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alt title(s): I Am Your Father Darth Vader: If you only knew the power of the dark side. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father. Luke Skywalker: He told me enough! He told me you killed him! Darth Vader: No. I am your father. Luke Skywalker: No...that's not true! That's impossible! Darth Vader: Search your feelings. You know it to be true. Luke Skywalker: NOOOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOO!
- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Monarch: Hank, what if I told you that your mother was someone you've met before? And that your father was not your REAL father?
Hank: What?
Monarch: Hank! I am your real father!
Hank: No you're not.
Monarch PSYCH! Oh man, I totally got you. You were all like, 'Oh, daddy! You're my daddy!'
A specific variety of The Reveal. A parent-child relationship between two characters who were previously thought unrelated is revealed, usually with generous dollops of melodrama. Beloved of soap operas, made famous by the Star Wars films (from which the trope takes its name, though as you can see, it isn't an exact quote). If the character giving the reveal has been established as evil, such as the aforementioned Darth Vader, count on at least one scene where the other character worries that he will end up like the parent.
Sometimes it's a bogus revelation, and at the end of the episode or plotline the Reset Button is pressed to restore the previous relationship — or lack of one.
Though the trope itself is too fundamental to become Discredited, any use of the actual line nowadays will be met with a groan and a "Not again!" from the audience. Also a popular insane fan theory.
Compare with Mysterious Parent, or Are You My Mummy where the characters were thought to be related, but are not parent and child.
Oh, and by the way, it was being mocked back in 1790 by Jane Austen in Love and Friendship (with four grandfather-grandchildren relationships revealed in under a page), so Older Than Radio at the very least.
Subtropes include Long Lost Sibling and Luke You Are My Father.
Spoilers incoming, in case you haven't figured it out yet.
Examples:
Live Action TV
Anime
- The third episode of Death Note: Light's father is the one leading the police effort to catch the mysterious murderer - actually Light.
- Nadia The Secret Of Blue Water: Nadia learns that Captain Nemo is actually her long-lost father when he goes down with the damaged Nautilus at the beginning of the "castaway" arc of the series.
- A recent chapter of the One Piece manga reveals that Luffy's grandfather is Vice-Admiral Garp, a legendary Marine, and his father is Dragon, the mysterious revolutionary who saved Luffy at Loguetown.
- Misaki's relationship to Shuuko/Shuu/the Champion in Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer. The anime lets the viewer in on Shuuko's secret long before Misaki knows, but in the manga, we only learn when she does.
- A rather unlikely example in Mahou Sensei Negima, where one of 10-year-old Negi Springfield's 15-year-old students claims to be his descendant. Of course, she's from a hundred years in the future — and can prove it — so it's not as crazy as it sounds...
- Used in the Monster Rancher anime (Monster Farm in Japan), in which Holly learns that The main bad guy is her father (with the villain using the Darth Vader's dialogue from Empire Strikes Back). It takes the trope further by having Holly screaming "NOOOOO!" afterwards.
- In Chapter 367 of Naruto, the most prevalent fan theory of the fandom is confirmed: Naruto is indeed the son of the Fourth Hokage. This is the third of three major clarified mysteries that were revealed within a span of less than five chapters. A while earlier this was a lesser one: Asuma Sarutobi is the Third Hokage's son but they had the same name and similar looks, so it was kinda obvious, just not said before then.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion does this too many times. Eva 1 contains the soul of Shinji's mother. Eva 02 contains the soul (well half) of Asuka's mother. Rei (all of them) is/are a hybrid of Shinji's mother, and Lilith. Each one of the three MAGI computers is Ritsuko's mother.
- And Lilith is the mother of all humanity.
- All in all, in Eva, "your mom" jokes are done at your own peril.
