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This is a work that traces the evolution of a single family through multiple (usually three) generations, covering a long enough period of time that you get to see more than one generation at the same age or stage of life. Often it follows the pattern of Three Successful Generations: The first-generation protagonist is someone who has begun with a "fresh slate" (for instance, an immigrant to a new homeland). The second-generation protagonist builds on the first's foundations and establishes the family's position in the new world (The daughter who becomes entirely assimilated in the host culture and goes on to have a successful career). The third-generation protagonist reaps the benefits as a full-fledged member of society. (The grandson who ends up learning to appreciate their ancestral heritage). With only two generations, the third-generation protagonist is usually the one omitted; works which follow this pattern through more than three generations might have multiple second-generation-type (assimilated) protagonists, or they might alternate between second- and third-generation-type protagonists. Another frequent theme is that the first- and third-generation characters have more in common with each other than either does with the second-generation character. Often they both react in the same way to her, or (if the first-generation character is still alive when the third-generation character is around) form a bond that excludes her. This is not to say that this trope applies to only three generations. The stories can span decades, hundreds or even thousands of years, all following the same family. Note that properly speaking this only applies to unified works; having a Changing of the Guard sequel in which we meet Generation Xerox isn't enough. It's primarily a literary trope, though it also appears in theater and film; you might be able to see less-planned versions of it in long-running Soap Operas or possibly even Comic Books (but with the latter, it's far more common for the first-generation character to live well beyond when the third-generation would reach adulthood). Compare An Immigrant's Tale. Also compare Three Successful Generations. May end up producing a Tangled Family Tree if the family is especially prolific, and most or all of the characters are plot-important. The Super-Trope is Dashed Plot Line, where years or decades are skipped multiple times in order to tell a multigenerational story in less time than it takes to live one. |
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Not the whole book, but the first short story at the beginning of The Overstory follows this format, tracing the story of immigrant Jorgen Hoel and his descendants over generations, all paralleled by life of the chestnut tree that grows on his farm. | |
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The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. It only covers the first two generations of four sets of mothers and daughters, but they all follow the pattern. | |
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The Silmarillion traces the rise and fall of multiple families of both the Elves and Men. The one most central to the plot is that of Feanor, the Noldor who forged the Silmarils to hold the light of the Two Trees, and his sons' ultimately fruitless quest to avenge the Silmarils' theft and recover the jewels for themselves. | |
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Crusader Kings puts you in control of a medieval European dynasty and gives you 400 years to shape them according to your whims. This also applies, to a lesser degree, to the franchise's sister series, Europa Universalis and Victoria: An Empire Under The Sun. |
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Taken: The series follows the Keys, Crawford and Clarke families over the course of four generations and 58 years from 1944 to 2002. | |
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Casteel Series has shades of this, but because she only wrote 2 books before she died, the scrope is limited, only really dealing with two generations of a family. | |
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Ōoku: The Inner Chambers follows the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan in an Alternate History scenario where an endemic disease called the Red Face Pox breaks out in the 17th century and kills 80% of Japan's men, forcing the Tokugawa clan (as well as most of the noble families) to become matrilinear with a female Shogun. The story begins with the eighth Shogun Yoshimune, at a point where the Red Face Pox has long since become a fact of life, though through an early flashback we learn of how the Tokugawa family has fared ever since the third Shogun Iemitsu became the first woman to take the position. The story looks to be ending with the fifteenth and last Shogun Yoshinobu, following the eradication of the Red Face Pox that has restored a normal gender ratio to Japan. | |
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Naruto and Boruto form a generational epic, with Naruto following the titular ninja and showing the many great feats he accomplishes on his journey to be Hokage, while Boruto follows his son, and an entire new generation of ninja, some of which are the children of the previous cast of characters seen in Naruto. Naruto depicts the ninja world as far more brutal and full of conflict between nations and clans, while Boruto takes place in a time of peace ushered in by the protagonists of Naruto, thought it's implied this peace ultimately won't last. | |
