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15->''"We took pity on him because he lost both parents at an early age. I think, on reflection, that we should have wondered a bit more about that."''
16-->-- '''Lord Downey''' on Mr. Jonathan Teatime, ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}''
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20What might be considered the inverse of OffingTheOffspring, and is equally aberrant behavior, is when a character murders their own parents. Any character behaving this way will probably be AxCrazy and/or a PsychoForHire. An [[TheEvilPrince Evil Prince or princess]] can also do that if they’re impatient enough. It's the ultimate mark of an EnfantTerrible, AntagonisticOffspring, AdultHater, or the AbusiveOffspring, the end result of a BetrayalByOffspring, and a likely origin of an EvilOrphan (who may also be [[AbusiveOffspring abusive]]).
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22It can be justified if the parents [[AbusiveParents happen to be abusive]] or cruel mockeries of humanity from beyond the void -- insofar as murder can be, but at least it's then the domain of the [[AntiHero dark and troubled protagonists]]. It's more justifiable if [[EvilMatriarch the parent is an]] [[ArchnemesisDad outright villain]]. In addition, there are also instances where the child either unintentionally killed their parents or something [[FateWorseThanDeath genuinely horrific]] happened to their parents so that they were forced to kill them. It can also be justifiable if said parent was going to be OffingTheOffspring anyway, and the offspring in question needed to defend themself and had no choice. Or, it may just be because the child HatesTheirParent. As a result, while this trope is a MoralEventHorizon for ''many'' people, especially if the parents were innocent and loved their child who killed them, it often is considered significantly less bad if said parents [[AssholeVictim totally deserved their death for whatever reason]].
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24Contrast with EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas, which is based on the premise that [[EvenEvilHasStandards no one, no matter how bad, would act this way]]. If it happens before the murderer is born, this is the GrandfatherParadox. If only the father is killed and it's played for drama then it would be {{Patricide}}. If it's the mother that's being killed, which tends to be portrayed as downright self-destructive, that would be {{Matricide}}. The extreme version, where a person kills not just their parents but their entire people or clan is GenocideFromTheInside.
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26One subversion is to have this happen by accident and/or for the parents' death be ultimately caused by their own actions involving the child. If said parent's child also happens to be a {{Mook|s}} of the parent, it can also overlap into TheDogBitesBack. Another case could be if the parents were suffering something bad, like AndIMustScream, and their child [[MercyKill stops it by putting them to death]].
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28A SubTrope of MurderInTheFamily. An extreme aversion of HonorThyParent.
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30!!As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].
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32!!Example subpages:
33[[index]]
34* SelfMadeOrphan/AnimeAndManga
35* SelfMadeOrphan/ComicBooks
36* SelfMadeOrphan/{{Literature}}
37* SelfMadeOrphan/LiveActionTV
38* SelfMadeOrphan/VideoGames
39[[/index]]
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41!!Other examples:
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45[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
46* In "Literature/PrinceIvanTheWitchBabyAndTheLittleSisterOfTheSun", Prince Ivan's sister eats up their parents and attempts to eat up him, too.
47* In "Literature/LittleOtik", the main character eats its adoptive parents.
48* In "Literature/TheTrollsDaughter", the eponymous character helps her young suitor kill her father.
49[[/folder]]
50
51[[folder:Fan Works]]
52* In ''Fanfic/{{Atonement}}'', it's hinted that Ruin's PowerIncontinence killed her parents.
53* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'': [[spoiler:Gendo and Yui used the power of the [[EldritchAbomination Outer Gods]] to create a perfect world.]] However, their stolen power was gradually corrupting that world. When the Children realized what was happening [[spoiler:they rebelled and resolved to destroy the dream world.]] Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Shinji -helped by his teammates- had to kill his mother Yui]] to achieve that goal.
54* ''Fanfic/TheDarkLordsOfNerima: The Dark Lords Ascendant'': Zhang is revealed to have killed his father and fellow students to prevent anyone from going after him when he struck out on his own with his school's full array of assassination skills.
55* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': Subverted. After hearing how his father treated Rei, Shinji wants to kill him… and then he thinks of a better idea: giving him exactly what he wants –reunite with Yui- and then watching while his mother gives Gendo a piece of her mind.
56* In ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft'' [[spoiler:Fluttershy]] kills her father, who was abusive towards her. He was also a dragon. Apparently, dragon genes are recessive, thus why she is a pony.
57* ''Fanfic/TheFundamentalEssenceOfVillainy'': Toga, after killing both of her parents at the end of ''Frayed Edges''.
58* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6341291/1/Harveste Harveste]], who was living with abusive relatives after his loving parents died protecting him, killed his legal guardians and his cousin, effectively re-orphaning himself at the age of five.
59* Subverted in ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy''. [[ComicBook/NewGods Orion]] attempts very, very dark to make himself fatherless, and he believes he succeeds in obliterating ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, but ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} reveals that Darkseid faked his death because he is fought by the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes in the far future.
60* ''Fanfic/HigherLearning'': In the original timeline [[spoiler:Asuka got murdered by her own son.]] In turn, [[spoiler:Shinji and Kaoru locked him into what was left of the Geofront. Kaoru]] thinks that his father died down there.
61* ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfZeldaTheFallOfHyrule'': Zelda sets up a plot to have her own father assassinated so that she can become queen, forcing Link to do the job by having him shoot poison arrows at the king during a speech.
62* In Chapter 10 of the ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12459102/1/Loud-heroes Loud Heroes]]'', Chandler decides to kill his imprisoned father Mr. [=McCann=] via drowning him with his newly-gained water superpowers, after the latter [[IHaveNoSon disowned him]] back when he was about to get arrested (due to him hating how ugly Chandler got from accidentally getting soaked in toxic waste during Mr. [=McCann=]'s fight with the L-Crew). At that late moment, Mr. [=McCann=] regretted what he said before dying.
63-->'''Chandler:''' Now I have decided that [[DisownedParent I have no father]], figuratively AND literally!\
64'''Mr. [=McCann=]:''' No, nooo, [[BigNo NOOOOOOOO!]]
