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== Anime & Manga ==
* General Note: As mentioned in the [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]] article, hair and eye colors in Japanese media are normally chosen to tell characters apart and to match their personalities (e.g. [[Shy Blue-Haired Girl]], [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]])--combine that with [[Only Six Faces]] and [[Mukokuseki]], and anime characters having anything notable in common with their families is the exception rather than the rule (although there will be an occasional [[Hereditary Hairstyle]]). For that reason only aversions or egregious examples should be listed.
* ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' was fairly realistic in this, especially considering the prevalence of [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]], and the exceptions are in the vein of [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]] rather than this trope.
** Bulma has her mother's blue eyes (not obvious since [[Eyes Always Shut|her eyes are normally closed]]) and her father's purple hair, both of which she passed on to her children Trunks and Bra. Trunks has Vegeta's skin color and eyebrows, while Bra is more or less a clone of her mother.
** Krillin and Android 18's daughter Marron looks just like Krillin with 18's hair color, including [[The Noseless|having no nose]].
** Gohan looks like both of his parents, while Goten looks exactly liked Goku did in the original Dragonball, [[Hereditary Hairstyle|including his hairstyle]]. Gohan's daughter Pan in turn inherited the shape of her mother Videl's eyes but his eye color.
* ''[[Naruto]]'' averts this with the title character, whose [[Implausible Hair Color]] and eye color were inherited from his father; less obvious traits, like the shape of his face, were inherited from his mother. Sasuke and Itachi Uchiha look exactly like their mother Mitoko except for the creases under their father Fugaku's eyes that Itachi inherited.
* Chibi-Usa from ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' generated a ton of [[Wild Mass Guessing]] and [[Fan Wank]] back in the day because her coloration (pink hair, red eyes) was so different from that of her parents (blonde, blue-eyed Usagi and black haired, blue-eyed Mamoru). According to [[Word of God]], her coloration was meant to make her resemble a baby rabbit to match her [[Punny Name]]. Also, hair colors in the manga weren't static--sometimes her mother Usagi was depicted with silver hair and even pink hair in her original design. Usagi herself is the daughter of a purple-haired mother and a black-haired, dark-eyed father and has a brother with light brown hair and dark blue eyes.
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* In ''[[Reba]]'', the redheaded title character and her blond ex-husband Brock have blonde Cheyenne, redheaded Kyra, and... brown-haired Jake? In one episode it's stated that Brock dyes his hair, but it's not made clear if blond was his original color or not.
* ''[[Roots]]'''s Chicken George is the son is Kunta Kinte's daughter Kizzy and her white slave master; he is one of the darkest characters in the series, significantly more so than his mother (and looks about the same age, though that's due to a [[Playing Gertrude|different trope]]).
* On ''[[Smallville]]'', half-Dutch, half-Chinese Kristen Kreuk was cast as Lana Lang. Oddly, unlike their version of Pete Ross, there was no [[Race Lift]] involved--both her mother and father were portrayed by Caucasian actors. Potentially played with after the reveal that{{spoiler|Lewis Lang isn't her biological father}} but then {{spoiler|when she finds her bio-dad, he turns out to be white, too.}} Many viewers at first sight assume the [[
* On ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', Wesley Crusher has brown eyes when both of his parents have blue. Picard, on the other hand, has brown eyes...
* Several on ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'':
** Stefan and Damon sort of (if you squint) resemble their father, but the two brothers don't resemble each other at all.
** Elena looks very different from her brother and aunt, but then it's revealed that {{spoiler|she was adopted.}} Though it's later played straight when {{spoiler|her birth parents were John Gilbert and Isobel Flemming. While you could say she shares some of their facial features, there's no way two pale-skinned light-eyed people could have produced an olive-skinned child with dark brown eyes.}}
** Elijah bears no resemblance to his family either. Ironic since {{spoiler|Klaus}} is supposed to be the illegitimate child.
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