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** Bruce Wayne has four adopted children: his adopted sons [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick]] [[ComicBook/NightwingRebirth Grayson]], Jason Todd, and Tim Drake (the first three ComicBook/{{Robin}}s), and his adopted daughter Cassandra Cain (the third ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}). Cassandra's biological parents are David Cain and ComicBook/LadyShiva, two of the world's most infamous assassins and Bruce's former teachers.
** Bruce also has a number of biological children. His son Damian Wayne, the fifth Robin, is the child of ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul, daughter of one of Batman's greatest enemies, ComicBook/RasAlGhul. It's also revealed that Bruce has two further biological sons, [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry]] and Matt [=McGinnis=]]], thanks to [[LegoGenetics genetic manipulation]] and a surrogate father. In Earth-2 continuity, he has a biological daughter, Helena Wayne (''a.k.a.'' the ComicBook/{{Huntress}}), the daughter of Selina Kyle. The ComicBook/New52 ContinuityReboot left her stranded on the main DC Earth for a while.
** Bruce also has a number of biological children. His son Damian Wayne, the fifth Robin, is the child of ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul, daughter of one of Batman's greatest enemies, ComicBook/RasAlGhul. It's also revealed that Bruce has two further biological sons, [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry]] and Matt [=McGinnis=]]], thanks to [[LegoGenetics genetic manipulation]] and a surrogate father. In Earth-2 continuity, he has a biological daughter, Helena Wayne (''a.k.a.'' the ComicBook/{{Huntress}}), the daughter of Selina Kyle. The ComicBook/New52 ContinuityReboot left her stranded on the main DC Earth for a while.
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** Bruce Wayne has four adopted children: his adopted sons [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick]] [[ComicBook/NightwingRebirth Grayson]], Jason Todd, and Tim Drake (the first three ComicBook/{{Robin}}s), and his adopted daughter Cassandra Cain (the third ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}). Cassandra's biological parents are David Cain and ComicBook/LadyShiva, two of the world's most infamous assassins and Bruce's former teachers. \n There's also Jarro, a clone of [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaAntagonist Starro the Conqueror]] who considers Bruce his father.
** Bruce also has a number of biological children. His son Damian Wayne, the fifth Robin, is the child of ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul, daughter of one of Batman's greatest enemies, ComicBook/RasAlGhul. It's also revealed that Bruce has two further biological sons, [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry]] and Matt [=McGinnis=]]], thanks to [[LegoGenetics genetic manipulation]] and a surrogate father. In Earth-2 continuity, he has a biological daughter, Helena Wayne (''a.k.a.'' the ComicBook/{{Huntress}}), the daughter of Selina Kyle. The ComicBook/New52 ContinuityReboot left her stranded on the main DC Earth for awhile.while while the ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier SoftReboot changes continuity so that she's now a KidFromTheFuture who became a ParadoxPerson after changing the timeline. The fact that the world thinks that her and Bruce are cousins instead of father and daughter only complicates matters further.
** Bruce also has a number of biological children. His son Damian Wayne, the fifth Robin, is the child of ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul, daughter of one of Batman's greatest enemies, ComicBook/RasAlGhul. It's also revealed that Bruce has two further biological sons, [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry]] and Matt [=McGinnis=]]], thanks to [[LegoGenetics genetic manipulation]] and a surrogate father. In Earth-2 continuity, he has a biological daughter, Helena Wayne (''a.k.a.'' the ComicBook/{{Huntress}}), the daughter of Selina Kyle. The ComicBook/New52 ContinuityReboot left her stranded on the main DC Earth for a
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** And then there's the Kanes. Start with the five siblings: Nathan, Philip, Martha, Jacob, and Unknown. Nathan married a woman named Katherine Webb (Kathy Kane) who became the first Bat-Woman after his death and was secretly a Spyral agent. She was the [[DesignerBabies artificial]] daughter of Otto Netz, the founder of Spyral and had a clone-sister named Elizabeth Netz. Philip didn't marry or have kids as far as is known. Martha married Thomas Wayne, see above. Jacob married a woman named Gabrielle and was the father of Katherine "Kate" Kane, the ''second'' Batwoman, and ''her'' twin sister Elizabeth, the criminal Red Alice, which is why Kate is Bruce Wayne's cousin. After Gabi's death, he married Catherine Hamilton, because there aren't enough versions of that name in the whole mess. And the unknown sibling is the parent of ''another'' Elizabeth: Bette Kane who may or may not have been her Aunt Kathy's sidekick Bat-Girl, but almost definitely had a solo career as Flamebird before teaming up with her cousin Kate as Plebe or Hawkfire.
