I've seen photos of my mom's younger brother from when he was a kid (around 7-12 years old). Other than the hair color, I was virtually identical to him at that age. Nowadays, of course, there's obvious physical differences (for one, he's shorter than me), but still...

Old photos reveal that aside from the eyes, this troper's cousin is the spitting image of his grandfather at a similar age.

This troper's family joke that we have perfected cloning, due to the number of same-looking men in the family.

This troper looked identical to childhood photos of her mother in childhood, and now is almost identical to her grandmother at her age, only with slightly different coloration due to a different ethnic background (different European ethnicities, but still). As a result, this troper is not looking forward to hitting 30.

This troper only realized how closely he resembled his grandfather when his family used an old photograph ''at the funeral''. Unfortunately, all the guests realized it too.

This troper resembles HER paternal grandfather. This is quite frightening. Most women in her family and the majority of the men tend towards tall and sandy brunette- she got the genes to be stocky and to have hair so dark it's almost black, with the facial resemblance as well. There's a picture of him in Italian military uniform in the dining room. It's... a little creepy.

This troper is so much like his father (except for the green eyes and being a little taller) that more than once people mistook one for the other in any photograph we are not together. To make things worse, we also ''sound'' the same, specially on the phone.

This troper has the same problem with her mother. Immediate family can't tell us apart on the phone (worse yet, we can each false-positive voiceprint ID systems programmed for the other's voice), and we look, talk and act enough alike to be able to impersonate each other to strangers. More than once we've been mistaken for ''identical twins'' - which is freaky as hell once the funny wears off.

This troper has the same problem with his father and always gets called by his name by ''paternal relatives''!

Old pictures of this troper's grandfather are almost identical to current pictures of my cousin, aside from the eyes (and the color or lack thereof), making a literal case of Identical Grandson.

This troper's mother looks so much like her grandmother that her own children have assumed that photos of great-grandma are actually mom in 1910 garb. No matter that mom doesn't do garb. Identical granddaughter? On a related note, this troper has the exact same writing style and sense of humor as her ''great-great-great'' grandfather (a writer). Despite not discovering his writings until post-college. It's a little freaky to be reading his stuff and know what he's going to say next in a sort of reading-my-own-story sort of way.

This troper has seen a photo of his grandfather when he was just around my cousin's age. The two are identical except for their clothes.

This troper's half-brother (for a time, at least) looked like an overweight version of his father at the same age. The uncanny resemblance didn't break up until puberty when the half-brother's hair failed to straighten out like his father's.

This troper looks exactly like a younger version of her mother (slightly shorter, though, due to bad sleeping habits), including several shared mannerisms. She once saw a childhood photo of her mom and thought "I don't remember that..." before being informed that the photo was taken decades before she was born. (Even the clothing was something she'd believably wear, as far as she could tell.) Personality-wise, though, she has way more in common with her dad.

Family photos reveal that This Tropers patrilineal line has an amazing resemblance to one another. This Troper is the spitting image of his father, grandfather, great grandfather and a graduation portrait of his great-great grandfather.

This Troper once saw a picture of their father when he was about four and wondered why there was a black and white photo of their brother, until they noticed the clothes and hairstyle.

This troper's mother looks astonishingly like ''her'' father, to the point where a picture of him at age thirteen has been constantly mistaken for her...

In this troper's family, every now and then, "The Drake" will be born. It will be a light eyed, blonde, tall, attractive male out of freaking nowhere. This troper's Grandfather was one, and now his Brother is one.

This seems to happen frequently in this troper's family, particularly on her mother's side. Her sister looks just like her mother did when she was a teenager; her uncle looks just like her grandfather as a young man; and her cousin looks uncannily like a great-uncle she once found a photo of.

This troper's cousin looks identical to his great-grandfather at the same age. And in something of a subversion, this troper himself has been frequently told by family members that in terms of personality and mannerisms, is the exact same as his great-great-grandmother, though looks as starkly different as possible.

