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12->''"You will be having both a boy and a girl."''
13-->-- '''Dr. David Shaw''', ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5133787/1/LIFE-S-LITTLE-JOY Life's Little Joy]]''
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15Twin characters in a work of modern fiction come in all sorts (though they have a [[AlwaysIdenticalTwins disproportionate tendency to be identical]]). However, when twins are ''born'' over the course of the story (as part of a BabiesEverAfter or otherwise), they are almost always male and female fraternal twins. Fraternal twins are more common in RealLife. (Identical twins are, of course, always the same sex; applying this trope to a [[HalfIdenticalTwins pair of identical twins]] is usually a mistake.[[labelnote:Exceptions]]Turner Syndrome (only one X chromosome) can cause this with otherwise identical twins, and there is always the vanishingly small chance (the likelihood is somewhere in the ball park of 4.8 × 10^27 [that's about 1 in 5 octillion], given that each parent has about a (1 in 6.4 × 10^13 chance of creating an identical gamete [aka 1 in 64 trillion] that opposite sex fraternal twins will receive identical chromosomes with the exception of the sex chromosomes. Alternatively, one twin could be transgender, as is the case with Laverne Cox and her identical twin brother.[[/labelnote]])
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17Why does this happen? The birth of a boy and a girl instantly creates a fully formed family of father, mother, son, and daughter, putting all of the family relationship tropes into play, without any perceived bias by making the boy or girl older and in an authority position over the other. These twins are frequently the first and only children of their parents. Compared to other twins in fiction, it's more rare for these twin pairs to include an EvilTwin or be SeparatedAtBirth. While they are occasionally HalfIdenticalTwins, more frequently [[GenderEqualsBreed one resembles the mother and the other the father]]. Bonus points if [[HereditaryTwinhood one of the parents is also a twin]], bringing it full circle.
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19This trope is less prominent in [[OralTradition mythology]] due to the blurred lines between story and backstory. In ancient myths or works like the ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' that are deliberately mythological, the birth of twin brothers is much more common. The birth of twin sisters is generally rare in all media.
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21Especially common for firstborn twins in a small NuclearFamily. If twins are born into a large family that already has more than one child of the other sex, this trope is more likely to be averted. When this trope is averted for other reasons it's a very bad sign, as one or both of the resulting children will usually be [[GooGooGodlike supernatural]] or [[EnfantTerrible evil]]. Mythological aversions tend to have different fathers or be destined to depose or kill each other. Aversions are usually still fraternal, though. It's rare to see infant identical twins in fiction, as they tend to appear fully formed at ages six to thirty.
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23A frequent trope in SoapOpera, although due to the sheer volume of twins in decades-long soaps this is also occasionally averted.
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25If the parents are the main characters and the twins are infants, it's this trope. If the twins are the main characters and the parents gave birth to them offscreen in the past, it's not. Childbirth scenes are usual but not absolutely required as long as the pregnancy and the twins as small infants are both shown.
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27Frequently combined with SpinOffspring. Contrast SeparatedAtBirth, which is a backstory trope for older twin characters.
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34[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
35* ''Manga/{{Basara}}'': Tatara and Sarasa.
36* In the (non-canon) manga adaptation of Music/{{Mothy}}'s ''[[Music/{{Vocaloid}} The Servant of Evil]]'', the first chapter opens with the birth of the king's opposite-sex twins. This turns out to be a curse rather than a blessing, as [[spoiler:[[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness before he was killed by the king]], the fortune teller makes one last prophecy that the king's child will be born with a birthmark, a sign that he or she will bring the country to ruin. The queen ends up having twins, and it's the boy who gets the birthmark. The king orders that the prince be [[GirlInTheTower locked in a tower and kept there]].]]
37* ''Manga/{{Coppelion}}'': In the final episode, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Ibuki]] was carrying twins, which turn out to be one male and one female.
38* ''Manga/SamuraiHighSchool'': Kou and Tsukiko were newborns at the beginning of the manga.
