History SelfMadeOrphan / ComicBooks

* [[spoiler:Subverted in]] ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'': several people assume that Ocean Master killed his parents [[TheEvilPrince to become king]]. [[spoiler:Actually, his mother killed his father and then faked her own death.]]
* In ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed: The Chain'', Innokenti Orelov ends up having to shoot his own father Nikolai, an Assassin, who is struggling with another Assassin. The bullet passes through Nikolai and the other Assassin, killing both. It's implied Nikolai wanted his son to do this to save himself. Innokenti picks up his father's hidden blade and walks off into the sunset. While his further fate is unknown, it's clear he at least survives to produce a child, as Daniel Cross is his descendant.
* Technically, Samaritan from ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' qualifies. He was sent from the future to prevent a disaster that would [[ButterflyEffect cause the end of the world centuries down the line]], but his success meant that his parents never existed.
* In ''[[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderThePromise Avatar The Last Airbender The Search]]'', this is the only reason Azula is "helping" Zuko search for their MissingMom Ursa. After her VillainousBreakdown, she blamed all of her problems on an imaginary conspiracy masterminded by Ursa. As long as Ursa is alive, Azula is too afraid to put her plan to [[spoiler:usurp Zuko]] into motion.
* Franchise/{{Batman}}:

* In ''ComicBook/BillyMajesticsHumptyDumpty'', it is established that the Brakk brothers murdered their own mother.

* Subverted in the Season 9 ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' comics. Faith is made so angry that she chokes and almost kills her father but is stopped by Angel.
* While he has a MultipleChoicePast, one detail that Bullseye keeps bringing up consistently is that he murdered his parents, who were abusive (although the circumstances are sketchy). [[spoiler:He offed his dad in ''ComicBook/DarkReign: Hawkeye'', long after he became a supervillain. Not that he didn't try before though.]]
* Subverted in ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool''. The title characters are at a bar discussing their less-than-stellar childhoods over beer (well, only Deadpool's drinking - Cable's temporarily regressed to his teens). Deadpool's brief flashbacks show his mother's death led to his dad becoming strict bordering on abusive, and he may have shot him. At the end of the issue, we get the full story - it was one of the "wrong crowd" Wade had fallen in with, and he was genuinely horrified.
* ComicBook/EvilErnie's murder spree began with him killing both of his abusive parents.
* ''Franchise/TheFlash'':

* ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'s Liz Sherman became one accidentally after a SuperpowerMeltdown of hers created a fire that destroyed a city block (among the fatalities were her parents and brother).

* Catman from ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' is ''technically'' a Self Made Orphan, although he only shot his mother accidentally because his father pointed the shotgun at her while Thomas was attempting to shoot him. He ''did'' finish the job with a machete in the dad's stomach, though.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel:

* One of Marvel's ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' stories is set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture where an aging ComicBook/CaptainAmerica has a final confrontation with a now decrepit and elderly ComicBook/RedSkull, who has kidnapped Cap's wife and children as leverage and trapped them with a bomb connected to a deadmans switch hooked to the Skulls vital signs. He then reveals that during his absence, he has sired and raised a son of his own as the new Red Skull, and when their plan falls apart, the son shoots and kills his father to activate the bomb and distract Cap long enough for him to escape and fight another day. True to form, [[SoProudOfYou the Red Skull is proud of his son for being as ruthless and calculating as him]].

** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' had an even worse example with a kid who dissolved anyone within a mile of him. He woke up to find his parents and whole neighborhood empty and wound up destroying his whole town just by wandering around trying to find somebody.

** ComicBook/XMen villain Shinobi Shaw once murdered his supervillain father Sebastian, taking over the Hellfire Club upon doing so. [[DeathIsCheap This being a comic book]] and Sebastian [[JokerImmunity being a long-established villain]], he was eventually revealed to be quite alive and [[OffingTheOffspring not in a good mood with his son]]. Given [[NighInvulnerability Sebastian's powers]], the strangest thing is how long it took for him to come back.

* In the ''ComicBook/XWingRogueSquadron'' arc "The Phantom Affair", Loka Hask, the AxCrazy psycho who killed Wedge Antilles' parents, comments that Wedge should thank him for it, then goes on to muse that he wishes he had had someone willing to do that for him when he was a boy, but ''no'', he had to do it himself.
* ''ComicBook/Zatanna2010'': In the arc where Zatanna deals with Oscar Hampel, a sketchy puppeteer who was [[PuppetPermutation transformed into a marionette]] decades ago by her father Giovanni Zatara, Zatanna uses an enchanted crystal to make Hampel tell her his true backstory, one of the terrible things he admits to doing is murdering his parents by setting fire to their puppet theatre.

** ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'' reveals that ComicBook/{{Polaris}} caused the plane crash that killed her parents due to her mutant powers manifesting and going out of control while they were arguing over her mother's affair with ComicBook/{{Magneto}}.

* In the ''ComicBook/XWingRogueSquadron'' arc "The Phantom Affair", Loka Hask, the AxCrazy psycho who killed Wedge Antilles' parents, comments that Wedge should thank him for it, then goes on to muse that he wishes he had had someone willing to do that for him when he was a boy, but ''no'', he had to do it himself.

* ComicBook/{{Warlock|1999}} is a member of the Technarchy, a technological race where being a Self Made Orphan is the standard - adulthood was conferred after you killed your "Siredam". Warlock fled because A) his "mutation" was the realization that this was a strange way of doing things and B) the fact that his father, The Magus, can casually ''tear apart suns.''

* [[Characters/NewMutants Warlock]] of the ComicBook/NewMutants is a member of the Technarchy, a technological race where being a Self Made Orphan is the standard - adulthood was conferred after you killed your "Siredam". Warlock fled because A) his "mutation" was the realization that this was a strange way of doing things and B) the fact that his father, The Magus, can casually ''tear apart suns.''
* One of Marvel's ''WhatIf'' stories is set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture where an aging ComicBook/CaptainAmerica has a final confrontation with a now decrepit and elderly ComicBook/RedSkull, who has kidnapped Cap's wife and children as leverage and trapped them with a bomb connected to a deadmans switch hooked to the Skulls vital signs. He then reveals that during his absence, he has sired and raised a son of his own as the new Red Skull, and when their plan falls apart, the son shoots and kills his father to activate the bomb and distract Cap long enough for him to escape and fight another day. True to form, [[SoProudOfYou the Red Skull is proud of his son for being as ruthless and calculating as him]].
* In Franchise/WonderWoman's [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 New 52 series]] Cassandra learned of her CompellingVoice when she ordered her single mother to kill herself and her mother complied.

** Rahne Sinclaire, aka Wolfsbane of ''ComicBook/XFactor'' and the X-Men, did this to her father when the brainwashing he had put her under kicked in and caused her to maul him to death before devouring his corpse.
** Another ''X-Men'' character, Kevin Ford/Wither, has the bad luck of his power being to dissolve any organic matter that he touches. He naturally began to freak out when his own clothes were dissolving off of his body, his father tried to comfort him and, well...

* ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'':

** Narrowly averted with ComicBook/BettyRoss. She almost killed the ComicBook/RedHulk, only to realize he was her father and stop in time.

* in ''Rat-Man'''s ''Origins Exalogy'' we find the story of Rat-man's childhood and his [[spoiler: step]]father Janus Valker's descend into evil. Particularly, we find out that his father Boda, the previous embodiment of the Shadow, was murdered by a hitman sent by Jan's brother Joba.

* In the ''[[ComicBook/RomSpaceknight ROM]]'' comic, there was a half-breed offspring of a human and a Dire Wraith, calling itself Hybrid, who was a true monster, murdering both parents by magically 'aging' them and then impaling his father with a pitchfork. It might not be ''entirely'' Hybrid's fault - he was raised by the uber-evil Dire Wraiths, the ultimate form of child abuse. Still, he was as close to pure, self-consciously intentional evil as is likely to be possible.
* Rare heroic example: the ''Comicbook/{{Runaways}}'' were formed when they found out that their parents were a band of supervillains called the Pride, and after initially just trying to avoid their parents, they ended up having to battle them, resulting in the death of all of their parents [[spoiler:and the one member of their own who had remained loyal to the Pride.]] They never actually intended to kill them, but this doesn't stop many people from assuming they did.

* Naturally, a young Emil Burbank (the Lex Luthor AlternateCompanyEquivalent in Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}'s ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme''), was also shown killing his parents for the insurance money (from a policy on which he forged their signatures).

** In ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Day of Dollmaker]]'' villain Dollmaker attempts to murder his father Toyman.

** A new villain introduced in ''ComicBook/BatmanRebirth'' is "Master Bruce", aka Matthew Warner, a LonelyRichKid with a severe case of IJustWantToBeYou towards Bruce Wayne, which he took to the logical conclusion.

** Reed Richards had an abusive father but escaped from him to be part of the ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour. The team broke up after ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'', and Reed had to go back home. He became the villain ComicBook/TheMaker, and his first act of villainy was to kill all his family.