History Main / AsianBabymama

** ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Mindy Hong (Chinese?) is Trickster's babymama.

* In the Music/ColePorter musical ''Theatre/AnythingGoes'', several characters (Reno, Billy and Moon) are trying to break up the impending wedding of Hope, who Billy is in love with, and Lord Evelyn Oakleigh, who is in love with Reno. At one point, Evelyn mentions that he had an affair with a Chinese girl named Plum Blossom. In the finale, Reno, Billy and Moon dress up in Chinese costumes and bad accents to break up the wedding. This leads to several great lines, including "Lord Evelyn take Plum Blossom into rice paddy and bring back Plum Tart. Pretty soon, along come Little Plum Pudding... *baby-rocking motion*" This prompts Hope to break off her wedding with Evelyn, and offer herself to Billy (aka "Plum Blossom's Uncle"), who insists that Evelyn "join club and right wrong done poor Plum Blossom." Evelyn takes the hint, proposes to Reno, and a double wedding ensues. Can have UnfortunateImplications, depending on how it's staged, [[LargeHam and how much Billy and Moon ham it up with their accents]].
* The children resulting from these chance unions are the entire focus of the song "Bui Doi" from ''Theatre/MissSaigon.''

** Cheshire (Vietnamese/French) is Arsenal and Catman's babymama. 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 [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' fixed it.]]
** Moonday Hawke (Korean/black) is Oliver Queen's babymama.
*** Shado (Japanese) is also Oliver Queen's babymama (via DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale).
** ComicBook/LadyShiva (Chinese) and David Cain [[InvertedTrope invert]] this almost as far as human reproductive biology permits. Sandra Wu-San gave her daughter to David at birth and did not see her again for nearly twenty years.
** Talia Al Ghul (Chinese/Arab) is Batman's babymama.
** Mindy Hong (Chinese?) is Trickster's babymama.
** Lillian Worth (Cambodian) is Deathstroke's babymama.
** Izanami (Japanese goddess) is Lucifer Morningstar’s babymama.
** {{Subverted}} in Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}: [[spoiler:The Comedian had a Vietnamese woman who was presumably his babymama, but when he told her was NOT bringing her back to America with him (as he had promised), she slashed his face with a broken bottle and he killed her.]]

** Mantis was the result of one such union by a supervillain and a Vietnamese woman.
** A group of ComicBook/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 [[SuperBreedingProgram their super-powered offspring could fulfill a prophecy]].
** Puck of ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'' had a half-Asian daughter, Zuzha Yu, whose mother was an unnamed Asian Babymama.
** From ComicBook/XMen, 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.
* Ursula X. X. Imada, who is at least partly Japanese, was the mother of Nexus' (Horatio Hellpop's) twins Scarlett and Sheena.

* ''ComicBook/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...)
* ''ComicBook/LesInnommables'': Differs from the usual portrayal in that Mac (father) and Alix (mother) are in love with each other and we know she gives birth to a daughter, but they get separated for years. When reunited, their daughter has been adopted by Americans and Alix has lost her memories.

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* ''Film/ThreeSeasons'': James Hager hadn't been to the city since it was Saigon, and when he left after the Vietnam War, he hadn't even known that he was leaving a child behind. He comes back to the city upon finding out that his AsianBabyMama had died.
* Inverted in ''Film/TheWorldOfSuzieWong'' where the Asian female lead has a secret son that was fathered by a Hong Kong businessman that didn't want him - and he's adopted by the white love interest. [[spoiler: Until he dies tragically in an earthquake]].
* Almost happens in ''{{Film/Sayonara}}''. AcePilot Joe Kelly is HappilyMarried to the Japanese Katsumi, but the US Army disapproves of the marriage. They try to ship Kelly back to America, despite him saying that Katsumi is pregnant (although it's never confirmed if she is or he was lying to stall them). [[spoiler: They decide to kill themselves together rather than be separated]]. There's another scene where a General discusses the trope as a reason for preventing their soldiers from marrying Japanese women - but Eileen quickly shuts him down by reminding him that these are happy marriages he's splitting up.

* In the end of the ''Literature/JamesBond'' novel ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', Kissy Suzuki knows she's pregnant, but doesn't tell Bond when he leaves her. The sequel short story "Blast from the Past" by former ''Bond'' author Raymond Benson features the son, James Suzuki, [[spoiler:as a corpse.]]

* ''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 apparently ''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 ''Series/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 ''Series/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.)
* Dodger in ''Series/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.
* An episode of ''Series/TheATeam'' features a man who goes with the Team to Vietnam, where he apparently has a child from a wartime lover.

** ComicBook/{{Daken}} is the son of Franchise/{{Wolverine}} and his deceased Japanese wife.

** ComicBook/LadyShiva (Chinese American) and David Cain [[InvertedTrope invert]] this almost as far as human reproductive biology permits. Sandra Wu-San gave her daughter to David at birth and did not see her again for nearly twenty years.

* {{Literature/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.

# She gives birth to a Eurasian child and keeps it secret from the father.

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 [[SonOfAWhore impregnating 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. See also AbandonedWarChild.

** A group of ComicBook/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.

* Probably the most famous example is apl.de.ap of Music/TheBlackEyedPeas (from the Philippines).

[[caption-width-right:255:Don't you hate it when you discover you have a secret lovechild to your DragonLady ArchEnemy?]]

[[caption-width-right:255:Don't you hate it when you discover you have a secret lovechild to you DragonLady ArchEnemy?]]

[[caption-width-right:255:Don't you hate it when you discover you have a secret lovechild to you DragonLady Archenemy?]]

** Cheshire (Vietnamese/French) is Arsenal and Catman's babymama.
*** 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 [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' fixed it.]]

* In the end of the ''Literature/JamesBond'' novel ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', Kissy Suzuki knows she's pregnant, but doesn't tell Bond when he leaves her. The sequel short story "Blast from the Past" by former ''Bond'' author Raymond Benson features the son, James Suzuki [[spoiler:as a corpse]].

->''"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... [[Theatre/MadameButterfly 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!]]"''

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' part 4 uses this trope as the origin of new protagonist Josuke Higashikata. His father is Joseph Joestar, while his mother is a Japanese woman named Tomoko 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.

* {{Inverted|Trope}} 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.

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 [[SonOfAWhore impregnating 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.

->''"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... [[Theatre/MadameButterfly 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!]]"''

# She gives birth to an Eurasian child and keeps it secret from the father.

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 [[MySecretPregnancy Secret Pregnancy]], you get Asian Babymama. UnfortunateImplications may follow.

** {{Daken}} is the son of Wolverine and his deceased Japanese wife.