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She is now a Canon Immigrant , but only briefly wore the Robin costume for a Halloween party. After Damian's resurrection and Bruce's death, Damian would leave Gotham to go on his own adventures. In his absence, various youths took the Robin symbol as their own, and they all function as a group with the Robin name. None of them work with Batman or even the rest of the Bat-family though, nor has any one member of the group referred to him or herself as Robin.

Essentially, Bruce learned all he needed to learn to become the World's Greatest Detective from a detective named Harvey Harris. Harris himself decided on the name of Robin for the disguised Bruce, as the costume reminded him of a red-breasted Robin. The reason for the disguise is that Bruce didn't want Harris to try and dissuade him from fighting crime. You'd think that Bruce would have realized this wouldn't really stop him, all things considered As you might guess, this last one was removed from continuity with the " Crisis on Infinite Earths ", and certainly no longer exists after Flashpoint.

She disappeared from Earth 2 the day her father died, and ended up on the mainstream DCU and called herself Huntress. Batman's other sidekick, Batgirl , is also a legacy character. Betty Kane was the original Bat-Girl introduced in the 's, but she was retconned out of the DCU history and then brought back again as a minor heroine called Flamebird.

Barbara Gordon became Batgirl, the "first" Batgirl in current continuity since Betty Kane never existed, and held the role until The Killing Joke , when The Joker shot and crippled her. The first actual legacy transfer occurred when the Batgirl mantle was picked up years later by Helena Bertinelli, the Huntress, when she realized the crooks were more afraid of Batman than they were of her.

This only lasted a short while however, since Batman never gave her his consent or blessing. Eventually the costume passed to Cassandra Cain, an "official" Batgirl with the consent and partnership of Batman. Cassandra unceremoniously gave up the identity in the Batgirl series and took on the new moniker of Blackbat. The cowl was picked up by Stephanie Brown, previously the Spoiler and the fourth Robin See also Robin entry above , who starred in an acclaimed but short-lived solo series before having the Batgirl mantle returned to Barbara Gordon via Cosmic Retcon.

She's never been Batgirl or Blackbat in this timeline. Batman and Robin's British counterparts aren't exempt, either. The Earl was killed by one of his archenemies, and Cyril sank into depression, ending up in the gutter, where he was found by Beryl Hutchinson. Cyril took up his father's code name, becoming the new Knight, and Beryl became the new Squire. Clayface, one of the Batman villains, has had no fewer than eight entirely different people take the name and powers.

Most of them have shapeshifting powers, and most have an additional power which is different for each individual. In an odd divergence, the original Clayface didn't actually have any powers — until he arranged to duplicate those of his three "heirs". This trope is played with in the beginning of Gotham Central , dealing with the actions of Firebug , an arsonist villain who has just returned to Gotham after a long absence. The Gotham City Police Department eventually managed to track down Joseph Rigger and arrest him after him tried to escape, only for him to reveal that he sold his costume two years ago after it almost killed him.

The real culprit is deduced and arrested, and it turns out to be an upper-class twit who bought the suit and runs around burning down banks for the adrenaline rush. An averted case with the New 52 Two-Face. There's only ever been one, Harvey Dent. But a story arc called "The Big Burn" was seemingly intended as the definitive ending for Harvey, with him committing suicide at the end of it. However, during the story, the person who made him Two-Face, Erin McKillen, gets scratches on one side of her face and becomes leader of the Blackgate inmates, which sets her up as the new Two-Face.

The Azrael identity is this. It initially belonged to Jean-Paul Valley, but he discarded it after becoming Batman. Years down the line it was picked up by Michael Lane, a cop conditioned so that he would replace Batman should the need ever arise. At the beginning of the New 52 reboot, Lane was still Azrael, but years down the line, Jean-Paul Valley was reintroduced seemingly never having been Batman , and is apparently the first Azrael.

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Batwing was an identity first used by David Zavimbe, a former child soldier and the Batman of Africa under the Batman Incorporated initiative set up by Bruce Wayne. The Batwoman identity is sort of one. The first Bat-Woman was Kathy Kane, a billionaire heiress. The character never caught on and seemingly never existed post-Crisis. But then Infinite Crisis happened, and in the pages of 52 , Kate Kane takes up the identity of Batwoman, and is seemingly the first There is no relation between the two characters, despite them having the exact same name, and the New 52 would change Kathy's name to Katrina Netz, with Kathy Kane being an alias.

