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* The Kholins from ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' are mostly pretty awesome, Dalinar's a Shardbearer [[spoiler: at least until he gave them up]] and all around awesome fighter, Adolin is ALSO a Shardbearer and awesome duelist, Elhokar is the king and ALSO a Shardbearer, Jasnah is a renowned scholar [[spoiler: and has badass innate Soulcasting powers]], Navani is a brilliant engineer, and Renarin charged a massive monster of death at one point, despite being one of very few [[NonActionGuy Non Action Guys]] in the book, [[spoiler: Also Renarin now has Shardplate courtesy of Dalinar, awesomness is expected to be upcoming.]]

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'s'' Cullen coven. A family of extremely sexy vampires that includes a mind-reader, a psychic, and an emotional sonar. Those that aren't gifted with extra powers are ALL {{Badass Normal}}s. And they're exceptionally rich. Yeah, they're badass, all right. Jasper could manipulate people's emotions, Edward could delve into the deepest secrets of anyone's mind (save Bella), and Alice can see the future (not to mention all the others). They press in on the enemy from all sides.

* Literature/RaptorRed, her sister and her chicks, and eventually [[spoiler:Red's male consort]]. Which just goes to show that [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs raptors really DO make everything better.]]

** D'reg tribes take this UpToEleven. Not only will men attack, so will women, children and pets.

** Taken UpToEleven if you include the Legacy era family ties. The Skywalker/Solo's family tree includes the Fels (meaning the Antilles, by extension), the [[spoiler: Yage family via Morrigan Corde]], and the [[spoiler: Vos Clan via Rawk]]. Although they probably won't be on good terms, the Khai family (''Literature/FateOfTheJedi'') will likely come into the mix as well. By the Legacy Era, the Grandmaster of the Jedi Order (Kol Skywalker) and the Emperor of the New Galactic Empire (Roan Fel) are ''both'' direct descendants of Anakin Skywalker; the Skywalker-Solo clan is essentially holding the whole Galaxy together.
** In-universe, Mandalorians ''invoke'' this Trope. They view all who follow their code as kin in one big, war-mongering family. Part of that involves [[BattleCouple marrying a fellow warrior]] and raising the next generation of Mandalorian warriors (with the father doing the bulk of it. One of their nastiest insults translates to "deadbeat dad"). If your spouse is of the same sex, different species, or infertile? Well, the galaxy has no shortage or orphans and parents who forfeit the honor -- go out and adopt!

* Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer's Wold Newton Family is a mixture of this and MassiveMultiplayerCrossover. The family tree includes: Literature/SolomonKane; [[Literature/CaptainBloodHisOdyssey Captain Blood]]; Literature/TheScarletPimpernel; Franchise/SherlockHolmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty; [[Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays Phileas Fogg]]; [[Literature/TheTimeMachine The Time Traveller]]; [[Literature/KingSolomonsMines Allan Quatermain]]; [[Literature/{{Raffles}} A.J. Raffles]]; Literature/ProfessorChallenger; [[Literature/TheThirtyNineSteps Richard Hannay]]; Literature/BulldogDrummond; the evil Literature/FuManchu and his adversary, Sir Denis Nayland Smith; G-8; Radio/TheShadow; [[Literature/TheMalteseFalcon Sam Spade]]; Franchise/DocSavage's cousin Patricia Savage, and one of his five assistants, Monk Mayfair; Literature/TheSpider; Literature/NeroWolfe; Mr. Moto; Literature/TheAvenger; Literature/PhilipMarlowe; Literature/JamesBond; Lew Archer; Literature/TravisMcGee; Monsieur Lecoq; and Literature/ArseneLupin.

* In ''[[Literature/{{Touch 2017}} Touch]]'', we have the Toranagas, a family of the strongest mages in the eastern United States, including Peter, a doting father who also happens to work as a director for TheMenInBlack, Hideyoshi and Tsuru, a pair of immortal, monster hunting grandparents, and James, a twelve year old boy with levitation and mass-scale aerokinesis. His younger sister, Bex, is implied to be just as powerful.
** The only exception to the badassery is the mom, Sarah, who, while she might not be a powerful mage, still manages to pull off some moments of awesomeness herself.

* From ''Literature/HarryPotter'', the Weasleys, including those who married into the family.
** And the Longbottoms. Grandma Augusta [[NeverMessWithGranny put an Auror in the hospital]] when the then-corrupt government tried to capture her while Frank and Alice Longbottom [[BattleCouple were Aurors and members of the Order of the Phoenix]] who had defied Voldemort ''three times'' before their luck finally ran out. Their son Neville is now the MemeticBadass of the ''Harry Potter'' fandom after taking [[MemeticMutation over 9000]] [[TookALevelInBadass levels in badass]] during ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''.
** The Potters themselves don't do too badly either. James and Lily are a BattleCouple who ''also'' thrice defied Voldemort and (although unbeknownst to them) were the parents of the [[ChosenOne one]] who eventually killed him. Then, Harry marries into the Weasley family...

