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* ''WebAnimation'/DrTran'': Tran's friend Leland is an antropomorphic cough drop, but his grandmother is a human. No explanation is given.

* Kit from ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}: Battle Royale'' is a sapient but non-anthro cat. His (seemingly currently divorced) parents are Meowscles, a ''very" anthropomorphic cat-man, and Lynx, who is a human woman who wears cat-themed outfits.

* Bon Bonne in ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends''. While his apparently human sister and brother refers to him as their baby brother, he doesn't seem to have a single organic part. Granted, he could be a robot their parents built (thus making him their "brother"), but they seem to live in a world where no one ever makes any distinction between robots and humans whatsoever.

* Kit from ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}: BattleRoyale'' is a sapient but non-anthro cat. His (seemingly currently divorced) parents are Meowscles, a ''very" anthropomorphic cat-man, and Lynx, who is a human woman who wears cat-themed outfits.

* In ''VideoGame/LittleBigAdventure 2'', there is a family of three where one is a Grobo (antropomorphic elephant with giant head), one is a Rabbibunny (tall, thin, rabbit-like creature) and one is a Sphero (basically heads with short arms and legs).

* The breeding mechanics ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'' operate like this. Each Pal species has a hardcoded "power level", so if you breed one of the OlympusMons with a ComMon, you will get the {{Mon}} with a power level that is closest to the average of the two, even if the offspring doesn't resemble either parent.

* On the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', Fundy is canonically the son of Wilbur, who is presumably human, and Sally, a salmon. It gets even more confusing due to the fact that Wilbur is (apparently) the son of Philza, a semi-immortal WingedHumanoid, and a Samsung Smart Refrigerator. Due to this trope, this family tree is often considered "cursed lore" by the fandom.

* Bean the Dynamite from ''VideoGame/SonicTheFighters'' is made this by two seemingly contradictory [[WordOfGod facts of canon]]. According to the [[AllThereInTheManual instructions for the game]], he is a woodpecker, but according to the Japanese guidebook, he is the son of Bin from ''VideoGame/DynamiteDux'', who is a duck.

->''"Mama had a chicken''\\
''Mama had a cow''\\
''Dad was proud,''\\
''He didn't care how!"''

Examples where parents are the same species/breed still count if the child is not. The definition of "species" could be very liberal, but if the child's appearance or powers are explained by [[ChocolateBaby infidelity]], [[InterspeciesAdoption adoption]] or shape-shifting in any form, it doesn't count.

When one (or both) of the parents don't like the desired outcome of this, see ThatThingIsNotMyChild

About as common in UsefulNotes/FurryFandom as InterspeciesRomance - that is, ''very''. Partially because furries who are related in RealLife don't necesarily choose the same species for their fursonas.

If InterspeciesRomance is ''very'' common in the setting, it can be {{handwave}}d with latent genes. If Alice the Aardvark and Bob the Bobcat both have a wolf grandparent, it ''kind of'' makes sense that their child could be more wolf than anything else, even if neither of them have noticable lupine traits ... right?

* The Netflix reboot of ''Anime/{{Aggretsuko}}'' provides a strange {{implied|Trope}} example. Every onscreen couple that has children is same-species, with children to match. However, [[spoiler: when Retsuko and Tadano discuss the prospect of having children, it's never brought up that he's a donkey and she's a red panda.]] It's weird considering the TBS version's propensity for [[FurryReminder biology gags]].
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Part of the unique reproduction of Fishmen and Merfolk is this. Due to strong dormant genes inherited from their ancestors, Fishmen and Merfolk families can consist of different types of fish hybrids. A prime example of this is the royal Neptune family. The king is a giant-sized coelacanth merman, the queen is a normal-sized goldfish mermaid, their sons are normal-sized dogfish, oarfish, and sunfish mermen, and their daughter is a giant-sized smelt-whiting mermaid.

* Thanks to their unique physiology based on the creatures the Queen eats, the offspring of a Chimera Ant Queen from ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' are MixAndMatchCritters that are completely different from their mother. This is highlighted after the Queen prematurely gives birth to the new King and is in a critical condition. Despite some of her remaining offspring offering to donate their body parts to help her recover, they can't due to them and the Queen being completely different and incompatible organisms.