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The 1999 film Sunshine (1999) tells the story of the Hungarian Jewish Sonnenschein family, with each generation living in a time of political upheaval. The first generation has to deal with World War I and its ramifications, the second generation with World War II and the third generation lives through communist Hungary. | |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez traces the history of the Buendia family over several generations, from the settlement of their home village to its eventual destruction. | |
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Encantadia kicks-off with a war that resulted in the animosity between the previous generations and continuous on as the main characters themselves have children. | |
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The Rocky movies follow Rocky Balboa all the way from his days as a boxing champion in the 70s and 80s, to his days as a retired fighter mentoring the son of Apollo Creed, his deceased rival and friend. The movies also explore his relationship with his own son, Rocky Jr. | |
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The DC Animated Universe is a generational saga, especially in regards to Batman, and to a lesser extent the Justice League. Batman: The Animated Series, Superman, and Justice League show the original generation with Bruce Wayne as Batman, and the founding members of the League. Batman Beyond showcases the next generation of heroes and villains, with Terry McGinnis as Bruce's successor and biological son, and a future Justice League with legacy characters, some older heroes who are still active (like Superman and Big Barda), and one character who turns out to be the son of two former League members. There are also a team of 30th century heroes inspired by Superman known as the Legion Of Superheroes, who make appearances in Superman and Justice League. | |
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The House on the Lagoon: narrator Isabel Monfort tells the story of the family she married into, from Buenaventura, his marriage to Rebecca, their children Quintin, Ignacio, Patria and Libertad, and their grandchildren Willie and Manuel. | |
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The Dolls of New Albion: A Steampunk Opera follows the McAlistair family through four generations; one for each act. | |
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Snow White loses her daughter, her husband, and her whole world as the evil queen sends them "someplace horrible" - the real world. Emma, Snow White's long-lost daughter, is street smart and resents her biological parents for her abandonment. It takes her own long-lost son Henry to bring her back to the family that she never knew and the idea of the enchanted world from which they came. | |
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This also applies, to a lesser degree, to the franchise's sister series, Europa Universalis and Victoria: An Empire Under The Sun. | |
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Downplayed in Mnemosyne: members of the Maeno family are important, but not the main characters throughout the series. Koki is the most prominent male character in the first half, who establishes the family's long-term relationship with the immortals Rin and Mimi. Koki's son Teruki enjoys, unwittingly at first, the many benefits of having immortal friends and eventually goes on to become a successful businessman. Finally, Teruki's daughter Mishio enjoys all the upsides of having a rich dad and being friends with immortals, and ultimately fulfills the Maeno's destiny of saving Rin. In a subversion, it is revealed that the Maeno family goes way further back than Koki, being descended from Rin's millenia-old lover and protector. | |
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Inuyasha and its sequel Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon can be considered this as their main protagonists are Half-Human Hybrids from a powerful Dog Demon family spanning across two generations. Inuyasha follows the adventures and character development of half-demon Inuyasha, during which he crosses paths with his half-brother Sesshomaru whom he has a tense relationship with and that both brothers are looking for ways to surpass their powerful late father. On the other hand, Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon focuses on Towa and Setsuna, the twin daughters of Sesshomaru, and Moroha who is the daughter of Inuyasha, as the three of them go on a journey together to discover their past and identities. | |
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Tolkien's Legendarium: The Silmarillion traces the rise and fall of multiple families of both the Elves and Men. The one most central to the plot is that of Feanor, the Noldor who forged the Silmarils to hold the light of the Two Trees, and his sons' ultimately fruitless quest to avenge the Silmarils' theft and recover the jewels for themselves. Taken together, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are a tale of how a single hobbit family brought about the downfall of the Evil Overlord Sauron, with the first generation recovering the lost One Ring and the second generation proving instrumental in its destruction. |
