The Bluths in Arrested Development. Let's see: The patriarch of the family gets arrested in the first episode for stealing from his company, his wife is an Evil Matriarch who is terrible to all of her children — who don't get along that well with each other except when it comes to her. Two of those kids are self-absorbed to a great degree and one of them is a Manchild, one of the grandchildren has a crush on his cousin (whose parents are extremely neglectful and have an extremely rocky marriage), and only one of the adults has any work ethic of any kind (did we mention that a teenage girl is the most well-respected businessperson in the family?). Said adult is seen as the "boring" one by his relatives. Later in the series, the family gets even more screwed up.
The Hunters in Boy Meets World — an intermarriage of rednecks and Italian immigrants made up of a sprawling gaggle of cousins, aunts and uncles, grandparents, and half-siblings, all of whom are trailer trash as well as crooks, con-men, delinquents, and criminals so suspicious of the cops they refuse to be filmed even for innocent reasons. This is in direct contrast to the Matthews' loving, quiet, tidy nuclear family.
The Hardacres in Brass are a very conscious exercise in playing this trope for laughs.
The Harrises. Xander's practically the only good one out of them; his parents are such drunken abusive jerks that Xander would rather sleep outside, at night, in vampire-infested Sunnydale every Christmas.
Tara's family, the Maclays — or, at least, the men. Women in her family tend to have a gift for magic, so the males created a story that there was something demonic about them to keep them in line. Thankfully, by the time we actually see them, Tara's found a real family.
The Closer's "The Butler Did It" featured a family of three that is the combination of this and Rich Bitch. The eldest member, Dennis Dutton, is a psychotic guy who sees women frequently, and whenever one of the women he sees denies him, he cuts her up. The sole daughter, Deanna Dutton, was a woman who is on-and-off on drugs, frequently going through detox. What is presumably either the youngest or middle child, Devlin Dutton, is a Depraved Homosexual who often sleeps around with guys and hustles around. Surprisingly, none of them committed the murder against the only sane member of the family: The Butler did.
While most of the families on Coronation Streetare screwed up the Barlows are the only ones really large enough to meet the "Big" qualifier. Being in the third and fourth generation helps, along with serial philanderer Ken having five children. The Barlows have fought with each other and everybody else over the years. They've also stood together through bigamy, alcoholism, cold-blooded murder, and more adultery than most can count.
The Ewings of Dallas. And of course, their counterparts from Dynasty (1981), the Carringtons and Colbys, and the Channings from Falcon Crest. The revival of Dynasty (2017) has them even more messed up than before. It's lampshaded when Fallon believes Liam, the man she married as part of a scheme, is selling a book about the Carringtons. Liam tells Alexis the book is actually about his own family who he left sometime earlier. However, having seen just how massively screwed up the Carringtons are, Liam realizes his family really isn't that bad and should give them another shot.
The Collins family on Dark Shadows. In the original series, it was intended that Victoria Winters be Elizabeth Stoddard's illegitimate daughter. Roger Collins let another man take the fall for vehicular homicide (and is a cowardly, arrogant, jerk into the bargain); Elizabeth Stoddard confined herself to the estate for 20 years because she thought she'd killed her husband (and she didn't even like him that much); David Collins, besides having his own problems, was the son of a supernatural being who would kill her child as part of her rebirth; Carolyn Stoddard deliberately dated a biker to piss off her mother (and was supposed to be wed to a demon before he underwent a Heel–Face Turn) — and then there are the sins of Collinses past, which regularly come back to haunt the modern family. Barnabas was supposed to be one of those until the character proved too popular to get rid of. On the other hand, at times most of the Collinses can display sudden and surprising impulses toward genuine goodness. It's complicated. Most of them would actually behave fairly decently if circumstances were not so weirdly freakish.
The Carlyle family in Forever (2014) episode "The Art of Murder." It started with Gloria Carlyle falling in love with a young painter and her husband threatening to ruin the artist's life if she didn't come home with him. Her resulting hatred and resentment of her husband grew to affect her whole life and the lives of their children and grandchildren.
