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->''There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex''
->''You may have heard about his odd complex''
->''His name appears in Freud's index''
->''Cause he ''[[ParentalIncest loved]]'' his mother!''

->''His rivals used to say quite a bit''
->''That as a monarch he was most unfit''
->''But still in all they had to admit''
->''That he loved his mother!''
->TomLehrer, "Oedipus Rex"

->''That play... that ''Oedipus'' thing? Man, I thought ''I'' had problems!''
->Disney's ''{{Disney/Hercules}}''

The Oedipal archetype deals with any conflict between father and son, particularly where the son must supplant the father or must extricate himself from his father's shadow and find his own place in the world. This archetype shares some themes with both the MessianicArchetype (rebirth and renewal) and {{Tricksters}} (out with the old, in with the new). The female equivalent is called the Electra complex.

It's fairly difficult to use this trope explicitly, since the psychological aspects of the mother figure involved are usually lost to [[FreudWasRight cruder imaginations]].

Compare WellDoneSonGuy and CallingTheOldManOut. See also SelfMadeOrphan.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* TwoWords: [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]].
* Baki from ''BakiTheGrappler'' starts off wanting to beat his father to make his mother happy, then because he figures out his father is out of his damn mind after he does crap like getting one step from killing a important governmental figure just to prove he can and [[spoiler:killing his mother.]]
* This is the entirety of the {{backstory}} we get for [[spoiler:William Will Wo]] in ''GunXSword''. [[{{Narm}} We didn't need what we got, either.]]
* In ''FullmetalAlchemist'', although Ed and Al both have [[FreudWasRight crushes on mother figures]], Ed is the one who seems afflicted with the full Oedipal syndrome complete with a love-hate relationship with his father, whom he emulated to become an alchemist (originally ''to please his mom'') but also repeatedly insults and beats up (the fact that he also suffers from a bad case of [[ParentalAbandonment parental abandonment]] only makes matters worse for him... and for Hohenheim).
** In the anime, [[spoiler: the homunculus Envy]]'s goal in life is [[spoiler: killing Hohenheim]]. At the same time, he's immensely jealous of [[spoiler: Edward because he is Hohenheim's ''real'' son -and, presumably, because he is the most similar to Hohenheim and [[FanNickname Hoju]] in appearance and personality]]. In the movie, he even succeeds not only in [[spoiler: killing Hohenheim before Ed's very shocked eyes]], but also in ''not'' crying "Daddy, why don't you love me?". Interestingly, [[spoiler: Ed looks absolutely shell-shocked for about ''two minutes'']] and he later doesn't seem to care much, which might or might not mean a lot about how he really feels towards his old man. Then again, he doesn't seem to care much about [[spoiler: Alfons's death]] either and [[{{DisContinuity}} maybe the movie never happened]].
** In the manga, [[spoiler: Greed]] also has issues with his dad and seems complacent about his role as 'daddy's rebellious son', even going as far as to tell him something along the lines of [[spoiler: "Father should be the one who understands best, ain't I the manifestation of his greed?"]]. To be honest, though, [[spoiler: Father]] is one hell of a tyrannical father.
* Seishiro Sakurazuka of ''{{X 1999}}'' had an... interesting relationship with his mother, Setsuka, who was one disturbed woman. [[spoiler: Setsuka implies that her soulmate was her own son. The relationship, however, was one-sided, as Seishiro's soulmate was very obviously (and reciprocally) Subaru. The non-reciprocated soulmate theme also appears with Tomoyo and Sakura in CardcaptorSakura.]] Oh, and he killed her. At her request.
* Dr. BlackJack has some issues to work out concerning his parents. For example: when his [[DisappearedDad estranged father]] contacts and hires him to conduct reconstructive plastic surgery on his second wife Renka to make her the "most beautiful woman in the world," Black Jack decides to makes her look exactly like ''his mother'' -- Half because he wanted to [[IronicHell constantly torment his father with the face of the woman he ran out on]], and half because he actually ''did'' think his [[HotShounenMom mother]] was most beautiful woman in the world.
* "Syaoran" of ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' has been recently revealed to have this, being in love with what appears to be an ''alternate universe clone'' of his [[CardCaptorSakura mother]]. Played with a bit in that instead of wanting to ''kill'' his father, he wants to ''be'' him. To the point that he's been going by his father's name since he was seven (we still don't know the real one), and for several years (until it was revealed that he was the ''son'' of Syaoran) he was thought to ''be'' his father by most of the fandom, as he looks exactly like him, acts similarly, has identical abilities, etc.