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Timothy Zahn's The Cobra Trilogy follows three generations of the Moreau family as they first colonize, then defend, their new homeworld of Aventine. | |
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Clade follows a family dealing with Global Warming over about six decades. The book begins before Adam becomes a father, and ends with his grandson Noah in his thirties. | |
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Assassin's Creed : Forsaken: In concert with Assassin's Creed III and Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, the Kenways form a classic example. Grandfather Edward creates the family fortune, and rises from Rags to Riches and discovers the Assassin ideology which he raises his son in. But Haytham ends up assimilated into the Templars, with his son Connor reclaiming the family's Assassin lineage. | |
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The Godfather features Don Vito Corleone, his four children and several (mostly unnamed) grandchildren. Part II takes this further with its flashback storyline. Not only do we see the same characters from the first film (including those who are dead), but we also see Vito's mother as well as know her and his father and brother's ultimate fates. | |
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Metal Gear: The series takes place over a fifty year period with two of the three playable characters being father and son. | |
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Roots by Alex Haley is an extended example, going through seven generations, starting in Africa and moving through slavery in America. | |
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Yellowstone follows at least two generations of the Dutton family with the spinoffs 1883 and 1923, as well as the main series being set nearly 100 years later. | |
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Like the book by Alex Haley, the miniseries Roots and its sequel Roots: The Next Generations tell the story of the struggles of Kunta Kinte and his descendants over the course of seven generations, culminating in Haley himself. The two miniseries take place from 1750 to 1967. | |
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The movie American Pop covers four generations and their relationship to popular music in America. | |
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InCryptid spans at least four generations of the Price-Healy family (though only three have had their stories told so far, and only the youngest generation are viewpoint characters in the novels). The Jonathan and Frances short stories take place from the 1920s to the 1940s, their daughter Alice and her husband Thomas have theirs in the 1950s, and Alice's grandchildren (the current generation) have their books and short stories set in the 2010s. | |
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Dollanganger Series — the only one series Andrews finished before her death — begins with Cathy Dollanganger (Foxworth) and her brothers and sister. Woven into the first two novels are the back-stories of her parents and grandparents. The third novel in the series takes place from the point of view of her sons, Bart and Jory. The fourth novel continues the story of Cathy and her children. The ghostwritten last novel fills in the gaps as a prequel which tells the story of Cathy's grandparents and how they came to disown their daughter. It's just about as complicated and soap opera-ish as it sounds. | |
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides follows this pattern for a family of Greek immigrants to the Detroit area. | |
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The story of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE takes place over the course of a century during a "One Hundred Year War" and follows Flit (grandfather), Asemu (son) and Kio (grandson) Asuno, as each of them participate in said war. | |
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Quantum Leap touches on this with the 3-parter Trilogy, where Sam helps a woman at three different points in her life: when she's a child, Sam leaps into her father; when she's a young adult, he leaps into her fiancé; and when she's a grown woman with her own daughter, he leaps into the lawyer defending her against murder charges. | |
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In The Sims franchise: A popular Self-Imposed Challenge for the later Sims games is the "Legacy Challenge" first invented in the Sims 2 era by EA Forum member Pinstar. The core rules are to play through 10 generations of Sims, with one child from each generation serving as the heir to the next, and to earn bonus points for factors like total net worth or lifetime achievements fulfilled. There are many variations, with additional challenges like limiting heirs to males or femas, associating each generation with a certain color, or having each heir rise to the top of their career. For the very hardcore there's the Alphabet legacy, which is 26 generations long, one for each letter of the alphabet. In The Sims 4, it became an in-game challange, as the players gets achievements if they play a family for certain numbers of generations. |
