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{{quote|'''Kim Possible:''' Drakken had an ancestor there ''too?''
'''Ron Stoppable:''' Okay, you know what, [[Lampshade Hanging|this is just getting ludicrous!]]<ref>The only proper response after learning that the heroine, her two sidekicks, her coach, her arch-villain, and [[The Dragon]] are all covered by this trope.</ref>
|"Rewriting History", ''[[Kim Possible]]''}}
A character's descendant or ancestor is physically identical (or would be, except for small cosmetic changes) to the character himself, and often has the same name. A subsection of [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]]. Of course, he might just be [[My Own Grampa|his own ancestor]].
This is normally the result of budget considerations when casting [[Time Travel]] stories, the consequence of having a long-term contract for a star when a show permanently jumps generations for some reason, or an excuse to do an [[Elseworld]] story with essentially the same character in a different setting.
If the character and descendant are actually one and the same, then that's [[My Grandson, Myself]].
Despite the name, the trope is limited to neither males nor grandchildren.
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This trope gets somewhat disturbing if you over-think it. Having one's grandparents look ''exactly'' like their grandchild and said grandchild's mate has pseudo-incestuous imagery.
Usually an [[Averted Trope]] by this point. Compare with [[Visions of Another Self]]. When it's the life story that's identical, the character is a member of [[Generation Xerox]]. In live-action productions is almost always the result of [[Acting for Two]].
Generally the result of one of three things: A) It's simply cheaper to have an actor play their own ancestor than try to get a new actor to play them, B) Executives assume [[Viewers
This can very well be [[Truth in Television]], as some genetic phenotypes can skip generations.
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
Frequently results in a [[Hereditary Hairstyle]].
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
* [[Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Joseph Joestar]], in his youth, looks almost exactly like his grandfather Jonathon Joestar. However, their personalities couldn't be more different, as is noted in the series.▼
▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Son Goten of [[Dragonball Z]] is a particularly egregious example. He's the second child of Goku, & looks 'exactly' like him. Of course, this in turn makes him looks like Bardock. It might be a Saiyan thing, since Vegeta said that "all Saiyans look similar". Of note is the fact that Vegeta looks nearly identical to his own father, sans beard. [[Dragon Ball GT]] takes it to a ridiculous level, with the future descendants of both Goku & Vegeta looking like exact copies of their great-great-etc. ancestors. Even though they'd be mostly human, and it was already established with Vegeta's son and daughter that [[Half Human Hybrid|human-Saiyan hybrids]] need not look Saiyan-like at all. Then again, his daughter looks pretty much exactly like her human mother.▼
▲* [[
▲* Son Goten of [[Dragonball Z]] is a particularly egregious example. He's the second child of Goku, & looks 'exactly' like him. Of course, this in turn makes him looks like Bardock. It might be a Saiyan thing, since Vegeta said that "all Saiyans look similar". Of note is the fact that Vegeta looks nearly identical to his own father, sans beard. [[Dragon Ball GT]] takes it to a ridiculous level, with the future descendants of both Goku & Vegeta looking like exact copies of their great-great-etc. ancestors. Even though they'd be mostly human, and it was already established with Vegeta's son and daughter that [[Half
* In ''[[.hack|.hack//tasogare no udewa densetsu]]'', Mireille looks suspiciously similar to Mistral. {{spoiler|This is justified, though; the story takes place on the internet and she's using her (revealed to be) mother's account.}}
** In any case it's established that player characters in the .hack franchise are all based on off-the-peg character types. There's a scene in ''.hack//SIGN'' where Subaru sees someone she thinks is Tsukasa, but is actually a different character with only a few variations of hair color and facial markings. This is also lampshaded in ''.hack//Unison'', where Black Rose and Mimiru have an argument as to who chose the character design first, and Tsukasa meets a younger player with the same basic design. And let's not forget that ''.hack//Legend of the Twilight [Bracelet]'' begins with Shugo and Rena winning the right to use characters based on Kite and Black Rose (although the series uses [[Super
* If you subscribe to the theory that ''[[
* Every male member of ''[[Captain Harlock]]'''s family line is named "Phantom F. Harlock," has the same facial features, build and hairstyle, pilots some kind of aircraft, and frequently has an identical scar on his cheek. This has been shown to extend at least back to the World War I era (from a main series set in the far future). His short, squat sidekick Ooyama also has identical ancestors, although they don't crop up quite as often.
* Count D of ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'' looks exactly like his grandfather... and his father... and his sister... {{spoiler|Well, they're not human anyway.}}
* Yotsuya from ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'' looks exactly like his grandfather, causing a bit of confusion when his likeness appears to show up in old photos, adding to the mystery who the heck he is and what he does.
* While it is taking place in an alternate universe, the one-shot ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' manga, ''Parallel Sailor Moon'', stars a bunch of daughters of the Guardian Senshi who not only look exactly like their parents, they even have the same names as them. The only apparent
* ''Utawarerumono'': While {{spoiler|on her deathbed}}, Tusukuru says this to her granddaughter, Eruru.
* ''[[Baccano
** Another one of the immortals (namely {{spoiler|Szilard}}) has an identical many-greats grandson whom we meet in 2001.
* ''[[Fist of the Blue Sky]]'', Tetsuo Hara's prequel to ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'', centers around Kenshiro's uncle and Ryuken's older half-brother Kenshiro Kasumi, who is pretty much Kenshiro if he lived in Pre-WWII Asia and was a heavy smoker. Of course the manga exactly hasn't established how they're related yet, since the Kenshiro from ''North Star'' was supposedly adopted...
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* It's a minor plot point in ''[[Bunny Drop]]'' that Daikichi looks exactly like his grandfather Souichi did at age thirty. Among other things, this causes Rin (Souichi's illegitimate daughter) to get attached to him almost immediately.
* Rikuo in ''Nurarihyon no Mago'' is almost completely identical to how his grandfather used to look. And his father. Must be some strong genes in that family.
* In an episode of ''[[Ranma
* All of the founders of the Vongola family in ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' bear close resemblance to the tenth generation Guardians, including weapons used at one point.
** Only Tsuna and Giotto are confirmed to have a biological relationship though.
** Vongola Secondo and Xanxus look similar in appearance as well, though {{spoiler|Xanxus is not the Ninth's son and was actually adopted.}}
* In ''[[Natsume Yuujinchou]]'', it's a major plot point that
* Every male of the Doumeki family in ''[[
* In [[Fullmetal Alchemist (
* Laxus from ''Fairytail'' looks like a younger Makarov.
