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| 8 | Family members tend to look like each other. Normally, this follows bloodline -- you tend to look a lot more like your parents than you do your second cousin, for example. Generally, only identical twins can pass for each other, and even then visual differences arise from developmental influences. |
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| 10 | Media, on the other hand, are a little loose with the rules. Especially when it gives the chance to put an actor into a totally new role, or reuse a character design. You see the reused version in animation from both the East and West because it is pretty easy to just slap a wig on the guy and call him a new person. |
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| 12 | While the IdenticalGrandson can marginally argue that it is not unknown for direct descendants to bear uncanny resemblance to a forebear, the idea gets ''very'' shaky for other relations. When a show tries to pass off a male actor in drag as their visiting aunt, or when somehow a character resembles the man who ''adopted'' their great-great-grandfather, it gets flat out weird and hence is usually played up for comedic value. There is a bit of a sub-genre of films that rely on this gag; Creator/EddieMurphy has done a number of them. |
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| 14 | A SubTrope of StrongFamilyResemblance, which concerns the immediate family (usually parent and child). See also ActingForTwo and YouAllLookFamiliar, which is more of an EnforcedTrope. |
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| 16 | !!Example subpages: |
| 17 | [[index]] |
| 18 | * UncannyFamilyResemblance/LiveActionTV |
| 19 | [[/index]] |
| 20 | |
| 21 | !!Other examples: |
| 22 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 23 | |
| 24 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 25 | * ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'': Moritaka Mashiro looks very similar to a younger version of his uncle Nobuhiro. However, since the face of his father Masahiro is never revealed, it is possible that the two brothers look very similar to begin with. |
| 26 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Ichigo's striking resemblance to Kaien Shiba is noted by Rukia, Ukitake, and Byakuya--who points out that it's ridiculous to get sentimental over because the two are not related. [[spoiler:Byakuya is wrong. Ichigo's father, Isshin ''Shiba'', was Kaien's uncle, so Ichigo and Kaien are first cousins.]] |
| 27 | * ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': Kagaya and [[spoiler:Muzan]] are said to look identical each other, in spite of [[spoiler:being born over 1000 years apart from each other.]] |
| 28 | * ''Anime/DogDays'': [[UnevenHybrid With the exception of her human ears]], Couvert is the spitting image of her ancestor princess Clarifier despite [[spoiler:the two of them not being directly related (in fact, Clarifier died without ever having any children). Couvert is actually the descendant of Clarifier's younger brother Valerio.]] |
| 29 | * An odd case in ''Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure''. [[spoiler:The princess Marie-Ange split her heart in two, which became Aguri and Regina, respectively, and her body became Ai-chan who looks like a baby version of her. Aguri and Regina have nearly identical hair, especially when Aguri's bangs are down, just with different hair colors. Regina and Ai-chan have blue eyes like Marie-Angu, but Regina's eyes can turn red and Aguri is the one with red eyes.]] |
| 30 | * There are several ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' shorts set in the future, featuring the children of Nobita, Suneo and Gian who looks ''exactly'' like their current selves. One story even had Nobita, checking upon his future family via the Time TV, seeing future!Shizuka with a boy that looks exactly like Nobita's current rival, Dekisugi, causing Nobita to become upset at the prospect that Shizuka could've left him at some point and married his rival (before TheReveal later on - future!Dekisugi and his wife is on a business trip to Mars, and future!Shizuka is only babysitting for them). |
| 31 | * ''Manga/DragonBall'': |
| 32 | ** Goten inherited the AnimeHair of his grandfather Bardock from his father Goku, with all three being born with the exact same hair. However, Goten later cuts his hair once/twice later on, giving him a much distinct design. The haircut he has in his high school years looks very similar to the hair of his grandmother Gine who was introduced in ''Dragon Ball Minus''. |
| 33 | ** At the end of ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', we see descendants of Bulma, Goku and Vegeta, all of whom look exactly like them. |
| 34 | * ''Manga/Eyeshield21'': |
| 35 | ** It's revealed that [[BloodKnight Gaou]] has a little brother and little sister. Gaou's sister looks like a normal elementary-school girl, but Gaou's brother looks just like a miniature version of him, right down to the muscles and the mane of AnimeHair. |
| 36 | ** In one of the gag strips from the 100th chapter "Yonkoma Half-time Show", Atsushi Munakata, the handsome bodybuilder captain of the Amino Cyborgs, introduces his parents to his team-mate Aoyanagi. They have the exact same shiny, dashing face and muscular build as their son, but Aoyanagi is most concerned with the fact that they were total strangers at one point. |
| 37 | --->'''Munakata:''' [[HandWave Don't worry about it too much, or you'll turn into a neurotic!]] |
| 38 | * ''Manga/FairyTail'': [[spoiler:Recent chapters reveal that Lucy's distant ancestor, Anna, also looks a lot like Lucy and Lucy's mother, except for a different hairstyle.]] |
| 39 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': Spain and Portugal have this, to the point that Seychelles cannot tell them apart when she needs to deliver a message. Though their relationship is ambiguous, they're confirmed to have the same ancestor. Brothers America and Canada are apparently this too, as several times other nations [[MistakenIdentity mistake]] Canada for America (but never the other way around) and take out their grievances with America on him, much to his dismay. |
| 40 | * ''Literature/MariaWatchesOverUs'': Yuki and Yumi look like genderswaps of each other. Due to the fact they're the same age fans commonly mistake them for HalfIdenticalTwins but they're not. Yumi and Yuki were only born in the same year. |
| 41 | * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': |
| 42 | ** Barring the hairstyles, members of the Hyuga Clan look identical. And no, it is not only because they possess the Byakugan. Hinata's similarity to Hanabi and Neji is excusable, since Hanabi is her sister and Neji is her cousin (and one coming from an uncle who is her father's identical twin, so they are even more related than normal cousins are), but the same cannot be said of her maids and guards having the same facial features as hers. It seems that the Hyuga practice some sort of endogamy, which would not be surprising, since they are an old aristocratic clan. |
| 43 | ** The Uchiha are much like the Hyuga by having similar-looking members, and just like them it can be assumed that they practice clan endogamy. Izuna and Sasuke, in particular, are basically one person with different hairstyles, despite being generations apart and having no indication of a direct genealogical link. |
| 44 | ** Tsunade's deceased brother, Nawaki looks so much like a palette swapped Naruto (he has brown hair and eyes, while Naruto has blond hair and blue eyes), it cannot be a coincidence. Tsunade notes that what makes Naruto especially relatable to her is because of his resemblance to her brother. Later chapters reveal that it is indeed not a coincidence; Tsunade's grandmother was an Uzumaki, which means that Tsunade, and by extension Nawaki, is related to Naruto. |
