History Main / LineageComesFromTheFather

** ''[[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5314/5314-h/5314-h.htm#chap96 The Three Little Birds]]'' (Germany, Grimm) - the firstborn has a red star "with him".

* Zigzagged in tale type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children", of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index: in the vast majority of the variants, the father of the wonder children is of noble or royal lineage, like a king or a prince, and through him the children obtain their royal/noble status. However, the wonder children only acquire their status of ''wonder'' children through their mother, who is the youngest of three poor sisters of marriageable age: the woman knows ''beforehand'' the qualities her children will bear (astral birthmarks, hair of literal gold or literal silver), and announces them to her sisters (and to her future husband, who just happens to be eavesdropping on their conversation).

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': Wonder Woman was originally created as an intentional subversion of this idea, with her father being either entirely irrelevant and unnamed or with her not even having a father depending on the version of the tale up until ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'' which made everything about her that is special or noteworthy due to her father being Zeus.

* In Muslim culture, the honorific title ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid Sayyid]]'' is applied to men who can trace patrilineal descent from UsefulNotes/TheProphetMuhammad (well, as patrilineal as possible--his only grandchildren were through his daughter Fatimah).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': It's revealed that [[Characters/AmphibiaKingAndrias King Andrias]] is the son and successor of Amphibia's previous ruler King Aldrich, who groomed Andrias to be the person he is today. [[spoiler:Andrias and Aldrich are the two latest in a long line of evil despots who ruled Amphibia's old multiversal empire in the name of [[MindHive the Core]] (a mechanical monster containing the digitized consciousnesses of all the previous rulers), acting as the Core's PuppetKing in life before having their minds uploaded into its collective upon their natural passing -- the late Aldrich is still watching over Andrias from within the Core in the present day]]. Almost nothing is known about Andrias' mother, who is never mentioned.

* ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'': In ''Midnight Sun'', it appears to be that Bella inherited her "private mind" from her father, as Edward has some difficulty reading Chief Swan's mind.

** Zigzagged with Jin Kazama. Despite inheriting his mother's surname, his paternal Mishima lineage is far more emphasized on; he inherited Kazuya's Devil Gene, while seemingly not inheriting Jun's spiritual qualities. His initial movelist in his debut game is also 90% Mishima Karate, although he does have a handful of Kazama moves. However, ''VideoGame/Tekken7'' reveals that [[spoiler:the Devil Gene bloodline actually came from Kazuya's mother, Kazumi Hachijo]].

* A lot in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. For one, the series' signature [[FightingSpirit Stands]] are passed down from parents to offspring. Which results in [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Part 4]] having an invisible baby.
** The Ripple also gets passed down from generation to generation, as evidenced by Joseph, from [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Part 2]], being able to use the ripple (to a small extant) without having trained in it before.
** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Josuke Higashikata]], [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Giorno Giovanna]] and [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Jolyne Cujoh]] are all offspring of Joseph, DIO, and Jotaro respectively, and have the same {{Kiai}} as their fathers.