History Main / SinsofOurFathers

*** The latter was just a strawman cover for his desire for power and control. He was perfectly willing to murder and subjugate blacks and other people of color, too.

* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', BadassBookworm companion Arcade Gannon [[spoiler:was the son of an [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Enclave officer]] and was born five years after the events of ''VideoGame/Fallout2'', but is forced to conceal this fact even though he had no personal involvement with their crimes. In the endings where the player convinces him to aid the Enclave remnants in fighting for [[TheFederation the NCR]], [[UngratefulBastard in exchange for his goodwill]] he's either expelled from the Followers of the Apocalypse and forced to live on the run from the NCR & Brotherhood or suffers life imprisonment by the NCR as a "war criminal" for a war ''he wasn't even in'']].

* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=780 the children living in the protection of a spell bought by her suffering are fair game.]]

* ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': Princess Malty Melromarc and her father King Aultcray Melromarc had both framed Naofumi for rape, constantly slander and hinder him in his goals of trying to save their world from the Waves of Calamity, resulting in Naofumi developing psychological trauma after nearly falling so far into a DespairEventHorizon because of the royal families' shit. Later on, Naofumi meets Melty who joined his party in order to return to the capital to see her father. When he later finds out that Meltys' father was King Aultcray, he believes that Melty is trying to set him up for failure just like her bitch of an older sister did and angrily kicks her out of the party and says he'll never trust her because she's a member of the royal family. [[LockedOutOfTheLoop Melty was ignorant of what her father and sister did to him]] due to being away from the capital with her mother when her father summoned the Heroes; initially believing at first that Naofumi did something to cause her father to dislike him so much. It takes [[CorruptChurch The Three Heroes Church]] attempting to assassinate Melty in front of Naofumi, along with [[CainAndAbel Princess Malty attempting to kill off her younger sister]] in order to claim Meltys' position as the crown Princess that lets Naofumi realize that Melty was actually innocent this whole time.

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* As a rule of thumb, it's very common for ''Miraculous Ladybug'' stories set after [[BigBad Hawk Moth]] is defeated and unmasked as Gabriel Agreste to have his son Adrien stuck picking up the tab on his mess. The sympathy Adrien gets in such stories [[BaseBreakingCharacter tends to vary]], however. Either this is one more hardship for the LonelyRichKid that his classmates are heartbroken by, or it's the source of a convenient dose of [[KarmicMisfire karma]] for the BitchInSheepsClothing to deal with after the heroes [[WeUsedToBeFriends cut ties with him]].

* ''Fanfic/HeroChat'': Variant regarding the daughter of Specter, an infamous Main/{{Necromancer}} supervillain. One of Lila's lies involved Specter's daughter working with him and currently plotting a return with her own army of the undead. According to [[spoiler:Rose]], the real truth was that his daughter was on the opposite moral spectrum, and haven't spoken with her father in years. She knows this because Specter's daughter [[spoiler:is ''Rose's mother'']]. Team Miraculous, while initially shocked by TheReveal, reassures [[spoiler:Rose]] that they don't hold her heritage against her. However, the fear of this trope harming her family leads to Specter's daughter being akumatized.
* ''Fanfic/TheKarmaOfLies'': Adrien's KarmaHoudiniWarranty after his father is [[TheUnmasking exposed as Hawkmoth and arrested]], with people protesting outside the Agreste Manor and regarding him with increased suspicion. Lila deliberately {{Invoke|dTrope}}s this by acting as though she was an UnwittingPawn of ''both'' Agrestes, making it even harder for Adrien to [[CassandraTruth convince anyone that she's lying]].

* ''Fanfic/{{What Goes Around Comes Around|MiraculousLadybug}}'', a {{Recursive Fanfic|tion}} for ''Fanfic/TheKarmaOfLies'', has Amelie point out this problem to her nephew, citing it as one of the reasons why she wants to [[spoiler:take Adrien out of Paris]].

* Izuku in ''Fanfic/{{Viridescent}}'' suffers from this thanks to his father being the fearsome villain Heat Viper. He spent years suppressing his fire quirk to avoid any reminder, with the only support in his life before All-Might being his mother and the Bakugo family. [[spoiler:When the full power of his quirk and his heritage are revealed during the Sports Festival, the general public treats him as a villain in the making, with a student at UA leaving a hate note at his desk telling him to kill himself as an apology for Heat Viper's victims.]]

** Also played with in ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam''. Rain's father was [[spoiler:one of the conspirators involved in the GovernmentConspiracy brewed by [[MagnificentBastard Ulube Ishikawa]] inside his GambitRoulette]], which more or less directly involved the destruction of [[spoiler:the Kasshu family]]. This shames his daughter so much that, after learning of such things, she decides to leave her boyfriend and partner Domon Kasshu over it...and it makes the poor girl the perfect [[BarrierMaiden core]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy unit]] for the Devil Gundam, which comes in possession of Ulube.

