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* The Iroquois UsefulNotes/NativeAmericans had a practice called "mourning wars", where they would cope with the death of a loved one by launching a raid on enemy territory, and either brutally executing those they deemed responsible or forcing random people to take the place of the deceased and [[GoingNative integrating them into their culture and families]].
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* The Iroquois UsefulNotes/NativeAmericans had a practice called "mourning wars", where they would cope with the death of a loved one by launching a raid on enemy territory, and either brutally executing those they deemed responsible ([[MisplacedRetribution or were in the wrong place at the wrong time]]), or forcing random people slaves to take the place of the deceased and [[GoingNative integrating them into their culture and families]].
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* The Iroquois UsefulNotes/NativeAmericans had a practice called "mourning wars", where they would cope with the death of a loved one by launching a raid on enemy territory, and either brutally executing those they deemed responsible or forcing random people to take the place of the deceased and [[GoingNative integrating them into their culture and families]].
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** UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton's eldest and youngest sons were named Philip - the younger Philip was born less than a year after his brother died in a duel.
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* The Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'' was built to replace the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' after the latter was lost in 1986.
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It was actually Paula Boyd that Eric Clapton dated, not Jenny Boyd. Jenny Boyd was already dating and eventually married Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood.
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* When Music/GeorgeHarrison was still married to Pattie Boyd, Music/EricClapton had a brief relationship with her very similar-looking sister Jenny, which ended after Jenny heard the song "Layla" and realized it was about Pattie.
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* When Music/GeorgeHarrison was still married to Pattie Boyd, Music/EricClapton had a brief relationship with her very similar-looking youngest sister Jenny, Paula, which ended after Jenny Paula heard the song "Layla" and realized it was about Pattie.
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* A documentary about the children of Holocaust survivors (''Jews'', BBC Four, June 2008) featured a woman who had survived Auschwitz but whose young daughter had been gassed there. Later, she settled in Britain, remarried, and had another daughter, who was named after the first one.
** [[DeadGuyJunior It was once fairly common to name a baby after its deceased sibling.]] The artist Creator/VincentVanGogh was named after a brother who'd died one year before his own birth.
*** As was Creator/SalvadorDali.
*** Nelson Mandela did this with his daughters.
*** Creator/PeterSellers' birth name was Richard Henry, but his parents nicknamed him Peter, the name of their short-lived first child. Eventually, he adopted that name as his own. This has not passed without ironic comment, given his later claims that he could only be his characters and never himself.
*** [[Music/AphexTwin Richard D. James]].
*** This practice was actually used as a plot point in ''Beethoven's Last Night''.
*** UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton's eldest and youngest sons were named Philip - the younger Philip was born less than a year after his brother died in a duel.
** [[DeadGuyJunior It was once fairly common to name a baby after its deceased sibling.]] The artist Creator/VincentVanGogh was named after a brother who'd died one year before his own birth.
*** As was Creator/SalvadorDali.
*** Nelson Mandela did this with his daughters.
*** Creator/PeterSellers' birth name was Richard Henry, but his parents nicknamed him Peter, the name of their short-lived first child. Eventually, he adopted that name as his own. This has not passed without ironic comment, given his later claims that he could only be his characters and never himself.
*** [[Music/AphexTwin Richard D. James]].
*** This practice was actually used as a plot point in ''Beethoven's Last Night''.
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* [[DeadGuyJunior It was once fairly common to name a baby after its deceased sibling.]]
** The artist Creator/VincentVanGogh was named after a brother who'd died one year before his own birth.
** A documentary about the children of Holocaust survivors (''Jews'', BBC Four, June 2008) featured a woman who had survived Auschwitz but whose young daughter had been gassed there. Later, she settled in Britain, remarried, and had another daughter, who was named after the first one.
**[[DeadGuyJunior It was once fairly common to name a baby after its deceased sibling.]] The artist Creator/VincentVanGogh was named after a brother who'd died one year before his own birth.
***As was Creator/SalvadorDali.
*** ** Nelson Mandela did this with his daughters.
*** ** Creator/PeterSellers' birth name was Richard Henry, but his parents nicknamed him Peter, the name of their short-lived first child. Eventually, he adopted that name as his own. This has not passed without ironic comment, given his later claims that he could only be his characters and never himself.
*** ** [[Music/AphexTwin Richard D. James]].
*** ** This practice was actually used as a plot point in ''Beethoven's Last Night''.
*** ** UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton's eldest and youngest sons were named Philip - the younger Philip was born less than a year after his brother died in a duel.
** The artist Creator/VincentVanGogh was named after a brother who'd died one year before his own birth.
** A documentary about the children of Holocaust survivors (''Jews'', BBC Four, June 2008) featured a woman who had survived Auschwitz but whose young daughter had been gassed there. Later, she settled in Britain, remarried, and had another daughter, who was named after the first one.
