Offing The Offspring / Video Games

• ANNIE: Last Hope have the tragic fate of the father-daughter duo, Mike and Jessica, where Mike is forced to execute Jessica after she's infected by the zombie virus and tries attacking him. You later find Mike's corpse, hanging from a tree and Jessica buried nearby.
• The Binding of Isaac is a direct nod to the original Choice of Abraham, with poor Isaac having to escape a mother who wants to murder him on God's command. Except it turns out, after a very, very convoluted bit of Mind Screw, that this is not the case — Isaac is suicidal because of massive self-loathing brought on by his father's leaving the family, which he blames himself for, to the point of believing himself to be the Devil. The entire game is essentially a Dying Dream, with Isaac locking himself inside a toy chest and slowly suffocating to death.
• During Carl's Story in BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, he finds his father, Relius, who instantly tries to kill Carl because he asked why he turned Ada into Nirvana. Relius then shows Carl he did the same to his wife, Ignis. Due to him not being Playable yet, he wasn't actually fought, but in Extend, Relius is made playable, yet Carl's story remains the same.
• Castlevania:
  • In Castlevania 64, an evil witch named Actrise sacrificed her own child in a ritual to obtain eternal life.
  • In Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Dracula has doomed to battle his own descendants. And this is especially true of the alternate universe's Trevor Belmont, Dracula didn't know he had a child until he's already impaled Trevor with his own combat cross and gave him his blood, which would eventually turn him into Alucard. The shock that the brotherhood knowingly sent Trevor to kill him causes him to extend his vendetta from God to the whole of humanity.
• In the backstory of the third Dark Parables game Rise of the Snow Queen, the Wicked Stepmother of Snow White and her twin brother Ross Red had them falsely accused and convicted of a crime in their teens, and they were sentenced to death. Fortunately, The Frog Prince was able to intervene and save them. (This is only shown in supplemental material found in the game.)
• In the bonus chapter of Dark Tales: The Tell-Tale Heart, business mogul Felix Ledler is accused of murdering his wife Victoria and their young daughter Maria. The end of the chapter reveals that he's innocent of their deaths.
• At one point in Dead Space 2, you can find an audio log of a woman screaming at her husband in grief-stricken rage — because she just had to kill her own daughter, who had turned into a necromorph.
• Devil May Cry:
  • Arkham, in one of his first scenes in the game chucks his daughter Mary aka Lady off the Temen-ni-gru after she tries to kill him, she survives thanks to Dante catching her. This act becomes confusing later when it's revealed he explictly requires his daughter's blood to open the Underworld so either he intended to get blood from her shattered body or as The Chessmaster knew the fall wouldn't kill her. Regardless, it's still shown he has no qualms about killing his daughter in cold blood to achieve his goal, which is to be expected given, Arkham killed his own wife to gain power (which is the reason why Lady is out to kill him in the first place). In the end, Lady is the one who kills her father instead, though it breaks her.
  • Played with in Devil May Cry 5. Upon meeting his only son Nero for the first time, Vergil pulls a Darth Vader and takes Nero's arm off (in order to reclaim Yamato). As stated by Nico, Nero almost bled to death and only survived thanks to his own demon heritage. Later, Vergil — as his Superpowered Evil Side Urzien — almost kills Nero, but the latter is saved by his Cool Uncle Dante. Subverted when Vergil becomes whole again, however; after learning that Nero is his son, Vergil doesn't make any lethal moves on him, although being terrible with familial relationships, he still has no qualms slicing and stabbing Nero in their fight. It can be inferred that Vergil, like with Dante, actually does cares about his son beneath his seeming indifference, even if his parenting skills have been appalling.
• In Devotion, Feng Yu is tricked by a cult into killing his own daughter by locking her in the bathroom to soak in snake wine for a whole week.
