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| 11 | [[quoteright:280:[[Franchise/{{Tintin}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/haddock_identicalgrandson.jpg]]]] |
| 12 | [[caption-width-right:280:Captain Archibald Haddock and his ancestor, [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Chevalier]] François de Hadoque.]] |
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| 14 | -> ''"Journey to Hill Valley: a place where the gene pool is so shallow, that everyone’s ancestor looks exactly the same as their descendants."'' |
| 15 | -->-- '''WebVideo/HonestTrailers''' for ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' |
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| 17 | A character's descendant or ancestor is physically identical (or would be, except for small cosmetic changes) to the character himself, and often has the same name. A subsection of UncannyFamilyResemblance. Of course, he might just be [[MyOwnGrampa his own ancestor]]. |
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| 19 | This is normally the result of budget considerations when casting TimeTravel stories, the consequence of having a long-term contract for a star when a show permanently jumps generations for some reason, or an excuse to do an {{Elseworld}} story with essentially the same character in a different setting. |
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| 21 | If the character and descendant are one and the same, then that's MyGrandsonMyself. |
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| 23 | Despite the name, the trope is limited to neither males nor grandchildren. |
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| 25 | If someone who knew the ancestor (via being a TimeAbyss, user of TimeTravel or thawed-out HumanPopsicle) meets the descendent, they may remark "You haven't changed a bit!" and need to be corrected. |
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| 27 | Compare with VisionsOfAnotherSelf. When it's the life story that's identical, the character is a member of GenerationXerox. |
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| 29 | Of course, due to similarities in genetics, this can be compared to a RealLife version of the animation trope OnlySixFaces. |
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| 31 | !!Examples: |
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| 35 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 36 | * In ''Manga/DotHackLegendOfTheTwilight'', Mireille looks suspiciously similar to Mistral. [[spoiler:This is justified, though; the story takes place on the internet and she's using her (revealed to be) mother's account.]] In any case, it's established that player characters in the .hack franchise are all based on off-the-peg character types. There's a scene in ''Anime/DotHackSign'' where Subaru sees someone she thinks is Tsukasa but is actually a different character with only a few variations of hair color and facial markings. This is also lampshaded in ''.hack//Unison'', where Black Rose and Mimiru have an argument as to who chose the character design first, and Tsukasa meets a younger player with the same basic design. ''.hack//Legend of the Twilight [Bracelet]'' begins with Shugo and Rena winning the right to use characters based on Kite and Black Rose (apparently those exact combinations of character customizations were locked by the admins after Kite and Black Rose's adventure, though to be fair Kite's was originally green without Wave marks, changing to his well-known form upon getting the bracelet and thus possible its not normally selectable anyways; additionally, the series uses [[SuperDeformed chibi]] versions of the characters). |
| 37 | * ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': Though she's only seen in the New Year's episode, Kaorin's mother looks exactly like her. She has to wake Kaorin to remind her she was supposed to be going out with her classmates to make her wish for the new year. |
| 38 | * ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'': |
| 39 | ** Huey Laforet appears to have the strongest genes ever, as his traits of being a gold-eyed, dark-haired, pale-skinned PrettyBoy extend even as far as his ''great-great''-grandson Charon. |
| 40 | ** Another one of the immortals (namely [[spoiler:Szilard]]) has an identical many-greats grandson whom we meet in 2001. |
| 41 | ** Claudia looks like a female version of her great-grandfather [[spoiler:Claire]]… But she ''still'' inherited her great-great-grandfather Huey's golden eyes. |
| 42 | ** Both Elmer and Aging note that Luchino, while not quite the clone of Huey that [[StrongFamilyResemblance Chane, Liza, and Charon are]], still has a noticeable resemblance to him. This would not seem so ridiculous if Luchino wasn't ''three hundred years removed'' from the man in question (an absurdity lampshaded by Luchino himself), proving once and for all that Huey has the most stubborn genes in the world. |
| 43 | * ''Literature/TheBeastPlayer'': In the manga, Jeh looks exactly like Seimiya, her youngest descendant from three centuries later. |
| 44 | * Shura Kirigakure from ''Manga/BlueExorcist'' looks identical to her ancestor Tatsuko. This is because [[spoiler:Tatsuko's descendants are cursed to look just like her.]] |
| 45 | * It's a minor plot point in ''Manga/BunnyDrop'' that Daikichi looks exactly like his grandfather Souichi did at age thirty. Among other things, this causes Rin (Souichi's illegitimate daughter) to get attached to him almost immediately. |
| 46 | * Every male member of ''Manga/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. |
| 47 | * In ''Manga/CatsEye'', the Kisugi sisters looks a lot like their ancestors: Rui (the oldest) and Ai (the youngest) are nearly identical to their mother (especially Rui, whose only difference is a mole on the cheek), while Hitomi is almost identical to her paternal grandmother, differing only in her hair and eye colors. Hitomi is especially egregious, as she's [[ButNotTooForeign half-Japanese half-German]] while her grandmother was a blonde-haired green-eyed German. |
| 48 | * ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' |
| 49 | ** Tanjiro's ancestor from a few generations ago, Sumiyoshi, looks exactly like him but only taller, as he's shown as an older man with wife and child; meanwhile Tanjiro's immediate relative, his father Tanjuro, looks slightly different from Sumiyoshi due to his ill underweight appearance. |
| 50 | ** By the Epilogue, this extends to ''[[spoiler:everyone in the main cast]]''. |
| 51 | * With the exception of the fact that she has an extra pair of human ears under her hair, Couvert of ''Anime/DogDays'' is the spitting image of Princess Clarifier. The confusing part is the fact that [[spoiler:they aren't even directly related since Clarifier died before having any children. Couvert is actually a descendant of Clarifier's brother Valério and Adelaide.]] During Valério and Adelaide's story about Flonyard's history, we see that most of the other major characters were like this as well. |
| 52 | * ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' has a severe case StrongFamilyResemblance syndrome, which dictates that within a family or lineage (be it immediate or extended), everyone looks alike (even wives and husbands). Nobita's grandson wants to change his grandfather's loser's faith and sends Doraemon back in time to help him become a better man. At one time he also sends Doraemon's little sister Dorami to replace Doraemon because he thinks Doraemon isn't doing a good job, but because Nobita's grown attached to Doraemon so they're still together. |
| 53 | * Somewhat PlayedForLaughs in the side story of the 20th volume of ''Dorabase'' (Baseball spin-off of ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}''), where the 23rd-century versions of the characters are exactly the same, except for some very minor differences such as name and a few physical traits. Also, they suck at baseball until the main characters come to help them. Obviously justified since 60% of the cast are robots, but still pretty outrageous because they are about 100 years old apart from production year. Also, in the end, it is very much implied that this trope will go on until the next (24th) century. This means that the main teams would still exist for the next 200 years or so. |
| 54 | * 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 from his namesake, at least at first. |
| 55 | * ''Manga/FromEroicaWithLove'''s Dorian and Klaus look exactly like their ancestors, Luminous and Tyrian. |
| 56 | * The ''Music/EvilliousChronicles'' has multiple examples that come up as plot points (or even not) --such as several of [[HaremSeeker Duke Venomania's]] descendants sharing his appearance, [[SinsOfTheFather to their misfortune]], or the Marlon family having a lot of men with blue hair and similar haircuts. From a meta perspective, this is because most of the main characters in each arc are portrayed by the same Music/{{Vocaloid}} as their ancestor in the last one. |
| 57 | * Laxus from ''Manga/FairyTail'' looks like a younger Makarov, except much taller and more muscular. [[ArcVillain Hades]], who was Precht Gaebolg and the man who appointed Makarov to the title of guildmaster back in the day, actually double-takes when Laxus crashes the party and calls him "boy", which he used to call Makarov, while an image of a younger Makarov is superimposed on him. |
| 58 | * ''Manga/FistOfTheBlueSky'', Tetsuo Hara's prequel to ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', centers around Kenshiro's uncle and Ryuken's older half-brother Kenshiro Kasumi, who is Kenshiro if he lived in Pre-WWII Asia and was a heavy smoker. The manga exactly hasn't established how they're related yet since the Kenshiro from ''North Star'' was supposedly adopted… |
| 59 | * In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', Edward's great-grandchildren look exactly like younger versions of him, Al, and Winry (despite the fact [[spoiler:that Winry is supposed to be stuck on the other side of the Gate]]). Other characters have identical grandchildren of them, with a slight twist since they're technically [[IdenticalStranger alternate versions]] of them. |
| 60 | * Most of the "new generation" characters in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]''[='s=] sequel novel ''Frozen Teardrop'' are this, including the second Duo Maxwell,[[note]]Who might not even be Duo 1's biological son[[/note]] Qaterine Winner (younger sister of Quatre) and Kathy Po (daughter of Sally). The most creative they get with this is having Zechs Merquise and Lucrezia Noin's children each look like their opposite-gender parent. It also goes retroactive, revealing that Relena Peacecraft is a dead ringer for both her grandmother Katrina ''and'' her great-aunt Sabrina, though this last bit is justified by their being twins. And then it's taken even further with [[http://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1jq87uby61qcftq3o1_1280.jpg Katrina wearing the same]] CoolMask her grandson Milliardo would wear as Zechs Merquise. |
| 61 | * In ''Manga/{{Haikyuu}}'', where StrongFamilyResemblance is a common theme, the current Karasuno coach Keishin Ukai has a striking resemblance to his grandfather and previous coach Ikkei Ukai. This is something Nekomata (Ikkei's long-time friend and rival) likes to make fun of. |
| 62 | * The only difference between Kaoru and her late mother in ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'' is that Kaoru's hair is naturally purple and her mother's was caramel-colored. However, Kaoru started dyeing her hair blonde after getting married to Hajime, increasing the resemblance even further. |
| 63 | * In the anime of ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', Hojo's ancestor from five hundred years ago, Akitoki Hojo, looks exactly like him with a different hairstyle and also has the same voice actor. |
| 64 | * ''Literature/InvadersOfTheRokujyouma'': Thia and Ruth for their respective ancestors Princess Charl and [[LadyOfWar Lady Knight]] Flairhan. |
| 65 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': Joseph Joestar, in his youth, looks almost exactly like his grandfather Jonathan Joestar. Araki has commented that he gave Joseph a nearly identical design to his grandfather in order to ease the transition for his readers between Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency. However, their personalities couldn't be more different, as is noted in the series. This is subverted in the anime, however, where Jonathan was given an AdaptationDyeJob from brown hair to blue, and Joseph, while keeping the brown hair, was drawn with very spiky bangs, to further tell him apart from his grandpa. Their faces, however, remain very similar. |
| 66 | ** Also, although not identical, Jotaro Kujo resembles a lot Joseph Joestar, his grandfather, when he was young. Even more so in the manga. |
| 67 | * Nanami and Yukiji from ''Manga/KamisamaKiss'' look almost identical and they share the same voice actress in the original Japanese dub. Yukiji is Nanami's ancestor from five hundred years ago. |
| 68 | * Karin from ''Manga/{{Karin}}'' looks exactly like her grandmother, Elda, except with a different hair style, hair color, and larger breasts. [[spoiler:Anju also looks identical to her maternal grandmother, Cecilia.]] |
| 69 | * ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'' introduces [[TomboyishName Einhard]] Stratos and Sieglinde Jeremiah, who look very similar to their ancestors Claus G.S. Ingvalt and [[TomboyishName Wilfried]] Jeremiah, respectively. In Einhart's case, she only looks similar to her male ancestor when he was younger. There is also Fabia Crozelg, who also looks very similar to her CatGirl witch ancestor. Vivio Takamachi's case is different because she's a clone of Olive Sägebrecht, which justifies their resemblance. |
| 70 | * If you subscribe to the theory that ''Anime/MyOtome'' is set in the future of ''Anime/MyHime,'' then this would apply, surname changes aside. |
| 71 | * Yotsuya from ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku'' looks exactly like his grandfather, causing a bit of confusion when his likeness appears to show up in old photos, adding to the mystery who he is and what he does. |
| 72 | * In ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends'', it's a major plot point that [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/takkashinatsume_6748.jpg Takashi Natsume]] is all but identical to his late grandmother, [[http://spicytunas.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/natsume-4.jpg Reiko]]: many of his issues are caused by the fact that [[{{Youkai}} ayakashi]], not very conscious of human sex differences or the passage of time, regularly [[MistakenIdentity assume they're the same person]] and take up whatever grudges they had on Reiko up with him. |
| 73 | * Rikuo in ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan'' is almost completely identical to how his grandfather used to look. And his father. Must be some strong genes in that family. |
| 74 | * ''Franchise/OnePiece'': |
| 75 | ** Monkey D. Garp, Luffy's grandfather, [[http://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/File:Garp_as_a_Child.png looked almost exactly like Luffy did]] when he was a kid. Even now you can see the resemblance, as Garp looks like a much older and brawnier Luffy. |
| 76 | ** {{Averted|Trope}} with [[http://images.wikia.com/onepiece/images/d/d7/Montblanc_Cricket_Manga_Pre_Timeskip_Infobox.png Montblanc Cricket]] and his ancestor [[http://images.wikia.com/onepiece/images/1/16/Noland.png Montblanc Noland.]] The only physical trait they share is that strange chestnut-like appendage on their heads. |
| 77 | * In ''Manga/OokuTheInnerChambers'', Sadanobu looks identical to her grandmother Yoshimune, and given how she idolizes and tries to emulate Yoshimune, Sadanobu's probably aware of it. |
| 78 | * Oz Vessalius from ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' looks ''exactly'' like a younger version of Jack, his ancestor. [[spoiler:This becomes completely justified and subverted at the same time when it's revealed that Oz is ''not'' a true Vessalius but rather the soul of the B-Rabbit who is inhabiting Jack's [[MerlinSickness backwards-aging]] body]]. |
| 79 | * While it is taking place in an alternate universe, the one-shot ''Manga/SailorMoon'' manga, ''Parallel Sailor Moon'', stars a bunch of daughters of the Guardian Senshi who not only look exactly like their parents, they even have the same names as them. The only apparent exceptions--Usagi's daughters Chibiusa and Kousagi--are simply obscure to English readers. "Usagi" means "rabbit", and "Kousagi" means "small rabbit"; "Chibiusa" is just a nickname meaning "little Usa(gi)"--she's really named for her mother, just like all the other Senshi's daughters. |
| 80 | * Count D of ''Manga/PetShopOfHorrors'' looks exactly like his grandfather… and his father… and his sister… [[spoiler:Well, they're not human anyway.]] |
| 81 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': The Seafoam Islands' Professor Westwood ("The Evolution Solution") is completely identical to portraits of his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather. |
| 82 | * In the ''Manga/PrincessKnight'' sequel ''Twin Knight'', Sapphire's daughter Violetta [[{{expy}} looks exactly like her]]… and also has to cross-dress, wear identical clothes, and learn escrima. |
| 83 | * In the anime of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', a time travel episode reveals that in her younger years Colonge resembled her great-granddaughter Shampoo. Although that turned out to be a dream. So it was more just the character who was dreaming expecting this trope. |
| 84 | * All of the founders of the Vongola family in ''Manga/Reborn2004'' bear a close resemblance to the tenth generation Guardians, including weapons used at one point. |
| 85 | ** Only Tsuna and Giotto are confirmed to have a biological relationship though. |
| 86 | ** Vongola Secondo and Xanxus look similar in appearance as well, though [[spoiler:Xanxus is not the Ninth's son and was actually adopted.]] |
| 87 | * Being the past selves of the main characters in the main series, the ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}} Gaiden'' guys fit this, although Minekura originally wanted to make them look completely different to their future incarnations. |
| 88 | * ''Manga/SgtFrog'': |
| 89 | ** After being zapped with Kululu's "Midlife Crisis" gun in Episode 9, preadolescent Aki is shown to look very similar to her son Fuyuki (but not close enough that Funimation's dub could resist [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] it). A later episode involving time travel reveals that teenage Aki also looked a lot like her daughter Natsumi -- except for the hair color and the glasses, of course. |
| 90 | ** [[spoiler:Fuyuki's son shown in a brief glimpse of the future at the end of the 6th season looks basically identical to Fuyuki's ''BrattyHalfPint'' younger self.]] |
| 91 | * Angelica from ''Manga/{{Superior}}'' is the spitting image of her grandmother (minus the eye color and the whole [[UnevenHybrid quarter-demon]] thing). [[spoiler:It's also how she and her long lost grandfather Umberto realize that they're related.]] |
| 92 | * ''VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}}'': While [[spoiler:on her deathbed]], Tusukuru says this to her granddaughter, Eruru. |
| 93 | * ''Words Worth'': Aside from the differences in height and hair color, [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=448254 Miyu]] is the spitting image of her mother, Maria (seen in [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=527206 the lower-right, here]]). Astral even remarks on the resemblance, when his memories begin to return and he recalls his encounter with Maria. |
| 94 | -->'''Astral:''' ''[voiceover, during flashback of Maria]'' That girl…! [[EasyAmnesia Who *is* she?!]] She… she looks like Miyu! |
| 95 | * Apparently, every male of the Doumeki family in ''Manga/XxxHolic'' looks exactly the same, for at ''least'' five generations. [[spoiler:And Watanuki bears an uncanny resemblance to how his ancestor, [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura Clow Reed]], looked when he was young.]] |
| 96 | * Shogunyan from ''Anime/YokaiWatch'' is identical to his descendant, Jibanyan. He looks like a blue version of Jibanyan wearing {{samurai}} clothes. He looks so identical that Nate and Whisper thought he was Jibanyan cosplaying. |
| 97 | * The characters from ''Anime/YuGiOh'' with ties to AncientEgypt look exactly like their ancestors, except with a different skin tone. It should be noted that the cast is primarily Japanese while the ancestors are Egyptian. |
| 98 | * In ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga Revenge'', during a flashback arc detailing Yugiri's backstory, there are brief shots of young women who are (presumably) ancestors of the other six Franchouchou members. They ''exactly'' resemble their modern descendents, right down to Ai's ancestor having anachronistic flower-shaped accessories in her hair. |
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| 101 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 102 | * In ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', Huo Haha's ancestor Xiao Haha is never explicitly stated to be his grandpa, but the two still resemble each other quite a bit (same head shape, purple robes and purple color schemes in general). One of the main differences between the two is that Xiao Haha has a WizardBeard and Huo Haha has a PermaStubble. |
| 103 | * In ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'', Noonbory bears an incredible resemblance to his grandfather, Hanubi, just with a brighter colour scheme and no moustache/tiny hat. |
| 104 | * In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'', Wolffy looks exactly like his grandfather, Yellow Wolf, save for their fur color. |
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| 107 | [[folder:Audio Plays]] |
| 108 | * A Commander Korshal of the Galyari appears in Creator/BigFinish's Literature/BerniceSummerfield audio drama ''The Bone of Contention'' and the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio drama ''Dreamtime'', voiced in both by Steffan Rhodri. The former is set in the 27th century, the latter thousands of years in the future. According to ''[[UniverseConcordance Ahistory]]'', WordOfGod from Simon A. Forward, who wrote both stories, is that the Galyari aren't ''that'' long-lived, but do pass their names on. |
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| 111 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 112 | * ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': |
| 113 | ** ''Recap/AsterixAndTheClassAct'': Obelix's family tree consists entirely of "big-boned", red-mustached warriors. The modern-day Obelisc'h, [[DirectLineToTheAuthor whom the authors meet]], even wears a blue-and-white striped jersey, reflecting his ancestor's stripey trousers. In ''Recap/AsterixAndTheGoldenSickle'', however, Obelix has a cousin who is tiny, almost down to Asterix size, and appears rather frail. He still has the characteristic red hair, though. |
| 114 | ** ''Recap/AsterixAndTheActress'' introduces the pair's parents, with each father looking exactly like his son except for some wrinkles and white hair and the clothes. Their cloth patterns and colors (and, in Obelix' case, his trademark braids) come from their respective mothers. |
| 115 | * ''Franchise/TheDCU'': |
| 116 | ** ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Thomas Wayne looks exactly like his son, with the addition of a mustache. And [[ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}} sometimes]] [[ComicBook/Earth2 not even that]]. |
| 117 | ** ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'': Gold's ancestor, Daniel Carter, has not only the same last name but appears nearly identical, despite them being over four hundred years of Carter generations apart. He even manages to have a nearly identical personality, despite all odds. Booster also encounters a First World War soldier who turns out to be [[spoiler:Cyrus Lord, an ancestor of ex-JLI manager/sometime supervillain Maxwell Lord]]. Booster fails to appreciate this at first only because [[spoiler:several weeks' beard growth and a bloody great bandage around his head disguise the fact that Cyrus is the spitting image of Max.]] |
| 118 | ** ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': |
| 119 | *** Kal-El looks exactly like his biological father Jor-El, who looked as old as Superman is now when he died. |
| 120 | *** ''The Kents'': 19th century Smallville's Sheriff Nathaniel Kent looks exactly like Superman, despite Clark being adopted... and from another planet and ''species''. |
| 121 | *** ''ComicBook/TheKryptonChronicles'': Superman and Supergirl research their family's history and discover that Kal-El is all but identical to their distant ancestor Erok-El, who lived ten millennia ago. |
| 122 | *** ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': In one issue, the descendants of modern-day Lex Luthor and Mr. Mxyzptlk look identical and have the same abilities as their ancestors, and are discriminated against by society because of what their ancestors did. The Legion and the stories surrounding it take place a thousand years in the future. |
| 123 | *** ''ComicBook/Superboy1949'' #217 introduces Laurel Kent, Clark Kent and Lois Lane's 30th century descendant, which looks almost identical to her 20th century female ancestor. |
| 124 | *** ''ComicBook/SupermansReturnToKrypton'': Superman goes back in time and attends his biological parents' wedding on Krypton. One of the attendants remarks on his resemblance to Jor-El's father (ergo, Superman's grandfather) |
