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10	The dark side's version of the SiblingTeam -- criminals who take brothers or sisters along for the ride. They sometimes end up looking like a fraternal version of an OutlawCouple, also typically a pair. Sometimes they can play off each other as {{Morality Pet}}s or at least [[PetTheDog Humanity Pets]] while other times their partnership can be [[CainAndAbel begrudging underneath]] or have them tripping over SiblingRivalry.
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12	Can overlap with BigBadDuumvirate, may involve SiblingYinYang or StrongerSibling.
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14	See Also: TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether if parents and other relatives join the siblings on serious crime sprees.
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16	Contrast CriminalFoundFamily.
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23	* Hansel and Gretel of ''Manga/BlackLagoon''.
24	* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': In episodes 9 and 10, [[spoiler:Julio and Sylvia planned a trap to execute their sister Ange.]]
25	* ''Anime/DaphneInTheBrilliantBlue'': Wong, Chang, Lee, and May — the Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains Maia and the other Nereids repeatedly encounter — all have the same mother. After Maia's attempt to impersonate Chang in the second episode, they start using the number of the "husband" who parented them as a Trust Password to identify each other.
26	* In the backstory of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'', [[spoiler:Hei and his little sister, Pai]]. She was essentially drafted as an assassin by TheSyndicate, and her BadassNormal brother wound up tagging along out of [[BigBrotherInstinct protectiveness]]. Then [[spoiler:she went missing in the Heaven's Gate incident and he somehow ended up with her superpowers]], and things went downhill from there.
27	* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': The Slicer Brothers were a {{Serial Killer}} duo turned into a single suit of AnimatedArmor-- one forms the head and the other forms the body.
28	* Luke and Jan Valentine in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' who are PolarOppositeTwins while still both being psycho villains.
29	* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
30	** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'': The Music/OingoBoingo Brothers. Oingo has the power to shapeshift, while Boingo has the power to read the future in book form. While they sound deadly on paper, they are so incompetent that the heroes are unaware of their very ''existence''.
31	** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'': Prosciutto and Pesci, both members of the hitman team.
32	* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
33	** In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', the twelve Numbers are sisters who are built by [[BigBad Jail Scaglietti]] and did many crimes for him. Most of them aren't actually evil, and eleven of them go to prison in the end while the last one [[spoiler:died]], but seven of them rehabilitate and four of them prefer to stay in prison. Since ''Audioplay/StrikersSoundStageX'', three of them are working for the Saint Church now and the other four are adopted by the Nakajima family. Even though they now have a normal human life, all seven Numbers are still under (not so strict) observation, especially the eldest of them, Cinque, will have to work for the [[TheFederation TSAB]] for the rest of her life.
34	** Earlier, ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' has the Wolkenritter who can be considered as siblings since they have the same origin and are members of the Yagami family. They are working for the TSAB to atone their sins and crimes they had done.
35	** In ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'', the [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether Hückebein]] family members consider themselves more like siblings than anything else since none of them fit the father or mother part.
36	* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'' focuses on Albert, William, and Louis James Moriarty, the three Moriarty brothers who work as London's infamous [[CollectiveIdentity Lord of Crime]].
37	* Sakon and Ukon of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''. They're both sadistic, violent psychos, but hey, they have family values. Brothers stick together. In this case, to the point where they share a body...
38	** Kinkaku and Ginkaku fit as well. Two brothers who used to be respected in Kumogakure as Two Shining Lights. But they fell from grace and committed many horrible acts, and from then on, were seen as the worst criminals in Kumo history. Samui even stating she wants no affiliation with them. Both brothers feel lying and betrayal are great tactics. Both brothers kill Zetsu clones, who are their comrades, in battle when trying to get to an enemy, and neither seems to care that Zetsu are caught in the crossfire. However, they are very close brothers who seem to respect and love one another. Ginkaku's most said word in his life is his brother's name, and when in trouble, he calls for his brother to help him. And Kinkaku flies into a rage if anyone seriously hurts his brother.
39	* ''Manga/OutlawStar'': Gene Starwind's archrivals, the [=McDougal=] Brothers.
40	* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
41	** The Pokémon Poacher Brothers, Braggo, Blurt and Chico, from "The Mother of All Battles".
