This troper saw his baby photo. For some reason, it was in black and white (it should be in color). It wasn't mine, it was my father's. Also, my parents (but not me) feel like I look like my father did at my age.

This troper's father lost his hearing in his right ear in the army. His mother lost her hearing in her right ear to an accident with a screwdriver. His sister's right ear hearing was lost to an ear infection. This troper is losing hearing in his right ear ''for no explicable reason.''

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And again: This troper, his father, and ''his'' father, all of whom are the eldest sons in their family, all have scars under their right eyebrows from a deep cut sustained before the age of five.

This troper saw a wedding that had similarities to the bride's father's: The groom's mother did not attend. A replacement member of the groom's part was needed due to vehicle accidents, though neither erstwhile party member had been at fault. (The replacement member at the daughter's wedding was the son of the replacement member at the father's wedding.) Both men had been married and divorced before the respective weddings and both men raised two sons.

This editor's family seems to have a tendency of breaking left wrists.

I sure hope you are not left-handed.

This troper has a scar under his right eye he received on a day of sledding, in the same spot his father has a dent in his skull from a sledding accident.

This troper and his father are both very suspicious of old food for entirely different reasons (He lost his mother early on, and his family didn't do a good job of keeping expired food out of the kitchen. I've got no sense of smell and can't easily tell when food has gone off). You might say I just followed my father's example, but I didn't notice him doing it until well into my 20s.

Looking through this troper's family tree: the first ancestor on it is a man named John O'Brien. He married a lady named Mary, maiden name unknown, and the two had one daughter, also named Mary. She grew up and married a man named John O'Brien (same last name, no immediate relation), and they had two children: John and Mary O'Brien. Again. John and Mary the Third each had the typical Irish Catholic legion-brood of children (Mary 3 again managed to marry a guy whose last name was O'Brien, hilariously); due to namings and marriages, that generation contained no less than ''seven'' John and/or Mary O'Briens. No subsequent generation has had less than five. This may be less 'Generation Xerox' and more 'the Irish have no originality', but ''still.''

This troper's mother, grandmother and great-grandmother all married the boys they went to their first dance with. (The troper and her sister have avoided this, though.)

This troper, his mother, his mother's mother, his mother's mother's father, his mother's mother's father's mother, and his mother's mother's father's mother's father all share the same birthday. Coincidentally, the same people share the same death anniversary (barring this troper, his mother and grandmother, who are all still alive).

This troper looks so much like her mother that they have been mistaken for twins, and other members of the family cannot tell their childhood pictures apart.

This Troper's family have the same 'problem'. Extending to the fact that all of her father's family look extremely alike as well.

This troper begs you to state that no one on either side of your family is named "Joy" or "Jenny". Even if you ''all'' are. Frankly, ESPECIALLY if you all are.

This troper, her parents, her sister, and (I think) her brother all have scars under their chins.

This troper took up DungeonsAndDragons a few months ago. He later discovered that his uncle, who also played the game, chose the same starting class (Ranger) and played with the father of one member of this troper's gaming group.

Subverted (?) by this troper: his scars are almost totally unlike his father's, but are related to a partly genetic illness.

This troper, her mother and grandmother all share the same astrological sign. (Aquarius.) Her great-grandmother was just a couple of weeks too early to fit the pattern. Grandmother, mom and I all also have unisex first names (Lou, Renee, Shelby) and middle names derived from an older family member. (Grandmother is named for her mother's aunt, mom is named for her mother's aunt, I am named for my grandmother.) We're all also a little crazy, but this is incidental.

This troper and his father can not be told apart over the phone by close family members. Oddly enough a family friend from Hong-Kong can tell us apart.

I've got the same issue with my brother and I!! Strange, ain't it!

Same with me. Though people can tell me and my dad's voice in real life apart since we don't sound anything alike, but on the phone I've confused many a people even family into thinking I was my dad. I've also confused some people thinking I was my karate instructor as well.

Same with me and my sister. ''Nobody'' can tell us apart on the phone. Close friends, family members, her ''girlfriend'' can't tell us apart.

