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10	->'''Boy:''' Are the stories about you true? They say your mother is an immortal goddess. They say you can’t be killed.\
11	'''Achilles:''' I wouldn’t be bothering with the shield then, would I?
12	-->-- ''Film/{{Troy}}''
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14	One or more of a character's parents is a god, an angel, or devil. Usually, if a character has Divine Parentage, then so will other characters in the setting.
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16	Divine Parentage is important because the divinity is often hereditary, usually in an AllGenesAreCodominant way. Thus, someone with Divine Parentage can do things people who are fully mortal cannot.
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18	If the divine side is dominant or prominent, then you tend to get a [[SemiDivine demigod]].
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20	The trope is OlderThanDirt. Many of the examples are related to mythology, and myths have many examples. Some of the more modern examples are retellings of ancient myths.
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22	Related to HalfHumanHybrid. After all, these characters ''are'' half-human, half-god - but since the gods are [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith usually thought of as looking completely human]], the "different species" issue doesn't tend to come up.
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24	A step above a HeroicLineage, which is perhaps somewhat ironic since 'hero' was originally the ancient Greek word for examples of this trope (and in Greek myth, due to how much the gods screw around, many heroic lineages can be traced to the gods, heck Zeus is Heracles' divine parent ''and'' great-great grandfather).
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26	May be the end result of a DivineDate. A character discovering this parentage may experience a ReallyRoyaltyReveal (with divinity instead of royalty).
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28	Compare OurAncestorsAreSuperheroes and SemiDivine, and contrast DeityOfHumanOrigin. See also {{Nephilim}}, which are often portrayed as angel hybrids.
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31	!!Examples
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35	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
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37	* ''Manga/BlueExorcist'' focuses on the twin sons of Satan; at the beginning of the series, one knows the truth but [[MuggleBornOfMages has no powers]] while the other is in the dark but has abilities that he doesn't know about.
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40	[[folder:Comic Books]]
41	* [[TheBigBadWolf Bigby]] from ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' is the son of [[AnthropomorphicPersonification The North Wind]]. He has powers over the weather as well some measure of immortality.
42	* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
43	** In some continuities Hippolyta is eventually confirmed to retain her mythological parentage of [[Characters/WonderWomanAres Ares]] (Olympian) and Otrera (human) making Diana the granddaughter of Ares and great-granddaughter of Zeus.
44	** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': According to Ares when he granted her powers, Helena Alexandros was a descendant on her mother Leda’s side from Helen of Sparta, daughter of Zeus and Leda, aka the same Helen of Troy from which she was named, giving her some degree of divine blood.
45	** In the ComicBook/PostCrisis continuity, ComicBook/WonderGirl [[Characters/WonderGirlCassieSandsmark Cassie Sandsmark]] is the daughter of Zeus and an archaeologist named Helena Sandsmark.
46	** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Two of Wonder Woman's biggest foes, [[WickedWitch Circe]] and [[WarGod Ares]], had a daughter named Lyta together.
47	** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanWarbringer'': The Warbringer bloodline are those who are descended from Helen of Troy, and inherited the curse of inciting war from her.
48	** In the ComicBook/{{New 52}}'s ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'', it's Wonder Woman who's Zeus' kid[[note]]Prior to that she had a TrulySingleParent, having been sculpted from clay by Hippoltya and then brought to life by Aphrodite.[[/note]] while Cassie's father is Lennox, a different child of Zeus.
49	* Creator/MarvelComics' ComicBook/{{Ares\|Marvel}} is an AntiHero with a beloved half-human son named Alexander, who is eventually upgraded to the ([[BadPowersGoodPeople heroic]]) God of Fear.
50	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Tess Black, who appeared briefly in ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManJMichaelStraczynski'' #503-504, is the daughter of the Norse god Loki and a human woman, something she is unaware of.
51	* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'':
52	** ComicBook/{{Raven}} is the daughter of the demon Trigon and a human woman, something that causes her considerable angst.
53	** Lilith Clay was revealed to be the daughter of Thia, a Titan of Myth who plotted to overthrow the gods of Olympus. Following the [[ComicBook/PostCrisis first reboot]] of the DC universe, this origin was erased.
54	* King Shark from ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' claims to be a demigod that came to existence through magical means and is the Shark-God's son. His origin was disputed as being the result of mutation, until it was confirmed in ''Aquaman'' that he is indeed divine in nature.
55	* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': The Endless are not mere gods, but {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of universal constants. They still procreate with lesser entities on occasion though.
56	** Orpheus, the hero from Greek Mythology, was the son of Dream and a nymph. Aside from being a supreme bard his head remained alive for millennia after he was torn to pieces.
57	** Desire raped and impregnated Unity, the woman who was originally destined to become the Dream Vortex but went into a coma when Dream was imprisoned, as part of a scheme to make Dream shed family blood when their granddaughter Rose became the Dream Vortex (who Dream has to kill to preserve the universe) instead.
