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"Well, I bought the salon from my mom, and Emma's... a teenager now, and believe it or not, she's actually going to Degrassi just like we all did. It's like some kind of weird deja vu."
— Christine "Spike" Nelson, Degrassi: The Next Generation (Deleted Scene)

When, rather than using Spin-Off Babies (the main characters of an older series being made younger) you instead make a show about the descendants of people from the original premise. Sometimes evolve out of a Kid from the Future. May overlap with both Generation Xerox and Legacy Character, but can also exist independently of both tropes.

Sub-Trope of Changing of the Guard. The current heroes may become Kid Hero All Grown-Up. The kids might be Expies of the original heroes.

Popular Fan Fic device: see Fan-Created Offspring. Ascended Extra or O.C. Stand-in may also apply for canonical descendants who appear at the very end.

Examples:

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    Anime & Manga 
  • Dragon Ball:
  • Ao Fukai in Eureka Seven AO is the son of the main heroes of the first series, Renton and Eureka.
  • The anime Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals was based on the world of Final Fantasy V and starred one of Bartz' descendants. Presumably the "Queen Lenna of Tycoon" is also a descendant of the original Lenna, though she's just a supporting character.
  • Fruits Basket has a 3-volume sequel called Fruits Basket Another, which features many of the main characters' children, including: Kyo's son Hajime, Yuki's son Mutsuki and Hatsuharu's twin children Sora and Riku. However, the protagonist, Sawa Mitoma, isn't related to any of the characters from the previous series.
  • Fuuka is the sequel to Suzuka, with the titular character being the daughter of Yamato Akitsuki and Suzuka Asahina.
  • Ami from Hana no Miyako has the... interesting honor of being in a Tsukihime spinoff while also being the (biologically impossible) daughter of two Fate/stay night characters: Caster and Souichirou Kuzuki.
  • How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? is a spinoff set in the same world as Kengan Ashura. Several of the cast members are relatives of characters from Kengan Ashura, not just children and nieces/nephews, but also parents, siblings, and ancestors that weren't originally seen in the main story.
  • Iczer series: The audio version of Iczer-3 is Iczer-1's daughter. She was changed to her younger sister for the anime, but Nagisa Kasumi in the Iczer-3 anime is the granddaughter of Nagisa Kano from Fight! Iczer-1.
  • Inuyasha's 2020 anime-only sequel Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon stars Sesshomaru's half-demon daughters Towa and Setsuna, along with Inuyasha and Kagome's daughter Moroha.
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has a different "JoJo" for each arc, but most/all are blood relatives one way or another (to exemplify: Jonathan is grandpa to Joseph, who is grandpa to Jotaro, who is nephew to Josuke). The most straightforward example is Jolyne, Jotaro's daughter. Giorno gets the most distant relations to any other, in fact his father's side of his family is downright screwed up (his dad is Dio, no less!), but regardless he bears the birthmark since Dio had stolen Jonathan's body. Steel Ball Run is the first to avert this, due to being a Continuity Reboot, but the two arcs after that go back to playing this straight, with Josuke being Johnny's descendent...kinda. He's a fusion of Johnny's great-great-grandson Kira and Kira's friend Josefumi. The epilogue of JoJoLion features a more direct example in Johnny's grandson and Kira's grandfather (and by technicality Josuke's great-grandfather) Joseph aiding Lucy Steel. The JOJOLands feature two more descendants of Johnny's, Jodio and Dragona, Joseph's grandchildren from his other daughter.
  • The main character of The Kindaichi Case Files, Hajime Kindaichi is the grandson of famous detective character Kosuke Kindaichi, created by Seishi Yokomizo.
  • Lupin III mixes this trope with Crossover, featuring the grandson of Arsène Lupin as the title character, Goemon XIII, and Inspector Zenigata, a descendant of Zenigata Heiji.
    • And Ganimard III. And Lawrence III of Arabia. And Sherlock Holmes III. And...
    • Lesser known is Lupin VIII, a 1982 series centering on Lupin III's descendant five generations down the line. Only a pilot was made, due to the estate of Maurice LeBlanc (creator of the original Arsène Lupin) wanting more money than the producers were willing to pay.
    • Most obscure is Lupin III Jr., a short-lived manga about Lupin III's illegitimate son.
    • Albert d'Andrésy, the new recurring character introduced in Part V, was hinted to be another descendant of the original Lupin (thus kind of cousin to the current Lupin) based on his surname which was directly adapted from Raoul d'Andrésy, the famous alias of the original Lupin.
  • Canon Macross has done this with the descendants of Max and Milia from Super Dimension Fortress Macross; Mylene from Macross 7 is their youngest daughter, while Mirage from Macross Delta is one of their granddaughters. The obscure spin-off video game Macross 2036 featured their first daughter Komilia (who appeared in the original series as a toddler) as a pilot cadet.
  • Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid. A Spin-Off of Lyrical Nanoha (yes, a spin-off of a spin-off) starring Nanoha's adopted daughter, Vivio.
  • Major 2nd is a sequel to Major starring Goro and Kaoru's 6th grade son Daigo. The series is about Daigo as he joins his dad's old Little League team. When he grows up, Daigo wants to be a professional baseball player like his dad.
  • Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Kanna's Daily Life, which follow Kobayashi's not actually adopted daughter Kanna, blurs the line between this and a regular Spin-Off since it takes place concurrently with the main series.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam Wing sequel novel Frozen Teardrop takes the cast from the anime and puts them in the mentor roles while Generation Xerox versions of Duo (his son), Trowa (his student) and Quatre (his younger sister) do all the heavy lifting. As does Heero Yuy, who was in cryogenic stasis the whole time.
  • For the Naruto franchise, the main cast of Boruto (and also Naruto Gaiden, and Boruto: Naruto the Movie) are mostly the children of Naruto's cast, starring Naruto and Hinata's son Boruto and co-starring Sasuke and Sakura's daughter, Sarada, alongside Orochimaru's son Mitsuki.
  • This was part of Robotech's method of "tying together" the three unrelated shows that were used to create it. This was done in the Masters Saga (Southern Cross) to tie it into the Macross Saga; the protagonist, Dana Sterling (Jeanne Francaix in the original), is portrayed as Max and Miria's daughter, and Bowie is (according to the non-canon novels, at least) the nephew of Claudia Grant (LaSalle in the original), one of Macross's Bridge Bunnies.
  • While Chibiusa is always a main character on Sailor Moon, a later one-shot manga story, deliberately set in an Alternate Universe and timeline, starred the children of the Guardian Senshi, plus a brand new younger sibling to Chibiusa by the name of Kousagi. Almost all of the kids had the same names and appearances as their parents except for Kousagi, who actually looked like her own character, but Chibiusa is the sibling with her mother's name. The manga also had numerous one-shot Chibiusa stories that ran in a separate magazine.
  • For the most part averted in Saint Seiya Omega. Out of the six (later seven) main characters, only one is actually biologically related to a main character from the classic series (Ryuhou, Shiryu's son).
  • Shaman King: Flowers follows Yoh's son, Hana, as well as the next generation of Shamans.
  • Spice and Wolf got a sequel called Wolf and Parchment, which stars Kraft Lawrence and Holo's daughter Myuri.
  • Tetsujin 28 FX, the sequel to the original Tetsujin 28-Go (a.k.a. Gigantor in the united states), featured Masato Kaneda, the son of the original hero Shotaro Kaneda, as a main protagonist. Shiori Nishina, one of the main cast, was supposed to be the granddaughter of Inspector Otsuka, the sidekick of Shotaro, according to the series bible.
  • Ultimate Muscle is about Kinniku Mantaro, the son of the original Kinnikuman.
  • The 2011 ''Ultraman'' manga follows Shinjiro Hayata, the son of the protagonist of the eponymous 1960's series, as he inherits the Ultraman Factor, a form of Flying Brick superpowers left over from Shin Hayata's fusion with Ultraman. Armed with Power Armor resembling Ultraman, Shinjiro works alongside the SSSP and facsimiles of the other Ultra Brothers in battles against human-sized monster and alien threats.
  • UQ Holder! is set in the 2080s some 80 years after Negima! Magister Negi Magi and the main character, Touta Konoe, is the grandson of Negi Springfield. In reality, he's actually a hybrid clone of Negi and Asuna.
  • Yo-kai Watch: Shadowside is a sequel to Yo-kai Watch set 30 years in the future. It stars Nate and Katie's daughter Natsume. In this case Natsume is actually older than her father in the original series (being thirteen instead of eleven).