65* ''Fanfic/LulusBizarreRebellion'':
66** [[spoiler:Shirely]] helped Lelouch kill her father before either of them realized who he was.
67** [[spoiler:Kallen]] killed her mother accidentally while trying to stop the uncontrolled stand her mother was powering.
68** As in canon, Suzaku [[spoiler: Remembers killing his father. However, the power of Hey Jude reveals that it was actually V.V. and the geass directorate who killed him and altered Suzaku's memories.]]
69* Titan from ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'', who killed his father for more power. [[spoiler:While it is possible he still killed his family, after the rewrite, he just simply killed his entire planet.]]
70* ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaUnchainedPredator'': Curator murdered his entire family to claim his family fortune. When the Slayer finds out the full story of Curator's past, [[EveryoneHasStandards he makes a mental note]] to give a CruelAndUnusualDeath to Curator.
71* In ''Fanfic/TheNorthRemembers'', [[spoiler:Ramsay Bolton, during Stannis Baratheon's attack on Winterfell, finally loses it and kills his father Roose Bolton with his flaying knife.]] He takes him off guard as he's shouting orders to his men, and drags the knife deep down into his spine and through his throat. When the castle explodes, he finds the corpse of his father horribly mutilated from all the rubble and pees on it as a final insult. To most characters, this would be seen as a MoralEventHorizon, but considering how [[spoiler:Roose had betrayed and murdered his own King, desecrating his body with the Freys,]] it's more of a KarmicDeath. [[spoiler:Fat Walda Frey, who is Ramsay's step-mother,]] also meets a gruesome end as [[spoiler:Ramsay]] beats her to death with a jagged rock.
72* Subverted in ''Fanfic/PaintItGreenBlueBlack''. For all its worth, EnfantTerrible Vendetta won't kill her parents and gets mad when Charlotte asks her how come she hasn't killed them already. It's never clarified ''why'', but it's unlikely to be for moral reasons [[spoiler:as she has no issue helping Charlotte kill her grandmother]].
73* Examples from ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'':
74** The whole plot of [[WhamEpisode Chapter 23]] happens because [[AntiVillain Belladonna]] is determined to kill the father of her girlfriend Aurora [[IHaveNoSon for betraying and abandoning her]]. Aurora for her part only follows along with the plan because she's afraid of Belladonna leaving her, [[PoorCommunicationKills even though she doesn't want her father to die.]]
75** [[EvilMatriarch A criminal named Heratia gave birth to seven sons to use as tools to commit her crimes]]. One of them managed to escape from her clutches and made a new life. The remaining six seized the chance when she was brought down by Gligarman [[TheDogBitesBack and beat her to death]].
76* In ''Fanfic/ThePrayerWarriors'', Literature/{{Percy Jackson|and the Olympians}}, having joined the Prayer Warriors on their quest to kill the Greek Gods, kills Zeus after declaring that he is not his father- God is- in order to avoid committing the sin of patricide. Canonically, Poseidon is Percy's father, but Percy kills him later that chapter, so this still counts any way you look at it. Thalia, Zeus' daughter, helps kill Zeus in a flashback to the retconned version of the scene.
77* ''Fanfic/RWBYDark'': The SerialKiller Ruby Rose began her life of crime by stabbing her mother Summer to death with a knife, then lacerating her father Taiyang with her scythe and throwing him off a cliff.
78* The unintentional variety occurred in ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/9050848 Silver and Gold]]'' when seven-year-old Lily got loose after her first werewolf transformation and killed her parents and older sister.
79* ''Fanfic/SplitSecondMyLittlePony'': Sparkle's dark magic killed her parents. This is probably an unintentional example.
80* ''Fanfic/SoulEaterTroubledSouls:'' [[spoiler: Bizarrely, Crona is directly responsible for the deaths of both his/her father and mother. Sometimes when they were still together, Medusa ordered Crona to kill a certain Evil Human and Ragnarok to eat its soul. After the deed is done, Medusa muses on how “[its] genes helped [her] created the perfect subject,” all but confirming that Medusa made Crona kill his/her biological father. In the third arc, Crona finally achieves payback against Medusa for all the crimes and heinous acts she’s committed to him/her personally and those around him/her.]]
81* In ''Fanfic/{{Strings|Lantur}}'', it is heavily implied that [[Westernanimation/TheLegendOfKorra Tarrlok]][[spoiler: killed his father soon after his mother committed suicide due to the abuse.]]
82* In [[DependingOnTheWriter many]] [[AlternateContinuity canons]] of ''Fanfic/TrollCops'', [[spoiler:Tavros]], aka the Nefarious and Notorious Mr. Pupa, did this as the first of his many heinous criminal acts.
83* [[spoiler:Fate does this to Precia]] in ''Fanfic/WhiteDevilOfTheMoon'' after she attacks [[spoiler: Alicia]]. Pretty much no one can blame her at that point.
84* In the dark ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' fan song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78g0SyQjU1s "Will You Help Me Hide a Body?"]], it's revealed that [[spoiler: Anna killed her parents... and intends to come after Elsa next]].
85* ''Fanfic/ThePeaceNotPromised'': In his [[PeggySue first life]], Severus Snape killed his parents at Voldemort's instruction, to remove any possible alternative claim on the Prince family inheritance. Since his mother was merely grossly neglectful, he was merciful enough to kill her painlessly in her sleep. His alcoholic and violent father, not so much.
86* A slight variant with Priest from ''Fanfic/PrincessOfTheBlacks''. His former family (and ex-fiancée) are still alive, but he erased all memory of his existence from their minds as the price for a bit of BlackMagic that [[OnlyAFleshWound lets him survive getting dismembered without bleeding out]].
87* ''Fanfic/{{SAPR}}'': Cinder burned her home to the ground with her stepmother and one of her stepsisters inside. Then years later during the course of the story, she stabs her other stepsister to death in a dark alley.
88* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Gloria goes from a regular orphan, to being adopted by the King of Duskvale, to this when she eventually [[VillainousPrincess stabs him in his sleep]] to claim the throne.
