Patchwork Kids: Difference between revisions
→[[Web Comics]]: replaced: Order of the Stick → The Order of the Stick
Deist Zealot (talk | contribs) mNo edit summary |
(→[[Web Comics]]: replaced: Order of the Stick → The Order of the Stick) |
||
| (10 intermediate revisions by 4 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{trope}}
[[File:mokou-wriggle-
{{quote|''When you cross a male with a female, you expect to get a son or a daughter, not a hermaphrodite.''
|'''[[Richard Dawkins]]''', ''The Greatest Show On Earth''}}
When writing [[Kid Fic]], it's of course necessary to come up with an identity for the child. This can be an interesting and fun experience - different traits from the two parents are passed on in unique and sometimes unexpected ways (some genetic traits even skip a generation!), forming a new, wholly original person.
Line 18 ⟶ 19:
Compare [[Gender Equals Breed]]. Subtrope of [[All Genes Are Codominant]].
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
* In ''[[Hanamaru Kindergarten]]'', Sakura has blonde hair and her husband has brown hair; their daughter Anzu's hair is blonde in the front and brown in the back.▼
* Bizarre canon example from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'': Vivio, adopted daughter of [[Has Two Mommies|Fate and Nanoha]], looks like a perfect mix of her mothers' features, especially the face. Her blond hair is darker than Fate. However her [[Mismatched Eyes]] are {{color|red|Red}} and {{color|green| green}}, while Nanoha is {{color|purple| purple}}, {{spoiler|[[Epileptic Trees|which makes you wonder if Yuuno's]] [[It Makes Sense in Context|design somewhat involved, EVEN darker blond hair and green eyes by the way]]}}.▼
** Not to mention the voice ([[I Thought It Meant|no, not]] [[Frank Sinatra|the voice]]).▼
* From the creator of ''[[Naruto]]'', [[Word of God|Kishimoto]] confirmed that a child born between a Hyuga and a Uchiha would have a Sharingan in one eye, and a Byakugan in the other.▼
== [[Fan
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' fans have crafted Roxel, the [[Mister Seahorse|child of the both very male Roxas and Axel]]. He has Roxas's and Axel's traits smashed together. During the year or so after ''[[Kingdom Hearts II|Kingdom Hearts 2]]'' came out, he was all over [[Deviant ART]]'s front page; every other day you'd see fanart of him. There there are even ''cosplays'' of him.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' has numerous Sonic/Amy children who are part-blue, part-pink; if children worked this way in [[The Verse]], there must have been SOME extensive pure-breeding program in place to keep most characters a single color!
Line 45 ⟶ 52:
* ''[[Cori Falls]]'' loves this trope. Jessie and James's kids are not only basically clones of their parents, but the youngest daughter has her mother's love of sweets and the son wants to be an artist like his father. Jessie herself is a mishmash of her mother and father in both looks and personality.
* With ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', fans are very fond of giving [[Official Couple|Simon and Nia's]] child Nia's [[Technicolor Eyes|eyes]]. Fanart tends to make fans cry, since {{spoiler|Simon and Nia never got a chance to have children}}.
* Fans of the ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' series or Nintendo in general have done this with various pairings, most of them from male/male pairings. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101020151422/http://smash-children.deviantart.com/gallery/ Here are various examples.]
* Happens in ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' fandom quite a bit. These "[[Fan Nickname|skeledolls]]" are [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a mixture of ragdoll and skeleton]] and [[Always Female|very rarely, if at all, male]]. Then again, if two undead people can reproduce successfully, [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality|why should the fans pay attention to the rest of the biological rules?]]
* Patchwork kids are starting to pop up in the ''[[Western Aimation/Monster Buster Club|Monster Buster Club]]'' fandom.
Line 53 ⟶ 60:
* The ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' fandom occasionally spawns offspring for the title two, who are a bear and a bird. The result? Half-bird, half-bear offspring (if they don't follow the [[Gender Equals Breed]] trope). However, to be honest, they'd be far from [[Widget Series|the weirdest things in their universe.]]
* One inside joke in the ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]'' fandom has it that Volkner is the Patchwork Kid of [[Big Bad|Cyrus]] and [[Big Good|Cynthia]] (never mind that Volkner is around the same age as those two...).
*
▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
▲* In ''[[Hanamaru Kindergarten]]'', Sakura has blonde hair and her husband has brown hair; their daughter Anzu's hair is blonde in the front and brown in the back.
▲* Bizarre canon example from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'': Vivio, adopted daughter of [[Has Two Mommies|Fate and Nanoha]], looks like a perfect mix of her mothers' features, especially the face. Her blond hair is darker than Fate. However her [[Mismatched Eyes]] are {{color|red|Red}} and {{color|green| green}}, while Nanoha is {{color|purple| purple}}, {{spoiler|[[Epileptic Trees|which makes you wonder if Yuuno's]] [[It Makes Sense in Context|design somewhat involved, EVEN darker blond hair and green eyes by the way]]}}.
▲** Not to mention the voice ([[I Thought It Meant|no, not]] [[Frank Sinatra|the voice]]).
▲* From the creator of ''[[Naruto]]'', [[Word of God|Kishimoto]] confirmed that a child born between a Hyuga and a Uchiha would have a Sharingan in one eye, and a Byakugan in the other.
== [[Film]] ==
Line 68 ⟶ 69:
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Late Night]] with [[Conan O'Brien]]'' had a recurring bit called "If They Mated", in which images of a celebrity couple were combined into [[Nightmare Fuel]]. (Often by the end of a segment, they would subvert this by putting ridiculous theoretical couples together and getting silly non-patchwork
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Another canon example is ''[[Harvest Moon]]: Animal Parade''. Your children will be a mix of you and your
** ''[[Rune Factory Oceans]]'', unlike all of its RF predecessors, does the same thing, likely because it was the first game not to utilize portraits.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', Elan inherited his outlook (and alignment) from his mother and his love of the dramatic from his father. His [[Evil Twin]] Nale gets his outlook from his father and his love of the needlessly complicated from his mother. They both inherited their father's hairstyle and mother's hair colour.
** Pompey's a half-elf, although his parents aren't seen, he has one elf ear and one human ear. In his case, it's pure [[Rule of Funny]].
* Averted hard in ''[[Freefall]]''. "Aww. Kids are so cute when they're still young enough to believe that all mammals have the same number of chromosomes."
Line 84 ⟶ 85:
* In the ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "Just One Bite", Squidward dreams that he marries a Krabby Patty (it makes sense in context). Their kid looks like a Krabby Patty with six tentacles.
* On ''[[Gargoyles]],'' [[Token Human|Elisa]] explicitly notes that [[Affirmative Action Girl|Angela]] looks like [[Big Bad|Demona]], but with [[The Hero|Goliath]]'s skin and hair color. A few episodes later is revealed that she is, in fact, their biological daughter.
* ''[[Kaeloo]]'': In Quack-Quack's [[Imagine Spot]],
{{reflist}}
| |||