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42* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': ''Archie Gets Married'' has Archie and Veronica having twins -- [[AncestralName Little Archie and Little Veronica]]. In the "Betty" version, the same thing happens, with Little Betty instead. Both are a case of GenerationXerox as well.
43* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'': [[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ06/DisplayOQ06.html?page=8 Suntop and Ember.]] However, in early draft pages they were both boys.
44* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'':
45** The Tornado Twins, Don and Dawn Allen.
46** And then Wally's kids, Iris and Jai West.
47* ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'': Wanda's twins.
48* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' has been shown having children with Princess Sally in a few alternate futures, and those children are always twins; a girl that resembles her mother, and a son resembling his father.
49* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': In the fandomly-reviled ''Sins Past'' storyline (2004), it is revealed that ComicBook/NormanOsborn slept with Gwen Stacy and fathered twins Sarah and Gabriel. [[spoiler: After they rapidly age due to the Norman's Goblin Formula, they seek Peter Parker, thinking he is their birth father.]]
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53* In [[https://www.deviantart.com/discordantprincess DiscordantPrincess's]] ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'' fanfics, Alastor and her OC Megan have twins: the boy is Almer and the girl is Almor.
54* Happens in the final arc of the FanFic/ElementalChessTrilogy (''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''). Played with in that when someone asks "Did she have a boy or a girl?" the answer comes back "No!"
55* ''Fanfic/EyesOnMe'': In ''Happily Ever After'', Garnet adopts twins Hope and Jonah.
56* In the ''Fanfic/FateInTime'', Shirou and Arturia have twin children one year after their wedding: Artus Lucian Pendragon and Annabell Ashton. Mordred notably acts as a CoolBigSis to them.
57* At the end of ''Fanfic/HeartbeatOfTheWarGod'', [[spoiler:Shukidevi gives birth to Ashuric fraternal twins.]]
58* [[WesternAnimation/TheSecretShow Victor and Anita]] give birth to [[AncestralName Victor Jr.]] and [[ThemeTwinNaming Vanessa]] at the end of ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5133787/1/LIFE-S-LITTLE-JOY Life's Little Joy.]]''
59* The Warden and the Mistress's first children Matilda and Ethan are born near the end of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ExtendedStay''. [[GenderEqualsBreed The girl looks like her mother and the boy looks like his father.]]
60* Jillian's children Tilly and CJ from ''[[FanFic/MegsFamilySeries Meg's Boyfriend]]''.
61* In a ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fanfic written by Creator/AAPessimal, one Witch, in a moment of exasperation with her pregnant best friend, wishes a multiple birth on her, just to make a point. A few months later, twins are born; one son and one daughter.
62* ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'': Naruto (who in this story is Jiraya and Tsunade's adoptive son) ends up getting a younger brother and sister named Hagane and Kaida in chapter 5.
63* Jillian's children Kyle and Maya from ''FanFic/TheSpellbook''.
64* The Warden and the Mistress's children Ajax and Adele in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7955447/1/The-Story-Of-Us The Story of Us.]]''
65* This is implied with [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Soldier and Zhanna]]'s kids America and Eisenhower in the one-shot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11703652/1/Christmas-in-July Christmas in July]]''.
66* In the 9th chapter of ''[[Fanfic/TheHeartTrilogy Heart of the Inferno,]]'' Kathryn gives birth to fraternal twins, naming them Kolstros and Vervenia.
67* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11552753/1/Breaking-the-Cycle Breaking the Cycle]]'' is a ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' AU fic in which Ganondorf marries Zelda. The two eventually end up HappilyMarried and have twins, a son named Ralon and a daughter named Zelda.
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71* The first edition of Creator/TheBrothersGrimm version of ''Literature/{{Rapunzel}}'' sees the title character get pregnant with opposite-sex twins conceived during the Prince's visits to her tower.