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** And then there's the Kanes. Start with the five siblings: Nathan, Philip, Martha, Jacob, and Unknown. Nathan married a woman named Katherine Webb (Kathy Kane) who became the first Bat-Woman after his death and was secretly a Spyral agent. She was the [[DesignerBabies artificial]] daughter of Otto Netz, the founder of Spyral and had a clone-sister named Elizabeth Netz. Philip didn't marry or have kids as far as is known. Martha married Thomas Wayne, see above. Jacob married a woman named Gabrielle and was the father of Katherine "Kate" Kane, the ''second'' Batwoman, and ''her'' twin sister Elizabeth, the criminal Red Alice, which is why Kate is Bruce Wayne's cousin. After Gabi's death, he married Catherine Hamilton, because there aren't enough versions of that name in the whole mess. And the unknown sibling son is the parent father of ''another'' Elizabeth: Bette Kane who may or may not have been her Aunt Kathy's sidekick Bat-Girl, but almost definitely had a solo career was the original Batgirl (or Bat-Girl as Flamebird before teaming is written Pre-Crisis) who later grew up with her cousin Kate as Plebe or Hawkfire.to be the Titans West leader under the name Flamebird.
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* Oh, and Charley Parker/Ch'al Andar, the Hawkman sidekick Golden Eagle, is Shayera Thal's nephew since his father (Fel Andar) is Shayera's cousin.
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** Damian's genetically engineered half-brother [[ComicBook/Robin2021 Respawn]] is the biological son of longtime ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' villain Slade "Deathstroke" Wilson. Slade's daughter Rose is sometimes written as having a romantic relationship with Jason Todd, and has previously expressed interest in Tim Drake as well, tangling the tree even further.
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* Franchise/{{Superman}} has this happen both in his past (the House of El, whose history is detailed in ''ComicBook/TheKryptonChronicles'') and in several alternate futures. You have the Superman Dynasty, various [[CloningBlues clones and half-clones]], an adopted son who is the child of General Zod, a half-human son with ComicBook/LoisLane, Superman's cousin ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} who was RetGone and then brought back, ComicBook/PowerGirl, who is Supergirl from a different universe, another Power Girl who's the Supergirl of a [[ComicBook/Earth2 different universe]] to the other one, the GooGooGodlike Ariella Kent, the child of an alternate Superman and one of the ''other'' Supergirls (so not the cousin), Superboy-Prime (a teenage Superman from "our" Earth [[FaceHeelTurn gone bad]]), [[EvilTwin Ultraman]], [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis Overman]], any number of other AlternateUniverse Supermen -- the list goes on. Two alternate versions of Superman (from Earth-Two/[[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks the 1930s version]] and from Earth-22/the ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' universe) stopped by the main DCU in the 2000s; one of them died and came back as a Black Lantern.
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* Franchise/{{Superman}} has this happen both in his past (the House of El, whose history is detailed in ''ComicBook/TheKryptonChronicles'') and in several alternate futures. You have the Superman Dynasty, various [[CloningBlues clones and half-clones]], half-clones, an adopted son who is the child of General Zod, a half-human son with ComicBook/LoisLane, Superman's cousin ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} who was RetGone and then brought back, ComicBook/PowerGirl, who is Supergirl from a different universe, another Power Girl who's the Supergirl of a [[ComicBook/Earth2 different universe]] to the other one, the GooGooGodlike Ariella Kent, the child of an alternate Superman and one of the ''other'' Supergirls (so not the cousin), Superboy-Prime (a teenage Superman from "our" Earth [[FaceHeelTurn gone bad]]), [[EvilTwin Ultraman]], [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis Overman]], any number of other AlternateUniverse Supermen -- the list goes on. Two alternate versions of Superman (from Earth-Two/[[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks the 1930s version]] and from Earth-22/the ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' universe) stopped by the main DCU in the 2000s; one of them died and came back as a Black Lantern.
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** And then there's the Kanes. Start with the five siblings: Nathan, Philip, Martha, Jacob, and Unknown. Nathan married a woman named Katherine Webb (Kathy Kane) who became the first Bat-Woman after his death and was secretly a Spyral agent. She was the [[DesignerBabies artificial]] daughter of Otto Netz, the founder of Spyral and had a clone-sister named Elizabeth Netz. Philip didn't marry or have kids as far as is known. Martha married Thomas Wayne, see above. Jacob married a woman named Gabrielle and was the father of Katherine "Kate" Kane, the ''second'' Batwoman, and ''her'' twin sister Elizabeth, the criminal Alice, which is why Kate is Bruce Wayne's cousin. After Gabi's death, he married Catherine Hamilton, because there aren't enough versions of that name in the whole mess. And the unknown sibling is the parent of ''another'' Elizabeth: Bette Kane who may or may not have been her Aunt Kathy's sidekick Bat-Girl, but almost definitely had a solo career as Flamebird before teaming up with her cousin Kate as Plebe or Hawkfire.