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*** This comes with the note that naming children after family who died in the Holocaust is very common; many children and grandchildren (and great-grandchildren) of Holocaust survivors end up with [[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard extremely long names]] as living memorials. There's a reason why it's been clinically shown that the descendants of Shoah survivors often have what's been called "PTSD by proxy".
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*** Back when infant mortality was high, if a man wanted a "junior," he had to name the first born boy "Myself, jr.", and if that boy died, then the next boy born after the first junior's death would get named "Myself, jr." as well.
** Times were different. Not only were infant and child mortality higher, people didn't put a high premium on having a special name. 80% of the population might have one of maybe 20 names. After a family had a "junior", the next boy was John, then James, then Edward, then William. If you met someone with a wild, wacky name like Hugh, or Andrew, then you knew he probably had a lot of older brothers who had lived past childhood. It was just a different time. If you are talking as far back as the middle ages, then giving a child a "stand-out" name just wasn't something that would ever have occurred to people, any more than using a telephone. However, giving a child a name that had belonged to a large number of saints, therefore giving the child many patrons, was very good. Some families named every girl "Mary", with a different second name. If you are talking about later centuries, people were interested in maintaining dignity and, in a few centuries, modesty. By the Victorian Era, they liked a name that people could hear and spell. That's why Queen Victoria didn't name any children "4real," or "Urhinyss."
** Times were different. Not only were infant and child mortality higher, people didn't put a high premium on having a special name. 80% of the population might have one of maybe 20 names. After a family had a "junior", the next boy was John, then James, then Edward, then William. If you met someone with a wild, wacky name like Hugh, or Andrew, then you knew he probably had a lot of older brothers who had lived past childhood. It was just a different time. If you are talking as far back as the middle ages, then giving a child a "stand-out" name just wasn't something that would ever have occurred to people, any more than using a telephone. However, giving a child a name that had belonged to a large number of saints, therefore giving the child many patrons, was very good. Some families named every girl "Mary", with a different second name. If you are talking about later centuries, people were interested in maintaining dignity and, in a few centuries, modesty. By the Victorian Era, they liked a name that people could hear and spell. That's why Queen Victoria didn't name any children "4real," or "Urhinyss."
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** Times were different. Not only were infant and child mortality higher, people didn't put a high premium on having a special name. 80% of the population might have one of maybe 20 names. After a family had a "junior", the next boy was John, then James, then Edward, then William. If you met someone with a wild, wacky name like Hugh, or Andrew, then you knew he probably had a lot of older brothers who had lived past childhood. It was just a different time. If you are talking as far back as the middle ages, then giving a child a "stand-out" name just wasn't something that would ever have occurred to people, any more than using a telephone. However, giving a child a name that had belonged to a large number of saints, therefore giving the child many patrons, was very good. Some families named every girl "Mary", with a different second name. If you are talking about later centuries, people were interested in maintaining dignity and, in a few centuries, modesty. By the Victorian Era, they liked a name that people could hear and spell. That's why Queen Victoria didn't name any children "4real," or "Urhinyss."
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* This has been a major problem with divorced families with teenaged kids still living at home. The parent unconsciously starts treating the child, especially if the child is the same gender as the person they divorced from, as a replacement spouse, not necessarily [[ParentalIncest sexually]] (although that does happen on occasion), but moreso in the sense of how they talk to the child or what they expect from them. The kid ends up expected to provide adult advice and adult emotional support to a parent.
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* The Roman Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} is said to married and castrated the boy Sporus because he (Sporus) looked so much like Nero's beloved late wife Poppaea Sabina.
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* The Roman Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} is said to married and castrated the boy Sporus because he (Sporus) looked so much like Nero's beloved late wife Poppaea Sabina.Sabina.
* The Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'' was built to replace the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' after the latter was lost in 1986.
* The Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'' was built to replace the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' after the latter was lost in 1986.
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* [[http://blogs.discovery.com/daily_treat/2012/01/woman-pays-50000-to-clone-dog.html Woman pays $50000 to clone dog.]]
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* The Roman Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} is said to married the eunuch Sporus because he (Sporus) looked so much like Nero's late wife Poppaea Sabina.
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* The Roman Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} is said to married and castrated the eunuch boy Sporus because he (Sporus) looked so much like Nero's beloved late wife Poppaea Sabina.
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* Creator/RobertBParker loved his dog Pearl, a female German Pointer Setter. When she passed away, he promptly bought another German Pointer Setter and named her Pearl and kept repeating this pattern while also behaving as if each Pearl was the same dog (as in the exact same dog and not a reincarnation). His wife Joan joked that if she'd predeceased him, he'd have found an identical woman, gotten her to change her name to "Joan", and gone on as if the original Joan never left.
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* Creator/RobertBParker loved his dog Pearl, a female German Pointer Setter. When she passed away, he promptly bought another German Pointer Setter and named her Pearl and kept repeating this pattern while also behaving as if each Pearl was the same dog (as in the exact same dog and not a reincarnation). His wife Joan joked that if she'd predeceased him, he'd have found an identical woman, gotten her to change her name to "Joan", and gone on as if the original Joan never left.left.