| 45 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 46 | ** Luffy and Ace look remarkably alike and even have the same mannerisms (though Ace is politer) [[spoiler:despite being adoptive brothers. Though it is implied that they are related distantly due to both having the "D" initial in their names]]. Luffy's appearance is also similar to that of his grandfather Garp, who is basically an older, brawny version of Luffy with graying hair and a beard. Luffy's and Garp's similarities become more apparent thanks to drawings of a younger Garp and an older Luffy. |
| 47 | ** Most male D.s are shown to share quite a few physical characteristics despite not being directly related. The youngest in particular (Luffy, Ace, and [[spoiler:Law]]) have the same unruly dark hair, dark eyes, lean musculature, and are rarely seen without their iconic hats atop their heads. |
| 48 | *** Then there's the eerily similar personality traits that all D.s share, regardless of gender or race (charismatic, destructive, loyal to their beliefs, not afraid of death, disregard for authority, laugh in the face of danger, etc.), that lead many fans to believe that those with the "Will of D." are really all members of a single clan that was scattered centuries ago. The only confirmed clues to their origins so far are that they are [[spoiler:the natural-born enemies of the World Government and that their existence is strongly tied to the Void Century]]. The fact that even those with the D. name themselves haven't the slightest clue of the meaning behind the initial makes the mystery surrounding the "Will of D." even greater. |
| 49 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 50 | ** All of the Nurse Joys (bar one whom the protagonists meet in the Orange Islands who is more athletic and has a tan) and Officer Jennys are identical to each other. The only way you can distinguish them is by the symbol on their hats. The ''Black & White'' series introduced the Don Georges, who are likewise best identified by the trim on their clothes. |
| 51 | ** Bit character Professor Westwood ("[[Recap/PokemonS1E66TheEvolutionSolution The Evolution Solution]]") is the fifth of his name. We are shown portraits of Professors Westwood I through IV, who all look identical to him. For no apparent reason other than RuleOfFunny, Westwood V's own portrait depicts him much skinnier and holding a rose stem in his mouth. |
| 52 | * ''Manga/Reborn2004'': |
| 53 | ** There's an example that gets into the flat out weird category (and isn't played for laughs). Xanxus, who [[spoiler:isn't actually supposed to be blood related to the Ninth]] is almost a clone of the Second Vongola Boss. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by other characters [[http://www.onemanga.com/Katekyo_Hitman_Reborn/226/08/ here]]. As they say, his temperament, abilities, and even ''looks'' are the same. Makes you wonder [[spoiler:if he really isn't the Ninth's love child]]... |
| 54 | ** And then there's Tsuna, who (thankfully) [[UglyGuysHotDaughter doesn't look like his father]], and instead looks exactly like his ancestor, [[{{Bishonen}} Vongola Primo]]. |
| 55 | ** [[spoiler:Uni]], her mother and her [[IdenticalGrandson grandmother Luce]]. To the point of approaching GenerationXerox. |
| 56 | * ''Manga/XxxHolic'': Watanuki greatly resembles his distant ancestor [[spoiler:Clow Reed]]. He's the ''only one'' in his family that does. |
| 57 | ** A similar case occurs with Doumeki. Unlike Watanuki however, at least three generations (spaced two generations apart, along the male line) of his family are virtually identical, each with very feminine given names: Haruka, Shizuka, and Sayaka are only distinguished only by subtle differences in personality. |
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| 59 | |
| 60 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 61 | * ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} and his nephew, [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Speed]]. |
| 62 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': |
| 63 | ** The series has a weird variant of this: Bruce and his three oldest sons, Dick, Jason and Tim, all have black hair and blue eyes...except that all three are adopted, and it's not like Bruce sought them out for these traits. It's ironic that Damian, his biological son, looks the ''least'' like him, since he has green eyes and (DependingOnTheArtist) a darker skin tone. ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'' made this a little less weird by saying that Jason's hair is [[RedHeadedStepChild naturally red]], but most later writers ignore that. |
| 64 | ** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweedledum_and_Tweedledee_(comics) Tweedledum and Tweedledee]] of Franchise/{{Batman}} lore are identical cousins. |
| 65 | * ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': Sharon Carter, erstwhile girlfriend to Captain America, strongly resembles her aunt (World War II resistance fighter and Cap's wartime girlfriend) Peggy, though the two were originally written as sisters before being retconned into being niece/aunt. |
| 66 | * ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Most adult members of the Duck and [=McDuck=] families are basically WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck with accessories (beards, hairdos, [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics bows]] etc.). The same can be observed when you compare Huey, Dewey and Louie with all other Duck and [=McDuck=] kids. |
| 67 | ** The Beagle Boys take it even further, as they pretty much look like each other wether they are brothers or cousins. They are part of a worldwide family/Organisation of crime and they mostly look alike except for the clothes and other accessories associated with their home countries. ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' is the first medium to introduce very different looking Beagle Boys without the uncanny resemblance. |
| 68 | * ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'': WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} has a huge extended family. Just about every single family member, male ''and'' female, looks almost exactly like him, only with one or two minor visual details to set them apart. |
| 69 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': {{Inverted|Trope}}: Peter Parker and his clone Ben Reilly pretended to be cousins with an uncanny resemblance; Ben also dyed his hair blond. Peter's wife Mary Jane came up with the explanation for their resemblance, specifically referring to ''Series/ThePattyDukeShow''. |
| 70 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': There was a mini-series in the 90s called ''The Kents'', which examined the lives of the ancestors of the Kent family. One story showed how one of Jonathan Kent's ancestors, Nathaniel Kent, was a pioneer who was largely responsible for turning the state of Kansas into the breadbasket it is today. A fine story, but the artist bizarrely chose to make Nathaniel Kent be a dead ringer for Superman, even though Superman has no blood relation to the Kent family (or any human being) whatsoever. Being, you know, an ''alien'' and all. Partially justified as the frame for this story is Clark reading the Kent family's memoirs, so it could all be in his mind -- and then later stories (mostly involving time travel) established Nathaniel really did look like that. More justifiably, Nathaniel's father Silas looks a lot like Pa Kent with a moustache. |
| 71 | * ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Jimmy Hudson, and not to Logan (though, yes, he does also look like his old man sometimes). 616!Magneto can see an eerie amount of Magda in him, and finds it unsettling. |
