History Main / IdenticalGrandson

** [[spoiler:If you're a Newman, she comes to the realization that she messed up big time--not only are you [[CloningBlues a clone of the one who united the Newmans against her]] but [[PhlebotinumRebel she cloned you herself]]!]]

** Dark complexion aside, [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Barack Obama's]] basically the spitting image of his maternal grandfather.

** No matter what timeline Marty [=McFly=] went to in the trilogy, his ancestors/descendants all resembled him or his mother (except for his father in the [[Film/BackToTheFuture first movie]]). The same goes for his nemesis, Biff Tannen. In [[WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture the animated series based on the films]], wherever Doc and his family travel in time, they find identical and similarly named ancestors to Marty and his girlfriend Jennifer (who, ironically, does not look identical to ''herself'', having been [[TheOtherDarrin recast]] after the first film), including ''the age of dinosaurs''.

* Creator/ChristopherReeve just looked identical to his great-grandfather [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Franklin_D%27Olier_circa_1920_%28cropped%29.jpg Franklin D'Olier]] but with a different hairstyle. Seriously, just check it out for yourself at the link.

* A 20-year-old woman named Maggie Patterson [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/look-alikes-grandmother-granddaughter-at-20_n_3225886.html?ir=Good+News 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]]

* [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Franklin_D%27Olier_circa_1920_%28cropped%29.jpg Franklin D'Olier]] looks just identical to his great-grandson Creator/ChristopherReeve but with a different hairstyle. Seriously, just go click on the link.

** Not to her father [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton Bill]], but [[http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/politics/2015/12/21/chelsea-clinton-announces-second-pregnancy/_jcr_content/par/featured-media/media-0.img.jpg/876/493/1450732392001.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 Chelsea Clinton]] does bear an almost ''terrifying'' resemblance to [[http://www.konbini.com/en/files/2015/04/young-hillary-clinton-main-688x1024.jpg her mother]] [[UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton Hillary]].

* Dark complexion aside, [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Barack Obama's]] basically the spitting image of his maternal grandfather.

* Late Creator/JohnRitter and his son Jason.

* Creator/LizaMinnelli looks and sounds very similar to mother Creator/JudyGarland.

* Thomas Jefferson Randolph looks quite like [[UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson his more famous grandfather]]. Not that this pleased him much.
** In fact, the younger Thomas' mother, Martha Jefferson Randolph, [[https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/martha-jefferson-randolph/ greatly resembled her father]] to a T, red hair and all.

* [[http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/politics/2015/12/21/chelsea-clinton-announces-second-pregnancy/_jcr_content/par/featured-media/media-0.img.jpg/876/493/1450732392001.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 Chelsea Clinton]] bears an almost ''terrifying'' resemblance to [[http://www.konbini.com/en/files/2015/04/young-hillary-clinton-main-688x1024.jpg her mother]] [[UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton Hillary]].

** In a borderline case, Florence Henderson had a {{cameo}} as Carol's mother in TheMovie.

* Every male member of ''Anime/CaptainHarlock'''s family line is named "Phantom F. Harlock," has the same facial features, build and hairstyle, pilots some kind of aircraft, and frequently has an identical scar on his cheek. This has been shown to extend at least back to the World War I era (from a main series set in the far future). His short, squat sidekick Ooyama also has identical ancestors, although they don't crop up quite as often. ''Gun Frontier'' had an ancestor named "Westerner Franklin Harlock" who also looked identical to the Harlock in the future stories. They are also voiced by the same English voice actor.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': It is revealed that while Lincoln strongly resembles his grandfather, his sister Lucy looks identical to their great grandmother Harriet. ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouseMovie'' features the Loud family's distant ancestors bearing a very stark resemblance to them.

* [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3 Mario and Luigi]]'s 13th-century ancestors look similar to their modern counterparts, except they wear... [[HollywoodCostuming 16th-century armor]]?

