History Main / IsThatCuteKidYours

** In ''Blood of Tyrants'', [[spoiler: after losing the last eight years of his memory and being (re)introduced to his crew (including 16-year-old [[PluckyMiddie Midwingman]] [[TheSquadette Roland]]), Lawrence tries to piece together what he’s lost with the correspondence in his cabin and finds A) a letter from his mother mentioning a gift sent to one "Miss Emily Roland"; B) a decidedly casual and friendly note from an Admiral ''Jane'' Roland; and C) records of him paying a hired chaperone for the younger Roland out of his own pocket. His first reaction is to consider how many holes there may be in the parts of his memory he thought he retained.]]

** In ''Blood of Tyrants'', [[spoiler: after losing his memory and being (re)introduced to his crew (including 16-year-old [[PluckyMiddie Midwingman]] [[TheSquadette Roland]]), Lawrence tries to piece together what he can of the the last eight years through the correspondence in his cabin and finds A) a letter from his mother mentioning a gift sent to one "Miss Emily Roland"; B) a decidedly casual and friendly note from an Admiral ''Jane'' Roland; and C) records of him paying a hired chaperone for the younger Roland out of his own pocket. His first reaction is to consider how many holes there may be in the parts of his memory he thought he retained.]]

** In ''Empire of Ivory'' when he, Temeraire, several uniformed crewmen, and a twelve-year-old girl attend an Aerial Corps fundraiser. His father Lord Allendale, after the latter cheerfully admitted to Laurence and Temeraire personally tutoring her, cornered his son and quietly made diffident, embarrassed, and evasive inquiries as to the health of the young girl's mother. To deny the unspoken accusation would have made Laurence look even worse, he could not reveal her [[TheSquadette true status]] in public without causing a scandal (it’s the 1810s in Great Britain), and his attempt at a bare bones[=/=]true-as-far-as-it-went explanation ("She is the natural daughter of... a gentlewoman living in Dover, whose education I have taken as my charge") did ''nothing'' to allay suspicion[[note]]said [[TheLadette "gentlewoman"]], who he had in fact been sleeping with occasionally since they met four years prior, laughed herself sick when she heard about the mixup[[/note]].

** In ''Empire of Ivory'' when he, Temeraire, several uniformed crewmen, and a twelve-year-old girl attend an Aerial Corps fundraiser. His father Lord Allendale, after the latter cheerfully admitted to Laurence and Temeraire personally tutoring her, cornered his son and quietly made diffident, embarrassed, and evasive inquiries as to the health of the young girl's mother. To deny the unspoken accusation would have made Laurence look even worse, he could not reveal her [[TheSquadette true status]] in public, and his attempt at a bare bones[=/=]true-as-far-as-it-went explanation ("She is the natural daughter of... a gentlewoman living in Dover, whose education I have taken as my charge") did ''nothing'' to allay suspicion[[note]]said [[TheLadette "gentlewoman"]], who he had in fact been sleeping with occasionally since they met four years prior, laughed herself sick when she heard about the mixup[[/note]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Sokka (15) and Katara (14) (who are actually brother and sister) pose as Aang's (12, or [[HumanPopsicle 112]]) parents when he enrolls in a Fire Nation school because [[IJustWantToBeNormal he wants to be normal]] for a little bit and find out some things about the Fire Nation. They pull it off! All Sokka had was a [[WigDressAccent fake beard/mustache]] and Katara just stuffed her shirt to make it looked like she was pregnant (or fat).

** In an absurd example, a woman asks Marco (who is fourteen) which of the kids at the playground are his. Marco points at Star (also fourteen) and Mina (older). The woman doesn't see anything odd about this, and just expresses worry about his responsibilities.

* Ironically, numerous people in ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' comment on Chibi-Usa (8, or 900+), depending on source) being Mamoru's (17-19) and Usagi's (14-16) child. The irony being she ''is'' their child... but [[KidFromTheFuture not yet]].

-->'''Mimet:''' Oh...are these your sisters?
-->'''Mamoru:''' No. [[InnocentInnuendo They are my future wife and daughter]].