** And that's not even going into what we know about Harry's family. We have a BadassLongcoat wizard who throws around {{Hellfire}} and [[HolyHandGrenade Soulfire]] on occasion, summoned a zombie T-Rex, has won the loyalty of [[spoiler: a magical prison designed specifically to cage the world's most powerful {{Eldritch Abomination}}s]], and is now [[spoiler: the Knight Of Winter. Oh, and [[PapaWolf if you harm his daughter, he will exterminate your entire species.]]]] He demonstrated on the Red Court Of Vampires. His mom was an even ''more'' badass wizard who flouted the White Council's rules and got away with it. [[spoiler:She got it from her father, Ebenezar [=McCoy=], who is now regarded as one of the seven most powerful wizards in the world and is the only member of the White Council allowed to break the Laws of Magic. And then there's Thomas, [[LongLostRelative Harry's long-lost half-brother]], White Court vampire, and generally pretty awesome.]] Not to mention [[spoiler: his daughter]], who just might have killed the monster under her bed at around 10 years old. Better hope he doesn't have any more family hanging around, or the [[BigBad Black Council]] is going to be crushed, fast.

* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''Literature/WarOfTheDreaming'', there's the Waylock family: three generations (and a distant ancestor) of badass.
* Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer's Wold Newton Family is a mixture of this and MassiveMultiplayerCrossover. The family tree includes: Literature/SolomonKane; [[Literature/CaptainBloodHisOdyssey Captain Blood]]; Literature/TheScarletPimpernel; Franchise/SherlockHolmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty; [[Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays Phileas Fogg]]; [[Literature/TheTimeMachine The Time Traveller]]; [[Literature/KingSolomonsMines Allan Quatermain]]; [[Literature/{{Raffles}} A.J. Raffles]]; Literature/ProfessorChallenger; [[Literature/TheThirtyNineSteps Richard Hannay]]; Literature/BulldogDrummond; the evil Literature/FuManchu and his adversary, Sir Denis Nayland Smith; G-8; Radio/TheShadow; [[Literature/TheMalteseFalcon Sam Spade]]; Franchise/DocSavage's cousin Patricia Savage, and one of his five assistants, Monk Mayfair; Literature/TheSpider; Literature/NeroWolfe; Mr. Moto; Literature/TheAvenger; Literature/PhilipMarlowe; Literature/JamesBond; Lew Archer; Literature/TravisMcGee; Monsieur Lecoq; and Literature/ArseneLupin.
* Literature/RaptorRed, her sister and her chicks, and eventually [[spoiler:Red's male consort]]. Which just goes to show that [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs raptors really DO make everything better.]]
* In the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' continuity, the Solo-Skywalker clan. It got to be so obvious than when [[spoiler:Jacen Solo]] became a Sith, his mentor advised him to divide them first, as when they work together they frequently prove to be unstoppable. [[spoiler:It still didn't work: his sister, Jaina, working in tandem with Luke, is the one to finish him off.]]
** Taken UpToEleven if you include the Legacy era family ties. The Skywalker/Solo's family tree includes the Fels (meaning the Antilles, by extension), the [[spoiler: Yage family via Morrigan Corde]], and the [[spoiler: Vos Clan via Rawk]]. Although they probably won't be on good terms, the Khai family (''Literature/FateOfTheJedi'') will likely come into the mix as well. By the Legacy Era, the Grandmaster of the Jedi Order (Kol Skywalker) and the Emperor of the New Galactic Empire (Roan Fel) are ''both'' direct descendants of Anakin Skywalker; the Skywalker-Solo clan is essentially holding the whole Galaxy together.
** In-universe, Mandalorians ''invoke'' this Trope. They view all who follow their code as kin in one big, war-mongering family. Part of that involves [[BattleCouple marrying a fellow warrior]] and raising the next generation of Mandalorian warriors (with the father doing the bulk of it. One of their nastiest insults translates to "deadbeat dad"). If your spouse is of the same sex, different species, or infertile? Well, the galaxy has no shortage or orphans and parents who forfeit the honor - go out and adopt!
* In Christopher Stasheff's ''Literature/WarlockOfGramarye'' series, Rod and Gwen Gallowglass and their four kids are, one and all, in possession of kickass {{Psychic Power}}s. Taking on the bad guys is nearly always a family affair.
* The... [[Literature/HisDarkMaterials Coulter, Asriel, and Belacqua]] clan (can't be plural because none of them have the same last name), with some help from the Parrys.
* The Murrys of Creator/MadeleineLEngle's ''[[Literature/AWrinkleInTime Time Quartet]]''.
* The Abhorsen family in the ''Literature/OldKingdom'' series.

