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  • In Another Monster (a follow-up to Monster), the revelation that Johan and Anna's late father was the brother of Franz Bonaparta means that Bonaparta, the main figure who engineered the twins' birth at the expense of their father's life and arguably helped cultivate Johan into the person he is, was actually their own uncle all along.
  • V.V. of Code Geass is very much an Evil Uncle to Lelouch and some of his siblings like Cornelia, being the Man Behind the Man to Emperor Charles.
  • Detective School Q has a case that includes an Evil Aunt. Sachiyo Ichinose is a greedy Smug Snake who wants to place her paws in the hefty inheritance that her teenage niece Kaoru will get after the death of her very rich mother, Hanayo. However, Kaoru's knight templar big brothers Kunihiko and Akihiko are willing to do anything to protect Kaoru from Sachiyo's machinations... up and including murder.
  • In D.Gray-Man, Neah is this to Allen. The true motive of his actions are unknown, but he's certainly bad news for his nephew and perhaps all of humanity.
  • Honoo no Alpen Rose: Lundi's Aunt and Uncle. When the Earl offered the a great deal of money for selling Jeudi, they took it without a second thought. When they (incorrectly) heard thay Lundi and Jeudi had died, they threw out their possessions and ran away with Franz's will.
  • In Hellsing, Richard Hellsing, younger brother of Arthur Hellsing, has had his own plans about what to do after his brother's death - specifically, about who inherited the family title and leadership of the Hellsing Organisation. Oh, Arthur willed it all to his twelve-year-old daughter, but that just means Richard has to get little Integra out of the way. Unfortunately for Richard, he didn't account for a certain family heirloom down in the basement...
  • In Kemono Jihen, Kabane was left in the care of his aunt after his parents disappeared. Said aunt knew that he's half-Kemono and mistreated him from the start, using him for free labor, never sending him to school, and crushing his self-esteem to the point that basic human decency is a novelty to him. By the end of the first chapter, it's revealed that she hired Inugami to kill Kabane and pin the blame for the devoured animals on him.
  • Idol Densetsu Eriko: Eriko's uncle wants to rid his orphaned niece of her fortune and does whatever he can to sabotage her idol career, because he had beef with her father.
  • In Innocent, Charles-Nicolas-Gabriel I plays this role in the third volume. Downplayed, since he doesn't actively tries to hurt his eldest nephew (and seems found of him) but is still willing to do some pretty nasty things to take his place as Monsieur de Paris. For example, replacing the strong horses by weak ones to make an already excruciating method of execution even more gruesome as a clumsy scheme to take his brother's place as executioner is pretty evil. Oh, and he's prepared to tie up Marie if it would benefit the family.
  • In Little Witch Academia (2017), Daryl is this towards Diana, being a selfish, snobby and greedy Rich Bitch who cares more about herself than the values of the Cavendish family and is causing the household to go into near bankruptcy due to using the family's fortune to fuel her own lifestyle. She also attempts to impede on Diana's ceremony to become family head so she can become the head of the family herself. It is implied however that she had a change of heart after Diana saved her from the family curse.
  • Maken-ki!: Chapters 51 - 53 is a flashback mini-arc, which recounts how Takeru Yamato slew his brother Ousuoo and his brother's wife, Yatsuno, in order to obtain her power. The only reason his niece, Himegami, is still alive is because her brother Yabiko slew Yamato in order to protect her. Except he refused to stay dead. Now, over 2,000 years later, Himegami is one of the few remaining people who possess the power to face her uncle.
  • MARRIAGETOXIN has Futae Urashino, who has apparently hired a hitman to kill her niece so that she can inherit her older brother's company. It is the girl's uncle who hired the protagonist to protect the girl.
  • Naruto:
    • The Sand siblings' maternal uncle Yashamaru appeared to be the only one who loved Gaara, but then tried to kill him under the order of Gaara's father, the Kazekage. When that failed, a dying Yashamaru told Gaara he always hated him for causing Gaara's mother to die, and said she never loved him either. It eventually turns out he was ordered to pretend to be evil.
    • Neji viewed Hinata's father Hiashi as this for a good portion of his life. He eventually learns he's not as bad as he seems, and he didn't force his twin brother to die in his place.
  • Raditz, the first villain that appeared in Dragon Ball Z. When his brother Goku refuses to help him exterminate the natives of other planets, he kidnaps Gohan, intending to use him as leverage over Goku and/or raise him to be a villain himself. When Gohan retaliates with a armour-splitting headbutt, Raditz smacks him away so hard, the kid is knocked unconscious. Raditz is so enraged by Gohan’s sudden burst of power that he decides to outright kill him. Unfortunately for Raditz, Goku holds him back as he offers himself to allow Piccolo to kill him together with his evil brother.
    Raditz: You are the first Saiyan to ever damage me like this, my nephew. You are a true warrior who was worthy of being a Saiyan. And so, I will give you a death that is also worthy of a Saiyan.
    • Turles, at least in the dubs where he's Goku's other brother.
  • In The Rose of Versailles, the Count of Provence and the Count of Artois, Louis XVI's younger brothers, react to their nephew Louis Joseph' slow death by tuberculosis by hoping he'll just hurry up and die, and spread lies about the legitimacy of Louis XVI's other son in the hope they'll be thus able to succeed to the throne of France. Much annoyingly, they succeed thanks to The French Revolution.
  • In the original Shaman King, Ren has an evil father. In the 4Kids version, he's Len's uncle.
  • In Tokyo Ghoul, Ken Kaneki's maternal aunt is this combined with a hefty dose of Wicked Stepmother. She constantly went to her widowed, Extreme Doormat sister for money, requiring her to work extra jobs until she died from overwork. Kaneki went to live with his aunt's family, quickly discovering that they had been much better off to begin with and simply wanted more. Kaneki's aunt spent the rest of his years living with her neglecting his basic needs, leaving him out of family meals, berating him if he dared to speak in her presence, throwing out the books he inherited from his father out of spite, and generally doing everything in her power to grind every ounce of happiness out of him for the crime of existing. To top it all off, she also constantly complained about how terrible her sister, the woman that worked herself to death without complaint because her sister wanted a new fridge and a bigger television, had been, and all because she resented her sister for supposedly being smarter/better than her while they were growing up. To be fair to the aunt, it is later revealed that she was not wrong about her sister being a terrible person.
  • Rido from Vampire Knight is this to the protagonist Yuuki Kuran, especially when he becomes obsessed with Yuuki herself, to the point of wanting to make her his wife.
  • In Vinland Saga it's revealed that Thorkell, considered a lunatic Blood Knight by his fellow Vikings, is actually Thorfinn's great-uncle.
  • World's End Harem: Fantasia: After Arc's father falls ill and Arc becomes the acting Count of Nargala, his uncle Lord Tute attempts a palace coup with his aide Tia, who promises to serve "the head of the House of Nargala" (it's clear she means as Tute's mistress). It was a Batman Gambit by Arc himself: he suspected other nobles might try to make a power play with the Count incapacitated, and planted Tia, whom he had saved as a child, as a Honey Trap—as she said, she serves "the head of the House of Nargala". After retaking the castle, Arc summarily beheads Tute for treason.

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