** In an absurd example, a woman asks Marco (who is fourteen) which of the kids at the playground are his. Marco points at Star (also fourteen) and Mina (older). The woman doesn't see anything odd about this, and just expresses concern for his responsibilities.
--->'''Mother:''' Which ones are yours?\\
'''Marco:''' Those two.\\
''[the camera shifts to show the destroyed playground, with Mina chasing a child and Star crawling around in the dirt]''\\
'''Mother:''' ''[seriously concerned]'' Bless your soul.\\

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' episode "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS4E26BrittasTacos Britta's Tacos]]", after Star and Marco return to Earth, nearly all of their friends from school mistake Marco's [[PracticallyDifferentGenerations infant]] sister Mariposa for being their daughter. With some of them thinking [[TeenPregnancy this was the reason they'd left Earth for a year]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' episode "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS4E26BrittasTacos Britta's Tacos]]", after Star and Marco return to Earth, nearly all of their friends from school mistake Marco's sister Mariposa for being their daughter. With some of them thinking [[TeenPregnancy this was the reason they'd left Earth for a year]].

* In ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'' Klaus and Diego were mistaken for [[HasTwoMommies the dads]] of their brother Five, who is mentally much older than them [[OlderThanTheyLook but looks much younger]] due to TimeTravel issues. This is a bit of a CallBack to an earlier episode in which Kalus and Five ''intentionally'' pretended to be father and son.

* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''. When Aurra Sing shows up at Hondo Ohnaka's hideout with Boba Fett in tow in "Lethal Trackdown", Hondo takes one look at the boy and says: [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "Not mine, I take it?"]]

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', mortals sometimes pose this question to Rangiku Matsumoto concerning Toshiro Hitsugaya, the subversion being that not only is Hitsugaya Matsumoto's superior, they're ''both'' ReallySevenHundredYearsOld.
** On the other hand, Hitsugaya is canonically a child prodigy, and very young for a shinigami. It's easily possibly that Matsumoto is several times his age. The fact that he's her boss, and the more responsible of the two still stands, though.

* Parodied in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', the girls mistake Itoshiki's nephew for his son and proceed to accuse him of children neglect.
** Understandable since the kid called Itoshiki "Dad" and asked for food when they first met. He also looks like a child version of Itoshiki right down to the glasses and fashion sense.

* ''Fanfic/FatesCollide'': In the sequel ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13333769/1/Lost-to-Dust Lost to Dust]]'', Tamamo Vitch mistakes Chloe von Einzbern for Cinder Fall's daughter, then comments on how Chloe is already so big when Cinder looks so young to taunt her about her real age before being corrected.

** In the Manga Naru also asks Keitaro, upon first meeting Sara, if she is one of his many lovechildren, or if he kidnapped her. She is just joking though.

* Occurs in several Creator/PGWodehouse stories.

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[[folder: Fanfic ]]

* Roleplay/DCNation: Troia was asked several times if Lian was "hers." Because of her Truth Sense, she would have to answer "no," but Lian would cheerfully answer "Yup!" Part because Lian cannot stand her super-villainess mother, and part because Donna's been "Mom...in all the ways that count!" They met half-way; Donna is now Lian's ''stepmother.''

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* [[ButtMonkey William Laurence]] gets subjected to an age-appropriate variant twice concerning the same child over the course of the Literature/{{Temeraire}} books.
** In ''Empire of Ivory'' when he, Temeraire, several uniformed crewmen, and a twelve-year-old girl attended an Aerial Corps fundraiser. His father Lord Allendale, after the latter cheerfully admitted to Laurence and Temeraire personally tutoring her, cornered his son and quietly made diffident, embarrassed, and evasive inquiries as to the health of the young girl's mother. To deny the unspoken accusation would have made Laurence look even worse, he could not reveal her [[TheSquadette true status]] in public, and his attempt at a bare bones[=/=]true-as-far-as-it-went explanation ("She is the natural daughter of... a gentlewoman living in Dover, whose education I have taken as my charge") did ''nothing'' to allay suspicion[[note]]said [[TheLadette "gentlewoman"]], who he had in fact been sleeping with occasionally since they met four years prior, laughed herself sick when she heard about the mixup[[/note]].
** In ''Blood of Tyrants'', [[spoiler: after losing his memory and being (re)introduced to his crew (including 16-year-old [[PluckyMiddie Midwingman]] [[TheSquadette Roland]]), Lawrence tries to piece together what he can of the the last eight years through the correspondence in his cabin and finds A) a letter from his mother mentioning a gift sent to one 'Miss Emily Roland'; B) a decidedly casual and friendly note from an Admiral ''Jane'' Roland; and C) records of him paying a hired chaperone for the younger Roland out of his own pocket. His first reaction is to consider how many holes there may be in the parts of his memory he thought he retained.]]
* Occurs in several Creator/PGWodehouse stories.
* More or less inverted in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': the Cullen parents always present the teen vampires as their adopted children, because the ages wouldn't fit. Then Bella and Edward pretend they adopted Renesmee, because even assuming Bella and Edward had a shotgun wedding, [[ExpressDelivery it's impossible for Nessie to have been born so soon when the pregnancy was not visible at the wedding]].
** Not to mention the fact that Edward wasn't even in the area during the time she should have theoretically been conceived.
* In ''Fifth Chinese Daughter'', the narrator's little brother is often mistaken for her son, since she's about twenty years older than he is.
* Happens in ''Literature/YeLittleHillsLikeLambs'' in the ''Literature/VillageTales'' series, when a (perfectly nice) footballer in a pub [[MistakenForRomance assumes Canon Paddick and Sher Mirza are a same-sex couple]] and that the Canon's wee niece is theirs.

