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Unexpected Inheritance

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108 feature instances
104 referencing feature instances

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Unexpected Inheritance	label	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance	page	UnexpectedInheritance
Unexpected Inheritance	comment	News of a death in the family is rarely well received, especially when it's someone who cares very deeply for you. So deeply, in fact, that they have left you with a massive inheritance; but apparently not so much that they ever bothered to meet you in person. This benevolent but reclusive relative you couldn't pick out of a police lineup (and trust us, this is something of a Plot Point) is usually an aunt or uncle, grandparent, great-aunt or uncle, or related so remotely as to give a team of forensic genealogists weeks of work to find a direct connection. The inheritance might be wads of cash, a lovely piece of land, and/or a set of family memorabilia. Depending on whether or not your relative was a benevolent Anonymous Benefactor is whether the money is tainted with the blood of innocents, the land contains a Haunted House built on an Indian Burial Ground, and whether the family memorabilia is something beneficial like an Ancestral Weapon or Protective Charm, or a higly cursed Evil Weapon or Artifact of Death. In the middle of the road, the inheritance may be a Secret Legacy they are duty bound to follow, but which is nonetheless Blessed with Suck. Sometimes, there's a problematic condition you have to fulfill before receiving the inheritance. One thing that tends to crop up is that the dead relative was alive all along and was pretending to be dead in order to pass on their inheritance. In these cases, the inheritor not recognizing their relative may allow them to be in close proximity by wearing little more than a Paper-Thin Disguise. This is usually a Beginning Trope. It can also be an Ending Trope if a character had administered a test to see who should receive the money — or the author decides to pull off a Deus ex machina to solve Unable to Support a Wife or other situations where cash is vital. Compare Passed-Over Inheritance and Game Between Heirs. In this trope, you do not have to worry about other heirs.
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Unexpected Inheritance	isPartOf	DBTropes
Unexpected Inheritance / int_13caa888	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_13caa888	comment	Frankenstein The College Years begins with a college professor dying, and his two best students learning he left something for them.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_16fc4335	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_16fc4335	comment	In one of the Heralds of Valdemar books, Myste claims to have come into one of these as an excuse to get away from a group she was infiltrating, knowing that they would never go to the small town where her aged aunt allegedly lived.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_1d26524a	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_1d26524a	comment	In The Silver Eye, when Joshua dies and Apen loses his title as king, Apen's sister April hurriedly gives him the Silver Eye, saying that as an ancient Shephard relic, it should stay in the family, even if he's being banished.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_1f418bf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_1f418bf4	comment	TaleSpin: "The Balooest of the Blue Bloods" features Baloo getting a surprise inheritance when he finds out he's the last of the Von Bruinwald family and stands to inherit a castle and the title of Baron, if he can fulfill the conditions. He succeeds, but then loses it when the estate is liquidated to cover decades of unpaid land taxes.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_1f72b18d	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_1f72b18d	comment	The Tom and Jerry short "The Million Dollar Cat" has Tom receive a million dollar inheritance from an eccentric old woman, but with the condition that he forfeits the whole thing if he harms another living creature, even a mouse. Jerry takes advantage of this to abuse Tom, stopping the inevitable beating by waving the telegram in his face. In the end Tom has enough and starts beating on Jerry, remarking, "Gee, I'm throwing away a million dollars... BUT I'M HAPPY!"
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_20596268	comment	The interactive fiction game Anchorhead has the main character's husband inherit a house as the last living relative of the Verlac family. Unfortunately for them, this is a game inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft, and the Verlacs turn out to have been not just a bit odd...
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_2350acad	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_2350acad	comment	Cheers once opened with a lawyer taking Carla aside and informing her that a long-lost uncle has passed away. Said uncle went west with his lucky quarter and made a vast fortune which he wanted to share with his family back in Boston. Unfortunately, this wasn't discovered until the death of his son, who squandered the fortune on cheap pleasures. Carla is now the proud recipient of her uncle's lucky quarter.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_2379c677	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_2379c677	comment	Great Expectations: Pip receives inheritance completely out of left field, becomes rich and arrogant, finds out who his benefactor is, squanders money, gets the girl (it is implied at least), and becomes less arrogant.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_261c8d3f	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons features a couple of these: In "Selma's Choice," Great-Aunt Gladys dies, although nobody inherits anything of any real value beyond Jub-Jub the Iguana. Instead the funeral will serve more to spoil the trip to Duff Gardens and allow Selma to inherit an increased sense of loneliness and isolation. YAY! Played straight with an inversion in "Bart the Fink" when the Simpsons are required to spend the night in a supposedly haunted house (subverting the cliched plot when it turns out to be much more pleasant than their own) in order to collect the vast sum bequeathed to them by Great-Aunt Hortense... until they find out that they missed the part where they only actually get $100 each while the rest goes to Ann Landers. In "Old Money", Grandpa Simpson unexpectedly inherits thousands from his girlfriend, who died while he was away from the retirement home they lived in. He ends up spending it to renovate the home.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_27c9b5a7	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_27c9b5a7	comment	Chocoholic Mysteries: In Cat Caper, Joe Woodyard is genuinely startled to learn that his ex-wife Clementine Ripley had never written him out of her will, meaning he gets everything when she's murdered... the downside is that it's mostly a large debt, given that she'd let someone else handle her money and they'd embezzled away all that they could. Also, he's determined to not make any actual profit off what he does manage to get from it.