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Not Actually His Child

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Not Actually His Child	comment	A character's father raised their child believing that they were biologically theirs, but a sudden reveal causes them to learn that they're not. This often doubles as a reveal of a Cuckold, when the significant other wasn't aware of any straying. Another explanation is that the child was Switched at Birth or a changeling. Compare to Chocolate Baby when it's obvious by the child's looks, Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe for when it's ambiguous, and I Am Not Your Father for when the dad reveals this to the child. Reverse to Oblivious Adoption, when it's the child that is out of the loop while the parent knows. See also Your Son All Along, You're Not My Father/Mother, and Not Blood Siblings. Not to be mistaken for Not His Blood, which involves a character literally being splattered with blood that isn't their own. Compare and contrast Luke, I Am Your Father and Luke, You Are My Father, where a person previously thought unrelated is revealed to be another character's parent or child. Due to this often being used as a plot twist, beware of unmarked spoilers. noreallife
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Not Actually His Child / int_102732aa	comment	In The Secret Circle, close to the end, Charles Meade finds out, when his daughter Diana asks, that she isn't actually his daughter, his (now-deceased) wife Elizabeth had an affair with John Blackwell while they were separated for a few weeks. He does, however, immediately reaffirm himself as her father. Afterward, he confronts John about the affair in public, and assaults him, both for personal and pragmatic reasons. In the rest of the season, Diana continues to refer to Charles as her father. Later, when Charles tells his mother about this, she reveals she always suspected, but didn't care.
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Not Actually His Child / int_1835ca75	comment	In Cursed (2020), it's revealed that Jonah abandoned Nimue after he learned that she wasn't biologically his daughter (his wife had a relationship with another man shortly before their marriage), and also because he was afraid of her powers. Nimue later figures out her real father is Merlin.
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Not Actually His Child / int_1c334568	comment	The Walking Dead: Rick Grimes wife Lori had a one-night stand with his best friend Shane during the early days of the Zombie Apocalypse when they both thought Rick was dead. Shortly after Rick reunited with her, Lori realizes she's pregnant, the implications of which causes a lot of added drama for the survivors, with Rick outright telling Dale he can't bring himself to give it any real thought. Tragically (and unlike the tv-series), both Lori and Judith are killed when the Governor attacks the prison almost a year later, making the whole issue moot, though Word of God confirms Shane was the father.
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Not Actually His Child / int_22b5dea1	comment	Maury has carved its niche in television history by conducting genome testing on troubled couples. Roughly half the time, the alleged father hears Maury declare, "You are not the father," which leads to the "slut run" backstage to the "crash couch." Although nowadays, these "parents" are hired actors, early seasons were conducted with raw recruits willing to air their dirty laundry on stage in exchange for two nights' stay with meals at a nice hotel.
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Not Actually His Child / int_24ffd341	comment	The season two finale of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has Frank Reynolds finding out, while out to dinner with his ex-wife Barbara, that Dennis and Dee aren't actually his children and Barbara had an affair with a man named Bruce Mathis during their marriage, then tricked Frank into raising the twins anyway. This inevitably leads to a Frank meltdown in the middle of the restaurant, where he's told to not make a scene but ends up asking random strangers if they had "banged his whore wife" and then has a stroke.
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Not Actually His Child / int_25f6f1a0	comment	In Umineko: When They Cry, it's hinted in the episode 8 manga that Battler's mother Asumu eventually figured out she wasn't actually the biological mother of her son, since her husband actually performed a baby switch with his mistress' after their own child was stillborn. She seemed to have decided to love him as her own regardless.
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Not Actually His Child / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: A non-canon example occurs in one Treehouse of Horror segment which has Maggie's father revealed to actually be Kang rather than Homer.
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Not Actually His Child / int_28724f32	comment	In Titanic (1953), Julia reveals to her husband Richard that her 10-year-old son Norman was the result of a one-night stand. Her husband immediately becomes distant towards Norman and brushes him (and Julia) off the entire movie. In the end, Richard stops his aloofness and confesses his love for his son, just as they wait to die together on the sinking Titanic.
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Not Actually His Child / int_2a7e10f5	comment	There and Back Again: Varys alerts Jon Arryn to the fact that Lysa has been having an affair behind his back, passing off the resulting child as their own. Fortunately, Jon doesn't blame the boy, wanting to ensure that he's well taken care of... especially after Petyr Baelish dips out of the picture. The pair go on to have a legitimate daughter together, expecting another child after the Time Skip. An anonymous report from Littlefinger exposes Cersei and Jamie's affair, revealing to Robert that Joffery, Myrcella and Tommen are not his children.