| 125 | ---->'''Wedding Guest:''' Amazing, how strongly you resemble that statue! Coincidence, eh?\ |
| 126 | '''Superman:''' (thinking) Coincidence, nothing! He's... my grandfather! Obviously, it's an old Kryptonian custom for statues of the parents of both the bride and groom to adorn weddings! |
| 127 | *** ''ComicBook/SupergirlsGreatestChallenge'': Whizzy looks so much like his very distant ancestor Streaky the Supercat that ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} initially mistakes him with Streaky. They even share the same fur color and distinctive yellow lightning bolt marks on their sides. |
| 128 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': |
| 129 | *** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': In UsefulNotes/{{the Golden Age|of Comic Books}}, ComicBook/WonderWoman's mother Hippolyta resembled her enough that she could disguise herself as her daughter pretty easily. This idea was abandoned in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}} when Hyppolyta suddenly started getting colored as a blonde. But then brought back during the time where she was filling in for a missing Wonder Woman in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987''. |
| 130 | *** On a couple of occasions where Diana's WWII era adventures are considered canon along with more modern day ones, ComicBook/EttaCandy is the name of two identical friends of hers, one of whom was the original leader of the paramilitary group the Holliday Girls during WWII and the other her daughter or other descendant during the modern day. ComicBook/SteveTrevor is generally dealt with by having him become immortal or spending a bunch of time some variety of dead in the interim before the Olympians and Chthonians brought him back. |
| 131 | * ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'': After the Doctor and Sarah-Jane have an adventure in the Victorian era with a woman named Athena, she introduces them to her fiance, Naval Surgeon Albert Sullivan, who looks ''exactly'' like Naval Surgeon Harry Sullivan. |
| 132 | * ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' has an ancient barbarian ancestor of Gina Diggers who looks a ''lot'' like her, including [[MorphicResonance circular tattoos around the eyes that look like Gina's big glasses]]. |
| 133 | * ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': |
| 134 | ** ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': |
| 135 | *** Sharon Carter looks identical to Peggy Carter, a hero of World War II and member of the French Resistance. Originally, the two were sisters but were retconned to be aunt and niece to ease timeline issues. |
| 136 | *** Two stories feature UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution hero Captain Stephen Rogers, who looks identical to his descendant. In the second story, he briefly wears a costume created by a British loyalist to satirize the American flag. |
| 137 | *** ''Captain America: Hail Hydra!'' shows the history of [[AncientConspiracy Hydra]] from ancient Mesopotamia to the present day. The head of their immortality research is almost always a [[BaldOfEvil bald]], bug-eyed man with a permanent SlasherSmile. WordOfGod is that this is the family line of Dr. Geist, the present-day holder of this position. |
| 138 | ** ''ComicBook/MsMarvel'': ''ComicBook/MsMarvel2016'' #36 shows a flashback to 1257 focusing on Kamala's ancestor, Kamilah of Samarkand, who's the spitting image of her 21st Century descendant. The sequence also shows counterparts to Kamala's closest friends, such as the Italian knight Sir Brunello (identical to Bruno Carelli, down to an implied crush on Kamilah), Sir Josuah (Josh), and Lady Zoë (Zoe Zimmer); while these aren't stated to actually be their counterparts' ancestors, they look identical to them and share their personalities. |
| 139 | ** ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'': Logan grows up to look exactly like his biological father Thomas Logan. This was used as a RedHerring in ''ComicBook/{{Origin|2001}}'', with readers initially being led to believe that Thomas' other son Dog was the young Wolverine. |
| 140 | ** ''ComicBook/XMen'': |
| 141 | *** Jean Grey has an identical 17th-century ancestor, Lady Grey, who was a member of the Hellfire Club. Most of the other ancestors of major characters involved with the club are also identical. |
| 142 | *** When Magik and Mirage accidentally visit Ancient Egypt (in the 11th century BC, three ''millennia'' before their time), they meet Storm's ancestor, whom they immediately mistake for her descendant. Which is confusing because Storm's maternal family is from Kenya. According to the ''ComicBook/OfficialHandbookOfTheMarvelUniverse'', Storm's maternal family is a line of sorceresses/priestesses descended from a primeval goddess-entity called "the Bright Lady" who is implied to be an incarnation of Gaea the Earth-Goddess. This line is marked by white hair, blue eyes, and bizarre supernatural talents. So in fact, ''all'' of Storm's ancestors look alike, and this is justified as a supernatural trait. |
| 143 | * ''ComicBook/NikopolTrilogy'': Alcide Nikopol and his son (also named Alcide) look virtually identical, and since the former has spent the last thirty years frozen, they even look like they're the same age. |
| 144 | * ''ComicBook/{{Patoruzu}}'': Patoruzu's father, Patoruzek I, looks just like him. |
| 145 | * ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': In an early, pre-CerebusSyndrome issue, Sonic is sent back in time to prehistoric Mobius, where he meets prehistoric versions of himself and the Freedom Fighters. |
| 146 | * ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': Captain Haddock's 17th-century ancestor Sir Francis Haddock (in the original: Francois, Chevalier de Hadoque) looked exactly like him, except for the longer hair appropriate for the period. He had a similar penchant for drinking and swearing. |
| 147 | * ''ComicBook/TomorrowStories'': Cobweb and her sidekick Clarice are descended from priestesses who discovered the secret of [[TrulySingleParent parthenogenesis]], so they're genetically identical to their ancestors. |
| 148 | [[/folder]] |
| 149 | |
| 150 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 151 | * In the run-up to the Bicentennial, ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' ran comics where Zonker related tales of his Minuteman ancestor Nate Harris, who looked exactly like Zonker in colonial garb. |
| 152 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Mafalda}}'' once found a picture of a little girl very similar to her. She asked her mom and she answered "That's me" Mafalda surprisedly asks "Why didn't you tell me you used to be my sister?!" |
| 153 | * ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' is about 21 generations of identical men with identical personalities. Although it is hard to tell how physically alike they are under the costume aside from build. One story tells of a Phantom who was noticeably shorter and bulkier than the previous Phantoms and had to seriously modify the costume. |
| 154 | * In ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', Jon's brother Doc Boy looks exactly the same as their dad, only with ''slightly'' more hair. Doc takes offence if this is pointed out; Dad takes offence at Doc taking offence. |
| 155 | [[/folder]] |
| 156 | |
| 157 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 158 | * ''Blog/BetterBonesAU'': Ivypool looks just like her great-great grandfather Redtail, barring them having different coat colors. It unnerves Tigerstar, who killed Redtail, a lot. |
| 159 | * ''Fanfic/BitterRepercussions'': Sandstorm's son Redkit takes after his grandfather Redtail. |
| 160 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4648258/14/Blackadder-40K-Tales-from-the-Black-Millennium Blackadder 40K: Tales from the Black Millennium]]'': The last chapter explains why every Blackadder looks identical: the very first Blackadder was a shaman who used magic to ensure that every time he died, he would reincarnate as the next available descendant, such as a grandson or great-grandson. It also explains the Baldricks: the first Blackadder was the one who came up with the idea of all the shamans collectively commiting suicide and merging into what would become the GodEmperor of Mankind, not to save the world, but so he could steal their jewelry. The Emperor cursed Blackadder into always having a Baldrick to follow him. |
| 161 | * ''Fanfic/BornOfHellsKitchen'': Foggy first disbelieves Matt when his friend claims having a seven-year-old son, but immediately changes his mind when he sees the boy -- who shares a startling likeness with Jack Murdock. |
| 162 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9774999/1/Confusion-from-longing Confusion from longing]]'' goes with the theory that some Air Nomads escaped the genocide by passing as other ethnicities. Aang notices that Ty Lee is the granddaughter of an Air Nomad friend of his due to their extremely close resemblance. |
| 163 | * "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13312588/1/Destiny-and-Voyager-Crossroads Destiny and Voyager Crossroads]]": Indirectly features when ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' crosses into a parallel universe and encounters ''[[Series/StargateUniverse 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. |
| 164 | * ''Fanfic/DiariesOfAMadman'': Cadance is a descendant of Sombra and mentioned to be the splitting image of Sombra's daughter. |
| 165 | * ''Fanfic/LimpetAU'': |
| 166 | ** In "Driving Lord Vader", Darth Vader reflects on how Jaina looks almost identical to her great-grandmother Shmi. |
| 167 | ** In a more metaphysical sense, Vader's and Luke's Force signatures are so similar to one another that it took some time for Luke's infant son to realize that his father and grandfather are, in fact, different people. |
| 168 | * ''Fanfic/MegsFamilySeries'' has Chris and Jillian's twins Tilly and C.J., the former taking after her mother aside from being brunette (Though ''Family'' reveals that Jillian is actually a natural brunette) and the latter taking after Chris (The narration even notes that he even ''sounds'' like Chris but higher pitched). |
| 169 | * ''Webcomic/NaruHinaChronicles'': A flashback in Chapter 127 reveals that Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage, gave a mission to find new jutsu to Chihaya Namikaze, who was Minato's great-grandfather (and thus Naruto's great-great-grandfather). Said flashback shows that he looked an awful lot like Minato and Naruto. Also, Chihaya did that mission alongside a woman named Masuyo Hyuga, who looked identical to Naruto's lover Hinata Hyuga. |
| 170 | * ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10027490 Operation Epic Beer Run]]'', a ''Film/TheMartian'' fic: [[Creator/SebastianStan Dr. Beck]] tells a story from his med school days and notes that one of the uncles he mentions in the story is often mistaken for his father since they look so much alike. It's never explicitly stated but strongly implied that this uncle is [[spoiler:Bucky Barnes]] under a cover identity. |
| 171 | * ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': Used for a major revelation in [[WhamEpisode Chapter 24]]. Giovanni visits Felgrand in his cell and shows him a photo of [[KnightOfCerebus Belladonna]]. After giving her a good look, he's left in shock at her resemblance to [[EvilMatriarch his mother Heratia]] ([[SelfMadeOrphan whom he and his brothers killed years ago]]), enraging him to see that one of his brothers broke their pact of never having children. |
| 172 | * ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/282050 Principal Celestia's Family Reunion]]'': This is the basis of the story. [[spoiler:Every member of Celestia and Luna's family looks like Celestia and Luna and has for fifteen generations, which is how there can be mortal human counterparts to the immortal alicorn rulers.]] |
| 173 | * ''Fanfic/{{Shard}}'': When he first meets Pyrrha, Aero notices she looks very similar to Quinn, a friend of his from Totum, and asks if she has an ancestor by that name. Pyrrha doesn't know. |
| 174 | * ''Fanfic/StormOnTheHorizon'': [[spoiler:Elisabet Sobeck, and by extension Aloy, was Chloe Price's daughter. Aloy's resemblance to Chloe, especially in [[ActorAllusion her voice]], is Max's first clue as to who Aloy really is.]] |
| 175 | * ''Fanfic/TheStoryOfSilverKetchum'': |
| 176 | ** Silver looks a lot like her great-grandfather Ash. |
| 177 | ** Stoney is the spitting image of Brock and has his same personality as well. |
| 178 | * ''Fanfic/TekkaDread'': Ukyo XVII and Xian Pu are said to the spitting images of Ukyo Kuonji and Shampoo, the girls who could have been Ranma's fiances if he didn't get engulfed in the Tekkapod. |
| 179 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3025668/1/Tunnel-Vision Tunnel Vision]]'', a ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' fic: |
| 180 | ** Kim and Ron travel 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). They also run into the ancestors of Bonnie, Drakken and Shego in that time period. |
| 181 | ** The spin-off AU ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3859548/10/Bridging-the-Gap Bridging the Gap]]'' (which depicts Kim and Ron being stuck in the past between 1903 and 1909) includes Kim and Ron encountering Kim's great-great aunt Mim Possible ("[[Recap/KimPossibleS2E30RewritingHistory Rewriting History]]"), who initially mistakes Ron for her old friend Jon Stoppable while Ron assumes that Mim is Kim until they each clarify the other's identity. |
| 182 | * ''Fanfic/UnexpectedSurprise'': The main plot is kicked off when Adrien returns to Paris and finds a girl with Marinette's freckles... and his mother's face. |
| 183 | [[/folder]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 186 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'', Miguel's straight-parted and messy bangs, beauty mark, and dimple makes him resemble his great-great-grandfather. [[spoiler:It's {{Foreshadowing}} that it's Héctor who is Miguel's true great-great-grandfather, not Ernesto, who has curled bangs and slicked back hair.]] This also is a [[FridgeBrilliance subtle plot point]] - [[spoiler:this was how Coco was able to remember Héctor all these years, because her great-grandson reminded her of her father.]] |
| 187 | * Abuela Madrigal from ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' very much resembles many of her children and grandchildren when she was younger. |
| 188 | [[/folder]] |
| 189 | |
| 190 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 191 | * In ''Film/Alien3'', Creator/LanceHenriksen plays the designer of the Bishop android (although [[EpilepticTrees some theories]] consider him an android instead of a human). In ''Film/AVPAlienVsPredator'', set more than 150 years earlier, he plays Charles Bishop Weyland, the co-founder of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation and possible ancestor of the designer. |
| 192 | * In ''Film/AskAPoliceman'', the aged Constable Harbottle looks almost identical to his even more ancient father (both played by Moore Marriott). |
| 193 | * ''Film/AssassinsCreed2016'': {{Justified|Trope}} just like the games due to the Animus which makes Callum appear identical to his ancestor Aguilar. |
| 194 | * One of the first things ''Film/AustinPowers'' does after being thawed out from a HumanPopsicle is mistake [[ActionGirl Felicity]] for her apparently-identical mother. |
| 195 | * A plot point in ''Film/{{Baahubali}}''; Sivudu/Mahendra's resemblance to his father Amarendra makes him instantly recognizable to the people of Mahishmati. In fact, being Mahendra being born the instant his father dies, and inheriting all his strength and fighting skill, all but confirms that he simply ''is'' his father reincarnated. |
| 196 | * ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'': |
| 197 | ** 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/BackToTheFuture1 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''. |
| 198 | ** It's worth noting that, according to Jeffrey Weissman (George in parts ''[[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII II]]'' and ''[[Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII III]]''), the role of great-grandfather Seamus [=McFly=] was originally written for Creator/CrispinGlover. In the Telltale game, Marty's grandfather Artie [=McFly=] does end up looking and sounding like Crispin Glover. |
| 199 | ** In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', Marty's ancestor Seamus [=McFly=] is identical to Marty (both are played by Michael J. Fox), but the ancestor's wife Maggie is identical to Marty's mother (both are played by Lea Thompson) despite not being her ancestor. Director Robert Zemeckis has stated that [=McFly=] men are just attracted to women who look like Lea Thompson. |
| 200 | ** About the only characters immune to this would be Doc (old enough that he appears in several time periods looking exactly the same) and Strickland (the Marshal is played by the same person as the DeanBitterman, but pains are taken to make them look fairly different). |
| 201 | * Partial example: In 2007's ''WesternAnimation/{{Beowulf|2007}}'', both Beowulf and his son, [[spoiler:Wyrm,]] are played by the mighty Creator/RayWinstone. Although they both look pretty different. To be fair his son did have gold skin and lacked the facial hair of his daddy. Otherwise, his physique is exactly what Beowulf's was like when he was younger [[spoiler:(y'know, when he isn't all scaly and firebreathing)]]. |
| 202 | * ''Film/BicentennialMan'': The adult Amanda Martin (Little Miss) and her granddaughter, Portia Charney, were both played by Creator/EmbethDavidtz. Andrew is perturbed at this at first, but eventually warms up to it by [[DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest falling in love with Portia]]. |
| 203 | * ''{{Film/Chiquititas}}: Rincon de Luz'' is a prequel to the TV series, showing the creation of the Rincon de Luz orphanage in the 19th century. All the ancestors of the main characters are played by the actors who played their descendants in the TV Series. |
| 204 | * In the 1925 silent film ''Film/{{Cobra|1925}}'', there's a brief {{Flashback}} in which Creator/RudolphValentino plays his character's ancestor from TheCavalierYears, seemingly as an excuse for the film to GenreShift to CostumeDrama for a bit. |
| 205 | * Lampshaded in ''Film/ACockAndBullStory'', an adaptation of the novel ''Literature/TristramShandy''. Steve Coogan, who plays Shandy in the film-within-a-film, breaks the fourth wall in his role as narrator to explain that a particular scene is a flashback to his childhood in which he'll be playing the role of his own father. |
| 206 | * In ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica,'' Larry Peterson plays several generations of affluent Confederate heroes. |
| 207 | * A flashback in ''Film/{{Beerfest}}'' reveals that Todd Wolfhouse looks identical to his great-grandfather Baron Ludwig von Wolfhousen (same actor). Later on, they have Todd stand near a portrait of Ludwig to show the family resemblance. |
| 208 | * In the musical film ''Film/CoverGirl,'' Creator/RitaHayworth plays her character's grandmother in a flashback. |
| 209 | * In the 1955 ''Daddy-Long-Legs'', Jervis Pendleton III has his identity revealed by the portraits of his father and grandfather. |
| 210 | %%* in ''Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck'', this trope happens to Greg and his uncle Terrace.%%ZCE |
| 211 | * ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate'': The Devil's true form as a FallenAngel has the exact same face as his male offspring. Justified, since he is a divine being and his son a Nephilim. |
| 212 | * The title character of the silent film ''Don Q: Son of Zorro'' was played by Douglas Fairbanks Sr., who had previously starred in the silent film ''Film/{{The Mark of Zorro|1920}}''. |
| 213 | * In ''Film/DontGiveUpTheShip'', Creator/JerryLewis plays not only the protagonist John Paul Steckler VII but, in vignettes, John Paul Steckler I and John Paul Steckler IV. |
| 214 | * ''Film/DraculaAD1972'' has this going on with the Van Helsings, both played by Creator/PeterCushing. The unnamed lackey of Dracula in 1872 is played by Christopher Neame, who also plays 20th-century Dracula-cultist Johnny Alucard, although their relationship is not spelled out. |
| 215 | * ''Film/DrGoldfootAndTheBikiniMachine'' has Dr. Goldfoot (played by Creator/VincentPrice), show off portraits of his ancestors, roles played by Price in other movies. |
| 216 | * In ''Film/FierceCreatures'', Kevin Kline plays "most powerful man in the world" Rod [=McCain=] and his ne'er-do-well son Vince [=McCain=], vice-president of his father's company, Octopus Inc. |
| 217 | * The ancestor that Film/ForrestGump was named after (KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest) is also played by Creator/TomHanks; [[DeathSeeker Lieutenant Dan's]] ancestors are ''all'' played by Creator/GarySinise. Same goes for all of Bubba's maternal ancestors from the mid-19th century to his mother. However, it's likely that all of the scenes these ancestors appear in show just [[UnreliableNarrator how Forrest imagines them]], not how they really looked like. |
| 218 | * Robert Donat plays the 18th Century Scottish lad, Murdoch Glourie, and his descendant, Donald Glourie in ''Film/TheGhostGoesWest''. |
| 219 | * ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'': |
| 220 | ** Averted, but not through design. Irish actor David Murray was originally cast to play Destro but could not take the role due to problems with his visa. He only had time to play the [=McCullen=] ancestor from the beginning of the film before his visa expired. Christopher Eccleston ended up playing the role of the modern [=McCullen=]/Destro, and while he and Murray look somewhat similar, they at least aren't clones of each other. |
| 221 | ** Played Straight with Sergeant Stone, according to Brendan Frasier, he's a descendant of [[Film/TheMummyTrilogy Rick O'Connell]]. |
| 222 | * ''Film/GingerSnapsBackTheBeginning'' follows the 19th-century ancestors of the two main characters from the other films in the series. As per this trope, they're played by the same actresses as their present-day counterparts, in addition, they also have the exact same names. |
| 223 | * In ''[[Film/{{Halloweentown}} Return to Halloweentown]]'', Sara Paxton plays both Marnie Piper and an ancestor, Splendora Cromwell. |
| 224 | * Sonny Chiba as various generations of "Hattori Hanzô" in ''Hattori Hanzô: Kage no Gundan'' on Japanese TV, and in the film ''Film/KillBill, Vol. 1''. |
| 225 | * ''The Haunted Palace'', Creator/RogerCorman's 1963 adaptation of ''Literature/TheCaseOfCharlesDexterWard'', not only cast Creator/VincentPrice as Charles Ward and his warlock ancestor Joseph Curwen, but also used the same actors to play both the men who'd burned Curwen at the stake ''and'' their descendants whom he returned from the grave to take revenge upon. |
| 226 | * In ''Film/HeadlessHorseman'', Sgt. Mosby Rusk is identical to his descendant Pa Rusk. Possibly justified as the Rusk family is drawing from a very limited gene pool. |
| 227 | * In ''Film/HellraiserBloodline'', the maker of the Lament Configuration and two of his descendants are played by the same actor. They're at least four generations apart each. |
| 228 | * ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug'' has a Downplayed example: Bard and his ancestor Girion are both played by Luke Evans, but unless you know it already, you won't recognize him as Girion under heavy prosthetics and make-up. |
| 229 | * ''Film/HorseGirl'': Sarah looks very similar to her grandmother, which she often comments on and becomes more and more obsessed with. Eventually, she becomes convinced that she is first a clone and later a time traveling version of her grandmother. At the end of the movie, she does her clothes and makeup to exactly resemble a photo she has of her grandmother. |
| 230 | * In ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles1983'', Sir Hugo Baskerville, the cause of the curse upon the Baskerville family, is almost identical to his descendant Jack Stapleton. While the resemblance is commented on in the novel, here they are played by the same actor (Nicholas Clay). |
| 231 | * ''Film/IMarriedAWitch'': Five generations of Wooley males over 270 years are all played by Creator/FredricMarch. |
| 232 | * In ''Film/JustVisiting'', Creator/ChristinaApplegate plays both Creator/JeanReno's fiancee and her present-day descendant. |
| 233 | ** The same is true in the original French film (with the same lead actors) ''Film/LesVisiteurs''. |
| 234 | ** This also serves to prove to him that he will find a way to get back to his own time and prevent [[spoiler:his fiancee's/her father's death (depending on the version)]]. |
| 235 | * ''Film/KingRalph'': Given a tour of Buckingham Palace, Sir Cedric shows Ralph a painting of his unfortunate grandfather, who looks a lot like his grandson in the painting. |
| 236 | -->'''Cedric:''' That's the Duke of Warren, your unfortunate grandfather. You have his chin. |
| 237 | * ''Film/{{Knowing}}'' has Lucinda in the opening scenes (set in 1959) and Abby, her granddaughter from fifty years later, played by the same actress. |
| 238 | * ''Film/LettersToJuliet'' ends with a Lorenzo looking identical to the one remembered so must be that one's grandfather. |
| 239 | * ''Let's Make Love'' with Creator/MarilynMonroe begins with narrated drawings about a rich man's family, many who resemble Crerator/YvesMontand, who plays that rich man. |
| 240 | * Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: |
