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[[caption-width-right:250:[[ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul A crafty, cruel, and cunning villain]]. [[BaitAndSwitchComparison Just like]] her [[ComicBook/RasAlGhul father.]]]]

* Sonia Steiglitz is the beautiful and sadistic KnifeNut daughter of the ex-CIA chief/archaeologist villain of ''The Takers'', a modern {{Two Fisted Tale|s}} by Jerry Ahern.

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* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': Ana Kravinoff, the daughter of ComicBook/KravenTheHunter, has followed in her father's footsteps despite only being [[LittleMissBadass 12]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': [[spoiler:Jinx in Acts II and III]]. Silco regularly dotes on her, enables her destructive and unstable behavior, and takes her occasional moments of [[AbusiveOffspring violence towards him]] in stride. Meanwhile, his other lackies and fellow crime bosses see her as a unstable wild card who tends to complicate any given operation, which Silco even acknowledges as true; he just cares too much for his daughter to seriously punish her for it. In the season one finale, [[spoiler:when Silco is actually given the option to receive everything he ever wanted on a silver platter, he decides to reject it, as it would mean giving up his foster daughter. [[{{Patricide}} Jinx learns that he was going to reject the offer a bit too late]], but even then, his final words to her are those of loving encouragement and affirmation]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': [[spoiler:Jinx in Acts II and III]]. Silco regularly dotes on her, enables her destructive and unstable behavior, and takes her occasional moments of [[AbusiveOffspring violence towards him]] in stride. Meanwhile, his other lackies and fellow crime bosses see her as a unstable wild card who tends to complicate any given operation. In the season one finale, [[spoiler:when Silco is actually given the option to receive everything he ever wanted on a silver platter, he decides to reject it, as it would mean giving up his foster daughter. [[{{Patricide}} Jinx learns that he was going to reject the offer a bit too late]], but even then, his final words to her are those of loving encouragement and affirmation]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': [[spoiler:Jinx in Acts II and III]]. Silco regularly dotes on her, enables her destructive and unstable behavior, and takes her occasional moments of [[AbusiveOffspring violence towards him]] in stride. Meanwhile, his other lackies and fellow crime bosses see her as a dangerous annoyance who tends to complicate any given operation. In the season one finale, [[spoiler:when Silco is actually given the option to received everything he ever wanted on a silver platter, with the only thing he'd have to give up being Jinx, he quickly decides to reject it. [[{{Patricide}} Jinx learns that he was going to reject the offer a bit too late]], but even then, his final words to her are those of loving encouragement and affirmation]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': [[spoiler:Jinx in Acts II and III]], with her having a disturbing-yet-genuine father-daughter bond with Silco. The crime boss regularly dotes on her, enables her destructive and unstable behavior, and takes her occasional moments of [[AbusiveOffspring violence towards him]] in stride. Meanwhile, he other enforcers and fellow gang leaders see her as a dangerous wild card at best and TheMillstone at worse. In the season one finale, [[spoiler:when Silco is actually given the option to received everything he ever wanted on a silver platter, with the only thing he'd have to give up being Jinx, he quickly decides to reject it. [[{{Patricide}} Jinx learns that he was going to reject the offer a bit too late]], but even then, his final words to her are those of loving encouragement and affirmation]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': [[spoiler: Act 2 Jinx is one towards Silco, mixing in various measures of TheMillstone and TheBrute with a touch of TheDreaded as well; she’s by far the most outrageously dangerous and destructive of his gang, and too much so, in fact, but Silco dotes on and enables her.]]

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''. ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul (Pictured above) appears to have given up being a villainess and decided to fully accept that she loves Bruce. She offers him eternal youth via constant dips in the Lazarus Pit and declares that his life as a vigilante is over. Bruce undergoes the process and much of his youth is restored. He promptly declares that if he stays in the house with Talia and keeps taking dips in the pit he'll be weaker than ever. Talia is unwilling to let him leave and its discovered that she isn't Talia at all but Ra's Al Ghul himself. Ra's had Talia kill herself so that [[BodySurf what remained of his consciousness could be transferred to her body.]] His real reasoning for inviting Bruce was to transfer his consciousness to a more suitable form and gain all of his millions to top it off. The fact that Talia was willing to die just for her father's plan to work definitely makes her a cross between this and LoveMartyr.

* In [[https://www.deviantart.com/silfofinadragon SilfofinaDragon]]'s ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' fanfic ''Finally Home'', the late UsefulNotes/ToyotomiHideyoshi fathers Kirahime, a [[YouKilledMyFather vengeful]] [[WickedWitch witch]].