- Tenchi Muyo is full of these. Piece by piece we learn that Katsuhito is Ayeka's and Sasami's half-brother, which means they're both Tenchi's great aunts; then that Washu is Ryoko's mother; and eventually that the woman we thought was Tenchi's mother is actually his sister and that Washu is also Mihoshi's great great grandmother. Then in the second movie, Daughter of Darkness, Mayuka turns up on the doorstep claiming that Tenchi is her father, which is awkward because they're both in their teens; but Washu does a DNA analysis, and yep, she's right. And of course there's the moment in the first movie when Tenchi tells Achika and Nobuyuki that they're his parents, even though they're all about the same age, but that doesn't really count.
- It's nice to see a good old-fashioned subversion, and Rave Master brings us one: there are two characters named Gale, one the antagonist (and head of the evil organization), one a good guy (who we've never seen before). Angst-tastic as it would be, the hero assumes his father is the former. Nope. It's the latter. Of course, they also play it straight with the two Musicas.
- Code Geass: When the leader of the anti-Britannian terrorists takes off his helmet and the Britannian Prince Clovis recognizes him as his presumed-dead little brother.
- A variation exists in the third season of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. After a successful raid on an illegal research facility, Quint adopts a pair of experimental Combat Cyborgs because they looked so much like her and raises them as her own daughters. It's later revealed during a medical examination that the reason why Subaru and Ginga looked like her was because their genetic structures were identical. Somehow, Quint's genetic data had been acquired by the researchers and was used to create the two children.
- In the manga version of Rurouni Kenshin, Enishi, a crazed White Haired Pretty Boy who wants revenge on Kenshin is his brother in law (obviously Kenshin knew when he first met him). The old guy who befriends Kenshin is Kenshin's father in law who accepted that Kenshin killed his daughter accidentally. Naturally, Enishi ends up with the old guy and both remark that they remember seeing each other.
- Subverted in Saint Seiya. Along the series, there had been a lot of hints that Marin was Seiya's lonmg-lost sister Seika. She wasn't, his sister was actually a Waif Prophet, and Marin's brother Touma even appears as an enemy in the Tenkai-hen movie.
- And played quite straight in the manga where, it was revealed that Mitsumasa Kido was actually the birth father of all the orphans he sent around the world to be trained as Saints.
- Digimon Frontier with Koji learning he has a twin brother he was Separated At Birth from: Koichi, the Face Heel Turned Sixth Ranger with the Spirits of Darkness. Digimon Savers also has Keenan Crier finding out he is one of the "humons" he despises so much, but it's painfully obvious that he was human from the start.
- Also from Savers: Initially, it looks like Masaru's Disappeared Dad is Yggdrasil, the "world tree," central computer and god of the Digital World. But BanchouLeomon reveals that he is Masaru's father. Yggdrasil was about to kill Suguru, but BanchouLeomon absorbed his soul. Unfortunately, Yggdrasil (being a god and all...) realized it, and has been using Suguru's body for its own ends.
- Parodied in a later episode of Magical Project S. Romio claims that she's the older sister of Sasami, citing the fact that they share blue hair and the lack of resemblance between Sasami and her parents as the logical reasoning. Just as Sammy was going to run up for a "family reunion", Misa stops her and makes her realize it was a lie, which Romio confirms.
- Somewhat subverted in Sonic X. It is strongly suggested (said outright in the dub) that Dark Oak is Cosmo's father. However, while the characters do learn that the two are of the same species, Cosmo never directly learns of her heritage.
- In Princess Tutu, Rue's father is revealed to be the Raven in the second season. That's not so surprising considering she's the Dark Magical Girl...but it's later revealed that he actually kidnapped her as a child, and she's just a normal human girl after all. It's also later revealed that Drosselmeyer is Fakir's great-great-grandfather, and Fakir inherited his powers.
- The very last volume of the Chrono Crusade manga reveals that Chrono and Aion are twins, and their mother was a human woman turned into Pandaemonium when she was pregnant with them. Also, Satella discovers that her long-lost sister is Fiore.
