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6->'''Darth Vader:''' Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.\
7'''Luke Skywalker:''' He told me enough! He told me you killed him!\
8'''Darth Vader:''' No. ''I'' am your father.
9-->-- ''Franchise/StarWars'' Episode V: ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' (full quote [[Quotes/LukeIAmYourFather here]])
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11A parent-child relationship between two characters who were previously thought unrelated is revealed, usually with generous dollops of melodrama -- blood is, after all, ThickerThanWater. Beloved of soap operas, made famous by the ''Franchise/StarWars'' films (from which the trope takes its name, though as you can see, [[BeamMeUpScotty it isn't an exact quote]]).
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13Whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing for whoever is being given the reveal mainly depends on who is giving the reveal in question. Sometimes an ally, a {{Mentor|s}} or a non-romantic MysteriousProtector will turn out to be the parent of the person being given the reveal, but other times, the reveal of who a character's parent is will be [[UnpleasantParentReveal cause for serious anguish]], such as someone who just [[HeroicSacrifice gave his or her life for him]], [[SurpriseIncest someone who could have been]] a LoveInterest, or worst of all, a villain (maybe even the BigBad) as in the most infamous ''Franchise/StarWars'' example.
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15In cases when villain and hero turn out to be parent and child, count on at least one scene where the hero worries that they will eventually [[VillainousLineage end up like the parent]].
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17Sometimes it's a bogus revelation, and at the end of the episode or plotline the ResetButton is pressed to restore the previous relationship -- or lack of one.
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19Though the trope itself is too [[UndeadHorseTrope fundamental]] to become {{Discredited|Trope}}, any permutation of the actual line ("No, X. ''I'' am your father.") nowadays will be met with a groan and a "Not again!" from the audience. Also a [[StockEpilepticTrees popular insane fan theory]].
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21Compare with MysteriousParent, or FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo where the characters were thought to be related, but are not parent and child. Frequently, it's a [[LineageComesFromTheFather father-son]] relationship revealed this way.
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23This trope was already being mocked back in 1790 by Creator/JaneAusten in ''Literature/LoveAndFreindship'' (with four grandfather-grandchildren relationships revealed ''in under a page'').
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25This is a specific variety of TheReveal. The flip-side is LukeYouAreMyFather. Compare LongLostRelative, LukeIMightBeYourFather, EveryoneIsRelated. Contrast with IAmNotYourFather and MistakenForRelated. SubTrope of ConnectedAllAlong. Frequently occurs alongside ArchnemesisDad.
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27The subversion is RefusedReunion where the character, after being discovered and confronted by their offspring, denies parentage.
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29Here is a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VJszzqbUuk compilation]] with a lot of examples of this trope.
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31Not to be confused with MyRealDaddy, which is when fans reject the interpretation of the work by who is technically the original creator, in favor of someone else's superior interpretation. Also not to be confused with TrueAncestor, a term for a powerful first-generation vampire or demon.
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33!!As this is a PlotTwist, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].
34----
35!!Example subpages:
36
37[[index]]
38* LukeIAmYourFather/AnimeAndManga
39* LukeIAmYourFather/ComicBooks
40* LukeIAmYourFather/FanWorks
41* LukeIAmYourFather/{{Film}}
42* LukeIAmYourFather/{{Literature}}
43* LukeIAmYourFather/LiveActionTV
44* LukeIAmYourFather/VideoGames
45[[/index]]
46
47!!Other examples:
48[[foldercontrol]]
49
50[[folder:Comic Strips]]
51* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'': Parodied. [[{{Geek}} Jason]] is wearing his Darth Vader helmet to see ''Franchise/StarWars: Episode III'', but gets stuck in his helmet. His father helps him get free, commenting that he had that problem with his Vader helmet when he was Jason's age.
52-->'''Jason:''' Wait, you're saying that you were a ''Star Wars'' fan long before I was?\
53'''Dad:''' [[ShownTheirWork Search your feelings, you know this to be true.]]\
54'''Jason:''' [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!]]
55* ''ComicStrip/{{Mafalda}}'': Parodied. Remember, the protagonists are all little children.
56-->'''Susanita:''' Felipe, did you get me something for Mother's Day?\
57'''Felipe:''' Why should I get you something for Mother's Day?\
58'''Susanita:''' Well, I don't know how to say this... You have to get me something for Mother's Day because...\
59''(cue melodrama)'' I AM YOUR MOTHER!\
60'''Susanita:''' ''(disheveled and bruised)'' I don't understand, [[TVNeverLies it works in the soaps]]!
61[[/folder]]
62
63[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
64* Creator/FranzXaverVonSchonwerth's "Literature/TheTurnipPrincess": The main character's father went missing several years ago before the beginning of the story. During one journey, the prince happens upon a talking bear who used to be a man. Once the spell has been broken and his real form has been restored, the "bear" reveals he is the prince's missing father.
65[[/folder]]
66
67[[folder:Manhua]]
68* ''Manhua/MyBelovedMother'': Sinbell eventually found out the resident doctor, who serves as a MysteriousProtector to him for most of the story, is actually his father, and had actually tried ''having Sinbell aborted'' years ago (and still regrets his actions).
69[[/folder]]
70
71[[folder:Music]]
72* In the song "The Mayor of Candor Lied", the narrator is in love with the mayor's daughter, but the mayor won't hear of it. In the end we learn why:
73-->''As I look into his leering aged wrinkled mirror of my own face''\
74''He laughs and sneers and says -- Of course dear son --''\
75''Where do you think you came from in the first place?''
76[[/folder]]
77
78[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
79* ''Literature/TheShahnameh'': Rostam's son is raised without meeting his father for years. The young Sohrab decides to become a hero and gathers up a force. Rostam is the Persian equivalent of [[Characters/ClassicalMythology Hercules]] and is meanwhile ordered to subdue the marauding enemies. In the final battle, the father and son engage each other in battle, as no one else is a match for either of them. Although Rostam notices similarities between himself and his enemy, it is not until it is too late when he discovers that he has killed his own son.