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Not Actually His Child / int_2a929dfc	comment	Better Things: In Season 5, Sam learns her maternal grandfather was not the man she had thought he was biologically. He'd actually been a milkman who'd lived near her mom's childhood home in England. Phil, her mom, is flippantly indifferent, saying they're all dead anyway, so who cares?
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Not Actually His Child / int_316f1f8b	comment	Lily's Garden: Lilly's cousin Larry attempts to claim the LaRosa estate by insisting that he should get it due to being Arthur's son. However, a paternity test reveals that he isn't related to Arthur or Lily.
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Not Actually His Child / int_3371ee58	comment	Roswell, New Mexico: It turns out that Rosa isn't Arturo's biological child; his wife had an affair with Jim Valenti, and he is Rosa's biological father.
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Not Actually His Child / int_35561809	comment	A Royal Affair: Struensee is the father of Caroline's daughter. They contrive to have Christian share a bed with Caroline as soon as she realizes she's pregnant in order for Christian to believe the baby's his. He doesn't catch on until their affair is revealed later.
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Not Actually His Child / int_3799e4ce	comment	Tromeo and Juliet: Ingrid let Monty naively think Tromeo was his biological son, bond with him, and then drop the revelation Capulet actually fathered him.
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Not Actually His Child / int_43f3d116	comment	The Aliens: It turns out that Lewis's father is not biologically related to him, as his mother had an affair. Later he meets his biological father, who had been in prison for years.
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Not Actually His Child / int_455e3038	comment	Played with in King of the Hill, where it's painfully obvious that Dale's son Joseph is actually the lovechild of his wife Nancy and her Native American healer John Redcorn, yet Dale never even suspects. The only other person not to realize this is Peggy, and when she does and tries to tell Dale, Hank advises against it, as Dale is not the most emotionally stable person. Dale eventually does figure out that Joseph is not his son, but thinks that it's because Nancy was inseminated by aliens, and never even suspects Redcorn (who at one point muses that he's taking the fun out of cheating with Nancy).
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Not Actually His Child / int_491987a9	comment	In the animated Cyanide and Happiness sketch "Step on a Crack" a married couple is watching their daughter play while singing the childhood rhyme "Step in a crack/And you break your momma's back." At that moment the daughter steps on a crack in the pavement, and sure enough the mother's back breaks. The daughter then goes onto to the line "Step on a line and you break your father's spine"... and the next-door neighbor keels over while shouting about his spine.
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Not Actually His Child / int_6121bb82	comment	In Yellowbeard, Betty ends up telling her son that his father is not the Lord Lambourn, but is instead the son of infamous pirate Yellowbeard. When Lambourn finds out, he takes it very well on account of him being completely drunk at the time.
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Not Actually His Child / int_66716b89	comment	The Power and the Glory: Tom's suicide comes after he learns that not only is Eve cheating on him, but their baby boy is actually his grandson, Eve's son by her lover Tom Jr.
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Not Actually His Child / int_67ce5a04	comment	Fire Emblem Fates takes this trope and squeezes it nearly dry almost exactly before the end of the fourth chapter; your character, the Avatar, is revealed to not be the child of King Garon of Nohr, but rather that of King Sumeragi of Hoshido. During the rest of the game, the Avatar struggles with the fact that Garon's kingdom and family are at war with Sumeragi's. Sumeragi turns out to have not been the Avatar's father either, but that's beside the point.
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Not Actually His Child / int_6b77b7d1	comment	The Family: This is invoked by Willa to explain why Ben's DNA doesn't match John, claiming he's the result of an affair which Claire had. It isn't true though.
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Not Actually His Child / int_76e539c2	comment	Inverted in the backstory of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS. Quint Nakajima rescued two young combat cyborgs during a raid on an illegal research facility. Given the fact that they bore a resemblance to her (and they needed someone to take care of them), she decided to adopt them alongside her husband. It was only years later that she discovered that there was a very good reason they looked so much like her: the researchers had gotten a hold of her DNA and used it as the genetic base for their cyborg project, meaning that Subaru and Ginga were biologically her daughters. Unlike most examples that would have this be the source of drama, this did not affect her relationship with them in any way.
