History Main / TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether

One common variation involves an OutlawCouple kidnapping a child or a group of children for the duo to raise as they would their own kids (typically, this either results in StockholmSyndrome, which is rare, to betraying or [[{{Irony}} outright killing their own kidnappers]], which would be more common).

* The family in [[ComicStrip/TheAddamsFamily the original Addams family cartoons]] are this, as opposed to their gentler TV version.

* [[DarkHumor Comedic]] [[PlayedForLaughs example with]] ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'', whilst in the original show they were eccentric goths but never explicitly shown to kill anyone (though Grandmama says "I haven't used this [axe] since the taxman came!" at one point, and Fester is enthusiastic about the idea of shooting people in the back but doesn't actually get to do it, partly because he's a terrible shot--though apparently he "dealt with" a gas inspector with his blunderbuss offscren, whether he killed him or just scared him off isn't specified--and partly because Gomez always insists that a fair duel would be more honourable) in the movie they all seem to have true homicidal tendencies and all the adults are at least responsible for one murder, albeit all of them off-camera.

* ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn'' includes a two FeudingFamilies who routinely kill members of the other family and teach their children to do so too.

* The Grissoms from ''[[Franchise/FridayThe13th Friday the 13th: Carnival Of Maniacs]]'' killed for fun, and sometimes food.
* An instance of this shows up in ''[[Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]'' with [[spoiler:Gottfried and Martin Vanger]].

* ''Un grito en las tinieblas: La vida de Zárate Arkham'' has the Arkham family, with the exception of the protagonist Zarate and some few other relatives, her family is comprised of psychopathic satanists, including her sexually abusive father and cult leader, an uncle that sacrificed teen girls to the Devil, and the homicidal branch of the family living in the EldritchLocation of Hill Road.

* Joe Goldberg and Love Quinn in ''Series/You2018'' get married and have a son by Season 3, and are every bit as dysfunctional as you'd expect.

* Parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', appropriately named "The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together."

* The Family of Blood and the Family Slitheen from ''Series/DoctorWho''.

* The Dershewitz family in ''Series/{{iCarly}}''

* In the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' films, both [[spoiler:Billy Loomis]] in [[Film/Scream1996 the first film]] and [[spoiler:his mother]] in [[Film/Scream2 the second]] become murderers. [[Film/Scream2022 The fifth film]] implies that it runs InTheBlood for the FinalGirl Sam, [[spoiler:Billy's]] biological daughter, given the brutality she displays when fighting Ghostface at the end, complete with her [[SwipeYourBladeOff wiping off her knife]] the way Ghostface often does throughout the series. [[spoiler:The killers, in their [[LoonyFan obsession]] with [[{{Unreboot}} "fixing"]] the ''[[ShowWithinAShow Stab]]'' series, tried to invoke this by framing her for the murders, believing that, when the massacre became the source material for a new ''Stab'' movie (which they always felt worked best when BasedOnATrueStory like the early ''Stab'' films were), it would have a ready-made plot of Billy's bastard daughter carrying on his legacy.]]

* 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; ''[[VillainousLineage 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.]]
** "Open Season" had brothers [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame who hunted people for sport]], having been taught to so by their uncle, a paranoid psychotic who had died some time before the events of the episode, leaving them continuing as SiblingsInCrime.

* The [[ComicBook/LexLuthor Luthors]] of ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. Patriarch [[MagnificentBastard Lionel Luthor]] is a CorruptCorporateExecutive version of the RagsToRiches story, and tries to raise his son, [[ManipulativeBastard Lex]], to be every bit as devious, cunning, and unethical. Lex in turn mentors his illegitimate sister, [[spoiler: Tess Mercer]], who he successfully transforms into TheBaroness. And that's without taking into account their bastard brother, Lucas, who managed to become a sociopath even without daddy's involvement, or Lex's numerous clones, who cover the board from EnfanteTerrible (Lx-15) to AxeCrazy EvilOldFolks (Lx-3). In the AlternateUniverse of Earth-2, the family stayed together, and by adding adoptive son [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark]] [[EvilTwin "Ultraman"]] Luthor to the family, transformed [=LuthorCorp=] into a MegaCorp version of TheEmpire.
* In [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E15TheBenders one episode]] of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' Sam and Dean are investigating a murder, and they discover that it's a crazy redneck family that has been hunting people for [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the ultimate hunting experience]]. This extends to the little girl, and once the dead wife is mentioned there is a distinct note of 'this is you guys if you were evil cannibal rednecks who didn't know there were real monsters to hunt.'