The Lannisters fit the above description perfectly, which isn't surprising since the series centres around a Decadent Court and Feuding Families. Neither Tywin nor his descendants would be called well-adjusted, apart from Myrcella and Tommen. They will indeed instantly band together to destroy you if you attack one of them, despite not liking each other. In fact, a general rule of thumb is that out of the four primary Lannister characters (Tywin and his three children), each of them loathes all of the others — except for Jaime, who gets along well with all of them. To put this in perspective, the family that has killed the most Lannisters in the series, are Lannisters themselves — Jaime kills his cousin Alton, Cersei murders her uncle Kevan and cousin Lancel, and Tyrion murders his father, Tywin. They have a Tangled Family Tree, as being one of the great families, they have studiously married into all of the other noble families, to form alliances. Tywin is the Magnificent Bastard and "Well Done, Son" Guy, Tyrion is the The Un-Favourite, and you don't want to know what's up with Jaime and Cersei. All that's missing is an Evil Matriarch, as Mummy Lannister had no record of being evil and died giving birth to Tyrion (Tywin is quite fond of reminding Tyrion that he "murdered his mother"; it's one more reason he's The Un-Favourite, as if being a usually drunken debauched "half-man" wasn't enough... though the drinking and debauchery came later, Tywin hated him long before those particular things were true).
Tyrion: Let's raise a toast to the proud Lannister children! The Cripple, the Dwarf, and the Mother of Madness.
Part of the collision between House Lannister and House Tyrell when they interact is the Tyrells realizing just how screwed up their allies are, as the internal acrimony the Lannisters exhibit is utterly alien to the Tyrells that we see.
The Baratheon brothers. Robert considers Ned as more of a brother than either Stannis or Renly, a fact he laments and both Stannis and Renly were determined to fight each other for the throne. Robert even regretfully says aloud that he never really loved his two brothers, though he isn't happy to admit it. Stannis, in turn, declares that he didn't love Robert any more than Robert loved him, and both Robert and Stannis belittled their youngest brother Renly for his squeamish disposition. In the books, the three brothers' parents, Steffon and Cassana, died in a shipwreck off the coast — while their sons were watching from the shore. Robert was 15, Stannis was 14, and Renly was only a baby. Functionally, they spent much of their lives with absent parents as a result. The incident caused both Robert and Stannis to scorn belief in the gods and religiously-based morality, but they expressed this in entirely different ways. Robert's reaction to his parents' deaths was to embrace an "eat, drink, screw, fight, and be merry, for tomorrow we may die" attitude, causing him to be a Boisterous Bruiser in early life, and turn into a drunken glutton in later life. Stannis had the polar opposite reaction: he became convinced that because the gods and their religious moral rules didn't exist, the only real rules were those created by men, so he became a strict legalist and disciplinarian. Renly was only a child at the time and was only six-years-old when Robert became king, so he grew up kind of spoiled as the king's younger brother, without parental supervision. Not enough that he's malicious — in fact, growing up at court made Renly a much better "courtier" than either Robert or Stannis, charming and diplomatic — but it also led him to think that he should be king instead of his older brother Stannis, just because he's more popular.
Craster reigns over his own twisted clan with an iron fist by marrying his daughters and sacrificing his sons to the White Walkers, which takes on the feel of a Cult when he refers to himself as a "godly man" and his wives call a new son "a gift for the gods".
The Freys are the largest screwed up family on the continent. Their current patriarch Walder Frey is past ninety and has fathered more than two dozen legitimate children as well as numerous bastards, many of whom have children and grand-children of their own. And only one of them can be the heir.
One of Jon Snow's grandfathers, the Mad King Aerys II Targaryen, had the other one, Rickard Stark, burned to death.
House of the Dragon: At the time of King Viserys I's reign, the Targaryen family has grown quite big and definitey deteriotates into this mostly due to Hightower meddling, with family members who are distrustful of others at best and outright despise at worst, and it becomes depressingly clear that Viserys himself is the only one who's barely holding it together... and then he dies, and the feud-turned Civil War begins.