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60	[[folder:Fan Works]]
61	* ''Fanfic/{{Alicorn}}'': Rainbow Dash is the daughter of an unnamed earth pony father and Celestia, an alicorn PhysicalGod of the sun. She's not particularily thrilled about who her mother is. It later turns out that Celestia and Luna are themselves a result of this, being born of an alicorn mother and a pegasus father.
62	* In ''Fanfic/TheAssassinationOfTwilightSparkle'', it's revealed that [[PrinceCharmless Blueblood]] is descended from children produced with Celestia's second husband. Not that it saves him when he's found guilty.
63	* The basic premise of ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' is that James Potter was Thor having a first shot at this humility thing and therefore, Harry Potter is in fact Harry Thorson.
64	* In ''Fanfic/CrossoverChaos'', the entire Colmare family is descended from [[CrystalDragonJesus Xedra, the being that made the very first omniverse]]. [[spoiler: Why is this important? Because it's been revealed that Herobrine, Kyle, Luke, Lindsay and Jamie are all related by blood to xem!]]
65	* From ''Franchise/MassEffect'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8688354/1/Crucible Crucible]]'':
66	** There are four Turian clans of the North (one of which was the Vakarians) descended from the 4 sons of a turian named Makerm and Herz, a reincarnation of a star which basically made her a [[GodInHumanForm living goddess]].
67	** In the present, the only person with a direct god-parent was [[spoiler:Jane Shepard]] whose father was [[spoiler:Sam Shepard/Lord Samikis]], one of the many forms of the bare-faced turian who was viewed as some kind of a disaster god by the North. He was actually [[{{Psychopomp}} Death]]. Evidently, [[spoiler:Shepard]] inherited not only her dad's physical traits but also some of his otherworldly powers too.
68	* [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Fankil]], the main antagonist of ''Fanfic/TheHeartTrilogy'' (a series of ''Film/TheHobbit'' and ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' fics) is the son of [[spoiler:[[GodOfEvil Morgoth]] himself]], and his goal is to [[spoiler:release the first Dark Lord from the void so that he can take over the world]].
69	* In ''Fanfic/PerfectDiamondWorld'' Anna and Elsa (as well as Iris and her Anna) are demi-gods. Elsa's father and Iris' mother are gods cursed to live as mortals after falling in love [[BrotherSisterIncest despite being siblings]]. The siblings were forced into alternate universes but they had identical children, with the exception of Iris (birth name "Elsa" as well) having black hair instead of platinum blonde.
70	* In ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'':
71	** Cupid was the [[SemiDivine demi-Alicorn]] son of the love goddess Venus and her mortal lover Mars. Unfortunately, he was eventually killed with the [[WeaponOfMassDestruction Concept Killing Spear]] and [[RetGone erased from existence]].
72	** [[spoiler:Lovestruck is Cupid's G3 incarnation's {{Reincarnation}} and as a result eventually merges with Cupid's Shadow of Existence and becomes a demi-goddess herself. She's technically only this trope by adoption, as Venus is only her adopted mother, not her biological one. Though it retroactively makes her daughter Heartthrob 1/4 god.]]
73	** Celestia's sister Galaxia had a mortal lover during her time on Equus, though their child is never focused on except as Blueblood's ancestor, making him an extremely diluted case of this trope.
74	** Fluttercruel is [[AntiAntiChrist Discord's daughter]] and an accidental ChildByRape with Fluttershy (MindRape to be specific, as she has no physical body of her own and was born directly from Discord's brainwashing of Fluttershy). Even Discord has no idea how he did that. While at first her Draconequi aspects are minor, she eventually becomes a full Demi-Draconequus [[spoiler:during Rumors]].
75	* In ''Fanfic/QueenOfShadows'', the [[MonsterProgenitor mother]] of the Shadowkhan, Kagehime, is said to have been the daughter of the goddess Izanami and the Lord of the Underworld. As such, Kagehime's direct descendants, the Queens of the Shadowkhan, are treated by the rest of the race as semi-divine.
76	* ''Fanfic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness Act II'': Kurumu's DisappearedDad is revealed to be none other than the [[SatanicArchetype Lord of Hell]] himself.
77	* A DiscussedTrope in ''Fanfic/SevenDaysSurvivor'', where one character points out that this is a very real possibility [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei given the setting]], and that several characters - including themselves - could be descended from these types of people. It causes the protagonist to have a minor BSOD.
78	* In ''The Stronger Evil'', a sequel for the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fic ''Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil'', it's established that the mother of the eight [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Demon Sorcerers]] is [[spoiler:Tiamat, the goddess of oceans and chaos from [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Babylonian mythology]]]]. Their father was [[spoiler:Typhon, a monster of divine origin from [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek mythology]]]].
