History Main / AsianBabymama

* In ''Series/KingOfTheHill'', Cotton had a romance with a Japanese nurse, Michiko, during the final days of World War II. Unlike the usual connotations of this trope where one of the lovers is using the other, their romance was real and Michiko is the only woman [[StrawMisogynist Cotton]] truly loved and respected. In the two-parter "Returning Japanese," the Hill family travels to Japan so that Cotton can reconnect with his old love, and it turned out he fathered a child with her, Hank's older half-brother Junichiro.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' part 4 uses this trope as the origin of new protagonist Josuke Higashikata. His father is Joseph Joestar, while his mother is some Japanese woman that he had a one night stand with at some point in the past (which technically makes Josuke Jotaro's uncle, despite the latter being ''13 years older'' than the former). Notable for being an extremely rare Japanese example.

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* Played with and averted in the ''{{Seinfeld}}'' episode "The Understudy". Whilst stationed in Korea, Frank Costanza has a brief affair with a Korean woman. However the relationship never gets very far because he refuses to take off his shoes whilst in her parents' house, which they see as disrespectful. It turns out she is living in New York by the point of the series, something which was completely unknown to either of them. She works in a manicure parlor. Elaine brought Frank to the parlor because he speaks fluent Korean and she had suspicions the Koreans were insulting her in their language. It turned out she was right, as they ended up insulting Frank too, which led to him shouting at them, leading his ex-girlfriend to recognise his voice.

** From ComicBook/{{X-Men}}, Iceman's ex-girlfriend Opal once resurfaced with a baby she said was his. Turned out it wasn't, and she was just using the baby as a lure to make him help her with her drama.

* Pick a series in which a Vietnam veteran is a prominent character.

* ''Series/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. It was revealed at the end of the story arc to be the child of her new lover, the Kazon Culluh (originally it apparantly ''was'' supposed to be Chakotay's, but the producers changed the baby's parentage because they weren't interested in having Chakotay raise a kid for the rest of the series and because they couldn't have him callously abandon his own son).

* Maurice Minnifield in ''NorthernExposure'' suddenly discovers that he has a half-Korean son, conceived during the Korean War. What adds to hilarity is the fact that Minnified and his son don't understand each other's languages.
* There is an episode of ''DiffrentStrokes'' where a young Korean man named David seeks out Mr. Drummond believing him to be his father from his time in the Korean War. Later, Mr. Dummond is reunited with David's mother Hi-Sook it's revealed that Dummond knows he's not the father as does Hi-Sook but she told David he was to cover up the truth about his parentage. [[spoiler: That his father was an deserting American soldier who helped Hi-Sook hide after her village was attacked but then raped her when she tried to leave days later.]] Dummond says it fine by him to let David keep thinking that he is his father but Hi-Sook refuses staying it's time to tell David the whole truth. (Also one of few episodes were Arnold wasn't the star.)

* ''Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless: Jack Abbott turns out to have one of these when the son he conceived with a Vietnamese woman during his service in the war comes to Genoa City looking for him.

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with a subsect of Japanese women called "Gaijin Hunters". They're a group of {{Race Fetish}}ists that seek handsome foreign men ([[MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow usually white]]) so they can become pregnant with a half-Japanese, half-foreign child, and then dump their boyfriend and vanish with the child.

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In the [[MartialArtsMovie martial arts genre]], she exists primarily only for angst and to give birth to an Eurasian child with l33t martial arts skills. She may have some sort of twisted motive (actually depending 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 StalkerWithATestTube, you get Asian Babymama. UnfortunateImplications may follow.

This trope largely has its roots in American service men bringing home wives from U.S. wars in Asia. At the time there was a stigma to the servicemen there knocking up hookers and marrying Asian women [[MadonnaWhoreComplex that were pretty much seen as call girls]]. In other cases, said service men [[GlorifiedSpermDonor got the women pregnant and then rotated home]], leaving said women and their children to face [[MyGirlIsNotASlut social]] [[HeroicBastard stigma]], especially once Vietnam was unified.

