History Main / OffingTheOffspring

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* In ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'', Philza's first action upon being whitelisted and logging on to the server is to try to convince his son, Wilbur, not to blow up L'Manburg and himself in the process. When that fails, Phil protects Wilbur from the explosion, but Wilbur convinces Phil to [[SuicideByCop kill him anyway]], to which Phil eventually complies.
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* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', every Distreyd Thanadar tries to kill his children when they're about to come of age; if he doesn't, said children will kill ''him'' to take his place as the high cleric of Mardük. This is also a twisted way for every Distreyd to ensure that only the strongest of his children survive and kill him off to carry on his legacy as the next person to hold the name of Distreyd Thanadar.
* Quipped about in WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's LetsPlay of ''Bart's Nightmare'', as he mutters that he's not surprised his own mother (established to be a horror) would try to kill him.

* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': In Episode 60 Part 1, Cell (and Piccolo) assume Goku did this indirectly after the former temporarily dispatched Gohan, as Goku was the one who sent Gohan to fight Cell, only for Gohan to reveal himself later. In Part 2, Gohan as a Super Duper Saiyan[[note]]Super Saiyan 2[[/note]] [[TranquilFury calmly gives the definition of Filicide]] before ripping apart Cell's Cell Juniors under this same notion.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12849210/ Lord of the Castle]]'' (''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''): A tragic, '''heroic''' version of this occurs. In the main universe, [[spoiler: Dracula was consumed by grief and lashed out against humanity to unleash HellOnEarth after his wife Lisa's [[BurnTheWitch death]], while his son Alucard chose to listen to his mother's wishes not to lash out and protect them, forcing him to [[{{Patricide}} kill his father]] with the help of Trevor Belmont and Sypha Belnades]]. In the Justice Lords' [[MirrorWorld universe]], [[spoiler: the roles of Dracula and Alucard are swapped. Dracula was ultimately still able to heed his wife's last wishes even despite his heartbreak (he still killed the members of the CorruptChurch responsible for Lisa's death, but they were AssholeVictims in the canon universe as well), but Alucard was consumed by grief and, unable to forgive humanity for killing his mother, lashed out and unleashed Hell's armies. As such, Dracula worked alongside his universe's version of Trevor and Sypha to protect humanity and was ultimately made to kill his son]].

* In ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', Philza's first action upon being whitelisted and logging on to the server is to try to convince his son, Wilbur, not to blow up L'Manburg and himself in the process. When that fails, Phil protects Wilbur from the explosion, but Wilbur convinces Phil to [[SuicideByCop kill him anyway]], to which Phil eventually complies.

* The Alpha in ''ComicBook/Hoxford'' rips out his son’s heart out and crushes it in revenge for Baker’s betrayal.

* ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'': During the battle between the Earth's heroes and ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}'s forces, [[Franchise/TeenTitans Trigon]] attempts to kill his daughter Raven after torturing her.

* '''Extended Suicide''': The parent sees no other way but to depart this vale of tears and by no means is he or she prepared to leave the child behind. This may happen for a variety of reasons, often coming down to sparing the child a FateWorseThanDeath (or a mode of death worse than the quick and clean kill the parent is going to provide). Sadly, this trope has plenty of precedent in RealLife, as attested by many Jewish parents who killed themselves and their children to escpae deportation to Nazi death camps during WWII. However, in some particularly gruesome cases the motivation can be much more sinister: for an example, see the mythical heroine Medea, who killed her infant children before lying upon her own sword, to punish her adulterous husband Jason (making this trope OlderThanFeudalism).

** ''ComicBook/CaptainMarvelMarvelComics'': LegacyCharacter Genis-Vell was once under attack by the incorporeal body of the Magus, [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]]'s SuperpoweredEvilSide. In a [[EvilPlan plan]] to take over Marvel's body (who could only see him because of his [[HyperAwareness Cosmic Awareness]], he employed Marvel's son from the future, who had turned into an EnfantTerrible. Genis at one point in the fight made a horrible decision. This made his son fade away from existence (A la ''Film/BackToTheFuture''). We're later shown [[TearJerker with the gut-wrenching action]] he had to perform hanging above his son's cradle.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': One of the villains once had children whose lives were lost due to a tragic incident; this informs at least some of their villainous behaviour. [[spoiler:When [[BigGood Ozma]] realized that [[BigBad Salem's]] methods of [[KillAllHumans uniting humanity]] weren't compatible [[{{Utopia}} with his own]], threatened his ability to complete the divine mission the gods had given him and also endangered the lives of their children, he decided to abandon her. He gathered up their four daughters and attempted to steal away in the night. Salem caught him red-handed. Their fight was [[PersonOfMassDestruction so brutal]] that it destroyed their castle, killed all four of their children, and [[MutualKill each other]]. Being immortal, Salem [[CompleteImmortality reformed immediately]] while Ozma [[ResurrectiveImmortality reincarnated]] into a [[SharingABody new host]]. The children, however, were mortals whose lives were lost forever. Ozma and Salem have been trapped in a ForeverWar for the fate of humanity ever since.]]