** "Identity Crisis" featured the VictimOfTheWeek, a young woman in her early-twenties, the daughter of an infamous deceased ConMan who taught her everything he knew about grifting. What got her killed was her trying to the tell [[TheMark her boyfriend]] about a large score she could make from scamming two guys who themselves were trying to pull off a scam. She tells the boyfriend that the deal went wrong, and convinced him to empty his bank account, loan a large amount from his brother, and sell anything of value to pay them off. After months of not seeing her, he recognized her in the old man costume, and when she tried to fight him off, he killed her and fled the scene.

* Valyin from ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' is a tragic, but twisted example. Valkorian had no intention of giving up power, and Valyin was so potent with Force power that she was making furniture move ''in utero.'' From the time her and her brothers could stand, Valkorian was training them to be his [[TheDragon Dragons]]. When Vaylin lost her temper during a sparring session, her outburst crushed several men to death inside their armor. Valkorian, fearing she would overthrow him someday, dumped her on a [[PlaceWorseThanDeath world that had been stripped of the Force]], put her in the hands of a crazed MadScientist and equally insane cult, [[BrainwashedAndCrazy subjected her to horrific tortures and "experiments,"]] and conditioned her with a TriggerPhrase that could stop her from acting. Her mother ''tried'' to storm the prison and carry her to safety, but she was so far gone she stayed with daddy. The end result is a bloodthirsty and insane young woman who acts more like a rabid dog with Force powers and a lightsaber than a Sith.

She's the daughter/niece/granddaughter/etc of an EvilOverlord, who shares her parent's {{ambition|IsEvil}}, cunning, and cruelty. She could be anything from a simple SpoiledBrat to an Overlord in waiting. She's also likely to be a [[GratuitousPrincess Princess]] (since [[GarnishingTheStory even villainy is improved with that]]), although she will still prefer wearing [[EvilWearsBlack black]] or dark colors over [[PrincessesPreferPink pink]].

* Princess Aura in the original ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'' comic was an early example, though as the stories progressed she became more of a RebelliousPrincess. As [[TheEmperor Ming the Merciless']] daughter and only child, she helped him hunt the heroes, and even commanded military forces for him occasionally. She does have a soft spot for Flash Gordon out of attraction to him, and is Prince Barin's lover in some continuities.

* One of the weirdest examples of this Trope occurred in Lorelei's backstory in ''Fanfic/ShadowchasersTorment''. Her father was a [[EvilSorcerer Doomdreamer]], a senior member of the [[ReligionOfEvil Cult of Tharizdun]]. When an omen from his god foretold that any disciple he took would betray him, he decided to raise his own offspring as one, summoning a [[HornyDevils succubus]] for the express purpose of carrying his child, and then training his daughter almost since infancy. While Lorelei became an incredibly powerful Doomdreamer in her own right, her father didn't escape the prophecy; ''she'' betrayed him and in one of the worst ways, [[BalefulPolymorph turning him into a cat]] and them keeping him like a pet. Despite this, he had absolutely no regrets - [[SoProudOfYou she turned out just the way he had wanted his daughter too.]] (Of course, Doomdreamers are all ''[[AxCrazy completely]]'' [[AxCrazy insane...]]

* In the Danish film ''Film/{{Pusher}} 3'', Serb druglord Milo's daughter clearly wears the pants in the family, ordering her flustered father around to prepare for her 25th birthday party. After Milo discovers that her boyfriend is an independent drug dealer and forces him to buy his product for distribution, his daughter finds out and hardballs his price down. What a family!

* ''Film/{{Sky High|2005}}'': [[spoiler:Gwen]] was raised by Stitches to be evil, and she absolutely hates whenever someone, including Stitches himself, points this out. [[spoiler:Also a rare instance of the "little villain" rather than the "daddy" being the dominant partner. Although she was already evil to begin with.]]

* Angela in ''Film/MatchstickMen'', who proves to be just as cunning of a ConMan as her father Roy. [[spoiler:Justified as she is an actress playing a con against him.]]

-->"My mother would drink while my father was out searching for the damned [[MacGuffin Gladstone Log]]. Some nights she'd beat me because she couldn't love him. I'm twenty-six years old. I stopped playing with dolls twenty years ago. I taught myself to hurt things and feel nothing -- all so I could be with him when he searched -- ''be with him!'' It was never my mother -- I don't know if he loved her. It was always finding the Gladstone Log...the power...the power he wanted..."

* In ''Literature/VampireAcademy'', [[spoiler:Natalie will do anything her father Victor Dashkov tells her to do. Even drastic things, like turning Strigoi to help him get out of prison. She is his chief agent in his campaign against Lissa]].