    Comic Books 
  • Bloodline: Daughter of Blade: The lead character Brielle is Blade's daughter, she's seemingly inherited at least some of his powers, and - like her father - she's fighting vampires.
  • Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers is a subtle example of this, as the series is a Stealth Sequel to Jack Kirby's New Gods and was published by Pacific Comics under the condition that Kirby had full creative control rather than DC Comics. Near the end of the series, it is established that Captain Victory in his youth escaped from his home planet Hellikost to get away from the influence of his nefarious grandfather Blackmass, Hellikost and Blackmass clearly being Apokolips and Darkseid under trademark-friendly renames to avoid Pacific Comics getting sued by DC. Captain Victory's father, who is mentioned to have perished for standing up to Blackmass, is unnamed, but there are hints heavily implying that Victory is Orion's son.
  • Fantastic Force was a team led by Reed Richards and Susan Richards' son Franklin Richards after a Plot-Relevant Age-Up.
  • The original Infinity, Inc. was a DC Comics series about the children (and wards, etc.) of the Justice Society of America. Effectively the Teen Titans of their universe, though they lost this status when all of DC's Earths were merged into one. They faded into obscurity soon after. Though the JSA itself was eventually reintroduced.
  • Marvel Comics wanted to do a spinoff of The Avengers for a DVD. Instead of using the popular Young Avengers franchise because characters were linked to controversial topics like drug-abuse, rape, and homosexuality, they made Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow, which is essentially "Avengers Babies" with 12-year old children of the Avengers having adventures.
    • What If? volume 2 #114 used a similar idea with a different conceit: The Marvel heroes were unable to return home following Secret Wars (1984), so they settled down and had kids. The story focuses on those kids, lead in particular by the daughter of Captain America and Rogue.note 
  • Plastic Man:
    • The Plastic Man of the 1966 series (which was later established to take place in a separate universe from the main DC canon) was revealed in the seventh issue to actually be the son of the original Plastic Man, having gained his powers from drinking a bottle of the acid that gave the original Plastic Man his powers when he was a child.
    • Plastic Man would later have a son who was born with his powers and appeared in the Kingdom Come semi-sequel The Kingdom and a one-shot special, who is actually called "Offspring". Other Spin-Offspring characters in 'Kingdom Come'' who got their own one-shots are Nightstar (Starfire and Nightwing), Kid Flash (the Wally West Flash) and Ibn al Xu'ffasch (Batman and Talia; i.e. this world's counterpart to Damian Wayne).
  • The short-lived incarnation of the Seven Soldiers of Victory in Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers of Victory (2005) #0 included the Whip III, granddaughter of the Whip II (a New Old West Zorro wannabe) and great-great-granddaughter of the Whip I (an Old West Zorro wannabe); I, Spyder, son of the original 7SoV member (and traitor) Alias the Spider; and Gimmix, daughter of Merry the Gimmick Girl and, therefore, neice of the first Star-Spangled Kid, who was also an original 7SoV member. In Seven Soldiers #1, the Bulleteer turns out to be directly descended from Aurakles, the world's first superhero.
  • Spider-Girl and the majority of the teen hero characters from Marvel Comics' MC-2 lineup.
    • Spider-Ham eventually did its own take on Spider-Girl in the fourth issue of Amazing Spider-Man Family and the Spider-Ham 25th Anniversary Special one-shot. The premise was that Spider-Ham had a daughter with Mary Crane Watsow named May Porker, who decides to become Swiney-Girl after learning that she's inherited her father's powers.
  • In another example from Marvel Comics, three of the Young Avengers (Stature, Wiccan, and Speed) are children of former Avengers members. A fourth (Patriot) is the grandson of the first black Captain America.