The Lopez family of The George Lopez Show. Max is dyslexic, but there's nothing wrong with that. However, later, he gets mixed up with a gang, gets in a knife fight, frenches behind a dumpster until he gets hungry, then shoplifts, and launched a bottle rocket that destroyed the garage and put the family in horrible debt, got alcohol poisoning as a young teen, and tore up a perfectly good pillow. Carmen got featured in a rap video, having a pillow fight, if you know what I mean, then went to a party with beer, then drank beer (elsewhere from the beer party), then planned her pregnancy with a boy she was dating (and she was very Crazy-Prepared for it, too), and insulted her father in her diary. Their GRANDMA, even, is alcoholic, addicted to smoking, treats every one like crap, has had numerous run-ins with the law and hit a guy in the nuts this one time. George Lopez... nothing too wrong with him. He lies. A lot. Then Angie, who... actually, she's the sole refugee from this trope in the family, even though she is overly-optimistic and tends to scold George for things he can't help at all.
Blanche's family in The Golden Girls is a comical example. In the episode "Adult Education", Rose is quizzing Blanche in psychology and asks, "Who said that the son wishes to exact revenge on the father by having sex with the mother?" Blanche responds, "I don't know who said it, but my cousin did it!"
The van der Basses (now also known as the Bass der Humphreys) could also count, if you consider all of them truly related at this point. Screwed-up is really putting it mildly, Dan and Serena have an on-and-off romance while their parents are married and they share a half-brother. Chuck tried to rape both Serena and Jenny before he became an adoptive brother to the former and stepbrother to the latter, though after they became stepsiblings Jenny decided to lose her virginity to him. Oh, and Dan and Chuck have both slept with Vanessa who also bedded their half-brother Scott. Throw Uncle Jack into the mix and it gets even crazier...
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys arguably tops them all: on that show, Hercules came (via a human mother, Alcamene) from a family of screwed-up gods! "I really hate my family," Herc complained in one episode. And who can blame him? His father (Zeus) is a dried-up old adulterer; his stepmother (Hera) is a homicidal bitch; his uncle (Hades) is a borderline rapist; his aunt (Demeter) is an embittered hag; his cousin (Persephone) proves herself to be a total slut; his half-brother (Ares) is a psychopathic Blood Knight; his half-sister (Aphrodite) is a Brainless Beauty (with a touch of Alpha Bitch); and his nephew (Cupid) is a moody delinquent who changes from an angel-winged hunk to a literal monster whenever he gets jealous, due to a curse put on him by Hera. His other half-brother Apollo is a Smug SuperJerkass who treats mortals like garbage. The only halfway decent members of the pantheon are Athena and Hephaestus who each only appear once in the series.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: of the protagonists, Dee, Dennis and Frank Reynolds, are a highly dysfuntional rich family, and among recurring characters, there is the incestuous, poverty stricken McPoyle clan.
Jane the Virgin: The Solanos, a wealthy hotelier family. The patriarch, Emilio, was apparently such a terrible husband to his first wife Mia that she had a psychotic break and killed herselfnote later revealed that she just left to live a quiet life by a lake. He paid off his second wife, Elena, to stay away from their son Rafael. Emilio seriously played favorites with his kids, and his favored child, daughter Luisa (by Mia), is a mentally unstable alcoholic whose marriage ends in the first episode and starts shacking up with her ex and stepmother, Emilio's third wife Rose. Rafael is married to Petra, who brings her own issues to the table; she tries The Baby Trap to keep their marriage going so she can get her hands on the money specified in the prenup (at the behest of her evil mother, Magda). Oh yeah, and Elena and Rose? Both murderous drug lords. It's frequently lampshaded that their dysfunction is straight out of a telenovela, and is often used as a point of contrast to Jane's more stable and down-to-earth family.
