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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'', Count D's dad is portrayed throughout the series as a nasty piece of work, a [[Manipulative Bastard]] supreme. It's surprising then, when a short story reveals that D's dad was much like his son when he was younger, to the point he even had a "Leon" of his own in the form of Vesca Howell—a loud mouthed and brash best friend who he was exceedingly fond of {{spoiler|but whom he ultimately abandoned, just as D abandoned Leon at the end of ''Petshop''}}. The elder D's later "madness", {{spoiler|and the fact that he and Howell were eventually responsible for each other's deaths}}, doesn't bode well for his son, especially given the "Count D" family's odd connection to karma.
* As much as Tomoya Okazaki of ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' hates his father for neglecting him to dull the pain of his mother's death {{spoiler|he has become exactly the same to his own little girl Ushio to forget that her birth killed Nagisa. Thankfully, both cases get better. [[Tear Jerker|And worse.]] [[Retcon|And better, again]].}}
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** [[Brilliant but Lazy|Nara men]] [[Opposites Attract|have a thing for]] [[Tsundere|Troublesome Women]], [[Ship Tease|probably]].
** This trope is taken to its most absurd conclusion in chapter 533, where its revealed that the Sarutobi-Ino-Shika-Cho formation goes back ''16 generations''. This could be justified because of the fact that their skills complement each other.
** And now that the sequel featuring the new generation is out, there is Boruto, Naruto's son, who is simultaneously identical and yet [[Contrasting Sequel Character|completely different]] to his dad.
* [[The Hero]] [[Flame of Recca|Recca]] finds out he is exactly like his birth father, Oka when they finally meet. And coincidentally, he is exactly like his adopted father as well!
** Brutally averted with his half brother Kurei who unlike his adopted father, actually cares about his real friends and has plenty of redeeming qualities.
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** Also Kenshin's son, Kenji. Takes after his father in both appearance and the whole [[Walking the Earth]] and swordsmanship thing. And the cute-looking girlfriend with long black hair.
* A [[Hot Scientist]] gets involved with one of her bosses, [[Love Martyr|is used and manipulated by her lover]], [[Heroic BSOD|breaks down horribly]] when she realizes what has been truly going on, sees a very young girl as her rival {{spoiler|and kills her, sorta}}, and ultimately meets her doom in quite the fucked up way. Dr. Ritsuko Akagi of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', or her mother Naoko? Note that said boss happens to be '''the same for both'''.
** It is indicated that some of the problems between [["Well Done, Son" Guy|Shinji and his father]] are a result of the fact that both of them are very socially awkward. Furthermore, they share a depression induced by not being accepted by their peers, which is especially present when seeing the flashbacks of
** Also, in a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]], both Kaji and Toji [[Accidental Pervert|accidently cop a feel]] on Misato and Asuka respectively. The girls angrily tell them to keep their hands to themselves, with the boys saying they can't help it.
* ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'', so much.
** ''JJBA'' runs in both this and in the main characters [[Contrasting Sequel Character|being opposite on temper and skills (and sometimes morality)
* Seiichirou Kitano from ''[[Angel Densetsu]]'' not only is as scary as his father. He gets in the same exact problems at school because of that, and knows his girlfriend only when she understands he's [[The Messiah]]. Exactly the same as his father's. The only, marginal, difference between the two is that Seiichirou trades in being [[The Juggernaut]] (on top of being a [[Lightning Bruiser]]) for a metric ton of [[Selective Obliviousness]].
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'': Our main character is an over-powered [[Magical Girl Warrior]] despite being an elementary schoolgirl. Her first magic teacher is Yuuno, [[Those Two Guys|she has a pair of ordinary friends of contrasting personalities]], and looming over the horizon is a brooding, mysterious [[Dark Magical Girl]] rival who [[I Have the High Ground|enjoys balancing on high places]] and is every bit her equal. Now, is this Nanoha Takamachi in the first season or Vivio Takamachi in ''[[Nanoha Vivid|ViVid]]''? Of course, unlike her Nanoha-mama, Vivio has the advantage of the old cast looking after her, {{spoiler|1=so while [[Dark Magical Girl]] Fate remained at large for the entire first season, [[Dark Magical Girl]] Heidi got [[Defeat Means Friendship|befriended]] almost immediately at the start of ''ViVid'' when her attempt at [[The Worf Effect]] on [[Hollywood Cyborg|Nove]] backfired on her}}.
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* ''[[Hanasaku Iroha]]'' shows that Ohana's mother Satsuki was a lot like her daughter when she was younger (complete with the same voice actress). The situations were reversed (other work vs the inn), but played out exactly the same.
* In ''[[Mai-Otome]]'', both Arika and her mother {{spoiler|Lena Sayers}} have a blonde friend who is [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|apparently a lesbian]] and {{spoiler|turns out to be secretly working against them; Erstin for Schwarz, Elliot for a Five Columns conspiracy to kill Sifr (although she decides to oppose the Columns and rescue Sifr with Lena)}}. Arika and Nina's personalities are similar to {{spoiler|Lena}} and Sifr's, although {{spoiler|the roles are reversed; Arika's mother Lena is like a somewhat more relaxed but still consistently serious Nina, and Nina's mother Sifr is like Arika}}.
* ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'' gave us the worthwhile [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJWQybYBE80 Parallel Works 8] which covers at least seven years of time. It shows a boy finding a Gurren [[After the End]], creating and leading [[La Résistance]], then rebuilding a civilization capable of challenging the Anti-Spirals.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Criminal]]'' is all over this trope. Particularly in the case of Tracy Lawless, who like his father Teeg, {{spoiler|is a war veteran who robbed the wrong person and ended up in service to Sebastian Hyde.}}
* Both played straight and subverted for all it's worth in ''[[Runaways]]''.
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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* ''[[Memories of Days Long Past]]''
* Especially common in ''[[Ranma ½]]'' and ''[[Harry Potter]]'' (Marauders or next generation) [[Fanfic]]. Even before the Deathly Hallows epilogue.
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** Hell, the Sailor Moon fanseries "''Sailor Moon Z(odiac)''" does this with by giving almost every named character a Silver Millenium counterpart, up to and including (Insert Name Here)'s family status and relationships!
* Ninety-nine percent of "[[Next Gen Fic|Offspring Fic]]" use this, no matter ''what'' the fandom. Magical-girls will grow up ad produce magical-girls of their own, [[One Piece|the children of pirates and swordsmen will go off and form their own crews all made up of the children of the previous crew]]...There is a ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni|Higurashi]]'' fic with the offspring of all the canon characters, and there was a massive [[Groundhog Day Loop]] going on, with the offspring going insane in the exact order of their parents!
* Shiratamama's [
* In the ''[[Pokémon]]'' fanfiction of [[Cori Falls]], it's revealed that Jessie's parents met under similar circumstances to her and James, and had similar adventures together. They even met Ash's dad, who has almost the exact same name as Ash himself (and Ash later goes on to act like him as an adult). In fact, the implications are that the Generation Xerox affects not only Jessie's and James's immediate families but every single one of their family members from before or after them.
* In ''[[White Rain]]'', Sakura uses something similar to Kakashi's bell test on her own genin team... with her own twist.
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'', we learn that Captain Kirk had a father who looked almost exactly like him, and was even Captain of the USS ''Kelvin'' ([[Death by Origin Story|though only for 12 minutes)]].
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* The eventual fates of [[Alpha Bitch|Hatsumomo]] and [[Cool Big Sis|Mameha]] of ''[[Memoirs of a Geisha]]'' were similar to their apprentices, Pumpkin and Sayuri. Pumpkin became bitter and hateful like Hatsumomo, degrading herself, holding a grudge against Sayuri for ruining her future. Sayuri on the other hand became like Mameha, successful and was able to survive the worst of [[World War Two]] and still maintain the gracefulness that they once had when they were prosperous.
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter]]'', this cuts both ways. Harry's father and his cohorts from their days at Hogwarts, the Marauders, map well onto Harry and ''his'' friends—and he meets every single one of them before the end of the third book. And {{spoiler|the "first day at Hogwarts" at the end of ''Deathly Hallows'' is a dead ringer for Harry's own "first day" way back in ''Philosopher's Stone''. This is emphasised when Harry's daughter Lily whines that she wants to go to Hogwarts ''now'' to her mother, Ginny... whose own mother said the same thing six books earlier.}}
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== [[Live
* Although the various generations of the ''[[Blackadder]]'' family are accompanied by [[Bumbling Sidekick|Baldrick]] and an [[Upper Class Twit]], it's not until ''Blackadder Goes Forth'' that we get a real sense of history repeating, with more recurring characters from previous series than before, including one-off characters who take their own plotlines from the earlier series with them (Bob the [[Sweet Polly Oliver]], for instance, or Nurse Mary, who's a WWI version of Amy Hardwood from ''Third''). The fact the basic set-up is similar to ''Blackadder II'' (Edmund, Balders and the twit are all based in location 1. Blackadder is frequently summoned to location 2 where an obsequious hanger-on with equal status tries to get him in trouble with a psychotic loon who has power of life and death over everyone involved) is just the icing on the cake.
* In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' universe Dr. Soong was an eccentric scientist, whose work on creating artificial humanoids made him distrusted. One of his more powerful creations turned out to be a conscienceless monster who had to be stopped by the crew of the ''Enterprise''. Another, however, was a good person who aided the ''Enterprise'' crew in this. Arik (and Malik and Udar) from ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' or Noonien (and Lore and Data) from ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''?
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== [[Music]] ==
* Offspring's "Way Down the Line" is entirely about this trope.
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== [[Radio]] ==
* Subverted in the ''Stanley Baxter's Playhouse'' episode "The King's Kilt", when Miss MacEvoy, descendent of the kindly landlady from Walter Scott's ''The Chronicles of Canongate'', turns out to be a nasty, bad-tempered woman, who is insanely suspicious of the guests at her B&B. However, it's [[Double Subversion|double subverted]] when it's revealed the original Janet MacEvoy was just as bad, but was blackmailing Sir Walter into his portrayal.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Prior Walter, the protagonist of ''[[Angels in America]]'' has an extensive family history; the Walters go back for centuries, and Prior is an old family name. Not too long after discovering he is suffering from AIDS, Prior is visited by the ghosts of two of his ancestors, both of whom were also named Prior, and both of whom also suffered from fatal diseases and (as is implied might happen to Prior) died alone.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'', due to the bleeding effect.
