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* Team Skull from ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', though [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain they aren't the best at actually being criminals outside of taking over Po Town]]. Their admin, Plumeria, even collectively refers to the grunts as "her cute, dumb brothers and sisters", and when Guzma [[spoiler:tries to disband the team in the ''Ultra'' games, they refuse to leave purely out of UndyingLoyalty to him]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': StreetUrchin Ezra Bridger crosses paths with the rebellious ''Ghost'' crew when he stumbles into one of their heists on Imperial cargo. The crew is composed of two survivors of genocides carried out by the Empire, the daughter of a rebel politician, an ex-Imperial cadet, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a bloodthirsty droid]]. It also turns out that Ezra's parents were rebel broadcasters who were arrested and never seen again, which is part of why he finds himself gravitating towards the crew.

** The young Ivy ''tries'' to form one of these with Penguin, Mr. Freeze, and Firefly in late season 3, outright calling them "a family of freaks," but [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome realistically]], these various characters prove too different and too selfish to ally for long outside of temporary mutual need. They were mostly held together by [[EvilMatriarch Fish]], who claims Penguin is [[LikeASonToMe like a son to her]] and extends WeCanRuleTogether to him, and they disband not long after [[spoiler:her death]].

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': Greed and his gang of chimeras are a tight-knit group who look out for each other, and are [[UndyingLoyalty fully willing to die for each other]]. In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', Marta outright says they're the closest thing she has to a family.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': Team Bucciarati consists of several gangsters from the Passione [[TheSyndicate syndicate]], an expansive empire with influences all over Italy and the Mediterranean. The members all have consistently {{Dark And Troubled Past}}s where they've been wronged by the people and systems in their lives. This ranges from Narancia being betrayed by his childhood friends to Abbacchio's betrayal by his time in the corrupt and ineffective police force. The gang all have a deep trust and respect in each other, and their ultimate goal is to take over Passione and turn it into a force of good for the people of Italy.

** Downplayed with La Brava and Gentle. They were both misfits shunned by society who joined forces to commit crimes, but these crimes are often insanely petty and mostly done for the sake of notoriety. They also love each other more than anything, to the point where it allows the activation of La Brava's Quirk... which is quite literally ThePowerOfLove. When Izuku takes down Gentle, La Brava even starts hitting him, crying and begging him to leave Gentle alone.

* ''Manga/TokyoRevengers'': While Izana defies the idea that the Tenjiku founding members are friends and insists that the only things uniting them are fear and self-interest, they still demonstrate remarkable solidarity and some level of attachment to each another. Several of them are also confirmed or hinted to have a poor home life, and given Izana's initial childhood aspirations for Tenjiku, this likely extends to all of them.

* ''Film/{{Hustlers}}'': Destiny, Ramona, Mercedes and Annabelle eventually come to see each as family, which is highlighted during the scene when they all spent Christmas together. Destiny's daughter even calls Ramona "[[HonoraryUncle Aunt Ramona]]".

* While Sunny in ''Literature/SunnyRandall'' is divorced from Richie, ''his'' family still considers her as 'part of the family', especially when it comes to times where she might need protection during a case. Richie's family is a part of the criminal underworld, while Richie is the WhiteSheep of the family (kept out of things so that there's '''one''' "honest" member).

* ''Series/MoneyHeist'': The heist gang start out as strangers who [[TeethClenchedTeamwork barely tolerate each other]], but by the end of the Mint robbery they've bonded to the point of being a clear FamilyOfChoice. The later robbery at the Royal Bank only occurs because Rio is captured and the others are all willing to give up their safe lives in hiding to try and rescue him.

* In both ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' and ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', the Dark Brotherhood treat one another as a band of misfits who have formed a close-knit community with one another. While all of them are amoral psychopaths to some degree, they're all quite friendly with one another (including the player should they join them) and have each other's backs. Nonetheless the events of the questlines inevitably end with a majority of the family brutally purged (with the player themselves doing it in the case of the former).

* The Furry Webcomic ''Webcomic/GunKitty'': The main characters, Ruana, Ace and Yumi, develop a familial bond with each other over the course of the series while working as a group of [[SpacePirates space pirates]] who regularly commit crimes.

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': Goldilocks and the Three Bears are depicted in this film as a quartet of criminals, Goldi being taken in by the Bears after she broke into their house and growing up to be the brains of the outfit. Although they argue a lot, they turn out to love each other as a family, to the point where Goldi gives up her chance to claim the Wishing Star (which she'd been planning to use to find a human family, due to her initially not feeling comfortable with her status as the Bears' BlackSheep) and rescue Baby Bear instead.