* Somewhat [[Played for Laughs]] in the side story of the 20th volume of ''Dorabase'' (Baseball spin-off of ''[[Doraemon]]''), where the 23rd century versions of the characters are exactly the same, except for some very minor differences such as name and a few physical traits. Also, they suck at baseball until the main characters come to help them. Obviously justified since 60% of the cast are robots, but still pretty outrageous because they are about 100 year old apart from production year.
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== Audio ==
* A Commander Korshal of the Galyari appears in the [[Big Finish]] [[Bernice Summerfield]] audio drama ''The Bone of Contention'' and the [[Big Finish]] ''[[
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** Subverted in Superman: Red Son in which {{spoiler|Lex Luthor}} is revealed to the readers to be the ancestor of {{spoiler|Superman}}. This makes the fact that {{spoiler|Lex Luthor is married to and has a child with Lois Lane}} strange, especially since that mean that {{spoiler|[[Fridge Horror|Lois is Superman's ancestor]]}}
* In [[The DCU]], [[Booster Gold]]'s ancestor, Daniel Carter, has not only the same last name, but appears nearly identical, despite them being over four hundred years of Carter generations apart. He even manages to have a nearly identical personality, despite all odds.
** Booster also encounters a First World War soldier who turns out to be {{spoiler|Cyrus Lord, an ancestor of ex-JLI manager/sometime supervillain Maxwell Lord}}. Booster fails to appreciate this at first only because {{spoiler|several weeks' beard growth and a bloody great bandage round his head disguise the fact that Cyrus is the spitting image of Max.}}
* In the classic [[Carl Barks]] story "Voodoo Hoodoo," the entire conflict comes from the fact that Uncle Scrooge looked exactly like [[Donald Duck]] when he was younger. However, this was an early story, and Barks later began drawing young Scrooge differently. Years later, when [[Don Rosa]] created his epic ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'', this was [[Hand Wave|handwaved]] as a disguise.
** Also Gyro Gearloose looks like his grandfather Ratchet.
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** In ''Asterix and the Golden Sickle,'' Obelix has a cousin (given, likely a quite distant one) who is tiny, almost down to Asterix size, and appears rather frail. He still has the characteristic red hair, though.
** In ''Asterix and the Actress'' we are introduced to the pair's parents, with each father looking exactly like his son except for some wrinkles and white hair and the clothes. Their cloth patterns and colors (and in Obelix' case, his trademark braids) come from their respective mothers, on the other hand.
* Nicely averted in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' during the two Vietnam stories about Jesse's father John. Steve Dillon manages to give John a strong resemblance to Jesse while still making him look like a distinct character. (The difficulty in doing this may be one reason this trope is so prevalent.)
** Particularly nicely averted given that Steve Dillon is known for drawing faces that basically all look alike.
* In an early, pre [[Cerebus Syndrome]] issue of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (
* In ''[[Alan Moore]]'s Tomorrow Stories'', Cobweb and her sidekick Clarice are descended from priestesses who discovered the secret of [[Truly Single Parent|parthenogenesis]], so they're genetically identical to their ancestors.
* In at least one ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (
* [[Tintin|Captain Haddock's]] 17th-century ancestor Sir Francis Haddock (in the original: Francois, chevalier de Hadoque) looked exactly like him, except for the longer hair appropriate for the period. And he of course had a similar penchant for drinking and swearing.
* In the [[Golden Age]], [[Wonder Woman]]'s mother Hyppolyta resembled her enough that she could disguise herself as her daughter pretty easily. This idea was abandoned in the [[Silver Age]], when Hyppolyta suddenly started getting colored as a blonde.
* In the miniseries ''[[Captain America (comics)]]: Hail Hydra!'', we see the history of [[Ancient Conspiracy|Hydra]] from ancient Mesopotamia to the present day. The head of their immortality research is almost always a [[Bald of Evil|bald]], bug-eyed man with a permenant [[Slasher Smile]]. [[Word of God]] is that this is the family line of Dr Geist (the present day version).
== [[Film]] ==
* No matter what timeline Marty McFly went to in the ''[[Back to The Future]]'' trilogy, his ancestors/descendants all resembled him or his mother (except for his father in the first movie). The same goes for his nemesis, Biff Tannen. In [[Back to The Future The Animated Series|the animated series based on the films]], wherever Doc and his family travel in time, they find identical and similarly named ancestors to Marty and his girlfriend Jennifer (who, ironically, does not look identical to ''herself'', having been [[The Other Darrin|recast]] after the first film), including ''the age of dinosaurs''.
** It's worth noting that, according to Jeffrey Weissman (George in Parts II and III), the role of great-grandfather Seamus McFly was originally written for Crispin Glover. In the Telltale game, Marty's grandfather Artie McFly does end up looking and sounding like Crispin Glover.
* Sonny Chiba as various generations of "Hattori Hanzô" in ''Hattori Hanzô: Kage no Gundan'' on Japanese TV, and in the film ''[[Kill Bill]], Vol. 1''.
* In ''[[Bicentennial Man]]'', Embeth Davitz plays both the adult Amanda Martin (aka "Little Miss") and her granddaughter, Portia Charney. The movie's storyline covers 200 years, as suggested by the title.
* In ''Return to Halloweentown'', Sara Paxton plays both Marnie Piper and an ancestor, Splendora Cromwell.
* In ''[[CSA: Confederate States of America]],'' Larry Peterson plays several generations of affluent Confederate heroes.
* Lampshaded in ''A Cock And Bull Story'', an adaptation of the novel ''Tristram Shandy''. Steve Coogan, who plays Shandy in the film-within-a-film, breaks the fourth wall in his role as narrator to explain that a particular scene is a flashback to his childhood in which he'll be playing the role of his own father.
* In ''[[Hellraiser Bloodline]]'', the maker of the Lament Configuration and two of his descendants are played by the same actor. They're at least four generations apart each.
* ''Sunshine'' does a triple whammy, with three generations of sons from a Hungarian family each being played by Ralph Fiennes with varying amounts of facial hair.
* Partial example: In 2007's ''[[Beowulf (
** Well, to be fair his son did have gold skin and lacked the facial hair of his daddy. Otherwise, his physique is pretty much exactly what Beowulf's was like when he was younger {{spoiler|(y'know, when he isn't all scaly and firebreathing)}}.
* ''Chiquititas: Rincon de Luz'' is a prequel to the TV series, showing the creation of the Rincon de Luz orphanage in the 19th century. All the ancestors of the main characters are played by the actors who played their descendants in the TV Series.
* In ''[[Alien (
* In ''[[Just Visiting]]'', Christina Applegate plays both [[Jean Reno]]'s fiancee and her present-day descendant.
** The same is true in the original French film (with the same lead actors) ''[[Les Visiteurs]]''.
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* In ''[[Tremors]] 4: The Legend Begins'', the 19th century ancestor of Burt Gummer is played by Michael Gross, the same actor who plays Burt.
