Playing With / That Thing Is Not My Child!

Basic Trope: A person becomes a parent to something in such a way that they deny it is their child.

• Straight: Dr. Evilstein kidnaps Alice and puts her through experiments that cause her to give birth to a monster. Alice angrily says the monster is not her child.
• Exaggerated: Dr. Evilstein kidnaps Alice and puts her through experiments that cause her to give birth to an army of monsters. Alice claims none of them are her children.
• Downplayed: Dr. Evilstein kidnaps Alice and puts her through experiments that cause her to give birth to an army of monsters. When some of them turn out relatively decent, Alice accepts them as part of her social circle, but she doesn't treat them as her children.
• Justified:
  • The monster Alice gave birth to isn't genetically related to her, so at best she'd be a surrogate mother. Overall, she considers it more like parasitism, which isn't too far off from the truth.
  • The monster Alice gave birth to was forced on her in what was essentially an act of rape. Obviously, Alice wants nothing to do with it.
  • The child has become twisted by outside forces into a being that resembles the original person neither physically, nor in personality. Alice is convinced their child underwent a Death of Personality.
• Inverted:
  • Dr. Evilstein kidnaps Alice and puts her through experiments that cause her to give birth to a monster. When he tries to take the baby, Alice lashes out at him for trying to take her child.
  • Dr. Evilstein kidnaps Alice and puts her through experiments that cause her to give birth to a monster. After the birth, the monster claims Alice isn't its mother.
• Subverted: Dr. Evilstein experiments on Alice, causing her to give birth to a monster. Alice initially says the monster isn't her child...but after a while, she accepts it as such.
• Double Subverted: ...But it turns out Dr. Evilstein dosed her with a chemical to make her more affectionate towards the creature, so she wouldn't kill it. When the stuff wears off, Alice still insists the thing isn't hers.
• Parodied:
  • Alice loudly and dramatically rejects her child, not because of the questionable circumstances or her daughter's inhuman appearance- no, she's utterly mortified her daughter is "half-ginger!"
  • A self-help section in a bookstore turns up titles like A Monster's Guide to Handling Maternal Rejection.
• Zig Zagged: Dr. Evilstein experiments on Alice, causing her to give birth to a monster. Initially, Alice says it isn't her child, but after a while, she accepts it as such. However, it turns out Dr. Evilstein dosed her with a chemical to increase her affection for the creature so she wouldn't kill it. When the stuff wears off, Alice still insists the thing isn't hers. Then it turns out that the monster loves Alice because she gave birth to it, and after a while, Alice softens and accepts the creature as a member of her circle.
• Averted: Alice never even seems to question viewing her child as hers, despite having plenty of reason to.
• Enforced: "So we did some testing, and uh... Female fans were creeped out by the Unfortunate Implications of Alice unquestionably accepting her forced motherhood. At least give her some qualms, you know?"
• Lampshaded: "I know this is a cliche, but that creature isn't my child!"
• Invoked: Realizing just how problematic it'll be if Alice runs off with the Super Prototype she's gestating, Dr. Evilstein intentionally cultivates hatred in her so Alice will gladly abandon the child with him.
• Exploited: Dr. Evilstein, upon realizing his creation is too sweet to serve as proper muscle, plays archival footage of Alice - and thus breaks the poor girl with the revelation her mommy hates her.
• Defied: "Look, I know how she came about is super messed up, but I refuse to be someone who'll hate an innocent child!"
• Discussed: "From supernatural entities, genetic abnormalities, and just bizarre events... You think anyone ends up reacting negatively when they have weird kids?" "Seems inevitable at least one person would, no real universal standard when it comes to parenthood."
• Conversed:
  "Okay, I get it can seem weird for a character to be oddly chill with forced parenthood or having a mutated kid... But doesn't outright negativity send a bad message too?"
  "Well, really depends on the kid in question. If they're nothing more than a parasitic monster, then loving such a thing would be mad. Yet if they're just a troubled or oblivious child, then treating them humanely is important to avoid Unfortunate Implications for real struggling children."
• Implied: Though Alice seemingly has no problem interacting with her Cute Monster Girl daughter Carol, she oddly never calls Carol her child and looks uncomfortable when Carol cheerfully calls her mom.
• Deconstructed: The fact Alice so adamantly rejects her child, results in the poor kid growing up with all kinds of problems: self-esteem/hatred issues, envy of others with loving parents, or even a complex hatred for their mother.
• Reconstructed: Though Alice clearly has issues with her child, it is less inherent hatred and more fear. Her child, in turn, is able to grasp that mommy is willing to love her- provided Alice is somehow convinced her child isn't someone to fear.
• Played for Laughs: ???
• Played for Drama: Alice is too unnerved by the experiments she went through, that looking at her monster daughter just reminds her of everything Dr. Evilstein did. Thus Alice rejects her child, in a desperate attempt to separate herself from the pain.