* The Roman Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} is said to married the eunuch Sporus because he (Sporus) looked so much like Nero's late wife Poppaea Sabina.
* The Roman Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} is said to married the eunuch Sporus because he (Sporus) looked so much like Nero's late wife Poppaea Sabina.
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** It was even once fairly common (and might still be...) to name a child after ''what the parents would've called a stillborn or aborted baby had it lived''. Have fun in therapy, kid! Of course, back then it was more common when half your kids were definitely going to die before they turned five, but hey, at least it's nice to know [[UnfortunateImplications you'll never have to make up a name for all of them]]!
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* A documentary about the children of Holocaust survivors (''Jews'', BBC Four, June 2008) featured a woman who had survived Auschwitz but whose young daughter had been gassed there. Later, she settled in Britain, remarried and had another daughter, who was named after the first one.
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* A documentary about the children of Holocaust survivors (''Jews'', BBC Four, June 2008) featured a woman who had survived Auschwitz but whose young daughter had been gassed there. Later, she settled in Britain, remarried remarried, and had another daughter, who was named after the first one.
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*** This comes with the note that naming children after family who died in the Holocaust is very common; many children and grand-children (and great-grandchildren) of Holocaust survivors end up with [[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard extremely long names]] as living memorials. There's a reason why it's been clinically shown that the descendants of Shoah survivors often have what's been called "PTSD by proxy".
** Totally subverted in Mongolian culture where, if a couple's children kept on dying young, they would name the newborn something like [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial 'Vicious Dog', 'Not This One', 'No Name', 'Not a Human Being',]] or give a female name to a boy. This was to make the evil spirits leave them alone, or to confuse the spirits.
** Totally subverted in Mongolian culture where, if a couple's children kept on dying young, they would name the newborn something like [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial 'Vicious Dog', 'Not This One', 'No Name', 'Not a Human Being',]] or give a female name to a boy. This was to make the evil spirits leave them alone, or to confuse the spirits.
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*** This comes with the note that naming children after family who died in the Holocaust is very common; many children and grand-children grandchildren (and great-grandchildren) of Holocaust survivors end up with [[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard extremely long names]] as living memorials. There's a reason why it's been clinically shown that the descendants of Shoah survivors often have what's been called "PTSD by proxy".
** Totally subverted in Mongolian culture where, if a couple's children kept on dying young, they would name the newborn something like [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial 'Vicious Dog', 'Not This One', 'No Name', 'Not a Human Being',]] or give a female name to a boy. This was to make the evil spirits leave themalone, alone or to confuse the spirits.
** Totally subverted in Mongolian culture where, if a couple's children kept on dying young, they would name the newborn something like [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial 'Vicious Dog', 'Not This One', 'No Name', 'Not a Human Being',]] or give a female name to a boy. This was to make the evil spirits leave them
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* Director Creator/PeterBogdanovich had a love affair with Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten, which ended when Stratten was murdered by her jealous psycho ex-husband. Later, Bogdanovich married Stratten's sister.
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* Director Creator/PeterBogdanovich had a love affair with Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten, which ended when Stratten was murdered by her jealous psycho ex-husband.estranged husband. Later, Bogdanovich married Stratten's sister.
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* Creator/RobertBParker loved his dog Pearl, a female German Pointer Setter. When she passed away, he promptly bought another German Pointer Setter and named her Pearl and kept repeating this pattern while also behaving as if each Pearl was the same dog (as in the exact same dog and not a reincarnation). His wife, Joan, joked that if she'd predeceased him, he'd have found an identical woman, gotten her to change her name to "Joan", and gone on as if the original Joan never left.
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* Creator/RobertBParker loved his dog Pearl, a female German Pointer Setter. When she passed away, he promptly bought another German Pointer Setter and named her Pearl and kept repeating this pattern while also behaving as if each Pearl was the same dog (as in the exact same dog and not a reincarnation). His wife, Joan, wife Joan joked that if she'd predeceased him, he'd have found an identical woman, gotten her to change her name to "Joan", and gone on as if the original Joan never left.
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* This has been a major problem with divorced families with teenaged kids still living at home. The mother unconsciously starts treating her son as a replacement husband or the father unconsciously treats his daughter as a replacement wife, [[ParentalIncest sexually]] and emotionally. The kid ends up expected to provide adult advice and adult emotional support to a parent.
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* This has been a major problem with divorced families with teenaged kids still living at home. The mother parent unconsciously starts treating her son the child, especially if the child is the same gender as the person they divorced from, as a replacement husband or the father unconsciously treats his daughter as a replacement wife, spouse, not necessarily [[ParentalIncest sexually]] and emotionally.(although that does happen on occasion), but moreso in the sense of how they talk to the child or what they expect from them. The kid ends up expected to provide adult advice and adult emotional support to a parent.