79	* In ''Fanfic/TheWizardInTheShadows'' [[spoiler: Emrys and Eirian]] are the grandchildren of [[spoiler: Merlin]] who is the son of a mortal woman and a Maia, an Angel.
80	* ''[[Creator/TheNight130 Insanity Circus]]'':
81	** Meg is the daughter of Athena, [[SemiDivine thus why]] she has {{seer\|s}} powers.
82	** It's mentioned that Mulan is Artemis' daughter with a human.
83	** Subverted with Miguel and Tulio. They claim to be demigods, but they're lying.
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86	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
87	* Perhaps the most famous examples in cinema are found in ''Franchise/StarWars''. Anakin Skywalker is half-divine, being the child of a human mother and the Force itself (which, yes, [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory does make Anakin's a virgin birth]]). As a result, his children by Padme Amidala, Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa, are one-quarter divine; and ''their'' children (Jacen, Jaina, Anakin Solo and Ben Skywalker in the ExpandedUniverse, Ben Solo in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''; and Ben Skywalker in the Expanded Universe) are one-eighth divine.
88	* ''Film/{{Wonder Woman\|2017}}'': [[spoiler:Much like the New 52 comics, Diana is the daughter of Zeus and Hippolyta. Though, in this adaptation, her conception was on purpose -- after Ares killed the rest of the Greek Pantheon, a dying Zeus severely injured him in retaliation. However, Zeus knew that Ares would one day return, and also knew that no one would be able to stop him. Only a god can kill another god, and Zeus was not long for this world -- hence, Diana]].
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91	[[folder:Literature]]
92	* In ''Literature/AmericanGods'' Mr. Wednesday tells Shadow that while it used to be common for gods to sire children on mortals, the [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly lack of faith]] nowadays means that he and most of the others are shooting blanks. Though there are some exceptional circumstances where it's possible, [[spoiler: foreshadowing that Shadow is Wednesday/Odin's son.]]
93	* Also Fat Charlie and his "brother" Spider from ''Literature/AnansiBoys'', although Spider got all the god traits.
94	* In the fourth book of ''Literature/TheImmortals'' by Creator/TamoraPierce, we learn that [[spoiler:Daine's father is the God of the Hunt, and her mother was elevated to a goddess of childbirth after death. Both of them are relatively minor gods compared to the like of Mithros and the Great Mother, though.]]
95	* The entire plot of the novel ''Oh My Gods!'' takes place on a Greek island at a private school for the descendants of gods, and almost every character is one.
96	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''
97	** Susan Sto Helit is Death's granddaughter. By adoption. She can still walk through walls. [[LamarckWasRight Don't ask]].
98	** Susan briefly compares her situation with that of a classmate, whose great-grandfather was the god Blind Io, making her a hemi-semi-demigoddess. This doesn't seem to come with any powers, but apparently has enough prestige to get a good table at restaurants.
99	** Yet another: Lobsang Ludd (and his kind-of brother) is the son of Time.
100	* The whole point of ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' and its spin-offs in ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'' -- the gods of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greco-Roman mythology]] have continued their dalliances with mortals into the modern day, and there's a whole summer camp's worth of "[[SemiDivine half-bloods]]" related to the various deities. Percy himself is the demigod son of Poseidon.
101	* Although [[spoiler:Bhelliom]] is ''more'' than a god, [[spoiler:Sparhawk]] in ''Literature/TheElenium''/''Literature/TheTamuli'' qualifies.
102	* [[spoiler:Aliera e'Kieron]] in the ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'' series.
103	* Downplayed in ''Literature/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon''. [[spoiler: In the fifth novel (animated as [=S1E13=]), Hermes mentions "Zeus' grandson" as he watches Bell defeat the Goliath, implying that Bell's grandfather was actually the most powerful deity in their world. In the light novels, however, it was noted that Zeus is only his ''adopted'' grandfather, and he is as much a human as everyone else. This explains why he was raised to be a HaremSeeker, since Zeus is infamous for [[ReallyGetsAround sleeping with everybody]].]]
104	* The ''Literature/ScarNight'' series is awash with angels and gods descended from gods.
105	* In ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', Lúthien is the daughter of the Elven-king Thingol and Melian the Maia (a class of divine being roughly equivalent to a demigod or an angel). Lúthien often displays flashes of remarkable power as a sign of her heritage.
106	* In the ''Literature/BookOfSwords'', [[spoiler:Mark]] and [[spoiler:Ariane]] are both children of [[spoiler:the Emperor]], who is really [[spoiler:God]].
107	* In "Literature/IronShadowsInTheMoon" [[DreamingOfTimesGoneBy Olivia dreams]] of [[PhysicalGod a godlike being]] arriving to where a partly human, partly godlike being was [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured to death]], and turning [[TakenForGranite the torturers to stone]].
