Shared Family Quirks in Video Games.
- Bug Fables:
- Both Vi and her sister Jaune have a tendency to cross their arms over their waists in an identical manner whenever they are annoyed.
- Leif always drapes his wings around his body like a mantle. When asked about it, he mentions that he inherited this trait from his father, and his descendant from the Ant Kingdom also drapes his wings around his body in an identical manner.
- Cat Poke is about a child named Molly who likes to poke her pet cats in the butt. In the end, we find out her mom also like to poke butts. So she pokes Molly's.
- Devil May Cry 5:
- Nico has the habit of stuttering when she's excited or nervous. She get's it from her father, Agnus.
- Nero and Dante both seem to like to nap with a magazine over their face. Dante later reveals that his twin Vergil is Nero's father, making Dante his uncle.
- In EarthBound Beginnings, you find Lloyd, your second party member, hiding in a trash can on the roof of his school from bullies. Later on, in the swamp, you find a character who claims to be Lloyd's father. Hiding in a trash can.
- In the Japanese versions of Fire Emblem: Awakening and Fire Emblem Fates, child characters share at least one Critical Hit quote with their parents. This is downplayed in the English localization, which only kept a few of these. (e.g. Chrom's "Anything can change!" and Lucina's "I challenge my fate!" were originally the same line, with minor politeness differences)
- Many children in Fire Emblem Fates adopt quirks from their fathers. To wit:
- Selkie adopts her playful attitude from her father, Kaden.
- Both Velouria and her father, Keaton, are fond of collecting "treasure".
- Soliel is a flirt, not unlike her old man Laslow. She even adopts his taste in women!
- Ophelia and her father, Odin, both have a flair for the dramatic.
- Percy is a justice-loving hero, much like his father Arthur.
- Caledori is a natural-born genius who, like her father Subaki, strives for perfection.
- In Horizon Zero Dawn, the siblings Ersa and Erend have a thing for foreigners with parental issues, as shown by their attraction to Avad and Aloy respectively.
- I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: If the protagonist tells their dad that they're doing fine and don't need a break, he remarks that they're just as stubborn as their mom: they both refuse to "admit they're having a hard time".
- The Legend of Zelda:
- In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the Pond Owner compulsively scratches himself and thinks that anyone using the Sinking Lure to fish is cheating. In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Hena, the proprietor of the Fishing Hole and a possible descendant of the Pond Owner, also compulsively scratches herself and thinks that anyone using the Sinking Lure to fish is cheating.
- Ocarina of Time 3D features a retroactive example where Link occasionally twirls his sword in the same manner as his descendant from Twilight Princess.
- In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Kass is a Wandering Minstrel who is involved in a series of quests where he uses his songs to guide Link on the latter's quest, usually pointing the player to some hidden Shrine. His five daughters also inadvertently use the song they are practicing to help Link uncover a Shrine.
- LISA: The Painful RPG: All four Hernandez brothers have the same shirtless body type and are all linked to transportation. Fardy fixes the bridge leading to Area 2 and provides the Truck Keys, Shardy takes the group to secret islands if given the appropriate map, Tardy builds the boat to follow after Buddy to the Deserted Island, and Lardy in Joyful transports supplies over Olathe.
- Metal Gear:
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater reveals that Naked Snake/Big Boss had an affinity for cardboard boxes like his son/clone Solid Snake. According to the cardboard box trophy for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Liquid Snake, Big Boss's other clone/son, shares this affinity for cardboard. We have yet to hear as to whether or not Solidus, the third brother, shares in the familial corrugated joy.
- Otacon, his sister Emma, and their father Huey all have a tendency to pee themselves when frightened.
- Onmyōji (2016) has En'enra and her younger brother the Hair Eater who are both sexually attractive and flirty kiseru smokers.
- Pokémon:
- In Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, your rival (Canon Name: Barry), is always in a rush and is rather impatient. This is shared with his father, Tower Tycoon Palmer, who runs into the player just like his son does.
- In Pokémon Sword and Shield, when you face your rival, Hop during the Tournament Arc, his battle animations change for that particular battle. When you later face his older brother, Champion Leon, he uses the same animations. Similarly, Sonia plays with her hair while talking just like how her grandmother Professor Magnolia plays with the chains on her glasses.
- In Star Ocean: The Second Story, Claude has a habit of rating the party's performance on a scale of one to ten after a battle. Ilia Silvestri also displayed this quirk back in the first game, which supports the theory that she's his mother. In the fifth game, their descendant Emmerson D. Kenny also does this despite being about two hundred years removed. Claude also uses a few of Ilia's Killer Moves.
- Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns: Despite Komari and Ginjiro butting heads about what works better to season eggs, the two hate rice mixed with dairy products. Yoghurt Rice and Milk Congee are their most hated gift, respectively. And in the EU version of the game, both share Okonomiyaki as their favorite dish. note
- In Tales of Symphonia, Lloyd and his father both dislike tomatoes.
- In Tales of Xillia 2, Ludger and his older brother Julius actually love tomatoes. In contrast, Ludger's daughter Elle hates them.
- In Tekken 8's character select screen, most of the "children" of Heihachi Mishima (his legitimate son Kazuya, his loyal pet Kuma, and his bastard daughter Reina) perform a Badass Armfold — the former when hovering over his icon, and the latter two when actually selected. Notably, his bastard son Lars, who wants nothing to do with the Mishima family chaos, doesn't cross his arms.
- Undertale:
- Flowey is one of only two inhabitants of the underground to greet people with "howdy", the other being his father Asgore. Both also make the exact same face when struck by Toriel's fire magic. Flowey also shares another more subtle trait with his mother Toriel: they're the only ones whose giggles go "hee hee hee".
- Likewise, Chara greets people the same way their mother does and takes after her formal and sophisticated way of speaking. If they are indeed the Narrator All Along, they also share her love of wordplay and silly jokes.
- The winter alarm clock dialogue added to the official Undertale website as part of the 5th anniversary celebration reveals another shared quirk: Asriel fills glasses all the way to the brim, a trait he learned from someone Toriel knew a long time ago who claimed it to be the most efficient way. It's heavily implied by her interaction with Asgore when it's brought up that this person was either Asgore himself, or their adopted child Chara.
- World of Warcraft: In the Azsuna region, there are a pair of quest-givers named Kallistia and Olothil Starlance who have come looking for their parents. Kallistia has a tendency to cast spells on her brother when she gets excited, and when you find their parents, their mother does the same thing to her husband.
- In Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Nia sleeps splayed on her back and arms outstretched, which is shared by her daughter Mio in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and great great grandson Matthew in Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed.