* Creator/JohnRingo apparently thinks highly of this trope:
** The O'Neals in the ''Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata'', whether related by blood or marriage (but more so the former), are so badass that even their pre-teen daughters are able to successfully play "tag" with invading [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Posleen]] forces.
** The Keldara, from his ''Literature/PaladinOfShadows'' series (second book onwards) collectively make up a badass ''clan''. They're all descendents of the Varangian Guard, Norsemen imported by the Byzantine Empire as guards for the Emperor.
** The [=MacClintocks=] from his and Creator/DavidWeber's ''Literature/PrinceRoger'' series, who founded an interstellar empire from the ground up, the hard way. When one character tries to describe the badassedness of the titular prince but fails to find the words, the commanding officer of the BadassCrew that are to serve as his bodyguards suggests "just say a [=MacClintock=]".
** From ''Literature/BlackTideRising'' there's the protagonist family. Dad is a former special forces soldier, both daughters (particularly the younger one, Faith) mercilessly slaughter entire herds of zombies, and mom is an engineer that keeps things working in spite of resource limitations imposed by the setting even if she doesn't herself participate in zombie slaughtering.
* In the ''Literature/AmeliaPeabody'' mysteries, the Peabody-Emerson family consists of: Badass Archaeologist Radcliff Emerson; his ActionMom wife, Amelia Peabody Emerson, for whom a parasol is a deadly weapon; their son Ramses who reduces even them to quivering terror; foster-child and later daughter-in-law Nefret, who wields a mean knife; and Uncle Sethos, the former Master Criminal! Throw in ferocious Arab in-laws, a BattleButler and household staff to match and you have a crew feared by enemies of knowledge and justice everywhere.
* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'s'' Cullen coven. A family of extremely sexy vampires that includes a mind-reader, a psychic, and an emotional sonar. Those that aren't gifted with extra powers are ALL {{Badass Normal}}s. And they're exceptionally rich. Yeah, they're badass, all right. Jasper could manipulate people's emotions, Edward could delve into the deepest secrets of anyone's mind (save Bella), and Alice can see the future (not to mention all the others). They press in on the enemy from all sides.
** Carlisle compassion and Esme's love is the glue that keep the family together and [[spoiler: Bella completed the family power's vault when she married Edward]], with a powerful shield that can protect them all from mind based powers.
* Literature/{{Discworld}}
** The Oggs. Usually they're fighting each other, but piss any Ogg off and the rest of the Oggs will come after you too. And there are ''a hell of a lot of Oggs'', including one witch and several {{Badass Normal}}s.
** Judging by ''Literature/{{Thud}}'', the Vimeses are on the way as well.
** And if/when Carrot and Angua have cu- bab- whatevers, (of which there will be several) AM will have its own royal werewolf family, raised as dwarfs... Run now.
** D'reg tribes take this UpToEleven. Not only will men attack, so will women, children and pets.
* ''Literature/TheEdgeChronicles'' has The Verginix family. At least three of the family's members have been sky pirate captains, and [[spoiler:one of them, Rook Barkwater, ends up as an equally badass warrior]].
* The family of sorcerers in ''Literature/TheBelgariad''. Belgarion gets to keep the MacGuffin on the pommel of his sword, Polgara combines extreme MamaBear tendencies with some SociopathicHero traits, Belgarath is the most powerful man in the world and is described as being able to rip the tops off of mountains if he really wanted to, Durnik [[spoiler: comes back from the dead]] and sends a Demon Lord back to the underworld by relentlessly [[TheBlacksmith pummeling him with a hammer]]...and that doesn't even start in on the rest of the disciples of Aldur.
* The Zilwicki family from the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' universe by Creator/DavidWeber. Mother Helen took out a Peep taskforce using only a couple of smallerships, dying in the process, to save the unarmed convoy her husband and daughter were on; for it, she was awarded Manticore's highest decoration for valor. Father Anton is a champion wrestler, expert hacker, and master spy. Daughter Helen is a martial arts expert who [[spoiler: escaped from super-soldiers and killed three men with her bare hands]] when she was only 14 years old. Stepmom Cathy Montaigne is an incredibly wealthy noblewoman and [[spoiler: House of Commons politician once she resigns the title over a matter of principle]]; she helps finance ex-slave terrorists in their war against the slavers and is THE galactic expert on slavery. Adopted daughter Berry [[spoiler: managed to talk down a planet of revolting slaves and was made their Queen]]. Adopted son Lars is supposed to be following in Anton's footsteps. And that doesn't even begin to count family friends Master Tye (one of the greatest martial artists in the galaxy), Jeremy X (ruthless terrorist and firearms master), Thandi Palane (the soldier who super-soldiers are afraid of), and Victor Cachat ([[spoiler: Thandi's boyfriend]] and Haven's hatchet-man), all of whom are incredibly badass in their own special, terrifying ways.
** The Harringtons themselves. Honor Harrington is a renowned military commander and lethal in hand-to-hand combat. Her father, Alfred, is a merciless killing machine of a Marine who was so good at it, he terrified himself and switched to medicine. Her uncle, a former Beowulf special operations soldier, was also a merciless killing machine and ordered assassinations of enemies just to make a point about messing with his family. Her husband, himself, was considered to be one of the greatest military commanders Manticore has ever produced.

* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'''s titular family; all four generations of the it. (Granted, Miles's and Ekaterin's kids just came out of the replicator, but one can safely assume they'll be badasses.)
* At the end of ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'', it is revealed that [[spoiler: Steve and Darren are brothers and Mr.Tiny's sons. Badass family that ''hates'' eachother.]]
* You don't get to see them kicking ass together because they're separated by plot early in the first novel of the series, but the Stark family from George R. R. Martin's ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' are undeniably an example of this trope. First of all, [[GrimUpNorth it's grim up north]], and did we mention [[AStormIsComing winter is coming]]? Family patriarch Ned Stark wields a monster sword and [[HonorBeforeReason a righteous sense of justice]]; his oldest son Robb becomes [[AChildShallLeadThem a king at age 16]]; younger daughter [[ActionGirl Arya]] repeatedly [[TookALevelinBadass takes a level in badass]] in her travels; younger son Bran [[ICouldaBeenAContender becomes paralyzed]] but then [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent learns to mind-meld with his direwolf]]; and his illegitimate son [[spoiler: or nephew, depending how much fan speculation you believe]] [[HeroicBastard Jon Snow]] goes from [[CelibateHero oath-sworn realm defender]] to risking his life in his role as [[FakeDefector spy]] for the Night's Watch and then [[spoiler: is elected [[AChildShallLeadThem Lord Commander of the entire Night's Watch at age 16]]]]. And, if you wonder where matriarch Catelyn and older daughter Sansa fit into all this, [[spoiler: the first is BackFromTheDead (though, uh, [[CameBackWrong wrong]]) and has become a ruthless KnightTemplar who lives and breathes for revenge, and the latter is currently taking ManipulativeBitch lessons from the BigBad himself.]]
* The Butlers of ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' have a long and storied history. [[BattleButler There's a reason]] they named the word "butler" after them. Most notable are [[ActionGirl Juliet]] and the current Butler, [[spoiler: Domovoi]]. He's usually just called [[OnlyOneName Butler]].
** Also the Fowls themselves, although not so much physically. Two criminal geniuses (Artemis and his dad) and Angeline, though she gets less chance to show it, is hardly a slouch either.
* No matter how big and tough you are, even if you're a terrifying demon from another plane of existence, it's a very bad idea to mess with anyone named [[Literature/TheRunelords Borenson]].
* Creator/JRRTolkien is full of these, including [[TheClan the house of Finwë]] ([[BigScrewedUpFamily even if they do spend quite some time fighting ''each other'']]), the House of Elendil, the Children of Húrin, and so on. Even the Tooks qualify compared to other Hobbits, that is. As do the Brandybucks.
** Notably, based on the genealogical tables, every single Man and Elf Badass Family is related by marriage, and it all comes down to a point in Aragorn and Arwen, whose children have entirely too much to live up to, being the descendants of every hero the world has known except the Hobbits and Dwarves.
** We could just say "Anyone descended from Beren and Lúthien" and leave it at that.
** For the dwarves, the line of Durin definitely qualifies. Kings Thrór, Thráin, Thorin, and Dáin all descend from this line, as does most of Thorin's company- Fíli, Kíli, Dwalin, Balin, Óin, and Glóin are all legitimate members whilst (in the films at least) it's implied that Dori, Nori, and Ori are related on the wrong side of the sheets. And, of course, Gimli is a member of the line of Durin as well.
** Also the house of Eorl, Rohan's royal line. Théoden, Éowyn, and Éomer all kick many kinds of ass on the battlefield.
* Creator/TamoraPierce is the queen of this trope. Most [[Literature/TortallUniverse Tortallan characters]] have, upon conclusion of their, moved on to found Badass Families if they weren't a part of one already. They include:
** The Coopers, who [[Literature/SongOfTheLioness at first]] appeared to just be a really cool guy and his really cool mom, but now have extremely [[Literature/BekaCooper badass]] ancestors and [[Literature/TrickstersDuet equally awesome offspring]] with a Trebond.
** The Conté house, who aside from being the Royal Family are perhaps the coolest royal family ever. Quote from memory - "Next time you have to go out and chase down bandits, change out of your nice ballgown first, dear?" And, uh, yeah.
** The [[Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall Mindelan]] family, who are like the Weasley clan but with more daughters and cool in-laws and important political figures and Lady Knights.
** Large parts of the cast also can be clumped together into several different overlapping sets of TrueCompanions.
** [[Literature/CircleOfMagic Briar, Sandry, Tris, and Daja]] of her ''Literature/{{Circleverse}}'' are four great mages soul-bound to each other, possibly the strongest mage team in the world, and see each other as siblings. And their foster mothers? Great mages. Their teacher/foster father? The most famous sight mage in the world. Their family friend? Great mage. Sandry's uncle? A badass pirate-fighting duke.
** Most of their own students are well on their way to badassery themselves. Evumeimei (or Evvy), Briar's stone mage student, has already managed to communicate with fire spirits and save an island from destruction through volcanic eruption.
* Literature/InheritanceCycle - Eragon and his family are all extremely badass. To wit:

* The Basheres in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''. Davram, one of the Five Great Captains, Faile, the politically savvy knife-wielding wench. Finally Faile's husband, Perrin Aybara, the hulking, axe/hammer-wielding, 'Wolf King' blacksmith. Her mother, Deira walks into her tent, finds two bad guys in it who attack her, to paraphrase: "...So of course I stabbed one and hit the other with a chair."

* The Henrys in ''Literature/TheWindsOfWarAndWarAndRemembrance''.
* In ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', the House of Atreides is descended from [[Literature/TheIliad Agamemnon]]. Badass died bullfighting. His son Leto leads an [[BadassArmy army so badass]] that TheEmperor has to relocated them to a desert planet and send his own BadAssArmy to deal with him. Leto's concubine Jessica is an ActionMom with a CompellingVoice and FlashStep skills. Their son Paul has all the skills of both parents and is a {{seer|s}}, TheEmperor, the leader of a BadAssArmy of {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s (which his concubine Chani is a member of), and the MessianicArchetype. Their daughter, Alia, is born with all of her mother's skills thanks to GeneticMemory, is a badass warrior at the age of two, and is remembered as "Saint Alia of the Knife". Paul's son Leto II is a NighInvulnerable GodEmperor who rules the known universe for 3,500 years before [[ThanatosGambit allowing his sister's distant descendants to assassinate him]].
** By the time of the later books, the Atreides have spread to much of humanity, including all of the Bene Gesserit ([[spoiler:The Siona Gene, which makes someone ''invisible to seers'']]), but those with stronger connections, such as Miles Teg, still stand out. [[spoiler: Teg can accelerate his metabolism, and sense no-ships]]
* The Varyl ilian in the ''Literature/OneRoseTrilogy''. A family group of eleven highly-trained warriors? They have [[DivineIntervention magic]] that hasn't been seen in a thousand years? Yeah.=
* The Sadiablo family of ''Literature/BlackJewels'' is a prime example. Family patriarch Saetan Daemon Sadiablo is the strongest male in the history of the Blood [[spoiler: until his son Daemon comes along]] as well as the first Black Widow; he also ruled Hell while he was STILL ALIVE. His sons are a collection of the most terrifying, powerful, brutal, feared males the Blood have ever heard of. Oh, and his adopted daughter is Witch herself. That's not even considering the collection of nieces and nephews he picks up through his connection to Jaenelle.
* The Wiggins of ''Literature/EndersGame''. The parents are already geniuses, and all of their children are badasses before the even hit their teens. Ender, the military genius who [[spoiler: nearly wipes out a starfaring RACE]], and Peter and Valentine, who start off with just a blog and eventually manage to [[spoiler: rule the world]]. And if you include [[spoiler: Jane as Ender's adoptive "daughter"]], you get a whole new class of badass.