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** And then there's the Kanes. Start with the five siblings: Nathan, Philip, Martha, Jacob, and Unknown. Nathan married a woman named Katherine Webb (Kathy Kane) who became the first Bat-Woman after his death and was secretly a Spyral agent. She was the [[DesignerBabies artificial]] daughter of Otto Netz, the founder of Spyral and had a clone-sister named Elizabeth Netz. Philip didn't marry or have kids as far as is known. Martha married Thomas Wayne, see above. Jacob married a woman named Gabrielle and was the father of Katherine "Kate" Kane, the ''second'' Batwoman, and ''her'' twin sister Elizabeth, the criminal Red Alice, which is why Kate is Bruce Wayne's cousin. After Gabi's death, he married Catherine Hamilton, because there aren't enough versions of that name in the whole mess. And the unknown sibling is the parent of ''another'' Elizabeth: Bette Kane who may or may not have been her Aunt Kathy's sidekick Bat-Girl, but almost definitely had a solo career as Flamebird before teaming up with her cousin Kate as Plebe or Hawkfire.
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* Franchise/{{Superman}} has this happen both in his past (the House of El) and in several alternate futures. You have the Superman Dynasty, various [[CloningBlues clones and half-clones]], an adopted son who is the biochild of General Zod, a half-human son with ComicBook/LoisLane, Superman's cousin ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} who was RetGone and then brought back, ComicBook/PowerGirl, who is Supergirl from a different universe (with [[MostCommonSuperpower bigger assets]]), another Power Girl who's the Supergirl of a [[ComicBook/{{Earth2}} different universe]] to the other one, the GooGooGodlike Ariella Kent, the child of an alternate Superman and one of the ''other'' Supergirls (so not the cousin), Superboy-Prime (a teenage Superman from "our" Earth [[FaceHeelTurn gone bad]]), [[EvilTwin Ultraman]], [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis Overman]], any number of other AlternateUniverse Supermen -- the list goes on. Two alternate versions of Superman (from Earth-Two/[[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks the 1930s version]] and from Earth-22/the ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' universe) stopped by the main DCU in the 2000s; one of them died and came back as a Black Lantern.
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* Franchise/{{Superman}} has this happen both in his past (the House of El) El, whose history is detailed in ''ComicBook/TheKryptonChronicles'') and in several alternate futures. You have the Superman Dynasty, various [[CloningBlues clones and half-clones]], an adopted son who is the biochild child of General Zod, a half-human son with ComicBook/LoisLane, Superman's cousin ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} who was RetGone and then brought back, ComicBook/PowerGirl, who is Supergirl from a different universe (with [[MostCommonSuperpower bigger assets]]), universe, another Power Girl who's the Supergirl of a [[ComicBook/{{Earth2}} [[ComicBook/Earth2 different universe]] to the other one, the GooGooGodlike Ariella Kent, the child of an alternate Superman and one of the ''other'' Supergirls (so not the cousin), Superboy-Prime (a teenage Superman from "our" Earth [[FaceHeelTurn gone bad]]), [[EvilTwin Ultraman]], [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis Overman]], any number of other AlternateUniverse Supermen -- the list goes on. Two alternate versions of Superman (from Earth-Two/[[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks the 1930s version]] and from Earth-22/the ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' universe) stopped by the main DCU in the 2000s; one of them died and came back as a Black Lantern.
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** Bruce Wayne has four adopted children: his adopted sons [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick]] [[ComicBook/NightwingRebirth Grayson]], Jason Todd, and [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] (the first three ComicBook/{{Robin}}s), and his adopted daughter Cassandra Cain (the third ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2000}}). Cassandra's biological parents are David Cain and ComicBook/LadyShiva, two of the world's most infamous assassins and Bruce's former teachers.
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** Jamie Harper is pregnant with [[ComicBook/{{Valor}} Mon-El/Lar Gand]]'s child, meaning that even without the Cadmus experiments their family was going to end up with some extraterrestrial DNA. She is Jim I's other grandniece, and spent time as a GCPD officer and the police contact for [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin/Red Robin]] before moving to Metropolis.
