History Main / ParentalIncest

* The ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fic "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/33823474/ Apex Predator]]" has a few observations about such relationships in the exploration of the BlueAndOrange morality of Veela culture. One scene features Fleur's mother Apolline pledging "allegiance" to Fleur to affirm that she will respect Fleur's right to make decisions regarding her chosen mate, Harry Potter, with part of the ritual involving Apolline licking Fleur's clit, but it's explicitly stated that attraction to other women is rare in Veela. Apolline later observes that while it's not uncommon for any male child of a Veela to become his sisters' "plaything", Veela will basically never have a sexual relationship with their own sons as male children are so uncommon that any Veela to have a son must have been engaging in regular sexual activity to conceive the child in the first place, so they don't have any need for such an additional sexual outlet.

** Chris teaches Carter about [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbation]] by giving him a handjob, though the act was done off-screen and there's no indication this wasn't anything but a (not-well-thought-out) desire from Chris to show his grandfather a handy trick to "relax" (something that could have been taught through letting Carter use his own hand). In fact, Chris and Carter have enough (non-sexual) fun time together that it's what prompts Carter to write Chris into the will.

* Episode 7 of ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' reveals that [[spoiler:Kinzō had a child with an Italian woman named Beatrice, [[DeathByChildbirth who died in the process]]. He then had the not so bright idea of naming the child after her, and since she grew up to look so much like her mother he convinced himself that his daughter was his lover reincarnated. The result was a ChildByRape, who would grow up to become the BigBad of [[DiscOneFinalBoss the first half of the story]].]]

** There's also a strip where a boss catches his employee, who called in sick, having sex with an [[ChristmasCake older woman]]. The boss is angry, of course, as the employee can't be all that sick if he's bumping uglies, but he explains that he's actually ''[[MetaphoricallyTrue very]]'' [[SickAndWrong sick]].

->''"Women, listen to your mothers.\\
Don't just succumb to the wishes of your brothers.\\
Take a step back, take a look at one another.\\
You need to know the difference between a father and a lover."''

* One of the minor characters seen in hell in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' tells the newly-arrived young thugs that "I took my mother by force, and strangled my sister when she wouldn't submit to my advances."

** Fellow [=AoA=] mutant [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]] has one hell of an OedipusComplex story. The genetically-engineered son of his reality's Scott Summers and Jean Grey, he crosses over to the original timeline of Marvel-616 where he gets involved with Madelyne Pryor, the long-deceased clone of his biological mother. It is later revealed that he accidentally physically resurrected her with the sheer force of his immense mutant talent when he unconsciously and instinctively tried to psionically contact Jean Grey upon his arrival in the other reality (his interactions with 616!Jean as a rule, are all mother and son, which she reciprocates). He also later gets involved with ''yet another'' counterpart of his biological mother, when an evil counterpart of Jean Grey from ''yet another'' alternate reality disposes of and impersonates Madelyne Pryor. This Queen Jean, a Jean Grey corrupted by her own power, was revealed to have had a prior consort who was her reality's counterpart of Nate, essentially ''her own'' genetically-engineered son, who rebelled against her and was ultimately executed, but not before helping his alternate counterpart defeat his mother Queen Jean.

* A plot line in ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'' has one of the characters (the gynoid Jocasta) ending her relationship with her grandfather (Hank Pym, who created Ultron who created Jocasta) when she realizes that he is still in love with her dead sister/mother (his ex-wife/on-off lover Janet van Dyne -- whose brainwave patterns Ultron copied to create Jocasta's AI). She marries her father (Ultron) instead (that was why Ultron initially created her in the first place years ago, as he himself had an OedipusComplex to his "mother", the wife of his creator-father).

* An old JewishMother joke: A psychoanalyst has finished talking with little Irving. His mother asks, "What's wrong with him?" The doctor responds, "I'm afraid he has an UsefulNotes/OedipusComplex." "Eh, [[WordSchmord Oedipus, schmoedipus!]]" she responds. "Just so long as he loves his mother!"

* Commonly referenced in {{fairy tale}}s. The heroine's father decides to marry her -- often because she resembles her mother, or because she is the only person who can wear something that belonged to her mother, and her father promised to marry only such a woman. Some of these include "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/allfur.html All-Kinds-of-Fur]]", ''Allerleirauh'', "Literature/{{Donkeyskin}}", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/kingdaughter.html The King Who Wished Marry To His Daughter]]", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/shebear.html The She-Bear]]", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/margerywhitecoat.html Margery White Coats]]", and "[[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0510b.html#canziani Golden-Teeth]]". She usually attempts to hold him off, [[EngagementChallenge demanding]] {{Impossible Task}}s for her consent, but this always fails. The princess must [[NobleFugitive run away to escape]], before [[SheCleansUpNicely going to a ball]] and winning a prince. Many folklorists interpret tales where she must flee her father for other reasons, such as "Literature/{{Catskin}}", where her father wanted a son and so marries her off with no care, or "Literature/CapORushes" where he takes offense at what she says, or "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/bear.html The Bear]]" where she is smothered and wants to escape, as {{Bowdlerise}}d variants. Note that BrotherSisterIncest can substitute, with the brother taking the father's place for the threat.

* An old JewishMother joke: A psychoanalyst has finished talking with little Irving. His mother asks, "What's wrong with him?" The doctor responds, "I'm afraid he has an OedipusComplex." "Eh, [[WordSchmord Oedipus, schmoedipus!]]" she responds. "Just so long as he loves his mother!"

** The most famous example of Parental Incest comes from with ''Theatre/OedipusRex'', about a prince who is prophesied to kill his father and marry his mother. After being left to die by his father and then found by someone else, he meets him unrecognized on the road and kills him. He has several adventures (including solving the RiddleOfTheSphinx) before heading home and marrying the Queen, who, yes, turns out to be his mother. He spends years with her -- and they have ''children'' -- [[SurpriseIncest before finding out the truth about what happened]], and is so horrified by it all that he goes into exile, after exacting the punishment on himself for killing the old king to end a curse on the land, while she commits suicide.
** [[DistaffCounterpart Electra]]. She murdered her mother Clytemnestra in revenge for killing her father Agamemnon, and her name was used for the gender-inversion of the Oedipus complex. Of course, her father was already dead by that point, but [[DaddysGirl she takes a very idealized view of him]] in the legend.
** Zeus, unsurprisignly:
*** In Orphic religion, he chased down his mother Rhea, both transformed into serpents, and raped her.
*** Also in Orphism, he raped his daughter Persephone twice; the first time, he took the form of a serpent and had Zagreus with her; the second he took the form of her husband Hades and had Melinoe.
*** Some versions state that Nemesis is his daughter, and that he forcibly mated with her to have Helen of Troy.
*** According to Nonnus, he also tried to sleep with another daughter, Aphrodite, only she escaped him. Another author says he had Priapus by her.
*** He had the Corybantes by the Muse Calliope.

** [[Theatre/{{Hippolytus}} Phaedra's unrequited love/lust for her stepson Hippolytus]], which ended with Hippolytus dead (or banished away and then taken in by Artemis in other versions) and Phaedra DrivenToSuicide.

** Antaeus is the son of Poseidon and Gaia. Gaia is Kronos's mother. Kronos is Poseidon's father. Truly, Greek myth knows no limits.
** Oranos was both Gaia's first son and the father of her other children.
** Gaia also provides quite possibly one of the only instances of ''great'' grandparental incest. Hephaestus (who is the son of Hera, who is the daughter of Kronos, who is the son of Gaia) was overcome with unrequited lust after [[AttemptedRape he tried and failed to rape his half-sister Athena,]] and promptly ejaculated on the earth. Since the earth IS Gaia, she became pregnant.
** Heracles is Zeus' son. And his great-great-grandson (his mother Alcmene was the granddaughter of another of Zeus's bastards, the hero Perseus). This happens a lot. Danae was the great-great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Zeus and Io, as were (give or take some greats) Semele (whom Zeus impregnated with Dionysos) and Europa (who gave Zeus Minos, Rhadamanthos, and Sarpedon).
** The homosexual variety also occurs. In some versions, Eros is the son of Ares, and they clearly go the ErastesEromenos way. On other stories, though, Eros is the son of Khaos, which is the mother of Gaia, which is the mother of Kronos, which is the father of Zeus, who is the father of Ares.
** Otos and Ephialtes are the sons of Poseidon and Iphimedeia, herself a granddaughter of Poseidon through Triopas.

* Myth/MesopotamianMythology:
** OlderThanDirt: Nammu sleeps with her son An and births Enki. Enki then sleeps with Nammu's daughter Ninhursag, fathering Ninsar. Enki then sleeps with Ninsar, fathering Ninkurra. Enki ''then'' sleeps with Ninkurra, fathering Uttu, who he consequently sleeps with. Slightly pissed at Enki, Ninhursag takes the semen from Uttu's womb and impregnates herself with it, giving birth to eight new gods.
** Nammu and An also have the daughter Ninlil, who carries [[BrotherSisterIncest Ninhursag and An's]] son Enlil. Enlil then sleeps with their granddaughter Erseshkigal, fathering Namtar.
** Tiamat's second husband Kingu was also her son.
* Myth/PacificMythology:
** The Maori forest god Tane made Hine out of earth and breathed life into her, technically becoming her father. They then married, but upon discovering the truth of her parentage, Hine was so shocked that she ran into the underworld to become the Goddess of Death. Wonder what she would've done if she saw the examples above...
** The Hawaiian sky god Wakea cheats on his wife with the star-goddess Hoʻohokukalani (his own daughter.) To get the necessary alone time with her, he instated the laws of Ai Kapu which, among other things, separated men and women at mealtimes.
* In Myth/AztecMythology the god of wind, wisdom, arts and other stuff Quetzalcoatl became human (as the historical figure Ce Atlat Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl) and became the King of the legendary city of Tula, which was seen by the Aztecs as their own version of Arcadia. His rule was cut short when the god of earth, night and war [[TricksterGod Tezcatlipoca,]] who in different myths is [[SiblingRivalry his brother,]] appeared as a member of the court and got him drunk, prompting him to sleep with his daughter Quetzalpetatl (in some versions, she is his sister and he had made a Celibacy Oath. Pre-Hispanic myths vary a lot). A weirder and more complex example, as Quetzalpetatl wasn't a goddess in most stories, just merely a human related by blood to the incarnation of the god. Quetzalcoatl was so ashamed he exiled himself either way.