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91[[folder:Films — Animated]]
92* Lord Shen in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' is an indirect example. He massacred a village of pandas and was banished by his parents as a result. According to the Soothsayer, the grief of sending him away caused them to [[DeathByDespair die from despair]].
93* This drives the plot of ''WesternAnimation/TheWilloughbys'': the Willoughby parents are ''so'' awful that the kids decide to indirectly kill them so that they can have a better life as orphans. [[spoiler:Ultimately, the parents are eaten by a shark, while the much nicer Nanny and Commander Melanoff adopt the kids.]]
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96[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
97* ''[[Film/TheAddamsFamily Addams Family Values]]'' has this in the form of Debbie Jellinsky, the kids' apparent nanny and professional "black widow"-style SerialKiller who reveals that her first murders were her parents, [[RageBreakingPoint who got her a Malibu Barbie instead of a Ballerina Barbie on her birthday]]: "That's not what I wanted! That's not who I was! I was a ballerina! Graceful! Delicate! They had to go." [[DisproportionateRetribution So she burned the family house down with them inside]].
98* Diane in ''Film/AngelFace'', though she only intended to murder her stepmother through VehicularSabotage, and not her father as well.
99* Catherine Trammell from the ''Film/BasicInstinct'' movies ''may have'' killed her parents after writing a book detailing her plan to do so, then used, "right, I wrote out this plan for killing my parents, published it in a book, then did it -- I'd have to be crazy to do that" as a defense. Whether she actually did murder her parents or not is not actually stated, though several characters express their opinions that she did.
100* ''Film/BloodPi'': The first scene in the movie is of [[AxCrazy Amber]] murdering her parents. She kills her mom by [[SlashedThroat slashing her throat]], and bludgeoning her dad to death with [[BatterUp a baseball bat]].
101* In ''Film/TheCatcher'', Johnny beat his father to death a [[BatterUp baseball bat]], and then spent the next 17 years of his life in an asylum for the criminally insane. The film starts on the day of his release.
102* ''Film/CruelAndUnusual'': One of the condemned in the afterlife, named William, murdered both his parents. It's not clear why he did it either.
103* In ''Film/{{Cruella}}'', Cruella initially believes herself to be this, having caused the accident which resulted in her mother's death. [[spoiler:In fact, it was no accident, as the Baroness actually use a dog whistle to purposely set her dalmatians on her. Furthermore, the Baroness is Cruella's real mother and that the woman she thought was her mother, Catherine, had adopted her.]]
104* In ''Film/TheCurseOfTheLivingCorpse'' the father of the Sinclair family has died, although the family suspects that he only looked dead and is now back and killing them for disobeying his last will and testament. [[spoiler: It's actually the second son, Philip, killing everyone else, including his mother, Abigail. Presumably Rufus, the father, actually is dead.]]
105* In ''Film/DarkPhoenix'', the film opens with a young Jean Grey accidentally killing her parents when she loses control of her powers and causes her mother to fall asleep at the wheel, causing the car to crash into a truck. It turns out that [[spoiler:only her mother was killed in the crash, while [[IHaveNoSon her father gave Jean up to Professor X]].]]
106* Enforced in ''Film/DeathWarmedUp''. Dr. Howell wants to get rid of his partner Prof. Tucker, whom he sees as an obstacle to his ambitions of creating a way to prolong life. He proceeds to [[{{Brainwashing}} brainwash]] his son (and the film's protagonist) Michael to kill him and his wife. Michael ends up in a mental facility, and Dr. Howell enjoys a productive career.
107* In the Extended Cut of ''Film/EscapeRoomTournamentOfChampions'', it is revealed that Claire was the one who envisaged the sauna Escape Room which killed her mother years ago (note that she was [[EnfantTerrible a young girl]] at that point). In the present, after Zoey frees her, she wastes no time to take revenge against her father by gassing him with poison in the same glass prison he trapped her within.
108* Michael Carter, the archvillain of the Aussie horror flick ''Feed'', smothered his obese mother when he was a child. He's locked into a cycle of repeating the same murder as an adult.
109* In ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'', Maggie kills Freddy Krueger, her father. [[JustifiedTrope However, he was already a horrifically evil serial killer]]. Also, Freddy himself. Years after being abandoned by his birth mother, he murders his abusive stepfather.
110* Edmund in ''Film/GermanyYearZero'' poisons his sick father, who is lamenting his uselessness to his family and had previously said he wished he was no longer a burden on his children.
111* It's implied Ginger and Brigitte did this to their abusive parents in ''Film/GingerSnapsBackTheBeginning''. When they come upon an outpost, Ginger says that their parents drowned - which is soon revealed to the audience to be bullshit. However, when talking privately with Brigitte, Ginger still alludes to their parents being dead, so one wonders why she had to lie about it before. Add in the casual references to them having been beaten before, and the fact that for some reason, they're traveling on their own during winter at the start of the movie, and the fact that Ginger, at least, always had some sociopathic tendencies, and... Yeah.
112* In ''Film/TheGravedancers'', the young PyroManiac Dennis killed his parents, and the rest of his family, when he burned down the family home. However, he was trapped in the house and died in the blaze as well. He [[UndeadChild returns as a ghost]] with [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic abilities]].
113* ''Film/{{Haunter}}'': A flashback shows how the murderous evil ghost poisoned and suffocated both his parents in the 1930s. [[spoiler:They're among the group of spirits who appear to send him to Hell at the end.]]
114* In ''Film/HellraiserIIIHellOnEarth'', Pinhead reveals that Monroe killed his own parents with the same gun he tries to use on the pillarized Pinhead.
115* In the second ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'' movie the VillainProtagonist's mom tries to [[OffingTheOffspring kill him]] but he wasn't in his bed at the time. A few minutes later he, in turn, kills her [[{{Squick}} then]] sets her bashed-in corpse at the table and continues his dinner like nothing happened.
116* Edgler Vess in the film ''Film/{{Intensity}}'' {{Lampshades}} the FreudianExcuse when he tells the protagonist that his parents were most loving, caring people that he could have ever wanted... but he killed them anyway.
