History Main / DisappointingHeritageReveal

'''Kylo Ren:''' They were filthy junk traders. Sold you off for drinking money. They're dead in a pauper's grave in the Jakku desert. You come from nothing. You're nothing. ''[[WeCanRuleTogether But not to me.]]''

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Subverted in "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E17EdgeoftheWorld Edge of the World]]", when Hooty vomits a letter King was sent [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E8KnockKnockKnockinonHootysDoor a few episodes back]], assumed to be from his father, or at least a close relative. [[spoiler: Turns out it was sent from a cult whose goal is to take out his entire species (though they mistook him for one of their own rather than trying to lead him into a trap), and he's likely been living on his father's corpse for most of his life.]]

* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': In "[[Recap/FrasierS07E07ATsarIsBorn]]", when Frasier and Niles find out Martin has a very valuable old clock which is a family heirloom, they start to believe that they are descended from Russian royalty. They eventually learn that they are related to the maidservant who stole it just before the [[UsefulNotes/RussianRevolution Revolution]], and worked as a prostitute in New York before marrying their great-something grandfather. They take some solace by speculating that their great-something grandmother [[HistoryWithCelebrity might have slept with]] Creator/HenryJames.

* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': When Frasier and Niles find out Martin has a very valuable old clock which is a family heirloom, they start to believe that they are descended from Russian royalty. They eventually learn that they are related to the maidservant who stole it just before the [[UsefulNotes/RussianRevolution Revolution]], and worked as a prostitute in New York before marrying their great-something grandfather. They take some solace by speculating that their great-something grandmother [[HistoryWithCelebrity might have slept with]] Creator/HenryJames.

* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': When Frasier and Niles find out Martin has a very valuable old clock which is a family heirloom, they start to believe that they are descended from Russian royalty. They eventually learn that they are related to the thieves who looted it during the revolution.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': The B plot of "[[Recap/NCISS13E03 Incognito]]" has Dinozzo finding out that he is descended from someone who is supposedly of royal blood and trying to find out more about them. It turns out that said ancestor was actually a thief and a con man who died in prison and was suspected of having been Jack the Ripper. Dinozzo is less than enthused upon learning about it.

->'''Kylo Ren''': Do you know the truth about your parents? Or have you always known? You've just hidden it away. Say it.\\
'''Rey''': ''(tearfully)'' They were nobody.\\
'''Kylo Ren''': They were filthy junk traders. Sold you off for drinking money. They're dead in a pauper's grave in the Jakku desert. You come from nothing. You're nothing. ''[[WeCanRuleTogether But not to me.]]''

* ''Anime/NinjaSenshiTobikage'': Played with. Joe Maya has always wanted to return to Earth, having grown up on the Mars colony. As he, Maiku and Rennie are able to pilot the three mecha that can combine with the titular Tobikage (and this suggests that they're descended from the legendary ninjas who'd helped the Radorian people in the past), the Radorians agree to bring them along as they leave Mars and head for Earth, hoping to ask them for aid. While they do successfully arrive at Iga Village, homeland of the ninjas, they find that it's become a tourist attraction. The ninja elder observes that they'd be willing to help, but based on his observation Joe, Maiku and Rennie are vastly more skilled than they are [[HadToBeSharp simply because they've actually survived real combat]]. The Radorians are disappointed, but the possibility that the ninjas wouldn't be able to help or might not even exist anymore had been brought up previously and so they were at least braced for bad news. At the very least, the Iga ninjas are able to provide Joe and the others with actual ninja training to improve their skills.

* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Coco}}'' Miguel goes most of the movie believing Ernesto de la Cruz is his great-great-grandfather and wanting to be a great musician just like him. He meets him and gets to spend time enjoying various activities with him but when Héctor finally catches up with Miguel, he reveals that Ernesto songs- which he allegedly wrote himself- were actually composed solely by Héctor... and soon after, he also learns that Ernesto poisoned Héctor in order to steal the songs, leading him to feel quite uneasy around him. [[SubvertedTrope A little later though,]] he finds out that Ernesto is not his long-lost great-great-grandfather... it's Héctor, who he is far prouder to call his family even if Héctor himself feels he's a sorry excuse for a grandfather.

'''Kylo Ren''': They were filthy junk traders. Sold you off for drinking money. They're dead in a pauper's grave in the Jakku desert. You come from nothing. You're nothing. But not to me.

* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Coco}}'' Miguel goes most of the movie believing Ernesto de la Cruz is his grandfather and wanting to be a great musician just like him. He meets him and gets to spend time enjoying various activities with him but when Héctor finally catches up with Miguel, he reveals that Ernesto songs- which he allegedly wrote himself- were actually composed solely by Héctor... and soon after, he also learns that Ernesto poisoned Héctor in order to steal the songs, leading him to feel quite uneasy around him. [[SubvertedTrope A little later though,]] he finds out that Ernesto is not his long-lost grandfather... it's Héctor, who he is far more proud to call his family even if Héctor himself feels he's a sorry excuse for a grandfather.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Subverted in
[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E17EdgeoftheWorld Edge of the World]]", when Hooty vomits a letter King was sent [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E8KnockKnockKnockinonHootysDoor a few episodes back]], assumed to be from his father, or at least a close relative. [[spoiler: Turns out it was sent from a cult whose goal is to take out his entire species (though they mistook him for one of their own rather than trying to lead him into a trap), and he's likely been living on his father's corpse for most of his life.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Subverted in [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E17EdgeoftheWorld Edge of the World]], when Hooty vomits a letter King was sent [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E8KnockKnockKnockinonHootysDoor a few episodes back]], assumed to be from his father, or at least a close relative. [[spoiler: Turns out it was sent from a cult whose goal is to take out his entire species, and he's likely been living on his father's corpse for most of his life.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Subverted in [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E17EdgeoftheWorld Edge of the World]], when Hooty vomits a letter King was sent [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E8KnockKnockKnockinonHootysDoor a few episodes back]], assumed to be from his father, or at least a close relative. [[spoiler: Turns out it was sent from a cult whose goal is to take out his entire species, and he's likely been living on his father's corpse for most of his life.]]

* ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'': The half-orc Agronak gro-Malog proclaims believes himself to be the bastard son of a human, Lord Lovidicus, and one of his orc maids, and sets the PlayerCharacter a quest to break into Lovidicus' castle and steal a journal that he can use to demonstrate his noble heritage. It turns out that Lovidicus isn't fully human, but is actually a vampire, and if you present Agronak with the journal, he'll be so disturbed to learn the truth about his heritage that [[spoiler:if you end up facing him during the Arena questline, he'll refuse to fight back and insist that you MercyKill him to bring the Lovidicus line to an end.]]

* ''Videogae/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'': The half-orc Agronak gro-Malog proclaims believes himself to be the bastard son of a human, Lord Lovidicus, and one of his orc maids, and sets the PlayerCharacter a quest to break into Lovidicus' castle and steal a journal that he can use to demonstrate his noble heritage. It turns out that Lovidicus isn't fully human, but is actually a vampire, and if you present Agronak with the journal, he'll be so disturbed to learn the truth about his heritage that [[spoiler:if you end up facing him during the Arena questline, he'll refuse to fight back and insist that you MercyKill him to bring the Lovidicus line to an end.]]

* Exaggerated in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' with Jake Muller. From birth, he always knew his dad was a deadbeat bum who more or less had a one-night stand with his mother and abandoned them. Finding out that his dad was ''[[BigBad Albert Wesker]]'', the MadScientist turned OmnicidalManiac who had murdered dozens if not hundreds of innocent people and tried to ''[[EvilutionaryBiologist wipe out the entire human race to make them "evolve"]]'', however, was such jolt that it actually sparked a full HeelFaceTurn in him out of fear he'd end up even remotely similar to Wesker.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': Leia Organa took a lot longer than her brother Luke Skywalker to come to terms with her biological father being Anakin "Darth Vader" Skywalker--and understandably so, considering that in ''Film/ANewHope'' he personally tortured her for information and then watched mutely as her home planet was blown up. In ''Literature/TheTruceAtBakura'', Anakin appears to her in a vision asking her forgiveness, and she essentially tells him to pound sand and [[YoureNotMyFather that her real father was Bail Organa, Prince Consort of Alderaan]] (who had adopted her with his wife Queen Breha). She eventually settles on the attitude of agreeing that Anakin had been a good man once, but it doesn't excuse his crimes as Vader.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Subverted in [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E17EdgeoftheWorld Edge of the World]], when Hooty vomits a letter King was sent [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E8KnockKnockKnockinonHootysDoor a few episodes back]], widely assumed to be from his father or at least a relative. [[spoiler: Turns out it was sent from a cult whose goal is to take out his entire species, and he's likely been living on his father's corpse for most of his life.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Subverted in [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E17EdgeoftheWorld Edge of the World]], when Hooty vomits a letter King was sent [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E8KnockKnockKnockinonHootysDoor a few episodes back]]", widely assumed to be from his father or at least a relative. [[spoiler: Turns out it was sent from a cult whose goal is to take out his entire species, and he's likely been living on his father's corpse for most of his life.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Subverted in [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E17EdgeoftheWorld Edge of the World]]", when Hooty vomits a letter King was sent [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E8KnockKnockKnockinonHootysDoor a few episodes back]]", widely assumed to be from his father or at least a relative. [[spoiler: Turns out it was sent from a cult whose goal is to take out his entire species, and he's likely been living on his father's corpse for most of his life.]]