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** Jamie Harper is pregnant with [[ComicBook/{{Valor}} Mon-El/Lar Gand]]'s child, meaning that even without the Cadmus experiments their family was going to end up with some extraterrestrial DNA. She is Jim I's other grandniece, and spent time as a GCPD officer and the police contact for [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin/Red Robin]] Tim Drake before moving to Metropolis.
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** And then there's the Kanes. Start with the five siblings: Nathan, Philip, Martha, Jacob, and Unknown. Nathan married a woman named Katherine Webb (Kathy Kane) who became the first Bat-Woman after his death and was secretly a Spyral agent. She was the daughter of Otto Netz, the founder of Spyral. Philip didn't marry or have kids as far as is known. Martha married Thomas Wayne, see above. Jacob married a woman named Gabrielle and was the father of Katherine "Kate" Kane, the ''second'' Batwoman, and her twin sister Elizabeth, the criminal Alice, which is why Kate is Bruce Wayne's cousin. After Gabi's death, he married Catherine Hamilton, because there aren't enough versions of that name in the whole mess. And the unknown sibling is the parent of another Elizabeth: Bette Kane who may or may not have been her Aunt Kathy's sidekick Bat-Girl, but almost definitely had a solo career as Flamebird before teaming up with her cousin Kate as Plebe or Hawkfire.
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** And then there's the Kanes. Start with the five siblings: Nathan, Philip, Martha, Jacob, and Unknown. Nathan married a woman named Katherine Webb (Kathy Kane) who became the first Bat-Woman after his death and was secretly a Spyral agent. She was the [[DesignerBabies artificial]] daughter of Otto Netz, the founder of Spyral.Spyral and had a clone-sister named Elizabeth Netz. Philip didn't marry or have kids as far as is known. Martha married Thomas Wayne, see above. Jacob married a woman named Gabrielle and was the father of Katherine "Kate" Kane, the ''second'' Batwoman, and her ''her'' twin sister Elizabeth, the criminal Alice, which is why Kate is Bruce Wayne's cousin. After Gabi's death, he married Catherine Hamilton, because there aren't enough versions of that name in the whole mess. And the unknown sibling is the parent of another ''another'' Elizabeth: Bette Kane who may or may not have been her Aunt Kathy's sidekick Bat-Girl, but almost definitely had a solo career as Flamebird before teaming up with her cousin Kate as Plebe or Hawkfire.
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* Franchise/TheDCU gives us the [[Franchise/TheFlash Allen/West/Thawne]] family -- the first two branches of which have a [[FeudingFamilies millennia-old feud]] with the third, at least partly because of how crazily related everyone is. The highlights:
** Inertia, genetically engineered from [[ComicBook/{{Impulse}} Bart Allen]], also has some of Bart's grandfather's DNA. This grandfather was descended from the EvilTwin of Bart's ''other'' grandfather. This makes Inertia possibly the most inbred character in the DCU.
** Captain Boomerang, Jr. turned out to be Bart's half-brother with a parent from the future.
** Boomer, who's aged normally into his early twenties, might actually be ''younger'' than Bart's little brother. [[TimeyWimeyBall Blame time travel.]]
* Franchise/{{Superman}} has this happen both in his past (the House of El) and in several alternate futures. You have the Superman Dynasty, various [[CloningBlues clones and half-clones]], an adopted son who is the biochild of General Zod, a half-human son with ComicBook/LoisLane, Superman's cousin ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} who was RetGone and then brought back, ComicBook/PowerGirl, who is Supergirl from a different universe (with [[MostCommonSuperpower bigger assets]]), another Power Girl who's the Supergirl of a [[ComicBook/{{Earth2}} different universe]] to the other one, the GooGooGodlike Ariella Kent, the child of an alternate Superman and one of the ''other'' Supergirls (so not the cousin), Superboy-Prime (a teenage Superman from "our" Earth [[FaceHeelTurn gone bad]]), [[EvilTwin Ultraman]], [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis Overman]], any number of other AlternateUniverse Supermen -- the list goes on. Two alternate versions of Superman (from Earth-Two/[[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks the 1930s version]] and from Earth-22/the ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' universe) stopped by the main DCU in the 2000s; one of them died and came back as a Black Lantern.
