History Main / TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether

** [[BigBad Frieza]]'s family. Frieza is a sadist who enjoys torturing his victims, his father (King Cold) has been implicated to be a tyrant, probably responsible for multiple genocides throughout the universe, and his brother (Cooler) and predecessor (Chilled) are very similar to him.

** [[BigBad Frieza]]'s family. The father (King Cold) has been implicated to be a tyrant, probably responsible for multiple genocides throughout the universe, his son (Frieza) is a sadist who enjoys torturing his victims, and his brother (Cooler) and predecessor (Chilled) are very similar to him.

Compare VillainousMotherSonDuo, as well as OverlordJr[=/=]DaddysLittleVillain, where a single descendant of a BigBad seeks to follow in his footsteps, and UnholyMatrimony which involves two villains being in a loving relationship or marriage. SiblingsInCrime can follow, naturally, if there's more than one child in the mix. InTheBlood is related if the kids pick up on their parents' evil habits without having been directly exposed to any of their criminal behaviors and/or it's a persistent trend throughout the generations.

* The ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "Bloodline" is about a family (a mother, father, and young son) who kill a family to abduct their daughter as a future mate for the son. [[spoiler: Gets very creepy when it turns out that this is how the family continues; ''[[InTheBlood they've been doing this for generations]]''. And then at the very end of the episode, it turns out that the family has other branches, and the last shot of the episode is another similar set (mother, father and young son) preparing to kill some other people.]]

* Jango and Boba Fett in ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeIIAttackOfTheClones''. While Jango battles Obi-Wan Kenobi in hand to hand combat, young Boba takes control of the ''Slave I''’s blaster cannons. After the Jedi Knight tracks them to Geonosis, the father and son duo are shown having the time of their lives trying to blow up his interceptor in the asteroid belt.

* In medieval times of war, particularly [[BadAssFamily bad ass families]] not only slay and stay together, they often manage to climb up the social ladder all the way to becoming Kings/Queens over the bodies of their fallen enemies and establishing empires. Empires they keep within their family's possession by slaying and staying together... [[AristocratsAreEvil Yeah.]]

* In medieval times of war, particularly [[BadAssFamily bad ass families]] not only slay and stay together, they often manage to climb up the social ladder all the way to becoming Kings/Queens over the bodies of their fallen enemies and establishing empires. Empires they keep within their family's possession by slaying and staying together...

* The back story of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' involves SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker and and Harley Quinn having kidnapped [[spoiler: Tim Drake]] and having had him brainwashed and tortured for the sake of modeling him as their own son, dubbed "[[OverlordJr Joker, Jr.]]", and effectively becoming one of these families. [[spoiler: It didn't work.]]

* In ''Anime/OnePiece'', the [[spoiler: Vinsmoke Family]] are a family of notorious assassins who used to [[spoiler: rule the entire North Blue with an iron fist.]]

Very often, this trope might overlap with CannibalClan, especially in the horror genre. Sometimes, they are also {{Professional Killer}}s.

* The Simas in ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms.'' Unlike the [[BigScrewedUpFamily Caos]] and the [[OffingTheOffspring Lius]], they all love each other and work together to take over the world without a hint of drama, [[spoiler: which is probably why they win... though the ending strongly implies that it won't last.]] The Suns start out this way, but soon devolve into RoyallyScrewedUp.

* [[Disney/{{Cinderella}} Lady Tremaine and her daughters]] are portrayed as this in ''FanFic/BadAlertTheExtreme'', with the people they killed include [[BlackWidow Cinderella's father]], [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 the mayor of Blackwater City]] and [[VideoGame/Spyro2RiptosRage an Electroll]]. [[spoiler: They nearly kill Cinderella herself, along with [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Aqua]], but they are stopped by [[{{Disney/Hercules}} Hades]].]]

** In ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'', Medium Dave and Banjo were apparently brought up to be criminals by their mother, who is fondly remembered for her ruthlessness by other criminals.

* ''Sweet Jesus'', the Barrows family from ''VideoGame/ClockTower''. Matriarch Mary adopts several orphans to essentially serve as target practice for her AxCrazy sons [[ShearMenace Bobby]] and [[BodyOfBodies Dan]] [[spoiler:who promptly continues mass-murdering once both his mother and brother kick the bucket]], whilst the father Simon has been reduced to a MadmanInTheAttic who will [[ImAHumanitarian eat people]].

* Evan Dorkin's ''The Murder Family''. A not-so-wholesome sitcom family who do ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. To a sitcom audience soundtrack, no less.

Compare OverlordJr[=/=]DaddysLittleVillain, where a single descendant of a BigBad seeks to follow in his footsteps, and UnholyMatrimony which involves two villains being in a loving relationship or marriage. SiblingsInCrime can follow, naturally, if there's more than one child in the mix. InTheBlood is related if the kids pick up on their parents' evil habits without having been directly exposed to any of their criminal behaviors and/or it's a persistent trend throughout the generations.

* ''Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' is built on this; they're also a CannibalClan.

* ''Series/{{Batman}}'': One of the villains in series one was Ma Parker (played by Shelley Winters), a villainous mob boss based on Ma Barker. Ma Parker along with her three sons and one daughter almost manage to defeat the Dynamic Duo.

* The Kravinoffs in ''[[SpiderMan Spider-Man: The Gauntlet]]''.

* This is what happens in TheSimpsons with Sideshow Bob in "The Italian Bob", rather than shun him, his wife and toddler son help him kill the Simpsons. Exaggerated in "Funeral for a Fiend" when even Bob's brother and parents help him try to kill Bart, too.

* There are a number of examples of this in the Literature/WhateleyUniverse, as well as [[SuperFamilyTeam examples of the opposite]]. Most notable of these include the Wilkins family (who may be a pack of weaselly, self-serving {{Jerkass}}es with ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, but are extremely effective and highly dangerous when they do work together) and the Harrow family (who are in their third generation as AffablyEvil wizards, supervillains, {{Mad Scientist}}s, and con artists).