History Main / LukeIMightBeYourFather

* The plot of ''Mamma Mia'' is based on the three possible fathers of the protagonist

* The TropeNamer was a ''PennyArcade'' comic where Luke Skywalker discusses with Vader and Yoda thatembarrassment have been Luke's father, with Vader expressing embarassment about the possibility, and Yoda insinuating that Luke's mom was a prostitute.

* Used in ''Northwest Passage''. [[spoiler: Montglave informs Simon at the climax that he raped his mother at about the time that Simon was concieved. He does this in an attempt to completely turn Simon against Charles Lord, the other possible candidate. Unfortunately for him, being a sociopath, he failed to consider that Simon would react less than positively to the news that Montglave had raped his mother.]]

* In ''Stormrider'', Gaise Macon is puzzled at the strained relationship with his father. The Moidart keeps him at arm's length and shows no clear sense of fatherly affection. And yet he still requires pain treatments for the horrible burns he suffered when he rushed into the burning mansion to save Macon as a child. Macon eventually learns that this is because at the time he was concieved the Moidart's wife was involved in an affair with a Highlander who was one of the Moidart's chief enemies. Macon would appear to be his son, because they both have a distinctive golden eye, but the Moidart's grandmother also had such an eye so he could never be certain of the truth.

* One episode of ''BostonLegal'' dealt with the {{Squick}} ensuing when Denny Crane meets a girlfriend's mother and realizes to his horror that he used to have a sexual relationship with her- at about the time his current girlfriend would have been concieved. [[spoiler: It's not him.]]

* Shirley became pregnant in season 2 of ''{{Community}}'', and was uncertain whether the father was her ex-husband Andre(they had recently reconciled) or [[spoiler: Senor Chang]] (''they'' had gotten drunk and had sex at a Halloween party). When the baby was delivered at the end of the season, they deduced that the father was [[spoiler: Andre]].

* The TropeNamer was a ''PennyArcade'' comic where Luke Skywalker discusses with Vader and Yoda that Vader might have been Luke's father, with Vader expressing embarassment about the possibility, and Yoda insinuating that Luke's mom was a prostitute.

* [[DeadPanSnarker Kiros and Ward's]] comments on Squall in FinalFantasyVIII consist of "Glad that you didn't turn out like your father." and "You looks a lot like your mother.", and the backflash says that Raine died after giving a birth to a baby. Who's Squall's parents aren't said outright, but it's more likely Laguna and Raine. Since Laguna's still an IdiotHero no matter how many years has passed.

* [[DeadPanSnarker Kiros and Ward's]] comments on Squall in FinalFantasyVIII consist of "Glad that you didn't turn out like your father." and "You're a lot like your mother.", and the backflash saying that Raine died after giving a birth to a baby. Who's Squall's parents aren't said outright, but it's more likely Laguna and Raine. Since Laguna's still an IdiotHero no matter how many years has passed.

A common result of the invocation of this trope is that someone uses either science or magic to determine who the real father is. How long this takes depends on the speed of the [[TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot plot]].

* The entire premise of ''Mamma Mia''. Well, sort of. Probably the main premise was ''try to fit as many Abba songs as possible while still maintaining some sort of plot!''

* In ''RobRoy'' MacGregor's wife is raped by Cunningham, who keeps it a secret from her husband knowing that it was intended as an attack against him. When she is subsequently pregnant, Cunningham's associate Killearn threatens to tell MacGregor not only about the rape, but that Cunningham may well be the father of the unborn child. ''She doesn't take this threat well.''

** Another popular theory holds that the Memento Ring relics are evidence of a connection between [[spoiler:Shadow]] and Relm, as only those two can equip it. Relm has one initially equipped, and you can find another hidden in Strago's house. (You can actually steal a third ring from Wrexsoul, but that's neither here nor there.) Its flavor text mentions a mother's love acting as protection from fatal magical attacks.* In ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'', with the revelations that [[spoiler:Kyrie apparently had a stillborn child on the same day that Battler was born]] and later that [[spoiler:Asumu is ''not'' Battler's mother]], it's heavily implied from [=EP4=] onwards that [[spoiler:Kyrie isn't Battler's stepmother so much as his ''actual'' mother]].