    Fan Works 
  • Aki-chan's Life, sequel to The Second Try, stars Shinji and Asuka's daughter Aki. Unusually for this trope, the Spin-Offspring in question was a very important character in the previous installment, but didn't get many scenes from her POV until the very end. The sequel makes her the protagonist.
  • In the Bride of Discord "verse", Screw Ball, the daughter of Discord and Fluttershy, becomes the main protagonist of the sequel Daughter of Discord and as the series goes on, the other children of the main six eventually do as well, with Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie's daughters even getting their own Spin-Off CMC The Next Generation.
  • In Cheating Death: Those That Lived, Baron and Runa (both Victors) have a child during the 1st Quarter Quell who they name Rhyder. Rhyder becomes the protagonist of his own chapter (set fourteen years later), after his grandfather and President Snow rig him into the Hunger Games to set an example to his somewhat out-of-line parents.
  • Fallout: Equestria - Empty Quiver picks up about twenty years following the events of Fallout: Equestria - Occupational Hazards, with the daughter and son of the leading couples. Don't think too hard about how two pairs of stallions had foals.
  • Queens of Mewni started out as "Aurora, the Princess of Another Dimension" and featured Star and Marco's daughter Aurora, but fans took more to the historical side of the fanfic and Star's ancestors. Queens of Mewni Spinoffs tend to start with Aurora's own daughter and heir.
  • The sequel to The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters is called The Sick Kids. Guess who gets the spotlight!
  • In SilfofinaDragon's Sengoku Basara fanfics, Date Masamune and Sanada Yukimura have two children Yuki and Masa, with Yukimura being the mother, and the spotlight occasionally shining on the two.
  • Downplayed in Tales of the Hunger Games:
    • Finnick and Annie's son, Finnick Odair Jr, becomes one of the four focus tributes shown in the file chronicling the 80th Hunger Games (1st Quinquennial Quell), after the Hunger Games system was reimplemented three years ago. Justified because the quell twist involves the reaping-age descendants of Victors (or their siblings if there are none) such as Finnick Jr.
    • Ennius Dalton's nephews, Rubius and Lazarus, are one of the four focus tributes in the 86th and 99th Hunger Games. They both make it to the final two of their respective Hunger Games, but only Rubius survives.
  • Undocumented Features: The high school students introduced in the Symphony of the Sword series include the children of some members of the Wedge Defense Force, many of whom are around the same age due to Ragnarok triggering a baby boom.
  • Downplayed in The Victors Project, where Granyte's niece, Lyme, has her own chapter that chronicles her Trials (taken as a non-Institute student) with a brief description of how her Hunger Games went.