- In Gravion Zwei, it's eventually revealed that Raven is Eiji's missing sister Ayaka.
Video Games
Film
- As mentioned above, everybody knows about The Reveal from the second part of the original Star Wars trilogy.
- Not to mention the lesser reveal in Return of the Jedi, that Leia is Luke's sister.
- Parodied in thumbwars "Luke... I am yu MOTHER!"
- Considering how famous this is, it is hard to believe that the scene in Attack of the Clones where Dooku tells a helpless Obi-Wan that he is his 'grandfather' (the Master of Obi-Wan's Master Qui-Gon Jinn) isn't a deliberate homage...
- Parodied in Toy Story 2 with a Buzz Lightyear action figure and his archnemesis Evil Emperor Zurg reenacting a slightly modified version of the Star Wars reveal. They are later seen playing catch. "Go long, Buzzy!" "Oh, you're a great dad!"
- Parodied in the second Austin Powers movie with Dr. Evil claiming to be Austin's father (in an exaggerated voice akin to Vader's) and then admitting almost immediately that he was just making it up.
- In a twist, the third movie featured the revelation that Austin and Dr. Evil were in fact brothers, separated as infants.
- Brilliantly mocked in Spaceballs:
Dark Helmet: I am your father's uncle's cousin's nephew's former roommate!
Lone Starr: What does that make us?
Dark Helmet: Absolutely nothing, which is what you are about to become!
- In the movie The Boondock Saints, the hitman known as Il Duce, who previously gave the MacManus brothers the fight of their lives, is revealed to be their long-lost father when he walks in on them delivering the family prayer to their fallen comrade Rocco (whom he had previously been hired to kill) and finishes the prayer himself.
- Parodied, once again, in College Saga. The Final Boss Diculous (wearing a Darth Vader helmet with voice-changing filter) 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.
- Of course, there's the final twist that Diculous is their daughter.
- Transamerica: when Toby, a teen runaway who had made a living as a hustler and who seems to only show affection sexually, attempts to seduce the Transsexual woman, Bree, who is adopting him, her only recourse is explain him that she was, in fact, his father before transitioning. She'd kept it secret from him because she knew he thought his father was a famous actor and didn't want to disillusion him. The fact that the audience already knows this is a considerable source of Squick in the scene.
- Scanners: Darryl Revok, the villain, reveals that he and Cameron Vale, the hero, are the sons of Dr. Paul Ruth, the Broken Pedestal mentor.
- In the direct-to-video sequel of Disney's Aladdin, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Aladdin discovers his father is head of the 40 Thieves.
- In the film Wanted, this is used as the twist about 3/4ths of the way through the film. It actually makes sense, because it's the only reasonable explanation for why Cross never seems to be able to hit Wesley despite his improbable superpowered gun skills; turns out he was never trying to kill him in the first place.
Webcomics
- In the Legion of Net.Heroes 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.
- Girl Genius: 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.
- 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 uploaded into her mind.
- 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.
- He's also maybe Von Pinn's son. Which says some scary things about his genes.
- Ozy And Millie: Millie eventually learns that the dread pirate Locke is her father, even though Merlin Sickness makes him look like he's about her age.
- A variation in The Inexplicable Adventures Of Bob, when Bob first tells Molly that he considers her to be his daughter, even though they are not related.
- Still later, Jean reveals that because Molly shares some of her DNA, Jean is her mommy, "just a little bit."
Literature
- Terry Pratchett does a great job of Lampshade Hanging on this one in the Discworld novel Maskerade. In an early scene, Nanny Ogg explains the plot of the opera La Triviata to Granny Weatherwax thusly: "Well, there's a lot of humorous dressin' up, etcetera, someone will probably turn out to be someone's long-lost father or somethin'..." Near the end of the book, it is revealed that the star singer in the production of Il Trucadore really is the long-lost father of a young man in the audience. When Agnes (the junior witch) complains "This sort of thing does not happen!" the more Genre Savvy Nanny replies, "Happens all the time in opera."