* ''Music/{{Hozier}}'''s "From Eden" music video features an outlaw couple with a small child on the run from the law. Flashbacks show they took him in after finding him abandoned in a house they broke into. When they’re finally cornered by law enforcement, they decide to surrender rather than risk their surrogate son in a shootout.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022'': The titular gang is a CaperCrew of predatory animals who were cast out of society for being seen as dangerous, and so [[ThenLetMeBeEvil became the villains people saw them as]] and bonded with each other through their shared hurt. They're structured like a family unit: Mr. Wolf and Mr. Snake are the parents, Ms. Tarantula is the eldest child, Mr. Shark is the middle child, and Mr. Piranha is the youngest.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Say robbery!"]]

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': Goldilocks and the Three Bears are depicted in this film as a quartet of criminals, Goldi being taken in by the Bears after she broke into their house and growing up to be the brains of the outfit. Although they argue a lot, they turn out to love each other as a family, to the point where Goldi gives up her chance to claim the Wishing Star (which she'd been planning to use to find a human family, due to her initially not feeling comfortable with her status as the Bears' black sheep) and rescue Baby Bear instead.

-->--''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot''

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': Team Bucciarati consists of several gangsters from the Passione [[TheSyndicate syndicate]], an expansive empire with influences all over Italy and the Mediterranean. The members all have consistently DarkAndTroubledPast{{s}} where they've been wronged by the people and systems in their lives. This ranges from Narancia being betrayed by his childhood friends to Abbacchio's betrayal by his time in the corrupt and ineffective police force. The gang all have a deep trust and respect in each other, and their ultimate goal is to take over Passione and turn it into a force of good for the people of Italy.

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': Goldilocks and the Three Bears are depicted in this film as a quartet of criminals, Goldi being taken in by the Bears after she broke into their house and growing up to be the brains of the outfit. Though they argue a lot, they turn out to love each other as a family, to the point where Goldi gives up her chance to claim the Wishing Star (which she'd been planning to use to find a human family, due to her initially not feeling comfortable with her status as the Bears' black sheep) and rescue Baby Bear instead.

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': Goldilocks and the Three Bears are depicted in this film as a quartet of criminals, Goldi being taken in by the Bears after she broke into their house and growing up to be the brains of the outfit. Though they argue a lot, they turn out to love each other as a family, to the point where Goldi gives up her chance to claim the Wishing Star (which she'd been planning to use to find a human family, due to her initially not feeling comfortable with her status as the Bears' stand-out) and rescue Baby Bear instead.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': While the Straw Hat Pirates tend not to commit many of the crimes associated with pirates, they ''are'' still criminals with a massive collective bounty on their heads. One of the recurring themes of the series is how much they all love each other, how well they work together, and the lengths they would go to for each other.

* The FurryWebcomic ''Webcomic/GunKitty'': The main characters, Ruana, Ace and Yumi, develop a familial bond with each other over the course of the series while working as a group of [[SpacePirates space pirates]] who regularly commit crimes.
* In the FurryWebcomic ''Webcomic/NonPack'', the {{Villain Protagonist}}s are Los Satos, a canine gang of thieves and drug dealers. However, ALighterShadeOfBlack is in full effect for them; they treat each other like family (and two of them are literally brother and sister), and the other crooks they deal with are much worse than they are.

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': Goldilocks and the Three Bears are depicted as a quartet of criminals, Goldi being taken in by the bears after she broke into their house and growing up to be the brains of the outfit. Though they argue a lot, they turn out to love each other as a family, to the point where Goldi gives up her chance to claim the Wishing Star (which she'd been planning to use to reunite with her biological parents) and rescue her step-brother Baby Bear instead.

* ''WebAnimation/LazyBumYakuza'': Twenty years after ending up in prison for beating his father to death, [[https://youtu.be/xSb-OMn5iSo Tsuyoshi]] leads his own gang and considers the Yakuza his true family. Knowing his mother was a shoplifter, his father a Yakuza thug, and himself a helping with both parties' crimes and being delinquent in his teenage years, he felt he didn't really have a chance to live legit and couldn't envision any other way to live legitimately.

* ''WebAnimation/LazyBumYakuza'': [[https://youtu.be/xSb-OMn5iSo Tsuyoshi]] considers the Yakuza his true family ever since his father was a thug and his mother a shoplifter.

-->-- '''James Moriarty''', ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot''

-> ''"Accomplices, associates, and family. From now on, that is what we will be."''
-->-- '''''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'''''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys'': The titular gang is a CaperCrew of predatory animals who were cast out of society for being seen as dangerous, and so [[ThenLetMeBeEvil became the villains people saw them as]] and bonded with each other through their shared hurt. They're structured like a family unit: Mr. Wolf and Mr. Snake are the parents, Ms. Tarantula is the eldest child, Mr. Shark is the middle child, and Mr. Piranha is the youngest.

* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'': Dominic Toretto's group slowly turns into this as the films go and they get into escalating adventures and crimes. In the latter films, he straight-up starts calling them all his family and proves that they all will go through great pains and lengths to protect each other.

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Team Rocket (the Jesse/James/Meowth trio, anyway) are all misfits ''even among their syndicate''. Even Giovanni doesn't have much time for any of them. But for all they bicker, they have found true companionship with each other.