    Films — Animation 

    Films — Live-Action 

    Literature 
  • The A to Z Mysteries has the Calendar Mysteries, following the adventures of Bradley and Brian Pinto (Josh's younger brothers), Nate Hathaway (Bradley's friend), and Lucy Armstrong (Dink's cousin).
  • The last two books in the Anne of Green Gables series revolve around the adventures of Anne and Gilbert's children.
  • Since the Arrivals from the Dark series is spread out over centuries and is (mostly) focused on members of the same family, this trope is in effect with almost every new title. The protagonist of the second book is the godson of the protagonist of the first book. The protagonist of the third book is the great-grandson of the second book's protagonist. The next book's protagonists are his son and daughter (well, mostly the son). Averted in book 5, as one of the two POV characters is book 4's protagonist, while the other one is his sister's ex-husband. Book 6 jumps forward and makes the protagonist a descendant of book 4's protagonist's sister and her ex.
  • The original Felix Salten Bambi novel had a sequel Bambi's Children focusing on the title character's fawns, Geno and Gurri. Curiously, Disney, despite their aforementioned affinity for the trope (see above) and even setting up the same Sequel Hook in their first Bambi film, never got round to making an Animated Adaptation, though they did produce a Comic-Book Adaptation shortly after the first film was screened.
  • The Custard Protocol stars Prudence from The Parasol Protectorate all grown up, and accompanied by several other now-adult characters from that series (namely Quesnel Lefoux and the Tunstell siblings).
  • Susan Sto Helit, star of several Discworld novels, is the daughter of Mort, star of the book of the same name. Quite how old that makes Rincewind and Granny Weatherwax is unclear. Blame the History Monks.
    • Cohen the Barbarian's daughter (well, one of them) is a minor character in a couple of books. When Cohen is introduced, he's already very old so it's not terribly surprising that he's got a few full-grown children running around (what with all the ravishing).
  • Gail Carson Levine's Disney Fairies's Fairies and the Quest for Never Land is another sequel to Peter Pan, in which modern-day Wendy descendant Gwendolyn gets her turn.
  • The Fire by Katherine Neville is a sequel to The Eight that focuses on Alexandra Solarin, daughter of Eight protagonists Cat Velis and Alexander Solarin.
  • Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series:
    • "The General (Foundation)":
      • Sennett Forell, one of the richest of the Association of Independent Traders, is known to be a distant relative of Hober Mallow, from "The Merchant Princes" (actually his bastard son). He appears in only two chapters, being the one to send Lathan Devers to spy on General Riose.
      • Ducem Barr is the son of Onum Barr, who had been offscreen in the previous story.
    • "The Mule": Bayta Darell is a distant descendant of Hober Mallow, protagonist of the events of "The Merchant Princes".
    • "Search by the Foundation": Arcadia (Arkady) Darell is a granddaughter (and accordingly her father Dr. Darell is the son) of Bayta Darell, protagonist of the events of "The Mule".
  • Goblins in the Castle: Downplayed in Goblins on the Prowl — a minor character who shows up to help the main group briefly at one point is an unnamed bear. Before departing, he reveals that he's the nephew of the similarly unnamed bear that accompanied Princess (now Queen) Wilhelmina in The Dragonslayers.
  • Hawk is a sequel to the Maximum Ride series, focusing on Max and Fang's daughter as she tries to survive in a post-apocalyptic city.
  • The sequel portion of Hocus Pocus & The All-New Sequel stars Max and Allison's seventeen year old daughter Poppy as she meets the Sanderson sisters, just like her parents had twenty-five years ago.
  • This was the original plan for the Honor Harrington series, with Honor being killed and the series picking up roughly 20 years later following her son as he started his naval career, but plot developments in the Crown of Slaves branch series led to major events slated for the later books to occur sooner than intended. As a result, dealing with those major developments fell to Honor, since there was no way things could conceivably stay the same for the necessary 20 years, and she was spared.
  • The second trilogy in Kushiel's Legacy follows Phedre's adopted son, Imriel.
  • Lensman: Second-Stage Lensmen ends with Kim Kinnison and Clarissa MacDougal getting married. In the next novel, their children go on to become the most powerful beings in the universe.
    • Kim Kinnison is himself the scion of the Kinnison line, with ancestors Ralph, Rod, and Jack (all of whom were at least semi-major characters in earlier books in the series), while Clarissa is definitely descended from Virgil Samms (the eponymous First Lensman of that book), probably through his daughter Virgilia.
  • The Lion King: Six New Adventures is a series of spinoff books based off of The Lion King (1994). They're about characters telling stories to Simba and Nala's son Kopa.
  • The Lord of the Rings is a particularly subtle example. Gimli and Legolas are descendants of secondary characters from The Hobbit (Gimli's father Glóin was one of the meaner dwarf protagonists, and Legolas's father was actually an antagonist). The protagonist, Frodo, is a nephew note  of hero of the The Hobbit. However, Bilbo raised and treated Frodo as a son.
    • Nearly everybody in the Lord of the Rings is the descendant of someone important in The Silmarillion (since some characters are nigh-immortal elves or descended from them, in a few cases their ancestors are still around at the end of the Third Age when LotR is set). Elrond is descended from Eärendil, as is Aragorn (his umpty-great-grandfather was Elrond's brother). They're also both descended from Beren and Lúthien Tinúviel.
  • Lost Girls is a sequel to Peter Pan that has a new generation of children visiting Neverland, and deconstructs the whole concept of the original novel.
  • The Lucy Wilson Mysteries are a spin-off of Candy Jar Books' Lethbright-Stewart series (which themselves are a spin-off of Doctor Who) featuring the Brig's granddaughter.
  • The second and third books in the Old Kingdom series mostly concern the children of Sabriel and Touchstone, the protagonists of the first book.
  • Petaybee: The second trilogy's protagonists, Murel and Ronan, are the offspring of the first trilogy's protagonist, Yana.
  • This is the premise of the Redwall series. There's a strong continuity spanning centuries of family lines that seem to have a propensity toward getting wrapped up in epic conflicts every couple decades or so.
  • Savage Sam: Son of Old Yeller follows the journey of Travis and Savage Sam, the son of Old Yeller to rescue Little Arliss and Elizabeth Circe from Indians.
  • The Shadowhunter Chronicles:
    • Inverted with The Infernal Devices, which takes place 129 years before the events of The Mortal Instruments, and focuses on the ancestors of many characters from the latter. Tessa Gray and Will Herondale are Jace Herondale's paternal great-great-great-grandparents, while Charlotte Fairchild and Henry Branwell are Clary Fray's ancestors, and Gabriel Lightwood and Cecily Herondale are Alec and Isabelle Lightwood's ancestors.
    • Most of the main characters of The Last Hours are children of the main characters of The Infernal Devices. The protagonist, Cordelia Carstairs, is an exception; she is a cousin instead of daughter of Jem Carstairs (though she is young enough to be his daughter).
  • Son of Spellsinger is, as the name suggests, about Tom-Jon and Talea's son going on an adventure with Mudge's pups.
  • Sons of the Oak, a continuation of David Farland's The Runelords Trilogy Saga that focuses upon the son of the Earth King battling an even bigger Bad.
  • A fair number of the later-set Star Wars Legends novels, although for the most part their parents are there with them. Star Wars: Legacy is almost entirely populated by new characters and the descendants of the old heroes.
  • Stray has a series of spinoff books that are grouped together as The Tabitha Stories. They're about one of Pufftail's (many) daughters, Tabitha, from kittenhood to adulthood.
  • Inverted in Super Powereds and Corpies. The latter is a spin-off of the former and features the subsequent adventures of the Hero father of one of the characters in Super Powereds. In fact, the main series takes place in a Superhero School, so Hershel/Roy isn't a Hero yet, while Titan is a well-known name (forced to leave the business a decade prior due to a sex scandal).
  • To Ride Pegasus, the start of the Talents series, features a number of characters getting married. Dorotea Horvath is the only child that we see in the first book (the daughter of two powerful Talents), but in Pegasus in Flight, Dorotea is one of the characters who introduces us to the children of other characters, like Daffyd's granddaughter Rhyssa or Vsevolod Roznine's grandsons, Boris and Sascha Roznine.
  • Tower and the Hive, part of the Talents series, begins with Rowan, the titular character being an orphaned Prime Talent. The first sequel, Damia features her daughter as the title character. The next three books, Damia's Children, Lyon's Pride, and The Tower and The Hive feature Damia's children as the protagonists.
  • Most of the Vorkosigan Saga is about the son of the first book's protagonists.
  • Wagons West: With the ninth book of the series, Washington!, the children of the original Oregon settlers became the main focus of the series, especially Toby Holt. Come the follow up series The Holts, Toby's children Tim, Janessa, and later (to a lesser extent) Mike took center stage while other third-generation individuals would occasionally gain focus as well, most notable Sam Brentwood (grandson of the original) and Frank Blake.
  • In Warrior Cats: The New Prophecy, the second arc of Warrior Cats, the action focuses on Leafpool and Squirrelflight, kittens of The Hero and his Love Interest from the first arc, as well as Brambleclaw, son of the Big Bad Tigerstar. The third arc Power of Three, is about the kittens of Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight. (Though later revealed that they're the biological children of two other second arc characters, Leafpool and Crowfeather). Then the fourth arc Omen of the Stars focuses on the kittens of minor characters Birchfall and Whitewing in addition to continuing the points of view of the third arc. The sixth arc, A Vision of Shadows, features two kits from a younger litter of Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight (their first real litter), who are even younger than the kits of the protagonists of series 3 and 4.
  • Once the staple of the Xanth series: The original central character, Bink, was supplanted by his son, Dor, who was supplanted by his kids, daughter Ivy and son Dolph.
    • Unfortunately, due to the abundance of anti-aging magic in the Xanthverse, all these characters are still alive — as well as their kids, grandkids, and great, great grandkids. Meaning, well, you know...