| 241 | ** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', Creator/KennethChoi plays WWII hero Jim Morita. In ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', Choi plays Principal Morita, who is Jim's grandson (Jim's medals and a photo of him are displayed in his office). |
| 242 | ** In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', Enver Gjokaj appeared as a minor police officer character before landing his role as Daniel Sousa in ''Series/AgentCarter''. The showrunners have joked that the cop could be Sousa's grandson. |
| 243 | ** Laura Haddock plays Star-Lord's mother Meredith in ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'', but she also appeared in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' as a random Captain America fangirl asking him for an autograph. Creator/JamesGunn later decided on a whim that they were mother and daughter. |
| 244 | * ''Monte Carlo or Bust'' features Creator/TerryThomas as Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage, the son of Terry-Thomas's character in ''Film/ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines'', Sir Percy Ware-Armitage. Creator/EricSykes reprises the role of his BeleagueredAssistant, but doesn't seem to be the son of the original (although it would be entirely in keeping for the role of henchman to the Ware-Armitages to be [[LegacyOfService a hereditary position]], they have different names). |
| 245 | * Jason tries to get away with this in ''Film/MysteryTeam'', hoping a fake mustache will convince the principal that he's his father. |
| 246 | * ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet5TheDreamChild''. In Alice's dream of how Amanda Krueger was raped, one of the 100 maniacs looks ''exactly'' like pre-death [[Characters/ANightmareOnElmStreetFreddyKrueger 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. |
| 247 | * In ''Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' and ''Film/BattleForThePlanetOfTheApes'' Roddy [=McDowell=] plays Caesar, the son of Cornelius--who was played by [=McDowell=] in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'' and ''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes''. ([=McDowell=] was Other Darrin'ed in ''Beneath the Planet of the Apes''.) |
| 248 | * According to WordOfGod, Matthayus in ''Film/TheScorpionKing'' is ''not'' the Scorpion King of ''Film/TheMummyReturns''. Instead, the evil Scorpion King is Matthayus's identical descendant, both being played by [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]]. Originally, it was supposed to be him, but the creators felt that the ending of ''The Scorpion King'' was too hopeful to explain Matthayus suddenly turning evil. |
| 249 | * ''Film/{{She|1935}}'' (1935 version): Randolph Scott plays Leo Vincey, the hero, and John Vincey, his ancient ancestor who he may be a reincarnation of. |
| 250 | * ''Film/{{She|1965}}'' (1965 version): John Richardson plays Leo Vincey, the hero, and Kallikrates, his ancient Greek ancestor who he may be a reincarnation of. |
| 251 | * Fredric March again in ''Film/SmilinThrough'', in which he plays the unbalanced Jeremy Wayne as well as Jeremy's far more sensible son Kenneth. |
| 252 | * In ''Film/TheSonOfTheSheik'' Rudolph Valentino plays both Sheik Ahmed and his grown son, Ahmed the younger. |
| 253 | * ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'' does a triple whammy, with three generations of sons from a Hungarian family each being played by Ralph Fiennes with varying amounts of facial hair. |
| 254 | * In ''Film/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''. Not only do they interact, but the photo in Mitchell's locker in the new reality also shows that the two were good friends. Wonder how many people commented that they look like brothers. |
| 255 | * Michael Dorn cameos in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' as Worf's grandfather, a defense attorney who, despite being stuck in the middle of a blatant KangarooCourt, still makes a valiant effort to give his clients (Kirk and Bones) something approaching a fair trial. It's worth noting that the designers attempted a partial subversion by making the grandfather's Klingon forehead ridges less pronounced than Worf's and his hair thinner, which more realistically account for changes in the family gene pool over two generations. Worf and his brother, Kurn (played by Tony Todd), share the same ridges. |
| 256 | * In ''Film/StTrinians2TheLegendOfFrittonsGold'', Creator/DavidTennant plays the present day Sir Piers Pomfrey and his ancestor Lord Pomfrey, and Rupert Everett plays [[CrossCastRole Miss Fritton]] and her ancestors Archibald Fritton and Fortnum Fritton. |
| 257 | * ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII'' features April O'Neil traveling back to samurai times and finding a fellow prisoner who she beleives to be Casey Jones' ancestor. A rat then comes along who April then jokes is ''Splinter's ancestor''. |
| 258 | * The ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' films fall into this trope; in the [[Film/TheTerminator original movie]], all of the T-800 model Terminators looked (and even ''smelled'') like different people, in order to infiltrate human bunkers (and get past sentry-dogs); but in the sequels, somehow ''all'' of the T-800 Terminators look like Arnold -- despite that this defeats the entire ''premise'' of organic cyborg-Terminators, since the humans would only need to watch out for anyone who looks like Arnold. (The original movie even showed this; the T-800 Terminator shown in the original flashback-scene was played by bodybuilder Franco Columbu). The best way to explain this is that all T-800s are the same basic [[SkeleBot9000 endoskeleton]], while the model numbers (Arnold's Terminator identifies himself as model 101) refer to the external appearance. So, all 101s resemble Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, while 102s resemble someone else. This explains Franco Columbu, who has the same basic endo-skeleton but is essentially a different sub-model. This is explicitly described at the beginning of the novelization for ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', where future John Connors looks for the right model of T-800 to send into the past. |
| 259 | * ''Film/ThatLadyInErmine'', Countess Angelina and her ancestor, Francesca. |
| 260 | * In''Film/TheThreeFacesofEve'', Eve in the flashback to her childhood is played by the same actress who plays Eve's daughter. |
| 261 | * ''Film/ThreeBrothers'': The same actor who plays Rocco also plays Rocco's father Donato in the flashback. |
| 262 | * ''Film/Timecop2TheBerlinDecision'': Two of Chan's ancestors (1881 SoiledDove Rose and her granddaughter, 1929 restaurant hostess Frances) are played by the same actress. |
| 263 | * In ''Film/Tremors4TheLegendBegins'', the 19th-century ancestor of Burt Gummer is played by Michael Gross, the same actor who plays Burt. |
| 264 | * In ''Film/{{Truth or Dare|2018}}'', the same actress who plays Inez's granddaughter portrays the young Inez in the flashbacks. |
| 265 | * In ''Film/UltramanTigaGaidenRevivalOfTheAncientGiant'', the protagonist Tsubasa Madoka enters a wormhole leading him several millenia into the past, where he encountered a HunterOfMonsters named Mahoroba who looks exactly like his older sister, Hikari. It turns out Mahoroba actually belongs to the Madoka bloodline, and could very well be Tsubasa's and Hikari's ancestor - Tsubasa even shows Mahoroba his locket containing a snapshot of him and his sister, and audiences could tell Hikari and Mahoroba are both portrayed by the same actress. |
| 266 | * The Filipino action-comedy film ''The Unkabogable Praybeyt Benjamin'' has the titular Benjamin's ancestors--who came from a long line of warriors and solidiers--look identical to Benjamin himself, all of whom were played by Creator/ViceGanda. |
| 267 | * The tour guide at the end of ''Film/UpPompeii'' is also played by Creator/FrankieHowerd, to imply that Lurcio survived the destruction of Pompeii. [[Film/UpTheChastityBelt Lurkalot]] and [[Film/UpTheFront Lurk]] are presumably also identical ancestors of Lurcio's. |
| 268 | * The Basque film ''Vacas'' ("Cows") follows two families of cowherds from 1875 to 1936. Main actor Carmelo Gómez plays the grandfather, father, and son of the Irigibel family; Kandido Uranga plays Carmelo Mendiluze and his son Juan, and Karra Elejalde plays their neighbor Ilegorri and his son, Lucas (with both appearing [[ActingForTwo together]] in the 1936 segment). |
| 269 | * ''Film/{{Vamps}}'': Goody pretends she's her past self's daughter when old flame Danny (who knew her in the '60s) sees her again. Later, her female descendant (who Alicia Silverstone also plays) looks very much like her too, only with a different hair color/hairstyle. |
| 270 | * ''Film/VoxLux'': Thanks to both being played by the same actress, Celeste's teenage daughter Albertine has the exact same appearance as Celeste herself as a teenager. |
| 271 | * ''Film/WhosHarryCrumb'' features the titular character (played by Creator/JohnCandy) coming from a long line of great detectives (which he himself isn't). When we're shown their portraits at the agency, they all look like Harry with slight clothing/hair differences (yes, including the size). |
| 272 | * Catherine and her daughter Cathy from the 1992 ''Literature/WutheringHeights'' film look absolutely identical, except that Catherine is a brunette while Cathy is a blonde. Which is weird, because in the book Cathy looks nothing like her mother except for her eyes. |
| 273 | * ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' Frederick looks an awful lot like the portrait of his Grandfather Victor. |
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| 276 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 277 | * Apparently, ''Literature/The39Clues''' Hope Cahill is nearly identical to her ancestor, [[spoiler:Madeleine Cahill]]--who lived several hundred years before Hope. |
| 278 | * The Ashkevron family in the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series. A character even comments that "The Ashkevron family look tends to breed true, and when it doesn't the poor thing generally runs off to Haven." On one occasion a young woman of that family shows up at the capital and identifies an aunt she had never even ''met'' with "You must be Savil, you have the nose." |
| 279 | * In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' Jerin resembles his grandfather enough to prove that they're related. Apparently, that's where Jerin gets his good looks from. |
| 280 | * In the ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' series, Sam Panda, Jack Aubrey's illegitimate black son, is described as "the spit, the counterpart, the image of Jack Aubrey with some twenty years and several stone taken off, done in shining ebony," although their noses are mentioned as being different. It's enough so that everyone immediately realizes who he is. |
| 281 | * In ''Literature/TheBabysittersClub'', one of the later books has Claudia thinking she might be adopted due to some flimsy circumstantial evidence. When she finally talks to her parents about it, they assure her that she's not - and as proof, they show her old photographs of her beloved grandmother Mimi, who looked exactly like Claudia when she was young. |
| 282 | * Literature/{{Caraval}} has an identical granddaughter. Tella is described as having a round face with honey-blonde hair. This is exactly how their grandmother is said to have looked when she was young. |
| 283 | * Gregory [=McDonald=]'s ''Carioca, Fletch'' plays with this by having the protagonist in Brazil, where he uncannily resembles a light-skinned Brazilian who was murdered decades before. All except Fletch believe he is the reincarnation, including the murderer, who tries again. Fletch even dreams of characters of Brazilian mythology he had not known about. |
| 284 | * ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'' has a non-human example with Li'l Thymon, the young AdorableAbomination, who looks just like a kid version of his uncle Lord Thymon (except green instead of blue). |
| 285 | * JustifiedTrope via AppliedPhlebotinum: In Creator/HPLovecraft's short novel ''Literature/TheCaseOfCharlesDexterWard'', the eponymous character notices his uncanny resemblance to the portraits of his sorcerous ancestor, Joseph Curwen, [[spoiler:who apparently cast a spell that ensured one of his descendants would look like him, inherit his knowledge, and be compelled to attempt to resurrect him. Shorty after Curwen has been resurrected by Ward, the sorcerer kills the young man, and proceeds to masquerade as him.]] |
| 286 | * In ''Literature/TheChangingLand'', the resurrected priestess Semirama helps the protagonist because he happens to be the spitting image of his ancestor, who was her lover. |
| 287 | * [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in the ''Literature/ColdfireTrilogy'': after selling his soul for undead immortality, the Hunter dropped in on his family every so often, killing all of them ''except'' the one who looked most like him. (Vanity being one of his defining character traits.) Fast-forward nine hundred years or and you have descendants who still look exactly like him. Possibly helped along by the fact that the ambient wild magic is more than capable of warping genetics. |
| 288 | * In the fifth ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' book, we meet Greg's second cousin once removed who looked exactly like Greg when he was the latter's age. |
| 289 | * ''Franchise/DoctorWho'' [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]]: |
| 290 | ** The Literature/PastDoctorAdventures novel ''The Eleventh Tiger'' teases the idea [[spoiler:that Ian Chesterton has crossed his own timestream as the amnesiac Major Chesterton, before revealing the Major is actually Ian's Identical Great-Great-Grandfather]]. |
| 291 | ** And in the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures book ''The Taint'', [[spoiler:Fitz's great-grandfather's ObliviouslyEvil twin is recognizably similar to Fitz himself: same long nose, straggly hair, and thin face and build. Fitz keeps finding him "infuriatingly familiar", quite possibly because he's looking at an older ([[OlderThanTheyLook but not that much]], for some reason) version of the same face he shaves ([[PermaStubble or not]]) every morning. Also, unsettlingly, he has moments of acting like a PsychopathicManchild version of Fitz.]] |
| 292 | ** ''Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations'' |
| 293 | *** The novelisation of ''The Massacre'' says that Anne Chaplet and her presumed descendent Dodo looked "identical". This is not the case in the TV version, although the actresses do look very similar. |
| 294 | *** The novelisation of ''The Star Beast'' adds a scene at the start with a cleaner named Stew Ferguson, who thinks he vaguely recognises the Fourteenth Doctor from the time all those planets appeared in the sky, when he was working as a milkman. This presumably means that he's the milkman who met the Tenth Doctor during "The Stolen Earth", played by Andrew Bullivant. When he sees the TARDIS it reminds him of his grandad, who was a policeman in the fifties. Buillivant also played PC Ferguson in the ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' episode "The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith". |
| 295 | * {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in Noel B. Gerson's ''Double Vision''. Not only do Ron and his 18th-century ancestor Sir Ronald Bentley look startlingly similar, right down to identical birthmarks, but Ron's wife Candace resembles Sir Ronald's mistress Candace Pemberton and Ron's childhood girlfriend Millie St. John resembles Sir Ronald's wife Millicent. |
| 296 | * In the ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' saga, where Miles Teg is noted for his resemblance to his millennia-dead ancestor Duke Leto Atreides I. The character himself has noted that he has found looking at portraits of Leto I to be like looking into a mirror. Being a servant of the Bene Gesserit, Miles' resemblance was deliberately bred in. |
| 297 | * In the Literature/{{Discworld}} book ''Literature/{{Eric}}'', by Terry Pratchett, Rincewind (and his demonology hacker companion) travels back to a fantasy counterpart of the Trojan War, where he meets a sensibly devious adventurer named Lavaeolus. He does not realize the relationship until later but notes that Lavaeolus looks very handsome. It is implied that Lav is an ancestor of Rincewind's (and in [[CanisLatinicus Dog Latin]] it is revealed that Lavaeolus means "rinser of winds"). Unfortunately, the illustrations don't reflect this. |
| 298 | * Subverted in ''Literature/EverythingIsIlluminated'', in which every time the statue of the ancestor needs a touch-up, it is made to look like the current male heir. |
| 299 | * Used as the basis of Creator/RobertSheckley's story "Double Indemnity": a man time-travels to the past to find his ancestor, since said ancestor looks almost exactly like him, which would allow him to pose as the man's time-travel mishap-born clone (for sake of an insurance scam). Apparently, the man's criteria for choosing the right ancestor was simply "someone who would not be missed", and the only reason he rejects several candidates is that they happen to have acquired differences (missing an arm, covered with pox) -- implying that every single one of his ancestors is identical. |
| 300 | * Creator/GKChesterton's ''Literature/FatherBrown'' stories: |
| 301 | ** In "The Doom of the Darnaways", 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. |
| 302 | ** In "The Worst Crime in the World", Sir John Musgrave and his son Captain James Musgrave share a family resemblance strong enough that [[spoiler:the son can kill his father and impersonate him by shaving his beard and wearing a wig]]. |
| 303 | * In the ''Literature/ForgottenRealms Sembia'' novels, there are two characters named Shamur Karn, great-aunt and great-neice, who look so similar that when the elder Shamur, aged 27, was sent forward in time fifty years to when the younger one had died at around the same age, the family decided to just have her take her great-niece's place. Nobody noticed, including her fiance (although it ''was'' an ArrangedMarriage). |
| 304 | * Speculated about in ''[[Literature/GarrettPI Gilded Latten Bones]]'', when a suspect's sketch is recognized to be identical to a man forty years dead. [[spoiler:Subverted, as it turns out to be the ''original'' man, who'd been FakingTheDead and using age-reversal magic.]] |
| 305 | * In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' saga, where Harry is noted for his resemblance to his father but with his mother's eyes. Later subverted when we get a detailed picture of what James Potter actually looked like at Harry's age; the resemblance is strong enough that they could be mistaken for one another at a distance or from behind, but stood side by side it would be fairly obvious which was which even without the eye-color difference. |
| 306 | ** Albus Potter turns out to be the spitting image of Harry, green eyes and all. |
| 307 | * In ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' Leo is the spitting image of his great grandfather [[spoiler:Sammy, Hazel Levesque's best friend and crush in the 1940s]] |
| 308 | * In ''Literature/TheHistoryOfTheGalaxy'' series, John Mitchell St. Ivo looks almost exactly like his great-grandfather Erlik St. Ivo, the founder of [[MegaCorp Galactic Cybersystems]] thanks to several generations of inbreeding starting with Erlik himself, who married his cousin Liza in order to maintain the secrecy of the company (whose headquarters and automated production lines were located on a remote, uninhabited world). Erlik and Liza had a son and a daughter, whose DNA they modified so they weren't genetically related, allowing the children to continue the line. Apparently, the fact that they still had the same parents and were raised as brother and sister didn't create any issues. This continued until the birth of André St. Ivo, whose intelligence was far below normal. Realizing a fresh "infusion" of blood was necessary to keep the family (and the business) going, André's parents didn't have a second child, forcing him to look for a bride on other worlds. André ended up marrying Theia Mitchell, who wound up effectively running Galactic Cybersystems and gave birth to two healthy sons: Aramant (who looked exactly like André) and John. André, jealous of Theia, has her shot and then her almost-dead body turned into a bio-doll for his pleasure. Meanwhile, Aramant is groomed as André's successor, while John grows up in an IdleRich lifestyle. One day, Aramant finds out the truth about his mother, who was kept in [[HumanPopsicle stasis]] while André wasn't using her body and tries to wake her. Thanks to his resemblance to his father, he is killed by Theia who manages to break her mental conditioning who doesn't know how much time has passed. John ends up mortally wounded by André's robots and has his mind copied onto an android, who was modeled on Erlik St. Ivo. Given that John looks like Erlik, this turns out to be a happy coincidence. |
| 309 | * In ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'', Jack Stapleton looks exactly like his ancestor, Hugo Baskerville, except without "the broad plumed hat, the curling love-locks, [and] the white lace collar." |
| 310 | * The title character of ''Literature/{{Indigo}}'' mistakes Veness for [[SatelliteLoveInterest Fenran]] at first glance. [[spoiler:And then falls for him on his own virtues. [[LoveHurts Meaning]], that [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse he dies]].]] |
| 311 | * Ishtar, TheHeroine of the ''Literature/{{Kadingir}}'' saga, is an exact copy of her grandmother Nirgal, which every character she comes across makes sure to point out. |
| 312 | * In Creator/RobertEHoward's "Kings of the Night", Literature/BranMakMorn looks so much like his ancestor Brule that Literature/{{Kull}} takes him for him. Despite a few intervening ''millennia''. |
| 313 | * In the Literature/LiadenUniverse, when Miri Robertson goes to the home of her long lost family, a portrait of her grandmother Miri Tiazan reveals that she's a dead ringer for the original. It actually takes her a moment to realize that it isn't a mirror. |
| 314 | * In one of the appendices of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', it's mentioned that the Longbeard dwarves will sometimes produce an heir who resembles their original ancestor Durin so much that they not only name him Durin but believe that he is the same Durin, returned to them. Up to Durin VII are recorded as Kings of Durin's Folk, it's unclear if this practice is maintained outside of the direct line of succession. |
| 315 | ** Arwen is said to be extremely similar to her great-great-grandmother, Luthien Tinuviel. Overlaps with GenerationXerox as both women choose to relinquish their immortality for love of a mortal man. |
| 316 | * In ''Literature/TheLostPrince'', the Lost Prince's present-day descendant bears a striking resemblance to the surviving portrait of his distinguished ancestor considering the number of intervening generations. Many Samavians choose to take this as a sign that the Lost Prince has been reincarnated to [[RightfulKingReturns return]] in person, which makes as much sense as any other explanation. |
| 317 | * The protagonist in ''Literature/TheMisenchantedSword'' by Lawrence Watt-Evans realizes that there will be problems when he starts not dying, [[spoiler:so he writes a will, heads off for adventure, "dies," and returns as the "relative named in the will.]]" |
| 318 | * In ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'', Jacob looks much like his grandfather Abraham did at his age. They are not identical, but Miss Peregrine remarks on the similarities, and it's enough to make Emma's crush on Jacob at least a little creepy. |
| 319 | * The line of Berethnet queens in ''Literature/ThePrioryOfTheOrangeTree'' stretches back centuries, but one character walking the portrait gallery says that the thirty-six queens from the first to the latest could all be ''sisters'' from their looks. This, coupled with the fact that the queens always give birth to one child and that child is always a girl, reinforces the belief that line is blessed by Galian the Saint (although others whisper that it hints of sorcery). [[spoiler:It is actually because they are descended from Kalyba the enchantress, who used Cleolind's guise to marry Galian.]] |
| 320 | * In Creator/JaneAusten's ''Literature/NorthangerAbbey'', the Thorpes describe Catherine as the image of her brother, whom they know. Catherine, on the other hand, expects Henry and Eleanor's mother's portrait to look very like one or the other of them, from reading novels in which a portrait looks as much like the child as the mother, and finds it not very close at all. |
| 321 | * Beatrice Löwenström in ''Literature/{{Overenskommelser}}'' by Creator/SimonaAhrnstedt had obviously inherited both her appearance and her personality from her paternal grandmother. The resemblance is mentioned no less than four times. |
| 322 | * Lampshaded in ''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure''. A young minor character that Bobby Pendragon and friends meet in 1937 is still alive in the present. In order to explain why they haven't aged at all, Bobby's friend Gunny tells him that they're [[MyGrandsonMyself the grandsons]] of the people he met in 1937. |
| 323 | * In ''Literature/ThePillarsOfTheEarth'', [[spoiler:Jack]] looks enough like his own father to be mistaken for his father's ghost when he inadvertently visits his father's old home town. |
| 324 | * ''Literature/SeptimusHeap: Physik'': Jenna is often confused with her distant ancestor Esmeralda. |