• In Diablo III, Adria, in the cruelest betrayal of the entire series, kills her own daughter Leah by shoving the Black Soulstone into her chest and using her as a vessel for Diablo's rebirth as the Prime Evil. Even worse, the only reason that Adria even had the poor girl was for this exact purpose — Leah's true father was none other than Diablo himself by way of the possessed Dark Wanderer, and Adria had her with him in order to put her master in control of the other six Evils upon the realization of this horrible plan.
• In Diablo IV, Mephisto has his daughter Lilith killed.
• Dragon Age: Origins:
  • One option in the Redcliffe quest arc is that, if you choose to fight the demon-possessed Connor directly, you can have his mother Isolde put him out of his misery.
  • There is also Flemeth, of whom the local barbarians say that she eventually hunts down every one of her daughters to eat their hearts. She actually has a new daughter every couple of decades for the single purpose of stealing their bodies when her own grows too old. By the time she gets to Morrigan, she should be through one or two dozen of them.
• Dyztopia: Post-Human RPG: Zazz treats the android Detritus like a son at first, but when Detritus protests against his war crimes, Zazz has Akari kill Detritus while calling him a waste of parts. Fortunately, Eliza revives Detritus, and the two join Akira's side in order to depose Zazz.
• The Elder Scrolls:
  • In the series' lore, Ruptga, aka "Tall Papa", is the chief deity of the Yokudan/Redguard pantheon. He was the first deity to discover a means to survive Satakal's cyclical devouring of the worlds, known as the "Walkabout", where he would reach the Far Shores which Satakal could not consume. He helped other spirits to accomplish this as well, but soon, there were too many spirits for he alone to save. He created a helper in Sep, the serpentine Yokudan version of Lorkhan, out of the "worldskins" that Satakal left behind. However, Sep convinced other spirits to help him build an easier alternative to the Walkabout, even though Ruptga did not participate or approve. When the plan proved to be a failure, leaving many spirits stranded on a dying patchwork worldskin, Ruptga punished Sep by "squashing him with a big stick". Sep could then only slink around in a dead skin or swim about harmlessly in the sky.
  • According to the 16 Accords of Madness, Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness, once tricked Malacath, the Daedric Prince of Spurned and Ostracized, into killing one of his own 'sons', a noble Orc who would have otherwise been destined to be a great hero. For a double whammy, Malacath killed the Orc with a special blade given to him by Sheogorath, which doomed the Orc's soul to an eternity in Sheogorath's realm.
  • The Night Mother is a mysterious figure who leads the Dark Brotherhood, an illegal assassins guild whose members typically take a sadistic glee in killing and who practice a Religion of Evil, worshiping the "Dread Father" Sithis, the primordial "Is-Not" antithesis of creation represented by a great void. According to legend, the Night Mother was once a mortal woman who sacrificed her five children in the name of Sithis and became the wife of Sithis after her death.
  • In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the Dragonborn can become Thane of Morthal by resolving the recent deaths of a woman and her young daughter, who died when their house burned. Their husband/father is suspected of having killed them, because the very next day he took up with another woman and moved into her house. The trope is ultimately subverted, however. The woman in question turns out to be a vampire who has taken the man as her thrall, and it was actually another vampire who committed the murders. The husband/father didn't do anything wrong... which is cold comfort to him after the quest is finished and he's faced with the reality of what happened to his family.
  • Also in Skyrim, during Clavicus Vile's daedric quest, the Prince of Bargains tells the Dragonborn how a man prayed to him for help in curing his daughter's lycanthropy — and Vile's idea of "help" was to provide him with the enchanted Rueful Axe, with which to perform a Mercy Kill.
  • In the Dark Brotherhood storyline of The Elder Scrolls: Legends, Uther Nere murders his wife, which causes his daughter, Alisanne Dupre, to run away. For years, he worries that his daughter will attempt to kill him as revenge, and so eventually he hires the player character to track down Alisanne. It turns out that Alisanne has become the listener of the Dark Brotherhood. During the climax of the story, Uther leads an offensive into the sanctuary of the Dark Brotherhood and the player is given a choice as to whether they want to support Uther or Alisanne, but regardless of who the player picks, Alisanne will inevitably be killed by magefire.
