History Main / GenerationXerox

See also InTheBlood, VillainousLineage, HeroicLineage, SecretLegacy, SuperpowerfulGenetics, and LegacyCharacter. Often this leads to ParentalHypocrisy. OpposedMentors will have opposed students who will become mentors themselves etc.

* Emperor Peter III of [[UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia Russia]] was a staunch Prussophile militarist, had a personality which oscillated between CloudCuckoolander and AxCrazy, hated his wife UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat, and led an erratic and inconsistent internal and foreign policy. He was deposed in a palace coup orchestrated by Catherine and then murdered in prison. His son Paul I was a staunch Prussophile militarist, had a personality which oscillated between CloudCuckoolander and AxCrazy (with hints of BunnyEarsLawyer), hated [[MyBelovedSmother his mother]] UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat (and tried to undo many of her reforms) and led an even more erratic and inconsistent internal and foreign policy. He was murdered in a palace coup [[SelfMadeOrphan tacitly supported by his estranged son]] Alexander I, who, after assuming the throne, promised that "everything will be done as it used to be done by my grandmother". Unsurprisingly, both Peter and Paul are subject to lots of AlternativeCharacterInterpretation and VindicatedByHistory.

* Creator/BillBryson writes in ''I'm A Stranger Here Myself'' about his son reading Bryson's own ''The Lost Continent'' a book where the author recalls the various dull habits of his father (like reading out license plates of other cars when on holiday) -- and his son's reaction;

* Three US presidents were direct descendants of previous presidents: UsefulNotes/JohnQuincyAdams was the son of UsefulNotes/JohnAdams, UsefulNotes/BenjaminHarrison was the grandson of UsefulNotes/WilliamHenryHarrison, and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush is the son of UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush. Among unsuccessful presidential candidates there have been a few fathers and sons, as well as sons of presidents: George and UsefulNotes/MittRomney, UsefulNotes/{{Ron|Paul}} and Rand Paul, Pat and Jerry Brown, Robert Taft (son of President UsefulNotes/WilliamHowardTaft), Jeb Bush (son of President George H.W. Bush).
* Musician Laura Nyro and her mother Gilda (who was an amateur musician) both died from ovarian cancer at exactly the same age. Both were 49 when they died.

** Pedro Armendariz played Kerim Bey in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''. His son Pedro Armendariz Jr. played President Lopez in ''Film/LicenceToKill''.

* UsefulNotes/EleanorofAquitaine married King Louis VII of France at the age of 15. Their marriage was annulled and she subsequently married UsefulNotes/HenryTheSecond of England. Eleanor ruled England as regent for their son, UsefulNotes/RichardtheLionheart, who spent most of his reign on crusades and other conflicts. Toward the end of her life, Eleanor arranged the marriage of her granddaughter, Blanca of Castile, to the Dauphin of France. Blanca (known as Blanche to the French) would rule France as regent for her own crusading son, Louis IX (aka St. Louis).

* ''WebAnimation/{{Anon}}'': Candace and Ryan's storyline started out very similar to how Candace's mother Chelsea's storyline was at the start (Chelsea/Candace caught between nice guy Kyle/Ryan and troubled bad boy Tucker/Logan). Candace is also held hostage in Season 8 at the same hotel that her parents were in Season 4.

* Queen Isabella II ascended to the throne of Spain in 1833, at the premature [[AChildShallLeadThem age of 3]]. Obviously, she played no part in politics during her earliest reign, but as she grew older her unwelcome, conservative-bent interferences became too common. Eventually, she alienated too many people and opted to leave the country in 1868 when a liberal revolution broke against her rule. While in exile she abdicated her claim on her son Alfonso, who returned to Spain while it was embroiled in a civil war in 1874 and was proclaimed king by coupist general Martínez-Campos. The now king Alfonso XII then died in 1885, leaving the throne to his son, an even more premature Alfonso XIII, who in fact [[ExaggeratedTrope had not been born yet]]. Obviously, he played no part in politics during his earliest reign, but as he grew older his unwelcome, conservative-bent interferences became too common. Eventually, he alienated too many people and opted to leave the country in 1931, when local elections were won largely by pro-republican parties. While in exile he abdicated his claim on his son Juan, who returned to Spain while it was embroiled in a civil war in 1936 and was... promptly expelled by coupist General Mola, who had no intention of restoring the monarchy.