* The Kinnison family from E.E. "Doc" Smith's ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' series.
** Father Kimball Kinnison is the only human Lensman who has learned to use his psionic abilities without his Lens, and without his psychic powers can still defeat a dozen thugs at once.
** His wife, Clarissa [=McDougal=] Kinnison, is at least as powerful as her husband, though she generally doesn't fight (there are two spectacular exceptions in the final novel). She's a nurse and sometimes an infiltrator, and the only woman ever to be made a Lensman.
** Their children are even mightier, fully capable of coordinating and channelling a massed telepathic assault by a many million mind strong army upon a world of almost unkillable protean aliens. After the kids broke the world's primary mental defences. Alone. All this is justified in-universe in that they are [[spoiler: the end result of a breeding programme stretching throughout the entire history of the human race, and their parents are the penultimates.]]
* The Royal Family of Amber from ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'' by Creator/RogerZelazny. The most murderin', schemin', backstabbin' bunch of Machiavellian bastards around! Hell on other people when they're not killing each other.
* Tavi's extended family of ''Literature/CodexAlera''. Tavi himself is crazy like a fox, his uncle is a potent earthcrafter and woodcrafter, his mother is usually just a healer, but [[MamaBear when Tavi is threatened]] she does things like throw a shark onto the deck of a ship. Then there's [[spoiler: [[PersonOfMassDestruction Gaius Sextus]], ]]who needs no introduction. Then marriages start occurring. [[spoiler: Amara is the fastest flyer in the realm, and a FragileSpeedster who's reasonably good with a sword. Araris Valerian is the best swordsman in Alera, and his little brother is up there. Kitai is a good deal stronger than she looks even before she gets furycrafting, and her dad is stronger than he looks as well, and he looks like he bench-presses refrigerators and is bonded to Walker.]]
* [[Literature/KrisLongknife Those Longknifes.]]
* The descendants of Bink in ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' are all magicians, all slated to be Kings, and all have to go on adventures because something. The series gets [[ExcusePlot pretty silly eventually]], but for the first dozen books or so, the family is pretty legitimately awesome.
* The Franchise/CthulhuMythos has children of Idh-yaa, quasi-woman creature from Xoth - Cthylla, who is source of all legends about giant squids, Ythogtha, who has been bind by the Old Ones with seven chains and when first one broke, it caused entire continent of Mu to sink, and two other gods, Ghatanoth and Zoth-Ommog, who remains msytery, but possibly are pretty badass as well, considering who is all four's dad. You might have heard of him, he is quite famous. His name? Cthulhu.

* The Whistlers of ''Literature/ABrothersPrice''. The current generation are the grandchildren of a prince and about ten women who were soldiers-turned-thieves-turned-spies and passed down a lot of their learning. Captain Tern notes that the injured Princess Odelia is safer in the Whistler home than she would be at the local garrison. The whole family, even the [[ChildSoldiers small children]] and boys, have some degree of training.
--> "We Whistlers have an unbreakable rule - [[BigDamnHeroes you mess with one of us, you mess with us all!]]"
* The [=DeMarian=] royal family of [[Literature/TalesOfTheBranionRealm Branion]] is this due to being touched by a fire god and natural confidence (if you're semidivine, it's easy to be arrogant). Descended from the GodInHumanForm FounderOfTheKingdom, every single generation contains at least one WarriorPrince or Princess. There's also the occasional EvilUncle, some [[TheHeretic heresy]], plenty of [[RebelPrince infighting]] and [[RoyallyScrewedUp insanity]], but at least the realm is safe and happy... [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen most of the time.]]
* The ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' series has many badass families. First is Matthias's family, a mouse who [[spoiler: beheaded a giant snake and killed a believed to be invincible Rat warlord Cluny. His wife singlehandedly brought down an entire siege attempt by Cluny albeit by accident. And their son Mattimeo barely doing any fighting himself, once being taken as a slave became a being of leadership and confidence towards the others.]]Then there is Luke and his son Martin both kickass fighters in their own rights, the latter who was revered so much as a hero, that he became practically a Saint which Mattimeo named his son after, who is a pretty awesome fighter as well. Luke even said he had a grandfather named Martin who implied was an epic warrior. And then there is the Reguba Clan, who are infamous in the land for producing generations of badass warriors. (Despite the Reguba Clan only appearing in one book) Also there is the Brocktree linage, an entire family of extremely powerful warriors.
%%* The Pennykettles from ''Literature/TheLastDragonChronicles''.
* The Yarikas in ''Literature/RogueSorcerer'' have a reputation for becoming masters of combat. Particularly impressive is Lyr Yarika, who has a penchant for handing other badasses their...ahem...asses.
* In ''Literature/ThePosterChildren'', the Underwoods, unsurprisingly. Corbin played the dark reflection to his friend's Captain Patriotic. His wife Amira was a chess prodigy and joined an intelligence agency before she reached double-digits. The first son Marshal was forced to run away and become a vigilante after killing the murderer of Matt, the second son. Ellie, the adopted daughter, spent her early years with them patching up Corbin and Marshal after nights of crimefighting. Mal, the youngest, scored perfectly at the end of his first block in a ''superhero school'' when his only actual power is a HealingFactor. Basically, they are not to be underestimated.
* The Gabriel family in Creator/SteveAlten's Literature/{{Domain}}.
* Creator/DavidGemmell's ''Literature/{{Rigante}}'' series consists of two duologies set centuries apart. The main character of the first is a common ancestor of much of the main cast of the second.