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* The One World Trade Center is this to the original World Trade Center in New York City, which was destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This might be one reason the architecture of the center has been so criticized, although many forget the original was also disliked before the attacks (a non-living version of NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead, perhaps).
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* The One World Trade Center is this to the original World Trade Center in New York City, which was destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This might be one reason the architecture of the center has been so criticized, although many forget the original was also disliked before the attacks (a non-living version of NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead, perhaps).perhaps).
* Creator/RobertBParker loved his dog Pearl, a female German Pointer Setter. When she passed away, he promptly bought another German Pointer Setter and named her Pearl and kept repeating this pattern while also behaving as if each Pearl was the same dog (as in the exact same dog and not a reincarnation). His wife, Joan, joked that if she'd predeceased him, he'd have found an identical woman, gotten her to change her name to "Joan", and gone on as if the original Joan never left.
* Creator/RobertBParker loved his dog Pearl, a female German Pointer Setter. When she passed away, he promptly bought another German Pointer Setter and named her Pearl and kept repeating this pattern while also behaving as if each Pearl was the same dog (as in the exact same dog and not a reincarnation). His wife, Joan, joked that if she'd predeceased him, he'd have found an identical woman, gotten her to change her name to "Joan", and gone on as if the original Joan never left.
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* Creator/AndrewLloydWebber's habit of launching the careers of young musical actresses, his ex-wife Music/SarahBrightman among them, looks a lot weirder when you realize how much his Niamh Perry [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/44490985/Niamh+Perry+png.png resembles]] [[http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/music/Sarah_Brightman_5.jpg Brightman]].
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* Creator/AndrewLloydWebber's habit of launching the careers of young musical actresses, his ex-wife Music/SarahBrightman among them, looks a lot weirder when you realize how much his Niamh Perry Perry, who played Fleck in ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'', [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/44490985/Niamh+Perry+png.png resembles]] [[http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/music/Sarah_Brightman_5.jpg Brightman]].
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* Creator/AndrewLloydWebber's habit of launching the careers of young musical actresses, his ex-wife Music/SarahBrightman among them, looks a lot weirder when you realize how much his newest find, Niamh Perry, [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/44490985/Niamh+Perry+png.png resembles]] [[http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/music/Sarah_Brightman_5.jpg Brightman]].
* Ben Moody, co-founder of the band [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Evanescence Evanescence]], left the band in the middle of a tour after a falling out with co-founder (and childhood friend) [[http://i.imgur.com/0UGPEpI.jpg Amy Lee]]. Before long, Moody created a sound-alike band named We Are The Fallen (based on one of Evansecence's album names) with American Idol contestent [[http://i.imgur.com/tJbfhcf.jpg Carly Smithson]].
* Ben Moody, co-founder of the band [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Evanescence Evanescence]], left the band in the middle of a tour after a falling out with co-founder (and childhood friend) [[http://i.imgur.com/0UGPEpI.jpg Amy Lee]]. Before long, Moody created a sound-alike band named We Are The Fallen (based on one of Evansecence's album names) with American Idol contestent [[http://i.imgur.com/tJbfhcf.jpg Carly Smithson]].
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* Creator/AndrewLloydWebber's habit of launching the careers of young musical actresses, his ex-wife Music/SarahBrightman among them, looks a lot weirder when you realize how much his newest find, Niamh Perry, Perry [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/44490985/Niamh+Perry+png.png resembles]] [[http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/music/Sarah_Brightman_5.jpg Brightman]].
* Ben Moody, co-founder of the band[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Evanescence Evanescence]], Music/{{Evanescence}}, left the band in the middle of a tour after a falling out with co-founder (and childhood friend) [[http://i.imgur.com/0UGPEpI.jpg Amy Lee]]. Before long, Moody created a sound-alike band named We Are The Fallen (based on one of Evansecence's album names) with American Idol contestent ''American Idol'' contestant [[http://i.imgur.com/tJbfhcf.jpg Carly Smithson]].
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** This is actually somewhat common in north american sports, as the Colorado Rockies, Baltimore Colts, Charlotte Hornets, Cleveland Browns, Vancouver Whitecaps, Portland Times, Seattle Sounders, San Jose Earthquakes, and Florida Marlins were all names after dead teams (with some, like the Rockies, names after a dead franchise in another sport).
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** This is actually somewhat common in north american North American sports, as the Colorado Rockies, Baltimore Colts, Charlotte Hornets, Cleveland Browns, Vancouver Whitecaps, Portland Times, Seattle Sounders, San Jose Earthquakes, and Florida Marlins were all names after dead teams (with some, like the Rockies, names after a dead franchise in another sport).
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* Creator/DaveBarry once wrote about how his daughter Sophie took in a bug from the porch which she named "Melvin". Melvin of course quickly died and he and his wife, instead of explaining this to her, kept replacing it with a new "Melvin" from the porch (there were a lot of those kinds of bugs apparently). The same column detailed his attempts to buy a pet fish for Sophie which he said had to "look like other fish in case - God forbid - we have to Melvinize it".
