Basic Trope: A child possesses physical features from both of their parents.
- Straight: Carol, the daughter of Alice and Bob, has Alice's blonde hair and button nose and Bob's green eyes and square face.
- Exaggerated: Carol literally looks as though parts of Alice and Bob were stitched together to form a child.
- Downplayed: Carol doesn't have many features that resemble her parents.
- Justified: Carol was genetically altered to resemble both of her parents.
- Inverted:
- Carol and David's mother Alice has Carol's black hair and almond-shaped eyes and David's blue eye colour and freckles.
- Carol looks absolutely nothing like anyone in her family, even though she isn't adopted.
- Subverted: It turns out that Carol is actually adopted.
- Double Subverted: ..The birth certificate was wrong, Carol is the truly biological daughter of Alice and Bob.
- Parodied:
- Carol is literally a Hermaphrodite with combined male and female traits from her parents.
- Carol is some kind of horrific Frankenstein's Monster comprised of different bits and parts of Alice and Bob's genes.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Alice and Bob do not have children.
- Carol resembles either her mother or her father, not both.
- Enforced: There has to be a way to show the audience that the children are biologically related to both their parents.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: With Designer Babies, Alice and Bob can pick the traits that should apply to their children.
- 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.
- Defied: Alice and Bob seek out the help of the local Mad Scientist to make their child looks completely distinctive from them.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Carol shares some traits with Alice and Bob, but they're Ambiguously Related.
- Played for Laughs: ???
- Played for Drama: Carol is bullied due to the odd appearances that she derives from both of her parents.
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