* [[Creator/GamesWorkshop Black Library]] novels:
** In the Enforcer series of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' novels, the protagonist, Shira Calpurnia, seems to be upholding the family business of Professional Badass. The Calpurnii are from Ultramar, homeworld of the Ultramarines, a famous chapter, even if not the biggest nor the most badass. Calpurnii are rogue traders, Imperial Guard officers, lord admirals, Arbites commanders - Shira had a great cousin who was an [[SuperSoldier Ultramarine Terminator]] during the first [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranid invasion]]. Shira herself is a lethal combatant in hand-to-hand or with a maul and shotgun, and proves repeatedly that solid fucking steel runs in her veins rather than blood. This is even brought up as a point in the story. Another arbiter notes that, by the standards of the Imperium as a whole, Calpurnia has a better pedigree and lineage than virtually all the nobles on Hydraphur.
** ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' has the Emperor and his sons. The Emperor himself is a thirty-six-thousand-years-old psyker bordering between HumanoidAbomination and PhysicalGod, who crafted the Imperium by creating a BadassArmy and then leading it from the front and beating the galaxy into submission. To match this, each of his eighteen kids is a three-metres-tall OneManArmy capable of fighting faster than a human eye can follow and with mastery over nearly all weapons and military strategies known to mankind.
* ''Literature/DanceoftheButterfly'' has two of these, and they are rivals, the Felcrafts and the Malkuths. Both are immensely wealthy and influential, and they also just happen to be part of a [[spoiler:conspiracy to hide the existence of invading demons that they actively hunt]].
* ''Literature/MyVampireOlderSisterAndZombieLittleSister'' has Satori and his titular stepsisters. Satori is a GuileHero who managed to build an AI capable of simulating an entire city or hacking into security systems. Erika and Ayumi are the vampire and zombie, respectively, and are both [[PersonOfMassDestruction Persons of Mass Destruction]] capable of infecting the population of an entire city (in the simulation by the aforementioned AI). And it's later revealed that their parents/step-parents are this as well. [[spoiler:Taizou, Satori's father and the sisters' stepfather, is a researcher in the [[CreatureHunterOrganisation Bright Cross]]. Yurina, Taizou's second wife and the siblings' stepmother, is the Biblical Lilith, a demon lord capable of easily overpowering Erika and Ayumi simultaneously. Taori, Taizou's first wife and Satori's biological mother, was originally human but was later enhanced to the point of being able to fight Yurina head on]].
* ''Creator/DanielKeysMoran'''s "Tales of the Continuing Time" has the Castanaveras clan, a family of genetically engineered people who are super-soldiers and/or telepaths. They are a family in the sense that they are all tweaked clones of Carl Castanaveras. Their capabilities so terrify the organization that created them that they are [[Main/ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure destroyed by a nuclear strike]]. Three of the family escape (Trent, Denice and [[spoiler: David]]), and are the focus of the next several books.
* In the ''Literature/FairyOak'' series:
** The Periwinkle of the Ways family is made up entirely by powerful Magicals and BadassNormal people.
** The Burdock family have a long history of powerful Magicals of the Dark.
** The Poppys are the most magical beings in the world by the maternal side. They inherit magic itself.
* ''Literature/{{Deeplight}}'': [[ActionMom Dotta Rigg's]] kids are routinely trained up as part of her smuggler crew. The Riggs are feared and respected around the island of Lady's Crave.
* ''Literature/InCryptid'' has the Price family, in which every member is trained from a young age in combat, survival, stealth, and cryptozoology. Their RiteOfPassage is to take whoever's just turned 18 blindfolded to an unfamiliar location in the wilderness, drop them off with no weapons, and see how long it takes for them to find their way back home.
** The Prices used to be a [[KnightTemplar Covenant]] family, and the remaining families in that organization have similar training for their children (though with the goal of exterminating cryptids, not studying and protecting them). When Dominic is introduced, his training allows him to go toe-to-toe with Verity.

* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'''s titular family; all four generations of the it. (Granted, Miles' and Ekaterin's kids just came out of the replicator, but one can safely assume they'll be badasses.)