* ''ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}'' suffers so much from ContinuitySnarl that most writers [[ExiledFromContinuity just gave up]] trying to sort it out; as expected, he's got a badly tangled family tree, not so much due to time travel but rather lots of {{reincarnation}}. The short version:
** Prince Khufu of Egypt and his wife Chay-Ara are continually reincarnated. They become several familiar couples, including Brian Kent (himself a [[ComicBook/TheBraveAndTheBold possible ancestor of Jonathan Kent]]) and Lady Penbrook, and Nighthawk and Cinnamon. In the 1940s, they become Carter Hall and Shiera Saunders, who become the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Hawkman and Hawkgirl. They get married and have a son, Hector, who grows up to be the Silver Scarab.
** Hector marries Lyta Trevor, ''a.k.a.'' the Fury, daughter of the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Fury and adopted daughter of Miss America (itself a {{Retcon}}; Pre-Crisis Lyta was the daughter of the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Franchise/WonderWoman). Then he dies and ends up in The Dreaming, taking on the [[LegacyCharacter legacy]] of Garret "The Sandman" Sanford. He takes Lyta there to live with him, but when [[ComicBook/TheSandman the Lord of that realm]] returns, he's banished to the afterlife and Lyta is sent back to Earth. Lyta then has a son, Daniel.
** Daniel, meanwhile, goes on to become [[spoiler:the new Dream]], which makes him in some sense [[spoiler:a sibling to the rest of the Endless]]. This also makes him [[spoiler:Superman's spiritual uncle]].
** Shiera's cousin, Speed, has a granddaughter, Kendra, who tries to kill herself because of a ComicBook/PostCrisis ContinuitySnarl that led to at least three different Hawkmen existing in the same continuity. Shiera, without realizing it, takes over her body as a walk-in spirit and eventually becomes the new Hawkgirl in ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica''. Meanwhile, Hector is reincarnated as the son of Dawn "Dove" Grainger and Hank "Hawk" Hall (no relation to any of the other Hawkmen running around), but he still thinks of Carter Hall as his father. Dawn's sister, Holly, became the new Hawk.
* The [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bat-Family]] is a mild version of this (well, relative to other comics):
** Bruce Wayne has four adopted children: his adopted sons [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick]] [[ComicBook/NightwingRebirth Grayson]], Jason Todd, and [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] (the first three ComicBook/{{Robin}}s), and his adopted daughter Cassandra Cain (the third ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2000}}). Cassandra's biological parents are David Cain and ComicBook/LadyShiva, two of the world's most infamous assassins and Bruce's former teachers.
** Bruce also has a number of biological children. His son Damian Wayne, the fifth Robin, is the child of ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul, daughter of one of Batman's greatest enemies, ComicBook/RasAlGhul. It's also revealed that Bruce has two further biological sons, [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry]] and Matt [=McGinnis=]]], thanks to [[LegoGenetics genetic manipulation]] and a surrogate father. In Earth-2 continuity, he has a biological daughter, Helena Wayne (''a.k.a.'' the ComicBook/{{Huntress}}), the daughter of Selina Kyle. The ComicBook/New52 ContinuityReboot left her stranded on the main DC Earth for a while.
** In the ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' [[AlternateContinuity timeline]], Damian's counterpart Ibn al Xu'ffasch is romantically involved with Nightstar, who is herself the daughter of Dick Grayson and Starfire (which basically means she's dating her adoptive uncle).
** Not to be outdone, ComicBook/TheJoker claimed in one story that he was the son of Batman's confidante and adoptive mother figure, Dr. Leslie Thompkins. But the Joker's got an incredible MultipleChoicePast, so he's probably just making it up -- but we can't be sure. And one issue of ''ComicBook/{{Anarky}}'' revealed that the title character was the Joker's son; this was originally planned to be just the Joker playing mind games with Anarky, but the series was cancelled before they could get there.
** And then there's the Kanes. Start with the five siblings: Nathan, Philip, Martha, Jacob, and Unknown. Nathan married a woman named Katherine Webb (Kathy Kane) who became the first Bat-Woman after his death and was secretly a Spyral agent. She was the daughter of Otto Netz, the founder of Spyral. Philip didn't marry or have kids as far as is known. Martha married Thomas Wayne, see above. Jacob married a woman named Gabrielle and was the father of Katherine "Kate" Kane, the ''second'' Batwoman, and her twin sister Elizabeth, the criminal Alice, which is why Kate is Bruce Wayne's cousin. After Gabi's death, he married Catherine Hamilton, because there aren't enough versions of that name in the whole mess. And the unknown sibling is the parent of another Elizabeth: Bette Kane who may or may not have been her Aunt Kathy's sidekick Bat-Girl, but almost definitely had a solo career as Flamebird before teaming up with her cousin Kate as Plebe or Hawkfire.
* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'''s supporting character Tefe Holland is the daughter of Swamp Thing and Abby Arcane Holland. Tefe was originally a floating spirit called Sprout, who tried to find a body from a recently deceased person, was eventually given a body through Abby Holland's fetus, which was conceived through the Swamp Thing possessing [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] and having sex with her. Due to Constantine having the demon Nergal's blood in his veins at this time, Tefe is also part demon. She eventually became an Earth elemental like her father, beginning a line of human Earth elementals as a new Swamp Thing in Swamp Thing vol. 3, having all of her father's powers but retaining a human appearance.
* The Harper Family:
** James "Jim" Harper (ComicBook/{{Guardian}} I) has been cloned a number of times and had his DNA used to create experimental subjects which makes his family tree confusing, and his guardianship/adoption of the original Newsboy Legion adds both the originals and ''their'' many clones to the mess. His most prominent clone has adopted his own OppositeSexClone as well as Jim I's grand-niece Bobby. Jim had three siblings, all of whom have descendants mixed in with the superhero crowd in the modern age including the aforementioned Bobby.
** His grand-nephew Roy Harper (Speedy/Red Arrow/Arsenal) had/will have a daughter named Lian with the super-villain Cheshire and was adopted by [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Oliver Queen]] tying him to that family. He started out as Jim I's nephew but is now his grand-nephew due to a sliding timescale that required another generation be added in to the mix. Roy is also known to be descended from ComicBook/VandalSavage, tying him to another large dysfunctional family.
** Jamie Harper is pregnant with [[ComicBook/{{Valor}} Mon-El/Lar Gand]]'s child, meaning that even without the Cadmus experiments their family was going to end up with some extraterrestrial DNA. She is Jim I's other grandniece, and spent time as a GCPD officer and the police contact for [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin/Red Robin]] before moving to Metropolis.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' originally played fast and loose with mythology, with the Olympians that appeared being played more like powerful aliens that some people might worship. Later iterations imported the mess of the original mythological family ties of the Olympians from Myth/ClassicalMythology and added to it:
** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Golden Age]] Diana was the daughter of Hippolyte and, depending on one's reading, Aphrodite as while Di only calls Hippolyte mom both women call Diana daughter and were the two who together brought about her birth. Aphrodite does not seem to be related to the other iterations of Olympians who appear in this continuity, but her relationship with Mars retains romantic overtones despite the fact that they've been fighting for thousands of years.
** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Post-Crisis]] on Hippolyta is confirmed to be Ares' daughter as in mythology, making Diana Ares' granddaughter, and Zeus' great-granddaughter. This means that Diana is the grand-niece of the much younger Cassie Sandsmark, illegitimate daughter of Zeus, who is Diana's sidekick as ComicBook/WonderGirl. Diana's family ties to the Olympians get brought up very rarely, with Ares only pointing it out when she asks why he's gone out of his way to save her life, but Cassie has these ties thrown in her face constantly and doesn't appreciate it. The Olympians have a habit of addressing each other by relationship; for instance, Zeus calling Hera his sister-wife, which highlights the mess of their incestuous family tree.
** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 The New 52]] further complicated matters by revealing Diana was Zeus's daughter rather than the daughter of Hippolyta and Aphrodite/five goddesses as she had been in previous iterations. Cassie was eventually revealed to be the daughter of one of Zeus' other illegitimate children. This was all retconned to have been false implanted memories by ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' until Robinson treated Zeus as Diana's father and muddled the continuity. Rebirth is also the first mainstream DC continuity to treat Aphrodite as Zeus' daughter.
* Franchise/TheDCU gives us the [[Franchise/TheFlash Allen/West/Thawne]] family -- the first two branches of which have a [[FeudingFamilies millennia-old feud]] with the third, at least partly because of how crazily related everyone is. The highlights:
** Inertia, genetically engineered from [[ComicBook/{{Impulse}} Bart Allen]], also has some of Bart's grandfather's DNA. This grandfather was descended from the EvilTwin of Bart's ''other'' grandfather. This makes Inertia possibly the most inbred character in the DCU.
** Captain Boomerang, Jr. turned out to be Bart's half-brother with a parent from the future.
** Boomer, who's aged normally into his early twenties, might actually be ''younger'' than Bart's little brother. [[TimeyWimeyBall Blame time travel.]]
