History Main / ChildOfForbiddenLove

* 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.

* Percy Jackson in ''Literature/CampHalfBloodSeries'' His father Poseidon had sworn a very solemn oath not to have demigod children due to a prophecy. But Poseidon met and fell in love with Sally Jackson and Percy happened.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "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'': Jon Snow is the product of a secret affair between [[spoiler:Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen]], the latter of whom's [[spoiler:alleged kidnapping and rape of the former sparked a massive, continent-spanning civil war]]. After [[spoiler:Lyanna]] suffered DeathByChildbirth, [[spoiler:her brother Eddard]] adopted Jon, claiming he was his own bastard son to protect him from Rhaegar's enemies. [[spoiler:However, it's eventually revealed that this trope doesn't ''exactly'' apply since Jon's parents were even ''more'' secretly ''married''.]]

* ''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:Including the child's parents, who have both moved on and want to pretend the child doesn't exist.]]

* ''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.

** The series used this to bring in a previously unknown fourth sister after the oldest was [[McLeaned killed off]]. The sisters' mother had an affair with her Whitelighter after her marriage fell apart, which was ''strictly'' forbidden, as second daughter Piper knew [[GenerationXerox all too well]]. The resulting pregnancy was covered up and the baby given up for adoption for fear that the rest of the family would be punished by association. Amazingly enough, this was not an AssPull; Paige was introduced at the start of Season 4, while [[ArcWelding the affair that resulted in her conception was revealed back in Season 2]].

* Myth/KingArthur:

* ComicBook/{{Hulkling}} of the ComicBook/YoungAvengers was borne out of a forbidden love affair between ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} and the Skrull princess Anelle. Since his parents' races are at war, he's ''also'' a ChildOfTwoWorlds.

* Comedian Creator/TrevorNoah directly invokes this trope in titling his autobiography ''Literature/BornACrime''--referring to how he was born into a white man and black woman in [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Apartheid]] UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica.

* Comedian Creator/TrevorNoah directly invokes this trope in titling his autobiography ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_a_Crime Born a Crime]]''--referring to how he was born into a white man and black woman in [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Apartheid]] UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica.

* Comedian Creator/TrevorNoah directly invokes this trope in titling his autobiography ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_a_Crime Born a Crime]]''--referring to how he was born into a white man and black woman in Apartheid UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica.

* In the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' series, a demon named Sparda "wakes up to justice", as the game itself calls it when he falls in love with a human woman named Eva. [[DefectorFromDecadence He would later go on to betray demonkind]] and free humanity from their tyranny. The protagonist of the series is one of their children, the HalfHumanHybrid Dante.

-->--'''Arthur Curry''', ''Film/Aquaman2018''

* ''Series/NancyDrew2019'' The series’s big twist is [[spoiler: Nancy is actually the daughter of Ryan Hudson and Lucy Sable, teenage lovers whose romance was destroyed by Ryan’s classist father.]]

** [[spoiler:The protagonist's and Amanda’s baby in the “good” Amanda ending.]]

* ''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 women 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.

* ComicBook/{{Hulkling}} of the ComicBook/YoungAvengers was borne out of a forbidden love affair between ComicBook/CaptainMarVell and the Skrull princess Anelle. Since his parents' races are at war, he's ''also'' a ChildOfTwoWorlds.

* ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert':

See also JustForFun/XMeetsY, when the term "love child" is used to describe a mix of two different things. May overlap with WarringNatures and ChildOfTwoWorlds.

* 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.]]