* According to [[Word of God]], Matthayus in ''[[The Scorpion King]]'' is ''not'' the Scorpion King of ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy Returns]]''. Instead, the evil Scorpion King is Matthayus's identical descendant, both being played by [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]]. Originally, it was supposed to be him, but the creators felt that the ending of ''The Scorpion King'' was too hopeful to explain Matthayus suddenly turning evil.
* In ''[[Stargate: Continuum]]'', Cameron Mitchell winds up interacting with his suspiciously familiar-looking grandfather. To the makeup department's credit, at least the grandfather was wearing some latex appliances so the two characters didn't look ''identical''.
** Not only do they interact, the photo in Mitchell's locker in the new reality shows that the two were good friends. Wonder how many people commented that they look like brothers.
* The title character of the silent film ''Don Q: Son of Zorro'' was played by Douglas Fairbanks Sr., who had previously starred in the silent film ''The Mark of Zorro''.
* In the musical film ''Cover Girl'', Rita Hayworth plays her character's grandmother in a flashback.
* Catherine and her daughter Cathy from the ''[[Wuthering Heights (
* The ancestor that [[Forrest Gump]] was named after (KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest) is also played by [[Tom Hanks]]; [[Death Seeker|Lieutenant Dan's]] ancestors are ''all'' played by Gary Sinise.
** Same goes for all of Bubba's maternal ancestors from the mid-19th century to his mother. However, it's likely that all of the scenes these ancestors appear in show just [[Unreliable Narrator|how Forrest imagines them]], not how they really looked like.
* ''[[Dracula
* [[Eddie Murphy]] typically plays all the members of his characters' families, though they always have quite differentiated costume elements.
* ''[[Knowing]]'' has Lucinda in the opening scenes (set in 1959) and Abby, her granddaughter from fifty years later, played by the same actress.
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* [[Letters to Juliet]] ends with a Lorenzo looking identical to the one remembered so must be that one's grandfather.
* Jason tries to get away with this in ''[[Mystery Team]]'', hoping a fake mustache will convince the principal that he's his father.
* ''[[
* The third [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] movie features April O'Neil traveling back to samurai times and finding a fellow prisoner who is apparently Casey Jones' ancestor. A rat then comes along who is presumably ''Splinter's ancestor''.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In the ''[[Dune]]'' saga, where Miles Teg is noted for his resemblance to his millenia-dead ancestor Duke Leto Atreides I. The character himself has noted that he has found looking at portraits of Leto I to be like looking into a mirror. Being a servant of the Bene Gesserit, Miles' resemblance was deliberately bred in.
* In the ''[[Harry Potter (
** Albus Potter turns out to be the spitting image of Harry, green eyes and all.
* [[Justified Trope]] via [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: In [[
* In ''The Doom of the Darnaways'', one of [[
* In ''[[Sherlock Holmes|The Hound of the Baskervilles]]'', Jack Stapleton looks exactly like his ancestor, Hugo Baskerville, except without "the broad plumed hat, the curling love-locks, [and
* In the [[Discworld]] book ''<s>Faust</s> [[
** Unfortunately, the illustrations don't reflect this.
* Lampshaded in the third ''Pendragon'' book. A young minor character that Bobby Pendragon and friends meet in 1937 is still alive in the present. In order to explain why they haven't aged at all, Bobby's friend Gunny tells him that they're [[My Grandson, Myself|the grandsons]] of the people he met in 1937.
* In ''[[Welkin Weasels]],'' Sylver's descendants all bear his lightning-bolt birthmark. Mawk and Scirf's descendants Maudlin and Scruff apparently fall under this trope as well, as Monty is able to instantly guess exactly which members of the outlaw band were their ancestors.
* In the [[Liaden Universe]], when Miri Robertson goes to the home of her long lost family, a portrait of her grandmother Miri Tiazan reveals that she's a dead ringer for the original.
* The ''[[
** And in the [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] book ''The Taint'', {{spoiler|Fitz's great-grandfather's [[Obliviously Evil]] twin is recognizably similar to Fitz himself: same long nose, straggly hair, and thin face and build. Fitz keeps finding him "infuriatingly familiar", quite possibly because he's looking at an older ([[Older Than They Look|but not that much]], for some reason) version of the same face he shaves ([[Perma
* [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in the ''Coldfire'' trilogy: after selling his soul for undead immortality, the Hunter dropped in on his family every so often, killing all of them ''except'' the one who looked most like him. (Vanity being one of his defining character traits.) Fast-forward nine hundred years or and you have descendants who still look exactly like him. Possibly helped along by the fact that the ambient wild magic is more than capable of warping genetics.
* [[Indigo]] mistakes Veness for [[Shallow Love Interest|Fenran]] at first glance. {{spoiler|And then falls for him on his own virtues. Meaning, [[Love Hurts|of course]], that [[Death of the Hypotenuse|he dies]].}}
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s "Kings of the Night", [[Bran Mak Morn]] looks so much like his ancestor Brule that [[Kull]] takes him for him. Despite a few intervening ''millenia''.
* Subverted in Everything Is Illuminated, in which every time the statue of the ancestor needs a touch-up, it is made to look like the current male heir.
* The protagonist in ''The Misenchanted Sword'' by Lawrence Watt-Evans realizes that there will be problems when he starts not dying, {{spoiler|so he writes a will, heads off for adventure, "dies," and returns as the "relative named in the will.}}"
* Gregory McDonald's ''Carioca, Fletch'' plays with this by having the protagonist in Brazil, where he uncannily resembles a light-skinned Brazilian who was murdered decades before. All except Fletch believe he is the reincarnation, including the murderer, who of course tries again. Fletch even dreams of characters of Brazilian mythology he had not known about.
* Apparently, [[The 39 Clues|Hope Cahill]] is nearly identical to her ancestor, {{spoiler|Madeleine Cahill}}- who lived several hundred years before Hope.
* The Ashkevron family in the ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' series. A character even comments that "The Ashkevron family look tends to breed true, and when it doesn't the poor thing generally runs off to Haven." On one occasion a young woman of that family shows up at the capital and identifies an aunt she had never even ''met'' with "You must be Savil, you have the nose."
* Used as the basis of [[Robert Sheckley]]'s story "Double Indemnity": a man time-travels to the past to find his ancestor, since said ancestor looks almost exactly like him, which would allow him to pose as the man's time-travel mishap-born clone (for sake of an insurance scam). Apparently, the man's criteria for choosing the right ancestor was simply "someone who would not be missed", and the only reason he rejects several candidates is because they happen to have acquired differences (missing an arm, covered with pox)--implying that every single of his ancestors is identical.