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_299db5c7	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_299db5c7	comment	Bruce Coville's Book of... Nightmares II: During The Dollhouse, when the Fowlers die, Lina's family inherits the house they were renting from the couple, along with most (if not all) of their money, and an old dollhouse for Lina's sister Charlie.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_2bbcacd9	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes short "The Wabbit Who Came to Supper" has Elmer Fudd hunting Bugs when he gets a telegram from his Uncle Louie informing that he will inherit $3 million as long he does not harm any animals, especially rabbits. After Bugs enjoys himself heckling Elmer, Fudd gets another telegram saying that Uncle Louie has kicked the bucket... but the Taxman Takes the Winnings, leaving Elmer owing $1.98.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_2cb091c4	comment	The premise of the short-lived cartoon Monster Farm (not Rancher) involved a young man inheriting said farm from a great uncle Karloff.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_31a8701b	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_31a8701b	comment	The Flash: In one issue, Wally West inherited half the fortune of The Icicle, a rich Golden Age supervillain. He thoroughly disliked his family and felt that the original Flash, Jay Garrick, was the best man he'd ever known, so he arranged that when he died the money would go to whoever was currently the Flash — in this case, Wally, who he'd never even met.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_31b8a37b	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_31b8a37b	comment	The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes kicks off the story with this. The main character is a teenage girl who is left a multi-billion dollar fortune by a man she never even heard of until one of his grandsons showed up to inform her. One of the Driving Questions of the series is why he chose her while living in his Big Fancy House with the family he basically disowned.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_331ed304	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_331ed304	comment	In the Sweet Valley High books, there's a very background plot arc for several books that mild-mannered Roger's mother is ill with cancer, and her condition has impoverished them severely. Only after she dies is the truth revealed — Roger is actually the illegitimate son of wealthy Bruce Patman's late uncle, and entitled to a very large share of the Patman estate. Roger himself had no idea, and finds the adjustment quite difficult.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_3499459d	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_3499459d	comment	In Another Code, Ashley receives a package from her father for her 14th Birthday, after assuming he was dead since she was three. It contains the DTS, and a letter asking her to meet him on Blood Edward Island, thus setting off the plot.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_35760d42	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_35760d42	comment	Jane Eyre inherits a large sum of money from an unseen uncle (he has been mentioned before but only in passing, since her abusive aunt/caretaker Sara hid his existence from her until her death), though it's towards the end of the story.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_3646495b	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_3646495b	comment	This was how Dalton Castle was introduced to CHIKARA. The reunited GEKIDO, originally a team of Psycho Rangers who had debuted in 2012, "killed off" Darkness Crabtree and tore down Wrestling Is Intense on September 15, 2013 as part of The Flood's campaign of destroying all the Wrestling Is... promotions following the CHIKARA shutdown at Aniversario: Never Compromise on June 2nd. This led to CHIKARA posting a series of videos titled "Rough Waters", where Castle discovered that Crabtree was his "uncle" and that he had inherited a large sum of money, leading to Castle reinventing himself as the wealthy wrestling yachtsman "Smooth Sailin'" Ashley Remington.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_39fe00f1	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_39fe00f1	comment	In the post-game expansion Trespasser for Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dorian reveals to the Inquisitor that his father has been murdered. Much to Dorian's surprise, Halward kept his son as heir despite their long-standing issues, which means that Dorian has inherited not only the family estate but also his father's position in the Tevinter Magisterium. This means that, despite his friendship or romance with the Inquisitor, Dorian will be returning to Tevinter permanently.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_3adcc9ef	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_3adcc9ef	comment	In the Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! light novels (not the anime), Rikka supposedly inherited her "evil eye" from her father before he died.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_3b34143f	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: In the first book, Harry not only discovers that his parents were wizards, his father was a rich wizard, and now he has a vault of gold in the goblin bank. Later in the book, he also receives his father's Invisibility Cloak. He's also named the sole heir after Sirius dies. He doesn't really care, since he's rich anyway, but he also receives the deceased's house and house-elf Kreacher—who, awkwardly, is partly responsible for Sirius' death. In the last book, Harry, Ron and Hermione all receive something after Dumbledore dies. In this case, they're not particularly valuable, but turn out to be clues to the book's plot.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_3d642b10	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_3d642b10	comment	Harry's Mad: The book opens with Harry Holdsworth receiving Madison the parrot from his recently-deceased great-uncle George, despite the fact that George lives in America and he and Harry have never met. George's will explains that he chose Harry to be the one to receive Madison as the bird is already forty years old and may live for another forty, and apparently isn't used to females, so Harry was the only male relative of a suitable age.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_3d90ba40	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_3d90ba40	comment	In addition to all the descendants of the Founders in The Awakening of a Magus, there is Harry being entitled to an estate and a baron's title from his mother's side. The next ones in line for claiming it are the Parkinsons.
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The Awakening of a Magus (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_3d90ba40
Unexpected Inheritance / int_3e169a5f	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_3e169a5f	comment	The early Ahrens and Flaherty (Seussical, Ragtime) musical Lucky Stiff has the protagonist inheriting $6 million from an uncle he's never met (on the condition that he takes his uncle's taxidermied corpse on a vacation to the French Riviera).