| 72 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol. 2]]: During "ComicBook/TheContest," one of ComicBook/{{Artemis}}'s fellow Bana reveals that Diana is a dead ringer for her long-deceased aunt Antiope, though how ''she'' knew what Antiope looked like is unknown, given that Antiope died well over a thousand years ago and the Bana have regular human lifespans. |
| 73 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': |
| 74 | ** ComicBook/{{Cable}} and his ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' counterpart [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]] look different at first glance... but only because of their different ages: teenage Cable is repeatedly shown to look exactly like Nate, skunk stripe and all, while in a possible future, an older Nate is shown to resemble Cable so much that an elderly Sunfire confused the two. Additionally, when Nate picked up one of Cable's guns, he noted that it felt like it was made for him. This would make more sense if they actually were direct counterparts. However, Cable was the son of Scott Summers and Maddie Pryor, while Nate was the genetically engineered son of Scott Summers and Jean Grey, from whom Maddie was cloned. At a stretch, you could say that Sinister engineered Maddie to produce a child to certain specifications, and his ''Age of Apocalypse'' counterpart cut out the middle-man when creating Nate, but even so. |
| 75 | ** Their sister, meanwhile, ComicBook/RachelSummers looks startlingly like a younger version of their mother, ComicBook/JeanGrey. Given that time travel shenanigans means that there are about ten years between them at most, the main differences other than Rachel's famous Hound tattoos is that Jean tends to have longer hair and a slightly fuller figure (though she's sometimes also depicted with darker red hair), and Rachel is sometimes drawn with blue eyes like her father. |
| 76 | * ''ComicStrip/ZippyThePinhead'', his wife Zerbina, kids, EvilTwin Lippy, and other members of his extended family are all microcephalics who wear muumuus. |
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| 78 | |
| 79 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 80 | * A common Fanfic trope in crossovers is to have a two different characters in [[IntercontinuityCrossover different continuities]] played by the same actors "turn out" to be related to each other. There is one where Film/JamesBond (Creator/SeanConnery version) is the illegitimate son of [[Franchise/IndianaJones Henry Jones Jr.]], and thus the grandson of [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade Henry Jones Sr.]]... who was played by Connery. |
| 81 | ** There is also one case used with [=MacGyver=] (of ''Series/MacGyver1985'') and Colonel Jack O'Neill (of Stargate SG-1), both played by Richard Dean Anderson. They're cousins here, suggesting, of course, that both are descended from [[Series/{{Legend}} dime novelist Ernest Pratt]]. |
| 82 | * ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' plays on a couple of these. |
| 83 | ** One is the fairly common fanfic trope that Lily Potter and Jean Grey, both {{Significant Green Eyed Redhead}}s, are related - in this case, first cousins once removed (Jean is Harry's second cousin and a couple of years older than him [[spoiler: as is her twin sister, Maddie Pryor]]). Initially, they're believed to be dead-ringers of each other, to Lucius Malfoy's shock, but this is later revealed to mostly be the hair and eyes (which, to be fair, are extremely unusual - the particularly eye colour is practically unique to the family). |
| 84 | ** Harry and Clark look scarily alike, to the point where eyes aside, it's noted that they could pass for twins in the first book. Even after Harry starts to look a little more like his mother, they can easily pass for brothers or very close cousins (it's helped that they act like it, too). This is explained as Thor's 'mortal form' (i.e. appearance when he was incarnated as James Potter) being explicitly modelled after the typical 'look' of the House of El by Odin, as a tribute to his foster-brother, Kal-El I. The actual blood relationship, if there is one, is watered down to the point of homeopathy. |
| 85 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12023508/1/Kaitō-Kokoro Kaitō Kokoro]]'': Two of Kiku's and Feliciano's children pretty much inherit their hair colors and hairstyles. |
| 86 | -->"...Sure." The elder sibling took two of them, emerald hues filling with wonder as he took in their sleeping forms. "They're...beautiful." Jade depths turned, glancing upon a boy who had locks styled like the father's, eyes revealing to be the same limpid brown of the mother's as they opened. "So this one's name is Nihon, right?" Those same jade depths switched to the second bundle, the other another boy who had brunet hair like his mother's and the same piercing ebon orbs as his father's. "And this one's name is Ren, right?" |
| 87 | * ''Fanfic/TangledUpInBlues'': Due to a "magical condition", foals in one generation in Taffy's family happen to be identical. It's a humorous justification for the abundance of duplicate background ponies in the original ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Also used to justify Blues' name (canonically, it's "Noteworthy", according to the toys); Noteworthy is merely somepony who happens to look just like him. |
| 88 | * The ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' fanfic ''Fanfic/FrozenWight'' has a few instances where Anna, Elsa, and/or Kristoff come across relatives of Oaken's (Oaken being the guy who runs the trading post and sauna where Anna first meets Kristoff in the movie). They look and sound (read, funny Scandinavian accent) exactly like him. |
| 89 | ** In another fic of the movie, ''Fanfic/WhatAboutWitchQueen'', Hans closely resembles two of his brothers, albeit in different aspects. Hans and Michael have the same character (EvilPrince, power-hungry, cold, adept at XanatosSpeedChess), while Hans and Ferdinand look absurdly similar, even though they share few if any personality traits. |
| 90 | * One [[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31114-8/CrazyDan+DVRing+it+for+later.htm snippet]] shows that the [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Joys and Jennys]] are all identical while themselves believing there's only a slight family resemblance because hundreds of years ago, a pair of newly discovered Ditto took the form of a pair of women and slept with one of the scientists researching them. As a result, the women of both lines look identical to most people. |
| 91 | * A crucial plot point in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' is the appearance of many characters who tend to share the following traits: dark hair, red eyes, [[spoiler:Z-shaped marks on the cheeks like those of Ash]], above-average height and in the girls' case, very large breasts. [[spoiler:The implication is that all of these were [[ReallyGetsAround fathered by the same man]].]] |
| 92 | * In the ''Series/{{House}}'' fanfic "Incarceration" Wilson's schizophrenic brother Danny (who was never shown in the series) looks exactly like Wilson. Wilson even says people think they're twins. |
| 93 | * In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the Smith-Rhodes family are a colonial clan founded by an emigré from the Sto Plains, [[TheOneWhoMadeItOut Sir Cecil Smith-Rhodes]], who emigrated to Howondaland at the tail-end of the Ankh-Morporkian empire. Among other things Sir Cecil carved out a new colony, which with superb retiring modesty he named [[UsefulNotes/{{Zimbabwe}} Smith-Rhodesia]] after himself. His sons, or the ones who survived after the [[UsefulNotes/TheSecondBoerWar War of Independence]], founded families. Possibly unconsciously, the two sons selected red-haired wives, thus concentrating the dominant family gene for red hair and freckles. [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica Rimwards Howondaland]] now has a founding family whose members share a lot of characteristics and are immediately recognisable in a crowd. In the current generation, it has its first Witch (red haired and freckled) who is in contact with technically deceased family members who act as her [[SpiritAdvisor Spirit Guides]]. She is struck by the way her deceased great-aunt and grandmothers all look very definitely related, and how alike they are to variants on a theme of her mother. |