* ... [[RunningGag Oedipus Rex?]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' loves to play with this one with Buster and Lucille.
* The ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode "Won't Get Fooled Again" dropped John Crichton into a LotusEaterMachine which resembled a sick parody of present-day Earth. At first, John merely finds this ruse annoying, but things take a turn for the kinky as everyone (read: ''[[CrackPairing everyone]]'') on the series start making passes at him. At one point, John finds himself ambushed by his mother in a pink negligee.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Craster and his harem of daughter-wives.
* In ''Series/{{Sparkhouse}}'' the character Carol is a victim of incest by her father.
* ''Series/{{Skins}}'' implies this between Michelle's stepfather and stepsister and gangster Johnny White with his daughter.
* ''Buried'' has a prison bully revealed to be victim of rape by his father.
* ''Series/{{Borgen}}'': It is revealed that [[spoiler:Kasper]] was sexually abused by his father as a child.
* A character in an episode of ''Series/{{Cracker}}'' grew up watching her father sexually abuse her sisters.
* Steve Owen in ''Series/EastEnders'' was French kissed by his dying mother.
* In an episode of ''Series/WireInTheBlood'' a killer was having an incestuous relationship with his abusive mother.
* In ''Series/BadGirls'' the character Shell Dockley was raped as an adolescent by both her parents.
* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', in a very roundabout way coupled with CloningBlues: [[spoiler:Ellen Tigh sleeps with human-like Cylon Cavil in order to protect her husband. It's later revealed that Ellen is one of the Initial Five Cylon scientists who created the Significant Eight human-Cylons, and Cavil was modeled after Ellen's ''father'' and ''knew all along'' who she was (Cavil is an angry, spoilt, sadistic teenager with an Oedipus complex in an old human's body, which he hates Ellen for "blessing" him with). Then there's Saul Tigh himself, also a member of the Initial Five, who becomes infatuated with much younger-looking Caprica-Six, possibly because she looks ''a lot'' like a young Ellen. Tigh gets Six pregnant, but she suffers a ConvenientMiscarriage after Tigh switches (is forcibly switched?) his affections back to Ellen. Ellen calls Tigh out on basically screwing (one of) his own daughter(s). But doesn't do so to Tyrol, another member of the Five, even though he too was doing it to one of the Eights.]] [[spoiler:This calling out is doubly ironic given that Ellen slept with Cavil on New Caprica to get Tigh released.]]
* In ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'', [[spoiler:Valerie]] makes a sad example of this when her backstory is finally revealed.
* ''Series/BostonLegal'' had a plotline that involved a mother sleeping with her son.
* On ''Series/GroundedForLife'', Claudia accidentally takes Jimmy to see a movie about this. HilarityEnsues.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
** "[[Recap/AngelS02E04Untouched Untouched]]" features a woman who was sexually abused by her father
** Cordelia, albeit Cordelia possessed by Jasmine, and Connor are also essentially this trope in season 4, since Cordelia acted as a surrogate mother to Connor as a baby in season 3.
* Attempted in ''Series/ForeverKnight'' when [=LaCroix=]'s daughter, Divia, attempts to get [=LaCroix=] to sleep with her after she brings him across (makes him a vampire.) [=LaCroix=] responded by staking her and killing her, though she revived centuries later and came after him and his vampire children.
* Used in the third season episode of ''Series/{{House}}'' "Skin Deep," between a father and his intersex daughter.
* ''Series/NipTuck'' has a few:
** One season had some mother & (adopted) son incest. Additionally, the mother is actually [[spoiler:a male-to-female transgender.]] It all ends in tragedy, [[spoiler:with the son committing suicide and the mother leaving town.]]
** A one-off episode features Christian having a threesome with a mother and daughter, who regularly pick up men to sleep with together. He eventually gets just a bit too squicked out by their relationship and kicks them out of his apartment.
** During the filming of a medical soap opera the doctors are consulting for, one of the actors insists on adding this to her character's backstory. It's played for complete {{Narm}} in universe.
* There were a couple ''Series/NYPDBlue''s where it was one of the plots-of-the-week, both father-daughter and mother-son. It was also eventually revealed as part of [[spoiler:Diane Russel]]'s backstory.
* The ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS04E02Home Home]]" centered around an murderous family of inbred hicks, complete with mother/son incest. The eldest brother turns out to be his younger brothers' father.
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'':
** An episode revealed that the [[MauveShirt recently introduced]] character Keppler [[spoiler:had, some years ago, murdered a man whom he believed had raped his wife (or possibly girlfriend or fiancée, it's not made clear). He is then blackmailed by his father-in-law, who has just murdered a prostitute, and a fellow officer, who had helped cover up the crime (which the [=CSIs=] are investigating). In the end he realises that his wife's rapist was her father. He proceeds to track down the villain to stop him murdering the last witness to his crime, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath getting shot for his trouble]] and [[HeroicSecondWind then getting back up in time to shoot him and protect the witness]], before he [[KilledOffForReal dies]].]]
** The episode "Burden of Proof" reveals in the end [[spoiler:that the murdered stepfather wasn't molesting his stepdaughter - the biological father was. When the daughter told the stepfather about it, the father murdered him, telling the daughter afterward that he'd kill anyone else she told and her too if the need arose. The father lies about it when arrested, saying he killed the stepfather because he was abusing the daughter. Then the team confronts him with the proof that it was him abusing the daughter. He tells his lawyer to get him out of it, mentioning that the lawyer just got him off the hook for murdering the stepfather. The lawyer, and the CSI, clearly explain to him that the rape of a child under Nevada law carries a mandatory sentence, for which there can be no plea bargains.]]
** In another episode, an investigation of a murder led to the discovery that the suspect, a married man with a teenage daughter, had seemingly had incestuous sex with said daughter (that had left her pregnant) and so the investigators theorized that the murder (of the man's wife) had been because she figured this out. It then turned out that [[spoiler:the daughter fantasized said relationship with her dad (to the point that her body started to show pregnancy-like symptoms out of sheer delusional willpower) and she killed her own mom out of murderous jealousy. Her father had been clueless about this all along]].
** A horrific episode from the first-season, "Blood Drops", features two sisters who survive the murder of their father, mother, and two brothers. In the end, the older girl is revealed to have arranged the murder of her father, who had raped her, fathered her sister/daughter (played by Dakota Fanning), and was now molesting the little girl. The others were killed because they had never stopped him.
** In the episode "Committed" from Season 5, [[spoiler:they are investigating a murder at a criminally insane institution of a male inmate, and find out that the victim was having an illicit affair with a fellow male inmate. Turns out that the mother of the patient with whom the victim was having an affair had lied her way into being a nurse at the mental hospital so that she could continue her lifelong Parental Incest relationship with her son. When she found out that he was "cheating" on her with an inmate, she demanded that he end it. When he refused, she killed the victim out of jealousy. The truly horrible part is that she used her power over her mentally ill son to force him to cover up the murder of his lover.]]
** Season 10 episode "Lost and Found" has the team assuming that dear old dad had knocked up his own daughter with their son/half-brother before disappearing. [[spoiler:Turns out she was raped by her mother's brother.]]
** Season 12, "Genetic Disorder". Mother does it with son, gets pregnant, dumps off baby to hide it. The kid goes AxCrazy later and lashes out at the genealogist who uncovered the secret, and the body gets left in the bed of Doc Robbins and his wife, the genealogist's next clients.
* ''Series/ShamelessUS'':
** When Mandy gets pregnant (and subsequently gets an abortion), her closest friends Ian and Lip learn that the father of the baby was Mandy's own father, who's an alcoholic to the extremes that he blacks out and has on occasions raped Mandy, because (according to her) of how similar she looks to her deceased mother. This is also the reason why Mandy asks the Gallaghers to look after her half-sister Molly when she has to take her in.
** There's also Steve/Jimmy's mother kissing him on the lips back in season 1, which Debbie comments was particularly disgusting.
* ''Series/ThePractice'' had an episode involving a case about this. It was very vague about whether or not they actually had sex and who was the aggressor was, which was part of what the case hinged on. In the end, it showed the mother sleeping peacefully and the son watching her, implying he was in love with her.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** Played with in an episode. Dean goes back in time to see his parents as teenagers. Dean comments on how his mom is a total babe and that he will be going to hell ([[BackFromTheDead again]]) for thinking that. Also in that ep, [[spoiler:the Yellow-Eyed Demon possesses Dean's mom's father and kills Dean's dad. The Demon makes a [[DealWithTheDevil deal]] with Dean's mom that promises he'll bring him back to life and Dean's mom accepts. How is the deal sealed? With a kiss. Dean's mom kisses her demon-possessed father.]]
** In an earlier episode, Agent Henriksen tells Dean that he thinks [[WellDoneSonGuy John]] brainwashed Dean into believing that demons and ghosts are real and probably molested him as a child. Of course, Henriksen said this just to make Dean angry.
** In "Family Remains", the antagonist is first believed to be the ghost of the daughter of the first victim. After all of the standard ghost-warding stuff fails, they figure out it was the dead daughter's daughter, who was a result of her father/grandfather raping her mother/half-sister. Jeez, these genealogies get complicated.
** Let's not forget poor Bela/Abby, who sold her soul to Lilith in exchange for having her father (and it may be implied her mother as well, though we never see her) killed because he was molesting her.
** Subverted in "Heartache". Sam and Dean break into the house of a deceased baseball player named Brick Holmes, but discover to their disgust that he apparently shared a bed with his mother Eleanor. It turns out that she was only posing as his mother, since "Brick Holmes" (born as a Mayan named Inyo) was an immortal man who met Eleanor when she was still a young woman, and [[MayflyDecemberRomance she continued to age while he remained young]].
* In ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', after a session with WideEyedIdealist psychiatrist Dr. Molly Clock, it is revealed that [[CasanovaWannabe The Todd's issues with women]] stems from his relationship with his mother (they made out once).
* In ''Series/{{Profit}}'', Jim and his step-thanks-to-ExecutiveMeddling-mother are engaged in an on-off sexual relationship, when she isn't [[{{Blackmail}} threatening to tell the cops he set his dad on fire so he'll buy her things.]]
* In Season 2 of ''Series/{{Carnivale}}'', [[spoiler:through a chain of heavily destiny-mediated consequences, [[BrokenBird Sofie]] winds up working as a maid for [[TheAntichrist Brother Justin]], who becomes creepily obsessed with her and vice versa. A good deal of Sofie's childhood trauma comes from having been raised by her batshit-crazy, telepathic, ''catatonic'' mother (roll with it, it's that kind of series) who hated her due to the circumstances of her conception: her mother was raped by a strange man who became obsessed with her when she was working as a fortune teller. In the city where Justin went to seminary. 20-odd years ago. You see where this is going, right?]] Ironically enough, the only person with enough information to put the pieces together is [[spoiler:[[BrotherSisterIncest Justin's sister Iris]], and even ''she's'' a little weirded out.]]
* Scott Barringer, Hayden Christensen's character on ''Series/HigherGround'', was seduced and sexually abused by his stepmother. His love interest, Shelby, ''just happened'' to have had the same thing happen to her from her stepfather (who got her younger sister too).
* ''Series/LawAndOrder'':
** There's an episode about the murder of a teenage girl. The cops keep pursuing the girl's father, as evidence indicates the girl was sexually abused, but he keeps protesting his innocence. It's ultimately revealed that [[spoiler:it was the girl's ''mother'' who was raping her and ultimately murdered her. The father didn't know anything about it, and is devastated by TheReveal.]]
** Used again by a young man facing a murder charge as part of an insanity plea that he'd regularly been pressured into sex with his mother. The court ordered shrink doesn't believe his insanity plea but does admit that the incest makes him look sympathetic in front of a jury. When his ''wife'' faces attempted murder charges for trying to kill his mother, he's offered a lighter sentence for himself and his wife if he'd testify against his mother. [[spoiler:He chooses to protect his mother instead, much to the wife's devastation.]]
** The horrifically abusive father in "Indifference" has this among his many crimes, raping his daughter to train her as his SexSlave.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', as a show focusing on sex crimes, has a long list of these:
** There's an episode about a college student caught dumping her unwanted baby. By her father. Whom she basically just met. Because she tracked him down. [[spoiler:And it's not the first time she's gotten pregnant by him.]] Naturally, their father is an upstanding pillar of the community. [[spoiler:After she's sentenced, he tries for custody of his (grand)son, but is shot down hard by Benson and Stabler.]]
*** [[spoiler:She's committed -- but not for the unwanted live baby they found; she is acquitted of that. But later they find that she had a "stillbirth" a couple years prior, and Benson confronts her with that - and the girl blurts out that her father was also THAT baby's father, and she'd actually killed that baby herself. So she's committed for that earlier murder. The fact that the father had been schtupping his daughter longer than they'd thought makes them all the more determined to deny him custody.]]
** A court judge was harsh on sex offenders after [[spoiler:he raped his 11-year-old stepdaughter and conceived a son]].
** A GoldDigger seduced her stepson and [[spoiler:convinced another man with whom she was having an affair to kill the father]].
** A murderer was in an incestuous relationship with his mother [[spoiler:and killed her to free himself from her control]].
** Two brothers from season 1 were molested by their father: one grew up to be a serial rapist, the other turned out normal but got drunk and [[MurderByMistake killed a man he thought was his brother]].
** There was also the episode with a man who wanted lots of kids so he [[spoiler:arranged for other men to impregnate his wife and, when she could no longer conceive, he artificially inseminated his daughter. It wasn't ''his'' sperm, but really that hardly matters.]]
** Then there was the infamous reveal that [[spoiler:Fin's stepson, Darius, was the result of his mother being raped by her father]].
** {{Subverted|Trope}} in one episode guest-starring Creator/JeremyIrons as a therapist specializing in sexual addiction. He's ridden with guilt because he, a recovered sex addict himself, believes he raped his daughter during an incoherent moment in the past, but [[spoiler:he finds out by episode's end that it was actually consensual sex with his daughter's friend, and the reason she was mad at him was that she was in love with her friend and was mad that her father came between them]].
*** A later episode in which Irons' character plays a supporting role involves two women sexually abused [[spoiler:by their mother. The older one managed to get through it and live a relatively normal life, but the younger sister was so warped by the abuse that she tried to molest a little girl and then killed her when she freaked out.]]
** A teenage girl goes missing and it's believed she was murdered by a man on trial. She's found having an affair with her music teacher and convincing herself they're in love. Her mother is upset as she [[spoiler: charges the teacher and slaps him. She then starts talking about his seduction methods with first-hand knowledge. With her husband and the cops all staring, she says she and the guy had a one-night stand... 17 years ago. "Do the math," she snaps as she reveals he's been sleeping with his own daughter. Unlike others from the show, he's more horrified than anyone else, begging "I didn't know" when the man everyone thought was the father has to be held back from throttling the guy. The girl's reaction? She ''smiles brightly'' as she's happy her father is a great musician rather than a garbage man, completely ignoring the incest part.]]
** In another episode, a slew of young girls have been seduced by a man they believe to be their biological father (the result of a sperm donation he made in college). Mercifully, he actually isn't (he's impersonating the real donor, jealous of his perfect life--beautiful house/family/career and trying to destroy it), but that doesn't change the fact that he used their supposed biological connection to cajole them into bed. By the episode's conclusion, he's bedded the man's actual daughter (a child that he had with his wife and raised, rather than just being a donor) under the same pretext, claiming that her mother had an affair with him and he's the daughter's real father.
** Another episode has the detectives investigating the apparent murder of a woman in her early thirties, who seems to have been thrown off of the building where she lived. [[spoiler:It was suicide, and it's only solved when her older sister comes forward with the information that the dead girl had mailed to her before she died. Both daughters had been repeatedly raped by their father as teenagers, and while the elder sister was able to get away and make a life for herself, the younger one became trapped in a cycle of bad relationships and substance abuse until she finally killed herself.]]
** The "Man Up/Man Down" two-parter has the teenage victim's [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] brutally rape him as punishment for "showing weakness" by not giving an animal he shot a MercyKill.
** In addition to being the focus of some episodes, this occasionally comes up as part of the backstory of a guest character, usually to explain some aspect of the character's situation or personality. In the most memorable example, a teenage girl who had been raped and pimped out by her biological father has lost her capacity to care about or empathize with anyone, to the point where she actively coerces her boyfriend into raping her adoptive sister (the reasons for which are never explained).
* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' had one in an early season: A stepmother, her stepson, and her son by her stepson's father are suspected in a series of church burnings. Goren thinks the arsonist has a FreudianExcuse, and it turns out [[spoiler:that the stepmother thought the best way to get to know her teenage stepson was to seduce him one weekend when his father was out of town on an extended trip. She got pregnant by her stepson and covered it up by inducing labor perilously early to create the illusion that she had been pregnant before her husband left. The child in question, now an adult, has recently been told of his true parentage by his church secretary, and has been lashing out at churches along with his adrenaline-junkie roommate.]]
