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->''"Her son was tall and proud, with Drogo's copper skin and her own silver-gold hair, and violet eyes shaped like almonds."''
-->-- ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' has this. Depending on which of the 2 (3 in the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS version) girls the main character marries, the kids will have the mother's hair colour, blue eyes (which depending on depiction all 4 share) and their father's talents and ambitions.

** The new Ino-Shika-Cho exhibit this prominently. Shikaku Nara has his father's hair color and hairstyle, but his teal TsurimeEyes are inherited from his mother. Chocho Akimichi has her father's girth and brown hair, and her mother's dark skin. Inojin Yamanaka looks like a miniature version of Sai except for his blond hair and light blue eyes, both inherited from Ino.

*** To another extent, Amity's older siblings, Edric and Emira, are this as well. Like their sister, They have Odalia's pale skin and Alador's gold eyes. However, they have natural green hair like their mother's, only darker.

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* ''LightNovel/ReZero'''s Rem IF timeline has Subaru Natsuki's children with Rem look exactly like their parents, but with swapped hair colors. His son Rigel is blue haired like Rem but has his father's sharp eyes and hair style when he was a young man, but his daughter Spica is black haired with her mother's face.

* Bizarre canon example from ''Franchise/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Vivio, adopted daughter of [[HasTwoMommies Fate and Nanoha]], looks like a perfect mix of her mothers' features, especially the face. Her blond hair is darker than Fate's but her eyes are [[color:red:red]] and [[color:green:green]], while Nanoha is indigo. Her hairstyle is also based on Nanoha's. Even stranger is that she's not genetically related to ''either'' of them and is in fact a [[CloneJesus clone of a long dead ruler]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction Dragon and Donkey]] fall in love. ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' introduces their children, the dronkeys.

* Creator/HiroMashima ended up running into a downplayed version of this when [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2888056 he drew]] the WhatIf designs for two pairings' potential kids in ''Manga/FairyTail''.[[note]]The first kid was a request during New York [=ComiCon=], the second he threw in for kicks[[/note]] Lucy and Natsu's kid has the standard feminine eyes for girls and Lucy's face shape, but her outfit and hairstyle makes her look like an [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2630418 earlier drawing]] of a Rule63 Natsu. Gray and Juvia's kid has Gray's hair color, but Juvia's fashion sense. His eyes look like a combination of his parents', though. The kids were eventually canonized in ''100 Years Quest''...as the children of the ''Edolas'' version of Natsu/Lucy and Gray/Juvia.
* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia,'' the Quirks in Todoroki's family seem to be tied to hair color--his mother is AnIcePerson with white hair, his father is a literal FieryRedhead. Todoroki can produce each power from opposite sides of his body, so, sure enough, he has half red and half white hair. Two of his siblings have white hair flecked with bits of red, implying that they got more ice than fire. [[spoiler: The eldest sibling, Touya, was born with his father’s red hair, but his hair gradually turned to his mother’s pure white by the time he was 13; while he had a stronger variation of his father’s quirk, he inherited his mother’s constitution, meaning his ability to handle his flames was very limited.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction Dragon and Donkey]] fall in love. ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' introduces their children, the dronkeys.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'', protagonist Arlo takes his appearance from both his mother and father.
* In ''Film/TheAmazingMaurice'', a clockwork rat gets married to an alarm clock and has two kids (It MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext, really) who look like clockwork rats with bells on their backs.

* Literature/HarryPotter is frequently described as looking exactly like his father, but with his mother's eyes.

* The ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' games first did this in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAnimalParade Animal Parade]]''. The children would inherit the player character's facial structure, but have the spouse's hair- and eye-color. The games since have zig-zagged in either using this trope (''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsTrioOfTowns'') or averting it by having the child resemble the original appearance of the player character (''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonANewBeginning A New Beginning]]'').
* ''VideoGame/RuneFactoryOceans'' plays with this by having the child merely inherit the spouse's hair- and eye-color, but otherwise having their own design. Likely because it was the first ''Rune Factory'' game to not use portraits for characters, but models.
* ''VideoGame/TheSims'': Toddler, Child, and Teen Sims can be generated in Create-A-Sim with a combination of their parents' traits, rerolling them if you don't like their appearance. With babies who are generated via [[UnusualEuphemism WooHoo]], though, you take what you're given.
* ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'': If two married Miis have a baby, their child will have a mixture of the parents' facial features, skin and hair, even the colors (ie: the mother's eyes, the father's hair color and mouth, etc.). This could extend to makeup features and old grey hair, and it's possible for the baby to get the elements of the opposite gender.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'':