108	-->''"The youth they tortured was like the tall man who came?" he asked at last.\
109	"As like as son to father," she answered, and hesitantly: "If the mind could conceive of the offspring of a union of divinity with humanity, it would picture that youth. The gods of old times mated sometimes with mortal women, our legends tell us."''
110	* In ''Literature/CreaturesOfLightAndDarkness'', Set is both father and son to Thoth (and vice versa, of course), and Horus is the son of Osiris. The latter is a canon relationship in Myth/EgyptianMythology.
111	* ''Literature/APieceInTheGameOfGods'': As revealed in Part 37, Demi-god is a possible state for certain characters to be, and gives people [[SemiDivine divine power]], possibly without technically needing to be related.
112	* In ''Literature/TheVampireDiaries'', Elena Gilbert is half angel or Guardian from her mother's side, who was also a Guardian.
113	* In ''Literature/TheSunSword'', the god-born--people with one mortal, one divine parent--are semi-common. They have SupernaturalGoldEyes, general superhuman physical and mental abilities, and usually some magic related to their divine parent's portfolio. Most importantly, the Two Kings of the Essilyan Empire are god-born (one is the son of the god of wisdom, the other the son of the god of justice), and more ominously, Kiriel, one of the main protagonists, is the daughter of BigBad and GodOfEvil Allasakar, with her heritage being a focal point of the MythArc.
114	* The main plot of ''[[Literature/ZeusIsDead Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure]]'' involves Apollo somehow resurrecting Zeus via one of Zeus' mortal children. The problem lies in finding out just who it is.
115	* In ''Sister Mine'' by Creator/NaloHopkinson, Makeda and her twin sister Abby are both children of a god by a mortal woman, but Makeda, unlike her sister, didn't end up with any divine powers at all.
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119	* Cady from ''Series/{{Reaper}}'' ''might'' be the devil's daughter. [[spoiler: And Sam might be the devil's son. Though, even if the man who raised him turns out to be his real father, this trope might still apply...]]
120	* Ling'er and her mother Qing from ''Series/ChinesePaladin'' are descendents of the goddess Nuwa, as is their ancestress, Zixuan from the prequel series.
121	* Adria in ''Series/StargateSG1'' is the daughter of Vala Mal Doran and the [[AbusivePrecursors Ori]].
122	* This isn't true for [[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch Sabrina]]'s parents, but her cousin Pele is the Hawaiian Goddess of Fire.
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125	[[folder:Music]]
126	* The lead character of ''[[{{Music/Hero}} !HERO: The Rock Opera]]''. Given that it's the story of Jesus with a SettingUpdate, and that Michael Tait is playing the lead character, he is also given a DivineRaceLift.
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129	[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
130	* ''Literature/TheBible'': Jesus is the son of God and a human named Mary, conceived via divine intervention. However, Christianity holds that he is ''not'' half-god and half-human, but ''fully'' divine ''and'' human simultaneously. Yes, it's weird and everyone knows it; the seeming contradiction is why certain early-church heresies that said that Jesus was either not fully God (Arianism, which said he was a lesser divinity to the Father) or not really human (Docetism, where his mortal form was an illusion). Tv Tropes, not being composed of religious scholars, will not be elaborating further.
131	* Myth/ClassicalMythology: It would be easier to list the mortal heroes for whom this ''doesn't'' apply.
132	** Herakles, Perseus, Helen of Troy and many other classical figures were children of Zeus. Sometimes, in fact, Zeus would seduce a woman who was already a distant descendant of his through a previous affair. He sure got around. (the page image is from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' which actually twists the trope a bit: in the myth, Herc's mother is a mortal, Alcmene; in the movie, he's the son of Zeus' wife Hera, but becomes a demigod after being BroughtDownToNormal)
133	** Zeus had more than anybody else, but there were other gods and goddesses who got in on the mortal action. Virtually every Greek hero is this trope in some way.
134	** Countless heroes of UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar, according to [[Literature/TheTrojanCycle the stories]].
135	** A number of Roman ''gentes'' (clans) claimed a divine ancestor. The one with the most prestigious ancestors were the ''gens'' Julia (UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar's one) and the ''gentes'' Romilia and Remmia: both claimed descendance from Venus through Trojan War hero and Rome's forefather Aeneas, the Julii through his elder son Ascanius (something Caesar wouldn't stop bragging about. The family name derives from Ascanius' other name, Julus) and the Romilii and Remmii through his younger son Silvius, with the Romilii and Remmii claiming ''another'' divine ancestor in Mars through Romulus and Remus.
136	* [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]] was [[UnevenHybrid 2/3 god]], since the Babylonians believed that if two men had sex with a woman and she got pregnant, both were the father. Gilgamesh was the product of such a threesome.
