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** And then there's Tsuna, who (thankfully) [[Ugly Guys Hot Daughter|doesn't look like his father]], and instead looks exactly like his ancestor, [[Bishonen|Vongola Primo]].
** {{spoiler|Uni}}, her mother and her [[Identical Grandson|grandmother]]. To the point of approaching [[Generation Xerox]].
* Mizuho from ''[[Otome wa Boku Nini Koishiteru]]'' looks exactly like ''his'' mother, in spite of being her ''son''.
** Joey Jones from ''[[Heroman]]'' has pretty much the same thing going for him, except it's not lampshaded.
* In ''[[Asatte no Houkou (Manga)|Asatte no Houkou]]'', Adult!Karada looks just like her mother Youko.
* ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' plays with this. Munakata looks nearly identical to his parents but his parents also look nearly identical to each other.
* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S (Anime)StrikerS|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S]]'', Subaru and Ginga both greatly resemble their deceased mother, Quint. All the more notable because they were adopted. {{spoiler|It is later revealed that they were produced through cloning based on Quint's genetic information}}.
* The [[No Name Given|Tomokane siblings]] in ''[[GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class]]'' do not only look alike-- [[media:TheTomokanes.jpg|Nodamiki one said the older Tomokane as a "bleached Tomokane-kun" in episode 12]]-- but both were voiced by [[Miyuki Sawashiro]], hence upgrading from [[Strong Family Resemblance]] to this. Even so, they are also [[Sibling Yin-Yang|quite different]]...
* In [[To Aru Majutsu no Index]], Mikoto Misaka not only already has her [[Cloning Blues|sisters]], but she's also [[Strong Family Resemblance|a splitting image]] of her [[Hot Mom]] Misuzu.
* All of the Nurse Joys and Officer Jennys resemble each other in ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]''. The only way you can distinguish them is by the symbol on their hats.
* The two Nitori siblings from ''[[Wandering Son]]'' look almost exactly like each other, especially when Shuuichi grew his hair into a [[Bob Haircut]] like his sister. At several points once Shu grows his hair out, you can mistake him for his sister (or the other way around). Shu's body has started to look different from his sister's due to puberty though, he's taller than her and more square.
* Usopp and Nico Robin of ''[[One Piece]]'' look very much like their parents when they got older. Usopp a combination of his mother and father's traits (long nose, tan skin, hair) and Robin a spitting image of her mother save for the black hair (her mother's is white).
* Due to having [[Only Six Faces]], [[DragonballDragon Ball|Goku's]] sons Gohan and Goten look exactly the same as he did at their respective ages. This is even [[Lampshaded]] in the first episode of [[Dragonball Z]]. When the characters first meet Gohan, Bulma comments that he looks just like Goku.
* In ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano]]'', both Elmer and Aging note that Luchino, while not quite the clone of Huey that [[Strong Family Resemblance|Chane, Liza, and Charon are]], still has a noticeable resemblance to him. This would not seem so ridiculous were Luchino not ''three hundred years removed'' from the man in question (an absurdity lampshaded by Luchino himself), proving once and for all that Huey has the most stubborn genes in the world.
* In [[Stitch! (Anime)|Stitch]], Lilo's daughter looks exactly like her as a little girl, including the exact same clothes.
 
 
== Comicbooks ==
* [[Playing Withwith a Trope|Inverted]]: ''Spider-Man'' and his clone Ben Reilly pretended to be cousins with an uncanny resemblance. Peter's wife Mary Jane came up with the explanation for their resemblance, specifically referring to ''The Patty Duke Show.''
* Played with in ''[[The Sandman]]'': Robert Gadling covers up his immortality by exploiting this. Since he doesn't age, he can [[My Grandson, Myself|pretend to be his own grandson or nephew]] and leave his property to himself.
** He actually mentions that this has gotten more difficult since the invention of photography. He has to conceal old family photographs to make sure nobody notices that he looks EXACTLY like his uncle or grandfather did fifty years ago.
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* One of the greatest and most successful examples of this trope is the black and white comedy film ''[[Kind Hearts and Coronets]]'' Alec Guiness plays all 8 members of the D'Ascoyne family.
* The Eddie Murphy remake of ''The Nutty Professor,'' where Murphy plays ''every'' member of the title character's family. Though at least in this case he's wearing fat suits to disguise pretty much all his features for the different roles.
** This aspect of the movie has become the default parody for cheesy comedians who specialise in broad humour. In [[30 Rock (TV)|30 Rock]], Tracy Jordan is the star of ''The Chunks'', and [[Tropic Thunder]] features a [[Real Trailer, Fake Movie|fake trailer]] for ''The Fatties 2'', starring Jack Black's character.
