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* Likewise, Fuyuki's mother Aki in ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' looks [[Fan Service|mostly]] like him, and was [[Lampshaded]] in a [[Fountain of Youth]] episode with predictable results. (The fiery-tempered Natsumi, meanwhile, gets stuck with [[Hair Colors|red hair]]).

* While not very closely resembling her half-sisters at all, Urd of ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' is a dead-ringer for her own mother, [[Hot Shounen Mom|Hild]]. If it weren't for Hild's slight height advantage, different hairstyle, and slightly larger bust, they could pretty easily be mistaken for one another.

** The parody manga ''[[Parallel Sailor Moon]]'' introduces daughters of the four Guardian Senshi, who look exactly like their mothers and have the same names.

* Ichigo of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' looks like her mother, Sakura. She's basically just Ichigo's head on a [[Absurdly Youthful Mother|''sliiiiiiiiiiightly'' more mature body]].

* In ''[[Lucky Star]]'', [[Older Than They Look|Konata Izumi]] is basically a clone of her mother, with her father's skin tone and mole. It's obvious enough that the Hiiragi twins mistake a picture of her parents together for Konata and her dad, and [[Lolicon|that leads to some interesting questions]]. The same is true of all the mothers seen in the series - the Hiiragi twins' father gets more onscreen time than their mother, but since all four offspring in their family are daughters, they all resemble the mother.

* Subaru and Ginga Nakajima of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' look like splitting images of their mother. Subverted when {{spoiler|it's later revealed that they were [[Super Prototype|experimental cyborgs]] that Quint rescued and then adopted, partly because they looked like her}}. Doubly subverted when {{spoiler|it's even later revealed that Quint ''is'' their genetic mother... [[Truly Single Parent|in the cloning sense]], since the illegal researchers had somehow gotten hold of Quint's DNA and used it to create them.}}

** In a more typical case, Nanoha herself ends up looking rather similar to her own mother Momoko when she grows up.

* ''[[Your Name]]'': Played for drama as according to supplementary novel ''Another Side: Earthbound'', one of the drivers of Toshiki's issues is how Mitsuha's resemblance to Futaba reminds him of losing the latter.

 

** It's worth noting that in most Elsewords where he's a father, Peter's children end up looking a lot like MJ or Gwen, with the exception being ''Spider-Girl'', where May looks like both of her parents (and has her Aunt May's eye color!). The trope's played straight with [[Cloning Blues|BenReilly]]'s son, instead... although somehow, only MJ has noticed the resemblance.

* Regardless of [[Marvel Universe]] continuity, Pietro Maximoff AKA Quicksilver looks like an aged-down clone of his father Magnus AKA Magneto. Pietro's twin, Wanda Maximoff AKA Scarlet Witch, looks very much like the twins' mother Magda, ranging from 'Really A Lot Alike' to 'Her Younger Clone' in resemblance. Given the odd family dynamics through their 30+ years of history, this sometimes [[Unfortunate Implications|seems a little strange]].

* Sharon Carter, erstwhile girlfriend to [[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]], strongly resembles her aunt Peggy, World War II resistance fighter and Cap's wartime girlfriend - though the two were originally written as sisters before being retconned into being niece/aunt.

 

* In the Disney film ''[[Meet the Robinsons]]'', Wilbur is virtually a male clone of his mother, Frannie.

** On that note, almost every (biological) member of the family sports the "family cowlick"...on ''both'' sides of the family. That's convenient.

** In the sequel, Melody looks like an ideal blend of her parents.

* The Queen ([[Rapunzel]]'s mother) from ''[[Tangled]]'' has brown hair and [[Green Eyes]]. {{spoiler|And so does Rapunzel herself.}}

 

* ''[[Dinosaurs]]'' did this with the daughter resembling and acting like the father and the son resembling and acting like the mother. The third child didn't act or look like anyone in the family; in one episode, it was revealed that he was [[Switched At Birth]], ending up in a "Family is the people you love" [[An Aesop|Aesop]] and a parody of the [[Reset Button]], with the doctor who confirmed the switch jumping out of a cloud and proclaiming "Science was wrong!"

* Occurs on ''[[Glee]]''. Thanks to actresses Lea Michele and Idina Menzel looking near-identical, no one bought that Shelby was ''just'' the director of Vocal Adrenaline and {{spoiler|not Rachel's birth mother. "Dream On" finally confirmed it}}.

* Everyone in Paul Pfeiffer's family on ''[[The Wonder Years]]'' has black hair and glasses, kind of like Milhouse's family on ''[[The Simpsons]]''. Milhouse is also based on Paul in appearance and as the protagonist's best friend.

* It's possible that the only reason Jonathan Taylor Thomas was hired for ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' is that he looks so similar to Tim Allen.

 

* [[Harry Potter]] is frequently - make that at least once every book - described as looking like a miniature copy of his dad James, only with his mother Lily's [[Green Eyes]].