* Played with in ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers''. [[Characters/AntManHeroes Stature]] plays it straight (size-changing powers, daughter of ComicBook/AntMan); Speed plays it pretty much straight (speed powers, nephew of [[Characters/MarvelComicsQuicksilver Quicksilver]]); Characters/{{Hawkeye|KateBishop}} and Vision avert it (Hawkeye uses equipment from the original ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, Characters/{{Mockingbird|MarvelComics}}, and Swordsman, but has no relation to any of them; Vision is the operating system of [[ComicBook/TheVision the original]] in a new body, making them separate entities); Iron Lad, Hulkling, and [[Characters/YoungAvengersTitleTeam Wiccan]] subvert it (Iron Lad is a young Kang with no connection to ComicBook/IronMan, Hulkling is the half-Skrull son of [[Characters/MarvelComicsMarvels Mar-Vell]] with no connection to [[Characters/IncredibleHulkBruceBanner the Hulk]], and Wiccan--who patterns himself after [[Characters/TheMightyThorThorOdinson Thor]]--is the son of Characters/ScarletWitch); and Patriot is just all over the place (he's the grandson of ''a'' Captain America, but not ''the'' [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Captain America]], he gets his powers from a mutant drug instead of his heritage, and his costume is based on [[Characters/MarvelComicsBuckyBarnes Bucky]] anyway). Furthermore, nobody except Stature had met the people they're following in the footsteps of before they became superheroes.

** Franchise/SpiderMan --> Spider-Girl; ComicBook/SpiderWoman --> Spider-Man; Captain America --> American Dream; ComicBook/AntMan --> Stinger; Characters/{{Black Cat|MarvelComics}} --> [[spoiler:Scarlet Spider]]; [[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}, ComicBook/GhostRider, and Ben Reilly]] --> Darkdevil; [[Characters/MarvelComicsQuicksilver Quicksilver]] --> Blue Streak; [[Characters/CaptainAmericaHeroes The Falcon]] --> Ladyhawk; Characters/{{Juggernaut|MarvelComics}} --> J2; Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} and [[Characters/DaredevilSupportingCharacters Elektra]] --> Wild Thing; etc, etc.

** Characters/{{Emma Frost|WhiteQueen}} has the [[Characters/NewXMenAcademyX Stepford Cuckoos]], a group of quintuplets (later brought down to triplets) with powers similar to her. Turns out that they're genetically her daughters as well.

** Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} is trying his best to make sure that [[Characters/X23LauraKinney X-23]] doesn't fall into this. It's [[ComicBook/XForce not really working]].

* ''Film/TopGunMaverick'': Rooster is an elite fighter pilot with a bird-themed callsign, sports a glorious {{pornstache}}, and he even plays "Great Balls of Fire" on the piano... in short, he's practically a carbon copy of his father Goose, Maverick's GuyInBack from [[Film/TopGun the first film]]. It's implied that Rooster's similarities to Goose are a driving factor in the tension between him and Maverick, who [[ItsAllMyFault still blames himself for Goose's death]] and [[spoiler:sabotaged Rooster's application to join the Navy at his mother's behest]]. [[spoiler:During the climax, when the two of them are stuck behind enemy lines and have to steal a Tomcat to escape, Rooster steps into the role of Maverick's GuyInBack, although he struggles with it at first (as the plane is [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece massively outdated]] and Rooster's more used to being the guy in ''front'').]]

* UsefulNotes/EleanorofAquitaine married King Louis VII of France at the age of 15. Their marriage was annulled and she subsequently married UsefulNotes/HenrytheSecond of England. Eleanor ruled England as regent for their son, UsefulNotes/RichardtheLionheart, who spent most of his reign on crusades and other conflicts. Toward the end of her life, Eleanor arranged the marriage of her granddaughter, Blanca of Castile, to the Dauphin of France. Blanca (known as Blanche to the French) would rule France as regent for her own crusading son, Louis IX (aka St. Louis).

