Basic Trope: Two members of drastically different species are able to reproduce.
- Straight: On Planet Troperia, the Blotched Flutterbird is able to breed with the Azure Bear, about 10 times as large and having little to no similarity with the former.
- Exaggerated:
- The Azure Bear is whale-sized entity and the Blotched Flutterbird is a creature the size of an amoeba. And they can still breed.
- Every single creature on Planet Troperia can breed between each other, no matter their difference in size or morphology.
- Azure Bears are creatures which survive near zero degrees Kelvin while Blotched Flutterbirds would die of hypothermia on the surface of the sun. Somehow they reproduce when contact should be instantly lethal to both of them.
- Downplayed: Only a 1:2 size ratio exists between the Blotched Flutterbird and the Azure Bear, and there are actually more common points to both creatures than one might think, even though they still look pretty different.
- The reproduction explicitly involves artificial insemination or 'indirection'.
- Desert Dwarf Tigers and Giant Mountain Ice Tigers may interbreed as they are actually evolutionarily pretty close even though the latter is triple the size.
- Justified: Troperia possesses different biological laws when it comes to breeding, making such unlikely combinations actually possible and normal.
- Strandweavers Mothers look like the hybrid of a spider and a giant squid themselves but are explicitly a Designer Baby 'artisan' which deconstruct the genetic sample and 'manually' tweak and genetically engineer a viable lifeform. The 'father' can even be female so long as they have DNA to work as a basis.
- Inverted: The individuals have to be the exact same (on a molecular level!) in order to breed, or else it won't work.
- Subverted:
- Turns out both individuals are from the same species; it's just an extreme case of Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism.
- Flutterbirds don't actually breed with the Azure Bear, they simply use it to parasitically brood.
- Azure Flutterbears only look like they're a cross of Azure Bears and Blotched Flutterbirds. note
- Double Subverted: ...Which the Blotched Flutterbird takes advantage of, camouflaging as the pocket-sized Azure Bear to get to breed with the significantly larger creature of the opposite sex.
- Parodied: The Azure Bear is courted by many Blotched Flutterbirds. They're so small, it doesn't notice them and crushes them underneath its body by accident.
- Zig Zagged: The term "Blotched Flutterbird" is actually a nomenclature used for many different species of avians, some of which are able to reproduce with the Azure Bear, others not.
- Averted:
- No interspecies breeding has such a drastic difference between its individuals.
- Interspecies breeding is not possible.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "Wait a second! How can these two species reproduce at all!? One is like ten times bigger than the other!"
- Invoked: Alice is a Mad Scientist who does very questionable experiments regarding interspecies breeding, attempting to breed the Blotched Flutterbird and the Azure Bear together. And it works.
- Exploited: The Blotched Flutterbird is a critically endangered species and notices its sexual compatibility with the Azure Bear, a very common species; despite the size difference, it breeds with them in order to increase its numbers to safe levels again.
- Defied: Intimidated by the size of its gigantic potential breeding partner, the Blotched Flutterbird flees at the sight of the Azure Bear, mistaking it for a predator species.
- Discussed: "I know what you're thinking - there's no way these two can reproduce. And yet, this world's laws are so wacky that it actually happens!"
- Conversed: "Man, this show has such strange breeding laws! I mean, look at the size of that bear in comparison to this bird!"
- Implied:
- The Blotched Flutterbird is seen next to the Azure Bear during one shot. The next shot shows a hybrid animal looking like a blend between both species.
- The Blotched Flutterbird is shown performing a mating dance for the Azure Bear.
- Deconstructed: Breeding proves immensely dangerous to the Blotched Flutterbird due to the sheer size of its mating partner, and it almost always ends up in death for the smaller party.
- Smaller mothers by necessity have premature children even if they risk Death by Childbirth, resulting in increased risk of the offspring dying young.
- Reconstructed: Evolution causes the Blotched Flutterbird's body to adapt in order for it to be able to breed with the Azure Bear without risks.
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