72* In some retellings of Literature/SleepingBeauty (generally based on Creator/CharlesPerrault's version, where it's not clarified if they're actually twins), the prince and princess have a pair of mixed-sex twins once they're married.
73* ''Literature/SunMoonAndTalia'' has Talia give birth to a boy and a girl after an encounter with a king.
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77* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'': The film ends with Bambi and Faline having twin fawns, Geno and Gurri (according to the [[Literature/{{Bambi}} original book]] and a comic book sequel).
78* ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'': Chanticleer and Goldie's son and daughter.
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82* Henry and Samantha Focker in ''Film/LittleFockers'', although their actual birth is never depicted.
83* Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa, the leads of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' Original Trilogy, are revealed to be this in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', courtesy of Obi-Wan's spirit after Yoda passes away. The prequel ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' shows their birth, with mother Padmé [[DeathByChildbirth dying]] shortly after naming them.
84* A major plot point in ''Film/WhaleRider''. The boy was supposed to be the chief of his tribe, but he died soon after being born, leaving the sister with the weight of her grandfather's expectations.
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88* [[spoiler:Ramses and Nefret]] eventually have a son and daughter in the ''Literature/AmeliaPeabody'' [[MysteryLiterature Mysteries]].
89* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Darwin and Madra, the children (sort of) of [[spoiler:Visser One]].
90* In the Literature/DollangangerSeries, this happens twice. First, Chris and Corinne have twins Cory and Carrie; many years later, Cathy's son Jory and his wife Melodie have twins Darren and Deirdre. Jory's twins are born after he's paralyzed in a stage accident, so Cathy describes it as "a special gift, sent straight from heaven" that he still gets to have the son and daughter that he always wanted.
91* In ''Literature/BeautyARetellingOfBeautyAndTheBeast'', Beauty's older sister Hope marries Gervain, the blacksmith, and ten months later gives birth to twins. The babies are a combination of this trope and DeadGuyJunior; the daughter is named Mercy, after Beauty's younger sister who died, and the son is named Richard, after his paternal grandfather.
92* ''Literature/TheBobbseyTwins'': two sets -- Bert and Nan are the older pair, Freddie and Flossie the younger. They're even ColorCodedCharacters: Bert and Nan are both dark-haired, [[ThemeTwinNaming Freddie and Flossie]] are both blond.
93* Varencienne gives birth to twins Rav and Elly in ''Literature/ChroniclesOfMagravandias''. The boy looks very like her and the girl like the father. Played with in that Varencienne hated being pregnant and giving birth and had no intention of having more children unless she [[HeirClubForMen didn't have a boy]].
94* ''Literature/DuneMessiah'': Leto II and Ghanima. This one also subverts the usually-unplayed {{Twincest}} angle: Leto marries Ghanima, but it's for political purposes. It's not like he could have sex with her or anyone else for that matter anyway; his [[ItMakesSenseInContext blending with the sandtrout]] made that impossible. Ghanima's children are actually and not-so-secretly fathered by Prince Farad'n Corrino, grandson of former Emperor Shaddam IV.
95* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'': Shortly after liberating the Three Sisters Camp from Attaroa in the fourth book, Ayla helps deliver fraternal twins, a boy and a girl, who are the first babies born to the Camp for some time. Ayla and S'Armuna take this as a good omen that better times are ahead.
96%% Zero Context * Dhattar and Aiony in ''Literature/TheFirebringerTrilogy''.
97* O-Lan's twins in ''Literature/TheGoodEarth''.
98* In the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series, after Queen Selenay and Prince Daren marry, they have twins, Kris and Lyra.
99* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': Honor's siblings Faith and James.
100* ''Literature/LittleWomen'': Meg is the first of the sisters to marry and have babies, and not only does she have male and female twins, [[AncestralName she names them after herself and her husband]]. To adhere to the OneSteveLimit, they go by nicknames: Demi (for demijohn, a type of jug but also literally "small John" in French) and Daisy (Margaret = Marguerite = "daisy" in French).
