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** The Vinsmoke clan, supposed to be allies to Big Mom, aren't much better. Their patriarch, Judge, is the leader of the Germa Kingdom and its military. He's also an EmperorScientist who [[spoiler:creates lots of soulless {{mooks}} for his army]] and experiments on [[spoiler:his own children ''when still in their mom's womb'' [[TykeBomb so they can become inhumane super soldiers]].]] As a consequence, his sons Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji are [[WarriorPrince genetically good fighters]] but act like {{royal brat}}s, his WhiteSheep son [[spoiler:Sanji]] was incredibly damaged [[spoiler:and ran away]], and his ActionGirl daughter Reiju feels powerless and trapped in her role. (For the record, the [[WomenAreWiser kindly]] matriarch Sora [[spoiler:pretty much killed herself in a desperate gambit to reverse the modifications on the unborn boys, but only managed to save Sanji]].)

* The Lightsphere family of ''Manhwa/CielTheLastAutumnStory''. They're a notorious evil line of aristocrats, and their political connection to the royal family allows them to get away with committing many heinous crimes, usually against one another. The head of the family actually raised two of his own children apart, just so they could be [[BrotherSisterIncest married off when they became adults]], and hopefully produce a child with a very specific magic power. Then the siblings died, and when it was made clear that their son, January, was going to one day lead the family and inherit the title of duke, every relative instantly turned on him and started [[OffingTheOffspring making attempts on his life]]. There have been a few examples of decent people, but with the exception of [[IronWoobie January]] and his cousin [[{{Tsundere}} Socie]], they've all ended up dead.

* At a glance, the Wang Pu family in ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'' seems very tightly knit. However, AppleOfDiscord Xiaxi completely destabilizes things by making both sons fall in love with her. As a result of fighting over her, Mingluan's longstanding resentment of being treated as inferior to his brother for being illegitimate comes to the surface, Mingyi is enraged at the illegitimate brother disrespecting him, their father is pissed at both of them for fighting over a maid and their younger sister Yixin is horrified at how her family seems to be breaking apart. They seem to patch things up later, only for it to grow more complicated: [[spoiler:Their father hates his wife for being complicit in the assassination of Mingluan's mother and banishes her while Yixin kind of snaps out of hatred for Xiaxi and begins plotting to murder her.]]

* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': The Kido Family. Saori Kido turns out to be the Goddess Athena and used to be a massive SpoiledBrat who [[OlderAndWiser only wised up]] after her grandfather's death, and yet she's also a borderline MartyrWithoutACause who places herself regularly [[BarrierMaiden in next-to-no-win situations]] to save the world. As for said grandfather, Mitsumasa Kido... he's not an ''evil'' person, but he takes ''seriously'' screwed-up decisions [[WellIntentionedExtremist while trying to help keep the world safe]]: in the manga [[spoiler:has 100 kids and then sends them to go become Saints]], which is so bad that [[{{Bowdlerise}} the anime softens it up]] by [[spoiler:making them orphans taken into the Kido clan (sometimes forcibly, like in Seiya's case) and ''then'' sent off to train]]. Also Hyoga and his OedipusComplex with his dead mother.

* The Sanson family in Manga/Innocent are...Interesting. The first volumes of Innocent show us: an EvilMatriarch who both very misogynistic and most importantly a ManipulativeBitch, a father who tortures his own son to force him to become his heir, said son has a meriad of issues of his own, a vile intriguant of an uncle, oh and the baby sister is a CreepyChild. They only get worst from that.

** And with [[spoiler: the homunculi]], that's only the beginning. The eldest son ([[spoiler: Pride]]) tends to be a tad [[AloofBigBrother aloof]] and distanced from his siblings, and has [[ImAHumanitarian a fairly impactful of a way of showing it]]. The second daughter (Lust) is somewhat [[CombatSadomasochist sensation-oriented]] and often [[LivingEmotionalCrutch forms unhealthy attachments]] to her siblings. The third child (Greed) is a [[DefectorFromDecadence runaway]] and [[DefiantToTheEnd doesn't quite respect his father the way he ought to]]. The fourth child (Envy) is [[AxCrazy a little]] [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex unstable]], and deals with it [[DrivenToSuicide rather poorly]]. The fifth (Sloth) is not really [[LazyBum what one could call a hard worker]]. The sixth (Gluttony) is somewhat [[PsychopathicManchild immature]] and [[DumbMuscle less-than-intelligent]], [[ExtremeOmnivore has a quite an appetite]] ''and'' [[MoralityPet latches so much]] on his older sister [[spoiler: that he LOSES it when she's killed]]. The seventh ([[spoiler: Wrath]]) [[BloodKnight enjoys fighting]] [[TheBerserker perhaps a bit more than is]] [[GeneralRipper strictly healthy]], and [[HeroKiller doesn't really leave much of a positive impact on the plot]]. The Father has a bit of a [[GodhoodSeeker superiority]] complex, and his [[CruelAndUnusualDeath punishments]] [[OffingTheOffspring to his disobedient children]] may be considered [[OmnicidalManiac an overreaction at times]]. As a whole (with the possible exception of [[NobleDemon the]] [[AntiVillain third]] [[AntiHero son]]), they all tend to [[LackOfEmpathy shut off]] [[TheSociopath their emotions]], [[EvilerThanThou even for each other]]. Yeah.

* The Kuhoin family in ''LightNovel/{{Kurenai}}'' is seriously messed up, as they lock away their daughters [[spoiler:to give birth to the children of their ''brothers'']].