A sister trope to LukeIAmYourFather, this is when the revelation exists not that a person in question ''is'' a character's father, but they might be. It turns out that they had sex with the character's mother at about the same time as the fertilization, so the possibility exists.

** Another popular theory holds that the Memento Ring relics are evidence of a connection between [[spoiler:Shadow]] and Relm, as only those two can equip it. Relm has one initially equipped, and you can find another hidden in Strago's house. (You can actually steal a third ring from Wrexsoul, but that's neither here nor there.) Its flavor text mentions a mother's love acting as protection from fatal magical attacks.
* ''FinalFantasyVIII'' does this also in a similar manner. [[spoiler:Laguna had a baby with Raine, but was away travelling when she gave birth and never met the child due to Raine dying soon after. The game hints plenty that the child was in fact Squall - The name of the character being the most obvious one along with the fact Squall was in the same orphanage as Ellone (Raine's adopted child) and called her 'sis'.]]
* In ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'', with the revelations that [[spoiler:Kyrie apparently had a stillborn child on the same day that Battler was born]] and later that [[spoiler:Asumu is ''not'' Battler's mother]], it's heavily implied from [=EP4=] onwards that [[spoiler:Kyrie isn't Battler's stepmother so much as his ''actual'' mother]].

** ''FinalFantasyVIII'' does this also in a similar manner. [[spoiler:Laguna had a baby with Raine, but was away travelling when she gave birth and never met the child due to Raine dying soon after. The game hints plenty that the child was in fact Squall - The name of the character being the most obvious one along with the fact Squall was in the same orphanage as Ellone (Raine's adopted child) and called her 'sis'.]]

* ''MyNameIsEarl'' was {{cancelled}} on an episode with such a plotline... with said plotline LeftHanging, to boot.

* ''MyNameIsEarl'' was {{canceled}} on an episode with such a plotline... with said plotline LeftHanging, to boot.

!Examples:

* In the {{Outlander}} series, Brianna loses her virginity to Roger, and then gets raped the next day. It takes awhile to figure out who her babydaddy is.
* Dezi in {{Darkover}}'s mother boinked about six different guys while wasted one night, none of whom will claim him as his own. Dezi is really, really pissed about that.
* Krasta in Harry Turtledove's Darkness books was banging an Algarvian (German) officer, but slept with a Jelgavan (French?) nobleman on the side, so that when the Algarvians were forced out of Jelgava she could claim the Jelgavan noble was the father while still enjoying the privileges of being an Algarvian's bedwarmer. If the child exhibits Algarvian features when it is finally born, though, she is in quite a mess.

* One episode of BostonLegal dealt with the {{Squick}} ensuing when Denny Crane meets a girlfriend's mother and realizes to his horror that he used to have a sexual relationship with her- at about the time his current girlfriend would have been concieved. [[spoiler: It's not him.]]
* [[spoiler: Luke]] from GilmoreGirls is revealed to have a possible daughter in season 6, she does a DNA test for a science fair to find out which of three men is her father. [[spoiler: Luke ends up being the right one.]]

* Used in ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' [[spoiler: as part of a plot by the Ferengui to blackmail Picard, although the idea came from somebody who was out for revenge from a previous episode]]. Nitpickers wonder about how much effort was required. Find a kid who Captain Picard might have fathered, the true identity of the father must be unknown, the mother must be out of the picture to prevent blabbing, and so forth. After all, for [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Kirk]]? [[BoldlyComing Easiest mission ever]]. Picard, on the other hand, is a little too much of a responsible adult for it to be completely plausible.

* TwoAndAHalfMen: Alan believes this trope is in play with Judith's pregnancy. The show still has yet to reveal if it is...
* VeronicaMars: In the first season, Veronica has reason to suspect Jake Kane -- the father of her ex-boyfriend Duncan, and former lover of her mother -- might be her biological father. [[spoiler: He isn't.]]

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* Every other episode of ''{{Maury}}'' is themed "I slept with [[strike:two]] [[strike:seven]] sixty-three men; who's my baby's daddy?" In fact, "You ''are'' / are ''not'' the father!" is practically his CatchPhrase.
* Ditto ''JerrySpringer'' (and most other daytime television of that ilk, for that matter)
* A Japanese law (now obsolete) barred women from remarrying for six months after a divorce in order to avoid this trope. On the other hand, if she was having an affair....