Basic Trope: Pets tend to resemble their owners.
- Straight: Bob has orange hair and green eyes, and so does his pet cat.
- Exaggerated:
- All of the pets resemble their owners.
- Bob's cat has all of Bob's defining characteristics, such as the scar on his right eye.
- Downplayed: Bob's cat has the same eye color as him.
- Justified: Bob specifically wanted to find a cat that looked like him.
- Bob used Bio-Augmentation to make a cat resemble him.
- Inverted: Somehow, owners resemble their pets.
- Subverted: We see Bob with a cat that looks a lot like him but it's just a random stray cat on the street - it's not his.
- Double Subverted: Then, Bob realizes it's his long-lost pet and takes it home.
- Parodied:
- Bob is a Funny Animal cat who also owns a pet cat, and they both look very similar.
- A Running Gag is how similar Bob and his cat look, to the point in which The Ditz actually mistakes them for each other.
- Zig-Zagged: Some pets resemble their owners, and others don't.
- Averted: No pets are shown to resemble their owners.
- Enforced: "I think we should make Bob's cat look like him. It can add some Fridge Brilliance if we do it well."
- Lampshaded: "My cat looks and acts just like me!"
- Invoked:
- Bob actively seeks to adopt a ginger cat with green eyes.
- Bob and his cat dress similarly for a look-alike contest.
- Exploited:
- Bob's cat gains shapeshifting powers that allow him to turn human under a gibbous moon, and he uses his visual similarities to Bob to play tricks on the dog.
- Bob's cat goes missing, and he is able to figure out where his cat is by ask someone else to help him finds a cat that looks like him.
- Defied: Bob decides to get a pet that looks nothing like him.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Horror:
- Bob's cat steals his identity.
- Bob is regressing into an animalistic state.
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