* The trope namer is actually something that shouldn't be an example anywhere near as often as it is. Well-cared-for goldfish should actually live for ''decades'' and reach around a foot in length. The main problem is that people keep them in tanks that are ''far'' too small and overcrowded and they sufficate.
* One World Trade Center is this to the original World Trade Center in New York City, which was destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This might be one reason the architecture of the center has been so criticized, though the original was also disliked before the attacks.
* The trope namer is actually something that shouldn't be an example anywhere near as often as it is. Well-cared-for goldfish should actually live for ''decades'' and reach around a foot in length. The main problem is that people keep them in tanks that are ''far'' too small and overcrowded and they sufficate.
* One World Trade Center is this to the original World Trade Center in New York City, which was destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This might be one reason the architecture of the center has been so criticized, though the original was also disliked before the attacks.
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* Creator/DaveBarry once wrote about how his daughter Sophie took in a bug from the porch which she named "Melvin". Melvin of course quickly died and he and his wife, instead of explaining this to her, kept replacing it with a new "Melvin" from the porch (there were a lot of those kinds of bugs bugs, apparently). The same column detailed his attempts to buy a pet fish for Sophie which he said had to "look like other fish in case - God forbid - we have to Melvinize it".
* The trope namer is actually something that shouldn't be an example anywhere near as often as it is. Well-cared-for goldfish should actually live for ''decades'' and reach around a foot in length. The main problem is that people keep them in tanks that are ''far'' too small and overcrowded and theysufficate.
suffocate.
* The One World Trade Center is this to the original World Trade Center in New York City, which was destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This might be one reason the architecture of the center has been so criticized,though although many forget the original was also disliked before the attacks.attacks (a non-living version of NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead, perhaps).
* The trope namer is actually something that shouldn't be an example anywhere near as often as it is. Well-cared-for goldfish should actually live for ''decades'' and reach around a foot in length. The main problem is that people keep them in tanks that are ''far'' too small and overcrowded and they
* The One World Trade Center is this to the original World Trade Center in New York City, which was destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This might be one reason the architecture of the center has been so criticized,
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* The trope namer is actually something that shouldn't be an example anywhere near as often as it is. Well-cared-for goldfish should actually live for ''decades'' and reach around a foot in length. The main problem is that people keep them in tanks that are ''far'' too small and overcrowded and they sufficate.
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* The trope namer is actually something that shouldn't be an example anywhere near as often as it is. Well-cared-for goldfish should actually live for ''decades'' and reach around a foot in length. The main problem is that people keep them in tanks that are ''far'' too small and overcrowded and they sufficate.sufficate.
* One World Trade Center is this to the original World Trade Center in New York City, which was destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This might be one reason the architecture of the center has been so criticized, though the original was also disliked before the attacks.
* One World Trade Center is this to the original World Trade Center in New York City, which was destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This might be one reason the architecture of the center has been so criticized, though the original was also disliked before the attacks.
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* The trope namer is actually something that shouldn't be an example.example anywhere near as often as it is. Well-cared-for goldfish should actually live for ''decades'' and reach around a foot in length. The main problem is that people keep them in tanks that are ''far'' too small and overcrowded and they sufficate.
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* Creator/DaveBarry once wrote about how his daughter Sophie took in a bug from the porch which she named "Melvin". Melvin of course quickly died and he and his wife, instead of explaining this to her, kept replacing it with a new "Melvin" from the porch (there were a lot of those kinds of bugs apparently). The same column detailed his attempts to buy a pet fish for Sophie which he said had to "look like other fish in case - God forbid - we have to Melvinize it".
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* Creator/DaveBarry once wrote about how his daughter Sophie took in a bug from the porch which she named "Melvin". Melvin of course quickly died and he and his wife, instead of explaining this to her, kept replacing it with a new "Melvin" from the porch (there were a lot of those kinds of bugs apparently). The same column detailed his attempts to buy a pet fish for Sophie which he said had to "look like other fish in case - God forbid - we have to Melvinize it".it".
* The trope namer is actually something that shouldn't be an example. Well-cared-for goldfish should actually live for ''decades'' and reach around a foot in length. The main problem is that people keep them in tanks that are ''far'' too small and overcrowded and they sufficate.
* The trope namer is actually something that shouldn't be an example. Well-cared-for goldfish should actually live for ''decades'' and reach around a foot in length. The main problem is that people keep them in tanks that are ''far'' too small and overcrowded and they sufficate.
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* This has been a major problem with divorced families with teenaged kids still living at home. The mother unconsciously starts treating her son as a replacement husband or the father unconsciously treats his daughter as a replacement wife, [[ParentalIncest sexually]] and emotionally. The kid ends up expected to provide adult advice and adult emotional support to a parent.
* A documentary about the children of Holocaust survivors (''Jews'', BBC Four, June 2008) featured a woman who had survived Auschwitz but whose young daughter had been gassed there. Later, she settled in Britain, remarried and had another daughter, who was named after the first one.