* ''Series/Titans2018''. The Nuclear Family are the brainwashed mooks of an AncientConspiracy who are hunting for Rachel at the start of Season One. They engage in brutal torture and murder while [[MoodDissonance acting like a family from a 1950's sitcom]].

* ''Anime/DirtyPair'': [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] with the "Lucifer" criminal organization which is an ''army'' of criminals, all of them related by blood. Dropping the "LukeIAmYourFather" card (which is not a lie, either) on some poor unsuspecting fella caught in their very many schemes [[HeritageFaceTurn is a typical recruitment tool]].

* ''Anime/DirtyPair'': [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] with the "Lucifer" criminal organization which is an ''army'' of criminals, all of them related by blood. Dropping the "LukeIAmYourFather" card (which is not a lie, either) on some poor unsuspecting fella caught in their very many schemes [[HeritageHeelTurn is a typical recruitment tool]].

* The first episode of ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' after the pilot episode has the imps hired to assassinate a woman who survived a murder-suicide and was treated as a hero for her survival even though she was committing adultery. Moxie is hesitant to kill the woman because she has a family. His hesitation nearly gets the imps all killed because it turns out that the woman along with her husband and two kids are Satan-worshiping serial killers.

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* The infamous ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Home".

* The [[ComicBook/LexLuthor Luthors]] of ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. Patriarch [[MagnificentBastard Lionel Luthor]] is a CorruptCorporateExecutive version of the RagsToRiches story, and tries to raise his son, [[ManipulativeBastard Lex]], to be every bit as devious, cunning, and unethical. Lex in turn mentors his illegitimate sister, [[spoiler: Tess Mercer]], who he successfully transforms into TheBaroness. And that's without taking into account their bastard brother, Lucas, who managed to become a sociopath even without daddy's involvement, or Lex's numerous clones, who cover the board from EnfanteTerrible (Lx-15) to AxeCrazy EvilOldFolks (Lx-3). In the AlternateUniverse of Earth-2, the family stayed together, and by adding adoptive son [[{{Superman}} Clark]] [[EvilTwin "Ultraman"]] Luthor to the family, transformed [=LuthorCorp=] into a MegaCorp version of TheEmpire.

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* While it turns out that RealLife [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Barker Kate "Ma" Barker]] wasn't actually the leader of her sons' criminal gang, she still carries reputation in a lot of (fictional) stories about her life and serves as the popular inspiration for nearly every fictional portrayal of family gangs led by the maternal figure.
* Sawny Bean, the leader of the Scottish CannibalClan of legend, who is [[UrbanLegend believed by some]] to have been executed for the mass murder and cannibalization of over 1,000 people sometime around the 14/1500's.
* Loki's family in Myth/NorseMythology, which includes Loki, god of mischief, chaos, and destruction; Fenrir, giant wolf and harbinger of the apocalypse; Jormungandr, the Midgard Serpent; Hel; and Fenrir's sons, Skoll and Hati. Come Ragnarok Skoll and Hati devour the Sun and the Moon, Loki dies battling Heimdall, Asgard's watchman, and Fenrir and Jormungandr lead the assault on Heaven, killing Odin and Thor and bringing about the end of the world.
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* ''Timber Falls'' had a family of backwoods religious fanatics who abduct couples and force them to conceive, due to the only female member of the group being infertile.
* ''Wedding Slashers'' involves a daughter trying to escape one of these and start her own life. Suffice to say, her relatives aren't pleased.

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* While it turns out that RealLife [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Barker Kate "Ma" Barker]] wasn't actually the leader of her sons' criminal gang, she still carries reputation in a lot of (fictional) stories about her life and serves as the popular inspiration for nearly every fictional portrayal of family gangs led by the maternal figure.
* Sawny Bean, the leader of the Scottish CannibalClan of legend, who is [[UrbanLegend believed by some]] to have been executed for the mass murder and cannibalization of over 1,000 people sometime around the 14/1500's.
* Loki's family in Myth/NorseMythology, which includes Loki, god of mischief, chaos, and destruction; Fenrir, giant wolf and harbinger of the apocalypse; Jormungandr, the Midgard Serpent; Hel; and Fenrir's sons, Skoll and Hati. Come Ragnarok Skoll and Hati devour the Sun and the Moon, Loki dies battling Heimdall, Asgard's watchman, and Fenrir and Jormungandr lead the assault on Heaven, killing Odin and Thor and bringing about the end of the world.
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* [[DarkHumor Comedic]] [[PlayedForLaughs example with]] ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'', whilst in the original show they were just eccentric goths but pure pacifists, in the movie they all seem to have true homicidal tendencies and all the adults are at least responsible for one murder, albeit all of them off-camera.

