History Main / EveryoneIsRelated

* 12 out of the 18 characters [[UminekonoNakuKoroni Umineko no Naku Koro ni]] starts out with are direct family of eachother. Then again, [[JustifiedTrope most of the story takes place during a family conference]]. (The other 6 characters are five of the family head's servants, and a friend of his.)

** [[IncestIsRelative Well, tehnically...]]

** And if you put the pieces together after 358/2 Days and Birth Before Sleep, then (deep breath) [[spoiler:You've got Sora, Riku and Kairi who are related to Ven, Terra and Aqua, however vaguely. Sora and Kairi become heartless (well, Sora does) for a time, meaning they have nobodies, Roxas and Namine. Then there's Xion, who is based on Roxas's memories of Sora's memories of Kairi. There is a scene where Namine and Xion talk to each other. Somehow, the universe fails to explode.]]

** And if you put the pieces together after 358/2 Days and Birth Before Sleep, then (deep breath) [[spoiler:You've got Sora, Riku and Kairi who are related to Ven, Terra and Aqua, however vaguely. Sora and Kairi become heartless for a time, meaning they have nobodies, Roxas and Namine. Then there's Xion, who is based on Roxas's memories of Sora's memories of Kairi. There is a scene where Namine and Xion talk to each other. Somehow, the universe fails to explode.]]

* 12 out of the 18 characters [[UminekonoNakuKoroni Umineko no Naku Koro ni]] starts out with are direct family of eachother. Then again, most of the story takes place during a family conference. (The other 6 characters are five of the family head's servants, and a friend of his.)

Often TruthInTelevision when dealing with a feudal society. Those stories tend to revolve around royalty and nobility, who were intermarried so heavily that it's entirely plausible for every scheming duke and brave baron to be someone's uncle or cousin. This is possibly where the trope originates. Very true in an ''extreme'' sense: go back 40 generations and the number of a given person's ancestors surpasses estimates of total world population in its entire (so far) history (such as 2 ''trillion'' ancestors when some estimates put the latter figure between 100?115 billion or so).

* John Kerry and George W. Bush are ninth cousins twice-removed, as well as Bush being distantly related to Winston Churchill and people on the Mayflower. Bush is also related to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_family#Other_U.S._presidents Franklin Pierce, George Washington, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and George H. W. Bush (obviously)]]. Wow.

** Oh, and don't let us get started on [[spoiler: the Feys. Mia, Maya, Pearl, Morgan, Elise Deauxnim, serial killer Dahlia Hawthorne (who was ''coincidentally' jailed by afformentioned Mia), her identical Twin Iris (who was Phoenix Wright's girlfriend in university)... Pretty much ''all'' females who appear in more than one case in the first three games, safe Maggey and Adrian, can be safely assumed to be a Fey. Turns out even ''Bikini'' is one. And those who are ''not'' Feys are sure to have [[OneDegreeOfSeparation some kind of connection]] to them. Especially bad with Phoenix, whose life seems to have been ''determined'' by the Fey Clan ever since loooong before he knew that it even existed.]]

** Oh, and don't let us get started on [[spoiler: the Feys. Mia, Maya, Pearl, Morgan, Elise Deauxnim, serial killer Dahlia Hawthorne (who was jailed by afformentioned Mai), her identical Twin Iris (who was Phoenix Wright's girlfriend in university)... Pretty much ''all'' female who appear in more than one case in the first three games, safe Maggey and Adrian, can be safely assumed to be a Fey. Turns out even ''Bikini'' is one. And those who are ''not'' Feys are sure to have [[OneDegreeOfSeparation some kind of connection]] to them. Especially bad with Phoenix, whose life seems to have been ''determined'' by the Fey Clan ever since loooong before he knew that it even existed.]]

Compare YouAllShareMyStory and SummersFamilyTree.

** [[FlameBait While not on so small a timescale]], all the humans in the world ''are'' [[VivaLaEvolution descended from a common ancestor]].

