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This is an extremely common practice in animation where, to establish a familial relationship, a child looks more or less ''identical'' to one of his or her parents. Frequently occurs when a show uses garish or outlandish designs, where subtlety and fine physical detail are already lost, and we need a quick visual aid that other characters may not seem to notice.
This is probably born out of the [[Economy Cast]] mindset of a single character for a single role, since we're not given clues to what the other parent might look like and thus shouldn't think about it. Predictably, this trope is less frequent when the child has a non-twin sibling who can't also look identical, although occasionally the difference is to show they're [[Brother
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.
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Compare [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]], [[Identical Grandson]]. Contrast [[Ugly Guys Hot Daughter|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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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu|Hare+ Guu]]'', Hare looks exactly like his mother Weda enough that the school doctor initially confuses him for a girl. In a huge irony, the school doctor {{spoiler|turns out to be his father.}}
* 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 (Manga)|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.
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', Usagi and Chibi-Usa are very similar (except for the hair colors), and the few glimpses we get of parents have them looking nearly identical to their daughters. Minako and Usagi's ''entire families'' are [[Expy|copies of each other]], which wouldn't be so jarring if the 'newer' plot didn't force Usagi to resemble her mother ''in a past life'', meaning she doesn't look like her modern family at all.
** The parody manga ''Parallel Sailor Moon'' introduces daughters of the four Guardian Senshi, who look exactly like their mothers and have the same names.
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* Brilliantly carried off in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. Initially you can't see any resemblance between Shinji Ikari and his father Gendo Ikari -- but then in episode 5 Shinji briefly puts on a pair of Gendo's old glasses and later in episode 21 you get to see what Gendo looked like when he was younger. The resemblance is disturbingly striking, without the two of them looking like lazily designed age-clones.
** Ritsuko Akagi, as it turns out, shares quite a resemblance to her mother Naoko, as seen in episode 21 where we learn that she wasn't a natural blonde - save for her characteristic mole on her cheek, Ritsuko would look a ''lot'' like her mother when she's older if you were to superimpose her original hair colour over her current one. Much like the Shinji-Gendo similarity above, this is intended to be a display of [[Not So Different]], and rather disturbingly so - even her hair and clothing styles become more like Naoko's as she gets older, not to mention {{spoiler|her sleeping with Gendo just as her mother had done.}}
** And of course, in the ''most'' disturbing example and {{spoiler|the most loose definition of ''family'' resemblance, Rei Ayanami shares a striking resemblance to the woman from whom she was [[Half
* The way the [[Anthropomorphic Personification|nations]] in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' are related can be a little confusing, but England and Sealand are most certainly related. Sealand looks like a younger, more [[Cheerful Child|hyper]] England.
** If Germany were to grow his hair long, he'd be identical to his ancestor, Germania. His older brother, Prussia, also shares a certain resemblance with them, though his eye and hair color sets him apart.
*** Muss up Germany's hair and he ends up looking just like Prussia in the webcomics.
*** Depending on whether or not you believe that Germany is related to the Holy Roman Empire, {{spoiler|or ''is'' the Holy Roman Empire}}, you can't deny that HRE looks like a younger Germany, and that Germany bears a resemblance to the sketch of teenage HRE when his hair isn't slicked back. Meanwhile, in North America, Canada and the U.S. look identical to the point that poor Canada is often mistaken for his more noticeable brother. [[Fanon]] has it that they're twins. South Italy looks to be a darker, meaner, and slightly taller version of North Italy, and is otherwise completely the same. Several of England's relatives [[Word of God|apparently share]] [[Big Ol' Eyebrows|his eyebrows]].
*** Don't forget that both Italies strongly resemble their grandfather Ancient Rome.
** In the Slavic side, Russia and his older sister Ukraine look pretty similar: they're both tall, light-haired, [[I Am Big Boned|a little pudgy]] and with similar features except for Russia's nose. If we add their [[Gender Flip|genderflipped]] versions, the similarity is even stronger: male!Ukraine is basically [[Fragile Flower|a more insecure]] Russia with blonder hair, while female!Russia is a long-haired and more smily Ukraine.
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== Literature ==
* [[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
** Also remarkable are the Malfoys, who are all pale and blonde - even Narcissa Malfoy ''née'' [[Fridge Logic|Black]] (to be fair, she ''is'' actually related to her husband).
** Throw in Bellatrix and Andromeda, Tom Riddle and his father, Dumbledore and his brother - [[Captain Obvious|I'm sensing a pattern here, are you]]?
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* In [[General Protection Fault]], Nick looks like almost exactly his father, but doesn't have a mustache and his hair is not yet gray.
* [[Kevin and Kell|Kell]] and Sheila are cousins, but look enough like each other that they can pass themselves off as each other well enough to fool their own families.
* ''[[Homestuck]]'' loves playing this with clone and [[Timey
** 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.
* In the [[Mega Crossover]] [[Fanfic|fan]][[Web Comic|comic]] ''[[Roommates 2007 (Webcomic)|Roommates]]'' [[Labyrinth (Film)|Jareth]] (even more so in his [[Super
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* 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]].
* Obligitory ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|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.
** Also, when [[The Dragon|Azula]] is shown not wearing makeup, she bears a pretty strong resemblance to her mother, [[Missing Mom|Princess Ursa]].
* Milhouse's parents were introduced in ''[[The Simpsons]]'', both looked very much like him, meaning that they also rather improbably looked very much like each other. This has led to some pretty uncomfortable questions from fans. ([[Lampshade Hanging|And Bart, in one episode]]). Considering that the "Lemon of Troy" episode revealed that Mrs. Van Houten is from Shelbyville, and that the Springfield/Shelbyville rivalry came about because Shelbyvillains wanted to [[Kissing Cousins|marry their cousins]]...yeah.
** It sinks into [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]] territory with the introduction of at least one of Milhouse's grandfathers and his two grandmothers in different episodes, who of course look all the same. By the way, one of the grannies is Italian and the other (most likely) Dutch.
** Milhouse even lampshades is parent's resemblance in a later episode where he casually admits that he thinks they might be [[Brother
* ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' has two of these: first, Terry's younger brother Matt looks almost identical to him, something the show's creators actually joke about on the DVD commentary (the lack of resemblance to either of their ''parents'' is best not delved into here, considering the later explanation is supposedly something of a [[Sure Why Not]] [[Retcon]]). Second, when [[Big Bad]] Derek Powers' adult son appears at the end of the first season, the facial resemblance is strong enough it's pretty clear that they're family even before dialogue actually states it.
* In the cartoon ''[[Back to The Future]]'' one of Doc Brown's kids -- specifically, Verne -- was able to pass himself off as Doc Brown's younger self during a trip to the past (his eye color even changes from his usual blue to Doc's brown). Ironically, a different, earlier episode had his sibling Jules claiming Verne had to be adopted because he bore no resemblance to the rest of the family (Jules, it should be noted, sort of resembles his mother Clara).
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* Chum Chum from ''[[Fanboy and Chum Chum]]'' has a female cousin Muck Muck, who looks exactly like him, except with pigtails, eyelashes and a different outfit.
* 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 (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' resembles her mom to a T.
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