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* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Sara Waite has one fucked up family. Let's see... Her daddy is Gothmog, Demon Lord of Lust and Perversion; her mother mutated into a freakish Deep One thing that drives Sara (then known as Michael) insane when (the then) he killed her; the Necromancer is her uncle; her blood-sister is the ultimate [[strike: elvish]] Faerie Queen; her family tree includes several Great Old Ones; Tennyo, if actually part of the Mythos, is possibly a relative, and therefore SociopathicHero and Franchise/HelloKitty fan, Jade, would be too (adopted); Sara herself is an omnisexual, tentacle-raping, part-demon, part-were, part-fey, part-Deep One, part-Great Old One, part-human who is supposed to destroy the world, but decided to ScrewDestiny.
** The Wilkins family have been described as a pack of [[SmugSnake self-aggrandizing weasels]] with a collective case of ChronicBackstabbingDisorder. They are all highly competent in their individual criminal fields (though some of their specializations are ''very'' narrow, e.g., custom lair construction; tailored supersuits for villains; themed super-vehicle customization; etc.), and would be a force to reckon with if they could stop their in-fighting for more than a few minutes at a time, but they never do.
** Eisenmadel's family is almost as big a mess as Carmilla's. Her ''great''-grandfather was the [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi Theme Agent]] The Green Knight. While her grandmother, the original Eisenmadel, rejected her father's beliefs and became an anti-Fascist superheroine. Then her ''mother'' join with the branch of the family which clung to [[TheRemnant The Fourth Reich's]] attempts to subvert the US government, with Erica herself joining her grandparents in opposing them.
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* [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon The]] [[Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon McMahon]] [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon family]]. At any given second during the heyday of the Wrestling/AttitudeEra, you can count on a ton of dysfunction going on with this family, usually as a result of Wrestling/VinceMcMahon. Even when it seems like they're all one big happy family, it's usually the result of one of them pulling a complicated [[ThePlan plan]]. Just to give you an idea of how screwed up this family is, Wrestling/TheUndertaker kidnapped daughter Wrestling/{{Stephanie|McMahon}} in order to convince Vince to hand over the company to him...and then it was revealed that Vince was Undertaker's [[Wrestling/TheCorporation "Higher]] [[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness Power"]] and the person telling him to pull off this scheme in the first place, which means that Vince basically had his own daughter kidnapped. And that's not even going into all of the crap from 2000. This quote sums them up nicely:

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* [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon The]] [[Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon McMahon]] [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon family]]. At any given second during the heyday of the Wrestling/AttitudeEra, you can count on a ton of dysfunction going on with this family, usually as a result of Wrestling/VinceMcMahon. Even when it seems like they're all one big happy family, it's usually the result of one of them pulling a complicated [[ThePlan plan]]. Just to give you an idea of how screwed up this family is, Wrestling/TheUndertaker kidnapped daughter Wrestling/{{Stephanie|McMahon}} in order to convince Vince to hand over the company to him...and then it was revealed that Vince was Undertaker's [[Wrestling/TheCorporation "Higher]] [[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness Power"]] and the person telling him to pull off this scheme in the first place, which means that Vince basically had his own daughter kidnapped. And that's not even going into all of the crap from 2000. [[note]]Or all the RealLife crap from 2021 onward that got him [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor booted from his own company]][[/note]] This quote sums them up nicely:
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** ''Film/Godzilla2014'': The Brody family. After the death of his wife Sandra in a nuclear plant incident (on his birthday, no less), Joe becomes obsessed with trying to learn why it happened, becoming estranged from their son Ford. Fifteen years later, Ford is grown, with a wife and son, and still not on good terms with his dad.
** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': The Russells. After the death of their son Andrew in the Battle of San Francisco, Emma and Mark divorce, and Mark becomes estranged from their daughter Madison, who stays in her mother's custody. Five years later, their family drama results in giant monsters running amok and destroying the world, nearly driving humankind to extinction.
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* Music/MelanieMartinez's Music/CryBaby has one. Her mom is a [[spoiler:murderous]] alcoholic, her dad has a mistress and is implied to be a ProfessionalKiller, her older brother does drugs, and Cry Baby herself has issues that only get [[SanitySlippage worse later]]. They also [[StepfordSmiler go out of their way to appear normal and happy]]. "Dollhouse" and "Sippy Cup" are about them.

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* Music/MelanieMartinez's Music/CryBaby Music/{{Cry Baby|Album}} has one. Her mom is a [[spoiler:murderous]] alcoholic, her dad has a mistress and is implied to be a ProfessionalKiller, her older brother does drugs, and Cry Baby herself has issues that only get [[SanitySlippage worse later]]. They also [[StepfordSmiler go out of their way to appear normal and happy]]. "Dollhouse" and "Sippy Cup" are about them.
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** The [[ComicBook/XMen Lensherr]]/[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Maximoff]]/[[ComicBook/TheInhumans Amaquelin]]/Android/Dane family is screwed up in so many ways. [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto The patriarch]]'s a WellIntentionedExtremist supervillain with a terrible case of HeelFaceRevolvingDoor, [[ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} the son]]'s a JerkAss SmugSuper bigot with marital problems, [[Characters/ScarletWitch the daughter]]'s insane, [[ComicBook/{{Polaris}} the other daughter]] has mental health issues of her own, [[ComicBook/TheVision the son-in-law]]'s an android, the grandkids have [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers their own problems]], and everybody keeps losing track of just how many family members there are. (Given that Magneto and [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Professor X]] apparently share a soul or some such, we can throw Legion and all of the X-Men (as Charles's adopted children) in there as well. The fact that Vision being Ultron's son links them to the aforementioned Pym family does nothing to help.)

