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** PrincelingRivalry: Killing off competitors to a royal throne.



** PrincelingRivalry: Killing off competitors to a royal throne.
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* InsuranceMotivatedMurder: Murdering a family member (usually a spouse or parent) to collect the money from their insurance.
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** BlackWidow: A woman who kills her husband (mariticide).
** TheBluebeard: A man who kills his wife (uxoricide).

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** BlackWidow: A woman who repeatedly kills her husband husbands (mariticide).
** TheBluebeard: A man who repeatedly kills his wife wives (uxoricide).
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*** OedipusComplex: Killing your father and [[ParentalIncest marrying your mother]] (the {{gender inver|ted trope}}se is called an ElectraComplex).
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** OneTwinMustDie: Killing one of two twin siblings for superstitious reasons.
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* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When killing one's relative is considered a MoralEventHorizon.
* OffingTheOffspring: Murdering one's own children.
** PaterFamilicide: [[FamilyExtermination The murder or murder-suicide of an entire immediate family unit]], generally by the father, due to an inability to deal with personal failure.

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* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When killing one's relative is considered a MoralEventHorizon.
an [[MoralEventHorizon irredeemably evil action]].
* OffingTheOffspring: Murdering one's own children.
children (filicide).
** PaterFamilicide: The murder or MurderSuicide of [[FamilyExtermination The murder or murder-suicide of an entire immediate family unit]], generally usually by the father, due to an inability to deal with personal failure.



* SiblingMurder: Someone kills their own brother or sister.

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* SiblingMurder: Someone kills their own brother (fratricide) or sister.sister (sororicide).



** BlackWidow: A woman who is a [[SerialKiller serial murderer]] of her husbands.
** TheBluebeard: A man who is a [[SerialKiller serial murderer]] of his wives.

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** BlackWidow: A woman who is a [[SerialKiller serial murderer]] of kills her husbands.
husband (mariticide).
** TheBluebeard: A man who is a [[SerialKiller serial murderer]] of kills his wives.wife (uxoricide).
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* ADeadlyAffair: When an extramarital affair results in one of the parties involved (usually an enraged spouse) killing the others.

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* ADeadlyAffair: When an extramarital affair results in one of the parties involved (usually killing another.
** DeathByWomanScorned: When it's done by
an enraged spouse) killing the others.spouse as revenge for being cheated on.
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Obviously, this is a sub-trope of DomesticAbuse, and is the most extreme version of it. For other (non-lethal/violent) instances of family tension, see the DysfunctionalFamilyIndex.

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Obviously, this is a sub-trope of DomesticAbuse, and is the most extreme version of it. For other (non-lethal/violent) instances of family tension, see the DysfunctionalFamilyIndex. Examples that don't fit into any of the below tropes should only be listed on their respective works pages.
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** PaterFamilicide: The murder or murder-suicide of an entire immediate family unit, generally by the father, due to an inability to deal with personal failure.

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** PaterFamilicide: [[FamilyExtermination The murder or murder-suicide of an entire immediate family unit, unit]], generally by the father, due to an inability to deal with personal failure.
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* GrandfatherParadox: Killing one's ancestor via {{time travel}}, which may end up [[RetGone unmaking the murderer in the process]] (unless they [[MyOwnGrampa replace their own ancestor in the family tree]]).

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* GrandfatherParadox: Killing one's ancestor via {{time travel}}, which may end up [[RetGone unmaking the murderer in the process]] if this happens before they have the ancestor who would eventually beget them (unless they [[MyOwnGrampa replace their own ancestor in the family tree]]).
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* HonorRelatedAbuse: If it turns into honor-killing.

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* HonorRelatedAbuse: If When it turns into honor-killing.honor-killing, killing someone for perceived "dishonor" of their family.
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