* ''VideoGame/StarFoxCommand'': One of the possible endings shows Fox and Krystal with a son named Marcus, who's basically the spitting image of his father with his mother's blue fur and lighter green eyes.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** Elan inherited his outlook (and alignment) from his mother and his love of the dramatic from his father. His EvilTwin Nale gets his outlook from his father and his love of the needlessly complicated from his mother. They both inherited their father's hairstyle and mother's hair color.
** Haley has her mother's hairstyle and her father's hair color.
** Pompey's a half-elf, although his parents aren't seen, he has one elf ear and one human ear. In his case, it's pure RuleOfFunny.
* The parents in ''Webcomic/{{Roomies}}'' and ''WebComic/DumbingOfAge'', as described in [[http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/blog/the-browns/ Willis's notes]] for Joyce's parents character design:
-->You can probably see in them the general design philosophy of how I draw parents. They're almost patient zero for that, being designed second only after Danny's parents [[http://www.bringbackroomies.com/comic/telephone-solicitors/ some time in 1998.]] Mr. Brown gets Joyce's eyes and headshape and Mrs. Brown gets Joyce's nose and slightly shorter version of her daughter’s hair (and a more round physique that Joyce is likely to take on as she gets on in years). I always find it helps to give the most distinctive physical characteristics to the opposite-sexed parent and then throw all the other features at the other parent — and few characteristics are more distinctive than Joyce's big blue eyes. I don't want moms to always look like aged-up daughters and dads to always look like aged-up sons. They can be sometimes, though, for lulz.

* ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'': Renee and Hiro's son Kazumi has his mother's hair (complete with [[IdiotHair Idiot Hair]]) and his father's skin tone and eye color. He also inherited the former's stoicism and the latter's narcolepsy, and [[RuleOfFunny rapidly shifts between the two every panel]]. Later, Len and Noah's daughter Phoebe has her mother's [[RavenHairIvorySkin chalky white skin]] and her father's [[BlackBeadEyes Black Bead Eyes]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Just One Bite," Squidward dreams that he marries a Krabby Patty (ItMakesSenseInContext). Their kid looks like a Krabby Patty with six tentacles.
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}},'' [[TokenHuman Elisa]] explicitly notes that [[AffirmativeActionGirl Angela]] looks like [[BigBad Demona]], but with [[TheHero Goliath's]] skin and hair color. A few episodes later is revealed that she is, in fact, their biological daughter.
* In Quack-Quack's ImagineSpot, WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}} and Mr. Cat's [[GenderEqualsBreed potential offspring]] are orange, whiskered tadpoles.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Jake and Lady Rainicorn eventually have a litter of rainicorn pups that have the same powers as their parents.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': Arnold's parents are shown to be a blond-haired father with a normal shaped head, and a red haired mom with an oblong shaped head and round nose. This is a justified case, since blond hair is dominant over red.

* The DistantFinale for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' shows this trope in action with Li'l [[spoiler:Cheese]], son of Pinkie Pie and [[spoiler:Cheese Sandwich]]. His eyes are green like his father and has the pink hair of his mother. Although his coat is yellow, a color neither of his parents share, it is a "cheesy" color similar to the orange on [[spoiler:Cheese Sandwich]]. Even his cutie mark is a fusion of the two: it's a slice of cheese pie, combining his dad's accordion-like grilled cheese motif and his mom's family name.
* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/ChannelChasers'', we are introduced to Tammy and Tommy Turner, Timmy's future kids. Tommy physically resembles Timmy in every way except for his hair (which is black), while Tammy resembles both Trixie and Tootie (her glasses and plaid skirt resemble Tootie's, while her hair style and colour style resemble Trixie's) except for her brown hair.

Compare GenderEqualsBreed, where the child looks like the parent whose gender it shares, and StrongFamilyResemblance, where the child's appearance is based on just one parent.