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* The Dursleys do not want [[Harry Potter]] to turn out like his mother. [[Screening the Call|So they don't tell them about her, or his father, and do their best to keep him from Hogwarts]]. [[Averted Trope|This notably isn't because his parents were evil or even because the Dursleys care about him]]; [[Fantastic Racism|they just don't like magic and hate the idea of there being a wizard in their normal Muggle family]].

* In the YA book, ''Banner In The Sky'' by James Ramsey Ullman, the widow of a famed mountain guide tries to keep her son from following in his his father's footsteps as a guide.

** It's underlined by both of them and their fascination with Jedi Master Jorus/Joruus C'baoth. True, the [[Outbound Flight|Jorus C'baoth]] Anakin knew was not yet insane, while [[The Thrawn Trilogy|his clone Joruus]] really was; and Anakin was fourteen while Luke was in his late twenties. But Anakin liked C'baoth's philosophy that the non-Jedi were sheep at best and should be handled without asking, while Luke, despite being on a quest to find surviving Jedi and thus presumably more interested, instantly felt uneasy about these teachings even though he thought they made sense.

** Leia's got a little of her father too, though this is usually ''much'' more understated, particularly by [[Depending on the Writer|writers]] who put her in the damsel-in-distress role. Mostly it manifests through her temper, her very strong will - Luke's determined, but Leia has more passion and staying power - and her sense of self-importance. She's not as arrogant as Anakin, but she's less quiet about her confidence and accomplishment than her brother is, and the impression she leaves on people has much more authority. Luke is an idealist, and a bit of a mystic. Leia takes charge. A politician who knows her heritage once insinuates that it means she'll betray them all. In [[The Thrawn Trilogy]], the Noghri call Luke "Firstson of the Lord Vader". They call ''Leia'' the Mal'ary'ush, the heir to Vader's authority and powers. It's pointed out in the [[Hand of Thrawn]] duology that she's worried about putting her need to keep her spouse safe over her duty to the rest of the galaxy and second-guesses some of her decisions as a result.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* Bobby Singer in ''[[Supernatural]]'' had a whole series of flashbacks in the episode where {{spoiler|he died}} where it eventually was revealed that he'd never been willing to have kids because he was sure he'd turn out just like [[Abusive Parents|his father]]. {{spoiler|Whom he shot. In the same place in the head where Dick Roman tagged Bobby. According to the Reaper, "you have the only genetic case of bullet-to-the-brain I've ever seen."}}

 

 

* Dante in ''[[Dante's Inferno (video game)|Dantes Inferno]]'' was raised almost entirely by his [[Complete Monster]] of a father {{spoiler|since his mother committed suicide to escape his father's cruelty}} and, in his backstory before his [[Heel Realization]] {{spoiler|when the freaking ''[[Grim Reaper]]'' told him his sins were ''not'' forgiven and that he was damned}}, it shows. When he confronts his monstrously deformed father in Hell Dante admits that, rather than being a better man than his father, he has turned out to be far too much like him.

* Something along the lines of this probably happened with Percival Tachyon in ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'', though it substitutes "father" for "''entire race''". Of course, it didn't succeed.

** Averted by Soren and (possibly) Ike in ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius]]''. {{spoiler|Soren and Ashnard both believed that Tellius was a [[Crapsack World]], but Soren's loyalty to Ike made him more of a [[Knight in Sour Armor]] than an [[Omnicidal Maniac]]. And while Ike and Gawain were both exceptional swordsmen, it is implied that Gawain taught the Black Knight to be a [[Jerkass]].}}

* ''Positive'' examples of this trope show up in ''[[King's Quest]]''. Alexander and Rosella turn out to be just as capable as their father when it comes to adventuring. Alexander is a case of playing it straight, or even an exaggeration, as Mannanan went as far as to call Alex a different name and raise him in a faraway land. (Justified because Mannanan was a wicked wizard and the last thing he needed was a pissed-off Graham showing up) Rosella is an inversion - with her brother gone, she was raised to follow in Graham's footsteps, though she's a bit ''too'' much like her father for Valanice's comfort sometimes.