In Justified, the Crowders and Bennetts qualify. Both are longstanding criminal families brimming with deception, betrayal, resentment, and favoritism.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent has Detective Goren's family. Goren's older brother is a loser drug addict who's always asking him for a handout. Goren's mother is almost always rude and disrespectful to him, regardless of him being the successful son in the family and Goren treating her with nothing but respect. Meanwhile, the mother treats her loser son with love and affection, even though he hardly visits and takes of care her as Goren does. Besides the clear display of favorites among her sons, Goren's mother had him by cheating on her husband with a man who turned out to be a serial killer. Which explains her treatment of Goren compared to his older brother.
The detectives of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit have some family issues, to say the least. In fact, it would probably be easier to list the major characters that don't fit the trope.
Olivia Benson is a Child by Rape, her mother being an alcoholic who died falling down some stairs. She also has a half-brother through her rapist father, Simon Marsden, who always seems to find himself in some sort of serious trouble.
Elliot Stabler was suggested to have an abusive father. His mother, meanwhile, has bipolar disorder, causing him to become estranged from her. Not helping matters is that his daughter, Kathleen Stabler, inherited the disorder, accounting for her bizarre behavior in her early adulthood.
Odafin Tutuola may have the most dysfunctional family of the entire main cast: the long amounts of time he spent undercover caused his wife to leave him and his son, who is gay, to be estranged from him, though he's eventually able to rebuild his relationship with his son. Worse still, Fin's ex-wife was raped by her father, resulting in the birth of Darius Parker, who she resented and who later went on to commit murder.
John Munch didn't get along with his father, and told him that he hated his guts just before before his father killed himself. His uncle, Andrew, also suffers from mental illness.
Amanda Rollins' father walked out, her mother had a series of abusive boyfriends, and her sister is more or less a sociopath.
Nick Amaro's father was regularly violent with him and with Amaro's mother. Years after the fact, Amaro's mother and sister still defend the father, and all three of them insist that Amaro is either overemotional or misremembering when he brings up the abuse.
Malcolm's family in Malcolm in the Middle, as part of an effort to make the world's worst dysfunctional family.
In the Masters of Horror episode "Imprint", this is the nicest thing to say about the disfigured prostitute's one. The father and mother were incestuous siblings who lived in poverty. The father beat the mother, while the mother aborted or murdered all her inbred infants, except for the resilient girl who eventually became the prostitute. The father raped the girl during one of his violent stupors and she beat him to death in return. The mother sold her daughter into sexual slavery because she couldn't care for her any more with the father gone. Finally, the girl has a mutant, evil twin sister growing out of the side of her head.
The Mentalist: The Harrington family from Red All Over stands out. Xander, the elder son, forced his father out of the company in a hostile takeover. The younger son, Ed, is a No-Respect Guy playboy who who's having an affair with his stepmother and is the father of her baby, something his brother was apparently aware of, causing their father to think Xandar was the son who'd cuckolded him and kill him in a fit of rage, and both sons seem to have resented their father's attitude towards them and the family. Xander's wife and daughter seem fairly normal, though.
The Pendragons on Merlin, composed of a tyrannical king, his emotionally-damaged son, their illegitimate daughter/sister who keeps trying to kill them both, and an Evil Uncle (who seems to have a thing for the earlier-mentioned niece).
The villains in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers were a family that got more screwed up as the series progressed. It started when Rita married Lord Zedd, and that might have actually worked out... But then Rita's brother Rito showed up, and his incompetence drove both his sister and brother in law crazy. But it didn't stop there. Then Rita's dad Master Vile appeared (at which point Tommy actually commented on how screwed-up Rita's family was) and things went downhill. Right from the moment Zedd and Vile met, they hated each other and argued constantly. It was a relief to everyone concerned — especially Zedd — when he left.
The Doyle-Wells clan in Night and Day has it all: inadvertent father-daughter incest between Alex and Jane; inadvertent cousin incest between Della and Tom; Alex's secret son with Steph the vicar; Dennis's father switching his half-sister Della at birth; a pair of Creepy Twins; Django plotting to seduce stepmother Dona and murder dad Charlie; sixteen-year-old Jimmy getting his aunt Begonia pregnant; and to top it all off, the family ends up inheriting the Harpers' evil fridge.