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_423ca36c	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_423ca36c	comment	Young Frankenstein begins when Dr. Frederick Frankenstein learns that his great-grandfather, Baron Beaufort von Frankenstein, unexpectedly bequeathed him a castle in Transylvania — specifically, the location where the Baron's son Victor once created a monster. Deleted scenes show that the Baron passed over many (physically) closer relatives because he felt rewarding Frederick for redeeming the family name was more important than how he liked the other relatives, that the inheritance was conditioned on Frederick visiting the castle in person, and that Frederick had to be convinced to make the trip because he was so disillusioned with that side of the family.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_43339b81	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_43339b81	comment	The series Ghosts (UK) opens with Alison inheriting Button House from a relative she never knew existed. The closest way people can find to describe this extremely tenuous relation is 'step great-aunt/great-niece'.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_43576f5	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_43576f5	comment	In Supernatural there is a subversion in the episode Ask Jeeves. Someone calls Bobby's phone to let him know that he's been bequeathed an inheritance. However, Bobby is deceased. As Bobby's "Next of Kin", Sam and Dean go to investigate and possibly collect on the inheritance. It turns out Bobby had been granted custody of the descendant's secret shape-shifter daughter. Unfortunately, the daughter has already escaped from her attic prison and is killing the rest of the family because of her rage at being kept locked up. Sam and Dean arrive just in time to put her down.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_43f52aa9	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_43f52aa9	comment	The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Two DLCs use this to Hand Wave the Hero abruptly receiving a new Player Headquarters. One nameless "long-lost relative" wills them a remote Mage Tower; another passes on an Elaborate Underground Base first built by a vampire assassin.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_45e9bfb2	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_45e9bfb2	comment	In The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #131, Aunt May inherits a nuclear power plant. This makes her a target for Doctor Octopus, who wants to get his hands on it and almost marries her to get it.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_46d48eba	comment	James Bond: At the start of the John Gardner novel Role of Honour, Bond inherits a quarter million pounds from an Australian uncle he has never heard of (Bruce, his father's younger brother). The following spending spree mandated by the will makes him seem suspicious in the eyes of his employers (except for a select few whom he'd reported the inheritance to, per service requirements) and some of their allies, since coincidentally there have been a couple of Soviet men (called "ambulance chasers") hiring double-agents lately.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_4abff5dd	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_4abff5dd	comment	Brewster's Millions: Montgomery Brewster inherits a surprise fortune from a relative he hasn't seen or heard from for so long that he's almost forgotten about him.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_50a9ace1	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_50a9ace1	comment	Popeye: Olive inherits a missing uncle's fortune once he's declared dead. He was so long lost she didn't even remember him by the time she's informed of the inheritance. She gives it back to him once he returns.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_55fcb799	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_55fcb799	comment	The main plot of The Grand Budapest Hotel is kicked off by one of these, as a priceless painting is bequeathed to the hotel concierge protagonist, angering the actual relatives of the recently deceased countess. A second one comes at the end of the film, where a second will is revealed giving not just the painting but the entire estate to said concierge, in the event of the countess's death by foul play (as the Genre Savvy countess had suspicions that her family was seeking to hasten their inheritance).
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_569093cc	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_569093cc	comment	DuckTales (2017): Played for laughs in the first episode of season 2, which involves a pre-emptive version. During their game night, Scrooge threatens Donald (his gaming partner) that if they lose, Donald's out of Scrooge's will. Donald is shocked because he didn't know he'd ever been in Scrooge's will. (Though possibly subverted by Word of God, as Frank Angones claims on his Tumblr that "There is no way Scrooge actually has a will. He doesn't believe he'll ever die.")
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_57c78834	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_57c78834	comment	Mr. Deeds: Deeds had no idea his mother had a wealthy uncle before said uncle died. It also applied to Emilio when he learned he's Preston Blake's illegitimate son. Same goes for its predecessor, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The strangest aspect is that Mr. Deeds barely reacts to the news.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_5908ee91	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_5908ee91	comment	In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, when death befalls pretty much anybody you've helped, you promptly receive a letter of inheritance from a courier, bequeathing you with anywhere from 100-500 septims, with 10% taken off the top by the Jarl as inheritance tax.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_598df6a9	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_598df6a9	comment	One Punkin' Puss and Mushmouse episode featured Mushmouse inheriting one million pounds from a British uncle. Punkin Puss spent most of the episode trying to be on his good graces because of the inheritance until he and Mushmouse learned the "pounds" didn't refer to British currency. It meant one million pounds of cheese.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_5b344855	comment	Equally, when Wolverine died, his will asked that Spider-Man come to the Jean Grey School and continue teaching, something that utterly baffled the X-Men, leading into the events of Spider-Man and the X-Men. Turns out that he was watching out for someone who could turn evil and trusted Spidey to keep watching.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_5b344855	featureConfidence	1.0
Wolverine (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_5b344855
Unexpected Inheritance / int_6209177d	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_6209177d	comment	In the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Lavender Lipstick", Mason's client, suspected of killing her employer (a cosmetics manufacturer), is amazed to learn that he has left her his whole estate, including his business. The reason for this is critical to the case.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_6209177d	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_6209177d	featureConfidence	1.0
Perry Mason (Franchise)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_6209177d
Unexpected Inheritance / int_629940eb	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_629940eb	comment	Running Scared (1986). Detective Costanzo's Aunt Rose dies and leaves him $40,000, which is enough to retire from the police force and buy a bar in Florida.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_629940eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_629940eb	featureConfidence	1.0
Running Scared (1986)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_629940eb
Unexpected Inheritance / int_63dc5cee	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_63dc5cee	comment	The Mall (2018): The plot of the comic is kicked off by Diego, Lena, and Dallas each receiving an inheritance from Gino Cardini, a man they're told is their biological father, to their surprise. Each of them is given a store in the Golden Palm Mall to run however they see fit. Dallas, the Jock, is given a shoe store. Diego, the Washer, is given a piano store. Lena, the Cheerleader, is given a pet store.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_63dc5cee	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_63dc5cee	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mall (2018) (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_63dc5cee
Unexpected Inheritance / int_64b51b44	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_64b51b44	comment	In King Ralph, the entire British royal family dies. Ralph's a very distant illegitimate relative from America. Hilarity Ensues.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_64b51b44	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_64b51b44	featureConfidence	1.0
King Ralph	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_64b51b44
Unexpected Inheritance / int_66fd2e30	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_66fd2e30	comment	Wax and Wayne: At the end of The Lost Metal, the minor character Allriandre is ambivalent to learn that Wayne — The Atoner who had killed her father — has died and bequeathed most of his estate to her. Then she learns he had become one of the richest people in the country.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_66fd2e30	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_66fd2e30	featureConfidence	1.0
Wax and Wayne	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_66fd2e30
Unexpected Inheritance / int_6c2e31df	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_6c2e31df	comment	In A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey, destitute Robert Tisdall is astonished to learn that he has been left a significant amount of money and a property in America by a woman he'd met for the first time a few days earlier. The catch is not an intentional one: she's been murdered, and now the police think he did it to get his hands on the money...