* Speculated about in ''[[Garrett
* In "[[The Heroes of Olympus]]" Leo is the sitting image of his grandfather {{spoiler|Sammy, Hazel Levesque's best friend and crush in the 1940s}}
* In the ''[[
* In one of the appendices of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', it's mentioned that the Longbeard dwarves will sometimes produce an heir who resembles their original ancestor Durin so much that they not only name him Durin, but believe that he is literally the same Durin, returned to them. Up to Durin VII are recorded as Kings of Durin's Folk, it's unclear if this practice is maintained outside of the direct line of succession.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The archetypal identical grandson appeared on the 1960s sitcom ''[[The Second Hundred Years]]'', where Monte Markham played both a 33-year-old man named Ken Carpenter and his grandfather Luke, who had improbably been pulled out of [[Suspended Animation]] after 67 years in a [[Human Popsicle|glacial crevasse]] into which he'd fallen while prospecting at the age of (ta-dum) 33. The joke was first, that effectively 33-year-old Luke had a 67-year-old son, Ken's father; and second, that while Luke and Ken looked identical, they had completely different personalities, Ken being uptight and Luke loose and colorful.
* In one of the [[Time Travel]] episodes of ''[[Lois and Clark]]'', a recurring villain called Tempus attempts to travel back in time to Smallville when Kal-El's rocket lands in order to kill him as a baby, but first overshoots by about a century, and ends up in the [[Wild West]], where the town marshal and the saloon keeper are identical to Jonathan and Martha Kent, and are explicitly stated to be the Kent family's ancestors
** There was also a similar episode that dealt with reincarnation, therefore several characters in the past are identical to people Lois and Clark have met in the present, but these characters are not blood relatives, but look the same as they are past incarnations of the present characters, e.g. one of Lois' previous incarnations has the Kents' previous incarnations as biological parents
* Played for laughs in the ''[[
** Lampshaded in the finale of the third series, when Blackadder and MacAdder are both played by Rowan Atkinson. Several characters note this. They also make it plain that they are played by the same actor, as they keep just missing each other.
* ''[[MacGyver]]'' 's identical ancestor (played, of course, by Richard Dean Anderson) in one of the last episodes of that series.
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** The Time Force analogy dovetails nicely with its [[Super Sentai]] original version.
** ''[[Gosei Sentai Dairanger]]'' plays the more literal version of this trope in its final episode.
* The original three sisters in ''[[
** Subverted when Leo attends a Battle of Guadacanal reunion as an Identical Grandson, when, of course, he really wasn't.
* ''[[Kung Fu]]: The Legend Continues'' was built entirely around this trope, as David Carradine played Kwai Chang Caine, contemporary-era
* The German series ''Der Clown'' featured a self-parodic [[Time Travel]] Episode where the hero meets his helicopter pilot's ancestor, and ends up with the series trademark highway chase scene in a [[Bamboo Technology]] helicopter.
* Occurred at least six times in different incarnations of ''[[Star Trek]]''.
** In the movie ''Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country'' Colonel Worf, grandfather of Lieutenant Worf in ''[[Star Trek:
*** A [[Star Trek Expanded Universe]] novel specifically states the Worf was named after his grandfather, who was killed onboard a transport that collided with a Cardassian freighter (the sheer improbability of two ships accidentally colliding in orbit indicates sabotage). So yes, Worf's grandfather didn't die a warrior's death but was merely collateral damage.
** The movie ''Star Trek Generations'' includes a portrait of one of Jean-Luc Picard's ancestors, who fought at Trafalgar. He looks exactly like Patrick Stewart.
** In the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode "11:59," Captain Janeway's 20th century ancestor Shannon O'Donnell, later Shannon Janeway, is played by Kate Mulgrew. What's hilarious is that Seven of Nine is puzzled by Janeway's interest in O'Donnell's life, pointing out that after so many generations Janeway only has a fraction of her DNA. Hah!
*** Even more hilarious since humans share something like 99% of the same DNA, which means that Janeway's "fraction" of O'Donnell's DNA is much bigger than 7 seems to think.
** A three-part story in ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' featured Dr Arik Soong, played by Brent Spiner, who had played Dr Noonien Soong (and all the androids Noonien modelled on himself, including Commander Data as well as Data's [[Evil Twin]] Lore and [[No Social Skills|undeveloped]] twin B4.) in ''[[Star Trek:
*** The source of said fankwankery seems to be a throwaway line by Arik Soong at the end of his three-episode arc, about giving up on genetic engineering (which in his time is illegal) in favor of creating androids. The writers no doubt intended for the implication to be that he would be unable to complete the designs in his own lifetime, and that his descendant later finished his work.
** The ''Enterprise'' story "Carbon Creek" features T'Pol's great-grandmother T'Mir, also played by Jolene Blalock. T'Mir's story is told by T'Pol and may or may not be true, but as to whether T'Pol really had a great-grandmother named T'Mir who really did look like T'Pol... well, that's another story.
*** The episode ends with T'Pol taking out a purse from a box, which looks identical to the one her great-grandmother supposedly had on Earth. Oh, and Vulcan women don't generally carry purses.
** ''[[Star Trek:
** Also from the ''Next Generation'' episode "The Neutral Zone", a woman who was woken up from cryogenic stasis finds that she has a great-great-great-great-great-grandson... who looks identical to her husband.
* In the ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' [[Made for TV Movie]] ''The Last Free Man'', [[Angela Lansbury]] played both Jessica Fletcher and her [[The American Civil War|Civil War]] ancestor, Sarah McCulloch.
* A plot point in ''[[Jekyll]]'' is that Dr. Jackman looks identical to the real Dr. Jekyll (allegedly a [[All Myths Are True|real historical figure]]) and must, therefore, be related. Thankfully, it's justified somewhat by the fact that Jackman is a 'perfect throwback'.
* Used repeatedly in ''[[Dark Shadows (TV series)|Dark Shadows]]'', where every generation of the Collins family looked exactly like every other generation of the Collins family. This extended to non-Collins characters as well, even to the point of people unrelated to the Collins family being Collins family members in past incarnations, while Collinses appear as unrelated past people. This also applied to alternate timelines and past alternate timelines. The practice was continued when the show was remade in [[The Nineties]].
* The Hayes Cooper stories in ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]'' (some of the counterparts aren't even directly related), [[Justified Trope]] by the fact that the stories come from a diary, while the picture is just part of Cordell Walker's imagination.
* In ''[[First Of The Summer Wine]]'', the teenage Clegg's father is played by Peter ([[Wallace and Gromit|Wallace]]) Sallis, who plays Clegg himself in ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]''.
