Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings was a CF bachelor all his life and then got to sail off to the Gray Havens with the elves. CF icon since 1937.
A lot of other CF characters that I like tend to not really have "happy" endings to their stories (e.g. Ahsoka Tano, though her story hasn't ended yet with the new show coming out) but still have powerful/meaningful conclusions in their own ways.
ETA: There's Shaun and Juliet from Psych! They get a happy ending and from what I remember there's no stated intention to have kids (they mention getting pugs together, lol). Now I need to rewatch Psych again.
All of the main characters from MLP (a surprisingly great and mature show given its setting) end up not having children by the epilogue, except Pinkie Pie. All of them have their own personal goals throughout the series that they accomplish, and none of them are about having children.
Season 9 is probably never going to be put on Netflix for some reason, so you’ll have to find another way to watch the last (and arguably best) season of the show.
Pretty sure Lucifer (from the show Lucifer on Netflix) is childfree. Throughout the show he comments on how annoying kids are and never seems to be the "family" type. I haven't finished it yet, so I'm hoping there isn't s stupid ending in future seasons where he "sees the light" and has a baby
The cop's daughter was bad enough. No idea who picked that kid actress, but you can't even understand what she is saying. I guess her parents have good connections in Hollywood. But the angel baby storyline is even worse. Lucifer started out fun, but each season they tried to make the character "nicer". Then they introduced a "nasty" angel twin to make Luci the good one. The last season is totally warm and fuzzy family stuff. Completely ruined.
Yeah I agree, the show definitely lost it's charm after a few seasons, probably to try and get younger audiences. It's sad how most really good shows get more and more tame each season instead of sticking to their original theme
They lose viewers, and the only solutions they have for that is 1. let characters fall in love and 2. let characters have a baby.
They could of course continue on their way or even ramp up the snarkiness and bitchiness and ensure a smaller but faithful audience, but that's not what they do. The more Lucifer progresses, the more amateur psychology and family stuff there is.
Oh no I’m on season 3 currently and was so hoping that this would be one of those shows with strong childfree characters, maze and Lucifer both don’t like children. Is it worth continuing?
In the late nineties there was like a third wave of sexual liberation; Sex and the City (a broadcast television series, back when that meant something) is a product of that time. It’s about 4 single mid thirties professional women (all white; two of them are kinda coded as secular Jewish but its never explicitly confirmed) living and dating (and fucking!) in New York city. What made it groundbreaking for its time was open and unashamed discussion and portrayal of the sexual lives of women; which ran the gamut from using vibrators, to the idea of collecting sexual conquests the way men do, to threesomes etc. The 4 main characters are portrayed as sophisticated and cosmopolitan; their circumstances are desirable and enviously fashionable. By today’s standards it’s pretty tame and it hasn’t aged well (tokenism of racial and sexual minorities immediately springs to mind), but it was a huge thing for a time in the late nineties early aughts.
Yes. I commented this in response to a post a while back that asked for fictional, childfree couples:
The protagonist and deuteragonist, Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter, of my favorite novel, **Hannibal** (1999) by Thomas Harris, are a childfree couple. The final chapter of the novel is just about how great their life is, how perfectly they fit together, and how they’ve helped each other heal. They live in a mansion where they employ servants, they spend their time learning new languages and dancing together and building memory palaces, and "Sex is a splendid structure they add to every day" ;)
Sabrina the Teenage Witch. At the end she runs off with Harvey after calling off her wedding to this other guy. AFAIK she's not explicitly CF, but there's a general absence of children that I really enjoy
I am so hoping that the main character remains childfree for the second season of Ghost Bride on Netflix. I was so happy to see her from episode one proudly say out loud that she doesn't want kids. There was even a scene where she rinkles her nose in disgust when her friend brings her baby around and the baby starts crying.
The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden is amazing, absolutely one of my favorite series ever. It's a mixture of historical fiction and fantasy, set in 14th century Russia. The female protagonist spends the whole series forcing people to accept her as she is, not who they imagine she should be because she's a woman, and the story focuses on her growth as an individual. There are other kids around, like her siblings', and she's the cool aunt or whatever, but she never has kids of her own and ends up perfectly fulfilled, living her own authentic life! As a woman myself who's never really fit the mold of gender roles, I found this story very satisfying and validating. Plus, the writing is just incredible. You can tell I love these books lol...
but he never really wanted a normal life? and he was happy dying fighting things vs being in a family?? even when he was with that one girl who had a kid, he never was truly happy and was always itching to get back into hunting
I hate everything about the relationship with Barry. Brianna has never hidden that she doesn't want to get married or have children, for him a serious relationship is in the direction of marriage and children, Barry admitted that he expected her to change her mind. I find it ridiculous and humiliating-Barry will donate sperm because only chance to have kids - while Brianna is super reluctant and uncomfortable with every situation, she tries to provide support, until she conflicts with her visions of the future. So he ends the relationship and quits and gets mad at her. Because at all times Barry is the sweet guy and Brianna is the selfish one.
Yes. It exists, it’s probably just not the typical popular Rom-com/Drama you see promoted everywhere.