** George [=McFly=] in the [[Film/BackToTheFuture first film]] is bullied by Biff Tannen; his grandson Marty [=McFly=], Jr is goaded into crime by Griff Tannen. Both characters' escape from their respective tormentor was catalyzed by Marty [=McFly=], Sr, who is himself (initially) goaded into crime by Douglas Needles (not a Tannen, but he fills the same JerkJock''/''CorruptCorporateExecutive role as Biff).

* Happens over no less than four generations in Sacha Guitry's ''Remontons les Champs-Elysées'' with the professor's paternal forebears, all played by Guitry himself. His great-grandfather, King Louis XV, met the love of his life at 54, had a son by her and died ten years later; so did his grandfather and his father. As noted by the professor, who is entering his sixty-fourth year and has been married to the love of his life for ten years, "while it is quite nice to know that I will live sixty-four years, it is quite annoying to know that I won't go any further".

* Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} example: ''"Let us tell a story of a certain man. The tale of a man who, [[WideEyedIdealist more than anyone else, believed in his ideals,]] [[FatalFlaw and by them]] [[DespairEventHorizon was driven into despair.]]"'' [[spoiler:[[LightNovel/FateZero Kiritsugu?]] [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Or his foster son Archer, aka Shirou?]]]]

* Brazilian singer Elis Regina's "Como nossos pais" ('Like out parents') comments on this in the chorus: the lyrics tell about how the singer realizes that their generation lives like their parents.

* [[Franchise/IndianaJones Henry Jones and his son, Indiana]]. At first, the two seem night and day: Indy is a [[WhipItGood whip-cracking]] [[TwoFistedTales Nazi-punching]] AdventurerArchaeologist, while Henry is a doddering old professor. But while Indy has modeled [[IconicOutfit his look]] and [[GraveRobbing his attitude]] on a badass tomb robber who bested him as a youth ([[WorthyOpponent and actually showed him some respect for it]]), he's got far more in common with his father. They're both archaeology professors, they're obsessed with antiquities, they're ladies' men—in one case, it's even the same lady, they both wear a nice hat (Indy's iconic fedora and Henry's bucket hat), carry a surprisingly useful tool (Indy's whip and Henry's umbrella), have a [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes phobia centering around an animal]] (Indy has snakes and Henry has rats) and they're both pretty useful in a crisis. Aside from the choice of hat, Indy's teaching outfit -- tweed and a bow tie -- is identical to his father's outfit. The main difference between them is that, unlike his son, Henry doesn't have a costumed secret identity and doesn't seek out dangerous adventures or occult villains.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei is raised to be just like her mother down to experiencing the same generational trauma. Fortunately, Mei breaks the cycle by the end of the movie.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea'', Melody's story is pretty much the same as her mother Ariel's except it's about a land princess wanting to live under the sea instead of a sea princess wanting to live above on the shore. Melody's story also has less of a focus on romance since she is a few years younger than Ariel was in [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 the original movie]]. The new villain is even directly related to the old villain and also wants to steal King Triton's scepter to take over the sea!

* [[Characters/HellblazerJohnConstantine John Constantine]]'s 19th-century ancestor, Lady Johanna Constantine, is a suave, dashing sorceress with a tendency to doom her loved ones to horrible fates. The immortal [[ComicBook/TheSandman Hob Gadling]] also met an Elizabethan warlock called Jack Constantine, who came to a nasty end in a graveyard.

* On Creator/{{HBO}}'s limited series ''Series/WinningTime'', Los Angeles Lakers player Norm Nixon is played by his son [=DeVaughn=].

* Baron Heinrich Zemo and his son, Baron Helmut Zemo, right down to their faces being disfigured at the hands of [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Captain America]]. The major difference was that Heinrich was a Nazi, while Helmut eventually renounced his father's racist ideology and became a villainous WellIntentionedExtremist. The ''[[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] / ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'' shows that Helmut shares his more self-destructive tendencies (namely his massive ego and complete inability to deal with anything less than unanimous praise) with Harbin Zemo, the original [[Characters/CaptainAmericaCentralRoguesGallery Baron Zemo]] from 1480. Harbin's tale is used as a {{Book End|s}} to parallel Helmut's own fall from grace.

