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* The ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' fic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13550638/1/Forever-Yellow "Forever Yellow"]] sees various Yellow Rangers team up to oppose the threat of an alternate version of Venjix (''Series/PowerRangersRPM'') attempting to take control of Earth. As the situation escalates, the team even recruit Trini Kwan, the original Yellow Rangers (''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'') from the past to provide them with extra firepower, with Trini feeling awed that she is the origin of the legacy that has been taken up by these other women.

* Paul Wight, most known as Wrestling/BigShow in WWE, originally got his big-league start at {{Wrestling/WCW}}, being billed as "The Giant" between 1995 to 1999, the son of the late Wrestling/AndreTheGiant (who had only been dead for two years before the gimmick was pushed). Part of this was sold on Wight having suffered acromegaly, a disorder giving both men their immense size, and he would boast that he was "the son of a giant", wear [[IconicOutfit the iconic one-strap singlet of his "father"]], do things like rip off Hulk Hogan's crucifix necklace (evoking when Andre famously [[ThrowingDownTheGauntlet threw down the gauntlet]] by ripping Hogan's shirt before ''[=WrestleMania=] III''), etc. To this day, Wight apparently still receives awkward comments from fans about how much they loved his dad.

* Wrestling/DominikMysterio is a twofer, being not only the son of Wrestling/ReyMysterio (making him the newest in an established WrestlingFamily), but also effectively the reincarnation of his HonoraryUncle and Rey's late ArchEnemy, Wrestling/EddieGuerrero. Ever since Dominik [[FaceHeelTurn turned heel]] and [[AntagonisticOffspring actively became an enemy to his old man]], he's loved invoking the spirit of Guerrero by recreating his mannerisms and incorporating his moves into his own arsenal.

* This never stopped being popular in Mexican wrestling (or ''lucha libre'') either, due to the preponderance of masked wrestlers there. To name just one example, WWE's Wrestling/{{Rey Mysterio|Jr}} was known in his early career as Rey Misterio Jr. because his uncle, the original Rey Misterio, handed the mantle down to him (and had to seek special permission from said uncle in order to drop the Jr. from his ring name). And the original Rey Misterio's son is now wrestling as El Hijo de Rey Misterio.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' is split up into different parts (nine so far,) each focusing on a different member of the Joestar family (usually being the child or grandchild of a previous protagonist) whose name can be shortened, phoneticized, or [[AlternateCharacterReading Kanji-punned]] into "[=JoJo=]". It's not an official title in-universe (as the nickname is inevitably just given by random people, and even then some of them, like [['Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Giorno Giovanna]], are never canonically called "[=JoJo=] in-universe.") but it's treated as such in the meta sense (to the point that if two [=JoJos=] are in the same scene, the newest [=JoJo=] is referred to as such, while the older one just goes back to being called by their real name).

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' is split up into different parts (nine so far,) each focusing on a different member of the Joestar family (usually being the child or grandchild of a previous protagonist) whose name can be shortened, phoneticized, or [[AlternateCharacterReading Kanji-punned]] into "[=JoJo=]". It's not an official title in-universe (as the nickname is inevitably just given by random people,) but it's treated as such in the meta sense (to the point that if two [=JoJos=] are in the same scene, the newest [=JoJo=] is referred to as such, while the older one just goes back to being called by their real name).

* ''[[Manga/DotHackLegendOfTheTwilight .hack//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet]]'':

* In ''Manga/XxxHolic'' [[spoiler:after the disappearance/death of Yuuko, Watanuki made an agreement to live without aging or leaving the shop while he runs it, waiting for her to return]].

* In ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', the name of Felix Walken is passed around from one assassin to another. The current Felix Walken is [[spoiler:Claire Stanfield]], who purchased it off "a really hot thirty-year old dame" so he could have a legal identity to marry [[spoiler:Chane]] with.

* ''Anime/CaptainHarlock'':

** In [[Anime/HarlockSpacePirate the 2013 CGI film]] [[spoiler:this is hinted to be the fate of the new character Yama -- the final version of the film is very vague and simply seems to suggest the idea; made even more ambiguous by the fact that it's unclear if Harlock is now dying or has simply been made mortal again. The novelisation and a leaked draft of the script are far less ambiguous about Yama taking Harlock's place]].

* [[spoiler:The eponymous character]] of ''Literature/KinosJourney'' took the mantle of the person who "enlightened" her after he died. Amusingly, she got the idea by accident -- at least in the anime version. [[spoiler:Hermes]] mistook her [[spoiler:mourning the original Kino]] for saying her name, and she just ran with it.
* In the manga ''Manga/MagicKaito'', the title character discovers his father was a thief, the [[PhantomThief Kaitou]] Kid, and takes on the job, to finish what his father started before he died.

* {{Invoked}} in ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'', when the Dauphin of France (Crown Prince) Louis Auguste learns of king Louis XV's death by Versailles' nobles coming to him shouting "the King is dead, long live the King", declaring him king Louis XVI even before the crowning.

--> "The naming tradition came from naval fleets. The HMS ''Oberon'' was a British diesel submarine, an iron tub capable of reaching seventeen miles per hour and armed with thirty torpedoes. The new ''Oberon'', a monstrous tower made out of a superstrong composite, could go seventeen miles per second and could easily wipe out all the navies of the 20th century combined."