* You don't get to see them kicking ass together because they're separated by plot early in the first novel of the series, but the Stark family from George R. R. Martin's ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' are undeniably an example of this trope. First of all, [[GrimUpNorth it's grim up north]], and did we mention [[AStormIsComing winter is coming]]? Family patriarch Ned Stark wields a monster sword and [[HonorBeforeReason a righteous sense of justice]]; his oldest son Robb becomes [[AChildShallLeadThem a king at age 16]]; younger daughter [[ActionGirl Arya]] repeatedly [[TookALevelinBadass takes a level in badass]] in her travels; younger son Bran [[ICouldaBeenAContender becomes paralyzed]] but then [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent learns to mind-meld with his direwolf]]; and his illegitimate son [[spoiler:or nephew, depending how much fan speculation you believe]] [[HeroicBastard Jon Snow]] goes from [[CelibateHero oath-sworn realm defender]] to risking his life in his role as [[FakeDefector spy]] for the Night's Watch and then [[spoiler:is elected [[AChildShallLeadThem Lord Commander of the entire Night's Watch at age 16]]]]. And, if you wonder where matriarch Catelyn and older daughter Sansa fit into all this, [[spoiler: the first is BackFromTheDead (though, uh, [[CameBackWrong wrong]]) and has become a ruthless KnightTemplar who lives and breathes for revenge, and the latter is currently taking ManipulativeBitch lessons from the BigBad himself.]]

* Creator/JRRTolkien is full of these, including [[TheClan the house of Finwë]] ([[BigScrewedUpFamily even if they do spend quite some time fighting ''each other'']]), the House of Elendil, the Children of Húrin and so on. Even the Tooks qualify, compared to other Hobbits that is. As do the Brandybucks.
** Notably, based on the genealogical tables, every single Man and Elf Badass Family is related by marriage, and it all comes down to a point in Aragorn and Arwen, whose children have entirely too much to live up to, being the descendants of every hero the world has known except the hobbits and dwarves.

** For the dwarves, the line of Durin definitely qualifies. Kings Thror, Thrain, Thorin and Dain all descend from this line, as does most of Thorin's company- Fili, Kili, Dwalin, Balin, Oin and Gloin are all legitimite members, whilst (in the films at least) it's implied that Dori, Nori and Ori are related on the wrong side of the sheets. And, of course, Gimli is a member of the line of Durin as well.
** Also the house of Eorl, Rohan's royal line. Theoden, Eowyn and Eomer all kick many kinds of ass on the battlefield.

** Also the Fowls themselves, although not so much physically. Two criminal genies (Artemis and his dad) and Angeline, though she gets less chance to show it, is hardly a slouch either.

* The Pennykettles from ''[[Literature/{{Dragons}} The Last Dragon Chronicles]]''.

* In ''Literature/{{Touch}}'', we have the Toranagas, a family of the strongest mages in the eastern United States, including Peter, a doting father who also happens to work as a director for TheMenInBlack, Hideyoshi and Tsuru, a pair of immortal, monster hunting grandparents, and James, a twelve year old boy with levitation and mass-scale aerokinesis. His younger sister, Bex, is implied to be just as powerful.

* Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer's Wold Newton Family is a mixture of this and MassiveMultiplayerCrossover. The family tree includes: Literature/SolomonKane; [[Literature/CaptainBloodHisOdyssey Captain Blood]]; Literature/TheScarletPimpernel; Franchise/SherlockHolmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty; [[Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays Phileas Fogg]]; [[Literature/TheTimeMachine The Time Traveller]]; [[Literature/KingSolomonsMines Allan Quatermain]]; [[Literature/{{Raffles}} A.J. Raffles]]; Literature/ProfessorChallenger; [[Literature/TheThirtyNineSteps Richard Hannay]]; Literature/BulldogDrummond; the evil Literature/FuManchu and his adversary, Sir Denis Nayland Smith; G-8; Radio/TheShadow; [[Literature/TheMalteseFalcon Sam Spade]]; Franchise/DocSavage's cousin Patricia Savage, and one of his five assistants, Monk Mayfair; Literature/TheSpider; Literature/NeroWolfe; Mr. Moto; Literature/TheAvenger; Literature/PhilipMarlowe; Literature/JamesBond; Lew Archer; Travis [=McGee=]; Monsieur Lecoq; and Literature/ArseneLupin.

** Judging by ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'', the Vimeses are on the way as well.

** The Coopers, who [[Literature/SongOfTheLioness at first]] appeared to just be a really cool guy and his really cool mom, but now has extremely [[Literature/ProvostsDog badass]] ancestors and [[Literature/DaughterOfTheLioness equally awesome offspring]] with a Trebond.
** The Conte house, who aside from being the Royal Family are perhaps the coolest royal family ever. Quote from memory - "Next time you have to go out and chase down bandits, change out of your nice ballgown first, dear?" And, uh, yeah.

** [[Literature/CircleOfMagic Briar, Sandry, Tris, and Daja]] of her Circle universe are four great mages soul-bound to each other, possibly the strongest mage team in the world, and see each other as siblings. And their foster mothers? Great mages. Their teacher/foster father? The most famous sight mage in the world. Their family friend? Great mage. Sandry's uncle? A badass pirate-fighting duke.

* In the ''Fairy/Oak'' series:

** Mother and son Tar and Lot are ancient dragons who both manage to fight the BiggerBad of the series one-on-one on even terms.