* Kent V. Nelson, the great-nephew of Kent Nelson, the original Comicbook/DoctorFate, also became Doctor Fate. And he also has a sort-of-relationship with a woman called Inza, which isn't exactly a common name.

** Similar to the Green Lanterns and Flashes above, there's the Batman family and the Flashes. Every generation that has both a male Bat-character and a Flash will end up being close friends. Bruce Wayne and Barry Allen are close friends because of their shared interest in science and dead parents[[note]]this one is mostly via retcon, though, as before Barry died he was no closer to Batman than anyone else in the League and was only similar based on their shared scientific interest, as Barry's parents were both alive[[/note]], Dick Grayson and Wally West are best friends and grew up together, Tim Drake and [[ComicBook/{{Impulse}} Bart Allen]] are best friends, and Wallace West was the [[Comicbook/TeenTitansRebirth Rebirth Titan]] most likely to side with Damian Wayne in the team's many disputes.

** Dr. Terrance Thirteen, Franchise/TheDCU's most famous FlatEarthAtheist, is introduced to Comicbook/{{New 52}} continuity as an 1880s skeptic and debunker in an ''All-Star Western'' backup strip. The more familiar PresentDay version subsequently appears in ''ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger'' as his descendant.
* In Creator/PaulCornell's ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd Megazine'' strip "Deathwatch" one of the members of Psi-Judge Dee's Elizabethan Judge squad is Celibacy Steel, ancestress of Judge Treasure Steel from Dave Stone's ''Armitage'' and Judge Becky Steel from ''Pan-African Judges''

** Franchise/SpiderMan --> Spider-Girl; ComicBook/SpiderWoman --> Spider-Man; Captain America --> American Dream; ComicBook/AntMan --> Stinger; Characters/{{Black Cat|MarvelComics}} --> [[spoiler:Scarlet Spider]]; [[spoiler:Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}, ComicBook/GhostRider, and Ben Reilly]] --> Darkdevil; [[Characters/MarvelComicsQuicksilver Quicksilver]] --> Blue Streak; [[Characters/CaptainAmericaHeroes The Falcon]] --> Ladyhawk; Characters/{{Juggernaut|MarvelComics}} --> J2; Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} and [[Characters/DaredevilSupportingCharacters Elektra]] --> Wild Thing; etc, etc.
* Used (and to an extent {{invoked|Trope}}) in Creator/GeoffJohns's ''Comicbook/{{Superboy|2011}}'' run, when Conner was living in Smallville with the Kents in a deliberate attempt to duplicate Clark's childhood. Since he befriended a TeenGenius-slash-MadScientist In Training and met a girl with the initials LL who kept trying to learn his secret identity, he was pretty successful. (Both of these have twists--Simon Valentine never actually turned evil that we saw, and Lori ''did'' discover Conner's secret ... oh, and she's Luthor's niece.)
* During TheSixties, DC Comics introduced the ComicBook/{{Superman}} of the 30th Century (later changed to 25th so it didn't contradict the ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' continuity) and the ComicBook/{{Batman}} of the Future (which starred [[Characters/NightwingDickGrayson Dick Grayson]] and Bruce Wayne, Jr. as Batman and Robin).
* ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman'' had Dick Grayson as Batman and Bruce's son as Robin, with FlashForward stories revealing that Damian Wayne will eventually be Batman himself. It seems to have gone down a bit better this time.

* Comicbook/{{Viz}} features Biffa Bacon, who is a bully, but who himself is bullied by his parents constantly, and occasionally his uncle too. The character was based on a father joining in a fight their son was having with someone (it was never clear whether what this person had done to make the person fight them, or if it was a random assault).

** Likewise, one could argue that Prodigy is the current-gen counterpart of Synch from ''Comicbook/GenerationX''.
** Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} is trying his best to make sure that [[Characters/X23LauraKinney X-23]] doesn't fall into this. It's [[Comicbook/XForce not really working]].

