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When, instead of Spinoff Babies (the main characters of an older series being made younger) you instead make a show about the descendants of people from the original premise. Sometimes evolve out of a Kid From The Future. May overlap with both Generation Xerox and Legacy Character, but can also exist independently of both tropes.
Sub Trope of Changing Of The Guard.
Popular Fan Fic device, especially if there are canonical descendants.
Examples:
- Famous 5: On the Case (The Famous Five's kids)
- James Bond, Jr. (James Bond's nephew — unnecessary twist, as with all the sleeping around he did, he probably could staff an entire spy agency with his juniors) (oh, I'd like to see them say that in the title sequence of a Saturday Morning Cartoon!)
- The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (Sherlock Holmes' great-grandniece)
- In a roundabout way, Batman Beyond; though Terry McGinnis is Bruce Wayne's protégé rather than his son it eventually comes out in the Fully Absorbed Finale that thanks to Cadmus, Terry biologically is Bruce's son.
- Several Disney sequels:
- The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea follows the adventure of Ariel and Eric's daughter, Melody.
- The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride
- Lady and the Tramp 2 follows son Scamp, but mostly ignores his sisters. Of course, this is pretty much what the comics made before the movie did, too.
- Return to Neverland follows Wendy's daughter.
- The Japanese have done a few anime series about the fictional descendants of The Shinsengumi. Right now I remember Tobe! Isami (Soar High! Isami) and Kidou Shinsengumi Moeyo Ken.
- Japan does this a lot, actually. For example, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has a different "JoJo" for each arc, but most/all are blood relatives one way or another.
- Spider Girl and the majority of the Teen Hero characters from Marvel Comics' M2 lineup.
- In another example from Marvel Comics, four of the Young Avengers are children of former Avengers members. A fifth is the grandson of the first Captain America.
- Older Than They Think: The Green Hornet was, believe it or not, originally introduced as The Lone Ranger's great-nephew.
- Not all that unbelievable; the Hornet and the Ranger were both created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker as broadcast content for Trendle's Detroit radio station, WXYZ. The relationship isn't that well known, though, since it wasn't referred to that often in the Hornet's series, and in the 1950s Trendle sold the rights to The Lone Ranger to another company, which prevented the relationship from being explicitly mentioned in any subsequent Green Hornet shows or other adaptations.
- Similar example, although it's more of an All There In The Manual than something explicitly stated: Billy Blaze is the grandson of B.J. Blazkowicz, with a more Anglicized last name.
- The Pebbles and Bamm Bamm Show
- The 2008 Knight Rider TV movie and subsequent show was about the son of David Hasselhoff's character.
- In a way, the Sci-Fi limited series Tin Man does this: It's revealed that DG and Azkadelia are descended from the Gray Gale - Dorothy Gale.
- The title character of Lupin III, as well as Goemon. And Lawrence III of Arabia. And...
- Lesser known is Lupin VIII, a 1982 series centering on Lupin III's descendant five generations down the line. It never got broadcast due to the estate of Maurice Le Blanc (creator of the original Arsene Lupin) wanted more money than the producers were willing to pay.
- The Legend Of Zelda has different incarnations of the same characters, and eventually explains it by making them each other's descendants (or ancestors.) This explains why only one pair of incarnations is a couple... Also often a Generation Xerox, and not just Link and Zelda being the same: some side-characters reappear and have the same roles.
- There was a series on the table that would have featured the nephew of Mac Gyver. Good thing they didn't go through with it, though, as Angus was an only child.
- A go-to trope for many of Anne Mc Caffrey's 21st century books. (Particularly the Petaybee and Talents series.)
- Once the staple of the Xanth series: The original central character, Bink, was supplanted by his son, Dor, who was supplanted by his kids, daughter Ivy and son Dolph.
- Unfortunately, due to the abundance of anti-aging magic in the Xanthverse, all these characters are still alive — as well as their kids, grandkids, and great, great grandkids. Meaning, well, you know...
- Originally, the cast of Lunar 2 were going to be the kids of the couples from the first game. This idea was nixed and the plot set 1000 years later, this does explain why everyone is pretty much a 50/50 mix of the previous crew.
- One of the party members, Lemina, actually is the descendant of Mia from the original Lunar, and bears some striking resemblances to her physically.
- Sons of the Oak, a continuation of David Farland's The Runelords
Trilogy Saga that focuses upon the son of the Earth King battling an even bigger Bad.
- Slight variation in the Galaxy Angel Series Franchise: because the original Angels were, of course, the stars of a dating sim and bishoujo series, it would be a little offputting if they were all shown married with kids. Instead, in Galaxy Angel II and Galaxy Angel Rune, they have spinoff counterparts with other connections, ranging from Milfeulle's kid sister to Forte's combat protege. Vanilla actually does have a kid, but she's adopted.
- The entire premise of each new season of Blackadder, with some extra generations thrown in.
- While Chibiusa is always a main character on Sailor Moon, a later one-shot manga story, deliberately set in an alternate universe and timeline, starred the children of the Guardian Senshi, plus a brand new younger sibling to Chibiusa by the name of Kousagi. Almost all of the kids had the same names and appearances as their parents except for Kousagi, who actually looked like her own character.
- The manga had numerous one-shot Chibiusa stories that ran in a separate magazine.
