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== Anime and Manga ==
* Almost every single character from the ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]] Ryo-Ohki!'' OVA is related in some vague way. Of the show's huge cast, there are probably only about three characters that aren't a part of that tree: Tenchi's two school-mates, and Doctor Clay.
* Alright, [[Mahou Sensei Negima]]. I'm just going to put this whole thing in spoilers: {{spoiler|Negi and Asuna are related by blood, and Negi's dad's group has ties to Asuna, Konoka, Evangeline, Takamichi, and the Headmaster. Konoka's bodyguard/love interest Setsuna is the sempai of now-villainous Tsukuyomi. Chao is a time traveling descendent of Negi's, and helped create Chachamaru with Hakase. Zazie's [[Evil Twin]] sister is an underling of one of the [[Big Bad]]'s allies<ref> Said ally is also blood-related to Negi, Asuna and the rest</ref>, Yuuna's mom was revealed to be a mage, and Misora was in on magic to begin with, as was Mana.}} To be fair, not everyone is related, but at this rate, it won't take long.
* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' seems to have everyone related by convoluted means. Given that it's an [[Unwanted Harem]]..
** Only Ayumu Nishizawa has escaped this fate so far. Either going to the [[Everyone Went to School Together|same school]] or related... or both.
* Ever try to make a [[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]] family tree? If they ain't related, they're dating...or they're related AND dating.
** Similarily, try this with [[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]] and it's [[Cloning Blues|various]] [[Mind Screw|worlds]] [[My Own Grandpa|and]] [[Reincarnation Romance|other]] [[Stable Time Loop|plot twists]] - you'll end up with horrible migraine.
* ''[[Rah XephonRahXephon]]'' has pretty much the entire case being related in some way or other.
** And it makes things particularly confusing by having most of the characters be either lying or ignorant about their real relationships!
* In ''[[Tenshi Nini Narumon]]'' {{spoiler|all the main characters and even villains turned out to be connected to each other in some way: starting with Yuusuke and Noelle, Yuusuke is in love with Natsumi who is obsessing over her dead brother Fuyuki. Fuyuki is really Raphael, who a teacher and a lover of Mikael, who in turn is a part of Noelle, who as you know, is in love with Yuusuke. Mikael, Noelle and Silky are parts of one angel soul, which makes something akin to siblings. Eros, Muse and Dispell are Silky's toys, living because of her power. And there's Noelle's family where noone is really evenblood-related.}}.
* ''[[Naruto]]'' has a lot: {{spoiler|The Fourth Hokage is Naruto's Father. And his mother is the previous Demon Fox's host. And Pain is his distant relative. And so is Sasuke. And all of the Uchiha clan. And The Hyuuga clan. And the first Hokage. And the Fifth as well.}}
* In [[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]], every character is either a member of the Ushiromiya family, one of their maids/butlers, a witch, or a witch's furniture.
** {{spoiler|Even three of the maids/butlers/witches are related. Or one [[Split Personality|maid-butler-witch]], rather.}}
 
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== Literature ==
* [[JRRJ. R. R. Tolkien (Creator)|JRR Tolkien]]'s Middle-earth (''[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', etc.) has many related protagonists by virture of them mostly being from various prominent families or ruling dynasties. But there aren't really any cases of 'surprise-relatives' (which this trope seems to be about). Well, except perhaps Túrin getting told his wife is actually his grown-up and amnesiac baby sister, but the reader knows that from the start. This is most apparent in the First Age, where all the main Elves and Men are descended from the three 'fathers' of their respective races (Ingwe, Finwe and Elwe/Elu Thingol for the Elves, and Beor, Marach and Haldad for the Men), and there is much intermarriage between the descendents, which eventually leads to the birth of Elrond and Elros, who are descended from all of them simultanously. This trope becomes less apparent in the Second and Third Ages, as the First Age [[Kill'Em All|thinned the cast a bit]].
* Most of the wizarding families in [[Harry Potter]] are related in one way or another, especially through the Black family. One of Harry Potter's grandmothers was a Black. Ron Weasley likewise had a Black (a different Black) as a grandmother. Draco Malfoy's mother was Narcissa Black before she married. Likewise, one of Neville Longbottom's grandparents was a member of the Black family. And that's just the major characters...
** Let's see, Tonks is the niece of Bellatrix Lestrange and Narcissa Malfoy, making her Draco's cousin. Well, just see the [http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/File:Black_Family_Tree.png family tree yourself] It's surprising that the Lovegood family isn't there.