** It was even once fairly common (and might still be...) to name a child after ''what the parents would've called a stillborn or aborted baby had it lived''. Have fun in therapy, kid! Of course, back then it was more common when half your kids were definitely going to die before they turned five, but hey, at least it's nice to know [[UnfortunateImplications you'll never have to make up a name for all of them]]!
** [[DeadGuyJunior It was once fairly common to name a baby after its deceased sibling.]] The artist Creator/VincentVanGogh was named after a brother who'd died one year before his own birth.
*** As was Creator/SalvadorDali.
*** Nelson Mandela did this with his daughters.
*** Creator/PeterSellers' birth name was Richard Henry, but his parents nicknamed him Peter, the name of their short-lived first child. Eventually, he adopted that name as his own. This has not passed without ironic comment, given his later claims that he could only be his characters and never himself.
*** [[Music/AphexTwin Richard D. James]].
*** This practice was actually used as a plot point in ''Beethoven's Last Night''.
*** UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton's eldest and youngest sons were named Philip - the younger Philip was born less than a year after his brother died in a duel.
** Current Ashkenazi Jewish custom (the superstitious ones anyway) is to avoid naming children after people who died young, or at least not using it as their primary name, out of fear it would bring bad luck and cause the new child to also die young. However, the main tradition is to never name a child after someone who's alive (hence why you don't get too many Jewish Juniors), so naming a child after a deceased child is not out of the question. However, in most cases, the naming-for-the-deceased custom is ''so'' common that this trope is often averted.
*** This comes with the note that naming children after family who died in the Holocaust is very common; many children and grand-children (and great-grandchildren) of Holocaust survivors end up with [[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard extremely long names]] as living memorials. There's a reason why it's been clinically shown that the descendants of Shoah survivors often have what's been called "PTSD by proxy".
** Totally subverted in Mongolian culture where, if a couple's children kept on dying young, they would name the newborn something like [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial 'Vicious Dog', 'Not This One', 'No Name', 'Not a Human Being',]] or give a female name to a boy. This was to make the evil spirits leave them alone, or to confuse the spirits.
*** Back when infant mortality was high, if a man wanted a "junior," he had to name the first born boy "Myself, jr.", and if that boy died, then the next boy born after the first junior's death would get named "Myself, jr." as well.
** Times were different. Not only were infant and child mortality higher, people didn't put a high premium on having a special name. 80% of the population might have one of maybe 20 names. After a family had a "junior", the next boy was John, then James, then Edward, then William. If you met someone with a wild, wacky name like Hugh, or Andrew, then you knew he probably had a lot of older brothers who had lived past childhood. It was just a different time. If you are talking as far back as the middle ages, then giving a child a "stand-out" name just wasn't something that would ever have occurred to people, any more than using a telephone. However, giving a child a name that had belonged to a large number of saints, therefore giving the child many patrons, was very good. Some families named every girl "Mary", with a different second name. If you are talking about later centuries, people were interested in maintaining dignity and, in a few centuries, modesty. By the Victorian Era, they liked a name that people could hear and spell. That's why Queen Victoria didn't name any children "4real," or "Urhinyss."
** In ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'', Creator/ArtSpiegelman touches on this point, describing some warped sibling rivalry he had with his brother Richieu, who died in the Holocaust before he was born. Specifically because his parents kept a large photograph of Richieu and then, of course, [[spoiler: Art's own father calls him Richieu at the end of the book.]]
* Creator/AndrewLloydWebber's habit of launching the careers of young musical actresses, his ex-wife Music/SarahBrightman among them, looks a lot weirder when you realize how much his newest find, Niamh Perry, [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/44490985/Niamh+Perry+png.png resembles]] [[http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/music/Sarah_Brightman_5.jpg Brightman]].
* Ben Moody, co-founder of the band [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Evanescence Evanescence]], left the band in the middle of a tour after a falling out with co-founder (and childhood friend) [[http://i.imgur.com/0UGPEpI.jpg Amy Lee]]. Before long, Moody created a sound-alike band named We Are The Fallen (based on one of Evansecence's album names) with American Idol contestent [[http://i.imgur.com/tJbfhcf.jpg Carly Smithson]].
* Long-running children's magazine show ''Series/BluePeter'' added a pet dog to the team, which died before the producers had worked out their contingency plan, but after having appeared on screen. They had no plan, and the kiddies would have been confused if it disappeared so soon after arriving, so they did the logical thing and sought out a replacement. When that eventually died, the producers felt that the pet had become familiar and they could deal with it properly.
%%* There are rumours that suggest that this has happened to [[Music/TheBeatles Paul McCartney]].
* [[http://blogs.discovery.com/daily_treat/2012/01/woman-pays-50000-to-clone-dog.html Woman pays $50000 to clone dog.]]