* Franchise/{{Superman}} has this happen both in his past (the House of El) and in several alternate futures. You have the Superman Dynasty, various [[CloningBlues clones and half-clones]], an adopted son who is the biochild of General Zod, a half-human son with ComicBook/LoisLane, Superman's cousin ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} who was RetGone and then brought back, ComicBook/PowerGirl, who is Supergirl from a different universe (with [[MostCommonSuperpower bigger assets]]), another Power Girl who's the Supergirl of a [[ComicBook/{{Earth2}} different universe]] to the other one, the GooGooGodlike Ariella Kent, the child of an alternate Superman and one of the ''other'' Supergirls (so not the cousin), Superboy-Prime (a teenage Superman from "our" Earth [[FaceHeelTurn gone bad]]), [[EvilTwin Ultraman]], [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis Overman]], any number of other AlternateUniverse Supermen -- the list goes on. Two alternate versions of Superman (from Earth-Two/[[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks the 1930s version]] and from Earth-22/the ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' universe) stopped by the main DCU in the 2000s; one of them died and came back as a Black Lantern.
* ''ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}'' suffers so much from ContinuitySnarl that most writers [[ExiledFromContinuity just gave up]] trying to sort it out; as expected, he's got a badly tangled family tree, not so much due to time travel but rather lots of {{reincarnation}}. The short version:
** Prince Khufu of Egypt and his wife Chay-Ara are continually reincarnated. They become several familiar couples, including Brian Kent (himself a [[ComicBook/TheBraveAndTheBold possible ancestor of Jonathan Kent]]) and Lady Penbrook, and Nighthawk and Cinnamon. In the 1940s, they become Carter Hall and Shiera Saunders, who become the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Hawkman and Hawkgirl. They get married and have a son, Hector, who grows up to be the Silver Scarab.
** Hector marries Lyta Trevor, ''a.k.a.'' the Fury, daughter of the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Fury and adopted daughter of Miss America (itself a {{Retcon}}; Pre-Crisis Lyta was the daughter of the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Franchise/WonderWoman). Then he dies and ends up in The Dreaming, taking on the [[LegacyCharacter legacy]] of Garret "The Sandman" Sanford. He takes Lyta there to live with him, but when [[ComicBook/TheSandman the Lord of that realm]] returns, he's banished to the afterlife and Lyta is sent back to Earth. Lyta then has a son, Daniel.
** Daniel, meanwhile, goes on to become [[spoiler:the new Dream]], which makes him in some sense [[spoiler:a sibling to the rest of the Endless]]. This also makes him [[spoiler:Superman's spiritual uncle]].
** Shiera's cousin, Speed, has a granddaughter, Kendra, who tries to kill herself because of a ComicBook/PostCrisis ContinuitySnarl that led to at least three different Hawkmen existing in the same continuity. Shiera, without realizing it, takes over her body as a walk-in spirit and eventually becomes the new Hawkgirl in ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica''. Meanwhile, Hector is reincarnated as the son of Dawn "Dove" Grainger and Hank "Hawk" Hall (no relation to any of the other Hawkmen running around), but he still thinks of Carter Hall as his father. Dawn's sister, Holly, became the new Hawk.
* The [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bat-Family]] is a mild version of this (well, relative to other comics):
** Bruce Wayne has four adopted children: his adopted sons [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick]] [[ComicBook/NightwingRebirth Grayson]], Jason Todd, and [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] (the first three ComicBook/{{Robin}}s), and his adopted daughter Cassandra Cain (the third ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2000}}). Cassandra's biological parents are David Cain and ComicBook/LadyShiva, two of the world's most infamous assassins and Bruce's former teachers.
** Bruce also has a number of biological children. His son Damian Wayne, the fifth Robin, is the child of ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul, daughter of one of Batman's greatest enemies, ComicBook/RasAlGhul. It's also revealed that Bruce has two further biological sons, [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry]] and Matt [=McGinnis=]]], thanks to [[LegoGenetics genetic manipulation]] and a surrogate father. In Earth-2 continuity, he has a biological daughter, Helena Wayne (''a.k.a.'' the ComicBook/{{Huntress}}), the daughter of Selina Kyle. The ComicBook/New52 ContinuityReboot left her stranded on the main DC Earth for a while.
** In the ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' [[AlternateContinuity timeline]], Damian's counterpart Ibn al Xu'ffasch is romantically involved with Nightstar, who is herself the daughter of Dick Grayson and Starfire (which basically means she's dating her adoptive uncle).
** Not to be outdone, ComicBook/TheJoker claimed in one story that he was the son of Batman's confidante and adoptive mother figure, Dr. Leslie Thompkins. But the Joker's got an incredible MultipleChoicePast, so he's probably just making it up -- but we can't be sure. And one issue of ''ComicBook/{{Anarky}}'' revealed that the title character was the Joker's son; this was originally planned to be just the Joker playing mind games with Anarky, but the series was cancelled before they could get there.