101* ''Literature/MemorySorrowAndThorn'': Deornoth and Derra, Josua and Vorzheva's children.
102* ''Literature/PegasusInFlight'': Tirla's twins, Mischa and Miriam.
103* Literature/{{Petaybee}}: Ronan and Murel.
104* Occurs at the end of ''A Pirate's Pleasure'' by Heather Graham.
105* In ''Sarum'', a Neolithic chieftain's decades-long efforts to produce an heir eventually result in this trope. The "instant NuclearFamily" aspect is subverted, as a prophecy dictates that the daughter immediately be sacrificed at Stonehenge.
106* The Newman twins Josh and Sophie from ''Literature/TheSecretsOfTheImmortalNicholasFlamel'' series. One has the rare gold aura while the other has the equally rare silver aura. Of course they are the twins of legend. This gets shot to '''hell''' in the final book with TheReveal that [[spoiler:not only are they not really twins, they're not even related. Their parents found Josh during prehistoric times while Sophie was found on the Steppes of Russia. They were raised as brother and sister]].
107* ''Literature/SeerOfSevenwaters'': Cathal and Clodagh's twins.
108* The pregnancy that gives Lanen so much trouble in Literature/TalesOfKolmar is a set of twins like this.
109* [[ThemeTwinNaming Alianne and Alan]], Alanna's twins in the Literature/TortallUniverse, although they do have a brother who came first and alone (and is named Thom after Alanna's own HalfIdenticalTwin). Alianne grows up to have triplets, two girls and a boy.
110* An interesting version in Sheri Tepper's Sideshow involves identical, conjoined twins who are hermaphrodites, but dressed as male and female in order to fulfil their parents' desire for this trope.
111* In ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'', Leia gives birth to Jacen and Jaina; in ComicBook/DarkEmpire she had another boy, [[DeadGuyJunior Anakin]]. During the Literature/NewJediOrder, it was found that the ScaryDogmaticAliens have superstitions about twins, so Shmi Skywalker's surviving descendants were able to take advantage of that. Tellingly, [[spoiler:Anakin, the only single birth in the clan, was the only one]] who died there.
112* At the conclusion of the Colleen [=McCullough=] novel ''The Touch'', Eleanor "Nell" Kinross is introduced to her new baby brother and sister.
113* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': Miles and Ekaterin's first children, Aral and Helen. Perhaps not technically twins, but the same parents and born at the same time. (See UterineReplicator for the ItMakesSenseInContext on ''that'' distinction.)
114* Naturally this happens from time to time in the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' series, since having more than one kitten in a litter isn't out of the ordinary for cats.
115* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series, one of Min's viewings says [[spoiler:Elayne]]'s pregnancy will result in twins, a daughter and a son. As of ''The Towers of Midnight'' Min's viewings have never yet been wrong, so this trope will almost certainly come to pass. In an interesting mythological twist, one theory is that they will be the reincarnation of the twin Heroes of the Horn Shivan and Calian, whose coming [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt heralds the end of an Age]].
116** The same viewing, and a vision of the future in Rhuidean, also show that [[spoiler:Aviendha]] will get a double dose of this trope: fraternal quadruplets, two sons and two daughters.
117* In the ''Literature/WomenOfTheOtherworld'' series, the only female werewolf eventually gets pregnant, though this doesn't stop her from [[PregnantBadass battling bad guys]]. When she finally gives birth, her children turn out to be a boy and a girl, and they're both werewolves (usually only sons inherit the trait).
118* In ''Literature/TheWonderSpot'', Sophie's brother's twins are a boy and a girl.
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122* On ''Series/ThirtyRock'', when Liz and Criss adopt twins, they're a boy and a girl. It turns out that the boy is a miniature Tracy and the girl is a miniature Jenna, meaning that [[OnlySaneEmployee Liz's job has actually been perfect for practicing being a parent]].
123* ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns'' had a double version of this with Jeff and Carol Ward's quadruplets.
124* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': There’s an odd subversion with Carole, who initially gave birth to a boy and girl (Tom and Emily Parkinson) at the end of Series 2. Tom was then retconned to a girl (now known as Jessica) in Series 5, making them single-sex twins.
125* ''Series/BrothersAndSisters'': Tommy and Julia's twins, though one died.
126* ''Series/CoronationStreet'': Kenneth Barlow's twins, Judy Mallett's twins, Sunita Alahan's twins.
127* ''Series/TheCosbyShow'': Nelson and Winnie (Sondra and Elvin's children)
128* ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'': Sami and Eric Brady. Sami later gave birth to another set. And that's not even counting her twin siblings who were found in a meteor shower.
129* ''A Country Practice'': Simon and Vicky had twins, Tom and Charlotte
130* ''Series/EastEnders'': Peter and Lucy Beale, Pete Beale and Pauline Fowler.
131* ''Series/{{Emmerdale}}'': Cathy and Heath Hope.
132* Subverted on ''Series/{{ER}}'' with Doug and Carol's twins, which were both girls. Interesting, since the previous season, the audience had gotten a pretty strong hint that this trope would have been played straight. (A psychic patient who claimed to be able to see inside people was trying to decipher if Carol was having a boy or a girl. Her expression seemed to indicate that it was both.)
133* ''Series/FatedToLoveYou'': In the final episode of the [[ForeignRemake Korean version]], [[spoiler:Gun and Mi-Young have fraternal twins in the one-month TimeSkip, and we see them playing with their children in the epilogue.]]
134* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Monica and Chandler's adopted twins are born in the final episode. They named them Erica (after the birth mother) and Jack (after Monica's dad, plus it goes well with the surname Bing).
135-->'''Chandler:''' Well, now we have one of each!
136* ''Series/GetSmart'': Max and 99's twins.
137* Played straight on ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' when Nellie gives birth to twins. It's especially contrived since she and her Jewish husband had agreed beforehand that if the baby was a boy, he'd be raised Jewish; if a girl, Christian. Both sets of grandparents have therefore been very anxious about the whole matter.
138* ''Series/MagnificentCentury'': In season 2, Hatice Sultan gives birth to twins Osman and Huricihan. Both stick for a while as kids, but only Huricihan returns for season 4 as an adult.
139* ''Series/MagnificentCenturyKosem'' Akile, wife of sultan Osman II., gives birth to a son and a daughter shortly before her husband loses his throne and life. The children themselves meet grisly ends too, despite Akile's attempts to save them.
140* ''Series/ModernFamily'': Haley and Dylan's twins Poppy and George.
141* During the second season of ''Series/TheMothersInLaw'', there was a pregnancy storyline where the titular mothers would bicker over whether the baby would be a boy or girl depending on the sex of their child. Naturally, they had one of each to keep the family peace.
142* ''Series/TheNanny'': Fran and Maxwell's son and daughter at the end of the series.
143* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': During Season 15's ThanksgivingEpisode "Ready or Not", [=McGee=] and Delilah's twins, Johnny and Morgan, are born. Abby excitedly declares it the best Thanksgiving ever.
144* ''Series/OneLifeToLive''
145** They had this happen in the seventies with Larry Wolek and Meredith Lord's twins, though one was stillborn.
146** It later happened in the 90's with Max and Luna's twins.
147* Discussed on an episode of ''[[Series/{{Password}} Super Password]]''. Host Bert Convy claimed he could predict the sex of an unborn baby by placing his hands on a pregnant woman's stomach. The one time he didn't know, the woman eventually give birth to twins: one boy and one girl.
148* In ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', most of the Gemini Coven twins are male/female fraternal pairs, i.e. [[spoiler:Luke and Liv and Jo and Kai, but this is averted with Jo and Alaric's twin daughters]].
149* ''Series/TheWestWing'': Toby's twins, Huck and Molly.