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** The [[ComicBook/XMen Lensherr]]/[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Maximoff]]/[[ComicBook/TheInhumans Amaquelin]]/Android/Dane family is screwed up in so many ways. [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto The patriarch]]'s a WellIntentionedExtremist supervillain with a terrible case of HeelFaceRevolvingDoor, [[ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} the son]]'s a JerkAss SmugSuper bigot with marital problems, [[Characters/ScarletWitch the daughter]]'s insane, [[ComicBook/{{Polaris}} [[Characters/XMen60sMembers the other daughter]] has mental health issues of her own, [[ComicBook/TheVision the son-in-law]]'s an android, the grandkids have [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers their own problems]], and everybody keeps losing track of just how many family members there are. (Given that Magneto and [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Professor X]] apparently share a soul or some such, we can throw Legion and all of the X-Men (as Charles's adopted children) in there as well. The fact that Vision being Ultron's son links them to the aforementioned Pym family does nothing to help.)
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** There's also the can of worms that is the [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Summers_Family Summers family]]. First, there's the fact Christopher Summers became the {{Space Pirate|s}} [[Characters/{{Starjammers}} Corsair]] when an alien spaceship attacked while he was on vacation with his wife Kathrine and their sons Alex (AKA ComicBook/{{Havok}}) and Scott (AKA [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]]). The two boys were parachuted out of the plane by their mother and the landing caused a head injury to Scott which rendered him unable to [[PowerIncontinence control]] his mutant ability. After being abducted Christopher and Katherine's third son Gabriel was ripped out of his mother by evil alien D'ken after he killed her, which led to Gabriel being artificially aged and raised/used as a slave by the Shi'ar, getting trapped on Krakoa while it was sent into space and promptly [[GoMadFromTheIsolation going nuts]], murdering D'Ken, becoming evil and marrying Deathbird. Back on Earth, Scott had a baby with the clone of [[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean Grey]] created by Mr. Sinister (AKA [[Characters/MarvelComicsMadelynePryor Madelyne Pryor]]). The baby Nathan Summers grew up to become the badass AntiHero ComicBook/{{Cable}} who himself has an evil clone called Stryfe. Cable adopted a miracle baby whom he named [[Characters/GenerationHope Hope]] who is destined to be the mutant messiah. Also, from the ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'', there's Cable's counterpart and half-brother, [[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan Nate Grey]], made from Scott and Jean's genetic material by Mr. Sinister (who [[ShipperOnDeck can't get enough]] of Scott and Jean) to be a {{Tykebomb}} directed at [[Characters/MarvelComicsApocalypse Apocalypse]] and then burn out and die afterwards, who migrated over to the main reality. [[Characters/XMen80sMembers Rachel Summers]] is Scott and Jean's daughter from a [[ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast dystopian alternate reality]] who's compared (by Wolverine, who would know) to a Holocaust survivor, and from another alternate reality, there's Ruby Summers, because Scott [[ReallyGetsAround can never keep it in his pants]] and slept with [[Characters/MarvelComicsEmmaFrost Emma Frost]] giving birth to Ruby (Ditto for Megan Summers). It's also worth noting a lot of these heroes in this family, like Cyclops, Havok, Jean and Nate (though the latter's was at least well-intentioned), have all [[FaceHeelTurn turned evil]] at some point. And that's not counting the ancestors. In short, X-Men family trees may be messed up but they've still got nothing on the Big Screwed-Up Family that is the Grey-Summers clan.

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** There's also the can of worms that is the [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Summers_Family Summers family]]. First, there's the fact Christopher Summers became the {{Space Pirate|s}} [[Characters/{{Starjammers}} Corsair]] when an alien spaceship attacked while he was on vacation with his wife Kathrine and their sons Alex (AKA ComicBook/{{Havok}}) [[Characters/XMen60sMembers Havok]]) and Scott (AKA [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]]). The two boys were parachuted out of the plane by their mother and the landing caused a head injury to Scott which rendered him unable to [[PowerIncontinence control]] his mutant ability. After being abducted Christopher and Katherine's third son Gabriel was ripped out of his mother by evil alien D'ken after he killed her, which led to Gabriel being artificially aged and raised/used as a slave by the Shi'ar, getting trapped on Krakoa while it was sent into space and promptly [[GoMadFromTheIsolation going nuts]], murdering D'Ken, becoming evil and marrying Deathbird. Back on Earth, Scott had a baby with the clone of [[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean Grey]] created by Mr. Sinister (AKA [[Characters/MarvelComicsMadelynePryor Madelyne Pryor]]). The baby Nathan Summers grew up to become the badass AntiHero ComicBook/{{Cable}} who himself has an evil clone called Stryfe. Cable adopted a miracle baby whom he named [[Characters/GenerationHope Hope]] who is destined to be the mutant messiah. Also, from the ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'', there's Cable's counterpart and half-brother, [[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan Nate Grey]], made from Scott and Jean's genetic material by Mr. Sinister (who [[ShipperOnDeck can't get enough]] of Scott and Jean) to be a {{Tykebomb}} directed at [[Characters/MarvelComicsApocalypse Apocalypse]] and then burn out and die afterwards, who migrated over to the main reality. [[Characters/XMen80sMembers Rachel Summers]] is Scott and Jean's daughter from a [[ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast dystopian alternate reality]] who's compared (by Wolverine, who would know) to a Holocaust survivor, and from another alternate reality, there's Ruby Summers, because Scott [[ReallyGetsAround can never keep it in his pants]] and slept with [[Characters/MarvelComicsEmmaFrost Emma Frost]] giving birth to Ruby (Ditto for Megan Summers). It's also worth noting a lot of these heroes in this family, like Cyclops, Havok, Jean and Nate (though the latter's was at least well-intentioned), have all [[FaceHeelTurn turned evil]] at some point. And that's not counting the ancestors. In short, X-Men family trees may be messed up but they've still got nothing on the Big Screwed-Up Family that is the Grey-Summers clan.

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* An epic case of this resulting in [[TheStarscream betrayal]], a bloodbath and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the shattering of an empire]] is the main {{backstory}} of the [[CrapsackWorld unimaginably brutal setting]] of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''. It involves [[PhysicalGod The Emperor]] and his [[TrulySingleParent twenty cloned sons]], and various cases of ParentalFavoritism, CainAndAbel, TheUnfavourite, and others, culminating in the great betrayal known as the Literature/HorusHeresy.\\\
Just the highlights: Horus was chock full of pride and superiority; Leman Russ didn't see anything suspicious with his father ordering an execution of Russ's own brother; Angron never forgave the Emperor and was always on the edge of UnstoppableRage; Lorgar tried worshiping his father as a god; the Emperor himself never told his children anything and mistrusted them; Konrad Curze tortured the WhiteSheep Vulkan to prove his theories; Fulgrim cut the head of his best friend and brother Ferrus; and all the Primarchs jumped at each other's throats the moment Horus switched sides.