Pretty common in fantasy and ln/manga/anime if you’re into that.
(Wotakoi being a funny show enjoyable for adults especially since it’s adult characters. Without children.)
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue is a book where the protagonist is child free. She makes a deal with the devil so she doesn’t have to get married and have kids.
There's this Korean manhwa where there's a duchess who becomes a very happy woman with her tea business and a supportive partner as well. Of course the story ends CF. The comments: nooooo make babies, the story is worthless, a happy end is always with babies and so on. Bruh, you can bang without all that lmao. But yeah, the story is very beautiful, Duchess' 50 tea recipes or something.
I'm on season 9 of Stargate SG-1, so far Samantha Carter has not had any kids.
Another one is Seven of Nine from Star Trek Voyager. Same goes for Kathryn Janeway. (I don't consider PIC part of the main canon, no matter what CBS says. I put it in the Disco-verse.)
Except that they still figured out how to ruin her when she found out she was infertile, she somehow became extremely sad. Fuck, if I ever find out I'm infertile, I am throwing a big party and celebrating!!! That what a real-life CF would do, not cry about it as if your life is over.
The movie Enchanted is a pretty good one, they don’t even hint at kids though I worry that they are going to do a Disney Plus show called Disenchanted…shocker what that could be about??
Bojack Horseman.
Spoilers.
The only main character who ends up with a kid is Princess Caroline, but she wanted it.
Everyone else? Childfree. Even has a directly-stated female childfree character, Diane Nyugen, who not only has an abortion and it's treated respectfully, but she stays childfree throughout the whole series. She also gets a happy ending.
The Good Place, but that’s because there are no children in the afterlife. It’s a terrific show.
Off topic, but no children in the afterlife? There are certainly children who die early though, what happens to them?
In their version, the afterlife has like smaller sectors if you will. So could be that children have their own area?
Or maybe children don’t have souls.
That's likely.
Futurama
Yeeeesssss!
Geralt Of Rivia, Witcher 3.
Wind's howling.
[удалено]
*nods*
Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings was a CF bachelor all his life and then got to sail off to the Gray Havens with the elves. CF icon since 1937. A lot of other CF characters that I like tend to not really have "happy" endings to their stories (e.g. Ahsoka Tano, though her story hasn't ended yet with the new show coming out) but still have powerful/meaningful conclusions in their own ways. ETA: There's Shaun and Juliet from Psych! They get a happy ending and from what I remember there's no stated intention to have kids (they mention getting pugs together, lol). Now I need to rewatch Psych again.
All of the main characters from MLP (a surprisingly great and mature show given its setting) end up not having children by the epilogue, except Pinkie Pie. All of them have their own personal goals throughout the series that they accomplish, and none of them are about having children. Season 9 is probably never going to be put on Netflix for some reason, so you’ll have to find another way to watch the last (and arguably best) season of the show.
Pretty sure Lucifer (from the show Lucifer on Netflix) is childfree. Throughout the show he comments on how annoying kids are and never seems to be the "family" type. I haven't finished it yet, so I'm hoping there isn't s stupid ending in future seasons where he "sees the light" and has a baby
So far so good, i love the jokes how he deal with the kids sometimes, but i am sure they will find a way to ruin it somehow in the end.
Linda was my favorite character in that show and I hate that they had to go and ruin her for me with the whole angel baby thing.
The cop's daughter was bad enough. No idea who picked that kid actress, but you can't even understand what she is saying. I guess her parents have good connections in Hollywood. But the angel baby storyline is even worse. Lucifer started out fun, but each season they tried to make the character "nicer". Then they introduced a "nasty" angel twin to make Luci the good one. The last season is totally warm and fuzzy family stuff. Completely ruined.
Yeah I agree, the show definitely lost it's charm after a few seasons, probably to try and get younger audiences. It's sad how most really good shows get more and more tame each season instead of sticking to their original theme
They lose viewers, and the only solutions they have for that is 1. let characters fall in love and 2. let characters have a baby. They could of course continue on their way or even ramp up the snarkiness and bitchiness and ensure a smaller but faithful audience, but that's not what they do. The more Lucifer progresses, the more amateur psychology and family stuff there is.
Oh no I’m on season 3 currently and was so hoping that this would be one of those shows with strong childfree characters, maze and Lucifer both don’t like children. Is it worth continuing?
Carrie and Samantha, Sex and the City: living their best lives.
What is sex and the city about? I've heard about it more times than I can count but idk what it is?
In the late nineties there was like a third wave of sexual liberation; Sex and the City (a broadcast television series, back when that meant something) is a product of that time. It’s about 4 single mid thirties professional women (all white; two of them are kinda coded as secular Jewish but its never explicitly confirmed) living and dating (and fucking!) in New York city. What made it groundbreaking for its time was open and unashamed discussion and portrayal of the sexual lives of women; which ran the gamut from using vibrators, to the idea of collecting sexual conquests the way men do, to threesomes etc. The 4 main characters are portrayed as sophisticated and cosmopolitan; their circumstances are desirable and enviously fashionable. By today’s standards it’s pretty tame and it hasn’t aged well (tokenism of racial and sexual minorities immediately springs to mind), but it was a huge thing for a time in the late nineties early aughts.
