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* A variation occurs in ''Film/TheBoyWhoCriedWerewolf''. The family inherits a large house from their uncle in Romania, and it turns out that [[spoiler: he was a werewolf who was using the house do experiments to find a cure for his "disease"]].
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* A variation occurs in ''Film/TheBoyWhoCriedWerewolf''. The family inherits a large house from their uncle in Romania, and it turns out that [[spoiler: he was a werewolf who was using the house to do experiments to find a cure for his "disease"]].
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* ''Nickel & Dime'' is a comedy about a "heir tracer" (or "heir hunter"), who makes a living off finding heirs of dead single people. Usually he just picks off a street somebody resembling the deceased. Since the inheritances never exceed $100, he gets away with it. Then he stumbles upon a rich dead criminal and spends the rest of the film searching for his illegitimate child. With IRS on his heels and an accountant tagging along.
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* ''Nickel & Dime'' is a comedy about a "heir tracer" (or "heir hunter"), who makes a living off finding heirs of dead single people. Usually he just picks off a street somebody resembling the deceased. Since the inheritances never exceed $100, he gets away with it. Then he stumbles upon a rich dead criminal and spends the rest of the film searching for his illegitimate child. With child, with IRS on his heels and an accountant tagging along.
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* The 2001 version of ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'', Cyrus Kriticos bequeaths his beautiful, glass walled house to his nephew Arthur. The bad news? It's [[HauntedHouse haunted by 12 ghosts,]] and [[spoiler:Cyrus is manipulating Arthur into committing suicide so his master plan to create a ghost-powered oracle machine will succeed.]]
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* The In the 2001 version of ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'', Cyrus Kriticos bequeaths his beautiful, glass walled glass-walled house to his nephew Arthur. The bad news? It's [[HauntedHouse haunted by 12 ghosts,]] and [[spoiler:Cyrus is manipulating Arthur into committing suicide so his master plan to create a ghost-powered oracle machine will succeed.]]
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* "Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance" in Creator/MRJames' ''Ghost Stories of an Antiquary''.
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* "Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance" in Creator/MRJames' ''Ghost Stories of an Antiquary''.Antiquary'': The titular Mr Humphreys never even met the uncle from whom he inherits the property which he now goes to visit...
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* In ''Literature/AShillingForCandles'' by Creator/JosephineTey, destitute Robert Tisdall is astonished to learn that he has been left a significant amount of money and a property in America by a woman he'd met for the first time a few days earlier. The catch is not an intentional one: she's been murdered, and now the police think he did to get his hands on the money...
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* In ''Literature/AShillingForCandles'' by Creator/JosephineTey, destitute Robert Tisdall is astonished to learn that he has been left a significant amount of money and a property in America by a woman he'd met for the first time a few days earlier. The catch is not an intentional one: she's been murdered, and now the police think he did it to get his hands on the money...
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* Classic ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' Adventure 12 ''Secret of the Ancients''. One of the {{PC}}s receives an inheritance from an uncle: a statuette which leads the party into a hunt to find an [[{{Precursor}} Ancient]] site.
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* Classic ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' Adventure 12 ''Secret of the Ancients''. One of the {{PC}}s {{Player Character}}s receives an inheritance from an uncle: a statuette which leads the party into a hunt to find an [[{{Precursor}} Ancient]] site.
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* The plot of ''Film/Baghead2023'' is kicked off when Iris inherits The Queen's Head, a 400 year old pub in Berlin, from her estranged father Owen whom she has not seen since she was a child.
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* Some of the real-life examples for UnexpectedSuccessor apply here, in cases of royalty or nobility where the unexpected successor also gets land or a palace or wealth.