Here's an odd example: While family members and friends can't tell my dad and I apart over the phone, we aren't genetically related at all... and he's 72 years old to boot. It's complicated, but he married my grandma ages ago; the two of them ended up taking me in as their adopted son when my bio-mom just plain vanished.

This troper's family has a strange quirk on his mother's side: If there are two consecutive boys born, the second will have bad eyesight requiring glasses.

This troper and her younger sister both married men with the last initial of K who were born on the same day, 14 years apart. They and their third sister all have the same first and middle initials, so since the two married sisters took their husbands' surnames, they once again have identical monograms.

This troper once confused her brother and mother at a distance. Yes, you read that right. D:

This troper keeps being mistaken for her mother when her mother had long hair.

At least three generations of this troper's paternal line have lucked out of incredibly dangerous (and in several cases completely suicidal) battles. His father's draft number was one off from the last draft number selected, helping him not go to Vietnam. His grandfather was to be dispatched to one of the units that fought the Battle of Pusan Perimeter, but spoke French (Quebecois ancestry) and ended up teaching Parisians how to fix helicopters in Illinois. His great-grandfather managed TWICE, once by being on the American side of the border when the Canadians were rounding up boys to go to Vimy Ridge, and once by getting shot in the leg and taken to a field hospital behind the lines shortly before the Battle of the Somme. We can't reckon far beyond that, except that apparently someone with the family name died in the Parti Patriotes uprising in Quebec in the 1830s...so presumably the string of near-misses would start AFTER that man.

This troper is training to be an engineering technologist. His brothers older brother is a scientist and his younger brother has an affinity for computers. His father is a cathodic engineer and his mother a computer scientist. His paternal grandfather was a millwright, his father was a logger, which involved fixing a lot of equipment. His maternal grandfather fixed airplanes and was a warrant officer in the Army Air Corps. See a pattern? Sad thing is that it goes back farther, probably all the way back to Scotland and Ireland, but at that point it involves events from before the War of Northern Aggression and on the internet those things are better left unsaid.

DaNuke is a telecommunications engineering student. His father and uncle are chemical engineers. His grandfather was studying chemical engineering but dropped after his father got killed. Both he and his father and uncle went to karate when they were young. Also, ''everyone'' in his immediate family is near-sighted.

This troper's entire nuclear family is also nearsighted, to various degrees: this troper's BlindWithoutEm, her mother wears glasses or contacts all the time but in a weaker prescription, and her father and sister basically just need reading glasses.

This troper is mistaken for his ''half''-brother, who is ''14'' years older. Still waiting for the explanation on that one.

This troper's mother became a nurse and them used that career to finance her teaching studies, and ended running both career at same time. This troper's sister became a Occupational Therapist (a medical career related with Fisiotherapy), and is paying her teaching studies with the work from her first career; she plans to run both careers at same time, probably in the same area. The catch? ''This troper'' is the one whose looks and intellectual interests are the most similar to her mother's, and stills she avoided any potential career in either medical or pedagogical areas since them disturbed her so much.

This troper, his uncle, cousin, father and paternal grandmother have all been hit by cars and gotten away more or less unscathed. The running joke is that as we are clearly not MadeOfIron we must be genetically lucky.

This troper is told he looks a lot like his uncle. It's true- I was shown a picture of him and my mom, and I said "It's me and mom. Wait a minute..." I noticed ''she'' looked much younger than possible (she ages rather gracefully).

This troper's left knee is slightly wonky (although still fully operational), for no solid reason of which she is aware; this mirrors her father's trouble with his left knee, which was originally caused by a karate injury.

This troper's mother has a dimple in her right cheek, and no dimple in her left cheek. I had no dimples until a misstep getting on the school bus caused me to slam face first into the top step. Now I, too, have a dimple in my right cheek.

A friend of this troper maintains that this troper's family looks more like a family of clones than anyone else he has met. Of course we don't see it

This troper's sister has a boyfriend who shares the same name with my brother. His sister shares my sister's name, and her boyfriend has my brother's name. Creepy.

Used to date a lovely girl with the same name as my sister and my cousin. Conversation about the girlfriend had to be ''carefully'' done. "You did WHAT to your sister?"

This editor read the above comment and started humming Aerosmith.