** The problem has later been justified or muddled, its hard to tell, by the fact that his father is aparently [[MyOwnGrampa his clone]], and his mother is a clone of his own Sakura.
*** At precisely which point in the either 4-man or 2-man loop (which one it is depends on perspective) this trope sets in is a matter best left to philosophers on illegal substances with mental disorders. The philosophers have the mental disorders. [[MindScrew Probably]].
* TheLancer of ''DigimonSavers'', Touma, is very cool to his father, Franz Norstein, but is endlessly devoted to Relena, his younger half-sister, and clearly adores his [[MissingMom deceased mother]]. This is both made obvious and foreshadowed by his almost instant "crush" on Masaru's [[HotShounenMom mother]] and younger sister. [[spoiler:While it's never stated outright, it is heavily implied that Touma was born out of wedlock, and his mother was a foreign exchange student who had an affair with his father. Touma's hatred of his father stems from Franz's weakness of character: his inability to defend his son from his judgmental mother, and to do what is right to save his [[IllGirl daughter]], rather than what is ''there'' and easy.]]
* [[spoiler: Wolfwood]] from ''{{Trigun}}'' has one big, big problem with his adopted dad / tyrannical father figure. Interestingly, [[spoiler: he has a different father figure in the anime and in the manga]]. Also note that there are indications that unlike his manga equivalent, [[spoiler: anime Chapel]] has genuine affection for his young 'charge', albeit in a completely twisted way.
** Also note that in the anime, the very same character [[spoiler: killed his first self-proclaimed adopted father, who abused him in a non-defined way]]. When he was ''six years old''.
** In fact, one could also make a point about anime [[spoiler: Knives Millions]], who [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed kills a character who acts as a sort of father figure to him]].
* I can think of two of these from Pocket Monsters. In the manga Pokemon Adventures, Ruby runs away from home to escape his father Norman and prove to him that he can live his dreams. In the end, he sees that everything Norman did was really out of love for Ruby. Later, Silver finds out that his father is Giovanni. He refuses to accept this at first, but Blue talks him out of it eventually. In the games, the implication of Giovanni being Silver's dad remains.
* Lelouch Lamperouge, the protagonist of ''CodeGeass'', has the ultimate goal of learning who killed his mother, and then killing his father the Emperor, whether or not he's responsible. Of course, since momma Marianne is portrayed as [[PuritySue only two steps short of sainthood]], and poppa Charles is a {{Darwinist}} {{Jerkass}}, his attitude may be justified.
** Episode 21 of R2 plays it straight: [[spoiler: His mother Marianne, who wasn't really dead, doesn't give a damn about either Lelouch or his sister, who in turn was actually crippled by their dad Charles, all because she was Charles' co-conspirator the whole time. In fact she spins around giddily while talking about their shared plans, not even greeting Lelouch. Talk about {{Abusive Parents}}.]]
*** Somewhat twisted in that [[spoiler: Marianne and Charles ''did'' love their children. Said love, however, [[LoveMakesYouEvil turned both of them into]] ''[[LoveMakesYouEvil horrendously]]'' [[LoveMakesYouEvil extreme]] {{Knight Templar Parent}}s: their plans were about bringing {{Instrumentality}} to create a new world full of lies, where Lelouch and Nunnally would be "happy". Only they were willing to detroy the world as they did so and never ever bothered to ask their kids what they thought of, even going as far as doing... well, what they did to Nunners and Lulu.]] SoYeah
***[[spoiler: Especially ironic since the whole plan was based on lying to and tormenting the children they [[LoveMakesYouEvil loved]], with Charles altering his daughter's memories and crippling her as well as ''traumatizing them for life'' in an attempt to keep V.V. from going after them and killing them too. Lelouch also calls them out for abandoning him and Nunnally in Japan and not bothering to look for them, instead focusing on finding C.C. and going forward with the plan, on the basis Lulu and Nunners didn't need to be ALIVE to be reuinited with their parents in {{Instrumentality}}.]] BigScrewedUpFamily, indeed.
