In the Blood - TV Tropes. It makes a great Secret Legacy, a source of fraternal conflict, adds drama with an unexpected family reunion, and can set up a host of different conflicts and relationships. Just like in real life, a person's ancestry can determine their genes and, to a lesser extent, their personality and even their talents; but in fiction this extends to skills, superpowers, and even moral alignment. This inevitably leads said character into a Wangstyexistential crisis that comes completely out of left field, since they rarely ever struggled against villainous impulses before this revelation. A Card- Carrying Villain with a good family is rarely compelled towards good — though it does inform a possible Heel. It seems heroes are as insecure about their ancestry as their reputation. ![]() The inevitable conclusion to all this navel gazing is either the character going . On the other hand, this can end up being a Self- Fulfilling Prophecy, in that the angst leads to fear, then hate, then evil, as the character either does a full Face. For a comparison, the Reluctant Monster bypasses this nonsense entirely and is simply . Amazingly, sometimes it's because Evil Parents Want Good Kids. In extreme cases, this . ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Again, this twist can lead to a Shower of Angst. For some reason, the parent they get the bad blood from is usually the dad. ![]() ![]() ![]() Another twist is the son of a mighty warrior becoming a mighty warrior themselves, even if they were orphaned as a baby. See Freudian Excuse for when the Nurture position applies. Compare Lamarck Was Right for children inheriting non- moral traits that shouldn't even be genetic. A big issue for anyone with a Mad Scientist. Truly Single Parent. Creates numerous problems if the blood it is in is Royal Blood. The more light- hearted version is It Runs in the Family.
Compare Raised by Orcs, where someone raised by evil people/racesturns out good due to not actually being related to them. Compare Loser Son of Loser Dad, where everyone else thinks this will be the case. Contrast Sibling Yin- Yang, when the same blood give very different results. Source: http:// In The Legend of Korra, is revealed that Aang aided Zuko in creating the United Republic of Nations. He also married Katara and had three. All the women ate pretty healthy diets and more than likely shopped at farmer. They also probably walked to those. It's also an inversion of, but not Mutually Exclusive with Nurture over Nature, in which the person chooses their nurturing over their nature. My Goddess is a near expy of her mother, the demon and ruler of Hell, Hild. Even though she identifies as a goddess and it is her affiliation, people have told her more than once her temperament is closer to demon - or rather, nearly exactly like her mother, which is the same for all intents and purposes. This even though she was only raised by Hild for a few early years, and has been a goddess as long as she can remember. Her power is also in the leagues of her mother. However, his methods rely heavily on manipulation and devious plans .. Marianne purposely hid herself from Lelouch and make Nunnally suffer just so they can use Lelouch to draw C. C. Receiving, scheming blood from both his parents definitely helps. Schneizel, too, shows a great deal of manipulation in his behaviour. In Princess Tutu, Fakir is a descendant of Drosselmeyer. It follows that he has the same story- spinning powers as Drosselmeyer, and this ends up being crucial to the plot. The blood of the Raven will turn people towards evil and give them dark magical powers if it's somehow absorbed by their body, even if they're not related to him. Nico Olvia separated herself as much as she could from her daughter Robin when she set off to be an illegal Adventurer Archaeologist to try and keep Robin from being the . Ace himself was hunted by the Marines even before his birth because they wanted to nip the potential danger of his father's continuing bloodline in the bud. Only an extreme Mama Bear act by his mother prevented him from being found. Averted in Whitebeard's beliefs, though. Upon being informed that Ace was the son of Gold Roger (a major rival of Whitebeard), the pirate captain didn't care in the least, saying it was an inconsequential detail. During the war with the World Government, he is stabbed by one of his allies, who's crew had previously been wiped out by Roger and felt betrayed upon finding out that they were going to such lengths to save Ace. Whitebeard simply tells him that Ace himself had done nothing to the guy, and that it was ridiculous to blame Ace for his father's actions. Actually in spite of the rather crazy lineage of Luffy's family (The marine's hero, the most wanted man in the world, The future pirate king), one of the major themes of One Piece (confirmed by Word of God) is that heredity doesn't matter, and family is who you choose. Of the strawhats, only Usopp grew up with a parent related by blood, and she died when he was quite young. Of Sanji, Zoro, Nami, Chopper and Franky, none had significant blood relative parental figures, Robin only met her mother briefly, We don't know about