History Main / HisQuirkLivesOn

* In "VideoGame/DragonAgeII", the future companion Aveline's EstablishingCharacterMoment has her wielding two-handed weapons like her fellow warrior companions Fenris and Carver. But when her Templar husband loses his capacity to fight due of succumbing to the Blight, she takes his weapons (one-handed weapon and shield) and starts using them ever since once she joins Hawke.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGear'', Revolver Ocelot adapted Naked Snake's praise "You're pretty good" into a catchphrase to honor his WorthyOpponent and says it to Solid Snake in their [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid first]] [[spoiler: [[MeaningfulEcho and]] [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 last]]]] encounters.

Sometimes, the original character who had that habit, phrase or trait is forgotten, and people mistakenly think that the habit/trait/phrase started with the second character. An example could be Film/JamesBond's CatchPhrase: "Bond, James Bond." In the first ''Literature/JamesBond'' novel, it started with the BondGirl Sylvia Trench, who introduced herself with "Trench, Sylvia Trench"; but only if Bond had adopted the catch phrase as a nod to her.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGear'', Revolver Ocelot adapted Naked Snake's praise "You're pretty good" into a CatchPhrase to honor his WorthyOpponent and says it to Solid Snake in their [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid first]] [[spoiler: [[MeaningfulEcho and]] [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 last]]]] encounters.

* In ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', one of Tohru's reasons for constantly using [[{{Keigo}} polite speech patterns]] since she was very young is due to her insecurities of not looking anything like her deceased father, Katsuya, who used similarly overly-polite speech and manners. The other reason is [[spoiler:she has some trauma from her mother Kyoko neglecting her and almost committing suicide after Katsuya died, so she adopted Katsuya's speech patterns since she thought it would keep Kyoko from leaving her.]]

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* In ''Manga/XxxHolic'', Watanuki takes up wearing a kimono after [[spoiler:Yuuko dies]].

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* In ''Anime/{{Vandread}}'', when [[spoiler:it looks like Gascogne]] dies by HeroicSacrifice, Barnette volunteers to take over her job, and adopts her signature clothing style and some mannerisms.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': After [[spoiler: Asuma]] dies, Shikamaru takes up smoking.
** Also from ''Naruto'', most of Kakashi's bad habits (including his extreme lateness) are actually in memory of his teammate Obito, as shown in the Kakashi Gaiden storyline.

* ''Manga/HikaruNoGo'': After [[spoiler:Sai disappears]], Hikaru buys a fan which looks like the one he used to carry and keeps it with him for go games.

* In ''Manga/{{xxxHolic}}'', Watanuki takes up wearing a kimono after [[spoiler:Yuuko dies]].
* At the end of ''Manga/DeathNote'', Near is seen munching a bar of chocolate in imitation of [[spoiler:Mello]].
** The love of chocolate may come from [[spoiler:their predecessor, L]], owner of a GeniusSweetTooth.
* In ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', Akito picks up Gai's habit of naming his attacks after those from ''[[ShowWithinAShow Gekigangar III]]''.
* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', much of Shinobu Kocho's [[StepfordSmiler seemingly positive demeanor]] is really her taking on aspects of her deceased older sister Kanae's personality; flashbacks show that Shinobu used to be more serious and impatient than she is now. Shinobu wants to emulate Kanae as much as she can, since Kanae's positivity was always a big inspiration for her.

* ''Fanfic/{{WinterWar}}'' has Ikkaku nicknaming his group as [[NeverFoundTheBody Yachiru]] would have done. Leads to the amusing reveal in the opening chapters that the 'young boy' called 'Peaches' in the rowdy, drunk group causing trouble at an inn is actually ''Hinamori''.

* In ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', Shaun adopts Ed's catch phrase of "two seconds" during the epilogue after Ed's zombiefication.
* In ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster'', Alice starts to take on personality traits of her friends as they're picked off by Freddy.

* In the final book of the ''Literature/DarthBane'' trilogy, Bane and his apprentice Zannah fight a duel to the death (as is natural for Sith). Through the rest of the book, Bane had 1. been experiencing some twitching in the fingers of his hand and 2. researched a Dark Side technique for [[GrandTheftMe transferring one's consciousness into another's body]]. He attempts to use the technique during their duel, and after the duel is over the book lets the readers wonder a bit by mentioning that Zannah's fingers are twitching... [[spoiler:It's just a tease, though; the trope is averted and Zannah is in full control of her body.]]

* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Buffy takes to referring to her stake as [[ICallItVera Mr. Pointy]] some time after the death of Kendra, another slayer who had named her favorite stake Mr. Pointy.

* On the ''Series/DoctorWho'' Children in Need special [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash "Time Crash"]], the Tenth Doctor tells the Fifth that he got a number of his stylistic quirks (sneakers, [[PurelyAestheticGlasses "brainy specs"]], etc.) from his past self, making this a rare instance of a character invoking this trope ''with himself''. Possibly a reference to the fact that many actors that have played the Doctor have taken inspiration from their predecessors, especially Davison and Patrick Troughton.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGear'', Revolver Ocelot adapted Naked Snake's praise "You're pretty good" into a CatchPhrase to honor his WorthyOpponent and says it to Solid Snake in their [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid first]] [[spoiler: [[MeaningfulEcho and]] [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 last]]]] encounters.

See also DeadPersonImpersonation. Also, because it's a Death Trope, there will be spoilers.

* In ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', Akito picks up Gai's habit of naming his attacks after attacks from ''[[ShowWithinAShow Gekigangar III]]''.