* ''Timber Falls'' had a family of backwoods religious fanatics who abduct couples and force them to concieve, due to the only female member of the group being infertile.

* The inbred killer cannibals in ''Film/WrongTurn'' films are tight-knit community. Especially the family in ''Film/WrongTurn2DeadEnd'', whose members only known as Pa, Ma and the (incestous) Twins.

* ''Series/Titans2018''. The Nuclear Family look like something out of a 1950's sitcom. Then they shoot up with SuperSerum and go on a manhunt for Rachel at the start of Season One.

Contrast MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal, which involves parents denying that their criminal offspring are really evil, and EvilParentsWantGoodKids, where villains take steps to actively keep their children ''away'' from all that.

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* The titular family in Literature/StrangeLittleBand are the protagonists of the story, but being very much antiheros this trope applies. Especially in the climax.
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* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' [[spoiler: came painfully close to having an unwilling version. Morgan Fey asks her daughter Pearl to channel a certain spirit at a certain time, trusting Pearl to obey without asking. The spirit was Dahlia Hawthorne, another of Morgan's daughters, who would have used Pearl's body to murder her cousin Maya Fey. Dahlia would be at fault... but legally, Pearl would still be a murderer. Did we mention Pearl is nine?]]

* The baker family from VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard are this mixed with the series trademark ImplacableMan and BodyHorror.

%%* The Mizuchi family from ''Manga/SukebanDeka''.
* The Zabi family from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' are a family of militaristic fascist politicians, with father [[FatBastard Degwin]] as Sovereign and BigBad, eldest son [[TheEvilPrince Gihren]] as DragonInChief and CINC of the war effort, daughter [[EvilGenius Kycilia]] and son [[TheBrute Dozle]] as fleet commanders, and youngest child [[DarkChick Garma]] as the leader of the Earth Invasion Force. Since they are also a BigScrewedUpFamily, the situation turns very messy for all of them, especially once [[TheStarscream Gihren]] [[{{Patricide}} makes his play for power]].
* The Hückebein Family from ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' are the adopted variant. Apparently all of them are not blood-related since they adopt other Eclipse Drivers into the family. As infectees of the Eclipse, a virus that turns you into a crazy killing machine (or zombie), they have to kill people to survive or the Eclipse will kill them.
* In ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', the Zoldyeck Family are a family of [[ProfessionalKiller assassins]]. Even though they have some issues, they usually don't kill innocent or other people unrelated to their jobs. At one point, the Ten Mafia Dons hired Zeno (the grandfather) and Silva (the father) to kill Chrollo Lucilfer, but Chrollo hired the eldest son, Illumi, to kill the dons. Illumi killed them when Zeno and Silva were in the middle of the fight against Chrollo, and after Illumi informed his father, both of them went back to home without any regrets.

* The Kamelot family from ''Manga/DGrayman'' are an opulent family with good reputation in the upper-class society. However, Sheryl, his adopted daughter, his adopted son and his brother have either caused the death of, killed or driven insane countless people. His wife is not aware of their true nature though.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** The Kira family, with Yoshihiro the father and his serial-killer of a son Yoshikage.
** Likewise the Boom Boom Family participates to the race together to kill other competitors.
** J. Geil and his mother Enya are also complete monsters.

* In ''ComicBook/XMen'', when The Brood attack New Orleans, they target the children of the local thief and assassin clans for assimilation, giving this trope as their reasoning: Since they are preparing an invasion they need soldiers, so hosts with the right instincts are very desirable.
* MadScientist Doctor Sivana and his children, Georgia and Thaddeus Jr., from ''[[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]]''.
* The Kravinoffs in ''[[ComicBook/SpiderMan Spider-Man: The Gauntlet]]''.
* The Roarks from ''ComicBook/SinCity''. Most of them actually hate each other, but Roark Jr. is a pedophile serial killer, his corrupt Senator father covers for him and facilitates many other forms of corruption in the city, while the Senator's brother in turn is a Cardinal who secretively cannibalizes prostitutes with his disciple Kevin. There's a third Roark brother who's an Attorney General, and although he [[TheGhost never appears]], given his relatives' track record it's hard to believe that he's not probably some sort of AmoralAttorney.
* Creator/EvanDorkin's ''The Murder Family''. A not-so-wholesome sitcom family who do ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. To a sitcom audience soundtrack, no less.
* The Daltons from ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'', with the family matriarch Ma Dalton who occasionally helps her sons escaping the CardboardPrison du jour and planning some of their crimes. Given that they're in a very family-friendly title, nobody's really at risk of getting killed.