42	* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': [[spoiler:The serial killer "Death Gun" was actually two brothers and a third accomplice working in concert. The elder brother was an SAO survivor and member of laughing coffin. The younger brother has a VillainousCrush on fellow player Sinon. Both are sons of a doctor, with ample access to the drugs needed to commit the actual murders.]]
43	* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' has the Toguro Brothers.
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47	* Minor ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' foes the Trigger Twins.
48	* In MediaNotes/{{the Bronze Age\|OfComicBooks}}, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica battled a pair of brothers, the Eel (Leopold Stryke) and the Viper (Jordan Stryke), who were part of the first [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Serpent Squad]]. Interestingly enough, when Leopold became a supervillain, Jordan legally changed his last name to Dixon in order to disassociate himself from his brother -- however, Jordan then decided to become a supervillain as well and allied with his brother in the process.
49	* ''ComicBook/DangerGirl'' has the twins Cain and Abel who are part of the Nazi organization Hammer.
50	* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': The Beagle Boys. Not just brothers but cousins as well, a whole extended family of crime.
51	* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' supervillains Captain Cold and Golden Glider are brother and sister and frequently team up together.
52	* ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' has recurring minor villains the Mauler Brothers, who are not actual brothers; they're clones.
53	* ComicBook/IronMan and ComicBook/SpiderWoman respectively battled two pairs of villains called the Brothers Grimm, though only the second version are actually brothers -- and twins, at that.
54	* The Blood Brothers, a pair of minor alien villains in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, actually increase in strength the closer they are to one another.
55	* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Dredd has frequently contended with the surviving sibling members of the Angel Gang, a clan of murderers from the radioactive wastelands beyond Mega-City One. In their first appearances, they were TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether.
56	* The [[SpotlightStealingSquad Dalton brothers]] from ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke''. They may not be especially competent, but they're determined to stick to their life of crime. They are the inept [[HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative cousins]] of the historical [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Gang Dalton brothers]] (another example of the trope), who appeared in a single early episode and were hanged at the end.
57	* ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} has fought the thrill-seeking villain team Double Dare that is made up two sisters.
58	* ''ComicBook/SinCity'': The Roark brothers, one a Senator and the other a Cardinal, don't seem to like each other much but they are still the heads of the most powerful and evil family in Sin City. There's a third brother mentioned who's an Attorney General, but he has never appeared.
59	* ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' had two separate groups of these: The Weerd Brothers; Hiss, Cuss, and Silent, and the [[CreepyTwins Creepy]] {{Mutant\|s}} [[CreepyTwins Twins]] known only as Stix.
60	* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
61	** Superman's demonic enemies Blaze and Satanus are brother and sister.
62	** The first Kryptonian criminals Superman ever met were three brothers called Kizo, U-Ban and Mala, introduced in ''Superman'' (vol 1) #65.
63	* Mammoth and Shimmer, ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' foes and members of the Fearsome Five, are brother and sister.
64	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: The Triple Stars are a villainous group made up of the triplets Joey, Jackie and Johnny Star.
65	* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
66	** The Fenris twins, Andrea and Andreas von Strucker.
67	** In MediaNotes/{{the Silver Age\|of Comic Books}} [[LegionOfDoom Brotherhood of Evil Mutants]] and the ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' version of same, it was the ambivalently villainous siblings Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch.
68	** In the Acolytes, the successor to the Brotherhood, it was the Kleinstock Brothers.
69	** ComicBook/XFactor once clashed with the siblings Slab and Thumbelina, who were usually on two entirely different teams of baddies.
70	* In ComicBook/KaykoAndKokosh Wit the warrior faces a team of tough triplets bandit girls Bogna, Czechna and Kachna who specialize in ambushing people in the woods. The sisters want to force Wit into marriage (do to his reputation as a legendary hero), but after he escapes, claiming he is searching for his 'one and true love,' the trio decide to find his "dream woman" first (and presumably kill her) as their revenge for feeling rejected.
71	** Zierzchinca and her sister Zaćmica from "Twilight Eclipse" book - a sinister sorceress and her bumbling but charming sister, who commits difrent cons and manipulation as their plot to take over the land.