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A popular game concept for Vampire: The Masquerade is a generational campaign, beginning with a group of vampires in one time period and then switching to their childer (and grandchilder, and so forth) as time progresses. Because of the mechanic of Generation (where the further removed a vampire is from Caine, the first vampire, the weaker they generally are), the power level tends to scale down over each Time Skip. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender and its Sequel Series The Legend of Korra. Both focus on the latest reincarnation of a God in Human Form, the Avatar, with flashbacks to events from the lives of prior incarnations. In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang seeks the guidance of Avatars that came before him many times throughout the story and the setting of Korra sees a seventy-year Time Skip, where many of Avatar's main protagonists have had Spin Off Spring and have either aged considerably or passed away. The Legend of Korra focuses on the legacy the main characters left after the original series, as well as Korra being guided by Aang and Katara's middle-aged son Tenzin on her path to fulfill her role as the next Avatar. | |
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The Legend of Zelda zig zags this somewhat. It's about as common for a game's Link to be a direct ancestor/descendant of another one (such as Ocarina Of Time's Link and Twilight Princess's) as it is for them to be unrelated biologically but connected through reincarnation (as is the case in The Wind Waker). The titular Zelda however is always a relative of the Zelda preceding her in the timeline. | |
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Massive Chalice has the generations of heroes as an actual gameplay mechanic. The game's driving conflict between humanity and the demons spans multiple generations, and it is up to the player to make sure the current heroes retire in time and have kids who're even stronger than their ancestors to ultimately win the war. | |
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Agarest Senki: At the beginning of the game, the player character swears a vow that he and his descendants will serve as Spirit Vessels to contain and ultimately defeat an ancient evil. You then get to play as these descendants as the game progresses. | |
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This is a primary gameplay mechanic of Rogue Legacy. Whenever a player character dies, you can choose one of three randomly generated descendants to continue their ancestor's legacy. And the final boss is the very first of these ancestors, rendering the entire quest a Rogue's Legacy. | |
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In the saga of The Metabarons, the entire history of the Metabarons is told from the start of the dynasty to the last Metabaron. | |
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How the West Was Won follows the Prescott family and the next three generations of their descendants from 1839 to 1889 as they move increasingly further west to the Pacific Ocean. | |
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This Is Us focus on the story of the Pearson family, jumping between different time periods covering the parents Jack and Rebecca when they meet and fall in love, their children as they grow up, and their own grandchildren in the year 2030. | |
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In The Sims 4, it became an in-game challange, as the players gets achievements if they play a family for certain numbers of generations. | |
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Star Trek loosely fits this trope if you consider that most of the shows center around Starfleet crews (often aboard ships named Enterprise) exploring new unknowns. Deep Space Nine, for its part, was a bit of a black sheep in this family, instead focusing on political intrigue and galactic conflict centering around a space station. | |
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Romancing SaGa 2 chronicles a roughly 500-year lineage of emperors. SaGa Frontier 2 also lets players follow the multiple generations of the Knights family. | |
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I, Claudius tells the story of four generations of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the first imperial dynasty of The Roman Empire, from 24 BCE to 54 CE. It focuses on the intrique, machinations and conflicts that took place during the reigns of the first four emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius himself. After his death in the final episode "Old King Log", Claudius is succeeded by his great-nephew and adopted son Nero, the fifth and last Julio-Claudian emperor who ruled Rome for almost 14 years until his own death in 68 CE. | |
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Albedo: Erma Felna EDF (and many of its sequels and side-stories) is a quite complex example, due to the complex nature of its plot: It follows the lives of the Felna family and their role on many of the wars that plagged their setting, during a period of more than 250 years. If we include non-canonical side-stories featuring characters technically related with the main cast as well, the whole saga is basically one hell of a story lasting half of a millenium. | |