* The main theme of the manga ''KamisamaKazoku'', as main character Samataro wants to prove that he doesn't need his father, a god, doing everything in his omnipotent (and [[BumblingDad bumbling]]) power to make Samataro's life easier. Samataro's [[HotShounenMom goddess mother]] self-admittedly [[MyBelovedSmother adores her son like a lover]], and repeatedly shocks and embarrasses him with her InnocentFanserviceGirl ways.
* Female example from ''IonoTheFanatics'', the titular character's love of black hair was because of her mother. Made rarer by the fact that there is no father in the equation.
* MahouSenseiNegima may very well have this is the basis for lead Negi's need to chase his father (or it could just be a [[ParentalAbandonment traumatic need for love]]) Also [[spoiler: if you want to take the hints seriously, Negi may very well be getting paired with ''all'' of his mother/[[CoolBigSis big sister]] figures]].
** And on the subject of people who love their parents, almost disturbingly, we have Yuuna and her feelings for her father. This is taken to a disturbing level in the most recent chapter; when Haruna brings up the subject of "deep, passionate kissing" (supposedly for Pactio purposes), Yuuna remarks that [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/c253/11.html she wouldn't mind if it were her dad.]] The other girls are quite {{Squick}}ed by this revelation.
* [[{{Gundam 00}} Andrei Smirnov]].
* [[PersonOfMassDestruction Nataku]] of HoushinEngi has some serious daddy-issues surrounding the nature of his existence, and his mother is more or less his MoralityChain.
* Tsuna from ''KatekyoHitmanReborn''. He develops a huge crush on Kyoko, whom he [[ShallowLoveInterest hardly interacts with]] or [[ExtremeDoormat knows much about]]. One thing is very noticeable about her, however: [[http://www.onemanga.com/Katekyo_Hitman_Reborn/123/15/ she looks]] ''exactly'' [[http://www.onemanga.com/Katekyo_Hitman_Reborn/123/12/ like his mother]]. Even their ''personalities'' are very much alike. In addition to that, he's ''very'' uncomfortable with talking with his father (who was pretty much a DisappearedDad for a lot of his life).
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* The 2000 ComicBook run of CaptainMarvel has said hero destroy the universe at the behest of Entropy and Epiphany, actually AnthropomorphicPersonification children of the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the universe. Later he dies and beats up his own dad on the other side.
* Ultron, the killer robot nemesis of the Avengers, hates his 'father' Hank Pym, and loves his 'mother' Janet Van Dyne.
** Ultron at one point created a sexy fem-bot using Janet Van Dyne's psyche as the template for her robotic intelligence. As a shout-out to the TropeNamer, he named this fem-bot Jocasta, which is the name of Oedipus' mother.
*** The obsession has gone far enough that in a more recent appearance, Ultron made himself into a ''herself'',using Tony Stark's body/armor in order to form a biomechanical clone body of Janet.
*The DCU is full of this also it is strictly subtext.There are Batman-the first Robin-Catwoman Batman-the second Robin-Talia Batman-the first Robin-Batgirl Aquaman-Tempest-Dolphin Green Arrow-Arsenal-Black Canary Superman-Superboy-Lana/Lois.
** To simplify it somewhat, anyone who's A: a sidekick or B: a younger/alternate version of a hero has had iffy subtext with ''someone'' they shouldn't have had it with. This goes double (triple?) for Batman and the Robins (even after they've stopped being Robin).
***And you thought Ultron was sick.
* [[RuleOfThree AGAIN]] with DCComics: Each [[LegacyCharacter Brother Blood]], the leader of the [[ReligionOfEvil Church of Blood]], has ascended to his position by killing his father (the previous "Brother Blood") and making his mother the new High Priestess.
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[[folder:Film]]
* [[StarWars Luke Skywalker]], who goes straight from ParentalAbandonment into OedipusRex territory following the now [[ItWasHisSled famous]] LukeIAmYourFather moment.
** [[ItWasHisSled Subverted at the end, though.]] Oh, and he was never diggin' on his mother, because she was dead. Now, the sister...
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Tywin and Tyrion Lannister from ''ASongOfIceAndFire''. Tywin blames Tyrion for killing his mother Joanna in childbirth only to be born as a deformed dwarf and consorting with prostitutes, refusing to recognize him as the rightful heir of House Lannister (and being as cunning and wise as him). The life-long hatred between the two leads culminates [[spoiler: Tyrion killing his father, and possibly sending House Lannister to its downfall]].
