title: Descendant
text: # Descendant
  
  Descendant(s) or descendent(s) may refer to:
  
  ## Books
  
  * "The Descendant" (short story), a short story by early 20th-century science-fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft
  * The Descendants (novel), a 2007 novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings
  
  ## Film and television
  
  * Descendant (2003 film), a thriller film starring Katherine Heigl and Jeremy London
  * Descendants (2008 film), an animated short film, Winner Tokyo Anime Award 2009
  * Descendents (2008 film), a Chilean experimental horror film
  * The Descendants, a 2011 American drama film directed by Alexander Payne with George Clooney
  * The Descendants (2015 film), an Iranian film directed by Yaser Talebi
  * Descendants (franchise), a Disney Channel television film franchise
     * Descendants (2015 film), the television film that started the above franchise
     * Descendants (soundtrack), the soundtrack for the television film
  * Descendant (2022 film), Netflix documentary
  * "Descendants", a Series D episode of the television series QI (2006)
  
  ## Music
  
  * Descendents, a punk rock band from southern California
  
  ## Other
  
  * A type of node (element) in a tree structure
  * A subordinate in a hierarchy
  * Descendant (astrology), the western horizon-point directly opposite from the eastern horizon; also known as the ascendant (the rising sign); point at which the Sun sets in the west
  