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153* At the end of Music/CollinRaye's "One Boy, One Girl" the couple find out that the woman is pregnant with twins. The twins being one boy and one girl makes the DualMeaningChorus work-- the first two times the chorus is about the couple's love for each other (and ''they'' are the titular boy and girl), and the last time it's about their love for their children and excitement to be parents.
154* There are probably many [=PVs=] for [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} "Servant of Evil"]] that show the twins as infants, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av04XfLtAcU&feature=related this]] version for the classical remix is arguably the best known.
155** Years later, a canonical example of came in the form of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SQmOjAXBoc That King Was Born From Mud]]'', which tells the origin story of the twins' father. The PV covers the miracle of [[spoiler:an animated mud doll fathering children]], complete with a shot of the infant Alexiel and Riliane.
156** In the same [[Music/EvilliousChronicles universe]], ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFXVMQrcIFY Escape of Salmhofer the Witch]]'' features the titular Meta Salmhofer and the conception of her twins, Hänsel and Gretel. Having a pair of boy and girl twins was the ''intended'' result of the medical impregnation, in an attempt to reincarnate twin gods.
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160* Though not in ''Literature/TheBible'', some Jewish sources say that each of Jacob's twelve sons was born with a twin sister. The same with CainAndAbel.
161* Myth/ClassicalMythology: Apollo and Artemis, the twin children of Zeus and Leto.
162** A weird variant is Leda's quadruplets: Castor, Polydeuces, Clytemnestra, and Helen. According to the most popular version, Helen and Polydeuces were fathered by Zeus, and Castor and Clytemnestra by Leda's husband Tyndareus. [[WhaleEgg From eggs]], one for the brothers and one for the sisters. You see, Zeus had mated with Leda in the form of a swan and... you know what, this is Greek Mythology. Things aren't supposed to make sense.
163* In ''[[Literature/TheExileoftheSonsofUisnech Deirdre of the Sorrows]]'', Deirdre has just about reached marriageable age in Iron-Age Ireland (15 for women, 18 for men) when she falls in love with Naoise, and they flee Ulster to Scotland with Naoise's brothers to escape the wrath of King Conchobhar of Ulster, who wants Deirdre all to himself; in some versions of the tale, Deirdre and Naoise have [[BabiesEverAfter a son, Gaiar, and a daughter, Aebgreine]], during their self-imposed exile.
164* Myth/EgyptianMythology: In some myth variants Osiris and Isis are twins.
165* Myth/NorseMythology: Freyr and Freyja. Borgny gives birth to a set in the Elder Edda.
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169* ''Radio/TheArchers'': Lily and Freddie Pargetter, Shula and Kenton Archer.
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173* ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'': The fan-created [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Werebunny]] always gives birth to opposite-sex fraternal twins; [[GenderEqualsBreed a werebunny daughter and a son of the father's race]].
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177* In the third act of ''Abie's Irish Rose'', Solomon and Patrick, though still angry at each other, are eager to see Abie and Rose Mary's new baby. Solomon wants it to be a boy like his son Abie, and Patrick is eager for it to be a girl like his daughter Rose Mary. It conveniently turns out to be both, so the feud can easily be settled.
178* In ''Theatre/DreamGirl'', when Georgina hears about her sister Miriam's pregnancy, she dreams of switching places with her and giving birth to twins which she names Gerald and Geraldine.
179* In ''Theatre/OfTheeISing'', after the First Lady saves her husband from impeachment by announcing that he's about to be a father, the question on everyone's minds is: Will it be a boy or a girl? The answer, as decided by the Supreme Court: Both!
180-->'''Wintergreen''': That makes me a father and a mother. Twins! That's a little more than I counted on!
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184* In the ''VideoGame/DarkParables'' series, the {{fairy tale}} of Snow White and Rose Red has received a partial GenderFlip, and Snow White instead has a twin brother named Ross Red.
185* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Hawke's younger siblings are twins; Bethany and Carver also qualify as PolarOppositeTwins. [[spoiler:Sadly, one of them always dies in the prologue.]]
186* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'': Parry (male) and Madchen (female), the Hero and his Heavenly Bride's twin children born in the second act of the game.
187* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'': The first-generation twin pair are Brigid and Edain, two identical twins, but the twins you play in the ''second'' generation are Scathach and Larcei, a boy and a girl.
188* In the final installment of ''VideoGame/GardensInc'', Jill and Mike are expecting their first child. The game is very clever about concealing from the player exactly what they're having until about midway through the game, when the pregnant Jill stresses herself into the hospital, at which time the doctor reveals she's carrying twins. The excited Mike declares that "I'm gonna be a double dad!" [[spoiler:Sure enough, it's this trope. The twins are seen at the end of the main campaign, although the game never reveals their names.]]
189* ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'': King Graham and Queen Valanice sire Prince Alexander and Princess Rosella.
190* In a case of AscendedFanon, ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' establishes on the character creation screen that the protagonist has an opposite sex twin, though you only play as one of the Ryder twins.
191* In ''VideoGame/MyCafe'', Mary Ditt -- the cafe's first customer -- becomes pregnant, and ends up giving birth to a pair of twins named Theo and Luna.
192* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIII'' has an example of this in [[MultipleEndings one of the third generation scenarios]], as the twins Adan and Gwyn are born if Nial choses [[LoveTriangle Laya as his bride instead of Alair]].
193* Possible, though not guaranteed and in fact somewhat rare, in ''VideoGame/TheSims'' and its sequels.
194* ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons2014:'' For the first time in the series, the children the player character has with their spouse are twins, which are a [[SurpriseMultipleBirth surprise at birth]] as the parents were only expecting one. Naturally, they're a boy and girl.
195* ''VideoGame/VillageLife'': Your first villagers give birth to twins at the very beginning of the game. Naturally, they're a boy and a girl.
196* In ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'', one timeline leads to [[spoiler:Diana]] giving birth to twins after she falls in love with [[spoiler:the previous game's protagonist, Sigma.]] Thanks to the TimeyWimeyBall, these twins end up being [[spoiler:Phi, their absent friend, and Delta, the BigBad of the game.]]
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200* ''Webcomic/TwentyFirstCenturyFox'': Jack and Jenny's litter of two, Richard and Jane, though a mixup at the fertility clinic leads to them adopting a third pup, Thomas. [[ExoticExtendedMarriage Cecil, Barb, and Beth]] have calves Harry and Lilly around the same time the fox pups open their eyes, but they're not technically twins having two different biological mothers.
201* ''Webcomic/CogaSuro'': Towards the end of the first run, twins John and Mary are born.
202* ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'': In Part 2 [[spoiler: Darcy gives birth to fraternal twins: Morgan (a girl) and Nathan (a boy), with the implication that the former is Izzy's mother reincarnated.]]
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206* ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'': Assuming that they were born to Mrs. Pepper since their different bottle designs might imply they were adopted instead, twins Sage and Ginger are a boy and a girl, respectively.
207* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': In the movie "Hollyrock-a-bye Baby", Pebbles gives birth at the end to her first child with her husband Bamm-Bamm, which turns out to be a set of boy/girl twins; son Chip and daughter Roxy. The daughter looks like her father (and has his SuperStrength) and the son looks like his mother; see the page pic.
208* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Pound and Pumpkin to Mr. and Mrs. Cake. For added weirdness, Pound is a pegasus and Pumpkin is a unicorn, whilst both their parents are earth ponies.
209* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': Flopin and Elely to Evangelyne and Dally.
210* One installment of ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' is about Dora hurrying home, as her mother is about to give birth. Dora becomes a big sister to a boy and girl who are known simply as "the twins."
211* On ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'', Penny's younger siblings Bebe and Cece are opposite-sex twins. Their real names are Benjamin and Celine.
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