The original Joker is not the same one who'd torment the Gordons , and the Joker responible for Death of the Family and Batman: Endgame is himself a third person. The Phantom is possibly the oldest legacy character in all of comics and possibly the originator of this for comic books in general. He has no powers but gives the illusion of immortality because the mantle of the Phantom is passed down from father to son in an unbroken line dating back to the s.

This was so creator Lee Falk could do stories involving Pirates, Mobsters, and everything in between. The sheer depth of history and number of Phantoms over twenty in the s alone, with some writers attempting to continue the history into the present day marks him as possibly the best example. Last Child of Krypton: In the original story, when most of the cast seeks shelter in Paradise Island , Wonder Woman reveals to Asuka that her mother was an Amazon. Then she shows Asuka her bracers which grant powers to their wearer , her lasso and her tiara and says she wants Asuka to become the next Wonder Woman.

Asuka agrees and takes up the mantle. Similarly, Kaji had been trained by Batman to become his sucessor, and later Misato wears '' Barbara Gordon's costume. Multiple examples present in the Godzilla and My Little Pony: In this timeline, Mothra Lea has both her mother, the Heisei Mothra, and the Yamato Mothra preceding her; with the line going back to the Cretaceous.

Godzilla Junior came to adulthood after his adoptive father, the Heisei Godzilla, and the Godzilla bore the mantle. Rainbow Dash is revealed to be a "Junior" in her legal name, her mother being the Generation 3 Rainbow Dash. In the Gundam SEED fanfic Chaotic Cosmos, this trope is subverted; Blue Cosmos' new leader, Cervantes, manages to convince his right hand man to pretend to be the pilot of the Freedom Gundam in order to win support from Orb which Kira Yamato, the real Freedom pilot, saved in the previous war.

Since no one had seen who the pilot actually was, all they needed was a fake Gundam so that Asmodeus could fill Kira's shoes. Equestria , at least 5 ponies have taken the title DJ-Pon3, in addition to the original. Twilight is implied to be descended from the G1 Twilight, whose family line also helped Celestia and Luna during Discord's reign.

Also Spike is actually the seventh Spike and a descendant of the original G1 Spike, all of whom operated alongside Equestria's heroes. Applejack's also descended from the original G1 Applejack. The "Where in the World is Harry Potter" trilogy by nonjon makes Nicolas Flamel one of these, furthermore when Harry Potter takes up the name, he also keeps his own, maintaining two identities with the help of a time turner.

It's his daughter, Akiko. Hiruzen, the current Yojimbo , is the second one to bear the name. It seems every General of the Sumo tribe is called Ozeki. The Queen that Jade has replaced is the 98th, with the 96th being the one that started the war. In the Shadowchasers Series , Dracula is not one being, but a title held by whatever vampire rules the others. The current Dracula is female, appearing as a young teenage girl dressed in a Goth ensemble.

She is far more benign than most of her predecessors, concentrating on trying to improve the PR of vampires in general, who are a Dying Race in this reality. In Superman story Superman of Katherine is descendant of Kara Zor-El and heiress of the Supergirl 's name. The concept is deconstructed with Hi Jenk, an utterly harmless solicitor brutally murdered by the Joker because he just happened to be a descendant of Barbara Gordon and her father Commissioner Gordon.

Death , Death is a title passed from one Pale Rider to the next. Harry Potter is the current Pale Rider and searching for the other three horsemen. Black Dumbledore reveals to Harry that Mr. Black is a persona passed down from one wizard to the next.

He was the last Mr. Black during the war on Grindewald and believes Harry must become the next Mr. Black to defeat Voldemort. He is also chosen by Master Fu to take up the mantle of guardian, looking after inactive miraculouses and choose their future wielders. Mabuse film series leaves it deliberately vague whether the later Dr. Mabuses are an example of this trope, or whether "Mabuse" is actually some kind of immortal evil entity that possesses people.

In Saw , Jigsaw trains someone to do his job after he dies. Four people , actually. In The Santa Clause , the job of being Santa was passed down whenever the old Santa died and to whoever put on the Santa suit first afterwards. It's also implied, at the end of the second movie, that spouse of whoever became Santa would gradually transform into "Mrs. Ernest Saves Christmas has a similar premise, but the passing down of the job is due to the need to "recharge" Santa's mystical capabilities, which gradually fade as someone carries out the job. No dying necessary, but on the other hand, it puts Christmas in jeopardy.

