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10->''"If I could time-travel, I'd go back to the night my parents conceived me. I would just run into the room and smack my dad on the ass -- Wham! 'I'm your son from the future!' ''Aahhh-hahahaha!"
11-->-- '''Creator/DaneCook'''
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13Surprise! Two of the main characters have just had a child! I bet you ''are'' surprised since they didn't go through pregnancy or anything, might not even be dating, and the kid is already 14!
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15It must be the Kid from the Future here to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong! A child the characters have yet to have has traveled back in time to save their parents for some reason. Great for pairing up characters who have yet to even show any interest in each other since now they must get together BecauseDestinySaysSo. Also a way of working in a DistantFinale into the plot of what has already come along.
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17If the series involves a LoveTriangle, or, worse yet, an UnwantedHarem, expect all hell to break loose as those involved try to figure out who the child's mother or father is.
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19This trope is also used in {{fanfiction}} (especially {{Fix Fic}}s), often to push together the author's [[OneTruePairing OTP]], pair the OriginalCharacter with her chosen love interest, or even as the origin for the AuthorAvatar.
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21An ''extreme'' form of PlotRelevantAgeUp. Can develop into a full-blown SpinOffspring. The inverse is LivingDistantAncestor when someone lives long enough to meet their distant descendants through either immortality or time travel in a forward direction.
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23Sometimes it is played to be a grandson or descendant of the characters, or it is the protagonist who travels back in time, being the son of the future.
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25This trope is one possible reason for having a SupernaturallyYoungParent. Compare to TimeTravelersBaby, when it's the ''parent'' doing the time-travelling.
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31* 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]].
32* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'':
33** 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...
34** 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.
35** Also, Shizuka's and Nobita's future son, Nobisuke in Nobita's son ran away from home episode.
36*** Later, Doraemon brings [[spoiler:Nobisuke's future son aka Nobita's future grandson]] to the present time in the same episode.
37* Trunks from ''Manga/DragonBall''. In his case, his parents might have had two scenes together at that point and his mother had been with a different guy for about ten years. Goku's reaction is [[FaceFault shock and disbelief]]. Neither of his parents actually know who Future Trunks really is until after they've gotten together, as neither Goku nor Piccolo (who overheard Trunks telling Goku due to his superior hearing) said anything. Eventually, the present-day Trunks is born, and Future Trunks meets him(self). Hilarity ensues. Certain fan stories or fan theories would put [[Manga/DragonBall Future Gohan]] in Trunks place in ComicBook/WhatIf scenarios.
38* ''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 because his mother died before she could give birth to him and thus he 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]].
39* ''Manga/FairyTail100YearsQuest'' has a variation: [[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]].
40* 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 (according to [[WordOfGod the creators]]) leads to her death. Despite this, Hana never finds out about her true origins beyond "she came from a BadFuture".]]
41* Suzune of ''Manga/KamichamaKarin'' came back to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong and [[spoiler:prevent the eventual death of his father, though he doesn't know that part]].
42* ''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.]]
43* 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.
44* 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.]]
45* The entire plot of the manga/anime series ''Anime/MamaIsAFourthGrader'' -- a ten-year-old having to deal with taking care of her infant child who has fallen through a time-warp from the future.
46* 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.
47* ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'':
48** 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.]]
49** 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)]].
50* 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.
51* ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'':
52** In ''Anime/NarutoShippudenTheMovieTheLostTower'', Naruto is sent back in time and meets his father, Minato Namikaze, before he became the Fourth Hokage.
53** 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.
54* ''Franchise/{{Negima}}'':
55** In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', Chao Lingshen claims to be the protagonist Negi's descendant from the future, although it's unknown how far down the family tree she comes from. 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.
56** 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.
57* 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]]
58* 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 [[Anime/SailorMoon 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.]]
59* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': One episode has Fuyuki and the platoon dragged into the '80s, where Fuyuki meets a younger version of his mother, Aki.
60* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'':
61** In ''Tenchi Muyo [[TheMovie in Love]]'', Tenchi Masaki himself goes back in time to rescue his parents from Kain.
62** Subverted in the second movie, ''Daughter of Darkness [=/=] Manatsu no Eve''; Mayuka shows all the symptoms (and some of the characters just accept that she must be from the future, despite the bizarre (and [[ArtisticLicenseBiology scientifically impossible]]) means used to prevent Washu from identifying the mother through DNA analysis), but turns out to be an ArtificialHuman LaserGuidedTykebomb.
63* ''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, although he returns to the present before finding out who the mother is. [[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 Inaba. It was {{Retcon}}ned when one of the latest story arcs revealed there are multiple possible futures, with the one where Ataru and Shinobu get married being much less likely to happen now that Ataru is with Lum and Shinobu is with Inaba.
64* NSFW Manga ''Yomeiro Choice'' has three (and counting, [[spoiler:up to four and a cybernetic assistant/daughter]]!) daughters from the future, each trying to get the protagonist to impregnate her mother so she doesn't cease to exist. [[spoiler:It ends with the protagonist [[MarryThemAll choosing all of them]]. All of the future daughters not only still exist, they are now sisters.]]
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68* 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.]]
69* Done in the final issue of ''ComicBook/BillAndTedsExcellentComicBook'', where the two main characters are visited by their grown-up children from the future.
70* 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.
71** 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.
72* In ''ComicBook/BattleOfTheAtom'', [[spoiler:Future Kitty is really Mystique and Wolverine's future son Raze, a mutant who inherited both of his parents' powers.]]
73* ''ComicBook/CaptainMarvel'': Inverted and played for tragedy in the "Strange Magic" arc, in which Carol Danvers travels to the future and allies with War Machine's daughter who leads the future Avengers. When she returns to the present, she dumps Jim Rhodes (who she was dating at the moment) just to make sure that said daughter will come to exist (Jim, in the subsequent angry rant before storming off, points out that 1) Carol has absolutely no information about how she came to exist other than "she does" and 2) the Marvel Universe is littered up the wazoo with "possible future" {{Alternate Universe}}s, so Carol has absolutely no clue of what she is doing is actually going to help. Carol stands by her choice, even if it drives her to tears afterwards and tries to assure Jim that it will be WorthIt). [[spoiler:Giving Jim more of a point, a follow-up arc has Ove, the future son of Namor and Enchantress, going back in time to [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight try to make sure said future occurs]].]]