80* Myth/IrishMythology: Cuchulainn accidentally kills his son, thinking he is an intruder, only to find out that his son is the victim when it's too late.
81* ''Theatre/OedipusTheKing'': Oedypus, finding out that the woman he married is his biological mother, and that guy he killed years ago on the road was his biological father. Oh, and then he had to tell his daughters "I am your brother." ''Ouch''. He [[EyeScream puts out his eyes]] after that.
82* In the ''Hildebrandslied'', Hildebrand tries to tell Hadubrand that he is his father by offering him the gold arm-rings he received as a gift from the Lord of the Huns. Hadubrand does not buy it, and the two clash swords. Some versions of the story end with Hildebrand killing Hadubrand, while a later version ends with the two reconciling when Hadubrand (in the later version named Aldebrand) reveals that his mother is Uté.
83[[/folder]]
84
85[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
86* In the late 1990s, after Wrestling/TheUndertaker's brother, Wrestling/{{Kane}}, came to the Wrestling/{{WW|E}}F, it was revealed that Kane's biological father was Wrestling/PaulBearer, the Undertaker's manager until 1996. The story was Bearer worked in the funeral home run by Taker's parents (Bearer was a licensed mortician/funeral director in real life) and the mother made a pass at him, resulting in a one-night stand ... and Kane 9 months later.
87* The 2005 feud between Wrestling/EddieGuerrero and Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr included an angle where Rey's real-life son Wrestling/DominikMysterio was revealed to be the (kayfabe) biological son of Guerrero.
88-->'''Guerrero:''' I'M YOUR ''PAPI!''
89* WWE did a story line in 2007 where it was revealed that Wrestling/{{Vince|McMahon}} had fathered a child out of wedlock years ago, and his illegitimate offspring was a member of the current WWE roster. In the end, the child was revealed to be [[spoiler: Wrestling/{{Hornswoggle}}]].[[note]]This was a clumsy AuthorsSavingThrow, after the Vince's limo exploding[=/=]Vince [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral appearing at his own "funeral"]] angle had to be abandoned [[RealLifeWritesThePlot due to the]] Wrestling/ChrisBenoit tragedy.[[/note]]
90** Originally, it was planned for [[Wrestling/KenAnderson Mr. Kennedy]] to be Vince's long-lost son, which was supposed to lead into a main event push. Then Kennedy got busted by the Wellness Policy, so Creative more-or-less scrapped the idea entirely by making it into a comedy angle.
91* During the 2016 ''[[Wrestling/RingOfHonor Road To Best In The World]]'' Wrestling/DaltonCastle was reminiscing about meeting Bobby Fish's children, to which Fish dropped the bombshell that he was Castle's father...[[{{troll}} he was lying.]]
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93
94[[folder:Radio]]
95* Spoofed in ''Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music'' when, after a series-long RunningGag about Mitch's rivalry with fellow musical satirist Richard Stillgoe, the final episode features him as a special guest, and a showdown between the two performers.
96-->'''Stillgoe:''' Punt and Dennis never told you what happened to your father.\
97'''Benn:''' You're not my father!\
98'''Stillgoe:''' No, of course I'm not. Whatever gave you that idea?
99* The ''Star Wars'' example is spoofed at the end of ''Radio/BleakExpectations'''s fourth season finale, when BigBad Mr. Benevolent says this to Pip Bin, claiming "your father liked to delegate. A lot." He then follows up by doing the WeCanRuleTogether offer, which Pip actually takes. [[spoiler:When The Creator takes Pip to task, he explains that Mr. Benevolent is and ''is not'' Pip's father. Everyone has alternative pasts. Something to do with String Theory apparently. Worth noting The Creator is a particularly ditzy god, by His own admission.]]
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101
102[[folder:Roleplay]]
103* Two of the cultists in ''Roleplay/YuGiOhEastAcademy'' are revealed to be Denero's parents.
104[[/folder]]
105
106[[folder:Stand-up Comedy]]
107* Creator/GadElmaleh parodied this in a stand-up show. His mother, he said, used to tell him that "your father is no Rothschild", i.e. "he's no millionaire, we can't waste money." He then says that he later met Rothschild, only to scream at him: "I know! You're not my father!"
108* There's an old joke about a boy who figures out that he can get adults to give him stuff simply by saying a sly "I know the truth..." and leaving it at that, allowing their minds to jump to "What could he know?" and pay him off without confirming what it is he "knows". Then he tries this on the milkman, who, rather than paying him off, drops down in tears of joy and exclaims "SON!" as he hugs him.
109[[/folder]]
110
111[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
112* Invoked in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', where the Sidereal Exalted have a power, Brother and Sister Revelation, which allows them to ''invent'' any sort of blood relationship between two characters and make it metaphysically true.
113[[/folder]]
114
115[[folder:Theatre]]
116* ''Theatre/{{Finale}}'' ends with Amy revealing that she is Sam's mother.
117* Happens with the Baker and the Mysterious Man in ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods''.
118* In the opera ''Lucrezia Borgia'', the title character turns out to be the mother of the protagonist, the young noble Gennaro, by a previous relationship.
119* ''Theatre/TheMarriageOfFigaro'' has an instance of this that's similar to the one from ''Literature/TheItalian'' above: Marcellina is about to force Figaro to marry her in lieu of paying off a debt, when a casual comment he drops about a birthmark reveals that she's his mother. They embrace and make up, leading instantly to a classic NotWhatItLooksLike scenario...
120** Something similar happens in ''Theatre/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToTheForum'', as the Centurion was intending to marry Hero's love interest. Turns out in the ending that not only was the blind man that Pseudolus attempted to distract by having him run across the hills of Rome seven times was his father, but the Centurion and the love interest were actually siblings (they were kidnapped and separated while they were very young, and it was presumably at a time that they simply had no way of remembering due to not knowing this until after he told them). This was more than enough to allow the Centurion to allow Hero to marry the love interest.
121* In Molière's ''Theatre/TheMiser'' (1668) Anselme, the man who Harpagon wants his daughter to marry, ends up being the father of her lover Valère as well as Mariane, the love interest of both Harpagon and his son.