117* While he didn't kill them, the titular child character of the movie ''Film/{{Joshua}}'' drove his mother crazy until she was committed and drove his father paranoid until he was arrested, essentially making himself an orphan. All so that he could be adopted by his uncle, who he liked better.
118* ''Film/JustCause'': Blair Sullivan has Bobby Ferguson kill his parents, in return for [[FalseConfession taking credit]] for the crime Bobby Ferguson committed.
119* The Tartutic from Creator/MNightShyamalan's ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' are described as being SO evil that they kill their parents after they're born ([[FridgeLogic one wonders]] [[{{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}} how the species survives]], if they're that uncooperative).
120* In ''Film/JupiterAscending'', [[spoiler:Balem killed his mother, because she begged him to, likely because she can't stand taking part in the planetary genocides anymore]].
121* In ''Film/ManInTheAttic'', Slade murdered his mother as the Ripper's first victim.
122* ''Film/{{Midsommar}}'' [[DownerBeginning opens]] with Dani’s sister Terri killing both of their parents in a MurderSuicide.
123* In ''Film/{{Mikey}}'' the title character murders both sets of adoptive parents he gets.
124** As the last set of "parents" he killed weren't his biological parents, either, it's unclear just how many people he's killed...
125* The killer in ''Film/{{Mindhunters}}'' when he was just a lad. He assumed the police would take him away when they investigated the scene, but to his astonishment, nobody even suspected him of causing his parents' deaths, which just fed his misanthropy even more.
126* The incomparable ''Film/NaturalBornKillers'' has the female lead helping her badass AntiHero boyfriend kill both her parents, who are admittedly Very Bad People.
127* ''Film/ThePurgeElectionYear'': Kimmy [[CardCarryingVillain happily claims]] that she murdered her parents before attacking Joe's deli.
128* Alluded to in ''Film/RedEye'' when [[Creator/CillianMurphy Jackson Rippner]] is discussing his [[MeaningfulName unfortunate name]]. Whether he is joking or not isn't exactly clear, knowing [[PsychoForHire this fellow]].
129-->"That wasn't very nice of your parents."
130-->"That's what I told them before I killed them."
131** He also told the female character that he'd never lied to her... Make of that what you will.
132* In ''Film/ScannersIIITheTakeover'', Helena kills her father to take over his pharmaceutical company.
133* In ''Film/Scream3'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:Sidney has a half-brother named Roman Bridger, who was conceived when their mother Maureen was gang-raped by [[HorribleHollywood a number of movie producers]]. Roman tracked down Maureen years later but was rejected by her. He then stalked her for months, learning she'd had affairs with a number of men in Woodsboro, and orchestrated her murder by using [[Film/Scream1996 Billy Loomis (and by extension Stu Macher)]] as a proxy. During the film proper, Roman murders John Milton, [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe one of the producers who participated in Maureen's gang-rape]], as his last victim.]]
134* In ''Film/SilentFall'', [[spoiler:Sylvie stabs her parents to death to stop them from molesting her and her little brother]].
135* In the Brian Bosworth movie ''Film/StoneCold'', the villain tells one of his soon-to-be-murder victims:
136-->'''Chains:''' You know, at moments like this I think of my father's last words, which were... "Don't, son, that gun is loaded!"
137* ''Film/TheresaAndAllison'': Miranda tells Theresa how she had killed both of her parents after holding off feeding on any humans for a long time and losing control.
138* Happens more than once in ''Film/VillageOfTheDamned1960''. Especially notorious in the [[Film/VillageOfTheDamned1995 1995 version]], where [[spoiler: Mara, the ringleader of the {{Creepy Child}}ren, first telepathically forces her mother Barbara to put her hand ''inside a boiling pot'', and then uses her PsychicPowers again to make her throw herself off a cliff.]]
139* In the ''Film/{{Wanted}}'' movie, [[spoiler:Wesley unknowingly became one of these, killing his DisappearedDad because the Fraternity used him as an UnwittingPawn -- the one person the rogue assassin who was decimating their ranks could never kill. Naturally, he was told that he was hunting [[YouKilledMyFather the man who killed his father]], instead.]]
140* ''Film/TheWitch'': [[spoiler:A sympathetic example with Thomasin. Her father had already died via being mauled by Black Phillip, and then her mother, now [[SanitySlippage completely insane]] and blaming Thomasin for the family's misfortunes, attempts to strangle her. Thomasin stabs her to death, visibly in tears the whole time, and [[CradlingYourKill holding her in her arms after she dies]].]]
141* ''Film/{{Wolves}}'': Early on, Cayden slaughters his parents while in wolf form. [[spoiler:Although he believes he really did it for most of the movie, it was Wild Joe.]]
142* ''Film/TheYoungPoisonersHandbook'':
143** Graham kills his stepmother by poisoning her with thallium and is in process of killing his father the same way when he is arrested.
144** Berridge, Graham's cellmate at the insane asylum, is a young soldier who snapped while home on leave and murdered both his parents.
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147[[folder:Folklore]]
148* There's an old Jewish story that's a good way to introduce the concept of chutzpah: a man convicted of murdering his parents begs the court for clemency on the grounds that he's an orphan.
149* A little dragon is found, crying. When asked where his mom and dad are, he says he ate them. When asked if he knows what it makes him, he says "Yes (sobs). A complete orphan".
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152[[folder:Manhwa]]
153* In ''Manhwa/KillingStalking'', Seungbae wonders if [[spoiler: Sangwoo]] killed [[spoiler: his]] missing parents. [[spoiler: The truth isn't ''that'' simple, however: Sangwoo easily admits to having murdered his abusive father, but whether or not his mother died at his hands or his father's still isn't revealed. There ''are'' panels from Sangwoo's perspective of him strangling his mother, [[UnreliableNarrator but there's nothing concrete to prove if these were memories, or if he was hallucinating]].]]