* In the ''[[Back to The Future]]'' [[Movies]], Michael J. Fox played not only hero Marty McFly, but Marty's two future children (Marty Jr. and Marlene), and his great-great-grandfather Seamus from Ireland. He also posed as Marty's great-grandfather William in a photograph. And Lea Thompson played both his mother and his ''paternal'' great-great-grandmother. The producers have since joked that McFly men are just genetically predisposed to be attracted to women who look like Lea Thompson.
** Biff Tannen's ancestor from the 1885 portion of the third film, Buford Tannen, was played by the same actor as he. This is taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the animated series, where ''every'' time they visit has an identical ancestor or descendant of Biff, always voiced by the same guy (who also played Biff and Buford in the movies.)
* ''[[Strange Brew]]'' briefly does this half-way through the movie. Dave Thomas didn't just play Doug, but his father (with [[Mel Blanc]] dubbing over his voice), and [[Rick Moranis]] didn't just play Bob, but his ''mother'' (with a woman dubbing over his voice)!
* A variation appears in ''[[The Mouse That Roared (Literature)|The Mouse That Roared]]''. In the opening sequence, we're introduced to the Grand Duchess, Prime Minister, and Tully Bascombe, all played by Peter Sellers. The narration explains that these disparate residents of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick look like each other because they are all descendants of the country's founder, who was ''literally'' the father of his country (the statue we see of him is clearly a likeness of Sellers).
* ''The Prisoner of Zenda''.
* In the sex comedy ''Live Nude Shakespeare,'' the same actress plays two identical sisters, one a sophisticated socialite, the other a backwoods bumpkin.
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* In most of [[Tyler Perry]]'s movies, Perry dresses in drag to play Madea, Madea's brother (not in drag but with a lot of makeup and a wig) and another character (no makeup), who is usually related to Madea.
* Rupert Everett as Carnaby Fritton and his sister Camilla, in the recent [[Re Boot]] of the ''[[St Trinian's]]'' movie series.
* Tia and Tamera Mowry as Sydney Donovan and Sydney's grandmother de-aged to seventeen in the Disney Channel movie [[Seventeen17 Again]].
* Jim Dale as Eli, Wild Billy, AND Jasper Bloodshy in ''[[Hot Lead and Cold Feet]]''.
* [[Adam Sandler]] plays both Jack and his twin sister Jill in ''[[Jack And Jill]]''.
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== Literature ==
* In the fifth book in [[LML. M. Montgomery]]'s ''[[Anne of Green Gables (Literature)|Anne of Green Gables]]'' series, ''Anne's House of Dreams'', a woman who hates her husband is left caring for him for years after he suffers brain damage. {{spoiler|Later he has an operation and recovers his memory--and turns out not to be her husband at all but her husband's cousin. The book explains that the cousins were double cousins, and one set of parents (either their mothers or fathers) were actually identical twins. The cousins looked very much alike, but were easy to tell apart if they were seen together. The wife had never met the cousin, however, and had only heard her husband mention him once. The book also admits that he had changed a lot after his accident and didn't look much like either he or his cousin used to.}}
* In ''The Prisoner of Zenda'', one of the kings of [[Ruritania]] has an affair with an English noblewoman, who bears his child. Several generations later, one of that child's descendants bears an uncanny resemblance to the current King of Ruritania, leading to an [[Emergency Impersonation]].
** In the 1979 comic film version with [[Peter Sellers]], he plays King Rudolf IV in the opening sequence; once that character dies, he plays both Rudolf V and Syd, the working-class chap who bears the uncanny resemblance. It is implied that Syd was the result of an affair Rudolf IV had.
* In ''The Secret History'', narrator Richard Papen is in love with Camilla, one half of a fraternal pair of twins. She and her twin, Charles, look virtually identical ... and when Richard finds out they're [[Brother-Sister Incest|a little too close]], he's titillated by the thought. Eew.
* The post-finale ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine Relaunch]]'' novels reveal that Gul Macet, played by Marc Alaimo in ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'', is a cousin of Alaimo's ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' character Gul Dukat.
* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Mort|Mort]]'', Princess Keli closely resembles her great-great-grandfather, despite being a pampered princess rather than a yurt-dwelling horse barbarian.
** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Last Hero|The Last Hero]]'', Paul Kidby's painting of High Priest Hughnon Ridcully is basically Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully with a better-trimmed beard and a [[Nice Hat|bishop's hat]].
