History Main / GenderEqualsBreed

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Compare JacobAndEsau. BicolorCowsSolidColorBulls is a subtrope.

* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': The children of [[spoiler:Delbert and Amelia]] display this. The three girls are clearly modeled after their mother and the boy is clearly modeled after his father (even inheriting his [[spoiler:poor eyesight]]). They aren't even the same species!

** In the sequel series "Literature/TheTrialsofApollo" a male dryad named Joshua is introduced. Apollo comments that male dryads are quite rare.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Inverted in the television movie ''Channel Chasers'', where in an improved future shows a grown-up Timmy (who has married his AbhorrentAdmirer Tooty), with two children; Timmy's son looks like him, but wears a different hat, has black hair like Tootie, and a pointy nose. Timmy's daughter looks like a female version of himself, with better teeth and tweezed eyebrows, and wears similar sunglasses and clothes to Tootie, and has a hairstyle similar to Timmy's childhood crush Trixie (as Timmy's eventual marriage was meant to be a secret at this point).

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Several fanfics involving Veela state that in a Veela/wizard pairing any girls born are full-blooded Veela while boys are human and, at most, carriers of the applicable gene.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Inverted, with Gumball being a cat like his mother Nicole, and his sister Anais being a rabbit like their father Richard.

* Averted with ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'': Bluey and Bingo are both girls, but Bluey is a blue heeler while Bingo is a red heeler. Their dad is a blue heeler while their mom is a red heeler.

* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': [[spoiler:Margaret is a red robin like her mother (and the rest of her extended family, save John) while her father is a ''human''.]]

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* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'': Subtly utilized (all previous pairings being same-species) when Ino (a pig) and his wife (a... [[CartoonCreature round-eared animal]]) are later shown with their daughter, a round-eared animal like her mother. According to WordOfGod, it always works like that -- women are always the same kind of animal as their mothers, and men as their fathers.
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'':
** This is the way Sonic and Sally's children are represented in all of the {{flashforward}}s in the comic. The "30 Years Later" storyline shows this to also be true for Tails and Mina's children. This also applies to Bunnie and Antoine's children, though DependingOnTheArtist, the boy may have Bunnie's coloration and the girl Antoine's. Somehow, they [[LamarckWasRight both inherited robotic limbs from their mother]]. A notable exception is Jon, the son of Rob O'Hedge and Mari-An. Despite being male, he is an Echidna, like his mom.
** This would ultimately be justified in [[AllThereInTheManual "The Complete Sonic Comic Encyclopedia"]]: when Mobians of different species mate, normally, this results in twins, where each twin carries one parent's physical traits, but in rare cases such interspecies pairings produce a single child with physical traits of both. Little Jon O' the Hedge is presumably a retcon who would have turned out as a proper echidna/hedgehog hybrid when he grew up, much like the post-Super Genasis Wave character Princess Undina, who mostly resembles her anglerfish mother but lacks a light and has her father's purple coloration.

* In ''Fanfic/TheBridge'' this is how mermare reproduction works. Mermares are a OneGenderRace, which necessitates mating with equines of other races. If the mermare's foal is female, she'll be a new mermare with different traits depending on her father's race. If the mermare's foal is male, he'll be the same species as his father and feel a connection to the sea.

* In ''Literature/NorthernLights'', witches are an all-female species that mate with human males. Female offspring are witches, male offspring are human.

* In Piers Anthony's ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' novels, fauns and nymphs are males and females of the same species. It's also stated that "daughters take after their mothers and sons after their fathers". Dawn (a human) and Picka Bone (a skeleton) have a son and daughter, Piton and Data, with Piton normally a skeleton like his father while Data is human like her mother (though they can take either form, being crossbreeds).

* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', the imperial family of Tolnedra frequently intermarries with dryads. The daughters of the family (such as Ce'Nedra) are all dryads, while this doesn't seem to have any effect on the male line.
* "[[https://interestingliterature.com/2016/03/the-children-of-the-owl-and-the-pussy-cat/ The Children of the Owl and the Pussycat]]", Creator/EdwardLear's sequel to "The Owl and the Pussycat", unpublished in his lifetime, states:
-->The brothers of our family have feathers and they hoot,\\
While all the sisters dress in fur and have long tails to boot.

* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': This concept is parodied and then subverted when the AlmightyJanitor fantasizes about being married to Elliot. They are surrounded by little girls dressed as doctors like Elliot and little boys dressed as janitors like The Janitor. Elliot wonders if they're "pigeonholing the children," and The Janitor points out that it doesn't matter because they aren't their kids.

* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'': Centaurs are an exclusively male race. They mate with human females and, if offspring are male, they are always centaurs. Female children are always human.
* ''Series/{{Hercules}}'': Wood spirits' gender determines what race they are. Satyrs are always male and nymphs are always female, a child between the two will always be the same race as the gender they share with their parent. A human relationship with a nymph will always result in another human regardless of sex. [[spoiler: Hercules ends up fathering a human son with the his second wife, the nymph Deianeira.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Usually, the child of two different Pokémon will always be the same species as the mother, unless the mother is a Ditto. For male-only species, such as Tauros and Hitmontop, they can only reproduce their own species by breeding with Ditto. Oddly, a Ditto can breed with any breedable Pokemon ''except'' another Ditto. However, certain Pokémon have genders so different that they are classified separately, but the above rules still apply when crossbreeding (e.g. the child of a female Nidoran will be a Nidoran of either gender, but the child of a male will be whatever species the mother is.) See also: HotSkittyOnWailordAction.
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': Lampshaded in ''2'', with a human sub-species or variant species that ''specifically'' works this way, the Echani. The somewhat creepy Echani Handmaidens all look identical because Echani always physically take after the parent of the same gender. The one exception is a pariah because the fact that she looks different is a sign of their father's infidelity -- and because she looks exactly identical to her mother at her age. The creepiness is enhanced by [[spoiler:the credible fan theory that the Handmaiden's mother is Kreia]].