    Live-Action TV 
  • The Adventures of Shirley Holmes: (Sherlock Holmes' great-grandniece).
  • The entire premise of each new season of Blackadder, with some extra generations thrown in. Never mind that none of them are ever seen to settle down and have kids; they're all bastards anyway.
  • Peter Stone, originally of the short-lived Chicago Justicenote  and later transplanted to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, is the son of Ben Stone, the original prosecutor on the original Law & Order.
  • Cobra Kai features Robby Keene and Samantha LaRusso, son of The Karate Kid (1984) antagonist Johnny Lawrence and daughter of original film series protagonist Daniel LaRusso respectively, along with the latter two's students. Daniel and Johnny are still the overall protagonists, though.
  • Crikey! It's The Irwins focuses on Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin's kids Bindi and Robert grown up and carrying the animal conservation torch he left more than a decade after his death, cemented when the first episode has Robert feeding the notorious saltwater croc Graham on his own. Steve's widow Terri still gets screentime helping out around Australia Zoo and narrating events just as she did originally.
  • The 2012 Dallas series on TNT, a revival of the original, focuses on the rivalry between John Ross Ewing III, the son of J.R. and Sue Ellen Ewing, and Christopher Ewing, the adopted son of Bobby and Pam Ewing.
  • Page quote example: Degrassi: The Next Generation originally featured Emma Nelson, daughter of Spike Nelson from Degrassi Junior High.
  • Donkey Hodie focuses on the granddaughter of the original Donkey Hodie from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, known in this series as Grampy Hodie.
  • Get Smart had an attempted reboot in 1995, with Don Adams and Barbara Feldon reprising their roles as Max (now chief of CONTROL) and 99, and starring Andy Dick as Zach Smart, one of their twins from the original series, now a CONTROL agent himself. (The series lasted 7 episodes.)
  • Girl Meets World is a spin-off from Boy Meets World with Cory and Topanga's daughter Riley as the main character, as well as Riley's little brother, Auggie. One of her friends is Farkle Minkus, who is the son of Stuart Minkus and Jennifer Bassett, one of Shawn's exes.
  • Gossip Girl (2021) has Milo Sparks, the twelve-year-old son of Georgina Sparks from the original Gossip Girl show.
  • Kamen Rider Den-O begat a couple of movies that starred Ryotaro's Grand-Kid from the Future and the Taros, plus several characters that weren't even in Den-O originally.
  • The 2008 Knight Rider TV movie and subsequent show was about the son of David Hasselhoff's character.
  • Kung Fu: The Legend Continues featured Kwai Chang Caine, the Identical Grandson of the protagonist of the original Kung Fu (1972)... so identical that he was also played by David Carradine. The series also features the younger Caine's estranged son Peter.
  • Legacies focuses on Hope, daughter of Klaus Mikaelson, the protagonist of The Originals. Two of the main characters, Josie and Lizzie, are daughters of Alaric Saltzman, who has been an important cast member since the first season of The Vampire Diaries (and continues to be important in Legacies).
  • The short-lived revival of Minder starred Archie Daley, the nephew of the star character Arthur Daley from the original series back in the 70s/80s.
  • Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries is a spin-off of The Roaring '20s-set Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, featuring Phryne Fisher's niece Peregrine in The '60s.
  • The 1988 Mission: Impossible combined this with an Actor Allusion by having Grant Collier (Phil Morris) be the son of Barnard Collier (Grant Morris).
  • Mulawin vs. Ravena is a Sequel Series to Mulawin with the protagonist being the son of the original series' Official Couple. The characters are mostly descendants of characters from the original, with The Lancer even being the former Kid Sidekick of The Hero's Action Mom.
  • Night Court (2023) sees Melissa Rauch as Judge Abby Stone, daughter of Judge Harry Stone from Night Court taking up his mantle in the night shift of an arraignment court in Manhattan.
  • In The New Tomorrow, a spinoff-slash-sequel show to The Tribe, the children worship their god Bray, who was a character in The Tribe. They also fear Zoot (who is Bray's brother, and acknowledged in the new series as the devil), showing that quite some time must have passed for a religion to have begun to form around them.
  • The 2016 revival of Porridge stars Kevin Bishop as Nigel Norman Fletcher, grandson of Norman Stanley Fletcher.
  • Power Rangers Samurai has Spike Skullovitch, son of Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
  • In the 2017 revival of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Big Bad Kinga is the daughter of the original villain Dr. Forrester, and her assistant Max is the son of Dr. Forrester's assistant Frank.
  • In the Quantum Leap revival, Janice Calavicci is the daughter of Al from the original series.note 
  • Played with Raven's Home. It's a sequel to the Kid Com That's So Raven with a Genre Shift towards Dom Com. Raven and Chelsea are now adults, recently divorced, and raising their kids together as roommates. The protagonists are their preteen children; however Chelsea and Raven still receive a large amount of screentime and usually have b-plots centered around them. Season 5 reveals Raven's rival Alana has a daughter named Cami, whom Booker has feelings for.
  • While there's a notable lack of family ties between them, three generations of Star Trek share this trope's characteristics. Even more so if you rate the USS Enterprise an actual character, in which case Picard's crew travel in the Kirk-era starship's great-great-granddaughter.
  • Survivor:
    • South Pacific (and later Caramoan) features Brandon Hantz, nephew of Samoa, Heroes vs. Villains, and Redemption Island contestant Russel Hantz.
    • Blood vs. Water is about returning playes competing against their loved ones, three of which are younger descendants.
  • That '90s Show, the sequel series to That '70s Show, follows Eric Forman and Donna Pinciotti's daughter, Leia, as she spends the summer of 1995 in Point Place with Eric's parents and a group of new friends, her love interest being Jay Kelso, the son Michael Kelso and Jackie Burkhart.
  • In a way, the Sci-Fi limited series Tin Man does this: It's revealed that DG and Azkadelia are descended from the Gray Gale - Dorothy Gale.
  • Turner & Hooch (2021) stars Josh Peck as Scott Turner, Jr., son of Tom Hanks' character from the original Turner and Hooch.
  • Ultraman Taiga, much like Ultraman Zero in the film section above, stars the son of another classic Ultra Series hero; in this case, that of Ultraman Taro.
  • Willow (2022) is a sequel series of the the film of the same name. Two of the leads, Kit and Airk, are the twin children of Madmartigan and Sorsha. It's eventually also revealed that Jade is the child of General Kael.
  • The TV series Young Maverick dealt with the adventures of Ben Maverick, the son of Beau Maverick (and cousin of Bret and Bart Maverick) from the original Maverick series.

    Professional Wrestling 
  • Since pro wrestling often tends to be a family business, many sons and daughters of famous wrestlers of yesteryear go on to have wrestling careers in their own right. The results are mixed both in terms of booking and actual crowd perception. Some have careers that go on to outstrip those of their fairly well-known parents and grandparents by miles. (Who's High Chief Peter Maivia again? Most people nowadays will know his grandson, though. And Bob Orton Jr.’s son became a way bigger star than “Cowboy” ever was.) Others have decent careers but not to the degree of their heritage. Some show obvious talent, perhaps equal to or exceeding that of their parents, but because of either a lack of crowd reaction, bad booking, or longstanding feuds between a promotion's boss and said family, don't ever break the glass ceiling. On the other hand, some wrestlers aren't perceived to have their parents talent but are pushed to the moon anyway because of said family connection. And within kayfabe, it gets more complicated. If a promotion goes out of their way to mention a young talent's famous family connections and work it into storylines, it usually signals that the promotion has big plans for that talent.