* A possible, though admittedly questionable, example comes in the form of a detective on Tim Minear's series ''Drive'' and Joss Whedon's series ''[[
** This is more likely due to the fact that Nathan Fillion starred on both shows, and is a descendant of the real-life [
* ''[[
* In ''[[Smallville]]'', a [[Flash Back|flashback]] episode featured Jonathan Kent's father, Clark's real father and Lana's aunt, all played by the same actors. (Lionel Luthor's father also appeared, but surprisingly wasn't played by John Glover.)
*** Although, semi-averted with a case of [[Ret-con]] when Jor-El comes to Smallville (in the 9th season) and he is acted by Julian Sands... who looks nothing like Tom Welling.... To the point of having different hair colors.
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* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]:'' In one episode, Florence Henderson and Robert Reed did dual roles as Mike and Carol, plus Mike's stodgy grandfather and Carol's hip grandmother.
** In a borderline case, Florence Henderson had a [[Cameo]] as Carol's mother in [[The Movie]].
** Another borderline case: Jan once found a picture of her great-aunt when the great-aunt was Jan's age, and it looked just like Jan (Eve Plumb in the
* ''[[
** Jessica Hynes played Joan Redfern in "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood" and her great-granddaughter Verity Newman in ''The End of Time''.
* In the ''[[
* Lyle Waggoner as "Steve Trevor" (1940s) and his son "Steve Trevor" (1970s) in ''[[Wonder Woman (TV series)|Wonder Woman]]''. After disappearing from Patriarch World after [[World War II]] ended, Diana meets Steve Trevor Jr. at the first episode of the Second Season, "The Return of Wonder Woman", a [[Setting Update]] in [[The Seventies|1977]]. She first is very confused by thinking he hasn’t aged, but given she is an [[Complete Immortality|immortal amazon warrior]], Queen Hippolyta explains her the concept of "sons".
* ''[[Andromeda]]'' (a.k.a. "Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda"). Steve Bacic plays the Nietzschean Gaheris Rhade and his identical-looking direct descendant, Telemachus Rhade, who lives 300 years later. This is addressed in the series itself; partically justified in that the Nietzscheans as a race are descendants of humans from Earth, but their founder introduced the ideology of using eugenics (planned breeding) and genetic manipulation to create the "perfect ubermensch" (hence the name). They call it "Genetic Reincarnation", and a particular plot revolve around the genetic reincarnation of the progenitor of their race.
** This trope is actually lampshaded when Telemachus first appears, as Dylan and Tyr discuss how incredibly unlikely this is. Tyr notes that the Nietzcheans have stripped out a lot of specific genes from their pool in order to improve things, increasing the odds, which, Dylan points out, are still "in the trillions".
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* The finale of ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'' showed Wataru's son Masao, played by Kohei Takeda (the same actor as Wataru's father Otoya).
* Vinnie Terranova's dad in ''[[Wiseguy]]'' (in an episode based around his father's diary). But they gave him a moustache.
* [[Playing
* [[Playing
* Subverted at least once in ''[[Highlander the Series]]'', with immortal Duncan MacLeod [[My Grandson, Myself|pretending to be his own son/grandson]] when he meets an old acquaintence.
* ''[[Goodnight Sweetheart]]'' includes occasional appearances of Reg's [[Present Day]] identical grandson, who's followed him into the police force. The episode where Gary travels to the [[Victorian London|Victorian era]], rather than [[World War Two]], introduces Reg's identical grandfather as a Bow Street Runner, as well as an identical ancestor of Yvonne.
* ''[[JAG]]'' Harmon Rabb Jr. is identical to Harmon Rabb Sr.
* The same production company was at the helm of a number of [[Period Piece]] series that have been coming out of mainland China: in one, the child actor who played a young Kangxi reappears near the end to play his grandson (who later became the emperor Qianlong); the actor who plays old Kangxi in another drama later appeared in a different series as old Qianlong.
* On [[Green Acres]], whenever Oliver or Lisa tell stories about their ancestors, they always look like Oliver and Lisa. And an identical ancestor of Mr. Haney always tries to sell them stuff.
* [[Playing
* [[Playing
* In the final episode of ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'', "Sleepless in Peckham", we see a picture of Freddie "the Frog" Robdal, previously hinted to be Rodney's real father, and he's played by Nicholas Lyndhurst with a moustache. (Even Del, who believes his mum to be a saint, can't ignore the resemblance.) Lyndhurst reprises the role in the [[Prequel]] series ''[[Rock And Chips]]''.
* A perfect inversion is done on a clip show of ''[[Roseanne]]'' where John Goodman plays a grown up version of son DJ.
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* Loretta of ''Outrageous Fortune'' looks exactly like her grandmother Rita in her younger days.
* {{spoiler|Elena Gilbert}} of ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'' looks identical to {{spoiler|Katherine Pierce}}. {{spoiler|This is unexplained until Elena finds out that she was adopted, and that her birth mother is a direct descendant of Katherine}}. Furthermore it's eventually revealed that the reason they look ''identical'' after many generations is {{spoiler|because they're both "Petrova dopplegangers", indicating that there's a mystical reason for the doubling.}}
* In the TV adaptation of ''[[The
* Recently in ''[[CSI]]'' Greg started dating a woman who {{spoiler|is avenging the death of her grandparents. grandmother was murdered by mobsters when they found out about her affair with her grandfather, who was framed and executed.}} It's even lampshaded by the cast.
* Mick tries to pull this on Beth in the second episode of ''[[Moonlight]]'', when she finds a picture of him from decades before, claiming it's his father. By the end of the episode, though, she knows the truth - he's a [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]].
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* A recent episode of [[The Daily Show]], [[John Stewart]] interviewed the descendents of two of his correspondents, in alternate futures, to see which party's dire predictions would turn out correct.
** video [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-29-2011/broke-bank-mounting---america-s-dystopian-future here].
* In an episode of [[
* On [[The Golden Girls]], one flashback showed a younger Sophia also played by Estelle Getty, but without the additions to make her look older. Her mother is played by Bea Arthur, who plays Sophia's daughter, Dorothy, in similar additions.
* Lampshaded and subverted in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', when Buffy and the gang realize that a portrait of Mayor Wilkins' ancestor is really a portrait of Mayor Wilkins himself:
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* The ''[[Castle]]'' episode "The Blue Butterfly" features a suspect who looks just like an old picture of his grandfather.
* In the ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' episode "Mail Call, Again", Gary Burghoff played the mother of his character Radar.
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* The [[Stephen Sondheim]] show ''[[Sunday in The Park With George]]'' has a double whammy: the actors who play painter Georges Seurat and his fictional mistress Dot in Act I play Georges and Dot's daughter Marie (in old lady makeup) and Marie's grandson George in Act II. The rest of the cast plays new roles, too, but that's more a matter of economy.