[[folder: Live Action TV ]]
* Lucy from ''Series/SeventhHeaven'' took the twins out for a stroll and was mistaken for their mother, which opened her eyes to the plight of single mothers.
* Buffy was mistaken for Dawn's mother in the first episode of the seventh season of ''Series/{{Buffy|the Vampire Slayer}}'', "Lessons".

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* In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', Pearl tags along with Phoenix and Maya, but whenever Maya is not present, some of the [=NPCs=] believe Pearl is Phoenix's daughter. On the other hand, it works entirely backwards in ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' with Trucy, who says Phoenix is her father despite her being in her early teens and Phoenix having no children seven years before. It takes a while till we realize she's adopted. At least, it takes a while for ''[[WhatAnIdiot Apollo]]'' to figure it out.
* In ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'', Lee gets this in regards to the girl he's protecting, Clementine, a lot. It helps that he's a 30-something black man and she's a 10-year-old black girl. [[spoiler:In one of the epilogues of Season 2, Randy awkwardly assumes Clem is an AbsurdlyYouthfulMother and attempts to break the ice by asking her if Alvin Jr. is her child.]]

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[[folder: Western Animation]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' had an unusual example. Waternoose finds Boo and asks if she is Sully and Mike's. They both say no, hiding her with the fact that she's Sully's "[[RelativelyFlimsyExcuse cousin's sister's daughter]]," instead.

* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''. When Aurra Sing shows up at Hondo Ohnaka's hideout with Boba Fett in tow in the episode "Lethal Trackdown", Hondo takes one look at the boy and says: [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "Not mine, I take it?"]]

TruthInTelevision, especially amongst siblings with a significant age difference.

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has a unique variation where Ryoga (16) is [[FountainOfYouth turned into a five-year-old]] and mistaken to be ''his own son''. Then again, they might have not jumped to that conclusion if Ranma didn't introduce him as such just to mess with him.

May be combined with SheIsNotMyGirlfriend.

* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Meg gets mistaken for her brother Stewie's mother, and then goes along with it to get a job and tips. Stewie initially protests being used this way but changes his mind after the diner's fry cook gives him some pancakes. Stewie develops a bit of an addiction for them. Meg then fabricates hardships to increase her tips, and then Promptly gets Stewie taken away by Child Services.

* Used a bit more seriously in ''Manga/BunnyDrop,'' with the nearly-thirty Daikichi and six-year-old Rin. A slight subversion in that Rin is biologically Daikichi's ''aunt.''
** To be fair, Daikichi is Rin's father figure and the person who raises her. The only reason he doesn't officially adopt her is because she didn't want to be.

* ''Manga/ToLoveRu'' occasionally has people mistaking [[PlantAliens Celine]] for Rito's daughter (and whatever girl he's with as the mother). It's actually forgivable in this case, as Rito is 17, and Celine looks to be about 2, so it's actually possible. Of course, one of the people who makes this mistake is Rito's mother, who should know better.
** Then again, similar to ''Bunny Drop'', Rito is sort of her father figure.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' had an unusual example. Waternoose finds Boo and asks if she is Sully and Mike's. They both say no, hiding her with the fact that she's Sully's "cousin's sister's daughter," instead.