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An epic case of this resulting in [[TheStarscream betrayal]], a bloodbath and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the shattering of an empire]] is the main {{backstory}} of the [[CrapsackWorld unimaginably brutal setting]] of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''.setting]]. It involves [[PhysicalGod The Emperor]] and his [[TrulySingleParent twenty cloned sons]], and various cases of ParentalFavoritism, CainAndAbel, TheUnfavourite, and others, culminating in the great betrayal known as the Literature/HorusHeresy.\\\
Just the highlights: Horus was chock full of pride and superiority; Leman Russ didn't see anything suspicious with his father ordering an execution of Russ's own brother; Angron never forgave the Emperor for abandoning Angron's friends and was always on the edge of UnstoppableRage; Lorgar tried worshiping his father as a god; the Emperor himself never told his children anything and mistrusted them; Konrad Curze tortured the WhiteSheep Vulkan to prove his theories; Fulgrim cut the head of his best friend and brother Ferrus; and all the Primarchs jumped at each other's throats the moment Horus switched sides. sides.
** Most Imperial ruling houses are this since many posts (from the planetary governor to the lowest functionary) are hereditary. The Inquisition keeps an eye on them but only really intervenes if the SuccessionCrisis threatens the planet's exports or one of the claimants starts turning to Chaos or xenos to gain an advantage.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Jacques Gelé married Willow Schnee, the heiress of the global Dust corporation, the Schnee Dust Company solely to [[CorruptCorporateExecutive take control]] over the company. He has no interest in his wife beyond obtaining her prestigious surname (Schnee) and the power that name gives him, and he has no interest in his three children beyond what they can do to further his business goals. The loveless marriage has driven [[TheAlcoholic Willow]] to drink and she now takes no part in the lives of either her husband or her children even though she still lives with them. Jacques deeply resents [[TheBrigadier General Ironwood]], solely because his oldest daughter [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Winter]] escaped his suffocating control by joining the Atlesian military, and he tries detaining his second daughter [[DefrostingIceQueen Weiss]] in her bedroom rather than permit her to pursue her own life goals. Whitley, his youngest child, only handled his father's cold, manipulative and controlling behaviour by allowing himself to be moulded into a [[LikeFatherLikeSon carbon-copy]] of his father. As a result, he places himself into a [[SmugSnake position to benefit]] from the disinheriting of his rebellious sisters so that he is the sole heir to the Schnee Dust Company, even if it means having to permanently destroy any trust or sibling bond between himself and Weiss.

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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Jacques Gelé married Willow Schnee, the heiress of the global Dust corporation, the Schnee Dust Company solely to [[CorruptCorporateExecutive take control]] over the company. He has no interest in his wife beyond obtaining her prestigious surname (Schnee) and the power that name gives him, and he has no interest in his three children beyond what they can do to further his business goals. The loveless marriage has driven [[TheAlcoholic Willow]] to drink and she now takes no part in the lives of either her husband or her children even though she still lives with them. Jacques deeply resents [[TheBrigadier General Ironwood]], solely because his oldest daughter [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Winter]] escaped his suffocating control by joining the Atlesian military, and he tries detaining his second daughter [[DefrostingIceQueen Weiss]] in her bedroom rather than permit her to pursue her own life goals. Whitley, his youngest child, only handled his father's cold, manipulative and controlling behaviour by allowing himself to be moulded into a [[LikeFatherLikeSon carbon-copy]] of his father. As a result, he places himself into a [[SmugSnake position to benefit]] from the disinheriting of his rebellious sisters so that he is the sole heir to the Schnee Dust Company, even if it means having to permanently destroy any trust or sibling bond between himself and Weiss. [[spoiler: After Jacques gets imprisoned for colluding with Watts the rest of the family is able to reconnect with one another now that they are freed of his toxic influence]].

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[[folder:Music]]
* The Music/TomWaits song "Cemetary Polka" runs through a list of aunts and uncles, each of whom is screwed up in their own unique way.
* Most {{Anti Christmas Song}}s at least give a mention of having one of these that makes [[CrappyHolidays the holidays a special kind of hell.]]
* Music/MelanieMartinez's Music/CryBaby has one. Her mom is a [[spoiler:murderous]] alcoholic, her dad has a mistress and is implied to be a ProfessionalKiller, her older brother does drugs, and Cry Baby herself has issues that only get [[SanitySlippage worse later]]. They also [[StepfordSmiler go out of their way to appear normal and happy]]. "Dollhouse" and "Sippy Cup" are about them.
%%* The characters listed in "We're A Happy Family" by Music/TheRamones certainly count.

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[[folder:Manhua]]
* The Music/TomWaits song "Cemetary Polka" runs through At a list glance, the Wang Pu family in ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'' seems very tightly knit. However, AppleOfDiscord Xiaxi completely destabilizes things by making both sons fall in love with her. As a result of aunts and uncles, each fighting over her, Mingluan's longstanding resentment of whom being treated as inferior to his brother for being illegitimate comes to the surface, Mingyi is screwed up in enraged at the illegitimate brother disrespecting him, their own unique way.
* Most {{Anti Christmas Song}}s
father is pissed at least give a mention both of having one of these that makes [[CrappyHolidays them for fighting over a maid and their younger sister Yixin is horrified at how her family seems to be breaking apart. They seem to patch things up later, only for it to grow more complicated: [[spoiler:Their father hates his wife for being complicit in the holidays a special assassination of Mingluan's mother and banishes her while Yixin kind of hell.]]
* Music/MelanieMartinez's Music/CryBaby has one. Her mom is a [[spoiler:murderous]] alcoholic, her dad has a mistress and is implied to be a ProfessionalKiller, her older brother does drugs, and Cry Baby herself has issues that only get [[SanitySlippage worse later]]. They also [[StepfordSmiler go
snaps out of their way to appear normal hatred for Xiaxi and happy]]. "Dollhouse" and "Sippy Cup" are about them.
%%* The characters listed in "We're A Happy Family" by Music/TheRamones certainly count.
begins plotting to murder her.]]



[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]
* [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek mythology]]. Just about anyone with any relation to the gods falls under this, not to mention the gods themselves. And a lot of people were related to [[ReallyGetsAround the gods]].
** The House of Atreus is the best example. Menelaus is the ''only'' adult member who doesn't commit some sort of unforgivable crime. Except for that time in ''Andromache'' when he threatened to murder her child if she didn't come out and admit she was bewitching his daughter Hermione, who was no bag of sunshine herself so that she would be barren; the plan was, naturally, to kill both Andromache and her little boy. Of course, that characterization can be attributed to Euripides's dislike of Sparta at the time.
** The House of Thebes is another cursed dynasty. While the founder of the House Cadmus did quite well for himself and married Harmonia, the daughter of Ares, ''all'' of their descendants fared poorly. The most famous ones are of course Oedipus and company mentioned in the Theater folder.
*** The line being cursed is a result of Hephaestus. Harmonia wasn't just Ares's daughter, she was Aphrodite's as well, the wife of Hephaestus, and she had given up immortality for Cadmus. After realizing Harmonia was not his, he made a cursed necklace and gave it to her. The necklace became a family heirloom and brought disaster among the descendants. Harmonia herself didn't fare well either, being turned into a snake after an argument with her father.