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The Back to the Future films focus on Marty McFly's adventures travelling through time and meeting and interacting with his parents in 1955, his future children in the year 2015 and his great-great-grandparents in 1885. | |
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Accelerando by Charles Stross; in this case, the "immigration" that occurs is into The Singularity. | |
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When put together, The Lion King (1994) and The Lion King II: Simba's Pride are one. The first film is about a young lion cub named Simba going on a long journey of self-discovery and rising up to lead the serengeti after the murder of his father, King Mufasa. The sequel focuses on the forbidden romance between his daughter Kiara (the future queen) and the young, reluctant successor of his deceased Arch-Enemy. | |
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Most adaptations of the DCU, Post-Crisis (and even AFTER the New 52 - just to show how iconic the idea has become), make the DCU out to be a THREE Generational Saga: The First Age of Heroes, made up of WWII-era heroes like Jay Garrick (the FIRST Flash), Alan Scott (the first Green Lantern of Earth and the only magic-based GL), Dr. Fate, etc.; the Second Age, being the primary Age of the DCU and featuring Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Barry Allen & then Wally West as the Flashes, Hal Jordan, John Stewart, and Guy Gardner as the Green Lanterns of Earth, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter etc.; and the Third Age, that being of the Nightwing & the Robins, the Titans in all their incarnations, Superboy, Supergirl, Batgirl, etc. | |
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Crypt Of The Necrodancer has this trope in lore and gameplay, even if the latter plays it in the reverse order: after the death of her mother Melody, Cadence goes to the titular Crypt to find her father Dorian who went into it to find a Golden Lute which could resurrect his wife. After Cadence frees him from his Dead Ringer curse and defeats the titular NecroDancer, Melody's campaign starts: she defeats the master of the Crypt a second time and resurrects her own mother Aria. The latter happens to be the protagonist of the last campaign and explores the Crypt from bottom to top to destroy the Lute. | |
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Fire & Blood covers several generations of the Targaryen dynasty, starting with Aegon the Conqueror, as he and his sister-queens conquer most of Westeros, and proceeding for a hundred years through to Aegon III, and the six Targaryen kings between them. The book itself is part of a fictional document, which apparently covers several more kings after that, going up to Jaehaerys II. | |
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The The DCU and Marvel Universe can be thought of as two great, big generational sagas (especially in regards to team titles like Teen Titans or Justice League for the former, and the many X-Men or Avengers titles for the latter). Most adaptations of the DCU, Post-Crisis (and even AFTER the New 52 - just to show how iconic the idea has become), make the DCU out to be a THREE Generational Saga: The First Age of Heroes, made up of WWII-era heroes like Jay Garrick (the FIRST Flash), Alan Scott (the first Green Lantern of Earth and the only magic-based GL), Dr. Fate, etc.; the Second Age, being the primary Age of the DCU and featuring Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Barry Allen & then Wally West as the Flashes, Hal Jordan, John Stewart, and Guy Gardner as the Green Lanterns of Earth, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter etc.; and the Third Age, that being of the Nightwing & the Robins, the Titans in all their incarnations, Superboy, Supergirl, Batgirl, etc. The Incredible Hulk: Interestingly, generation is a bit of a fluid thing here. The first generation is Bruce Banner, Jen Walters, and their supporting casts, then we get the second generation with Skaar and Lyra, the Hulk's son and daughter, as well as members of the first generation becoming Hulks themselves. Spider-Man: The multiverse of spider-themed heroes, including ones from futures in which Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson have a child who goes on to become a hero like their father. There's also Miles Morales, Peter's protege whose being set up as the next Spider-Man, and Miguel O'Hara, a Spider-Man from the year 2099, where Peter Parker is hailed as one of Earth's greatest heroes. The web-head's come far since his humble beginnings. Fantastic Four, whenever it leans into the Future Foundation, and the importance of Reed and Sue's children Franklin and Valeria. There's also Doctor Doom's adopted son, Kristoff Vernard, who has led Latveria in his father's place before. Jonathan Hickman's run is a good example of this trope. |
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The Bible has plenty of examples, one of the most famous is the line of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph detailed and chronicled in the Book of Genesis. | |