Another similar example, Aardman's Arthur Christmas has the job of Santa be passed down from father to son. Each have been replaced in-series at least once. Q Major Boothroyd was played by Desmond Llewellyn from to The Quartermaster did not appear in the new continuity until Skyfall , in which Ben Whishaw plays the new Q. Similarly, Robert Brown took over the role of M in Octopussy after Bernard Lee's death, although it was ambiguous whether he was playing a new character or the old M recast. The James Bond character himself is actually a kind-of Meta Example now on his 6th incarnation Daniel Craig after 24 movies over 53 years.

There's even a theory that "James Bond, " is just an alias given to different men. Though given a wink in On Her Majesty's Secret Service "This never happened to the other fella " and a plot point in the Bond spoof Casino Royale , the Codename Theory is still highly controversial among fans. It raises the questions of why Moore, Dalton and implied Brosnan all grieve for the same dead wife, and why they are all friends with Felix Leiter although Leiter himself has been played by many actors, which raises even more questions , and why they all have the same backstory and are occasionally identified as "James Bond" by people from their pre-agency days.

Not to mention that this practice would only highlight the fact that this person is a British secret agent, not obscure it. But even then, that means assuming the movies are in roughly chronological order and take place around the time they were released that Connery's Bond served up until the early s, which by itself is fine, but that also means the Lazenby-Moore-Dalton-Brosnan Bond, using the most generous estimates, served as from the early s to the late s, around thirty years.

The timeline looks a little better if you assume Brosnan-Bond and Craig-Bond are the same person and ignore the implied Brosnan wife-grievery, making it Connery up to the early '70s , Lazenby-Moore-Dalton late '60s to late '80s and Brosnan-Craig mid-'90s to present and assuming they've all been for about twenty years a piece. The xXx movies actually do take a codename approach as the Triple X designation is given on to the NSA's top field agent, whoever it may be.

State of the Union , and a third unnamed character were given this name. The eponymous hero of the Deathstalker franchise is always known simply as Deathstalker. Not The Deathstalker, just The mantle of Deathstalker is taken up by three different heroes of varying degrees of heroism throughout the franchise.

The Dark Knight Trilogy invokes this a few times. In Batman Begins , the reveal that Henri Ducard is Ra's al-Ghul is given this explanation in the novelization, in which the name Ra's al-Ghul is a title handed down to the leader of the League of Shadows from generation to generation to carry on the League's work.

The first incarnation freed the first of the resistance and founded Zion, while Neo is prophesied to free humanity from the Matrix entirely. The sequel , however, reveals that there have been a total of five "Ones" who came before Neo, and that the so-called "prophecy" is really just a big Xanatos Gambit of the machines that perpetuates a cycle of regularly reloading the Matrix to continue enslaving humanity.

Zorro in various adaptations, from the movie Don Q: The film serial and feature film versions of The Phantom both follow the comic in having the hero inherit a heroic legacy from his father. Destoroyah ends with Godzilla's death, with the massive energy let out from the Super-Power Meltdown reviving his son and turning him into a full-grown Godzilla.

However, this was never followed up on, as the next movie was an Alternate Continuity. Mothra is implied to reincarnate through her offspring. At last count we're up to eleven Mothras, including Mothra Leo. That, and the original character Griffin was an Ax-Crazy psychopathic rapist, which would've been harder to squeeze into a heroic role than the film's formula-stealing burglar. Several exist in the Star Wars universe.

Perhaps most notable are Jango Fett and Boba Fett, who becomes the best bounty hunter in the galaxy just like his genetic dad was twenty years prior. After the original Chatterer was killed in Hellbound: Bloodline and Torso in Hellraiser: Inferno showed up, with a new Chatterer dubbed Chatterer III, even though Chatterer II was merely just the original with enhancements eventually appearing. In The A-Team film, when the CIA operative who calls himself "Lynch" is introduced, one character remarks that he once knew someone who used the same moniker. At the end of the film, when Lynch is being taken away, another character also introduces himself as Lynch.

Shaft features the titular ex-detective, played by Samuel L. Jackson , getting a pep talk from his uncle and namesake both are named John Shaft , the original "bad mother Unlike most slasher movie villains , Ghostface from Scream is killable; the trouble is there's more than one. In order, they are: Billy and Stu in the original film , Mrs. Loomis and Mickey in the second , Roman in the third , and Jill and Charlie in the fourth. Despite being several different people, they use voice masking when talking to their victims over the phone; the same actor does the phone voice throughout the series, and retains a similar personality, despite the various personalities the killers display when not in costume.

