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  • Afterlife with Archie (yes, that Archie) heavily implies this between Jason and his twin sister Cheryl. He's jealous of Archie and wants to grow old with Cheryl in a place where no one will judge them, while Cheryl refers to Archie as a passing crush while Jason is "family and therefore forever" (while whispering in his ear while dressed as the Raggedy Ann duo, no less).
  • Milo Manara's Borgia, like many works based on the infamous Borgia family, portrays the real life rumors of a sexual relationship between Cesare and Lucrezia as fact, but takes a more conspiratorial approach: Rodrigo, their father, straight-up commands Cesare to sleep with his sister so will have the sexual experience that she needs for her Arranged Marriage to Giovanni Sforza. And while it also portrays the rumors of Rodrigo and Lucrezia as fact, that one was an accident.
  • In Fables, Jack Horner sleeps with three sisters and brags about it, until he finds out that all four of them share a mother, making them half-siblings. The fathers of the sisters are Mr. Revise and the Bookburner.
  • During the Civil War (2006) event, Johnny and Sue Storm were forced to hide out as a married couple while on the run from pro-registration forces. They are both rather squicked out.
  • In an early Fritz the Cat story by Robert Crumb, Fritz returns home, and has sex with his sister after they go skinny dipping.
  • In Grendel, Orion Assante had a lifelong consensual BSI relationship with his two sisters, who were twins. It's implied that in this series' alternate future, fear of HIV infection had so curtailed sexual relations with strangers that getting it on with one's relatives — whom, at least, one could trust not to be infected — had become grudgingly tolerated by society, provided no pregnancies resulted.
  • When an alternate version of the Heroes Reborn universe's Rikki Barnes is stranded in the mainline Marvel Universe, she meets John Barnes, an alternate version of her brother. Unlike her real brother, who was a criminal and a rather unpleasant person in general, MU John was kind and helpful. Seeing this as a chance to have the kind of caring brother-sister relationship she never had with her real brother, Rikki befriended John. Unfortunately, this John never had a sister, and he misinterpreted Rikki's intentions. He eventually tried to kiss her. When the shocked Rikki tries to tell him that she couldn't love him that way, John doesn't take it well. At all.
  • The Olympian Pantheon in The Incredible Hercules and other comics in the Marvel Universe does this. Other pantheons tend to bring this up when they're feeling catty.
  • Les Légendaires: While Abyss and Tenebris are not technically blood-related (Both have been created by Darkhell through magic experiments), the former considers the latter as his sister. The incest isn't explicitly mentionned, but Abyss' interaction with her had some creepy subtext, with parts where he even openly states he loves her. To add to the creepy aspect, Abyss is a Yandere.
  • In Alan Moore's Lost Girls, Wendy Darling reveals that she and her brothers John and Michael experimented with each other when they were young. Plus, Peter Pan had a sexual relationship with his sister Tinkerbell.
  • In The Metabarons, sisters Nan Nan and Ohouya have an incestuous relationship after their master and lover Othon loses his genitals in combat. Othon "allowed them the right to satisfy each other's desires as long as they never spoke another word..."
  • The House of Romanov in Nikolai Dante is full of this. Dmitri married his sister Jocasta to keep the bloodline pure, Alexandr and Alexandra pause during combat to make out with each other, and Lulu's final act before riding off into the sunset is to leap on top of Nikolai and give him a massive snog.
  • Preacher has two families that indulge in incest, both of whom end up with deformed children: Jesse's childhood friend, Billy-Bob, only has one eye, while the inbred children of Jesus Christ are mentally retarded. The latter was intentional, as they were trying to keep the bloodline of Christ "pure". Since it's been two thousand years, that's a lot of inbred Jesus generations. Starr's betrayal of the Grail is predicated on his horror at the idea of presenting that as the Messiah. It's very subtly implied a split-second before the child of Christ's bloodline dies that he's been faking his retardation, or that there was at least something to his ancestry. Specifically, the character talks in gibberish and half-formed words through until the last panel before he dies (of being crushed by the spherically obese leader of the Grail being dropped from a helicopter), when he turns to the guard holding him and says "Today, thou shalt be with me in paradise".
  • In Raptors, a Brother–Sister Team consisting of two vampire siblings who hunt down their own kind, Drago and Camilla, are in a relationship together.
