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{{quote|''History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.''|'''[[Mark Twain|Samuel Clemens]]'''}}

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** Part of the drama/storyline is that Generation Xerox is present, but also a curse of types. Sasuke is the biggest example/offender that he seems like silly putty. Is he going to be a copy of Kakashi, Orochimaru, Itachi or Madara?

** And in chapter 499, we learn that {{spoiler|Naruto's mother, Kushina, was the previous [[Sealed Evil in A Can|jinchuriki of the Nine-tails]].}}

*** He also takes after her in almost every way. They're [[Hot Blooded]], like ramen, have similar [[Verbal Tic|Verbal Tics]] (his "dattebayo" vs. her "dattebane")...

*** He also takes after her in almost every way. They're [[Hot-Blooded]], like ramen, have similar [[Verbal Tic|Verbal Tics]] (his "dattebayo" vs. her "dattebane")...

** Relatedly, it is eventually hinted that Naruto is very much like Kurama was when he was young. Who is Kurama? {{spoiler|The nine tailed fox, of course}}.

** [[Brilliant but Lazy|Nara men]] [[Opposites Attract|have a thing for]] [[Tsundere|Troublesome Women]], [[Ship Tease|probably]].

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** Roger and Rayleigh's first meeting (particularly in the anime) has parallels to Luffy and Zoro's first meeting. Roger wanted Rayleigh to join him with Rayleigh refusing. And the boat they started with was a small one.

** Franky and Iceburg's adoptive father built the Oro Jackson, the ship that Gold Roger used to conquer the Grandline. {{spoiler|After Going Merry's death, Franky and Iceburg would be the ones to build Thousand Sunny for the Straw Hats.}}

* The final episode of ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'', the second season of ''[[Digimon]]'', ends with a [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] in which {{spoiler|all twelve of the heroes from the past two seasons bring their children to the Digital World for a get-together. Not only do many of the kids look somewhat like their parents, but ALL their partner Digimon are lower-level forms of their parents' own partner Digimon.}} This scene is [[Fanon Discontinuity|not popular with the fans]], though that's mainly for [[Ship to Ship Combat|shipping-related]] [[Official Couple|reasons.]]

* The final episode of ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'', the second season of ''[[Digimon]]'', ends with a [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] in which {{spoiler|all twelve of the heroes from the past two seasons bring their children to the Digital World for a get-together. Not only do many of the kids look somewhat like their parents, but ALL their partner Digimon are lower-level forms of their parents' own partner Digimon.}} This scene is [[Fanon Discontinuity|not popular with the fans]], though that's mainly for [[Ship-to-Ship Combat|shipping-related]] [[Official Couple|reasons.]]

* Rapidly subverted in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' manga, which has the earnest, 10-year-old genius mage Negi following in the footsteps of his hugely-famous [[Disappeared Dad]], the "Thousand Master" Nagi... Only later Nagi is shown to be a laidback magic school dropout who --although quite powerful-- had to read spells off of a card and resorted to cheap tricks whenever possible (like, say, [[Mundane Solution|luring a certain vampire into a covered hole in the ground]]). In power and personality, they're completely different, and Negi increases the divide even further by choosing {{spoiler|the powers of darkness}}.

** That all said MANY comparisons can be made between generations, and grow with each relevation: Negi=Nagi, Kotarou=Jack Rakan, Setsuna=Eishun, and of course Ala Alba=Ala Rubra. For that matter Albrieo Imma is rather mischevious and the team healer, like Konoka. And with the Nagi calling the Zect his "master" recalls Eva.

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** ''Geass'' contains another, more layered example: Lelouch tells Suzaku that despite the difference in their social status, they can still be friends, citing the example of the first Britannian Emperor and the original Knight of One, who were also lifelong friends (as detailed in the history lessons [[All There in the Manual|in the DVD inserts]]). This is also true of Emperor Charles and ''his'' Knight of One, Bismarck Waldstein {{spoiler|and again when Lelouch usurps the throne and Suzaku, having patched up their differences, serves as his Knight of Zero}}.

* A flat chested sorceress from Zephilia meets a mercenary swordsman and they fall in love while fighting to make a buck. Lina Inverse and Gourry Gabriev from ''[[Slayers]]'', or Lina's parents?

* A rough-looking [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]] from the north punches his way through adversity, [[No Sense of Direction|gets lost easily]] and is very [[Hot Blooded]]. [[Rurouni Kenshin|Sanosuke Sagara, or his father Kamishimoemon]]?

* A rough-looking [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]] from the north punches his way through adversity, [[No Sense of Direction|gets lost easily]] and is very [[Hot-Blooded]]. [[Rurouni Kenshin|Sanosuke Sagara, or his father Kamishimoemon]]?