As those wars are less contemporary now and that stereotype is dying, this trope is becoming less common. Asian brides no longer have the same stigmas and stereotypes attached to them without setting a work back in that time period. As such it's becoming a DeadHorseTrope now. If you do see it invoked nowadays, it'll be the "Globetrotting hero/mistress with an agenda" variety.

*** Twist: Roy (Speedy/Arsenal/Red Arrow) actually takes full responsibility for raising Lian once he finds out. It [[spoiler:was]] working well. Then, poor kid was [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]. Now that [[spoiler:didn't work well]]. Which is why [[''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' fixed it.]]

*** Twist: Roy (Speedy/Arsenal/Red Arrow) actually takes full responsibility for raising Lian once he finds out. It [[spoiler:was]] working well. Then, poor kid was [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]. Now that [[spoiler:didn't work well]].

** In DC's Elseworlds ''SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'', Superman's son Joel has a Vietnamese lover who eventually married Bruce Wayne, Jr. (who was supposed to marry Superman's Daughter, Supergirl). Their marriage was more for convenience so that they could raise Joel's son as Bruce's.

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

** 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.

* ''{{ElfQuest}}'' has (admittedly non-Asian) Kahvi playing this part with regards to (admittedly non-white...please move this if it fits another trope better) 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...)

->''"All those tragic heroines, I don't want to play them. *operatic voice* '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....you lying mothafuckaaaaa' I don't want to be in [[Theatre/MissSaigon any musical where there's gonna be a helicopter!]]"''

As those wars are less contemporary now and that stereotype is dying, this trope is becoming less common. Asian brides no longer have the same stigmas and stereotypes attached to them without setting a work back in that time period. As such it's becoming a DeadHorseTrope now.

* {{Flashman}} discovers he had one of these in ''Flashman and the Redskins''. 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.

* There is an episode of ''DiffrentStrokes'' where a young Korean man named David seeks out Mr. Drummond believing him to be his father from his time in the Korean War. Later, Mr. Dummond is reunited with David's mother Hi-Sook it's revealed that Dummond knows he's not the father as does Hi-Sook but she told David he was to cover up the truth about his parentage. [[spoiler: That his father was an deserting American solider who helped Hi-Sook hide after her village was attacked but then raped her when she tried to leave days later.]] Dummond says it fine by him to let David keep thinking that he is his father but Hi-Sook refuses staying it's time to tell David the whole truth. (Also one of few episodes were Arnold wasn't the star.)

** Puck of ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'' had a half-Asian daughter, Zuzha Yu, who's mother was an unnamed Asian Babymama.

* 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.

* The plot of ''Film/{{Wasabi}}'' kicks off with [[JeanReno a French police detective]] finding out that his Japanese ex-lover has died and left him with custody of their daughter whom she never told him about.

* US law allows for the sponsored immigration to the United States of those fathered by Americans between 1951 and October 1982 in Cambodia, Korea, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand. Significantly, it does not cover the Philippines and Japan.

* In ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice''. Kissy Suzuki knows she's pregnant, but doesn't tell Bond. The sequel short story "Blast from the Past" by former ''Literature/JamesBond'' author Raymond Benson features the son, James Suzuki.

* In [[ErastFandorin Diamond Chariot]] "Rybnikov", an undercover Japanese agent undermining the Russian war effort in the Russo-Japanese war, is revealed to be [[spoiler:the protagonist Erast Fandorin's son, a product of his relationship with a Japanese woman in the days of his service in the Russian consulate in Yokohama. She feigned her death to Fandorin and gave birth without him ever finding out]]. Although the "angst" part is inverted in that it is the father who gets abandoned in a rather cruel way, the "martial arts" part is played straight, since the son grows up to become a ''{{Ninja}}''.

* Dodger in ''ChinaBeach'' presumably had an off-screen Asian Babymama, though it's never totally confirmed that the baby handed over to him by a random orphan kid in a bar is biologically his. Still, he takes the boy home to the states with him.