Strong Family Resemblance: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Detective Conan]]'', Yuusaku Kudo and his son Shinichi look almost exactly the same (Yuusaku has glasses and a funky mustache, Shinichi has a cowlick and a pointy rat-tail). The same goes for Kaitou KID and Shinichi; even though nobody knows whether or not they're related.

** Actually, a ''huge'' [[Chekhov's Gun|plot point]] in a case of the fifth season. {{spoiler|The detective Yusuke Sakata, whose father died in strange circumstances 20 years ago, confronts a [[Serial Killer]]. Much to his shock, the [[Serial Killer]] starts referring to him as "Instructor Inaba" and babbling in ''horror'' about how "the prank went too far". Said prank, obviously, refers to the death of Sakata's dad Inaba, which he and other five people caused. Yusuke, who had become a policeman to investigate what went on with his father, ''became a [[Serial Killer]] himself'', catching and murdering the other culprits while keeping the other murderer alive and hidden while planning to kill him last and frame him for all the deaths. [[Love Makes You Evil|All to punish those who robbed him of his dad when he was a little boy]]}}. And on the other hand, {{spoiler|this was also Yusuke's perdition: at some point Heiji and Conan saw a picture that included all of the victims plus other two persons whom Yusuke had still not killed... as well as Inaba. This lets them notice how physically alike Yusuke and Inaba were, identifying Yusuke as the killer.}}

* 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.}}

* Not only does [http://images.wikia.com/duelmasters/images/e/e3/Shobu.jpg Shobu] of ''[[Duel Masters]]'' look almost exactly [http://images.wikia.com/duelmasters/images/c/c9/Shori.jpg the same as his] [[Disappeared Dad]] ([[Animation Anatomy Aging]] the only real difference), but the two even dress the same.

* ''[[K-On!]]'' has the Hirasawa sisters, who resemble each other to the point where the younger sister (almost) successfully passed herself off as the older sister once. After that, the resemblance is [[lampshaded]] and [[Played for Laughs]] on occasion.

 

== Comic Books ==