Hollywood Genetics/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character looks wildly different from their biological family.
 * Straight:: Alice is a green-eyed redhead, Bob is a blue-eyed blond, and daughter Carol has black hair and dark eyes.
 * Exaggerated: Carol also has dark skin, while the rest of her family is pale.
 * Downplayed: ???
 * Justified: Carol looks like she does because she is a mutant, or a Reincarnation of someone with that appearance.
 * Inverted: Carol is a Patchwork Kid-- she has blond hair with red streaks and one blue eye and one green eye.
 * Strong Family Resemblance
 * Subverted: It turns out that Alice had an affair with black-haired, dark-eyed Dan around the time of Carol's conception...
 * Double Subverted: ... but a DNA test is done and Bob is her biological father.
 * Parodied: ???
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: Carol is a realistic combination of her parents, and even has a few traits unique to herself.
 * Enforced: The directors needed to hire big star celebrities, but couldn't get them to resemble their in character relatives.
 * Lampshaded: "I'm Carol, Bob and Alice's daughter." "You sure of that? "
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: ???
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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