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{{trope}}
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There's a saying that pets tend to look like their owners. Whether this is true in reality is obviously very debatable, but the magic of fiction allows this to be very true in [[Media]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* An ad campaign for Cesar dog food was based around this.
* A commercial did this with people's ''cars''.
** A series of cholesterol meds did it with food.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* Esmeralda, the [[Sixth Ranger]] fourth penguin from ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum]]'', has markings that mirror her owner Masako's heart-shaped face.
== [[Film]] ==▼
* [[Walt Disney]]'s ''101 Dalmatians'' evokes this a lot; see the page pic.▼
* The new version of ''[[The Shaggy Dog]]'' showed comparisons of the cast with animals that resembled them.▼
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'': Davy Jones and the Kraken ▼
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* There's a children's picture book called ''It's Easy To See Why'' in which a girl enters her dog into a dog show and is the only owner there who doesn't bear a striking resemblance to her pet. Her dog wins, though... because he looks just like the judge.▼
* [[The Lord of the Rings]]: Treebeard says something similar to this in The Two Towers about Ents and trees becoming more like each other.▼
* Possibly unintentional, but [[The Dresden Files|Harry Dresden]] is a pretty big guy, who by one means or another has acquired a cat (Mister) and dog (Mouse) that are equally ginormous for their respective species.▼
* Grace Lockwood from the ''[[A to Z Mysteries]]'' book ''The Falcon's Feathers'' looks very much like a falcon when she reads an issue of ''Falconry Today'' in a picture at the end of Chapter 5.▼
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* In a variant, a murder victim on ''[[Bones]]'' who'd owned a chicken-processing plant somewhat resembled the chickens he worked with, due to a poultry-borne fungal infection which deformed his sinuses.▼
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* [[Dilbert]] and his dog Dogbert both wear the exact same set of glasses and have the same mouthless faces.
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* There was a ''[[Garfield]]'' comic strip where Jon and Garfield commented on this trope, with increasingly bizarre lookalikes. This culminated with some guy who looked like a bird in a suit and his pet canary.
** Another one had Garfield deliberately doing this himself to people walking in the park by following them around and mimicking their mannerisms. This went sour when one fat guy caught him in the act, though:
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* This was most noticeable in ''[[Footrot Flats]]'' when The Dog went to a dog show and saw heaps of dogs who resembled their owners. Although The Dog doesn't resemble Wal at all, there ''is'' a degree of resemblance between Wal and Major the pig dog (possibly coincidental) and also between the 3 Murphys and their dogs Tiger, Wolf and Cream Puff.
* In ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'' [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Sgt Snorkel]] and his dog Otto look markedly similar, down to Otto wearing a uniform and walking on his hind legs.
▲== [[Film]] ==
▲* [[Walt Disney]]'s ''101 Dalmatians'' evokes this a lot; see the page pic.
▲* The new version of ''[[The Shaggy Dog]]'' showed comparisons of the cast with animals that resembled them.
▲* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'': Davy Jones and the Kraken
▲== [[Literature]] ==
▲* There's a children's picture book called ''It's Easy To See Why'' in which a girl enters her dog into a dog show and is the only owner there who doesn't bear a striking resemblance to her pet. Her dog wins, though... because he looks just like the judge.
▲* [[Lord of the Rings]]: Treebeard says something similar to this in The Two Towers about Ents and trees becoming more like each other.
▲* Possibly unintentional, but [[The Dresden Files|Harry Dresden]] is a pretty big guy, who by one means or another has acquired a cat (Mister) and dog (Mouse) that are equally ginormous for their respective species.
▲* Grace Lockwood from the ''[[A to Z Mysteries]]'' book ''The Falcon's Feathers'' looks very much like a falcon when she reads an issue of ''Falconry Today'' in a picture at the end of Chapter 5.
▲* In a variant, a murder victim on ''[[Bones]]'' who'd owned a chicken-processing plant somewhat resembled the chickens he worked with, due to a poultry-borne fungal infection which deformed his sinuses.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* A 2008 board game is called "[http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/27907/ Do You Look Like Your Dog?]".
== [[Toys]] ==
* [[Hello Kitty|Charmy Kitty.]]
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Not exactly a pet, but close enough. In the [[Sci Fi]] chapter of ''[[Live a Live]]'', the main character, a robot named Cube, is always wearing a baseball cap and glasses, that its owner also wears, this has the side effect of making it [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|very cute]] (although this chapter is so unrelentingly bleak and moody that Cube's appearance actually provides some small relief).
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Many of the Lusii in ''[[Homestuck]]'' resemble the trolls they're the guardians of, especially in horn shape. This is most obvious with Tinkerbull, Tavros' guardian who shares his horns, and the Virgin Mother Grub has Kanaya's horns and lips.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* In his last TV shows, [[Mr. Magoo]] had a pet bulldog that not only had his jowly face, but also shared his [[Blind Without Them|distinctive disablity]].
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20141103174627/http://mako2.web.infoseek.co.jp/0/01/02/03/04/05/hitler_cat.jpg Hitler's cat.] Although he actually preferred dogs.▼
▲== Real Life ==
▲* [http://mako2.web.infoseek.co.jp/0/01/02/03/04/05/hitler_cat.jpg Hitler's cat.] Although he actually preferred dogs.
** [http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl Lots more cats who look like Hitler.]
* Rhea, the second-largest moon of Saturn, is the only moon in the Solar System to actually have rings around it. Guess which planet it actually resembles!
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Just for Pun]]
[[Category:Pet and Animal Companion Tropes]]
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