'''Basic Trope''': A character looks wildly different from their biological family.
* '''Straight''': Alice is a green-eyed redhead, Bob is a blue-eyed blond, and their daughter Carol has black hair and dark eyes.
* '''Exaggerated''': Carol also has [[ChocolateBaby dark skin, while the rest of her family is pale]].
* '''Downplayed''': Carol has dark eyes, but her dad's blond hair and her mother's pale complexion.
* '''Justified''':
** Carol looks like she does because she is a mutant, or a {{Reincarnation}} of someone with that appearance.
** Carol dyes her hair and wears colored contacts.
** 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.
** Genetic analysis notes that Carol specifically mutated.
* '''Inverted''':.
** Carol is a {{Patchwork Kid|s}}-- she has blond hair with red streaks, one blue eye and one green eye.
** StrongFamilyResemblance.
* '''Subverted''':
** It turns out that Alice had an affair with black-haired, dark-eyed Dan around the time of Carol's conception...
** [[HappilyAdopted Carol was adopted.]]
* '''Double Subverted''':
** ... but a DNA test is done and Bob is her biological father.
** 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.
* '''Parodied''': Carol is born a completely different species for no adequately explained reason.
* '''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.
* '''Averted''': Carol is a realistic combination of her parents, and even has a few traits unique to herself.
* '''Enforced''': The directors needed to hire big star celebrities, but couldn't get them to resemble their in-character relatives.
* '''Lampshaded''':
-->'''Carol''': I'm Carol, Bob and Alice's daughter.\\
'''Emily''': You sure of that?
* '''Invoked''': A medicine Alice takes while she's pregnant with Carol has this as a side effect.
* '''Exploited''': When going through her rebellious teenage phase, Carol pretends not to be related to Alice and Bob.
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Implied''':
** As in "Lampshaded", where both Bob and Alice are TheGhost.
** Or vice versa: Carol is TheGhost and Alice and Bob are asked if that's really their daughter.
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