Unexpected Inheritance / int_6c2e31df	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_6c2e31df	featureConfidence	1.0
A Shilling for Candles	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_6c2e31df
Unexpected Inheritance / int_70da6e51	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_70da6e51	comment	Goosebumps: Welcome to Dead House has the Benton family inherit the titular house from Mr. Benton's great-uncle Charles, whom he's never even heard of. Turns out that it was a setup to make them come to the town — once a year, a new family has to move to Dark Falls so the other residents can drain their blood in order to continue their own existence as walking dead.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_70da6e51	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_70da6e51	featureConfidence	1.0
Goosebumps	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_70da6e51
Unexpected Inheritance / int_73b4d4c1	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_73b4d4c1	comment	Call of Cthulhu supplement The Asylum and Other Tales, adventure "Black Devil Mountain". A PC receives a letter informing them that their brother has died and left them some property (which, by sheer coincidence, just happens to have Cthulhu Mythos activity going on nearby).
Unexpected Inheritance / int_73b4d4c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_73b4d4c1	featureConfidence	1.0
Call of Cthulhu (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_73b4d4c1
Unexpected Inheritance / int_74105b2d	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_74105b2d	comment	The plot of Baghead (2023) is kicked off when Iris inherits The Queen's Head, a 400 year old pub in Berlin, from her estranged father Owen whom she has not seen since she was a child.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_74105b2d	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_74105b2d	featureConfidence	1.0
Baghead (2023)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_74105b2d
Unexpected Inheritance / int_75f447b9	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_75f447b9	comment	Matthew Scudder: One short story follows a Secretly Wealthy bag lady and murder victim bequeathing a few hundred dollars each to various casual acquaintances (including Matt), many of whom can't remember ever talking to her.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_75f447b9	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_75f447b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Matthew Scudder	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_75f447b9
Unexpected Inheritance / int_764768c	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_764768c	comment	In one of the backstory segments of The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, it is revealed that Aina encountered a variant. She always knew that she was going to get an inheritance from her wealthy grandfather. What she didn't expect was the size of it, namely that she had been left the entire estate. At which point she found herself on the run from the rest of her family, which was upset about the Passed-Over Inheritance.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_764768c	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_764768c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_764768c
Unexpected Inheritance / int_77d76e46	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_77d76e46	comment	In the 2001 version of Thir13en Ghosts, Cyrus Kriticos bequeaths his beautiful, glass-walled house to his nephew Arthur. The bad news? It's haunted by 12 ghosts, and Cyrus is manipulating Arthur into committing suicide so his master plan to create a ghost-powered oracle machine will succeed.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_77d76e46	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_77d76e46	featureConfidence	1.0
Thir13en Ghosts	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_77d76e46
Unexpected Inheritance / int_79d7124c	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_79d7124c	comment	In BeTrapped!, May Vandernot, who lived with her mother's family in New York her entire life, inherits her uncle North Vandernot's estate and most of his fortune, which includes the Bloodstone (a large, flawless ruby, with a curse).
Unexpected Inheritance / int_79d7124c	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_79d7124c	featureConfidence	1.0
BeTrapped! (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_79d7124c
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7aaf9e41	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: A variation of this involves The Joker inheriting rival mob boss "King" Barlowe's fortune, except that most of the money was fake. In his Thanatos Gambit, Barlowe knew Joker would binge-spend before the taxman cometh. As such, Joker is torn between admitting a dead man conned him (and becoming Gotham's Butt-Monkey), getting jailed for tax evasion, or returning to crime to pay off the taxes and protect his image. This was later adapted into an episode for The New Batman Adventures.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7aaf9e41	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7aaf9e41	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_7aaf9e41
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7d122312	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7d122312	comment	The Flintstones: Fred Flintstone got two during the original series. First his late Uncle Zeke dies and leaves him a broken down wreck of a hillbilly home called San Cemente. In a later episode, he gains one from his uncle, J. Giggles Flintstone, which comes with a 'spend the night in the creepy house' stipulation. In this case it turns out to be a prank; Uncle Giggles is totally still alive, and totally still a kook (and was testing Fred to see if he'd be a worthy heir; as in, having the same sense of humor as Giggles).
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7d122312	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7d122312	featureConfidence	1.0
The Flintstones	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_7d122312
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7de8951a	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7de8951a	comment	Classic Traveller Adventure 12 Secret of the Ancients. One of the Player Characters receives an inheritance from an uncle: a statuette which leads the party into a hunt to find an Ancient site.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7de8951a	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7de8951a	featureConfidence	1.0
Traveller (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_7de8951a
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7f640c58	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7f640c58	comment	In The Sims 2, Olive Specter, who dies within a few days of first playing her house, leaves her inheritance to her estranged son Nervous Subject and not, as expected, her niece Ophelia Nigmos. This situation is rigged, since normally sims leave more money to those with whom they have higher relationships (which in this case is Ophelia). In The Sims 3, this is part of the backstory for the Ivy family, who in their family bio are said to be former hippies who came into money and don't know what to do with it.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7f640c58	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7f640c58	featureConfidence	1.0
The Sims 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_7f640c58
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7fc78282	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings: Lobelia Sackville-Baggins has always been one of Bilbo and Frodo's least favorite relatives (in large part because of her greed and temper), and the feeling is mutual. When she dies some months after the Scouring of the Shire, Frodo is therefore surprised to find she's named him her sole heir (her husband died in the years between Frodo's thirty-third and fiftieth birthdays, and her only son Lotho was murdered by Wormtongue before Frodo's return), leaving him all her money to be used for helping the hobbits left homeless by the actions of Saruman, Wormtongue, and Lotho.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7fc78282	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_7fc78282	featureConfidence	1.0
The Lord of the Rings	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_7fc78282
Unexpected Inheritance / int_80b01c30	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_80b01c30	comment	Hanaukyō Maid Team. Taro Hanaukyo inherits a vast fortune, a mansion, hundreds of maids and the position of family leader after his grandfather retires.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_80b01c30	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_80b01c30	featureConfidence	1.0
Hanaukyō Maid Team (Manga)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_80b01c30
Unexpected Inheritance / int_833ad429	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_833ad429	comment	Daughter for Dessert gives one thatâ€™s both unexpected and delayed by almost two decades: Amandaâ€™s inheritance of Lainieâ€™s estate. She only has to leave her father behind to get it.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_833ad429	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_833ad429	featureConfidence	1.0
Daughter for Dessert (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_833ad429