74* For a non-X-Men example in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, this has also happened in ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' with Valeria [[spoiler:Von Doom]], daughter of [[spoiler:Sue Richards and Doctor Doom ([[{{Retcon}} or Reed Richards impersonating Doom]], though she certainly ''thought'' Doom was her father)]]. Like Rachel Summers, she's a creation of Creator/ChrisClaremont, and they've even both used the CodeName "Marvel Girl" (though in all fairness, Rachel had yet to use that name at the time of Valeria's creation). Clearly, Claremont ''loves'' this trope.[[note]]Though, as noted above, he also functionally ''invented'' it.[[/note]]
75** 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.
76** Hyperstormis the child of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Franklin Richards]] and Rachel Summers 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.
77** For that matter, ComicBook/KangTheConqueror 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!]]
78* From ''ComicBook/TheFlash'':
79** [[ComicBook/{{Impulse}} Bart Allen (Impulse/Kid Flash II)]] was Wally West's (The Flash III) cousin from the 30th Century--and the grandson of Barry Allen (The Flash II) who had spent a long time in the 30th Century before his death. Bart is also technically also the great-great-great (you know how this goes) grandson of Eobard Thawne (The Reverse-Flash I) on his mother's side.
80** [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Jenny Ognats (XS)]] is Bart's cousin, and thus also Wally's cousin and Barry's granddaughter. She too was born in the 30th Century.
81** Iris West II, the (seemingly) third Kid Flash, is Wally's future daughter. She was introduced in the 90s, and eventually by the mid-00s Wally and his wife Linda had twins, one of whom was named Iris and would become the second Impulse.
82** In "Chain Lightning", Wally West, Jesse Quick, Jay Garrick, Max Mercury and Impulse are requried to travel through time recruiting the Flashes of various eras, and one of them is a man named [[DeadguyJunior Jace Allen]], a descendant of Barry Allen's.
83** Owen Mercer (Captain Boomerang II), is Impulse's half-brother, conceived while the original Captain Boomerang, Digger Harkness, ended up in the 30th Century and lost his memory. Digger somehow ends up back in the present, but isn't aware of Owen's existence until Owen is already an adult. Owen is also the great-great-great (you know how this goes) grandson of Eobard Thawne.
84* 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?
85* Lyra is the daughter of ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk and the parallel universe future AntiHero Thundra.
86* Lara-Su, the daughter of Knuckles and Julie-Su from two different possible futures in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'':
87** The first version of Lara-Su to appear, also known by the alias "Jani-Ca", first showed up in the early 100's issues. She came from a BadFuture (a ''very'' bad future recently dubbed "Dark Mobius" by WordOfGod), and attempted to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong avert it]] by preventing Knuckles' assassination. Except, when she got back to her time, not only did she find out that she had gone back into [[AlternateUniverse the wrong timeline]], but that her mother had lied to her to protect her - Knuckles hadn't died, he'd pulled a FaceHeelTurn and was responsible for that bad future.
88** The second version of Lara-Su was from the much nicer "Mobius: X Years Later" timeline. She was one of the few people [[RippleEffectProofMemory not affected]] by the CosmicRetcon and helped Future Sonic depose [[KnightTemplar King Shadow]], and a while after that became a member of the Future Freedom Fighters.[[note]] It should also be noted that this version of Lara-Su never went back in time - so she's not so much a Kid From The Future as she is a Future Kid.[[/note]]
89** And there's also Silver the Hedgehog, who continually makes trips from a ruined future trying to find the "Freedom Fighter Traitor" responsible for causing it. Unfortunately for him, he's wrong every time, and every trip to the past ends up changing the future (their present), and not for the better. Eventually, his mentor, [[spoiler:Future Mammoth Mogul]], sends him into the past and tells him to stay there until he's found the traitor. He ends up joining the Secret Freedom Fighters. But just when he's about to find the true traitor, the CosmicRetcon occurs.
90* In the ''{{ComicBook/Tammy}}'' comic “Thursday's Child”, Thursday Brown is tormented by a girl named Julie, then learns that Julie is her daughter from the (then-future) year 2000, who has come back to make her mother's life a misery to punish her for a car accident in which Julie ended up paralyzed.
91* 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").
92* The Kingdom Titans who show up in ''ComicBook/Titans1999'' 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]].
93** Mari'i Grayson/Nightstar for [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick]]
94** Tula/Aquagirl for Garth
95** Iris West/Kid Flash for [[ComicBook/TheFlash Wally]]
96** Robert/Dawnstar for [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna]]
97** Lian Harper/Red Hood for Roy
98* Multiple instances with variation in the [[TangledFamilyTree Summers Family Tree]] of ''ComicBook/XMen'' fame.
99** Rachel Summers (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 ''ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast'' timeline's future, who goes back in time and joins various X-Teams.
100** 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.
101** 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.
102** 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.
103** 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!
104** Another alternate-universe twist on this trope from X-Continuity is [[ComicBook/{{Exiles}} Nocturne]], Nightcrawler's daughter with the Scarlet Witch, of all people.
105** Minor case: Bishop of the X-Men is from the future, and turns out to be the grandson of minor character Gateway.
106** 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.
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110* A plot twist over eight years in the making in ''ComicStrip/SafeHavens'': Maria, the time traveler and mother of Leonardo da Vinci, [[spoiler:is Dave and Samantha's daughter from the future, and her time-jumping abilities were a direct result of Samantha being pregnant with her while in space. For bonus points, Maria was the ship's doctor, and actually delivered ''herself''. Incidentally, this also makes Leonardo the Grandkid from the Future (and also the Past) to Samantha and Dave.]]
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114* ''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 soulmate.
115* 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.
116* 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.
117* 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.
118* ''[[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]].
119* ''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.
120* ''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.
121* 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.
122* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has inspired many fanfics that use this trope. These fanfics tend to involve future KND Operatives meeting the present-day KND via time travel, or the present-day KND time-traveling and meeting future KND Operatives.
123* ''[[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]].
124* 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.]]
125* 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.]]
126* ''{{Series/Glee}}'' - It's become a Brittana fandom meme that Sugar Motta is actually [[http://tilhe.tumblr.com/post/13536671495/afterlaughs-back-to-the-future-glee-yes Brittany and Santana's time-traveling daughter]]. Variations include whether she ended up in the past on purpose or by accident. Vanessa Lengies thinks it's hilarious.
127** Other fanfics include [[http://teamklaine.tumblr.com/post/14073439700/happyinyourarms-back-to-the-future-part-iv Rory as the adopted son of Kurt and Blaine]], and Harmony as the daughter of either Rachel and Quinn, or Rachel and Jesse St.James
128* 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.
129* ''FanFic/{{Hands}}'' by Andrew Joshua Talon has an unresolved LoveTriangle between a human, Fluttershy and Twilight Sparkle. In the TimeTravelEpisode after those three agree that {{Stable Time Loop}}s are useless and cause only problems they get back to discussing how to resolve their Love Triangle. Seconds later two half human hybrids colored like Twilight Sparkle AND Fluttershy respectively arrive via Time Travel to tell their parents to just get a move on. [[spoiler: They are actually [[PhysicalGod Princess Luna]] and [[FunPersonified Pinkie Pie]] who traveled back from later that day to prank them.]]
130* Several stories have an infant Literature/HarryPotter sent back to his parents while they were still students at Hogwarts. In a few of them, caring for him is what brings them together as a couple.
131* ''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.
132* ''[[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.
133* Downplayed in ''Fanfic/InnocenceAndExperience'', with Damian Wayne being flung into the past at a point in which he was a five-months-old infant. Batman is still thrown for a loop since Talia pretended she miscarried their unborn child.
134* ''[[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]].
135* ''Fanfic/JonathanJoestarTheFirstJoJo'': [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Jonathan Joestar]] learns that [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Giorno Giovanna]] is his biological son, and happily accepts him as his child.
136* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fanfiction ''Lifestyle of a Rose'', Ruby travels back to when her parents are teenagers in Beacon.
137* ''[[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.
138* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9959926/1/Mar-i-Grayson Mar'i Grayson]]'' is a ''Teen Titans'' fanfic where Robin and Starfire's daughter goes back 20 years into the past to prevent a war from happening.
139* ''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.
140** ''Fanfic/WhatIfRaditzTurnedGood'': The duo of Future Trunks and the future version of Ranch, Raditz and Launch's daughter.
141** 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.
142** ''Fanfic/WhatIfGokuWasFemale'': The time-traveller is a half-Saiyan named Kuroda, [[spoiler:the daughter of [[GenderFlip Goku]] and Krillin]].
143** ''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]].
144** ''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.
145** ''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.
146** ''What If Raditz Went To Earth Instead of Goku?'': Future Bulla, the daughter of Raditz and Bulma.
147** ''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.
148* ''[[https://storygirl000.tumblr.com/post/188984995581/mom-dad-chaos Mom? Dad? Chaos]]'' (set in the Fanfic/MaribatAU) has this as its main premise: the children of Marinette and Damian, Chloé and Kagami, and Adrien and Jon accidentally go through a time portal and end up smack-dab in the middle of Mme. Bustier's class.
149* ''Fanfic/MultiversalConstants'' has [[ComicBook/SuperSons Damian Wayne and Jon Kent]] accidentally falling into [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Earth-16]], which freak everyone there.
150* ''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]].
151* 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.
152* ''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.
153* 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]].
154* ''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.
155* ''Fanfic/PrincessCelestiaTheChangelingQueen'': The third main story in the series (not counting prequels), ''Equestria's Changeling Princesses and the Kinsbane'', plays with this. One, the "kids" are full-grown adults; two, they went back in time by accident (they intended to make a scrying spell of sorts but ended up time-traveling because of a built-in failsafe); and three, they're mainly interacting with their ''grandparents'', since their mother is just four years old at the time they landed and they won't be conceived for well over a thousand years from then.
156* ''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.]]
157* ''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.
158* At the end of ''Fanfic/RosarioToKiva'', [[spoiler: Masao (Moka and Wataru's son), Kurumi (Kurumu's daughter), and Miyuki (Mizore's daughter) arrive from the future to warn them of the Neo-Fangire threat.]]
159* ''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''.
160* 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.
161* 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).
162* 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.
163* 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''.
164* 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.
165* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil The Stronger Evil]]'' has Shendu's son Drago, who is even more of an example here than in canon. Whereas the show was unclear whether Drago was born in the future or just first emerged there, the fic confirms that he hasn't been born yet in the present [[spoiler: since the Chan family's friend [[OriginalCharacter Valerie Payne]] is his mother]].
166* ''Blog/AStudentOutOfTime'': Thanks to [[spoiler: Mikako]], the group has gotten a few glimpses of about a decade into a better future. One of these has included Sayuri, Itsuki and Kana, the future daughters of Hajime and Hibiki, Hiyoko and Chiaki respectively.
167* 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.
168* ''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]].
169* 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.
170* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/820302/1/The_Things_We_Wish_For The Things We Wish For]]'' inverts this - [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Akane]] wishes that her mother had never been in a car accident, and the wish is granted in the form of the teenage girl who will someday become her mother being plucked out of time and thrown twenty years into the future to meet her daughters.
171* 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.
172* 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.
173* 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.
174* In ''[[Fanfic/TwelveMoonsAndAFortnight The Trouble With Talismans]]'', Lan Xiaohui and his siblings travel back in time to become this to Lan Wangji. As Lan Wangji is currently estranged from Wei Wuxian, learning that he has three children with him in the future makes him quite happy.
175* 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.
176* 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.]]
177* ''Fanfic/WhereWeDontBelong'': Mio is all but stated to be an unknowing one to [[spoiler:Nia and Rex.]]
178* 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 [[Anime/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.]]
179* In the ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/Zero2ARevision'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:Shaun is in fact the future son of Tai and Sora, who has traveled back in time to avert a BadFuture he inadvertently helped cause]].
