Strong Family Resemblance: Difference between revisions

* 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]]).

* 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.

* 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 mistakes 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.

* [[Gender Bender|Girl-type]] [[Ranma One Half|Ranma]], color of hair and eyes aside, is almost identical to her mother. Unfortunately for him, Nabiki decides to point this out at the most inopportune moment, specifically when he's trying to pass himself off as Akane's cousin in order to avoid fulfilling a rather nasty [[Seppuku|ritual suicide]] pact.

** Apparently this all has to do with Saiyan genes. It's a form of identification to tell the weak Sayains from the strong ones easily through facial features and whatnot.

** Krillin and Android 18's daughter Marron looked like Krillin with pigtails as a toddler. As a young woman, she resembles her mother.

* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', when Negi magically ages himself up, he's virtually indistinguishable from his father. When he travels into the magic world, the resemblance is a bit of a plot point. Naturally, the strong resemblance, combined with the fact that Negi's mother has barely even been mentioned, leads to a number of [[Epileptic Trees]] concerning Negi's [[Truly Single Parent|possible origin]]. The identity of his mother was later revealed; personality wise he resembles her quite strongly, although he's much more [[Cheerful Child|upbeat]].

** Negi's cousin also looks like her aunt (Negi's mother).

* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' has a weird version with {{spoiler|Lordgenome and Nia}}, who look nothing alike as they are in the series, but as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOBG3CCew7Q this video made after the end of the actual series] shows {{spoiler|Lordgenome used to be a [[Cute Shotaro Boy]] and basically a male version of Nia}}. Seriously.

** Rossiu also looks uncannily like the priest of his village at the very end of the series, leading to WMG as to whether or not they're related.

* 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.}}

** Subverted with Switzerland and Liechtenstein. They're not exactly siblings (more like adoptive sibs, though it's easy to infer they're at least distantly related due to being Germanic), but they look almost exactly alike. And even more when Liech cuts off her braids.

** Also subverted with Cyprus and Greece. He ''does'' look like a younger and slimmer Greece... but lacks his trademark [[Idiot Hair]].

** The only Huey-descendants who don't resemble him being his great-great-granddaughter, Claudia, who looks like a female version of {{spoiler|her great-grandfather Claire}}, and his {{spoiler|son by Monica}}, Luchino, who looks exactly like his mother.

* [[One Piece]]: Robin and her mother Olivia; Robin ends up being identical to her as an adult, with the exception of different hair colours.

** Also, Vivi and her mother Titi. It's so striking that during Vivi's coming of age ceremony, her father almost mistook her for a spitting image of Titi. If you want to check it out for yourself, [http://images.wikia.com/onepiece/images/9/92/Young_Titi.jpg here's what her mother looked like when she was young.]

** Monkey D. Garp, Luffy's grandfather, [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120207124919/onepiece/images/d/da/Kid_garp.PNG looked almost exactly like Luffy did] when he was a kid. Even now you can see the resemblance, as Garp looks like a much older and brawnier Luffy. Averted with {{spoiler|Dragon}}, Luffy's dad, who doesn't really look much like either of them.

** And considering Sebastian has taken the appearance of Earl Phantomhive, except for the eyes, this could raise some interesting questions when he's older.

* In ''[[Full Metal Panic]]'', interestingly enough, Sousuke Sagara is shown to look almost exactly like his [[Hot Shounen Mom|beautiful]] [[Missing Mom]] in his backstory. No wonder [[Even the Guys Want Him]].

* ''[[Prince of Tennis]]''. Kaidou Kaoru looks almost identical to both his younger brother Hazue and his father Shibuki, with the two of them essentially being older and younger versions of him. It's actually kind of creepy...

** [[Crowning Moment of Funny|And fucking hilarious.]]

** Though more subtle, Ryoma definitely shares his father's eyes and intensity.

* It's revealed about 4/5ths of the way through ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' that Alto Saotome is pretty much a clone of his [[Missing Mom]] Miyo, [[Hime Cut]] and all, in boy-drag. [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|That explains a LOT]].

* Pretty much the same case with Joey Jones from ''[[Heroman]]'', except unlike with Mizuho's case, Joey's looks aren't [[Lampshaded]] at all.