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* The Lightsphere family of ''Manhwa/CielTheLastAutumnStory''. They're a notorious evil line of aristocrats,
and Religion]]
* [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek mythology]]. Just about anyone with any relation
their political connection to the gods falls under this, not royal family allows them to mention the gods themselves. And a lot of people were related to [[ReallyGetsAround the gods]].
**
get away with committing many heinous crimes, usually against one another. The House of Atreus is the best example. Menelaus is the ''only'' adult member who doesn't commit some sort of unforgivable crime. Except for that time in ''Andromache'' when he threatened to murder her child if she didn't come out and admit she was bewitching his daughter Hermione, who was no bag of sunshine herself so that she would be barren; the plan was, naturally, to kill both Andromache and her little boy. Of course, that characterization can be attributed to Euripides's dislike of Sparta at the time.
** The House of Thebes is another cursed dynasty. While the founder
head of the House Cadmus did quite well for himself and family actually raised two of his own children apart, just so they could be [[BrotherSisterIncest married Harmonia, the daughter of Ares, ''all'' of their descendants fared poorly. The most famous ones are of course Oedipus and company mentioned in the Theater folder.
*** The line being cursed is a result of Hephaestus. Harmonia wasn't just Ares's daughter, she was Aphrodite's as well, the wife of Hephaestus, and she had given up immortality for Cadmus. After realizing Harmonia was not his, he made a cursed necklace and gave it to her. The necklace
off when they became adults]], and hopefully produce a child with a very specific magic power. Then the siblings died, and when it was made clear that their son, January, was going to one day lead the family heirloom and brought disaster among inherit the descendants. Harmonia herself didn't fare well either, being title of duke, every relative instantly turned into on him and started [[OffingTheOffspring making attempts on his life]]. There have been a snake after an argument few examples of decent people, but with her father.
the exception of [[IronWoobie January]] and his cousin [[{{Tsundere}} Socie]], they've all ended up dead.



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* [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon The]] [[Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon McMahon]] [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon family]]. At any given second during the heyday of the Wrestling/AttitudeEra, you can count on a ton of dysfunction going on with this family, usually as a result of Wrestling/VinceMcMahon. Even when it seems like they're all one big happy family, it's usually the result of one of them pulling a complicated [[ThePlan plan]]. Just to give you an idea of how screwed up this family is, Wrestling/TheUndertaker kidnapped daughter Wrestling/{{Stephanie|McMahon}} in order to convince Vince to hand over the company to him...and then it was revealed that Vince was Undertaker's [[Wrestling/TheCorporation "Higher]] [[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness Power"]] and the person telling him to pull off this scheme in the first place, which means that Vince basically had his own daughter kidnapped. And that's not even going into all of the crap from 2000. This quote sums them up nicely:
-->'''Wrestling/TripleH:''' What the hell kind of family did I marry myself into?!
* The Hart Family is a real-life version. As are the [[Wrestling/VonErichFamily Von Erichs]], what's [[DownerEnding left]] [[DrugsAreBad of]] [[DrivenToSuicide them]].

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* [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon The]] [[Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon McMahon]] [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon family]]. At any given second during the heyday The Music/TomWaits song "Cemetary Polka" runs through a list of the Wrestling/AttitudeEra, you can count on a ton aunts and uncles, each of dysfunction going on with this family, usually as a result of Wrestling/VinceMcMahon. Even when it seems like they're all one big happy family, it's usually the result of one of them pulling a complicated [[ThePlan plan]]. Just to give you an idea of how whom is screwed up this family is, Wrestling/TheUndertaker kidnapped daughter Wrestling/{{Stephanie|McMahon}} in order to convince Vince to hand over the company to him...and then it was revealed their own unique way.
* Most {{Anti Christmas Song}}s at least give a mention of having one of these
that Vince was Undertaker's [[Wrestling/TheCorporation "Higher]] [[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness Power"]] and makes [[CrappyHolidays the person telling him to pull off this scheme in the first place, which means that Vince basically had his own daughter kidnapped. And that's not even going into all of the crap from 2000. This quote sums them up nicely:
-->'''Wrestling/TripleH:''' What the hell
holidays a special kind of family did I marry myself into?!
hell.]]
* The Hart Family Music/MelanieMartinez's Music/CryBaby has one. Her mom is a real-life version. As [[spoiler:murderous]] alcoholic, her dad has a mistress and is implied to be a ProfessionalKiller, her older brother does drugs, and Cry Baby herself has issues that only get [[SanitySlippage worse later]]. They also [[StepfordSmiler go out of their way to appear normal and happy]]. "Dollhouse" and "Sippy Cup" are the [[Wrestling/VonErichFamily Von Erichs]], what's [[DownerEnding left]] [[DrugsAreBad of]] [[DrivenToSuicide them]].about them.
%%* The characters listed in "We're A Happy Family" by Music/TheRamones certainly count.


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[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]
* [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek mythology]]. Just about anyone with any relation to the gods falls under this, not to mention the gods themselves. And a lot of people were related to [[ReallyGetsAround the gods]].
** The House of Atreus is the best example. Menelaus is the ''only'' adult member who doesn't commit some sort of unforgivable crime. Except for that time in ''Andromache'' when he threatened to murder her child if she didn't come out and admit she was bewitching his daughter Hermione, who was no bag of sunshine herself so that she would be barren; the plan was, naturally, to kill both Andromache and her little boy. Of course, that characterization can be attributed to Euripides's dislike of Sparta at the time.
** The House of Thebes is another cursed dynasty. While the founder of the House Cadmus did quite well for himself and married Harmonia, the daughter of Ares, ''all'' of their descendants fared poorly. The most famous ones are of course Oedipus and company mentioned in the Theater folder.
*** The line being cursed is a result of Hephaestus. Harmonia wasn't just Ares's daughter, she was Aphrodite's as well, the wife of Hephaestus, and she had given up immortality for Cadmus. After realizing Harmonia was not his, he made a cursed necklace and gave it to her. The necklace became a family heirloom and brought disaster among the descendants. Harmonia herself didn't fare well either, being turned into a snake after an argument with her father.

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[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
* [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon The]] [[Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon McMahon]] [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon family]]. At any given second during the heyday of the Wrestling/AttitudeEra, you can count on a ton of dysfunction going on with this family, usually as a result of Wrestling/VinceMcMahon. Even when it seems like they're all one big happy family, it's usually the result of one of them pulling a complicated [[ThePlan plan]]. Just to give you an idea of how screwed up this family is, Wrestling/TheUndertaker kidnapped daughter Wrestling/{{Stephanie|McMahon}} in order to convince Vince to hand over the company to him...and then it was revealed that Vince was Undertaker's [[Wrestling/TheCorporation "Higher]] [[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness Power"]] and the person telling him to pull off this scheme in the first place, which means that Vince basically had his own daughter kidnapped. And that's not even going into all of the crap from 2000. This quote sums them up nicely:
-->'''Wrestling/TripleH:''' What the hell kind of family did I marry myself into?!
* The Hart Family is a real-life version. As are the [[Wrestling/VonErichFamily Von Erichs]], what's [[DownerEnding left]] [[DrugsAreBad of]] [[DrivenToSuicide them]].
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** Surprisingly subverted with the von Karmas. While Manfred von Karma himself is an AmoralAttorney of the highest caliber and [[spoiler:murdered Miles Edgeworth's father before adopting him with intention of raising him to be another AmoralAttorney before having him convicted of his own father's murder fifteen years later]], he seems to have treated both Miles and Franziska with no more unkindness than your average demanding parent. The [[spoiler:murder thing]] is still sort of messed up, though.