154* Tasha Godspell's sister in ''Manhwa/WitchHunter'' killed their father soon after awakening as a witch, an event that drove her insane. She also killed Tasha's mentor, who was like another mother to Tasha, in a fit of jealousy.
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157[[folder:Music]]
158* Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s song "Janie's Got a Gun". She shoots her dad because of the [[ParentalIncest abuse]] he inflicted on her.
159* Music/DirEnGrey's song "Berry" tells the story of a nine-year-old girl who gets sick of her parents abusing her, takes her father's gun, and shoots them. If that's not disturbing enough, the girl's favorite food is jam on bread, and the blood her parents shed is referred to as raspberry jam.
160* The Chad Mitchell Trio's song "Lizzie Borden" is one of several based on the SelfMadeOrphan/RealLife case of UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden.
161-->Some folks say she didn't do it, and others say of course she did\
162But they all agree Miss Lizzie B. was a problem kind of kid
163* Hinted at in Music/TheyMightBeGiants’ "Stone Cold Coup d'Etat", a surreal song about underlings revolting and killing their leaders:
164-->Around a dinner table a family says grace\
165And the son sees the secret signal on his sister's face\
166Dad smiles at his wife\
167Daughter reaches for the knife
168* [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison]] fantasized about killing his father (and also knocking off Brother and Sister Morrison for good measure) in the 1967 performance piece "The End" (oh yeah, and then he raped his mother). It was later parodied by Music/MeatLoaf and Music/JimSteinman in 1993's "Wasted Youth".
169* Music/TomLehrer's song "The Irish Ballad", from ''Music/SongsByTomLehrer'', details the life of one of these:
170-->About a maid I'll sing a song\
171Who didn't have her family long\
172Not only did she do them wrong\
173She did every one of them in...
174* Music/SoundHorizon gives us "Yield", in which the protagonist kills one or both of her parents due to her incestuous feelings towards one of them.
175* The titular character of the ''Music/JohnnyCash'' hit “A Boy Named Sue” desires to kill his estranged father for giving him that awful name. Averted though, because he doesn’t go through with it in the end.
176-->My name is Sue! How do you do? Now you’re gonna die!
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179[[folder:Mythology & Religion]]
180* Myth/ClassicalMythology:
181** ''Literature/TheTelegony'': Telegonus, Odysseus' son by Circe, was born after his father had already left Aeaea. As a result, neither ever laid eyes on the other, and Odysseus doesn't know that he has a second son. Years later, Telegonus winds up on Ithaca when his ship is wrecked on its shores, and is not initially aware of where he is. As a result, their initial encounter quickly becomes a battle, and they only recognize each other when Odysseus is dying on the ground.
182** ''Theatre/OedipusTyrannus'': Oedipus is cast out from his home and raised by adoptive parents who did not tell him that he was adopted. One day, as an adult, he kills a man in a dispute on the road, who was in fact his father -- who, in great irony, had thrown him out to begin with [[SelfFulfillingProphecy due to a prophecy stating that he would be killed by his own son]]. He's later indirectly responsible for his mother's death when the revelation of their SurpriseIncest drives her to suicide.
183* Myth/ArthurianLegend: Gaheris kills his mother, Morgause, when he catches her in bed with Lamorak; the two families [[FeudingFamilies had a feud]] since Lamorak's dad, Pellinore, killed Gaheris' father/Morgause's husband, Lot. In some versions Gaheris frames Lamorak for the crime; either way, he and his brothers ([[WhiteSheep except Gareth]]) would later kill Lamorak, too.
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187* ''Podcast/SickSadWorld'':
188** The first case in "Fathers In Crime" has a family man kill everyone in his family, among them his mother. The second case is about a college-age man who killed several of his family members, including his mother. He meant to kill his father as well, but it didn't work out that way.
189** "Who You Gonna Call?" discusses a college-age kid who killed his family, starting with his parents.
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193* Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s Wrestling/TheUndertaker ''may'' be a self-made orphan, or may not be. All we really know is that his parents died in a fire at the funeral home they owned and operated. At various points, we've been told that he set it by accident, he set it on purpose, his half-brother Wrestling/{{Kane}} set it, etc. It's all very confusing and pointless.
194** Nah, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNCRvCc4XY0 Undertaker definitely started the fire.]]
195** Then again, this ''was'' during Taker's Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness [[FaceHeelTurn phase]], when he was allied with Wrestling/PaulBearer again, so there's definitely a hint of ambiguity/unreliability as to who did what. For we know, ''[[DevilInPlainSight Bearer]]'' could've torched the home.
196*** This was during Wrestling/VinceRusso's run as booker, and he loves {{Ass Pull}}s, even if they produce nonsensical incoherent unresolved storylines.
197*** Vince Russo or not, the backstory of both Undertaker and Kane can be easily considered a complete mess.
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201* ''Radio/BleakExpectations'': Series BigBad Mr. Gently Benevolent is one. It was his second act of evil (the first was him punching an annoying boy who'd caused him to finally become evil). Played with, in that neither his mother or his step-father are actually upset about this. His step-father ''praises'' him for having "finally grown a backbone", and his mother says [[SoProudOfYou she's proud of him]].
202* ''Radio/OldHarrysGame:'' Thomas Crimp killed both his parents by shoving them down a well as a child, after they wouldn't buy him an expensive toy, even after he threw a massive tantrum.
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206* Daigo from ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'' poisoned his step-mother to death after suffering her [[AbusiveParents abuse]] for years. It's implied that he's poisoning his abusive father in the same way, except this time he's drawing out the man's suffering for as long as he can.
207* In ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' version one, Cillian Crowe and Daphne Rudko both murdered their own parents, though Cillian was confined to an insane asylum due to his actions while Daphne got off scot-free.
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211* ''TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}'': This happens quite a bit in the Inner Sphere. Most notably, it's what invoked the KarmaHoudiniWarranty for [[spoiler:Katherine/Katrina Steiner-Davison]]; her son realized how much of a snake she was and proceeded to off her.
212* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'': In the adventure "The Coriolis Effect", the villainess murdered her own parents by turning them into pools of slime.