• In Fallout 4, three of the four major endings require you to do this to your son Shaun, who you have spent the better part of the game trying to reach, due to him having become Father, the director of the Institute and the game's primary Big Bad, during the course of the sixty years between his kidnapping from Vault 111 and your release from that same Vault.
• Far Cry:
  • Apparently, Joseph Seed, the Big Bad of Far Cry 5, had a daughter born shortly after his wife had a car accident. His daughter was hospitalized, and Joseph, supposedly because God told him to do it, but more likely to prevent her from living a dangerous life as his daughter, smothered her in her bed.
  • Batari from Far Cry Primal burned her son Krati alive for rebelling against her. She now fears Krati will return from the dead to seek revenge on her, and keeps his body on display with a stone mask over his face.
• Final Fantasy:
  • This is Gau's backstory in Final Fantasy VI. His mother died in childbirth, and his father, driven mad by the accident, threw him out on the Veldt to be eaten by the monsters. They didn't.
  • Final Fantasy IX:
    • The power-hungry Queen Brahne, who never truly loved her daughter Garnet and only wanted the powers of the eidolons that Garnet had, even going as far as to try to kill her once she had them forcibly extracted (the fact that Brahne had been manipulated by the evil Kuja towards this end didn't do much for poor Garnet's state of mind after the battle with her). It is later revealed that Garnet is Brahne's adopted daughter after the real princess died very young and long ago and they renamed Sarah, adopted Garnet's original name given by her real mother and father, to Garnet in honor of the late Princess Garnet after they removed her Summoner's horn.
    • Honorable mention goes to Garland attempting to repossess his creation, Zidane's SOUL once it becomes clear Zidane is no longer willing of carrying out his original purpose.
• Fire Emblem:
  • Defied in Fire Emblem Gaiden and its remake, Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. While Emperor Rudolf can be attacked by or initiate combat against his son, protagonist Alm, he will absolutely never make an attack or strike back. Any other unit you attack him with will not get this luxury. Alm even notices that something is amiss when this happens the first time in Echoes:
    Alm: What's going on? Why won't you attack? What are you planning, Rudolf?!
  • In Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, King Desmond tries to kill his own son Zephiel by hiring assassins (which you have to stop). Aside from jealousy and just being Royally Screwed Up, Desmond hates Zephiel for being a child from an unhappy Arranged Marriage and the one to inherit his throne. He would rather have his beloved child with a mistress inherit, but little cute Princess Guinevere is both younger and, well, a girl. Zephiel's mother Hellene doesn't help the situation by using Zephiel as a pawn against her husband. Ultimately, as revealed in the previous game Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade, which takes place twenty years after Blazing Blade, the players find out that Desmond got what was coming to him. After barely surviving his father's attempt to poison him, Zephiel faked his death and stabbed Desmond as he looked into his coffin. This was acknowledged in the epilogue of the prequel when Eliwood and Hector are discussing the news of Desmond's death, along with their suspicions when they had heard that Zephiel had been the one to die only days earlier.
  • Fire Emblem Fates:
    • It's said that the Big Bad King Garon would kill his children if it served him. At the very least, he's sent his adoptive kid the Avatar in missions that would end up in his/her death. It turns out Garon has been Dead All Along, his body being "animated" by the Greater-Scope Villain and the Avatar's actual father, Anankos.
    • Subverted by the Avatar's mother/Azura and the Hoshidan siblings' Parental Substitute, Queen Mikoto, in the Golden Path: she says she wants her kids to die with her, but in reality, she Came Back Wrong thanks to Anankos. The real Mikoto died in a Heroic Sacrifice to save the Avatar, and once she's defeated in battle she passes on in peace.
  • Done many times by the Big Bad of Fire Emblem Engage before the story begins, to the point where the older of his two living children is terrified of becoming a "defect" if they have any thought that strays from their father's plan. Sombron also kills that child — the main character — twice.