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8726d054	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8726d054	comment	In Snow Dogs, Ted Brooks first learns of his biological mother (as well as the fact that he's adopted) when he's served with her will.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8726d054	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8726d054	featureConfidence	1.0
Snow Dogs	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_8726d054
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8c8771a	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8c8771a	comment	The Doctor at Large episode "It's the Rich Wot Gets the Pleasure" has Gentleman Snarker Dick Stuart-Clark inherit Â£50,000 from his wealthy uncle James, and he and two of his fellow doctors get blind drunk in celebration. It is not until they are hauled up before the Board of Directors for their behaviour that he learns the money is not his directly, but is his to donate to the hospital of his choice. He gives it to his employer, St. Swithin's, on the condition that they not be sacked, or even disciplined, for their drunken antics.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8c8771a	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8c8771a	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor in the House	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_8c8771a
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8d81bb26	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS: The season 6 episode "South by Southwest" had Tony being contacted by the estate of a wealthy relative in England. Thinking this trope is in effect, he spends the entire episode trying to call back, but between work and time zone differences they keep missing each other. Finally in the end it is revealed that the money all went to a closer relative of the deceased, who found among his papers evidence that Tony owed the estate money (which he borrowed during college), and now wants him to pay up. Plus interest.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8d81bb26	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8d81bb26	featureConfidence	1.0
NCIS	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_8d81bb26
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8e82c366	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8e82c366	comment	One episode of The Real Ghostbusters has Ray inheriting a castle in Scotland from a distant relative whom he hadn't seen in years. The castle is (of course) haunted.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8e82c366	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8e82c366	featureConfidence	1.0
The Real Ghostbusters	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_8e82c366
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8ffea8e0	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8ffea8e0	comment	Animal Inn: Non-family version in book 12, when elderly Mr. Roy Miller suddenly dies and leaves his pride and joy — his six-year-old chestnut mare Dancer (and her bridle, saddle and horse blanket) — to local vet-in-training Val Taylor, much to her surprise. Roy Junior, who inherited everything else (and plans to sell the family farm and move to New York), explains that his father knew how much Val loved horses (and Junior himself doesn't much care for them), and wanted to make sure Dancer went to a good home.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8ffea8e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_8ffea8e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Animal Inn	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_8ffea8e0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_94de6dd8	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_94de6dd8	comment	The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries: In book 2, James Delacorte's butler Nigel Truesdale faints when he finds out Delacorte left him almost all his money and the house. He's faking, having learned about the contents of the will in advance and murdered Delacorte to speed up the process. A variant with Charlie Harris, who is shocked to find he was named co-executor of the will. He's also surprised to find that Delacorte had specifically named him in the will, leaving Charlie the job of cataloguing Delacorte's library (a job for which he'd only hired Charlie just a short while ago), including the associated salary. He also left his rare book collection to Athena College, where Charlie works.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_94de6dd8	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_94de6dd8	featureConfidence	1.0
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_94de6dd8
Unexpected Inheritance / int_9a5247f3	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_9a5247f3	comment	In a complete inversion, Princess Lover!'s Teppei Arima's parents, with whom he lives, die and he finds out about his formerly unknown grandfather being the head of the Arima Group, which makes him now the living heir and sets off the plot.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_9a5247f3	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_9a5247f3	featureConfidence	1.0
Princess Lover! (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_9a5247f3
Unexpected Inheritance / int_9d68c9ef	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_9d68c9ef	comment	Hold That Ghost plays with the trope. Abbott and Costello unexpectedly inherit a tavern not from a relative but from a guy they just met. The guy, a gangster named Moose Matson, had no idea who he could trust in life, so he left his property to whoever was with him when he died.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_9d68c9ef	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_9d68c9ef	featureConfidence	1.0
Hold That Ghost	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_9d68c9ef
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a0ae1fb2	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a0ae1fb2	comment	John Carter: One kicks off the Framing Device of the film; young Edgar Rice Burroughs is very surprised to learn that his wealthy uncle - the title character - left literally everything to him, including the diary that contains the main plot. This is drawn pretty closely from A Princess of Mars, the original book that the film is mostly based on.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a0ae1fb2	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a0ae1fb2	featureConfidence	1.0
John Carter	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_a0ae1fb2
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a157ae38	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a157ae38	comment	Harry and the Butler: Harry, a very poor old man who lives in a shack in a junkyard, inherits 3300 kroner ($20K or so, in 1961 money) from a distant relative he never even met. What does he do? He hires a butler, of course.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a157ae38	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a157ae38	featureConfidence	1.0
Harry and the Butler	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_a157ae38
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a183d57f	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: The episode "The Honking" has Bender inherit a mansion from his Uncle Vladimir. This of course includes the expected catch that he must spend at least one night there (which he wants to do before complaining about there being a catch). In the episode "A Fishful of Dollars" Fry is attempting to save Bender from jail by withdrawing his meager savings. He soon figures out that 1,000 years of interest adds up. A lot. While it is 'unexpected', it wasn't technically inherited.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a183d57f	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a183d57f	featureConfidence	1.0
Futurama	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_a183d57f
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a1dd9577	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a1dd9577	comment	The Hudsucker Proxy: The Hero inherits controlling interest of Hudsucker Industries from Waring Hudsucker, who willed his shares of the company to whoever became the first person to replace him as the company's CEO.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a1dd9577	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a1dd9577	featureConfidence	1.0
The Hudsucker Proxy	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_a1dd9577
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a1e972e5	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a1e972e5	comment	Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) plays with this trope twice. First, Elvira gets a message telling her she's got an inheritance from a grand-aunt she never knew existed. Later, she inherits the fortune of her uncle Vincent, who'd been the main villain of the film, since she's his only surviving relative and he'd never made a will.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a1e972e5	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a1e972e5	featureConfidence	1.0
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_a1e972e5
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a75ace37	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a75ace37	comment	Same goes for its predecessor, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The strangest aspect is that Mr. Deeds barely reacts to the news.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a75ace37	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_a75ace37	featureConfidence	1.0
