History Main / AsianBabymama

** A group of NewWarriors villains called the Folding Circle (as well as one of the Warriors, Silhouette) was formed by a cult of Cambodian sorceresses mating with American G.I.s so their super-powered offspring could fulfill a prophecy.

-->''"All those tragic heroines, I don't want to play them. 'My man, my man did not come ba-a-a-a-ack... You went to America, you said you'd come baaaaack... And I'm still waiting for your aaaaaass... where you aaaaaaat... you're my babydaddyyyy....' I don't want to be in [[MissSaigon any musical where there's gonna be a helicopter!]]"''

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* The entire plot of ''MadameButterfly'', the opera by Giacomo Puccini. Notable in that the Asian Babymama is, in fact, the main character of the title. Her half-American child is [[ButNotTooForeign conveniently blond so there's no mistake]].
** And of course the West End remake/update MissSaigon.
* Subverted in MButterfly, as [[spoiler: Song's pregnancy is fake, since "she" is a man.]]

* Though she doesn't appear in the game as a character, Kazuhira Miller's Japanese mother in ''MetalGearSolid: PeaceWalker'' was left to raise her son alone in Japan (his father did send money). Because Kazuhira had blond hair and blue eyes, he was teased in Japan.

* There is a poignant and painful scene near the beginning of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Before America enters WWII, a group of Marines are leaving Shanghai, knowing full well it's about to be invaded Nanking-style. As they march away, silent women line the sides of the road, holding up half-white babies while the men try desperately not to think of what they know will happen to those women and children when the city falls.

* The SeriesFinale of ''{{MacGyver}}'' ended with him meeting his estranged half-Asian son.
** Except for the part where babymama was an American journalist named Kate Malloy, and if I'm remembering correctly, a natural redhead.

** Itsu (Japanese) was Wolverine's babymama.

** A group of New Warriors villains called the Folding Circle (as well as one of the Warriors, Silhouette) was formed by a cult of Cambodian sorceresses mating with American G.I.s so their super-powered offspring could fulfill a prophecy.

** He actually gets along with him better than he does with his American son, the FlamboyantlyGay [[TheGhost Harrison]].

The white hero (or sometimes villain) discovers he has a hithero unknown child with a [[MeLoveYouLongTime exotic former lover]]. The hallmarks of an AsianBabymama are as follows:

* This editor believes that JamesBond has an illegitimate half-Japanese son, but isn't sure if it was in the Fleming canon or in a book by another author.
** It's from ''You Only Live Twice''. Kissy Suzuki knows she's pregnant, but doesn't tell Bond. It's probably best she didn't, as he says at one point in ''For Your Eyes Only'' that the only women he would consider marrying were airline stewardesses or Japanese, for their subservience to men. This however all falls in with Fleming's deliciously 19th-century British-aristocrat racial stereotyping and is an integral part of Bond novels and stories, such as Bond remarking that "the only trouble with beautiful Negresses is that they don't know anything about birth control" uttered nonchalantly after the Governor's dinner in the literary ''Quantum of Solace'' (no relation with the recent movie starring Daniel Craig).
** ''Blast from the Past'' is a short story by former Bond author, Raymond Benson, that features Bond's half-Asian son, James Suzuki.
* {{Flashman}} discovers he had one of these in ''Flashman and the Redskins''. [[spoiler:It's a rather odd parentage though, the mother is part-African American/part Caucasian, but the son is able to pass as a Native American, perhaps a product of his father being a MasterOfDisguise.]]

* ''StarTrekVoyager''. Seska, the [[RubberForeheadAliens Cardassian who was disguised as a Bajoran]] claimed to have stolen Commander Chakotay's DNA and impregnated herself with the child. Oddly, it was revealed at the end of the story arc to be the child of her new lover, the Kazon Culluh.

* Subverted in "MButterfly", as [[spoiler: Song's pregnancy is fake, since "she" is a man.]]

* Subverted in M. Butterfly, as [[spoiler: Song's pregnancy is fake, since "she" is a man.]]

* One episode of ''{{King of the Hill}}'' had Hank discovering a Japanese half-brother who was the product of Cotton having leave in Japan during one point of his military service. No martial arts skills in this case, just a down-to-earth SalaryMan type, although somewhat better adjusted then Hank, given that ''he'' didn't grow up with Cotton as a father.

** Mother of Champions (Chinese). This is her ''superpower''.

* ''{{ElfQuest}}'' has (admittedly non-Asian) Kahvi playing this part with regards to Rayek during the ''Siege of Blue Mountain'' arc, going so far as to lie to the father about their child being stillborn in order to get him out of her hair. (This comes back to bite her and her tribe when a temporarily supercharged Rayek ''returns'' just in time to get the next arc started...)

* The Seance from "TheUmbrellaAcademy" makes a baby with an Asian Babymama. You don't see said Asian Babymama, just the baby, and the Asian Babygrandmama with whom he leaves the baby.

* There is a poignant and painful scene near the beginning of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Before America enters WWII, a group of Marines are leaving a city in Asia (China? The Phillipines?) that they know will soon be invaded. As they march away, silent women line the sides of the road, holding up half-white babies while the men try desperately not to think of what they know will happen to those women and children when the city falls.

What separates this trope from a normal interracial relationship is that the AsianBabymama exists primarily only for angst and to give birth to an Eurasian child with l33t martial arts skills. Her relationship with the father of her child is rarely shown 'onscreen'; she's usually a footnote in his past. She may have some sort of twisted motive (actually dependind on the [[CrapsackWorld society]] that person lives in it might be [[ParentsInDistress an entirely reasonable and sensible choice]]) for conceiving her child, such as providing an heir for a powerful male relative or to train to be the perfect killer. Basically, when you combine Exotic DragonLady and Sperm-Stealing Bitch, you get AsianBabymama. UnfortunateImplications may follow.

What separates this trope from a normal interracial relationship is that the AsianBabymama exists primarily only for angst and to give birth to an Eurasian child with l33t martial arts skills. Her relationship with the father of her child is rarely shown 'onscreen'; she's usually a footnote in his past. She may have some sort of twisted motive (actually dependind on the [[CrapsackWorld society]] that person lives in it might be [[ParentsInDistress an entirely reasonable and sensible choice]]) for conceiving her child, such as providing an heir for a powerful male relative or to train to be the perfect killer. Basically, when you combine Exotic DragonLady and Sperm-Stealing Bitch, you get AsianBabymama.

* And hand-in-hand with this, the musical ''MissSaigon'' re-set ''Madame Butterfly'' in the time of {{the Vietnam War}}, with "Kim", a stripper, going to America to find her child's father (who, as in ''Madame Butterfly'', has remarried and does not know about his son). Arguably an aversion, though, as she's the musical's titular character and fails Criteria #1 and #4.