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76	* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the Krayfish Twins run a mob operation in Ankh-Morpork. Ronnie and Reggie are feared for their ruthless qualities and general nastiness. But they love good floristry, chocolate, and well-tailored clothes and accessories; Veronica and Regina Krayfish remain very feminine and stylish crime over ladies.
77	* The ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' fic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8801169/10/Even-though-I-m-broken-will-you-accept-me "Even though I’m broken, will you accept me?"]] takes Dexter and Debra’s relationship to the next level when Debra starts taking an active role in Dexter’s kills to see him at his most ‘pure’.
78	* In ''Fanfic/AForceOfFour'', the three Kryptonian rogues attacking Earth are three brothers called Mala, Kizo and U-Ban.
79	* In ''Fanfic/ValesUnderground'', Raven and Qrow Branwen are both mob bosses who mainly deal with Vale's drug trade. Raven takes care of things on the ground and Qrow gains political influence from the inside.
80	* In ''Fanfic/TheVow'' we have as minor villains two leopard martial artists working with Haun's gang. They're revealed to be a brother and sister.
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84	* ''Anime/TheWonderfulWorldOfPussNBoots'': It's not explicitly stated in the first film, but the third movie clarifies that cat assassins are a band of brothers.
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88	* The Gruber brothers, Hans and Simon, from the ''Film/DieHard'' movies. Like the Vegas, they're [[ZigZaggedTrope a bit of a subversion]] in that they turned up separately and apparently didn't like each other much in real life.
89	* In ''Film/FaceOff'', Castor and Pollux Troy appear to work together as this, based on a police file at the beginning that states that the two together are suspected of assassinating a Croatian ambassador (it reads "Number of hits suggests that Troy had a second shooter; possibly his younger brother Pollux").
90	* In ''Film/GhostRock'', Pickett's gang of outlaws includes the three Thompson brothers.
91	* The main bad guys in ''Film/HannieCaulder'' are the Clemens brothers: Emmett, Frank and Rufus. Bank robbers, murderers and rapists, they spend as much time arguing with each other as fighting the law.
92	* ''Film/TheLegendOfFrenchieKing'': The fearsome gang of outlaws led by Frenchie King consists of five half-sisters. Frenchie King [[SheIsTheKing herself]] is the eldest sister. In the end, they add another set of siblings consisting of four brothers and their eldest sister to the gang.
93	* ''Film/{{Lockout}}'': The two inmates who lead the prison riot on the space station are two Scottish brothers, Alex and Hydell. [[spoiler:It ends tragically with the AxCrazy Hydell murdering his own brother, who tried to take care of him.]]
94	* Charlie and Mikey Burns in ''Film/TheProposition''
95	* The movie ''Film/RatRace'' has Blaine and Duane Cody, who make their money by scamming and stealing. At the beginning of the film, they are playing slots with a stolen donation jar.
96	* In the Korean film ''Film/{{Silenced}}'', Headmaster Lee Gang-bok and Admin Head Lee Gang-seok (who are CreepyTwins to boot) inflict horrific sexual abuse on the female students of their BoardingSchoolOfHorrors. Their adoptive sister, Yun Ja-ae, is also complicit in their crimes and deals out plenty of (physical) abuse herself.
97	* Creator/QuentinTarantino's storied universe has an interesting, somewhat unintentional [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] with [[Film/ReservoirDogs Vic]] and [[Film/PulpFiction Vincent]] Vega. Both characters are hardened criminals, WordOfGod makes it clear that they're supposed to be related to each other and have had a history together, but the two characters have never been seen together in movies. For a while, Tarantino was apparently working on putting together a Vega Brothers movie, but he ended up abandoning such a project around 2007 when he concluded that the principal actors, Michael Madsen and John Travolta, would be too old now to reprise their roles.
98	** The hillbilly killer rapists Zed and Maynard are brothers as well, according to the script, however, this [[AllThereInTheScript wasn't mentioned in the film itself]].
99	** ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'', however, begins with the audience following the escapades of the Gecko Brothers Seth and Richie.
100	* ''Film/War2007'': Chang's CoDragons are brothers. When one of them is killed, the other wants revenge on both Chang (for allowing it to happen) and the actual killer.
