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* In the ''Franchsie/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', 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 Fel's (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.

* 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 [[ChildSoldier small children]] and boys, have some degree of training.

* [[BadassGrandpa Lazarus Long]] and his very, ''very'' extended family.

* Again by Creator/DavidWeber, the [=DeVries=] family in ''Literature/InFuryBorn''. Between the retired marine BadassGrandpa and his SuperSoldier granddaughter who's Badass even by SuperSoldier standards, they constitute the only family in the Empire to have two holders of its highest military honor at the same time. The pirate's field commander would later state that if he'd known the [=DeVries=] family lived on Mathison's world, ''he'd have bombed their home from orbit''. And it would have been a sensible decision given what had happened to the ''entire platoon'' he had sent to raid their home instead. Between those two and Alicia's diplomat father, they took out all of them, despite the fact that they started the fight with two knives and a pair of hunting rifles.

* In ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', the House of Atreides is descended from [[Literature/TheIliad Agamemnon]]. BadAssGrandpa 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]].

* Tavi's extended family of ''Literature/CodexAlera''. Tavi himself is [[CrazyAwesome 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.]]

** 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.

** Why stop at the Starks? Every family in the series is a Badass Family. ''Every single family.'' Lannisters, Targaryens, Greyjoys, Baratheons, Mormonts, Tullys, Martells, Tyrells, Boltons, even the Freys, in a more devious way; possibly the only family that is ''not'' badass is the Arryn family, because it consists of a crazy woman and her epileptic son.

* Again by Creator/DavidWeber, the [=DeVries=] family in ''Literature/InFuryBorn''. Between the retired marine BadassGrandpa and his SuperSoldier granddaughter who's Badass even by SuperSoldier standards, they constitute the only family in the Empire to have two holders of its highest military honor at the same time. The pirate's field commander would later state that if he'd known the [=DeVries=] family lived on Mathison's world, ''he'd have bombed their home from orbit''. And it would have been a sensible decision given what had happened to the ''entire platoon'' he had sent to raid their home instead. Between those two and Alicia's diplomat father, they took out all of them, despite the fact that they started the fight with two knives, a pistol, and a hunting rifle.

* Also by Creator/DavidWeber, we have the Caliraths from the ''Literature/HellsGate'' series. Let's see, Daddy's TheEmperor, the son is a WarriorPrince, the oldest daughter is a BadassPrincess, they get not one but ''two'' [[BadassCreed Badass Creeds]] and then there is the little matter of the entire family having PsychicPowers.

* 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 BadassPrincess. 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.]]

* ''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 (Trent, Denice and [[spoiler David]] escape, and are the focus of the next several books.

* ''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, and are the focus of the next several books.

* ''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.

* 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 Franchise/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.

** And that's not even going into what we know about Harry's family. We have a BadassLongcoat wizard who throws around {{Hellfire}} and {{Soulfire}} on occasion, summoned a zombie T-Rex, has won the loyalty of a magical prison designed specifically to cage the world's most powerful {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, and is now 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 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.

** The Harringtons themselves. Honor Harrington, renowned military commander and lethal in hand-to-hand combat. Her father, Alfred, 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 who was also a merciless killing machine and who ordered assassinations of enemies just to make a point about messing with his family. And her husband, himself considered one of the greatest military commanders Manticore has ever produced.

* 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.]]

* From ''Literature/HarryPotter'', the Weasleys, including those who married in.
** And the Longbottoms. Grandma Augusta [[NeverMessWithGranny put an Auror in the hospital]] when the (at the time) corrupt government tried to capture her, 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 one who eventually killed him. And then Harry marries into the Weasley family...

* You don't get to see them kicking ass together, but the Starks 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]] on her travels, younger son Bran [[ICouldaBeenAContender becomes paralyzed]] but then [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent learns to mind-meld with his direwolf]], and bastard brother [[spoiler:or nephew, depending how much fan speculation you believe]] [[HeroicBastard Jon Snow]] goes from [[CelibateHero oath-sworn realm defender]] to [[FakeDefector turncloak spy]] and then [[spoiler:becomes [[AChildShallLeadThem Lord Commander of the entire Night's Watch]].]]. And if you wonder where matriarch Catelyn and older daughter Sansa fit in, [[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.]]

** Not to mention Reyna and her sister Hylla. They survived being kidnapped by pirates together. Now one is the teenage praetor of a Roman legion. The other is the queen of the Amazons. Both are unquestionably {{badass}}.

* 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 {{badass}}es their...ahem...asses.

** [[spoiler: [[TheObiWan Brom]], Eragon's father. Killed 3 of the Forsworn personally, had another 4 or so poisoned, and defeated a Rider and Dragon without his own dragon, who had been killed. He is also notable for founding the Varden, the main rebellious organization in the series.]]

** And that's not even going into what we know about Harry's family. We have a BadassLongcoat wizard who throws around {{Hellfire}} and {{Soulfire}} on occasion, summoned a zombie T-Rex, has won the loyalty of a magical prison designed specifically to cage the world's most powerful EldritchAbominations, and is now 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 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.

** Taken UpToEleven if you include the Legacy era family ties. The Skywalker/Solo's family tree includes the Fel's (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.