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Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, which is divided into two halves which follow a different generation. The first half follows Sigurd and his attempts to save his friend only to be manipulated into a plot to revive an evil dragon. The second half deals with the children of the first half and their attempts to stop said evil dragon. | |
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Bicentennial Man: "A robot's 200-year journey to become an ordinary man". | |
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Semiosis follows the growth of a human colony on the extrasolar planet Pax over seven generations, starting with its founding. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The first six parts follow generation after generation of the Joestar family, starting all the way back in 1880 with nobleman Jonathan Joestar. Part 2 follows Jonathan's grandson Joseph Joestar in 1938. Part 3 follows Joseph's grandson Jotaro Kujo in 1989, followed by Part 4 with Joseph's illegitimate son Josuke Higashikata (who is also Jotaro's uncle despite being 12 years younger) in 1999. Then there's Part 5 with Giorno Giovanna (who is Jonathan's biological son via rather complicated circumstances) in 2001, and finally Part 6 with Jotaro's daughter Jolyne Cujoh in 2011. A theme of inherited legacy is present throughout the series. The seventh through ninth parts follow their own version of the Joestar family, who also parallel one or more Part 1-6 Joestars, starting with Part 7 following American ex-horse jockey Johnny Joestar in 1880. Part 8, set in 2010, explores both the Joestars and the related Higashikata family through a mix of cross-generational flashbacks and adopted protagonist Josuke Higashikata’snote Very much not Part 4’s Josuke, though named for him out-of-universe attempts to discover just who he is and what legacy he’s part of. Finally, Part 9 follows two great-great grandchildren of Johnny and cousins of Yoshikage Kira, Jodionote Parallel to Giorno, as a fellow criminal Joestar with a name and traits tied to Dio and Dragona Joestar, at some point after 2019. |
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The Full Matilda discusses four generations of African-American servants living in Washington, D.C. and their interactions with Matilda. The first generation is Matilda's father Jacob (only partially covered) becoming a servant during the early 20th century, the second generation discusses the Sibling Rivalry between Matilda and her brother when they start a catering company from The Roaring '20s to The '50s, the third generation is Martin's sons David and Rodrick (who starts a food distribution company) growing up in The '60s, and the fourth is Rodrick's biracial son who is Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life during the Turn of the Millennium. | |
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Mulawin vs. Ravena is a Sequel Series to Mulawin with the protagonist being the son of the original series' Official Couple. The characters are mostly descendants of characters from the original, with The Lancer even being the former Kid Sidekick of The Hero's Action Mom. | |
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Spider-Man: The multiverse of spider-themed heroes, including ones from futures in which Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson have a child who goes on to become a hero like their father. There's also Miles Morales, Peter's protege whose being set up as the next Spider-Man, and Miguel O'Hara, a Spider-Man from the year 2099, where Peter Parker is hailed as one of Earth's greatest heroes. The web-head's come far since his humble beginnings. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: Interestingly, generation is a bit of a fluid thing here. The first generation is Bruce Banner, Jen Walters, and their supporting casts, then we get the second generation with Skaar and Lyra, the Hulk's son and daughter, as well as members of the first generation becoming Hulks themselves. | |
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The Edge Chronicles revolves primarily around generations of the Verginix family. Only two stories in the series aren't about members of the Verginix family; The Stone Pilot and The Blooding of Rufus Filatine. | |
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Young Justice is based around this very premise: Barry Allen, his nephew Wally West, and his grandson from the future Bart Allen. Sportsmaster, his daughters Cheshire and Artemis, and Cheshire's infant daughter Lian. Superboy is the clone of Superman and Lex Luthor. Icicle Senior and his son Icicle Junior. Black Manta and his son Aqualad. |
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Elemental — War of Magic: Start out with a sovereign, end up with an army fielded out of your pants. | |
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House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones concern different generations of House Targaryen. | |
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In the Total War series, the player is ususally given control of the ruling family of a particular empire over a period of decades (Shogun, Empire) or centuries (Medieval, Rome) and dedicates that time to carving out an empire. | |