101	* At the start of ''Film/WhisperingSmith'', Smith is pursuing the Barton brothers, Blake, Leroy, and Gabby; a trio of train robbers. Smith shoots and kills Leroy and Gabby, but Blake escapes,and later returns to take another pop at Smith.
102	* In ''Film/YoureNext'', two of the masked invaders are brothers. [[spoiler:The killers were hired by brothers Felix and Crispian to kill the rest of the family so they could receive an inheritance sooner.]]
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106	* In the second ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' book, the pirate queen Pauha and her chief mage Enahar are sister and brother.
107	* Martina Cole's duology ''Dangerous Lady'' and ''Maura's Game'' feature a whole family of criminals...[[spoiler: and the leader, and brains of the outfit, is the youngest sibling and only daughter.]]
108	* ''Literature/TheHanSoloAdventures:''
109	** ''Han Solo at Star's End'' features a sympathetic version, with two brothers who work for Doc Vandergate's outfit of outlaw technicians.
110	** [[TheGunslinger Gallandro's]] employers in ''Han Solo and the Lost Legacy,'' are a pair of murderous twins who run a mining camp.
111	* Dave and Banjo Lilywhite in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' try to rob the Tooth Fairy together.
112	* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
113	** The Carrows, brother and sister, are nasty Death Eaters (Amycus being one of two known female Death Eaters, in fact).
114	** The only other known female Death Eater is Bellatrix Lestrange. Her sister, although not actually a Death Eater, is married to one and supports the Death Eaters [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes as long as her husband and son aren't threatened]].
115	** Bellatrix's husband, Rudolphus, and his brother Rabastan are both Death Eaters.
116	* The fourth ''Literature/KittyNorville'' book contains a very nasty case of this. The sister is[[spoiler: a skinwalker, a practitioner of one of the evilest kinds of magic. She killed one of her sisters to get the power. Her twin brother is a werewolf; she became a skinwalker essentially to keep him company when he turned wolf, with none of the drawbacks of lycanthropy.]] Both are murderous and out of control.
117	* Creator/LouisLAmour: It would be easier to list the number of L'Amour books and short stories which ''don't'' have villainous brothers (and the occasional sister) working together. Normally they only serve as {{Mook}}s, but the BigBad and TheDragon of ''Passing Through'' are brothers. Normally they are closely knit and the death of one will provoke attempts at revenge (or, in rarer cases, a HeelRealization or KnowWhenToFoldEm desire). One notable exception is embodied by Ike and Purdy Mantle in ''The Quick and the Dead.'' They work together but Ike openly acknowledges they have little in common and [[spoiler:doesn't protest when their last fellow gang member kills Purdy for trying to quit. He comments that it will feel odd going on without Purdy after all the years they spent riding together, but he shows no real sadness or anger and loyally aids his brother's killer for the rest of the book.]]
118	* The two Crane brothers control the black inmates of the prison in ''Literature/TheMentalState'' like mafia. Little Mickey serves as the brains and Big Billy takes on the role of the muscle.
119	* ''Literature/SergeStorms''
120	** The [=McGraw=] Brothers from ''Triggerfish Twist'' are a group of dangerous rednecks with long rap sheets. A carjacking victim killing one of the brothers in self-defense in ''Triggerfish Twist'' sets the rest of the family on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge that doesn't go as planned.
121	** In ''The Big Bamboo'', [[spoiler:Serge joins his newly discovered half-brother Ford in a scheme to con two corrupt movie producers and then engineer their deaths.]]
122	** In ''Gator-a-Go'', TheQueenpin known as ''Madre'' once ran her cartel along with her two older brothers before the informant she spends the book chasing mucked things up a few years before the story. Specifically, [[spoiler:when a DirtyCop told ''Madre'' that one of her brothers passed on information to the authorities but she didn't know which, she cheerfully ordered the murders of both of her brothers to make sure she punished the right one.]]
123	** There are a few sets of brothers in the SmallTownTyrant clan from ''Coconut Cowboy''. Said clan runs speed traps, illegally pumps more water than allowed by law, engages in voter fraud, moves money around for a drug dealer, and kills a few people.