| 325 | * In ''[[Literature/TalesOfTheBranionRealm The Stone Prince]]'', Demnor is this to his great-uncle, causing his grandfather and mother to distrust him because they consider the uncle to have been weak. |
| 326 | * In ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles,'' Jessica Reeves is said to bear a striking resemblance to her distant ancestress Maharet, despite them being six thousand years apart. |
| 327 | * In ''Literature/WelkinWeasels,'' Sylver's descendants all bear his lightning-bolt birthmark. Mawk and Scirf's descendants Maudlin and Scruff apparently fall under this trope as well, as Monty is able to instantly guess exactly which members of the outlaw band were their ancestors. |
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| 330 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 331 | * The same production company was at the helm of a number of PeriodPiece series that have been coming out of mainland China: in one, the child actor who played a young Kangxi reappears near the end to play his grandson (who later became the emperor Qianlong); the actor who plays old Kangxi in another drama later appeared in a different series as old Qianlong. |
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| 333 | * Done in ''[[Series/TheAddamsFamily The New Addams Family]]'' in the episode which recounts how the Addams fortune was made. Also, John Astin (the original Gomez) played Grandpa Addams. |
| 334 | * The Keonig brothers in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' were already all played by Creator/PattonOswalt, and the three who worked for S.H.I.E.L.D. were uncanny in their resemblance to each other. So of course when the main characters went back to 1931 and met their grandfather Ernest Keonig, he too was played by Oswalt. |
| 335 | * In the DistantFinale of ''Series/AlloAllo'', Gordon Kaye not only played Rene under aging makeup, but also his son. Gets even funnier when we learn the son was a DoorstepBaby, and it's not entirely clear (at least to Rene's wife) why his mother chose to leave him on their doorstep in particular... |
| 336 | * ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'' (a.k.a. "Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda"): The Nietzscheans as a race are descendants of humans from Earth, but their founder took his followers (about 8000 individuals, so not a particularly large group) into space, and later reduced their genetic variety by stripping out genes he considered "useless", such as predispositions for obesity, diabetes, haemophilia and various cancers. One of the core tenets of early Nietzschean philosophy was using eugenics (planned breeding) and genetic manipulation to create the "perfect ubermensch" (hence the name). Given that the original gene pool was so small, that Nietzscheans breed for a rather small number of traits, that Nietzcheans at the time of the series number in the trillions, and that there are only so many viable ways for genes to recombine, it is rare, but in no way unheard of, for Nietzscheans not obviously related to be born with identical genetic codes. The Nietzscheans call it "Genetic Reincarnation", and a particular plot revolves around the genetic reincarnation of the progenitor of their race. In-series, Genetic Reincarnation appears twice: Creator/SteveBacic plays the Nietzschean Gaheris Rhade and his identical-looking direct descendant, Telemachus Rhade, who lives 300 years later, and the reincarnation of the progenitor Drago Museveni does show up at one point and is, in fact, [[spoiler:Tyr's son]]. We only see him as a child, but he is dark-skinned compared to the original Drago Museveni, played by Lochlyn Munro. |
| 337 | * Both played straight and averted in the ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' shows. |
| 338 | ** Every series featured Creator/RowanAtkinson as the various generations of Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as his servant Baldrick. However, other actors, in particular Tim [=McInnery=], Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, and Miranda Richardson appeared in regular or guest roles in three or four of the series, but playing characters who were not necessarily related and sometimes had very different personalities. |
| 339 | ** For example, [=McInnery=] played Lord Percy in the first two series but left because he considered the "UpperClassTwit" character too limited - he reappeared in a guest role in the third series as an apparent Upper-Class Twit, but actually it's just an act, and returned as a regular in the fourth series with a completely different personality, while Hugh Laurie took over the Upper-Class Twit role in the third and fourth series. |
| 340 | ** Melchett on the other hand is played by Stephen Fry in various incarnations which include being [[OnlySaneMan one of the only sane men]] in the second season to being [[InsaneAdmiral an incompetent general]] in the fourth whose greatest strategy is to have his troops climb out of the trenches and walk very slowly toward the enemy. Then in ''Blackadder: Back and Forth'' his modern incarnation is fairly sane but we also see him as a crazy Roman general. |
| 341 | ** In fact, in ''Blackadder: Back and Forth'' Blackadder even says that the time machine appears to be following their DNA through time. |
| 342 | ** Lampshaded in the finale of the third series, when Blackadder and [=MacAdder=] are both played by Rowan Atkinson. Several characters note this. They also make it plain that they are played by the same actor, as they keep just missing each other. |
| 343 | ** Also in one episode of season three, Vincent Hanna (a BBC reporter known for doing election coverage) actually guest starred as his own ancestor--who is reporting on the election through an open window to a crowd outside as one would on television. |
| 344 | * In ''Series/BlackHoleHigh'', Principal Durst has an identical great-grandmother who was headmistress of the future Blake Holsey High at the time it opened. BigBad Avenir, chairman of the school's board of directors claims to be the great-grandson of identical Avenir who financed the school's construction, though it's all but stated outright that Avenir, being a time traveler, is actually the same man. |
| 345 | * On ''Series/{{Bloodline|2015}}'', the Rayburns are amazed by how much Nolan looks like his father Danny. This may be because the same actor (Creator/OwenTeague) plays Young Danny in flashbacks. |
| 346 | * ''Series/TheBradyBunch'': |
| 347 | ** In one episode, Florence Henderson and Robert Reed did dual roles as Mike and Carol, plus Mike's stodgy grandfather and Carol's hip grandmother. |
| 348 | ** In a borderline case, Florence Henderson had a cameo as Carol's mother in TheMovie. |
| 349 | ** Another borderline case: Jan once found a picture of her great-aunt when the great-aunt was Jan's age, and it looked just like Jan (Eve Plumb in the Identical Great-Niece role). Jan wanted to meet the great-aunt to see what she (Jan) would look like when she grew up. The great-aunt was played by Imogene Cocoa. Jan was [[UnusualEuphemism somewhat less than plussed]]. |
| 350 | * Lampshaded and subverted in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', when Buffy and the gang [[ExpositionOfImmortality realize that]] a portrait of Mayor Wilkins' ancestor is [[MyGrandsonMyself really a portrait of Mayor Wilkins himself]]: |
| 351 | -->'''Willow''': Wow. Like father, like son.\ |
| 352 | '''Oz''': How about 'like exact same guy, like exact same guy'? |
| 353 | * The ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' episode "The Blue Butterfly" features a suspect who looks just like an old picture of his grandfather. |
| 354 | * The original three sisters in ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' trace their ancestry back to their [[{{Reincarnation}} past lives]]--their great-grandmother and her two cousins. Piper's boyfriend Dan and future husband Leo also have past lives in that period, Dan's being the sisters' great-grandfather. ''Charmed'' explains the resemblance as "souls recognizing each other" implying that they may in fact have actually looked very different. (No such explanation was provided when the sisters time-traveled to the 1970s and happened to meet the father of one of the show's recurring characters, who was identical to his future adult son except for the obligatory afro.) Later in the series, the fourth sister Paige discovered she had a medieval past life and possible ancestor. |
| 355 | ** The sisters once found an old video in which their mother looked exactly like Phoebe. Their mother would later appear on the show [[TheOtherDarrin played by a different actress]]. Paige apparently has an uncanny resemblance to her great-aunt [[InformedAttribute who was never seen]]. |
| 356 | ** When Leo goes to a WWII veteran's reunion (he had fought and died in the war during his mortal life), he poses as his own fictional grandson to his former comrades. |
| 357 | * In ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'': |
| 358 | ** Señor Barriga and his son Ñoño are both played by Edgar Vivar. |
| 359 | ** Doña Florinda and her niece La Popis are both played by Florinda Meza. |
| 360 | ** La Chilindrina and her great-grandmother Doña Nieves are both played by Maria Antonieta de las Nieves. |
| 361 | ** Quico and his father Federrico are both played by Carlos Villagrán. Unlike the other pairs, [[PosthumousCharacter Federrico only appears in a flashback]]. |
| 362 | * In the Japanese tokusatsu series ''Series/ChouSeiKantaiSazerX'', 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. |
| 363 | * The German series ''Der Clown'' featured a self-parodic TimeTravel Episode where the hero meets his helicopter pilot's ancestor, and ends up with the series trademark highway chase scene in a BambooTechnology helicopter. |
| 364 | * On ''Series/{{CSI}}'', Greg starts dating a woman who [[spoiler:is avenging the death of her grandparents. The grandmother was murdered by mobsters when they found out about her affair with her grandfather, who was framed and executed.]] It's even lampshaded by the cast. |
| 365 | * In ''Series/{{Cybill}}'', Cybill is hypnotized into viewing one of her past lives; the mystic says something like "Spirits tend to run in packs, so you can expect to see people you recognize." Thus justifying the medieval-era flashback in which everyone is played by the series' regulars. |
| 366 | * On an episode of ''Series/TheDailyShow'', Jon Stewart [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-29-2011/broke-bank-mounting---america-s-dystopian-future here interviewed the descendants of two of his correspondents,]] in alternate futures, to see which party's dire predictions would turn out correct. |
| 367 | * Used repeatedly in ''Series/DarkShadows'', where every generation of the Collins family looked exactly like every other generation of the Collins family. This extended to non-Collins characters as well, even to the point of people unrelated to the Collins family being Collins family members in past incarnations, while Collinses appear as unrelated past people. This also applied to alternate timelines and past alternate timelines. The practice was continued when the show was remade in TheNineties. |
| 368 | * On ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'', it was revealed that EJ [=DiMera=] looked identical to his grandfather Santo, while Samantha Brady looked identical to her grandfather's sister, Colleen. This became widely known to the show's characters after a collection of letters between Santo and Colleen was discovered. Oddly, after a letter was uncovered stating that EJ was not really Stefano's son, nobody seemed to recall the fact that EJ looks identical to Stefano's father. (That letter was eventually found to be a forgery, and Stefano really is EJ's father.) |
| 369 | * ''Series/DoctorWho''/''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': |
| 370 | ** ''Doctor Who'' companion Victoria Waterfield was said to be almost identical to her mother, although we only ever see a painting of her mother. |
| 371 | ** The franchise hangs a lampshade on a YouLookFamiliar by explaining that Torchwood's Gwen Cooper (played by Eve Myles) is a distant relative of the Gwyneth (also played by Eve Myles) who appeared on ''Doctor Who'' in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E3TheUnquietDead The Unquiet Dead]]". The Doctor adds some timey-wimey explanation for why they look identical (the Doctor mentions the term "spatial-genetic multiplicity", which sounds a little like a TechnoBabble way of saying "there's only so many ways human eyes, lips, noses, etc., can take shape, and sooner or later, they'll all recombine in the exact same configuration again, especially for people who have the same genetics in the first place."). The {{Doylist}} explanation for why she appears again is that Creator/RussellTDavies was enamoured with her performance. WordOfGod, however, is that Gwen and Gwyneth aren't necessarily related. |
| 372 | --->'''Russell T Davies:''' It's not familial as we understand it. There's no blood tie. [[TechnoBabble Spatial genetic multiplicity]] means an echo and repetition of physical traits across a time rift. |
| 373 | ** The series hangs another lampshade on YouLookFamiliar when companion Martha Jones (played by Creator/FreemaAgyeman) [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones mentions]] her cousin (also played by Agyeman), who died in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E12ArmyOfGhosts Army of Ghosts]]". |
| 374 | ** Jessica Hynes played Joan Redfern in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature Human Nature]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood The Family of Blood]]" and her great-granddaughter Verity Newman in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]". |
| 375 | ** Prior to being cast as the Twelfth Doctor, Creator/PeterCapaldi played Lobus Caecilius in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii The Fires of Pompeii]]" and John Frobisher in ''Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth''. Multiple writers have hinted Frobisher is Caecilius' distant descendant; the Doctor's side of things is [[TheNthDoctor another trope entirely]]. |
| 376 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]", Kazran Sardick is played by Michael Gambon, as is his bullying father Eliot Sardick when the Doctor travels back to Kazran's childhood. In the same episode Bailey Pepper plays Abigail's nephew Benjamin in the past and Benjamin's [[NoNameGiven unnamed son]] in the present. |
| 377 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E4Listen Listen]]", the Doctor and Clara encounter a stranded time traveller named Orson Pink, who looks identical to Clara's LoveInterest Danny Pink and even has Danny's childhood toy passed down through the generations. The episode appears to imply that Orson is Danny and Clara's descendant, although given that [[spoiler:both Danny and Clara die childless]], WordOfGod later clarified that Orson is a lateral descendant, and the toy was given to that side of the family by Clara. |
| 378 | * ''Series/TheEternalLove'': Yi Huai looks exactly like his grandfather Yi Feng, with the exception of Yi Feng having MysticalWhiteHair. |
| 379 | * [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'' when, in a flashback to Ray's childhood, Frank and Marie (Ray's parents) are played by Ray Romano and Patricia Heaton (i.e. the actors who play Ray and his wife Debra). |
| 380 | * A possible, though admittedly questionable, example comes in the form of a detective on Tim Minear's series ''Drive'' and Joss Whedon's series ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. On both series, there was a fugitive-pursuing character played by Richard Brooks. Both characters are named Jubal Early. This potentially counts as a case of identical ancestry, as ''Drive'' is set hundreds of years before ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', and because the shows are implied to take place in the same general 'verse. (A joke from a ''Drive'' script that didn't make it into production was that Creator/AmyAcker's character, Kathryn, [[Series/{{Angel}} had a cousin from Texas]].) |
| 381 | ** This is more likely because Creator/NathanFillion starred on both shows, and is a descendant of the real-life [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubal_Early Jubal Early]], a general of the Confederacy who fled to Canada after the American Civil War. |
| 382 | * In ''Series/FirstOfTheSummerWine'', the teenage Clegg's father is played by Creator/PeterSallis, who plays Clegg himself in ''Series/LastOfTheSummerWine''. |
| 383 | * Early in the ''Series/FullHouse'' episode "You Pet It, You Bought It", Danny shows a portrait of his grandfather, who looks just like Danny. |
| 384 | * On ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', one flashback showed a younger Sophia also played by Creator/EstelleGetty, but without the additions to make her look older. Her mother is played by Bea Arthur, who plays Sophia's daughter, Dorothy, in similar additions. |
| 385 | * ''Series/TheGoodies'' have identical ancestors in the episode "Alternative Roots", and identical descendants in the episodes "2001 and a Bit" and "The End". |
| 386 | * Series/GoodLuckCharlie: PlayedForLaughs; The whole episode "The Bob Duncan Experience" has PJ (Jason Dolley) being afraid he'll grow older being overweight and bald, looking exactly like his father, Bob (Eric Allan Kramer), when Bob shows him an old picture of him from when he was in a high school rock and metal band with his old friends, and he emphasizes how he was identical to PJ as a young teenager. Flashbacks are even shown with the younger Bob looking exactly identical to PJ as a teenager. |
| 387 | * ''Series/GoodnightSweetheart'' includes occasional appearances of Reg's PresentDay identical grandson, who's followed him into the police force. The episode where Gary travels to the [[VictorianLondon Victorian era]], rather than UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, introduces Reg's identical grandfather as a Bow Street Runner, as well as an identical ancestor of Yvonne. |
| 388 | * ''Series/{{Good Omens|2019}}'' has Newton Pulsifer, played by Creator/JackWhitehall, and a flashback to Newton's ancestor Witchfinder Major Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer, also played by Whitehall with 1600s garb and an old-fashioned accent. |
| 389 | * On ''Series/GreenAcres'', whenever Oliver or Lisa tell stories about their ancestors, they always look like Oliver and Lisa. And an identical ancestor of Mr. Haney always tries to sell them stuff. |
| 390 | * Subverted at least once in ''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', with immortal Duncan [=MacLeod=] [[MyGrandsonMyself pretending to be his own son/grandson]] when he meets an old acquaintance. He seldom lies about it, but when people assume that is why he looks like the person they remember, he doesn't correct them. |
| 391 | * In the TV adaptation of ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981'', the characters of Lunkwill and Fook, who activate Deep Thought, and Loonquawl and Phouchg, who receive the Answer seven and a half million years later, are both played by Anthony Carrick and Timothy Davies respectively. |
| 392 | * ''Series/HorribleHistories'' has an EconomyCast and often depicts English monarchs who were related, so this happens. Matthew Baynton plays almost every one of the Stuart kings; he's most frequently cast as Charles II, but has also played Charles I and James I. Martha Howe-Douglas, as the only woman who's a regular cast member, has also done her fair share of playing multiple members of the same family, for example Elizabeth I, Mary I, ''and'' their cousin Mary Queen of Scots. |
| 393 | * ''Series/HowToGetAwayWithMurder'' ends with a FlashForward to the distant future, where Christopher Castillo is played by the same actor who portrayed his father Wes Gibbins. |
| 394 | * In an episode of ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', a photograph reveals that Dennis' grandfather looked exactly like him when he was young. [[spoiler:Oh, and he was also a Nazi SS officer in World War II.]] |
| 395 | * On ''Series/{{JAG}}'', Harmon Rabb, Jr. is identical to the late Harmon Rabb, Sr. (both are played by David James Elliot). |
| 396 | * A plot point in ''Series/{{Jekyll}}'' is that Dr. Jackman looks identical to the real Dr. Jekyll (allegedly a [[AllMythsAreTrue real historical figure]]) and must, therefore, be related. Thankfully, it's justified somewhat by the fact that Jackman is a 'perfect throwback'. |
| 397 | * TheMovie of ''Series/KamenRiderHibiki'' has this trope with the three main Riders and the main character, Asumu Adachi. They also work in an IdenticalStranger, as the Sengoku-era Touki looks just like the modern Zanki, which the modern characters [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]]. |
| 398 | * The finale of ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'' showed Wataru's son Masao, played by Kohei Takeda (the same actor as Wataru's father Otoya). |
| 399 | * [[PlayingWithATrope Also played with]] in ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'', where in a childhood flashback of Arthur (Jerry Stiller), his father is played by the actor's real life son, Ben Stiller. |
| 400 | * ''Series/KungFuTheLegendContinues'' was built entirely around this trope, as Creator/DavidCarradine played Kwai Chang Caine, contemporary-era Identical Grandson of Kwai Chang Caine, the hero of Carradine's Western series, ''Series/KungFu1972''. In one TimeTravel arc, they trade places for a while when the past Caine is hurt such that only modern medicine can help him. |
| 401 | * In ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', the Legends encounter Sir Henry Stein, a thespian from the late 19th century, who also happens to be a follower of [[AncientEvil Mallus]]. He looks identical to Martin Stein, except for a mustache, and is stated by Gideon to be Martin's great-great grandfather. |
| 402 | * [[PlayingWithATrope Also played with]] on ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', where Hardison paints a portrait of "Harland Leverage III" [[OurFounder founder]] of Leverage Consulting and Associates to make their "firm" to seem more legitimate. He looks like Nathan aged fifty years… |
| 403 | * ''Series/LoisAndClark'': |
| 404 | ** In one of the TimeTravel episodes, a recurring villain called Tempus attempts to travel back in time to Smallville when Kal-El's rocket lands in order to kill him as a baby, but first overshoots by about a century, and ends up in the WildWest, where the town marshal and the saloon keeper are identical to Jonathan and Martha Kent, and are explicitly stated to be the Kent family's ancestors |
| 405 | ** There was also a similar episode that dealt with reincarnation, therefore several characters in the past are identical to people Lois and Clark have met in the present, but these characters are not blood relatives, but look the same as they are past incarnations of the present characters, e.g. one of Lois' previous incarnations has the Kents' previous incarnations as biological parents. |
| 406 | * ''Series/{{Lucifer}}'': |
| 407 | ** Cain returns to the [[GoodGuyBar bar]] where he frequently worked out of as a detective in 1958 when a copycat killer turns up in 2018, searching for inspiration, and instinctively calls the bartendress by name before remembering that it can't be the same person as she would've aged quite a bit since then. (He doesn't, because he's ''that'' {{Cain|AndAbel}}.) Turns out that she's the granddaughter of the woman he knew, and furthermore, his partner in 1958 is the grandfather. |
| 408 | ** In the season 5 episode "It Never Ends Well For The Chicken" we learn that Maze looks exactly like her mother Myth/{{Lilith}} did before she gave up her immortality and grew old. Both characters are played by Creator/LesleyAnnBrandt. Lucifer's narration lampshades the resemblance between the two of them. |
| 409 | * [=MacGyver=]'s identical ancestor (played by Richard Dean Anderson) shows up in one of the last episodes of ''Series/MacGyver1985''. |
| 410 | * A ChristmasEpisode of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' has a photo of Francis' grandfather as a young man, and he looks exactly like Francis. Except that he has humongous eyebrows, which Francis hope isn't genetic. |
| 411 | * In the ''Series/MiamiVice'' episode "Heroes of the Revolution," Gina and her mother Elena are both played by Saundra Santiago. |
| 412 | * In the finale of ''Series/MightyMed'', this is revealed to be [[spoiler:the reason for Hapax the Elder's and Alan's resemblance]]. |
| 413 | * Mick tries to pull this on Beth in the second episode of ''Series/{{Moonlight}}'', when she finds a picture of him from decades before, claiming it's his father. By the end of the episode, though, she knows the truth--he's a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]]. |
| 414 | ** She starts to suspect something when she meets a retired cop (who is now blind), whom Mick still occasionally visits. When she asks him about the late Mick "Sr.", the cop is confused, as the Mick he knows is alive and well and never had children. |
| 415 | * In the ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' MadeForTVMovie ''The Last Free Man'', Creator/AngelaLansbury played both Jessica Fletcher and her [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Civil War]] ancestor, Sarah [=McCulloch=]. |
| 416 | * ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' |
| 417 | ** In the episode "Republic of Murdoch", Jacob Doyle is the identical grandfather of Jake Doyle from ''Series/RepublicOfDoyle''. And in the ''Republic of Doyle'' episode "If the Shoe Fits", Bill Murdoch is the identical grandson of… |