* [[Characters/SpiderManTheInheritors The Inheritors]], of which Morlun is the eldest sibling, is this in ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse''.

* The family in [[ComicStrip/TheAddamsFamily the original Addams family cartoons]] are this, as opposed to their gentler TV version.
* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': The Quintas family had a charming family tradition of competing as serial killers. After Mary Quintas spent years thinking she should be her mother's favorite since she was the only one who managed to avoid getting caught she decided the best way to win would be to kill the rest of the family. While her taking out her brothers could be seen as a type of public service her nephew is completely innocent and had no involvement in the family plot.

* ''Timber Falls'' had a family of backwoods religious fanatics who abduct couples and force them to concieve, due to the only female member of the group being infertile.
* Mother, and her sons Ike and Addley, from ''Mother's Day''. There's also Queenie, Mother's woods dwelling sister who is just as murderously insane as the rest, but hates her relatives. The loose remake drops Queenie, adds a daughter, and upgrades the number of sons to three.
* The murderous family from ''Film/{{Frontiers}}'' was headed by an insane Nazi war criminal. They are also cannibals, for some reason.
* ''Film/SeedOfChucky'', though Glen(da) isn't really into it like his/her parents are.

* The premise of the horror film ''Film/TheHamiltons'', and its sequel, ''Film/TheThompsons''.
* The Angel Family in ''Film/JudgeDredd''.
-->'''Dredd''': Cursed Earth pirates, murderers, scavengers. And, of course, scumbags.
-->'''Dredd''': [Later, to Fergie] l forgot to mention it. Your new friends, they're cannibals.
* The Redneck Zombie Torture Family from ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''.
* The aptly named ''Film/TheFamily'' which is about a mafia don and his family, who have the same violent tendencies that he does.
* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Minions}}'', on a trip to Orlando, Florida, the titular minions meet a family who are a group of dangerous criminals, and even the baby already wants to kill people with ''grenades''.
* Troy and two sons in ''Film/TheNeighbor'' are complicit in a kidnapping for ransom operation, and are not against murder or rape as well.
* Zigzagged with the Klopeks in ''Film/TheBurbs''. [[spoiler: At first it seems that the movie wanted to teach AnAesop about tolerance. Then it turns out that, yes, they were a family of murderers.]]
* [[DarkHumor Comedic]] [[PlayedForLaughs example with]] ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'', whilst in the original show they were just eccentric goths but pure pacifists, in the movie they all seem to have true homicidal tendencies and all the adults are at least responsible for one murder, albeit all of them off-camera.
* ''Film/Aquaman2018'' shows David Kane and his father Jesse leading a gang of SubmarinePirates, with Jesse expressing pride that his son is joining the FamilyBusiness.
* In ''Film/BigDriver'', Lester's mother Ramona and his brother Al are both actively involved in his series of rape/murders.

* In ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', the Fëanorians. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], since they were driven by their father's oath to recover the stolen Silmarils.
* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', families are so close-knit that this is the normal, expected case, which is why, if one sister is involved in a crime, the whole family will be punished. It is possible to get out of it if you can prove that you have ''nothing to do at all'' with that family member, but you have to prove innocence rather than it being assumed. The [[spoiler: main villains who are behind all the problems]] are revealed to be a family.

* ''Literature/{{Dexter}}'': The book series has Dexter (a serial killer who hunts criminals that escaped justice; he was trained by his foster father and police officer Harry Morgan) training his step-children Cody and Astor in the ways of [[SerialKillerKiller serial killer killing]].

* Tigerstar and his son Hawkfrost in ''Literature/WarriorCats''. For a while it looked like Tigerstar's other son Brambleclaw was going to join them, but he decided against it.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Oberyn and his eldest four daughters. Other family members are also sometimes included. Oberyn and his brother Doran work together, and Ariane recounts a time her uncle took her and her cousins -- the above mentioned daughters -- and taught them about snake poison.

* In ''Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat'', the title character falls for a DarkActionGirl and they get married as an OutlawCouple who commit crimes for fun when they're not working for the Special Corps. They have two twin boys who are also educated in the criminal arts. The Rat believes in ThouShaltNotKill however (his wife, not so much).

