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1	'''Basic Trope''': A character looks wildly different from their biological family.
2	* '''Straight''': Alice is a green-eyed redhead, Bob is a blue-eyed blond, and their daughter Carol has black hair and dark eyes.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Carol also has [[ChocolateBaby dark skin, while the rest of her family is pale]].
4	* '''Downplayed''': Carol has dark eyes, but her dad's blond hair and her mother's pale complexion.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** Carol looks like she does because she is a mutant, or a {{Reincarnation}} of someone with that appearance.
7	** Carol dyes her hair and wears colored contacts.
8	** Because blue and green eyes are genetically recessive, Carol ended up with dark eyes because she didn't get the other gene from both AliceAndBob.
9	** Genetic analysis notes that Carol specifically mutated.
10	* '''Inverted''':.
11	** Carol is a {{Patchwork Kid\|s}}-- she has blond hair with red streaks, one blue eye and one green eye.
12	** StrongFamilyResemblance.
13	* '''Subverted''':
14	** It turns out that Alice had an affair with black-haired, dark-eyed Dan around the time of Carol's conception...
15	** [[HappilyAdopted Carol was adopted.]]
16	* '''Double Subverted''':
17	** ... but a DNA test is done and Bob is her biological father.
18	** Carol was adopted but it turns out that she was the long lost biological daughter her adopted parents thought they lost when she was a newborn.
19	* '''Parodied''': Carol is born a completely different species for no adequately explained reason.
20	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Carol is born to a dark-haired father and red-haired mother, meaning she should be dark-haired as well since red hair is recessive... except it's revealed her father has red hair in his family, making this possible.
21	* '''Averted''': Carol is a realistic combination of her parents, and even has a few traits unique to herself.
22	* '''Enforced''': The directors needed to hire big star celebrities, but couldn't get them to resemble their in-character relatives.
23	* '''Lampshaded''':
24	-->'''Carol''': I'm Carol, Bob and Alice's daughter.\
25	'''Emily''': You sure of that?
26	* '''Invoked''': A medicine Alice takes while she's pregnant with Carol has this as a side effect.
27	* '''Exploited''': When going through her rebellious teenage phase, Carol pretends not to be related to Alice and Bob.
28	* '''Defied''': ???
29	* '''Discussed''': ???
30	* '''Conversed''': ???
31	* '''Implied''':
32	** As in "Lampshaded", where both Bob and Alice are TheGhost.
33	** Or vice versa: Carol is TheGhost and Alice and Bob are asked if that's really their daughter.
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37	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
38	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
39	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
40	%%* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': ???
41	%%* '''Played for Laughs''': ???

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