* In ''HarryPotter'', Voldemort killed his [[DisappearedDad Disappeared Muggle Dad]]. [[spoiler:Barty Crouch was also killed by his son, although [[AdaptationDecay you'd never figure it by watching the ''Goblet of Fire'' movie.]]]]
**Adding to this, it is also apparent in his later years that Voldemort at least respected his mother for giving birth to him, while still despising his father. Even more interesting is that Severus Snape also hated his father enough for fans to speculate that's where his muggle prejudice stemmed from while attaching himself the the name "Prince", taken from his mother, and being fond of Lily Evans who had maternal attributes. Then there's Harry Potter who practically married Lily 2.0, minus the green eyes. Not to mention he has showed much devotion to her memory throughout the series, a great deal more than his father. And although Harry never hated his father, he was disgusted with James's behavior in Snape's memory enough to wonder why Lily ever married him in the first place.
* William de Worde from ''[[{{Discworld}} The Truth]]'' hates his father, but his mother is a complete nonentity.
*The Oedipal conflict between KingArthur and Mordred is what brings down the Round Table, making this OlderThanPrint.
* The main character's son in Boris Johnson's ''SeventyTwoVirgins'' is referred to as having an Oedipus complex; the book opens with a number of examples of his sinister behaviour towards the protagonist.
* Nicholas Harpole and Alec Checkerfield from TheCompanyNovels have a real doozy of a situation: [[spoiler: Once upon a time three guys were cloned, two died and became virtually undead, sharing the third body. Deciding to (a) claim their mutual girlfriend for himself, and (b) make sure that the two extra guys got bodies of their own, Edward takes over the body and arranges for Mendoza to bear twin sons and sticks digital Nick and Alec inside them. They grow up, again, with Edward and Mendoza as their parents. Remembering the whole time that "Mommy" is really their girlfriend. Yeah, issues much?]]
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* Lee Adama on ''BattlestarGalactica'' is presented as forever looking for a way out from under his father's influence. As Lee is a fighter pilot and his father is his commanding officer, this is more than a little difficult. He gets a bit closer to actually doing so in Season Four [[spoiler:when he resigns from the military to become a politician]].
** And [[spoiler:Cavil]] on the Cylon side, complete with [[UnusualEuphemism frakking]] his humanoid Cylon "mother".
* ''{{Lost}}'' is chock-full of this. Nearly every character has some sort of paternal baggage, and [[spoiler: Ben kills his father; Kate kills her father; Locke gets Sawyer to kill his father for him]]
* Jim Profit, on ''{{Profit}}'', takes this archetype to the logical extreme — by murdering his father and having sex with his (step)mother.
* Possibly Matt [=McNamera=] on ''[[NipTuck Nip/Tuck]].''
* Connor on ''{{Angel}}'', paralleling Oedipus to an unusually large extent -- to many viewers' disgust. No, Cordelia wasn't Connor's mother, but she did change his diapers. [[PlotRelevantAgeUp The previous year.]]
** It's lampshaded by the captured [[ManipulativeBastard Angelus]]: "Doing your mom and trying to kill your dad. Hmm. There should be a play."
* In a rare maternal case, in ''TwoAndAHalfMen'' Charlie and Alan loathe [[EvilMatriarch their mother, Evelyn]].
* ''{{Merlin}}'' - [[spoiler: Arthur in ''Sins of the Father'' borders on this. He meets a (young an beautiful) ghost of his mother, who tells him that his father is to blame for her death. So he tries to kill Uther.]]
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[[folder:Theater]]
* The TropeNamer, the Greek Tragedy "OedipusRex", was dramatized in 429 BC by {{Sophocles}}, and had been a legend long before that. It's actually not a real example, as Oedipus ''never'' knew who his mother and father were until it was too late. Sophocles' original audience [[ForegoneConclusion already knew the story]], so it was hardly a twist ending.
** The story of Phaedra, however, is considerably more Oedipal. Kinda. Phaedra, wife of Theseus, is in love with her stepson, Hippolytus. He is appropriately {{squick}}ed out, and [[LoveMakesYouEvil this drives her crazy]] so she tells Theseus that [[YouKnowWhatYouDid Hippolytus raped her]]. It all ends with Hippolytus being eaten by a [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere sea monster in the middle of the grassland]], and Phaedra drinks some poison to kill herself.