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_a75ace37
Unexpected Inheritance / int_abfcff6a	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_abfcff6a	comment	Rocky and Bullwinkle: One episode had Bullwinkle as the heir to the Earl of Crankcase, requiring him to spend a week inside the family manor before inheriting a 1 million pound note. At the end of the week it turns out that he isn't the rightful heir after all, and the actual heirs learn to their dismay that the note is a promissory note, and that they are now obliged to repay the late Earl's debts. Another story arc had Bullwinkle inherit a mine from his Uncle Dewlap. The mine turned out to be in a mountain that floated miles overhead, because the mine was the only source of the anti-gravity metal Upsidasium.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_abfcff6a	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_abfcff6a	featureConfidence	1.0
Rocky and Bullwinkle	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_abfcff6a
Unexpected Inheritance / int_ae679c04	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_ae679c04	comment	Retired Witches Mysteries: In book 1, Olivia's daughter Dorothy inherits her mother's property soon after finding out the recently-deceased Olivia was her mother.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_ae679c04	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_ae679c04	featureConfidence	1.0
Retired Witches Mysteries	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_ae679c04
Unexpected Inheritance / int_aeb7185	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_aeb7185	comment	Stranger Than Fanfiction: Joey, Sam, Mo, and Topher get a call from Cash's lawyer some time after Cash dies. They all head to Chicago to meet with Cash's lawyer, Carl Weinstock. Cash leaves them all money to pay for their educations, along with a little something extra. Joey gains ownership of Cash's apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for if he wants to pursue performing arts in New York City. Topher gets a "Billy Trust" to hire a full-time caregiver for his younger brother so he can focus on his education. Sam gains a fund she can use however she likes, but is called the "Transition Fund". Mo receives the official rights to Cash's life story for if she decides to write his autobiography someday.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_aeb7185	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_aeb7185	featureConfidence	1.0
Stranger Than Fanfiction	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_aeb7185
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b0e5cff4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b0e5cff4	comment	On Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids Wally is notified he has received a castle as one by Mr. Socrates. The Sundance Kids are aware of their formula enough to think this may just be a set up for yet another spy mission. They stumble upon a caper but in this one rare instance, it wasn't their official job to expose it.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b0e5cff4	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b0e5cff4	featureConfidence	1.0
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_b0e5cff4
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b16a7563	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b16a7563	comment	In a story arc of C'est la Vie, Mona and Pierre are at first overjoyed to be invited to the reading of the will for their eccentric artist uncle, and are then disgruntled to realise all they've inherited are dozens of his artworks. They set about trying to sell them for a paltry few dollars, and then Uncle appears to Mona in her dreams. They realise that Uncle has hidden thousands of francs in notes inside the lining of the canvases and desperately set about trying to retrieve the paintings they have sold...
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b16a7563	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b16a7563	featureConfidence	1.0
C'est la Vie (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_b16a7563
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b4996199	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: In The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #131, Aunt May inherits a nuclear power plant. This makes her a target for Doctor Octopus, who wants to get his hands on it and almost marries her to get it. After Annihulus killed Johnny Storm (he got better and rejoined his family about two years later, from his perspective), Johnny's remaining teammates invited Spider-Man to the Baxter Building for a private wake. There, Reed Richards showed a portion of Johnny's holographic will, in which he gave Spider-Man his most prized possession: his spot on the Fantastic Four roster, leading to his involvement in the Future Foundation. Equally, when Wolverine died, his will asked that Spider-Man come to the Jean Grey School and continue teaching, something that utterly baffled the X-Men, leading into the events of Spider-Man and the X-Men. Turns out that he was watching out for someone who could turn evil and trusted Spidey to keep watching.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b4996199	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b4996199	featureConfidence	1.0
Spider-Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_b4996199
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b9a77903	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b9a77903	comment	A variation occurs in The Boy Who Cried Werewolf. The family inherits a large house from their uncle in Romania, and it turns out that he was a werewolf who was using the house to do experiments to find a cure for his "disease".
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b9a77903	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b9a77903	featureConfidence	1.0
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_b9a77903
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b9b15731	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b9b15731	comment	One episode of Freaky Stories featured a wealthy man who wasn't on speaking terms with any friend or relative and made a will leaving his fortune to anyone who bothered to attend the funeral. The only person to do it was an old woman who didn't even know him. She simply needed a bathroom and crashing the funeral was the only option.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b9b15731	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_b9b15731	featureConfidence	1.0
Freaky Stories	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_b9b15731
Unexpected Inheritance / int_bd40e3f	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_bd40e3f	comment	Little Big League begins with the elderly owner of the Minnesota Twins dying and him granting ownership of the team to his 12-year-old grandson. That no one in the majors wants to work for a child is the basis for the film's set-up where the boy appoints himself the bench manager of the team.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_bd40e3f	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_bd40e3f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_bd447006	comment	Sherlock Holmes: The story The Adventure of the Norwood Builder centers around a lawyer who learns he is to receive one the day before his benefactor dies, leading the police to believe that the titular builder was murdered for the inheritance. Similarly, The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist centered around two men seeking to marry Holmes's client because she was the next of kin to a wealthy uncle who had no will, making her the heiress to his fortune by default. Mentioned in The Hound of the Baskervilles: The culprit is a descendant of one of the Baskervilles trying to murder the current heir. Holmes and Watson discuss how Stapleton could plausibly become the heir, and come up with returning under his true identity or by "finding" an heir and using him as a puppet.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_bfb77387	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_bfb77387	comment	In The Thorn Birds, Paddy's wealthy sister bequeaths the bulk of her fortune not to her brother and his many children, but to Father Ralph de Bricassart, the local priest. She doesn't completely stiff her brother — she leaves him her estate, Drogheda, and some of her money — but most of it goes to the priest. Everyone is startled, the priest most of all.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_c43df4d8	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "The Lodger", Craig's previous roommate moved out because he suddenly inherited a large sum of money from an uncle he had never met. It turns out that it was the Doctor's doing, via a Stable Time Loop, so he could move in and investigate upstairs.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_c43df4d8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_c45abbfb	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_c45abbfb	comment	In an episode of Men Behaving Badly, Gary receives an inheritance of Â£35,000, which he tries to keep quiet about. Unfortunately, everyone else finds out — Tony, Anthea and George — and everyone wants a slice. His long-suffering girlfriend Dorothy is furious she hasn't been told about this, and she forces him to give it all to a hospital charity. Gary then compounds his inept crassness by trying to cancel the cheque...
