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* In [[https://notalwaysromantic.com/no-one-dates-like-gaston/42832 this]] ''Website/NotAlwaysRomantic'' story, the guy outlining the planned course of his married life includes assigning the gender and birth order of his kids ... on a first (and last) date.

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* In [[https://notalwaysromantic.com/no-one-dates-like-gaston/42832 [[https://notalwaysright.com/no-one-dates-like-gaston/47080/ this]] ''Website/NotAlwaysRomantic'' story, the guy outlining the planned course of his married life includes assigning the gender and birth order of his kids ... on a first (and last) date.
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* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Mr. Conklin loves his only daughter Harriet, but he mentions once or twice that he was hoping for a boy. Once, when annoyed by Harriet's HighSchoolHustler boyfriend Walter Denton, he reflects on this in exasperation:
-->'''Mr. Conklin''': To think I wanted a boy!
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* ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'': DependingOnTheWriter, this is the source of the tension between Lois and Sam Lane; Lois sometimes says that Sam raised her like the son he didn't have, and then had the nerve to disaprove when she grew up to be an independent-minded career woman rather than traditionally feminine.

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* ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'': ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': DependingOnTheWriter, this is the source of the tension between Lois and Sam Lane; Lois sometimes says that Sam raised her like the son he didn't have, and then had the nerve to disaprove when she grew up to be an independent-minded career woman rather than traditionally feminine.
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* In the Marvel-published ''[[ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian Conan the King]]'' comics, Conan's wife Zenobia displays [[AdaptationalBadass some surprising martial skills that her original counterpart didn't have]] to prove she can accompany him in his adventures when he tells her to StayInTheKitchen. When he asks how she learned to fight so well, she tells him that her father was a soldier and he always wanted a boy. Considering that she was a [[BeautifulSlaveGirl harem girl]] when they met each other, it makes one wonder how she became a slave in the first place.

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* ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'': In the Marvel-published ''[[ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian Conan the King]]'' comics, Conan's wife Zenobia displays [[AdaptationalBadass some surprising martial skills that her original counterpart didn't have]] to prove she can accompany him in his adventures when he tells her to StayInTheKitchen. When he asks how she learned to fight so well, she tells him that her father was a soldier and he always wanted a boy. Considering that she was a [[BeautifulSlaveGirl harem girl]] when they met each other, it makes one wonder how she became a slave in the first place.
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* Zigzagged in ''Webcomic/CirqueRoyale''. After RebelliousPrincess Quinn and her younger sister Penelope--both girls--King George was hoping the third pregnancy between him and Queen Louise would result in a son; he wanted a boy to pass on the family name and be able to do the things "fathers and sons were ''supposed'' to do" with. The doctors predicted a third princess and the first prince from the twin pregnancy. [[spoiler:Who were born were the ConjoinedTwins, which he rejected immediately and wanted them separated immediately, saying to keep the son and let the daughter die since he already had two princesses already. Queen Louise convinced him to put them into the FreakShow of their circus instead, and they were named Wilfred.]]

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* Zigzagged in ''Webcomic/CirqueRoyale''. After RebelliousPrincess Quinn and her younger sister Penelope--both girls--King George was hoping the third pregnancy between him and Queen Louise would result in a son; he wanted a boy to pass on the family name and be able to do the things "fathers and sons were ''supposed'' to do" with. The doctors predicted a third princess and the first prince from the twin pregnancy. [[spoiler:Who [[spoiler:The children were born were the ConjoinedTwins, which he George rejected immediately and wanted them separated immediately, saying to keep the son and let the daughter die since he already had two princesses already. Queen Louise convinced him to put them into the FreakShow of their circus instead, and they were named Wilfred.]]
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* Zigzagged in ''Webcomic/CirqueRoyale''. After RebelliousPrincess Quinn and her younger sister Penelope--both girls--King George was hoping the third pregnancy between him and Queen Louise would result in a son; he wanted a boy to pass on the family name and be able to do the things "fathers and sons were ''supposed'' to do" with. The doctors predicted a third princess and the first prince from the twin pregnancy. [[spoiler:Who were born were the ConjoinedTwins, which he rejected immediately and wanted them separated immediately, saying to keep the son and let the daughter die since he already had two princesses already. Queen Louise convinced him to put them into the FreakShow of their circus instead, and they were named Wilfred.]]
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* ''Manhwa/TheMonstrousDukesAdoptedDaughter'': Inverted: Cirian was so hopeful for a daughter that his firstborn son was named Bethrion instead of Elizabeth. His getting an adopted daughter in the form of Leslie turns him to saccharine goo whenever she asks for something and a violent barbarian whenever boys and their loathsome teenage hormones are involved.
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* At the start of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', Timon and Pumbaa believe their new niece to be a male until Rafiki informs them otherwise. At the end of the [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 original film]] the cub ''[[{{retcon}} was]]'' [[{{retcon}} male]].

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* At the start of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', Timon and Pumbaa believe their new niece [[HonoraryUncle honorary niece]] Kiara to be a male until Rafiki informs them otherwise. At the end of the [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 original film]] the cub ''[[{{retcon}} was]]'' [[{{retcon}} meant to be male]].
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* ''Literature/{{Wagons West}}'': In ''Texas'' the youngest of five daughters has a boys' name as the father was sure by then he'd have a son.

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* ''Literature/{{Wagons West}}'': ''Literature/WagonsWest'': In ''Texas'' the youngest of five daughters has a boys' name as the father was sure by then he'd have a son.
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* ''Literature/TalmaGordon'': Capt. Gordon was disappointed at the births of his daughters because he wanted a male heir.

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* ''Literature/TalmaGordon'': "Literature/TalmaGordon": Capt. Gordon was disappointed at the births of his daughters because he wanted a male heir.
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*''Anime/PrincessDiana'': When Diana was born, her father bemoaned that he wanted a boy instead. This was true to RealLife as the Spencers wanted a male child to carry on the family name.

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