* Reversed, but essentially the same: In a (frequently cut) scene from the final act of Tony Kushner's ''[[Angels in America]]'', Prior meets the spirit of Louis' grandmother Sarah, whose funeral was one of the first scenes in the show. Kushner specifically states in the published script that Sarah is to be played by the actor who plays Louis, though obviously in some kind of costume and makeup.
* The play ''Coram Boy'' has two actors playing one character, Alexander
* The action of [[Tom Stoppard]]'s ''Arcadia'' is set in both the early nineteenth and late twentieth centuries. When the play is staged, the same actor is used to play Augustus, a character from the nineteenth century, and Gus, from the twentieth. It's not explicitly stated that the latter is directly descended from the former, but they are certainly related. (There is also a possibility that they are intended to actually be the same character.)
* Most productions of ''[[Show Boat]]'' which don't outright cut the [[Eleven O Clock Number]] will have it performed by the same actress playing Magnolia in the person of her daughter Kim. (Kim also appears earlier as a child, and in the final tableau as an extra [[Filming for Easy Dub|turned away from the audience]].)
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* An early plot point in the game ''[[
* Adelheid Bernstein (son of the evil Rugal Bernstein from ''[[King of Fighters]]'') is basically a younger Rugal minus the mustache.
* ''[[
* Used in the ''[[Metal Gear]]'' series with Big Boss and his three clone sons. Solid Snake and Liquid Snake in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' are mirror images of each other, but with different skin tones and hairstyles, while Solidus Snake in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'', who has the same face as Solid Snake, is said to resemble the elder Big Boss from the early ''Metal Gear'' games. In contrast, Naked Snake, the young Big Boss from ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'', resembles the young Solid Snake from the ''MGS'' titles.
** It is later averted though, {{spoiler|1=in ''MGS4''. When Big Boss shows up in the epilogue, he looks very different from Old Snake, with a different voice actor. However, Old Snake is an imperfect clone of Big Boss, and his accelerated aging combined with FOXDIE, his facial damage in the Volta River fire and his physical ailments could have simply taken him biologically in a different direction}}.
** Raiden could be Raikov's identical grandson. Only, Raikov is gay...
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*** Isn't it supposed to be a pun? 'Raidenovitch' into 'Raiden no Bitch', which is '[[Psycho Electro|Thunderbolt]]'s...' Oh, jeez. Raiden only wishes he was getting laid out of this.
** Also, except for the latter's wheelchair, Otacon is the image of his father, Huey, complete with the same style of glasses.
* The Japanese version of ''[[
** Also, they didn't have all the depressing, realistic back-stories and plots that made the "Wonderful Life" series so unique. They're happy-go-lucky, with little to no problems. Plus, they're personalities are quite different, much more shallow and boring, then their AWL and FOMT grandparents.
*** They also wear the same clothing and wedding clothing as their (great?) grandparents. For example, Celia. [http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a59/Puku6/Harvest%20Moon/1WeddingSerenaSm.png DS]{{Dead link}} and [http://i433.photobucket.com/albums/qq56/shilahalo/thCelia31.jpg AWL].
** ''[[
** Back in ''[[
* Eggman from the [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] series looks almost exactly like his grandfather, Gerald Robotnik. Eggman Nega, who claims to be Eggman's descendant from the future in Sonic Rivals also looks exactly like Eggman, except his mustache is gray and he wears cooler clothes.
* Captain Price in ''[[Call of Duty]] 4: Modern Warfare'' looks exactly like Captain Price of [[World War II]]-era ''[[Call of Duty]] 1'' and 2, right down to the righteous mustache and [[Badass]] attitude.
** He's never really stated or implied to be the descendant of the original Captain Price. It's possible that he's just a [[Recurring Character]] who happens to have [[Immortality]]. On [[Gameplay Ally Immortality|multiple levels]].
*** A developer for Infinity Ward, Sami Onur, gave some [[Word of God]] on the matter. He said that the ''Modern Warfare'' Price is intended to be the grandson of the World War II Captain Price. There have been a few rather sneaky references to the actual character's origin, however (for instance, one of the final ''Modern Warfare 2'' cutscenes makes it clear that Price still has the ''Call of Duty 1''-specific dedicated pistol slot, containing the same incorrect-for-his-country M1911).
** The ''Call of Duty 4'' Captain Price is remarkably less polite than his predecessor, it must be said. They also sound rather different (Billy Murray for modern Price, compared to Michael Gough ([[
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' series has Link and Zelda appearing again and again... only they're not quite the same Link nor Zelda. Though Link himself may not be direct descendants, it's spelled out in Zelda 2 and in Wind Waker that the green-clad hero and noble lady of the royal line are reincarnated again and again. Zelda 2 actually has Link set out on a quest by Princess Zelda to wake one of her predecessors, also named Princess Zelda, from a deep sleep.
** Although similar, Link and Zelda are not exactly identical in each game. In "Twilight Princess" Zelda isn't even blond like she usually is.
*** She's only been blonde in the recent games. The original Link and Zelda were brunette/redheads. As well, it's only ''Brawl'' that has her as dark brown, her ''Twilight Princess'' look is dirty-blonde / brownish blonde.
** ''[[Spirit Tracks]] ''has Linebeck III as a literal example, who looks exactly like his grandad from ''[[Phantom Hourglass]]''. Zelda herself subverts it as her grandmother looks totally different for most of her screentime. Link, of course, looks the same, although we don't exactly know if he's actually related to ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
*** Actually, Zelda is not a subversion at all. Tetra just wears her hair tied up in something resembling an [[Odango]] and has a strong tan. But aside from that, Spirit!Zelda and Tetra are absolutely identical. Actually, Spirit!Zelda resembles Tetra more than ''her own mother''.
* In ''[[Golden Sun
** Except {{spoiler|Amiti, who ''despite dressing and acting completely differently'' is still mistaken for... someone in a mask... by an NPC in Tonfon Palace.}}
* The ''[[
* Subversion: if Jimbo and Sully from ''[[Contra|Contra III: The Alien Wars]]'' looked way too much like Bill and Lance from the original arcade/NES games, that's because they ''are'' Bill and Lance. In the Japanese continuity, the series always took place in the future, so there was never any need to change main characters, but in the original American continuity the earlier games were moved from the future to the present, forcing the [[Dub Name Change|name change]] for the main characters when the SNES installment kept the futuristic setting.
* The Belmonts from the earlier ''[[Castlevania]]'' games, namely Simon, Christopher, and Trevor, strongly resembled each other, but this can be justified, since the original games were for 8-bit platforms like the NES, MSX, and Game Boy, which weren't exactly known for their graphical prowess. Richter Belmont from the PC Engine's ''Rondo of Blood'', was the first Belmont to actually look different from his predecessors and every Belmont afterward (whether it was from a sequel or prequel) followed suit.
