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* ''Fanfic/{{Alicorn}}'': As soon as the truth of Rainbow Dash's parentage is out, Pinkie remarks that it makes sense in hindsight since both she and Celestia have magenta eyes and rainbow hair. In terms of personality, Rainbow takes a lot after Luna, namely a love of pranks, and Celestia remarks that she's also a lot like her grandfather.

A SuperTrope of UncannyFamilyResemblance (where the similarity is maintained further along the family tree), HereditaryHairstyle and FamilyEyeResemblance. Compare IdenticalGrandson (where the similarities allow for reuse of a character design or actor) and GenerationXerox (where not only the appearance but also the personality and experiences are repeated). See also LikeFatherLikeSon and SharedFamilyQuirks, when family members share similar behaviors and personality traits rather than physical traits. Contrast TheUglyGuysHotDaughter.

** Yang has inherited her father's hair colour (blonde) instead of her mother's (black) and her eyes are purple, which is mid-way between her father's blue eyes and mother's red eyes. Despite this, Yang and her mother are the spitting image of each other, right down to having the same cowlick at the top of their heads. When Yang gets angry, her eyes turn as red as her mother's, [[http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20141103075147/rwby/images/8/83/Raven_and_Yang_Comparison_RWBY.png emphasising the similarities]]. Her half-sister Ruby looks even closer to her own mother Summer, with their age, hair length, and wardrobe color being the only real differences. That being said, their personalities are much more complicated, with [[spoiler: Summer Rose's personality from what little is seen of her in Volume 9 being much more akin to ''Yang'' rather than Ruby.]]

** Yang has inherited her father's hair colour (blonde) instead of her mother's (black) and her eyes are purple, which is mid-way between her father's blue eyes and mother's red eyes. Despite this, Yang and her mother are the spitting image of each other, right down to having the same cowlick at the top of their heads. When Yang gets angry, her eyes turn as red as her mother's, [[http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20141103075147/rwby/images/8/83/Raven_and_Yang_Comparison_RWBY.png emphasising the similarities]].
** Her half-sister Ruby looks even closer to her own mother Summer, with their age, hair length, and wardrobe color being the only real differences.

** Natsuki Tanabe looks nearly identical to her older sister and mother, with all three of them sporting the same face, CatSmile, IdiotHair, and bright orange hair colour. The only differences between them are their choice of clothing and the length of their hair.

* According to Creator/{{Pixar}}, the redneck boy that attacks Randall Boggs in the trailer home at the end of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' actually has the same model as the animatronic boy in the training room at the very beginning of the film. Also, said boy's mother is essentially another model of the boy, but with a bun placed on his/her head.

* Played straight in ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning''. Queen Athena looks exactly like Ariel, albeith with green eyes, orange hair and a turquoise tail.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Tedd [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-07-13 with shorter hair]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-07-16 looks very similar]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-06-29 to short haired Nanase]].

** Less unnervingly, but still oddly, Nate Grey looks ''exactly'' like a young Cable as confirmed by deaging incidents, flashbacks, and Kid Cable, and alternate timelines have shown that he'll grow up to look ''exactly'' like Cable, with an elderly Sunfire thinking he ''is'' Cable. The sole differences are the metal arm/lack of it and the starburst scar over Cable's eye. More generally, Nate's looks and raw power mean he's initially assumed to be a young Stryfe, Cable's clone, on arriving in the 616 universe. He even notes when he picks up one of Cable's ridiculously sized guns that it feels balanced perfectly for him. What makes this even more baffling is that while they were initially positioned as counterparts, they're acknowledged as half-brothers - Nate was created whole from AoA Scott and Jean's DNA, engineered as a superweapon, whereas Cable was naturally conceived by Scott and Jean's clone, Maddy Pryor.

** In the second book, after a bit of growing, Hermione bears an increasing resemblance to her biological mother, Wanda Maximoff, with the only major difference being their eye colour. Even Hermione herself notices it in a vague sense a while before clocking to their relationship. However, since she's used to being considered relatively plain, and Wanda is a [[HotWitch famous beauty]], she inwardly scoffs and deems it superficial. However, when she gets all dressed up for the ball, Harry's jaw actually drops because she's basically Wanda in miniature. Separately, it's also noted that she gets a certain tone of cold-blooded detachment and a profoundly ruthless streak from her grandfather, Magneto.

