History Main / IdenticalGrandson

* In ''StargateContinuum'', Cameron Mitchell winds up interacting with his suspiciously familiar-looking grandfather. To the makeup department's credit, at least the grandfather was wearing some latex appliances so the two characters didn't look ''identical''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{Metalocalypse}'', Murderface is literally identical to his grandmother, Stella, but with a different hair colour and facial hair.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Metalocalypse'', Murderface is literally identical to his grandmother, Stella, but with a different hair colour and facial hair.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "Time Out For Vengeance!", all of Batman's spiritual ancestors and descendants (who may also be biologically related, but nothing's said either way) look and sound very similar to the series' main Batman.

* In the Japanese tokusatsu series ''SazerX'', a flashback scene depicts the main character's grandfather as a young man. In flashback, the younger version of grandpa is played by the same actor who plays the main character.

* [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Altaïr and Ezio]] look very similar to the protagonist Desmond Miles. All three of them even have a perfectly identical scar on their mouth. It's {{Justified|Trope}} in that the interface with which Desmond sees Altaïr and Ezio, the Animus, is patching his face partially over their face, for familiarity.

* In ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublicII'', textual implications suggest Echani genetic variation in terms of appearance is very small, with siblings all looking like identical twins and almost identical to their same-sex parent. It was all a cheap way of explaining why they used [[OnlySixFaces the same model]] for all of Atris' Handmaidens while still having them be siblings, despite having an explicit note the one that joins you looks different due to being their half-sibling and yet still looks the same.
** Though it's worth noting this is somewhat justified, since when the Exile enquires about this the Handmaiden is genuinely surprised that you've noticed, since outsiders typically don't. To Echani on the other hand, her illegitimacy is ''obvious''.
* In ''MassEffect2'', Samara and her daughter Morinth are identical. Lampshaded in that the achievement for completing Samara's loyalty mission is called "Doppelganger". During that mission, if you [[spoiler:recruit Morinth instead of killing her, the other members of your crew never realise she isn't Samara.]]
** Given the way the asari reproduce, this can be justified. The asari "mother" mind-melds with the "father" (who can be a male or female of any organic race), scans the "father"'s DNA and "randomizes" the DNA of the fetus using the "[[IncrediblyLamePun seed]]" from the "father". Given that it's her own DNA Samara was "randomizing", it's possible the physical features remained the same.

* In [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Knights Of The Old Republic 2]], textual implications suggest Echani genetic variation in terms of appearance is very small, with siblings all looking like identical twins and almost identical to their same-sex parent. It was all a cheap way of explaining why they used [[OnlySixFaces the same model]] for all of Atris' Handmaidens while still having them be siblings, despite having an explicit note the one that joins you looks different due to being their half-sibling and yet still looks the same.

* In ''[[MassEffect Mass Effect 2]]'', Samara and her daughter Morinth are identical. Lampshaded in that the achievement for completing Samara's loyalty mission is called "Doppelganger". During that mission, if you [[spoiler:recruit Morinth instead of killing her, the other members of your crew never realise she isn't Samara.]]

* There is a short article once about a woman who looked ''exactly'' like her grandmother. She was holding an old picture of her grandmother at her age... I almost wonder if they just took a picture of the woman, aged the picture so it looked older and claimed it was her grandmother.

* Reversed, but essentially the same: In a (frequently cut) scene from the final act of Tony Kushner's ''AngelsInAmerica'', Prior meets the spirit of Louis' grandmother Sarah, whose funeral was one of the first scenes in the show. Kushner specifically states in the published script that Sarah is to be played by the actor who plays Louis, though obviously in some kind of costume and makeup.

* The action of TomStoppard's ''Arcadia'' is set in both the early nineteenth and late twentieth centuries. When the play is staged, the same actor is used to play Augustus, a character from the nineteenth century, and Gus, from the twentieth. It's not explicitly stated that the latter is directly descended from the former, but they are certainly related. (There is also a possibility that they are intended to actually be the same character.)