| 94 | * ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Bolt and his father Blaze look alike, to the point where they could be mistaken for each other. Described in "The Seven" and "The Cameo." |
| 95 | * In the ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'' story [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/9503862/1/Dreadlock-Holiday Dreadlock Holiday]], Alesha meets Matt's sister and describes her as a female version of him, outright calling the resemblance "scary". |
| 96 | [[/folder]] |
| 97 | |
| 98 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 99 | * ''Film/AustinPowers'': While they don't look ''too'' similar because of all the makeup, the same actor plays two characters who are revealed as long-lost brothers in the third movie. [[spoiler:It's Mike Myers as Austin and Dr. Evil.]] |
| 100 | * ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'': Creator/MichaelJFox played not only hero Marty [=McFly=], but Marty's two future children (Marty Jr. and Marlene), and his great-great-grandfather Seamus from Ireland. He also posed as Marty's great-grandfather William in a photograph. And Lea Thompson played both his mother Lorraine and his ''paternal'' great-great-grandmother Maggie. The producers have since joked that [=McFly=] men are just genetically predisposed to be attracted to women who look like Lea Thompson. Biff Tannen, his great-grandfather Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, and grandson from the 2015 part of the second, Griff Tannen, are all played by Creator/ThomasFWilson. This is {{exaggerated|Trope}} in the animated series, where ''every'' time they visit has an identical ancestor or descendant of Biff, always voiced by Wilson. |
| 101 | * ''Film/CatBallou'': Creator/LeeMarvin plays both Kid Shelleen and his evil brother Tim Strawn. |
| 102 | * ''Film/CoffeeAndCigarettes'': Cate Blanchett plays herself and her cousin Shelly in a segment called Cousins. |
| 103 | * Played for comedy in ''Film/TheFamilyJewels'' (1965) in which Jerry Lewis plays a total of eight characters, six brothers, one chauffeur, and one faux uncle who is played by Jerry Lewis playing the chauffeur playing a long lost seventh uncle. |
| 104 | * ''Film/TheFamilyJewels'': All six of Donna's uncles are identical to each other, the only thing that changes is their attires. The reason is that they are all played by the same actor. |
| 105 | * ''Film/ForrestGump'': |
| 106 | ** Forrest and the ancestor he's named after are both played by Creator/TomHanks. |
| 107 | ** Lt. Dan and four of his ancestors who had died in various wars are all portrayed by Creator/GarySinise. |
| 108 | ** Bubba's mother and two of her ancestors are all played by Creator/MarlenaSmalls. |
| 109 | * Jim Dale as Eli, Wild Billy, AND Jasper Bloodshy in ''Film/HotLeadAndColdFeet''. |
| 110 | * Creator/AdamSandler plays both Jack and his twin sister Jill in ''Film/JackAndJill''. |
| 111 | * One of the greatest and most successful examples of this trope is the black-and-white comedy film ''Film/KindHeartsAndCoronets''; Alec Guiness plays all 8 members of the D'Ascoyne family. The film also includes another less dramatic example: Dennis Price, who plays the protagonist, also plays the protagonist's father in a couple of flashbacks. |
| 112 | * ''Film/KissinCousins'': Music/ElvisPresley plays ClashingCousins Josh and Jodie. The differences are that Josh has Elvis' trademark black hair, while Jodie is a blonde, and Jodie speaks with a backwoods drawl. They perform the title song together. |
| 113 | * In the Creator/AbbottAndCostello film ''Little Giants'', Bud Abbott plays the head of a vacuum cleaner company and his much nicer cousin and head of a branch office, who explains the resemblance with a photo of their grandmother (Abbott in drag). |
| 114 | * In the sex comedy ''Live Nude Shakespeare'', the same actress plays two identical sisters, one a sophisticated socialite, the other a backwoods bumpkin. |
| 115 | * In the 1954 UK film ''Film/MadAboutMen'' Creator/GlynisJohns portrays both the free-spirited mermaid (returning from ''Film/Miranda1948'') and stuffy schoolteacher Caroline. The characters shared a great-grandfather. |
| 116 | * ''Franchise/{{Madea}}'': Creator/TylerPerry dresses in drag to play Madea, Madea's brother (not in drag but with a lot of makeup and a wig) and another character (no makeup), who is usually related to Madea. |
| 117 | * A variation appears in ''Literature/TheMouseThatRoared''. In the opening sequence, we're introduced to the Grand Duchess, Prime Minister, and Tully Bascombe, all played by Peter Sellers. The narration explains that these disparate residents of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick look like each other because they are all descendants of the country's founder, who was ''literally'' the father of his country (the statue we see of him is clearly a likeness of Sellers). |
| 118 | * The Creator/EddieMurphy remake of ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor1996'', where Murphy plays ''every'' member of the title character's family. Though at least in this case he's wearing fat suits to disguise pretty much all his features for the different roles. This aspect of the movie has become the default parody for cheesy comedians who specialise in broad humour. In ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Tracy Jordan is the star of ''The Chunks'', and ''Film/TropicThunder'' features a [[RealTrailerFakeMovie fake trailer]] for ''The Fatties 2'', starring Jack Black's character. |
| 119 | * Tia and Tamera Mowry as Sydney Donovan and Sydney's grandmother de-aged to seventeen in the Creator/DisneyChannel movie ''Seventeen Again''. |
| 120 | * ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'': Look closely at the Queen, and then look at Aurora. You'll notice that they share the same facial structure, and the same hairstyle (though Aurora has a slightly brighter hair ''color'' than her mom). |
| 121 | * Plausibility is stretched in ''Film/SmilinThrough'' (1932) in which Norma Shearer plays both Moonyean Clare and her niece Kathleen. |
| 122 | * ''Film/StrangeBrew'' briefly does this half-way through the movie. Dave Thomas didn't just play Doug, but his father (with Creator/MelBlanc dubbing over his voice), and Creator/RickMoranis didn't just play Bob, but his ''mother'' (with a woman dubbing over his voice)! |
| 123 | * In the 1950s ''Film/StTrinians'' movies, Creator/AlastairSim played both the school's headmistress, Miss Fritton, and her disreputable brother (and clearly modelled in drag for the portrait of their mother). Creator/RupertEverett did the same in the [[Film/StTrinians2007 2007 reboot]]. |
| 124 | * ''Film/TheViewAskewniverse'': After playing Dante Hicks in ''Film/{{Clerks}}'', Brian O'Halloran also played characters with the surname Hicks in ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', ''Film/ChasingAmy'' and ''Film/{{Dogma}}''. It's not explicitly stated that they're related, though, so the ContinuityNod might just be a way to HandWave the uncanny resemblance. WordOfGod says they're cousins. |