* Some non-pet owners, in an attempt to be nice, commit a massive faux pas when trying to cheer up a friend who has just lost a beloved pet. How? By getting a new one for them that they believe is identical. Trouble is, most pet owners want that one specific pet back, not one that looks like it. Better let them grieve and let them get a new pet on their own.
** When Creator/RickyGervais' talk-show host friend got him a Siamese kitten after his cat died on live tv, he took it surprisingly well and was comforted by how much his friend cared. This is probably because he loves animals and [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter kittens are cute]]. He named the cat Oliver.
** On the other hand, some pet owners deliberately choose a new pet that is different as the similarity would bring back painful memories of the loss of the original.
* When Music/GeorgeHarrison was still married to Pattie Boyd, Music/EricClapton had a brief relationship with her very similar-looking sister Jenny, which ended after Jenny heard the song "Layla" and realized it was about Pattie.
* Director Creator/PeterBogdanovich had a love affair with Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten, which ended when Stratten was murdered by her jealous psycho ex-husband. Later, Bogdanovich married Stratten's sister.
* The UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague's Winnipeg Jets. In 2011, True North Sports and Entertainment intended to buy the Phoenix (now Arizona) Coyotes and move them to Winnipeg, as the Coyotes were the ''original'' Winnipeg Jets, who left Winnipeg in 1996 due to an aging arena and declining Canadian dollar. However, the league was staunchly adamant in keeping the Coyotes in Arizona, so True North went to the next team available for sale, the Atlanta Thrashers. Regardless of which team True North bought, Winnipeggers were happy to have their Jets back.
** This is actually somewhat common in north american sports, as the Colorado Rockies, Baltimore Colts, Charlotte Hornets, Cleveland Browns, Vancouver Whitecaps, Portland Times, Seattle Sounders, San Jose Earthquakes, and Florida Marlins were all names after dead teams (with some, like the Rockies, names after a dead franchise in another sport).
* Subverted by one soldier whose drone was too damaged for repairs. When told a replacement would arrive, he said he didn't want another one, [[CompanionCube he wanted Scooby-Doo back]].
* Creator/DaveBarry once wrote about how his daughter Sophie took in a bug from the porch which she named "Melvin". Melvin of course quickly died and he and his wife, instead of explaining this to her, kept replacing it with a new "Melvin" from the porch (there were a lot of those kinds of bugs apparently). The same column detailed his attempts to buy a pet fish for Sophie which he said had to "look like other fish in case - God forbid - we have to Melvinize it".
* A documentary about the children of Holocaust survivors (''Jews'', BBC Four, June 2008) featured a woman who had survived Auschwitz but whose young daughter had been gassed there. Later, she settled in Britain, remarried and had another daughter, who was named after the first one.
** It was even once fairly common (and might still be...) to name a child after ''what the parents would've called a stillborn or aborted baby had it lived''. Have fun in therapy, kid! Of course, back then it was more common when half your kids were definitely going to die before they turned five, but hey, at least it's nice to know [[UnfortunateImplications you'll never have to make up a name for all of them]]!
** [[DeadGuyJunior It was once fairly common to name a baby after its deceased sibling.]] The artist Creator/VincentVanGogh was named after a brother who'd died one year before his own birth.
*** As was Creator/SalvadorDali.
*** Nelson Mandela did this with his daughters.
*** Creator/PeterSellers' birth name was Richard Henry, but his parents nicknamed him Peter, the name of their short-lived first child. Eventually, he adopted that name as his own. This has not passed without ironic comment, given his later claims that he could only be his characters and never himself.
*** [[Music/AphexTwin Richard D. James]].
*** This practice was actually used as a plot point in ''Beethoven's Last Night''.
*** UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton's eldest and youngest sons were named Philip - the younger Philip was born less than a year after his brother died in a duel.
** Current Ashkenazi Jewish custom (the superstitious ones anyway) is to avoid naming children after people who died young, or at least not using it as their primary name, out of fear it would bring bad luck and cause the new child to also die young. However, the main tradition is to never name a child after someone who's alive (hence why you don't get too many Jewish Juniors), so naming a child after a deceased child is not out of the question. However, in most cases, the naming-for-the-deceased custom is ''so'' common that this trope is often averted.
*** This comes with the note that naming children after family who died in the Holocaust is very common; many children and grand-children (and great-grandchildren) of Holocaust survivors end up with [[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard extremely long names]] as living memorials. There's a reason why it's been clinically shown that the descendants of Shoah survivors often have what's been called "PTSD by proxy".
** Totally subverted in Mongolian culture where, if a couple's children kept on dying young, they would name the newborn something like [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial 'Vicious Dog', 'Not This One', 'No Name', 'Not a Human Being',]] or give a female name to a boy. This was to make the evil spirits leave them alone, or to confuse the spirits.
*** Back when infant mortality was high, if a man wanted a "junior," he had to name the first born boy "Myself, jr.", and if that boy died, then the next boy born after the first junior's death would get named "Myself, jr." as well.