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* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' is another example. With each season, more familial bonds spring up between main characters that originally lived on completely different continents.
** Then again, powers are genetic, so it's a convenient way to introduce a new character with powers by saying they're a relative.
* As mentioned in the trope, most Soap Operas tend toward this eventually. If nothing else, it's an inevitable consequence of the constant marriage and divorce of everyone in the show.
* ''{{Lost}}'' has had a few. Jack and Claire [[spoiler: are half-siblings.]] We had met Widmore, Eloise, and Daniel in seasons 2, 3, and 4, respectively, but it wasn't till season 5 that we found out Widmore and Eloise [[spoiler: are Daniel's parents.]]
** Which makes Penny [[spoiler: Daniel's half-sister]], and Desmond and Daniel- who were already good friends- [[spoiler: brothers-in-law.]]
** Hilariously enough, [[spoiler: this means that if Jack and Kate's marriage had worked out, they could have gotten custody of Aaron legally.]]
* In the {{Outlander}} series, characters are revealed to be related even though they were born TWO CENTURIES APART.
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* Most of the wizarding families in HarryPotter are related in one way or another, especially through the Black family. One of Harry Potter's grandmothers was a Black. Ron Weasley likewise had a Black (a different black) as a grandmother. Draco Malfoy's mother was Narcissa Black before she married. Likewise, not only was one of Neville Longbottom's grandparents a member of the Black family, his mother Alice was a member of the Prewett family, and a cousin to Molly (Prewett) Weasley. And that's just the major characters...

** And of course, by the end of the story [[spoiler:the power trio are all Weasleys by marriage or blood.]]

** [[FlameBait While not on so small a timescale]], all the humans in the world ''are'' [[VivaLaEvolution descended from a common ancestor]]. Not, ultimately, a ''human'' ancestor...

*** However, both Elrond and Elros descends from Elwing, Dior and finally Luthien, who is the daughter of Melian - one of [[BigBad Sauron]]'s sister demigods. In other words: "[[LukeIAmYourFather Aragorn, I am your great-uncle]]". Of course, the other uncle is Gandalf...

** Yes, Aragorn and Arwen are related. So are Arwen's parents, Elrond and Celebrian. And Celebrian's - Galadriel and Celeborn. And Elrond's maternal grandparents. All of them are in fact descended from the three brothers Elwë (Elu Thingol), Olwë and Elmo; Galadriel and Elrond are also the granddaughter and great-great-great-grandson of Finwë respectively.

** Yes, Aragorn and Arwen are related. So are Arwen's parents, Elrond and Celebrian. And Celebrian's - Galadriel and Celeborn. And Elrond's maternal grandparents. All of them are in fact descended from three brothers.

* Ever try to make a CardcaptorSakura family tree? If they ain't related, they're dating...or they're related AND dating.

* John Kerry and George W. Bush are ninth cousins twice-removed, as well as Bush being distantly related to Winston Churchill and people on the Mayflower. Bush is also related to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_family#Other_U.S._presidents Franklin Pierce, George Washington, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford]]. Wow.

Compare YouAllShareMyStory and SummersFamilyTree. See also OneDegreeOfSeparation and AlreadyMetEveryone.

* Alright, MahouSenseiNegima. I'm just going to put this whole thing in spoilers: [[spoiler: Negi and Asuna are related by blood, and Negi's dad's group has ties to Asuna, Konoka, Evangeline, Takamichi, and the Headmaster. Konoka's bodyguard/love interest Setsuna is the sempai of now-villainous Tsukuyomi. Chao is a time traveling descendent of Negi's, and helped create Chachamaru with Hakase. Zazi was recently revealed to be friends with the BigBad, Yuuna's mom was revealed to be a mage, and Misora was in on magic to begin with, as was Mana.]] To be fair, not everyone is related, but at this rate, it won't take long.