This troper looks so much like his father, that once when he was walking in his father's homeland of syria and as he walked past a restaraunt a complete stranger told him to stop and asked if he was related to [father's name]. It turned out to be this troper's dad's best friend from childhood.

This troper looks a lot like her father. In her defence, he father had really long hair. Yeah... that was kind of awkward.

This troper apparently shares several facial expressions with my deceased grandfather. I actually have to agree after seeing some pictures of him scowling while on Kitchen Patrol during his army days.

ThisTroper looks basically exactly like his father. In a weird coincidence, he also ended up looking a lot like his '''step'''-father, to the point that we were occasionally asked if we were siblings.

This troper is just a haircut away from looking like her grandfather's sister who died in the Holocaust. We only have one good picture of her, but the resemblance is definitely there.

There was an old picture of my grandfather that hung in this tropers room for the longest time. It was really creepy when I grew to look exactly like it.

This (male) troper has a weird resemblance...To his grandmother...

This troper's younger brother looks nearly identical to his grandfather at the same age.

This troper's younger sister is pretty much a clone of her mother. Looks, mannerisms and all.

This troper jokes that she's her mom's little carbon copy. Her siblings have asked if her mother's graduation pictures were of her during a particularly well-groomed moment. It's... a little creepy, actually.

This troper's relatives on my father's side once asked my parents where on earth they got a color picture of my grandfather in high school when looking at a photo of me.

This troper once came across an old photograph on a great-uncle who had died fifteen years before my birth. The resemblance was creepy enough to make my mother gasp when I showed it to her.

This troper and his sister are both adopted. When she was reunited with her birth family several years ago, her appearance shocked and staggered her siblings because of her uncanny resemblance to their late mother. (I've seen photographs -- it's spooky.)

The son of my paternal uncle looks just like a miniature version of my uncle.

This troper's mother has told her that, upon her birth, one of the first things her mother said was "It's my Grandma Opal!" That will probably be this troper's very first therapy bill in a few years.

This troper has been told that, once, her elderly great aunt got the shock of her life at a wedding because she spotted this troper's mother- who looked exactly like the aunt's sister who died at a young age. Rather creepy really.

This troper is usually told that she looks exactly like her mother, which is true to a certain extent. Then another relative told her she looked like one of her aunts, but not the aunt she thought she looked like (thought that resemblance was confirmed by an uncle). Her brother looked like another uncle for a long time and was once mistaken for one of that uncle's sons, but as he enters his later teens, he looks more like their father. And her sister looks like a combination of yet another aunt and one of their mother's cousins. Family resemblances are frighteningly rampant in their family.

At the age of 17, this troper looks like: His grandfather, his father, his cousin, his uncle, his great uncle, his second cousin, and his third cousin.(whom he hasn't seen in years, but is apparently the spitting image of)

This troper's cousin looks exactly like troper's paternal grandmother. We discovered this a few years ago when looking at said grandmother's high school pictures. I often wonder whether this is a source of joy or sorrow for my grandfather, considering they were divorced and said grandmother passed away.

This troper has more than just a physical resemblance to his Grandfather. He has effectively the same personality, likes, and dislikes. Not only that, he has an extremely strong physical resemblance to his other grandfather, as well.

This troper's family has an old photo of his grandmother as a child. Everyone assumed the little girl in the photo was his sister when they first saw it, including his sister!

This troper's older brother fits this trope perfectly; he's the exact physical double of our paternal grandfather at that age. As for this troper herself, she's been told all her life that she's a female duplicate of her father. It was only recently discovered that this troper is actually an exact double of a paternal ''great-great grandmother'' (chubbiness and all), which means that her father is actually a male duplicate of both his great grandmother and his daughter.

This Troper's sister has a tendency to insist that any pictures of our father at a young age is in fact an old picture of this Troper. He also has similar personality and physical traits that his paternal family also has. However, his mother's family insists that he bears a strong resemblance to his maternal cousins. His sister, meanwhile, looks a lot like our cousin, who is said to look a lot like our mother, who bears a shocking resemblance to several of her sisters...