213* ''TabletopGame/MiddleEarthRolePlaying'': According to legend, Glaurung devoured his own father, the elder dragon Iaurlóke the Cold.
214* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' describes Chutzpah (a major stat in 2nd edition, a skill in XP) as [[RefugeInAudacity standing before a judge to be sentenced for murdering your parents and pleading for clemency because you're an orphan]].
215* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The fallen Primarch Horus attempted to murder his father, the Emperor, but "only" succeeded in mortally wounding him and [[OffingTheOffspring was killed by Him in turn]].
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219* In ''Theatre/{{Electra}}'' and ''Theatre/TheLibationBearers'' in ''Theatre/TheOresteia'', Orestes enacts vengeance against his mother Chytaimnestra and step-father Aigisthos for their murder of his father Agamemnon. Though Electra doesn't actually wield the blade, she is guilty too.
220* The protagonist of ''Theatre/LadyInTheDark'', accused of being indecisive, recounts "The Saga of Jenny", whose life was ruined by her decisiveness. To begin with, it leads to the accidental deaths of Jenny's parents (and siblings):
221-->Jenny made her mind up when she was three\
222She herself was going to trim the Christmas tree\
223Christmas Eve, she lit the candles, tossed the tapers away\
224Little Jenny was an orphan on Christmas day
225* In the Roman comedy ''Pseudolus'', the Pimp Ballio claims to have beaten and killed his parents 'to save their Keep'.
226* In the play ''The Revengers' Comedies'', the AxCrazy ClingyJealousGirl who acts as a ToxicFriendInfluence to the protagonist is strongly implied to have started the fire that killed her parents when she was eleven because they did something minor to displease her.
227* In ''Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'', [[spoiler:George killed both of his parents by accident]].
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231* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
232** Played cruelly with [[spoiler:Miles Edgeworth ''thinking'' for fifteen years that he accidentally killed his father Gregory]] and having constant nightmares about it. Subverted, in that it was proven that he was wrong: [[spoiler: Gregory was murdered by his rival Manfred Von Karma, who later manipulated the surroundings to make everyone think Edgeworth had done it.]]
233** In the final case of ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', a young woman named Vera Misham is put on trial for killing her father, but she is innocent. [[spoiler:The actual killer is Kristoph Gavin, who also tries to kill ''her''.]]
234** ''Dual Destinies'' has [[spoiler:Athena Cykes eventually accused of murdering her mother Metis (the initial "culprit", Simon Blackquill, was TakingTheHeat)]] and, unlike with Edgeworth's case, everyone believed it was a deliberate act, [[SympatheticMurderer albeit one with sympathetic motives]] (it was thought that [[spoiler: Metis had been treating her as a guinea pig for her scientific experiments and Athena eventually snapped]]). [[spoiler:Athena herself eventually ''believes'' she did it because [[TraumaInducedAmnesia all she can remember of that day]] was stabbing someone and feeling the blood run down the blade and onto her fingers.]] It turns out that [[spoiler: ''someone else'' killed Metis, Athena accidentally walked on the crime scene, and what she ''actually'' recalled was stabbing the real killer in self-defense.]]
235* In ''VisualNovel/SisterlyBlissDontLetMomFindOut'': [[spoiler: Ichika, in her bad route. While being transported to another school by her parents, knowing that she would not be able to be with Futaba if she were to arrive to destination, she decides to kill her parents by pushing them from a cliff when they were observing the view. This was considered an accident by the police and Ichika was allowed to stay with Futaba in their house to take care of her]].
236* ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpaAnother2'': [[spoiler:Among the numerous victims of [[EvilTwin Kanade Otonokoji]]'s killing spree were her own parents]].
237* ''Franchise/WhenTheyCry'':
238** ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'': [[spoiler: Satoko, under the effects of Hinamizawa Syndrome, believed her mother/stepfather were planning to kill her and pushed them both over a cliff in self-defense.]]
239** ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'':
240*** Dlanor A. Knox killed her own father after he violated the Knox Decalogue. Afterward, she [[NeverGrewUp stopped aging.]]
241*** Also, in one arc [[spoiler: George Ushiromiya]] kills his mother [[spoiler:Eva]]. It was mostly in self-defense when her SuperpoweredEvilSide [[spoiler:Eva-Beatrice]] came out in the middle of a heated discussion in regards to her ParentalMarriageVeto, though.
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245* ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'': Captain Snow. Started off with birds and squirrels. Later, killed his parents and apparently the rest of his family, sparing his nephew but forcing him to work for his crew. Went on to become the most feared and hated pirate captain in the world until he died of a brain tumor. [[BackFromTheDead And now he's back.]]
246* The implied BackStory of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Stabby]] in ''Webcomic/BasicInstructions''.
247* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Damian killed his biological parent, Mr. Guyur, when he took over (read: murdered everyone in) the Project Lycanthrope facility.
248* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Anevka Sturmvoraus fatally electrocutes her father; she never shows the slightest regret, but then, it's his fault that she's a BrainInAJar controlling a robot body. [[spoiler: Or rather, a robot that only thinks she's the real Anevka, but she doesn't know that.]] ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheClockworkPrincess'' strongly implies that she killed her mother as well, though it doesn't give any context.
249* ''Webcomic/TheHandbookOfHeroes'' reveals in [[https://www.handbookofheroes.com/archives/comic/the-handbook-of-heroes-13 "Tragic Backstory"]] that Fighter killed his own parents at a young age, in order to become an adventurer (as everyone knows that all the best heroes are orphans).
250* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004172 "Au revoir, Spidermom"]] in this case crossed with MercyKill since she was clearly in agony.
251* ''Webcomic/{{Jack|DavidHopkins}}'': Drip was told by his horrific grandmother that he had killed his parents, in some roundabout way about his birth forcing them to live in a bad neighborhood where they got brutally murdered. But then in an arc showing how he became the AnthropomorphicPersonification of {{Lust}} it's shown that thanks to the odd nature of time in the afterlife [[spoiler: he actually did kill his parents, Lucifer led him to believe that they were an ex-girlfriend of his and her husband, and he didn't realize his mistake until he dropped their baby on his mother's torn open ribcage and got a good look at him.]] And Drip's daughter Lita is more than a bit obsessed with killing him for what [[ChildByRape he did to her mother]] and to [[ParentalIncest herself]], even committing suicide in order to follow him into hell and kill him again, though she really had no idea what she was getting into.