| 418 | ** In the ChristmasEpisode "A Merry Murdoch Christmas", a FlashBack to Inspector Brackenreid's childhood sees Thomas Grieg play Brakenreid's father under huge muttonchop whiskers. |
| 419 | * [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] on ''Series/TheNanny'' when Creator/FranDrescher plays a younger version of her character's mother, Sylvia, and the actor who plays Maxwell plays a younger version of his father. |
| 420 | * ''Series/{{The Odd Couple|1970}}'': |
| 421 | ** In one episode, Felix (Tony Randall) reflects on how he's always been fussy. A flashback shows his grandfather (also played by Tony Randall) telling him "There are two things no one likes--a dirty old man and a clean young boy". |
| 422 | ** Another episode had Felix relate a story a relative told him about how his and Oscar's fathers met during Prohibition. Tony Randall and Jack Klugman played their characters' fathers. |
| 423 | * ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "The Dream", Miss Brooks' daughter Cleo Boynton is her mirror-image. Similarly, Osgood Conklin Junior looks just like his father. |
| 424 | * ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S3E4LastSupper Last Supper]]", Frank is initially convinced that Laura must be Jade's daughter, since they look exactly alike. It turns out that she ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld is]]'' Jade though. |
| 425 | * In the final episode of ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'', "Sleepless in Peckham", we see a picture of Freddie "the Frog" Robdal, previously hinted to be Rodney's real father, and he's played by Nicholas Lyndhurst with a moustache. (Even Del, who believes his mum to be a saint, can't ignore the resemblance.) Lyndhurst reprises the role in the {{Prequel}} series ''Series/RockAndChips''. |
| 426 | * Loretta of ''Series/OutrageousFortune'' looks exactly like her grandmother Rita in her younger days. |
| 427 | * This was used over and over again on ''Series/{{Passions}}'', where several characters were depicted as reincarnations of family members from generations past, and the same actors portrayed the characters from these past lives. In particular, Sheridan, Luis, and Antonio were revealed to have lived out many past lives together, as were Miguel and Charity. In one case, the Pilgrim-era Prudence Standish was originally depicted as a past life of protagonist Charity Standish; however, after Charity was written out of the show and her rival Kay completed a HeelFaceTurn, Prudence was later depicted as a past life of Kay and switched to being played by the other actress. |
| 428 | * In ''Series/PennyDreadful'', Patti Lupone played Vanessa's ReallySevenHundredYearsOld witch mentor Joan Clayton, aka "the Cutwife", in the second season. In the third season she returned as Vanessa's therapist Dr. Florence Seward, who was said to have been descended from the Clayton family. |
| 429 | * The ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' franchise has been very fond of this one. The episode "Wild West Rangers" showed that five of the main characters (and at least one minor character) had identical ancestors in TheWildWest (despite the implication that several of the characters were first-generation Americans). "The Return of the Green Ranger" featured two identical ancestors and an EvilTwin in the colonial period (of the same town). Condsidering the amount of magic that was thrown around in the first 3 seasons (as well as the cause of them traveling back), it could be said that AWizardDidIt. |
| 430 | ** During ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'', Jason Faunt played both red ranger Wes Collins and Alex, who was both his descendant and his professional predecessor a thousand years in the future. |
| 431 | ** The ''Time Force'' analogy dovetails nicely with its ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' original version. |
| 432 | ** In ''[[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Lightspeed Rescue]]'', as a young woman, Kesey's grandmother looked just like her. |
| 433 | * On ''Series/ThePretender'', Miss Parker and her late mother, Catherine, looked very similar (both were played by the same actress, Andrea Parker), to the point where any time she met someone who knew her mother, one of the first things they say is how much she looks like her. |
| 434 | * Subverted in ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' season 3 episode 6. The episode starts with a scene of what appears to be 1940's versions of the characters, dressed appropriately, playing a record, etc. [[spoiler:They're the normal cast, who had to flee to a disused lodge that had old clothes and other things in it.]] |
| 435 | * In the ''Series/QuantumLeap'' episode "The Leap Between the States", Sam is able to jump back into his great-grandfather's lifetime, which is only possible because he's ''genetically identical'' to his great-grandfather. |
| 436 | * In ''Series/RedDwarf'' one of Lister's twin sons, Bexley, apparently looks enough like Lister that Rimmer mistook Bexley for him in a future echo. It's unknown if Bexley's twin brother Jim looks like him as well. And then there's the case of Lister's ''other'' son…[[spoiler:[[MyOwnGrampa himself.]]]] Despite having (an alternate version of) Kochanski as his mother his son gets all his looks from his father. |
| 437 | * In ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'', "The Midnight Club" shows the main actors playing younger versions of her parents in their 1991-92 school year in high school. |
| 438 | * A perfect inversion is done on a clip show of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' where John Goodman plays a grown up version of son DJ. |
| 439 | ** It also featured a flashback in which DJ's actor plays a child version of Roseanne--his mom… |
| 440 | * In the ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' episode "Normandy", Helen Magnus recalls her part in the D-Day invasion during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. During their mission in Carentan, France, they are aided by American troops, headed by Captain Jack Zimmerman, who looks exactly like Will Zimmerman, Helen's second-in-command, and is played by the same actor. While Captain Zimmerman is killed at the end of the episode, it is implied that he is Will's grandfather. Interestingly, Helen makes no mention of this to Will, even though this could be one of the reasons she chose him to join the Sanctuary (i.e. his grandfather saved her life at the cost of his own). |
| 441 | * ''Series/{{The Sandman|2022}}'': Creator/JennaColeman plays both Johanna Constantine in "[[Recap/TheSandman2022S01E03DreamALittleDreamOfMe Dream a Little Dream of Me]]" and her 19th-century ancestor, Lady Johanna, in a flashback in "[[Recap/TheSandman2022S01E06TheSoundOfHerWings The Sound of Her Wings]]". The makers of the series deliberately used this trope so that when Lady Johanna showed up audiences would know immediately who she was, to the point of {{Gender Flip}}ping the modern-day Constantine (who's a man named John in the original comic) so they could cast one actress in both parts. |
| 442 | * The archetypal identical grandson appeared on the 1960s sitcom ''Series/TheSecondHundredYears'', where Monte Markham played both a 33-year-old man named Ken Carpenter and his grandfather Luke, who had improbably been pulled out of [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]] after 67 years in a [[HumanPopsicle glacial crevasse]] into which he'd fallen while prospecting at the age of (ta-dum) 33. The joke was first, that effectively 33-year-old Luke had a 67-year-old son, Ken's father; and second, that while Luke and Ken looked identical, they had completely different personalities, Ken being uptight and Luke loose and colorful. |
| 443 | * ''Series/SesameStreet'': |
| 444 | ** On one episode, in a flashback, Gordon's father recalls how when he was young he was a singer who greatly resembled his grandson, Miles, despite the fact that Miles is ADOPTED. |
| 445 | ** In the ChristmasSpecial ''Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas'', Elmo's dad tells him a story about his great-great-grandmonster (also named Elmo) arriving in a 19th century Sesame Street full of familiar Muppets in period clothing. It's even {{Lampshaded}} when Elmo realizes how implausible it is and catches on that his Dad is making the story up. |
| 446 | * The episode, "How The Station Got Its Name" from ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'' features the children and Mr. Conductor traveling back in time and meeting the grandparents of the people who run the station in their present. Unsurprisingly, the station's former staff are played by the same actors who play their grandchildren, and thus all look identical to said grandchildren. Even the Jukebox Band's grandparents look identical, though they work in a pedal piano instead of a jukebox. |
| 447 | * On an episode of ''Series/SimonAndSimon'' involving an inheritance and Simon family history, we meet several generations of Simon brothers, played by the same actors playing the title heroes. |
| 448 | * ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': |
| 449 | ** In the {{Flashback}} episode "Relic", we see Clark's real father, Jor-El, and Lana's great aunt, Louise [=McCallum=], both played by Lana and Clark's actors. (Lionel Luthor's father and Jonathan Kent's father also appeared, but surprisingly Lachlan Luthor was played by John Mann instead of John Glover and Hiram Kent was played by Dean Wray instead of John Schneider.) Especially interesting because of the RetCon when Jor-El comes to Smallville (in the 9th season) and he is acted by Julian Sands… who looks nothing like Tom Welling… to the point of having different hair colors. |
| 450 | ** Also in the episode "Spell", it's revealed in flashback that Lana looks exactly like another one of her ancestors: the seventeen century witch Countess Margaret Isobel Thoureax. |
| 451 | * In RTÉ's GagDub ''Series/SoupyNorman'', Esther's grandmother is identical to her, and is also named Esther. This is because they use footage of Esther with a sepia tint (RuleOfFunny). |
| 452 | * Occurred at least six times in different incarnations of ''Franchise/StarTrek''. |
| 453 | ** In the movie ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' Colonel Worf, grandfather of Lieutenant Worf in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', is played by Creator/MichaelDorn with a different forehead design. |
| 454 | *** A ''Franchise/{{Star Trek|ExpandedUniverse}}'' novel specifically states that Worf was named after his grandfather, who was killed onboard a transport that collided with a Cardassian freighter (the sheer improbability of two ships accidentally colliding in orbit indicates sabotage). So yes, Worf's grandfather didn't die a warrior's death but was merely collateral damage. |
| 455 | ** The movie ''Star Trek Generations'' includes a portrait of one of Jean-Luc Picard's ancestors, who fought at Trafalgar. He looks exactly like Patrick Stewart. |
| 456 | ** In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "11:59," Captain Janeway's 20th century ancestor Shannon O'Donnell, later Shannon Janeway, is played by Kate Mulgrew. What's hilarious is that Seven of Nine is puzzled by Janeway's interest in O'Donnell's life, pointing out that after so many generations Janeway only has a fraction of her DNA. Hah! |
| 457 | *** Even more hilarious since humans share something like 99% of the same DNA, which means that Janeway's "fraction" of O'Donnell's DNA is much bigger than 7 seems to think. |
| 458 | ** A three-part story in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' featured Dr Arik Soong, played by Creator/BrentSpiner, who had played Dr. Noonien Soong (and all the androids Noonien modelled on himself, including Commander Data as well as Data's EvilTwin Lore and [[NoSocialSkills undeveloped]] twin B4.) in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. This has lead to some [[FanWank Fanwanky]] theories about Arik Soong actually being the same person as Noonien Soong, thanks to a rejuvenating planet Arik was in the neighborhood of once. |
| 459 | *** The source of said fankwankery seems to be a throwaway line by Arik Soong at the end of his three-episode arc, about giving up on genetic engineering (which in his time is illegal) in favor of creating androids. The writers no doubt intended for the implication to be that he would be unable to complete the designs in his own lifetime, and that his descendant later finished his work. |
| 460 | *** Other theories postulate that given Arik's expertise in genetic engineering, Noonien and all the generations between them were straight up clones. |
| 461 | ** The ''Enterprise'' story "Carbon Creek" features T'Pol's great-grandmother T'Mir, also played by Jolene Blalock. T'Mir's story is told by T'Pol and may or may not be true, but as to whether T'Pol really had a great-grandmother named T'Mir who really did look like T'Pol... well, that's another story. The episode ends with T'Pol taking out a purse from a box, which looks identical to the one her great-grandmother supposedly had on Earth. Vulcan women don't generally carry purses. |
| 462 | ** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''--an alternate timeline Tasha Yar and her half-Romulan daughter, Sela, are both played by Denise Crosby. Oddly enough, her ''sister'' Ishara Yar is not. |
| 463 | ** Also from the ''Next Generation'' episode "The Neutral Zone", Claire Raymond, who was woken up from cryogenic stasis after 370 years, finds that she has a great-great-great-great-great-grandson… who looks identical to her husband Donald. |
| 464 | ** In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Operation: Annihilate!", Kirk finds the body of his recently deceased brother -- also played by Creator/WilliamShatner. It wasn't very visible in the original release, which is [[JustifiedTrope probably why they figured it would be workable]], but it's incredibly apparent in the remastered version of the episode. |
| 465 | ** The two-part finale of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' Season 1 introduces [[spoiler:Noonien Soong's son Altan, also played by Brent Spiner]]. Season 2 adds [[spoiler:Adam Soong in 2024, who is last seen taking a file entitled "Project Khan", seemingly setting up Arik Soong's association with the Augments in ''Enterprise''. His daughter Kore is played by Isa Briones, who previously played Data's synthetic daughters. Picard also meets the apparently human Tallinn (Orla Brady) who appears identical to his Romulan love interest Laris. Picard suggests that Tallinn is an ancestor, which is supported when she reveals herself to be a Romulan.]] |
| 466 | ** And finally, the season 3 finale for ''Picard'' gives us a voiceover cameo from ''Anton'' Chekov, the son of Pavel, who had ascended to the office of President of the Federation, voiced by Creator/WalterKoenig. This one has double meaning, since in-universe it makes perfect sense that Pavel, [[GloriousMotherRussia fanboy of all things Russian]], would name his son after the Russian playwright that coined ChekhovsGun, but in the real world is a fitting tribute to the late Creator/AntonYelchin, who had portrayed Pavel in the alternate timeline films. |
| 467 | * ''Series/StElsewhere'': In "Time Heals, Part 2", Ed Flanders plays Donald Westphall's father Thomas Westphall in Main/{{Flashback}}s to 1935. |
| 468 | * ''Franchise/SuperSentai'': |
| 469 | ** In ''Series/ChoudenshiBioman'', a flashback shows the five Bioman's respective ancestors played by the same actors. |
| 470 | ** ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'' plays the more literal version of this trope in its final episode; the five Dairangers' actors play their grandchildren, the new Dairangers, and themselves in old age makeup 50 years into the future. |
| 471 | ** An interesting case occurs in ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'' where we see the five Kakurangers' ancestors from 500 years in the past. Only Tsuruhime (Satomi Hirose) is played her actress, while the boys' ancestors are played by older actors. |
| 472 | ** ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' episode 18 reveals that Banban Akaza / Deka Red (Ryuji Sainei) had an identical ancestor Bannoshin Akaza who taught the ways of the samurai to an alien 140 years prior. Funnily enough, the concept of a samurai encountering an alien was adapted into ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'', with Ryuji Sainei appearing through stock footage. |
| 473 | ** In ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'', it turns out that Daigo Kiryu / Kyoryu Red / (Ryo Ryusei) had an identical ancestor (Moshinosuke Iwaizumi) in the Sengoku period some 500 years prior, and that SixthRanger FishOutOfTemporalWater Utsusemimaru served under before his Lord was killed in action. V-Cinema movie, "100 Years After", this trope is played literally with the new Kyoryugers. Well, technically it's "Identical Great-Grandson/Daughter" (or Great Great Nephew, in Nobuta's case). |
| 474 | * In ''Series/TimeTrax'', Darien Lambert's paramour from the future, Elissa Chang-Knox, is identical to her police grandmother in the present, Annie Knox. Annie helps Lambert for a few episodes. |
| 475 | * [[spoiler:Elena Gilbert]] of ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' looks identical to [[spoiler:Katherine Pierce]]. [[spoiler:This is unexplained until Elena finds out that she was adopted, and that her birth mother is a direct descendant of Katherine]]. Furthermore it's eventually revealed that the reason they look ''identical'' after many generations is [[spoiler:because they're both "Petrova dopplegangers", indicating that there's a mystical reason for the doubling.]] |
| 476 | * The Hayes Cooper stories in ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' (some of the counterparts aren't even directly related), JustifiedTrope by the fact that the stories come from a diary, while the picture is just part of Cordell Walker's imagination. |
| 477 | * ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'': Both Wednesday Addams and her 1600s ancestor Goody Addams are played by Creator/JennaOrtega. The key differences between the two are that Goody has a slight accent and white hair as opposed to Wednesday’s black. |
| 478 | * ''Series/WeirdScience'': In "The Legend of Red Brick Wallace", Gary's great-great-grandfather Red Brick Wallace looks exactly like his father Al. In the same episode, Wyatt and Chett's ancestor Sheriff Donnelly looks exactly like Chett, only with a moustache. |
| 479 | * Vinnie Terranova's dad in ''Series/{{Wiseguy}}'' (in an episode based around his father's diary). But they gave him a moustache. |
| 480 | * Lyle Waggoner as "Steve Trevor" (1940s) and his son "Steve Trevor" (1970s) in ''Series/WonderWoman''. After disappearing from Patriarch World after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII ended, Diana meets Steve Trevor Jr. at the first episode of the second season, "The Return of Wonder Woman", a SettingUpdate in [[TheSeventies 1977]]. She first is very confused by thinking he hasn’t aged, but given she is an [[CompleteImmortality immortal Amazon warrior]], Queen Hippolyta explains to her the concept of "sons". |
| 481 | * The ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' episode "The Xena Scrolls" deserves special mention for not only featuring Identical Great-whatever-Grandchildren of all the main characters in the 1930s, but going on to claim Joxer's descendent, "Jacques Ser", is actually the grandfather of actor Ted Raimi! |
| 482 | ** Gabrielle's daughter Hope looks identical to her. Is there a trope for evil identical daughter? |
| 483 | * Appeared on ''Series/TheXFiles'' when the actor who played the young CSM in a flashback episode was later cast as Agent Spender, CSM's son. |
| 484 | * In 1985, British actress Jenny Seagrove portrayed the young Emma Harte in the mini-series adaptation of Barbara Cartland's iconic novel "A Woman of Substance". Just two years later, she played Emma's granddaughter Paula in the mini-series adaptation of the first sequel, "Hold the Dream". |
| 485 | * ''Series/WhosTheBoss'': A flashback to Tony's childhood had his late grandfather Mateo also played by Tony Danza. Tony once found his parents' wedding photo in which his mother is Tony Danza in a wedding dress. Tony thinks he [[ComicallyMissingThePoint looks like his dad]]. |
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| 488 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 489 | * ''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 Winkler and Michael, and the other Anguses all appear looking like either one or the other, so maybe story-wise, they all look the same after all. |
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| 492 | [[folder:Print Media]] |
| 493 | * A 1989 issue of ''Magazine/RadioTimes'' commemorated the bicentennial of UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution with an ''Series/AlloAllo'' story about an ancestor of Rene who was involved in the revolution as reluctantly as Rene himself was involved in LaResistance. This was illustrated with caricatures of Rene's actor, Gordon Kaye, in period costume. |
| 494 | [[/folder]] |
| 495 | |
| 496 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 497 | * Newling to Yinling, who was eventually killed off in Wrestling/FightingOperaHustle. |
| 498 | [[/folder]] |
| 499 | |
| 500 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 501 | * In ''Theatre/Allegiance2012'', the modern-day version of the protagonist (who appears only in the first and last scenes) is played by the same actor who plays the protagonist's grandfather during the rest of the show (which is a [[WholeEpisodeFlashback flashback to the 1940s]]). |
| 502 | * Reversed, but essentially the same: In a (frequently cut) scene from the final act of ''Theatre/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. |
| 503 | * The action of ''Theatre/{{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.) |
| 504 | * In the original stage version of ''Literature/AuntieMame'' the actor who plays young Patrick Dennis for the first half of the show reappears as adult Patrick's son in the final scene. |
| 505 | * The play ''Coram Boy'' has two actors playing one character, Alexander Ashbrooke--one is a girl who plays him as a young man, and in the first act it ''switches'' in a brilliant piece of staging to being a man that plays him. The actress who played Alexander as a young man [[spoiler:returns in the second act as his son, Aaron.]] |
| 506 | * In ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'', the young version of Hermione is played by the same actor as her daughter Rose. Scorpius even mistakes her for Rose. |
| 507 | * In the 1960 telecast of ''Theatre/PeterPan1954'', in the epilogue, Wendy's daughter Jane is played by the same actress who played the child Wendy through most of the production, while the adult Wendy is played by a [[TimeShiftedActor Time Shifted Actress]]. Averted in the revival that was telecast in 2000, however, where the same young adult actress plays Wendy both as a child and as a woman, just with a more mature hairstyle and GlassesOfAging in the epilogue, while Jane is played by a separate actress. |
| 508 | * Most productions of ''Theatre/ShowBoat'' which don't outright cut the ElevenOClockNumber will have it performed by the same actress playing Magnolia in the person of her daughter Kim. (Kim also appears earlier as a child, and in the final {{tableau}} as an extra [[FilmingForEasyDub turned away from the audience]].) |
| 509 | * ''Theatre/SundayInTheParkWithGeorge'' has a double whammy: the actors who play painter Creator/GeorgesSeurat and his fictional mistress Dot in Act I play Georges and Dot's daughter Marie (in old lady makeup) and Marie's grandson George in Act II. The rest of the cast plays new roles, too, but that's more a matter of economy. |
| 510 | * The adult narrator in the FramingDevice of ''Theatre/TheOceanAtTheEndOfTheLane'' is played by the same actor as his father in the flashback. |
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| 512 | |
| 513 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 514 | * Female kangaroo villagers in the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' games all have little joeys who peek out from inside their pouches. The joeys are not only identical to their mothers but also share all of their mothers' facial expressions. |
| 515 | * ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'': |
| 516 | ** In both ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'' and ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'', Altaïr and Ezio look exactly like 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 their memories, the Animus, is patching his face partially over theirs, for familiarity. |
| 517 | ** This trope has become less pronounced as the series has gone on. In ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations Revelations]]'', Desmond looks little like Ezio, Altaïr or Altaïr's children. By ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' the similarities have almost entirely disappeared: there's a certain family resemblance but neither Connor nor Haytham Kenway look like Desmond. Edward Kenway from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'' doesn't resemble Desmond in any way. |
| 518 | * In ''VideoGame/BeyondSkyrim'' it is possible to meet Harald Burdsson, a descendant of Captain Burd from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'', and he rather resembles his famous ancestor. |