** This is also part of the backstory of recurring antagonist Nicole Wallace. For most of her run on the show, this is only Goren's theory, but she seems to confirm it in her second-to-last episode when she tells [[MoralityPet Gwen Chapel]] that "sometimes daddies can love too much".
** A slimy politician in the Season 8 opener has a history of molesting his stepdaughter, who later became a drug addict. He also seems to be grooming his younger daughter [[spoiler:who is actually the stepdaughter's child born of the incest. And his mother put a hit on the stepdaughter's blackmailing boyfriend to cover it all up.]]
* Shane on ''Series/{{Weeds}}'' masturbates to pictures of his mother for a bit. After being discovered, his mother delivers an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dOxHc4Ix7c exquisitely uncomfortable discussion on the subject.]]
* In ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', Reese finds a diary belonging to a girl he thinks goes to his school, and begins to read it. As he does, he gradually starts to fall for her, and fantasizes about kissing her. When Lois off-handedly reveals that the diary is hers, unaware of the fact that Reese has developed a crush on the girl in the diary, Reese imagines going to kiss his mother as she is now, and is horrified.
* An early episode of ''Series/AllSaints'' features an abandoned baby. When her teenage mother is found, she reveals, in a heartbreaking scene, that her father raped her and fathered her daughter, and that she abandoned her because she knew he'd do the same to another daughter.
* In the old original ''Series/DarkShadows'' TV 'supernatural soap', the modern-day character of Roger Collins makes a reference to his ancestors, but the actor bungles the line and says 'incestors' instead. This was ironic or prescient, because we later learn that his late wife and the mother of their son was also his own grandmother, having returned to life supernaturally after a failed attempt to murder Roger's father and aunt, Jamison and Nora Collins. Poor Roger never had any idea that he had married his grandmother, however... and neither did the writers until later.
* On ''Series/RedDwarf'', it's revealed in Series VII that Lister had spent the first six and a bit series ogling and apparently briefly dating his own mother, Kristine Kochanski. That said, the father is [[spoiler:Lister himself]].
* In the ''Series/ColdCase'' episode "Blackout" its discovered that the victim, a grandmother, was extremely abusive, regularly molesting her son when he was young. She had her sights set on her thirteen-year-old grandson when she was killed.
%%* ''Series/QuincyME'' investigated a case of this.
* Strongly averted in one episode of ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'', where the {{body surf}}ing mother is [[WhodunnitToMe investigating her own murder]] and is suddenly kissed by her adult son. She quickly pushes him away and starts gagging.
* '' series/shameless'': Zig-zagged with Frank and Samantha. They made out and dry-humped, but only Frank knew she was his daughter at the time.
* The teaser for the pilot of ''Series/TheMentalist'' involves a case of a murdered teenage girl. A neighbor boy is blamed but Jane deduces that the father is responsible. It turns out that the father and daughter were having a sexual relationship and the father killed the daughter when she wanted out.
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Numb3rs}}'' that deals with an {{Expy}} of the FLDS, a girl finds out that she is the product of Parental Incest - her father married his own daughter, who was apparently so brainwashed that this didn't register as wrong or problematic to her. The girl, who has largely broken out of the cult brainwashing, was not happy about this.
** An earlier episode features a child pornographer who's been molesting his elementary-school-aged daughter; when the mother found out and tried to get the kid away from him, he claimed ''she'' was the abusive one and that she had kidnapped the child. Fortunately for everyone except him, the perpeterator was also a CopKiller, so the FBI had dug into his background and already found evidence that he was the abuser.
** In "Killer Chat", the KnightTemplar SerialKiller started [[PayEvilUntoEvil tracking down and murdering child molesters]] after [[spoiler: she found out her husband molested their daughter. In fact, [[MamaBear he was her first victim]].]]
* In an episode of ''Series/{{ER}}'', a little girl innocently reveals the "game" her father plays with her. The information causes Malucci to have a terrible HeroicBSOD: he charges into the other trauma room, where said father is being treated, and attacks him.
* ''Series/CriminalMinds'' had quite a few {{Serial Killer}}s with this backstory, but the one that takes the cake has to be the killer from "Reflection of Desire" whose mother was an actress from 1950s films. To perfect the romantic plots they staged and re-enacted when she was younger, he cut off the lips of his first victim [[spoiler:and affixed them onto his mother's long-rotted corpse, which he hallucinated was her, still alive]].
* ''Series/OutrageousFortune'' has Judd sleeping with his girlfriend's mid-twenties daughter during mid six season, [[spoiler:and they get married at the end of the season]].
* ''Series/LincolnHeights'': "Baby Doe". Jenn (a nurse) and Eddie (a police officer) find an abandoned baby in a dumpster. They track down the mother, a teenager with abusive parents. Her father is especially hateful and at one point at the hospital where Jenn works, he spits in his daughter's face. Jenn wipes it off and has the saliva tested for DNA. Yep, he's the father of his daughter's baby.
* ''Series/TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager'': Ricky was molested by his father, who claimed he was teaching Ricky "what it means to be a man." [[FreudianExcuse This led to Ricky]] constantly sleeping around in an attempt to feel in control of his sexuality.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Spike, as a fledgling vampire, turned his own mother, as she was dying of tuberculosis. His newly vamped mom then promptly accused him of doing so because he had a thing for Mommy. Spike, however, argued that he did it only to keep her alive, and ended up staking her when she started coming on to him.
* ''Series/TheSteveWilkosShow'':
** They had a father/daughter couple on the show. The father justified it by claiming that [[DisappearedDad because he hadn't been in his daughter's life]], he didn't develop any of the usual genetic disgust about having sex with his offspring. Steve thought that they were trolling, so he made them take lie detector tests... and they came back positive that this was true.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KTWjgb6EYo Another infamous episode]] of Steve's show featured a woman who'd molested her daughter orally and offered to make child pornography of her.
* On ''Series/{{Roar}},'' Fergus is initially quite attracted to Molly until he realizes that she's his daughter.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay Father's Day]]", Rose's father Pete (who is encountered long in the past, while his daughter is still a baby,) unknowingly invokes it in a hypothetical remark of "if I was going out with you" with the time-travelling adult Rose and is confused about her emphatic, repeated protests.
* In ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'', this is revealed to be in the back story of [[spoiler:Jimmy Darmody and his mother Gillian]] and was at least partially the cause of [[spoiler:Jimmy enlisting in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI]].
* PlayedForLaughs in a sketch on ''Series/{{Jam}}''. A man is called over to help his godson's parents, who have recently discovered that their son has a gay friend. The father has been distracting the gay friend with sex to keep him away from the son, while the mother is trying to "keep her son interested in ladies" by disguising herself as a prostitute and having sex with him.
* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': Taken up a notch in an episode in which the murders revolve around a family's secret eugenics scheme that paired a father with his daughter ''and with that daughter's daughter''. [[spoiler:The episode is "Master Class". A skilled young pianist is seduced by her world-renowned piano teacher, and nearly goes to bed with him, until she finds out that he's her father ''and her grandfather''. The pianist was trying to pass on an increasingly pure copy of his musical genes.]]
* In the miniseries ''Series/ThePillarsOfTheEarth,'' William Hambly and his mother are ''very'' close. They never actually have sex but the desire is obvious on both sides. [[spoiler:He finally kills her in a guilt induced rage]]
* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'':
** Grace's back story in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum'' reveals that she murdered her father for molesting her, and her stepmother for not doing anything about it.
** In ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven'' [[spoiler:Kyle and his mother had a longstanding relationship. When he returns as [=FrankenKyle=], she renews the relationship. Unfortunately for her, the returned Kyle is not as submissive as he originally was and kills her.]]
** In ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryRoanoke'' , it's implied that the matriarch of the [[HillbillyHorror Polk clan]] has sex with her sons.
* Almost canon in ''Series/BatesMotel'' , Norma and Norman are basically a codependent married couple, head over heels in love with each other.
** In Episode 2.10, [[spoiler:Norma kissed Norman.]]
** In Season 3 [[spoiler:Norman confessed to his mother that he had sexual attraction to her.]]
* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "Imprint", it's strongly implied that the disfigured prostitute was raped by her abusive father when she was a child. She was herself also a product of incest, as her parents were secretly siblings.
* Part of TheReveal on ''Series/TwinPeaks'' is that [[spoiler:[[PosthumousCharacter Laura Palmer]] was the repeated victim of sexual abuse by her father, Leland, who has been victim of a partial DemonicPossession ever since he was molested by a neighbour of his grandfather, as a child. ''Film/TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe'', the movie prequel to the series, shows Laura trying, and failing, to repress the knowledge of her rapist's identity,]] in a plot that shows almost the exact opposite of what Freud thought was really going on in such cases.
* In ''Series/NightAndDay'', the affair between Alex Wells and (at the time, underage) Jane Harper, who learn at the end of the series that they are biological father and daughter, is a central plot point. In the late-night omnibus editions, Steph [=McKenzie=] also fights off a seduction attempt by her biological son Josh Alexander – and appears at one point to have a sexually-charged daydream involving being strangled by him.
* Implied in ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' with Ed, Sofia's father. As far as we know, he never actually did anything to her, but the intention was there. At one point he grabs her arm when the two are alone in a tent, and he's been accused of looking at her the wrong way.
* The LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek ''[[https://youtu.be/Jd-4EnFfVp8 A Long Way Home]]'' (also known as ''Aftermath'') essentially begins InMediasRes with a family trying to heal after such an incident--the mother walked in on the father fondling the daughter and dialogue reveals that this was the third time that this had happened, though they are both adamant that he never raped her. Unusually, the recovery process involves them trying to reconcile with the father, who is coming home after being kicked out. In the course of counseling, it comes out that both parents suffered this at the hands of their own fathers. Ultimately, SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome--everyone, including the father, is unable to trust him and constantly afraid that it will happen again, leading them to give up and him to move out for good.
** In another movie, titled ''[[https://youtu.be/qlWIjABi9gQ Shattering The Silence]]'', a woman slowly recovers her repressed memories of being abused by her father and realizes that this is the reason her sister has been estranged from the family for years (she remembered and left home as soon as possible). She resolves to seek counseling and get on with her life... until she notices that her niece (her brother's daughter) is acting strangely and comes to the horrified realization that he's now abusing ''her''.
* ''Series/OneLifeToLive''. During a confrontation between archenemies Viki and Dorian, the latter screams at her to stop defending her father, as he sexually abused her throughout her childhood.
* ''Series/GeneralHospital'''s SerialKiller Ryan Chamberlain was noted by several other characters to have a major OedipusComplex, yet at the same time, his victims were all blonde, like his mother was. Shortly after coming to town, his twin brother Kevin recalled always feeling jealous over the fact that their mother clearly favored Ryan over him. However, Kevin began to have flashbacks of their mother taking Ryan into the bedroom or bathroom with her and suddenly realized what her "favor" really meant.
* ''Series/Millennium1996'': The episode "The Well-Worn Lock" features Catherine Black in her job as a social worker having to deal with a domestic abuse situation. The father had already sexually abused one of his daughters and impregnated her, but [[ChildByRape she carried the child to term]] and continued to live with her parents because she had nowhere else to go. When she starts seeing signs that he's going to repeat it with his younger daughter/granddaughter, she finally goes to the authorities. Even then it's a long and arduous process to prove his guilt and get him convicted.
* ''Series/MillionYenWomen'': The background of one of the women, who was abused by her father. The same one later turns out to be a SelfMadeOrphan.
* On ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', Lewis once mentioned that he used to be such a HormoneAddledTeenager that he would have had sex with any woman who'd let him, even his own mother. After everyone else reacts with disgust, he adds, "Remember, I'm adopted, so it's not as sick as it sounds!"
* On ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'', [[spoiler:Jane]] begins having flashbacks and depressive episodes when her father comes back into her life, eventually remembering that he [[spoiler:had molested her as a child.]]
* ''Series/HigherGround'': Step-parental incest, actually.
** We learn in episode one that Scott's issues and drug abuse stem from being repeatedly raped by his stepmother.
** Later it turns out [[spoiler:Shelby]] was raped by her stepfather, along with her sister.
* ''Series/DarkDesire'': [[spoiler:Dario]] it turns out was raped by his aunt/foster mother, who took advantage of him as a minor.
* ''Series/CityOnAHill'': Jenny was sexually abused by her father.
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* Attempted in ''[[Creator/KaoriYuki Alice in Murderland]]''. Ibara goes to her adoptive father's room to seduce him, not out of any attraction—she actually [[DoesNotLikeMen despises him]] and doesn't think he's good enough for her adoptive mother—but because she worships her mother so completely that she wants to be just like her, and believes sleeping with her mother's husband will bring her closer to that goal. Unfortunately for her (or fortunately, as the case may be), she discovers that night that neither she nor her mother [[IncompatibleOrientation ever stood a chance]].
* ''Manga/{{Beastars}}'': Melon was sexually harrased by his mentally disturbed mother as a child because he reminded her of his DisappearedDad. While there is no indication that she ever actually raped him, she clearly got sexual pleasure from making him help her undress. This likely contributed to him coming to the conclusion that she was planning to eat him.
* In ''Manga/KanonChihoSaito'' the incestuous parent/child relationship is the hub of the whole plot.
* In ''Manga/HeIsMyMaster'', the sister-maids ran away from their home in the first place because ''[[DudeNotFunny they got tired of resisting their father's constant sexual advances]].''
* The ironically aptly-named Electra Complex relationship between the surrogate father and daughter pair of Nemo and Electra in ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater''.
* The anime villain Furumizu from ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' has some creepy implications of this. Doesn't help the man has a very messed up reverse OedipusComplex.
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' has an incredibly creepy example in the King of Midland and his feelings for his only daughter, Princess Charlotte, who is unfortunate enough to bear a [[StrongFamilyResemblance quite strong resemblance]] to the late Queen of Midland. [[spoiler:After Griffith has sex with Charlotte following Guts' leaving him and the Hawks, the King goes crazy, and after throwing Griffith into the Tower of Rebirth to be put to the torture and declaring the rest of the Hawks {{outlaw}}, he tries to rape Charlotte. She barely manages to fight him off, and the experience wracks him with incredible guilt, to the point where he visibly ages and falls ill. Charlotte (very understandably) wants nothing to do with her father afterwards, and won't even see him on his deathbed]].
* Seishirou Sakurazuka and his mother [[TheOphelia Setsuka]] in ''Manga/TokyoBabylon'' and ''Manga/{{X 1999}}''. No evidence about sexual encounters, thank God, but the SubText is ''incredibly'' strong -- specially in the CD dramas. [[spoiler:Not helped by their LastKiss in the manga, which comes ''after'' a teenage Seishirou [[SelfMadeOrphan fights, defeats and kills Setsuka]] as the requirement to become the Sakurazukamori.]]
%%* The main couple in the yaoi series ''Papa to Kiss in the Dark''. [[spoiler:Technically, Kyousuke is Mira's uncle, but ''still''...]]
* It's implied in ''Manga/ShadowStar'' that [[spoiler: Shiina's friend Akira Sakura was molested by her father]], which would be the reason why she has severe problems.
* This, along with many other types of perversion, occurs in ''Anime/{{Texhnolyze}}'' with Toyama and his dad. It's also implied to be a part of the carefully crafted breeding program among the Class. The ultimate result is [[spoiler:Kano, a guy with deformed legs (soon replaced with cybernetics), and an even more deformed mind. Just for example, he seems to genuinely believe that the world exists only inside his mind, and all his atrocities are just a form of self-discipline.]]
* ''Anime/KillLaKill'':