    Radio 
  • In the 1990s The BBC did a comedy follow up to their popular 1940s drama serial Dick Barton: Special Agent entitled Richard Barton: General Practitioner. The focus was on Dr Barton trying to curtail his increasingly senile father's attempts to thwart entirely imaginary enemies of democracy in a small village, with flashbacks to the elder Barton's glory days. Interestingly, written by the son of Dick Barton's creator, Edward J. Mason.
  • Older Than They Think: The Green Hornet was originally introduced as The Lone Ranger's great-nephew. The Hornet and the Ranger were both created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker as broadcast content for Trendle's Detroit radio station, WXYZ. The relationship isn't that well known, though, since it wasn't referred to that often in the Hornet's series, and in the 1950s Trendle sold the rights to The Lone Ranger to another company, which prevented the relationship from being explicitly mentioned in any subsequent The Green Hornet shows or other adaptations.

    Sport 
  • In Australian Rules Football, the father/son rule, which gives clubs first preference in the draft for the sons of their former players. Way too many examples to list, but the Ur-Example is Ron Barassi; his father played for Melbourne, but zoning rules at the time meant that Ron would have to play for either Carlton or Collingwood. Melbourne (who had been supporting Ron and his mother after his father was killed in action during WW2) lobbied the VFL to let them draft Ron to play for them when he was old enough, and they agreed. He later caused controversy by transferring to Carlton for the money, something that was not done at the time.
  • In the 1960s, the Italian football/soccer team AC Milan had an iconic defender who captained the team named Cesare Maldini. A few decades later, his son Paolo Maldini ended up playing the same role for Milan in the 1990s and 2000s.

    Theatre 
  • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a play, approved by J. K. Rowling, which serves as this for the Harry Potter novels; its script was published as the "eighth book". It focuses on Albus Potter, the middle child of Harry, and Scorpius Malfoy, his best friend and the son of Harry's rival Draco. The villain also turns out to be Big Bad Voldemort's daughter. While the concept was always popular in fanfic, the play itself is... pretty polarizing.