137	* In some versions of the story, Myth/{{Merlin}}'s father was an [[SuccubiAndIncubi incubus]] or even the Devil himself, trying to conceive the AntiChrist. He wound up an AntiAntiChrist since his pious mother had him baptized right after birth.
138	* And in some versions of [[Myth/CelticMythology Irish Mythology]], Cu Chulainn was the son of TheAce god Lugh.
139	* The Emperors of Japan claim descent from the Sun goddess Amaterasu.
140	* It was common for nobles in parts of Europe to claim ''Odin'' as their ancestor long after the Christian era. The attitude of TheGovernment usually seems to have been, "If you keep peace on your estate and show up for battle when the king needs you, your ancestor can be whomever you want him to be."
141	* Mara (basically the Buddhist devil) the King of Demons is the son of a human woman raped by a Deva.
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144	[[folder:Roleplay]]
145	* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', the Andain have a human and a god as parents. The most famous Andain have been [[AntiVillain Kagetsu I]], [[WanderingMinstrel Leon]], [[CloudCuckooLander Pooka]] and [[TricksterMentor Taliesin]].
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148	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
149	* Plentiful in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. Not only do deities sometimes dally with mortals to produce demigods, other creatures from beyond the Material Plane can produce half-celestial or half-fiendish offspring, the descendants of which will exhibit signs of their supernatural heritage. These "planetouched" are viable player races, and each has their own traits and abilities based on their ancestry. Or you could abuse ''D&D'''s template system and create a character that has celestial, fiendish, ''and'' [[DragonAncestry dragon blood]] in their veins.
150	** Aasimar have an ancestor from the Upper Planes, and thus tend to be considered beautiful by mortal standards, and are typically passionate about opposing evil. This makes the rare "[[FallenAngel fallen aasimar]]" all the more dangerous.
151	** The immediate spawn of a fiend and mortal is a monstrous cambion, while their descendants are known as tieflings, who have one or more fiendish traits like glowing eyes, horns, tails, cloven hooves for feet, etc., which only makes life more difficult for non-evil tieflings. There are also specific fiendblooded variants for non-human races: fey'ri (elves), maeluths (dwarves), tanarukks (orcs), and wisplings (halflings).
152	** Axani and zenythri have a touch of pure Law in their blood, which manifests in perfect (perhaps ''[[UncannyValley too]]'' [[UncannyValley perfect]]) features with a metallic, purple or bluish tint to their skin. Mechanatrices are specifically descended from the clockwork beings of Mechanus, and thus have one or more inorganic features like a mechanical limb or metal hair.
153	** Chaonds are the descendants of someone who survived a slaad's [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong reproduction]] [[CloneByConversion attempt]], but had their bloodline tainted with raw Chaos in the process. They have a crude, blocky, disheveled appearance, and a skin or eye color that shifts at random.
154	** Genasi are descended from either an {{elemental\|Embodiment}} or [[OurGeniesAreDifferent genie]] from one of the Inner Planes, and thus have a strong connection to one of the classical elements (or multiple elements, in the case of "paraelemental" genasi). They commonly bear mutations based on their elemental ancestor: hair that constantly shifts in a light breeze, clammy flesh, gemstone eyes, a clnging smell of smoke, and so forth. Mephlings are similar, just Small-sized.
155	** Shyfts are humanoids descended from a creature from the Ethereal Plane, and tend to look [[TheNondescript supernaturally unremarkable.]] Shadowswyfts meanwhile have an ancestor from the Plane of Shadow, and thus have dark skin and utterly black eyes, as well as a sensitivity to sunlight.
156	* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': Gods, Spirits, Demons, [[TheFairFolk Fae]], Ghosts and the Celestial Exalted (about anyone with [[PowerLevels essence 4 or more]]) can bear or sire children, who inherit some of that power. One of the canonical examples includes a woman being impregnated by an earth spirit through an earthquake. The God/Ghost/Demon/Fae-blooded people are a few large steps above mortals, but they still don't have a chance against Exalted. Their parents have considerable difficulty with the Exalted as well...
157	* ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'': The game's premise is that your character just got a visit from their divine parent telling them it's time to get active.
158	* ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'':
159	** ''TabletopGame/{{Dreadfleet}}'': It's rumoured by her peers that Aranessa Saltspite, the Captain of the ''Swordfysh'', is the daughter of the sea god Manann. While there is no concrete proof, the mermaid-like mutations that she was born with and her being raised by sea-nymphs does lend credence to these rumours. In-game, this parentage is represented by the Blessed by Manann special rule that grants Aranessa multiple re-rolls during a game.
160	** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
161	*** The superhuman Primarchs from were created by the [[GodEmperor Emperor of Mankind]][[note]]who always claimed not to be a god, [[DistinctionWithoutADifference just a highly powerful entity who became the central figure of the official Imperial religion]][[/note]] using his own DNA, but weren't conceived in the normal way. How they ''were'' created is question with no clear answer, though.