** Ragyo Kiryuin is uncomfortably affectionate towards her daughter, Satsuki, outright molesting her in one particularly infamous scene in the bathhouse under the pretext of "purification".
** Later on, [[spoiler:after rediscovering her long lost daughter Ryuko (who she had thought was dead)]], Ragyo apparently has a threesome with her and her adopted daughter Nui Harime. It's later implied that this was a {{Fake Memor|ies}}y Ragyo implanted, but even if that's true, it brings up the question of ''why the hell she would implant a memory like that''.
* In ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'', one of the ways Jien (Dokugakuji) protected his younger brother (by his father's mistress) was by [[spoiler:"taking [his] father's place" and sleeping with his mother to calm her down.]] He ends up killing her to keep her from killing Gojyo. Naturally, Dokugaku feels ''incredibly'' guilty about all of this, and, like the BrotherSisterIncest between Hakkai and Kanan, this is never spelled out in the anime version.
* In ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'', [[spoiler:Andrea Cavalcanti]] not only tries to rape his half-sister, but actually [[spoiler:''has sex'' with their mother, Victoria.]] Note that [[spoiler:he ''knew'' she was his mother]] at the time, while she was unaware.
* In ''Anime/{{Karas}}'', Otoha is revealed to be a ChildByRape, his mother having been raped by his brother[=/=]father. It is suggested that his [[FeelNoPain congenital insensitivity to pain]] is a result of his being a product of incest.
* PlayedForLaughs with [[DaddysGirl Yuuna Akashi]] from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', who never really grew out of [[FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother the innocent childhood desire to marry her father]]. Among her friends, she's known to [[ClingyJealousGirl get really jealous]] if other women seem interested in her father. One chapter shows that this is maybe due to [[ChasteHero inherent innocence]] about love rather than romantic designs on her father, though, as she apparently doesn't really know the difference between a kiss on the cheek and a "deep, passionate kiss". This leads to her saying that she wouldn't mind giving the latter to her dad, which elicits a disgusted NoJustNoReaction from Yuuna's friend Ako.
* While the paedophile cop in ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'' doesn't actually do anything to his daughter, he did set up cameras in her room to get pictures of her undressing and insists on the hookers TheMafia was bribing him with calling him "Daddy."
* ''Manga/FrankenFran'', with the eponymous character having a crush on her father/creator. In the chapter where this is revealed, she receives a movie where the main characters are her and her father... [[spoiler:it turns out to be a porno and the makers of it are killed shortly after Fran finishes watching it.]]
* Initially averted in ''Anime/MyOtome'', Nina is in love with her adoptive father, though Sergey doesn't feel the same (and probably doesn't know about Nina's). [[spoiler:Though Nina and Sergey come close to doing... well, you know... together close to the end, though Sergey chickens out at the last second, due to the fact that he only thought of her as his daughter and was disgusted by her feelings for him. In the end, Sergey loses his memories and it seems Nina has dedicated herself to nursing him back to health.]] However, ''Anime/MyOtomeZwei'' reveals [[spoiler:they never had sex, as Nina still has the nanomachines that make her an otome, which are lost when an otome has sex with a man.]] This isn't present in the manga, where [[spoiler:Sergey is the BigBad and not related to Nina, biologically or through adoption]].
* This is apparent especially in the omake in ''Manga/GameXRush'', though in this case the "parent and child" in question only ''think'' that they're related.
* In ''Manga/SailorMoon'''s Black Moon arc, brainwashed villainess Black Lady targets her own father for brainwashing to monopolize his attentions, kissing him on-panel. It's implied that the Wiseman, TheManBehindTheMan responsible for Black Lady's brainwashing, twisted her simple juvenile ElectraComplex into something inherently warped.
* In the manga ''Literature/BattleRoyale'', [[spoiler:Mitsuko]] has this a bit, leading to her, at that time, stable morals being broken and turning her into TheVamp she is as of the series beginning; and this event repeatedly comes up a lot, particularly when she is[[spoiler:raping Yuichiro]], as well as when [[spoiler:Kiriyama was torturing her with bullets]].
* In ''Manga/KazeToKiNoUta'', Gilbert and his sexual relationship with his uncle Auguste is made even worse when we find out that [[spoiler:Auguste is not Gilbert's uncle, but his father.]]
* In ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'', [[spoiler:Freya fell in love with her father/creator]]. It did ''not'' end well.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': {{Zigzagged}} between [[MadScientist Mayuri]] and his [[ArtificialHuman "daughter"]], [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Nemu]], after she's killed by Szayel Granz. Mayuri revives her through unknown means, since the camera remains focused on his back. [[SexyDiscretionShot All the audience sees]] are his hips thrusting, which causes Nemu to gasp and moan in pleasure, [[TheImmodestOrgasm until she finally screams.]] But when Renji and Uryuu call what he's done "indecent" for television, Mayuri says he's done [[NotWhatItLooksLike nothing of the sort]] and calls them twisted for having such thoughts.
-->'''Mayuri:''' ''[indignant]'' What?? You say that wasn't suitable for television...? How absurd. Admit it: you're really the perverted ones for having such thoughts, aren't you.
* In ''Manga/KaguyaHime'' Akira is her adoptive mother's lover.
* In ''Manga/NotSimple'', it is revealed that the older sister the protagonist Ian has been searching for all these years was, in fact, also his mother, impregnated by his father after the two slept together when she was in her early adolescence. His father's wife was forced to raise him as her own child, and she explained that the rage and resentment she felt towards his sister was the reason that she [[AbusiveParents abused]] Ian so horribly.
* Defied in ''Manhua/{{Bloodline}}''. Chong Yin and his classmate first believe Lilo and Last are a sexually parental love couple when the former calls the latter "Master". They immediately jump and say that wasn't the case.
* ''Manga/BlackButler'':
** FreudianExcuse for some of [[spoiler:[[CuteAndPsycho Alois]]'s]] behavior. The very first scene of Season 2 gives us the blink-you'll-miss-it visual of [[spoiler:Alois getting out of a bed in which an old man is sleeping before the much more noticeable bruised-butt shot.]] The kid only mentions his father during his clearly false innocent moments, otherwise freaking out at the mention of him, stating hysterically that he "got rid of all the old man's things". The numbers of when he was "saved" from his kidnapping experience, when his father is stated to have died, and when [[spoiler:he contracted Claude]] all match up. It's eventually shown that [[spoiler:the man wasn't his real father]]. [[spoiler:He eventually had to act as Earl Trancy's son, as well as the obvious fact that it's an old man having probably non-consensual sex with a boy who's only just hit puberty.]]
** PlayedForLaughs in the {{OVA}}. Grell, LovableSexManiac that she is, gets cast as [[TheOphelia Ophelia]] in the Phantomhive production of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. HilarityEnsues when she [[TheGlomp Glomps]] [[MrFanservice Agni]] (playing Ophelia's father) during her SanitySlippage scene. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Naturally]], [[AllPartOfTheShow it worked]].
* In ''LightNovel/{{MM}}'' the main character Taro is actively pursued by his sister AND mother who agree to share him between themselves and nobody else although they still compete with each other to see who will win his heart.
* Strongly implied in the case of [[spoiler:Yuri Tokikago and her MadArtist father]] in ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}''. In the episode focusing on her past and her bonds to [[spoiler: the late Momoka]], there are some shots involving [[spoiler: Yuri]] lying down and apparently naked in a room that looks like [[spoiler: her father's studio]]...
* In ''Manga/SaintSeiyaTheLostCanvas'' one character states that the four Dream Gods, servants of Hypnos (the God of Sleep), are referred to as being either his brothers or his children in the myths. It is never explained what they actually are, but from what we know about the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek]] [[BrotherSisterIncest Gods]]...
* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' had an... unusual case with [[MadScientist Scaglietti]], [[spoiler:who impregnated his cyborg daughters with [[CloningGambit clones of himself that had all his memories]].]] There's no indication that any actual sex occurred, but it's still incredibly creepy.
* It's very, very heavily implied that [[spoiler:Sho Shibuya]] from ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' was sexually abused by [[spoiler:his mother]]. Not only that, but [[spoiler:nobody believed him when he went to the authorities, so he murdered her (or at the very least attacked her with murderous intent) and then attempted suicide]].
* Implied for Kazutaka Muraki of ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness''. His mother had a huge doll collection (which he has inherited and apparently maintains) and treated him as part of it. There is some highly symbolized flashback imagery of him as a little boy trapped by her with her terrible smile. Slight spider vibe; definitely playing up the 'predator' side. And look how he treats ''his'' human dolls... Also, he killed her. [[UnreliableNarrator According to him.]] Note that all of this is only in the manga; the GeckoEnding of the anime is an adaptation of the same volume most of this comes from, but they left out all the child abuse and focused on making his [[FlatWhat vendetta against his half brother's severed head]] make some kind of sense.
%%* ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' is a bit more subtle but...look at the family tree and notice Tomaru Sawagoe and Ayumu Inou everywhere.
* ''Manga/OokuTheInnerChambers'':
** Sakyo's mother first forced herself on him when he was fourteen, and the relationship carried on for almost ten years, long enough for him to father two children on his own mother. Little wonder that Sakyo was willing to enter and work at Ienobu's household with no pay, if it meant getting away from his mother. [[spoiler:She did NOT take it well when he announced he was leaving, and threatened to curse him.]]
** Ieyoshi raped his daughter Iesada since she was a teen. When she (and her advisor Masahiro Abe) started taking steps to prevent this, Ieyoshi turns full {{Yandere}} at being denied her: poisoning a husband, trying to stop her from getting a harem, sabotaging her second marriage by marrying her to a literal child, then poisoning her ''and'' her husband because [[IfICantHaveYou if he couldn't have her, no one could.]] All this has left a nasty legacy on poor Iesada, even after her father dies: she's afraid to have sex at all (even with her trusted bodyguard Taniyama) and the poison is slowly killing her.
* Weirdly averted in Arina Tanemura's ''Manga/TimeStrangerKyoko'', where in the ending [[spoiler:Kyoko ends up possessing her long-dead adoptive mother's body--which her father preserved. So, while there's no actual incest, the King's adoptive daughter is possessing his wife's body. The body that gave birth to the body she used to possess.]]
* Played with in ''Manga/BunnyDrop''. Daikichi adopts his grandfather's daughter at a young age and is her father figure. Rin never refers to Daikichi as her father, which foreshadows the fact that post-timeskip they become love interests. This is [[spoiler:after it's revealed that Rin isn't Daikichi's aunt]].
* ''Manga/{{Yuureitou}}'':
** Marube is creepily touchy-feely and overly protective toward his daughter Satoko, while she's in turn terrified of him. Later when Satoko meets [[spoiler:her mother]], Marube says he "confirmed her chastity every night, as a father" and says he wanted to take her virginity once she turned twenty. [[spoiler:It turns out they're [[NotBloodSiblings probably not biologically related]]. This causes Satoko to become furious at him]].
** Later on Marube tries to seduce [[spoiler:Tetsuo]], who turns out to be his son. He's attracted to him due to his StrongFamilyResemblance to his deceased mother.
* ''LightNovel/TheTestamentOfSisterNewDevil'': Among Basara's many master/servant contracts, he has an ongoing incestuous relationship with his biological aunt, [[{{Meganekko}} Chisato]], who also happens to be the SchoolNurse. The {{OVA}}s only have them go as far as brief make out sessions and foreplay. But their relationship is [[TooHotForTV much more explicit]] in the light novels, themselves.
* Implied in ''Manga/TokyoGhoul''. Juuzou Suzuya was [[RaisedByOrcs raised]] from a very early age by a wealthy and sadistic ghoul called Big Madam. When he wasn't being tortured or forced to kill for her amusement, "Rei-chan" was dressed up and treated like a doll. Big Madam praises him for being so beautiful, playing with his mouth while he [[ThousandYardStare stares]] blankly ahead. To preserve his doll-like appearance, she castrates him so he'll always be beautiful.
* ''Manga/DontMeddleWithMyDaughter'': Clara has the hots for her ActionMom, [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman Athena]] [[HotGod Haruka]]. which gets lampshaded twice in the ''"Amazing Eighth Wonder Vol.1"'':
-->'''Hanna:''' "Her beloved mother, who she kept to herself until now, has been stolen by a man."\\
'''Athena:''' ''(over the phone)'' "But it's [[spoiler: her own father]]!"\\
'''Hanna:''' "Even if she understands that with her head, she can't be convinced, can she? Furthermore, every night her [[spoiler: parents]] have been fucking like rabbits in the next room over, and [[RightThroughTheWall she's been hearing your voices."]]
** Mei reaffirms it when she points it out to Clara, by explaining what she's feeling:
-->'''Mei:''' "Clara... you saw [[HeadTurningBeauty the "woman"]] in your mother. It must have been shocking, huh...? Experiencing [[LustObject raw emotion]] towards your own parent...."
** It comes to fruition when Clara gets [[AliensMadeThemDoIt possessed by the parasite.]] She makes physical copies of herself and uses the parasite as a strap-on to gangbang Athena all at once[[note]]the energy released by Athena's orgasm [[OutWithABang overloads the parasite and kills it.]] Which frees Clara from its influence[[/note]].
** Clara gets to do it again during ''"Uncanny Eighth Wonder no.2"'', in order to free her mother from Blowjob's control. Clara and her girlfriend, Mei, double-team Athena [[ThreewaySex in a threeway]] until she finally climaxes hard enough to return to her senses.
* The episode "The Coat of Many Colors" of ''Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics'' is based off the fairy tale ''Allerleirauh'' (a variant on ''Donkeyskin''). It has a mentally unstable king falling into despair and trying to marry his daughter, Princess Aleia, because she is the only woman who is beautiful as his wife was. Aleia runs away, becomes a FallenPrincess, and, [[AdaptationalAngstUpgrade unlike in the original]], she ends up deeply traumatized by the ordeal.
* In an anime-only episode of ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', several characters end up unknowingly ingesting LovePotion-dosed chocolates that make you fall madly in love with the first person to speak to you after you hiccup. Because he spoke up after a chain-reaction hiccup, [[OnlySaneMan Mahiro]] ended up with almost the entire cast chasing him, including his own mother Yoriko; thankfully he was able to find a place to hide out until the drug wore off.
* ''LightNovel/AkashicRecordsOfBastardMagicInstructor'' has some romantic subtext between Glenn and his adoptive mother Celica. It's made somewhat weirder by the fact that Celica is immortal and looks the same in the present as when she first adopted him.
* In ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler'', Baki's mother Emi tries to motivate him to become stronger than his father and gain her acceptance by nonchalantly kissing him on the lips, in front of bystanders who are aware that she is his mother. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight No one seems to really care, though.]]
* In one episode of ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'' Nagasumi ingests a particularly insidious love potion. It makes all women love him and all men hate him. Not only did his ostensible mother-in-law proposition him but his own mother was also heavily affected when she came face to face with him. Luckily a MegatonPunch from his father prevented it from going any further.
* There exists a [[YuriGenre yuri]] manga called ''1 x 1/2'' about [[AudienceAlienatingPremise a teenage girl who is sexually attracted to her mother]], and it's made pretty clear how abundantly messed up everyone involved would have to be for her to even have such feelings to begin with, since the girl has some {{Yandere}} tendencies and abandonment issues, possibly stemming from [[spoiler:her having been abused by an older classmate years before]] and considering this to be normal behavior as a result. The mother does eventually find out, and [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome even though she’s horrified]], she's ultimately too passive to put her foot down and stop the situation from escalating to the point of them [[spoiler:kissing and sharing a bed]], which is hinted to be because she has only ever been in dysfunctional relationships which she doesn’t know how to get out of.
* This is played ''very'' darkly in the StopMotion short ''Anime/MyLittleGoat'', where it's revealed that [[spoiler:Natsuki's father [[AbusiveParents abuses him]] both physically and sexually. While at first he seems like a normal father who's relieved to have found his missing son, it's quickly revealed what his real intentions are when he attempts to molest Natsuki right in the middle of [[Literature/TheWolfAndTheSevenYoungKids Mother Goat's house]]. Luckily, [[MamaBear Mother Goat]] [[BigDamnHeroes arrives just in time]] to use a taser on Natsuki's father before things get even worse.]]
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* The inbred family of the ''Film/WrongTurn'' movies are prime examples of this. We even get to see one of them give birth in the [[Film/WrongTurn2DeadEnd second movie]], which spawns a very deformed member of the family.
* In Aleksandr Sokurov's film ''Father and Son'', Aleksey and his father's relationship is about as uncomfortable as it gets without actually doing the deed. This l includes [[BigBallOfViolence homoerotic smackdowns]] and [[NotWhatItLooksLike almost-naked caressing]].
* The main character of ''Film/IStandAlone'' (who's nicknamed "The Butcher"), has sexual feelings for his mentally handicapped daughter. In the finale [[spoiler:the Butcher has sex with his daughter before killing her and himself, this ends up being an imagined scenario and he puts his gun away. However, he makes it clear that he is going to act on his urges, as he believes he is doing her a favor.]]
* Implied between Jessica and her father in ''The Gift''
* Babs Johnson with her son in ''Film/PinkFlamingos''
--> 'Let mama make a gift to you! A gift that only a mother can give, a gift so special it will curse this house for years, a gift of supreme motherhood.'
* ''Film/TheGrifters''. Implied until the end [[spoiler:when indeed the mother's lust comes out into the open with tragic results.]]
* ''Savage Grace''. The film focuses largely on the real-life incestuous relationship between heiress Barbara Daly Baekeland and her son.
