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A character responds to the death of a (even their own) child with the statement that the parents can make another.
Can be used to show how callous the character is or to demonstrate what a Crapsack World they live in.
- In The Accursed Kings, a woman who's had and lost several children impatiently tells Marie that she can always have more (in medieval France, losing children isn't an unusual occurence).
- In The Punisher MAX, the Kingpin allows his hostage son to be killed to kill the murderer, telling his sobbing wife that they'll have more.
- In Animorphs, the Ellimist's proto-Andalite wife tells him they'll have another child to replace the one they just lost, as that's the point of life. This sparks the Ellimist's master plan of creating a species that will foster new life throughout the galaxy.
Edited by Chabal2