In addition to the more usual aspects of the trope (this troper looks (and acts, despite not having had much contact with him) like a gender-reversed carbon copy of her father; her sister is a carbon copy of her mother), this troper's family fits in that all of the first-born sons on her mother's side have nearly identical scars in the same place. The reason? There's a genetic quirk in the lineage where, at the age of 1 month, all firstborn sons have their pyloric sphincters seal off, making them unable to digest food. It's fatal without surgery, which is where the scars come from.

A very faintly Squick example, but every female on the mother's side of this troper's family going back at least four generations has irregular periods. There is no medical explanation, no genetic abnormalities, and it occurs even if the females are living states apart. This troper made several visits to a doctor about the issue, thinking there was some sort of serious problem, until her mother finally revealed this.

This Troper is looking to avert this. She got into an argument with her asshole father in high school during an ugly divorce when it came to light that both her parents were having affairs. Dad threw it in her face that "it was genetic!" and that "you're gonna cheat too!". I haven't yet, fuckface.

This troper's mother, her mother, her mother and possibly her mother, were all psychologists who married engineers (though very different kinds). The pattern ends here though, as this troper is male and has no sisters.

Clearly you must become an engineer and marry a psychologist.

This troper's father ''accurately predicted'' he would have a daughter with his wife's looks and his personality. He just didn't realize that with a geek for a wife, his nerdy side would get a bigger boost than his jock side...

This troper has a scar between his shoulder blades from a minor surgery. His brother has a tattoo of a knife in his back at the same spot.

This troper's grandfather is named Thomas and married a woman named Cathrine, Cathy for short. His son, (my Dad) was named for him and married a woman named Kathrine, Kathy for short. My younger brother was named for my Dad and Grandfather and ''is friends with'' a girl named Cathrine, Cathy for short. They're both in elementry school and there hasn't been any childhood marriage promises but it's still funny.

Reversed. This troper broke her foot in a silly sitcom-esque accident. Two years later my father went to the same podiatrist who had treated me, complaining of foot pains. X-rays revealed stress fractures in the same place I have broken my foot.

Averted with this Troper, who never had to get his appendix removed. All the males on his dad's side of the family needed to get it done at 13, but this Troper never had any actual problems with his appendix.

Same here, except mine got their appendixes removed around college age.

One member of each generation of this troper's family has wound up schizophrenic. Unfortunately, I'm the one who got it in mine. My mother and I also broke almost the exact same spot in our backs in our late teens.

I don't look quite like my mother, but we act exactly alike when we were our ages. We both cuss a lot, were a little... adventurous (I go down dirt roads with my boyfriend, in a Jeep-- She's gone down the same EXACT dirt roads on a Jeep or Motorcycle with my dad, that came to light recently), we're both sucker hearts and we both love the arts and painting and drawing. We act a bit alike, I think...

Hopefully not revealed by meeting each other on said dirt roads.

On my mother's side of the family, there's a trend that if there are two children, one will be a complete delinquent/weirdo/nutty while the other will be a down-to-earth/well-behaved/sane person. If there's three kids, the third will be a middle-ground jerk. This has not failed so far, and has put this troper off having kids.

During the 80's, my father almost considered graduating early from Fairfax High School because they were cutting the honors programs due to a budget crisis, particularly AP Calc and AP English Language and Comp. Guess what classes his daughter signed up for and were cut due to a budget crises?

This troper, while listening to his mother clear out old voice messages on her phone, did not recognize his own voice in the message. He was later told that his voice on the phone sounds exactly like his grandfather when he was younger, including his method of greeting people over the phone. Looking at pictures, you find that this troper and his grandfather are practically the spitting image of one another.

Tovarishch's name is Caesar, his father's name also Caesar and so is his father's name. And the same name has been going on for 8 generations. More uncannily, every Caesar in the family has proficience in mathematics and a shared interest in aeronautics.

This troper, her younger sister, and her mother's all look freakishly similar in our respective baby/kid pictures

This troper had a benign tumor removed from between his shoulders, leaving a two-inch scar. His brother had a tattoo done of a knife plunging into his back at the same spot. We live in different states.