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127	* ''Series/AlteredCarbon'' gives us secondary villain Dimitri Kadmin, also known as [[http://altered-carbon.wikia.com/wiki/Dimi_2 Dimi the Twin]], who is his own brother. [[spoiler: Not exactly a clone, Dimi uses the series' gimmick of creating a digital copy of his mind and personality to create illegal copies of himself in multiple bodies, known as double-sleeving. Though technically the same person, the copies consider themselves to be brothers.]] Series protagonist Takeshi Kovacs uses the same technique at one point but doesn't consider his double to be a brother.
128	* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'':
129	** The first season gives us the D'Alessio brothers, a group of about half a dozen brothers of various ages who were petty criminals that become involved in bootlegging at the start of Prohibition. Arnold Rothstein, a much more powerful and competent gangster, uses them as pawns to try to attack and undermine VillainProtagonist Nucky Thompson. Eventually Rothstein and Thompson call a truce, and as part of their deal Rothstein gives Thompson [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness information on where to find the remaining brothers]], Nucky's men and allies promptly wipe them out.[[note]]The group likely takes inspiration from the real life Lanzetta brothers, with whom they share a number of similarities, including their ThemeNaming of being named after popes.[[/note]]
130	** A few seasons later, Al Capone is seen alongside his brothers Ralph and Frank in his criminal endeavors.
131	* In ''Series/BreakingBad'', the Cousins are two twin brothers who work as hitmen for a Mexican drug cartel. Their cousin Tuco is a major drug dealer in Albuquerque.
132	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Adam views Riley as his brother (since they were both Professor Walsh's "favorites") and wants to be this with him.
133	* ''Series/CriminalMinds'':
134	** The Hunter unsubs of the episode "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS2E21OpenSeason Open Season]]" turn out to be a pair of brothers who abduct other humans, set them loose in the middle of the woods, and [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame have a blast chasing and killing them]]. They basically get discovered due to the elder brother [[PetTheDog petting the dog]] (the younger is severely wounded when their prey fights back, and he starts a fire to signal for help), and this is actually somewhat made a point.
135	** "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E25ToHell To Hell...]]"/"[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E26AndBack ...And Back]]" has this with a horrible twist. [[spoiler:One brother is quadriplegic, the other is physically able but seriously mentally impaired. The former manipulates the latter, who doesn't really know what he's doing, into all the crimes.]]
136	* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': "[[Recap/CSINYS08E03 Cavallino Rampante]]" features a pair of sisters who make their living by stealing Ferraris and selling the parts.
137	* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'':
138	** In "The Deductionist" [[spoiler: Patricia Ennis was in on her brother Martin's plan to get back at Kathryn Drummond. She poisoned her liver so Martin could escape when donating his, and then tried to kill Drummond with a pair of scissors]].
139	** In "Dead Man's Switch" [[spoiler:Anthony Pistone killed Charles Augustus Milverton, so he and his brother could take over the blackmail business]].
140	%%* Simon and River Tam in ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. In their case [[JustifiedCriminal it was hardly their fault]].
141	%%* A relatively rare positive version of this trope is sibling con artists Emma and Sean Kennedy in Season 5 of ''Series/{{Hustle}}''.
142	%%* Danny and Tony Driscoll in ''Series/TheGreenGreenGrass'' and ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses''.
143	* On ''Series/{{Justified}}'' crime tends to be a family affair so there are multiple groups of criminal siblings
144	** The Bennett brothers Doyle, Dickie, and Coover help their mother run her marijuana business and act as her primary mooks in other criminal enterprises. Dickie and Coover occasionally pair up to commit crimes on their own.
145	** Boyd and Bowman Crowder follow in the footsteps of their arch-criminal father Bo, though their run their own independent criminal enterprises rather than teaming up. Bowman is killed before the start of the series so Boyd later teams up with his cousin Johny.
146	** The head of the Miami drug cartel likes to use two siblings -- his own niece and nephew -- to represent him for important deals.
147	%%* Danny and Albert Cho (respectively, Kamen Riders Spear and Imperer) in ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight''.
148	* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': The episode "Bombshell" had a pair of con artist twins who were scamming a middle-aged CEO out of his money. They were also in an [[VillainousIncest incestuous]] relationship.
149	* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_Brothers Piranha Brothers.]]
150	* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'': Earl and his brother Randy, until Karma got to Earl. At one point Randy was expecting that after Earl finished doing all the stuff on The List they'd go back to stealing stuff.