* ''Film/ThreeSeatsForThe26th'', a French movie where Creator/YvesMontand plays himself and buxom sex bomb Mathilda May plays his illegitimate daughter Marion (a character created for the movie, not based on any real person). They meet and, not knowing that they are parent and child, feel attracted to each other and eventually have sex. TheReveal comes when Marion's mom tells her that Montand is her biological father. Marion isn't shocked or anything, she just makes an "oopsie!" face. Later, the two go tell Montand the truth. Montand, unlike Marion, '''is''' shocked, and looks at her daughter with a horrified face... but Marion just smiles and shrugs, which makes Montand relax and realize that Parental Incest is no such a big deal after all. They all become a happy family.
* Similarly, in the French ''Murmur of the Heart'', eventually, the main character (a 15-year-old) and his mother have a one night stand. They decide to treasure it and never bring it up again.
* ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'' featured Father/Daughter incest in an infamous reveal about Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray and a woman named Katherine who Jake Gittes took to be the mistress of Mulwray's late husband. Katherine turns out to actually be the sister ''and'' the daughter of Mrs. Mulwray because Mrs. Mulwray was raped by her father, [[spoiler:Noah Cross]]. [[spoiler:Noah]] crosses the MoralEventHorizon even ''further'' when [[spoiler:at the end, when, after Mrs. Mulwray is killed, he forcibly takes Katherine, his daughter/granddaughter, into his car, implying he wants to do the exact same thing to her.]] Evelyn Mulwray was going to be played by Creator/AnjelicaHuston, Creator/JohnHuston's real-life daughter, as an utterly perverse CastingGag.
** Spoofed in a cutaway on ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', where Cleveland mentions a remake of ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'' with Music/MileyCyrus reenacting the famous "She's my sister ''and'' my daughter" scene.
** Also spoofed in E!'s ''100 Shocking Moments In Entertainement'' Countdown. When they bring up ''Chinatown'', they play the iconic scene between Jake and Evelyn... and then one of the commentators is seen slapping himself and screaming "Mother! Father! Sister! Brother!" several times before he gives his opinions on it.
* Father/Daughter happens to Forrest's love interest Jenny in ''Film/ForrestGump'', not that Forrest understands it. Her dad was "a very loving man, always touching and kissing Jenny and her sisters".
* ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''
** Marty [=McFly=] has to deal with the romantic attentions of his own '50s-era mother in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' after unwittingly recreating the events which led her to fall in love with his father. Marty then has to get his mother and father together so that he isn't erased from history before trying to get back home to his own time. It's not actually as bad as it could have been, though when she kisses Marty (much to his horror), she says that it's like kissing her ''brother''.
** This is referenced and lampooned in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'''s CallBack scene, when Marty is again woken up by Lorraine -- except this time, it's [[BadPresent 1985-A]], their house is a casino, and she has ridiculously huge breast implants. Onward, to psychotherapy!
* ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'', though it was never pursued beyond a few "Dude, your mom's hot!" "Shut up!" exchanges and Bill eventually telling Sigmund Freud that he has a "slight Oedipal complex". Of course, "mom" was actually a stepmother only a few years older than her stepson, not his birth mother. And, of course, Missy ends up divorcing him and marrying ''Ted'''s dad at the start of the sequel ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'', followed by the BigBad De Nomolos in the closing credits, then by former stepson Deacon (Ted's younger brother) in ''Film/BillAndTedFaceTheMusic''.
* ''Film/{{Oldboy|2003}}'' and ''Film/AngelHeart'' both have [[spoiler:lead characters]] who accidentally sleep with their own daughters as a result of years-long plots orchestrated by a manipulative villain.
* The mother and son cat-people villains in Creator/StephenKing's film ''Film/{{Sleepwalkers}}''. They're apparently the last of their kind, though.
* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': While she's not his biological daughter, Judge Turpin wanting to marry his adopted daughter Johanna (with all that entails) certainly qualifies. Turpin also had a serious lust toward Johanna's mother, Sweeney's wife, which set the entire plot in motion with the awful things he did in pursuit of it.
* The French film ''Ma Mère'' has a very complicated incestuous relationship between a mother and her son.
* And let's not forget the infamous "bath scene" in Creator/PiaZadora's [[SoBadItsGood classic]] ''Butterfly''.
* Heavily implied in ''Film/TheManchurianCandidate'' as part of the MoreThanMindControl of the title character, but the Hays Code wouldn't let them say it outright.
** The original novel was much more explicit about this, hence the film's notoriety even ''before'' the Kennedy assassinations.
** Strangely, the '60s version with the Hays Code in full force was actually ''more'' explicit with this than the later remake. That was '''not''' a motherly kiss.
* In the (in)famous indie film ''Film/SpankingTheMonkey'', a drunken assignation between the lead character and his mother leads to [[spoiler:him leaving home at the end.]]
* ''Film/RebelWithoutACause'': subverted, in that the attempts to deny even the appearance of incest destroy the normal expressions of affection. Judy's father refuses to show affection for her, stating that she's "getting too old for that kind of stuff", and when she kisses him, he slaps her.
* An early version of ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday'' revealed that Jason and his mother regularly had sex with each other, with this revelation even having an accompanying flashback of them doing it.
* In Japanese film ''Inugami'', the main character eventually discovers that the older woman he's been sleeping with was his mother, and that his father [[spoiler:was his uncle]]. It doesn't end well.
* Pedro Almodovar's ''Film/{{Volver}}'' has AttemptedRape by Paco towards Paula. [[spoiler:Later, we learn that poor Paula was conceived in a manner similar to Katherine from ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'']].
** Some supplementary material states Freddy once beat and raped his mother.
* In ''Film/TheQuiet'', Elisha Cuthbert's character has an incestuous relationship with her father.
* The main female character of ''Film/NaturalBornKillers'' is molested by her father. It's played like a sitcom, to make you extra uncomfortable.
* The romantic interest in Aussie film ''Film/RomperStomper'' is also molested by her dad.
* In ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', while not specifically stated, it is suggested by the following exchange:
--> '''Bartleby:''' But you, Mr. Whitland, you have more skeletons in your closet than the rest of this assembled party. I cannot even mention them aloud. [whispers something in Whitland's ear]
--> '''Loki:''' You're his father, you sick fuck!
--> [Whitland starts crying]
* In ''An Awfully Big Adventure'', Alan Rickman's character P.L. O'Hara deflowers his daughter. In all fairness, though, not only did he not know she was his kid, she didn't know it, either, and it's implied that she never found out. O'Hara, on the other hand, did, and drowned himself because of it.
* ''Film/SeventeenAgain'': Mike's ''daughter'' briefly falls for him, not knowing that he is her dad. Thankfully, it doesn't go any further than that.
* In ''Film/AnAmericanHaunting'', it turns out that [[spoiler:the "ghost" haunting the house is actually a psychic phenomenon caused unconsciously by the daughter's trauma of being raped by her father. In scenes set in the modern day the daughter's ghost appears to a mother whose daughter, it turns out in the end, is also being molested by her father]].
* In ''Film/TheDamned1969'' Helmut Berger's character, Martin, has an unhealthy love/hate relationship with his mother, which culminates with a sex scene that he initiates. Afterward, [[spoiler:the mother falls into a catatonic state and is then pushed to commit suicide by her son.]] Even if it doesn't really qualify as parental incest, Martin [[spoiler:is also a paedophile and it is implied that he molests his little cousin.]]
* In Peter Greenaway's ''8 1/2 Women'', Philip, while mourning his late wife, wakes up in bed with his adult son Storey; from the pillow talk viewers are to understand that something sexual happened between them. The father is horrified; the son is alarmingly eager to rationalize it. After this, the two men fill the house with a group of mistresses, but the [[OedipusComplex Oedipal]] implications... pale by comparison.
* Played for ''laughs'' (yes, laughs) in ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'':
-->'''Oedipus:''' ''(walking around collecting donations)'' Give to Oedipus! Give to Oedipus! Hey, Josephus!\\
'''Josephus:''' Hey, motherfucker!
* In the movie of ''Film/TankGirl'', the titular character makes a joke about how "It's like the first time you get laid! You gotta say, '"Daddy, are you sure this is right?'"
* In ''Film/{{Precious}}: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire'' [[spoiler:the title character is raped by her father, resulting in two children and HIV. The first child has Down's Syndrome.]] And it's strongly implied that [[spoiler:Precious's mother forces her to "take care of her" (i.e., perform oral sex on her) because she feels that her daughter drove her boyfriend off and, as she says, "Who was gonna love me?"]]
* The ''Film/BlackChristmas2006'' remake has a flashback sequence that reveals Mrs. Lenz, drunk one night and obsessed with having another child, went up to [[MadmanInTheAttic the attic where her son Billy was kept]] and raped him. She wound up giving birth to a daughter named Agnes nine months later.
* In the indie film ''Unspeakable'', [[spoiler:James Fhelleps loses his teenage daughter in a car wreck, then goes on a killing spree when he thinks his daughter is talking to him through a dead hooker, pleading with him to save her. After this ends in his death, it turns out to be a dream, caused by guilt over his incestuous molestation of his daughter.]]
* According to Danny Butterman in ''Film/HotFuzz'', [[DumbMuscle Michael "Lurch" Armstrong's]] mother and sister are one and the same. Implicitly, this is why Lurch is mentally handicapped.
%%* ''Film/TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe''.
* In ''The Goddess of 1967'', [[spoiler:Deidre is the product of this. Perhaps that's why she's blind...]]
* This is hinted at or added subtextually to several of the ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' films:
** The lurking phantom of parental incest is all over the first two movies in the series, ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' and ''Film/HellboundHellraiserII''. "Come to daddy" and all that. There's no evidence that it actually happened, but the idea is pretty firmly put into viewers' heads.
** In ''Film/HellraiserIIIHellOnEarth'', Monroe's dialogue with Pinhead makes it pretty clear that he killed his parents [[RapeAsBackstory because they were molesting him]].
-->'''Film/Pinhead:''' That is the gun you used to kill your parents. Oh, what else could you do? They thought you were so tempting, their affections so conditional.
** Flashbacks in ''Film/HellraiserDeader'' implicate Amy was sexually abused by her father.
* ''Film/{{Splice}}'': [[spoiler:Dren with both of her/his parents, although technically Clive is only a step-parent, at best.]]
* In the ''Millicent and Therese'' segment of ''Film/TrilogyOfTerror'', about two sisters who hate each other, Millicent claims that Therese seduced their father when she was sixteen. [[spoiler:Since Millicent and Therese are actually [[SplitPersonality the same person]], it's likely that this is an ... uncharitable interpretation of what actually happened.]]
* ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'': Cousin Eddie and his daughter Vicki.
-->'''Vicki:''' I'm going steady, and I French kiss.\\
'''Audrey:''' So? Everybody does that.\\
'''Vicki:''' Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best at it.
* In ''Film/YearOne'', Zed rather casually admits to laying with his mother, although he does say he felt rather awkward about it in the morning.
* Not stated outright, but the possibility is certainly implied in ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', between Norman and his mother.
** In ''Film/PsychoIVTheBeginning'', this gets a bit more detail: she apparently teased him sexually in his adolescence and then punished him for his [[RagingStiffie natural reactions]]. As a result, he lusted after his mother and was jealous of her many boyfriends, and assumed the reverse was true, which resulted in a woman being knifed in the shower some 20 years after Mrs. Bates died. It is not clear if they ever consummated this or if he just had one hell of an Oedipus complex.
* {{Averted}} but PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/NannyMcPhee'': midway through the movie, they [[spoiler:pass the maid, Evangeline, off as one of Cedric's daughters]] to trick Great-Aunt Adelaide. At the end of the movie, when [[spoiler:Cedric and Evangeline]] decide to get married, the confused aunt lets out a shocked cry of "Incest!" before they explain the truth.
** It's even funnier when you remember Great-Aunt Adelaide is played by Creator/AngelaLansbury, who played Mrs. Iselin in the original ''Film/TheManchurianCandidate''.
* Part of TheReveal about Creator/WhoopiGoldberg's character in ''Clara's Heart'' is that [[spoiler:she was raped by her son, who then killed himself]].
* Implied between [[spoiler:Nina and her mother]] in ''Film/BlackSwan''. Fan debate rages heavily.
* In ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'', Freddy takes the form of the [[AbusiveParents sexually abusive father]] of Tracy, and demands that she give him some "honey". [[spoiler:He also tries to "convert" his ACTUAL daughter [[FaceHeelTurn to his side of things]], and whether intentional or not on his part he's just as skeevy in his advancements on her.]] Flashbacks to when he was still alive were deliberately vague in whether he had the same murderous intent with his daughter as with the other kids on Elm Street, or if [[EvenEvilHasStandards she was the one exception]] and he just couldn't help being creepy around her.
* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'': {{Averted}}/{{Inverted}}/generally weird example: [[spoiler:Through TimeTravel, Lewis is almost adopted by his own future wife]]. She looks understandably disturbed when she realizes who he is, though.
* This is pretty common in Creator/TylerPerry's movies, because of the fact that he experienced this as a child.
* ''Film/AguirreTheWrathOfGod'': Just after [[spoiler:his crew is dead]] Aguirre declares that he'll marry his daughter and found a new 'pure' dynasty. It's evidence of his looming madness ... hopefully, and not something he planned all along.
* Whether or not a "mild" form of this occurred is the central focus of ''Film/EvesBayou''. [[spoiler:The theatrical release makes it more explicit that Cisely kissed her father and he stopped her, while the director's cut leaves it ambiguous who initiated the kiss.]]
* In ''Film/{{Machete}}'', Booth admits to Padre in {{Confessional}}s that he has feelings for his daughter April, and he's disturbed by this. Later, it is revealed that April and her mother June film {{Home Porn Movie}}s while he's away, lesbian scenes with each other and/or threesomes.
* In ''Film/{{Womb}}'', a woman impregnates herself with the embryonic clone of her dead lover, brings him up to adulthood, and proceed to have a sexual relationship with him again. Technically, it is not incest as the "parent" and "child" do not share any DNA.
* In ''Film/TheWhiteRibbon'' we see a father molesting his daughter.
* In ''Film/GoodDick,'' one of the characters is a survivor of the father/daughter type.
* ''Film/TheLovedOnes'': Although Lola and her father have never slept together, it is clear that both want to, Lola being the aggressor in this case. Unlike her, her father at least seems somewhat hesitant, and understandably so.
* In ''Film/GirlInterrupted'', this has secretly being going on with [[spoiler:inmate Daisy, and when [[LackOfEmpathy Lisa]] calls her out on it and tells her ''everyone'' knew about it, [[DespairEventHorizon it drives Daisy to commit suicide]].]]
* In ''Film/JupiterAscending'', the several millenniums old Titus Abrasax tries to force Jupiter Jones, the reincarnation of his mother, to marry him. [[spoiler:However, while he does creepily try to charm her, he only wants to marry her so he can be her heir, then immediately kill her to get the inheritance.]]
* ''Film/{{Society}}'': Bill is horrified to discover that his parents have been engaging in orgies with his sister. After he discovers that they're actually humanoid monsters who can distort their bodies, his sister even mockingly invites him to join in.
* The Australian movie ''Film/BadBoyBubby'' depicts a mother having sex with her simple-minded son who doesn't know any better.
* ''Film/FaustLoveOfTheDamned'': It turns out that "M" had possessed Jade's father in the past to molest her as a child, in order to indoctrinate her so "M" could later impregnate her as an adult with his demonic spawn. She can only recall traumatic flashes of a faceless man having his way with her.
* ''Film/{{Brimstone}}'': The Reverend is Elizabeth's father, and the reason she ran away from his was because he "married" her against her will following her mother's death. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, he declares his intent to top his previous crime by killing Elizabeth and raping his granddaughter.]]
* Narrowly averted in ''Film/{{Soapdish}}'', a movie that parodies soap operas. Celeste, a soap opera superstar, starts acting... suspiciously when her former lover and co-star Jeffrey takes her niece Lori on a date. Later, when he's about to kiss Lori, Celeste completely freaks out, tearfully revealing that [[spoiler:Lori is actually their daughter whom she gave up when she was born under pressure from the television studio.]] Naturally, everyone [[LampshadeHanging starts remarking]] on how this is very much like the plot of a soap opera.
* ''Film/{{Pieta}}'': Kang-do, an adult, rapes Mi-sun, who claims to be his mother. Later, she starts giving him handjobs somewhat consensually.
* ''Film/Malevolent2002'': The killer's backstory involves a sexually abusive mother who was also the TrophyWife to a wealthy businessman. In addition, she was rumored to have been in a relationship with her own father.
* The titular ''[[Film/TheStrangeThingAboutTheJohnsons Strange Thing About the Johnsons]]'' is that the son is raping his father. [[spoiler:Albeit at the end the son claims that the father instigated it]].
* ''The Savage Is Loose'' was a 1974 vanity production from Creator/GeorgeCScott about a couple shipwrecked on an island with their infant son. As the boy grows from toddler to puberty, he spies on his parents making love. As a young adult, he is suddenly competing with his dad for his own mother for the sake of lust. After getting rid of dad, the boy returns to conquest mom, only he can't bring himself to it. Dad returns and the film ends with a PowerOfLove message. The film was critically reviled for its overtone of parental incest to the point where Scott sent out bulk messages to movie theaters entreating patrons to see the film as a message of the bonding of a child with his parents.