* [[Final Boss|The Guy]] from ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]'' looks almost the same as {{spoiler|his son}} the Kid, except that he's four times as big, has a different facial expression and smokes a cigarette.
* ''[[Shadow of Destiny]]'' is made of this trope. In every era there are people who resemble the citizens in the other eras. In fact, the main character even lampshades this once. The game ends up subverting it once however, {{spoiler|in the biggest plot twist of the game. A character you spend most of the game assuming is your ancestor (though he doesn't exactly resemble you) [[My Grandson, Myself|turns out to be ''you'']]}}.
* Kori, from ''[[Time Hollow]]'', ends up {{spoiler|with the Protagonist's uncle, after sending him back through time to save her from certain death. In the present day, after the credits, we see the Protagonist meeting with his friends, and a girl who looks exactly like Kori. She's implied to be her daughter}}
* [[Assassin's Creed|Altaïr and Ezio]] look very similar to the protagonist Desmond Miles. All three of them even have a perfectly identical scar on their mouth. It's [[Justified]] in that the interface with which Desmond sees Altaïr and Ezio, the Animus, is patching his face partially over their face, for familiarity.
** Although [[Word of God]] implies they're not actually related, many fans have pointed out that {{spoiler|Altair's son Darim}} is a dead ringer for {{spoiler|Subject 16}}. Whether this is merely coincidence or hinting at yet another revelation in a future game remains to be seen.
* ''[[Phantasy Star|Phantasy Star Zero]]'' manages to pull this one under the radar. {{spoiler|Ogi and Nicolas both ask you if you're 200+ years old early in the game (which is outright preposterous unless you're a [[Ridiculously Human Robot|CAST]]). Later, you get a video from before the [[The End of the World
** {{spoiler|This trope is played straight as a Photon arrow if you're playing as a Human -- you're a descendant of the guy (or gal) who started the rebellion against her.}}
** {{spoiler|If you're a Newman, she comes to the realization that she fucked up big time -- not only are you [[Cloning Blues|a clone of the one who united the Newmans against her]], but [[Phlebotinum Rebel|she cloned you herself]]!}}
* In ''[[Professor Layton and
* In [[Knights of the Old Republic|Knights Of The Old Republic 2]], textual implications suggest Echani genetic variation in terms of appearance is very small, with siblings all looking like identical twins and almost identical to their same-sex parent. Of course, it was all a cheap way of explaining why they used [[Only Six Faces|the same model]] for all of Atris' Handmaidens while still having them be siblings, despite having an explicit note the one that joins you looks different due to being their half-sibling and yet still looks the same gah.
* In ''[[Mass Effect|Mass Effect 2]]'', Samara and her daughter Morinth are identical. Lampshaded in that the achievement for completing Samara's loyalty mission is called "Doppelganger". During that mission, if you {{spoiler|recruit Morinth instead of killing her, the other members of your crew never realise she isn't Samara.}}
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** Subverted with Jurgen, who is initially assumed to be an identical grandfather of the vampire Jurgen. That is until he is bitten by a vampire elf in the past.
* [[Fatal Fury|Mai Shiranui]], if [[Samurai Shodown|Gen-An's]] ending in the first [[Samurai Shodown]] is to be believed.
* In ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* [http://www.mariowiki.com/File:Babybowser.jpg This]{{Dead link}} is Baby Bowser from ''[[
* The ''[[Way of the Samurai]]'' games use this enable [[The Blacksmith]] Dojima to appear in every game (As they take place 20 to 300 years apart).
* ''[[Inazuma Eleven]]'', the Endou family members who are related to soccer are looking the very similar: Daisuke, Mamoru, and Kanon.
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== Webcomic ==
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20130719023505/http://www.drunkduck.com/Dragon_City/ Dragon City] Erin and Beatrix look like blue and green versions of their father Sam (respectively), and Jonas looks like a red version of their mother Rachel. Rachel and her sister Sarah look like their mother, too.
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20130719183412/http://www.drunkduck.com/Jix/ Jix] Lauren's daughter, Alice, in flashforwards look like a young version of Lauren.
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* Coney Dewclaw, the carnivorous rabbit in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'', looks exactly like her grandmother Dorothy Kindle did when she was Coney's age.
* The time travel storyline of ''[[
* In ''[[The Dreamer]]'', 21st - century Bea and 18th - century Bea look ''exactly the same''.
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in [[
* The protagonist of [[Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger]] is a distant descendant of the hero of [[Tales of the Questor]] and looks almost the same (even has the same [[Skunk Stripe|white forelock]]). Though he does seem a little older and more experienced.
* In ''[[Erstwhile]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130828165643/http://www.erstwhiletales.com/allfur-02/#.T2--ndm6SuI the princess is the image of her dead mother.] This is Not A Good Thing.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the ''[[
** Additionally after they come out of the dream (and regardless of its actual status) Kim and Ron are confronted by a statue of someone who looks exactly like Ron from Ancient Rome, and learn of his ancient nemesis and mysterious female ally who bear an uncanny resemblance to Dr. Drakken and Kim.
* Likewise, there was an [[Arc]] in the old ''[[
* An episode of ''[[
* In ''[[
** Keep in mind, of course, that since he and his father are both their own grandfathers, that it's totally genetically possible for each of them to create a child that is genetically identical to their respective fathers (each other).
** In "A Leela of Her Own", Hank Aaron the fourteenth is identical to Hank Aaron, except that he's terrible at <s> baseball</s> blernsball.
* Averted in ''[[
* Two ''[[
* ''[[
* Played straight in ''[[
* This was used way back in the old ''[[Archie]]'' cartoons, which routinely showed the "ancestors" of the Archie gang in historical time periods for educational purposes.
* Inverted in ''[[
* A ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short had an odd example; a scene from a Sylvester & Sylvester Jr. cartoon is shown, but we're told this is Sylvester as a kitten with ''his'' father.
* In ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[The Fairly
** An odd instance of this appears in the ''Breakin' Da Rules!'' PC game. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hfh78AtFBk One level] has Timmy time-travel to the <s>1970s</s> 1950s and have to avoid the younger-aged version of Vicky and Tootie's affectionate mother, Nicky. In-game dialogue from Timmy suggests that Nicky is supposed to resemble Tootie (which she sure enough does when she appears on the show)... but the graphics depict her as looking like De-aged Vicky from the "Switch Glitch" episode.
** There's "Which Witch is Witch," which shows Crocker's ancestor. There's also "Channel Chasers, which shows Tommy Turner who looks like his father with black hair (cluing the audience to believe Trixie or Tootie is his mother). And a recent episode "Timmy Turnip" has Timmy Turner's grandfather who looks like an older version of him, but with bigger, lighter blue eyes.