Brook, and Luffy was raised by his grandfather until he was shipped off to stay with his grandfather's friend. Luffy also rather significantly had two brothers unrelated by blood. Either species can give birth to an species each other with no qualms as it just means they must have had some ancestor to inherit it from. In reality, they're really just useless, over- decadant blights on society who take Aristocrats Are Evil to new lows, freely owning and abusing slaves and unhesitatingly murdering people for such petty things as daring to make eye contact with them. He was easily one of the strongest Uchiha and possessed many typical Uchiha traits, but by all appearances attempted to avoid going too far overboard in the pursuit of his revenge. In fact, Itachi was more or less indifferent to revenge. His controlling factor appears to have been a weighted utilitarianism, trying to preserve the greatest possible amount of what he valued, with slight adjustments made for innocence. If he cared about revenge, he would have killed Danzou years before the story even started, for putting him in the position to choose between parricide on the one hand and dishonor and general war on the other. He certainly wouldn't have remained a loyal shinobi of Konoha, let alone implanted a Mangekyou- activated brainwashing chakra crow in Naruto to convince Sasuke to go home and protect the village before Sasuke even reached his final level of rogue. He was a very weird Uchiha. This is revealed through flashbacks, where he tries to prevent the coup from occurring, but Danzo being paranoid gets in the way. And now that Real Madara has appeared in zombie form, he seems to be a fairly equal- opportunity asshole who cares more about himself than in getting revenge for anything. Now he's an example that is horrifically played straight. Chapter 6. 19 reveals that the Uchiha Clan's tendencies of nihilism and self- destructive behavior are literally In The Blood. According to the revived Second Hokage, Uchiha experience love, friendship, and attachment more than any other clan, and are thus affected worse than anyone else at losing someone they care for. The Sharingan and its advanced forms are triggered by a change in brain chemistry caused by these negative emotions.. The entire Uchiha Clan is cursed by their core genetics to become monsters if they lose someone they love. And given the profession nearly all of them go into, losing a loved one is a near- certainty. Somewhat arguably, Yusuke from Yu. Yu Hakusho. Though it's not dwelt on much, partly because by the point in the series it comes up things have gotten to be semi- pure action, far far away from the series' roots as a chronicle of the reflective character- building experiences a delinquent can have while a ghost, probably because Togashi had gone mad with power by this point, a while after our hero has come back from the dead as a demon because of Mazoku ancestry, he has become relatively okay with the less uncivilized gradations of human- eating, and when Raizen is about to die due to self- imposed starvation offers insistently to go find him someone to eat right away. Earlier in the series he got incredibly angry about any cannibalistic tendencies, and drew huge lines between 'killing demons,' which he had done a good deal of, and 'killing humans,' which he really really did not want to have to do. Could just be an implicit redrawing of the Fantastic Racism lines, with demons no longer suffering from What Measure Is a Non- Human? So it might just be a really strange form of a perfectly reasonable Aesop, and/or Reverse Getting Crap Past the Radar due to not treating it like it's important. Intended to cause Fridge Logic, probably. So they throw him over the side of their Floating City, the woman doing the throwing whispering that she expects him to come back and please kill her first. They may or may not have been correct: yes, he is a psychopath from childhood, and actually mellows out the more grown- up he gets, and yes, judging by his facial expressions he was one evil baby, but that could be a combination of Self- Fulfilling Prophecy (though come to think of it, it doesn't), the trauma, and the fact that all babies are extremely selfish little creatures and if they were, like Hiei, sapient they probably would be kind of evil. He understood everything. They clone themselves every hundred years.). Jury is out on Yukina. She may or may not share Hiei's father's blood, and has been known to express genocidal sentiments toward her own kind. Hiei told her that if she wanted them dead she should do it herself, not rely on some imaginary brother who might be dead. Since he'd decided it was crueler to let them live, and all. She considered that movingly positive advice and smiled adorably. She did not so far as we know ever go home and kill anyone. Most of his character development as he grew up just reinforced his Blue and Orange Morality Evil, but he eventually, after a few months and under the influence of a sweet little blind girl with a perpetually runny nose whom he couldn't beat at a strategy game, developed into an honorable adult being.
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