Hollywood Genetics/Playing With
Basic Trope: A character looks wildly different from their biological family.
- Straight:: Alice is a green-eyed redhead, Bob is a blue-eyed blond, and daughter Carol has black hair and dark eyes.
- Exaggerated: Carol also has dark skin, while the rest of her family is pale.
- Downplayed: ???
- Justified: Carol looks like she does because she is a mutant, or a Reincarnation of someone with that appearance.
- Inverted: Carol is a Patchwork Kid-- she has blond hair with red streaks and one blue eye and one green eye.
- Subverted: It turns out that Alice had an affair with black-haired, dark-eyed Dan around the time of Carol's conception...
- Double Subverted: ... but a DNA test is done and Bob is her biological father.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Carol is a realistic combination of her parents, and even has a few traits unique to herself.
- Enforced: The directors needed to hire big star celebrities, but couldn't get them to resemble their in character relatives.
- Lampshaded: "I'm Carol, Bob and Alice's daughter." "You sure of that? "
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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