Coming from my mother's mother's side is two versions of this: First is me, my mother, her mother, her mother, and her mother all have...ahem, You Know What I Mean}} been nicely endowed. The smallest cup for a long time had been mine at a C until for some reason, exercising had developed them into a D, like the others. We are all our mother's second daughters. Needless to say, this troper's boyfriends tend to be very excited for the day they are invited to family gatherings. Also on this note, all of the following, aside from yours truly, who has been rendered effectively infertile for a long time, have had exclusively daughters.

This troper's father used to troll Usenet and IRC chatrooms with a college friend of his before the internet was the internet. Now, this troper and the son of that college friend - this started before ever having heard of their exploits, mind - do basically the exact same thing.

Everyone in my family has a scar on their elbow. Only one person has it on the wrong arm, whereas everyone else has it on their left, though mine is probably the most pathetic.

My younger brother and I look and act so alike, the only reason people can tell us apart is because he has a habit of wearing a trilby; I once saw a picture of my father that looked like me with a 'tache (never growing one of those now); and only my mother can tell the difference between my brother, my father, my grandfather, two of my uncles, and myself - despite major differences in accent.

This troper's mother saw a picture of him in drag, and at first thought it was a picture of my aunt until my sister explained it. Apparently I look exactly like she did at that age when I'm wearing a dress.

Happens a lot in This troper's family, since a long line of us have freakishly light eyes and even those that don't almost all have dark hair. These two things together, however, are what have generated a whole clusterfuck of GenerationXerox from this Troper's great-grandmother - it's easier to name off her female descendants that ''don't'' look identical to her.

I was born into a family of mostly girls, only three guys being related to me by blood(Father, Grandfather, Now late cousin). So when my cousin got married and had a son, he acted a lot like me strangely. Then a few years later her younger sister got a son. Both boys act a lot like me. One sits around and watches TV a lot. The other is clumsy and broke his left wrist. Years earlier I broke my left elbow and later in the year my cousin broke his wrist, I fell and broke mine.

For the longest time, my mother swore that I look like my father when he was young. She happened to be looking at some old pictures of herself when she was younger and skinnier one day, though, and she realized that I in fact look a lot like ''her''. This male troper was not half as amused as she was.

When I was a kid I looked ''exactly'' the same as my dad did when he was a kid -- and we've got the photos to prove it. It wasn't until puberty that I started to look a bit like my mum... but I still mostly look like my dad.

This troper's mother has a picture of herself and her sister at a young age. The first time this troper saw it, she said "is that me and [my (male) cousin]? I don't remember taking this picture..."

My (maternal) grandpa (Papa) and his late older brother looked a lot a like, it's just that there's a bit of a large age gap between them. But when Papa, my great-uncle (Uncle Barry) and the rest of the family where down in Mazatlan, Uncle Barry got mistaken for my Papa's dad! Resently, though, I was looking through some photos and have found a strong resemblence between all of the men on that side of the family. I mean, you could really tell that my papa and his brothers were Great Granddad's sons.

I had this happen several times in my family: I was mistaken for my dad once on an old photo, my sister apparently has an uncanny resemblance to my late grandmother in her younger days and My father in law has pictures that could just as well my brother in law.

Avoidance of this trope is this troper's main motivation to exercise and make at least an attempt to eat healthy. All the women on her father's side of the family become morbidly obese as they get older, and to a lesser extent, all the women on her mother's side of the family as well. I'm not exactly stick-thin myself, and I know I can't outsmart my genetics, but I can at least ''try'' to do better. The women in my family complain about being fat, but maybe it would be better if they didn't eat a shit-ton of fattening foods, sit on their asses and ''never do anything!''

There are several examples in this Troper's family. For example, zie and hir father have matching scars on their chins from swimming accidents when they were ten. Furthermore, this Troper also resembles a more distant family member-- not just in physical appearance, but in our hobbies, relationship styles, health problems, and food preferences(this Troper was not aware of these details until recently).

This troper's older brother looks exactly like a younger version of her grandfather.

This Troper's Grandfather has/d blond hair and glasses due to nearsightness, Troper's Mother has blond hair and nearsightness, Troper has blond hair and nearsightedness I see a patten here. And I look a lot like my mother when she was a kid to boot.