This male troper is an example of this trope...except he's the spitting image of his grand''mother''.

This troper has been told that he looks uncannily like his paternal grandfather. The resemblance tapered off once my hair turned curly, but is still very noticeable. As a child however, the resemblance was so strong that my brothers used it to pick our grandfather out of his first grade class photo. For perspective, grandpa went to catholic school, and died before any of us were born. Using my resemblance to him, it took my brothers ten seconds to pick him out of a low quality black and white photo of sixty identically dressed first graders.

This troper's brother is like this, although he's decidedly more freckly than his grandfather. But hell, they even have the same names.

This troper looks a lot like his father, and has passed for him on several occasions.

This troper never saw a lot of pictures of his young grandfather until he was 14 (several years after his death), but the pictures confirmed what he was often told: he looks exactly like his grandfather did at that age.

This troper isn't identical to his grandpa. However, I do look exactly like my uncle, who committed suicide some time before I was born, though I'm not sure when and I'm kinda afraid to ask.

This troper has been told by older relatives that he bears a startling resemblance to relatives who passed on before WW2. And this is borne out by photgraphs. (Resembling relatives of the same gender is okay if creepy -- but when looking at a photograph of a deceased ''aunt'' and realizing that it looks ''just like me'' except for the shoulder-length hair and dress ... ''ewwww'' ...).

This troper has been told multiple times that he looks like his great-grand uncle. And his brother looks like his grandfather.

A few years after this troper's grandmother died, her mother found a picture of said grandmother in an old photo album. The photo had been taken when she was in high school. She looks just like this troper's cousin, down to the hairstyle.

Not only does this troper look a ''lot'' like her grandmother, but we both have the same multi-colored irises (brown, green, and hazel)... only ''reversed''.

This troper's brother looks just like his uncle when said uncle was a kid. It got hard to sort photos.

This troper gets constant comments from family members saying he looks just like his estranged grandfather. But looking at pictures of him, I don't really see the resemblance.

This troper looks almost identical to her mother at the same age (with slightly different hair, hers is black, mine's brown), and ''she'' looked almost identical to ''her'' mother...I wonder how far the chain of resemblance goes back...

The second son in each generation in this troper's family looks and acts uncannily like their father before them. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on who you ask, this troper is the first born son and thus does not follow the rule.

This Troper got mistaken for her MOTHER by a couple of the more senile inhabitants of her village... whether that's to her or her mother's disadvantage...

I once mistook an old photo of my father for a photo of myself that I didn't remember posing for and that was, for some reason, in black and white.

This troper has been approached by her grandmother's childhood friends - having never previously met this troper and, in one case, hadn't even known I existed - who made the connection on the resemblance alone.

This troper's mother just recently dug out a picture of his maternal grandfather, at about his age. He looks almost exactly like him, except this troper has glasses, and needs to shave.

This troper's grandfather displays a stunning resemblance to this troper's uncle who displays a stunning resemblance to his daughter (Face-wise. Not the baldnessor chin stubble).

This troper looks like a OppositeSexClone of a family member from the 1700s. This is especially apparent if you compare her childhood photos and portraits of the person at various ages. Even more disturbingly, it makes sense if you know that her parents are both descended from the person's great-grandfather. Multiple times each (Our family didn't get out of Scotland enough).

This troper used to look a lot like a great aunt who died in the holocaust, based on the only remaining picture we have of the family. My mother looks like another great aunt from the same picture who also died, or she did when she was that age. Unfortunately we don't know if we grew out of the resemblance or not since we only have one picture. Additionally, my younger brother looks a lot like my grnadfather, who was one of only two members of the family that survived.

This troper's sister claims she once found a picture of our (deceased) paternal grandmother in her teens, and was amazed by just how much she looked like her (save for the hairstyle, they were apparently identical). One of our aunts agrees, though our mom's a little more skeptical. This troper will withhold judgment until she finally gets to see the picture herself.