** Draco and Harry are actually distant relatives, who share a great-great-grandfather. Even one minor character in Slytherin, who is not much more than a sparring partner for Hermione in the second book, is related to Harry and Draco. Her great-great-grandmother is their great-great-grandfather's wife. And of course, by the end of the story {{spoiler|the [[Power Trio]] are all Weasleys by marriage or blood.}}
* According to [[The Bible (Literature)|the book of Genesis]], every human being that ever lived is descended from Adam and Eve, and everyone born since the great flood is descended from Noah. One might conclude at first that this means that [[Fridge Horror|any kind of sex is incest]], except for two things: First, the gene pool was still <ref> apart from the Nephilim</ref> clean at the time of the flood, and the incest taboo wasn't needed until centuries later when God handed the law down to Moses. And even then, God [http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=religion never prohibited first cousin marriage].
* Heavily subverted by ''[[Stationery Voyagers]]'': Other than a few marriages resulting later on, almost NOBODY (important) is blood-related ([[Bizarre Alien Biology|or for that matter, Ink-related]]) to anyone else (important)! Yet, while blood relations are severely lacking among major cast members, everyone is "connected" in more abstract ways. (See that work's official page for an in-depth analysis.)
* In any book after the first in any [[Piers Anthony]] series, EVERY CHARACTER EVER. Even, like, the robots and stuff. ''He'll find a way.''
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* Let's not forget Dune, folks. When Jessica and Paul are on the run from the Harkonnens, Paul drops a bombshell: "We're Harkonnens."
* The main premise of ''[[The 39 Clues]]'' book series is groups of people, all members of the vast Cahill family, vying to find the secret of the family's fame and power.
* In the ''[[Outlander (Literaturenovel)|Outlander]]'' series, characters are revealed to be related even though they were born ''two centuries apart''.
* In the ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'' series, considering that each clan has its own [[Tangled Family Tree]], and that cats inside one clan are not allowed to mate with cats from other clans (though some still do), it is not surprising that after a few generations of mating with each other, almost everyone is related to one another inside any given clan, except for newcomers.
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'', protagonist Lazarus Long is the [[The Older Immortal|oldest living human being]], having survived over 2,300 years thanks to an abnormally long natural lifespan and the technology of [[Fountain of Youth|human rejuvenation]]. It is statistically estimated that, if you claim any ancestry at all from the Howard Families (humans who took part in a breeding program designed to improve longevity), there's an 80+ percent chance that you're his descendant, and the novel makes something of a [[Running Gag]] about everyone Lazarus meets telling him how closely related they are (fifth generation descendent of his eight wife, etc.). This even extends outside the Families, as he's had uncounted unregistered children over the centuries and at one point relates a story about meeting a pair of slave twins whom he suspects of being his great-to-the-nth grandchildren.
* The medieval epic poem ''Parzival'' by Wolfram von Eschenbach lives this trope. The titular hero Parzival [[Long-Lost Relative|turns out to be closely or distantly related]] to just about every person he meets in the course of his adventures. This is generally interpreted as Wolfram telling his readers that all of mankind is one big family, even across national and religious divides - Parzival has an elder half-brother, Feirefis, who is a Muslim (although at the end of the story he becomes a Christian) and has black-and-white piebald skin, being the son of a white father and a black mother. For the time of the Crusades, when it was written, this was a quite unusual message of tolerance.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' is another example. With each season, more familial bonds spring up between main characters that originally lived on completely different continents.
** Then again, powers are genetic, so it's a convenient way to introduce a new character with powers by saying they're a relative.
* As mentioned in the trope, most [[Soap Opera|Soap Operas]] tend toward this eventually. If nothing else, it's an inevitable consequence of the constant marriage and divorce of everyone in the show.
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* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' springs to mind almost immediately. Three quarters of the way through the game it turns out that many of the characters lived in the same orphanage as children and then forgot about it; one of the side effects of the [[Applied Phlebotinum]] the game's magic system revolves around happens to be memory loss. And Edea, who appears to be the [[Big Bad]] but is in fact just the [[Big Bad]]'s mind-controlled [[The Dragon|Dragon]] happens to have ''run'' said orphanage, and is the wife of the headmaster of Balamb Garden, the military school most of the main cast attends in the present day...which was established (by Edea) to ''fight'' Sorceresses like Edea.
** To make it a lot more (relatively speaking) plausible, many of the mercenaries from Gardens were recruited from the said orphanage. The one character who didn't have any earlier ties with the rest of the cast isn't from a Garden. That being said, her mother did know and date the main character's father... Thankfully (her being the [[Love Interest]]) the possibility they are in fact half-siblings as result is ruled out.