* In an episode of ''[[
* In a possible future of ''[[
* Occurs in ''[[
* In ''[[
* Used repeatedly in ''[[
** Subverted in one notable exception where Peter discovers that one of his ancestors is actually black, though still looks and sound otherwise identical.
*** In this flashback, Nate Griffin's (white) wife looks identical to Lois, even though Lois is actually descended from her sister.
** In a later episode it is revealed that Peter's biological father is actually a man named Mickey McFinnigan, who looks very similar to Peter. This also means that the identical-looking Griffin ancestors were not actually related to him at all.
*** At least not officially, there's nothing preventing one of them from stopping by Ireland...
** In yet another episode, it is revealed that Peter's ancestor was british and fled England to settle in the New World and eventually founded Quahog. It seems that Peter's [[Negative Continuity|contradictory ancestors]] are just another way to mess with the viewer's mind.
*** He's not his ancestor, but a past life.
* In ''[[
** In a flashback in the Halloween episode young Hank looked just like Bobby.
** There's also Jun-ichiro, Hank's Japanese half-brother, who looks exactly like Hank Hill with a different haircut, despite having a different mother.
* ''[[
* ''[[
** Instead of having Candace trying to tell her mother what her brothers are up to, we've got Constance threatening to tell a mob the Phineas and Ferb analogues made a monster. Like Linda Flynn, the mob don't believe her {{spoiler|until they see Candace having got turned into a monster}}.
** Only confirmed ancestor was Ferb's look-alike. And this is probably just a kid's visualisation of Grandpa's story, not really a flashback (Phineas and Candace disputing about proper picture style)
** In the episode "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo", Candance (20 years older) has a daughter almost identical to her. And [[She's All Grown Up|Candace herself grew up]] to be [[Hot Mom|much like her mom]].
*** Sort of averted with her other kids---despite her future family clearly mirroring her current one (complaining older daughter, two serene younger sons), neither ''looks'' like their avuncular counterparts. Of course, on the other hand, Xavier's blond hair ''does'' bring to mind who his ''father'' might be...
* Subverted in ''[[Justice League (
** Although actual examples of this trope happen quite often in the DCAU:
*** [[
*** Even more interestingly, his mother, Martha Wayne, is voiced by Adrienne Barbeau, who voices Catwoman, considered by many to the The Dark Knight's true love. Out of context, this almost inserts an [[Oedipus Complex]] into the mix.
** Christopher McDonald, who voiced Jor-El, would also later voice the far older Superman in his appearance on ''[[
* One episode of ''[[Arthur (
** Binkey's great grandfather looked exactly like him as a child.
* On ''[[
* An old episode of ''[[Scooby
* In the ''[[X-Men (
* ''[[
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* There is a short article once about a woman who looked ''exactly'' like her grandmother. She was holding an old picture of her grandmother at her age... I almost wonder if they just took a picture of the woman, aged the picture so it looked older and claimed it was her grandmother.
* Due to the tradition of always marrying their sisters, the Egyptian Pharaohs reportedly all looked almost identical. At least until those nasty recessive genes started making their heads look like American footballs.
* In one documentary of Joni Mitchell, clips from interviews with her starting decades ago are mixed in with the images, and it's very clear how her voice changed from when she was young to the modern day. Then, at the end, Mitchell meets back up with her genetic daughter she had put up for
* Except for skin-tone, [[Barack Obama]] ''is'' his maternal grandfather.
* Dhani Harrison looks ''exactly'' like his father, [[George Harrison]], when he was younger.
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* The British Royal Family may in fact be made of this trope. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1222921/The-throne-clones-How-Royal-Family-inherited-just-titles.html Compare] the 13th century's King Edward I and his great^21-grandson of modern times, Prince William, for instance.
** Except that picture of Edward I is clearly an 18th- or 19th-century rendition; actual contemporary (13th- or 14th-century) illustrations of Edward are much more stylized and not useful for this kind of comparison. Many of the other, more recent ancestral pictures on the page play it straight, though.
* Compare Martin Sheen in ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' with his son Charlie Sheen in ''[[Platoon]]''. Or his other son, Emilio Estevez, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140604194322/http://static.tvguide.com/MediaBin/Galleries/Shows/S_Z/Tq_Tz/TwoAndaHalfMen/season6/two-half-men131.jpg in recent years].
** A commercial for Visa Check Card uses this trope
* Kirk Douglas and Michael Douglas.
* Jerry and Brian Lawler
** And Stu and [[Bret Hart]]
* Aside from a lack of poodle-perm, [http://blogs.inlandsocal.com/movies/jeff-buckley2.jpg Jeff Buckley]{{Dead link}} was almost the spitting image of his dad,
* Harrison Ford's son Ben resembles him so much they used him to fill in for his father for a few new shots in the Final Cut version of ''[[Blade Runner]]''.
** Actually a case of an [[Insert Cameo]]. They only used his mouth, buth they have the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140814062017/http://images.ctvdigital.com/images/pub2upload/7/2007_7_13/harrisonford.jpg same] [http://www.daemonsfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/chef-ben-ford-smile-500x332.jpg smile]{{Dead link}}.
* Angelina Jolie bears a strong resemblance to her mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand.
* After over 3 centuries, Japanese figure skater Oda Noburari retains a strong physical resemblance to his famous ancestor [[Oda Nobunaga]]. Though, of course, the resemblances sorta stop there...
*
* The descendents of J.M. James believe their ancestor was actually outlaw Jesse James, whom they claim faked his own death to avoid arrest. While their claim is considered highly dubious by historians, family member Jeremiah James bears a remarkable resemblence to photographs of Jesse James as a young man: so much so that, if the blood connection were true, he would qualify as an identical great-great-grandson.
* Actress/musician [https://web.archive.org/web/20160913193302/http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/141/l_46f31541a1f74f98bccf9f71d35872ba.jpg Schuyler Fisk] looks almost exactly like her mother [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/c/c8/20100502181542%21Sissy_Spacek_by_David_Shankbone.jpg Sissy Spacek].
* Aside from being blonde, [http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/mia-sara-and-brian-henson-31st-saturn-awards-1eqawc.jpg Brian Henson] is a near-perfect replication of his father, [[Jim Henson|Jim.]]
* Late John Ritter and his son Jason.
* [[Mark Hamill]] and his son [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090331003519/starwars/images/d/d5/Nathanhamill.jpg Nathan]
* Bette Midler and her [http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0bzXfEU83g6Cs/340x.jpg twenty-something daughter Sophie von Haselberg]{{Dead link}}.
* Colin Hanks is basically a lanky version of [[Tom Hanks|his father]] with a different haircut.
* My grandmother has an identical cousin, no kidding. They look as much alike as Patty Duke
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