162	*** In some older versions of the background material, the setting's version of TheIlluminati claim that the GodEmperor had actual biological children, called Sensei, and that they are equivalent to the shards of the [[CapturedSuperEntity C'tan Star-gods]] or the [[PiecesOfGod Avatars]] of the [[SpaceElves Aeldari]] god [[WarGod Khaine]] and will eventually merge with the Emperor once he reincarnates as a Star Child. [[StateSec The Inquisition]], meanwhile, believe that they're heretical revolutionaries who need to be destroyed.
163	** ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoeplay'': According to some myths, the Menogoths, one of the Empire's founding tribes, descended from the children of the mother goddess Rhya and a mortal man.
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167	* In ''Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung'', Siegmund and Sieglinde's father, whom they know as Wälse, is actually the god Wotan, though they never realize it.
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171	* The player character from the ''Franchise/BaldursGate'' series is revealed to be the offspring of [[spoiler: Bhaal, the god of murder]]. [[spoiler:BigBad Sarevok from part 1, the PC's childhood friend Imoen, and the five main antagonists of Throne of Bhaal are as well.]]
172	** In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateSiegeOfDragonspear'', it's said that the Shining Lady, leader of the "crusade" now seeming to threaten Baldur's Gate, is the child of a god. At first, that's implied to mean she's [[spoiler: a Bhaalspawn, like the player character]]. However, [[spoiler: she is actually an aasimar, a distant descendant of good celestial beings. The BigBad needs divine blood to open a portal from Hell, and the fact that hers isn't strong enough is a plot point.]]
173	* ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite2'': In one {{Sidequest}}, a man claims that his daughter [[MysticalPregnancy was impregnated]] by the town's PatronGod. This is news to you, [[AGodIsYou the god in question]]. You can either expose the real (human) father or let the lie stand and have the alleged demigod raised as a heroic warrior.
174	* In ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', the Primordial Serpent Kaathe claims that the Chosen Undead is a descendant of the Furtive Pygmy [[spoiler:and the inheritor of the Dark Soul, the fourth Lord Soul, and the one destined to end the Age of Fire and usher in the Age of Dark as the Dark Lord.]]
175	* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'': Dante and his brother Vergil are both the sons of a human woman and a devil named Sparda, who rebelled against his own kind and sealed them away. In the [[VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry reboot]], they are instead the sons of a devil and an angel.
176	* The Nephalem of the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series were the ancestors of the humans of Sanctuary, born from the union of renegade angels and demons, but who were weakened into their current human state by the Worldstone when Inarius got frightened by how powerful the Nephalem were. [[spoiler:With the Worldstone destroyed, humanity is beginning to get its former power back, and the PlayerCharacter of ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' is among the first of the new Nephalem]].
177	** [[spoiler:Leah is the daughter of the witch Adria and the Dark Wanderer, a.k.a. Aidan from ''VideoGame/Diablo1997'', who became possessed by Diablo after sticking his soulstone into his own head. The magical power she wields comes direct from the Big D himself, and she is eventually used by Adria with the Black Soulstone to bring about Diablo's rebirth as the Prime Evil, the sum total of all seven Great Evils in one being]].
178	* ''[[VideoGame/DungeonCrawl Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup]]'' has the Demigod as one of its [[MassiveRaceSelection many races]]. They have poor aptitudes (how much exp it takes to level skills) all across the board, gain experience slower and can't worship any gods, making them a [[SelfImposedChallenge challenge race]] despite their great stats.
179	* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''
180	** All of the recognized Cyrodiilic [[TheEmperor Emperors]] of Tamriel (the Alessian, Reman, and Septim dynasties) claim this from Akatosh, the [[DragonsAreDivine draconic]] God of Time and [[TopGod chief deity]] of the [[SaintlyChurch Eight (later Nine) Divines]] pantheon, in the metaphysical sense (imbued with "Dragon Blood"), dating back to Akatosh's [[BargainWithHeaven covenant]] with St. Alessia, [[FounderOfTheKingdom founder]] of the First Empire. In addition to the patronage of the Divines for the Empire, these Emperors serve as {{Barrier Maiden}}s, sealing and protecting Mundus (the mortal plane) from Oblivion.
181	** The series' [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] are the "children" of Akatosh and/or, according to some theories, [[PiecesOfGod fragments of his very being]]. This would also include those who are Dragonborn, mortals gifted by Akatosh with the immortal soul of a dragon, who are to serve as [[HunterOfHisOwnKind natural predators]] to dragons. Like the dragons, the Dragonborn possess instinctive knowledge of the draconic LanguageOfMagic and can use the Thu'um. The "[[PlayerCharacter Last Dragonborn]]" is one such example.
182	** The [[HornyVikings Nords]] still refer to themselves as the sons and daughters of Kyne (the old Nordic aspect of Kynareth, the Divine Goddess of the Air and Heavens), who in their old religious tradition "breathed" them into life by exhaling on the [[TheTower Throat of the World]].