*** Possibly justified, as their mannerisms and attitudes are so clearly parallel that there's a good chance they really are identical twins.
* In ''[[Nightside|Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth]]'', John Taylor resembles his older male relatives, so much so that {{spoiler|John's late father, resurrected to meet his grown son for the first time, points out John's resemblence to ''his'' father}}.
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* Harry and James Potter of the [[Harry Potter]] series.
** And Harry is rather disturbed when he learns that the resemblance was purely physical, as James was a [[Jerk Jock]], more like Malfoy than Harry, despite being on the good side.
* In the ''[[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Honor Harrington]]'' books, Michael Oversteegen greatly resembles his relative, the infamous Baron High Ridge. Their personalities could not be more different, though.
* Emmanuel from ''[[Malevil]]'' describes his Uncle Samuel, noting that in doing so he also describes himself.
* In the ''Ghosts of [[Fear Street]]'' book ''Horror Hotel Part 1,'' the protagonist discovers that he looks almost identical to a distant relative who's been dead for years. This is bad news, because it turns out that relative was a murderer and his victim's ghost [[Psychic-Assisted Suicide|is out for revenge]].
* An Uncanny Semi-Family Resemblence: The ancient Greek story ''Aethiopica'', King Hydaspes and Queen Persinna of Ethiopia cast out their infant daughter Chariclea because she is [[Chocolate Baby|white]]. After many adventures, it is revealed that she is, in fact, the perfect image of a picture of Andromeda that her mother had looked at while she conceived, and so Chariclea really is their daughter with "maternal impression" explaining her looks.
* In ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (Literaturenovel)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'', Honoria Glossop's cousin Heloise Pringle not only looks exactly like her but has the same exact personality, to the point where Bertie is severely creeped out.
* In [[Gene Stratton Porter]]'s ''[[Freckles (Literature)|Freckles]]'', he and his uncle resemble each other strongly.
{{quote| ''The likeness settled any doubt. It was Freckles over again, only older and well dressed.''}}
* In ''[[The Woman in White (Literature)|The Woman in White]]'', Laura and Anne, who resemble each other strongly, {{spoiler|turn out to be half-sisters}}.
 
 
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* On ''[[MASH|M*A*S*H]]'', Gary Burghoff once played Radar's mother in a home movie.
* Ally Larter on ''[[Heroes]]'' played Nikki Sanders, a hero with super strength and multiple personalities. After {{spoiler|Nikki was killed in season two}}, Larter went on to play {{spoiler|Tracy Strauss, who had the ability to freeze objects and who was apparently Nikki's twin sister. There was supposedly a third "twin", Barbara, but she has not been seen and it is unsure whether she has powers.}}
* ''[[Black AdderBlackadder]]'': Each of the four series featured a member of the Blackadder family in a different historical era, all played by Rowan Atkinson. Baldrick, Melchett and George were given the same treatment. Specifically, Edmund Blackadder's Scottish cousin MacAdder appeared in the episode "Duel and Duality".
* ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'': The half-Romulan Sela is the daughter of Tasha Yar, and an excuse to give Denise Crosby another role in the show.
** Also Brent Spiner playing Data, Lore, B4, ''and'' Dr. Soong. Justified in that the first three are androids, and Soong was their creator.
*** Spiner came back on ''Enterprise'' and played, yes, Dr. Soong's grandfather.
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* In the ''[[Diagnosis Murder]]'' episode "Inheritance of Death", [[Dick Van Dyke]] played most (if not all) of the elderly members of the Nash family.
* Freema Agyeman had a minor role as Adeola in the series 2 finale of ''[[Doctor Who]]''; when she was subsequently cast as the Doctor's new companion, Martha, a line of dialogue referenced her cousin Adeola.
* Elizabeth Montgomery as witchy cousins Samantha and Serena on ''[[Bewitched (TV)|Bewitched]]''.
* Actress Andrea Parker on ''[[The Pretender]]'' played both Miss Parker in real-time and her mother Catherine Parker in flashbacks.
* In ''[[The Man Fromfrom UNCLEU.N.C.L.E.]]'' first season episode "The Bow-Wow Affair", series regular Leo G. Carroll played both his regular role as U.N.C.L.E. chief Alexander Waverly, and a one-time role as Waverly's cousin, Quentin Lester Baldwin.
* Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant comment upon this trope in behind-the-scenes material for ''[[Extras]]'', musing on introducing a sister for Gervais' character in the show's sitcom-within-the-sitcom -- played by Gervais, with the only difference being an alternate pair of glasses. Indeed, the sister appeared in this manner in the ''Extras Christmas Special''.