* ''Film/{{Orphan}}'': The original screenplay used this in Esther[[spoiler:/Leena Klammer]]'s FreudianExcuse. She was sexually abused by her father [[spoiler:all the way from infancy to adulthood, causing her body to be rendered permanently infertile before she was even out of diapers and for her to spend her entire life believing that sexual relations between fathers and daughters were completely normal]].
* ''Film/TheSecret2007'': Being in her daughter's body means things get very awkward between Hannah and Ben. He chides her for acting overly affectionate while they're at a restaurant, and later she's also quite suggestive toward him while wearing a pretty revealing nightie. They never actually cross the line, but it was obviously difficult for them still wanting intimacy but unable to because of the bizarre happenstance.
* Implied as part of Lucille Sharp's backstory in ''Film/CrimsonPeak''. Lucille drives an ongoing incestuous relationship with her brother, which began before he was twelve and she was fourteen (and she murdered their mother to keep said relationship secret). The novelization also reveals that she had poisoned their abusive father; this fact, coupled with the fact that she initiated a sexual relationship with her pre-teen brother, suggests that Sir John Sharpe may have been molesting her.
* The '80s MadeForTVMovie ''Something About Amelia'' is about the 13-year-old title character revealing that her father (played by Creator/TedDanson in a UsefulNotes/{{Golden Globe|Award}} winning role) has been doing this to her for two years.
* ''Film/DontLook'': Kelley and his daughter Sherri Baby reveal they're in this sort of relationship by making out right in front of the group, much to their shock.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/ClassicSingaporeHorrorStories'' have one of the stories, "Skin Deep", which revolves around the protagonist, Dr. Raymond Quek (a Singaporean-Chinese), falling for his half-English daughter, Emma, since his wife Sybil (a white Brit) died [[DeathByChildbirth while giving birth]]. As Emma grows up into an adult, she increasingly reminds Raymond of his deceased wife, leading to his eventual infatuation with his own child which leads to a horrible ending for both father and daughter.
* ''Literature/DoYouLoveYourMomAndHerTwoHitMultiTargetAttacks'' has a parody of this as the main setting of the plot, practically depicting the main heroine and mother of the protagonist as an adult analogue of the LittleSisterHeroine.
* In ''Literature/{{Lolita}},'' Humbert is the eponymous character's stepfather, and says at one point that he, "with an incestuous thrill," had started thinking of her as his daughter, and had planned on impregnating her so that when she's [[ChristmasCake too old]], he'd have the next one ready. Lolita actually brings up the subject first, coyly suggesting that if they became lovers, that would be incest as Humbert is now married to her mother. This, along with [[FilleFatale other comments she makes]], allows Humbert to portray himself as being seduced by her instead of the other way round.
* Filmmaker Bertrand Blier wrote a Lolita-like novel, ''Beau-père''. A 29-year-old sadsack failed musician, Remy, lives with his 35-year-old girlfriend, Martine, and her 14-year-old daughter, Marion. Remy has been raising Marion since she was 6, so when Martine is killed in a car crash, she wants to stay with him instead of going to live with her real father. She soon reveals that she's attracted to him and sets out to seduce him. He resists at first, but eventually gives in. Blier subsequently made a film of his novel.
* From the ''Literature/GemmaDoyle'' trilogy. This is [[spoiler:Felicity]]'s backstory. When she got "too old," Daddy dumped her, later taking in another young relative as a "ward"...
* The father threatening marriage is found in many medieval {{Chivalric Romance}}s. These include ''Vitae Duorum Offarum'', ''Emare'', ''Mai and Beaflor'', and ''La Belle Helene de Constantinople''. These are close to the fairy tale ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/armlessmaiden/ The Maiden Without Hands]]'' -- so close, in fact, that the Grimm Brothers are often suspected of [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerising]] the tale with a DealWithTheDevil.
* ''Gregorius or The Good Sinner'', a 12th-century German epic poem by Hartmann von Aue. The orphaned son and daughter of the ruler of Aquitaine [[BrotherSisterIncest have an illicit love affair]], resulting in the birth of a baby son, who is put into a box and cast adrift. He lands on an island in the Channel, where he is christened Gregorius. After growing up he becomes a knight and comes to the aid of the queen of a besieged city, whom he marries. It is then discovered that she is his mother. She becomes a nun, he a penitent hermit who has himself chained to a rock for seventeen years, after which he is elected pope. Thomas Mann retold the story in his novel ''Der Erwählte'' (The Chosen One, 1951). Here Gregorius and his mother/wife Sibylla have two daughters.
* There's an e. e. cummings poem about this: 'annie died the other day'.
* William Carlos Williams's poem 'Youth and Beauty' is about the narrator's seeing a dishmop as a substitute daughter, "naked, as a girl should seem to her father".
* Dealing with the Borgia family (who were historically defamed as a bunch of incestuous murderers), Gregory Maguire's ''Literature/MirrorMirror'', a retelling of Snow White, has Lucrezia Borgia not only sleep with her father and brother, she also seduces her product-of-incest son.
* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfThomasCovenant''. Subverted slightly in that Elena, who is the product of rape between Thomas Covenant and her mother Lena, actively pursues a sexual relationship with her father, without his knowing for most of ''The Illearth Stone'' that she's his daughter.
* In Henry Fielding's ''Literature/TheHistoryOfTomJonesAFoundling'', Jones sleeps with a woman who, it is later revealed, is thought to be his mother. (Turns out she isn't.)
* Pedro Castera's ''Carmen'' deals with the relationship between a father and his daughter. Through the second half of the book, the question arises whether she is his biological daughter or not [[spoiler:although never confirmed in the story nor by the author (given that it was written in the 1860s), it becomes clear once you analyse it that he is indeed her biological father]].
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein is notable for the FreeLoveFuture portrayed in many of his novels, in which familial relationships are sexually taboo only by tradition, which most sensible people discard as long as the matter is consensual and there's no genetic risk.
** His protagonist Lazarus Long sexes up his mom towards the end of ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove''. He goes back in time to when he was 5 or so. At first he's disgusted by the thought, but then realizes they're not procreating so it's OK. After all, he has sex with his female half-clones, and most other people he has sex with are his descendants at some level already. (Not to mention that genetic testing indicates that he has absolutely no harmful genes whatsoever -- so even if he did get his mom pregnant, the baby would be perfectly healthy.) Later, in ''Literature/TheNumberOfTheBeast'', he rescues her from death and brings her to his present (her future) so the relationship can be formalized.
** And let's ''not'' get started on Heinlein's ''Literature/AllYouZombies''. [[spoiler:The protagonist is a hermaphrodite, who travels through time, [[{{Selfcest}} has sex with him/herself]] and becomes both his/her own father and mother. And son and daughter, logically. And is also the same person who took himself back in time to meet herself. Yeah. This short story is weird.]]
** Lazarus came by it honestly. In ''Literature/ToSailBeyondTheSunset'', Maureen tries to have sex with her father. (By the end of the book, it's strongly implied that she finally manages it.) In the same book, there's a consensual sexual encounter between Maureen's first husband (Lazarus[=/=]Woodrow's father) and their oldest daughter, who is an adult, pregnant, and soon to marry her child's father.
** In ''Literature/FarnhamsFreehold'', Farnham's daughter mentions to him that, of the three men she's been stranded with, he's the one she'd prefer to father her child (if she weren't already pregnant just now). Her dad is completely undisturbed and in fact flattered by this.
** In ''Literature/TheNumberOfTheBeast'', Lazarus Long's free-spirited ways inspire protagonists Deety and Jacob (her father) to do the deed.
* {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''Literature/RedDragon'', when the FBI agents claim that the eponymous SerialKiller "may have had sexual relations with his mother" as part of the highly sensational smokescreen that they feed to the press, because they specifically want to offend him into doing something stupid. In actuality, the killer's FreudianExcuse is significantly less Freudian, though still fairly messed up.
* Multiple instances by Creator/StephenKing:
** The title character of ''Literature/DoloresClaiborne'' had an asshole husband who, among other things, was trying to get into the pants of his own teenage daughter. This was one of several factors that eventually led to Dolores killing him.
** The long flashback that makes up the second act of ''Literature/GeraldsGame'' depicts main character Jessie being sexually molested by her father during a solar eclipse.
** One of the few things Snakebite Andi does in ''Literature/DoctorSleep'' that a reasonably sane person could sympathize with is killing her father for repeatedly raping her. She kills him via knitting needle, after employing it on [[GroinAttack the offending portions of his anatomy]].
** An offscreen character in ''Literature/TheTommyknockers'' kills his father via HuntingAccident because of this. The killer ''thinks'' he's simply committing an InheritanceMurder to escape a nasty financial bind, but narration discusses how thoroughly he's repressed the memories of his father's rapes of him and his brother when the sons were children.
* Creator/VCAndrews is famous for incest plotlines. Each of her three works--''Literature/DollangangerSeries'', ''Literature/TheCasteelSeries'', and ''Literature/MySweetAudrina''--contain heavy, certainly intentional IncestSubtext in the central parent-child relationships, but no actual canon parent-child incestuous relationships. %% DO NOT include ghostwritten books
* In the novel ''Literature/KafkaOnTheShore'' by Haruki Murakami, the 15-year-old main character gets involved in a relationship with a woman who is heavily implied to be his estranged mother. It's also heavily implied that she knows this but doesn't care.
* Lord Raith in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' novel ''Blood Rites'' is an incubus who binds all his daughters to him in sexual slavery (and kills all his sons. It's a theme...)
** Lara Raith [[spoiler:engages in a similar behavior at the end of ''Blood Rites'', turning the tables on her father, and binding him to be her slave instead]]. By way of explanation, it's not pure sexual slavery, it's complete mental control, achieved through the use of their supernatural mojo.
** Nicodemus also enjoys "indulging his daughter"...
* Zillah and Nothing in ''Literature/LostSouls1992'' by Poppy Z. Brite are a rare father/son pair. It seems incest runs in Nothing's family, as his mother Jessie [[spoiler:seduced her father]].
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''
** Craster has an arseload of wives, married ''all'' his daughters (and sacrificed all his sons to the Others). At least one of the daughters is shown to be pregnant, and though it's never made explicit how many generations it goes back, he's not young and girls in Westeros are considered marriageable as soon as they hit puberty, so it could be a few.
** A variation: TheChessmaster Littlefinger is simultaneously trying to pass off his [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend childhood friend and unrequited love]] Catelyn's daughter Sansa (who looks strikingly like her) as his natural-born child ''and'' trying to seduce her, apparently seeing Sansa as a ReplacementGoldfish for her mother. FatalFlaw, anyone? Eh? Eh?
** Speculated to have happened with Aegon IV "the Unworthy". One of his nine mistresses, Jeyne Lothson, was the daughter of his first mistress Falena Stokeworth. Many believe he was her real father and was said "he enjoyed mother and daughter together in one bed". While he wouldn't have known, [[ReallyGetsAround he probably wouldn't have cared]].
** The prostitute Shae was sexually abused by her father who also treated her like a kitchen wench.
* The main male character in the ''Spellkey Trilogy'' is the product of father/daughter incest and is an outcast as a result.
* In 1980, Judith Rossner, the author of ''Literature/LookingForMrGoodbar'', published ''Emmeline'', loosely based on the tragic life of Emeline (one m) Bachelder Gurney. Emeline was also the subject of an early ''American Experience'' episode, "Sins of Our Mothers." However, the story is mostly folklore and bears little resemblance to the truth. Author/artist Juli Kearns did more research and reveals [[http://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/emeline.htm the true story of Emeline]] on her blog.
* ''Literature/DunctonWood'': Mandrake is disturbingly obsessed with the ''ActionGirl'' lead Rebecca, ultimately culminating with him [[spoiler:raping her literally just after he ''killed her mate in cold blood'']].
** In its DarkerAndEdgier sequel ''Literature/DunctonQuest'' [[spoiler:Rune]] has a just as nauseating obsession with his daughter Henbane, the novel's BigBad. What a twisted monster...
* ''Literature/{{Deerskin}}'', by Creator/RobinMcKinley, is based directly on the original "Literature/{{Donkeyskin}}" fairytale - except unlike in the various folk stories, [[spoiler:the princess's father actually ''does'' rape her, and impregnate her, and she winds up miscarrying his incestuous baby in the snow on top of a mountain. While largely an amnesiac.]] It's not a happy story. It is, however, a beautiful story, in its way.
* In Creator/MercedesLackey's ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series, this theme gets used several times. In ''Magic's Promise'', a minor character was sexually molested by his mother; the trauma from this triggered his latent PsychicPowers. Further, in the ''Mage Winds'' trilogy, MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Nyara is raised by her father, BigBad Mornelithe Falconsbane, as a sex toy and guinea pig for his sadistic magical experimentation.
** In another Valdemar book, [[TheEmpath Talia]] uses her powers to punish a man who raped both his daughters and murdered one by [[MindRape forcing him to relive his younger daughter's experiences.]]
** Also in Lackey's book with Creator/HollyLisle, ''When the Bough Breaks'', a young girl is being molested by her father and develops psychic powers and split personalities. You later find out the dad used to be mentally tortured by his own father, and his eventual [[{{Karma}} comeuppance is very fitting.]]
** Another of Lackey's books, ''Literature/UnnaturalIssue'', is based on the fairy tale "The King Who Wished To Marry His Daughter," and had a more disturbing version. [[spoiler:He wishes to use his daughter's body as a vessel for her dead mother's spirit, and marry her all over again, even making plans to dismiss all the servants who knew about the girl and return with his new 'young bride'. In a particularly creepy scene, the heroine overhears her father ruminating on the things he's going to do to her (well, her body anyway) and is as horrified as you might expect.]]
** Another Lackey book, ''Literature/BloodRed'',involves having to take out a werewolf clan that was preying on humans in Romania. When the main character confronts the leader of the clan, he tells her, "You have murdered my sons and my wives." As he has said nothing about daughters, she puts two and two together to realize that his "wives" are his daughters. Even worse, as the leader has been around for so many years, at that point his "wives" are also his granddaughters.
* A book that may have taken place in TheLowMiddleAges had a Bastard (that's his name or nickname) as its narrator. At one point he's forced to settle with the (third?) cheapest whore at a brothel -- an unattractive older woman -- and the two have a conversation while getting busy. Several unnerving coincidences later ("What's your name?" "My name is Antonio." "I had a baby I named Antonio...") and the poor Bastard has to leave. His friend/mentor tries to assure him that "he ''has'' no mother ''or'' father", but it doesn't help very much. Played for laughs, [[spoiler:but it probably was his mother]].
* In Lewis Grassic Gibbon's ''Sunset Song'', Chris's (the female protagonist) father tries to talk her into sleeping with him, although she refuses.
* In ''Watch Your Mouth'' by Daniel Handler, there's an incest epidemic amongst the Glass family. Cynthia Glass sleeps with her father. Her mother sleeps with her son. Cyn and her brother sleep together. And then there's a golem.
* A character in Creator/AnneMcCaffrey's ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' short story "Rescue Run" rapes his three daughters to produce grandchildren. Then he rapes his daughters/granddaughters, as do his sons/grandsons.
* ''Literature/ParadiseLost'': Though it's all very metaphorical, the idea goes that Sin sprang fully-formed from Satan's head (not unlike Athena with Zeus). He then had sex with her, impregnating her with Death, who after he was born raped her repeatedly. One BigScrewedUpFamily.
* ''Literature/PeytonPlace'': There are undertones of this with Norman Page and his [[MyBelovedSmother overbearing mother]], who punishes him (for ''talking to girls'') with enemas and naked whippings.
%%** A father/daughter example happens to a secondary character.
* In ''Literature/TheHistoryOfDanishDreams'', as a child, Carsten often spies on his mother Amalie while she's undressing or having sex; when he's a teenager, they start a sexual relationship. Eventually, Amalie comes to her senses and sends him off to a boarding school so they won't be tempted to do it anymore.
* In Salman Rushdie's ''Literature/TheEnchantressOfFlorence'', [[spoiler:this is used to account for the youth of the supposed relative of the Emperor by a doubting Akbar.]]
* In ''Literature/TheCiderHouseRules,'' [[spoiler:Mister Rose is the father of Rose Rose's baby.]] This is the first case where Homer is actually compelled to perform an abortion, having been trained to do so but morally opposed to it.
* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheRobotsOfDawn'', there is a planet with such loose morals that one of the characters ''received a lifelong trauma when her father refused to become her first man'' (to the extent that she was apparently still a virgin at the age of 300). And ''he'' could never figure out why he refused.