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183* In ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'', [[spoiler:Wilbur is Lewis' son. This explains his reluctance to help Lewis go back in time and meet his birth mother--Wilbur knows that Lewis is destined to be HappilyAdopted if he just holds out a little longer]]. Interestingly, the LoveInterest winds up introduced at the ''end'' of the time-travel adventure, but still with the clear indication that the two will hook up eventually.
184* ''Anime/MiraiOfTheFuture'' revolves around a young boy named Kun encountering an older version of his baby sister who came from the future to give him advice concerning his life and to travel with him to the past and future.
185* Sheena is a distant descendant from the future to Damos in the thirteenth ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Pokémon]]'' movie, ''Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife''.
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189* In ''Film/ArmyOfFrankensteins'', Alan ends up meeting his distant ancestor Solomon, who fought for the Union.
190* The ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' trilogy:
191** ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'': 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.
192** ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': Marty travels back to 1955 again.
193** ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'': Marty travels even further into the past and meets his ancestors, thus making him a Great-Great-Grandkid from the Future.
194* The 2011 film, ''Film/EnterNowhere'' [[spoiler: has a child from the future, grandchild from the future, and a great-grandchild from the future. Tom is Jody's son, Jody is Samantha's daughter, and Samantha is Hans's daughter.]]
195* The Creator/DavidCarradine film ''Future Zone'' (a sequel to ''Film/FutureForce''; both films riffed by Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}) revolves around the son of Carradine's character appearing as a rival slash sidekick to save his father's life.
196* Lampshaded in ''Series/GuestFromTheFuture'' when Alisa jokes to Yulia "Maybe I'm your granddaughter."
197* ''Film/TheTerminator'' is a variation of this - the kid from the future doesn't actually show up in the film but he sends [[spoiler: his father]] to the past in order to rescue his mother [[spoiler: and, in the process, impregnate her with him.]]
198* In ''Film/LeVisiteurDuFutur'', Alice attempts to prevent her own birth from happening, in order to save her mother from DeathByChildbirth.
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202* In ''Literature/BonesOfTheEarth'', some time-traveling paleontologists get stranded in the Mesozoic for months. Once rescued, they're welcomed home by hordes of media and friends from many different times ... including an adult version of the baby one of their group gave birth to in the Mesozoic. He doesn't save them, but he gets to hold his infant self.
203* In ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', Dante speaks to his great-great-grandfather in the Mars sphere of Heaven. Contrary to most uses of the trope, it is Dante's ancestor who "predicts" Dante's future, namely, his exile from Florence.
204* Done weirdly in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''Father Time''. Neither the Doctor nor his KidFromTheFuture, Miranda, knows that he's her biological father, despite the fact they look decidedly alike (when she grows up, they're even about the same height) and she's the [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed only other member]] of his [[HumanAlien species]] he [[TraumaInducedAmnesia remembers]] meeting. He [[ChildrenRaiseYou adopts her]] and raises her like his own, not realizing that she actually is. ([[TimeyWimeyBall Confusing things further]], if Miranda's father ''is'' a future version of the Doctor [the books are only implicit on this point], then it's almost certainly a future that never actually happened; and was unlikely to happen even by the time of ''Father Time'').
205* 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.
206* This trope is central to ''Literature/TheGlassRuins'', where the main character is sent into the past [[spoiler:to prevent his mother who is pregnant with him from having an abortion.]]
207* ''Literature/HorizonInTheMiddleOfNowhere'': An entire antagonist faction is made of the future children of [[spoiler:the protagonist faction, the Class Plum of ''Musashi''. Said children came from a future where the protagonists failed to save the world, leaving the children as the only survivors. They traveled to the past to do what their parents failed and save them in the process, but their conflicting goals cause them to [[AntagonisticOffspring fight their parents multiple times]]. In addition, the teacher of Class Plum is revealed to be the future daughter of the protagonist Toori and the main heroine Horizon.]]
208* ''Literature/ObsidianMirror'': [[spoiler:Sarah]] is [[spoiler:Venn]]'s great-granddaughter from the 2100s, having sent herself back in time to escape from a BadFuture.
209* In ''Literature/ShinganNoYuusha'', the protagonist Makoto meets his future daughter, with the mother being the Goddess of time Astena. The daughter [[WithholdingTheirName refuses to reveal her name]] and her goal is to ensure her father follows the timeline events that ensures she is his firstborn.
210* ''Literature/StrikeTheBlood'':
211** 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]].
212** [[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]].]]
213* In ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove'', Lazarus very intentionally goes back in time to spend some time with his family at younger ages than he really clearly remembers them. He didn't ''plan'' to wind up in bed with Mom, though.
214* Alba from ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife'' (approximately--she appears after Henry and Clare are married but when they think they can't have kids, and Henry comes forward in time to see her about as much as she goes back to see him). In one of the final scenes in the book, Alba visits Henry before he meets Clare. Even after she says she was looking for her father but was apparently too early, he still fails to understand who she is.
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218* Deke Shaw, future grandson of [[spoiler: Fitz-Simmons]] from ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''. Bit of a variation, as he's first met when the team time travels to the future, ''then'' he travels back with them (by accident) to the present.
219* ''Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'':
220** Thanks to its time travel premise, ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' frequently features this:
221*** In Season 1, Snart and Jax meet their fathers before events that would upend their lives (the former's imprisonment and the latter's death).
222*** In Season 2, Nate befriends Hank Heywood Sr., his grandfather and, as Commander Steel, member of the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica.
223*** 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 by extension Amaya. (In Kuasa's case, she's from "the future" relative to Amaya who is from 1942, but is from "the present" relative to the rest of the Legends.)
224*** After [[Series/Constantine2014 John Constantine]] joins the Legends, he deliberately goes back to a point before his conception to try to save his mother by [[GrandfatherParadox 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.
225** ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'':
226*** Eobard Thawne is Eddie's distant descendant. A downplayed example since Eobard's existence in the present has nothing to do with Eddie; he even states that he has a low opinion on Eddie, calling him a failure in a family full of distinguished people. However, the fact that the two are related is still instrumental in his downfall, as Eddie sacrifices himself to save Barry from Eobard by committing suicide, therefore erasing all of his descendants, including Eobard, from existence (Eobard would later resurface, but as a [[ParadoxPerson Time Remnant]]).
227*** Barry has gone back in time to the night Eobard Thawne killed his mother no less than three times. The first time, he chooses to keep the timeline intact. The second, he saves her before Thawne could deal the fatal blow, causing [[CosmicRetcon Flashpoint]]. The third time, he has to let her die again to undo Flashpoint.
228*** A girl keeps showing up to Team Flash throughout Season 4. She is eventually revealed to be Nora West-Allen, Barry's and Iris's daughter from the future and her intent is to prevent her father from disappearing in 2024. Unfortunately, she ends up making things worse when she allies herself with [[BigBad Eobard Thawne]]; the year Barry disappears in is moved ahead to 2019 and Nora herself is {{Ret Gone}}d for messing up with the timeline.
229** In ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', William, Mia, and Connor are transported by the Monitor from 2040 to 2019, meeting Oliver, Diggle, Rene, Dinah, Curtis, and Laurel. It's a little more awkward for Connor, since Diggle hasn't adopted him yet. But they also tell them that Diggle's biological son, J.J., ends up becoming a villain in the BadFuture and kills Rene's daughter Zoe. William seems to adapt more quickly than the others and pretty much takes over his stepmom's role on Team Arrow.
230* ''Series/Charmed1998'':
231** Wyatt and Chris, the children of Piper and Leo. Future Wyatt only shows up after Baby Wyatt has been born, but Future Chris preceded Baby Chris and his identity was an object of speculation.
232** Interestingly, the girls undergo MentalTimeTravel in a season two episode, and Piper meets her young ''daughter'' Melinda; a few years later, she and Leo get pregnant specifically because it's about time for Melinda to be conceived, and were surprised when Wyatt was born instead. Of course, as Piper noted, she met Melinda in a BadFuture that they managed to avert, so clearly this wasn't an ironclad destiny anyway. Melinda finally made her main-timeline appearance in the final episode's WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue.
233** Chris almost causes himself not to exist the same way Marty [=McFly=] did, by breaking up his parents. Except he did it on purpose, apparently not ever bothering to do the math and figure out when he was conceived. This was due to RealLifeWritesThePlot. Chris was always going to be their son, and that reveal had already happened, but Piper's actress got pregnant halfway through the season, while Chris was deliberately keeping Leo away so Leo wouldn't figure out who Chris was and what he was doing. So the writers had to scrabble to get in a one-night Leo-Piper hookup arranged by Chris to explain the pregnancy, and Chris looks like a complete idiot for almost erasing himself from existence.
234** In one episode, Future Chris's girlfriend Bianca shows up, and runs into her mother at one point.
235** The girls themselves also went back in time at one point and met their mother (who had died when they were young children). They figured out that she'd already be just barely pregnant with Phoebe at this point, and Piper sort of spoils it for her when trying to prove they have a connection (their mother believed she couldn't get pregnant anymore after Piper; [[HilariousInHindsight this was before backstage conflicts made it necessary to reveal that she had a secret fourth child]]).
236* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has multiple examples, dealing with TimeTravel on a regular basis.
237** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay "Father's Day"]] has companion Rose Tyler meet her mother, father, and infant self.
238--->'''Jackie:''' Her dad? How are you her dad? [[{{Squick}} How old were you, twelve?]]\
239'''Pete:''' Jacks – listen. This is Rose.\
240'''Jackie:''' Rose? How sick is that? You give my daughter a second hand name? How many are there? Do you call them ALL Rose?\
241'''Pete:''' Oh, for God's sake, look! It's the SAME Rose!
242** 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.
243*** In an unshot scene which later became an animated Webisode, Rory's father meets his grandson. Except seeing as Rory and Amy are TrappedInThePast and passed away before they could meet him again, an elderly gentleman shows up with a letter written by Rory and tears in his eyes.
244** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E9Hide "Hide"]], the Doctor meets a scientist and a psychic investigating a haunting, and discovers the "ghost" to actually be a time traveller stuck in a pocket universe. After they rescue the girl, the Doctor reveals the time traveler to be one of the scientist and psychic's descendants, even though they weren't even technically a couple yet — they had just finally begun to recognize the mutual UST.
245** Subverted when Clara [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E4Listen meets and rescues]] another time travel pioneer named Orson Pink and, due to his resemblance to her [[RomanticFalseLead then-love interest]] Danny Pink, his mention of a time-travelling great-grandparent, and her witnessing of the above example, assumes that he's a descendant of hers and that she and Danny are "supposed" to end up together, leading her to continue a date that was going badly before time travel got involved. While Orson is likely related to Danny in some way, he turns out ''[[RedHerring not]]'' [[RedHerring to be a direct descendant]]: Clara's relationship disintegrates as a result of their incompatible lifestyles and her lies about her adventurous double life, and Danny himself dies in a sudden, tragic traffic accident just as she was trying to patch things up.
246** ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' episode "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E9E10TheTemptationOfSarahJaneSmith The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]" uses [[RecycledScript the same plot]] as "Father's Day", incorporating both Kid and Grandkid[[note]]though [[ArtificialHuman Luke]] isn't blood-related[[/note]] from the Future.
247* In the final season of ''Series/GoodnightSweetheart'', Gary (who regularly time-travels back to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and maintains a second life there) is taken aback to meet his Kid In The Present.
248* ''Series/{{Haven}}'':
249** Played straight twice and then ''inverted'', all within the season 3 episode "[[Recap/HavenS3E9Sarah 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.]]
250** In season 5 episode "Just Passing Through," Nathan meets his father again as an adult, after Nathan has been born, so the reaction is understandably different.
251%%* Claire Bennet plays this role in a season 3 episode of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', as does Hiro Nakamura.
252* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
253** 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.]]
254** ''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.
255** ''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.]]
256** 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.
257* ''Series/{{Krypton}}'': [[spoiler:General Zod]] meets with his dead family on their not-yet-exploded planet while time-traveling to kill Brainiac.