Nirvana in Fire: Jingrui's ill-fatedly combined double family is possibly one of the most screwed up examples. Xie Yu, one of his adopted fathers, turns out to have raped and forcibly married his birth mother then murdered his other adopted father's biological son. When this is revealed Xie Yu attempts to murder everyone present, including Jingrui.
The Nichol/Cohen family in The O.C.. The patriarch, Caleb Nichol, is Magnificent Bastard par excellence. His daughter Kirsten married Sandy Cohen, had Seth, and adopted Ryan, so that's four of the main characters. But Nichol went on to marry Kirsten's best friend Julie; this added her ex-husband Jimmy and daughters Marissa and Kaitlin to the clan (and gave Ryan's relationship with Marissa a vaguely incestuous quality). It gets worse: Caleb's illegitimate daughter Lindsay was also at the kids' school and she also dated Ryan. Then after Caleb is gone, Julie marries Summer's father. And Summer marries Seth in the finale. The end result, thanks to Caleb's industriousness willingness to marry a woman his daughter's age, ten of the 12 characters who were cast members are eventually related by marriage — only Luke and Taylor escape. (And Taylor lived with the Cooper side of the family for a while at one point anyway, to the point of almost becoming an adoptive member.)
Keep in mind that pretty much all of the main characters are related in some way or another.
Emma Swan's family. Emma is twenty-eight and is roughly the same age as her mother Snow White, her father Prince Charming, and her mother's stepmother Regina the Evil Queen, and because of a curse they are under none of them know they are related to each other and from another world. And then there's her fight with Regina over who her son Henry's real mother is, the one who gave him up at birth or the one who adopted him. This also being a story with Snow White, you know there's already a few murder attempts and entire kingdoms hanging in the balance, not to mention the way the writers take liberties with the original storylines, particularly Charming's.
Then there's the fact that Henry and his grandmother Snow could be considered step-siblings through the complexity of the relationship between Snow and Regina; the two were stepmother and stepdaughter, and Regina became Henry's adoptive mother. Regina is Snow's stepmother, making her Emma's step-grandmother, and Henry's step-great-grandmother, but is also Henry's adoptive mother. While no one has mentioned it yet, this means Henry and Snow are step-siblings which means his own mother is technically his step-niece.
Add Cora for even more good times. She was having a Teacher/Student Romance with Rumpelstiltskin, and her illegitimate daughter, This universe's Wicked Witch of the West later tried the same thing. Cora abandoned her because her scheming for power was more important, killed Snow White's mother so she could force Regina into an Arranged Marriage for Regina to gain power, and killed Regina's lover. Regina blames Snow for this, as she told Cora, and spends the next thirty years bullying and then trying to kill her stepdaughter and everyone else in range. Finally, Snow White has enough of this and murders Cora, her step-grandmother, out of revenge for killing her mother (and throwing Snow's elderly nanny to her death For the Lulz). Oh, and she used Regina to do it.
Did we mention Henry's adoptive aunt, the Wicked Witch of the West, killed Henry's father? Boy, you bet they get along.
And that's just the maternal side of the poor kid's family. His dad turns out to be Baelfire (Rumplestiltskin's son), meaning their world's equivalent of Dark Lord is his grandpa. Great-Grandpa is even worse, as he de-aged himself into Peter Pan (who actually makes his son, the Dark Lord, look like a good guy by comparison) Baelfire's mom ran off with Captain Hook. Great-Grandma, Rumple's mother, is actually the black fairy, one of the darkest, most evil beings in the realm, who steals babies for likely very dark, powerful spells, and she abandoned Rumple with his father when he was a baby. Baelfire's dad is hooked up with Belle (who, like Henry, is pretty much an innocent caught in the crossfire). Baelfire was forced to leave Emma in jail and knocked up, and now he's built a new life complete with fiancee... said fiancee turns out to be part of a magic-killing order of Knight Templars who is using Baelfire, and actually romantically involved with Owen Flynn, and jury's still out on if Owen's related to thatFlynn family...