* In ''[[Haunting Ground (Video Game)|Haunting Ground]]'' {{spoiler|Riccardo is Fiona's uncle, and Lorenzo is Fiona's grandparent.}}
* In ''[[No More Heroes]]'', almost every character important to the plot ends up being related to {{spoiler|Travis Touchdown. He reveals before the Rank 4 fight that his parents are dead. The real Rank 1 holder, Dark Star, claims to be his actual father, and certainly knows enough to rekindle Travis's memories of watching his parents get killed. However, Jeane, who kills Dark Star before the match takes place, points out that he saw his parents die, so Dark Star can't be his father. Jeane should know too, as she was dating Travis just to get close enough to Travis's parents to kill them. She only wanted to do this because she's Travis's half sister (Yes, [[Squick]]), and wanted revenge on Travis's father for abandonning her family and causing her mother's death. Travis's rival, Henry, is also his twin brother, making Sylvia, Travis's love interest, his sister-in-law, and her daughter, Jeane, his niece}}. [[Mind Screw|Don't]] [[Suda 51|think]] [[Gainax Ending|about it]] [[Rule of Funny|too hard]]
* In the [[Multiple Endings|normal ending]] of ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'', it's revealed that {{spoiler|several people you met throughout the ages are all part of Marle's bloodline, including one of the last surviving humans from the [[Bad Future]] and fellow party member Ayla}}. And another, far less serious ending reveals that {{spoiler|Frog married into Marle's family as well}} -- though it's implied this is only true for this ''particular'' ending/timeline.
* 12 out of the 18 characters [[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni|Umineko no Naku Koro ni]] starts out with are direct family of each other whether by blood or by marriage. Then again, [[Justified Trope|most of the story takes place during a family conference]]. (The other 6 characters are five of the family head's servants, and a friend of his.) As for the characters who show up later ([[Loads and Loads of Characters|and there are a lot]]), a number of them are Meta characters, two characters are [[Expy|based on characters from a previous work]], {{spoiler|and a number of characters might just be [[Split Personality|Split Personalities]].}}
* Basically every present-day character in [[Fate Stay Night|Fate/stay night]], although you can somewhat include many of the Servants as well. Where to begin. Shirou is schoolmates with Rin, Sakura, and Shinji. Shinji's younger sister is Sakura, {{spoiler|whose real older sister is Rin}}. {{spoiler|Shirou's adoptive father Kiritsugu is Illyasviel's biological father}}. Kirei was Rin's father's apprentice, {{spoiler|and Caren is his estranged daughter}}. {{spoiler|Rin's, Shinji's and Illya's ancestors were all partners who started the Holy Grail War together}}. Shirou's only friends at school are Issei and Shinji, who both happen to be the school's cool kids (as a side note, Issei has an old rivalry with Rin and Shinji has a crush on her), while Shinji {{spoiler|is Rider's temporary Master}} and Issei lives with and is soul brothers with {{spoiler|Kuzuki, Caster's Master}}. Shirou's Servant, Saber, {{spoiler|was Kiritsugu's Servant previously}}, during which time {{spoiler|she met and was proposed to by Gilgamesh}}, {{spoiler|who was originally Rin's father's Servant}}. Shirou was formerly in the Archery club with Shinji, Sakura, and Ayako, and Ayako happens to be Rin's old, close friend. Taiga is simultaneously Shirou's neighbor, childhood friend, guardian, homeroom teacher, and former club adviser, and her grandfather is an old acquaintance of Kiritsugu who lets Shirou do his bike maintenance. And I shouldn't even need to mention {{spoiler|[[Future Badass|Archer]] [[Future Me Scares Me|actually]] '''[[My Future Self and Me|is]]''' [[I Hate Past Me|Shirou]]}}, should I?
** And that's just the characters important enough to get face time.
** And ignoring the relations to characters in [[Nasuverse|Nasu's]] [[Tsukihime|other]] [[Kara noKarano Kyoukai (Literature)|works]].
* Infinity series
** In [[Ever 17]] {{spoiler|Hokuto and Sara are Tsugumi and Takeshi's children. You is the mother of her clone. You and Coco's father worked together in Lemu and are the reason both are there. And may have designed Sora and are therefore her 'father' in a sense. Sara and You went to the same high school.}} But {{spoiler|Kaburaki}} is just some {{spoiler|guy.}} {{spoiler|Unless, [[Fanon|as some believe]], he and the older You had a relationship of some sort going.}}
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