** Despite not really being his daughter, Faith winds up very much playing this role to The Mayor in the third season -- she's his loyal [[TheDragon Dragon]], of whom he is clearly protective. Her loyalty is based on him being the first (and possibly ''only'') person who ever valued her just for being her (not using her or trying to change her). When he tells her that even if Buffy did a FaceHeelTurn, he'd still pick Faith over her, it's a weird but touchingly sincere moment that clearly means the world to her. Buffy sending her into a coma led to [[AffablyEvil his one swear word]] and Buffy taunting him about said loss led to his defeat. Many scenes between Faith and the Mayor involved him acting very fatherly and tender, giving her gifts and general life advice (about respecting and valuing herself) alongside assassination missions. Nice little call back in both Season Seven and the Season Eight comics, showing that Faith remembers him fondly despite her HeelFaceTurn.

** Drusilla is almost as evil as her beloved "Daddy." The two seem to have a lot in common, killing and making plans together, and in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E14Crush Crush]]", Dru even shows Angelus' affinity for torture, while Spike prefers quick kills. Angelus even tells her "no one knows me like you do." Her betrayal of Spike for Angelus the moment he returns probably seals the deal. Of course, Dru and Angelus have been sleeping together since before Spike was born, but that's how vampire families seem to work.
* ''Series/ForeverKnight'': [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. [=LaCroix=]'s daughter Divia became a vampire first and is the reason for him becoming one too, not the other way around. She's also far more amoral and embracing of her monstrous nature than even her machiavellian father, which led him to [[SealedEvilInACan seal her away]] for two thousand years.

* ''Series/YoungDracula'' has Ingrid, the elder sister of the title character, who at least in the earlier seasons would ''love'' to be this. Unfortunately for her, her father is utterly sexist, and so [[TheUnfavourite despises and ignores her]] in favour of her WhiteSheep brother.

** Augurey, a powerful Death Eater whose parents supported Voldemort during [[Literature/HarryPotter the first Wizarding War]]. The two Death Eaters never met their child, but the Augrey still feels an incredible closeness to them and seeks to destroy the Potters in their honor. The Augurey's status as an orphan also creates a parallel scenario for Harry Potter, who fights for good because his deceased parents did.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', Beautiful Gorgeous, the [[FemmeFatale Femme Fatale]] daughter of Professor Finbar Calamitous, constantly bickers with daddy when they scheme together. Their one mission together involved kidnapping Action Hero (real and TV star) Jet Fusion.

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' has ComicBook/RasAlGhul as the BigBad of Season 3 but of his two daughters Nyssa gets more prominence than [[ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul Talia]]. The same season flirts with the idea that Thea will fall under the influence of supervillain Malcolm Merlyn--having discovered that she's his illegitimate daughter--but she eventually rejects him and returns to her brother Oliver, by which time (ironically) Malcolm has become the next Ra's.

* Angelica Teach from ''Film/PiratesOfTheCarribbeanOnStrangerTides'' is TheDragon for her father, [[TheDreaded the infamous Blackbeard]]. [[spoiler: Little does she know [[UnwittingPawn he's just using her]] [[ImmortalitySeeker to achieve his quest for immortality.]]]]

* She's only his daughter in name, but Mileena has this relationship with Shao Kahn in the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' games, especially in the altered timeline, where she becomes a twisted and evil sort of DaddysGirl. Unfortunately, despite proving herself in her "father's" eyes, and becoming empress of the Outworld after his death, she becomes a poor one; in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' she is almost [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating universally hated, both by Earthrealm and Outworld natives alike.]]

** Augurey, a powerful Death Eater whose parents supported Voldemort during [[Literature/HarryPotter the first Wizarding War]]. The two Death Eaters never met their child, but the Augrey still feels an incredible closeness to them and seeks to destroy the Potters in their honor. The Augurey's status as an orphan also creates a NotSoDifferent scenario for Harry Potter, who fights for good because his deceased parents did.

* You'd think ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesMyLifeAsADarklord'' would feature this... but it doesn't, exactly. The current Darklord is all EvilOverlord, but according to the intro [[spoiler: and the previous game, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesMyLifeAsAKing'']], her father was an AntiVillain who just wanted to protect monsters and provide them a place to live in peace.. but was more than willing to kill those who stood in the way of this goal. So... she doesn't take after her father in that she's ''more unambiguously evil and less sympathetic than him.''

* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell'': {{Satan}} has a daughter, Jezebel, who he's decided to marry off to the most powerful being in the universe, The Boss.

* In [[https://www.deviantart.com/misakiyu misakiyu]]'s illustrations of [[https://www.deviantart.com/silfofinadragon SilfofinaDragon]]'s ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' fanfics, the late UsefulNotes/ToyotomiHideyoshi fathers Kirahime, a [[YouKilledMyFather vengeful]] [[WickedWitch witch]].

[[caption-width-right:250:A crafty, cruel, and cunning villain. [[BaitAndSwitchComparison Just like]] her [[ComicBook/RasAlGhul father.]]]]