* ''Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'s'' hero Angus [=McFife=] from the first album, played by singer Thomas Winkler, is succeeded in the next two albums by his descendant Angus [=McFife=] XIII, played by Thomas Winkler. Then the trope seems to be averted with Angus [=McFife=] V in "Fly Away" when Winkler is replaced as both singer and [=McFife=] by Sozos Michael. But then Michael also appears as Angus [=McFife=] I in the video for "The Holy Flaming Hammer of Unholy Cosmic Frost" (before continuing as Angus [=McFife=] II for the rest of the album), meaning the first Angus has been performed by both of them, and the other Anguses all appear looking like either one or the other, so maybe story-wise, they all look the same after all.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Link and Zelda appear again and again… only they're not quite the same Link nor Zelda. Though only one Link has been confirmed to be the direct descendant of another [[note]] The Hero of Twilight from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' is descended from and mentored by the ghost of the Hero ofTime, from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]] [[/note]], it's implied in ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' and in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'' that the green-clad hero and noble lady of the royal line may be reincarnated again and again. ''Zelda II'' actually has Link set out on a quest by Princess Zelda to wake one of her predecessors, also named Princess Zelda, from a deep sleep.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Link and Zelda appear again and again… only they're not quite the same Link nor Zelda. Though only one Link has been confirmed to be the direct descendant of another [[note]] The Hero of Twilight from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrince Twilight Princess]] is descended from and mentored by the ghost of the Hero ofTime, from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]] [[/note]], it's implied in ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' and in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'' that the green-clad hero and noble lady of the royal line may be reincarnated again and again. ''Zelda II'' actually has Link set out on a quest by Princess Zelda to wake one of her predecessors, also named Princess Zelda, from a deep sleep.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Link and Zelda appear again and again… only they're not quite the same Link nor Zelda. Though only one Link has been confirmed to be the direct descendant of another, it's implied in ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' and in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'' that the green-clad hero and noble lady of the royal line may be reincarnated again and again. ''Zelda II'' actually has Link set out on a quest by Princess Zelda to wake one of her predecessors, also named Princess Zelda, from a deep sleep.

* The ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' fic “[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3025668/1/Tunnel-Vision Tunnel Vision]]” features Kim and Ron travelling through various different time periods as a result of a malfunctioning time-travel experiment. When they arrive in the time of the Revolutionary War, they encounter Kim's distant ancestor General Zim Possible, who looks almost exactly like Kim's father James (Zim's great-plus grandson), and his daughter Pim Possible apparently looks exactly like Kim herself (although Pim does not appear in the fic herself).

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13312588/1/Destiny-and-Voyager-Crossroads Destiny and Voyager Crossroads]]'': Indirectly features when ''Voyager'' crosses into a parallel universe and encounters ''Destiny''. After ''Destiny'' crewmember Doctor Lisa Park has her sight restored by the Doctor, the ''Destiny'' crew are shocked to "recognise" him as Richard Woolsey. Checking historical records, the Doctor determines that his programmer, Lewis Zimmerman, is a direct descendant of Richard Woolsey's counterpart in his own universe, prompting both crews to be surprised at the coincidence.

* In ''Series/FirstOfTheSummerWine'', the teenage Clegg's father is played by Peter (WesternAnimation/{{Wallace|AndGromit}}) Sallis, who plays Clegg himself in ''Series/LastOfTheSummerWine''.

* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet5TheDreamChild''. In Alice's dream of how Amanda Krueger was raped, one of the 100 maniacs looks ''exactly'' like pre-death Freddy Krueger, and is played by Robert Englund as well. Before Alice is assaulted by the maniacs, a shot briefly lingers on his face, hinting that this is, in fact, Freddy's biological father. It's also hinted that this is actually Freddy himself in disguise, although why he would take on the guise of his father is unclear.

* Son Goten of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' is a particularly egregious example. He's the second child of Goku and looks 'exactly' like him. This, in turn, makes him look like his parental grandfather, Bardock. It might be a Saiyan thing, since Vegeta said that "all Saiyans look similar", which could because of a small gene pool given that Saiyans at their peak only numbered in the thousands (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. ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' takes it to a ridiculous level, with the future descendants of both Goku and 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.

* The British Royal Family may in fact be made of this trope. [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1222921/The-throne-clones-How-Royal-Family-inherited-just-titles.html Behold!]] While that picture of Edward I being compared to Prince William is clearly an 18th--or 19th-century rendition (he lived in the 13th century), many of the other, more recent ancestral pictures on the page play it straight.