* [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in ''Scoundrels'', which is about a family of criminals who decide to go clean after the father gets a long prison sentence.
* 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; ''[[VillainousLineage 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.]]
** "Open Season" had brothers [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame who hunted people for sport]], having been taught to so by their uncle, a paranoid psychotic who had died some time before the events of the episode, leaving them continuing as SiblingsInCrime.
** Another episode had an elderly father and former serial killer come out of retirement over 20 years later. His son assisted him by bringing home women for him to brutally torture and murder. Later in the episode, it's revealed that the first victim he helped his father kill was his mother, though he never realized it until this episode. Another episode has a young boy pretend to be lost in order to lure women into his home as victims for his father.
** In yet another, a couple facilitate their paraplegic war-veteran son's crimes, bringing him women to murder out of frustration that his injuries make sex impossible for him.

* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers:'' Rita Repulsa, her brother Rito Revolto, and their father Master Vile during part of the third season. Much campier than most examples on this page.
* The [[ComicBook/LexLuthor Luthors]] of ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. Patriarch [[MagnificentBastard Lionel Luthor]] is a CorruptCorporateExecutive version of the RagsToRiches story, and tries to raise his son, [[ManipulativeBastard Lex]], to be every bit as devious, cunning, and unethical. Lex in turn mentors his illegitimate sister, [[spoiler: Tess Mercer]], who he successfully transforms into TheBaroness. And that's without taking into account their bastard brother, Lucas, who managed to become a sociopath even without daddy's involvement, or Lex's numerous clones, who cover the board from EnfanteTerrible (Lx-15) to AxeCrazy EvilOldFolks (Lx-3). In the AlternateUniverse of Earth-2, the family stayed together, and by adding adoptive son [[{{Superman}} Clark]] [[EvilTwin "Ultraman"]] Luthor to the family, transformed [=LuthorCorp=] into a MegaCorp version of TheEmpire.
* In one episode of ''Series/TheUnusuals'', an ''extended'' family (all the way to third cousins) go on a crime spree together. [[spoiler: It turns out they're raising money for the patriarch of the family to get a kidney transplant.]]
* ''Series/TeenWolf'':
** The Argents are a large family of werewolf hunters. It's strongly implied that werewolf hunting is often a family trade, so there are probably many other hunter families out there as well.
** At the beginning of Season 4, Sean Walcott is distraught over the grisly deaths of his parents, who seem to have been completely normal people. By the end of the episode, [[OurBansheesAreLouder Lydia]] has found a freezer full of dead bodies in the Walcott's house: [[spoiler: they're all murderous man-eating wendigos.]]
* The Dershewitz family in ''Series/{{iCarly}}''
* ''{{Series/Justified}}'' runs on this trope. The series sports several crime families, including the Crowders, Bennetts, Tonins, Reyes, Truths. and Crowes.
* An episode of the original Hawaii 5-0 had a killer family coming to Hawaii. They are generally presented as dumb, inbred Southern hillbilly types (Slim Pickens was the patriarch). When they are caught, the old lady of the group calmly explains they weren't thieves because they only took money and valuables from people they already killed, who didn't need it any more. It also wasn't murder because their victims "weren't kin".
* An episode of the reboot ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' features a young man caring for his aging grandmother who kidnaps two people for a pair of sequential Satanic rituals. When the killer leaves the house, the remaining victim escapes his cage in the basement, only to be stabbed in the back with a knitting needle by the killer's grandmother.
-->'''Grandmother:''' I'm tired of cleaning up your messes. Take care of this.\\
'''Grandson:''' Yes, Nanna.
* The Jukes, a family of thieves and con artists, attempts to take the T&T Circus for everything they can in the ''Series/FrontierCircus'' episode "Mighty Like Rogues".
* ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' is all about a street gang lead by the Shelby family. To start out, you've got the [[SiblingsInCrime Brothers in Crime]], Tommy, Arthur, and John, and their [[TheConsigliere consigliere]] aunt, Polly. Then add their [[LongLostRelative long lost cousin]] Michael, their littlest bother, Finn, as he grows up, and the brothers' wives as they get married. They're quite TheClan. And it's not a new thing in their family either.
-->'''Tommy:''' I think you're the first Shelby in history to have a legal license for anything. What would our granddad say, eh? He'd turning in his grave--"Honest bloody money? Eh? In this house? Here?"
* ''Series/TheUntouchables'': "Ma Barker and Her Boys" pits Federal Agent Eliot Ness against the Barker clan, and depicts Ness as leading the assault on Ma Barker and her sons at their Florida hide-out. In this version, Lloyd, Fred and Doc are all present at the final shootout.
* ''Series/Batman1966'': 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.

* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' games, the leadership structure for a number of the [[GenericEthnicCrimeGang Generic Ethnic Crime Gangs]] are rooted in family ties, especially in [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV GTA IV]]. Unsurprisingly, a lot of them murder people. The most notable example being the [=McReary=] Family, the backbone of Liberty City's Irish Mob. Both the family matriarch and patriarch have had ties in running the gangs criminal activities, and their sons Derrick, Gerry, and Packie are all violent criminals. It seems the only people serving as an exception to the family violence are Kate and Francis, and yet Francis is a DirtyCop and asks the player to [[spoiler: kill Derrick]]. Kate is the only one in the family without a criminal record.

* Juliet from ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw'' comes from a family of zombie hunters.
* A reoccurring theme in ''VideoGame/LakeviewCabinCollection'' is that the [[spoiler:RogueProtagonist]] of the [[VideoGame/LakeviewCabin first game]]'s family have become murderers and serve as the primary antagonists of the third and fifth installments.
* 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]].

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

* The Slaughters, a family of poachers, from ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers''.
* Parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', appropriately named "The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together."

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' introduces Mama Robotnik, Robotnik's mother who is a far more effective and dangerous villain than her son, and constantly belittles him for NOT taking over the planet. It seems her major morals she tried to teach him are to never tell the truth, never play fair, steal, and try to destroy Sonic. She even beats Robotnik up when he admits he was kidnapped and forced to marry an intergalactic bounty hunter against his will. Her reason? ''He told the truth''.
* The Beagle Boys in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', a family of criminals, mainly a parody of Ma Barker's gang. Several branches of the family are shown with different characteristics including [[UpperClassTwit Upper-Class Twits]], swamp rednecks, and one made only of women, all of them criminals.
** Continued in the reboot ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', albeit it seems that they are divided into groups of three and each trio has a specific theme for their attires from 70s Disco dancers to killer clowns.

* 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 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomis_Gang Loomis Gang]] was formed around the family unit of George Washington Loomis and his children, and managed to keep most of Central New York State in a state of fear for much of the first half of the nineteenth century.
* From August 1971 until February 1972, the [[http://www.mjq.net/fiveo/season6/onebighappy.htm McCrary family]] was responsible of several abductions, robberies, rapes and murders from Florida to California.
* The Meraz family, headed by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvia_Meraz Silvia Meraz Moreno,]] committed three murders together due to their belief that the deaths would garner them favor with Mexican deity Santa Muerte.
* The Maslenko-Ivanytina-Matsybora family was a clan of serial poisoners in the late UsefulNotes/SovietUnion. [[TheSociopath Sociopathic]] and raised in the belief that the [[{{Greed}} material wealth is everything in this life]], the elderly parents and [[BlackWidow their two daughters]] used thallium salts obtained under the guise of the rat poison to murder everyone who perceivably slighted them or was on the road to being rich.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MartinMystery'' featured a family (consisting of a father, mother and daughter) who made routine sacrifices to a dragon since 1962, and in exchange they received {{immortality}} and a comfy home in the being's realm.

--> Narrator: [[TropeNamer Looks like the family that slays together, stays together.]]

* The Beagle Boys in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', a family of criminals, mainly a parody of Ma Barker's gang. Several branches of the family are shown with different characteristics including [[UpperClassTwit Upper Class Twits]], swamp rednecks, and one made only of women, all of them criminals.
** Continued in the reboot ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', albeit it seems that they are divided in groups of three and each trio has an specific theme for their attires from 70s Disco dancers to killer clowns.

** Zurkon Jr. first showed up in ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankIntoTheNexus Into the Nexus]]'' after upgrading his father. At V5, Mrs. Zurkon joins them to complete the trio. Mrs. Zurkon even quotes the Trope directly:
---> '''Mrs. Zurkon''': The family that slays together, ''stays'' together!
** The little scamp also shows up in ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016'', but this time his mother is absent from the team; she is now a decidedly unhelpful [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever giant boss character]] able to summon her own Mr. Zurkons upon Ratchet.
* The baker family from VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard are this mixed with the series trademark ImplacableMan and BodyHorror