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1	Tropes that related to {{Legacy Character}}s and the passing on and evolution of legacies.
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6	* AffirmativeActionLegacy: A white male hero gets a successor who is female or belongs to a minority.
7	* AntiHeroSubstitute: The hero's successor is less scrupulous than their predecessor.
8	* BodyguardLegacy: Bodyguarding is passed down from parent to child.
9	* TheChosenMany
10	* CollectiveIdentity: An alias is used by more than one person at the same time.
11	* LegacyCharacter: Someone takes up the hero's identity after their predecessor retired or died.
12	* LegacyImmortality: Every time the hero dies, someone else takes up the mantle to maintain the illusion that the hero can never die.
13	* LegacyLaunch: The hero's predecessor comes back, resulting in the successor returning their predecessor's identity in exchange for taking up a costumed persona of their own.
14	* LegacySeeker: A character is obsessed with leaving a lasting mark on the world.
15	* LegacyTeam: A team sharing obvious and significant parallels with an older one.
16	* MasterApprenticeChain: A teacher teaches a student, student becomes a teacher, then the litter's student becomes teacher.
17	* PassingTheTorch
18	* TheRealRemingtonSteele: An alias a character made up turns out later to coincidentally be a real person.
19	* RedeemingReplacement: A villain gets a heroic successor who aims to do good in order to make up for their predecessor's crimes.
20	* RetroactiveLegacy: Retroactively establishing that a character is the successor of an older hero.
21	* SecretLegacy: The hero's parents turn out to be special and they take after them.
22	* TakingUpTheMantle
23	* VillainousLegacy: The villain is dead, but certainly not forgotten.
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