This just runs rampant in my family. This troper looks a lot more like his uncle (his mother's brother) than he looks like his father. She says it's because our family's genes are like the borg; we assimilate everything. Also, we all have the same high pain tolerance and fast healing. I discovered recently that all the men on my mother's side of the family and my father, at some point or another have had several years of martial arts training, and that my mother and I have both witnessed people having strokes when we were twenty.

This Troper's mother's side of the family has a history of strange religious birthmarks. I have a birthmark of a cross on my chest. My mother has a birthmark of a cross on her stomach, right below her navel. My grandfather has the birthmark of ''the Jesus fish'' on his back. He also happens to be a carpenter.

This troper doesn't believe he bears a great resemblance to his father. However, when perfectly shaven and staring hard enough, he does see a slight resemblance to his female cousin. This cousin happens to be the daughter of his father's identical twin.

This troper's parents were (awkwardly) mistaken for brother and sister when they were dating; they do look eerily alike. Due to this, my brother and I are often told that we look just like one of our parents did when they were younger. It doesn't help that, personality-wise, I have been described by my mother as 'your father, but with boobs.'

Despite being the opposite sex, everyone says that I look just like my father. I do, but even wierder is that we both have identical scars under out right eyes, we both failed out of Honors Chemistry classes in high school due to issues at home, and my first girlfriend was the daughter of his first girlfriend.

MysteryOtaku and her friend's circa 1945 relatives were friends. There was no other apparent connections after that.

Recently, a cousin (or was it niece? I forget) was born who looks like a copy of her father, with the only differences being gender, her chin, and her ears.

I think that I can trump you all nwith the fact that ALL THE MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY ON BOTH SIDES REQUIRE GLASSES TO SEE AND/OR READ. Personally, I'm nearsighted.

Nearsightedness can be inherited. That or both sides of your family just need to take better care with their eyes...

My dad's personality has always bugged me; his perfectionism, his control-freak compulsions, his need to always be right, his anal retentiveness. I think that I was about 20 when I realized that I had all of those exact same traits. We both need glasses, too. Also, he works as a writer, and I've recently realized that that's what I want to be (okay, maybe that's a stretch; he's a journalist and I want to be an author/essayist).

Any of my dad's old friends find it hilarious when they see me again all grown up. I'm just like my father, though I bump heads with him quite a bit because of this(he ironically didn't get along with his father at all for the same reasons I'll list). An old friend said I was "just like a Jon Junior except in the body of a teenage girl".

While we're not related biologically, my Dad and I are so similar, its enough to convince people we share blood ties even when we look nothing alike. We're both socially awkward, yet loud and talkative when with familiar company. We both have the same quirky humour, and have near identical tastes in films, books and games. (I'm not shamed to admit we're both hardcore gamers). Heck, people even say our ''laughs'' sound the same.

Both my girlfriend and I are kuudere, so were my mother and father.

I once saw a picture of my dad, when he was 8 years old. I could've SWORN it was me at that age.(by the way, I am a quite tomboyish girl). Apparently, I didn't only inherit his snarkiness, fiery temper and {{Kuudere}}/{{Tsundere}}-ness.

Apparently I have a lot of my grandmother's personality, according to my mom (on her side), and sounded like my mom when I fell over and say 'oof' by my younger brothers.

This troper never met her father, who died before she was born, but has nonetheless apparently looks, talks, and acts like a female-counterpart xerox of him. The similarities are strong enough that my paternal grandmother (who has, let's say... an interesting set of beliefs) decided that her dead son's soul had been reincarnated into his newborn child. Many of the shows and bands I like have turned out to have been my dad's favourites when he was my age, which freaks out my mother to no end. (The worst was when I told my mom about this "awesome Doctor Who show I can't believe I never saw it before!" only to find out that, surprise!, my dad was obsessed with it too, and the reason she hadn't shown it to me before was because she'd been afraid I'd get hooked on it the same way and force her through a repeat of the same tacky sci-fi marathons my dad made her watch. D'oh!) Go back to Main/GenerationXerox. Son says: Go back to Main/GenerationXerox. Grandson says: Go back to Main/GenerationXerox.