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* Juniper from ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'' is the Te Xuan Ze, the chosen guardian of the border between humans and monsters in Orchid Bay. This title originally belonged to her grandmother; Juniper's father can't see the supernatural and is unaware of his mother and daughter's activities. Interestingly while Juniper's younger brother Ray-Ray can see and interact with the supernatural (but lacks any powers), her older brother Dennis has no such gift.

* Juniper from ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'' is the Te Xuan Ze, the chosen guardian of the border between humans and monsters in Orchid Bay. This title originally belonged to her grandmother; Juniper's father can't see the supernatural and is unaware of his mother and daughter's activities. Interestingly why Juniper's younger brother Ray-Ray can see and interact with the supernatural (but lacks any powers), her older brother Dennis has no such gift.

* Juniper from ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'' is the Te Xuan Ze, the chosen guardian of the border between humans and monsters in Orchid Bay. This title originally belonged to her grandmother; Juniper's father can't see the supernatural and is unaware of his mother and daughter's activities. Interestingly why Juniper's younger brother Ray-Ray can seea nd interact with the supernatural (but lacks any powers), her older brother Dennis has no such gift.

* Juniper from ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'' is the Te Xuan Ze, the chosen guardian of the border between humans and monsters in Orchid Bay. This title originally belonged to her grandmother; Juniper's father can't see the supernatural and is unaware of his mother and daughter's activities.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'': The ability to use the Ripple, a form of biological energy that fuels an anti-vampire martial art, seems to be a recessive gene. Jonathan Joestar had it, but not his son George Joestar, however George's unrelated wife did, and their child Joseph Joestar had it to such a degree that it manifested even before he had any training.

* In ''Literature/TheLostYearsOfMerlin,'' magic skips generations in Merlin's family; his grandfather was a wizard, but his father only had powers when he had magical items and made a DealWithTheDevil. The SequelSeries continues this with Merlin's {{Muggle}} son and wizard grandson. Interestingly, though, even the non-magical generations are subject to [[WizardsLiveLonger centuries-long lifespans]].
* In ''Literature/InCryptid'', sorcerers rarely have sorcerer children -- the last one in the Price family before Antimony was her grandfather Thomas, and neither of her siblings have any magic powers. Averted with James's family, since [[spoiler:his ancestor made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with]] [[JackassGenie the Crossroads]] that his line's magic would always breed true]].

* The ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E06DustToDust Dust to Dust]]" has G'Kar state that the Narns' telepaths were all killed off centuries ago (indicated later to have taken place during the previous Shadow War), and the gene has never been strong enough among the remaining population to produce more. They still ''carry'' the genes, though, or else the telepathy-boosting FantasticDrug "dust" wouldn't work on them.

* In both ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' and ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' lycanthropy is explicitly stated to be recessive, mating between werewolves and ordinary humans (and wolves in the earlier game) rarely produces werewolves. Mating with carriers of the werewolf gene, who can't shift but can develop some minor powers, has a much higher chance of making werewolves. In the former game two werewolves could breed but their progeny (called metis) had deformities from metaphysical inbreeding and were sterile, the latter has gone back and forth on whether anything happened when werewolves mated with one another.

* The ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' 3.5 Edition supplement ''Races of Faerun'' states that the UnevenHybrid planetouched races (chiefly part-angel, mostly-human aasimar, part-fiend tieflings, and part-elemental genasi, though there are other combinations such as elf/fiend ''fey'ri'') can sometimes have the Outsider portion of their bloodline go dormant. This leads to several generations of the base species that may then have the Outsider traits reemerge much later.

* In ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' Victor inherited his quick healing, magic resistance and WeirdnessMagnet tendencies from his paternal grandfather, whose own grandfather is also revealed to have had it, but Victor's father was a "dud" without any such aptitude.

* ''Webcomic/FateTypeRedline'': Kanata Akagi, his younger sister, and his grandmother have magical powers, but his father doesn't.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'', Krumm's ability to produce a powerful stench has been passed down in his family for generations, but supposedly skips a generation, and thus his father does not possess the ability.

* In ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'', Raven gets her psychic powers from her mother's side of the family. Her maternal grandmother is also a clairvoyant, however her mother Tanya is not. Subverted in ''Series/RavensHome'' as one of Raven's twins (her son Booker) inherits her psychic powers, however Raven doesn't know this.

* ''Webcomic/FateTypeRedline'': Kanata Akagi and his grandmother have magical powers, but his father doesn't.

* In ''Anime/DevilHunterYohko'', the titular character's mother never became a demon hunter because she lost her virginity at age 15 and was unable to inherit the title.

** There's siblings where one (or some) of them are magical but others aren't. Harry's mother Lily was a witch but her sister Petunia isn't. One of the Gryffindor boys the year below Harry, Colin Creevey, is a muggle born and his brother, Dennis, comes to Hogwarts in the fourth book. Hermione was supposed to have a muggle sister but she got the axe once Rowling got to the fifth book and hadn't found a way to work her in.

* ''Series/TheWitcher2019'': Ciri's grandmother also had her ability, but it skipped her mother.

* In ''Webcomic/SteelCityMoon,'' lycanthropy is specifically stated to be recessive; the protagonist has it, while his parents are normal humans who each have had werewolf relatives. (Whether his younger brother has it remains to be seen.) His main mentor is his paternal grandfather, whose deceased brother was the most recent werewolf in the family.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong,'' dragonhood skips generations in Jake’s family. Jake, his sister and maternal grandfather are WereDragons, but his mom is normal (as is his dad, [[LockedOutOfTheLoop who doesn't even know about any of this]]).

* Juniper from ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'' is the Te Xuan Ze, the chosen guardian of the border between humans and monsters in Orchid Bay. This title originally belonged to her grandmother, Juniper's father having skipped that title and thus is unaware of the supernatural.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' dragonhood skips generations in Jake’s family. Jake's parents are humans but he, his sister, and his maternal grandpa are dragons.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BenTen'' Gwen's grandmother was an EnergyBeing with magic-like powers. Her parents seem to be just human but she has the powers, and it's implied could become an energy being. She inherited this from her Anodite grandmother, even though her father's generation was skipped.

* In ''Film/TeenWolf'' the eponymous Teen Wolf's father is also a werewolf. He didn't tell his son about it because sometimes it skips a generation, so until it manifested there was no need to worry him.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BenTen'' Gwen's grandmother was an EnergyBeing with magic-like powers. Her parents seem to be just human but she has the powers, and it's implied could become an energy being.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'', being a Navigator (a type of Psyker) is a recessive gene. As psykers are typically avoided by the general population and Navigators are very egotistical, this suits both parties just fine. However it also means that the Navigator Houses are extremely inbred.

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* In ''Film/TeenWolf'' the eponymous Teen Wolf's father is also a werewolf. He didn't tell his son about it because sometimes it skips a generation, so until it manifested there was no need to worry him.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' dragonhood apparently skips a generation. Jake's parents are humans but he and his grandpa are dragons.

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