History Main / ChildOfForbiddenLove

* ''Anime/VoltesV'': Played with. [[spoiler: [[AlienPrince Prince]] [[NobleDemon Heinel]] was the son of a Horned Boazanian, Lozaria, and a Hornless Boazanian, Prince Gohl. Gohl deliberately hid the fact that he was Hornless because under [[PlanetaryNation Boazan]] [[FantasticCasteSystem law]], only the Horned are allowed to be nobles, while the Hornless are meant to be enslaved. Gohl only revealed his prosthetic horns to Lozaria shortly before their marriage, and she told him she loved him anyway, the two embracing later. Because AliensAreBastards, Gohl's cousin Zambajil finds out his secret using dirty tricks and exposes him so he can usurp the throne, and Lozaria is forcibly separated from Gohl (with the implication of Horned-Hornless relationships being forbidden on Boazan) before being exiled from the castle. Gohl is MadeASlave and oblivious to the fact that he has a firstborn son until he finds out that poor Lozaria died in childbirth. The child who would grow up to be Prince Heinel would suffer [[SinsOfOurFathers constant abuse]] from his fellow nobles based on his father's misdeeds, fuelling him to be the EvilPrince he is today. And in a twist of tragic irony, neither Heinel and Gohl realize they are father and son until Heinel is on the brink of killing his own kin.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': Meteora Butterfly is the daughter of Mewman Queen Eclipsa and Globgor, the monster Prince of Darkness. Her existence was considered shameful by her Mewman stepfather King Shastacan, who conspired with the Magic High Commission to {{Unperson}} her and replace her with a Mewman peasant.

* ''Anime/IsabelleOfParis'' starts with the ForbiddenRomance of Jules Francoeur, an impoverished pianist who incites the commoners to resist the forces of the Bourgieoisie and [[spoiler: is the leader of the Paris Commune]], and Geneviève Laustin, the oldest daughter of [[{{Ojou}} the]] [[RichBitch Laustin]] [[BadassFamily family]]. Geneviève is disowned for loving Jules, but she doesn't care and marries him. [[spoiler: Near the GrandFinale, Geneviève reveals to Isabelle that she is pregnant with Jules' child. She states that she will fight for Paris to ensure her child's future.]]

* ''{{Series/Cursed}}'': [[spoiler:Nimue]] was born due to her parents' affair. Her father was despised for supposedly betraying his people (so associating with him was tabooed); her mother was engaged to someone else.

* Reiner Braun in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' was told that he was this by his mother, Karina. As she is an Eldian and his father being a Marleyan, and since unions between the two races were forbidden by the laws of Marley because Eldians were "the children of the Devil", they had to be separated. It was because of this, Reiner trained hard to become a warrior cadet to inherited one of the Nine Titan powers so he could reunite his parents and be a happy family together. [[spoiler:Subverted when it's later revealed that Reiner's father actually wants nothing to do with him or his mother as he already has another family. It's also even implied that Karina is just using her son to get back at her former lover for leaving her.]]

* Cassie, from Edward Or Ford's WesternAnimation/GravityFalls ''Unexpected'' FanFiction AU, is this as the daughter of Dipper and Mabel. [[{{Twincest}} Guess]] [[BrotherSisterIncest why]].
* Bowser Jr in the two-shot ''Fanfic/MyPainMyThrill'' is the HalfHumanHybrid child of Princess Peach and King Bowser. His parents are the rulers of two enemy kingdoms. Peach and Bowser are in a SecretRelationship that must remain secret, at least for now, due to political reasons.

* In ''Fanfic/WarriorsThePowerOfThreeRewriteAU'', the Three are the product of two medicine cats from separate Clans falling in love. Such a relationship breaks two rules of the Clans. This is why Leafpool decided on a FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo with her sister.

* ''Film/FastColor'': Bo's mother tried to stop her being with Ellis. They carried on anyway and had Ruth.
* ''Film/{{Ophelia}}'': Ophelia's daughter with Hamlet, as they were forced to keep their romance (then marriage) a secret because of her common-born status. Sadly, [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy Hamlet never gets to see her]].

* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' series, there are two types of forbidden relationships: medicine cats taking a mate, and inter-Clan relationships. Nevertheless, there are several characters who were the result of such relationships. For the most part, the parents are thrilled (or, sometimes, at least one of them is, while the other worries about what will happen in the future). There are also a few cases where the father isn't told until later ([[LukeYouAreMyFather by their own children]]).
* In the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' story "The Adventure of the Priory School", the person responsible for kidnapping the Duke's son is [[spoiler:his secretary]], who is the Duke's love child from a girl he could not marry and who had [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]]. Since the Duke couldn't punish the boy without thinking of his lost love, the kid grew up into criminal habits, especially once he learned he'd never inherit the title or fortune.
* Discussed but not actually present in ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility''. Colonel Brandon's backstory is that he had been in love with his cousin Eliza, who was forced to marry his older brother. Years later, he found her living on the streets, and she asked him to look after her daughter, who had been fathered by some man she'd been with after her husband died. The daughter is ''not'' Colonel Brandon's child, but a few characters believe that she is and that this trope is the reason. He elects not to correct them about it, to protect Eliza's memory, though he does confide the whole story to Elinor.
* ''Literature/NightWorld'':
** [[{{Dhampyr}} Jez Redfern]] was the result of a union between a human woman and a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent lamia man]], which is forbidden by Night World law. Her parents were actually murdered because of this and they nearly killed Jez too. Her parents didn't intend to have children and didn't even realize it was ''possible'' for a human and lamia to conceive a child together.
** Lupe's parents were a werewolf and a human, who like Jez's parents broke one of the Night World's most serious laws by being together. Lupe's human father was killed, while she and her mother were rescued and sheltered by Thierry, which is partly why she has UndyingLoyalty to him. Lupe appears pretty comfortable about her 'half-breed' status, openly telling Hannah Snow about it, though she is still grieved by what happened to her father.
* Hoshi from ''Literature/HoshiAndTheRedCityCircuit'' is the product of an illegal mating between two [[FictionalDisability Operators]] who had somehow escaped sterilization. Her parents were killed for their crime.
* In ''Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy'', [[spoiler:Merlin]] is this, as [[spoiler: he was born from the love story between Niniane and Ambrosius]]. Arthur himself is one due to Main/AdaptationalConsent turning his parents' relationship into a consensual affair.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E4TheOutrageousOkona The Outrageous Okona]]", the Expies of Romeo and Juliet are expecting a child. She tells her father that the eponymous Okona is the father because she's afraid of starting a war between their planets.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': [[spoiler:Jon Snow]] is the product of a secret affair between [[spoiler:Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen]]. After his mother died in childbirth, he was raised by [[spoiler: Lyanna's brother Eddard]], who pretended to be his father in order to protect him from [[spoiler:anyone who wished to wipe out the last remaining Targaryens]].

** Averted with Piper's own half-Whitelighter children, who are not examples because their parents' relationship was no longer forbidden by the time they were born.

* ''Series/CarnivalRow'': Philo is the love child of a Faerie and human. This kind of relationship is condemned by most humans.

* ''Series/NoughtsAndCrosses'': [[spoiler:Callum and Sephy's baby]], as the result of their illicit relationship.

* ''VideoGame/SoulcaliburV'' introduces Xiba, a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for one of the protagonists of the previous games, Kilik. The suspicious similarity is later revealed to be because he's Kilik's son, fathered with his LoveInterest from the previous games, Xianghua. The two lovers consummated their love and then Kilik disappeared, never knowing he'd fathered a son. When Xianghua went home, she was at first rejected by her family for giving birth to some unknown person's bastard son, but she and her [[ArrangedMarriage betrothed husband]] made special arrangements to see that Xiba was protected and that Xianghua could visit him every once in a while.

* ''Videogame/{{Bayonetta}}'': The title character is the result of a forbidden union between the Umbra Witch Rosa and the Lumen Sage Balder. Her mother eternally imprisoned and her father exiled, she was forbidden from learning the dark arts of her mother's people.
* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' has the appropriately named Sin Kiske, the human/Gear hybrid son of [[SecretRelationship Ky and Dizzy]]. Given the fact that Ky had been made a king and Dizzy was put in suspended animation to protect her life, Sin spends a good chunk of his childhood being raised by [[spoiler:his maternal grandfather]] Sol.
* ''VideoGame/MyChildLebensborn'': One of the first things revealed by looking into the child's origins is that they were the product of a loving and consensual relationship. This isn't a given at the beginning of the game, as the child is an AbandonedWarChild. However, the latter still means that their mother was a woman from an occupied country, while their father was a soldier from UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, so there are plenty of people who see the child as the product of something that shouldn't have happened. [[spoiler:This includes the child's parents, who have both moved on and want to pretend the child doesn't exist.]]

* ''Anime/VoltesV'': Played with. [[spoiler: [[AlienPrince Prince]] [[NobleDemon Heinel]] was the son of a Horned Boazanian, Lozaria, and a Hornless Boazanian, Prince Gohl. Gohl deliberately hid the fact that he was Hornless because under [[PlanetaryNation Boazan]] [[FantasticCasteSystem law]], only the Horned are allowed to be nobles, while the Hornless are meant to be enslaved. Gohl only revealed his prosthetic horns to Lozaria shortly before their marriage, and she told him she loved him anyway, the two embracing later. Because AliensAreBastards, Gohl's cousin Zambajil finds out his secret using dirty tricks and exposes him so he can usurp the throne, and Lozaria is forcibly separated from Gohl (with the implication of Horned-Hornless relationships being forbidden on Boazan) before being exiled from the castle. Gohl is MadeASlave and oblivious to the fact that he has a firstborn son until he finds out that poor Lozaria died in childbirth. The child who would grow up to be Prince Heinel would suffer [[SinsOfOurFathers constant abuse]] from his fellow nobles based on his father's misdeeds]], fuelling him to be the EvilPrince he is today. And in a twist of tragic irony, neither Heinel and Gohl realize they are father and son until Heinel is on the brink of killing his own kin.]]