** To explain, Aurora, the planet mentioned, has done away with the concept of family. A centralized system tests the genetics of people who want to produce offspring together and gives the go-ahead. Once a child is born, the centralized system takes the child into custody and s/he is brought up in a communal nursery with no further interaction with her birth parents. Aurora is also a perfect example of FreeLoveFuture, where sex is a casual pastime for everyone and no commitment is considered necessary. As such, as long as two closely related people do not procreate, sexual relations between them are perfectly normal and acceptable - and until procreation is intended, they are unlikely to know of the relationship in the first place. The example refers to an anomaly within this system, [[spoiler:where a roboticist interested in social dynamics decides to personally rear his daughter in his own home (he had to call in a lot of favors to be allowed that).]] The girl grows up with her father, an unusual circumstance, and falls in love with him. He rebuffs her advances, but is unable to explain why, beyond the fact that he considers it 'an emotional response'. The protagonist, an Earthman with recognizable morals, is very disturbed by all this.
* Creator/DeanKoontz uses [[VillainousIncest non-consensual incestuous relationships]] fairly frequently in character backstories. In addition to the BrotherSisterIncest that figures into ''Literature/TheBadPlace'', in both ''Whispers'' and ''Life Expectancy'', a major character is the product of a father raping his daughter. Additionally, in ''What the Night Knows'', a major character is the product of three generations of line-breeding in his family, starting with a brother-sister pairing, then the father/uncle impregnating his daughter/niece, then impregnating his twin daughters/granddaughters/grandnieces, one of whom is the mother of the character in question. The other twin and her daughter (also fathered by the family patriarch) state in their last documented conversation with their relative that they're both about a month pregnant.
* ''Literature/{{Rant}}'' has possibly the most horrific example of this, and [[spoiler:also one of the more unusual in that it's the ''son'' who rapes the mother... and the grandmother... and the great-grandmother, and... obviously, there's a bit of time travel involved.]]
* Similarly in ''Literature/UpTheLine'', by Creator/RobertSilverberg, one of the Couriers, who has some ''major'' father issues, has a goal to sleep with every female ancestor he has, as a gesture of contempt toward their mates. (Although he does skip his actual mother: "I draw the line at abominations.")
* In Creator/OctaviaButler's ''Imago'', part of the ''Literature/LilithsBrood'' series, almost all of the human race has been rendered sterile. At least one woman and at least one man are still fertile, though--we know because she gets pregnant. He runs away immediately after the conception and is never seen again, so the only way to [[AdamAndEvePlot perpetuate the species]] is in fact mother/son incest.
* Due to their [[RoyalInbreeding obsession with blood purity]], the {{God Emperor}}s in ''Literature/TheStoneDanceOfTheChameleon'' have been known to engage in this, as well as in BrotherSisterIncest. [[spoiler:We see this happen in the story when Molochite (who is himself already a product of BrotherSisterIncest) weds his mother Ykoriana after he ascends the throne. He is 13 at the time, while she's in her early 40s. The two eventually have a child together.]]
* Heavily {{implied|Trope}} in ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' -- when Mayella is testifying against Tom Robinson, she says that she'd never kissed a grown man before, because what Papa did to her "don't count".
** This line was cut from the film for obvious reasons, but Mayella's actress Colin Wilcox-Paxton said that she communicated the incestuous relationship through her body language and facial expressions. She revealed in the documentary, which comes with the deluxe DVD set, that she was acutely aware that Mayella's experience was real. "I saw these girls on the streets of violence, these very underprivileged girls. These girls from awful, awful backgrounds. I mean, most of them took it for granted they'd be molested by the time they were... certainly 12, by a father, an uncle, a brother -- or someone down the road."
* The "novelization" of ''Film/FlashGordon1980'' included a small scene of Emperor Ming and Princess Aura pleasurably reminiscing about the most recent time they had (BDSM-heavy) sex together.
** The conversation begins with Aura complaining about 'missing their closeness'. Seems Daddy's been too busy oppressing to have time for her lately.
* In the short story "Clean Slate," the protagonist [[spoiler:kills her parents and becomes a serial killer]] when her father breaks off their long-term affair after she turns 18.
* In the Chinese Literature/{{Cinderella}} story ''Bound'' by Donna Jo Napoli, Xing Xing's WickedStepmother suggests this to Xing Xing to mock her, though there was no denying that Xing Xing's father was [[ParentalFavoritism much closer]] to her than to his stepdaughter Wei Ping.
* In ''LightNovel/BookGirl and the Famished Spirit'', one character is implied to have been sexually abused by her uncle/guardian, [[spoiler:who is eventually revealed to be her real father -- which she knew, but he didn't]].
* In one of his columns, Creator/DaveBarry called for readers to send in candidates for what should be the national insect. In his next column, he mentions that someone wrote in saying, "My vote for the national incest is mother-son. Thank you for asking."
* ''Literature/InvisibleMan'' contains a scene where the narrator finds a man with two pregnant women in his yard. It turns out one is his wife and the other his daughter whom he accidentally entered (they shared a bed) while dreaming. She enjoyed it so much that she [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization begged him to continue]], resulting in both his wife and daughter being pregnant by him at once. [[IncestSubtext It is strongly implied that the rich white man the narrator is escorting envies this relationship]].
* This is actually the [[spoiler:motive]] behind the major case in the novel ''Series/CaseHistories'' and its subsequent TV adaptation. [[spoiler:The little girl at the center of case was murdered by her oldest sister because the sister realized that their father had the intention of sexually abusing her like he had been doing with the sister. In order to spare her little sister from the same fate, she murdered and buried the little girl in their neighbor's yard and subsequently entered a convent.]]
* ''Literature/InDeath'': Eve Dallas was subjected to this by her own father. She had to kill him to get out of it. ''Born In Death'' reveals that Madeline Bullock and her son Winfield Chase had been in a sexual relationship for years.
* ''Literature/MillenniumSeries'': The book (and the subsequent Swedish and American film versions) ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' [[spoiler:has the character Harriet Vanger being raped from a young age by her father, Gottfried, and after his death [[BrotherSisterIncest by her brother Martin]], which is why she leaves Sweden]].
* In ''Literature/TheThirteenthTale'', it's implied that George Angelfield at least had a sexual interest in his daughter. Certainly when she ran off, his reaction was more like a spurned lover than a father.
* In Sara Douglass' ''Literature/TheWayfarerRedemption'' sextet, this is the only form of incest ''not'' permitted to the Icarii. Everything else, including grandparent/grandchild, is fair game (so long as it's consensual). When WolfStar kisses [[spoiler:Azhure]] passionately, he admits that what he did was "unclean"... and thereby admits his parentage.
* In the Old Norse ''Literature/SagaOfHrolfKraki'', King Helgi of Denmark kidnaps (he thinks) a servant girl, falls in love with her, and marries her. Then it turns out she is his own daughter he begot by rape.
* Most marriages in ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' consist of a number of women, some of them full sisters, some half-sisters born from different mothers and all considered sisters, and one or more unrelated men. One family, the Brindles, is suspected thanks to the age of the husband and a twelve-year gap in new children to be having their single son [[UnusualEuphemism servicing]] his mothers. While most characters think this is a disgusting possibility, a contrary Whistler who's interested in that son retorts that at least it's proof that he's fertile.
* In the ''Literature/DreambloodDuology'', Tiaanet is repeatedly molested by her father and at one point [[ChildByRape gives birth to a daughter]].
* Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} with his mother Agrippina, both (rumoured) in RealLife, and in ''Literature/IClaudius''.
** If such a thing did happen in real life, then Nero was [[AbusiveParents a victim of sexual abuse]]; he actively hated his [[EvilMatriarch overbearing, controlling mother]] who had essentially forced him into emperorhood in the first place, taking the benefits and leaving him the problems (judging from the few reasonably accurate records, he was a tyrant out of indifference rather than malice). [[SelfMadeOrphan And then he had her killed]].
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''Literature/TheHermeticMillennia'', in Nymph culture, it was expected that a man's first sexual intercourse would be with his mother.
* Various early Christian writers, discussing pagan charges that their secret rites were sexual, countered that actually Christians are obviously more scrupulous than pagans in sexual matters, since they do not expose their children, knowing they will be taken up and raised as whores, and they do not frequent brothels -- and the pagans do both, and must often commit this.
* In the short story ''Florville et Courval'' by the Creator/MarquisDeSade, Florville [[spoiler:marries her father and becomes pregnant with his child. Florville's mother kept the pregnancy secret and gave Florville away without the father knowing of her existence.]]
* In ''Literature/OddJohn'' by Creator/OlafStapledon, the superhuman protagonist -- partly out of a desire to declare his independence from normal human morality -- sleeps with his mother.
* Imperatot Kurj of Creator/CatherineAsaro's ''Literature/SkolianSaga'' lusts after his mother, Roca, but never acts on it. However it does create considerable tension between him and the rest of his family. She is unaware but his father suspects and the tension escalates after his father dies and she remarries.
* Lirah the Serker, in ''Literature/TheLumatereChronicles'', was born from her father and his eldest daughter.
* The plot of James M. Cain's novel ''The Butterfly'' is driven by a man's lust for his daughter.
* Central to the plot of Daniel Gonzalez's ''Un grito en las tinieblas'' (''A Scream in the Dark'') horror novel is Zárate Arkham's history of incestuous abuse from her father.
* In ''Shovel Ready'' Persephone claims that her father is also the father of her child. [[spoiler:He's not, although he did rape her.]]
* In ''Literature/DoctrineOfLabyrinths'', [[spoiler:Diokletian]] lusts after Felix because Felix reminds him of the woman he loved, who happens to have been Felix's mother. This means there's a definite chance of [[spoiler:Diokletian]] being Felix's father. Oddly, this bothers [[spoiler:Diokletian]] a lot more than it bothers Felix, who doesn't seem to have an issue with incest.
** Also, Kolkhis and Mildmay. They aren't blood related but Kolkhis essentially acted as a mother towards Mildmay, raising him like a son from the age of three and then began sleeping with him when he was fourteen.
* William Johnstone's horror novel ''The Toy Cemetery'' has a few disturbing depictions of this. The town of Victory, South Carolina is controlled by a cult that has been making its citizens propagate by making them sleep with their children via magical control. The first opening chapters actually has the main character almost sleep with his daughter, who was ''willing to go along with it'' before they both snapped out of it. [[spoiler:Sadly, the book ends with said daughter, now thoroughly brainwashed, secretly planning to one day seduce or rape her father.]]
* ''[[Literature/TheAscendantKingdomsSaga Ice Forged]]'' by Creator/GailZMartin starts with Lord Blaine [=McFadden=] [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice running his father Ian through with a broadsword]] after Ian rapes Blaine's sister Mari. It's this that convinces King Merrill to commute what should be a beheading offense to exile to a PenalColony, which naturally proves fortuitous later.
* In ''Bent Road'' a little girl goes missing. We find out through her mother that [[spoiler:her father accidentally killed her and had sexually abused her as well, because as she put it, "Some men don't know the difference between a daughter and a wife."]]
* One of the two main characters of ''Matilda's Last Waltz'' is raped by her alcoholic father after her mother's death until he himself dies, leaving her pregnant and responsible for their farm while she's still in her teens. However, there was no biological incest between them, as the girl was actually the offspring of her mother's affair.
** [[spoiler:Then it's played horrifically straight. When Matilda gives birth to her son, the midwife decides to keep the baby for herself and tells Matilda she had a stillbirth, before taking the baby and her husband to New Zealand. The baby is happily raised under the name Finn [=MacKaulay=], and decides to go back to Australia following his parents' deaths. There, he seeks to buy a farm, which leads him to meet Matilda, falling in love and marrying her. Matilda is pregnant with their child and about to give birth when she discovers a box of photographs and letters Finn kept from his parents. The shock and shame are so strong she suffers DeathByChildbirth, and poor Finn is so broken he decides to leave his daughter in an orphanage and commits suicide.]]
* There are implications in ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' that Jane's alcoholic stepfather has at a minimum sexually harassed her.
* The short story "Goat" by James [=McBride=] has this as the TwistEnding: the narrator sees the birth certificates of his friend Goat and Goat's two brothers, which have "Irving Evans" listed as the father, and then sees the birth certificate of Irving Evans, who apparently has the same mother that Goat and his brothers do.
* In ''Literature/{{Push}}'' by Sapphire, the protagonist Precious is raped by her father ''and'' mother, resulting in two children and [[spoiler:HIV]]. The first child has Down's Syndrome. Precious's mother also forces her to "take care of her" (i.e., perform oral sex on her) because she feels that her daughter drove her boyfriend off and, as she says, "Who was gonna love me?"
* The protagonist of ''Literature/TheColorPurple'', Celie, has been abused by her father and has three kids by him. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that he's [[NotBloodSiblings her stepfather]].]]
* The heroine of the Creator/DanielleSteel novel ''Malice'' is a victim of this, having been forced to be her father's lover because her cancer-stricken mother can't be. Even more horrifying, she reveals that her mother ''held her down'' for him. She finally snaps and kills him when he rapes her yet again the night of her mother's funeral.
** The heroine of the novel ''Accident'' reveals that she's a victim of this also during an argument with her mother and sister (who was a victim too), blasting them for their denial and insistence that it didn't happen. Paired with GratuitousRape, as there were no hints of this before the supposed WhamLine, and it had no relevance or impact on the story before or after.
* ''Literature/JudgeDee'': While it doesn't actually happen, there are several characters who seem a bit too close to their own daughters:
** One man, whose daughter was kidnapped before she could reach her husband's home, bursts into the tribunal to accuse the husband's father of kidnapping her for his own sick ends in what certainly looks like a case of PsychologicalProjection.
** In one story, a young man is having an affair with one of his father's concubines (who's his own age), even conspiring to murder his father so they can elope in peace. An unbelievably pissed-off Dee tells him in barely-disguised terms to kill himself (note that the man's father was very much an AssholeVictim, being the general whose betrayal caused [[CallBack Tsiao Tai to desert and turn to banditry in the first place]]), which he does and is joined by the concubine. [[DeliberateValuesDissonance Their devotion to their filial and marital duties]] [[ThePowerOfLegacy are widely celebrated.]]
** In "Necklace and Calabash", one court lady claims the reason the Third Princess has remained unmarried for so long is that the Emperor has an unnatural fixation on her. Dee shakes it off as rumors spread by eunuchs.
* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': In the first book, Count Olaf is not actually the Baudelaire's ''father'', but he is their legal guardian, and as such has the right to consent to Violet's forced underage marriage-- to ''him''.
* In Jenna Rhodes's ''Elven Ways'' series, House Andreion is the ruling house of the Vaelinar elves. They were not the original ruling house. The previous ruling house had its king die in battle without issue, and his second in command took over. This new king had a daughter that he married off, but displeased that his grandson lacked the scrying powers typical of House Andreion, the king got his daughter pregnant himself. The resulting daughter/granddaughter had the scrying ability and was declared the true heir over her older half-brother.
* ''Literature/LucyStoneMysteries'': In ''Tippy Toe Murder'', a particular repugnant example happens in the book's main plot. The main story involves the disappearance of a retired dance instructor, with a few chapters revealing she's seemingly kidnapped a small child. [[spoiler:It turns out the instructor's trying to help one of her former students by hiding her daughter from her father, who's been accused of sexually abusing the girl. Halfway through the book it's confirmed the father has indeed been molesting his child, and he even reminisces on the first time he did it. ''When she was a baby''. Main character Lucy takes it upon herself to hide the girl with her family after the father brutalizes the instructor when he can't find his daughter.]]
* One ''Literature/ChickenSoupForTheSoul'' story has a girl's friend [[DrivenToSuicide committing suicide]] to escape her (the friend's) father repeatedly sexually abusing her, as detailed in her suicide note. Months after he's arrested, he finally confesses.
* ''Literature/{{Phantastes}}'': Referenced, with a OlderThanTheyLook grandmother and her apparent grandson:
--> Overcome with the presence of a beauty which I could now perceive, and drawn towards her by an attraction irresistible as incomprehensible, I suppose I stretched out my arms towards her, for she drew back a step or two, and said—\\\
“Foolish boy, if you could touch me, I should hurt you. Besides, I was two hundred and thirty-seven years old, last Midsummer eve; and a man must not fall in love with his grandmother, you know.”\\
“But you are not my grandmother,” said I.\\
“How do you know that?” she retorted. “I dare say you know something of your great-grandfathers a good deal further back than that; but you know very little about your great-grandmothers on either side. Now, to the point.
* ''Literature/ADiscoveryOfWitches'': Ysabeau reveals that her sire and his other male children raped and abused her to try to break her.
* In ''Franchise/TheWitcher'', TheEmperor Emhyr var Emreis learned of a prophecy in which his TheChosenOne daughter Ciri's son would rule the world, and wanted to sire that child himself. However, [[EvenEvilHasStandards his conscience eventually kicked in]] and he let Ciri stay with Geralt instead (before marrying his daughter's BodyDouble).
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* The title character of Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/DoloresClaiborne'' had an asshole husband who, among other things, was trying to get into the pants of his own teenage daughter. This was one of several factors that eventually led to Dolores killing him.
* The long flashback that makes up the second act of Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/GeraldsGame'' depicts main character Jessie being sexually molested by her father during a solar eclipse.

* ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'', though it was never pursued beyond a few "Dude, your mom's hot!" "Shut up!" exchanges and Bill eventually telling Sigmund Freud that he has a "slight Oedipal complex". Of course, "mom" was actually a stepmother only a few years older than her stepson, not his birth mother. And, of course, Missy ends up divorcing him and marrying ''Ted'''s dad at the start of the sequel ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'', followed by the BigBad De Nomolos in the closing credits.

Something often depicted in media as much {{squick}}ier than BrotherSisterIncest, {{Twincest}} or KissingCousins is incest between a parent and their child. UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud had a lot to say about the Oedipus and Electra complexes, and could find subtext in quite a lot of places. But in [[BigScrewedUpFamily Big Screwed Up Families]], [[DecadentCourt Deadly Decadent Courts]], particularly [[AbusiveParents abusive households]] and elsewhere, one is likely to find examples of this trope.

* {{Averted}} but PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/NannyMcPhee'': midway through the movie, they pass the maid, Evangeline, off as one of Cedric's daughters to trick Great-Aunt Adelaide. At the end of the movie, when Cedric and Evangeline decide to get married, the confused aunt lets out a shocked cry of "Incest!" before they explain the truth.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': the episode "Final Desmithation" is about Rick and Jerry infiltrating a fortune cookie factory to prevent Jerry's MisfortuneCookie-which predicts that he will have sex with his mother-from coming true. [[spoiler: Rick rewrites Jerry's fortune just in time to prevent it. It's implied by the man sending the fortunes out they others who received that fortune did have sex with their mothers though.]]

* Initially averted in ''Anime/MyOtome'', Nina is in love with her adoptive father, though Sergey doesn't feel the same (and probably doesn't know about Nina's). [[spoiler:Though Nina and Sergey come close to doing... well, you know... together close to the end, though Sergey chickens out at the last second, due to the fact that he only thought of her as his daughter and was disgusted by her feelings for him. In the end, Sergey loses his memories and it seems Nina has dedicated herself to nursing him back to health.]] However, ''Anime/MyOtomeZwei'' reveals [[spoiler:they never had sex, as Nina still has the nanomachines that make her an otome.]] This isn't present in the manga, where [[spoiler:Sergey is the BigBad and not related to Nina, biologically or through adoption]].

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