This troper has some family resemblance to his mother's side of the family than his father's. They say this troper looks like his grandfather. One of this troper's aunts almost resembles his mother. We have a black-and-white picture of his grandmother when she was young (perhaps in her late 20s) that looks like his mom. His mom had a brother in Mexico who died when he was young, this troper noticed he looks almost like his own brother (they both have the same "mad" expression on their faces)! However, this troper's said brother has more resemblance to his father's side of the family.

This troper bears a disturbing resemblance to her cousin a great number of times removed, who lived in the late 18th century. To make this even creepier, her father has grown to resemble the ancestor's father at the same age. To triple the creepy factor, this troper has come to realize that she and this person are not just similar in appearance, but in personality, mannerisms, and other habits. The resemblance is true to the point where complete strangers have asked if this troper is, in fact, a Stewart.

This troper's family seems to have a recurring theme where the girls are all nearly identical to their grandmothers.

At age twelve, ThisTroper found a picture of his mother when she was a preteen. His first thought was, "At what point was I dressed up like a Girl Scout?"

This troper is practically an opposite sex clone of her dad, except she has her mom's nose and is 5'5 to dad's 6'3.

Two tales: one I saw first hand, the other is a trope-heavy secondhand case that I read on a now-defunct forum. More like Identical Son in both cases, but even so...

One summer when I worked at a movie theater, a coworker was a very attractive early-twenties blonde woman. Once, her mother stopped by, and when I saw the two of them side by side, I thought I was looking at twins. Even their ''voices'' were identical, despite over twenty years difference in age.

Trope laden tale from a forum. Subject is on the unfortunate side of YoungerThanTheyLook, being in his late thirties and looking more like early fifties; Father is on the good side of OlderThanTheyLook, north of sixty and looking more like early fifties. Father was out of the country and needed some documents from a safe deposit box at the bank. Subject offers to do that - with very little disguise, only adding enough gray to his hair to hide the spots that haven't naturally turned yet. When he said his birth year was 1943, the teller handed over the key with no further challenge.

This Troper's nephew looks just like his father's baby pictures.

This Troper apparently looks like an OppositeSexClone of her father.

This Troper is the last one of what seems to be a long line of female clones. Old pictures of her grandmother and her mother could easily be of this Troper's mother and grandmother. In addition to that when my grandmother was young her uncle, not knowing who she was, told her that she looked just like his mother (her grandmother). And that's not to mention the resemblance between this Troper and ''her'' mother, which has been noted repetedly over her lifetime, I have been confused with her at least twice in person and many times over the phone; the best story however is when I was a kid and I was waiting for my parents in a movie theatre, me and my brother left and when my parents came my mother went to speak with the clerk who told her that I was gone before she could say anything recognizing her by our resemblance.

This troper found a picture once of her grandmother at age 17, and honestly thought for a second she'd found a picture of herself.

Some thing like that happened to this troper, he found a picture of his mother as a baby, she looks exactly like his little sister, now they don't.

Even this trope's title is accurate to ThisTroper. A photograph of my father's father has more than once been mistaken for a theme park "old timey" picture of me, and a photo of my father throwing my brother into the air (he was about a year old) has even confused ME at first glance

Holds true for ThisTroper with his uncle and grandfather. Take a picture of the grandfather from the 1940s and a picture of the uncle from the 1960s/1970s, you'll swear that they're the same man.

This troper looks a lot like his father did 20 years ago. To the point that recently when we came across a friend of my dad's from 20 years ago, because he was so drunk, he asked what I had been doing all these years, before realising that I was not my father.

This troper, her mother, and her grandmother are all almost identical, except for eye color.

And this troper's constantly told by family friends that he looks like a 30-years younger version of his father, just with shorter hair.