* In ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', Akito and Ren look almost exactly the same -- except for Ren's long hair, and um...assets. Also, Ayame and Yuki have been mistaken for each other [by a minor character], and when we get a short glimpse of Shigure's parents he looks exactly like his mother.

* The [[Babies Ever After]] scene at the end of ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' played this unsettlingly straight, right down to the last child. Between that and the conspicuous absence from the reunion of any spouses who aren't former Chosen Children, it's a popular snark among fans dissatisfied with the ending to suggest that they all just cloned themselves.

* [[Nabari no Ou|Miharu]] and his mother, Asahi. To the point that most non-fans simply assume that the two on this [[media:nabari13_7896.png|volume cover]] are Miharu and his own reflection.

* Mirielle Bouquet of ''[[Noir]]'' looks almost exactly like her deceased mother, Odette, and this winds up being a plot point later.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' Hoteye, the man with the polygonal face, mentions he had a missing younger brother, who is later revealed to be {{spoiler|the even more polygonal Wally from a previous arc}}.

* 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.

** This continues to the Scarlet Witch's 'children', [[Young Avengers|Wiccan and Speed]], who are (male) [[Expy|Expies]] of Wanda and Pietro respectively, down to powers and costumes.

* The artists for [[Archie Comics]] apparently strongly support this. For example, whenever Betty fantasizes about her and Archie being married with children, their kids look like miniature clones of them. They don't even bother giving the son(s) their mother's hair color.

* [[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.

* 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.

* Played straight in ''[[The Little Mermaid|Ariel's Beginnings]]''. Queen Athena looks exactly like Ariel with [[Green Eyes]].

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

 

 

* In [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[John Carter of Mars|The Gods of Mars]]'', John Carter is haunted by the familar look of a fellow prisoner. {{spoiler|Perhaps he should have looked in the mirror more often.}}

{{quote| ''The youth's face had haunted me. Where had I seen him before. There was something strangely familiar in every line of him; in his carriage, his manner of speaking, his gestures. I could have sworn that I knew him, and yet I knew too that I had never seen him before.''}}

* In the [[A Great and Terrible Beauty|Gemma Doyle Trilogy]], Gemma has enough of a resemblance to her mother to really freak out multiple characters.

* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', a member of any given noble family is immediately identifiable by various distinct features. The Targaryens all have violet eyes and silver hair, the Lannisters are all blond(e) with [[Green Eyes]], the Tullys all have auburn hair, the Baratheons all have thick black hair, the Manderlys all resemble walruses, the Mormonts and the Umbers all look like bears, the Florents have huge ears, I could go on. This becomes a massive plot point early on: {{spoiler|Whenever a Baratheon has a child with a Lannister, the child always inherits the Baratheon black hair. The Baratheon king's bastards all have his black hair. But the children that the king's Lannister wife has given birth to? All blonde.}}

** Plus, {{spoiler|Ageon Targaryen VI dyes his hair ''blue'' while in hiding. He doesn't need to bother with his eyes, as the hair distracts from them so much.}}

* [[Oliver Twist]] apparently resembles ''both'' of his parents so strongly that people who never even knew of his existence can pick him out as their child.

* 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.

* Every [[The Legend of Zelda|Princess Zelda]] is related to each other and [[Legacy Character|every Princess Zelda]] looks [[Generation Xerox|almost identical to every previous Princess Zelda.]] (except for her hair being a few shades darker in [[Twilight Princess]]) Exspecially jarring in [[Spirit Tracks]], where Princess Zelda might as well be a clone of Tetra (Who was the Princess Zelda of [[The Wind Waker]]), who supposedly ruled less than a hundred years prior to her.

* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' has Carth Onasi and his son Dustil: it's patently obvious they decided to save themselves some development time, removed the permastubble from Carth's facial texture and called it a day.

* ''[[Harvest Moon]]: Tree of Tranquility/Animal Parade'' does this for some of the rival kids and your own children. While some of the rival kids (like Heath and Angie) have a plausible combination of their parents' features, others are... less subtle. [http://fogu.com/hm/animal_parade/img/people/vivian.jpg Vivian] especially is more or less [http://fogu.com/hm/animal_parade/img/people/gil.jpg her father] in miniature, only with longer hair. Your own kids look ''exactly like you'', only (in ''Animal Parade'') with [[Patchwork Kids|your spouse's hair and eye color.]]