In the movie Beerfest , When the character of Landfill is killed, his identical Backup Twin brother, Gil, appears, stating that he has the same knowlege of beerdrinking as Landfill would like to take his place and would be honored if they would refer to him as Landfill in tribute. It's as if he never left Jason Voorhees almost became one in Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning , but poor reception forced him to return from the dead in the next sequel. Frankenstein in the Death Race movies, although that fact is a carefully guarded secret.

It's only mentioned once, but Fix-It Felix Junior's magic hammer was passed down to him from his father, who presumably was the original Fix-It Felix making the former's game something of a remake or sequel. We never hear much about Felix's status as a legacy character, but Word of God has stated that the "original" Felix Sr. In The Wolverine , the Silver Samurai was a mythic figure of Ichiro's Family and a standard samurai , protector of the Yashida Clan, Ichiro built his armor to resemble the original Silver Samurai, so to metaphorically become the protector of the Yashida Clan himself.

There's been 37 Dolans so far, and they're replaced because while Kaulder is Really Years Old , they're mortals. The " Black Panther " is the mantle that has been passed down through countless generations from warrior to warrior as the chief sovereign and protector of Wakanda. They appear to pass on the job giving up their names in the process every 60 years or so. This appears to involve a prophecy with three parts that is used to choose the next successor. Throughout the movie, the Monk is grooming a pickpocket named Kar for the role. At the end, though, he realizes that he has two successors Kar and Jade , who must now share the burden.

In Der Wixxer , the titular character is one. Within two movies, four different people have worn the Wixxer's mask. In The Princess Bride , we have the Dread Pirate Roberts, where the previous Roberts handed the title over to another when he wanted to retire. And so forth — there have been about half a dozen Dread Pirate Robertses by the time of the book.

In the Science Fiction novel Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future by Mike Resnick, the revolutionary anarchist Santiago is eventually revealed to be the title that different successors took. The titular characters of Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality novels. The protagonist of the first novel became Death when he killed the previous Death. Time passes his title on to someone else at the moment when he was originally born, and the three personas of Fate can pass their titles on to someone of the appropriate age whenever they choose.

War loses his title whenever all war ends, and when it restarts, the most warlike person on Earth takes the title. Neither Gaia nor Satan are the first with their titles, either. And in book seven of the octology, an election is held to replace God. Presumably, it's possible to have a new Nox eighth book , but it's never happened - current office-holder Kerena created her position.

On the villain side, there's the Black Tulip. The Belgariad Subverted with Belgarath and Polgara. The Tolnedrans refuse to believe that any kind of sorcery or magic can exist, so to settle the argument as to how Belgarath and Polgara can live so long, they decide that "Belgarath" and "Polgara" are hereditary titles that are passed down to each generation.

But first played straight with Eternal Salmissra, the Queen of the snake-worshipping Nyissans. When the current Salmissra is advancing in age, palace eunuchs will search the country for 20 look-alikes of the original Salmissra and train them in remote locations to act as much as the original Salmissra as possible. When the new "Eternal Salmissra" is selected, the 19 who didn't make the cut are killed. Talk about motivation to become the character.

And then subverted after the current Salmissra upsets Polgara by kidnapping Garion and nearly making him her slave, with the intent of turning him over to Torak in exchange for immortality. You'd think the Nyissans had learned from their predecessors not to make her or Belgarath angry, as that ploy had been used on them before.

Polgara grants Salmissra the immortality she wanted, but also turns her into a giant snake. And then there's Brand, the Rivan Warder. Always a solid and dependable person, completely loyal to the Rivan Throne , who gives up his own name when he takes on the function as Rivan Warder. In Robin Jarvis ' Deptford Mice books, there is a dynasty of female squirrel monarchs known as Starwives.

The Starwives go back a long way. The HMS Oberon was a British diesel submarine, an iron tub capable of reaching seventeen miles per hour and armed with thirty torpedoes. The new Oberon , a monstrous tower made out of a superstrong composite, could go seventeen miles per second and could easily wipe out all the navies of the 20th century combined.

In Help I'm A Teenaged Outlaw , Tom inherited the role of the highwayman Swiftnick from his mother, who inherited it from her father who might have been intended as the historic Swift Nick. The various incarnations of the Enterprise NCC In fact, many ships in Star Trek: The Original Series have counterparts in Star Trek: The Next Generation , though not all are similar to the originals in design.

The Enterprise NCC is widely assumed to be the only ship in Starfleet to have its serial number recycled consistently, which is a testament to the importance of Kirk's five-year mission and subsequent voyages in Federation history. At least one possible future - and probably all of them - has a ship named Enterprise with the serial number NCC J in this particular future, a ''Universe''-class ship in operation in the 26th century , which means the serial number has been carried on for three hundred years and borne by eleven different vessels.