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** Surprisingly subverted with the von Karmas. While Manfred von Karma himself is an AmoralAttorney of the highest caliber and [[spoiler:murdered Miles Edgeworth's father before adopting him with intention of raising him to be another AmoralAttorney PersecutingProsecutor before having him convicted of his own father's murder fifteen years later]], he seems to have treated both Miles and Franziska with no more unkindness than your average demanding parent. The [[spoiler:murder thing]] and framing]] is still sort of messed up, though.
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** Conchata's husband, George O'Hara, is hardly any better. He is an extremely negative portrayal of the StandardFiftiesFather, physically abusive to his wife and Miguel (whom he uses as a means to advance his career), while being demeaning and neglectful towards Gabriel. He is also very racist in an era that's portrayed to have largely forgotten such attitudes. While it's not shown, the abuse got so bad that Miguel honestly thought about killing him at a point, but decided not to because he wanted him to rot of old age instead just so he would suffer.

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** Conchata's husband, George O'Hara, is hardly any better. He is an extremely negative portrayal of the StandardFiftiesFather, Standard50sFather, physically abusive to his wife and Miguel (whom he uses as a means to advance his career), while being demeaning and neglectful towards Gabriel. He is also very racist in an era that's portrayed to have largely forgotten such attitudes. While it's not shown, the abuse got so bad that Miguel honestly thought about killing him at a point, but decided not to because he wanted him to rot of old age instead just so he would suffer.

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* We can officially list [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner's]] family at this point. It would take a long while, a lot of space on this page, and several spoiler blocks to list all the issues he, his kids, [[ComicBook/SheHulk his cousin]], and his ex-wife have. Don't even get started on [[ArchnemesisDad his father]].

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* We can officially list [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk [[Characters/MarvelComicsBruceBanner Bruce Banner's]] family at this point. It would take a long while, a lot of space on this page, and several spoiler blocks to list all the issues he, his kids, [[ComicBook/SheHulk his cousin]], and his ex-wife have. Don't even get started on [[ArchnemesisDad his father]].



** Where to even ''start'' with ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}. One [[ComicBook/{{Daken}} legitimate son]] is a {{manipulative| Bastard}} sociopath who enjoys toying with others for his own amusement, while another he hasn't seen since he was a baby. His [[ComicBook/{{X 23}} "daughter"]] is a depressed and likely suicidal ex-child soldier and prostitute struggling to turn her life around. He has a ''who knows'' [[ReallyGetsAround how many illegitimate children]], many of whom were sent to kill him and he was forced to kill first, only later discovering who they really were, and his father wasn't actually his biological father; his actual biological father Thomas Logan tried to kill him. And we ''still'' haven't even touched on his brother "Dog" Logan and adopted daughter.
** There's also the can of worms that is the [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Summers_Family Summers family]]. First, there's the fact Christopher Summers became the {{Space Pirate|s}} [[Characters/{{Starjammers}} Corsair]] when an alien spaceship attacked while he was on vacation with his wife Kathrine and their sons Alex (AKA ComicBook/{{Havok}}) and Scott (AKA [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]]). The two boys were parachuted out of the plane by their mother and the landing caused a head injury to Scott which rendered him unable to [[PowerIncontinence control]] his mutant ability. After being abducted Christopher and Katherine's third son Gabriel was ripped out of his mother by evil alien D'ken after he killed her, which led to Gabriel being artificially aged and raised/used as a slave by the Shi'ar, getting trapped on Krakoa while it was sent into space and promptly [[GoMadFromTheIsolation going nuts]], murdering D'Ken, becoming evil and marrying Deathbird. Back on Earth, Scott had a baby with the clone of [[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean Grey]] created by Mr. Sinister (AKA [[Characters/MarvelComicsMadelynePryor Madelyne Pryor]]). The baby Nathan Summers grew up to become the badass AntiHero ComicBook/{{Cable}} who himself has an evil clone called Stryfe. Cable adopted a miracle baby whom he named [[Characters/GenerationHope Hope]] who is destined to be the mutant messiah. Also, from the ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'', there's Cable's counterpart and half-brother, [[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan Nate Grey]], made from Scott and Jean's genetic material by Mr. Sinister (who [[ShipperOnDeck can't get enough]] of Scott and Jean) to be a {{Tykebomb}} directed at [[Characters/MarvelComicsApocalypse Apocalypse]] and then burn out and die afterwards, who migrated over to the main reality. [[Characters/XMen80sMembers Rachel Summers]] is Scott and Jean's daughter from a [[ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast dystopian alternate reality]] who's compared (by Wolverine, who would know) to a Holocaust survivor, and from another alternate reality, there's Ruby Summers, because Scott [[ReallyGetsAround can never keep it in his pants]] and slept with Characters/{{Emma Frost|WhiteQueen}} giving birth to Ruby (Ditto for Megan Summers). It's also worth noting a lot of these heroes in this family, like Cyclops, Havok, Jean and Nate (though the latter's was at least well-intentioned), have all [[FaceHeelTurn turned evil]] at some point. And that's not counting the ancestors. In short, X-Men family trees may be messed up but they've still got nothing on the Big Screwed-Up Family that is the Grey-Summers clan.