This troper was asked to scan and photo-shop a damaged family photo some 50 years old. Turns out that, as far as looks are concerned, my mother's side of the family routinely reincarnates into their children, grandchildren nieces and/or nephews.

This Troper's brother looks damn near identical to their maternal grandfather. The only difference? Said brother is blond while Grandpa is a brunette.

At my old school, my gym teacher looked exactly like an older version of my friend, her daughter, and I didn't notice it until the gym teacher told me about their relationship. I once joked that her father was a cloning machine.

This Troper looks exactly like her mother, especially after getting her hair cut (unknowingly) to the same length that her mother's hair was at that age.

This Troper never knew her grandfather as he died way before she was born, but when she found a picture of him she mistook him for her own father, his second son. It was almost ridiculous. I can only assume that my family has a DragonBallZ-esque hereditary pattern, and were my parents to have another boy he would continue the pattern.

This Troper(female) been always told that she is 'daddy's daughter'.But since she got older,she notices more resemblance to her maternal side of family.Once she wore blond wig (over brown hair) for cosplay,and,because her mother dyes hair blond,she freaked out when she approached mirror (She's a stern matriarch of her family).We even got simillar dots on our green eyes.

This Troper was at her Grandparent's 50th aniversary and they had a collage of old pictures. My first thought upon seeing an old picture of my uncle was to wonder where my brother had gotten 70's clothes.

This troper never sits in her mother's chair anymore, after her father leaned down to kiss her. He realized his error halfway there, but she will sit elsewhere now.

This troper apparently looks very similar to his dad's sister (I don't mean I look camp (which I don't), my dad's sister just looks very masculine (I remember being young and mistaking my aunt for a guy. To an extent, I have to keep reminding myself she isn't a guy)). I've never particularly noticed it myself: I think I look more like my grandfather. Coincidently, my grandfather was a twin and I almost was (my twin died in childbirth). My personality is so similar to my dad's (as well as my voice on the phone) that I can often tell when my dad is about to tell a joke (and, with amazing acuracy, guess which one). The only thing I seem to have inherited from my mother's family is asthma and a fairly laid back attitude to work.

Just remembered a fairly comedic one. This troper's sister, mother and cousin once removed look so similar that, when we went to Japan to visit the cousin once removed, everyone apparently stared at them like they were a set of Russian dolls. How is that amusing? At the time of the trip, I was 11, my mum was in her mid/late fourties, my sister was 9 and the cousin once removed was in her early/mid twenties.

This troper's cousin looks alarmingly like our great-uncle. Less odd since said great-uncle is almost never seen as he lives in another state.

This troper looks so much like her mother that she's mistaken for her by people who have known her mother for decades. However, little brother and mother were practically identical as infants, while this troper was very different-looking.

This troper doesn't look a whole lot like anyone in her immediate family, but is the spitting image of her aunt and two younger cousins.

In this troper's family I look nearly identical to my father when he was younger and his youngest brother's oldest son looks like me when I was little, my sister resembles my dad's oldest sisters when they were younger and my mom and her brother looked almost identically when they were younger.

I saw a photo of my grandma as a young woman, and I was shocked at how much she resembled my sister!

This troper hears from her father's side of the family ALL THE FREAKIN' TIME about how she looks like a female version of her Daddy.

This troper looks exactly like her paternal grandmother who died about nine months before she was born. Reincarnation is often joked about considering the both of them being intelligent, artistic, and the apperance thing.

This troper (as the grandson); I once brought a picture of my maternal grandfather in his military uniform to work with in a Photography class, and my instructor asked where I found the fancy costume. I had to explain that it wasn't actually me.

This troper could easily use his fathers passport photo from some thirty years ago and the only difference would be 70s fashion. Weirdly there's also a strong resemblance to an uncle ''on the other side of the family'' at the same age too.

When my my aunt was uploading old photos onto her computer her husband found a picture of my brother when he was really little and was confused about why he was wearing a dress. Turns out it was my mom as a kid who had a pixiecut.