- A more interesting variation happens in Thief Of Time. First, Susan has to tell Lobsang Ludd that he and Jeremy Clockson are the twin sons of the Anthropomorphic Personification of Time. Later, she admits she was lying, sort of: Lobsang and Jeremy aren't twins, they're the same individual, bifurcated at birth by the complexities of Time going through labor. For that matter, Susan's discovery that there are other children of Anthropomorphic Personifications, and natural-born, not adopted, almost qualifies but fails the "met before" requirement.
- This happens not once, but twice, and to the same character, in Ann Radcliffe's Gothic novel, The Italian. In the first instance, the evil monk Schedoni is about to murder the virginal heroine in her sleep when he happens to glimpse her locket — her ownership of which reveals that she is (gasp!) his long-lost daughter!...Only, turns out she isn't. Still, it was a pretty good reveal, wasn't it? She actually turns out to be the long-lost child of a nun who was nice to her earlier in the book, and to whom she'd previously felt a "mysterious connection". Given that The Italian was written in 1796, that makes this trope Older Than Radio.
- The Inheritance Trilogy: Murtagh reveals that the evil Dragon Rider Morzan was Eragon's father, making Eragon and Murtagh brothers. This is subverted in the third book, when it turns out that Morzan is not Eragon's father, and it was actually Brom, who fell in love with Serena, Morzan's consort (also known as the Black Hand). This is presumably due to the comparisons made between the Inheritance Cycle and Star Wars. There is also a scene where Arya is revealed to be the daughter of the elf queen Islanzadi, but this may or may not qualify since both Arya and Islanzadi knew about it even if the reader did not.
- In Robert A Heinlein's short story "'—All You Zombies—'", the main character is revealed to be ''his own'' father. And mother. And responsible for getting them together. And taking away his baby self away and putting him in an orphanage...
- His Dark Materials: Lyra's father is Lord Asriel, the man she thought was her uncle, while her mother is Mrs. Coulter, the first book's major villain. Though this could be seen as a rather knowing use of the trope, given that the reveal occurs unusually early in the story. In the film adaptation, on the other hand, it appears in the typical place as a third act plot twist.
- In Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule, the first book of the Sword Of Truth series, it is revealed that Richard is actually the son of Darken Rahl, the antagonist. Yes, his name is Darken. And he's the father of the protagonist, who has a magic sword, and is taught by an old man. This editor would have blanked it out with spoiler tags, but frankly it's not that important. And it's not even the father revealing it to his son, but his son's maternal grandfather. So.
- Dickens did it - Oliver Twist has Oliver finding out that Mr. Brownlow is his grandfather.
- Note that it only counts in the "Oliver!" musical. In the book... Mr. Brownlow is an old friend of Oliver's Disappeared Dad, Edwin Leeford, and he actually adopts Oliver as his son in the end. What else? The Smug Snake Monks is Oliver's half-brother (real name: Edward Leeford) and Rose Mayley is Oliver's aunt (his deceased mother Agnes was Rose's older sister).
- In Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy,Lirael finds out the identity of her real father at the end of book two: it's the former Abhorsen, Terciel, making Lirael Sabriel's younger sister, and Sameth's aunt. This accounts for much of Lirael's Wangst - that is, morbid tendencies, et alia. Fortunately, she had already prevented her nephew becoming attracted to her by saying that she was thirty years older than him.
- American Gods: Shadow's father is the Norse god Odin.
- Wicked: The Wizard is Elphaba's dad.
- In Meredith Ann Pierce's Firebringer trilogy, Jan, the lead character and prince of the unicorns (all the main characters in the trilogy are unicorns), discovers in the third book that his father Korr mated with another mare before he pledged himself with Jan's mother- which is something of a problem, as the other mare's child is Jan's own mate and the mother of his children, and unicorn custom absolutely forbids incest. Lucky thing then that it turns out the mysterious, renegade stallion Calydor, who Jan felt oddly connected to upon meeting for the first time, was actually Jan's mother's first love- and Jan's biological father.