    Video Games 
  • Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, of a sort: Phoenix Wright adopted Trucy as his daughter, and the titular protagonist is Trucy's biological brother, effectively making this game a Step-Spin-Offspring.
  • Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse features Alucard, the son of recurring Big Bad Dracula, as an available sidekick character, but it wasn't until Castlevania: Symphony of the Night that he was given a more significant role.
  • Chuck Rock II: Son of Chuck stars the infant son of the original Chuck Rock protagonist.
  • Commander Keen: More of an All There in the Manual than something explicitly stated: Billy Blaze is the grandson of B.J. Blazkowicz, with an Anglicized last name.
  • Devil May Cry 4 has Vergil's son Nero as the main protagonist, though their parent-child relationship was only hinted at by the game itself before it was officially confirmed by supplementary materials. This got carried on into the sequel which now fully confirms who Nero's father is in an in-game dialogue.
  • Donkey Kong Jr. is a rare case where the villain's son is the Spin-Offspring. (Though this was because of Mario's Face–Heel Turn, where he wanted to give Donkey Kong a taste of his own medicine. Junior tries to stop this, thinking Mario might be going too far and thus into He Who Fights Monsters territory.)
  • Fable:
    • In Fable II, the player character is descended from player character from the original game.
    • In Fable III, you play the child of Fable II's player character.
  • The player character of Fallout 2 is a direct descendant of the player character in the original game.
  • In Fallout: New Vegas, the companion Rose of Sharon Cassidy is the daughter of Fallout 2 companion Cassidy.
  • The Fantasy Zone portable installment Fantasy Zone Gear stars Opa-Opa's son, Opa-Opa Jr.
  • Trials Of The Blood Dragon stars the children of the hero and love interest of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.
  • The Fate games give you the option to play this trope straight, letting you retire a character who's completed the game's challenges and pass one possession of your choice down to a new-made "descendent".
  • Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, starring the son of Cecil and Rosa, the main characters of Final Fantasy IV. There's also the daughter of Yang and Sheila joining in.
  • Fire Emblem played around with this on occasion. The fourth game, Genealogy of the Holy War, had the main characters at the start of the game die off halfway through and be replaced with their children. Many (though not all) of the characters in The Binding Blade were the children of characters in The Blazing Blade, which is actually an inversion of the trope since Binding Blade was made first. (A couple of characters from Binding Blade were the parents of characters in Blazing Blade, and grandparents of other characters in Binding Blade.) The Future Past DLC serves as this to Fire Emblem: Awakening as the focus is on the Kids From The Future in a timeline where they are losing the fight against Grima, while Heirs of Fate does the same for Fire Emblem Fates as it focuses on the second generation, half from the Birthright timeline, half from the Conquest timeline and Shigure from the Revelations timeline banding together to stop an Anankos that managed to kill the first generation.
  • Slight variation in the Galaxy Angel Series Franchise: because the original Angels were the stars of a Dating Sim and Bishoujo Series, it would be a little offputting if they were all shown married with kids. Instead, in Galaxy Angel II, they have spinoff counterparts with other connections, ranging from Milfeulle's kid sister to Forte's combat protégé. Vanilla actually does have a kid, but she's adopted.
  • The main character of Gears of War 4 JD Fenix is the son of Marcus Fenix and Anya Stroud, the protagonist and a major character of the first 3 Gears of War games, respectively.
  • Golden Sun: Dark Dawn:
    • At least some of the player characters are apparently the descendants of the player characters from the original GBA games (example: Matthew, The Hero, is Isaac's son, and looks and plays a lot like him). Due to the series extensively developed Shipping community, along with the equally awe-inspiring Ship-to-Ship Combat, this may have some interesting results in the fandom.
    • In fact, almost all of the characters are descended from the heroes or minor characters. Matthew's mother is revealed to be Jenna, Tyrell's father is Garet, but he is apparently unrelated to Rief, Mia's son. Rief's sister apparently develops a crush on Piers, ruling him out as a possible father. Karis is Ivan's daughter, but no indication is given as to who her mother might be. The remaining characters are Eoleo, who is the son of Briggs and was actually seen in Golden Sun: The Lost Age as a baby, and Himi, daughter of minor characters Susa and Kushinada from the same game. The only character whose parentage is ambiguous is Amiti, although there's strong indications that Alex is his father in the ending. Interestingly, while Isaac and Garet show up, and Mia, Ivan, and Piers are frequently mentioned, there's barely any talk of Jenna, and Felix and Sheba are conspicuously absent.
  • Hero & Daughter: Discussed in a Random Event:
    Goral: You oughta marry, have a kid... To be the protag of Hero & Daughter 2!
  • The House of the Dead III features Lisa Rogan, the daughter of The House of the Dead protagonist Thomas Rogan, as the player 1 character. In the final chapter, Daniel Curien, the son of THotD1 Big Bad Dr. Roy Curien, becomes the player 2 character.
  • King's Quest: While Graham hasn't exactly retired from adventuring, the third, fourth, sixth, and seventh games followed his kids.
  • La-Mulana 2 follows the adventures of Lumisa Kosugi, daughter of Lemeza Kosugi, the main character of La-Mulana and granddaughter of Shawn Kosugi.(Or perhaps his illegitimate child).
  • Lands of Lore 2 follows of the son of the villain of the first game.
  • Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude and Box Office Bust features Larry Laffer's nephew, Larry Lovage as the main character in both games.
  • The Mr. Driller series stars Susumu Hori, who is the son of Dig Dug's Taizo Hori and of Kissy from the little-known Baraduke. Both father and son have made appearances in each other's games since the first Mr. Driller game.
  • Ōkamiden features Kuninushi, the son of Ōkami's Susano and Kushi, teaming up with Chibiterasu, son of Ōkami's protagonist Amaterasu (as well as one of the cutest things ever.) Also worthy of mention are the brush gods' children.
  • Phantasy Star II has Rolf discovering that he's descended from Alis Landale, the heroine of the first game. Since Chaz of the series' next chronological installment was orphaned as a child, we have no idea whether or not he's related to them, but he looks almost exactly like Rolf except for his blond hair.
    • This is the entire premise of Phantasy Star III. The game is split into three parts. At the end of the first two parts, the player character marries one of their female party members and their offspring is the player character of the next part.
  • Pitfall!: The Mayan Adventure, an early Windows 95 game, featured Pitfall Harry Jr, the son of the protagonist from the original 8-bit Pitfall, whom the younger Pitfall Harry has to rescue.
  • Two of the spinoffs of the protagonist-titled Professor Layton series, Layton Brothers: Mystery Room and Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy, respectively feature his son Alfendi and daughter Katrielle as the protagonists.
  • Herbert's Dummy Run was a Mission-Pack Sequel to Pyjamarama starring the son of that game's protagonist.
  • Record of Agarest War is basically Spin-Offspring: The Video Game. The original in the series features five chapters and each ends with the hero romancing one of several female companions and having a kid who grows up to become the hero of the following chapter. Lather, rinse, repeat.
  • Red Faction did this with its spinoff movie, Origins, and last game, Armageddon - the protagonists of each, Jake and Darius Mason respectively, are the son and grandson of Alec Mason, protagonist of Guerrilla.
  • Rogue Legacy has an interesting twist - the player character in each play-through is the descendent of the previous run's character. Given the nature of the game, the family line becomes quite long.
  • Silent Hill 3 focuses on Heather Mason, the daughter of original game protagonist Harry Mason.
  • Often done in The Sims, since most new generations of the game involve a nominal 25-year time shift in one direction or the other to open it up to new characters and scenarios. The most obvious example is The Sims 2, which includes the four pre-made playable children from the original games as adult protagonists, and adds a few more like Brandi Broke (daughter of Bob and Betty Newbie) and Tara Kat (implied to be the adopted daughter of Ginia Kat).
  • Isa, the male protagonist of Sin and Punishment: Star Successor, is the son of the two protagonists of the first Sin and Punishment.
  • Soul Calibur V has Sophitia's kids becoming the new main characters.
  • Many of Spelunky 2's characters are descendents of the characters of the first game. The main character is the daughter of the Spelunky Guy and the yellow miner hat lady (Tina).
  • Star Ocean: The Second Story features Claude Kenny, son of two major characters from the original.
  • Story of Seasons:
  • Streets of Rage 4 has this with Cherry Hunter, the daughter of Adam Hunter, who is one of the three protagonists from the first game.
  • The Suikoden series gives us quite a few of these examples, given that they all take place in the same world:
    • Suikoden III has Belle (the daughter of Meg from the first two games in the series), Rico (the daughter of Sancho from the first), Fred (the grandson of Maximillian from the first two), Sharon (the daughter of Milia from the first), Hugo (the son of Lucia from the second, who's also playable here), Caesar and Albert Silverberg (the grandsons of Leon from the first two and the nephews of Mathiu from the first), Emily (the daughter of Ronnie Bell and Mose from the first), and Sanae Yamamoto (the daughter of Freed and Yoshino from the second).
    • Suikoden IV inverts this due to taking place 150 years prior to the first game, but it introduces Rachel (the ancestor of Camille from the first game) and Elenor Silverberg (the ancestor of the Silverberg line). There are also some other implied ancestors, with Mitsuba looking an awful lot like Kasumi from the first two games, Rita bearing a resemblance to Meg from the first two, and Gary and Ema potentially being ancestors to the Maximillian family (and their associated Maximillian Knights).
    • Suikoden V introduces Nelis (the descendant of Pablo from the fourth game). It also features Shun Min as a child, who would later go on to marry Hai Yo from the second game.
  • Tales of Destiny 2 is about Kyle, the son of the two main characters from the first game, but aside from him, that's it.
  • Tekken has a 19-year timeskip between 2 and 3, during which time Kazuya Mishima (by then the series' central character) and Jun Kazama have an affair and give birth to a son, Jin Kazama, who replaces his father as protagonist from 3 onward. Kazuya later shows up again, but as an antagonist.
  • The fairly mental Amiga/Atari ST game Wizkid was a sequel to Wizball, and Wizkid was, unsurprisingly, Wizball's son.
  • Wolfenstein: Youngblood, the final game in the MachineGames alternate timeline, is set in The '80s and features Jessie and Sophia Blazkowicz as they search for their MIA father B.J and mow down scores of Nazis along the way.
    It's do or die, sis. Just like papa taught us.

    Webcomics 
  • Violet, of Coming Up Violet was in Fur Will Fly but she was about six (instead of in high school) and her mother and stepfather were more significant characters in the latter series/
  • Act 6 of Homestuck has an inversion, introducing teenaged Alternate Universe versions of the main characters' biological parents. They also consider the alternate versions of the main characters as their parents/grandparents/older brother, since due to time shenanigans they were older in this universe.
  • The title characters of Nicole and Derek are the children of the main couples from You Say It First and Namir Deiter, respectively.
  • Original Life follows the children of Fisk Black, main character of Better Days.
  • The main characters of Umlaut House 2 are mostly the kids and students of the characters from the first comic. Two of whom, Volair and Saundra's son Pierce and Jake and Rick's daughter Rhonda, were actually introduced a year before "1" ended.