Directly referenced in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise where Captain Archer and Shran look at his office wall with images of past vessels named Enterprise, with Shran mentioning his ship was named after the first ice-breaking ship to travel around Andoria. They then go on to wonder if future ships would be inspired by their adventures. Lampshaded at the end of Star Trek: Generations where Picard remarks that he doubts that the wrecked Enterprise -D will be the last ship to bear the name Enterprise. And again in Star Trek: So much for the Enterprise -E. We barely knew her.

Think they'll build another one? There are plenty of letters left in the alphabet. But Coraje is gone. Nobody knows what has happened to him, or heard about him in months. That is not important. The people does not know who is behind the cloak. If Coraje is gone, he won't mind for someone else to put on a similar cloak and be the new Coraje. Who is your grandfather now? In a somewhat controversial move, the rock band KISS has passed the makeup characters of the Spaceman and Catman on to new members Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer respectively following the departures of original members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss in the early s Frehley left in Criss departed in , returned in , and left again in , replaced by Singer both times.

This move is in contrast to the pair's original exit in the early 80s, when their replacements Vinnie Vincent and Eric Carr, respectively, with Singer taking up his first drummer stint with the band after Carr died in the early 90's were given unique personas. One of the earliest and longest running legacy characters in professional wrestling was The Masked Marvel, who was best known for his work in EMLL as Maravilla Enmascarada but goes back to at least , two years before EMLL opened, as revealed when one was unmasked to reveal Johnny Plumber. There have since been at least 54 men and at least one woman to take up the black leather mask.

The precise number could be higher but its hard to tell as even though the entire point of the gimmick was for The Masked Marvel to eventually be unmasked before a new one showed up, many of them never revealed who they really were. Wrestlings or as many as it's hard to say who has "authority" on these things when discussing pro wrestling, but the is probably a thematic choice for the Japanese promotion, making 6 or 36 a safer bet. Complicating the issue is that many wore masks, so there could have been more than one Mr. Wrestling II, for example.

Wrestling II was involved in an angle where he defeated and unmasked an imposter The Mr. Wrestling gimmick is closely tied to the masked Grappler gimmick. In , Angelo Poffo donned a mask while in Championship Wrestling From Florida , claiming to be the original Grappler but lost in a mask vs mask match against the current user of the gimmick who most likely had been doing at least before Poffo.

This later lead to The Grappler and Mr. Wrestling facing off in a mask vs mask match, the Grappler changing his name to Mr. Wrestling 2 after winning. But another Grappler showed up in the s, managed by Jim Cornette. An "official" Grappler 3 later became a mainstay for Pro Wrestling Revolution in the mid s. In Japanese Professional Wrestling or puroresu , as the cool kids call it , both Tiger Mask and his arch-rival, Black Tiger, have been played by four different wrestlers, and this is framed as the handing-down of a legacy.

Tiger Mask is always a Japanese wrestler, and Black Tiger is always a foreigner. Also the real identity of Black Tiger is publicly known, while Tiger Mask is kept secret. Samson Kutsuwada was Ultra Tiger Mask before anyone in front of a Japanese crowd got the idea, but that happened in Korea and usually isn't counted. This never stopped being popular in Mexican wrestling or lucha libre either, due to the preponderance of masked wrestlers there.

Another Lucha Libre example is El Hijo del Santo, who inherited his mask from his father, the legendary El Santo , shortly before the latter died. Doink the Clown is an identity that has been donned by various wrestlers through the years, no less than 12 in WWE alone.

There have been no less than 11 men to take up the identity of Jerry Lawler 's nemesis, Lord Humongous. Though with Lawler's semi retirement, Lord Humongous has moved on to antagonizing other wrestlers. In , AAA decided to enforce their trademark of the original character and Escobedo dropped the Jr. Styles at least got a popular Four Horsemen type group called Fourtune In the late fifties through the sixties there was a professional wrestler known as Sweet Georgia Brown, a name which would be taken up by another woman after she died in then another USWA wrestler in the nineties after Jacqueline Moore stopped using that ring name.

A team which would be resurrected as a jobber team who would eventually be taken over by Edge and Christian later in the WWF. He was a bit late at the last part, his father being Super Medico 1.

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Generally, anytime you see The Spider Lady it is a safe bet she'll be losing. She actually started out with a winning record in , but her repeated failures to defeat Wendi Richter gave her a jobber image that she failed to shake off by Helping cement it was when the Spider Lady finally defeated Richter, "she"was unmasked to reveal The Fabulous Moolah , who most definitely was not the original since Moolah had previously been her manager.