  • Ragdoll of the Secret Six occasionally mentions his relationship with his sister — among other activities, French kissing and prom night. In one Western Elseworld, the two of them live together as betrothed.
  • In a later issue of Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do, it's revealed that Francis Klum (who later becomes Mysterio) has been repeatedly raped over the course of his life by his older brother.
  • The Star Wars Legends comic Infinities explored What If? situations in the original trilogy. In a rejected script by Peter David, the droid Luke Skywalker and his Uncle Owen purchased at the start of A New Hope never broke down, resulting in Luke never hearing Leia's distress call from R2-D2. In the end, Leia became a Sith Lord and took Luke as her consort as the two never found out they were related. The main issue was that it violated their The Good Guys Always Win rule for the series, but the incest certainly didn't help matters.
  • In Strangers in Paradise, Darcy is clearly coming on to her half-brother David almost every time they see each other. He always pushes her away, but isn't quite as squicked as he really should be by this behavior.
  • The Supreme Power incarnation of Hyperion's nemesis Emil Burbank is strongly implied to have done sexual things to his older sister when he was a child.
  • Tomboy, a short-lived heroine from the tail end of The Golden Age of Comic Books, winds up skirting this trope when her younger brother develops a crush on her costumed persona. Thankfully, nothing really came of it.
  • Top 10 has Smax and Rexa, which attempts to justify it by saying they're probably the only two half-ogres in existence, thanks to their unlikely conception. Smax is squicked by the idea, Rexa isn't. He gets over it. It's implied that because their home universe is governed by the laws of fairy tales and myth, the taboo doesn't really exist, and Smax is just being a Woobie.
  • Transmetropolitan has one issue which is essentially a collection of stories that Spider is telling the audience. One of these stories involves a young dancer who is sexually abused by her older brother from a young age: the really tragic part is, even after the brother jumps in front of a train out of shame, it still breaks the girl's heart.
  • The Ultimates: Pietro/Quicksilver is extremely protective of his sister, Wanda/the Scarlet Witch, and their unusual relationship is implicit in The Ultimates 2. In the first issue of The Ultimates 3, it's stated outright:
    Wasp: You don't get it, Mister Rogers, do you? They love each other.
    Captain America: Of course they do. They're brother and sister.
    Wasp: No. It's more than that. They're in love.
    Captain America: But... they are brother and sister.
    Hawkeye: Yep. And if you think we've got problems with that Tony Stark sex video, just wait until somebody in the media figures them out.
  • Wonder Woman:
    • Cronus and Rhea were brother and sister as well as married with multiple children including Hestia, Hades, Hera, Posiden, Demeter, and Zeus.
    • Zeus and Hera are siblings and spouses with multiple kids just like in mythology.
    • In some continuities Persephone is confirmed to be the daughter of Zeus and his sister Demeter.
    • In Wonder Girl Hercules suggested to his sister Cassandra that they should start a new pantheon themselves after the Olympians were abducted by Darkseid's minions.
    • In Wonder Woman (2011) Artemis has an incestuous crush on her twin brother Apollo she makes no attempts to hide.
    • In Wonder Woman (Rebirth) G. Willow Wilson chose to make Aphrodite the daughter of Zeus and Dione under the mistaken belief that Dione is the daughter of of Atlas in order to excuse Atlantiades retaining their name even though Wilson removed Hermes (who actually is Atlas' grandson) as their father. Wilson made no attempts to excuse the continued existence of Atlantiades' other better known name Hermaphroditus despite the name being a mash up of Hermes and Aphrodite to allow their offspring with the attributes of the two sexes they represent to be named for both of them. This change means that Aphrodite's husband Hephaestus and her paramour Ares are now both her brothers.
  • Fantomex and Cluster in X-Force (2013). This is a strange situation combined with Screw Yourself; Fantomex was originally a mutant with three brains, and a medical incident resulted in each brain being given its own clone body, one of which (Cluster) was female.
  • X-Men villains the Strucker Twins were always... er... oddly close. Close enough that when Andrea died, her brother Andreas kind of went insane, wrapped the hilt of his sword in her flesh (this bit is a little justified - their powers required physical contact between each other), and spent about a year running around like a maniac, demanding of everyone in sight that they revive her.
  • Sister/sister incest occurs in Phil Foglio's XXXenophile story "The Monster Under the Bed".

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