| 125 | * In the movie adaptation of Fred Vargas' novel ''Wash This Blood Clean From My Hands'', both Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and his younger brother Raphaël are played by Jean-Hugues Anglade, which is especially noticeable in the scenes where they talk together as they have the same voice.[[spoiler:This is perfectly intentional, as Retancourt makes use of the resemblance between the two in order to help Jean-Baptiste escape from the Canadian cops.]] |
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| 128 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 129 | * In the fifth book in Creator/LMMontgomery's ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' series, ''Anne's House of Dreams'', a woman who hates her husband is left caring for him for years after he suffers brain damage. [[spoiler:Later he has an operation and recovers his memory--and turns out not to be her husband at all, but her husband's cousin. The book explains that the cousins were double cousins, and one set of parents (either their mothers or fathers) were actually identical twins. The cousins looked very much alike, but were easy to tell apart if they were seen together. The wife had never met the cousin, however, and had only heard her husband mention him once. The book also admits that he had changed a lot after his accident and didn't look much like either he or his cousin once did.]] |
| 130 | * An Uncanny Semi-Family Resemblance: The ancient Greek story ''Aethiopica'', King Hydaspes and Queen Persinna of Ethiopia cast out their infant daughter Chariclea because she is [[ChocolateBaby white]]. After many adventures, it is revealed that she is, in fact, the perfect image of a picture of Andromeda that her mother had looked at while she conceived, and so Chariclea really is their daughter with "maternal impression" explaining her looks. |
| 131 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 132 | ** In ''Literature/{{Mort}}'', Princess Keli closely resembles her great-great-grandfather, despite being a pampered princess rather than a yurt-dwelling horse barbarian. |
| 133 | ** In ''Literature/TheLastHero'', Paul Kidby's painting of High Priest Hughnon Ridcully is basically Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully with a better-trimmed beard and a bishop's hat. Possibly justified, as their mannerisms and attitudes are so clearly parallel that there's a good chance they really are identical twins. |
| 134 | * In Creator/GeneStrattonPorter's ''Literature/{{Freckles}}'', he and his uncle resemble each other strongly. |
| 135 | -->''The likeness settled any doubt. It was Freckles over again, only older and well dressed.'' |
| 136 | * In the ''Literature/GhostsOfFearStreet'' book ''Horror Hotel Part 1,'' the protagonist discovers that he looks almost identical to a distant relative who's been dead for years. This is bad news, because it turns out that relative was a murderer and his victim's ghost [[PsychicAssistedSuicide is out for revenge]]. |
| 137 | * In ''Literature/HerculePoirot's Christmas'', Simeon Lee's son Harry resembles him to a degree that confuses the family butler when he returns, although his other sons take after their mother (a PosthumousCharacter). [[spoiler:Both of Lee's illegitimate sons also resemble him, throwing the butler into even further confusion and providing Poirot with the vital clue]]. |
| 138 | * ''Literature/HiveMind2016'': One of the other members of Hive Genex's delegation looks like Adversary Aura's identical twin, due to being a member of the same bloodline, part of Hive Genex's SuperBreedingProgram. |
| 139 | * ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': |
| 140 | ** Michael Oversteegen greatly resembles his relative, the infamous Baron High Ridge. Oversteegen is, however, otherwise the complete opposite of his relative, being a man of integrity, honor, bravery, and general all-around badassitude who has zero patience for either High Ridge or his various other idiotic relatives who [[{{Nepotism}} somehow wound up in positions of power]] in the High Ridge government. |
| 141 | ** Meanwhile, Albrecht Detweiler is stated to bear an uncanny resemblance to all of his sons. Of course, in ''this'' case, the reason is because [[spoiler:they are all his clones. Just as he was a clone of his father.]] |
| 142 | * In ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'', the late Sir Charles' wayward brother is said to have resembled a family portrait of Lord Hugo, a distant ancestor, to an uncanny degree. [[spoiler:Could be considered a ChekhovsGun, as the brother's secret son is the villain of the story, and both shared Lord Hugo's inclination toward evil.]] |
| 143 | * In ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'', Honoria Glossop's cousin Heloise Pringle not only looks exactly like her but has the same exact personality, to the point where Bertie is severely creeped out. |
| 144 | * In the ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' series, Virgil Samms has a pair of cousins (who are themselves identical twins) who are the sons of his father's twin brother ''and'' his mother's twin sister. They're explicitly stated to be not ''quite'' "identical cousins", but they're close enough to allow Samms to go undercover impersonating one of them (who in turn impersonates Samms himself so that he's not suspiciously absent). |
| 145 | * In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', Arwen looks very similar to her father Elrond, and both of them closely resemble Elrond's great-grandmother Luthien. In this case, though, Luthien was essentially half-angel, so SuperpowerfulGenetics may be at play. |
| 146 | * Emmanuel from ''Literature/{{Malevil}}'' describes his Uncle Samuel, noting that in doing so he also describes himself. |
| 147 | * In Creator/ErinMorgenstern's ''Literature/TheNightCircus'', a five-year-old Celia is clearly Hector Bowen's child. |
| 148 | * ''Literature/{{Nightside}}'': In ''Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth'', John Taylor resembles his older male relatives, so much so that [[spoiler:John's late father, resurrected to meet his grown son for the first time, points out John's resemblance to ''his'' father]]. |
| 149 | * ''Literature/OnTheStreetWhereYouLive'': |
| 150 | ** Emily Graham bears a noted resemblance to her great-great aunt, Madeline Shapley; like Madeline, Emily has dark brown hair with auburn highlights, [[FamilyEyeResemblance wide brown eyes]] with long lashes, a similarly-shaped mouth and a tall, slender build. The serial killer even ponders if Emily could be her great-great aunt's reincarnation, though he notes that Emily is not as naive and unworldly as Madeline was (understandably, considering Madeline lived in a small town in the late 19th century and died when she was just 19, while Emily is a defence attorney in her early 30s who grew up in the late 20th century). |
| 151 | ** [[spoiler:Upon seeing a photograph of Richard Carter, Emily and the police note that he bears a striking resemblance to his great-grandson Will Stafford, who also shared his proclivity for murdering young women]]. |
| 152 | * ''Literature/{{Outlander}}'': |
| 153 | ** Gentle, mild-mannered Frank Randall and his vicious, sadistic 6-times great-grandfather Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall look so much alike that Frank's wife Claire initially mistakes Black Jack for her husband. [[spoiler:This is even more uncanny when later it is revealed Black Jack is not actually Frank's direct ancestor, but his 6-times great-uncle, since he had married his deceased brother's pregnant sweetheart in order to prevent the baby from growing up as an illegitimate child]]. |
| 154 | ** Black Jack and his brother, Alex Randall, also look very much alike, so much so that Claire mistakes Alex for Black Jack when she first meets him. |