* An interesting example happens in ''[[Deus Ex: Invisible War]]'', where {{spoiler|the lead character turns out to be the descendent of the character from the first game, kind of, and he/she faces some similar obstacles and decisions as JC Denton did the first time around.}}
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* Hinted at and ultimately subverted for Bowser and Bowser Jr in the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]]: Bowser Jr looks identical to his father's past appearances in ''[[Yoshi's Island]]'' and ''[[Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time]]'' and he also abducted Princess Peach on a few occasions, but when "Baby Bowser" was already [[The Napoleon|a little short-tempered tyrant]] on a neverending quest to take over the Mushroom Kingdom, Bowser Jr mostly wants to have fun and make his dad happy, had entirely different reasons for abducting Peach (he belives she's his mom and wants her back) and only gets violent when he feels directly threatened or is ordered to by his father.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Better Days]]'' Actually has a chapter called "[http://www.jaynaylor.com/betterdays/archives/chapter-21-fath/ Father's Footsteps]." Which reveals that the stories told to Fisk of his father's life were a lie. Instead of the honorable war hero he had believed his father to be, Jim was actually a hitman working for a secret underground operation who fought terrorist on a "more direct front" to defend the U.S., using Vietnam as his cover. One of the characters who explain this met Fisk in his adolescence ealier in the comic and was Jim's friend. Aside from one question accompanied by a frown, Fisk doesn't seem at all angered, dismayed, or even shocked by this ground breaking discovery. He of course hastily agrees to begin training for this new venture eventhough Beth was expecting him to come live with her and lead a more domestic life once his army contract expired.
* Surma sends her daughter Antimony to the same school as she herself attended -- ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. It seems as if Annie's parents were the only members of that generation who moved away from the court, since Annie runs into most of her parents' social circle (who are now teachers), befriending the daughter (Kat) of Surma's friends. She also meets another acquaintance of Surma's -- Reynardine. Instead of walking up to her and saying "Hello, I knew your mum," however, Reynardine comes crashing through Annie's ceiling—and she's the only student in the ''entire dorm'' to see him.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* A subversion of the "replay with last minute change" occurs in ''[[Hey Arnold!]],'' where Helga is a finalist in the same spelling bee as her sister before her... and gets the same last word, "qualm". Like her sister Olga, Helga ''does'' know how to spell the word... but deliberately misspells it, in order to defy her father and step out of Olga's shadow.
** Don't forget a different episode of the same show where Grandpa tells Arnold about his childhood and the girl that bullied him. Although it skips a generation, we learn that Pookie picked on Phil the same way Helga picks on Arnold.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Both [[Bruce Lee]] and his son, Brandon Lee, died under mysterious circumstances, leaving half-finished films behind that would later be completed posthumously (Bruce ''[[Game of Death]]'', and Brandon ''[[The Crow]]''). The similarities between their deaths led to a number of conspiracy theories involving the Triads and other Asian organized crime associations.
* Musician Tim Buckley died aged 28 of an accidental drug overdose. His son, Jeff bore a startling resemblance to his father (http://i39.tinypic.com/smelaf.jpg) and possessed a similar, albeit more wider-ranging singing voice. He died aged 30, when he got caught in the wake of a passing riverboat whilst swimming fully clothed in the Mississippi river.
* In an interesting inversion, Abe Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, was saved from nearly being killed by a train by the brother of John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth. Ironically, Robert would go on to be at the train station next to James Garfield when he was shot, as well as arriving in Buffalo right when McKinley was shot. Weird.
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* Emperor Peter III of [[Tsarist Russia|Russia]] was a staunch Prussophile militarist, had a personality which oscillated between [[Cloudcuckoolander]] and [[Ax Crazy]], hated his wife [[Catherine the Great]], and led an erratic and inconsistent internal and foreign policy. He was deposed in palace coup orchestrated by Catherine and then murdered in prison. His son Paul I was a staunch Prussophile militarist, had a personality which oscillated between [[Cloudcuckoolander]] and [[Ax Crazy]] (with hints of [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]), hated [[My Beloved Smother|his mother]] [[Catherine the Great]] (and tried to undo many of her reforms) and led an even more erratic and inconsistent internal and foreign policy. He was murdered in a palace coup [[Self-Made Orphan|tacitly supported by his estranged son]] Alexander I, who, after assuming the throne, promised that "everything will be done as it used to be done by my grandmother". Unsurprisingly, both Peter and Paul are subject to lots of [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] and [[Vindicated by History]].
* A strangely endemic situation in the Philippines, owing to the existence of warlords and political dynasties. Many present-day figures tend to either be children of, or at least descended from, long-standing families like the Cojuancos, Macapagals, Aquinos and even the Marcoses.
* Four generations of the British royal family went through a weird cycle of sad parent/son conflicts. It started with that [[
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