Whoever put the mask back on after Moolah died maintained a losing record. Bruiser Brody has inspired several, the most famous of them likely being Brodie Lee , if only because of the name and uncanny resemblance. The s NOW comic, which did not have the rights to the Ranger, could only allude to this, but established that the Hornet identity was itself a legacy, featuring the nephew of the TV Hornet, who in turn was revealed to be the nephew of the radio character.

Red Panda Adventures had the Red Squirrel, the Flying Squirrel's great-great-granddaughter, who came back in time because one of her Rogues Gallery was trying to wipe our heroes out and prevent her from existing. She may or may not also be the Red Panda's great-great-granddaughter In the Australian Football League , the "father-son rule" is designed to make it easier for clubs to recruit the children of former players.

In some sports leagues, when a city regains a sports team after an old one moves away or folds, the new team often takes up the legacy, history, and often the name of the previous team. The current iteration of the Canadian National Hockey League Team the Winnipeg Jets, took up the former name and legacy of the team that moved out in the mids. The original Jets currently exist as the Phoenix Coyotes. Lesser known is the Ottawa Senators, named after Ottawa's former team who won The Stanley Cup ten times before moving and folding the current Senators have banners for the old one's conquests.

The following Major League Baseball teams are named after minor league clubs which played in the same city before the arrival of the major league club: The previous Montreal Alouettes folded in , played under a new name from , came back as the Alouettes in , and then folded again in Averted with the CFL's expansion team, the Ottawa Redblacks, who took up the legacy, the history, and even the colors of the two previous teams to play in Ottawa specifically the Roughriders , but took up the name Redblacks in order for the CFL to keep the One Steve Limit.

There have been two different National Football League teams named the Colts. The second started in in Baltimore, where the first had folded in , shortly after being taken over from the All-American Football Conference. Some Football historians make a convincing case tracing the Colts back all the way to the Dayton Triangles that were founded in and played in the "Ohio League" before the NFL - and most of its current teams - even existed.

The "Texans" name was in turn taken up by Lamar Hunt of the upstart American Football League for the team that is now the Kansas City Chiefs - rumor has it Hunt would have stuck with the Texans name even in Kansas City had the mayor not convinced him otherwise. The expansion team for Houston is of course also named the Texans but neither claims nor has any connection besides the name to either "Dallas Texans".

A more straight example would be the Cleveland Browns. From a functional perspective, the Browns players and staff moved to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Ravens, and a new expansion team started up in Cleveland three years later, complete with an expansion draft to build its roster. However, Cleveland was able to retain the history of the Browns, and is officially noted as "having suspended operations for three years" while the Ravens are officially the "expansion" team.

Notably, this allowed the Ravens to be again, officially the fastest team in modern NFL history to win a championship after officially coming into existence a mere four years after the move , while the Browns suffered all the shortcomings of an actual expansion team despite being a long-running franchise, which, combined with inept management, has prevented them from achieving much of anything since the move.

In this case, there's a lot more emphasis on the Dread part of the equation. Every time an Eldar Phoenix Lord dies, their soul is absorbed into the armor they wear. The next wearer of the armor adds their expertise to the knowledge and skills of all the prior Phoenix Lords, back to the first one whose name they still bear. No wonder these people can take on armies all by themselves.

Commander Brightsword of the Farsight Enclaves is the 7th in the line to take up that name since the original Brightsword joined Farsight's "The Eight" decades ago. Commander Farsight himself is rumored to be this as well by the Empire's Ethereals, as he's pushing for a species that considers 40 to be old. However, the Dawn Blade is keeping him alive instead. In the spinoff Gorkamorka , the Red Gobbo is whoever's leading the Rebel Grots faction at any given point. Unlike most identities on this page, the harsh world and simultaneously squishy and treacherous nature of gretchin mean that the turnover is so fast you randomly determine the Red Gobbo's stats at the beginning of each game.

Warhammer King Orion of the Wood Elves is immortal, but his existence is tied to the seasons. As a result, he willingly passes into his own funeral pyre every winter. While that is going on, a Prince is chosen to bare Orion's mantle the following year. The prince is taken to the oak of ages, where he is sculpted and remodled to look like Orion, and merges with the spirit of Kurnous, god of the hunt, whom Orion is the avatar of.