* '''Extended Suicide''': The parent sees no other way but to depart this vale of tears and by no means is he or she prepared to leave the child behind. This may happen for a variety of reasons, often coming down to sparing the child a [[FateWorseThanDeath]] (or a mode of death worse than the quick and clean kill the parent is going to provide). Sadly, this trope has plenty of precedent in [[RealLife]], as attested by many Jewish parents who killed themselves and their children to escpae deportation to Nazi death camps during WWII. However, in some particularly gruesome cases the motivation can be much more sinister: for an example, see the mythical heroine Medea, who killed her infant children before lying upon her own sword, to punish her adulterous husband Jason (making this trope [[OlderThanFeudalism]]).

[[FreudianExcuse They don't love their children]]. Really. They don't even like them. Truth is, they'd really rather they didn't exist at all. Sometimes, they will actually go so far as to take a personal hand in this. The motto of this sort of parent is "I brought you into this world, and by God, I can take you out of it again." Talk about ParentalIssues.2

[[FreudianExcuse They don't love their children]]. Really. They don't even like them. Truth is, they'd really rather they didn't exist at all. Sometimes, they will actually go so far as to take a personal hand in this. The motto of this sort of parent is "I brought you into this world, and by God, I can take you out of it again." Talk about ParentalIssues.

* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': In this story [[spoiler:Rei was Naoko's daughter. Even so,]] she still choked her first incarnation with her own hands for ''badmouthing'' her, right like in canon.

* ''Fanfic/MaternalInstinct'': In this ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction, in a fit of unbridled rage, [[spoiler: Queen Chrysalis]] exploded in a vicious tirade against her [[spoiler:heavily mentally and physically disabled daughter and heir, Princess Pupa,]] and proceeded to beat her. ''Savagely''. But when [[spoiler:Chrysalis]] came to her senses and saw her daughter on the floor, barely conscious and with blooding oozing out from wounds on her crown and temple, the aghast and repentant [[spoiler:Queen]] immediately threw herself at [[spoiler:her daughter]]'s mangled form, kissing her face and trying to stop the bleeding, mentally crying, [[spoiler:''‘Kami above, forgive me! Please, forgive me!’'']]

* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'': Shouzou Yuuki, in a ''massive'' AdaptationDeviation from the [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline source material]], attempts to kill his comatose daughter to get out of the [[EvilIsPetty climbing medical bills]], only to stop himself at the last second due to Kirito getting in between them and Shouzou remembering his lawyers' advice that killing his daughter will cause much greater problems for him. He settles for marrying her to [[SmugSnake Sugou]].

* '''Evil Parent''': The child is blameless (or at least not guilty of anything deserving of death); the parent just wants to dispose of the child for some reason. Maybe there's a [[Theatre/OedipusRex prophecy]] about the kid coming back and killing the parent and the parent figures "It's me or them"; maybe the parent has to [[DealWithTheDevil keep a pact]] made with a dark power in which the child's life is the price; maybe the child is TheUnfavourite; maybe the child was born as [[WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent an unacceptable nonconformist]]; Whatever the reason, the [[EvilMatriarch mother]] or [[ArchnemesisDad father]] is ultimately just a murderer.
* '''Evil Offspring''': In this scenario, the parent actually does love the child, at least a little, but there's something seriously [[CreepyChild wrong]] about that kid. The parent may be the only one who can stop the child or perhaps feels responsible for doing the deed personally.

Some parents would [[MamaBear go through Hell and back]] [[PapaWolf to protect their kids]]. Some even [[OverprotectiveDad take it just a tad too far]] at times. Sometimes [[KnightTemplarParent way too far]].