| 155 | * In ''Literature/ThePrisonerOfZenda'', one of the kings of {{Ruritania}} has an affair with an English noblewoman, who bears his child. Several generations later, one of that child's descendants bears an uncanny resemblance to the current King of Ruritania, leading to an EmergencyImpersonation. In the 1979 comic film version with Creator/PeterSellers, he plays King Rudolf IV in the opening sequence; once that character dies, he plays both Rudolf V and Syd, the working-class chap who bears the uncanny resemblance. It is implied that Syd was the result of an affair Rudolf IV had. |
| 156 | * In ''Literature/TheSecretHistory'', narrator Richard Papen is in love with Camilla, one half of a fraternal pair of twins. She and her twin, Charles, look virtually identical... and when Richard finds out they're [[BrotherSisterIncest a little]] [[{{Twincest}} too close]], he's titillated by the thought. Eww. |
| 157 | * The post-finale ''Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch'' novels reveal that Gul Macet, played by Marc Alaimo in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', is a cousin of Alaimo's ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' character Gul Dukat. Apparently, the two did ''not'' get along, and another character even speculates that the reason Macet has a beard (something otherwise practically unheard of amongst Cardassians) is that he was trying to lessen the resemblance. |
| 158 | * ''Literature/ASwiftlyTiltingPlanet'' deals with a family lineage through something like 800 years, and at times characters are said to resemble their ancestors from centuries past. Most notably, Madoc is a positive bearer of OccultBlueEyes and somehow passes them on to his psychic descendants even if they're 99% Native American. |
| 159 | * In Creator/WenSpencer's ''Literature/{{Tinker}}'', Tinker and Oilcan look more like siblings than cousins. |
| 160 | * In Creator/RuthFrancesLong's ''Literature/TheTreacheryOfBeautifulThings'', Jenny was always described as Tom's miniature, though their jokes about changing places were only jokes. Even after seven years in the LandOfFaerie, Jack can see Tom's resemblance. |
| 161 | * In ''Literature/TheWomanInWhite'', Laura and Anne, who resemble each other strongly, [[spoiler:turn out to be half-sisters]]. |
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| 163 | |
| 164 | [[folder:Newspaper Comics]] |
| 165 | * In ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' Linus and his little brother Rerun look almost exactly the same. The only way they can be told apart is height, hair (Rerun's is a bit flatter) or outfit (Linus wears red and black stripes while Rerun wears overalls). |
| 166 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' looks nearly identical to his father, Poopdeck Pappy. The main differences between the two being that Pappy tends to be more unkempt and has a scraggly white beard (although he's been known to shave it off to mess with Olive from time to time), and they ''both'' look like Granny, Pappy's mother. What's funny is that Granny and Pappy will deny any resemblance. |
| 167 | [[/folder]] |
| 168 | |
| 169 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 170 | * ''Series/SesameStreet'' |
| 171 | ** Elmo has various cousins who've appeared on occasion, who are all based on the Elmo puppet with different accessories. |
| 172 | ** Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster also have some identical relatives. Though in this case, it may have to do more with their species rather than bloodline. |
| 173 | ** [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Da_Niao Da Niao]] on ''Zhima Jie'' (Chinese version) is Big Bird's identical cousin. Other characters in international productions have been identical to American characters or said to be their relatives, but not both at the same time. |
| 174 | ** Until an episode of ''Series/TheFurchesterHotel'' introduced Cookie Monster's British cousin Biscuit Monster, who looks like Cookie in a bowler hat. |
| 175 | * Similarly Emily "Ma" Bear in ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', ''Film/AMuppetFamilyChristmas,'' and (as Mrs Fozziewig) ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'' is identical to her son Fozzie except for [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics a dress]], [[FurryFemaleMane grey hair]], and glasses. |
| 176 | ** In an early episode, an unnamed cousin of Fozzie's was in the theater audience. He was virtually identical except he wore a bowler. |
| 177 | ** In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' episode of the show, Creator/MarkHamill appears as both Luke Skywalker and himself; it's stated they are cousins. |
| 178 | [[/folder]] |
| 179 | |
| 180 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 181 | * OlderThanSteam: Viola passing for her [[HalfIdenticalTwins twin ''brother'' Sebastian]] in Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/TwelfthNight''. |
| 182 | * There have been productions of ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' in which the same person who plays Johanna also plays her mother Lucy in the flashbacks. |
| 183 | * In ''The Rocky Horror Show'', which inspired ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', Eddie and Dr. Scott are (traditionally) played by the same actor. |
| 184 | * In Book-It Repertory Theatre's play of ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'', (non-twin) brothers Edward and Robert Ferrars were played by the same actor. |
| 185 | * In the play ''I Hate Creator/WilliamShakespeare!'', the skit based on ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' contains these lines (along with a suggestion that the characters in question be played by the same actor): |
| 186 | -->'''Hamlet:''' Ophelia! You're not dead!\ |
| 187 | '''Laertes:''' It is I, Laertes, son of Polonius and brother of Ophelia, so I can see where you would make that mistake. |
| 188 | * The ''Theatre/MrsHawking'' play series: Nathaniel to his uncle the Colonel. They are supposed to look very strongly alike, and in part IV: ''[[http://www.mrshawking.com/sample-page/scripts/gilded-cages-stage-play/ Gilded Cages]]'', when both characters appear at roughly the same age at two different points in the timeline, they are designed to be played by the same actor. |
| 189 | [[/folder]] |
| 190 | |
| 191 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 192 | * In what is part this trope and part Strong Family Resemblance, in ''VideoGame/BackToTheFutureTheGame'', Marty runs into his grandfather, Artie [=McFly=], who looks and sounds just like George [=McFly=] (both being based on Creator/CrispinGlover's performance in the film). Artie's father, William, is once again played by Creator/MichaelJFox, who had previously portrayed him in a photo shown in the third film (even though Marty himself is actually voiced by AJ [=LoCascio=]). This leads one to believe that if the pattern continues, since Marty's son will end up looking like Michael J. Fox, his grandson and great-grandson will look like Crispin Glover, and so on. Also, Kid Tannen is basically just Biff with a moustache and zoot suit. |
| 193 | * ''VideoGame/EXTRAPOWERGiantFist'' is crisscrossed with examples. Miku is the granddaughter of Zet, and so Zet is able to recognize a little of his old lover Koi in her. Miku, for her part, is able to see the resemblance to her father in his features. Upon his defeat, Zet can see the ancient Latour hero Romes in Zophy, suggesting that his distant Latour heritage and his ability come from Romes himself. |
| 194 | * In the prologue to the 3DS' built-in minigame ''Find Mii II'', the player's Mii brings this up when their children, the prince and princess, are introduced - they are simply said Mii with different (and unlockable) hat pieces. |