| 519 | * Captain Price in ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare'' looks exactly like Captain Price of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty 1'' and 2, right down to the righteous mustache and badass attitude, though he is less polite. |
| 520 | ** A developer for Infinity Ward, Sami Onur, gave some WordOfGod on the matter. He said that the ''Modern Warfare'' Price is intended to be the grandson of the World War II Captain Price. There have been a few rather sneaky references to the actual character's origin, however (for instance, one of the final ''Modern Warfare 2'' cutscenes makes it clear that Price still has the ''Call of Duty 1''-specific dedicated pistol slot, containing the same incorrect-for-his-country M1911). |
| 521 | * The Belmonts from the earlier ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games, namely Simon, Christopher, and Trevor, strongly resembled each other, but this can be justified since the original games were for 8-bit platforms like the NES, MSX, and Game Boy, which weren't exactly known for their graphical prowess. Richter Belmont from the PC Engine's ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'', was the first Belmont to actually look different from his predecessors and every Belmont afterward (whether it was from a sequel or prequel) followed suit. |
| 522 | * An early plot point in the game ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' is the fact that Marle, a princess from 1000 A.D., looks exactly like her ancestor Queen Leene from 600 A.D. When Marle travels back in time she is mistaken for Leene and takes her place as queen, leading to a GrandfatherParadox. |
| 523 | * In ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'', you travel into the future and meet people who look suspiciously like Nurse Edna, Doctor Fred, and Weird Ed, but they call themselves "Nurse Zedna," "Doctor Zed" and "Weird Zed." They're the descendants of the original ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion'' characters. Additionally, traveling to the past results in encounters with Red Edison, Dr. Fred Edison's identical ancestor (wearing a powdered wig, of course). |
| 524 | * In ''Tecmo's VideoGame/{{Deception}}'', you eventually hear word of a Legendary Brave who shares the same name as your own character, who was among those who sealed away the Devil in the past. [[spoiler:You're eventually given the task of killing him and subsequently find out that he is your ancestor; [[EventFlag whether you go through with it affects the ending]].]] |
| 525 | * This trope factors into a side quest in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition''. The Inquisitor can accept a request to find evidence that Fairbanks, the local KingOfTheHomeless, is really of noble birth. One of the pieces of evidence to be collected is a portrait of his grandfather, of whom Fairbanks is the spitting image. |
| 526 | * In ''VideoGame/Drakengard3'', One and [[spoiler:her twin brother]] bear a striking resemblance to Manah and Seere from the first game. This is because [[spoiler:male]] One is their distant ancestor, according to [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary material.]] |
| 527 | * Ren Hojo from ''VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater'' is related to Dr. Kunihiko Asou through a branch family and so bares a strong resemblance to him as well. Said resemblance causes the spirits who had met Dr. Asou while they were alive to mistake Ren as Dr. Asou, treating him with kindness instead of murderous hostility that he would have received otherwise. For example, [[BigBad Ouse Kurosawa]] [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes never attacks Ren due to his resemblance to Dr. Asou]], [[spoiler:as [[LoveAtFirstSight she fell in love with Dr. Asou upon their initial encounter while they were alive]].]] |
| 528 | * Possible to pull off in the ''Revelation'' path of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' [[spoiler:if Selena is married off to Subaki. Caeldori then looks like a dead ringer for her maternal grandmother [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Cordelia]]]]. She and her mother even get unique Supports regarding this trope that she doesn't get with any other potential mother. |
| 529 | ** Another example is Ophelia, who looks a lot like [[spoiler:her paternal grandmother, [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Lissa]]]]. The resemblance is even greater should she have a blonde mother, and unlike with [[spoiler:Caeldori]], this can be done on either the ''Conquest'' or ''Revelation'' route. |
| 530 | ** In the Heirs of Fate DLC it's noted that Shigure looks like his very distant ancestor [[spoiler:King Cadros of Valla]]. |
| 531 | * VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry's great-great-granduncle shows up in ''VideoGame/FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist'': "Zircon" Jim Laffer. Not only does he look just like Larry, he has the same CasanovaWannabe personality and implied to be just as undesirable and unsuccessful in his pursuits. |
| 532 | * In ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'', Matthew and Tyrell are the spitting images of their fathers, [[VideoGame/GoldenSun Isaac and Garet]], as teenagers. Several other characters are also descended from the previous games' cast, but they're [[StrongFamilyResemblance not quite as blatant]] as these two. Except [[spoiler:Amiti, who ''despite dressing and acting completely differently'' is still mistaken for… someone in a mask… by an NPC in Tonfon Palace.]] |
| 533 | * ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon''/''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'': |
| 534 | ** This started as soon as ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64''; you were the grandson of the original protagonist from the first game, VideoGame/HarvestMoon1. The availiable bachelorettes look extremely similar to the original ones, minus Karen who only has her grandmother's blonde hair in her bangs. |
| 535 | ** The Japanese version of ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS'' has this trope happening with every single familiar character in the game, practically falling under GenerationXerox as well. Every character has the near-same personalities and backstories to those of their ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife'' and ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonFriendsOfMineralTown Friends of Mineral Town]]'' ancestors, but don't have all the depressing, realistic backstories and plots that made their appearance in the games of ''A Wonderful Life'' so unique. [[LighterAndSofter They're happy-go-lucky, with little to no life problems]]. They also wear the same clothing and wedding clothing as their ancestors. (The bachelors and bachelorettes in ''A Wonderful Life'' and ''Another Wonderful Life'' don't wear wedding attire in-game but they have official art of the women in wedding dresses, which ''DS'' uses.) The only major difference? Their names, but even those tended to be blatant offshoots of the originals. This plot was almost completely dropped in the Western release, which attempted to treat hte games as connected by using the same names for everyone--but still had references to their ancestors, creating a DubInducedPlotHole. |
| 536 | ** ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonTreeOfTranquility'' combines this with the NewGamePlus. Your child, regardless of who you married, can grow up to look exactly like you (or the opposite gender PC, depending on gender) and set off to start a farm on an island suspiciously identical to your own in every way, down to the [[GenerationXerox inhabitants]]. |
| 537 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'''s protagonist, Noctis Lucis Caelum, is the 114th in his family line, yet he bears a strong resemblance to Somnus Lucis Caelum, the first in his line, who lived ''over 2000 years ago.'' |
| 538 | * ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'', the Endou family members who are related to soccer are looking the very similar: Daisuke, Mamoru, and Kanon. |
| 539 | * [[FinalBoss The Guy]] from ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'' looks almost the same as [[spoiler:his son]] the Kid, except that he's four times as big, has a different facial expression and smokes a cigarette. |
| 540 | * ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': |
| 541 | ** Adelheid Bernstein (son of the evil Rugal Bernstein) is a younger Rugal minus the mustache. |
| 542 | ** ExaggeratedTrope in ''KOF XIII'': Saiki's near-identical appearance to [[spoiler:Ash Crimson]] acts as {{foreshadowing}} that they have some sort of connection, before revealing that the latter is the former's descendent. This is despite Saiki being a time traveller who came into existence ''thousands'' of years ago. |
| 543 | * This trope is key to solving a puzzle in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky''. In order to gain access to the services and records on the [[FloatingContinent Liber Ark]], the party needs to unlock the encryption lock on a Gospel which among other things, functions as an ID. The problem lies in the fact that it's genetically keyed to the owner's records make it impossible even for the local GeniusDitz to crack. As it turns out, [[spoiler:Princess Kloe]] is descended from someone who had an account: [[spoiler:Celeste D. Auslese]]. The ancestor in question had been dead for nearly '''twelve centuries'''. Interestingly, the computer claims that [[spoiler:she]] bears a 72% match to [[spoiler:Celeste]] herself. |
| 544 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Link and Zelda appear again and again… only they're not quite the same Link nor Zelda. 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]]. However, 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. |
| 545 | ** Although similar, Link and Zelda don't exactly look identical in each game. For instance, though Zelda has been bright-blonde in most of the post-''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina]]'' games, her ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' look is dirty-blonde/brunette. |
| 546 | ** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle of Ages]]'', anyone who was actually surprised that Ralph is Queen Ambi's grandson clearly has never looked at the character art-- they're both {{Significant Green Eyed Redhead}}s with forked eyebrows and a penchant for the color blue. Gender, age, and clothing aside, the only visual difference between them is that Ambi has TaremeEyes and Ralph has TsurimeEyes. |
| 547 | ** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks Spirit Tracks]]'' has Linebeck III as a literal example, who looks exactly like his grandad from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Phantom Hourglass]]''. Zelda herself lacks the strong tan and {{Odango}}-esque hairstyle of her great-great-grandmother (though they do look the same when dressed up). Link looks the same, although we don't exactly know if he's actually related to ''Wind Waker'' Link. In fact, a lot of characters in ''Spirit Tracks'' bear resemblance to their potential ancestors from ''Phantom Hourglass'' and ''Wind Waker''. |
| 548 | ** In ''The Wind Waker'', Hyrule Castle has a portrait of [[https://imgur.com/gallery/ZGa8ZiD Princess Zelda with her retainers.]] You might find that these pira--er, ''retainers'' look a bit familiar to Tetra's crew. Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule also has a suspiciously similar-looking ancestor by the name of Daltus in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap The Minish Cap]]'' (who himself has an identical ancestor named Gustaf). |
| 549 | ** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'' introduces two minor ones, both shopkeepers: the fortune-teller Sparrot, ancestor of ''Twilight Princess'''s Madame Fanadi, and yet another incarnation of Beedle. This is a somewhat interesting case, as the next appearances of these likenesses occur many hundreds of years after this game, meaning either their family lines managed to keep their heads down for all that time or that it's not just Link and Zelda who get reincarnated. |
| 550 | ** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'' introduces us to Impa's granddaughter Paya, and while Impa in that game is a MiniatureSeniorCitizen so they don't look all that much alike, the prequel ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity'' shows that Paya is nearly the spitting image of Impa 100 years ago. |
| 551 | * In ''VideoGame/LennyLoosejocksInSpace'', Lenny is recruited for his world-saving mission by his distant future grandson, Leeroy Loosejocks. Despite being born over 1,000 years apart, Leeroy looks and sounds identical to Lenny, even down to wearing nothing but a pair of identical shorts. |
| 552 | * In one of the more egregious examples of this trope, ''VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue'' features a certain shopkeeper in Meribia named Ramus, who is a descendant of the original Ramus from ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar''. The two of them look identical (right down to their girth), have the same name (it's apparently a family tradition now), run the exact same store (which looks almost completely unchanged from the first game) and even wear the exact same clothes and glasses. Did we mention that ''Eternal Blue'' is set ''over 1000 years after the events of the original game?'' A downplayed example would be Lemina, whom from the waist up looks like a PaletteSwap of her ancestor Mia. |
| 553 | * Used in the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series with Big Boss and his three clone sons. Solid Snake and Liquid Snake in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' are mirror images of each other, but with different skin tones and hairstyles, while Solidus Snake in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', who has the same face as Solid Snake, is said to resemble the elder Big Boss from the early ''Metal Gear'' games. In contrast, Naked Snake, the young Big Boss from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', resembles the young Solid Snake from the ''MGS'' titles. |
| 554 | ** It is later averted though, [[spoiler:in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots''. When Big Boss shows up in the epilogue, he looks very different from Old Snake, with a different voice actor. However, Old Snake is an imperfect clone of Big Boss, and his accelerated aging combined with FOXDIE, his facial damage in the Volta River fire and his physical ailments could have simply taken him biologically in a different direction]]. |
| 555 | ** Also, except for the latter's wheelchair, Otacon is the image of his father, Huey, complete with the same style of glasses. |
| 556 | * A budgetary necessity in the original ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}''; the three characters with speaking roles were all played by the game's directors, Rand and Robyn Miller. Rand played both Atrus and his villainous son, Achenar; for the latter, he took off his glasses, mussed up his hair and beard, changed costumes, and spoke in a higher-pitched borderline-AxCrazy voice (he gave Atrus a lower and more gravelly voice to increase the contrast). |
| 557 | * ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarZero'' manages to pull this one under the radar. [[spoiler:Ogi and Nicolas both ask you if you're 200+ years old early in the game (which is outright preposterous unless you're a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot CAST]]). Later, you get a video from before the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Great Blank]] that shows someone identical to you in the battle before the aforementioned catastrophe. The third instance crops up when you encounter [[BigBad Mother Trinity]], who has a sudden realization just who you really are.]] |
| 558 | ** [[spoiler:This trope is played straight as a Photon arrow if you're playing as a Human--you're a descendant of the guy (or gal) who started the rebellion against her.]] |
| 559 | ** [[spoiler:If you're a Newman, she comes to the realization that she messed up big time--not only are you a clone of the one who united the Newmans against her but [[PhlebotinumRebel she cloned you herself]]!]] |
| 560 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'' features a vast array of characters that are dead ringers for present-day characters in the franchise and [[AmbiguouslyRelated very heavily implied to be their ancestors]]; however, the only confirmed case is Kamado, who is stated to be Professor Rowan's ancestor in promotional material. |
| 561 | * In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheDiabolicalBox'', the resemblance between [[spoiler:Katia and her grandmother, Sophia,]] is so strong that even the game's main antagonist confuses the two. Considering that [[spoiler:he's mistaking Katia for his estranged lover and he's really her ''grandfather'']], it's no wonder the poor girl gets a little distressed before she finally gets a chance to explain. |
| 562 | * ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxTheDevilsPlayhouse'': |
| 563 | ** In the episode "The Tomb of Sammun-Mak," you play as their grandfathers, Sameth and Maximus. |
| 564 | ** Nicholas St. Kringle is implied to be the ancestor of Santa Claus. |
| 565 | * [[VideoGame/FatalFury Mai Shiranui]], if [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Gen-An's]] ending in the first ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'' is to be believed. |
| 566 | * ''VideoGame/ShadowOfDestiny'' is made of this trope. In every era, there are people who resemble the citizens in the other eras. In fact, the main character even lampshades this once. The game ends up subverting it once, however, [[spoiler:in the biggest plot twist of the game. A character you spend most of the game assuming is your ancestor (though he doesn't exactly resemble you) [[MyGrandsonMyself turns out to be ''you'']]]]. |
| 567 | * Ricardo Chellini, the protagonist of ''[[VideoGame/{{Shiver}} Shiver: Poltergeist]]'', notes a close resemblance between himself and the erstwhile (and similarly-named) heir of the Kangale family, Richard, whose OldDarkHouse Ricardo has just inherited. The resident poltergeist doesn't seem to like Ricardo ''at all''… |
| 568 | * Dr. Eggman from the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series looks almost exactly like his grandfather, Gerald Robotnik (first introduced in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''). Eggman Nega, who claims to be Eggman's descendant from the future in ''VideoGame/SonicRivals'' also looks exactly like Eggman, except his mustache is gray and he wears newer clothes. |
| 569 | * This serves to advance the plot in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG''. When the group enters the sculptor's house in Nimbus Land they find a statue that looks just like resident BlackMage Mallow. The sculptor tells them it's a statue of [[spoiler:King Nimbus as a kid. This makes everyone realize Mallow is the legitimate prince of Nimbus Land and that the one presented by Valentina is a fake]]. |
| 570 | * In ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheSamurai'' none of your descendants are visible - until you die and one of them replaces you, at which point the new head of the family always looks ''completely identical'' to the previous one. This is mostly averted with the AI-controlled families, although the limited number of portraits means that once in a while this will happen to them as well. |
| 571 | * ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'' has [[spoiler:three generations of this, due to the three time periods. Each time period has its own member of the Morrison family, all of whom use the same sprite with only the clothes being different (and that's just a color swap).]] In addition, two characters from a sidequest in the "past" section of the game have descendants who grow up to look just like the original characters. |
| 572 | * Subversion: if Jimbo and Sully from ''VideoGame/ContraIIITheAlienWars'' looked way too much like Bill and Lance from the original arcade/NES ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' games, that's because they ''are'' Bill and Lance. In the Japanese continuity, the series always took place in the future, so there was never any need to change main characters, but in the original American continuity the earlier games were moved from the future to the present, forcing the [[DubNameChange name change]] for the main characters when the SNES installment kept the futuristic setting. |
| 573 | * ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': |
| 574 | ** Epel shares his easily recognizable curly lavender hair and blue eyes with his grandmother Marya. It's later revealed that [[IWasQuiteALooker a younger Marya]] essentially resembled Epel in a dress. |
| 575 | ** [[spoiler:Sebek]] turns out to look very similar to his maternal grandfather [[spoiler:Baur]]. |
| 576 | ** [[spoiler:Silver]] versus [[spoiler:his biological father, the Knight of the Dawn]] is even worse: [[spoiler:the latter is just the former's sprite with different hairstyle and clothes. They don't even have different voice actors.]] |
| 577 | * The ''VideoGame/WayOfTheSamurai'' games use this enable TheBlacksmith Dojima to appear in every game (As they take place 20 to 300 years apart). |
| 578 | * ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2TornaTheGoldenCountry'' introduces Hugo, the emperor of Mor Ardain at the time. During [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2 the base game]], which takes place five hundred years later, the empire of Mor Ardain is shown to be lead by Niall, who's essentially just a mirrored version of his ancestor with a different outfit on, with the two even sharing the same voice actors. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} however as Hugo dies before siring an heir, meaning that while they share a common ancestor, Niall is not his direct descendant, leaving this a case of UncannyFamilyResemblance.]] |
| 579 | * ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed'': Nikol appears all but identical to [[spoiler: Shulk as he appeared during ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'']]. Even his clothes and skills are extremely similar, which lead to a lot of speculation and debate about his existence when he first appeared in [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3 the base game]] as a statue, with many convinced he ''was'' his ancestor. |
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| 582 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 583 | * ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay'' tends to reuse assets across books. One of the earliest examples is Zenobia and Olivia Nevrakis from ''VisualNovel/TheCrownAndTheFlame'' and ''VisualNovel/TheRoyalRomance'' respectively. Many of the characters from the {{Interquel}} ''VisualNovel/TheRoyalMasquerade'' resemble their ancestors in the former story and their descendants in the latter. |
| 584 | * Kori, from ''VisualNovel/TimeHollow'', ends up [[spoiler:in a relationship with the protagonist's uncle, after sending him back through time to save her from certain death. In the present day, after the credits, we meet a girl who looks exactly like Kori, implied to be her daughter.]] |
| 585 | * ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'', a SpinOff series of the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' franchise that's set in the beginning of the 20th century, has two cases of this. |
| 586 | ** The protagonist of the SpinOff Ryunosuke Naruhodo is the ancestor of Phoenix Wright (Ryuichi Naruhodo [[DubNameChange in Japan]]), as can be told since Ryunosuke looks like Phoenix, only lacking the latter's AnimeHair and UnusualEyebrows, as shown in this [[https://images.nintendolife.com/4d304f70d6cd3/1280x720.jpg offical art]] for comparison. |
| 587 | ** Similarly, the first rival prosecutor of the SpinOff, [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/aceattorney/images/4/46/Taketsuchi_Auchi_OA.png Taketsuchi Auchi]], is the ancestor of main series prosecutors [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/aceattorney/images/1/1a/AJ_Payne.png Winston Payne]](Takefumi Auchi) and [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/aceattorney/images/0/01/Gaspen_Payne.png Gaspen Payne]](Fumitake Auchi). |
| 588 | * In ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', Genji remarks that Battler looks a lot like Kinzo used to back when he was young. [[http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/7217/kinzobattler1.png He is not wrong]]. [[spoiler:This is taken further when Battler's hair turns white in ''Twilight of the Golden Witch'' and he cuts it short, taking the "damn-near" out of damn-near identical.]] |
| 589 | [[/folder]] |
| 590 | |
| 591 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 592 | * In ''WebAnimation/DeadlySpaceAction'', Gregarion the Sea Barbarian is either an identical ancestor or an IdenticalStranger to Lemarion the Space Barbarian. |
| 593 | * ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'': Sometimes the parent and their child are portrayed by the same actor of their respective ages. |
| 594 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkC-rXz0feE this episode]], Karin and her aunt (also Karin) are identical to each other. It also serves as a plot point as Hiiragi is creepily obsessed with his sister before going after Karin as well, for having an identical appearance to her aunt. |
| 595 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDlZzLLlrN0 one episode]], Karin's sister is Yuri, their mother is also Yuri, and Yuri's twin daughters are ''also'' Yuri. |