258* The ending of the last ep of ''Series/LoisAndClark'' was a setup for this trope.
259** Even though the same episode had DNA testing establish that Clark could never have a child with a human woman. Of course, it's not entirely unlikely that an advanced species like the Kryptonians could have devised a way to make such a pairing work.
260* On ''Series/{{Lost}}'', time travel begins playing a role in the fifth season. After being transported back to the 1970s:
261** Miles interacts with his parents and sees himself as an infant. Miles wishes to have no relationship with his father because he allegedly abandoned Miles and his mother. Through predestination paradox, it is revealed Miles' friend Daniel Faraday was responsible for this: Miles' father didn't abandon his son, he forcibly made them leave the island to survive a catastrophic incident that would happen hours later, having been told of this by Daniel.
262** Daniel himself believes he can stop said incident by finding his mother, Eloise Hawking, a member of the Others, then having her help him detonate a hydrogen bomb that he told her to bury when he time travelled to 1954. However, when he arrives at camp, [[spoiler:she shoots him in the back]] when he holds up [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Richard Alpert]], and as he [[spoiler:dies]] he tells her he is her son. She is forced to live the rest of her life knowing her son will grow up, go back in time, and be [[spoiler:shot dead]] by her unknowing past self.
263*** And then she [[spoiler:sends him to the Island in the first place]], knowing too well what's going to happen. It is all really tragic, but she must have really disliked time paradoxes to allow all this to happen.
264*** She didn't "allow" anything to happen. "Whatever happened, happened". As she told Desmond, any attempt to change what is fated will be futile, as it will happen anyway.
265* ''Series/Lucifer2016'': Season 6 features Rory, Lucifer and Chloe's angel daughter from an unspecified time in the future. She starts out as an AntagonisticOffspring towards Lucifer as she believes he abandoned her and Chloe for unknown reasons. She eventually comes around after seeing how much Lucifer cares about her and discovering why he wasn't around.
266* In ''Series/MonsterWarriors'', Henry--the child attempting to deliver an OminousMessageFromTheFuture to the Monster Warriors--turns out to be Luke and Tabby's future son (to nobody's surprise).
267* On the soap opera ''Series/OneLifeToLive'', a one-month story arc in 1988 sent Clint Buchanan back to 1888, where he nearly [[MyOwnGrampa married his wife's great-grandmother]]. Thankfully, she manages to follow him back in time just in time to stop the wedding.
268* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'':
269** A variation occurred in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E21VanishingAct Vanishing Act]]". After getting into a minor car accident on December 31, 1949, Trevor [=McPhee=] returns home the next morning to find that it is January 1, 1960. He and his wife Theresa -- who thought that he abandoned her -- have sex before he is sent another ten years into the future. In 1970, he finds that he has a nine-year-old son named Mark who was conceived that night. He meets Mark again as a 19-year-old in 1980 and as a 29-year-old in 1990. By the time of this last encounter, Mark is four years older than his father.
270** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E12Tribunal Tribunal]]", Aaron Zgierski travels back in time to 1944 and meets his father Leon, who was then a prisoner in Auschwitz, as a young man. Leon does not realise who Aaron is but, years later, [[StableTimeLoop names his son after him]]. In the same episode, Nicholas Prentice tells Aaron that he is his great-grandson from about 100 years in the future.
271** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S6E17Gettysburg Gettysburg]]", Corporal Beauregard Larouche, a member of the Army of Northern Virginia who is trying to stay alive during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, meets his descendant Andy Larouche from 2000 but does not realize his identity.
272** Another variation occurred in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S7E15TimeToTime Time to Time]]" when Tom and Angie Palmer from 1969 met their 25-year-old daughter Lorelle Palmer from 1989 and never realized that she was the adult version of their five-year-old.
273* ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' - Cam's journey to become SixthRanger involves using a magic scroll to travel back in time. He witnesses his parents' first meeting (his mom kicking his dad's ass in front of their entire NinjaSchool), and "inherits" his morpher from her before returning to the present.
274* Alexander Rozhenko does this in an episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. [[spoiler:Due to having grown up to be a pacifist and diplomat, his perceived weakness led to him nearly being assassinated by political rivals, with Worf TakingTheBullet. He traveled back to convince his younger self to become a warrior as his father had wanted, but when this plan fails, he attempts to kill his younger self to ensure that future never came to be. Worf luckily convinces him that the future is not set in stone and even if he pursues the path of peace, it is something [[SoProudOfYou he would be proud of]].]] Interestingly, when Alexander shows up in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' as a young adult it's shown that the BadFuture has been thoroughly averted, but this incident isn't even mentioned except in passing.
275** Two other ''Franchise/StarTrek'' episodes, namely the ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "Children of Time" and the ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' episode "E[[superscript:2]]", had a variant of this trope, in which the descendants of the crew (of the ''Defiant'' and the ''NX-01'' respectively) ended up in the present due to the ship's imminent travel into the past, with no way back. [[spoiler: In both episodes, the time travel eventually gets prevented, but not without paying the high price of the "future" children's existence.]]
276* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
277** In the episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS04E03InTheBeginning In the Beginning]]", Dean is transported back in time and runs into his young parents John and Mary, who have just fallen in love.
278** 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 meet with their parents in the past.
279** ''Series/TheWinchesters'': 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. [[spoiler: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]].
280* Deconstructed in ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'' when the main characters go back in time to the 1960s. Luther, the sibling most devoted to their father, attempts to invoke this... only to have his own father tell him how much he hates children. Later, the entire family attends a dinner meeting with their father, only for them to find their father's abusive qualities are still very much in place. Finally, at the end of the season they return to their own time to find their life extremely altered, the implication being that meeting their father caused him to actively avoid adopting them.
281* In ''Series/TheZackFiles'' episode "But I'm Too Young to Be My Dad", Zack is visited by his future 13-year-old son Mack.
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285* The Creator/SeananMcGuire song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXp-q7iVG6I Time Travel Girl]] is about the MadScientist singer's daughter stealing his time machine and traveling back to make sure her parents stay together.