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In an unusual twist, the successive series of Blackadder follow (non-consecutive) generations of the Blackadder dynasty. | |
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The Philippine television drama Ikaw Lamang revolves around two generations of the Hidalgo family of sugar barons. | |
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Baccano!. Although the majority of the cast are immortal, some aren't, and since the story takes place over several decades some of them eventually pass away, and their children (or their children's children) make appearances and play important roles later on in the series. | |
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Phantasy Star III starts with Prince Rhys and ends up following his son, and then his grandson. Depending on who each character marries, the plot can take some curious turns. | |
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Dragon Ball starts off as the adventures of a very strong, monkey-tailed little boy named Goku. As the series goes on, he and his friends age and have children, and some of those children fight alongside them. The second half of the story puts a significant amount of focus on his son, Gohan, and his development as a hero, and by the end Goku is a grandfather. It's also a bit of a subversion; while we do see the offspring of various characters, when all is said and done, Goku is still the main focus of the story. | |
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�gua de Barrela, written by Eliana Alves Cruz, is a semi-autobiographical book that follows an Afro-Brazilian family for five generations, starting out as slaves captured from Africa and finishing with them free and occupying places formerly denied to them in Brazilian society. | |
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Warrior Cats. The first series follows Fireheart as he joins the Clan and eventually becomes leader. The second series is from his children's point of view; they consider themselves Clanborn and don't really think much about their non-Clan roots. The third and fourth series are from his grandchildren's point of view, and their kittypet heritage is rarely if ever mentioned. | |
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The novel Fall on Your Knees tells the story of the Piper family and the terrible secrets that shaped their lives. The narrative is focused mainly on James Piper and his three daughters (each of whom gets a turn as the Point-of-View-Character), but it includes segments which involve family members spanning at least four generations (if one includes James' immigrant father-in-law). It's difficult to be precise about how many generations are actually present without going into the squicky details of the plot. | |
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Hellraiser: Bloodline follows three non-consecutive generations of the LeMarchand/Merchant family: Phillip LeMarchand in 1796 France, John Merchant in 1996 Manhattan, and Paul Merchant on a space station in 2127. | |
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Once Upon a Time: Snow White loses her daughter, her husband, and her whole world as the evil queen sends them "someplace horrible" - the real world. Emma, Snow White's long-lost daughter, is street smart and resents her biological parents for her abandonment. It takes her own long-lost son Henry to bring her back to the family that she never knew and the idea of the enchanted world from which they came. Later, it gets complicated, dealing with at least four generations through Henry's father's line (Peter Pan, Rumplestiltskin, Baelfire, Henry), three through his mother (Snow White, Emma Swan, Henry), and four through his adoptive mother (King Xavier, Cora (and the elder Henry), Regina Mills, Henry)... unless you count the fact that Henry's adoptive mother is also Henry's grandmother's stepmother, in which case you can draw a straight line through six named characters (Xavier, Cora, Regina, Snow, Emma, Henry), of which five are major heroes or villains. |
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The AlternateHistory.com story Malê Rising revolves on how alternate ideologies act upon the African continent and the wider world over a period of almost 200 years. At the heart of the tale is the Abacar family, whose first generation led a slave revolt which secured their passage - along with their fellow slaves - back to West Africa. From this, the first Abacar promulgated new from of Islamic liberation theology, which became a cause to uphold for his descendants against a backdrop of colonialism, nationalism, and post-Westphalianism. | |
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Tekken follows the feuding Mishima family and the numerous iterations of the eponymous fighting tournament they sponsor, starting with father and son Heihachi and Kazuya, and later adding Kazuya's son Jin and Heihachi's dad Jinpachi to the already bubbling crucible. Step siblings, illegitimate children, in-laws and family pets get in on the fun too. Many of the side characters have children who end up competing too. | |
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Dragon Valor follows one of two paths, depending on whether the first Jerkass protagonist marries the common girl or the princess, and traces his lineage for four generations. | |