** 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'''.

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*** But [[Futurama|that just raises further questions]] since {{spoiler|at least one member of the first generation is still alive.}}

* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Ichigo Kurosaki and Uryuu Ishida's interactions are almost carbon copies of the interaction between their fathers, Isshin Kurosaki and Ryuken Ishida. {{spoiler|And both sons have the same powers as their fathers: Ichigo is a Soul Reaper like Isshin (though Ichigo only recently learnt this) and Ryuken has the same Quincy powers that Uryuu has, only much stronger.}} The relationship between Ichigo and Uryuu seems to be slightly friendlier than those between their fathers, though.

* ''[[Dragonball]] GT'' is particularly blatant with [[Identical Grandson|Son Goku]] [[Dead Guy Junior|Jr.]] (and later Vegeta Jr.) in the TV special and the [[Distant Finale]] of the final episode.

* ''[[Dragonball]] GT'' is particularly blatant with [[Identical Grandson|Son Goku]] [[Dead Guy, Junior|Jr.]] (and later Vegeta Jr.) in the TV special and the [[Distant Finale]] of the final episode.

** As well in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' with Bardock, Goku and Chibi Goten.

** Subverted somewhat with Gohan, who seems to start off as something of daddy's boy, even surpassing Goku in potential, but whose gentle, pacifistic nature ultimately drives him to abandon his father's fighting legacy.

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*** It depends on what you qualify as "repenting". Moments before {{spoiler|his sister Jaina}} kills him, he seems to realize that he was as much of an idiot as his grandfather was. Unfortunately, he only realizes this {{spoiler|at about the same time he's stabbed through the chest}}.

*** In the [[Young Jedi Knights]] series, Jaina is described as looking a lot like Leia, but her personality more resembles Han. Leia, meanwhile, shares her mother's affection for interesting hair arrangements.

*** Leia's very similar to her mother in lots of other ways, being a [[Politically Active Princess]], [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]], [[Brainy Brunette]] [[Action Girl]]. Luke also seems to have gained some traits from her, most noticeably nearly-ironclad morality, an amazing amount of compassion, and a seemingly endless capacity to forgive.

*** Leia's very similar to her mother in lots of other ways, being a [[Politically-Active Princess]], [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]], [[Brainy Brunette]] [[Action Girl]]. Luke also seems to have gained some traits from her, most noticeably nearly-ironclad morality, an amazing amount of compassion, and a seemingly endless capacity to forgive.

* In ''[[Forrest Gump]]'', both Bubba's mother and Lieutenant Dan are depicted as coming from long lines of service (the Blue clan comes from a long line of servants, and Lieutenant Dan's ancestors had died in each of America's wars.) In both cases, it's Forrest's intervention that breaks their cycles: He saves Lieutenant Dan from death (but not from losing his legs) in Vietnam, and he gives Bubba's mother a cut of his shrimping money (the last scene she's in has someone serving her.)

* ''[[Mamma Mia]]!'' has a mild version: Sophie's relationship with her best friends Ali and Lisa is identical to that of her mother Donna and ''her'' best friends Tanya and Rosie - both groups have their own friendship chants and the similarity is [[Lampshaded]] in a later scene when both groups unwittingly have a near identical conversation.

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* Played with in ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]''. Everyone thinks Welkin is following in his war-hero father's footsteps, while what he really wants is to become a teacher.

* In ''[[Harvest Moon]] DS (or [[Distaff Counterpart|Cute]])'', all the characters are descendants of the characters from ''A Wonderful Life'' and ''Friends of Mineral Town''. They look the same (and most of them even have the same names, but only in the English version... although their original names were just small variations upon the ancestors' name, such as Sepiria [AWL!Celia] -> Serena [DS!Celia]), except for a few minor details in some of the characters (like eye color), act the same and fall in love with the same people.

** Tree of Tranquility takes this to an absurd point. If you start a [[New Game ~~Plus~~]],you get to play as your son, or daughter, who looks [[Identical Grandson|exactly]] like you,or your opposite gender counterpart. Also, the villagers ''revert back to their original statuses''.

** Tree of Tranquility takes this to an absurd point. If you start a [[New Game+]],you get to play as your son, or daughter, who looks [[Identical Grandson|exactly]] like you,or your opposite gender counterpart. Also, the villagers ''revert back to their original statuses''.

** What about Elli in ''HM: 64''/''Back To Nature''/''Friends of Mineral Town'', who is very similar to {{spoiler|her grandmother, Ellen (yes, the old lady!) who was an eligible bachelorette in the original game for the Super Nintendo}}? To an even greater extent (especially in ''HM:64'', though it's never been confirmed she's Nina's granddaughter), there's Popuri.

** It's quite loose whether {{spoiler|Ellen is the Ellen from SNES. She could be Ellen and Pete's daughter who shares her mom's name, for all we know.}} They have different jobs, for example.

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** And taken to ridiculous extents in ''[[The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks]]''. As if an army of [[The Hero|Links]] and [[Everything's Better With Princesses|Zeldas]] wasn't already enough.

*** Technically though, we only know certain Zeldas are related; few if any of the Links are explicitly related by blood, and generally they just seem to be random coincidences contrived by fate.