* Jeannie and Sister Jeannie on ''[[I DreamofDream of Jeannie]]'' in what was essentially a straight-up lift of Samantha and Serena in ''Bewitched''.
** Since they are sisters and probably twins, the resemblance is not so uncanny.
* In ''[[The Persuaders]]'' episode "A Death in the Family", Roger Moore plays three members of his usual characters family including a woman. This is Lampshaded at the end when his co-star Tony Curtis' aunt arrives played by...Tony Curtis.
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** In the pilot episode, another actor played his father at a younger age, while a different young actor played Sam, with Scott Bakula's voice dubbed in whenever he spoke.
** Bakula also played his father in one scene in the episode "Promised Land" when Sam Leaped into someone else in his hometown.
* ''[[Married... Withwith Children]]'': Marcy <s>Rhoades</s> D'Arcy's cousin, Mandy. Ed O'Neill also played Al Bundy's father in a couple of dream sequences.
* The villain in "Reign of Terror", an episode of ''[[The Time Tunnel (TV)|The Time Tunnel]]'' set in the [[French Revolution]], is played by Whit Bissel, a series regular as General Kirk, the military head of the Time Tunnel project. Kirk is confused as his family is from Scotland, but eventually discovers there was a previously unknown French branch.
* ''[[A Different World]]'': Jasmine Guy playing Whitley Gilbert and Whitley's cousin Lisa.
* In the ''[[Dad's Army (TV)|Dads Army]]'' episode "My Brother And I", Captain Mainwaring's degenerate drunken brother Barry, also played by Arthur Lowe, makes an appearance.
* In ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' episode "Sergeant Emma", Alice goes out of town for a week and has her identical cousin Emma come to fill in for her. Emma is a retired Womens Army Corp sergeant who proceeds to run the Brady household like an Army barracks. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** The episode "You're Never Too Old" has Robert Reed and Florence Henderson as Mike and Carol's respective grandparents.
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* When Earl's sister, Pearl, visited on [[Dinosaurs]], it was played by the same full sized puppet only dressed as a girl. No one really saw the resemblance.
* Martin Lawrence in ''[[Martin]]'' playing his mother. And although not related, Martin looked a lot like his neighbor Shenaenae, Gina's brat neighbor Roscoe, Gina's coworker Bob from Accounting, Otis, Dragonfly Jones, Jerome, and Elroy.
* In ''[[Are You Being Served? (TV)|Are You Being Served]]'', John Inman, who regularly played Mr. Humphries, also portrayed his mother in a film.
* Played straight on ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'', where Iolaus had a look-alike cousin in two episodes. Inverted, however, with Kevin Todd Smith playing both Iphicles and Ares. Both are half-brothers to Hercules, but they aren't related to each other.
** Jodie Rimmer played Lilith on ''[[Spinoff Babies|Young Hercules]]'' and daughter Seska on ''Hercules''. [[Lampshaded]] by Seska referring to her mother as a "wild one" back in the day.
* Invoked in ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community (TV)/Recap/S1 E18 Basic Genealogy|Basic Genealogy]]:
{{quote| '''Annie:''' ''[about Abed's female cousin]'' "Does she look like you but with a wig and lipstick?"<br />
'''Abed:''' "No that's [[Halle Berry]]." }}
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== Theater ==
* [[Older Than Steam]]: Viola passing for her [[Half-Identical Twins|twin ''brother'' Sebastian]] in [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Twelfth Night]]''.
* There have been productions of ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatretheatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' in which the same person who plays Johanna also plays her mother Lucy in the flashbacks.
* In the Japanese tokusatsu series Sazer X, a flashback scene depicts the main character's grandfather as a young man. In flashback, the younger version of grandpa is played by the same actor who plays the main character.
* In the stage version of "[[Rocky Horror]]", Eddie and Dr. Scott are played by the same actor
* In Book-It Repertory Theatre's play of ''[[Sense and Sensibility (Literaturenovel)|Sense and Sensibility]]'', (non-twin) brothers Edward and Robert Ferrars were played by the same actor.
* In the play ''I Hate [[Shakespeare]]!'', the skit based on ''[[Hamlet]]'' contains these lines (along with a suggestion that the characters in question be played by the same actor):
{{quote| '''Hamlet:''' Ophelia! You're not dead!<br />
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== Video Games ==
* In the video game ''[[Day of the Tentacle]]'', you travel into the future and meet people who look suspiciously like Nurse Edna, Doctor Fred and Weird Ed, but they call themselves "Nurse Zedna," "Doctor Zed" and "Weird Zed." They're the descendants of the original ''[[Maniac Mansion]]'' characters.