    Web Original 
  • Team Four Star's Let's Play of Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 featured Puddin, the daughter of Dumplin, their player character from their Xenoverse 1 run. For bonus points, the episodes where they unlock all the Frost Demon abilities featured Puddin's son, Frogurt, and the episode where they unlock the Saiyan abilities featured Spudz, who's another child of Dumplin's (or rather, his future self Mr. Popo), and therefore Puddin's halfish-brother.
  • The Onion had an article in 2002 previewing the second Gulf War as if it was a movie sequel and mentioned that Gulf War II would feature the son of one of the main characters from the first one.
  • The protagonist of Pokémon Legends Neo: Ghetsis is Auburn, the grandson of Red from Pokémon Red and Blue.

    Western Animation 
  • Alice's Wonderland Bakery focuses on the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren of the cast from the Disney adaptation of the movie, with the protagonist even being named after The Heroine.
  • Batman Beyond technically serves as this, with Terry McGinnis as Bruce Wayne's protege rather than his son. It eventually comes out in the Fully Absorbed Finale over on Justice League Unlimited that, thanks to Cadmus, Terry biologically is Bruce's son.
  • Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood focuses on the children of several characters from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, which came from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
  • Defenders of the Earth features the King Features comic strip heroes such as Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the Magician fighting evil alongside their children.
  • The Famous Five received a cartoon called Famous 5: On The Case in 2008. It was set in contemporary times and starred the children of the original characters: Max, Dylan, Jo, and Allie. It also used Generation Xerox (for example, George's tomboyish daughter Jo hates being called "Jyoti").
  • Filmation's Ghostbusters: Two of the protagonists (Jake Kong Junior and Eddie Spencer Junior) are sons of protagonists (Jake Kong Senior and Eddie Spencer Senior) of the series it spun from.
  • It's never made clear the relationship between Inspector Gadget and Gadget Boy, particularly if it's the same character at different ages or two distinct ones such as father and son. Heather is not unlike an older Penny, but the two girls are clearly different.
  • James Bond Jr. (claimed by the theme song to be James Bond's nephew, because although Bond did enough sleeping around that he probably could staff a spy agency with his juniors, you can't say that in the title sequence of a Saturday-Morning Cartoon!)
  • Hank from King of the Hill was originally conceived as the son of Tom Anderson from Beavis And Butthead but the studio couldn't get access to the copyrights.
  • Downplayed with The Legend of Korra, the sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender. While the offspring of the previous show's cast do play vital roles, the main character is the reincarnation of one of them, rather than their child.
    • Aang and Katara's children Tenzin, Bumi, and Kya. The former is an airbender and mentor to the main character, who is the aforementioned reincarnation of his father, while the others are a non-bender (until season three) and a waterbender, respectively. The second season explores a bit of how they viewed Aang's not-so-stellar parenting.
    • Toph's daughter Lin Beifong as the local chief of police, with the third season introducing Lin's half-sister Suyin, founder and leader of Zaofu. Like with Aang, Toph's parenting skills are put under a microscope.
    • Zuko's daughter, Fire Lord Izumi, makes two brief appearances in the final season. Unlike the others, Zuko is spared the analysis of his parenting skills, though what little is seen of her indicates that Izumi is the most well-adjusted person in her generation.
    • Their respective grandchildren also fill out the secondary and tertiary cast. Tenzin's two middle kids, Ikki and Meelo, serve as comic relief throughout the series while his eldest, Jinora, sometimes accompanies Korra on Avatar work and his youngest, Rohan, was born during the first season finale. Four out of Suyin's five children are allied with Korra, while one is a Non-Action Guy and the odd one out, Baatar Jr, was engaged to fourth season antagonist Kuvira. Izumi's son Iroh is also an occasional ally of Korra's, though his position as General of the United Forces means he's stuck obeying the orders of whoever is governing the United Republic at the time and that sometimes leaves him unable to help. Izumi's daughter got cut out of the show due to time constraints and has never been given a name.
  • Monster High is a series about the children of famous monsters such as Dracula and the Mummy who go to the same high school. Similarly, the spinoff Ever After High is about the children of famous fairy tale characters.
  • The Muppet Babies (2018) episode, "Mitzvah For Miss Nanny" reveals that Miss Nanny is the daughter of Nanny from the original 1984 Muppet Babies series, as the two are seen in a photo together.
  • 101 Dalmatians: The Series focuses on Pongo and Perdita's puppies...well, most of them. Lucky, Cadpig and Rolly are the leads, while Dipstick, Whizzer, Two-Tone, Patch, and Tripod (who's new to the series) are side characters. Jewel is The Ghost.
  • 101 Dalmatian Street is set in The Present Day, with Delilah and her side of the blended family being descended from Pongo and Perdita.
  • The Oz Kids, which starred Dorothy's children Dot and Neddy, the Tin Boy, Scarecrow Jr., Jack Pumpkinhead Jr., the Cowardly Lion's cubs Boris and Bela, the Wizard's son Frank, and Glinda's daughter Andrea.
  • Word of God is that Pac-Man's parents in Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures are the original Mrs. and Mr. Pac-Man, thus technically making the protagonist Pac Jr.
  • Phantom 2040 is a Cyberpunk series starring the descendant of the original Phantom.
  • The Pink Panther had a brief spin-off in the mid 80s, Pink Panther and Sons, which predominantly featured the Panther's children, Pinky and Panky, as well as a rainbow-colored assortment of other panther children.
  • Popeye and Son: Popeye and Olive Oyl finally marry and have a son named Popeye Jr. (usually called Junior). Bluto marries a woman named Lizzie, has a son named Tank, and just like his father is with Popeye, he is a rival with Junior.
  • The Potato Head Kids segment of My Little Pony 'n Friends focuses on the children of Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head.
  • Regal Academy centers around teenagers who are the offspring of various famous fairytales; the protagonist Rose in particular is the granddaughter of Cinderella. In addition, their last names are taken from whom they are descended from (again, Rose's full name is Rose Cinderella).
  • The Ripley's Believe It or Not! animated series features Rip Ripley, who is the nephew of Robert Ripley.
  • Spirit: Riding Free features the son of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.
  • Tiny Toon Adventures: Most of the characters are just expies of the original Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cast, except for Gogo Dodo who is the son of the Dodo from Porky in Wackyland.
  • Wacky Races had an unsuccessful pilot for a revival series called Wacky Races Forever. Two new characters featured in the pilot were Parker and Piper Perfect, who were the children of Peter Perfect and Penelope Pitstop.

 
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