183	** In the [[ScaryBlackMan Yokudan/Redguard]] religious tradition, Zeht (their aspect of Zenithar, the Aedric Divine God of Work and Commerce) was the God of Agriculture and the son of Ruptga, the "Tall Papa" and their TopGod. Following the creation of the world, Zeht renounced Ruptga, which is why Ruptga makes it "so hard to grow food".
184	** Demiprinces are a form of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]] born from the union of a [[HalfHumanHybrid Daedra and a mortal]]. Their dual nature gives them an ''odd'' [[CloudCuckoolander perception of the world and time itself]].
185	** Umaril the Unfeathered, the [[AbusivePrecursors Ayleid]] sorcerer-king who ruled the Ayleid Empire during the [[SlaveLiberation Alessian Revolt]], claimed that his father was the "God of the World-River" from the previous kalpa, or cycle of time. (Umaril [[ResurrectiveImmortality would return]] and serve as the BigBad of ''Oblivion'''s ''Knights of the Nine'' expansion.)
186	* ''VideoGame/EternalDaughter'''s title protagonist.
187	* ''VideoGame/{{Extrapower}}'': The truth of Zophy's heritage, alluded to in ''VideoGame/ExtrapowerAttackOfDarkforce'' and later expanded on in ''VideoGame/ExtrapowerGiantFist''. Zophy's distant ancestor is a phoenix, one of the majin who watch the Earth, and possibly the ancient Latour hero Romes. But phoenix ancestry is confirmed when Magma-O informs him of the ancient blood locked away inside him. As a twist, Zophy's divine ancestor is so far back in the past that Zophy is effectively a completely normal human. All of his power and strength comes from [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower a life of disciplined training]]. But if he agrees to unlock his ancestral blood, he becomes a Flame Warrior, a majin in his own right. That choice is up to the player.
188	* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' usually averts this trope due to being a weird halfway between political HighFantasy and supernatural LowFantasy, but [[PlayerCharacter Corrin]] and [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Kana]] from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' in particular are the children and grandchildren respectively of [[spoiler:Anankos, the Silent Dragon and a PhysicalGod in his own right. Part of the reason why they can transform into a dragon despite the First Dragons having left this world is because of their direct ancestry from one of the only remaining First Dragons left in the world ''Fates'' is set in]].
189	* Kratos, from ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', [[spoiler: is a son of Zeus, as many mythological heroes were in those days. This becomes funny when you meet and slaughter Hercules.]]
190	* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' occasionally has magical marriage candidates, but they usually don't have magical kids. For example, the Harvest King from ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAnimalParade Animal Parade]]'' can fix magical trees, but his kids can't.
191	* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', Zelda is stated to be the {{Reincarnation}} of the goddess Hylia, making her a GodInHumanForm. This would explain why the ladies of Hyrule's royal family in [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda the rest of the franchise]] tend to have some sort of RoyaltySuperPower, and possibly their habit of collecting MagicMusic and instruments.
192	* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon'': [[CainAndAbel Taven and Daegon]] are the sons of the Edenian protector god Argus and the Edenian sorceress, Delia. Rain is their half-brother via Argus and another woman.
193	* [[spoiler:Lloyd]] is the son of [[spoiler:Kratos]] in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', though possesses nothing that sets him apart from other humans [[spoiler: though he does sprout energy wings during the ending for some reason]].
194	* Sanae Kochiya from ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' is the distant descendent of a Shinto goddess, and thus has the power to "create miracles" (which comes less from her ancestry and more from [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly being recognized as a living goddess]] by the people of [[FantasticNaturePreserve Gensokyo]]). This twist is that Suwako Moriya, Sanae's great-to-the-''n''th grandmother, is still around, one of the deities Sanae serves as a {{Miko}}, ''[[PalsWithJesus lives]]'' [[PalsWithJesus with Sanae]], ''and'' is [[SleepModeSize currently taking the form of a little girl]] with a cute googly-eyed hat. It's thus not uncommon for fan works to depict Sanae as a motherly figure to her own ancestor-deity, though in canon it's suggested that Suwako [[ObfuscatingStupidity isn't as childish as she can act.]]
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198	* Appears in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' as a character's "divinity" rank. Seems to be pointless, until [[spoiler:[[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]]]] unveils [[spoiler: [[ChainPain Enkidu]],]] which is a VariableLengthChain that grows stronger based on the divinity rank of the person it captures. He uses this to kill a number of [[TheWorfEffect should-have-been-challenging-opponents]]. Characters with Divine Parentage include (in order of original divinty rank): [[spoiler: [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]],]] a 2/3 deity; [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hercules]], [[Myth/CelticMythology Cú Chulainn]], Caster [[spoiler: Theatre/{{Medea}}]] and UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat from ''Literature/FateZero'' (Alexander had historically claimed to be a descendant of Zeus) are all demigods; and lastly Rider [[spoiler: {{Medusa}}]]. [[spoiler: All but Medusa and Medea are trapped by Enkidu just before dying in at least one route.]]
