Basic Trope: Family members look extremely similar to each other.
- Straight: Alan looks just like his cousin, Bob.
- Exaggerated: Everyone in Alan's family looks a lot like him. Even in prehistoric times, creatures such as dinosaurs and cavemen somehow resemble Alan.
- Downplayed: Alan looks pretty similar to Bob, but that's because Bob is his son.
- Justified:
- Alan and Bob are father and son, a more realistic take on the trope.
- Alan and Bob are brothers.
- Inverted:
- Bob is actually a clone of Alan, but he pretends to be a relative of him so he can justify why he looks so similar.
- Family members look nothing like each other, even identical twins.
- Subverted: Photos of Alan's family appear, and all of them just look like Alan dressing up. It turns out that they were really pictures of Alan in different clothing.
- Double Subverted: Alan's family finally makes onscreen appearances, and it turns out they do look a lot like him.
- Parodied: Alan's entire family looks like clones of himself.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alan and Bob look distinct enough from each other.
- Enforced:
- The creators of the series cannot find another actor to play Bob, so they have Alan's actor dress in different clothing.
- If it's an animated series, the animators have a limited amount of models. To create a family member's model, all they have to do is change a couple features and call it a day.
- The creators of the series are trying to make it obvious that Alan and Bob are related to each other.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Alan and Bob intentionally dress as similarly as they can so that they'll look like each other.
- Exploited: Bob and Alan swap places for a day and nobody notices since they both look identical.
- Defied: Alan and Bob try to avoid looking anything like each other.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why are Alan and Bob so surprised that they turned out to be related? They look exactly like each other!"
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