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** Where to even ''start'' with ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}.[[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]]. One [[ComicBook/{{Daken}} legitimate son]] is a {{manipulative| Bastard}} sociopath who enjoys toying with others for his own amusement, while another he hasn't seen since he was a baby. His [[ComicBook/{{X 23}} [[Characters/MarvelComicsLauraKinney "daughter"]] is a depressed and likely suicidal ex-child soldier and prostitute struggling to turn her life around. He has a ''who knows'' [[ReallyGetsAround how many illegitimate children]], many of whom were sent to kill him and he was forced to kill first, only later discovering who they really were, and his father wasn't actually his biological father; his actual biological father Thomas Logan tried to kill him. And we ''still'' haven't even touched on his brother "Dog" Logan and adopted daughter.
** There's also the can of worms that is the [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Summers_Family Summers family]]. First, there's the fact Christopher Summers became the {{Space Pirate|s}} [[Characters/{{Starjammers}} Corsair]] when an alien spaceship attacked while he was on vacation with his wife Kathrine and their sons Alex (AKA ComicBook/{{Havok}}) and Scott (AKA [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]]). The two boys were parachuted out of the plane by their mother and the landing caused a head injury to Scott which rendered him unable to [[PowerIncontinence control]] his mutant ability. After being abducted Christopher and Katherine's third son Gabriel was ripped out of his mother by evil alien D'ken after he killed her, which led to Gabriel being artificially aged and raised/used as a slave by the Shi'ar, getting trapped on Krakoa while it was sent into space and promptly [[GoMadFromTheIsolation going nuts]], murdering D'Ken, becoming evil and marrying Deathbird. Back on Earth, Scott had a baby with the clone of [[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean Grey]] created by Mr. Sinister (AKA [[Characters/MarvelComicsMadelynePryor Madelyne Pryor]]). The baby Nathan Summers grew up to become the badass AntiHero ComicBook/{{Cable}} who himself has an evil clone called Stryfe. Cable adopted a miracle baby whom he named [[Characters/GenerationHope Hope]] who is destined to be the mutant messiah. Also, from the ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'', there's Cable's counterpart and half-brother, [[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan Nate Grey]], made from Scott and Jean's genetic material by Mr. Sinister (who [[ShipperOnDeck can't get enough]] of Scott and Jean) to be a {{Tykebomb}} directed at [[Characters/MarvelComicsApocalypse Apocalypse]] and then burn out and die afterwards, who migrated over to the main reality. [[Characters/XMen80sMembers Rachel Summers]] is Scott and Jean's daughter from a [[ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast dystopian alternate reality]] who's compared (by Wolverine, who would know) to a Holocaust survivor, and from another alternate reality, there's Ruby Summers, because Scott [[ReallyGetsAround can never keep it in his pants]] and slept with Characters/{{Emma Frost|WhiteQueen}} [[Characters/MarvelComicsEmmaFrost Emma Frost]] giving birth to Ruby (Ditto for Megan Summers). It's also worth noting a lot of these heroes in this family, like Cyclops, Havok, Jean and Nate (though the latter's was at least well-intentioned), have all [[FaceHeelTurn turned evil]] at some point. And that's not counting the ancestors. In short, X-Men family trees may be messed up but they've still got nothing on the Big Screwed-Up Family that is the Grey-Summers clan.



* ''Fanfic/SupermanOf2499TheGreatConfrontation'': In the [=XXVth=] century, the descendants of the original Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} form a large family divided against itself by petty jealousies and conflicts. Suffice to say that the head of the House of El isn't sure who is scheming his son against: his brother or himself.

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* ''Fanfic/SupermanOf2499TheGreatConfrontation'': In the [=XXVth=] century, the descendants of the original Franchise/{{Superman}} Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}} form a large family divided against itself by petty jealousies and conflicts. Suffice to say that the head of the House of El isn't sure who is scheming his son against: his brother or himself.



* ''Film/AWedding1978'': Both sides of the wedding party are full of dysfunctional or quirky individuals, although not all of them are defined by those quirks and some of them seem normal.
** The groom was previously sent to military school for delinquency and once had a fling with his new fiancée's sister. The groom's dying grandmother Nettie Sloan has shades of an EvilMatriarch. One of her daughters is a sometimes superficial executive whose husband has fallen out of love with her, another is in love with their African-American butler and resents Nettie for forbidding the match, and the third daughter is a heroin addict. Her other son-in-law is an Italian former busboy who Nettie snobbishly forbids from talking about his past, with his secrecy making many people mistake him for a mobster. His brother shows up at the wedding without an invitation and has a raging libido. Nettie's sister is a socialist and has no sense of tact or grace. Nettie's granddaughter and grandniece seem well-adjusted, but the former seems to resent her new sister-in-law and the later has a stash of marijuana.
** The bride still has PubescentBraces and her sister seems to dislike her. Said sister is an ElectiveMute who ReallyGetsAround and has an odd grasp of reality. Her interactions with their HotBlooded father hint at unconsummated ParentalIncest. Their brother initially seems like a drug addict, but actually has epilepsy. Their mother feels tempted to cheat on her husband with one of her new son-in-law's uncles. One of their aunts is a SerialSpouse and her daughter is preoccupied with marijuana. Their uncle and other aunt are a devoutly religious couple who sometimes annoy people and have lots of kids, the eldest of whom mistakes an obvious sex joke about the ManlyGay Reedley looking at mens’ flies for a reference to the film ''Film/TheFly1958.''



* Billy's family from the ''Film/{{Black Christmas|2006}}'' remake. Billy himself was born with a liver condition that caused his skin to turn yellow, but that's the least of it-- his birth father (the only one who cared for him) was killed by his mother, who then locked him in the attic for most of his life. When her new husband was impotent she [[ParentalIncest raped Billy]] resulting in the birth of his sister/daughter Agnes and making Billy even more TheUnfavourite, not to mention more insane. Eventually Billy snaps and murders (and eats) the parents but spares Agnes (mutilating her in the process). Years later he and Agnes reunite for a killing spree.

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* Billy's family from the ''Film/{{Black Christmas|2006}}'' remake.''Film/BlackChristmas2006''. Billy himself was born with a liver condition that caused his skin to turn yellow, but that's the least of it-- his birth father (the only one who cared for him) was killed by his mother, who then locked him in the attic for most of his life. When her new husband was impotent she [[ParentalIncest raped Billy]] resulting in the birth of his sister/daughter Agnes and making Billy even more TheUnfavourite, not to mention more insane. Eventually Billy snaps and murders (and eats) the parents but spares Agnes (mutilating her in the process). Years later he and Agnes reunite for a killing spree.



* Asgard's royal family in ''Film/{{Thor}}'', especially Odin and Loki. [[CainAndAbel Thor and Loki]] go without saying. And that is before ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' reveals that [[spoiler:they have an even eviler [[CainAndAbelAndSeth older sister]], [[Characters/TheMightyThorGiants Hela]], who is also the Goddess of Death, and was imprisoned by their father a millennia ago for wanting to violently conquer all realms]].

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* Asgard's royal family in ''Film/{{Thor}}'', especially Odin and Loki. [[CainAndAbel Thor and Loki]] go without saying. And that is before ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' reveals that [[spoiler:they have an even eviler [[CainAndAbelAndSeth older sister]], [[Characters/TheMightyThorGiants [[Characters/MCUHelaOdinsdottir Hela]], who is also the Goddess of Death, and was imprisoned by their father a millennia ago for wanting to violently conquer all realms]].realms]].
* ''Film/AWedding1978'': Both sides of the wedding party are full of dysfunctional or quirky individuals, although not all of them are defined by those quirks and some of them seem normal.
** The groom was previously sent to military school for delinquency and once had a fling with his new fiancée's sister. The groom's dying grandmother Nettie Sloan has shades of an EvilMatriarch. One of her daughters is a sometimes superficial executive whose husband has fallen out of love with her, another is in love with their African-American butler and resents Nettie for forbidding the match, and the third daughter is a heroin addict. Her other son-in-law is an Italian former busboy who Nettie snobbishly forbids from talking about his past, with his secrecy making many people mistake him for a mobster. His brother shows up at the wedding without an invitation and has a raging libido. Nettie's sister is a socialist and has no sense of tact or grace. Nettie's granddaughter and grandniece seem well-adjusted, but the former seems to resent her new sister-in-law and the later has a stash of marijuana.
** The bride still has PubescentBraces and her sister seems to dislike her. Said sister is an ElectiveMute who ReallyGetsAround and has an odd grasp of reality. Her interactions with their HotBlooded father hint at unconsummated ParentalIncest. Their brother initially seems like a drug addict, but actually has epilepsy. Their mother feels tempted to cheat on her husband with one of her new son-in-law's uncles. One of their aunts is a SerialSpouse and her daughter is preoccupied with marijuana. Their uncle and other aunt are a devoutly religious couple who sometimes annoy people and have lots of kids, the eldest of whom mistakes an obvious sex joke about the ManlyGay Reedley looking at mens’ flies for a reference to the film ''Film/TheFly1958.''



* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Mr. Cat's family is one of these. His [[BigBrotherBully brothers]] would regularly beat him to the extent where he thought running away from home was better than living with them, his father was an alcoholic, and his mother was so abusive that even the sound of her voice over the phone is enough to make Mr. Cat run away screaming in terror. Mr. Cat himself is not much better, as the show itself describes him as "evil, sadistic, cruel, selfish, and psychopathic" in one episode.



* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Mr. Cat's family is one of these. His [[BigBrotherBully brothers]] would regularly beat him to the extent where he thought running away from home was better than living with them, his father was an alcoholic, and his mother was so abusive that even the sound of her voice over the phone is enough to make Mr. Cat run away screaming in terror. Mr. Cat himself is not much better, as the show itself describes him as "evil, sadistic, cruel, selfish, and psychopathic" in one episode.
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* The Griffin family in later seasons of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' have become a complete incarnation of this trope, to the point where they're just as screwed-up as [[Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond the Barones]]. This also extends to Peter and Lois' side of the family. Peter has an abusive sister who would regularly bully him as a child. Lois also has a domineering jerkass father who has gotten away with doing very despicable things. She also has a mentally unstable brother and a sister who looks for love in the wrong places.

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* The Griffin family in later seasons of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' have become a complete incarnation of this trope, to the point where they're just as screwed-up as [[Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond the Barones]]. This also extends to Peter and Lois' side of the family. Peter has an abusive sister who would regularly bully him as a child. Lois also has a domineering jerkass father who has gotten away with doing very despicable things. She also has a mentally unstable brother and a sister who looks for love in the wrong places.
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* The Griffin family in later seasons of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' have become a complete incarnate of this trope. To the point where they're just as screwed-up as [[Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond the Barones]]. This also extends to Peter and Lois' side of the family. Peter has an abusive sister who would regularly bully him as a child. Lois also had a domineering jerkass father who has gotten away with doing very despicable things. She also has a mentally unstable brother and a sister who looks for love in the wrong places.

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* The Griffin family in later seasons of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' have become a complete incarnate incarnation of this trope. To trope, to the point where they're just as screwed-up as [[Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond the Barones]]. This also extends to Peter and Lois' side of the family. Peter has an abusive sister who would regularly bully him as a child. Lois also had has a domineering jerkass father who has gotten away with doing very despicable things. She also has a mentally unstable brother and a sister who looks for love in the wrong places.
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* [[RoyallyScrewedUp The Fire Nation royal family]] in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fits this trope to a T. Zuko's great-grandfather Sozin was an [[WellIntentionedExtremist idealistic man who started a war]] he ended up regretting at the end of his life, [[spoiler:which included the [[MurderByInaction murder of his best friend.]] and the [[FinalSolution genocide of all a nation]], except [[TheHero only one]]]]. His son was a brutal tyrant who got angry and demanded that his younger son ''murder'' his grandson. Said son, Ozai, was going to do it before his wife murdered her father-in-law. ''Their'' children are psychologically damaged, [[spoiler:though at least the son repents and ends up leading the Fire Nation at the end]]. Iroh is a good man but was politically marginalized and only able to help provide a good example for his nephew. Commenting on it later, Toph says that given what his family was like Zuko actually turned out a lot better than you might have expected.

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* [[RoyallyScrewedUp The Fire Nation royal family]] in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fits this trope to a T. Zuko's great-grandfather Sozin was an [[WellIntentionedExtremist idealistic man who started a war]] he ended up regretting at the end of his life, [[spoiler:which included the [[MurderByInaction murder of his best friend.]] friend]] and the [[FinalSolution genocide of all a whole nation]], except for [[TheHero only one]]]].one boy]]]]. His son was a brutal tyrant who got angry and demanded that his younger son ''murder'' his grandson. Said son, Ozai, was going to do it before his wife murdered her father-in-law. ''Their'' children are psychologically damaged, [[spoiler:though at least the son repents and ends up leading the Fire Nation at the end]]. Iroh is a good man but was politically marginalized and only able to help provide a good example for his nephew. Commenting on it later, Toph says that given what his family was like Zuko actually turned out a lot better than you might have expected.
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* ''Fanfic/ArcCorp'': Jaune's family, who in addition to being TheMenInBlack for all sorts of supernatural entities and thus treating the family itself like a business -- several character remark that Nicholas and Juniper had so many kids not out of love but because it gave them employees that could raise from birth, something that is later confirmed to be the case -- treat Jaune with varying levels of disdain for his partial transformation into an anomaly, with his sisters in particular hating him for getting their mother killed during a mission. Jaune's father even attempted to kill him when he first transformed, only stopping when one of his sisters pointed out that he could make for an interesting test subject, with said sister admitting that most of what they put him through afterwards absolutely constitutes as child abuse at best and war crimes at worst. Even when giving license to open his own branch, he's given the barest amount of trust due to his desire to simply contain anomalies rather than indiscriminately kill them. It's telling that the "family member" he likes and admires the most is [[spoiler:his godmother Salem, a woman bent on conquering the world if it meant getting back at her ex-husband, if only because their shared anomalous nature helps them bond and she's the only one who has ever been nice to him without some ulterior motive]].

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* ''Fanfic/ArcCorp'': Jaune's family, who in addition to being TheMenInBlack for all sorts of supernatural entities and thus treating the family itself like a business -- several character remark that Nicholas and Juniper had so many kids not out of love but because it gave them employees that could raise from birth, something that is later confirmed to be the case -- treat Jaune with varying levels of disdain for his partial transformation into [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie an anomaly, anomaly]], with his sisters in particular hating him for getting their mother killed during a mission. Jaune's father even attempted to kill him when he first transformed, only stopping when one of his sisters pointed out that he could make for an interesting test subject, with said sister admitting that most of what they put him through afterwards absolutely constitutes as child abuse at best and war crimes at worst. Even when giving license to open his own branch, he's given the barest amount of trust due to his desire to simply contain anomalies rather than indiscriminately kill them. At one point, he sadly admits that his sisters most likely don't even ''see'' him as their brother, but instead some monster who killed their mom and took the place of their actual sibling. It's telling that the "family member" he likes and admires the most is [[spoiler:his godmother Salem, a woman bent on conquering the world if it meant getting back at her ex-husband, if only because their shared anomalous nature helps them bond and she's the only one who has ever been nice to him without some ulterior motive]].
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* The Jacksons in ''WebOriginal/MommySleepsInTheBasement''. Tom is a controlling jerk with two wives, who neglects his first wife in favor of his second, and even then he blamed her for their baby dying of SIDS. He also beats some of his children. Neither of his wives are happy and Claire in particular wants to get away. All of the children are neglected because their parents can't afford to properly provide for them. [[spoiler: And that's before it's revealed Claire is [[BunkerWoman not part of the family willingly]]]].

