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This is a conflict between parent and child where the child must supplant the parent, or must extricate themself from the parent's shadow and find their own place in the world. This archetype shares some themes with both the Messianic Archetype (rebirth and renewal) and The Trickster (out with the old, in with the new). While it's not a societal Rite of Passage, many characters describe personally experiencing it as a key moment in becoming an adult. Other tropes that relate to parent-child conflict include Calling the Old Man Out, Hates Their Parent, Archnemesis Dad, Evil Matriarch, and Antagonistic Offspring. If it takes the form of murder, it's Patricide or Matricide. Parent-child conflict alone, though, is not this trope. This is specifically about conflict that centers around the child trying to supersede or replace their parent. If there's a throne involved, it overlaps with The Coup and The Evil Prince. Contrast Turning Into Your Parent, when a child ends up inhabiting their parent's role unintentionally. Also contrast "Well Done, Son" Guy who wants their parent's approval. Appears in Classical Mythology as the Titanomachy, making it at least Older Than Feudalism. |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Both Lien-Da and her brother Kragok plotted to assassinate their father Luger and secure their "birth rights" as Grandmasters of the Dark Legion. While Lien-Da would be the one to carry out said assassination, her weapon malfunctioned and exploded due to Kragok's sabotage, leaving her in a coma and allowing Kragok take the position of Grandmaster for himself. | |
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Borgia: Cesare spends the first season in the shadow of his father and elder brother. After his brother dies, Cesare finally has a chance to come into his own. In a Large Ham moment, he vows to supplant his father. | |
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In Alien: Covenant, David demonstrates a much darker side and clearly harbors resentment towards his flawed and mortal creator from the moment he was activated. So much so that he thinks it better that humans and Engineers were all wiped out so that a Superior Species can replace them. David's open transition into an Evilutionary Biologist further implies that he was deliberately setting up Weyland to be killed in the preceding film. | |
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Alien: This is a running theme in the last two Ridley Scott-helmed films. Androids were created by humans to serve them. Humans were apparently created by the Engineers, an alien race with even more advanced technology. They are all hostile or resentful towards the next and previous generation. In Prometheus, When the ailing Peter Weyland is about to meet one of the Engineers, David, one of the first androids created by Weyland-Yutani, remarks "Doesn't everyone want their parents dead?" The Engineer isn't very happy about meeting human beings and murders any that he encounters. In Alien: Covenant, David demonstrates a much darker side and clearly harbors resentment towards his flawed and mortal creator from the moment he was activated. So much so that he thinks it better that humans and Engineers were all wiped out so that a Superior Species can replace them. David's open transition into an Evilutionary Biologist further implies that he was deliberately setting up Weyland to be killed in the preceding film. |
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Vikings: While Ragnar loves his sons and none of them ever overthrow him, he is haunted by the thought that one day his kids could be more successful than him. Considering that his brother has betrayed him more than once in a usually-failed attempt to get more personal glory, it's perhaps borne out of a fear of betrayal. | |
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The Many Saints of Newark: Dickie murders his father and then proceeds to sleep with his father's widow. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes had a Running Gag where Calvin would present their Dad with an "opinion poll" they'd conducted of all children in the household (meaning, just Calvin), and say Dad better start addressing their concerns if he wants to keep his job as Dad. When Calvin's Dad explains that being their father isn't an elected position, and they can't be voted out no matter what the polls say, the lesson Calvin takes from this: "So violent revolution is the only hope for change?" | |
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Final Fantasy VII: Rufus, the son of President Shinra and vice-president of Shinra Inc., was scheming to usurp his father and take over his company. Although by the time he shows up most of the work is already done for him, thanks to Sephiroth killing his father. | |
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Thor: The Dark World: Loki overthrows his father — whom he now loathes after being disowned and nearly executed — usurping the Asgardian throne in the process. | |
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Dollanganger Series: Cathy very much wants to supplant her mother Corrine—her power over men, and her poise. But the desire to be like her mother conflicts with her fear of being like her mother. The conflict is one of the most foundational things about Cathy, at the very core of her character. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Fire Lord Ozai had his father Azulon assassinated in order to secure his position as the new Fire Lord. | |
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The Crumpets: Lil' One's main goal in the series is to overshadow both his father and his older siblings so he can get his mother's attention. Sometimes he even tries to get rid of Pa, like in the first episode "Ransoming Dad". Though by Teen Crumpets where he's Out of Focus, his beef towards Pa seems to have gone away. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Cersei Lannister greatly admires her father Tywin, but she wants to supersede him anyways. At his funeral, she thinks to herself: Downplayed with Arianne Martell. She believes that her father, Prince Doran, is planning to strip her of her birthright as firstborn and give it to her younger brother Quentyn. Because of this, she plans to overthrow him by trying to crown Princess Myrcella Baratheon as Queen of the Seven Kingdoms over her younger brother Tommen, which Arianne believes will set a precedent allowing her to replace her father. However, she does not intend to harm her father or brother and plans to give them comfortable — albeit powerless — lives at the Water Gardens. There's also a subversion in the sense that — on an emotional level — this whole thing is more of a ploy to get her father's attention that it is to overthrow him. |
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Hi-Fi RUSH: Kale Vandalay uses mind control technology to force his mother to step down as head of the family mega corporation and proceeds to turn it from a philanthropic, forward thinking company into a corrupt, profit-driven hellhole. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: In the finale of Season 1, Disa tries to convince her husband, prince Durin, to usurp his father's throne. | |
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The Godzilla vs. Kong official novelization explicitly confirms that Ren Serizawa sees killing Godzilla, the very Titan his father worshipped and gave his life to save, as his way of supplanting his father. | |
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Ben 10: Omniverse: Attea, the Princess of the Incurseans, plans on (and eventually succeeds in) usurping her father, Emperor Milleous. | |
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Crooked House: Philip and Roger both harbour a deep resentment towards their father Aristide, and wish to supplant him as head of the family. For his part, Aristide took great pleasure in keeping his sons solidly under his thumb. | |
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Chronicles of the Kencyrath: The Gnasher killed his own father to become King of the Wood, and now kills his own children to prevent them doing the same to him. | |
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In Prometheus, When the ailing Peter Weyland is about to meet one of the Engineers, David, one of the first androids created by Weyland-Yutani, remarks "Doesn't everyone want their parents dead?" The Engineer isn't very happy about meeting human beings and murders any that he encounters. | |
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