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The Family Tree Series chronicles the lives of four generations of a family that is based in the seaside town of Lewisport, Maine through the maternal line as they each come of age. The final book intertwines all four generations—Abby, Dana, Francie, and Georgie and a fifth generation in Abby's mother Nell, as revealed through the diaries she kept hidden in their first home. | |
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What Remains of Edith Finch is about the misfortunes of a family over 4 generations (or 6, depending on how you look at it). The 0th generation is Odin Finch, who tries to take his family to America to escape the "family curse" that keeps killing them all, only to die just before reaching shore. His daughter Edith (Edie) lives through the entire story. The 2nd generation are her children Molly, Barbara, Calvin, Sam, and Walter, the 3rd generation are Sam's children Dawn, Gus, and Gregory, and finally the 4th generation are Dawn's children Lewis, Milton, and Edith Jr. (the main protagonist). The whole story is framed by Edith's son, Christopher, reading his mother's journal, making him the 5th generation. | |
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Possibly the world's shortest? ''Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here!" in which the store is floundering until Lolly the Third calls in the media. | |
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Fantastic Four, whenever it leans into the Future Foundation, and the importance of Reed and Sue's children Franklin and Valeria. There's also Doctor Doom's adopted son, Kristoff Vernard, who has led Latveria in his father's place before. Jonathan Hickman's run is a good example of this trope. | |
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The Cleopatras covers the last five generations of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt from 145 BCE to 30 BCE. As the title would suggest, it focuses most of its attention on the six Cleopatras who ruled during that time, culminating in the death of the most famous of them, Cleopatra VII, and Egypt becoming a province of The Roman Empire. | |
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Kinnikuman and its sequel Ultimate Muscle, the latter of which focuses on the main character's son following in his father's footsteps as a wrestler and being trained by the same guy who trained him. | |
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Assassin's Creed has the character Desmond Miles exploring his ancestors lives through "the Animus" - a device that allows one to view their Genetic Memory - for the first six main games in the series. Later instalments do not have familial links to each other or character in the modern day, explained as advances in Animus technology allowing anyone to view the genetic memories after they had been scanned. | |
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Taken together, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are a tale of how a single hobbit family brought about the downfall of the Evil Overlord Sauron, with the first generation recovering the lost One Ring and the second generation proving instrumental in its destruction. | |
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The Kentucky Cycle: This play follows three Kentucky families over 200 years of Appalachian history. There's the Feuding Families the Bowens and Talberts, one of whom (the Bowens) was started by an Irish immigrant, and who spend nearly a century fighting over the same valley. After the Bowens wind up losing the valley to a mining company they wind up fighting over unionization. Then there's the Biggs family, which forms the local African-American community and began when Bowen patriarch Michael Bowen raped his slave Sallie. | |
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Age of Empires III the original game's campaign mode is framed as Amelia Black telling the story of her great-great-grandfather Morgan Black in the first chapter, her grandfather John Black in the second, and her own story in the third. The Warchiefs expansion adds the tales of her father Nathaniel and her son Chayton. | |
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Cobra Kai is a continuation of The Karate Kid film series. While original series protagonist Daniel LaRusso and his first rival Johnny Lawrence are still the main focus, the story focuses on their descendants (Sam for Daniel, Robby for Johnny) and students (Miguel, Hawk, Demetri, Tory) just as much as they pass on the legacy of their respective dojos while also keeping the mistakes of the past from haunting them. | |
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Grendel is an interesting example in that it doesn't focus so much on a proper family as it does an identity. The titular Grendel is a Legacy Character, with the title, costume, and general philosophy being passed down through the ages and each progressive arc focusing on a different Grendel. Another notable twist is that each generation in the saga is a different kind of Genre Throwback; it starts as a pulpy Film Noir, transitions into a Cyberpunk Dystopia, then into a post-apocalyptic Feudal Future, and finally into a Planetary Romance space epic. | |
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