Genius Breeding Act: Difference between revisions

In [[Real Life]], humans always breed back towards the mean, so expect eugenics only to decrease genetic diversity if they do anything at all. Genetic engineering won't get you far, too, as the many forms of intelligence (be it [[Good Withwith Numbers|logical]] or [[The Empath|emotional]] intelligence) don't appear to be hereditary. No encoding genes = no magic Einstein potion.

Compare [[Stalker Withwith a Test Tube]], [[Super Breeding Program]], [[Shipper Onon Deck]], [[Designer Babies]]. For genius cast members getting together in general, see [[Pair the Smart Ones]].

* In the ''[[Relationships Series (Fanfic)|Relationships Series]]'', The "Higher Ups" actually were pushing Yuuno to get with Nanoha and trying to keep Fate from being near Nanoha to push this through.

* The Arisians of ''[[Lensman]]'' have been running massive breeding programs for millions of years to develop humans with enough mental ability (both in intelligence and [[Psychic Powers]]) to finally defeat the Eddorians. To do this, they have used infiltrators in human society, control over the [[Amplifier Artifact|Amplifier Artifacts]] that allow Lensmen to use their [[Psychic Powers]], and outright [[Mind Manipulation]] to make sure that the right people breed with each other (and, even more importantly, that people who aren't supposed to breed before it's time ''don't''). When it comes time for Kimball and Clarissa to be married and produce the Children of the Lens, virtually the entire Galactic Patrol and the universe itself seem to [[Shipper Onon Deck|start shipping them together]].

* In ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'', it's briefly suggested that the four members of the ''Gay Deceiver'' crew ought to have babies together, as they're all extremely intelligent and would presumably pass that on to their offspring. By the time we meet them in the sequel, ''[[The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (Literature)|The Cat Who Walks Through Walls]]'', they have, and the kids are indeed geniuses.

* ''[[Brave New World (Literaturenovel)|Brave New World]]'' has a very developed version of this trope. Embryos are created in labs, and people are born into different classes: Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma, and Epsilon. These groups are engineered to have different intelligence levels both through genetic selection and differences in their artificial fetal environment; for example, an Alpha is made from Alpha gametes ''and'' incubated in an optimal fetal environment.

* The premise behind the 1994 romantic comedy ''I.Q''. [[Albert Einstein]] does some [[Playing Cyrano]] when his niece is attracted to a garage mechanic but insists on marrying an intelligent stuck-up [[Jerkass]] so their children will have a high IQ. Einstein and his fellow scientists make the mechanic look smarter than he is -- she eventually sees through the ruse [[AllsAll's Well That Ends Well|but marries him anyway]].

* In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', Rattigan explains his master plan for a new world to the other [[Teen Genius|Teen Geniuses]] he'd collected, and mentions that he's written up a breeding program. They are appropriately appalled.

* ''[[Sequence (Video Game)|Sequence]]'' {{spoiler|The entire plot of the game is the main leads are in a [[Batman Gambit]] arranged to make them fall in love and reproduce.}}

* ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' mentions a Genius Breeding Act from a time when aliens landed on Earth and forced the smartest members to mate continuously. Farnsworth was disappointed that the latest alien invasion wasn't going to involve this.