** A milder example is in the A Wonderful Life series, where your child always inherits their hair and eye color from whoever you marry. In the [[Distaff Counterpart|girl version]], at least, this troper recalls Takakura mentioning that your son is "the spitting image" of your husband.

** {{spoiler|1=Also, Alex and his bastard son Amiti. Noted by NPCs enough times that by the end of the game, the only person who doesn't seem to realize this is [[The Ingenue|Amiti himself]]... and even he's starting to catch on, if you read his mind right after the final battle.}}

** While it's not as extreme as Matthew or even Tyrell, both of Mia's children bear a strong resemblance to her. This led to some [[Viewer Gender Confusion|confusion]] with her son.

* In ''[[Ratchet and Clank Future A Crack In Time]]'', Alister Azimuth instantly recognizes Ratchet as his late friend's son by the fact that [[media:kadenratchetcomparison_5190.jpg|he looks almost like his teenage clone]]. Afterwards, Azimuth continues to dwell almost obsessively on the similarities, to the point that he occasionally seems to assume they're the same Lombax -- or gets irritated by the fact that they're ''not''.

{{quote| '''Azimuth:''' Ask yourself this: how relevant is the past when it can be ''changed?'' Your father would have said, "Not very."<br />

* {{spoiler|Alistair}} of ''[[Dragon Age]]'' has a face very similar to that of his {{spoiler|half-brother Cailan}}, as lampshaded by Anora, who is uncomfortable with the idea of {{spoiler|marrying Alistair, because he looks so much like her dead husband.}}

* Between the two ''[[Fire Emblem Elibe]]'' titles, Eliwood and his son Roy in their teenage years (Eliwood at 17, Roy at 15) look disturbingly similar to the point of near-identicality; it doesn't help that they even wear almost the same clothes and it takes looking up their full official artwork to see any significant difference between them. Pretty much the biggest difference is that Eliwood was thinner and wore longer sleeves, neither of which can really be gleaned from ingame appearances.

** 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]].}}

 

 

== Webcomics ==

** 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.

** It is indeed plot-relevant: {{spoiler|Antimony and her mother are descended from fire spirits, whose very life essence is passed down from one generation to the next.}}

* In ''[[Platinum Grit]]'', siblings Kate and Andre Provocski have faces that are drawn almost identically. Several members of the [[Mac Connor]] family share a recognisable "blonde and bland" look. And the lead character Jeremy [[Mac Connor]] looks so uncannily like his uncle that it just ''has'' to be relevant.

* 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.

** 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.

 

 

== Web Original ==

* 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.}}

 

 

== Western Animation ==

** 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.

* 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]].

** 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.

** They also have different eye colors. Aerrow's are green, Lightning Strike's are brown. But yeah, that's pretty much it.

* Averted to an extent on Daria. Quinn and Daria have appearances unique from each other and their parents, though Daria looks uncannily like her Aunt Amy.

** Velma resembles both parents a little.

** Daphne's parents look like older versions of Daphne and Fred.

* In ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', Stacy's female relatives in Tokyo all look like clones of her. Her little sister, Ginger, also looks almost like her.

** 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.]]

** 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 ''[[Totally Spies]]'', the girls' mothers looked more and more like them with each appearance.

* In [[Recess]] T.J. looks like his mom, Gus resembles a younger less rugged version of his dad and he also has a presumably great grandfather who looked just like him as a kid, Vince looks like his dad, Mikey looks like his mom, and Gretchen resembles both of her parents.

** Colonel Hathi (Hathi Jr.'s father) from the same series for some reason looks exactly like his father-in-law (Winifred's father).

* In the episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' where Peter Griffin accidentally kills his (fake) father and discovers that his real father is from Ireland, it's revealed that Peter looks exactly like his real father right down to the fact that they both wear a small pair of glasses that are the same width as their eyes, a white shirt, and green pants, are both fat and are idiots, but Peter lacks his father's beard.

* 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.

 

== Real Life ==

* [http://drx.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451bdba69e2011571e98655970b-450wi Henry Fonda and daughter Jane.]

 

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