| 195 | * In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', textual implications suggest Echani genetic variation in terms of appearance is very small, with siblings all looking like identical twins and almost identical to their same-sex parent. It was all a cheap way of explaining why they used [[OnlySixFaces the same model]] for all of Atris's Handmaidens while still having them be siblings, despite having an explicit note the one that joins you looks different due to being their half-sibling and yet still looks the same. When the Exile inquires about this the Handmaiden is genuinely surprised that you've noticed, since outsiders typically don't. To Echani on the other hand, her illegitimacy is ''[[ChocolateBaby obvious]]''. |
| 196 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Paranoiac}}'', it's mentioned that Miki not only looks incredibly like her dead ''aunt'', Saeki, but their personalities are just as similar. [[spoiler:Both are described to be [[NiceGirl nice girls]], but mental illness runs in the family and both began to suffer from depression. Saeki's depression got worse, to the point of paranoia and eventually committing suicide, with Miki potentially going the same path, as shown in the Bad Ending.]] |
| 197 | * In ''VideoGame/SuikodenV'', Dragon Cavalry commander Rahal and his CloudCuckoolander sister Rania look virtually identical, to the point that they'd fall under HalfIdenticalTwins if not for Rania being a year older. Not immediately obvious for most of the game, due to Rahal wearing battle armor and Rania being in civilian dress, but when the plot calls for Rahal to [[WholesomeCrossdresser dress as a woman]] the ''only'' visible difference from his sister is that she wears glasses and he doesn't. Apparently they have a history of exploiting this for pranks. |
| 198 | * In an example that would make Nurse Joy proud, recurring ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' series character [[PluckyGirl Anna]] is finally [[AscendedExtra promoted to a playable character]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''... but she also runs the [[DownloadableContent Outrealm Gate]] and appears as a traveling merchant in the same game. As it turns out, there are more than half a dozen "Annas", and they're all sisters. Since the Outrealm Gate is described as a portal to other worlds, this could also explain how she manages to show up in so many otherwise separate worlds across the series... |
| 199 | * ''VideoGame/TastyPlanet'': The two restaurant employees seen in the opening to the Parisian Cat's section of ''Tasty Planet Forever'' are cousins of the previous games' scientists, and look almost exactly the same as them. |
| 200 | [[/folder]] |
| 201 | |
| 202 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 203 | * In ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', brothers Kristoph and Klavier Gavin look almost exactly the same, down to the hairstyle. Their resemblance makes the first encounter between Apollo (who used to be mentored by Kristoph) and Klavier a bit awkward: Apollo can't help but stare, and Klavier... [[MistakenForGay gets the wrong idea.]] |
| 204 | -->'''Klavier:''' I must say I'm used to being inspected by the ladies... But this is the first time I've felt this way with a man. |
| 205 | [[/folder]] |
| 206 | |
| 207 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 208 | * Claire and Clinton in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' look so similar that they were initially mistaken for HalfIdenticalTwins, although Claire is actually several years older. They have the same face, freckles, hair and eye colour, and even similar glasses. |
| 209 | * Daisy and her aunt Blue in ''Webcomic/NicoleAndDerek'': With her hair dyed blue, Daisy is a dead ringer for Blue, as she appeared in the previous comic, ''Webcomic/NamirDeiter''. The resemblance is so strong that patrons of the bar (Blue owns, Daisy works there) often think she ''is'' Blue. One character assumed they were mother and daughter. |
| 210 | * Used as a plot point in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' - the reason Diane and Susan look so similar to each other is [[spoiler:that they're ''both'' descendants of Adrian Raven, a half-immortal. Susan is descended from a woman he'd been with in his ''[[Really700YearsOld actual]]'' [[Really700YearsOld Twenties]], while Diane is his direct daughter. Susan's father apparently strongly resembled Raven as well]]. |
| 211 | * Wayne and [[http://www.twogag.com/archives/138 his cousin Lardo... er, Lars]], in ''Webcomic/TwoGuysAndGuy'', whose only visual difference is weight. Lars quickly develops a [[NiceGuy very]] [[StraightGay different]] [[OnlySaneMan personality]]. We also learn that [[http://www.twogag.com/archives/2742 they don't see it, themselves]]. |
| 212 | * In ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', Kell has an identical cousin, Sheila. They even manage to ''smell'' alike, which allows them to impersonate each other at will. It's been useful a few times, but can cause problems. On one occasion, Kell's husband Kevin [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2008/kk0918.html was alarmed]] by the question of which one had been in bed with him the previous night (to his intense relief, it ''had'' been Kell). Sheila's partner, Frank, who works for Kell, finds it necessary to have both Sheila and Kell appearing in photos he displays at work [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2017/kk0618.html to avoid certain mistaken impressions]]. |
| 213 | * ''Webcomic/{{Precocious}}'': Autumn's family look similar enough to one another that people joke about them reproducing by cloning. In one case she mistook [[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2015/02/14 her grandmother's]] 5th grade photo for her own. |
| 214 | * Played with in ''{{Webcomic/Rhapsodies}}'', where Kate may look [[https://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/comic/kates-cousin/ very]] [[https://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/comic/more-publicity/ similar]] to her cousin Erika, you're generally only going to get the two of them mixed up in a [[https://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/comic/mistaken-identity-2/ dark nightclub]]. |
| 215 | [[/folder]] |
| 216 | |
| 217 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 218 | * Every single foreign character in ''WebAnimation/TheFrolloShow''. Whether they be Arabic, German, Russian, Mexican, or any other nationality, the only thing that distinguishes a foreign character from their main character cousin is the hat they wear. |
| 219 | * [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/art/Punk-Brownie-461301053 Brownie]] looks an awful lot like her toddler cousin [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/art/Angelica-380145801?q=sort%3Atime%20((angelica)%20AND%20(by%3AAkaiChounokoe))&qo=1 Angelica]]. |
| 220 | * Inverted with the "celebrity vampire" meme, where pictures of OlderThanTheyLook actors are compared to their younger selves and 19th-century photographs of similar-looking people to prove the actor is secretly immortal (Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/NicolasCage are popular choices). |
| 221 | [[/folder]] |
| 222 | |
| 223 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 224 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Mako and Bolin meet their late father's relatives in Ba Sing Se. It'd be easier to count the cousins who ''don't'' have the same snub nose and [[BigOlEyebrows heavy eyebrows]] that Bolin has. |
| 225 | * ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture: The Animated Series'' took this to ridiculous levels by having a Tannen in every timeline they go to, no matter what country. {{Exaggerated|Trope}} when they even encounter a T-rex Tannen in a timeline where the dinosaurs weren't wiped out. |
