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* ''Fanfic/{{Alicorn}}'': Rainbow Dash was orphaned when she was eleven, but was able to live on her own and build a pretty cozy cloud home thanks to a inheritance much larger than what her parents would have owned. It turns out that it was a subtle gift from her biological mother, Celestia.
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* ''Film/JohnCarter'': One kicks off the FramingDevice of the film; young Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs is very surprised to learn that his wealthy uncle - the title character - left literally everything to him, including the diary that contains the main plot. This is drawn pretty closely from ''[[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars A Princess of Mars]]'', the original book that the film is mostly based on.
* In ''Film/KingRalph'', the '''entire''' British royal family dies. Ralph's a ''very'' distant illegitimate relative from America. HilarityEnsues.
* In ''Film/KingRalph'', the '''entire''' British royal family dies. Ralph's a ''very'' distant illegitimate relative from America. HilarityEnsues.
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* ''Film/JohnCarter'': One kicks off the FramingDevice of the film; young Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs is very surprised to learn that his wealthy uncle - -- the title character - -- left literally everything to him, including the diary that contains the main plot. This is drawn pretty closely from ''[[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars A Princess of Mars]]'', the original book that the film is mostly based on.
* In ''Film/KingRalph'', the '''entire''' British royal family dies. Ralph's a ''very'' distant illegitimate relative from America.HilarityEnsues.Hilarity ensues.
* In ''Film/KingRalph'', the '''entire''' British royal family dies. Ralph's a ''very'' distant illegitimate relative from America.
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* In Creator/GeraldDurrell's ''Rosy is my Relative'', Adrian Rookwhistle is bequeathed an unexpected sum of money from his uncle, with the proviso that he look after Rosy, a circus performer and colleague of the uncle. Rosy turns out to be an alcoholic elephant. HilarityEnsues.
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* In Creator/GeraldDurrell's ''Rosy is my Relative'', Adrian Rookwhistle is bequeathed an unexpected sum of money from his uncle, with the proviso that he look after Rosy, a circus performer and colleague of the uncle. Rosy turns out to be an alcoholic elephant. HilarityEnsues.Hilarity ensues.
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* Creator/PeterStraub uses this multiple times in his novel ''Mr. X''.
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* One shows up in the ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' episode Mondo's Last Stand. In the episode's B plot, the Burble Baby Food Company comes to town because the founder of the company has died and they are looking for the first Burble Baby Food Company to give them their inheritance. Bulk and Skull, along with Lt. Stone, go on the case. It is eventually revealed that the company got the age of the baby wrong and reveal that Ernie was the baby. His inheritance? A lifetime supply of their baby food, which Ernie promptly suggests making smoothies out of. Like many unanswered questions regarding Ernie, we never find out what his surname is during this episode, even though that would have been the perfect episode to reveal it. We also never find out what happened to his 'lifetime supply' of baby food after he leaves during the [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo next]] season.
* {{Downplayed}} in ''Series/{{Roseanne}}.'' An obscure relative dies, and the family receives a small inheritance (as in, enough to treat themselves at a fancy restaurant). However, they're surprised when youngest son D.J. gets an amount that, while still small, is significantly larger than the others. Roseanne quips that this makes sense, because he's the only member of [[BigScrewedUpFamily the family]] whom the deceased never met.
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' there is a subversion in [[Recap/SupernaturalS10E06AskJeeves the episode Ask Jeeves]]. Someone calls Bobby's phone to let him know that he's been bequeathed an inheritance. However, Bobby is deceased. As Bobby's "Next of Kin", Sam and Dean go to investigate and possibly collect on the inheritance. It turns out Bobby had been granted custody of the descendant's secret shape-shifter daughter. Unfortunately, the daughter has already escaped from her attic prison and is killing the rest of the family because of her rage at being kept locked up. Sam and Dean arrive just in time to put her down.
* {{Downplayed}} in ''Series/{{Roseanne}}.'' An obscure relative dies, and the family receives a small inheritance (as in, enough to treat themselves at a fancy restaurant). However, they're surprised when youngest son D.J. gets an amount that, while still small, is significantly larger than the others. Roseanne quips that this makes sense, because he's the only member of [[BigScrewedUpFamily the family]] whom the deceased never met.
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' there is a subversion in [[Recap/SupernaturalS10E06AskJeeves the episode Ask Jeeves]]. Someone calls Bobby's phone to let him know that he's been bequeathed an inheritance. However, Bobby is deceased. As Bobby's "Next of Kin", Sam and Dean go to investigate and possibly collect on the inheritance. It turns out Bobby had been granted custody of the descendant's secret shape-shifter daughter. Unfortunately, the daughter has already escaped from her attic prison and is killing the rest of the family because of her rage at being kept locked up. Sam and Dean arrive just in time to put her down.
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* One shows up in the ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' episode Mondo's Last Stand. ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'': In the episode's B plot, plot of "Mondo's Last Stand", the Burble Baby Food Company comes to town because the founder of the company has died and they are looking for the first Burble Baby Food Company (the infant from the company's commercials) to give them their inheritance. Bulk and Skull, along with Lt. Stone, go on the case. It case and initially think Jason is the one inheriting, but it's eventually revealed that the company got the age of the baby wrong and reveal that Ernie Ernie, proprietor of the local juice bar, was the baby. His inheritance? A lifetime supply of their baby food, which Ernie promptly suggests making smoothies out of. Like many unanswered questions regarding Ernie, we never find out what his surname is during this episode, even though that would have been the perfect episode to reveal it. We also never find out what happened to his 'lifetime supply' of baby food after he leaves during the [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo next]] season.
* ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'': {{Downplayed}} in''Series/{{Roseanne}}.'' An an episode where an obscure relative dies, and the family receives a small inheritance (as in, enough to treat themselves at a fancy restaurant). However, they're surprised when youngest son D.J. gets an amount that, while still small, is significantly larger than the others. Roseanne quips that this makes sense, because he's the only member of [[BigScrewedUpFamily the family]] whom the deceased never met.
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*In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' there is a subversion ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Subverted in [[Recap/SupernaturalS10E06AskJeeves the episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS10E06AskJeeves Ask Jeeves]].Jeeves]]". Someone calls Bobby's phone to let him know that he's been bequeathed an inheritance. However, Bobby is deceased. As Bobby's "Next of Kin", Sam and Dean go to investigate and possibly collect on the inheritance. It turns out Bobby had been granted custody of the descendant's secret shape-shifter daughter. Unfortunately, the daughter has already escaped from her attic prison and is killing the rest of the family because of her rage at being kept locked up. Sam and Dean arrive just in time to put her down.
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* In ''VideoGame/AnotherCode'', Ashley receives a package from her father for her 14th Birthday, after assuming he was dead since she was three. It contains the DTS, and a letter asking her to meet him on Blood Edward Island, thus setting off the plot.
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* In ''VideoGame/AnotherCode'', Ashley receives a package from her father for her 14th Birthday, after assuming he was dead since she was three. It contains the DTS, DAS ([[DubNameChange the DTS in the original North American DS release]]), and a letter asking her to meet him on Blood Edward Island, thus setting off the plot.
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* A variation occurs in ''Film/TheBoyWhoCriedWerewolf''. The family inherits a large house from their uncle in Romania, and it turns out that [[spoiler: he was a werewolf who was using the house do experiments to find a cure for his "disease"]].
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* A variation occurs in ''Film/TheBoyWhoCriedWerewolf''. The family inherits a large house from their uncle in Romania, and it turns out that [[spoiler: he was a werewolf who was using the house to do experiments to find a cure for his "disease"]].
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* ''Nickel & Dime'' is a comedy about a "heir tracer" (or "heir hunter"), who makes a living off finding heirs of dead single people. Usually he just picks off a street somebody resembling the deceased. Since the inheritances never exceed $100, he gets away with it. Then he stumbles upon a rich dead criminal and spends the rest of the film searching for his illegitimate child. With IRS on his heels and an accountant tagging along.
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* ''Nickel & Dime'' is a comedy about a "heir tracer" (or "heir hunter"), who makes a living off finding heirs of dead single people. Usually he just picks off a street somebody resembling the deceased. Since the inheritances never exceed $100, he gets away with it. Then he stumbles upon a rich dead criminal and spends the rest of the film searching for his illegitimate child. With child, with IRS on his heels and an accountant tagging along.
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* The 2001 version of ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'', Cyrus Kriticos bequeaths his beautiful, glass walled house to his nephew Arthur. The bad news? It's [[HauntedHouse haunted by 12 ghosts,]] and [[spoiler:Cyrus is manipulating Arthur into committing suicide so his master plan to create a ghost-powered oracle machine will succeed.]]
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* The In the 2001 version of ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'', Cyrus Kriticos bequeaths his beautiful, glass walled glass-walled house to his nephew Arthur. The bad news? It's [[HauntedHouse haunted by 12 ghosts,]] and [[spoiler:Cyrus is manipulating Arthur into committing suicide so his master plan to create a ghost-powered oracle machine will succeed.]]
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* "Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance" in Creator/MRJames' ''Ghost Stories of an Antiquary''.
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* "Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance" in Creator/MRJames' ''Ghost Stories of an Antiquary''.Antiquary'': The titular Mr Humphreys never even met the uncle from whom he inherits the property which he now goes to visit...
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* In ''Literature/AShillingForCandles'' by Creator/JosephineTey, destitute Robert Tisdall is astonished to learn that he has been left a significant amount of money and a property in America by a woman he'd met for the first time a few days earlier. The catch is not an intentional one: she's been murdered, and now the police think he did to get his hands on the money...
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* In ''Literature/AShillingForCandles'' by Creator/JosephineTey, destitute Robert Tisdall is astonished to learn that he has been left a significant amount of money and a property in America by a woman he'd met for the first time a few days earlier. The catch is not an intentional one: she's been murdered, and now the police think he did it to get his hands on the money...
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* Classic ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' Adventure 12 ''Secret of the Ancients''. One of the {{PC}}s receives an inheritance from an uncle: a statuette which leads the party into a hunt to find an [[{{Precursor}} Ancient]] site.
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* Classic ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' Adventure 12 ''Secret of the Ancients''. One of the {{PC}}s {{Player Character}}s receives an inheritance from an uncle: a statuette which leads the party into a hunt to find an [[{{Precursor}} Ancient]] site.
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* The plot of ''Film/Baghead2023'' is kicked off when Iris inherits The Queen's Head, a 400 year old pub in Berlin, from her estranged father Owen whom she has not seen since she was a child.
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* Some of the real-life examples for UnexpectedSuccessor apply here, in cases of royalty or nobility where the unexpected successor also gets land or a palace or wealth.