252* Webcomic/{{Jared}} murdered his own father, the fate of his mother is as of yet unrevealed, though it's likely she met the same fate.
253* In ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound'', Ocelot sets up a TheReveal and then tells Pyscho Mantis that IAmYourFather. Mantis' only response is a deadpan "No you're not. I killed my father when I was eight." Ocelot looks slightly uncomfortable (no small feat) and changes the subject to the actual reveal.
254* Richard of ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' admits having killed his own father. In fact, he's proud of it. Actually, he thinks of it as a funny story. But then again, anything involving killing is funny to Richard.
255* Used as a threat in the comic that succeeded ''Lowroad75'', ''[[http://lowroad75.comicgenesis.com/d/20080118.html The Smashing Adventures Of The Bottomleys]]'':
256-->'''Dad:''' Um... Well, you see... erm... I'm building this new machine in the basement and the TV had some really useful part...
257-->'''Alice:''' Dad, If you finish that sentence I will be forced to make myself an orphan...
258* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Early in the prequel "[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickStartOfDarkness Start of Darkness]]", a young Xykon decides to leave home and turns his parents into zombies on the way out. More specifically, he kills them ''with'' his (zombie) grandmother. [[{{Understatement}} Xykon is not a nice person.]]
259* Keith Keiser of ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'' killed his drunken father in self-defense after said father had killed his own wife. On top of it, he was [[WronglyAccused accused of both murders]] and banished. [[spoiler:It turns out that his father was actually innocent; [[ArcVillain the Intelligence General]] murdered Keith's mother when he found out she was from the other Bastin nation, the one without the compulsion to follow any order.]]
260* The Uricarn from ''Webcomic/TheWotch'' is a self-made LastOfHisKind. It's likely he killed his parents because, in an aside, he regrets killing them all while he was still a kid. He wishes he left a female alive.
261* Black Mage from ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' may be this; we know he's killed his (blind) brother and has said he "wouldn't use the present tense for any member of my family" (with a blood splatter in the background, no less).
262** "It would have been cruel to let him live after what I did to his eyes."
263* ''Webcomic/WhiteDarkLife'': Eloria murders her father to [[KlingonPromotion take his position as a Demon Lord]]. [[spoiler:It also didn't help that he purposefully tried to piss her off in the first place.]]
264* ''Webcomic/WelcomeToHell'' starts out with the main character, Sock, digging three graves, having just "killed his parents... [[AccidentalMurder in his sleep]]," [[spoiler:He then proceeds to [[MurderSuicide fill the third.]]]]
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268* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': From the main cast of the second campaign, [[spoiler:Caleb]] murdered both of [[spoiler:his]] parents by setting their house with them inside on fire [[spoiler: under the influence of false memories.]]
269* In ''WebVideo/TheBirch'', Lanie uses her powers of botanical manipulation to first kill her father by ripping off his jaw. After her daughter's death, she initially seeks comfort in her mother's arms. But when her mother says it was better that way, Lanie starts her transformation into the Birch and ends up constricting her mother to death.
270* ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'': Alucard admits to Walter that his three favorite things he's killed, in ascending order, are Turks, Nazis and his own father.
271* ''WebVideo/TheHumanPet'': Sam killed his parents after snapping thanks to their abusive nature.
272* In ''Interviewing Trey'' (the sequel to ''Literature/InterviewingLeather''), the supervillain Jack O'Knaves mentions how his parents were killed right in front of him.
273-->'''Jack:''' By me, but that doesn't make it hurt less.
274* From Website/{{Killerbunnies}}, Visceraline is rumored to be the reason as to why she is absent parents, which wouldn't be unlikely, considering how she is, which leads to a bit of FridgeHorror. We also have this with a mentally ill Razelle, apparently, when she set her house ablaze while in a fit of delirium, killing her parents (along with her grandmother), though it's unclear.
275* ''Literature/{{Legatum}}'':
276** ''Literature/SmirvlaksStone'': [[spoiler:The final chapter reveals that Gnekvizz murdered both of his parents during a fight and then lied about it to his brother Nick]].
277** ''Literature/ScrambledEgg'': Trellorv brutally murdered his parents as a young adult, then went on to slaughter the rest of the trolls in his village.
278%%* Dr. Sloth from ''{{Website/Neopets}}'' did this.
279* According to ''WebVideo/ThePerfectCastlevaniaTimeline'', as soon as [[VideoGame/Castlevania64 Malus]] embraced his status as Dracula's reincarnation, he murdered his parents before [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed setting fire to his home village]]. [[ABirthdayNotABreak On his 8th birthday]].
280* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
281** Mercury Black murdered his single father [[AbusiveParents Marcus]] as retaliation for the former's abuse.
282** In the tie-in novel ''Literature/RWBYRomanHoliday'', [[spoiler: it's revealed that Neapolitan, formerly known as Trivia Vanille, was responsible for the deaths of her abusive parents. After her parents sell Roman out and try to imprison her again, Neo escapes and tricks the Spiders into blowing up the mansion. She planned to kill her father by trapping him with the Dust cache ''he'd been hiding in her bedroom most of her life''...but she accepts her mother's likely death as a consequence of earning her freedom.]]
283* [[spoiler: Carolina]] from ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' sets out in Season 10 to kill [[spoiler: The Director]] for casting [[spoiler:her]] and the team aside, causing them to fragment and turn on one another, all in the name of reviving [[spoiler: her mother and his wife, Allison]] who had died during the Human-Covenant war. [[spoiler: Carolina finds the Director, a sad and broken man at the end of the season and she forgives him of all he’s done. Before she leaves, however, he asks she [[LeaveBehindAPistol leave him with her pistol]], with which he [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]].]]