* As a rule of thumb, it's very common for ''Miraculous Ladybug'' stories set after [[BigBad Hawk Moth]] is defeated and unmasked as Gabriel Agreste to have his son Adrien stuck picking up the tab on his mess.

** Kingpin also killed [[Characters/DaredevilMattMurdock Matt Murdock's]] father to keep him from spilling the beans about his toxic waste smuggling operation.

** Dr. Brooks [[ForWantOfANail talks Mark Russell out of enrolling Madison in a public school]], pointing out that Madison's late mother is an infamous genocidal madwoman who murdered millions of people by proxy just one year ago and high-schoolers will liably take KidsAreCruel to the extreme and a couple of them might even try to ''murder'' her, if they were to find out who Madison is related to.

* In ''Fanfic/ThreeStrikes'', Trigger gets hit with this hard - not only does just about everyone on the 444th turns on her when Full Band reveals she's the daughter of the pilot who tried to launch V2, she also has a target on her back for those who resent Pixy's choice to take up arms against Belka. Some of the top brass used this as a reason to try and kill her, seeing her as a risk factor.
* ''Fanfic/UnleashingOfADarkNight'': Dark Gaia is more than a little resentful of the first [=WereMobian=]s splitting away from him while they were his minions, so he actively causes [[OriginalCharacter Tomo]]'s body to go into overdrive and reawaken the monstrous capabilities her kind once had. [[GoneHorriblyRight However, Tomo becomes]] [[{{Unishment}} more than]] [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide pleased with this]]…

* ''Fanfic/BestServedColdNyame'': Discussed. After realizing it's too late to get an abortion for her and Malcolm's baby, Laurel is terrified of the possibility she won't be able to love her own child despite them being innocent simply because of who their father is. By the time of the birth, she's decided to do her best anyway, and if she can't bring herself to love them even after that, [[HappilyAdopted she'll find someone who will]]. [[spoiler:Thankfully, this is all rendered moot after a DaddyDNATest reveals her daughter is actually Oliver's, not Malcolm's]].
* Played with in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/5796685/ The Sins of the Father]]'''s take on Elektra Natchios. Elektra seeks revenge against Wilson Fisk not just for having her father murdered, but for everything that he made Hugo do. As it's eventually revealed, Hugo got his business up and running by borrowing money from a loan shark who employed Fisk as an enforcer. Later, he and his business partners concocted a scheme to cheat the government out of import taxes by bribing customs officials to declare only a fraction of the cargo that came in on his ships. When Fisk began his partnerships with the Russians and Chinese, he blackmailed Hugo into smuggling Madame Gao's heroin by threatening to expose Hugo's scheme and cause a scandal that would ruin Hugo's reputation. After Fisk was exposed by Nelson & Murdock and arrested, Hugo was able to shut down the operation. But about a half-year later, Fisk (via Vanessa) tried to strongarm Hugo into resuming the smuggling, with a new satellite gang, the Enforcers, doing distribution. Rather than cooperate, Hugo decided to coerce Fisk into giving up the blackmail papers he had on him in exchange for giving him a ledger he kept of every shipment he had done for Fisk. Fisk didn't take this too well and instead hired Bullseye to kill Hugo as well as Carl Hoffman (the corrupt cop who was personally coerced by Fisk into killing his partner).

** [[spoiler:Lee Jordan, whose family was driven out of the joke business by the Marauders' success, wants revenge, as well as wanting to maim Sirius' son to prevent him from following in his father's footsteps.]]

* ''Fanfic/HeroChat'': Variant regarding the daughter of Specter, an infamous Main/{{Necromancer}} supervillain. One of Lila's lies involved Specter's daughter working with him and currently plotting a return with her own army of the undead. According to [[spoiler:Rose]], the real truth was that his daughter was on the opposite moral spectrum, and haven't spoken with her father in the years since. She knows this because Specter's daughter [[spoiler:is ''Rose's mother'']]. Team Miraculous, while initially shocked by TheReveal, reassures [[spoiler:Rose]] that they don't hold her heritage against her. However, the fear of this trope harming her family leads to Specter's daughter being akumatized.
* ''Fanfic/TheKarmaOfLies'': Adrien's KarmaHoudiniWarranty gets damaged after [[TheUnmasking his father is exposed as Hawkmoth]], with people protesting outside the Agreste Manor and regarding him with increased suspicion. This is only made worse by [[ManipulativeBitch Lila]] painting herself as an UnwittingPawn to ''both'' Agrestes so that Adrien's efforts to [[CassandraTruth expose her]] come off as trying to throw her under the bus.
* RecursiveFanfiction ''Fanfic/{{What Goes Around Comes Around|MiraculousLadybug}}'' has Amelie point out this problem to her nephew, citing it as one of the reasons why she wants to [[spoiler:take Adrien out of Paris]].