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': As the series' averts AllGenesAreCodominant, offspring produced by members of two different races are {{Uneven Hybrid}}s with the race of the offspring usually being virtually identical to the mother, with a few of the father's traits potentially sprinkled in. The [[LizardFolk Argonians]] are the only race not to share evolutionary origins with the others and are mutually infertile with everyone except each other, while [[CatFolk Khajiit]] may be able to interbreed, but to date, there are no canonical examples of offspring produced.

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'': Kokonoe looks very similar to her mother, a humanoid witch, but has a few traits from her intelligent feline father Jubei [[LittleBitBeastly including two tails and cat ears]].
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'': Downplayed with the Orzammar dwarves' caste system: each dwarf belongs to a specific caste from birth, whereby boys inherit their father's caste, while girls inherit their mother's. This gives rise to the "noble hunting" activity, where young hopefuls (mostly women) of low castes seek to seduce members of higher ones (usually nobles) and to sire children with them, who would hopefully belong to the higher caste. If successful, the "noble hunter" can become a concubine/consort for as long as the child survives. Paradoxically, this behavior is not only tolerated but even surreptitiously encouraged by the nobles, since their birth rates are in decline, and a kid by a "hunter" is as legal an heir in Orzammar as by a noble spouse.

* ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'':
** Jyrras and his sisters. Their dad is a kangaroo mouse while their mom is a kangaroo. Yes, he gets glomped a lot by his much bigger siblings, why do you ask?
** Though when beings and creatures (demons, cubi etc.) interbreed their offspring look like their being parent with creature traits tacked on, regardless of gender. For example Lorenda is a half-demon cow, her mother is a demon mare and her father was a bull being. Likewise both Dan and Abel heavily resemble their being parent, and Dan's [[http://www.missmab.com/Demo/HG02.php hypothetical daughter with Matilda]], a taur Mythos, strongly resembles her mother.
** And then there's the issue of body type, children will always take on the type of their mother; i.e. a [[OurCentaursAreDifferent taur]] mother will always have taur children, same with bipedal and [[SnakePeople serpentine]] body types. Amber made the rule on the fly [[FridgeHorror when she considered a taur being born to a non-taur mother]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Precocious}}'': Inverted; Bud is a Scottish fold like his mother, while his older sister is a white American shorthair like their dad.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Herbert's dream sequence parody of "Somewhere That's Green" from ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''. In it, Herbert is dressed like Audrey and Chris is his Seymour. And the son and daughter look like Chris and Audrey!Herbert respectively. It's really weird compared to where the parody came from which shows that Seymour and Audrey's children look like miniature versions of their parents.
* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'': Pete (a cat) and Peg (presumably a dog)'s children. P.J. looks just like Pete (with less of the ugly), and their daughter Pistol looks more like Peg. However, given that the majority of the characters in the show are DogFaces and the concept of "breeds" does not seem to exist in the ''Goof Troop'' continuity, Pete may in fact be a dog in this series, making this an example of the supertrope StrongFamilyResemblance.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': Played with, as the children (born from an egg) of Filburt the turtle and his feline wife Dr. Hutchison follow this trope, except for one child being a steer who resembles Heffer who actually sat on the egg until it hatched (a ShoutOut to the Creator/DrSeuss book ''Horton Hatches an Egg'').
* Hinted at in a painting that Painter Smurf had created of Papa Smurf and his prospective bride Flowerbell the woodnymph in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Smurfs|1981}}'' episode "Papa's Wedding Day", with their offspring male Smurfs. The painting was done to dissuade Papa Smurf from marrying Flowerbell, as the other Smurfs knew the whole thing was a setup.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Inverted in the television movie ''Channel Chasers'', where in an improved future shows a grown-up Timmy (who has married his AbhorrentAdmirer Tooty), with two children; Timmy's son looks like him, but wears a different hat, has black hair like Tootie, and a pointy nose. Timmy's daughter looks like a female version of himself, with better teeth and tweezed eyebrows, and wears similar sunglasses and clothes to Tootie, and has a hairstyle similar to Timmy's childhood crush Trixie (as Timmy's eventual marriage was meant to be a secret at this point).
* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': [[spoiler:Margaret is a red robin like her mother (and the rest of her extended family, save John) while her father is a ''human''.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dogstar}}'': Hobart's puppies. The girls look exactly like their mother Lady, while the boy looks exactly like Hobart.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' inverts this trope with [[spoiler:Evangelyne and Sadlygrove's children]], as each kid is the same race as their opposite-sex parent. Though in this world, the "races" are in fact religions granting an appearance close to their gods, and they are still the same species. Their third child is also a boy who takes more after his father (though he does have green eyes like his mother).

* Averted with [[WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}} Bluey]]: Bluey and Bingo are both girls, but Bluey is a blue heeler while Bingo is a red heeler. Their dad is a blue heeler while their mom is a red heeler.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Hags are AlwaysFemale, and thus need to mate with humanoids, monstrous humanoids or fey to reproduce. The female children resulting from these unions are always hags, while the male children are always members of the father's species, albeit sterile and appearing... [[UncannyValley wrong]], somehow.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Herbert's dream sequence parody of "Somewhere That's Green" from ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''. In it, Herbert is dressed like Audrey and Chris is his Seymour. And the son and daughter look like Chris and Audrey!Herbert respectively. It's [[UncannyValley really weird]] compared to where the parody came from which shows that Seymour and Audrey's children look like miniature versions of their parents.