122* Almost in ''Theatre/PokemonLive''. Giovanni used to date Ash's mom, and in the first draft of the show, TheReveal would be made that Giovanni ''was'' Ash's dad.
123* ''Theatre/{{Urinetown}}'' milks the revelation that Penny Pennywise is [[TheIngenue Hope Cladwell's]] mother for all that it's worth.
124* ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' has the Wizard realize that he's Elphaba's father. Elphaba herself never learns the connection -- probably all for the better.
125* At the end of ''Theatre/HeadOverHeels'', Pythio, the nonbinary oracle, is revealed as Mopsa's ostracized mother.
126[[/folder]]
127
128[[folder:Web Animation]]
129* In the third [[WebAnimation/TheLazerCollection Lazer Collection]] video, we find out that the detective hero is the son of Doctor Octagonapus.
130* In Proxicide's ''WebAnimation/MortalKombatVsStreetFighter'', it is revealed at the very end that Akuma and Ryu are father and son. This deviates from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' canon a bit -- in canon, Gouki is Gouken's younger brother and Ryu's adoptive uncle.
131* The Most In The Graveyard toon on ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' reveals that Coach Z's aunt is Bubs's uncle, which makes them sixth fourth second fifth cousins thrice removed, according to Bubs.
132* ''WebAnimation/BrokenSaints'': More like I Am ''Her'' Father''. BigBad Lear Dunham tells the other heroes that he is Shandala's biological father in his JustBetweenYouAndMe.
133* In ''WebAnimation/FTLKestrelAdventures'' [[spoiler: General "Blackbird" Sandoval is Jose and Ricardo's mother.]]
134* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'' uses this as a punchline. It comes out of nowhere and doesn't get followed up on until the next season.
135-->'''Twilight:''' Spike, I don't want you hanging around with Rarity any more.\
136'''Spike:''' You're not my mom.\
137'''Twilight:''' What are you talking about? Of course I am.\
138'''Spike:''' Really?\
139'''Twilight:''' Yes, Spike, it is true.
140:::For those unfamiliar with the characters, Twilight is a ''pony'' and Spike is a ''dragon''. Later events suggest that Twilight is just delusional about the relationship, and that it's part of a very odd MyBelovedSmother complex.
141* Parodied in ''WebAnimation/XRayAndVav'' when it looks like X-Ray is about to be killed by the Corpirate and he laments that he's about to die a virgin and without knowing who his father is.
142--> '''Corpirate''': What if I told ye... ''I'' be ye father?
143--> '''X-Ray''': ''(instantly brightening)'' Really? Papa?
144--> '''Corpirate''': Of course not ye fool!
145* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': In the flashback in "The Mystery of Melinda", Betty never knew the titular witch was her sister. She was intentionally kept in the dark about her sister, because if she found out, that would break Melinda's seal.
146* Parodied in ''The Begun of WesternAnimation/{{Tigtone}}'', where the Ghost Wizard declares dramatically that he is NOT Tigtone's father... But if he were, it would be a terrible shock.
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149[[folder:Webcomics]]
150%%* Parodied in [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/1/21/ this]] ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' strip.
151* ''Webcomic/DemonseedRedux'': [[BigBad Galadrel]] tells Chica that he is his father. Chica even lampshades the TropeNamer in disbeleif.
152* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': At the end of the first major arc, Agatha escapes from Baron Wulfenbach with the newfound knowledge that she is the daughter of famous adventurer Bill Heterodyne.
153** In the next arc, she finds out that her mother Lucrezia was almost certainly the infamous menace known as the Other... shortly before getting a copy of said progenitor's persona [[EnemyWithin uploaded into her mind]].
154** Gilgamesh Wulfenbach, the Baron's son, may also be the son of a woman from the lost city of Skifander. This may or may not be related to reports that a princess of Skifander is in Baron Wulfenbach's domains and, according to the Baron, wants Gil dead. Said princess may be the Baron's daughter and thus Gil's sister (probably twins).
155* ''Webcomic/{{Earthsong}}'': Willow learns that She's is Earthsong's "Eve" - the first example and eventual mother of the native race of Earthsong's planet.
156* ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'': Millie eventually learns that the dread pirate Locke is her father, even though MerlinSickness makes him look like he's about her age.
157* A variation in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'', when Bob [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/69/ first tells Molly]] that he ''considers'' her to be his daughter, even though they are not related.
158** Still later, Jean [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/245 reveals that]] because Molly shares some of her DNA, Jean ''is'' her mommy, "just a little bit."
159* Revolver Ocelot tells this to Psycho Mantis at one point in ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound''. Mantis, [[SelfMadeOrphan having killed his father at the age of eight]], states that he isn't. Ocelot concedes the point since the only reason he said it was to rip up in Mantis' old wounds.
160* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', Ariel understandably starts to become wary of this trope after one time too many.
161** First [[http://www.drowtales.com/~wiki/index.php/Jer%27kol_Sarghress Jer'Kol]] [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?check=1&order=chapters&overview=1&chibi=1&cover=1&page=1&extra=1&id=311 tells]] [[http://www.drowtales.com/~wiki/index.php/Ariel_Val%27Sarghress her]] he is her father, but it turns out he is really an assassin sent to kill her!
162** Ariel's revelation to the identity of her ''actual'' father, Zhor, apparently occurred off-screen but seems to have been taken much better.
163** Mel is really Ariel's mother, a fact that she has trouble accepting thanks to the aforementioned Jer'kol, and in the same line ''Kalki'' is really Mel's daughter.
164* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' references it in [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=436 this strip]].
165* In ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'', when Richard is in the demonic court on the Plane of Suck, he is asked why he travels with Cale. He responds with a mumbled "He's my mother." This gets a "What?" reaction from everyone in the room, including Richard. Probably just a joke, though. But they said that about the rabbit, too, so...
166** Played straight in [[http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/674/ page 674]] where Captain Tah'vraay reveals this to Benny to get her to break the magical block that keeps her from using healing spells.
167* Subverted in the ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' side-comic ''Abel's Story'', in which Abel grows up believing Cid Rewanz is his father, when in fact Cid was killed and replaced with the Incubus Aniz years before Abel was born.
168* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'': Repeatedly.
169** First with Clieg Lars: [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0302.html "Anakin, I am your stepfather."]]
170** Later with ''Dooku'': [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0455.html "No! Wait! Anakin, Ah am your f--]]. In the latter case, however, he may have been about to say "friend."
171** Darth Vader gets to do it too. On ''[[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0772.html Leia]]''.
172** And of course, Luke does it to Vader: [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1151.html "No,]] '''[[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1151.html I]]''' [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1151.html am your son."]] [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1152.html But then...]] [[spoiler:"No, Luke, I am your '''mother'''."]]
173* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
174** General Tarquin, covert EvilOverlord and aspiring ArchnemesisDad, {{invoke|dTrope}}s and {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this trope when [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0723.html revealing his identity]] to [[spoiler:his son, Elan]]; he kept their relationship secret and wore TinTyrant armour to build the dramatic tension, though the reveal is [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0050.html foreshadowed]] much earlier.
175** The [[OurAngelsAreDifferent celestial]] judge summoned into Azure City to preside over the Order's trial turns out to be [[spoiler: Roy's father, who had magically disguised himself and hijacked the summoning spell]].
176* The ''Webcomic/{{Mulberry}}'' story "Mul/Kerry/Bush" included a scene where UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush tried to escape Mulberry's experiment by claiming he was her father. Since Mulberry has InvisibleParents, she nearly believed him, until [[DumbassHasAPoint Taffy pointed out that her last name isn't "Bush."]]
177* A variation in ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'': Jinx's friend Kasi turned out to have been Howie's stepdaughter. Both of them knew, but it was certainly unexpected for the readers.
178* In ''Webcomic/PepsiaPhobia'', Philia reveals that she is Phobia's [[KidFromTheFuture daughter from the future]].
179* In ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'', colonies and independent micro-nations are portrayed as the children of the countries that "own" them.
180* Being the offspring of Satan and Lilith is quite a shock to Lazarus in ''Webcomic/{{Underling}}''.
181* In ''Webcomic/TheSilverEye'', Enel had been denying that Velvare Bamidele was his father for years. Finally, after years of silence on the matter, Velvare admitted that he is his son after all.
182* In the furry adult comic, ''WebComic/TinasStory'', Tina is told that the man she thought was her stepfather was actually her biological father. Tina's mother was underage when she became pregnant, so they made up about her being raped by a human to cover it up. Stan (the dad) confessed to Tina because she was getting married to a human, and he didn't want to take the chance that Georgette's grudge against humans (over the years [[BelievingTheirOwnLies she'd taken to heart that humans had hurt her]]) would taint her marriage. This turns out to be fortunate timing, since Tina not long after after gave birth to triplets, one of whom looked just like Stan.
183* Being a ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody, of course ''Webcomic/BlueMilkSpecial'' covered this:
184-->'''Vader:''' Yep. I ''got it on with your mom''. You know it to be true.
185* In one issue of ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'', a wizard who's fighting a Cthulhu-like monster has used all his spells to no effect and tell his companion that his last spell will allow him to travel back in time and seduce the monster's mother, so that he can invoke this trope and cause the monster to have a Luke Skywalker-esque breakdown. When the companion questions why he can't just lie and say he's the father, the wizard claims that won't work since everyone instinctively know who their parents are. When the warrior is skeptical, the wizard proves it by saying he is the warrior's father, causing him to have a breakdown.
186* A more subdued and non-dramatic version in ''Webcomic/DragonSanctuary''. When Dean is told of his bloodline he's able to put together that Merno is his uncle, and the two agree that it's nice to be able to talk about their relation more openly now.
187* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Adrian Raven is [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2018-01-10 revealed]] to be Diane's biological father.
188[[/folder]]
189
190[[folder:Web Original]]
191* In "[[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd AVGN]] vs [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic NC]]", the Nostalgia Critic tries pulling this on the Nerd. It fails.
192-->'''NC:''' Wait! Wait! Would you let your brother die?\
193'''AVGN:''' Brother? You're my brother?\
194'''NC:''' Uh, yes! I am your brother!\
195'''AVGN:''' Well then, surely you know the name of our mother.\
196'''NC:''' Well of course I know the name of our mother! Eliza... be... ''(Nerd points Super Scope at Critic)'' Oh, blame a guy for trying!
197* Inverted in ''Battle for Milkquarious''. Near the end, it is revealed that the villain is White Gold's son.
198* ''Literature/{{Brennus}}'': In one of the side arcs, a retired supervillain-turned war hero returns from decades at war, to find he has not one, but ''two'' daughters he never new about. One became a super hero, and the other a villain. And their apparently [[ArchEnemy Arch Enemies]]. ''Then'' he reveals that his father, their grandfather, is The Dark, the world's preeminent supervillain. And he reveals this to all three of them in one dinner.
199* Parodied, once again, in ''WebVideo/CollegeSaga''. The Darth Vader {{Expy}} Diculous tries to pull this on the hero, only to have two of the party members inform him that "*We* are your parents!". Perhaps the reason the hero doesn't fall for it is that he was already revealed to be the son of Willie Wonka. The final twist is Diculous is their ''daughter''.
200* In the 6th episode of ''WebVideo/CrittersANewBinge'', the Crite President reveals to Christopher that he is his father when the latter finds out that he is [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human and half-Crite]].
201* ''WebVideo/DreamShorts'': The TropeNamer is parodied for one of the skits, with Bad as Darth Vader and Dream as Luke Skywalker. Rather than be horrified at this revelation, Dream is overjoyed to finally meet his father, and happily embraces him.
202* ''Roleplay/TheGunganCouncil'' has Darth Apparatus doing this to both Ryori Holloway and Delilah Nepenthe.
203* In the Literature/LegionOfNetHeroes title ''Dvandom Force'', .Sig Lad is revealed to have been the son of Mr. Thingy and the !Visible Woman of the Net.tastic Nine, who was dosed with an unstable form of the Super-Molder Serum, and who managed to escape the {{Retcon}} Limbo where the rest of the Nine had been sent through the Dvandom Dial.... No, seriously.