* Heaven in Creator/VCAndrews' ''[[Literature/TheCasteelSeries Casteel]]'' series looks identical to her late mother Leigh, aside from her dark hair.

* ''Series/Echo2024'': Maya resembles her deceased mother strongly, so after her mother's death her grandmother had found it hard seeing her.

** Elsewhere in the series, a [[MagicalNativeAmerican Shin'a'in clan called Tale'sedrin]] was slaughtered save for [[LastOfHisKind a sole, sterile woman]] who became BloodBrothers and HeterosexualLifePartners with Kethry, an outsider with green eyes and amber hair. Kethry married another outsider and [[PlatonicCoParenting together the three raised most of their children as Shin'a'in]] and part of the restored clan. Plenty of full-blooded Shin'a'in joined Tale'sedrin as well and Kethry's children were very popular, all entering [[ExoticExtendedMarriage multi-partner marriages]] when they grew up. Generations later, Tale'sedrin with green eyes are extremely common, and many are pale-haired as well; they also often have her powers and are [[DeadGuyJunior named in some way for Kethry]], such as Kethra, Keth're'son, and Kitha.

** Also done in a much subtler, but very interesting way with the von Karmas and Edgeworth. Franziska and Miles don't resemble Manfred physically (and Miles shouldn't, being adopted), but if you look at each of the three characters' animations and mannerisms, they are variants of all of Manfred's tics. The more noticeable ones are the FingerWag, the clentching of the sleeve, the fist-pound on the desk, and the bow/curtsy.

*** Rhaenyra Targaryen's three sons with Laenor Velaryon did not inherit their parents' silver hair, violet eyes, and Valyrian good looks, and instead were brown-haired, brown-eyed, and pug-faced, sparking off rumors that [[ChocolateBaby they were actually fathered by Rhaenyra's paramour Harwin Strong]]. This was further supported by the fact that when Rhaenyra had two more sons with her uncle Daemon, they ''were'' silver-haired, violet-eyed, classically Valyrian specimen.

*** Among Aegon V's sons, the only one to inherit their mother's brown hair was the eldest and one-time heir, Prince Duncan. Fittingly, he was also the only one with a non-Valyrian name, as he was named after his father's best friend, the lowborn Duncan the Tall.
*** Prince Rhaegar's daughter with Elia Martell, Rhaenys, was stated to look like a Martell, instead of a Targaryen. [[RacistGrandpa Her grandfather Aerys II]] even commented that she "smelled Dornish". Her younger brother, Aegon, on the other hand, had their father's Targaryen looks. [[spoiler:In ''Literature/ADanceWithDragons'', Young Griff, who is supposedly the long-dead Aegon, dyed his hair blue so nobody would notice that he is a Targaryen.]]

-->'''Stuart Millard''': Again, I'm bummed that they didn't outright have Mr. Belding in drag, waddling around with his shoes on his knees, but instead cast an actual teenage girl for the role. She doesn't do so much as a “Hey hey hey hey hey!” or the trademark Belding laugh. It's an open flouting of the rules of sitcom.

* Carew Raleigh, the youngest son of Sir Walter Raleigh, looked so much like his father that King James (who ordered Sir Walter be executed) complained that it was like lopkkng at a ghost and refused to restore the rights of blood to him.

** Harry and his father, Thor, are initially all but identical -- when Thor's using his James Potter form, anyway. Later, some of Lily's features emerge in Harry, but the resemblance is still striking, enough so that Clark Kent is stunned. For context, Thor's James Potter form was modeled off the general 'look' of the House of El by Odin as a tribute, since Kal-El I was and [[UncertainDoom possibly still is]] his much loved foster-brother, meaning that Harry and Clark are initially nigh IdenticalStrangers allowing for Harry's initially stunted growth, different eyes, and glasses. More than once, it's a plot point.