* One of the most "mature" settings would be the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, where mutants are technically the same species, but the appearance of a child (especially those with less human appearances like blue fur, tails, bird wings and so on) seems to have little to do with the appearance of a parent (not to mention their powers). One of the more consequential cases of this is Thanos of Titan, a mutant Eternal, whose very existence discredits the "current" in-universe "theory" of super-powered "mutants". He looks like a Deviant, which Eternals were created as {{foil}}s too. And on that route, while Deviants can look like each other, they never look like their parents. This was done [[AbusivePrecursors specifically]] to see if Deviants would still love their children (they don't).
** In the ComicBook/SpiderHam universe, Quacksilver is a duck and his sister, Scarlet Pooch, is a dog. A newspaper gossip column [[LampshadeHanging specifically asks how this works]]. We're not told if their father is Nagneto or Magsquito, as was the case for mainstream Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch at the time, but we're not told otherwise, either.

* Rosalind and Rupert's son Gregor in ''ComicStrip/SafeHavens'' is more of a human/plant hybrid than a human, thanks to some residual effects from Samantha's genetic research. [[spoiler: Initially, it was thought he had daffodil DNA from the time Rosalind was stuck in a daffodil's body (long story), but recent events showed that he actually got Venus fly trap DNA from the time she and Rupert turned into them for some fun.]].
* The old Marvel UK anthology ''Marvel Bumper Comic'' had an AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation of ''Series/EastEnders'' called "Halibut Square". In this strip, Pauline Fowler was a chicken (mother hen and pun on "fowl"), Arthur Fowler was a mouse (meekness, as a [literal] HenpeckedHusband), and their daughter Michelle was a snail (pun on "shell"). (Michelle's baby Vicki, however, is a snail/rat [[PatchworkKids Patchwork Kid]], despite which nobody knows who the father is.)

* {{Downplayed}} in ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'', where a pony foal will sometimes be of a different tribe than his parents. For example, Raindrops's parents are both pegasi, and so is she, but her little brother is a unicorn. {{Downplayed}} because the three pony tribes really aren't separate species.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': Zigzagged in the first movie, where nobody seems to question that Po, a panda, is the son of a goose. Late in the first movie, Po's dad, after Po says sometimes he can't believe he's really his son, starts to tell him a secret which is teased to be that he's adopted, only to instead tell him the secret ingredient to his Secret Ingredient Soup. Then DoubleSubverted in [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2 the second movie]] where we find out [[InterspeciesAdoption Po's adopted]].

''(Po nods)''\\

''(Po nods again)''\\
'''Tigress:''' ''([[DeadpanSnarker no change of tone or expression whatsoever]])'' ...That must have been quite a shock.\\
'''Po:''' ''(sheepishy realizing the obvious)'' ...Yeah.

* In ''Literature/ArabianNights'', [[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/lang1k1/tale34.htm there’s a story]] about two sisters who were jealous of their sister, who got to marry the Sultan. They asked to be her midwives whenever she gave birth, and whenever she gave birth they exchanged the baby with an animal and put the baby in a basket [[MosesInTheBulrushes to send it downstream]], pretending this happened every time.
* In the short story "Literature/ItsAGoodLife" Anthony's parents are normal humans but Anthony is some kind of undescribed monster with RealityWarper powers. (In the adaptation on ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' he looks normal, so that's not an example.)
* In Creator/RichardMatheson's short story "Born of Man and Woman", the protagonist is some sort of horrid abomination of a spider-mutant with multiple limbs, wall-climbing and a burning saliva. He was born to normal human parents who are disgusted by him and keep him locked in a basement.
* The original ''Literature/StuartLittle'' was a sapient mouse born to human parents, which was treated as more of a novelty than a freak incident. The movie changed this to InterspeciesAdoption.
* In Lyn Abbey's Jerlayne, an elf mating with an elf will result in a random variety of fantasy beings including dwarves, banshees and dragons . The titular character's first child was a Rusalka. The only way to guarantee an elf being born is for a female elf to go to the human dimension and mate with a man who has some elf ancestry.

* The page image comes from ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' where, as stated, a family all related by blood consists of a Protoceratops, an Allosaurus, a Ceratosaurus, an Edmontonia, a Megalosaurus, and a Hypsilophodon. Note that some of these species were separated by ''millions'' of years of evolution too -- the Edmontonia and the Ceratosaurus were separated by about 80 million years. And despite this the show ''still'' dealt with themes of racism, albeit by treating quadrupeds and bipeds as different rather than going by the species of characters, and herbivores were treated as an analogue of homosexuality rather than race.