• Five Nights at Freddy's: William Afton accidentally killed his daughter, Elizabeth, by letting her play around with Circus Baby, who was designed to trap children. While he is a child killer, he did not want to kill her (not that it matters, since Elizabeth became a Daddy's Little Villain by wholeheartedly supporting her father). Later, William sent his other child, Michael, to recover his sister's remains, only for him to get scooped and possessed by Ennard. It is implied that Michael is The Un-Favourite, and William wants him gone. In Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, William tries to kill Michael one final time, upon learning that he survived the scooping and wants to put an end to his father's terror.
• Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance has the main villain, Arruntius, sacrificing his own daughter Lavinia by way of Slashed Throat to awaken the evil gods Deimos and Phobos for the final battle. And Arruntius does it without a single sense of remorse or hesitation, gloating that having power for himself is more important than his daughter.
• God of War:
  • The core of the series is about how the Villain Protagonist Kratos was manipulated into slaughtering his own wife and daughter, by his own patron god no less. Getting revenge on Ares and freeing himself of the crushing guilt is what drives him throughout the first game. Unfortunately, the gods decide they don't want to help Kratos with the latter, which leads to the sequels' tragedies.
  • In God of War II, Zeus executes Kratos for going on a rampage. The Titans resurrect him and guide him to return the favor. Then it turns out that Kratos is one of Zeus' many bastard sons.
  • In God of War Ragnarök, Odin murders Thor in a fit of rage, just because they finally stood up to their control-freak of a father. To twist the blade, Odin starts telling his child how he didn't want this, even as he's still holding the spear that's currently vaporizing them.
• Toni Ciprani's mother orders a hit on Toni in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, though she eventually rescinds. Given allegations that Toni is an Expy of Tony Soprano, this may be a Shout-Out. This relationship was shown in Grand Theft Auto III, with Toni going on Chatterbox and whining that his mother never seems to appreciate him. When he's out, his mother tells the main character how worthless he is, even though the man is a capo to the Leone family.
• In Grim Tales, protagonist Anna and her twin sister Luisa are nearly murdered by their father Richard, who planned to kill them as part of a ritual to extend his own lifespan. The attempt fails; however, they learn that long before they were born, they had older half-siblings, also twins, who were the victims of his first use of the ritual (which succeeded that time).
• In Gungnir, there was a prophecy that Emperor Wolfgang III's successor would kill him, and so he ordered all of his children murdered. As these things tend to go, it didn't work: His wife, who was pregnant at the time, didn't tell him, and had her daughter Alessandra raised in secret. Rumors also popped up about one of Wolfgang's sons escaping into the ghettoes, and so he had all children that age in the ghetto massacred — which still didn't work, as the general he sent to do this had ulterior motives and spared the boy.
• Hollow Knight: In order to seal away the infection that was plaguing Hallownest, the Pale King wanted to contain it in a living being that had no will, no mind, and no voice. How does he get such a vessel? By experimenting on the children he had with his queen by infusing them with Void. Only one vessel was deemed pure enough to seal the infection. The countless dead children that were left over were locked away in the Abyss, with the Player Character being a vessel who somehow survived and escaped. Nobody who knew about his plan forgave him, especially not himself.
• In The House 2, it turns out that the family that lived in the house had a daughter by the name of Alrena. Alrena was born severely disabled, and the couple poisoned her and stuffed her body in the safe because they didn't want to see her suffering anymore (families actually did this to kids with disabilities in the past). Alrena wanted to live, no matter what, and she was not happy about what her parents had done to her. After trying to "start over" with an adopted daughter and killing the maid that they hired because she had found out too much, they eventually couldn't deal with the guilt of what they had done any longer and killed themselves.
• Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep: Lady Tremaine and her daughters, out of hatred towards Cinderella, attempt to murder her with an Unversed called the Cursed Coach. They fail, and are executed by their own monster as a result before Aqua could even fight them.