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Not Actually His Child / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: In the novel "The Captain's Daughter" an old enemy of Hikaru Sulu tries this on him after kidnapping Demora and claimed Demora was his daughter. That falls apart when Sulu reveals that Starfleet had ran a genetic analysis on Demora years ago and confirmed she was Sulu's daughter. Later, Demora asks Sulu if the genetic analysis had shown him not to be her father if he still would have agreed to raise her as his daughter. Sulu tells her that yes he would have honored her mother's last request even if he was not biologically her father. This marks a turning point in their relationship, which had been tense for a number of years.
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Not Actually His Child / int_8a836c90	comment	Rick Grimes of television's The Walking Dead (2010) learns that his wife, Lori, has had an affair with his best friend and co-worker, Shane; Lori later gives birth to a daughter, Judith, but dies in childbirth. Rick mentions to another character that Shane is Judith's father. (Paternity testing is likely a low priority in the zombie apocalypse, however.)
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Not Actually His Child / int_8b3a8a32	comment	In The New Retcons, it's eventually revealed that John isn't the biological father of Michael; that child was the result of a failed attempt at The Baby Trap. Once this truth has come out, John starts treating them far worse.
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Not Actually His Child / int_8bad4425	comment	One ArsÃ¨ne Lupin short story has a gender-inverted version with a young man with two mothers (due to the complicated circumstances of the birth, neither woman knows whether her child was stillborn). The two women had to raise the child together, hating one another for every minute of it. It's resolved when Lupin reveals there was a third child involved (and that both children died), dropped off by an unrelated man who told the midwife to switch out his child with one of the dead ones) and therefore they have no relation to him. Lupin actually made up that part, deeming it better that they all get on with their lives then continue to torment each other.
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Not Actually His Child / int_8ef19f57	comment	Nip/Tuck: Sean McNamara discovers that his teenage son Matt was actually fathered by his longtime best friend and co-partner of their plastic surgery firm, Christian Troy, from an affair he had with Sean's wife Julia many years ago. Sean is extremely livid at both Christian and Julia while Matt starts lashing out more and more. Eventually, Sean forgives both of them (Christian sooner than Julia), and Matt comes to see both men as his fathers.
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Not Actually His Child / int_95f7f987	comment	In the Nightwing one-shot Alfred's Return, Alfred is dragged into an incident involving an old flame of his, who reveals she has a son and that he's the father. When what starts as an attempt to pay off gambling debts reveals that it's actually a cover from a bunch of high-ranking officials attempting to take over Great Britain Nightwing and Alfred spring into action to stop the plot, the son dying in saving Alfred from certain death. As they grieve, the woman reveals that, no, the man wasn't his son at all, but her deceased husband's.
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Not Actually His Child / int_9db2066f	comment	In The Haunting of Bly Manor, Dominic eventually realizes that his daughter Flora isn't his. He'd been led to believe that Flora was born prematurely and was relieved that she was healthy, but later came to realize she was conceived months earlier than he'd thought, while he was away on business and his wife was staying with his brother Henry. Dominic confronts Flora's biological father and declares that in spite of this, he still regards Flora as his daughter and wants Henry to keep his distance.
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Not Actually His Child / int_a3ea3070	comment	At the beginning of The Mayor of Casterbridge, the eponymous character gets drunk and sells his wife, Susan, and their infant daughter Elizabeth-Jane to a passing sailor. She returns with Elizabeth-Jane many years later, him having sobered himself up out of remorse and turned his life around (although remaining a jerkass). After his wife passes away, he learns that the Elizabeth-Jane who returned with his wife is the daughter of the sailor; she was named in honour of the daughter he sold along with his wife, who died soon after.
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Not Actually His Child / int_a9a634e4	comment	Love Never Dies has Gustave being raised by Raoul, with neither aware of the boyâ€™s true parentage. Raoul ends up finding out from none other than the Phantom, who had recently discovered Gustave was his son from a one-night stand with Christine right before her wedding.
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Not Actually His Child / int_b541557	comment	3 Generations: It turns out that the reason Craig left Ray and Maggie is because he'd realized he really wasn't Ray's father as a result of Maggie's cheating with his brother.
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Not Actually His Child / int_b87de35b	comment	The ending to Super Mario Sunshine has Bowser Jr. confirm he's already figured out Princess Peach isn't really his mother like Bowser initially claimed. The trope is then ignored as Junior resolves, when he's bigger, not to go looking for his real mother, but to fight Mario again someday. Even further, the trope is never brought up again.