** Times were different. Not only were infant and child mortality higher, people didn't put a high premium on having a special name. 80% of the population might have one of maybe 20 names. After a family had a "junior", the next boy was John, then James, then Edward, then William. If you met someone with a wild, wacky name like Hugh, or Andrew, then you knew he probably had a lot of older brothers who had lived past childhood. It was just a different time. If you are talking as far back as the middle ages, then giving a child a "stand-out" name just wasn't something that would ever have occurred to people, any more than using a telephone. However, giving a child a name that had belonged to a large number of saints, therefore giving the child many patrons, was very good. Some families named every girl "Mary", with a different second name. If you are talking about later centuries, people were interested in maintaining dignity and, in a few centuries, modesty. By the Victorian Era, they liked a name that people could hear and spell. That's why Queen Victoria didn't name any children "4real," or "Urhinyss."
** In ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'', Creator/ArtSpiegelman touches on this point, describing some warped sibling rivalry he had with his brother Richieu, who died in the Holocaust before he was born. Specifically because his parents kept a large photograph of Richieu and then, of course, [[spoiler: Art's own father calls him Richieu at the end of the book.]]
* Creator/AndrewLloydWebber's habit of launching the careers of young musical actresses, his ex-wife Music/SarahBrightman among them, looks a lot weirder when you realize how much his newest find, Niamh Perry, [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/44490985/Niamh+Perry+png.png resembles]] [[http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/music/Sarah_Brightman_5.jpg Brightman]].
* Ben Moody, co-founder of the band [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Evanescence Evanescence]], left the band in the middle of a tour after a falling out with co-founder (and childhood friend) [[http://i.imgur.com/0UGPEpI.jpg Amy Lee]]. Before long, Moody created a sound-alike band named We Are The Fallen (based on one of Evansecence's album names) with American Idol contestent [[http://i.imgur.com/tJbfhcf.jpg Carly Smithson]].
* Long-running children's magazine show ''Series/BluePeter'' added a pet dog to the team, which died before the producers had worked out their contingency plan, but after having appeared on screen. They had no plan, and the kiddies would have been confused if it disappeared so soon after arriving, so they did the logical thing and sought out a replacement. When that eventually died, the producers felt that the pet had become familiar and they could deal with it properly.
%%* There are rumours that suggest that this has happened to [[Music/TheBeatles Paul McCartney]].
* [[http://blogs.discovery.com/daily_treat/2012/01/woman-pays-50000-to-clone-dog.html Woman pays $50000 to clone dog.]]
* Some non-pet owners, in an attempt to be nice, commit a massive faux pas when trying to cheer up a friend who has just lost a beloved pet. How? By getting a new one for them that they believe is identical. Trouble is, most pet owners want that one specific pet back, not one that looks like it. Better let them grieve and let them get a new pet on their own.
** When Creator/RickyGervais' talk-show host friend got him a Siamese kitten after his cat died on live tv, he took it surprisingly well and was comforted by how much his friend cared. This is probably because he loves animals and [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter kittens are cute]]. He named the cat Oliver.
** On the other hand, some pet owners deliberately choose a new pet that is different as the similarity would bring back painful memories of the loss of the original.
* When Music/GeorgeHarrison was still married to Pattie Boyd, Music/EricClapton had a brief relationship with her very similar-looking sister Jenny, which ended after Jenny heard the song "Layla" and realized it was about Pattie.
* Director Creator/PeterBogdanovich had a love affair with Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten, which ended when Stratten was murdered by her jealous psycho ex-husband. Later, Bogdanovich married Stratten's sister.
* The UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague's Winnipeg Jets. In 2011, True North Sports and Entertainment intended to buy the Phoenix (now Arizona) Coyotes and move them to Winnipeg, as the Coyotes were the ''original'' Winnipeg Jets, who left Winnipeg in 1996 due to an aging arena and declining Canadian dollar. However, the league was staunchly adamant in keeping the Coyotes in Arizona, so True North went to the next team available for sale, the Atlanta Thrashers. Regardless of which team True North bought, Winnipeggers were happy to have their Jets back.
** This is actually somewhat common in north american sports, as the Colorado Rockies, Baltimore Colts, Charlotte Hornets, Cleveland Browns, Vancouver Whitecaps, Portland Times, Seattle Sounders, San Jose Earthquakes, and Florida Marlins were all names after dead teams (with some, like the Rockies, names after a dead franchise in another sport).
* Subverted by one soldier whose drone was too damaged for repairs. When told a replacement would arrive, he said he didn't want another one, [[CompanionCube he wanted Scooby-Doo back]].
* Creator/DaveBarry once wrote about how his daughter Sophie took in a bug from the porch which she named "Melvin". Melvin of course quickly died and he and his wife, instead of explaining this to her, kept replacing it with a new "Melvin" from the porch (there were a lot of those kinds of bugs apparently). The same column detailed his attempts to buy a pet fish for Sophie which he said had to "look like other fish in case - God forbid - we have to Melvinize it".