* In what is part this trope and part [[Strong Family Resemblance]], in ''[[Back to Thethe Future: (VideoThe Game)|Back to the Future: The Video Game]]'', Marty runs into his grandfather, Artie McFly, who looks and sounds just like George McFly (both being based on Crispin Glover's performance in the film). Artie's father, William, is once again played by Michael J. Fox, who had previously portrayed him in a photo shown in the third film (even though Marty himself is actually voiced by AJ LoCascio). This leads one to believe that if the pattern continues, since Marty's son will end up looking like Michael J. Fox, his grandson and great-grandson will look like Crispin Glover, and so on. Also, Kid Tannen is basically just Biff with a moustache and zoot suit.
* In ''[[Suikoden V (Video Game)|Suikoden V]]'', Dragon Cavalry commander Rahal and his [[Cloudcuckoolander]] sister Rania look virtually identical, to the point that they'd fall under [[Half-Identical Twins]] if not for Rania being a year older. Not immediately obvious for most of the game, due to Rahal wearing battle armor and Rania being in civilian dress, but when the plot calls for Rahal to [[Wholesome Crossdresser|dress as a woman]] the ''only'' visible difference from his sister is that she wears glasses and he doesn't. Apparently they have a history of exploiting this for pranks.
 
 
== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[Endstone]]'', Jon comments on [http://endstone.net/2009/11/19/issue-2-webpage-28/ how uncanny it is, the way his daughter resembles his mother.]
* In the sprite comic ''194X'', [[Mega Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|Kalinka]] and [[Big Name Fan|Ran]] strongly resemble their WWII-era ancestors. It's hard to decide whether the fact that Ran is a ''robot'' makes this better or worse.
 
 
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* Played with on ''[[The Simpsons]]''. As noted in the DVD commentaries, many children characters wound up greatly resembling their parents. The most noteworthy example is Milhouse, who looks very much like both parents, who in turn look very much like each other. On the other hand, Ralph Wiggum differs in appearance from Chief Wiggum (oweing to the fact that their relationship came years after they were created). The main family characters (Lisa and Maggie aside) also greatly difference in appearance from each other, but Marge's mother looks like an older version of her. Grampa could also be taken as an older version of Homer, though flashbacks show he wasn't a look-alike.
** The Van Houtens' looks were [[Lampshaded]] at one point when the Simpsons asked if [[Brother-Sister Incest|they were long-lost siblings]].
* An [[Alternate Timeline]] of ''[[Ben 10 (Animation)|Ben 10]]'' had the main character fully grown in a now futurized Earth having a son named Kenny, who looks like a carbon copy of his 10 year old self. In addition, Ben's [[Evil Counterpart]] also has a son named Devlin Levin who looks like his younger self before the mutations with no mention as to whom he conceived him from.
* On ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]: The Series'', we're introduced to [[Big Good|Annabelle's]] evil cousin [[Big Bad|Belladonna]], who may as well be Annabelle's [[Evil Twin]] -- they look exactly alike, with the only real difference being the color of their fur (and the fact that Belladonna has bat wings, due to being a devil).
* ''Back to the Future: The Animated Series'' took this to ridiculous levels by having a Tannen in every timeline they go to, no matter what country. Taken [[Up to Eleven]] when they even encounter a T-rex Tannen in a timeline where the dinosaurs weren't wiped out.
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* In [[Big Finish]]'s ''[[Doctor Who]]'' audio dramas, India Fisher plays Eighth and Sixth Doctor companion Charley Pollard. Fisher also voiced Charley's sister Cissy in the ''Gallifrey'' spin-off series.
* Outside of their trademark costumes, Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo Marx bore an incredible resemblance to each other. They would even occasionally play each other's parts in their stage shows with no one the wiser.
* Actors Alan Hale (Senior) and Alan Hale (Junior). One played Little John in ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood (Filmfilm)|The Adventures of Robin Hood]]'', the other is famed as the Skipper on ''[[GilligansGilligan's Island]]''. Without looking at the date of their films there is no way to tell them apart.
* Back in [[The Nineties]], a [[Running Gag|running joke]] was that the public appearances of [[Michael Jackson]] were actually his sister LaToya Jackson.
* In the Bouguereau painting Charity, it is not possible to tell which baby is Yeshua and which one is Yochanan, since he painted them to look identical, even though they are cousins and 6 months apart. In most other paintings of them, he not only makes the age difference apparent, but has them wear different colored clothing and have different colored hair.
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