* The 2019 revival of ''Comicbook/XStatix'' brings back about half of the original team, with the rest of the group rounded out by {{Legacy Character}}s. One of them is the new U-Go Girl, Katie Sawyer, the now-teenage daughter of Edie Sawyer, the original U-Go Girl (who was killed off in the previous series).
* Played with in ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers''. [[Characters/AntManHeroes Stature]] plays it straight (size-changing powers, daughter of Comicbook/AntMan); Speed plays it pretty much straight (speed powers, nephew of [[Characters/MarvelComicsQuicksilver Quicksilver]]); Characters/{{Hawkeye|KateBishop}} and Vision avert it (Hawkeye uses equipment from the original Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}}, Characters/{{Mockingbird|MarvelComics}}, and Swordsman, but has no relation to any of them; Vision is the operating system of [[Comicbook/TheVision the original]] in a new body, making them separate entities); Iron Lad, Hulkling, and [[Characters/YoungAvengersTitleTeam Wiccan]] subvert it (Iron Lad is a young Kang with no connection to Comicbook/IronMan, Hulkling is the half-Skrull son of [[Characters/MarvelComicsMarvels Mar-Vell]] with no connection to [[Characters/IncredibleHulkBruceBanner the Hulk]], and Wiccan--who patterns himself after [[Characters/TheMightyThorThorOdinson Thor]]--is the son of Characters/ScarletWitch); and Patriot is just all over the place (he's the grandson of ''a'' Captain America, but not ''the'' [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Captain America]], he gets his powers from a mutant drug instead of his heritage, and his costume is based on [[Characters/MarvelComicsBuckyBarnes Bucky]] anyway). Furthermore, nobody except Stature had met the people they're following in the footsteps of before they became superheroes.
** A possible future shows Hulkling [[LegacyCharacter becoming the new Captain Marvel]]. Patriot and Speed also take on their predecessors' identities, Stature takes the identity of [[ComicBook/MarvelComics2 Stinger]], and Wiccan ... is apparently the new Sorcerer Supreme, with a costume modeled after Comicbook/DoctorStrange. There's also a new character named Samantha, who has taken over the identity of [[Characters/CaptainAmericaHeroes The Falcon]], and a young boy named Steve, who has become the new Bucky.
*** The new recruits from the Comicbook/MarvelNOW relaunch also avert this. [[Characters/YoungAvengersTitleTeam Miss America]] is not connected to Captain America or Patriot in any meaningful way (or for that matter, Madeline Joyce, the original Miss America), and fills their role in a purely thematic manner (she even has completely different abilities). Marvel Boy has nothing in common with Captain Marvel or [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]] outside of a shared Kree heritage, and like Miss America, has completely different abilities from his adult counterparts. Then Prodigy bucks the entire trend by being the first Young Avenger to not have any adult analogue, with the closest thing maybe being Wolverine, since they're both mutants. And Loki, while arguably a Thor analogue, is well...''[[Characters/MarvelComicsLoki Loki]]''.

** ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheChorusTrilogy The Chorus Trilogy]]'': A variant not involving actual children. During Season 12, when [[ChivalrousPervert Tucker]], Grif, [[{{Nerd}} Simmons]], and [[CloudCuckoolander Caboose]] all join [[LaResistance the New Republic Army]], they're each promoted to the rank of Captain and tasked with overseeing squads of Rebel soldiers. The Lieutenants in charge of each squad have the personality (more or less) of their corresponding leader during the first five seasons of the show before their respective CharacterDevelopment. In practice, it basically becomes MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness for the squad overseers in question ([[IHatePastMe much to their consternation]]), though each Lieutenant is still given noteworthy differences from their counterpart in the Reds and Blues.

** Also when Kylo becomes Ben again, he can be seen making some 'oh s**t!' facial expressions very similar to his dear old dead.

* ''Machinima/{{Anon}}'': Candace and Ryan's storyline started out very similar to how Candace's mother Chelsea's storyline was at the start (Chelsea/Candace caught between nice guy Kyle/Ryan and troubled bad boy Tucker/Logan). Candace is also held hostage in Season 8 at the same hotel that her parents were in Season 4.

* Camilla Parker Bowles was the longtime mistress of [[UsefulNotes/CharlesIII]] before they married in 2005, echoing Camilla's great-grandmother Alice Keppel, who was the longtime mistress of King Edward VII, the great-great-grandfather of Charles, beginning when he was also Prince of Wales.