151	* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'':
152	** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E14TheHeist The Heist]]", Lee Taylor is a mercenary-for-hire who works on an operation with his brother Calvin and other members of the militia group Lightning Dawn.
153	** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S3E8HeartsDesire Heart's Desire]]", brothers Jake and Ben Miller are members of a gang of outlaws in TheWildWest.
154	* A "two brothers, one not all there" type is true of Ryan and Cyril O'Reily in ''Series/{{Oz}}''. Before Cyril's accident (which caused severe brain damage, leaving him in that state), they were a more typical example of the trope as described above.
155	* ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' is based on this trope. It's about the Peaky Blinders street gang, led by brothers Tommy, Arthur, and John Shelby… plus their aunt, TheConsigliere.
156	%%* Mr. Cain and Mr. Abel in "Meltdown", the ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' homage episode of ''Series/ThePretender''
157	* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' had a pair of brothers, in the episode People Who Live in Brass Hearses. Billy and Virgil Deluca. Virgil is handicapped, and usually just goes along with his brother. Billy is a hot-tempered and thuggish guy, who just got out of prison recently, having served two years. He insists that he and his brother are a team. He leans toward being a JerkAss. He has no problem with murder, and is prone to getting violent, even with his brother on occasion. But usually, when he sees he has really scared, or upset his brother, he calms down and apologizes.
158	%%* Day 3 of ''Series/TwentyFour'' has the Salazar brothers Ramon and Hector.
159	* Lots of ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' episodes involve this sort of topic.
160	* ''Series/{{Whiplash}}'': The Denver brothers in "Episode in Bathurst". A trio of gunslingers who found the US was getting to hot for them, they move to Australia and [[TakingOverTheTown take over the town of Bathurst]] and start charging a toll for anyone to enter or leave.
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164	* ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'' has [[spoiler: Lydia and Edward, who run Wonderland together.]]
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170	* In the Theatre/{{Cats}} musical Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer are brother-sister duo of literal cat-burglars (yes, they make this pun) who get an entire musical number about how much they enjoy stealing things and causing playful act of vandalism.
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175	* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' has [[spoiler: Dahlia and Iris, although Iris was only trying to help her sister.]]
176	* ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': One of the higher-ups of the Factio Pugni calls himself Loki "The Unbeatable" who shares that [[RedBaron title]] with his brother, "The Unbeatable" Tai Long.
177	* The Frye twins Jacob and Evie in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'', the leaders of the Rooks gang and a rare {anti)heroic example of this trope.
178	* ''VideoGame/CriminalCaseMysteriesOfThePast'' has the Flanagan siblings, Finley and Fiona, who serve as the leaders of TheIrishMob in Sinner's End and control the entire alcohol and prostitution business in the district.
179	* Eventually subverted by Carlito and Isabela Keyes in ''VideoGame/DeadRising''. The two originally cooperate in a plan mostly Carlito's to turn all of America into zombies in vengeance for their DoomedHometown. [[spoiler: [[OnlySaneMan Isabela]] was actually conflicted about the whole thing and goes through a HeelFaceTurn shortly after meeting Frank. She tries to confront Carlito and tell him to stop the operation only to get a bullet in her shoulder for her trouble, and spends the rest of the game trying to do the next best thing by aiding Frank]].
180	* A recurring villainous archetype in ''Franchise/FireEmblem'', a pair of Bandit Twins will appear in the early levels every so often in certain missions or side-missions, usually for some comic relief. To date, they have appeared in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Binding Blade]]'' (Maggie and Rose), ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Blazing Blade]]'' (Paul and Jasmine), ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Radiant Dawn]]'' (Pain and Agony), ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Awakening]]'' (Vincent and Victor), ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Fates]]'' (Lloyd and Llewellyn), and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage Engage]]'' (Totchie and Tetchie).
181	* Packie, Derrick and Gerry [=McReary=] from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' are a non-antagonistic version.
182	** Knowing that their father used to be the gang leader and that their mother has a criminal record, too, qualifies the [=McRearys=] as TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether. The only person in the family without a criminal record is Kate and Francis(Though he is a corrupt cop).
183	* The Mendez Brothers in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories''.