- The anime Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals was based on the world of Final Fantasy V and starred one of Bartz' descendants. Presumably the "Queen Lenna of Tycoon" is also a descendant of the original Lenna, though she's just a supporting character.
- The original Infinity Inc was about the kids of the Justice Society Of America.
- The second and third books in the Old Kingdom trilogy mostly concern Sabriel and Touchstone's children.
- While there's a notable lack of family ties between them, three generations of Star Trek share this trope's characteristics.
- The 2000 Shaft stars Samuel L. 'Muthaf——n' Jackson as the nephew of the original, played by Richard Roundtree who makes a cameo appearance.
- Susan Sto Helit, star of several Discworld novels, is the daughter of Mort, star of the book of the same name. Quite how old that makes Rincewind and Granny Weatherwax is unclear. Blame the History Monks.
- The Air Bud movies transitioned into this with Air Buddies which focuses on the sports-playing Golden Retriever's puppies. The sequel Space Buddies is the puppies IN SPACE!
- The new series of Minder is starring Archie Daley, the son of the star character Arthur Daley from the original series back in the 70s/80s.
- The New Tomorrow, a spinoff-slash-sequel show to The Tribe; the children in The New Tomorrow worship their god Bray, who was in The Tribe, and fear Zoot (who is his brother, and acknowledged in the new series as the devil), showing that quite some time must have passed for a religion to have begun to form around them.
- Savage Sam: Son of Old Yeller follows the journey of Travis and Savage Sam, the son of Old Yeller to rescue Little Arliss and Elizabeth Circe from Indians.
- Kamen Rider Den-O begat Super Kamen Rider Den-O, starring Ryotaro's Kid From The Future, The Taros', plus several characters that weren't even in Den-O originally.
- Tales of Destiny 2 is about Kyle, the son of the two main characters from the first game, but aside from him, that's pretty much it.
- Fire Emblem played around with this on occasion. The fourth game, Genealogy of the Holy War, had the main characters at the start of the game die off halfway through and be replaced with their children. Many (though not all) of the characters in The Sealed Sword were the children of characters in The Blazing Blade, which would be a straight example if not for the fact that Sealed Sword was made first. (A couple of characters from Sealed Sword were the parents of characters in Blazing Blade, and grandparents of other characters in Sealed Sword. Still doesn't work because the game that came out first takes place later.)
- Ace Ventura Jr. A horrible idea, further plagued by the fact it is a sequel to a Jim Carrey movie(s) that doesn't have Jim Carrey in it and is a sequel to a franchise that is more or less two decades old.
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid. A Spin Off of Nanoha (yes, a Spin Off of a Spin Off) starring Nanoha's adopted daughter, Vivio.
- Marvel comics wanted to do a spinoff of the Avengers for a DVD. Instead of using the popular Young Avengers franchise because characters were linked to controversial topics like drug-abuse, rape, and homosexuality, they made Avengers Next. Which is essentially "Avengers Babies" with 8-year old children of the Avengers having adventures. No, really.
- The Oz Kids, which starred Dorothy's children Dot and Neddy, the Tin Boy, Scarecrow Jr., Jack Pumpkinhead Jr., the Cowardly Lion's cubs Boris and Bela, the Wizard's son Frank, and Glinda's daughter Andrea.
- The 1980 animated movie A Snow White Christmas stars the daughter of King Charming and Queen Snow, also named Snow White, who's on the run from the wicked queen (who has returned and turned her parents to ice) and is rescued by seven giants.
- Plushies has the children of sonic charecters.
- Final Fantasy IV The After Years, starring the son of Cecil and Rosa, the main characters of Final Fantasy IV. There's also the daughter of Yang and Sheila joining in.
- The short lived incarnation of the Seven Soldiers of Victory in Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers #0 included the Whip III, granddaughter of the Whip II (a New Old West Zorro wannabe) and great-great-granddaughter of the Whip I (an Old West Zorro wannabe); I, Spyder, son of the original 7SoV member (and traitor) Alias the Spider; and Gimmix, daughter of Merry the Gimmick Girl and, therefore, neice of the first Star-Spangled Kid, who was also an original 7SoV member. In Seven Soldiers #1, the Bulleteer turns out to be directly descended from Aurakles, the world's first superhero.
- The Mr Driller series stars Susumu Hori, who is the son of Dig Dugs Taizo Hori and of Kissy from the little-known Baraduke. Both father and son have made appearances in each other's games since the first Mr Driller game.
- This is basically the premise of the entire Redwall series. There's a strong continuity spanning centuries of family lines that seem to have a propensity toward getting wrapped up in epic conflicts every couple decades or so.
- A fair number of the later-set Star Wars Expanded Universe novels, although for the most part their parents are there with them. Star Wars Legacy is almost entirely populated by new characters and the descendants of the old heroes.
- The player character of Fallout 2 is a direct descendant of the player character in the original game.
- At least some of the player characters in the upcoming Golden Sun game for the DS are apparently the descendants of the player characters from the original GBA games. Due to the series' extensively developed Shipping community, along with the equally awe-inspiring Ship To Ship Combat, this may have some interesting results in the fandom if/when specific lineage is clarified.
- The fairly mental Amiga/Atari ST game Wizkid was a sequel to Wizball, and Wizkid was, unsurprisingly, Wizball's son.
- The Fly II focuses on Brundle's son.
- The second trilogy in Kushiels Legacy follows Phedre's adopted son, Imriel.
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