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Not Actually His Child / int_b8c3cc30	comment	Young Justice (2010): Between seasons one and two, it is revealed that Kaldur is the son of Black Manta, having spent most of his life believing his mother's husband — Calvin Durham — was his father. Kaldur's mother, stepfather, and Aquaman concealed the truth from him and everyone else in an attempt to protect him. The reveal of this and Tula's death led to his defection ...except that was just used as justification for him to be a Fake Defector.
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Not Actually His Child / int_bdc373a0	comment	War of the Worlds: Sarah tells Bill that she cheated on her husband in the past, and due to this Emily was really fathered by another man. Though he still loved Emily since, Jonathan never entirely forgave Sarah.
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Not Actually His Child / int_bf28e228	comment	28 Hotel Rooms: The woman is letting her husband believe that he's her daughter's birth father, who was actually sired by the man from their affair.
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Not Actually His Child / int_c5f2a04e	comment	Lasting Fame: Pizzazz had told Eric for years that they had a son together. When he finally meets Pizzazz's kid face-to-face as adults, it's clear to Eric that the boy isn't his. He's obviously Rio's son.
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Not Actually His Child / int_ca03cc0e	comment	The Mick: In Season 2, his mom reveals that Chip's dad isn't his birth father. Both of them react poorly to the revelation. This is subverted when it turns out the other guy wasn't actually Chip's father. It turns out he's a different man whom his mom had sex with back then.
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Not Actually His Child / int_cac1f772	comment	Part of Brassâ€™s backstory in CSI. He found out before the series that his daughter Ellie was conceived during an affair his wife had while he was Married to the Job. He doesnâ€™t tell Ellie but she finds out anyway.
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Not Actually His Child / int_d64eaaa2	comment	The Count of Monte Cristo (2002): Supremely jealous, Fernand Mondego does quite a bit of backstabbing to have his best friend Edmond Dantes unjustly imprisoned for treason against the Crown. By the time Dantes escapes, Fernand has married Dantes's fiancÃ©e, Mercedes, and the two have a sixteen-year-old son, Albert, together. Albert doesn't look much like his father, having jet black hair and striking blue eyes like his mother. But as Dantes's revenge plan falls into place and Fernand's life is falling apart, Mercedes reveals that Albert actually does take after his father... Edmond Dantes. Mercedes only married Fernand because the unwed, pregnant lover of a condemned traitor had very few other options in the early 1800s.
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Not Actually His Child / int_db30cf92	comment	Warrior Cats: Happens to Brambleclaw when Hollyleaf reveals, to every cat attending the Gathering, that he's not her father and Squirrelflight isn't her mother, but that she and her siblings are instead the children of Leafpool, Squirrelflight's sister and the Clan's medicine cat, and Crowfeather, a warrior from a different Clan who had a legitimate son of his own. Naturally, he took the news pretty hard, but eventually got over it when he decided that, as their foster father, he still loved and was proud of Hollyleaf, Lionblaze, and Jayfeather, and that their blood relation didn't matter.
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Not Actually His Child / int_e9c5591a	comment	Late in Get Him to the Greek, Jackie Q confesses to Aldous that their son was actually conceived during a fling she had in Italy, and she covered it up for at least a decade. Touchingly, Aldous still wants to be a part of the boy's life, and the kid still thinks of Aldous as his dad.
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Not Actually His Child / int_ea1d8a5	comment	it feels more like a memory: During Aaron's second lifetime, Madison realizes that at least two of his children were actually fathered by Alexander. Madison assumes that this means that Aaron is secretly infertile, and arranged for Eliza to be impregnated by the other man so that they could still raise a family together.
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Not Actually His Child / int_f6089ca8	comment	Red Riding Hood: Cesaire discovers that Lucie is not actually his child by blood. He kills her in a rage but expresses remorse about it later.
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Not Actually His Child / int_f6a6fffb	comment	Subverted in Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search. Ursa purposefully wrote fake Affair Letters saying that her son Zuko wasn't her husband's son. Ozai knew they were lies, but he began abusing his son just to spite his wife.
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Not Actually His Child / int_fccc35cc	comment	Crusader Kings II has an event chain where a character suspects that their wife was impregnated by another man and can hire spies to try and find the truth. If in fact this turns out to be the case, the child will be born a bastard and disinherited. It's also possible to use the Intrigue focus to start rumors that a character is secretly a bastard, which rightly or wrongly may then be used as cause to dethrone them.
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