Tropes that relate to Legacy Characters and the passing on and evolution of legacies.
Tropes:
Also see:
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: A white male hero gets a successor who is female or belongs to a minority.
- Anti-Hero Substitute: The hero's successor is less scrupulous than their predecessor.
- Bodyguard Legacy: Bodyguarding is passed down from parent to child.
- The Chosen Many
- Collective Identity: An alias is used by more than one person at the same time.
- Legacy Character: Someone takes up the hero's identity after their predecessor retired or died.
- Legacy Immortality: Every time the hero dies, someone else takes up the mantle to maintain the illusion that the hero can never die.
- Legacy Launch: The hero's predecessor comes back, resulting in the successor returning their predecessor's identity in exchange for taking up a costumed persona of their own.
- Legacy Seeker: A character is obsessed with leaving a lasting mark on the world.
- Legacy Team: A team sharing obvious and significant parallels with an older one.
- Master-Apprentice Chain: A teacher teaches a student, student becomes a teacher, then the litter's student becomes teacher.
- Passing the Torch: A person chooses someone to continue their legacy before stepping down from their position.
- The Real Remington Steele: An alias a character made up turns out later to coincidentally be a real person.
- Redeeming Replacement: A villain gets a heroic successor who aims to do good in order to make up for their predecessor's crimes.
- Retroactive Legacy: Retroactively establishing that a character is the successor of an older hero.
- Secret Legacy: The hero's parents turn out to be special and they take after them.
- Taking Up the Mantle
- Villainous Legacy: The villain is dead, but certainly not forgotten.