184	* Gol and Maia Acheron, the original ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'''s BigBadDuumvirate.
185	* The Go-Rock Quads in ''VideoGame/PokemonRanger'', each with signature bent-to-my-will Pokemon and matching musical instruments.
186	* The [[CreepyTwins Ashford Twins]] from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'': sister Alexia is the BigBad of the game while brother Alfred is her devoted [[TheDragon Dragon]].
187	* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' has [[spoiler:Flowey and the Fallen Human in the Genocide Route]], the [[CameBackWrong corrupted versions]] of [[spoiler:adopted siblings and best friends Asriel and Chara Dreemurr]].
188	* ''VideoGame/{{Wick}}'' features the Weaver children, a family of ghost children who work to murder the player over the course of six hours.
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191	[[folder:Web Original]]
192	%%* Ashlynn Harris and her half-brother Jake Myers from Literature/StrangeLittleBand fit this trope more than that of the SiblingTeam in spite of being protagonists. For example one of their escapades is non-consensual experiments on humans with recreated alien technology. Once their parents get over their personal issues the entire family becomes TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether.
193	* Lifty and Shifty, the thieving raccoon twins from ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''.
194	* Icee and Flare from WebOriginal/WaitingForAMiracle.
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197	[[folder:Western Animation]]
198	* The Beagle Boys from Disney's ''Franchise/DuckTales''.
199	* Hyena and Jackal in the cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''.
200	* [[CreepyTwins Tomax and Xamot]] from ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero''.
201	* The Wu Sisters in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness''.
202	* In ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'', Darrell, Shannon, and Raymond are a TerribleTrio of [[KillerRobot Killer Robots]] that attack the plaza on a regular basis. Significantly less prominently featured (but still just as evil) are their siblings Ernesto, Mikayla, and Jethro.
203	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' has the [[EvilKnockoff Rowdyruff]] [[SpearCounterpart Boys]]: Brick, Boomer and Butch.
204	* Small-time tech thieves, Evan and Myles of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots''.
205	* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' has the Tommy and Tuppence, a.k.a. the Terror Twins, and another set of twins, Mammoth and Shimmer.
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208	[[folder:Real Life]]
209	In traditional societies with autocratic governments -- that is to say, most societies since the existence of agriculture -- the consequences for law-breaking have been serious, and no-one outside the extended family can really be trusted. Add another common feature of traditional societies -- punishments that are inflicted on entire families regardless of individual guilt or innocence -- and the incentive structure for family participation in crime if crime is what's needed is sturdy and strong.
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211	* The Dougherty family -- Ryan, Lee and half brother Dylan -- were wanted for an alleged bank robbery in Georgia and the attempted murder of a Florida police officer.
212	* The James-Younger Gang had several sets of siblings:
213	** Frank and UsefulNotes/JesseJames themselves, of course.
214	** Cole, Jim, John, and Bob Younger and their brother-in-law Bill Chadwell AKA Bill Stiles.
215	** Robert and Charles Ford (joined the James Gang after the Younger brothers were arrested and Bill Stiles was killed at the Northfield Bank Robbery). Robert would eventually [[Film/TheAssassinationOfJesseJamesByTheCowardRobertFord kill Jesse James]].
216	** William (Bud) and Thomas [=McDaniels=] (Thomas did join after Bud was killed).
217	* Another gang from the American Old West, the Dalton Gang, centered around brothers Grat, Bill, Bob, and Emmett Dalton.
218	* The Krays, Ron and Reg, [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099951/ subjects of a movie by the name]], twin London gangsters famous in the '60s, often aided and abetted by their older brother, Charlie.
219	** The Richardson Brothers ran the other half of London and there were frequent turf wars.
220	* The main strength of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomis_Gang Loomis Gang]] was the sons... and some daughters... of the family patriarch and matriarch, who were both reputedly criminals themselves.
221	* A heroic version of this trope were Hans and Sophie Scholl, members of the anti-Nazi [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose White Rose]] resistance movement in Germany who printed pamphlets denouncing the ongoing Holocaust.
222	* While Clyde Barrow is more well being a OutlawCouple [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde with his wife Bonnie Parker]], the two of them where the leaders of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrow_Gang larger gang]], which included Clyde's brother [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Barrow Buck]].
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