*** In the version this myth buff remembers, Hippolytus is killed in a chariot crash and Phaedra hangs herself. Of course, it also has Artemis saving Hippolytus' life, making him a minor deity, and transporting him to another country, all of which is just plain weird.
* HaroldPinter's plays. Though, to be honest, ''everybody'' hates ''everybody'' in the Pinter verse.
* ''{{Hamlet}}''. Although the title character ostensibly wants to kill his stepfather/uncle in order to avenge his father, generations of {{Shakespeare}} scholars, directors and actors have seen a deeper, less conscious motive. Let's just say that Hamlet may have more than the normal filial affection for Gertrude. (MelGibson's 1990 film version especially plays up this aspect of their relationship.)
* Eugene O'Neill's ''Mourning Becomes Electra'' adapts a classic Greek tragic trilogy, the Orestia, relocating it to New England after the end of the Civil War. Incestuous undertones are a major motivation of the murderous actions of the characters--at the least, both of the children display unhealthy obsession with the parent of the opposite gender, and deep-seated dislike of the parent of the same gender.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''FinalFantasyX'' is the most Oedipal game this troper has ever played. Tidus, TheHero, hates his father, [[JerkAss Jecht]], with a passion. Not only has his entire blitzball career played out in the shadow of his famous father, as a child he was also constantly competing with him for the mother's attention. The fact that his father was basically an insensitive, alcoholic bastard might also have had something to do with it, though... and of course, [[spoiler: Tidus ends up killing his father in the semi-final boss-fight - in the very best Oedipal tradition.]] Compounding the Freudian [[strike:sub]]text is one of the game's primary antagonists, [[CorruptChurch Maester Seymour Guado]]. To sum up: He loved his mother deeply, but she out of misguided love for him felt that the only way for [[HalfHumanHybrid him to be accepted in a xenophobic world]] would be for him to become a [[HeroicSacrifice High]] [[SenselessSacrifice Summoner]] and use [[HeroicSacrifice her]] as his [[{{Metamorphosis}} Final]] [[CosmicHorror Aeon]]. The end result was Mommy dearest becoming [[http://guidesmedia.ign.com/guides/14008/images/ffx_s_anima.jpg this]]. As for his father, Jyscal, Seymour kills him before the game even starts to [[KlingonPromotion gain his position]] as Maester (think fantasy!pope, or maybe just a cardinal) as part of a long and convoluted EvilPlan to MercyKill [[OmnicidalManiac the]] [[DarkMessiah entire]] [[NietzscheWannabe planet]]. In addition to the practical gains made by removing Jyscal, the backstory hints at how Jyscal was not a loving parent--nor even a presence in his life, really, as he spent his childhood in seclusion with his mother--hence Seymour grew to resent and hate him. And none of this is going into [[StaffChick Yuna's]] ...relationship with ''her'' father. Truly, the ''issues'' of the characters in this ''FinalFantasy'' iteration are staggering.
** Of course, by the end Tidus' mother is long since dead and he [[spoiler: ''does'' manage to reconcile with his father]]. It's more explicit in ''Dissidia'', where Tidus is explicit about his feelings. [[spoiler: "I'd always thought I'd prefer if you weren't there, but honestly... I only became strong so you would approve of me. ... That's all I ever wanted."]]
*Hinted at with [[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth,]] but [[{{Flanderization}} completely exaggerated]] in the fandom. That said, he ''is'' obsessed with what he perceives as his "mother" and he absolutely ''hates'' his father, (even if he doesn't know who his father is) [[spoiler:[[MadScientist Professor Hojo]]...]]
* Like Luke Skywalker, it goes for Lloyd Irving from ''TalesOfSymphonia'' (although, of course, considerably less famously).
* ''DevilMayCry'' bleeds Oedipal subtext, no shortness of thanks going to Dante's love interest who looks exactly like his mother. The new game looks poised to continue this tradition with the new main character's non-blood mother-figure.
** Update: It did. Nero wanted that nun bad.
*** Well, as it turns out Nero and Kyrie were actually raised together (she's the same age as him), it doesn't quite fit the trope here. Even if they do get together in the end.
* Laharl wanting to step out of his old man's shadow in ''{{Disgaea}}''. Let's just say it gets ''much'' weirder from there.