* Myth/NorseMythology: Both the Fenris Wolf and the Midgård Serpent are the offspring of Loki and female giant Angerboda. The fact that their third child, Hel, was actually humanoid[[note]]Though possibly half-corpse, or at least oddly colored[[/note]] only adds to the confusion.

** The offspring of the monstrous Typhon and Echidna are probably the best known creatures of this trope. To name a few, there is the three-headed dog Cerberus, the multi-headed Hydra, the Nemean Lion, the Erymantean Boar, the Chimera and many others. Then again, Typhon is sometimes said to have heads of many different animals, so maybe they got the genes from there.

** In ''Literature/TheOdyssey,'' Odysseus meets Polyphemos, a {{Cyclops}} son of Poseidon. So Poseidon hooked up with a lady Cyclops? No; Polyphemos' mom was a sea-nymph named Thoosa, who may have looked like a (possibly giant) mermaid. For some reason their kid was just giant and one-eyed.
* Myth/EgyptianMythology has Osiris's family to note. Osiris's grandfather (or great grandfather depending on sources) Ra was a God that was depicted as a number of things. The most usual and famous is a hawk-headed man but others include a ram-headed man, a full ram, a beetle, a phoenix, and a serpent to name a few. Osiris's birth parents were Geb and Nut, the Earth God and Sky Goddess respectively. In some interpretations, Geb is depicted with the head of a snake or a goose, while Nut is depicted likewise in some interpretations as a cow. Osiris is overall human in appearance but his brother Set has the head of an desert animal which some speculate to be an aardvark. Osiris's son by his wife Isis is the falcon-headed Horus. Meanwhile the jackal-headed god Anubis is related to at least ''one'' of these people, though sources vary on whom.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'':
** The genetics of metatype are unpredictable. When two people of different metatypes reproduce, the offspring is most likely to be human, but could potentially be of either parent's metatype ''or'' a third type.
** In a parents-same, offspring-different example, about one in four daughters produced by pairs of giants (a troll subtype) will be born human.
** The original emergence of elves and dwarves by UGE (Unexplained Genetic Expression) was a mass occurrence of this trope, as human couples around the globe produced metahuman offspring.

** [[HalfHumanHybrid Vector]] species were designed to interbreed but to prevent homogenization they have "Mutt Reduction Protocols" built into their genes that usually cause the progeny of an interspecies couple to be one parents' species or the other, with a roughly equal chance of either. Though sometimes a grandparent's species pops up instead. And in very rare cases the Mutt Reduction fails and you get a sterile Hybrid.
** On the other hand [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Cog]] / Vector couples always have kids that are more like the mother, as it's simpler to translate what the father uses for "design codes" into what the mother uses than vice-versa.

* Bean the Dynamite from ''VideoGame/SonicTheFighters'' is made this by two seemingly-contradictory [[WordOfGod facts of canon]]. According to the [[AllThereInTheManual instructions for the game]], he is a woodpecker, but according to the Japanese guidebook, he is the son of Bin from ''VideoGame/DynamiteDux'', who is a duck.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': The vast majority of {{mons}} play by GenderEqualsBreed and eggs are the same species as the mother. ... but then there's Manaphy. Manaphy is a OneGenderRace, and like other such mons, it can't breed with another Manaphy, only with Ditto. ''Unlike'' other one-gender races, the result is not another Manaphy, but Phione, which looks quite similar to Manaphy but never evolves. The Pokédex hints that is because of the conditions the egg was laid in. Manaphy is associated with cold water and Phione with warm.
* Garfield Thelonius Remmington III in ''Videogame/{{Arcanum}}'' comes from pure human stock, but by some freak accident of birth he was born with an appearance indistinguishable from an orc. He makes his living working as a freakshow attraction, "Gar the World's Smartest Orc", impressing visitors with his knowledge of politics, mathematics and tea.
* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, the [[CatFolk Khajiit]] are comprised of at least 17 known sub-species. The offspring of a Khajiiti pairing has nothing to do with the sub-species of its parents, but rather, the phases of the moon under which it is born. In a case of HotSkittyOnWailordAction, these subspecies can range from the size of housecats, through various forms of humanoid cat-men, to elephant-sized tiger-men who can be ridden as [[BeastOfBattle Beasts Of Battle]].

* WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions: One ''Miscellaneous Myths'' episode notes that Myth/ClassicalMythology often does this with its monsters. Why do Typhon and Echidna, two SnakePeople, have offspring that include multi-headed dogs and the leonine/goatish Chimaera? Who knows! Then again, this is a lead-in to talking about the Minotaur, whose origin is [[BestialityIsDepraved closer to what you'd expect]].

* Creator/BillHolbrook's ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'':
** The Wednesday 8 November 2006 strip has rabbit Danielle give birth to Francis with her fennec fox husband George attending. The infant born can't be identified offhand, though he later changes almost instantly into a human boy. [[spoiler: This is a bit more understandable, since Danielle was a former human that crossed over to Domain, and that seems to be the reason Francis turned human. The implications are not lost on Lindesfarne, another former human.]]
** On the other side of the portal, [[AllThereInTheManual and only on the supplementary Twitter,]] humans Catherine and Greg have a daughter who's a bear cub. [[spoiler: Again, this is because Catherine originated from Domain, leading to her daughter becoming a FunnyAnimal. Oddly though, her animal DNA seems to come from her ''father'': Catherine was a vulture, while Greg's counterpart in Domain is a bear.]]
* The Sunday 16 September 2012 strip of Mandy Seley's ''Webcomic/{{Curtailed}}'' has Mandy visit her parents. Mandy is a leopard, while her mother is a black housecat and her father is a bald eagle. Mandy's husband is a fox, who wonders if Mandy was adopted.
* In ''Webcomic/VinciAndArty'' Vinci, a raccoon, eventually turned out to be the offspring of a couple of chihuahuas.

** The original version of SCP-166 was a humanoid with abilities similar to a succubus. Her mother was a nature goddess. Her father is Dr. Clef, a man with a MultipleChoicePast, who may or may not be entirely human, and has claimed to be the devil. This is no longer the case in the rewritten version, where her parents are the same but she takes after her mother instead.

* Mr. and Mrs. Cake from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' are two Earth Ponies, but their children are a Pegasus and a Unicorn. According to Mr. Cake, they're like that because they inherited traits from distant Pegasus and Unicorn relatives from both sides of the family...[[ChocolateBaby though he seems a little uncertain in saying so.]] And one of those relatives is only related by ''marriage,'' not by blood.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'', Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper are, respectively, talking salt and pepper shakers. Their children are Paprika, a spice container, and Cinnamon, a cinnamon shaker. This goes further in the reboot ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'', wherein the couple have new twins - Sage and Ginger, miniature color-coded[[note]]Mint green for Sage and light brown for Ginger[[/note]] corked bottles. One episodes briefly showed another family of living condiment containers consisting of Oil, Vinegar, and their child Vinaigrette, which makes more sense.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow,'' [[TalkingAnimal Tim the Bear's]] parents were actually a black bear and a kangaroo, even though he displays no particular kangaroo qualities other than having brown fur. This is pretty much just mentioned for a gag.
* Subverted, but discussed in the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve" wherein [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick adopt a clam. Some onlookers not knowing that [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick simply adopted the clam and are just wearing wife and husband clothes, question [[RebusBubble how a sponge and a starfish could produce a clam offspring.]]
** Ambiguous example: Mr. Krabs, [[SpeciesSurname a crab,]] has a daughter, Pearl, who is a whale. The show has never revealed how this happened, though of course there are [[InterspeciesRomance other]] [[InterspeciesAdoption possibilities.]]
** Then, in the episode "Rule of Dumb", we find out that Gary's (a sea snail) father is a sea slug
* On ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', this is combined with LamarckWasRight. Dr. Hutchison, a female cat, marries Filburt, a male turtle, and [[WhaleEgg lays an egg.]] Heffer, a steer, sits on the egg for Filburt. The result is [[GenderEqualsBreed two male turtles, one female cat.]] and a male steer.
* Discussed in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E7EightMisbehavin Eight Misbehavin']]", where an AdamWesting Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster) guest stars while Apu has some minor ActorRoleConfusion.
-->'''Apu:''' Hey, one question, Eddie.\\
'''Butch Patrick:''' Butch.\\
'''Apu:''' Yeah, right, right. If your mother was a vampire and your father was a Frankenstein [sic], how come you are a werewolf?\\
'''Butch Patrick:''' Huh, I never thought of that. Doesn't make sense, does it?