Oh, and the true loves of Emma and Regina are, respectively, Captain Hook and Robin Hood. The same Hook that was previously in a relationship with Rumplestiltskin's wife Milah and briefly took on Baelfire as one of his crew. To top it all off, Robin was tricked by Zelena, Regina's half-sister disguised as Maid Marian at the time, into having a child with her.
The last season adds the Tremaine family to the mix via Henry's marriage to Ella. Ella's stepfather, Marcus Tremaine, was originally Happily Married to wife Rapunzel and they had two daughters, Anastasia and Drizella. Then, Rapunzel was trapped in a tower for six years, during which time Marcus remarried to Cecilia, Ella's mother. Anastasia, unable to accept it, lures her mother back with floating lanterns and Rapunzel, desperate to get her family back, curses Cecilia so she'll run away to New Wonderland. Marcus, however, still loves Cecilia and goes to find her, while Drizella refuses to accept Rapunzel back into her life. After Marcus saves Ella over Anastasia when both are drowning, Rapunzel kills him, forces Ella into servitude and abuses Drizella, which in turn causes Drizella to join the group of witches to bring about yet another Dark Curse.
Psychopath Diary: The Seo family. In-woo is a Serial Killer, his half-brother Ji-hoon has people beaten up for annoying him, Ji-hoon's mother hates In-woo, and their father is dismissive of both of them. In-woo ends up killing his father and abducting Ji-hoon, then tries to use Dong-sik to murder Ji-hoon by proxy.
Everyone in the Soonyang family, except Do-Joon, in Reborn Rich is morally corrupt and obsessed with inheriting their father's powerful corporate they'd sell each other out for it and Yang-Cheol's supposedly loving wife even goes as far as trying to kill him and Do-Joon to prevent him from giving Do-Joon the financial holding company. When their father/grandfather's health is at risk, they're all worried about the succession of the company and fight within themselves while faking concern for him. They also mistreat Do-Joon's family because his father is from another mother and he pursued films and arts against his father's (Yang-Cheol) wishes. There's their murderous hatred for Do-Joon, too.
One episode of Scandal featured an extremely wealthy and politically powerful family that has run on this trope for generations. In more recent history the patriarch of the family was almost a presidential candidate but that was scuttled when the press found out about his secret second family in Canada. The daughter was the Attorney General of Texas but had to resign when her massive cocaine use came to light. The two sons are the current faces of the family and seem to be nice men with no real vices. In fact, Olivia is called in when the younger brother's political campaign starts to flounder because he is seen as too asexual. The solution is to get him into an Arranged Marriage so the voting public can relate to him more. In the end, Olivia discovers that he has been having a decade long affair with his older brother's wife. The older brother knew all about it from the beginning but did nothing because the arrangement kept the family together.
Scoundrels (2010): The West has been a family of thieves and con artists for generations, with Wolf claiming it's In the Blood, as such all of them (save for Logan) are always somehow involved in petty crimes and cons. Even Wolf's Grandpa was also a career thief.
The Maguire family in Shameless (UK) embodied this trope, being aggressive Irish drug dealers, and as such were the most feared family in their area. Paddy the Papa Wolf, Mimi the Mama Bear, Micky, who is tough but gay, Jamie the ex-con, Shane the violent but clumsy stoner, and Mandy, the only nice member of the family, who later dies.