** ''ComicBook/TheEternals'': Sui-San, mother of ComicBook/{{Thanos}}, tried to kill him as soon as he was born because she saw his future as an OmnicidalManiac. A'Lars, Thanos's father, stopped her because he saw great potential in Thanos, the first true Eternal child born to Earth's Eternals (a race normally limited by an ImmortalProcreationClause). Unfortunately for the universe, both of them were right.
** In ''ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist'', [[spoiler: Fat Cobra was forced to kill the hundreds of children he had over the years who got together and tried to kill him, and was horrified finding out (years of booze and fighting also made him forget about most of his past so there was a chance that he didn't know it was his kids at the time). Upon learning this, he burned the biography that he'd commissioned]].
** Raven Darkhölme aka Characters/{{Mystique}} regularly voted “Marvel’s Worst Mother” for several decades, has infamously made two attempts on the lives of her sons, the second time being successful.
*** The first (unsuccessful) attempt was ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}. Kurt’s painful birth caused Mystique to revert from rich Baroness to her natural blue form and get chased out of the German village by a TorchesAndPitchforks mob baby in tow, realising she could escape by [[VoluntaryShapeShifter shapeshifting]] into someone else and the only thing holding her back was the blue little baby in her arms, Raven coldly tossed infant Kurt off a cliff. DependingOnTheWriter Mystique genuinely regrets her actions... or would willingly do it again. Marvel would {{retcon}} this in Nightcrawler’s updated origin, having Raven send Kurt down the river strapped to a log instead, likely in a conservative effort to make Mystique less monstrous.
*** The second is Graydon Creed, whom she had with ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}. Born a normal human, Mystique gave him up to an orphanage and only checked up on him occasionally. When Graydon snuck out to look for her, Mystique revealed her mutant nature and cruelly mocked him. Horrified and embittered by both his patents, Graydon became a mutant hater BoomerangBigot, leader of the Friends of Humanity and killed the grandson of Mystique’s girlfriend Destiny. In response, Mystique [[note]] well technically a future version of her (not that softens the blow) [[/note]] assassinated her own son with a sniper rifle at a presidential rally. For added [[KickTheDog cruelty]], when traversing {{Hell}} in ''ComicBook/WeaponX2017'' and finding Graydon, Mystique was perfectly fine with leaving him there, something that [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusted]] ''even Sabretooth!''
** ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
*** [[spoiler: Curt Connor's SuperPoweredEvilSide The Lizard]] kills [[spoiler: Curt's son Billy]]. The Kravinoff family arranged the whole awful situation [[spoiler: in order to "kill" Curt Connor and put The Lizard in control for good]]. [[TearJerker/SpiderMan And it worked]].
*** During ComicBook/DarkReign, [[spoiler: ComicBook/NormanOsborn brought his son Harry, Peter Parker's best friend, into his Dark Avengers... so he could later have him killed to gain public sympathy, and by extension, support, hitting an [[MoralEventHorizon all-new low]]]].
*** In ''ComicBook/SpiderManLifeStory'', an AU Series, Norman Osborn rigs an entire bar with pumpkin bombs to blackmail Peter to follow his instructions, noting that while Spider-Man and Green Goblin would survive such an explosion, the same would not be true of the other patrons. Peter points to Norman that his own son Harry is in the bar, but Norman merely smirks proving he doesn't care one bit about using his own son as hostage.

*** The Hulk's Green Scar persona - that is, the one that first appeared during ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' and ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'' - really, really, really wants to kill his son Skaar as he blames Skaar for feeding his mother's spirit to Galactus, killing her off for real (it looks like, anyway). Skaar is equally intent on killing him for abandoning him on a savage planet (Hulk thought he was dead). In the end, they manage to settle things without killing each other.
*** Bruce's father Brian was a nasty piece of work who murdered Bruce's mom and tried to kill him too -- while they were visiting her grave no less. Bruce killed him in self-defense. Brian would later briefly come back from the dead in the form of Guilt Hulk -- the worst of Bruce's various Hulk personas -- to try again. The Green Scar being reminded of Brian during his decisive fight with Skaar, realizing that he's acting no different from his awful father is what causes Greenscar to stop fighting.
** Creator/MarvelComics' LegacyCharacter [[ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} Genis-Vell]] was once under attack by the incorporeal body of the Magus, [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]]'s SuperPoweredEvilSide. In a [[EvilPlan plan]] to take over Marvel's body (who could only see him because of his [[HyperAwareness Cosmic Awareness]], he employed Marvel's son from the future, who had turned into an EnfantTerrible. Genis at one point in the fight made a horrible decision. This made his son fade away from existence (A la ''Film/BackToTheFuture''). We're later shown [[TearJerker with the gut-wrenching action]] he had to perform hanging above his son's cradle.
** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}:

* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' [[spoiler:Morpheus kills his son Orpheus (now a disembodied head)]] [[ICannotSelfTerminate at the latter's insistence]]. This is after he coldly abandoned him to his fate for ''millennia''. His guilt over this and for the killing [[spoiler:is one of the reasons Morpheus subconsciously chooses to die in the end]].