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_c5d0768d	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_c5d0768d	comment	In the Aunt Dimity series: American Lori Shepherd inherits a fortune and a cottage in England from "Aunt Dimity", a long-time friend of her late mother's. Lori didn't even realize Dimity was a real person until she learned of the inheritance; she grew up thinking Aunt Dimity was the fictional heroine of the bedtime stories her mother invented. A whole raft of these are revealed after Miss Beacham's passing in Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin; among the recipients are not just Lori (who visited her in hospital) and Fr. Bright (whose homeless shelter Lori mentioned to her), but also a nurse who had leftover student debt and several local small business owners in her Oxford neighbourhood. In Aunt Dimity Down Under, Lori brings Bree back with her from New Zealand to visit Ruth and Louise Pym before they die, and they have revised their wills to leave their house and a substantial trust fund to Bree.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_c68e4878	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_c68e4878	comment	In the 1923 silent film Little Old New York, the poverty-stricken O'Days are literally getting evicted by their landlord when word arrives that Patrick has inherited a fortune.
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Little Old New York	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_c68e4878
Unexpected Inheritance / int_cbe7f8d0	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_cbe7f8d0	comment	Used twice to introduce new characters in the Tremors franchise, in which Jodie and Rosalita each inherit the property of an uncle killed by monsters. The downside is that the property is in Perfection, so both nieces have to move to monster territory to take advantage of the bequest. By the events of movie 6, they and everyone else in Perfection (except Burt) have abandoned the property and moved away: even without the graboids it's property in a tiny, isolated community with no services and not enough of an economy to earn a living, after all, even before the third movie where the surrounding area became a "rare animal" preserve, courtesy of El Blanco, the albino graboid.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_ccbb89ee	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_ccbb89ee	comment	Criminal Case: Grimsborough: The 50th case, "Snakes on the Stage" has the victim, Roland Vane, leave some fortune to Adam Bentley, who is pleasantly surprise to be included in the man's will despite only knowing him in the passing. However, this is subverted when later investigation reveals that Adam Bentley was Roland's foster brother.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_d3ff6961	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_d3ff6961	comment	Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: In the episode "A Night of Fright is No Delight", the plot centered around Scooby getting the chance at inheriting an unexpected legacy worth millions — which turned out to be millions in Confederate currency, which was worthless (clearly they never thought of selling all that Civil War memorabilia to museums or other collectors).
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_d56cd064	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_d56cd064	comment	One shows up in the Power Rangers Zeo episode Mondo's Last Stand. In the episode's B plot, the Burble Baby Food Company comes to town because the founder of the company has died and they are looking for the first Burble Baby Food Company to give them their inheritance. Bulk and Skull, along with Lt. Stone, go on the case. It is eventually revealed that the company got the age of the baby wrong and reveal that Ernie was the baby. His inheritance? A lifetime supply of their baby food, which Ernie promptly suggests making smoothies out of. Like many unanswered questions regarding Ernie, we never find out what his surname is during this episode, even though that would have been the perfect episode to reveal it. We also never find out what happened to his 'lifetime supply' of baby food after he leaves during the next season.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_d56cd064	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_dc6475eb	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_dc6475eb	comment	Michael receives one in Vikram Seth's novel An Equal Music.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_dd7514bd	comment	The first arc in Savestate that isn't based on gaming involves Kade and Nicole inheriting a creepy old mansion from their uncle Scooby.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_dd7514bd	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_e5007200	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_e5007200	comment	In The Dark Lady, after slaying Fiona, Rumpelstiltskin winds up becoming lord of the Dark Realm — and all of the magical resources that come with it — since he was her son.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_e5007200	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Dark Lady (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_e5007200
Unexpected Inheritance / int_e89f7335	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_e89f7335	comment	Brewster's Millions (1985): Montgomery Brewster inherits a surprise fortune from a relative he didn't even know existed before being informed of the inheritance.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_e89f7335	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_e89f7335	featureConfidence	1.0
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_e9255490	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_e9255490	comment	Jabberjaw receives one of a goldmine for having saved an old prospector. But in the end this is a clerical error, as the proper recipient was a Mr. Jabberclaw (who is human).
Unexpected Inheritance / int_e9255490	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_e9c78d5d	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_e9c78d5d	comment	Ghosts of the Titanic: Kevin's father ended up inheriting the estate of the Seaton family. This was Angus Seaton's way of making it up to Michael's family for taking Annie's purse, which would have identified her as Michael's mother, and have gotten her a proper burial.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_e9c78d5d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_ea1a786f	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_ea1a786f	comment	Monica's Gang: There was that time Pitheco inherited ten million bucks from an uncle (it was unexpected because he didn't know the uncle was wealthy) on the condition that he becomes a married man. When he was about to partake in the sacred vows, the executors of the will showed up to tell him that his uncle was secretly married and left a widow and three children. All Pitheco would inherit was the sum of twenty bucks (still on the marriage condition). The marriage was called off, much to Tooga's dismay.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_ea4f62db	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_ea4f62db	comment	The Family Guy episode "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater" centers around Lois's Aunt Marguerite dying and the Griffins inheriting her opulent Newport manor. In a mild subversion of the typical plot, Lois claims to have been fairly close to her aunt before her death... she just never bothered to appear on the show or be mentioned in any way before or after.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_ee707dbb	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_ee707dbb	comment	The plot of Transmission is kicked off by the foreclosure of Russ and Reg's garage in Britain, only for an uncle to die and leave them a garage in California.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_ee707dbb	featureApplicability	1.0
Unexpected Inheritance / int_ee707dbb	featureConfidence	1.0
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_ef7b3325	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_ef7b3325	comment	After Annihulus killed Johnny Storm (he got better and rejoined his family about two years later, from his perspective), Johnny's remaining teammates invited Spider-Man to the Baxter Building for a private wake. There, Reed Richards showed a portion of Johnny's holographic will, in which he gave Spider-Man his most prized possession: his spot on the Fantastic Four roster, leading to his involvement in the Future Foundation.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_ef7b3325	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_f0c816fb	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_f0c816fb	comment	In the Breaking Bad episode "Salud", Skyler has Saul Goodman give her ex-lover Ted Beneke money from his non-existent "great-aunt Birgit" in Luxembourg. It's not actually an inheritance, but money sent to him in order to pay off his tax debt and stop any further investigation by the government which might uncover Skyler's (and in turn Walt's) criminal activities. Unfortunately, Ted is both too stupid to realize the story is an obvious sham and too stupid to use the money to pay off his huge debt, leading to Skyler having to take more drastic measures... Earlier in the series, Saul suggests this as a possible way to explain where Walt's drug money came from to his family. He comes up with a story about an imaginary uncle who Walt lost touch with and died, leaving a substantial inheritance to him. Walt shoots this idea down, mostly because he hates the idea of people thinking the money came from someone else, rather than his own hard work.