* ''LightNovel/CheatMagicianLifeThatStartedFromBeingJudgedUseless'' features ''the first antagonist'' EvilPrincess Camilla Rosenberg. She kicks off the plot by summoning 207 Japanese people to her world, most of them been teens of 15 or younger, and orders them to JoinOrDie, and tricks those that accept "join" into wearing magical slave bracelets, ''and they get to experience all the horrors that come with it'', protagonist Kento Kokubu isn't even given that option, but instead sent into a dangerous forest at sword point to die. It soon becomes apparent that '''she had damn good reason'''. Her father, the king, is a TooImportantToWalk AdiposeRex hedonist who not only has three official wives, but rotates through a bunch of concubines and mistresses, and pointedly ''doesn't care'' if his country is swallowed up by monsters, a desert, or an invading army, as long as he gets to eat, sleep, fuck, and be otherwise entertained 24/7. The eldest prince and heir is an anorexic NervousWreck who just does whatever his advisors tell him as long as he's promised that he gets to keep wearing the crown. The middle two brothers actively conspired with hostile elements, foreign and domestic, to squash all of Camilla's requests for aid regarding the desertification ''and'' coming monster stampede, ''openly celebrating the fact that both were happening'', because it made their efforts to launch a coup easier, and they planned to use both events as cover to slaughter all the refugeees, capture and rape Camilla, and are introduced engaging in a drug-fueled orgy. Her mother and step-mothers, the three official queens, are all horrible, horrible women, who conspire against everyone else, including each other, with poison and all other forms of skull-duggery, her own mother even conspiring with a depraved noble who wants to capture and rape her, and all of whom are suspected of poisoning the youngest prince Diethelm, for years, just so he'd be too sickly to be an active contender for the throne.

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'':

** The father of the above and the aforementioned Emperor, Azusa Masaki Jurai, is still largely the same sad little boy [[TheSpartanWay torn off from his parents' care at the very young age]], suffered the bullying and ridicule at the DecadentCourt and a TrainingFromHell at Seto's hands, was ''almost'' betrayed by his {{Childhood Friend|s}}, and is a MarriedToTheJob HenpeckedHusband who largely ignores his own daughters to boot. In short, about the only time he ''did not'' suffer [[TheChainsOfCommanding the pressure if his position]], was when he recovered at the Earth in Funaho's care. It's no surprise he combines the OverprotectiveDad and [[ParentalNeglect Neglectful Parent]] at the same time.

** The Asians. China is TheWoobie who gets no respect anywhere but tries to get said respect [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents via treating his siblings pretty much like babies]] and [[OverprotectiveDad doesn't understand why they wouldn't like it]], Japan is an InscrutableOriental who is ''very'' complex to say it politely, Korea is a {{Keet}} who has a good heart but isn't taken seriously even by Japan and China, Hong Kong is TheTrickster with an almost perfect poker face and has a ''very'' snarky view of the world, Taiwan is arguably one of the most normal and yet she can't also take China seriously, Macau is the closest to an OnlySaneMan but becomes quite passive-aggressive when crossed, etc.

** The Xingese royal family is a pretty spectacular case. The traditional modus operandi of Xingese Emperors is taking fifty wives, one from each [[TheClan clan]], and basically expecting the resulting children to [[SuccessionCrisis fight each other for the throne]]. Ling and May, two of these children, are shown to not be... exactly happy about it.
** In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime adaptation]], there's a whole other bucket of fish. [[spoiler:Hohenheim's "immortality", his little thing with Dante, the demonic homunculus son that resulted from Hohenheim and Dante's little thing,]] and then of course the whole deal with Trisha dying and the two sons' subsequent screw-up, followed by various angst and suffering.

** The Takedas don't fare much better. [[spoiler: The eldest son was infertile and this broke his wife's heart so badly that she secretly begged her then-unmarried younger brother-in-law to impregnate her, which he did out of a misguided desire to help. The eldest son found out years later and [[AbusiveParents became psychologically abusive to his "daughter/niece"]] and his wife. The girl ultimately [[KillTheCutie killed herself]] for this [[HeroicSelfDeprecation and]] [[GoodScarsEvilScars several]] [[RescueRomance other]] [[NotGoodWithRejection reasons]], her mother soon followed, the second son (who was now more-or-less HappilyMarried) [[MyGreatestFailure was completely heartbroken]], and the family's matriarch, [[SecretKeeper who knows the truth behind everything]], has all but totally freaked out. And this is not counting what [[TheLostLenore the girl's]] [[CrusadingWidower boyfriend]] [[SerialKiller did]] [[LoveMakesYouCrazy for her sake]]...]]

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has the Ikari family, with [[ButtMonkey Shinji Ikari]], [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Yui Ikari]], and [[AbusiveParents Gendo]] [[LoveMakesYouEvil Ika]][[ManipulativeBastard ri]], [[DrivenToSuicide The Soryu Family]], [[RedemptionEqualsDeath The Katsuragis]], [[BetaTestBaddie The]] [[LoveMakesYouEvil Akagis]]... and ''all that'' is just the tip of a far more messed-up iceberg. Which has mass added to as the series goes by. [[DysfunctionJunction One simply does not know where to start.]]

** Nothing is ever seen in the series proper, but WordOfGod stated that [[IdiotHero Gourry Gabriev]] the swordsman has one. Owning a ForgottenSuperweapon from another world, the Sword of Light, that can kill nearly anything mundane and even inflict damage to the equivalent of Satan in the show/novel's universe has more or less caused the entire family to go bonkers over who would own it, hence, [[KillEmAll a multitude of family civil wars]] occurred through the Gabriev family's generations. The author of the novels stated that Gourry's only family left are a grandmother and a dead older brother. Gourry himself finally decided to steal the Sword of Light and leave the family once and for all.