Western Animation
- Kids Next Door: Number 1 learns in The Movie that the Big Bad Father is his uncle. Inverted in the same movie with the Delightful Children, who it's revealed aren't actually Father's children but former KND operatives whom he kidnapped and Brainwashed.
- Avatar The Last Airbender: In "The Avatar and the Firelord," it is revealed that Avatar Roku, Aang's spiritual predecessor, was the great-grandfather of Prince Zuko, making Aang Zuko's great-grandfather in spirit, if not in body.
- He Man And The Masters Of The Universe: in the original series episode "Teela's Quest", the titular Hot Amazon finds out that she's the daughter of the Sorceress. Her mommy gave her Easy Amnesia, though, since Teela was NOT supposed to find out. This would've been true in 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 aka Man-At-Arms (who happens to be Fisto's brother and Teela's adoptive father) instead.
- 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.
- Justice League Unlimited pulls this off twice, using Batman Beyond both times. In the episode "The Once and Future Thing", it's revealed that Warhawk, assumed to be the Legacy Character of Hawkman, is (or will be) in fact the son of Hawkgirl and Green Lantern John Stewart. "Epilogue", the Fully Absorbed Finale of Batman Beyond, reveals that Bruce Wayne was Terry Mc Ginnis' genetic father. Warren Mc Ginnis' reproductive DNA had been overwritten with Bruce's as part of Amanda Waller's Batman Beyond project.
- Code Lyoko: 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 AI as everyone originally thought.
- Parodied in Teen Titans. In the first episode of the fourth season, Control Freak enters a Star Wars-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 "NOOOOOOO!!!!"
- Parodied in Dexters Laboratory:
Dad:Dexter, I'd like to have a little word with you.
Dexter:Oh, and what would that be?
Dad:(Coming out of the shadows)Dexter, I am your father!
Dexter: NOOOOO! That Cannot Be True!....Oh, No wait, that's right.
And Also:
- Hades tries to do this with Wonder Woman during an episode of Justice League Unlimited, 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, Hippolyte, instead of born; Hades claimed he was there during the sculpting, but not the life-granting).
- Parodied in The Venture Brothers, quoted above.
- However, fans are forming Epileptic Trees that it will be played straight in season three when Brock Samson, not the Monarch, is revealed to be Hank's real father. There's only vague evidence that this is true, but it would explain why Brock is so attached to the Ventures and calls them "his family," and why Dr. Venture is grooming only Dean to follow in his footsteps as a super-scientist.
- Ahem, a recent flashback episode appears to debunk this, as Brock appears to be assigned to Operation Rusty's Blanket after Hank has already been born. So, the true origin of the boys may be what we've been told all along, the creations of Dr. Venture and Crazy Cat Lady.
- biblo at 86.47.46.125 can't believe no one else is counting the episodes until the Monarch is revealed to be some sort of relation to Dr.Venture. Given that we still don't know why he is so determined to destroy him (it's explicitly implied that the destruction of Venture is the only reason The Monarch became a super-villain in the first place) Not to mention the fact that they look EXACTLY alike. Including same hair colour.
- Evil Emperor Zurg pulled this during a climatic fight scene with the titular character in an episode of Buzz Lightyear of Star command. Quite possibly to give a Shout Out to the Toy Story 2 movie (Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is a show within a show that got 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.).
- In X Men Evolution (and also in the comics, but done with considerably less drama, as this troper remembers) 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, Magneto's Evil Chancellor of sorts and says, "Kurt, I'm your mother." (This troper, though having not previously known this fact, was driven to hysterical laughter due to the similarities between this scene and the Trope Namer.)
