History Main / CriminalFoundFamily

Compare CaperCrew. Compare and contrast BetterOffWithTheBadGuys, EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily, and BandOfBrothers. Contrast SiblingsInCrime and TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether.

* Most small criminal groups in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' tend to be this, including the Martillo family, the Gandor family, and Jacuzzi's delinquents.

** [[VitriolicBestBuds Barbara, Tabitha]], and Selina form a group in season 4, serving as a kind of proto-Gotham City Sirens. Barbara at first sneeringly mocks this trope, but they end up playing it straight and she comes through for her friends/surrogate sisters.

** Penguin has ''actually'' formed a kind of family in his genuine VillainousFriendship with Riddler by the end of the series. They bicker LikeAnOldMarriedCouple, but they're very close and pretty much each other's OnlyFriend. In the penultimate episode of the series, they share a ManHug and make a pact to take over the city together or not at all. Oswald even says they're brothers.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13172204/1/The-Delinquent-Cooper The Delinquent Cooper]]'': In addition to the Cooper Gang (see the Video Game folder), the Neo Cooper Gang also comes into focus, consisting of a universe displaced [[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Duncan]], his pet cyborg spider Scruffy, Hunter the Wolf, Maverick the Raven-Griffin and Buck the Weasel. The boys all openly consider each other family and will do just about anything for each other.

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': Greed and his gang of chimeras are a tight-knit group who look out for each other, and are [[UndyingLoyalty fully willing to die for each other]]. In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime]], Marta outright says they're the closest thing she has to a family.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Silverhawks}}'': BigBad Mon*Star invokes this in "Uncle Rattler". After the Silverhawks capture Uncle Rattler, Yes-Man pleads that this villain is family. Mon*Star calmly puts his hand on Yes-Man's shoulder and tells him that the Mob IS his family.

* The FurryWebcomic ''Webcomic/GunKitty'' has the main characters. Ruana, Ace and Yumi. They develop a familial bond with each other over the course of the series.It counts as this trope because the trio are also a group of [[SpacePirates space pirates]] who regularly commit crimes

* In both ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' and ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', the Dark Brotherhood treat one another as a band of misfits who have formed a close-knit community with one another. While all of them are amoral psychopaths to some degree, they're all quite friendly with one another (including the player should they join them) and have each other's backs. Nonetheless the events of the questlines inevitably end with a majority of the family brutally purged (with the player themselves doing it in the case of the former).

** Downplayed with La Brava and Gentle. They were both misfits shunned by society who joined forces to commit crimes, but these crimes are often insanely petty and mostly done for the sake of notoriety. They also love each other more than anything, to the point where it allows the activation of La Brava's quirk...which is quite literally ThePowerOfLove. When Izuku takes down Gentle, La Brava even starts hitting him, crying and begging him to leave Gentle alone.

* While ''Literature/SunnyRandall'''s Sunny is divorced from Richie, ''his'' family still considers her as 'part of the family', especially when it comes to times where she might need protection during a case. Richie's family is a part of the criminal underworld, while Richie is the WhiteSheep of the family (kept out of things so that there's '''one''' "honest" member).

* While Literature/SunnyRandall is divorced from Richie, ''his'' family still considers her as 'part of the family', especially when it comes to times where she might need protection during a case. Richie's family is a part of the criminal underworld, while Richie is the WhiteSheep of the family (kept out of things so that there's '''one''' "honest" member).

* While Literature/Sunny Randall is divorced from Richie, ''his'' family still considers her as 'part of the family', especially when it comes to times where she might need protection during a case. Richie's family is a part of the criminal underworld, while Richie is the WhiteSheep of the family (kept out of things so that there's '''one''' "honest" member).

--->''"I shall swear these oaths. I swear to defend my brothers and sisters, and obey the commands of my elders. Their kin will be my kin, their blood my blood. Should I fail to uphold this vow, may I be hacked to death by many knives."''

* ''Series/LaCasaDePapel'': The heist gang start out as strangers who [[TeethClenchedTeamwork barely tolerate each other]], but by the end of the Mint robbery they've bonded to the point of being a clear FamilyOfChoice. The later robbery at the Royal Bank only occurs because Rio is captured and the others are all willing to give up their safe lives in hiding to try and rescue him.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'': Team Bucciarati consists of several gangsters from the Passione [[TheSyndicate syndicate]], an expansive empire with influences all over Italy and the Mediterranean. The members all have consistently DarkAndTroubledPast{{s}} where they've been wronged by the people and systems in their lives. This ranges from Narancia being betrayed by his childhood friends to Abbacchio's betrayal by his time in the corrupt and ineffective police force. The gang all have a deep trust and respect in each other, and their ultimate goal is to take over Passione and turn it into a force of good for the people of Italy.

* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'': Dominic Toretto's group slowly turn into this as the films go and they get into escalating adventures and crimes. In the latter films, he straight-up starts calling them all his family and proves that they all will go through great pains and lengths to protect each other.

* Kelsier's crew in ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'' are practically family, and hold together long after [[spoiler:Kelsier's death]]. Former StreetUrchin Vin is fascinated because in her experience, most gangs [[DeckOfWildCards consist of backstabbers]], and the fact that they ''trust'' each other (and her) is intriguing enough to keep her from running out on their insanely dangerous plan.

* The van der Linde gang in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' starts as this, most of the group being outlaws of some sort and several of them (Arthur, John, Lenny, Tilly and Jenny) joining at young age, only to fall apart during the events of the game.

** Penguin has ''actually'' formed a kind of villainous TrueCompanions with Riddler by the end of the series. They bicker LikeAnOldMarriedCouple, but they're very close and pretty much each other's OnlyFriend. In the penultimate episode of the series, they share a ManHug and make a pact to take over the city together or not at all.
** [[VitriolicBestBuds Barbara, Tabitha]], and Selina form a group in season 4, serving as a kind of proto-Gotham City Sirens. Barbara at first sneeringly mocks this trope, but they end up playing it straight.

* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', Taylor is girl who has no friends, is bullied at school, and basically ignored by her father because he is constantly wallowing in grief from the tragic death of Taylor's mother. Then she gains superpowers and wants to be a hero, but due to miscommunication falls in with a group of teenage villains on her first night on patrol. She tells herself she's going undercover to find out who their boss is, but it quickly becomes apparent that she gets more love and validation from the Undersiders than she has gotten from anyone else in years and eventually commits to villainy, finding ever more tortured justifications for her actions because she can't bring herself to abandon or condemn her friends.

Many LGBT-coded villains can be found in one of these since the FamilyOfChoice is often associated with LGBTIA+ and criminals with villainy. The popularity of the found family trope, however, is likely to cast them [[LikableVillain sympathetically or at least in a way that appeals to the audience]].