History Main / WonderChild

** And the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'' series, where the Mallet ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS or some similarly-named item]]) inflicts and removes [[IncredibleShrinkingMan the Mini status]].

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* Although altogether average kids, the Katsura sisters fall into this category for ''HayateTheCombatButler''. There's nothing inherently special about them, but their adopted parents were unable to have children of their own, so when Yukiji was looking for foster parents and chose her former teacher and his wife, they were probably thought of as this.

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** This one is also referenced in ''Okami'' with the character Issun and the Ryoshima part of the story. The Lucky Mallet in this case is used to make the protagonist smaller.

* In ''{{Loom}}'', the protagonist Bobbin is given birth when the childless Lady Cygna weaves a magical thread into the Great Pattern, after which she is banished by being [[{{Animorphism}} turned into a swan]].

** And the ''FinalFantasy'' series, where the Mallet ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS or some similarly-named item]]) inflicts and removes [[IncredibleShrinkingMan the Mini status]].

* Yugo from ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', who's a DoorstopBaby who grew up having the power create [[{{Portal}} mystical space-bending portals]].

* Although younger than most of the above examples, Isamu and Ai Amami wished on a falling star for a child. The "star" turned out to be a [[GaoGaiGar giant mechanical lion]], who delivered their wish. Interestingly, they live in constant fear that the "Polar Lion" will return to take the Mamoru ''back''.

* Yugo from ''{{Wakfu}}'', who's a DoorstopBaby who grew up having the power create [[{{Portal}} mystical space-bending portals]].

* I seem to remember a fairy tale where a couple wish for children, the more the better, can't have too many... [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor aaand suddenly there are a hundred kids in the house]] and the husband has to go out to get money.
** ''[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/073.htm Stan Bolovan]]''

* In [[DisneyAnimatedCanon the Disney version]] of ''Hercules,'' Hercules' adoptive parents have been praying to the gods for a child. When they find the baby Hercules, with the symbol of the gods on a medal around his neck, they naturally assume the gods sent him to them. (He is, of course, actually a god made near-mortal in this version, [[HijackedByJesus dissimilar to the original myth as it is.]])

* The chinese-tibetan fairy tale ''Qing Wa Qi Shou'' (The Rider in Green Clothes), which is one of the most important folk interpretations of the political relationship between those two historical states, has a very old couple who always wanted a child. The elderly woman finally goes pregnant for four months and bears a FROG. Late it is shown that in an rare occurence, after he gets his wife, the frog is able to turn into a handsome, skilled rider for a certain festival. But the wife stays at home and accidentally burns his frog skin. Therefore, the young frog man must die, if she hadn't done that he would have been that saviour of the tibetan people, turned the unhospital lands into fertile ground and China would have been a tribute state to Tibet instead the other way round. See?

* Guts from ''{{Berserk}}'' serves as a freakish and graphic example of this trope. Sys, a young woman who had recently miscarried her own child, is grieving her loss and is on the verge of going insane. But when all hope is lost, what does she pass by? Why, a baby! ... that was aborted from its mother's dead and hung corpse! ... [[NauseaFuel Yay!]]

* Although altogether average kids, the Katsura sisters fall into this category for {{Hayate no Gotoku}}. There's nothing inherently special about them, but their adopted parents were unable to have children of their own, so when Yukiji was looking for foster parents and chose her former teacher and his wife, they were probably thought of as this.

** This is used as the Cyclops-alternate's backstory in an X-Men Elseworlds story. The twist is that the pit from the peace is in Cyclops' eye socket, and he can use his laser-vision in that eye by removing it.

** This one is also referenced in Okami with the character Issun and the Ryoshima part of the story.

* Lynne Reid Banks's ''The Fairy Rebel'' is about something like this. A childless couple saves the life of a fairy, who decides she owes them one and agrees to give them the child they long for. The child is mostly normal, but she has a streak of blue hair which has magical properties.

** That is the biggest TearJerker of all time for this troper. When the departing princess' tears fall to earth and the children say "See the fireflies! How beautiful they are!" I dissolve into a puddle.

* The movie Joseph: King of Dreams had a song titled ''Miracle Child''