Basic Trope: Children from an Interspecies Romance will be of only one of the species of the parents, rather than a hybrid.
- Straight: Zachary the Zebra and Yolanda the Yak have children, which are either zebras or yaks rather than zebra-yak hybrids.
- Exaggerated: Even hybrids that are possible in real life can't happen; Wanda the Wolf and Dylan the Dog have children, and the results are simply either dogs or wolves.
- Downplayed:
- Zachary and Yolanda's children are either yaks or zebras, but some of the yaks may have some faint stripes while some of the zebras might have more fur than usual.
- Hybrids can occur, but only if the two species can actually produce hybrids in real life.
- Hybrids can happen, but they're just very rare.
- Justified: The "species" gene isn't codominant in this universe.
- Inverted: All Genes Are Codominant
- Subverted: Although it seems that hybrids are impossible, one occurs...
- Double Subverted: ...Which is revealed to be fake in some way.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Zachary and Yolanda's kids are either yaks or zebras, Wanda and Dylan's kids are wolfdogs, and Robert Raccoon and Stella Skunk's children consist of a raccoon, a skunk, and a skunkoon.
- Averted:
- There is no Interspecies Romance.
- Children between two creatures of different species are impossible.
- All Genes Are Codominant
- Enforced:
- To avoid hybrid overkill.
- A possible reason to justify why Yolanda's uncle is a goat.
- Lampshaded: While Yolanda is pregnant, her friends ask her, "Are you expecting a yak or a zebra?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Zachary and Yolanda want a zebra-yak child, so they consult a Mad Scientist to create one from their DNA.
- Discussed: "Even the wolf and dog are subject to this?"
- Conversed: "I wonder why there are no hybrids."
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