* More or less inverted in ''{{Twilight}}'': the Cullen parents always present the teen vampires as their adopted children, because the ages wouldn't fit. Then Bella and Edward pretend they adopted Renesmee, because even assuming Bella and Edward had a shotgun wedding, [[ExpressDelivery it's impossible for Nessie to have been born so soon when the pregnancy was not visible at the wedding]].

* In the fourth volume of ''Manga/KimiWaPetto'' (''Tramps Like Us'' in English), Sumire and Momo are taking care of six year old genius for a few days and people in the park comment on cute those young parents are.
* Used a bit more seriously in ''Manga/BunnyDrop,'' with the nearly-thirty Daikichi and six year-old Rin. A slight subversion in that Rin is biologically Daikichi's ''aunt.''
** To be fair, Daikichi is Rin's father figure and the person who raises her. The only reason he doesn't offically adopt her is because she didn't want to be.

* Baby Be'el of ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'' is constantly mistaken for Oga's son. This is another occurence where it is a natural assumption. Oga is a 15-16 year old, while Beel looks a year old, or less. Plus, Oga is supposed to raise him, and they look ''very'' similar.

** Also mentioned when Jumbo makes a reservation at a BBQ restaurant and asks for a seperate room, stating that he will have a kid with him. The woman asks if the kid is Jumbo's, Jumbo replies with a nonchalant no.

** In ''Blood of Tyrants'', [[spoiler: after losing his memory and being (re)introduced to his crew (including 16 year old [[PluckyMiddie Midwingman]] [[TheSquadette Roland]]), Lawrence tries to piece together what he can of the the last eight years through the correspondence in his cabin and finds A) a letter from his mother mentioning a gift sent to one 'Miss Emily Roland'; B) a decidedly casual and friendly note from an Admiral ''Jane'' Roland; and C) records of him paying a hired chaperone for the younger Roland out of his own pocket. His first reaction is to consider how many holes there may be in the parts of his memory he thought he retained.]]

* More or less inverted in ''{{Twilight}}'': the Cullen parents always present the teen vampires as their adopted children, because the ages wouldn't fit. Then Bella and Edward pretend they adopted Renesmee, because even assuming Bella and Edward had a shotgun wedding, [[ExpressDelivery it's impossible that Nessie to be born so soon when the pregnancy was not visible at the wedding]].

* In ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'', Lee gets this in regards to the girl he's protecting, Clementine, a lot. It helps that he's a 30-something black man and she's a 10-year old black girl. [[spoiler:In one of the epilogues of Season 2, Randy awkwardly assumes Clem is an AbsurdlyYouthfulMother and attempts to break the ice by asking her if Alvin Jr. is her child.]]

** Also played with in ''R'' ''before'' Chibi-Usa showed up. They were taking care of a baby boy: Minako said called the kid "their child" in good tease spirits, but An/Natsumi was peeved. Also, Chibi-Chibi was sometimes mistaken as Usagi's little sister (and introduced as such, sorta. Ikuko says so).
*** People also often say that Usagi and Chibi-Chibi seem more like mother and daughter than sisters, though.

Sometimes used as a way of showing that the "parents" are a compatible couple, but more often just for laughs. If the person in question is too ''old'' to be the parent, it may imply a compliment (even flirtation, if the person asking is of similar age).

** In ''Empire of Ivory'' when he, Temeraire, several uniformed crewmen, and a twelve-year-old girl attended an Aerial Corps fundraiser. His father Lord Allendale, after the latter cheerfully admitted to Laurence and Temeraire personally tutoring her; cornered his son and quietly made diffident, embarrassed, and evasive inquiries as to the health of the young girl's mother. To deny the unspoken accusation would have made Laurence look even worse, he could not reveal her [[TheSquadette true status]] in public, and his attempt at a bare bones[=/=]true-as-far-as-it-went explanation ("She is the natural daughter of... a gentlewoman living in Dover, whose education I have taken as my charge") did ''nothing'' to allay suspicion[[note]]said [[TheLadette "gentlewoman"]], who he had in fact been sleeping with occasionally since they met four years prior, laughed herself sick when she heard about the mixup[[/note]].