Each Orion does have all the memories of their predecessors so they technically are the same person, but each incarnation has a different personality. Set "Future Sight" introduced a cycle of five legacy characters, each holding the title of a former legend from Magic history. Also, Tetsuo Umezawa from the Legends expansion set is apparently an official descendant of Toshiro Umezawa from the much later Betrayers of Kamigawa set and of Jitte fame among players.

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This may qualify more as a Shout-Out , though, since the characters or at least their cards seem to have little in common beyond the family name and their legendary status. This card's name and flavor text imply he is a singular person. Why isn't he a legendary creature? Because there isn't just one Fraction Jackson. There is a Golden Age version. There is a Silver Age version. There is the Modern Age version, of course. There is the African American version that showed up in the seventies when the Silver Age version was briefly incapacitated.

There, is of course, the alien version that retroactively predated the Golden Age version.

There is the female version that briefly wore the costume during the scandal of Secret Crisis Conflict. Well, you get the idea. The Legend of Zelda: While Zelda is always reincarnated in her own bloodline and has the blood of a goddess , Link can be anyone , though somehow he always looks similar to his predecessors. That said, some Links are related by blood. Link and Zelda are always reincarnated at about the same time, and inevitably draw Ganondorf or another evil force to attack Hyrule or a neighboring region.

Thankfully, their reincarnations also wield the Triforce of Courage and Wisdom respectively, so they are usually but not always strong enough to force the evil back. The book Hyrule Historia makes note that "Link" is often just a name that the storytellers of series' "legends" give to the hero after the fact, regardless of their real name: Even games which note that the new Link has the same legacy clothes, legacy weapons, and legacy soul as his predecessor never mention whether he has the same name as the previous hero, or what that hero's given name was, only that he was the Hero of Time, Winds, Men, etc.

Apparently, while it had always been common to name Hylian princesses "Zelda" in honor of the one from Skyward Sword , it wasn't until much later when the name became mandatory in that particular Alternate Timeline at least. The brother of the Zelda from The Adventure of Link grew jealous of her mystical abilities, but his plan to take her power resulted in her entering an "eternal" sleep.

Feeling guilty, he made a royal decree that all princesses of the Hyrule line shall be named "Zelda. Word of God says he's dead for good in The Wind Waker timeline. That said, even he serves as the reincarnation of a previous villain, Demise. Multiple recurring characters Impa, Malon, Tingle, Beedle, etc. Jack of Blades in Fable is not one man, but a series of men who have all been deceived into wearing Jack's Mask and becoming possessed.

The titular character is a mass-produced product, so each game stars a Chibi-Robo that is owned by a different person. The Snakes in the Metal Gear , specifically the two that appeared as playable characters throughout the series: Snake Eater , who are both addressed simply as Snake by other characters in the games they appeared in. Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake Big Boss's two other "sons" from the Les Enfants Terribles cloning project introduced in the original Metal Gear Solid , despite also inheriting the "Snake" codename, are simply referred by their adjectives Liquid and Solidus.

Portable Ops , Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes , despite having already been awarded the "Big Boss" codename by the end of Snake Eater and is even referred as such in promotional materials and character introductions. Metal Gear Solid V: Guns of the Patriots. He is ultimately revealed to be a body double who was brainwashed and surgically altered to look and act like the real Big Boss, essentially serving as the previously unknown fifth Snake. The indie game I Wanna Be the Guy has a ridiculous example of this; the titular "The Guy" that your character wants to be is a mantle that was handed down through several well-known 8- and bit video game characters The version of Donkey Kong that first appeared in Donkey Kong Country is the grandson or possibly just son, depending on who you ask of the giant ape who antagonized Mario in the original arcade game.

And, in fact, the original Donkey Kong appears in that game as "Cranky Kong", an elderly ape complete with long white beard and cane. Raidou Kuzunoha has an in-universe example; the player character, who can be given any name, is known by almost everyone in-game as "Raidou Kuzunoha", and he is the fourteenth person to take up the mantle of the eponymous Devil Summoner. There are four families of Devil Summoners with such a system in Japan, all using the surname Kuzunoha: Raidou, Geirin, Kyouji, and an unnamed fourth Summoner lineage.

City of Heroes has an in-universe Legacy Character in Manticore, the Alternate Company Equivalent of Batman, who took up his father's mantle after watching his murder by one of his enemies. The Overlord games follow different Evil Overlords in each game, with the second game following the son of the one from the first game while Overlord: Dark Legends follows one of his predecessors. Lutz in Phantasy Star. Although Lutz has been dead for ages, his successors inherit his will and memory and become the next Lutz, which is a very important secret role in Esper society, and extremely confining.

