried it would turn out to be a drunken ruffian like Daphne's brothers.

** Emily simply wasn't rational there. Note that Honor ''also'' have this condition (in turns up often in her gene mod) and had to content with [[HollywoodCyborg prostheses]] of her battle-lost eye and arm, but had no objections to having a child. [[spoiler: Mostly because of ButICantBePregnant situation, but sill...]]