* Sasha Nein of ''{{Psychonauts}}'' has no mother, as the player finds out when accessing his memories. He remembers her death, and as a child practised his unfamiliar psychic abilities on his father, who was tight-lipped about his mother. His father unknowingly supplies many of his own memories of Sasha's mother via psychic means, including one nearly-explicit memory that makes Sasha retreat like a bat out of hell.
** Raz himself also has this going on, since he states that his father has him train constantly as an acrobat and rejects his attempts to use his psychic powers, as well as psychic gypsies cursing his family with SuperDrowningSkills, which leads to Raz's mental image of his father as a psychic-hating sadist. [[spoiler:Turns out at the end that his father is actually a psychic himself and was merely trying to help train Raz to control his powers, even helping him combat his FreudianExcuse incarnate.]]
** Coach Oleander, as a child was traumatized by the fact that [[spoiler:his father was a butcher who chopped up any bunnies that he kept as pets, which along with the fact that he's never been able to get into the military leads him to try and TakeOverTheWorld. Both his and Raz's mental images of their fathers end up mixing together at the end and when defeated Oleander apologizes to everyone at the camp, thanking Raz for his efforts.]]
* Basically deconstructed as Raziel's entire character arc in ''{{Legacy of Kain}}''. His entire motivation initially seems to be to exact revenge on his father Kain after an apparently very Oedipal preventive attempted infanticide. However, [[spoiler: it turns out that the entire chain of events was set into motion by Kain himself as a very complex {{Xanatos Gambit}} involving {{Time Travel}} to induce a {{Screw Destiny}} to actually, in the end, save Nosgoth from corruption and Raziel himself from becoming a soul attached to a sword, meaning that Kain more or less killed Raziel [[MercyKill out of love]] to prevent him from suffering a {{Fate Worse Than Death}}.]] {{So Yeah}}...
* In [[FatalFury Garou: Mark of the Wolves]], Rock Howard is pretty much ''defined'' by his hate of his DisappearedDad, Geese.
* The simplest way of describing the entire plot of the ''MetalGear'' saga is this trope. For every major character in it. Yes, all of them.
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[[folder:WebComics]]
* In ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Molly the monster goes through a brief period of this with Bob, but concludes she was just [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20061010.html confused about her feelings.]]
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[[folder:WebOriginal]]
* Slowbeef pointed this out in {{Retsupurae}}'s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TttcEFhFYdk A Son's Revenge Retsuflash]]
-->'''[[{{Retsupurae}} Slowbeef]]:''' Oedipus would be like, "This kid is fucking creepy".
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[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
* While not biologically his dad, this is pretty much textbook example of this trope between DannyPhantom and Vlad Masters/Plasmius. The fandom couldn't be happier.
* Another TwoWords: [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Prince Zuko]].
* Thailog of ''{{Gargoyles}}'' is an EvilTwin of Goliath, cloned by Doctor Sevarius and trained by Xanatos; his goal in life is to upstage all three fathers (or at least Goliath and Xanatos, Sevarius not so much). Taken to unsettling extremes concerning the women in Goliath's clan, as he has seduced Goliath's ex-mate Demona and made a pass at his daughter. At one point, he cloned Evil Twins of the rest of the clan, and while he was at it he cloned a concubine, Delilah, for himself, made from a combination of DNA from both Demona and Goliath's current love interest, Elisa Maza. ''Creepy...''
** The latter was one of Thailog's major KickTheDog moments, since Demona had no idea he would create Delilah (she was involved with the cloning of the others), and he more or less stated outright that Delilah was her ''replacement''.
* Tai Lung and Shifu of ''KungFuPanda''. Though never explicitly stated in the film (par for the course for this trope), both the {{Subtext}} and [[AllThereInTheManual information revealed elsewhere]] imply that by [[MeaningfulName naming Tai Lung "Dragon"]] and filling the snow leopard's head with dreams and fantasies about becoming the Dragon Warrior, Shifu was living vicariously through his son -- trying to turn the foundling into what he was not and could never be. By the same token, it's fairly clear that aside from [[WellDoneSonGuy wanting to earn the red panda's pride and approval]], Tai Lung fully intended to prove himself Shifu's better and replace him, both at the Jade Palace and as the ultimate kung fu warrior in the valley.
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