The Gallagher family from both the British and the American versions qualify too, the latter especially. Patriarch Frank is an utterly useless deadbeat who spends every waking hour drunk off his rocker and neglects his kids (when he isn't being outright abusive of them) and the matriarch Monica is a bipolar disorder-afflicted drug addict who left the family to live with her lesbian lover. As a result, the oldest daughter Fiona had to pick up the slack, and while she has some bad slips here and there, she has done a pretty good job raising her younger siblings. However, they're not without their own issues — oldest son Lip is Brilliant, but Lazy and has some anger issues, second oldest son Ian is revealed to have inherited Monica's bipolar disorder, third son Carl is The Bully and a budding sociopath with an appetite for destruction (though he does get better with some Character Development later on), and youngest daughter Debbie is an insecure Bratty Teenage Daughter. The only one without any serious issues is Liam, and that's only because he's a literal baby. They get even more screwed up with the introductions of Frank's mother Peggy (an abusive criminal who went to prison after her meth lab blew up and killed several people), oldest illegitimate daughter Sammi (who's more than a little Ax-Crazy herself and Really Gets Around) and her son Chuckie (a Fat Idiot who barely understands what goes on around him half the time). At one point, Lip and Ian lampshade this, wondering if being a Gallagher is a disease unto itself.
Smallville: The Luthors. Good god. Between Lionel, Lex, Lucas, Lillian, Tess, and Alexander there's so much deceit, manipulation, murder, and betrayal that it's amazing any of them are still alive. On Earth-2 it somehow gets worse even though there are fewer of them, with Earth-2 Lionel being the Ax-CrazySocial Darwinist who manipulates the hell out of Earth-2's versions of Clark, Lex, and Tess.
Ja'rod, Duras' father, betrays the Klingon colony on Khitomer by facilitating a Romulan attack. (He is killed in the attack, though, so he's Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves.)
After Duras falls at Worf's blade (he made the foolish, foolish mistake of killing Worf's mate), his sisters Lursa and B'Etor launch a civil war against the rightful Chancellor Gowron (K'mpec's successor), with the aim of establishing Duras' son, Toral, as a Puppet King. (They're also receiving secret aid from the Romulans, well-established as enemies of the Klingon Empire.) When The Plan goes belly-up thanks to the intervention of The Federation, they bugger off and leave Toral at the mercy of Gowron's loyalists. Fortunately for him, Worf chooses to spare his life, as he's merely a pawn of his family.
Star Trek: Enterprise then reveals that the family's corruption goes back a few centuries, with one of their ancestors (also named Duras) bullying a group of defenseless and starving refugees. When Enterprise comes to their defense, with Archer trying to talk things out and only firing back when things go south, Duras lies and claims that Archer attacked him as an act of war against the Klingon Empire.
The Tigans from an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine might fall into this as well.Norvo is borderline depressed and that was before he committed a murder Janal is basically the dutiful son, the mother is a cold control freak, the Father is out of the picture and Ezri who has her own issues basically joined Starfleet to get away from this family.
Quark's family counts as well. Quark, himself, is the local bartender on Deep Space 9, a scheme and conniving crook who, at the same time, is A Lighter Shade of Grey compared to his fellow Ferengi, such that he aided the Bajorans in small ways during the Cardassian occupation. His brother, Rom, is a dimwit with no business acumen whatsoever, but also a gifted engineer who eventually goes his own way and pursues a career as a maintenance worker on the station. Quark's nephew and Rom's son, Nog, also goes his own way and becomes the first Ferengi to join Starfleet. Meanwhile, Quark and Rom's mother, Ishka, is a Ferengi feminist who champions equal rights for females, including the rights to earn profit and wear clothes, something that eventually causes major upheaval in Ferengi society. Their father, Keldar, was described as being a crappy Ferengi who couldn't earn profit for beans.
The show features the delightful blend of the Winchesters and the Campbells. Between manipulations, impossible orders, and the possibility that the family patriarch might have once set his nine- and five-year-old sons up as bait for a child-eating monster, there's a bunch that's screwed up in this family. What's best is that the reasons why things are so messed up weren't known for years and some of them we're still learning about.
The entire Heavenly Host, full stop. So screwed up in fact that one of the four archangels, Gabriel, decided to run away and join the Norse Pantheon and become Loki. Yes, THAT Loki. And considering how screwed up the Norse gods are, that's saying something. Even before Gabriel decided to run away because the infighting in his family became too much, he states to the Winchesters that what Earth calls an Apocalypse used to be "a Sunday dinner" for him.
