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Peter: Why would you even know this?
Denarian Dey: When we arrested you, we noticed an anomaly in your nervous system, so we had it checked out.
Peter: I'm not Terran?
Nova Prime Rael: You are half-Terran; your mother was of Earth. Your father, well, he's something very ancient we've never seen here before.
Denarian Dey: When we arrested you, we noticed an anomaly in your nervous system, so we had it checked out.
Peter: I'm not Terran?
Nova Prime Rael: You are half-Terran; your mother was of Earth. Your father, well, he's something very ancient we've never seen here before.
"You will always be a child of two worlds, Spock. I am grateful for this...and for you."
— Sarek, Star Trek (2009)
Literature
"As for Tsotha — men say that a dancing-girl of Shadizar slept too near the pre-human ruins on Dagoth Hill and woke in the grip of a black demon; from that unholy union was spawned an accursed hybrid men call Tsotha-lanti—"
— "The Scarlet Citadel", by Robert E. Howard
Siti: Still, you deserve an answer. I'm a half-djinn.
Hadia: You mean like a nasnas?
Siti: Do I look like I have half a body to you? I mean as in part djinn!
Hadia: You mean like a nasnas?
Siti: Do I look like I have half a body to you? I mean as in part djinn!
Live-Action TV
"I am a human Dalek. I am your future!"
— Hybrid Dalek Sec, Doctor Who, "Evolution of the Daleks"
"You know, we should probably ask the doctor if she even knows how to deliver a baby that's half human, half PURE EVIL."
— Ross, Friends
Tabletop Games
Where Dark Ones are Elder Things, but Things so far removed from their own kind that they're little more than mad elves, elder-spawn have a more recent connection: one parent is Unspeakable Madness From Beyond Time and Space. The other is dead or insane.
— Elder-Spawn description, GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 3: The Next Level
Video Games
Hearken now, sons of snow, to an age, long ago, and the tale, boldly told, of the one!
Who was kin to both wyrm, and the races of man, with a power to rival the sun!
Who was kin to both wyrm, and the races of man, with a power to rival the sun!
— "Song of the Dragonborn", The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Scarecrow: Know what your people whisper?
Aquaman: My people respect me, Scarecrow!
Scarecrow: They call you "Half-Breed King".
Aquaman: My people respect me, Scarecrow!
Scarecrow: They call you "Half-Breed King".
"Son of Succoria, suckled by the dry teat of man. You are half so many things, I doubt any part of you is whole. Is there even a word for a creature such as you?"
— Doviculus, Brütal Legend
Web Comics
Chief Grubgruk: grubgruk listen to therkla. therkla make sense. therkla smartest, prettiest orc chief grubgruk ever know.
Therkla: Uh, yeah, thanks, I guess. But I'm actually a half-orc.
Chief Grubgruk: chief grubgruk half orc too. other half, also orc.
Therkla: Uh, yeah, thanks, I guess. But I'm actually a half-orc.
Chief Grubgruk: chief grubgruk half orc too. other half, also orc.
Western Animation
"I'm magic! Well, half-magic, on my mom's side."
— Steven, Steven Universe, "Bubble Buddies"
Keith: I'm not an alien.
Hunk: Well, you're kind of an alien. You're way more alien than me, you're at least some alien, I'm none alien.
Keith: Let's just concentrate on the job here.
Hunk: ...was your mom alien? Your grandpa? How Galra are you?
Hunk: Well, you're kind of an alien. You're way more alien than me, you're at least some alien, I'm none alien.
Keith: Let's just concentrate on the job here.
Hunk: ...was your mom alien? Your grandpa? How Galra are you?
— Voltron: Legendary Defender, "The Belly of the Weblum"
Leonardo: Well, what'd you find out, Donnie?
Donatello: This... doesn't seem possible.
April: What is it? What's wrong?
Donatello: Based on all the info I've culled from the clone lab, your cellular makeup is actually a morphogenese blend of human and Kraang DNA.
April: Wait, are you saying...?
Donatello: You're not entirely human, April. That's why you have psychic powers. In fact, you are a half-human, half alien... mutant.
All: A mutant?!
Michelangelo: Aww, yeah! Welcome to the family!
—Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), "The Kraang Conspiracy"