* The ''DoctorWho'' and ''{{Torchwood}}'' franchise hangs a lampshade on a YouLookFamiliar by explaining that Torchwood's Gwyneth Cooper (played by Eve Myles) is a descendent of the Gwyneth (also played by Eve Myles) who appeared in Series 1 of Doctor Who. The Doctor adds some timey-wimey explanation for why they look identical. The {{Doylist}} explanation for why she appears again is that RussellTDavies was enamoured with her performance.

* In ''The Doom of the Darnaways'', one of Creator/GKChesterton's ''FatherBrown'' stories, Chesterton subverts the trope: Father Brown concludes that [[spoiler:the painting of the ancestor was a fraud, being a painting of the heir]] so that he would appear to have such a resemblance to the ancestor.

* Rikuo in ''{{Nurarihyon no Mago}}'' is almost completely identical to how his grandfather used to look. And his father. Must be some strong genes in that family.
* Son Goten of Manga/DragonBall Z is a particularly egregious example. He's the second child of Goku and looks 'exactly' like him. This in turn makes him looks like Bardock. It might be a Saiyan thing, since Vegeta said that "all Saiyans look similar" (and a NonSerialMovie further posited that "low class" Saiyans like Goku were bred from similar genetic stock, and Goku gained an IdenticalStranger named Turles). Vegeta looks nearly identical to his own father, sans beard. DragonballGT takes it to a ridiculous level, with the future descendants of both Goku & Vegeta looking like exact copies of their great-great-etc. ancestors. Even though they'd be mostly human, and it was already established with Vegeta's son and daughter that [[HalfHumanHybrid human-Saiyan hybrids]] need not look Saiyan-like at all. Then again, his daughter looks exactly like her human mother. With that said, Goten's personality, as with Goku's are different to Bardock's. Similarly, Goku Jr. was very different known his namesake, at least at first.

* [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/look-alikes-grandmother-granddaughter-at-20_n_3225886.html?ir=Good+News A young 20 year old woman named Maggie Patterson noticed an old picture of her Grandmother on her wedding day at age 20. She noticed how much they looked a like so she took a picture using the same facial expression and combined the two creating]] [[http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1123387/original.jpg a mirror image]]

* Being the past selves of the main characters in the main series the ''{{Saiyuki}} Gaiden'' guys fit this, although Minekura originally wanted to make them look completely different to their future incarnations.

* Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure: Joseph Joestar, in his youth, looks almost exactly like his grandfather Jonathon Joestar. However, their personalities couldn't be more different, as is noted in the series.

** Actually a case of an InsertCameo. They only used his mouth, buth they have the [[http://images.ctvdigital.com/images/pub2upload/7/2007_7_13/harrisonford.jpg same]] [[http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/miscgfx2/br021benford.jpg smile]].

** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130214232535/onepiece/images/d/d4/Cricket_Manga_Infobox.png Montblanc Cricket]] and his ancestor [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130309035304/onepiece/images/1/16/Noland.png Montblanc Noland]]. The only physical trait they share is that strange chestnut-like appendage on their heads.

* The "DoctorWho" and "Torchwood" franchise hangs a lampshade on a YouLookFamiliar by explaining that Torchwood's Gwyneth Cooper (played by Eve Myles) is a descendent of the Gwyneth (also played by Eve Myles) who appeared in Series 1 of Doctor Who. The Doctor adds some timey-wimey explanation for why they look identical. The {{Doylist}} explanation for why she appears again is that RussellTDavies was enamoured with her performance.

* In ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'', some characters remark that Battler looks a lot like Kinzo did when he was young. Just ''how'' much is finally shown in [=EP7=] - Young Kinzo's sprite has Battler's face.

* The "DoctorWho" and "Torchwood" franchise hangs a lampshade on a You Look Familiar by explaining that Torchwood's Gwyneth Cooper (played by Eve Myles) is a descendent of the Gwyneth (also played by Eve Myles) who appeared in Series 1 of Doctor Who. The Doctor adds some timey-wimey explanation for why they look identical.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' companion Victoria Waterfield was said to be almost identical to her mother, although we only ever see a painting of her mother.

* In the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "Small Worlds," Jack presents himself to Estelle as his own son and grandson to hide the fact he doesn't age.

* In ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'', some characters remark that Battler looks a lot like Kinzo did when he was young. Just ''how'' much is finally shown in [=EP7=] - Young Kinzo's sprite has Battler's face.