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Often, if a family is the stereotypical four-member "[[Nuclear Family|nuclear]]" one, the son might resemble his mother, or the daughter her father, in an attempt to mix things up. Another common variant is to make the father and the son/the mother and the daughter look nearly identical, but with the other parent's hair or eye color. Also, if there's a [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]] (especially if they are sisters), expect that the tomboy will resemble her father more and the girly girl will resemble her mother more.
Some will go as far as to make the ''parents'' [[Unfortunate Implications|look similar]]. It's usually done innocently, often in children's shows where the offspring are seen first, but the possibility of [[Incest Subtext]] can be shady to older fans.
Compare [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]], [[Identical Grandson]]. Contrast [[The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter]], where you'll find yourself ''relieved'' that [[Strong Family Resemblance]] isn't always the case. A subtrope of this would be [[Hereditary Hairstyle]].
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* In ''[[Soul Eater]]'', even at thirteen Black Star resembles his father rather strongly, although this flashback was based on Sid recalling what White Star was like because his son's behaviour had become so similar.
* Victorique of ''[[Gosick]]'' is so identical to her mother that just wearing a ''different hat'' is enough to throw people.
* The women of the Misaka family of ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'' all look very similar. Well, saying that is unfair considering most of them are clones of Misaka Mikoto, who herself looks much like her mother.
* Rukia in ''[[Bleach]]'' has an uncanny resemblance to her older sister Hisana. [http://www.manga-access.com/manga/B/Bleach/chapter/179/12 This] is Hisana. For that matter, she and Byakuya look [http://www.manga-access.com/manga/B/Bleach/chapter/150/6 alike] despite not being blood-relatives.
* Shuichi from ''[[Wandering Son]]'' looks a lot like his older sister, Maho. When he grew his hair out into a bob they looked near identical. Makoto also looks a lot like his mother.
* Yukari from ''[[Family Compo]]'' resembles her dead sister quite a lot. When she asks her nephew to move in with her family he's captivated by their resemblance.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser|Kei]] in [[Houou Gakuen Misoragumi]] looks almost like a younger version of her father.
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* [[Lucky Luke|The Dalton brothers]] are identical except in height, and their resemblance to [[Retired Badass|Ma Dalton]] is so strong that the shorter brothers can pass as her just by shaving and putting on a dress.
* In the [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe]], most adult members of the Duck and McDuck families are basically [[Donald Duck|Donald]] with accessories (beards, hairdos, [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics|bows]] ect.). The same can be observed when you compare Huey, Dewey and Louie with all other Duck and McDuck kids.
* [[Captain America (comics)|Sharon Carter]], erstwhile girlfriend to Captain America, strongly resembles her aunt (World War II resistance fighter and Cap's wartime girlfriend) Peggy, though the two were originally written as sisters before being retconned into being niece/aunt.
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* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's [[Prospero's Daughter]] trilogy, Theo is in fact taken for his father by his own sister. He had after all stop using magic to keep himself from aging. Caurus realizes he's not Prospero only by his aura -- whereupon he deduces that it's a seeming and an imposter, and Mab has to throw himself between them to keep him from attacking.
* The Ashkevron family in the [[Heralds of Valdemar]] series. One character even comments, "The Ashkevron family look tends to breed true, and when it doesn't, the poor thing generally runs off to Haven."
* In the [[Dresden Files]], once {{spoiler|Thomas}} reveals to Harry that they're related, Harry frequently compares and contrasts their looks. Nobody else seems to notice, not even Harry before he found out.
** Harry notes that all of the Raiths are impossibly beautiful, and at least somewhat similar. That subconscious awareness saves Murphy from being Fed on at one point. Recurring examples: contrasting Thomas and the reigning Lord Raith, and comparing the Raith sisters.
** {{spoiler|Maggie Dresden}} looks a lot like her mom, {{spoiler|Susan Rodriguez.}}
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[Zippy the Pinhead]]'' and his two identical children, Fuelrod and Meltdown.
* In ''[[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.
* Arlo from ''[[Arlo And Janis]]'' and his son look nearly identical.
* Jon Arbuckle from ''[[Garfield]]'' resembles both of his parents while his brother Doc Boy looks like his father.
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* {{spoiler|N and Ghetsis}} in ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]''. {{spoiler|A sage of Team Plasma suggests that they may not be related.}}
** 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.
* Bowser, the arch Nemesis of Mario from the [[Super Mario Brothers]], has got eight children. 7 don't resemble him that much. But his youngest, Bowser Jr. might as well be a clone of him. He looks absolutely identical to his father's younger self from the ''Yoshi games'' , or ''Mario and Luigi: Partners in time''. He's also got the same personality.
** Rosalina actually resembles her dead mother as revealed in the subplot of ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''.
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* ''[[Homestuck]]'' loves playing this with clone and [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] shenanigans.
** After John creates the paradox clone babies of the kids and their "parents", it's pretty easy to see how similar everyone looks, especially between John/Grandpa and Jade/Nanna. Similarly, in the flashbacks to Grandpa and Nanna as thirteen-year-olds in 1923, again they look near-identical to modern-day John and Jade, the only real difference being Nanna's hair compared to Jade's.
** [[Reality Warper|Becquerel]] was created partially using [[Big Friendly Dog|Halley]]'s DNA, and so looks almost exactly like Halley except without a visible face.
** According to [[Word of God]], had all twelve trolls successfully grown to adulthood, they would have looked identical to their [[Famous Ancestor|Famous Ancestors]]; conversely, when we see the Handmaid as a six-sweep-old, she is literally identical to her descendant Aradia save for her attire. This was pretty much the entire point: [[Word of God]] goes that the ancestors were pretty much a look at what the trolls would be like in most respects had they grown up, though admittedly that's overlooking some glaring differences on their part.
** The baby guardians in the ectobiology lab already bore a strong resemblance to the four kids, but in Act 6, sprite-mode Jake and Jane bear an ''exceptionally'' strong resemblance to John and Jade respectively, with only minor outfit differences distinguishing them, and Lalonde looks just like Rose except for her shirt and her Mom-style hair curl.
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** 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!"]]
* Billy from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'' looks an awful lot like his dad -- big nose, beady [[Black Eyes]] and all.
* 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]].
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** Additionally, every male on Ferb's side of the family, parents, grandparents, uncles, cousins, etc., all have the same tall, thin face and squarish nose. Ferb and his Grandfather are pretty near [[Identical Grandson|Identical.]]
* In ''[[Gargoyles]]'', Angela his a near-dead ringer to Demona and has a spot-on match to Goliath's skin and hair color, and Elisa notices it immediately.
** Let's not forget Elisa, her siblings,and Alex, the son of Xanatos and Fox . Elisa resembles her dad, her brother looks like their mother, and the their sister resembles both of their parents. Adult Alex looks like David with Fox's bright red hair. (Of course, he was [[All Just a Dream]] anyway, so who knows if he will actually look like that?)
* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|The New Batman Adventures]]'', Tim Drake looks exactly like the mugshot of his dad Steven "Shifty" Drake.
* In ''[[Totally Spies]]'', the girls' mothers looked more and more like them with each appearance.
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