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1	'''Basic Trope''': A child possesses physical features from both of their parents.
2	* '''Straight''': Carol, the daughter of Alice and Bob, has Alice's blonde hair and button nose and Bob's green eyes and square face.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Carol literally looks as though parts of Alice and Bob were stitched together to form a child.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Carol doesn't have many features that resemble her parents.
5	* '''Justified''': Carol was genetically altered to resemble both of her parents.
6	* '''Inverted''':
7	** Carol and David's mother Alice has Carol's black hair and almond-shaped eyes and David's blue eye colour and freckles.
8	** [[HollywoodGenetics Carol looks absolutely nothing like anyone in her family, even though she isn't adopted]].
9	* '''Subverted''': It turns out that Carol is actually adopted.
10	* '''Double Subverted''': ..The birth certificate was wrong, Carol is the truly biological daughter of Alice and Bob.
11	* '''Parodied''':
12	** Carol is literally a {{Hermaphrodite}} with combined male and female traits from her parents.
13	** [[FleshGolem Carol]] is some kind of horrific FrankensteinsMonster comprised of different bits and parts of Alice and Bob's genes.
14	* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
15	* '''Averted''':
16	** Alice and Bob do not have children.
17	** Carol resembles either her mother or her father, not both.
18	* '''Enforced''': There has to be a way to show the audience that the children are biologically related to both their parents.
19	* '''Lampshaded''': ???
20	* '''Invoked''': With DesignerBabies, Alice and Bob can pick the traits that should apply to their children.
21	* '''Exploited''': Bob denies that Carol is his daughter, but Alice points to their shared features. Bob is shamed into paternity testing and child support payments.
22	* '''Defied''': Alice and Bob seek out the help of the local MadScientist to make their child [[DesignerBabies looks completely distinctive]] from them.
23	* '''Discussed''': ???
24	* '''Conversed''': ???
25	* '''Implied''': Carol shares some traits with Alice and Bob, but they're AmbiguouslyRelated.
26	* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
27	* '''Played for Drama''': Carol is bullied due to the odd appearances that she derives from both of her parents.
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