204* At the end of Chapter 50 of ''Literature/TheNewNarnia'', Charlie sees Tommy's mother and, after some mental calculous, reveals that he might be Tommy and Katlynn's father.
205* In the fifth season of the webseries ''Series/{{Noob}}'', we learn that [[spoiler:game master Judge Dead]] and hacker Tenshirock are actually father and son. A flashback reveals that Tenshirock pulled this ''twice'', the first being when he joined his son's favourite MMO and climbed to the top of the ranking to impress him. (He did not impress him.)[[note]]The original intent was for Judge Dead to be Tenshirock's estranged wife, and the character was in fact initially played by a woman.[[/note]]
206-->'''Tenshirock:''' Théodore, you've really got to stop screaming every time I say that.
207* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'':
208** Played with in Season 1. Sarge, after being shot in the head, talks to Church as a ghost. Sarge laments that he never got to tell Grif the he was his son. The following conversation is something along the lines of:
209--->'''Church:''' That orange guy is your son?\
210'''Sarge:''' Nope. I just wanted to screw with him one last time.
211** The Freelancer Saga (Seasons 9-10) combines this with TheReveal -- the characters involved already know of the connection, but the audience is kept completely in the dark until the very last episode.
212** Season 14 has a humorous example of this in the crossover with WebAnimation/DeathBattle [[spoiler:when it turns out that [[DrillSergeantNasty Sarge]] is [[HotBlooded Boomstick's]] long-lost father.]]
213* Rule 72. Darth Vader is Everyones father. NO EXCEPTIONS!
214* ''[[Film/{{Sockbaby}} Sockb4by]]'': Doug Jones, to Ronnie Cordova.
215* Appears to be parodied in the original audio story ''[[https://bluetowel.wordpress.com/audio-drama/true-blues-retold/ True Blues Retold]]'' when the Corn Man throws out the classic line to Frank. It turns out, though, that the villain was deliberately using the famous movie line as an attempt to distract Frank, who was at that moment threatening him with a pipe. It worked, since Frank, a simple farm boy, had never seen ''The Empire Strikes Back''.
216* Seen in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' with Carmilla (Sara Waite). Not only does her father turn out to be the very demon a bunch of occultist wannabes are trying to sacrifice her to, but the first time she faces down the infamous arch-villain known as the Necromancer she finds out that he in turn is her ''uncle!!''
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220* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'': [[CorruptBureaucrat Wheiner]] attempts to blackmail Walsh by threatening to reveal that Shane is Walsh's biological son. Shane never discovers this fact.
221* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In "The Avatar and the Fire Lord", it is revealed that Avatar Roku, Aang's spiritual predecessor, was the great-grandfather of Prince Zuko on his mother's side, making Aang Zuko's great-grandfather in spirit, if not in body. Did we mention that Creator/MarkHamill voices ''Zuko's'' father? Cue run-in-the-family memes.
222** Zuko crosses paths with this trope ''again'' in the series' follow-up comic book ''[[Comicbook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch The Search]]'' when he's given reason to hope that his father is not actually Ozai but Ikem, the man his mother truly loved. [[YankTheDogsChain His mother reconfirms]] [[SubvertedTrope that he's still Ozai's son.]] Probably for the best, since not being Ozai's son means the throne goes to [[TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone someone who isn't the best person to entrust in a post-war reconstruction era or ever with her mental state]].
223** Naturally, SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' revealed towards the end of the first season that Tarrlok and the season BigBad Amon are brothers. By that point, many FanFic writers had the right to exclaim, "Wait, IWasJustJoking!"
224* [[TheParody Parodied]] on ''WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow'' episode "All That I Desire You", itself a [[WholePlotReference complete send-up of soap operas]]; Dad is revealed to be living a double life as billionaire oil baron Drake Gainway, and is father to Zorak, Clarence, and his secret third wife Cynthia - in addition to Brak and the Gainway children.
225** And just for extra craziness, when ''The Brak Show'' was "hosting" Creator/AdultSwim's New Year's Night, it was revealed that Thunderclese's father was none other than Frylock from ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', ''a completely different show''.
226* Evil Emperor Zurg pulled this during a climactic fight scene with the title character in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand''. Quite possibly to give a ShoutOut to ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' (''Buzz Lightyear of Star Command'' is a ShowWithinAShow that got [[{{Defictionalized}} turned into a show]]. It gets a little headscratch-ey, but the above mention is canon because of this show, which is the derivative work and... yeah, just yeah.) On the other hand, Zurg was implied to have been fooling around, as he then strikes a stunned Buzz and states "Psyche! Made ya look!"
227* ''WesternAnimation/CastlevaniaNocturne'': Does this twice in the fifth episode "The Natural Order." First is Maria [[spoiler:finding out that the Abbot, who she's already furious at for allying with the vampires and making night creatures, is her father]]. And at the end of the episode, Richter [[spoiler:learns that the old man who just killed a vampire with the Belmont Whip is Juste Belmont, his maternal grandfather]].
228* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Chaotic}}'', the card game revealed something more of a "I am ''also'' your founder" with Kiru, the greatest Overworld hero (even got a beautiful city named after him)and the ancestor to Chaor, currently one of the Overworld's greatest enemies.
229* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': It is revealed just before the Season 2 finale that Franz Hopper, creator of Lyoko, is actually Aelita's father. This also reveals that she is human, and not an A.I. as everyone originally thought.
230* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'':
231** Numbuh 1 learns in TheMovie that the series' BigBad Father is his uncle (and by extension, that the movie's BigBad Grandfather is ''his grandfather''). [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in the same movie with the Delightful Children, for whom it is revealed aren't actually Father's children but former KND operatives whom he kidnapped and {{Brainwashed}}.
232** Also, kind of inverted in that Numbuh Zero, who we haven't seen before, is Nigel's dad, who we have.
233** The comic story "Operation: H.I.S.T.O.R.I.E." reveals the Toiletnator is Numbuh 4's long-lost uncle, though Wally initially thinks he's his dad because the Toiletnator and Numbuh 4's dad are identical when the former is out of costume.
234* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' when [[SeriousBusiness Dexter's dad was making a big deal over not being allowed to get Mom's]] [[DoubleEntendre muffins.]]:
235-->'''Dad:''' Dexter, son, could you come here for a moment? I'd like to have a word with you.\
236'''Dexter:''' And just what do you want?\
237'''Dad:''' ''(coming out of the shadows)'' Dexter, I... am your father.\
238'''Dexter:''' (gasp) That is not possible! Oh, wait, no, you're right.\
239And Also:
240-->'''Dad:''' Join me, Dexter. Join the muffin side!
241* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' in a "copyright-infringing dream sequence":
242-->'''Timmy:''' Hey! You cut off my hand! I've only got two of those!\
243'''Darth Vader-like:''' Don't worry, you get a new one. A really cool robot one!\
244'''Timmy:''' How do you know all this?\
245'''Darth Vader-like:''' Because, Timmy, I am your father. ''(removes mask to reveal himself as Cosmo)''\
246'''Cosmo:''' Your godfather!
247** A brilliant ContinuityNod to the quote starting the Fairy Odd Parents section here.
248* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'', in the episode "The Wrath of Guitierrez". During the climax of the episode, Guitierrez is knocked off a platform and hangs dangling over an abyss, and cries for Freakazoid to pull him up.
249-->'''Guitierrez:''' Freakazoid, help me! Would you let your father fall?\
250'''Freakazoid:''' My father? You're my father?!\
251'''Guitierrez:''' ''(glances confused at camera)'' O-oh yes. I am your father!\
252'''Freakazoid:''' ''(goes to help him, stops)'' W-who was my mother?\
253'''Guitierrez:''' Uhh... Faye Dunaway?\
254'''Freakazoid:''' ''(crosses arms)'' No she's not...\
255'''Guitierrez:''' Kaye Ballard?\
256'''Freakazoid:''' Kaye--nooo.\
257'''Guitierrez:''' [[Series/GetSmart Would you believe Sandy Duncan?]]
258* Happens in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' DVD movie ''Bender's Game'', the parties being Farnsworth and Igner, the stupidest of Mom's three sons.
259** And an... odd version later: Hermes was the one that approved Bender in the production line (even though he shouldn't have been), making him, in a bizarre sense, Bender's father.
260** This
261-->'''Leela:''' They killed my parents! ''(Leela is with two cloaked figures when Fry appears)''\
262'''Fry:''' Close ''(pulls down the hoods to reveal they're both purple-haired cyclopes)''\
263'''Leela:''' They... are my parents.
264* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' had a unique example of this. Since the eponymous creatures in the main cast are part of an egg-laying species whose members are raised collectively by their home clans (and, thus, do not have any concept of individual parenthood), [[Creator/GregWeisman the show's creator]] eventually had to directly reveal which characters were the biological offspring of which, as it's never actually stated in-universe for many of them. Specifically, Hudson is Broadway's father, and Othello/Coldstone is Gabriel's father.
265* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has a downplayed variant. You know the author of the Journals? The ones that Dipper's been obsessing over all summer, and trying desperately to figure out who wrote them? Turns out [[spoiler:he's Grunkle Stan's twin brother, and therefore Dipper's great uncle.]] Of course, Dipper's thrilled about this, since the Author's his hero, so instead of a BigNo, it's more of a squeal of joy.
266* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'': In "Teela's Quest", the titular character finds out that she's the daughter of the Sorceress. Her mommy gave her EasyAmnesia, though, since Teela was NOT supposed to find out. This would've been true in [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002 the 2002 remake]], but without the amnesia, had the show continued. Oh, we would've also learned that Fisto was Teela's biological father. For some reason, a couple of episodes seemed to hint that it was Duncan a.k.a. Man-At-Arms (who happens to be Fisto's brother and Teela's adoptive father) instead.
267** Some time after the end of the original animated series, the minicomic ''The Search for Keldor'' dropped hints that Skeletor is really King Randor's long-lost brother Keldor, making him Adam/He-Man's uncle. In the 2002 remake, Skeletor was originally named Keldor, but there is no indication that he is related to Randor.
268*** While never stated in the show, the writers have since revealed that Keldor was intended to be Randor's half-brother. Same father, different mothers.
269* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo''.
270-->'''Darth Vader knock-off''': I did not destroy your second cousin. I ''am'' your second cousin!\
271'''Johnny''': Nooooooooooooooo!!!
272* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'':
273** In the episode "The Once and Future Thing", it's revealed that Warhawk, assumed to be the LegacyCharacter of Hawkman, is (or will be) in fact the son of Hawk''girl'' and ComicBook/GreenLantern John Stewart.
274** "Epilogue", the FullyAbsorbedFinale of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', reveals that Bruce Wayne was Terry [=McGinnis=]' genetic father. Warren [=McGinnis=]' reproductive DNA had been overwritten with Bruce's as part of Amanda Waller's Batman Beyond project.
275** Hades also tries to do this with Wonder Woman, with a twist that he had to resort to a technicality when WW pointed out her origin story doesn't ''allow'' her to have a father (she was sculpted of clay and made flesh by the breath of her mother, Hippolyta, instead of born). Hades claimed he helped Hippolyta sculpt her. Shayera suggests Diana use her lasso of truth to get the real story out of him, but Diana decides she just doesn't care if he's telling the truth or not -- she already has [[TrueCompanions a real family.]]
276* In ''Loulou de Montmartre'', [[TheDragon the Man with the Silver Cane]], is revealed as Count de Lagny, [[spoiler:Loulou]]'s father. [[spoiler:He survived the fall that supposedly killed him and killed the ''real'' Man with the Silver Cane, then took the man's identity so he could keep an eye on [[BigBad Baron de Boriobert]] and hopefully find his wife and daughter before the Baron could get to them.]]
277* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': In the episode “The Collector”, the main antagonist of the series, Hawk Moth (called Shadow Moth in the fourth season and Monarch in the fifth), is revealed to be Gabriel Agreste, the father of Adrien Agreste (the eponymous Cat Noir). In the episodes “Cat Blanc” and “Ephemeral”, this truth is revealed to Adrien. In the latter, Gabriel tells Adrien, who is transformed into the villain Ephemeral shortly afterward, “Ephemeral, I am your father, Shadow Moth.” In both instances, time was rewound and the incident was reversed.
278** In “The Final Day”, the final episode of the fifth season, this reveal never occurs. Gabriel sacrifices himself as the price for an unknown wish (see AmbiguousEnding) without ever knowing the true identity of Cat Noir. His dying wish to Adrien’s girlfriend Marinette is that Adrien never knows about his own villainous identity, which Marinette honors, thus making this a SubvertedTrope.
279** This reveal does occur in ''Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie'', which is set in an alternative universe to the main series. In the climax of the film, Hawk Moth and Cat Noir simultaneously discover each other’s true identities. Unlike in the main series, this incident directly leads to Gabriel’s redemption.
280* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'': The episode "Dumb" shows that Nurse Bendy is Joe's mother. Joe bonds with her much better than he ever did with his aging, senile father or his PromotionToParent sister, and Nurse Bendy's finally able to throw away the teddy bears she was using as a surrogate family.
281* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': This makes up the bulk of the plot of the episode "Big Reveal". Carol casually reveals to K.O. that Laserblast was his father. Later on, Professor Venomous reveals to K.O. that ''he'' was Laserblast, and thus is K.O.'s father, in a scene referencing the TropeNamer - complete with BigNo, which Carol hears, prompting her to rush in and discover that her ex is both still alive and now a villain.
282* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', in the episode "The Chronicles of Meap". The pair mistake an alien villain (named Mitch) is the eponymous Meap's father, due to miscommunication. Later, after having discovered this, Mitch quite explicitly tells Meap "Just so we're clear on this, I am '''not''' your father!"
283* A variation was used in the Pale Kids episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''. Lawson hated the Pale Kids because of something that happened to Tiny Sedwick, a kid who had to go to the Pale Kids because he broke his foot while playing Pickle. When telling the leader upfront, the Pale Kids laughed, with Lawson reacting with confusion as to what they think is so funny about his reason, before the leader tells Lawson that he ''is'' Tiny Sedwick (or at least was).
284* The final episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'' reveals that Conrad Fleem is Todd and Riley's uncle.
285* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' recreates and elaborates the scene (with Creator/MarkHamill as Luke Skywalker, too!):
286-->'''Vader:''' No, Luke...''I'' am your father.\
287'''Luke:''' That's not true! That's ''impossible!!!''\
288'''Vader:''' And Princess Leia is your ''sister!''\
289'''Luke:''' That's not true! That's...improbable!\
290'''Vader:''' And the Empire will be defeated by ''Ewoks!''\
291'''Luke:''' That's... highly unlikely.\
292'''Vader:''' And as a child ''I built C-3PO!''\
293'''Luke:''' ...enh?\
294''(Cut to some indeterminate time later. Vader is relaxing having a coffee while Luke is learning against the pylon smoking a cigarette.)''\
295'''Vader:''' ...and the Force? Well, that's just microscopic bacteria in your bloodstream called midichlorians...\
296'''Luke:''' ''(snuffs cigarette, walking off)'' Look, if you're not gonna take this seriously, I'm out.
297** Earlier, they parodied it with George W. Bush and his daughter Jenna as Vader and Luke respectively.
298-->'''Jenna:''' That's not true! That's impossible! My real father would let me go clubbing as late as I want! [[[FlippingTheBird flips Dubya off]]]
299* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', Angelica says to Tommy "I am your cousin!" Followed by Tommy's BigNo reaction.
300* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' reveals in its penultimate episode that [[spoiler: the Daughters of Aku, including Ashi, are ''literally'' his children, born of the High Priestess consuming some of his essence years ago. This enables him to [[VillainOverride take control of her]] and use her to fight Jack [[AndIMustScream against her will]]]].
301* A big [[TheReveal Reveal]] at the conclusion of the first season of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', where we learn that Brad Chiles and Judy Reeves, two of the members of the original Mystery Incorporated, are Fred's real parents. Mayor Jones actually took Fred away from them when he was a baby.
302* In ''WesternAnimation/SkullIsland2023'', a mysterious woman named Irene is leading a group of PrivateMilitaryContractors to capture [[WildChild Annie]] off the IsleOfGiantHorrors and bring her back to the United States alive. Cap guesses the reason in episode 5, and Irene eventually tells Annie the reason why: she's Annie's long-lost mother who wants to get her daughter back. Annie is shocked to learn this, because she can barely recall having a mother at all from the first six years of her life before she was shipwrecked on a monster island neighboring Skull Island.
303* From ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode 201: Eric Cartman, Scott Tenorman's father is also YOUR father!
304* In the third season of ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', [[spoiler: Miss Heinous is revealed to actually be Meteora Butterfly, the half-monster half-Mewman daughter of Eclipsa Butterfly]].
305* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Occurs when [[spoiler:Rose Quartz is revealed to be the identity assumed by Pink Diamond when she [[FakingTheDead faked her own death]], thus making Steven the son of Pink Diamond]].
306* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TeamoSupremo'' when Skate Lad corners the [=CheapSkate=].
307-->'''[=CheapSkate=]:''' You can't turn me in, Skate Lad.\
308'''Skate Lad:''' Give me one good reason.\
309'''[=CheapSkate=]:''' Well, um, because, uh... Skate Lad, I am your father.\
310'''Skate Lad:''' Huh?! No you're not; my dad works down at the sporting goods store. I look just like him, loser!
311* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''. In the first episode of the fourth season, Control Freak [[TrappedInTVLand enters]] a ''Franchise/StarWars''-esque TV show, kicks the Darth Vader lookalike and approached the Luke lookalike with saying, "I am Count Rol Freakow, the twelfth-level space samurai that trained Baran Rang. And... '''I am your father!'''". Followed by the typical [[BigNo "NOOOOOOO!!!!"]]
