History Main / SonOfAWhore

* Homer [[TheSimpsons Simpson]]'s half-brother, Herb Powell, though he was given up for adoption when he was a baby.

* Skwisgaar Skwigelf from {{Metalocalypse}}. Sadly, his mother seems to be lacking the heart of gold.

* Connor from ''{{Angel}}''. Darla was a prostitute dying of syphilis (and not the [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer funny kind]]) in Colonial Virginia when The Master (not [[DoctorWho that one]]) turned her. Of course, by the time he was born Darla has been a mass murdering psychotic Vampire for about a century or so, so her previous occupation probably rated low on his list of concerns.
* According to the book ''Go Ask Malice'', the mother of Faith of ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' did some hooker work. Faith's father was not a customer. He was a convicted murderer who rotted in prison since Faith's childhood. No wonder she preferred the Mayor.

* On ''DarkAngel'', Max compares the surrogate mothers paid by Manticore to carry her and the other X5s to term to "working girls".

* Due to the fact that there is no word for "Bitch" in Spanish, instead of saying "son of a bitch" they say "son of a whore" ("Hijo de puta")

* Pedro López, Colombian SerialKiller

**** [[spoiler: Jossed in a recent episode, she's his mom. Still a dirty slut though.]]
* Homer [[TheSimpsons Simpson]]'s half-brother, Herb Powell.

* Jephthah, one of the Biblical judges.

A character whose mother is a whore, most likely a HookerWithAHeartOfGold. BonusPoints if the father was one of her customers. Sometimes the character was merely raised in a brothel, without either of his/her parents working there, or being born of a sex slave. Expect either {{wangst}} or angst over their origin. More common amongst {{Anti Hero}}es than others. Possible HeroicBastard.

* In Randy Travis's ''Three Wooden Crosses'', it turns out that [[spoiler:the preacher telling the story to his congregation is the son of the hooker who survived the crash, who read the Bible that the preacher who died gave to her to him]].

* One of the secondary protagonists from AnneMcCaffrey's ''The City Who Fought'' describes himself as "the son of a pimp and dockside whore." His CrowningMomentOfAwesome was silently [[UnusualEuphemism disassembling]] one of the book's DeathWorld raised, [[TheSpartanWay spartan way]]/TrainingFromHell trained bad guys ([[spoiler:who had [[RapeAsRedemption raped]] his love interest]]) in hand-to-hand combat, followed by coldly performing some... mutilations on his corpse.

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* Due to the fact that there is no word for "Bitch" in Spanish, instead of saying "son of a bitch" they say "son of a whore" ("Hijo de una puta")

* In Randy Travis's ''Three Wooden Crosses'', it turns out that [[spoiler:the preacher telling the story to his congregation is the son of the hooker who survived the crash, who read the Bible that the preacher who died gave her to him]].

* Both the main characters in ''Melusine''.

* Felix and Mildmay of ''DoctrineOfLabyrinths'', though technically she didn't become a prostitute until after Felix's birth. But she ''was'' a bit...free with her affections even then. Neither knows who their either of fathers is, it never becomes a plot point despite Felix's remarkably strong magical abilities, and neither particularly cares.

--->'''[[spoiler:Liz]]''': [[spoiler:I still resent the mother who abandoned both me and Patti, but---... Even though I heard that she was the most beautiful prostitute in Brooklyn, I don't feel any gratitude for her just for giving birth to me, not matter how beautifully she did it...]]

* In ''FullmetalAlchemist'', [[spoiler: Roy Mustang's (foster)]] mother was revealed to be one Madame Christmas, proprietor of a brothel/pub. It's not said who his [[spoiler:biological mother]] is, but it can be inferred that [[spoiler:she was most likely one of Madam Christmas' girls]].

* In ''FullmetalAlchemist'', [[spoiler: Roy Mustang's (foster)]] mother was revealed to be one Madame Christmas, proprietor of a brothel/pub.

* [[spoiler: Ryuuji Takasu]] from ToraDora is the illegitimate son of a [[HotMom beautiful]] bar hostess and a Yakuza. And he was born when his mom was, as much, [[AbsurdlyYouthfulMother 15 years old.]]

* RedDeadRedemption: John Martson and his son Jack are both this, but it doesn't have any Negative effects on either.Heck, Jack's mother is actually a pretty nice person.