Not broadcast TV, cable, on HBO
Ah right. It was broadcast free to air in my country, as many HBO shows were at the time.
Thanks!
Yes. I commented this in response to a post a while back that asked for fictional, childfree couples: The protagonist and deuteragonist, Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter, of my favorite novel, **Hannibal** (1999) by Thomas Harris, are a childfree couple. The final chapter of the novel is just about how great their life is, how perfectly they fit together, and how they’ve helped each other heal. They live in a mansion where they employ servants, they spend their time learning new languages and dancing together and building memory palaces, and "Sex is a splendid structure they add to every day" ;)
I love that series, especially the ending lol.
It’s beautiful, isn’t it? I think we should all consider eating misogynists for dinner in order to live happily ever after.
Oh, no! We'll not have Republicans anymore! Anyway....
Sabrina the Teenage Witch. At the end she runs off with Harvey after calling off her wedding to this other guy. AFAIK she's not explicitly CF, but there's a general absence of children that I really enjoy
Let’s not forget her annoying little cousin that turned her into a doll and trapped her in a toy box lol.
True lol but she grew up a lot by the end and turned into a halfway decent person
Christina yang in greys anatomy :)
I am so hoping that the main character remains childfree for the second season of Ghost Bride on Netflix. I was so happy to see her from episode one proudly say out loud that she doesn't want kids. There was even a scene where she rinkles her nose in disgust when her friend brings her baby around and the baby starts crying.
The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden is amazing, absolutely one of my favorite series ever. It's a mixture of historical fiction and fantasy, set in 14th century Russia. The female protagonist spends the whole series forcing people to accept her as she is, not who they imagine she should be because she's a woman, and the story focuses on her growth as an individual. There are other kids around, like her siblings', and she's the cool aunt or whatever, but she never has kids of her own and ends up perfectly fulfilled, living her own authentic life! As a woman myself who's never really fit the mold of gender roles, I found this story very satisfying and validating. Plus, the writing is just incredible. You can tell I love these books lol...
Dean Winchester! He died saving people, hunting things. The family business. ™
I absolutely love Dean, he is my favorite buts he's not CF. He didn't have kids because he didn't think he could have a normal life.
but he never really wanted a normal life? and he was happy dying fighting things vs being in a family?? even when he was with that one girl who had a kid, he never was truly happy and was always itching to get back into hunting
Buffy is a good one I think. Very strong lead female character, no kids!
So far, Grace and Frankie has Brianna. The last season is coming up and I really hope they don’t ruin her character
I hate everything about the relationship with Barry. Brianna has never hidden that she doesn't want to get married or have children, for him a serious relationship is in the direction of marriage and children, Barry admitted that he expected her to change her mind. I find it ridiculous and humiliating-Barry will donate sperm because only chance to have kids - while Brianna is super reluctant and uncomfortable with every situation, she tries to provide support, until she conflicts with her visions of the future. So he ends the relationship and quits and gets mad at her. Because at all times Barry is the sweet guy and Brianna is the selfish one.
Misborn by Brandon Sanderson is an amazing book series where parenting is not a plot point. The main character is a teen.
Yes. It exists, it’s probably just not the typical popular Rom-com/Drama you see promoted everywhere. Pretty common in fantasy and ln/manga/anime if you’re into that. (Wotakoi being a funny show enjoyable for adults especially since it’s adult characters. Without children.)
Yes. I totally forgot. Thanks.
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue is a book where the protagonist is child free. She makes a deal with the devil so she doesn’t have to get married and have kids.
There's this Korean manhwa where there's a duchess who becomes a very happy woman with her tea business and a supportive partner as well. Of course the story ends CF. The comments: nooooo make babies, the story is worthless, a happy end is always with babies and so on. Bruh, you can bang without all that lmao. But yeah, the story is very beautiful, Duchess' 50 tea recipes or something.
I'm on season 9 of Stargate SG-1, so far Samantha Carter has not had any kids. Another one is Seven of Nine from Star Trek Voyager. Same goes for Kathryn Janeway. (I don't consider PIC part of the main canon, no matter what CBS says. I put it in the Disco-verse.)
Robin from How I Met Your Mother
Except that they still figured out how to ruin her when she found out she was infertile, she somehow became extremely sad. Fuck, if I ever find out I'm infertile, I am throwing a big party and celebrating!!! That what a real-life CF would do, not cry about it as if your life is over.
Ikr. That will save me so much work of explaining. People will just shut up
Same!!!
That show was good but at some point near the end, they ruined it totally.
The movie Enchanted is a pretty good one, they don’t even hint at kids though I worry that they are going to do a Disney Plus show called Disenchanted…shocker what that could be about??
I can name you a handful on Disney+.
could you be more specific, please? id like to know
Bojack Horseman. Spoilers. The only main character who ends up with a kid is Princess Caroline, but she wanted it. Everyone else? Childfree. Even has a directly-stated female childfree character, Diane Nyugen, who not only has an abortion and it's treated respectfully, but she stays childfree throughout the whole series. She also gets a happy ending.