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This is why Rune is gallivanting around Motavia when you first meet him; he's Number Five. Tekken has Yoshimitsu highly suspected to be descended from the Soul Series character of the same name , King who is in fact King II from the third game onwards , Kuma who from the third game onwards is the second Kuma , Asuka who is the niece of Jun, who only appeared in the second game and is presumed killed , Hwoarang Baek's student , Christie Eddy's student , Roger Jr.

Roger's wife and son and the Jack robots who are all updated versions of the previous one. She breathed deeply of the scents of horse and hay as she ambled through the dusty structure, then opened the side door and walked into the llama's pasture. The male immediately approached her and nuzzled her cheek as she slung her arm around him. However, her relaxation ended abruptly when the animal stiffened and emitted a shrill cry.

Following the animal's gaze, Phoenix saw CJ standing on the other side of the corral with his arms folded on the top board. I wanted to be sure you were okay. I'm not sure I've ever been okay or ever will be. How can I find normal or happy when I don't think I've experienced those things? How can I ever be happy knowing that? If it hadn't been that night, he would have killed her another way. Phoenix let that statement sink in. One part of her brain knew that was true.

So why did she cling to the blame for Charlene's death? Maybe she was afraid to move forward. I'm an optimist whose rose-colored glasses have bent frames and cracked lenses. When life kicks me in the teeth, I find miracles and lessons I refused to learn an easier way.

In fact, I live with a small herd of miracles in the furry forms of dogs, who are constantly trying to teach me to forgive, to play more, and to love without limits. I write about people who find courage and integrity in the darkest times of their lives, who rescue stray dogs and kittens, who find a person they would willingly give their lives for, and who make their little corners of the world a better place.

People have remarked my stories "aren't what they expected. I invite you to share a piece of my world in the pages of a book, and hope you find some surprises, some tears, some laughter, and always a happy ending. Linda Mercury My page at Amazon: Published on July 09, The description of the drink.

The Charming Man and I took a sneak getaway to Seattle a few weeks ago. By happenstance, we stopped by a small gem of a bar called Suite in downtown. As a romance writer, I had to try The Fabio!

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If you can't read the description on the picture, this is what it says: I can't believe it's gin! It was a very pretty drink, and delicious, too. It was a lovely shade of pink, with a light froth on the top. A perfect cooling drink to sip on a warm summer day. If you ever find yourself in Seattle, I really recommend this place! Published on July 06, A highly intimate question. I'm writing a fellatio scene and I want to do it from a man's point of view.

What it is about fellatio that you enjoy? The tightness, the visual? And give me your emotions, too. What goes on in your brain and heart during that time? Do you touch her? Tell me what would make this scene come alive for a male reader. I really want to avoid language that involves words like "member" or "manhood", because those make me laugh, and I'm assuming it would make you laugh. Or does the thought of someone thinking of your equipment another giggler, but I'm trying to be delicate here, if not in the manuscript as your essence excite you?

And remember, this is for posterity, so be honest. Quick, name that quote! Published on July 03, Dracula's Desires now available in paperback!! Published on June 27, A little something for your Monday. Some singing and dancing Meryl Streep! And if the video doesn't work, here's the link. Published on June 24, Vampire Elite by Irina Argo. Please welcome Irina Argo, and her new book, Vampire Elite! Check out the giveaway at Rafflecopter! Follow the rest of the tour over at the Twitter hashtag: The Vampire Elite, the strongest among vampires, forced the race of immortal beings, the Amiti to become their blood suppliers, called bloodstock, locking them in their underground cells and treating them like livestock.

The surviving free Amiti make a final attempt to strike back. The Queen of Amiti is proclaimed a traitor and is executed. Her death signifies the rise of a new Queen, her young daughter Arianna who becomes the last hope of her dying race. Arianna totally embraces her mission and is ready to fight for her people to the last drop of her blood but encounters an unexpected challenge—the vampire King Tor. They both are captured into a trap of love where they had to make an ultimate choice; to kill the loved one or to let their races die.

Vampire Elite is the epic story of a bitter conflict between two peoples, and the effect of that conflict on everyone living in its grip. The characters are driven to love and betrayal, vengeance and sacrifice in a world without easy black-and-white answers. Based on an ancient Egyptian legend, packed with action and intrigue, Vampire Elite will pull you into the entrancing world of immortals and open new portals into their hidden universe. As the auctioneer spoke, two Sekhmi in eveningwear—a male carrying an elegant dagger and a female girl.