| 226 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', pretty much everyone in the extended Cartman family is overweight and has the same annoying tendencies (whining, eating too much, etc.) that he does. The only exceptions seem to be Cartman's mother and [[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Alexandra_Cartman a young girl who resembles her]]. |
| 227 | * Chum Chum's cousin [[SdrawkcabName Muhc Muhc]] in ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum''. |
| 228 | * In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheLochNessMonster'', Daphne's Scottish cousin Shannon looks just like her, only with short hair and a tartan skirt, and is voiced by the same actress doing a Scottish accent. |
| 229 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', the Neutrons have a family reunion where everyone looks like Hugh (except for one who's a caricature of creator John A. Davis). |
| 230 | * Both Franchise/TomAndJerry have identical cousins; Jerry has the super-strong Muscles ("WesternAnimation/JerrysCousin"), while Tom has his cowardly (and mouse-phobic) cousin George ("Timid Tabby"). Naturally, mistaken identity gags abound in both cartoons. |
| 231 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': You can clearly see that the Loud kids are all siblings, but Lincoln and Lucy take it to an extreme. Lincoln strongly resembles his grandfather Pop-Pop down to the white hair, while Lucy looks like an exact copy of her great-grandmother Harriet. |
| 232 | * In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'', Gwen has an identical cousin, Sunny, though her true form is her Anodite form. |
| 233 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'', Shaggy is showing Scooby pictures of his relatives, and they all look exactly like Shaggy, right down to the goatee [[GirlsWithMoustaches (even the girls)!]] |
| 234 | * In the Donkey Kong Jr. episode "Double or Nothing" from ''WesternAnimation/SaturdaySupercade'', Bones' cousin Lucy Belle looks like a gender-swapped version of him. Junior is quick to point this out. Afterward, when Lucy Belle gets kidnapped so she won't attend the meeting for her uncle's will, Junior has Bones dress up as her to take her place. |
| 235 | * There is a bizarre example in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', as Milhouse and his parents all look the same. This led to some wild fan theories that Kirk and Luanne van Houten are actually [[BrotherSisterIncest siblings]], although an eventual episode revealed them to be [[KissingCousins cousins]]. |
| 236 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'', Arnold's cousin Janet basically looks like [[DistaffCounterpart a female version of him]]. She has the same hairstyle, also wears glasses, and sports a feminine version of his [[LimitedWardrobe regular outfit]]. |
| 237 | * ''WesternAnimation/XavierRiddleAndTheSecretMuseum'': [[spoiler:Yadina has a lot in common with her great-great grandmother. They both wear pink, both like turtles, both make bad jokes, and both like cheese and grape jelly sandwiches]]. |
| 238 | [[/folder]] |
| 239 | |
| 240 | [[folder:Other]] |
| 241 | * Although they were only cousins (their mothers were sisters), King George V of England and the Czar Nicolas II looked like twins. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tsar_Nicholas_II_&_King_George_V.JPG See for yourself.]] George has blue eyes, but that probably won't be much help. |
| 242 | ** For that matter, George's ''other'' cousin [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II]] could probably pass as either of them after a shaving accident. However, Wilhelm was only distantly related to Czar Nicholas[[note]]third cousins to be exact through Paul I of Russia[[/note]] and was the son of George's ''father's'' sister. |
| 243 | ** And George's grandson [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Michael_of_Kent Prince Michael of Kent]], who's still around today, has the same uncanny resemblance to the Tsar, to the extent that he's very popular among royalists in Russia. It helps that he grew the Russian-style beard to hide a scar, and that he's named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Michael_Alexandrovich_of_Russia Nicholas II's younger brother]]. |
| 244 | * In ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho's'' audio dramas, India Fisher plays Eighth (later Sixth) Doctor companion Charley Pollard. Fisher also voiced Charley's sister Cissy in the ''AudioPlay/{{Gallifrey}}'' spin-off series. |
| 245 | * Outside of their trademark costumes, Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo Marx bore an incredible resemblance to each other. They would even occasionally play each other's parts in their stage shows with no one the wiser. This is part of why the much-loved MirrorRoutine was so successful; in the same outfit, Groucho and Harpo are practically identical. |
| 246 | ** This ended in a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome -- on the game show ''Series/IveGotASecret'', Harpo once appeared as the contestant, with his brother Groucho as one of the panelists. Nobody, Groucho included, could guess Harpo's secret. [[note]]The secret was that it was really Chico Marx dressed as Harpo.[[/note]] |
| 247 | ** Reportedly this exchange happened between a Marx Brothers fan and an out-of-makeup Groucho who just wanted a quiet lunch alone: |
| 248 | --->'''Interrupting Fan:''' Are you ''Harpo Marx?''\ |
| 249 | '''Irritated Groucho:''' No, are you? |
| 250 | * Actors Alan Hale (Senior) and Alan Hale (Junior). One played Little John in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood'', the other is famed as the Skipper on ''Series/GilligansIsland''. Without looking at the date of their films there is no way to tell them apart. |
| 251 | * Back in TheNineties, a [[RunningGag running joke]] was that the public appearances of Music/MichaelJackson were actually his sister [=LaToya=] Jackson. |
| 252 | * ''Art/{{Charity|Bouguereau}}'' by Creator/WilliamAdolpheBouguereau: It's not possible to tell which baby is Yeshua and which one is Yochanan, since he painted them to look identical, even though they are cousins and 6 months apart. In most other paintings of them, he not only makes the age difference apparent but has them wear different colored clothing and have different colored hair. |
| 253 | * An old story goes that, when a Roman emperor was touring their conquered area in Jerusalem, his guards noticed a local man who bore a striking resemblance to the emperor. As a joke they brought them together. The emperor thought this was funny and asked the man, "Has your mother ever been to Rome?" The man replied, "No, but my father has." |
| 254 | ** The original version of this joke was supposedly told about Julius Caesar in Gaul (modern day France) seeing a man who looked very similar to himself before continuing in exactly the same way. |
| 255 | * Half-brothers Napoleon III and Charles de Morny looked incredibly alike; slap some hair on top of Morny's bald head and you had a spitting image of the Emperor. |
| 256 | * One Restoration poem is told from the point of view of a man who knows that his wife is flagrantly unfaithful. One day he asks her to explain why all the children look like him. She explains that she is very careful to be unfaithful to him only when she is already pregnant. |
| 257 | * Once a Victorian lady had safely produced an heir and a spare, it was socially acceptable for her to engage in a discreet affair. As a consequence, one lady remembered being sent off for her Season with one piece of advice, "Never comment on a likeness" -- for a third son or the like, who might easily not look like the older half-siblings. One lady was indeed furious that the wife of the man she had an affair with had a child that looked just like him. |
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