** And then there's the Kanes. Start with the five siblings: Nathan, Philip, Martha, Jacob, and Unknown. Nathan married a woman named Katherine Webb (Kathy Kane) who became the first Bat-Woman after his death and was secretly a Spyral agent. She was the daughter of Otto Netz, the founder of Spyral. Philip didn't marry or have kids as far as is known. Martha married Thomas Wayne, see above. Jacob married a woman named Gabrielle and was the father of Katherine "Kate" Kane, the ''second'' Batwoman, and her twin sister Elizabeth, the criminal Alice, which is why Kate is Bruce Wayne's cousin. After Gabi's death, he married Catherine Hamilton, because there aren't enough versions of that name in the whole mess. And the unknown sibling is the parent of another Elizabeth: Bette Kane who may or may not have been her Aunt Kathy's sidekick Bat-Girl, but almost definitely had a solo career as Flamebird before teaming up with her cousin Kate as Plebe or Hawkfire.
* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'''s supporting character Tefe Holland is the daughter of Swamp Thing and Abby Arcane Holland. Tefe was originally a floating spirit called Sprout, who tried to find a body from a recently deceased person, was eventually given a body through Abby Holland's fetus, which was conceived through the Swamp Thing possessing [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] and having sex with her. Due to Constantine having the demon Nergal's blood in his veins at this time, Tefe is also part demon. She eventually became an Earth elemental like her father, beginning a line of human Earth elementals as a new Swamp Thing in Swamp Thing vol. 3, having all of her father's powers but retaining a human appearance.
* The Harper Family:
** James "Jim" Harper (ComicBook/{{Guardian}} I) has been cloned a number of times and had his DNA used to create experimental subjects which makes his family tree confusing, and his guardianship/adoption of the original Newsboy Legion adds both the originals and ''their'' many clones to the mess. His most prominent clone has adopted his own OppositeSexClone as well as Jim I's grand-niece Bobby. Jim had three siblings, all of whom have descendants mixed in with the superhero crowd in the modern age including the aforementioned Bobby.
** His grand-nephew Roy Harper (Speedy/Red Arrow/Arsenal) had/will have a daughter named Lian with the super-villain Cheshire and was adopted by [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Oliver Queen]] tying him to that family. He started out as Jim I's nephew but is now his grand-nephew due to a sliding timescale that required another generation be added in to the mix. Roy is also known to be descended from ComicBook/VandalSavage, tying him to another large dysfunctional family.
** Jamie Harper is pregnant with [[ComicBook/{{Valor}} Mon-El/Lar Gand]]'s child, meaning that even without the Cadmus experiments their family was going to end up with some extraterrestrial DNA. She is Jim I's other grandniece, and spent time as a GCPD officer and the police contact for [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin/Red Robin]] before moving to Metropolis.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' originally played fast and loose with mythology, with the Olympians that appeared being played more like powerful aliens that some people might worship. Later iterations imported the mess of the original mythological family ties of the Olympians from Myth/ClassicalMythology and added to it:
** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Golden Age]] Diana was the daughter of Hippolyte and, depending on one's reading, Aphrodite as while Di only calls Hippolyte mom both women call Diana daughter and were the two who together brought about her birth. Aphrodite does not seem to be related to the other iterations of Olympians who appear in this continuity, but her relationship with Mars retains romantic overtones despite the fact that they've been fighting for thousands of years.
** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Post-Crisis]] on Hippolyta is confirmed to be Ares' daughter as in mythology, making Diana Ares' granddaughter, and Zeus' great-granddaughter. This means that Diana is the grand-niece of the much younger Cassie Sandsmark, illegitimate daughter of Zeus, who is Diana's sidekick as ComicBook/WonderGirl. Diana's family ties to the Olympians get brought up very rarely, with Ares only pointing it out when she asks why he's gone out of his way to save her life, but Cassie has these ties thrown in her face constantly and doesn't appreciate it. The Olympians have a habit of addressing each other by relationship; for instance, Zeus calling Hera his sister-wife, which highlights the mess of their incestuous family tree.
** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 The New 52]] further complicated matters by revealing Diana was Zeus's daughter rather than the daughter of Hippolyta and Aphrodite/five goddesses as she had been in previous iterations. Cassie was eventually revealed to be the daughter of one of Zeus' other illegitimate children. This was all retconned to have been false implanted memories by ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' until Robinson treated Zeus as Diana's father and muddled the continuity. Rebirth is also the first mainstream DC continuity to treat Aphrodite as Zeus' daughter.