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Breaking Bad	hasFeature	Unexpected Inheritance / int_f0c816fb
Unexpected Inheritance / int_f38e9f9	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_f38e9f9	comment	The plot of The Curse of Sleeping Beauty kicks off when Thomas Kaiser receives a phone call from a law firm informing him of an inheritance from his estranged uncle, Clive. Thomas is informed his uncle committed suicide, leaving him a letter and a property known as Kaiser Gardens. The letter tells him to never go to the lower levels of the building and that the family is cursed.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_f3c92203	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_f3c92203	comment	The Cat Who... Series: In book #5 (The Cat Who Played Brahms), Qwilleran inherits a huge fortune from his "Aunt Fanny". All Qwill really remembers about her is that she was a dear friend of his mother's and that he was forced to write polite letters to her as a boy; but since she had no surviving blood relatives, he's the one who receives her billions. According to her lawyer, she considered Qwill to be her godson. The catch is that he has to live in Moose County for five years, but he grows to enjoy the small-town life fairly quickly. When Eddington Smith dies of a heart attack in book #23 (The Cat Who Smelled a Rat), Qwill is shocked to find that Smith, who'd always said he was leaving Qwill his shop in his will, wasn't kidding — he's inherited the old man's estate, including his shop and all the books inside. Unfortunately, the building is destroyed in an explosion shortly thereafter.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_f3c92203	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_f550676c	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_f550676c	comment	The plot of Seven Chances revolves around a young man who, on his 27th birthday, finds out that his dead grandfather has left him $7,000,000 (that's $91,000,000 in today's money), but he has to get married by 7 pm of that day.
Unexpected Inheritance / int_f550676c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_f9d4e89f	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_f9d4e89f	comment	Mentioned in The Hound of the Baskervilles: The culprit is a descendant of one of the Baskervilles trying to murder the current heir. Holmes and Watson discuss how Stapleton could plausibly become the heir, and come up with returning under his true identity or by "finding" an heir and using him as a puppet.
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_fda9c8b	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Unexpected Inheritance / int_fda9c8b	comment	Downton Abbey: The whole setup of the series is based on the prospect of one: After the Plot-Triggering Death of the Earl of Grantham's two immediate heirs (his first cousin James and James's only son Patrick) in the sinking of the Titanic, the Earlâ€™s third cousin once removed Matthew Crawley becomes heir-presumptive to the estate. As Matthew is four generations removed from his aristocratic ancestry and is himself a middle-class solicitor, this comes as a complete surprise to him. Since the Earl is still hale and in his late forties at this point, he can call upon Matthew to come to Downton and get used to the idea of becoming a Peer (and the great wealth of the Downton Crawleys), but the effect of just becoming the heir is enough to count. The issues this created drive basically all of the first three series. The series gives us an interesting example in series 3. Matthew receives a letter indicating that he was one of three possible heirs named in the will of Reginald Swire — father of his late fiancee Lavinia. The terms of the will were that if the first named heir had died before Mr Swire, then the second one would inherit the whole thing; if the second had also died before Swire, then the third would inherit the fortune. Matthew was the third; the other two are as yet unaccounted for. However, he feels that he caused Lavinia's death by breaking her heart: she saw him kiss Mary, and she died shortly thereafter of Spanish flu, even though her case until then had been quite mild. As a result, Matthew decides he is honour-bound not to take the money, and hopes that the other heirs are still alive, or at least died after Mr Swire (if they had, the inheritance would go to their heirs). When it turns out that both died before Mr Swire, Matthew resolves to give the money away. Unfortunately, at just this time Lord Grantham had lost the entire Crawley family fortune and seemed like he would have to sell Downton. This drives the plot for a few episodes, before Matthew discovers information that he feels releases him from his obligation to give the money away; he invests the money in Downton, and his plans for maximising the estate's profits drive much of the plot for the rest of the series. In season 6, Bertie Pelham is the third cousin of a Marquess, who ends up suddenly dying, leaving the title to Bertie unexpectedly.
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Baghead (2023) / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
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Frankenstein The College Years / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
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Seven Chances / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
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Texas Chainsaw 3D / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
The Hudsucker Proxy / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
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Way Out West / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
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Disney Chills / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Far from the Madding Crowd / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Ghosts of the Titanic / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Great Expectations / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Hannah Swensen / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Harry's Mad / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
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The Cat Who... Series / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
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War and Peace / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Welcome to Dead House / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
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Random Assault (Podcast) / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
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ER / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Fargo: Season Four / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
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Ghosts (US) / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Power Rangers Zeo / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
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The Phil Silvers Show / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Call of Cthulhu (Tabletop Game) / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
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La Cage aux folles (Theatre) / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
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