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* Series/{{Dexter}} panicked when his girlfriend Rita got pregnant because of this trope. He's terrified that his kid will grow up to be a serial killer like him.

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* Series/{{Dexter}} Series/{{Dexter}}: [[Characters/DexterDexterMorgan Dexter Morgan]] panicked when his girlfriend Rita got pregnant because of this trope. He's terrified that his kid will grow up to be a serial killer like him.
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Some parents make ends meet through frowned-upon trades like prostitution, others turn to crime, some ''master'' crime and become TheDon, and there's more than a few {{Super Villain}}s who start families... ''[[SurprisePregnancy unintentionally]].'' The thing is, not every villain turned parent is a sociopath who chastises OverlordJr for [[InadequateInheritor not being evil enough]]. Quite a few realize the choices they have made, that the life they lead is a [[BeingEvilSucks fundamentally destructive one]], and don't want their child to [[LegacyCharacter mimic them]] as a [[GenerationXerox family legacy.]] Sometimes the parents were [[JustifiedCriminal forced into their way of life due to circumstances beyond their control,]] and want to ensure that their children never have to make the same choice. Sometimes they're a WellIntentionedExtremist who views their actions as NecessarilyEvil in service of creating a world where their children won't have to act like them.

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Some parents make ends meet through frowned-upon trades like prostitution, others turn to crime, some ''master'' crime and become TheDon, and there's more than a few {{Super Villain}}s who start families... ''[[SurprisePregnancy unintentionally]].'' The thing is, not every villain turned parent is a sociopath who chastises OverlordJr for [[InadequateInheritor not being evil enough]]. Quite a few realize the choices they have made, that the life they lead is a [[BeingEvilSucks fundamentally destructive one]], and don't want their child to [[LegacyCharacter mimic them]] as a [[GenerationXerox family legacy.]] Sometimes the parents were [[JustifiedCriminal forced into their way of life due to circumstances beyond their control,]] and want to ensure that their children never have to make the same choice. Sometimes they're a WellIntentionedExtremist [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]] who views view their actions as NecessarilyEvil in service of creating a world where their children won't have to act like them.
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* In the classic ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing Conscience of the King]]" episode, the presumed dead mass murderer Kodos the Executioner (a colonial governor who sentenced many innocent people to die) has been hiding as the theatre actor Anton Karidian for years, raising a daughter who he hopes will never learn about his sordid past. To his horror at the end of the episode, he learns that not only does she know, but she's become an AxCrazy fanatic SerialKiller determined to eliminate all the witnesses to her father's true identity. Just as she's about to shoot Kirk, Kodos [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrifices himself]] by [[TakingTheBullet taking the shot]], which causes his daughter to break down and be sent to an insane asylum.

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* In the classic ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing Conscience of the King]]" episode, the presumed dead mass murderer Kodos the Executioner (a colonial governor who sentenced many innocent people to die) die during a famine) has been hiding as the theatre actor Anton Karidian for years, raising a daughter who he hopes will never learn about his sordid past. To his horror at the end of the episode, he learns that not only does she know, but she's become an AxCrazy fanatic SerialKiller determined to eliminate all the witnesses to her father's true identity. Just as she's about to shoot Kirk, Kodos [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrifices himself]] by [[TakingTheBullet taking the shot]], which causes his daughter to break down and be sent to an insane asylum.
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* In the classic ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing Conscience of the King]]" episode, the presumed dead mass murderer Kodos the Executioner (a former colonial governor) has been hiding as the theatre actor Anton Karidian for years, raising a daughter who he hopes will never learn about his sordid past. To his horror at the end of the episode, he learns that not only does she know, but she's become an AxCrazy fanatic SerialKiller determined to eliminate all the witnesses to her father's true identity. Just as she's about to shoot Kirk, Kodos [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrifices himself]] by [[TakingTheBullet taking the shot]], which causes his daughter to break down and be sent to an insane asylum.

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* In the classic ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing Conscience of the King]]" episode, the presumed dead mass murderer Kodos the Executioner (a former colonial governor) governor who sentenced many innocent people to die) has been hiding as the theatre actor Anton Karidian for years, raising a daughter who he hopes will never learn about his sordid past. To his horror at the end of the episode, he learns that not only does she know, but she's become an AxCrazy fanatic SerialKiller determined to eliminate all the witnesses to her father's true identity. Just as she's about to shoot Kirk, Kodos [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrifices himself]] by [[TakingTheBullet taking the shot]], which causes his daughter to break down and be sent to an insane asylum.
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* In the classic ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing Conscience of the King]]" episode, the presumed dead mass murderer, Kodos the Executioner, has been hiding as the theatre actor Anton Karidian for years, raising a daughter who he hopes will never learn about his sordid past. To his horror at the end of the episode, he learns that not only does she know, but she's become an AxCrazy fanatic SerialKiller determined to eliminate all the witnesses to her father's true identity. Just as she's about to shoot Kirk, Kodos [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrifices himself]] by [[TakingTheBullet taking the shot]], which causes his daughter to break down and be sent to an insane asylum.

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* In the classic ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing Conscience of the King]]" episode, the presumed dead mass murderer, murderer Kodos the Executioner, Executioner (a former colonial governor) has been hiding as the theatre actor Anton Karidian for years, raising a daughter who he hopes will never learn about his sordid past. To his horror at the end of the episode, he learns that not only does she know, but she's become an AxCrazy fanatic SerialKiller determined to eliminate all the witnesses to her father's true identity. Just as she's about to shoot Kirk, Kodos [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrifices himself]] by [[TakingTheBullet taking the shot]], which causes his daughter to break down and be sent to an insane asylum.

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