284* Grallman and Talbot from ''Literature/ToWelcomeOblivion'' killed both of their parents in their youth. Unlike Grallman, who had AbusiveParents [[TheDogBitesBack and snapped after so much abuse]], Talbot murdered his parents [[ForTheEvulz just because he could]].
285* PlayedForLaughs in ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' when, as a child, Kaiba fires his parents.
286* Lu Bu manages to kill his own father ''multiple times'' in ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms.''
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290* Fire Lord Ozai from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', although he used an assassin ([[spoiler:his own ''wife'', Princess Ursa, who he convinced to use a colorless, odorless poison on Azulon since he was going to make Ozai kill their own son, Zuko]]).
291* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' Jason Blood claims that Klarion [[LiteralMetaphor turned his parents into mice]]. Then the camera zooms in on Klarion's cat Teekl, implying that Teekl ate them.
292* [[spoiler:[[PsychoForHire Dark Danny]]]] from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' didn't just kill [[spoiler:his parents, he ''[[AxCrazy killed his sister, his friends, and his teacher (as well as his human self way earlier)]]'']]...just to [[MagnificentBastard secure his own future]].
293* In ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'', it is strongly implied that Dagur the Deranged, Mad Chief of the Berserker Tribe, killed his own father. Dagur claims that his father Oswald the Agreeable "retired", later saying that he "had to be eliminated" so that he could become chief. Oswald is never seen or heard from ''once'' in the show. [[spoiler:However, it is revealed later on that Dagur didn't kill Oswald. Dagur did deliberately play up the notion early in his career, thinking he wouldn't be taken seriously as such a young chief unless people were given a reason to fear him, but he actually had no idea what happened to Oswald until late in ''Race to the Edge''.]]
294* ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'': If we go by his dad's last words.
295--->'''Duckman:''' Did I ever tell you my dad's last words to me?\
296'''Cornfed:''' Mm-hmm. "Careful, son, I don't think the safety's on."\
297'''Duckman:''' ''Before'' that!
298* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': In the Season 2 episode "The Grand Surrender", we learn that Ash accidentally killed her own parents (and several other bystanders) when her powers first manifested after she saw her sister getting sacrificed to the Serpent God Werthrent.
299* The Omnicronians of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' eat their mothers when they grow up. Leela understandably regrets telling a baby Omnicronian that she hoped he would always think of her as a foster mom after he tells her this.
300** It's implied that the other parent doesn't fare much better, if at all; Lrrr claims to have killed his own father, and "Patricide" [[MeritBadgesForEverything has its own merit badge in the Omicronian equivalent of scouts]].
301--->'''Lrrr:''' ''(to his son)'' [[BlueAndOrangeMorality ...Well, let's work up to that one]].
302** Leela nearly does this herself when she and her mutant parents are reunited. She takes the photos they have of her as proof that they are creepy stalkers who murdered her birth parents. Her parents go along with it because they'd rather die than let their daughter live with the shame of being a mutant. Fortunately, Fry and the others arrive just in time to reveal the truth.
303* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has [[EldritchAbomination Bill]] [[PsychopathicManChild Cipher]] who, when asked if he has a family in his Reddit AMA, replied "NOT ANYMORE", this was hinted at in "Weirdmageddon: Take Back The Falls" when Bill Cipher said he "liberated his dimension." The tie-in book ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'' explicitly says that he killed his parents, along with [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed everyone else]] in his home universe.
304* ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'':
305** Justin Hammer’s father died under mysterious circumstances and Justin comments about a deity that did whatever necessary to gain power. Nick Fury even suspects that Justin killed his father to take control of Hammer International.
306** In one episode a JerkAss classmate implies that Tony did this to his father because of their (actually friendly and good-spirited) competition to one-up each other's inventions. It's completely false and Tony [[BerserkButton does not take it well at all]].
307* A variation on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'': Every member of [[RoyallyScrewedUp the Heinous Family]] has [[HumanPopsicle frozen their father]] and [[KlingonPromotion taken over Miseryville]]. Since the family is different generations of {{Satan}} (a fact clearer in the original pitch) you get the impression that this is as close to death as they can get.
308* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Mr. Burns fills out a health form:
309-->'''Mr. Burns:''' Cause of parents' death?..."Got in my way."
310** Another episode has a brutal prison warden [[FreudianExcuse attempting to justify himself]]:
311--->'''Warden:''' [somber] When I was a young boy, I saw my father murdered in front of my eyes. [suddenly cheerful] By me.
312* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark,'' [[spoiler:Cartman]] manipulated the events that resulted in the death of his father, though he actually didn't realize they were related until several seasons later, when it was [[LukeYouAreMyFather revealed]] by his [[CainAndAbel vengeful half-brother]], [[spoiler:Scott Tenorman]].
313* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', the Kingpin is as strongly implied to be this as the censors would allow. After being left for the police by his father in a robbery gone south, he [[HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook walked out of prison]] with the physical strength, connections, and mentality needed to build his empire. It's not made clear what he did to his father, but Smythe is shocked that even Kingpin could be so ruthless. Near the end of that storyline, the Kingpin makes his own son Richard take the fall for Kingpin's exposed scheme. Along his wife left him for earlier actions, the Kingpin is left alone holding a photo of his shattered family, bitterly wondering when his own son would take his revenge.
314* M Bison, BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/StreetFighter'', doesn't understand why Cammy and Chun-Li are [[YouKilledMyFather angry at him,]] retorting with this trope.
315-->'''Bison:''' Yes, yes, I killed your father! What is it with you women anyway?! I killed my father too and you don't hear me whining about it!
316* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': Raven ''destroys'' Trigon at the end of the fourth season, and he's never seen again since then.
317* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'': In the episode "A Matter of Family", it's implied with Tony Zucco, at least of the {{accidental|Murder}} sort. Back when he used to be a [[KnifeThrowingAct knife-thrower]], his father was often the volunteer in his act.
318-->'''Batman:''' [[SarcasmMode Why'd you give up such a promising career?]]\
319'''Tony Zucco:''' Well, one day... ''I missed''.
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