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* The Jacksons in ''WebOriginal/MommySleepsInTheBasement''.''Literature/MommySleepsInTheBasement''. Tom is a controlling jerk with two wives, who neglects his first wife in favor of his second, and even then he blamed her for their baby dying of SIDS. He also beats some of his children. Neither of his wives are happy and Claire in particular wants to get away. All of the children are neglected because their parents can't afford to properly provide for them. [[spoiler: And that's before it's revealed Claire is [[BunkerWoman not part of the family willingly]]]].
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* The Sakamaki family in ''VisualNovel/DiabolikLovers'' is absurdly powerful (more precisely the VampireMonarch head of the family is absurdly powerful and everyone else is caught in his undertow,) and plumbing the depths of their closet of skeletons is an endeavor undertaken across 5 visual novels. The biggest and most obvious sign that getting involved with this family is dangerous would be the large number of Sakamaki sons that have committed {{matricide}}. [[spoiler:Four out of six sons for the record, although three of them teamed up to kill their selfish, abusive EvilMatriarch.]]
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** However, Tarvek [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20231009 can't believe]] even Martellus would harm their grandmother, the Princess Terebitha, [[[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes because everyone in the family worships her]].

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** However, Tarvek [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20231009 can't believe]] even Martellus would harm their grandmother, the Princess Terebitha, [[[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes because everyone in the family worships her]].
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** However, Tarvek [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20231009 can't believe]] even Martellus would harm their grandmother, the Princess Terebitha, [[[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes because everyone in the family worships her]].
--->'''Gil''': Oh? She's a cold-hearted opportunist who rules through fear, manipulation and intrigue. She pulls strings and entire noble houses are betrayed, killed or ruined -- often for reasons known only to herself!\\
'''Tarvek''': Oh ''yes!''! Even at her age!\\
'''Seffie''': She's ''still got it!''\\
'''Both''': ''We're all very proud!''
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** The bride still has PubescentBraces and her sister seems to dislike her. Said sister is an ElectiveMute who ReallyGetsAround and has an odd grasp of reality. Her interactions with their HotBlooded father hint at unconsummated ParentalIncest. Their brother initially seems like a drug addict, but actually has epilepsy. Their mother feels tempted to cheat on her husband with one of her new son-in-law's uncles. One of their aunts is a SerialSpouse and her daughter is preoccupied with marijuana. Their uncle and other aunt are a devoutly religious couple who sometimes annoy people and have lots of kids, the eldest of whom mistakes an obvious sex joke about the ManlyGay Reedley looking at mens’ flies for a reference to the film ''Film/TheFly.''

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** The bride still has PubescentBraces and her sister seems to dislike her. Said sister is an ElectiveMute who ReallyGetsAround and has an odd grasp of reality. Her interactions with their HotBlooded father hint at unconsummated ParentalIncest. Their brother initially seems like a drug addict, but actually has epilepsy. Their mother feels tempted to cheat on her husband with one of her new son-in-law's uncles. One of their aunts is a SerialSpouse and her daughter is preoccupied with marijuana. Their uncle and other aunt are a devoutly religious couple who sometimes annoy people and have lots of kids, the eldest of whom mistakes an obvious sex joke about the ManlyGay Reedley looking at mens’ flies for a reference to the film ''Film/TheFly.''Film/TheFly1958.''
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* The Fiametta triplets from ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' [=v4=]. One (Rosa) is pretty much the poster girl for LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces, and has been known to hit on AnythingThatMoves, another (Frankie) regularly uses drugs, and the last, and the one male out of the three (Ilario), not only is heavily pressured by his father, but has to look after the other two in spite of actually being the ''youngest'' (albeit by a matter of minutes), and is somewhat neurotic as a result. You can add to that mix a clueless stepmother with no emotional connection to the children whatsoever and a father who only really cares about his son, showing it by... insisting that he ''must'' perform well at school and more or less ignoring his daughters.

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* The Fiametta triplets from ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' [=v4=]. One (Rosa) is pretty much the poster girl for LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces, and has been known to hit on AnythingThatMoves, anyone, another (Frankie) regularly uses drugs, and the last, and the one male out of the three (Ilario), not only is heavily pressured by his father, but has to look after the other two in spite of actually being the ''youngest'' (albeit by a matter of minutes), and is somewhat neurotic as a result. You can add to that mix a clueless stepmother with no emotional connection to the children whatsoever and a father who only really cares about his son, showing it by... insisting that he ''must'' perform well at school and more or less ignoring his daughters.



* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Sara Waite has one fucked up family. Let's see... Her daddy is Gothmog, Demon Lord of Lust and Perversion; her mother mutated into a freakish Deep One thing that drives Sara (then known as Michael) insane when (the then) he killed her; the Necromancer is her uncle; her blood-sister is the ultimate [[strike: elvish]] Faerie Queen; her family tree includes several Great Old Ones; Tennyo, if actually part of the Mythos, is possibly a relative, and therefore SociopathicHero and Franchise/HelloKitty fan, Jade, would be too (adopted); Sara herself is an [[AnythingThatMoves omnisexual]], tentacle-raping, part-demon, part-were, part-fey, part-Deep One, part-Great Old One, part-human who is supposed to destroy the world, but decided to ScrewDestiny.

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* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Sara Waite has one fucked up family. Let's see... Her daddy is Gothmog, Demon Lord of Lust and Perversion; her mother mutated into a freakish Deep One thing that drives Sara (then known as Michael) insane when (the then) he killed her; the Necromancer is her uncle; her blood-sister is the ultimate [[strike: elvish]] Faerie Queen; her family tree includes several Great Old Ones; Tennyo, if actually part of the Mythos, is possibly a relative, and therefore SociopathicHero and Franchise/HelloKitty fan, Jade, would be too (adopted); Sara herself is an [[AnythingThatMoves omnisexual]], omnisexual, tentacle-raping, part-demon, part-were, part-fey, part-Deep One, part-Great Old One, part-human who is supposed to destroy the world, but decided to ScrewDestiny.

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