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289* In the detailed character biographies of ''TabletopGame/KitsuneOfFoxesAndFools'' it's stated that Akomachi's daughters Sharmarali and April, grandkits Akira and Cori, and apprentice Aoki all came back in time to see what she was like before her ascension.
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293* ''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.
294* 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]].
295* Trinity from ''[[VideoGame/{{Boktai}} Boktai 3]]'', according to WordOfGod, is a distant descendant of Django. He does ''one good thing'' (Break the seal that trapped Django, whose absence led to the BadFuture to begin with) before comfortably settling into his position as TheLoad.
296* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' plays this straight and inverts it at various points, using the same character. The plot kicks off when Marle accidentally gets sent back to the medieval era while testing a teleporter. Since "Marle" is actually Princess Nadia, she's [[IdenticalGrandfather mistaken for her ancestor]], Queen Leene, and taken back to the castle... which threatens a history-wrecking TemporalParadox, because the ''real'' Queen Leene had been kidnapped by the Fiends, so the soldiers who found Marle stopped the search that would have rescued Leene and allowed her to continue the Kingdom of Guardia's royal family. Once that's resolved, Marle joins the party's time-hopping adventure and goes to the post-apocalyptic future, where she meets her descendant Doan, travels to prehistory to help recruit Ayla, another of Marle's ancestors, and visits antiquity to learn that the pendant Marle inherited is identical to the one worn by Princess Schala of Zeal, implying she's another relation.
297** Inverted in the sequel ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'': the 6-year-old Leah, a {{Pint Sized Powerhouse}} {{Jungle Princess}}, is implied to be Ayla's ''mother''.
298* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
299** All over the place in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''. Once Chapter 13 has been cleared and a male and female campaign character reach S support level, the player can recruit their kid in a side chapter. There are a total of 13 future children; at least one of them (Morgan) will be mothered or fathered by the PlayerCharacter, while another ([[spoiler:Lucina]]) is automatically recruited without the need for a side chapter. To make things even "funnier", said future kid can end up as the future kid of one of the other 12 future kids if the PC marries one of them, meaning to two characters Morgan is a ''Grand''kid from the Future.
300** The second generation from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' is normally aged up by [[YearInsideHourOutside other means]], but ''Fates'' contains a DLC chapter which takes place before the start of ''Awakening''. This allows Lissa from ''Awakening'' to meet [[spoiler:an Ophelia-mothered Kana]] from ''Fates'', who is her great-granddaughter (Ophelia's father Odin Dark and Lissa's son Owain are actually the same person), along with a few other cases dependent on ''Awakening'' pairings (namely involving Olivia's son Inigo (Laslow in ''Fates'') and Cordelia's daughter Severa (Selena)).
301** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'' allows [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Roy and Lilina]] to meet their fathers [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Eliwood and Hector]] in their younger days.
302* ''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.]]
303* ''VideoGame/GrimTales 17: Guest from the Future'' 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.
304* ''[[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.
305* 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]]]].
306* ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven'': Being a DreamMatchGame based on [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure the original manga]], 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.]]
307* 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.
308* Petta from the PSP remake of ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'' is the daughter of Zetta (the Protagonist and self-proclaimed "Most Badass Freakin' Overlord in the Cosmos",) having traveled from the future... Or so she claims. [[spoiler: Surprisingly, she is indeed the daughter of [[OfficialCouple Zetta and Salome]]; the reason she came from the future is because the prophecy that set the game's plot in motion still persists in her era, so she went back in time to prevent it.]]
309* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'': After the end of ''[[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle Desperate Struggle]]'', Travis and Sylvia got married and had two kids named Hunter and Jeane. In the epilogue of ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII'', [[spoiler:both of them (along with Travis's grandson) arrive from the future to ask for his help in battling Henry after his FaceHeelTurn]].
310* In the Ambitions expansion pack for ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', it is possible to end up with one of these when using the time machine.
311* ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'':
312** 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.
313** 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.
314* Ele of ''VideoGame/StarGladiator''. She's a cute girl from the future who happens to be the daughter of [[spoiler:Hayato]] and [[spoiler:June]].
315* ''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.
316* In ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch4'', Nate and Katie are able to interact with their daughter from 30 years in the future.
317* A ''really'' complex and MindScrew-y case of this happens in ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma''. [[spoiler:In the D-2 Ending, Sigma and Diana give birth to twin babies after being stranded in the shelter and about to starve to death. In a last ditch effort to offer their kids a life in ''some'' timeline, they use the transporter they found that allows them to send a copy of the children through spacetime and back into the past. Those twins' names are Delta, the true identity of this game's [[BigBad Zero]], and Phi, the heroine of ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' and the third member of D-Team]].
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321* 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.
322* 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.
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326* ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'':
327** 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]].
328** A second, more straightforward example: Nimue, also a time traveler, brings Galahad from the future to meet Lancelot.
329* ''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.
330* 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.]]
331* 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.]]
332* In ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'', [[spoiler:Dave]] and [[spoiler:Helen]]'s child abuses her parents' [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Universe-consuming]] time machine ("We siphon it from universes where they probably don't want to exist as much") to [[spoiler:spy on her parents before they got married -- and arguably creates a StableTimeLoop by convincing Dave to get back with Helen, a decision without which she wouldn't have been conceived]].
333* 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.)
334* 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.
335* Brady "Honey" Smith from ''Webcomic/SailorSun'' is a parody of this trope, and specifically Chibi-Usa.
336* In ''Webcomic/SoreThumbs'', Fairbanks' son had come from the future [[http://sorethumbs.keenspot.com/d/20110214.html in this strip.]]
337* 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.
338* 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.
339* Similarly, in ''Webcomic/UmlautHouse'', Rhonda goes into the past to [[spoiler:settle an argument with Pierce, who follows her to keep her from meddling in the past (as it happens, he shouldn't have bothered)]].
340* ''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.
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344* 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.
345* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': As in the original, Trunks meets his mother before she know who he is. Unlike the original, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwmxikLDG2k&feature=youtu.be&t=17 she immediately hits on him.]]