312** Also played with when Starfire and Killer Moth each try to convince Silkie/Larva M319 to choose between them. Killer Moth's attempt: "Larva M319, I am your father. Join me and we can... go on a picnic or something." Silkie already knew this.
313* Said word for word, in ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', when Spider-Man heard that Power Man's parents are working for Scorpio, Spidey's [[ImagineSpot imagines]] Dr Doom saying this to Luke Cage.
314* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' with the Monarch pranking Dean by pulling this before he laughs and admits he's lying. [[spoiler: However, it's implied throughout season seven and confirmed in the FinaleMovie that the Monarch is the bastard child of Jonas Venture Sr. via being a Rusty clone that was given to his infertile parents to raise as their own.]]:
315-->'''Monarch:''' Hank, what would you say if I told you that your mother was someone you've met before?\
316'''Hank:''' What?\
317'''Monarch:''' And that your father is not your REAL father? (''Hank stares in horror'') Hank! ''Hank!'' '''''I am your real father!''''' \
318'''Hank:''' No way. No way! That's not tru—\
319'''Monarch''' PSYCH! Ha, sucker! You were all, "Oh, daddy! You're my daddy!" You are so gullible. What is that like?
320* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'': [[spoiler: At the end of the Season 5 episode "Bloodlines", [[MissingMom Krolia]] confesses to [[HalfHumanHybrid Keith]] that she is his long-lost mother. We don't actually see his reaction until the next season in the episode "Razor's Edge", which begins right where the last one ended. It's in that episode that we [[HowDadMetMom also find out through flashbacks how she met Keith's father]].]]
321** In season six, [[spoiler: Haggar drops this with Lotor, who goes the YoureNotMyMother approach.]]
322* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' has Roxy finding out that Queen of the Earth Fairies, Morgana is her mother.
323* Such a moment happens in ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' when Caleb finds out that [[WickedWitch Nerissa]] is his mother. This wasn't the case in the comics, where Caleb was a flower given a humanoid form.
324* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', Irwin eventually finds out that Dracula is his grandfather, something his father was also unaware of, because as a child he was raised by his mother alone after Dracula "left" them.
325* ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' delivers a huge WhamLine in the form of this trope in "Destinies Collide"
326-->'''[[spoiler: Eugene:]]''' ''(bears his neck)'' Well. What are you waiting for?
327-->'''[[spoiler: King Edmund]]''': I...I won't fight you. You...are my son.
328* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinChronicles'': After an EnemyMine, Chase Young keeps his promise of helping Omi find his real family - [[spoiler:it turns out it was Chase himself all along... [[AbortedArc a plot point which is forgotten after one episode]].]]
329* In ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' (and also in the comics) Nightcrawler is lured out to a construction site with a mysterious note that promises that "everything will be explained". A hooded figure comes out of the shadows (actually, since it is early evening, there aren't many shadows to speak of, so they obviously added this in for dramatic effect) and, after making Nightcrawler squirm in confusion and anticipation for about thirty seconds, throws her hood off to reveal Mystique, [[BigBad Magneto's]] EvilChancellor of sorts and says, "Kurt, I'm your mother." For bonus points, she does it a second time with Rogue (who was adopted, but still), though since it was in the middle of Rogue having a mental breakdown from all her absorbed personalities fighting in her head, it wasn't nearly as dramatic.
330** The original [[WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries 90s cartoon]] also did this with Nightcrawler and Mystique, but with the added twist that BigBad leader of the [[PathOfInspiration Friends of Humanity]] Grayden Creed, Jr. (who was already exposed in an earlier episode as being Sabertooth's son) was Mystique's son and Nightcrawler's half-brother (Just like in the comics).
331*** X-Men scribe Creator/ChrisClaremont originally intended Mystique to be Nightcrawler's ''father'' -- she's apparently a ''really good'' shapeshifter -- but ExecutiveMeddling derailed those plans.
332* ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'' ended with the revelation that the twins' MentorInSourArmor Master Yo was actually their father, who suffered LaserGuidedAmnesia at the hands of his {{Spirit Advisor}}s [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou so he could train them without any parental bias]]. Considering that [[RandomSpeciesOffspring he's a panda while they're rabbits]], Yin is understandably confused.
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336* Birds are the direct descendants of non-avian dinosaurs, essentially making them dinosaurs in everything but name.
337* French railroad worker Jean-Marie Loret claimed was the product of an affair between UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and his mother in 1917, when Hitler was a soldier in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. However, this claim is considered dubious by scholars for a variety of reasons.
338* The great Hawaiian king Kamehameha's biological father may well have been his rival, Kahekili.
339* Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's son with the cleaning lady. He didn't know Schwarzenegger was his dad until the press got hold of the story.
340* There are uncertain claims that Creator/OJSimpson may be [[Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians Khloé Kardashian's]] father.
341* According to an interview in the '90s, Lee Harvey Oswald's youngest daughter, who was an infant at the time of the UsefulNotes/{{J|ohnFKennedy}}FK [[WhoShotJFK assassination]], grew up under a new name when her mother remarried shortly afterward and didn't know Oswald was her father until she discovered a box of old letters and newspaper clippings in the attic.
342* Creator/JackNicholson learned, via a reporter during promotion for ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'', that his dead sister was actually his mother, his dead mother was actually his grandmother, and a man he never met near his hometown was his father and very much alive. That was one crazy phone call. Details [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/you-dont-know-jack/ here.]]
343* Marcus Junius Brutus may have been the son of UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, whom he eventually conspired to kill. His mother Servilia was a mistress of Caesar's, but it's more likely he was the son of her husband, Marcus Junius Brutus the Elder.
344* Tony Abbot then Australian Minister for health and future Prime Minister believed that he had fathered an illegitimate son. When he was 22 his then girlfriend, Kathy Donnelly became pregnant. The boy was adopted out and 27 years later contacted his mother who told him that Tony Abbot was his father (which she believed at the time). The man named Daniel O'Connor was an ABC sound recordist in the federal parliamentary press gallery and had been in the room with Abbot numerous times. However, another man contacted Ms. Donnelly saying he believed he was the father, which subsequent DNA tests confirmed.
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