| 596 | * Vic and Vic Jr. (who was multiple generations removed) in ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' use identical models and voice actors. This is played for laughs more than anything else. [[spoiler:Later seasons strongly imply that not only was Vic Jr. actually just Vic being deceptive, but that Vic wasn't even human. Later confirmed that VIC is an AI created to oversee the simulation troopers. He was originally serious and businesslike, until Agent Florida (a.k.a. Captain Butch Flowers) accidentally knocked out his power cable, resulting in data corruption and personality changes.]] |
| 597 | [[/folder]] |
| 598 | |
| 599 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 600 | * In the sprite comic ''194X'', Kalinka and Ran strongly resemble their WWII-era ancestors. It's hard to decide whether the fact that Ran is a ''robot'' makes this better or worse. |
| 601 | * In ''[[http://www.drunkduck.com/Dragon_City Dragon City]]'', Erin and Beatrix look like blue and green versions of their father Sam (respectively, though Trixie turns out to actually be [[spoiler:his [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo granddaughter]]]]), and Jonas looks like a red version of their mother Rachel. Rachel and her sister Sarah look like their mother, too. |
| 602 | * In ''Webcomic/TheDreamer'', 21st--century Bea and 18th--century Bea look ''exactly the same''. |
| 603 | * In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', we are told Nanase [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-07-11 is the spitting image of her Aunt Noriko]], and while when Noriko was finally seen they weren't exactly ''identical'', they do genuinely look very similar, [[spoiler: [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-244 aside from Noriko's facial scar]] that she hed been hiding]]. |
| 604 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Endstone}}'', Jon comments on [[http://endstone.net/2009/11/19/issue-2-webpage-28/ how uncanny it is, the way his daughter resembles his mother.]] |
| 605 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Erma}}'' when visiting the {{Youkai}} side of the family, everyone comments how the titular Erma is identical to her StringyHairedGhostGirl mother, Emiko, when she was younger. |
| 606 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Erstwhile}}'', [[http://www.erstwhiletales.com/allfur-02/#.T2--ndm6SuI the princess is the image of her dead mother.]] This is Not A Good Thing. |
| 607 | * Tarvek Sturmvarous in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' apparently looks so much like his father did at his age that the TimeAbyss BigBad initially thinks he is the same person. |
| 608 | * In ''Webcomic/GourmetHound'', Chef Palmier briefly [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/drama/gourmet-hound/ep-132-haddock/viewer?title_no=1245&episode_no=136 mistakes Lucy for her grandmother Lynn.]] |
| 609 | * ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'''s Antimony and her mother. [[spoiler:There's a very good reason for this]]. |
| 610 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Averted. All of the characters involved in an SBURB session have a parent or ancestor who resembles them, and troll culture (due to BizarreAlienReproduction making tracing lineage impossible) even has characters latch on to historical figures who share the most physical features, calling those "ancestors", but it's rare for them to be ''identical''. Quite a feat, considering the limited art style. Interestingly, the one person who does subscribe to this trope is Dad: he looks like a less hairy version of his grandfather by adoption, Colonel Sassacre. |
| 611 | * ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'''s Ishmael's grandfather is identical to him. Same with the Mythbusters. Well, kinda. [[spoiler:They're actually each other's grandfathers, thanks to abuse of the MyOwnGrandpa trope, and therefore their own great-great grandfathers. The grandfathers we see turn out to be unrelated to the Mythbusters at all.]] |
| 612 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Jix}}'', Lauren's daughter, Alice, in flashforwards look like a young version of Lauren. |
| 613 | * Coney Dewclaw, the carnivorous rabbit in ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', looks exactly like her grandmother Dorothy Kindle did when she was Coney's age. Unfortunately for Coney, that includes her ''height'', meaning she's the shortest of her peer group once they start hitting their growth spurts. When Coney ''does'' get a growth spurt, it's only in her ears, [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0609.html which causes them to flop over]]...which just makes the resemblance to Dorothy even more uncanny. The only obvious difference is that, while Coney is a blonde, Dorothy has been depicted in flashbacks as a brunette before her hair turned white. |
| 614 | -->'''Coney:''' I wondered at what point I'd start to look like my grandmother... |
| 615 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'', versions of Helen, Dave, and Mell appear each generation. Partly justified as [[spoiler:the Helens are cloning themselves]], which becomes a plot point during a MentalTimeTravel arc when Dave mistakes Helen's mother for her daughter. |
| 616 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Elan and Nale's father is depicted exactly like his sons, only with gray hair due to age, and brown hair in flashbacks (though it is hard to tell). |
| 617 | * ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'': Most of Ozy's adoptive ancestors that Llewellyn tells stories about appear highly similar to Llewellyn. Possibly justified in that Llewellyn [[ShrugOfGod may or may not be]] making them up. |
| 618 | * The time travel storyline of ''Webcomic/PvP'' includes a presumed ancestor of Max Powers who looks and behaves just like him. Modern technology was [[WeirdnessCensor invisible to]] medieval Max just as Skull was (until recently) invisible to modern Max. |
| 619 | * {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' with Marten's dad, who strongly resembles him except for the hair, though that's in part due to GenericCuteness. Upon meeting Mr. Reed, Dora exclaims "You're going to be so hot when you go gray!" |
| 620 | * The protagonist of ''Webcomic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger'' is a distant descendant of the hero of ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'' and looks almost the same (even has the same white forelock). Though he does seem a little older and more experienced. |
| 621 | * In the ''Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}'' and ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'', Joe's father Richard looks exactly like him with a beard. (In ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'', Joe grows a beard and Richard's goes grey.) Ethan's father in ''Dumbing of Age'' also looks exactly like him with a moustache. Most other characters have a strong resemblance to their parents, but aren't identical, since Willis's preferred method is PatchworkKids. |
| 622 | * In ''[[http://www.thewretchedones.smackjeeves.com The Wretched Ones]]'', the trope spans 3 generations as John, his father David, and their ancestor Nicholas all look strikingly similar (at least, David in his youth). This goes for Charlie and his father as well. |
| 623 | [[/folder]] |
| 624 | |
| 625 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 626 | * Due to a narrow selection of male partners, the mother of Dee from ''Literature/TalesOfMU'' is the spitting image of her great-great-grandmother, the family's current matriarch. Not one to waste an opportunity, the matriarch uses her descendant as [[BodyDouble assassin bait]]. |
| 627 | [[/folder]] |
| 628 | |
| 629 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 630 | * Subverted in ''WebVideo/LeVisiteurDuFutur'': Raph tries to prevent the ancestor of the Visitor from meeting the mother of his future child. [[spoiler:After revealing that he is the Visitor posing as his ancestor, he tells Raph: "You thought my ancestor had the same face as me? That's completely dumb."]] |
| 631 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNVMX5K8oVQ&feature=emb_logo "The Descendents of Pompeii,"]] an official ''Series/DoctorWho'' webcast, Maxine and her daughter Evie are played by Tracy Childs and Fransesca Fowler, who played Metella and Evelina in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii The Fires of Pompeii]]". Their family also has a strong GenerationXerox element to it, with the same professions recurring. |
| 632 | [[/folder]] |
| 633 | |
| 634 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 635 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'': Mario and Luigi's 13th-century ancestors look similar to their modern counterparts, except they wear... [[HollywoodCostuming 16th-century armor]]? |
| 636 | * This was used way back in the old ''WesternAnimation/{{Archie|Comics}}'' cartoons, which routinely showed the "ancestors" of the Archie gang in historical time periods for educational purposes. |
| 637 | * One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' had D.W. curious of her grandmother Thora's antique doll prompting a story on how she got it. In the flashback, Thora a spitting image of D.W. right down to the voice. Thora's three brothers also resemble Arthur to an extent. Also, Binkey's great grandfather looked exactly like him as a child. |
| 638 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvengerPenguins'': |
| 639 | ** "The Wild Wild Wild West" shows that the villains Caractacus P. Doom, Harry Slime, and the Stink Brothers all had identical ancestors in the Wild West. |
| 640 | ** "The 23rd Century" revolves around identical descendants of the Avenger Penguins, Doom, and Slime. |
| 641 | ** The episode "High Doom" has the Doc from Saskatoon tell the Avenger Penguins about the adventures of their Wild West ancestors, who look exactly like the Avenger Penguins. The Wild West ancestors of Doom, Slime, and the Stink Brothers also appear. |
| 642 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': |
| 643 | ** In the 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. |
| 644 | ** Black Canary is shown to be exactly identical to her mother, the original Black Canary, with the only distinction being her mother wore a mask, where Dinah doesn't. |
| 645 | * In a possible future of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'', Ben's son looks just like a darker skinned present-day Ben (possibly implying a relationship with Kai). Kevin's son looks like a non-mutated version of present-day Kevin. |
| 646 | * ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': The episode “Family Legacy” shows flashbacks of previous generations of the Green family, and their ancestors resemble the Greens of the modern day. Bixby resembles Cricket, Metrona resembles Tilly, and Jerome, Archibald, and Alice’s father all resemble Bill. |
| 647 | * ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': |
| 648 | ** A triple case in "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS3E10HogTide Hog Tide]]". Don Porkaloin, Rex Rigger I, and Betty Blight all look the same as their respective grandchildren, save for small details, like Don's mustache. |
| 649 | ** In "Future Shock", Zarm recruits three Eco-Villains from the distant future to try and ensure that their future happens by having them go back in time and kill a girl before she could grow up to encourage others to be more eco-friendly. The villains are descended from and bore a strong resemblance to Dr. Blight, Looten Plunder, and Verminous Skumm. To even the odds, Gaia later recruits a future team of Planeteers from an alternate timeline, with the bearers of fire, wind, and heart resembling Wheeler, Linka and Ma-Ti and the bearers of earth and water resembling [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] versions of Kwame and Gi. Humorously, Wheeler asks Linka if their resemblance to the future bearers of fire and wind are a sign that they'll be together, but Linka denies this. |
| 650 | * ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': Eustace and his father look the same, except Eustace's father had a beard. |
| 651 | * There was an {{arc}} in the old ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' cartoon. Dr. Claw decides to get rid of Gadget by eliminating his ancestors via TimeTravel. This goes for several episodes, including prehistoric times, Ancient Rome, and 19th Century Britain. In each, there is an almost-identical variant of Gadget, niece Penny, and their dog, Brain. The prehistoric version of Gadget even has a few BambooTechnology gadgets! |
| 652 | * ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Jack Fenton and his ancestor John Fenton Nightingale. |
| 653 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}'', while reading [[TomesOfProphecyAndFate Finnwich's Mannifestum]], Jenny finds an image of a boy who looks similar to Lee, but with a different hairstyle. [[spoiler:He turns out to be Lee's relative (either grandfather or great-grandfather) and a founder of MWF, who defected after learning of their benefactor's true motivations.]] |
| 654 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/DrZitbagsTransylvaniaPetShop'' episode "Medieval Dread", Dr. Zitbag is brought from the present day to medieval times by Moron the Magician so he can fight a dragon. While there, Zitbag encounters medieval ancestors of himself, Horrifido, Officer Deadbeat, the Exorsisters, Professor Sherman Vermin, and Fingers Malone. |
| 655 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', 19th-century Dimmsdale is shown, with the ancestors of their inhabitants all looking like their descendants. The ancestor of Timmy Turner even has Cosmo and Wanda as his fairy godparents (given that they are immortal). |
| 656 | ** It's implied in another episode, which takes place during the 16th century in the town that will be known as Dimmsdale. One of the inhabitants is a man named Alden Bitterroot, who looks exactly like Timmy's fairy-obsessed teacher, Denzel Crocker, implying that he is an ancestor of him. Alden even shares Crocker's personality, mannerisms, and obsession with the supernatural, but instead of fairies, he is obsessed with witches. |
| 657 | ** An odd instance of this appears in the ''Breakin' Da Rules!'' PC game. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hfh78AtFBk One level]] has Timmy time-travel to the [[strike:1970s]] 1950s and have to avoid the younger-aged version of Vicky and Tootie's affectionate mother, Nicky. In-game dialogue from Timmy suggests that Nicky is supposed to resemble Tootie (which she, sure enough, does when she appears on the show)… but the graphics depict her as looking like De-aged Vicky from the "Switch Glitch" episode. |
| 658 | ** There's also ''WesternAnimation/ChannelChasers'', which shows Tommy Turner, who looks like his father with black hair (cluing the audience to believe Trixie or Tootie is his mother). The later episode "Timmy Turnip" has Timmy Turner's grandfather who looks like an older version of him, but with bigger, lighter blue eyes. |
| 659 | ** Jorgen's grandmom Nana Boom Boom looks and sounds very much like him. |
| 660 | ** One of the ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts featured Vicky Khan, Vicky's ancestor who babysat Ghengis Khan. |
| 661 | * Used repeatedly in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episodes referencing Peter's ancestors, usually named ''Real Famous Person's Name'' Griffin, all of whom look and sound exactly like Peter. |
| 662 | ** Subverted in one notable exception where Peter discovers that one of his ancestors is actually black, though still looks and sound otherwise identical. In this flashback, Nate Griffin's (white) wife looks identical to Lois, even though Lois is actually descended from her sister. |
| 663 | ** In a later episode, it is revealed that Peter's biological father is actually a man named Mickey [=McFinnigan=], who looks very similar to Peter. This also means that the identical-looking Griffin ancestors were not actually related to him at all. At least not officially, there's nothing preventing one of them from stopping by Ireland… |
| 664 | * On ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', Some episodes are set in the past and usually feature cats that look and sound like Garfield with different coloring. It's implied they are his ancestors. In one episode Garfield flashes back to when his great uncle Buchanan was sent into space and he looks and sounds exactly like Garfield. Another episode features Jon's Italian ancestor, Tony Arbuckli. |
| 665 | * Played straight in ''WesternAnimation/GoldieGoldAndActionJack'' episode, "Race Against Time", with Goldie Gold and her great-grandmother, Carlotta Gold. She even have gadgets that ride that reminds Travis of Goldie's 1980s vehicles. |
| 666 | * In ''Surprise Party'' from ''WesternAnimation/HollyHobbieAndFriends'', Holly Hobbie is said to be the spitting image of her grandmother, the original Holly Hobbie. |
| 667 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Hurricanes}}'': Stavros Garkos IV, who sent a robot 100 years back in time to change the results of a bet where Stavros Garkos lost everything other than his soccer team, looks like Stavros Garkos. The whole plot was AllJustADream and there's no evidence that Stavros Garkos IV will even exist. |
| 668 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1982'', the villain of the episode "When Monsters Meet" was a descendant of [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo]] who, like his ancestor, was a misshapen hunchback. |
| 669 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' features a journal, written by Jackie's ancestor, which involved identical western ancestors of all the main characters. However, it was established that this was being visualized by Jade, and she was deliberately ignoring that the journal described the character she'd picked as her own counterpart as an adult. On the other hand, the cover of the book clearly showed the "Hong Kong Kid" was identical to Jackie. |
| 670 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsonsMeetTheFlintstones'', Judy broods over losing her Stone Age boyfriend Iggy, moping, "A boy that fabulous comes along just once in a million years!" Cue the entrance of Iggy's Space Age descendant, who is a perfect replica of Judy's long-ago crush. |
| 671 | * Subverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' where a character resembling Vandal Savage from a TimeTravel episode taking place in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII claims to be his descendant. [[spoiler:It turns out they're the same person and he is immortal.]] |
| 672 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "Rewriting History," practically every main character on the show had a counterpart one hundred years ago with not only a similar appearance, but a similar name. According to WordOfGod, the episode was not a dream. Additionally, after they come out of the dream (and regardless of its actual status) Kim and Ron are confronted by a statue of someone who looks exactly like Ron from Ancient Rome and learns of his ancient nemesis and mysterious female ally who bears an uncanny resemblance to Dr. Drakken and Kim. |
| 673 | * In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Hank looks identical to his mother while Peggy looked almost exactly like her mother--before the {{retcon}}, that is. Bobby looks somewhat similar to his grandfather Cotton, except short and chubby, although it is unknown where he got his blonde hair from; all of his relatives were shown to have brown hair in their youth. |
| 674 | ** In a flashback in the Halloween episode, young Hank looked just like Bobby. |
| 675 | ** There's also Jun-ichiro, Hank's Japanese half-brother, who looks exactly like Hank with a different haircut, despite having a different mother. |
| 676 | ** A couple of flashback episodes showed that Dale, Bill, and Boomhauer all resembled their dad as well. The case with Dale's father was eventually {{retcon}}ned, and later episodes gave him a radically different appearance and [[TheOtherDarrin voice actor]]. |
| 677 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Zuko greatly resembles his paternal grandfather, Fire Lord Azulon. He also strongly resembles a teenage version of his father, Ozai. |
| 678 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': |
| 679 | ** General Iroh is not only voiced by the same actor who played his grandfather Zuko in the beloved [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender original series]], but he is named after his great-great-uncle. Appearance-wise, he's much like an adult Zuko. The only major difference between the two of them (minus the scar) is that Iroh has a bit wider of a jaw. |
| 680 | ** Katara is now well into old age and looks quite a lot like her own grandmother did. |
| 681 | ** Jinora, Aang's granddaughter, looks quite a lot like her grandfather did [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender when he was young]]. The difference isn't as obvious due to Jinora being a girl with a full head of hair, but it's still there. It becomes extremely obvious at the end of season 3, [[spoiler:as she shaves her head and receives the airbending master's tattoos. She looks nearly identical to Aang in the ending shot.]] The biggest difference is that they have different eye colors, but their faces are very similar. |
| 682 | ** Lin looks very similar to her grandmother, Poppy. |
| 683 | * Kion from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' is only a cub but seems to be this. He resembles his father [[StrongFamilyResemblance strongly]] but resembles his grandfather, Mufasa, even more. He has a similar fur tone, the same stocky build, and the beginnings of a red mane like Mufasa's. |
| 684 | * ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' has Henrietta Twombly, the great-great-grandmother of Mrs. Twombly, who happened to have seven pets who looked like the day camp regulars; and the Biskit Brothers, ancestors of the Biskit Twins. There was also a sheriff who looked like Blythe. |
| 685 | * A ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short[[note]]and reused in the ''Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet'' special[[/note]] had an odd example; a scene from a Sylvester and Sylvester Jr. cartoon is shown, but we're told this is Sylvester as a kitten with ''his'' father. Similarly in ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'' episode "A Mynah Problem". |
| 686 | * In ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'', all the future descendants of the Looney Tunes resemble their ancestors to some degree. |
| 687 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': |
| 688 | ** Lincoln strongly resembles his maternal grandfather Albert, and his sister Lucy looks almost identical to their great-grandmother Harriet. |
| 689 | ** The whole Loud family's distant ancestors from Scotland in ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouseMovie'' also bear a very stark resemblance to them. |
| 690 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', Murderface is literally identical to his grandmother, Stella, but with different hair color and facial hair. |
| 691 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has their entire cast get into the act in "The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein". |
| 692 | ** Instead of having Candace trying to tell her mother what her brothers are up to, we've got Constance threatening to tell a mob the Phineas and Ferb analogues made a monster. Like Linda Flynn, the mob doesn't believe her [[spoiler:until they see Constance having got turned into a monster]]. |
| 693 | ** Only confirmed ancestor was Ferb's look-alike. And this is probably just a kid's visualization of Grandpa's story, not really a flashback (Phineas and Candace disputing about proper picture style) |
| 694 | ** In the episode "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo", Candace (20 years older) has a daughter almost identical to her. And [[ShesAllGrownUp Candace herself grew up]] to be much like her mom. Sort of averted with her other kids--despite her future family clearly mirroring her current one (complaining older daughter, two serene younger sons), neither ''looks'' like their avuncular counterparts. On the other hand, Xavier's blond hair ''does'' bring to mind who his ''father'' might be… |
| 695 | * ''WesternAnimation/PiratesPassage'' features James Hawkins in the 1717 prologue and his descendant Jim in the main story in 1952. |
| 696 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'', Professor Utonium's 19th-century ancestor is shown, looking just like his descendant. He creates his own version of the Powerpuff Girls using {{steampunk}} technology. |
| 697 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Rupert}}'' made use of this trope twice. |
| 698 | ** "Rupert's Roman Adventure" had Rupert Bear and Bill Badger go back in time to when Nutwood was a village called Nutwoodium and was being visited by Julius Caesar. While there, they encounter identical ancestors of the Professor, Dr. Chimp, Podgy Pig, and Ottoline Otter. |
| 699 | ** "Rupert and Queen Bess" had Rupert and Ottoline go back to the time of William Shakespeare. People bearing at least some resemblance to Podgy Pig, Algy Pug, and Bill Badger who are most likely their ancestors from that time can be seen. |
| 700 | * An [[Recap/TheNewScoobyDooMoviesS1E16TheLochNessMess old episode]] of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' once had Shaggy and Scooby exploring an old mansion belonging to Shaggy's family. In a hallway containing numerous family portraits, Shaggy mentions that all of the members in his family have the same nose shape (so he could say [[{{Pun}} "noses run]] in the family"), but the actual pictures show that every member of the Rogers family looks exactly the same as Shaggy. Even the women. |