- The original 90s cartoon also did this with Nightcrawler and Mystique, but with the added twist that Big Bad leader of the 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 brother.
- X-Men scribe Chris Claremont originally intended Mystique to be Nightcrawler's father — she's apparently a really good shapeshifter — but Executive Meddling derailed those plans.
- Parodied in The Fairly Odd Parents in a "copyright-infringing dream sequence":
Timmy: Hey! You cut off my hand! I've only got two of those!
Darth Vader-like: Don't worry, you get a new one. A really cool robot one!
Timmy: How do you know all this?
Darth Vader-like: Because, Timmy, I am your father (Removes mask to reveal himself as Cosmo)
Cosmo: Your godfather!
- Parodied in 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.
Guitierrez: Freakazoid, help me! Would you let your father fall?
Freakazoid: My father? You're my father?!
Guitierrez: *glances confused at camera* O-oh yes. I am your father!
Freakazoid: *goes to help him, stops* W-who was my mother?
Guitierrez: Uhh... Faye Dunaway?
Freakazoid: *crosses arms* No she's not...
Guitierrez: Kaye Ballard?
Freakazoid: Kaye—nooo.
Guitierrez: Would you believe Sandy Duncan?
- Moral Orel: The episode "Dumb" shows that Nurse Bendy is Joe's mother.
- Happens in Futurama DVD movie Bender's Game, the parties being Farnsworth and Igner, the stupidest of Mom's three sons.
Radio
Comic Books
- Eighteen years after their creation, it was revealed that Avengers Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver were actually the children of their former leader, long-time X-Men antagonist Magneto. Their feelings over this revelation were mixed, to put it mildly.
- Polaris, of the X-Men was revealed early on to be Magneto's daughter, too. But then that was revealed to actually be a plot by the villain I Am Not Making This Up Mesmero who was using a Magneto robot to make that claim. Then later it was again revealed that she's his daughter... then once again not. Currently, she is once again revealed to be Magneto's daughter... ugh.
- A Legion Of Super Heroes mini-series in the '80s started with the premise that R. J. Brande, the team's billionaire sponsor, was dying, and in order to save him, the Legionnaires had to figure out which one of them was secretly his child—an idea that had never been even hinted at before. It finally turned out to be Durlan shapeshifter Chameleon Boy; Brande was revealed to also be a Durlan who'd contracted a disease that froze him into human form.
- Chris, Superman's adopted son, was found in a rocket similar to his. It was revealed during an invasion that the rocket was sent from the Phantom Zone, and he was the son of Zod and Ursa.
- Mr. Sinister pulls a particularly unpleasant Luke I Am Your Father on Gambit in X-Men: The End when he reveals that Gambit is a clone created from Sinister's original DNA mixed with that of Scott Summers.
- In Booster Gold One Million it is revealed to the audience - but not to any of the other characters - that Rip Hunter is actually Booster's son.
Theater/Opera
- The Marriage of Figaro has an instance of this that's similar to the one from The Italian 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 Not What It Looks Like scenario...
- Happens with the Baker and the Mysterious Man in Into the Woods.
Fan Fiction
- Lampshaded in A Rose And A Thorn 3.
Ashura: "I am your father Luke - I mean, Shadow."
Shadow: "Shut up with the clichés already! You’re not actually my biological father, are you? I saw that movie. I’m not going to do that stupid ‘NOOOOOOOOOO’ thing."
Web Original
- In "AVGN vs NC", the Nostalgia Critic tries pulling this on the Nerd. It fails.
NC: Wait! Would you do this to your brother?
AVGN: Brother? You're my brother?
NC: Yeah!
AVGN: Huh. Well, certainly you know the name of our mother.
NC: Um... I don't know... Elyssa... *Nerd points Super Scope at Critic* Oh, blame a guy for trying!
Web Animation
- In Proxicide's MK vs. SF 3, it is revealed at the very end that Akuma and Ryu are father and son.
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