1 | Tropes that related to {{Legacy Character}}s and the passing on and evolution of legacies. |
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4 | [[index]] |
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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. |
24 | [[/index]] |
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