199	* [[spoiler:The titular character]] from ''VisualNovel/TyrionCuthbertAttorneyOfTheArcane'' is descended from celestials on his mother's side and [[spoiler:inherited the Eye of Horus from her. He also [[PowerGivesYouWings temporarily grows wings]] when awakening to his power in the Court of Azathoth]].
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203	* The title characters from ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', explaining how they have their powers.
204	* The Evil from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': the off-spring of {{Satan}} and a house cat.
205	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', elves are the offspring of Immortals and humans.
206	* Some enterprising worshipers in [[http://oglaf.com/offering/ this]] (NSFW) ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' page try to {{invoke\|dTrope}} this:
207	--> ''"When the gods impregnate mortals, we get heroes and messiahs! So we designed these hot prayer positions to tempt the gods down."''
208	* The Geisterdamen of ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' believe Agatha is the holy child, daughter of the divine Lucrezia. Whether or not Lucrezia or the Other is actually divine is in question however and most do not consider her/them to be. [[spoiler: Of course, they also download Lucrezia's mind into her brain, as she commanded before her disappearance.]]
209	* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': The Twelve Guardians [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith disguise]] themselves as one of five mortal races to go unnoticed and will sometimes have children with them (usually these descendents share physical characteristics the guardian's mortal form had). [[spoiler:It's confirmed that [[BigBad Moonshade]] and protagonist Rhea Snaketail (who is actually [[LukeIAmYourFather Moonshade's daughter]]) are both descended from Moku the snake guardian and that should a guardian somehow die one of their bloodline will inherit their power.]]
210	* Lan of ''Webcomic/PublicHumiliation'' is Hades' grandson, which makes him a very powerful necromancer capable of starting a zombie apocalypse on his own, or bringing the dead back as free-willed undead with their original souls and everything, depending on his motivation. [[spoiler: In the end of the main comic, Lan ends up succeeding his grandfather as god of the dead.]]
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214	* Carmilla of the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' is the daughter of the demon Gothmog and a woman who it turns out wasn't fully human to start with (she's got some EldritchAbomination in her family tree, and she is one of ''those'' [[Literature/TheThingOnTheDoorstep Waites]].
215	* Website/GaiaOnline's deicide storyline indicates that the Gambino family has divine ancestry, and so is under attack by the same forces out to murder the rest of Gaia's sprawling pantheon. [[spoiler: This news came a little late for [[SacrificialLion Johnny]].]]
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219	* [[Characters/TeenTitans2003Raven Raven]] from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' is the daughter of a demon and a human woman.
220	* Lucy from ''WesternAnimation/LucyTheDaughterOfTheDevil'' is, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
221	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}''
222	** Sadlygrove's master Goultard [[spoiler:is the son of the god Iop, who is [[LukeYouAreMyFather also]] [[AngelUnaware Sadlygrove]].]] He's basically an expy of Hercules.
223	** By this same token, [[spoiler:Flopin and Elely qualify since Sadlygrove is their dad. Elely even starts manifesting some of Iop's power.]]
224	* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' greatly implies that [[spoiler:Hades]] is Wonder Woman's father. When she points out that her origin story doesn't allow her to have a father, he resorts to a technicality. Whether or not it's true has been left ambiguous, and when Shayera suggests using the Lasso of Truth find out if he's lying, Wonder Woman rebuffs her, stating that she knows ''who'' raised her and ''what'' she was raised to do (more or less saying that it doesn't matter in the end).
225	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': [[Characters/StevenUniverseStevenQuartzUniverse Steven Quartz Universe]] is the son of Greg Universe, a human, and Rose Quartz, a Crystal Gem who [[DeathByChildbirth sacrificed her form so he could exist]] and allegedly shattered Pink Diamond, one of the four [[GodEmperor Diamonds]] in the Great Diamond Authority. In the Season 5 episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E18ASinglePaleRose A Single Pale Rose]]", however, it's revealed that [[spoiler: Rose Quartz was none other than '''''Pink Diamond herself''''', making him a Diamond]].
226	* At least three [[GodInHumanForm Avatars]] in ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' are confirmed to have had children and it is likely that many more did as well. Given how the Avatar Cycle has been going on for just shy of 10,000 years by the time of the first episode and that there is no limit as to who they reincarnate as beyond following the elemental order of the cycle, it is likely that just about everybody on the planet can trace their ancestry back to at least one of them. The only time that this actually became relevant to the plot is [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch when Ursa was forced into an Arranged Marriage with Ozai due to being Avatar Roku's granddaughter]].]]
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