* In the original ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'', Professor Heinz Squawkencluck was a mole and Dr. Augustus P. Crumhorn III was a wolf. In TheRemake, there's a Professor Squawkencluck who's a chicken (and specifically stated in [[AllThereInTheManual the background material]] to be Heinz's niece) and Augustus P. Crumhorn IV, who's a doberman (and has a daughter who's a poodle).

* In ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'', a dragon named Edna manages to have two insects for sons: a cockroach named Carl and an ant named Herman. [[spoiler: And in the finale, Master Yo, a panda, turns out to be Yin and Yang's father despite their being rabbits.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBagelAndBeckyShow'': Bagel and Becky are cat and dog siblings with a human mother.
* ''WesternAnimation/CupcakeAndDinoGeneralServices'', in spades. While we never see the main characters' parents, they themselves are [[ADogNamedDog a cupcake and a dinosaur]], their grandmother is a piece of steak, and their uncle (the aforementioned steak's son) is a human with a paper bag on his head.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' has a human mother celebrating Mother's Day with her children, a centaur, a minotaur, and a satyr. The sketch ends with her saying "Well, it's time I told you boys [[BestialityIsDepraved why I was fired from the zoo!]]"

* The basic premise of ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' is that a human couple (or rather, two living pairs of human legs) somehow have a cow and chicken as kids. The kids also have an uncle Boneless who is a boneless chicken.

* The basic premise of ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' is that a human couple somehow have a cow and chicken as kids.

* Eddie Munster from ''Series/TheMunsters'' is the werewolf son of Herman and Lily Munster who are a FrankensteinsMonster and a vampire respectively.

* In the third season of ''Series/{{Angel}}'', the two vampires [[spoiler:Darla and Angel]] produce a child that is just human and not demonic. Though in the show's mythology they shouldn't be able to have children at all, so it's DivineIntervention anyway.

** In Volume 8, we see that Fiona Thyme, a sheep Faunus girl, has a badger Faunus uncle.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In the ''World of Remnant'' mini-series, it's revealed that if two [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]] of different animal types mate, their offspring's animal type will be a complete roll of the dice. By comparison, same-type Faunus-Faunus couples always produce a same-type Faunus, while Faunus-Human couples produce either Human offspring or, more likely, a Faunus of the same type as the Faunus parent. In Volume 8, we see that Fiona Thyme, a sheep Faunus girl, has a badger Faunus uncle.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In the ''World of Remnant'' mini-series, it's revealed that if two [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]] of different animal types mate, their offspring's animal type will be a complete roll of the dice. By comparison, same-type Faunus-Faunus couples always produce a same-type Faunus, while Faunus-Human couples produce either Human offspring or, more likely, a Faunus of the same type as the Faunus parent.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': Glossaryck, who is a small goblin, has a son named Reynaldo, who is a FunnyAnimal giraffe.

* The Netflix reboot of ''Anime/{{Aggretsuko}}'' provides a strange {{Implied}} example. Every onscreen couple that has children is same-species, with children to match. However, [[spoiler: when Retsuko and Tadano discuss the prospect of having children, it's never brought up that he's a donkey and she's a red panda.]] It's weird considering the TBS version's propensity for [[FurryReminder biology gags]].

** The original version of SCP-166 was a humanoid with abilities similar to a succubus. Her mother was a nature goddess. Her father is Dr. Clef, a man with a MultipleChoiceBackstory, who may or may not be entirely human, and has claimed to be the devil. This is no longer the case in the rewritten version, where her parents are the same but she takes after her mother instead.

* In ''VideoGame/VivaPinata'', breeding two different Pinatas together can create a third type. For example, romancing a Rashberry with a Swanana will result in a Pigxie.
* Similarly, in ''VideoGame/MonsterRancher'', this is the only way to get certain species. Some are justified though (like the offspring of a living cape and a stone slab with a face on it being a visible version of the invisible monster wearing the cape and living inside the stone slab).

* At the end of the short ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' fan film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNnftq744I Spy and Pyro]]'', the two of them give birth to a [[Franchise/SpyroTheDragon Spyro]].

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': Zigzagged in the first movie, where nobody seems to question that Po, a panda, is the son of a goose. Late in the first movie, Po's dad, after Po says sometimes he can't believe he's really his son, starts to tell him a secret which is teased to be that he's adopted, only to instead tell him the secret ingredient to his Secret Ingredient Soup. Then DoubleSubverted in [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2 the second movie]] where we find out Po's adopted.