* Inverted in ''Fanfic/{{Cain}}'': After learning how Katsuki [[BarbaricBully has been treating Izuku]], Inko cuts off her friendship with his mother Mitsuki.

* Izuku in ''Fanfic/{{Viridescent}}'' suffers from this thanks to his father being the fearsome villain Heat Viper. He spent years suppressing his fire quirk to avoid any reminder, with the only support in his life before All-Might being his mother and the Bakugo family. [[spoiler:When the full power of his quirk and his heritage are revealed during the Sports Festival, the general public treats him as a villain in the making, with a student at UA leaving a hate note at his desk to kill himself as an apology for Heat Viper's victims.]]

* {{Downplayed|Trope}} example in ''Fanfic/DeadGarden'', with Takeru Haruno forbidding his daughter Sakura from befriending Naruto since he blames Kushina and Minato for failing to keep the Kyuubi from escaping, causing his wife's death and leading his daughter to become the Kyuubi's container. However, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero this ends up preventing the already socially isolated Sakura from avoiding a friendless childhood when she dismisses Naruto's attempts to befriend her]].

* After the dystopian Delegation was overthrown in ''Literature/PosterGirl'' the rebels locked all the survivors of the regime's upper class into the Aperture, a ghetto where they were left to rot. This included their children who were often just put there on account of their parents actions. Only after ten years in the ghetto those who had been below eighteen when first locked up there are allowed to leave, and given new identities to protect them in the new society.

* ''Manga/ToYourEternity'': Because of Hayase's actions in the past (including rape), Fushi was reluctant to befriend any of her descendants.

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*** This law is still technically in force, and some Orthodox Jews follow it. It has been mitigated as much as possible within the letter of the law: If the dead man did not have a brother the widow is free to marry anyone. If he did have a brother, the brother is required to go through the ceremony freeing the widow if at all possible (it's complicated); the woman spits in front of him and removes a special sandal designed for the purpose. It becomes problematic if the oldest living brother is still a minor (which for this purpose means under age 13); the widow cannot remarry until he reaches majority and can validly participate in the ceremony. The film ''I Love You, Rosa'' revolves around this situation.

*** This law is still technically in force, and some Orthodox Jews follow it. It has been mitigated as much as possible within the letter of the law: only a man's brother (not a more distant male heir) is obligated to do this; he is in fact required to do this if at all possible (it's complicated); the woman spits in front of him and removes a special sandal designed for the purpose. It becomes problematic if the oldest living brother is still a minor (which for this purpose means under age 13); the widow cannot remarry until he reaches majority and can validly participate in the ceremony. The film ''I Love You, Rosa'' revolves around this situation.

*** This law is still technically in force, and some Orthodox Jews follow it. It has been mitigated as much as possible: only a man's brother (not a more distant male heir) is obligated to do this and is in fact required to do this if at all possible (it's complicated); the woman spits in front of him and removes a special sandal designed for the purpose. It becomes problematic if the oldest living brother is still a minor (which for this purpose means under age 13); the woman cannot remarry until he reaches majority and can legally participate in the ceremony. The plot of the film ''I Love You, Rosa'' revolves around this situation.

** This law is still technically in force, and some Orthodox Jews follow it. It has been mitigated as much as possible: only a man's brother (not a more distant male heir) is obligated to do this and is in fact required to do this if at all possible (it's complicated); the woman spits in front of him and removes a special sandal designed for the purpose. It becomes problematic if the oldest living brother is still a minor (which for this purpose means under age 13); the woman cannot remarry until he reaches majority and can legally participate in the ceremony. The plot of the film ''I Love You, Rosa'' revolves around this situation.

* ''Anime/{{Daltanious}}'': Danji's father was hanged for a crime he didn't commit, and he spent years trying to prove his innocence. Unfortunately, this led to Danji himself also being labelled a criminal and he's had multiple skirmishes with the law ever since. [[spoiler: He eventually finds the man who committed the crime his father was hanged for, who expresses great remorse at what he's done. He has since become TheAtoner and donated his eyesight to a disabled young boy.]]

* An episode of ''Series/Forever2014'' involves an old man who seemingly dies of cancer. He turns out to be the deposed king of a [[{{Ruritania}} fictional East European country]] called Urkesh. Henry later finds out that the man had an illegitimate daughter who was working as a waitress. In the end, it turns out that the old man was killed by radiation poisoning by an employee at the Urkesh consulate, who recognized him and wanted to pay him back for being tortured back in Urkesh during the days of the monarchy. He also poisons the king's widow, but Henry manages to pump her stomach in time. The killer then goes after the girl, even though the main target of his revenge is dead, and the girl didn't even know about her heritage until a few days before. During the struggle, he hears a baby crying and realizes that there is another descendant for him to kill. Luckily, he's killed before he succeeds.