The whole family in Titus is severely screwed up, where mental illness, and alcohol and drug abuse are common affairs. And they were based on his actual family, so guess what that makes this. Erin's family also qualifies, as it seems to consist mainly of thieves, gamblers and drug dealers/addicts.
Two and a Half Men: Every family on the show is screwed up one way or another.
The Hargreeves siblings from The Umbrella Academy (2019) clearly have become a maladjusted bunch due to the... let's just say dubious parenting skills of Reginald. In order:
Luther has No Social Skills, which is a massive problem when he's supposed to be The Leader, and doesn't seem to realize when to stop mollycoddling his siblings. He's also so much of The Dutiful Son that he accepted not only getting his torso mutated into that of a gorilla's, but also went ahead with a Snipe Hunt.
Diego's Brutal Honesty stemming from his cynicism and problems with authority frequently toes the line into outright verbal abuse.
Allison was encouraged to abuse her Compelling Voice, resulting in her husband divorcing her for using it to influence their daughter, and her having to attend therapy for visitation rights.
Five spent much of his life trapped in the future and killing numerous people - resulting in him developing a penchant for extreme violence and abrasive behavior.
Viktornote Formerly Vanya suffered the brunt of Reginald's abuse and was treated as The Unfavorite, thus developing a massive inferiority complex that ends in him nearly kickstarting the apocalypse twice. And that's not taking into account his gender dysphoria.
The Vampire Diaries. The Originals. The patriarch Mikael wants to kill his wife's bastard son, Klaus. Mikael's wife Esther wants to kill her children to remove the taint of vampirism from them. Esther also gave away her first-born child Freya to her sister Dahlia as part of a deal. The first son Finn is a total Mama's Boy. The second son Elijah is the most honorable one but he's even committed heinous crimes. Esther's bastard Klaus often puts his siblings into coffins when they annoy him. Second daughter Rebekah keeps looking for love but her suitors keep getting killed by Klaus. The fourth son Kol is kinda crazy but later mellows after he marries Davina Claire. The youngest child Henrik only lives to his tens before being killed by a werewolf. Freya later fell in love with Mathias but Dahlia killed him, so Freya tried to kill herself but accidentally killed her unborn child. She later marries Keelin Malroux, a werewolf. Finn fell in love with Sage. Klaus later adopted a boy named Marcel who later fell in love with Rebekah and they married. Klaus would later have a child with Hayley Marshall named Hope. Hayley and Elijah fell in love but an amnesiac Elijah would later let her die at the hands of his current fiancee's mother's hands. Klaus also killed Elijah's girlfriend Gia. Hayley was married to Jackson but it was an arranged marriage. Klaus also fell in love with a therapist named Camille O'Connell who had a twin brother that was cursed to be crazy and an uncle that got cursed as well. Hope later erased all memory of herself from existence after she jumped into a pit. Her ex-boyfriend was also complicit in her mom's death. She later dated a phoenix.
As mentioned in the Real Life folder below, Victoria depicts just one small portion of the messy, sprawling web of intermarriages and dynastic alliances that made up European royalty. Regarding the characters in the series, we have Victoria's mother, who is implied to be involved with her manager Sir John Conroy, who in turn is conspiring with Victoria's uncle, the Duke of Cumberland, to have Victoria disqualified from ruling. Victoria herself only came to the throne because of a succession crisis due to the fact that none of George III's children had surviving heirs, despite a (frankly hilarious) race to find young wives of noble blood in an attempt to have heirs first (though they had plenty of illegitimate offspring).
The Wire: Proposition Joe laments that he has "all sorts of nephews and inlaws fucking up [his] shit", and of these nephews, we meet Drac the least subtle drug dealer in East Baltimore and Cheese who helps Marlo have Joe killed. The Barksdale family has its own share of issues; D'Angelo does not feel cut out for the family business of drug dealing but feels preassured to stay in the game, and is talked into taking a 20 year jail sentence. After his death, trust breaks down between Brianna and Avon.