** [[Badass Family|The Weasley family]] can be counted on to have bright red hair and freckles, while ladies of Fleur Delacour's family, [[Half-Human Hybrid|thanks to a veela grandmother]], are all blonde, willowy, and gorgeous ({{spoiler|leading to much speculation of what Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's daughter will look like}}).

* In the ''[[Mr. Men]]'' books, Mr. Chatterbox has a sister, Little Miss Chatterbox, who looks a lot like him, ''and'' [[Motor Mouth|acts like him.]]

 

* ''[[Zippy the Pinhead]]'' and his two identical children, Fuelrod and Meltdown.

* In ''[[Blondie (comic strip)|Blondie]]'', Dagwood and his son Alexander look like identical twins. On the other hand, his daughter Cookie looks a lot like her mother Blondie, the only real difference being their hairstyles.

* In both the ''[[Popeye]]'' comic and cartoon, the protagonist's father (Poopdeck Pappy) is pretty much an older version of his son; same strong jaw, oversized forearms, and squint, even smoking the same type of corncob pipe, although Pappy often has beard stubble.

 

** The mother of the player character from the same game practically looks like an adult version of Hilda, the female protagonist.

** Pokemon in general invokes this with the parents. Ethan and Kris look like their Gen 2 mother, and Lyra looks like the remake redesign of her. Dawn looks like a younger version of her mom with longer hair, and Lucas looks like her but with a darker shade of hair. May looks like the Hoenn mother and Birch, and Brendan possibly looks like Norman.

** Rosalina actually resembles her dead mother as revealed in the subplot of ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''.

* Potentially subverted in ''[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]'', where Fate and Maria look strikingly alike but the plot only tells us they went under similar 'treatment' as kids. Whether they were siblings seems to be a (deliberately?) hanging detail, although they do have an [[Multiple Endings|potential ending]] together.

** This is also played for tragedy with {{spoiler|Beatrice II, the daughter of Kinzo and Beatrice Castiglioni. Her mother died in childbirth, causing Kinzo to fall into despair, and as she grew older Beatrice began to look more and more like her to the point that Kinzo believed she was her mother's reincarnation. This eventually led to him [[Parental Incest|forcing himself on his own daughter]].}}

 

* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Antimony is nearly identical to her mother, Surma; apparently the only traits she inherited from her father are her small nose and straight hair. This is potentially plot-relevant, as Kat ''doesn't'' have a Strong Family Resemblance to either of her parents.

** Kat does resemble her parents, especially her mother when [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=402 her hair gets longer]. It's just normally cut too short for the curls to show.

* In the [[Mega Crossover]] [[Fanfic|fan]][[Web Comic|comic]] ''[[Roommates 2007|Roommates]]'' [[Labyrinth|Jareth]] (even more so in his [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Dark]] form) and [[The Erl King|his father]]. They look alike, dress alike ([[Painted-On Pants]] rule), have similar modus operandi and even share a [[Catch Phrase]] or two... but for some reason no [[Hereditary Hairstyle]] in sight (Jareth has [[Eighties Hair]] his dad is a [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]).

 

* The animated online epic ''[[Broken Saints]]'': Take a look at Gabriel Dunn. Now take a look at {{spoiler|the young man from the West in Chapter 14 Act 1.}}

* In the Gaz6231 adaptation of [[Half Life: Full Life Consequences|Half Life Full Life Consequences]], Henry Freeman has the same model as his father, {{spoiler|who turns out to be John Freeman}}.

 

* In ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'', Dexter and Dee Dee are an interesting variant where they each visibly inherited different traits from their parents. Dee Dee has blonde hair like their father while Dexter inherited his mother's red hair and his father's [[Expressive Mask|Expressive]] [[Nerd Glasses]].

** One scene took things a step further and showed where they each inherited their ''personalities'' from. The mother was shown tirelessly whipping up recipes in the kitchen with meticulous scientific precision before the father burst into the scene and started wrecking things like an idiot.

** Dexter's grandfather is another, less frequently seen character, who is nearly identical to Dexter in everyway, except being old and pruning. In fact Dexter's grandfather is exactly the same as old Dexter from previous episodes.

*** [[Fridge Brilliance|"Hi Grandpa!" "I'm not grandpa!"]]

* In ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'', Arnold's cousin Janet basically looks like [[Distaff Counterpart|a female version of him]]. She has the same hair style, also wears glasses and sports a feminine version of his [[Limited Wardrobe|regular outfit]].

* Obligitory ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' example: [[The Woobie|Zuko]] would look EXACTLY like a younger version of [[Big Bad|his father]]... if it weren't for his [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|trademark scar]] {{spoiler|given to him by [[Abusive Parents|said father]]}}. [[Word of God]] is that Ozai was pretty much designed to look like an older Zuko, which explains why he's way prettier than a lot of people expected such a despicable [[Big Bad]] to look.

* The original ''[[My Little Pony]]'' "Baby" characters looked exactly like their mothers, except for less markings on their hide.

** Twilight in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' resembles her mom to a T.

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