** And it ''ain't'' just Link and Zelda. Many Zeldas were raised by an Impa. There's also more than one Anju who needs you to get her chickens back, ''and'' more than one Guru-Guru playing the Song of Storms in a windmill. (Interestingly, in both cases, you get the characters unnamed in ''[[The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', named [[And You Were There|but with different roles]] in ''[[The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask]]'', then they return in other games with their OOT roles but their MM names.) There are also a lot of identical mailmen - even the ''bird guy'' who's a mailman looks less like the other Rito and more like the usual mailman with wings and a funky 'do. That's just a taste; a full list would be endless. And then there are the slight name changes, like Marin and Tarin becoming Malon and Talon but essentially being the same. Other partial examples like the four carpenters (look alike, names change ''completely'') exist.

** And it ''ain't'' just Link and Zelda. Many Zeldas were raised by an Impa. There's also more than one Anju who needs you to get her chickens back, ''and'' more than one Guru-Guru playing the Song of Storms in a windmill. (Interestingly, in both cases, you get the characters unnamed in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', named [[And You Were There|but with different roles]] in ''[[The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask]]'', then they return in other games with their OOT roles but their MM names.) There are also a lot of identical mailmen - even the ''bird guy'' who's a mailman looks less like the other Rito and more like the usual mailman with wings and a funky 'do. That's just a taste; a full list would be endless. And then there are the slight name changes, like Marin and Tarin becoming Malon and Talon but essentially being the same. Other partial examples like the four carpenters (look alike, names change ''completely'') exist.

*** Justified, however, in the case of Tingle. [[Freshly Picked Tingles Rosy Rupee Land|His game]] reveals that, rather than a lineage as one might think, Tingle is actually a curse placed on anyone foolish enough to make a deal with Uncle Rupee.

* The ''[[Bubble Bobble (Video Game)|Bubble Bobble]]'' series always features a green bubble dragon and a blue bubble dragon, regardless of setting.

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** Lampshaded when Jade ''insists'' that one character was her counterpart, and a sudden dustcloud hides the character's replacement by Old West!Jade.

** Young Jackie was sent to San Francisco from Hong Kong to be with his uncle, just like Jade was sent to be with Jackie.

* Subverted quite a bit in ''[[Batman Beyond]]''. As the [[Distant Finale]] shows Terry {{spoiler|was a [[Tyke Bomb]] that was designed to follow the path to becoming Batman almost exactly}}, but despite this he ends up being somewhat different. For instance Terry is ''not'' [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|afraid to kill his enemies]] if he has to, and as he demonstrated to {{spoiler|the Joker himself}}, he's not afraid of fighting dirty or turning someone's mind games around on them. By the time of ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' Bruce is just a reclusive old man, and Waller tells Terry that he doesn't have to [[~~Its~~ Not You ~~Its~~ My Enemies|be a loner to be Batman]], and he's still seeing his high school girlfriend {{spoiler|and was last seen planning to propose to her.}}

* Subverted quite a bit in ''[[Batman Beyond]]''. As the [[Distant Finale]] shows Terry {{spoiler|was a [[Tyke Bomb]] that was designed to follow the path to becoming Batman almost exactly}}, but despite this he ends up being somewhat different. For instance Terry is ''not'' [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|afraid to kill his enemies]] if he has to, and as he demonstrated to {{spoiler|the Joker himself}}, he's not afraid of fighting dirty or turning someone's mind games around on them. By the time of ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' Bruce is just a reclusive old man, and Waller tells Terry that he doesn't have to [[It's Not You, It's My Enemies|be a loner to be Batman]], and he's still seeing his high school girlfriend {{spoiler|and was last seen planning to propose to her.}}

* In the [[What If]] [[Flash Forward]] episode ''[[Ben 10 (Animation)|Ken 10]]'', Ben's [[Identical Grandson|nearly-identical son Ken]] (he has darker skin, like his mother, and slightly darker brown hair, but is otherwise a Ben clone) is given an Omnitrix by his father on his tenth birthday because he got his when he was ten. It also has the same limitations as his original (time limit, limited number of aliens), and then Ken goes on to meet Devlin, the [[Superpowerful Genetics|transforming, superpowered son]] of Ben's formal rival Kevin ([[Theme Naming]], anyone? Oh yes). Ken also offers Devlin the opportunity to join the Tennyson family, the same offer Ben made Kevin as a child. However, Devlin actually accepts the offer, unlike his father.

** Ken must have inherited his mother's brains, though, as he actually thinks to {{spoiler|use Grey Matter to hack the Omnitrix's master control}}, something neither Ben, Gwen or Max ever considered.

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* 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 [[Mc Kinley]] was shot. Weird.

** Robert himself was aware of this weirdness, and apparently didn't like it. When invited to a presidential function after the incident with [[Mc Kinley]], he refused, saying "No, I'm not going, and they'd better not ask me, because there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present."

* 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]].

* 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.

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