| 701 | * ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'': |
| 702 | ** In the episode "Baa-ck in Time", General Specific and Private Public travel through time, at one point coming across a Conquistador ancestor of General Specific who's almost identical to him. |
| 703 | ** The episode "Baah-dern Times" has the cast becoming sick and the narrator deciding to keep the audience entertained with a silent film starring the grandfathers of Sheep and General Specific, who each bears a considerable resemblance to his respective grandson. |
| 704 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Abe Simpson looks exactly like his son, but older and wrinkled. In flashback episodes, Abe and Homer look exactly alike. Marge and her mother also bear a strong resemblance. |
| 705 | ** The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E13TheColorYellow The Color Yellow]]" has a weird variation on this -- at first, the episode leads you to believe that the characters Hiram, Mabel, and Eliza Simpson (who look exactly like Homer, Marge, and Lisa, and who must be Homer's ancestors since their name is Simpson) are the identical ancestors of the present-day Simpsons. It turns out, though, that Mabel divorced Hiram and married escaped slave Virgil (who took Mabel's last name), which means that Homer and the kids have an ancestor who's identical to ''Marge.'' On the other hand, the trope is played straight with their son Abraham, who looks exactly like a slightly darker-complexioned Bart. |
| 706 | ** One episode showed that Grandpa served alongside identical ancestors of Barney Gumble, Principal Skinner, and Chief Wiggum. And [[AndZoidberg three other guys]]. It's also implied their CO was one for Ned Flanders. |
| 707 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'': Notice that Gargamel's mother [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/smurfs/images/2/23/Gargamelsmother.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090804021812 looks exactly like him]]. Also, in season 9 with the Smurfs traveling in time, they find several identical ancestors of both Gargamel and Azrael in Egypt, Rome, and Scotland, among others. |
| 708 | ** Also Hogatha and Johan hace identical ancestors. Johan's ancestor in Tsarist Russia is even called Ivan which is Russian for Johan. |
| 709 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': |
| 710 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', Sonic and Robotnik's ancestors look and act very similar to their modern day counterparts. |
| 711 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'', the hedgehogs find the tomb of an Ancient Egyptian ancestor of theirs who looks (and acts) just like Sonic. |
| 712 | * All ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episodes that have shown prehistoric ancestors of [=SpongeBob=], Squidward and Patrick have depicted them as being practically identical to the modern day versions but with loincloths, unibrows and sharp teeth. Oddly, Mr. Krabs' distant ancestors were far smaller than their modern equivalents. The episode "The Great Patty Caper" ends with the reveal that it was a story told by an old [=SpongeBob=] to his grandson, who looks exactly like him but with a bolo tie and a red baseball cap. |
| 713 | * Two ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' episodes feature Queen Callista, Callie Briggs' lookalike medieval ancestor. |
| 714 | * Occurs in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' with the second Turtle Titan and his grandfather, the Silver Sentry. Curiously enough, the characters started out with different voice actors--Silver Sentry was voiced by Terrence Archie, while Creator/MarcDiraison (''{{Manga/Berserk}}'''s Guts) voiced Turtle Titan--until the seventh season, when Diraison took over the Silver Sentry role. |
| 715 | * ''WesternAnimation/TimeWarpTrio'' at one point has the three boys of the original trio meet three girls from the 22nd century who are their own great-granddaughters. Each girl has the same hair and skin color as her ancestor, and the boy with glasses has a great-granddaughter with glasses, but not only are these descendants of the opposite gender, each has a personality that is the opposite of her ancestors'. |
| 716 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' has Jonas Venture Jr., who inherited his father's handsome rugged looks and intellect despite living inside his fraternal twin brother's torso as an absorbed fetus for over 40 years (which resulted in his undeveloped body). In contrast to Thaddeus, who is the antithesis of their father. |
| 717 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheWackyAdventuresOfRonaldMcdonald'' has this happen in the fifth video "Have Time, Will Travel". When Ronald and friends go to prehistoric times, they encounter caveman versions of themselves. Later, when the gang goes to the Wild West, Hamburglar is mistaken by an angry mob for his great-great-grandfather Henry H. Burglar II, who looks just like Hamburglar, but with a mustache. |
| 718 | * ''WesternAnimation/XavierRiddleAndTheSecretMuseum'': [[spoiler:"I Am Madam President" shows that Yadina strongly resembles her great-great grandmother]]. |
| 719 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Descent", the Victorian physician Dr. James Xavier looks like Professor X with a fringe of hair and (in 1888) a mustache. |
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| 721 | |
| 722 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 723 | * British statesman Austin Chamberlain [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austen_Chamberlain heavily resembles]] his father the famous Joseph Chamberlain [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Chamberlain#/media/File:Joseph_Chamberlain_MP.png monocle and everything]] |
| 724 | * 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]] |
| 725 | * Jessica Alba posted an old picture of [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/30/jessica-alba-grandmother-photo_n_3360431.html?ir=Technology her grandmother]] that uncannily looks like her. |
| 726 | * Orville Redenbacher started appearing in commercials with his ''real'' identical grandson shortly before his death. Now his grandson has his role. |
| 727 | * Nick Tweed-Simmons [[http://cs4534.vk.me/u82205096/a_63c28604.jpg looks a lot]] like his father [[Music/{{Kiss}} Gene Simmons]] [[http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/images/artists/simmons-gene.jpg did at his age]]. Likewise his sister Sophie is a [[http://www.genesimmons.com/fanstories/images9/malibumag.jpg spitting image]] of their mother Shannon Tweed. |
| 728 | * Musician Music/HankWilliamsIII is said to have an amazing resemblance to his grandfather, the legendary Music/HankWilliams. Minnie Pearl, an old friend of Hank Williams, remarked upon first meeting his grandson, "Lord, honey, you're a ghost." |
| 729 | * New Orleans Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau had a daughter named Marie Laveau who was also a New Orleans Voodoo Queen who reportedly looked quite like her mother. Needless to say historical accounts and legends surrounding the two women often get mixed up. |
| 730 | * Dirk Blocker also looked almost exactly like his father, [[Creator/DanBlocker Dan]]. |
| 731 | * Alan Hale Sr. and Jr. looked a lot alike. |
| 732 | * See if you can find an old picture of Cal Ripken, Senior. The resemblance is almost ''eerie''. |
| 733 | * Due to the tradition of always marrying their sisters, the Egyptian Pharaohs reportedly all looked almost identical. At least until those nasty recessive genes started making their heads look like American footballs. |
| 734 | * Speaking of American football, compare [[http://www.nosaintshistory.com/images/highlights/archie-manning-of-ol-miss.jpg Archie Manning]] in his playing days to the [[http://www.thesportsbank.net/core/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Peyton-Manning.jpg two of]] [[http://media.nj.com/giants_impact/photo/9138870-large.jpg his sons]] that played the sport professionally (respectively Creator/{{Peyton|Manning}} and Eli). A quick Google search will also show a strong resemblance to his grandson Arch (son of Archie's oldest son Cooper), currently committed to start play for the Texas Longhorns in 2023. |
| 735 | * In one documentary of Music/JoniMitchell, clips from interviews with her starting decades ago are mixed in with the images, and it's very clear how her voice changed from when she was young to the modern day. Then, at the end, Mitchell meets back up with her genetic daughter she had put up for adoption--and her daughter's voice sounds just like hers from when she was young. (They do look different, though.) |
| 736 | * [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStates U.S. Presidents]]: |
| 737 | ** Thomas Jefferson Randolph looks quite like [[UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson his more famous grandfather]]. Not that this pleased him much. |
| 738 | *** 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. |
| 739 | ** Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr., who died in 2020, was the grandson (yes, ''grandson'') of former president UsefulNotes/JohnTyler. Even 135 years apart, [[https://blackchristiannews.com/2020/10/grandson-of-the-tenth-us-president-john-tyler-dies-aged-95-with-three-generations-of-family-spanning-over-230-years/ the resemblance is nothing short of uncanny]]. |
| 740 | ** [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/PowersFillmoreSketch.jpg This picture]] of Millard Powers Fillmore is often confused with one of [[UsefulNotes/MillardFillmore his father]], and it's ''easy'' to see why. |
| 741 | ** Similar to Tyler, UsefulNotes/GroverCleveland ''still'' has living grandchildren, and one of them, George Maxwell Cleveland, is an absolutely impressive lookalike of his grandfather, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Presidents/comments/q3i23i/george_cleveland_grandson_of_president_grover/?rdt=62873 right down to the mustache]]. |
| 742 | ** [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Franklin_D._Roosevelt_Jr._%28US_Congressman_from_New_York%29.jpg Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.]] to [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt his father]] ''big time'', to the point where even the whole family unanimously agreed. |
| 743 | -->'''James Roosevelt:''' Franklin is the one who came closest to being another FDR. He had father's looks, his speaking voice, his smile, his charm, his charisma. |
| 744 | ** Take a look at UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower, now take a look at his son [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/John_Eisenhower_on_USS_Eisenhower.jpeg John]]. |
| 745 | ** Not that much 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]]. |
| 746 | ** Dark complexion aside, [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Barack Obama]]'s basically the spitting image of his [[https://www.facebook.com/thenewvision/photos/1965-barack-obama-and-his-grandfather-stanley-armour-dunham-1918-1992-he-was-the/10151722493344078/ maternal grandfather]]. |
| 747 | * Dhani Harrison looks ''exactly'' like his father, Music/GeorgeHarrison, when he was younger. |
| 748 | ** In fact, all Music/TheBeatles' children look very much like their fathers. |
| 749 | *** In Julian Lennon's case, he even ''sounds'' like his father when singing. His half-brother Sean uncannily resembles their father in the 1970s with his long hair, beard and eyeglasses--which is really saying something given that Sean is also quite visibly half-Japanese (being John's son with Music/YokoOno). When he made a splash with his own music in the 1980s, there was some momentary fan wishing that he could substitute for his father for the Beatles to reunite, but the alumni of that band shot that notion down instantly saying that was completely unfair to Julian. |
| 750 | *** Except Zak Starkey, who seems to take more after his mother. |
| 751 | ** Three of the Beatles (John, Paul and George) themselves resembled each of their fathers. It's unknown if Ringo did because no picture of his father is available to the public. |
| 752 | ** Giles Martin also bears an uncanny resemblance to his father, Beatles producer Sir George Martin. |
| 753 | * There's the adage, "If you want to know what a woman will look like in a few decades, meet her mother." Generally, it's pretty accurate. |
| 754 | * 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 (particularly the photographs, though the painting of the young Queen Victoria compared to Princess Beatrice is essentially confirmed by other contemporaneous paintings and later photos of the Queen). |
| 755 | * Compare Creator/MartinSheen in ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' with his son Creator/CharlieSheen in ''Film/{{Platoon}}''. Or his other son, [[http://static.tvguide.com/MediaBin/Galleries/Shows/S_Z/Tq_Tz/TwoAndaHalfMen/season6/two-half-men131.jpg Emilio Estevez]], [[http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00293/106179375_emilio-ma_293323c.jpg in recent years]]. |
| 756 | ** A commercial for Visa Check Card uses this trope directly. |
| 757 | -->'''Clerk:''' ''(Looking at Charlie's ID)'' This doesn't look like you.\ |
| 758 | '''Martin:''' It did when I came in here... |
| 759 | * Creator/KirkDouglas and Creator/MichaelDouglas. |
| 760 | * Creator/GeorgeClooney looks an awful lot like his father, Nick Clooney, did in his youth, [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Nick%2C_Rosemary_and_Gail_Clooney_1957.JPG see here]] and [[http://us.cdn003.fansshare.com/photos/georgeclooney/george-clooney-birthday-young-1797330427.jpg here]] |
| 761 | * Wrestling/JerryLawler and his son Brian, best known as Brian Christopher (his real given names) and Grandmaster Sexay, had such a strong family resemblance that no matter how much Jerry's promotions tried to hide their relationship when Brian started out in the business, Brian's parentage became one of the worst-kept secrets in pro wrestling history. |
| 762 | ** And Stu and Wrestling/BretHart. |
| 763 | * Aside from a lack of poodle-perm, [[http://blogs.inlandsocal.com/movies/jeff-buckley2.jpg Jeff Buckley]] was almost the spitting image of his dad, [[http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/41259/Tim%2BBuckley.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.last.fm/music/Tim%2BBuckley/%2Bimages/41259&usg=__IxX9wpy-F4lBiqUMTjTW2bppBQQ=&h=414&w=480&sz=69&hl=en&start=15&itbs=1&tbnid=afZL9c1CYtmMmM:&tbnh=111&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtim%2Bbuckley%26hl%3Den%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1 Tim]]. |
| 764 | * Creator/HarrisonFord's son Ben resembles him so much they used him to fill in for his father for a few new shots in the Final Cut version of ''Film/BladeRunner''. |
| 765 | ** Actually a case of an InsertCameo. They only used his mouth, but 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]]. |
| 766 | * Creator/AngelinaJolie bears a strong resemblance to her mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand. |
| 767 | * After over 3 centuries, Japanese figure skater Oda Nobunari retains a strong physical resemblance to his famous ancestor UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga. Though the resemblances sorta stop there… |
| 768 | * [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ingrid-Bergman.jpg Here's]] Creator/IngridBergman and her daughter [[http://www.enfrentearte.com/hotel-ronda/uploaded_images/IsabellaRossellini-700385.jpg Isabella Rossellini]]. Except for the eye color, she's almost a carbon copy of her mom. |
| 769 | * The descendants of J.M. James believe their ancestor was actually outlaw Jesse James, whom they claim faked his own death to avoid arrest. While their claim is considered highly dubious by historians, family member Jeremiah James bears a remarkable resemblance to photographs of Jesse James as a young man: so much so that, if the blood connection were true, he would qualify as an identical great-great-grandson. |
| 770 | * Actress/musician [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1514509056/nm0004922 Schuyler Fisk]] looks almost exactly like her mother [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/c/c8/20100502181542%21Sissy_Spacek_by_David_Shankbone.jpg Sissy Spacek]]. |
| 771 | * Aside from being [[PaletteSwap blonde]], [[http://images.fandango.com/r94.2/ImageRenderer/1040/650/redesign/static/img/noxsquare.jpg/p63152/images/masterrepository/performer%20images/p63152/miasara-annualsaturnawards-2.jpg Brian Henson]] is a near-perfect replication of his father, Creator/{{Jim|Henson}}. |
| 772 | * Late Creator/JohnRitter and his son [[Creator/JasonRitter Jason]]. |
| 773 | * Creator/MarkHamill and his son [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090331003519/starwars/images/d/d5/Nathanhamill.jpg Nathan]] |
| 774 | * Creator/BetteMidler and her [[http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/l/bette_midler_210208/bette_midler_1768578.jpg twenty-something daughter Sophie von Haselberg]]. |
| 775 | * Colin Hanks is a lanky version of [[Creator/TomHanks his father]] with a different haircut. |
| 776 | * French king [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Philippe_I Louis Philippe I]] to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV Louis XIV]]. Not exactly a great-grandson but a great-nephew, Louis Philippe is a descendant of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_I,_Duke_of_Orl%C3%A9ans Louis XIV's brother]], though he was also a descendant of UsefulNotes/LouisXIV himself through an illegitimate child. |
| 777 | ** Actually, he was descended four times from Louis XIV (through three different illegitimate children), as well as twice from Louis XIV's brother. More of his ancestors were from the Bourbon family than not, really. |
| 778 | * Creator/LizaMinnelli looks and sounds very similar to her mother Creator/JudyGarland. |
| 779 | * Dutch football expert [[http://www.dvhn.nl/migration_catalog/anp_images_dvhn/article8028621.ece/BINARY/original/img-050411-206_onl_2107331a.jpg Your Mulder]] looks like a blonder version of his father, [[GenerationXerox Dutch football expert]] [[http://www.cobra.be/polopoly_fs/1.721945!image/71760368.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape470/71760368.jpg Jan Mulder]]. |
| 780 | * Self-proclaimed Great Beast, ritual magician and mountebank Aleistar Crowley claimed to be the reincarnation of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) and of a previous French ritual magician, Eliphaz Levi. If you compare photos of Crowley to paintings of Borgia, there is an eerie likeness. although Crowley might have noticed the coincidence first, and played on it as bluff and boffo. |
| 781 | * As she grew into old age, [[http://cloudfront.bernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/The-Queen-generic.jpg Queen Elizabeth II]] began to resemble her grandmother [[http://members.tripod.com/windsor_women/048fa6d0.jpg Queen Mary of Teck]]. |
| 782 | * Compare [[http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjIxMTUyNjc5OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjMwNjYwNA@@._V1._SX390_SY500_.jpg Walt Disney]] to his nephew [[http://pixarplanet.com/blog/images/918.jpg Roy E. Disney]]. |
| 783 | * Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's son Patrick [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Patrick_Schwarzenegger_TIFF_2012.jpg looks exactly like him.]] |
| 784 | ** Even more so for Joseph, his son out of wedlock. Supposedly, while the mother told neither Arnold or his wife that he was the father, they both independently realised it, when the child grew to be the spitting image of Arnold. |
| 785 | * [[http://media4.onsugar.com/files/2013/09/07/211/n/1922398/26da54b1293e8d05_INFphoto_2666840_wm.xxxlarge/i/Reese-Witherspoon-Ava-Phillippe-Tennessee-Toth-LA.jpg Reese Witherspoon and her daughter Ava Phillipe.]] |
| 786 | * Economist and anarcho-capitalist theorist David D Friedman heavily resembles his father, the Noble Prize winning economist Milton Friedman. |
| 787 | * [[http://www.usmagazine.com/uploads/assets/articles/62414-cindy-crawford-and-lookalike-daughter-kaia-11-step-out-together-in-malibu/1367334555_cindy-crawford-kaya-gerber-zoom.jpg Cindy Crawford and her daughter Kaia.]] |
| 788 | * While it's difficult to find photographs of them at the same age, frequent Creator/EdWood collaborator [[http://www.dkulczyk.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Plan_9.jpg John "Bunny" Breckinridge]] bore a strong resemblance to his great-grandfather, former U.S. Vice-President [[http://www.kyforward.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/BreckinridgeJohn.jpg John C. Breckinridge]]. |
| 789 | * Frances Bean Cobain [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/frances-bean-life-after-kurt-cobain-death-exclusive-interview-20150408 has declared]] that former Music/{{Nirvana}} members are often unsettled by how much she looks like her late father [[Music/KurtCobain Kurt]]. The Music/CourtneyLove [[http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2015025/rs_634x924-150125120111-634.Francis-Bean-Cobain-Courtney-Love-Kurt-Cobain.jl.012515.jpg heritage is pretty clear too]], but the Kurt similarity is more pronounced. |
| 790 | * Creator/SeanPertwee, the son of the late ''Series/DoctorWho'' actor Creator/JonPertwee heavily resembles his father -- an altered picture combining his face with his father's hair and costume shows just how close the resemblance is leading to fans suggesting he could possibly reprise his father's role as the [[Characters/DoctorWhoClassicSeriesDoctors Third Doctor]] [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3129607/Sean-Pertwee-looks-just-like-Doctor-star-father-Jon.html in the revived series. ]] |
| 791 | * [[http://i2.wp.com/radaronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/riley-keough-priscilla-lisa-marie-presley-wide-getty.jpg?fit=551%2C9999 Priscilla Presley, daughter Lisa Marie Presley, and granddaughter Riley Keough]]. And it's clear Music/ElvisPresley's [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/8a/b4/14/8ab414a81e717a4ee552f5ef3691c078.jpg genes are there.]] |
| 792 | * In his youth, Charles-Louis Cadet de Gassicourt, Napoleon's pharmacist, looked nearly identical to his father… his biological father, that is. Given that the father in question was King UsefulNotes/LouisXV, people could not help but comment on this. |
| 793 | * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazmin_Grace_Grimaldi Jazmin Grace Grimaldi]] is one of two royal bastards of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_II,_Prince_of_Monaco Albert II, Prince of Monaco]]. [[http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a11468/jazmin-grace-grimaldi-grace-kelly-granddaughter-0815/ She has a strong resemblance]] to her paternal grandmother [[Creator/GraceKelly Grace Kelly]]. |
| 794 | * Current [[UsefulNotes/{{Spain}} King Felipe VI of Spain]], once he started growing a beard, [[http://www.gettyimages.com/event/king-felipe-vi-of-spain-receives-new-ambassadors-531125597?esource=SEO_GIS_CDN_Redirect#king-felipe-vi-of-spain-observes-a-minute-of-silence-in-memory-of-the-picture-id461172118 began to greatly resemble]] the first King of Spain (and his ancestor) [[http://www.fineartprintsondemand.com/artists/titian/seated_portrait_of_emperor_charles-400.jpg Charles I of Spain]] (or Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, if you're living outside of the Hispanophone world). |
| 795 | * North Korean propaganda very much likes to highlight the resemblance between the current [[UsefulNotes/TheRulersOfNorthKorea leader]], Kim Jong-Un, and his grandfather who founded the country, Kim Il-Sung. |
| 796 | * Aside from hair length and colour, guitarist [[https://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMmM1ZWY4OWYtZDg3MC00ZWNhLTljNzUtMmE0MzNiNmFkN2Y0XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTI5NjIyMw@@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,666,1000_AL_.jpg Zach Irons]] looks a lot like his dad, former Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam drummer [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/a8e45fa2450fc147b5bc5c3a82e8999f/tumblr_nxiuk0uQDt1ttppi8o1_1280.jpg Jack Irons (on the far right)]], did in his youth. |
| 797 | * Maya Hawke [[https://assets.popbuzz.com/2019/25/maya-hawke-with-her-parents-uma-thurman-and-ethan-hawke-1561650011-view-0.png can serve as this for]] both Creator/UmaThurman and Creator/EthanHawke. |
| 798 | * [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYWZjNjg4NjEtNTJmNC00YzJiLWI4YjgtYWQzNzFlZDlmNGFhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzIyMTI1NzU@._V1_.jpg Brad Server]] looks incredibly similar to his grandfather Curly Howard of ''Series/TheThreeStooges''. It's particularly noticeable in the short "Hold That Lion" where Curly (who'd retired due to ill health) made a [[https://metvcdn.metv.com/mBnIS-1583854740-2916-blog-threestooges_holdthatlion.jpg cameo]]. You'd honestly think Brad was a time traveler after seeing how much Curly looked like him here. |
| 799 | * [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/AnselmJMcLaurin.jpg This photograph]] of Mississippi governor Anselm J. [=McLaurin=] looks uncannily like Creator/RobinWilliams in period dress - because Robin was his great-great-grandson. |
| 800 | * 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, go check it out for yourself at the link. |
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