346--> '''Trunks (clearly uncomfortable):''' Well, my mom always said I was a cute kid...\
347'''Bulma:''' Oh, a momma's boy, huh? I'll be your mommy...\
348'''Trunks:''' -screams internally-
349* In ''Podcast/RedPandaAdventures'', the Red Squirrel reveals in her first appearance that Kit Baxter, the Flying Squirrel, was her great-great-grandmother. It's not until the heroes' wedding day that she also confirms that the Red Panda was her great-great-grandfather, since she didn't want to affect the timeline by interfering in the WillTheyOrWontThey and the Red Panda himself was too polite to ask. When the Red Panda first sees the Red Squirrel's face, he's astonished by her resemblance to Kit. When Kit first sees her face, she's astonished at the Red Squirrel's resemblance to the Red Panda.
350* In ''Roleplay/WeAreOurAvatars'', a portal created by Damara Megido enabled the future kids to visit the past versions of their parents.
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354* Jake becomes this in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' when he travels back to 1986 and accidentally causes his parents to split up. He then has to strive to get them back together in order to ensure his own birth.
355* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' has Ken Tennyson, Ben's son from the FlashForward episode in the [[WesternAnimation/Ben10 original series]], arrive in Ben's timeline under the guise of a costumed hero named "Spanner" in an attempt to prove himself to his father in the future as well as [[StrangledByTheRedString ensure that his parents end up together]] (except he's from an AlternateTimeline).
356* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'':
357** In one episode, some villains from the future travel to the present to [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight assist the present villains]]. One of them addresses Dr. Blight as her ancestor. Dr. Blight says that can't be possible because she doesn't have any children and doesn't plan on having any. The woman glances significantly between Blight and Looten Plunder and chuckles, saying she will. Blight and Plunder get nervous and disgusted. It becomes a moot point because the changes done to the timeline end up causing the future villains to suffer a RetGone.
358** In the same episode, we meet a group of future Planeteers from another timeline who are apparently descendants of the current Planeteers. Wheeler goes as far as suggesting the future Fire and Wind Planeteers could be his and Linka's descendants together, before she laughingly shoots him down.
359** In a different episode, Dr. Blight's daughter Betsi comes to the present. To everybody's shock, she is a good guy.
360* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'':
361** A unique case: the main character doesn't meet any future kids of his own--he meets a future child of his ''enemies!'' Box Lunch (daughter of the [[HarmlessVillain Box Ghost]] and [[MoodSwinger Lunch]] [[LethalChef Lady]]) who is sent by [[TimeMaster Clockwork]] to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. That is, killing Danny to prevent his [[FutureMeScaresMe future self]] from destroying the world.
362** Danny himself does this when he travels back in time and prevents the accident that gave Vlad ghost powers. His mother ends up marrying Vlad instead, and they have no children. Danny has to convince her to help him fix things so he can go back to his own timeline.
363* ''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.
364--> '''Dorg:''' It's me, Dorg!
365--> '''Fretta:''' You must have me confused with someone else.
366--> ''Fretta pauses and thinks while Dorg runs off.''
367--> '''Fretta:''' Hmm, but Dorg is a cute name.
368* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' episode "[[Recap/DuckTales2017S2E6LastChristmas 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.]]
369* Destructicus, son of Hector and Dr. Ghastly, from ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne''. This raises questions on how this happened however as Hector is a brain (and stomach) in a Jar attached to a circus bear.... [[LampshadeHanging This is addressed.]] [[HandWave The given explanation is that]] [[ThePowerOfLove "love finds a way".]]
370* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':
371** Inverted in one arc when ComicBook/GreenLantern (John Stewart) travels to the future and meets Warhawk - his child with Hawkgirl -- 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.
372** Technically there are 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.]]
373* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'':
374** An inversion is briefly discussed as part of a gag in "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E13AnySportInAStorm 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.
375** [[spoiler:Lilith unknowingly does this during her and Luz's trip to the past to meet Philip Wittebane in "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E12ElsewhereAndElsewhen 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.]]
376* In the ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures'' episode "Pac To The Future", Pac-Man travels through time to when he was still a baby, and throughout the episode he has to keep his identity a secret from Pac-Man Sr. and Ms. Pac-Man while his friends work to bring him back to the present.
377* In ''WesternAnimation/PeterPanAndThePirates'', Peter travels to the future and brings a young girl named Jane to Neverland in order to make her a new Lost Boy. It's soon revealed that Jane is the daughter of an adult Wendy, and that she grew up on Wendy's stories of Neverland.
378* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] on ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', where they go to the future and meet their sister Candace's kids. We don't actually find out much about Phineas and Ferb themselves, including if either of them has children. Though it is implied that [[SiblingTriangle one]] [[TheUnreveal of them]] marries Isabella. In a few episodes, Candace mentions her dreams of one day marrying her crush, Jeremy, and having two children named Xavier and Amanda. Sure enough, those are two of the three future children, and while their father isn't revealed, Xavier looks an awful lot like Jeremy.
379* In one HalloweenEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Bart travels back in time and meets Homer in high school, introducing himself as "the unwanted son from the future who kills all your fun." Homer starts strangling him at the very moment he first meets Marge, and she is so disgusted that she never marries him, and Bart becomes the son of Marge and Artie Ziff.
380* As with [[Literature/TimeWarpTrio the books]], in ''WesternAnimation/TimeWarpTrio'', the present-day trio of Joe, Sam and Fred sometimes cross paths with their great-granddaughters from a hundred years in the future (Jodie, Samantha and Freddi) when going on their adventures.
381* [[FragileSpeedster Bart Allen/Impulse]] in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' is Barry Allen/The Flash's grandson from the future. He introduces himself to his grandparents 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. ('''Bart:''' [[RunningGag Oops! Spoilers...]]) As his trip to the past was one-way, he ends up adopted by the Garricks (the original Flash and his wife, who Bart considers his honorary great-grandparents), and two years later in Season 3 is shown helping out [[SupernaturallyYoungParent babysitting his own father and aunt]], which Iris (the only non-speedster in the family) appreciates while also still being slightly weirded out by it (especially as Bart often affectionately calls her toddler son "Dad").
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