• In Legacy of Kain, Kain has Raziel, his eldest vampiric son executed for a seemingly petty and pointless reason. When Raziel gets better, he hunts down Kain's other five children and kills them. It turns out that Kain planned all of this in order to make Raziel strong enough to complete his destiny. So he killed one son and used that son to kill the others.
• Mass Effect:
  • Mass Effect 2:
    • Your asari companion Samara has spent hundreds of years hunting her daughter Morinth, an Ardat-Yakshi Serial Killer. With your help, she can finally catch up to her and finish the job.
    • Miranda's father is implied to have done this to her older sisters and in the third game tries to kill Miranda, and depending on your choices may or may not succeed.
  • In Mass Effect 3, Samara is once again forced to kill one of her daughters after they escape from the destruction of the Ardat-Yakshi temple. Her code states that an Ardat-Yakshi cannot be allowed to survive outside the temple even though Falere is not evil like Morinth. This time, however, she is unable to go through with it and unless Shepard steps in, she will Take a Third Option: suicide.
• Metal Gear:
  • When Metal Gear Solid's Psycho Mantis first developed his psychic powers, he read his father's mind and realized that his father wanted to kill him. He responded in a reasonable and mature fashion by destroying him and burning the entire village to the ground.
  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: As children, Liquid and Psycho Mantis were even stronger than they were as adults. After all the shit Liquid Snake pulled up to and including piloting a Metal Gear using Psycho Mantis' powers to assist in mobility, Big Boss accidentally shot him during one of his crazy boss fights. He survived, but then he was diagnosed with an incurable disease, so Big Boss gave him a pistol with one bullet and told him to hate the father, not the gun. Psycho Mantis used telekinesis to literally rip the disease right out of his lungs when Big Boss' back was turned, they went into the military under false identities to prepare for revenge, and the rest is history.
• In Mortal Kombat 9, a Brainwashed and Crazy Sindel singlehandedly kills 7 of the 10 Earthrealm heroes facing her, including her daughter Kitana, who she personally sucks the soul out of, but not before cruelly disowning her on top of that. Mortal Kombat 11 revealing that she was, in fact, Not Brainwashed during all this only serves to make her all the more detestable.
• In Mushihime-sama Futari, the Big Bad, Queen Larsa, declares war on the entire Shinjuu Forest after her older son Aki died fighting Reco in the previous game. When her younger son Palm confronts his furious mother and tries to convince her that Reco isn't a bad person and the whole matter was just a misunderstanding, Larsa tries to kill him.
• In the good ending of Myst, Atrus, deciding that the various pillages and genocides committed by his two sons Sirrus and Achenar are unforgivable (and that both of them were responsible, not just one of them), destroys the books that are the only way out of their prison Ages, dooming them to spend the rest of their lives in separate featureless black voids alone. Later games would Retcon their prisons to actual places, but in 1993 it looked like Atrus effectively executed his sons.
• There's a lot of this going around in Odin Sphere:
  • King Odin allowed his scheming top general to arrange for the execution of Velvet, his daughter by a deceased mother and the one child he is implied to actually love. Velvet had single-handedly rendered their victory in a war pointless, and the general threatened to call his leadership into question if he did not punish her. Also, the news that he'd had a daughter with the princess of their nation's greatest enemy wouldn't have gone over well with his subjects. He's perfectly okay with punishing Gwendolyn for giving him an out, though; but he does come to realize a little bit just what kind of a daughter he's been ignoring the whole time.
  • In the final episode, it is discovered that King Gallon arranged for the murder of the son whom he exiled for marrying a common woman. As a royal secret, there was a prophecy that Gallon would be killed by someone of royal blood, presumably of his own family. His exiled son left resenting Gallon, and thus Gallon feared he would return to kill him one day, so he had him killed first. Karma got him in the end when his grandson Oswald destroyed him with the Belderiver.
  • The worst is probably King Valentine, who strangled his own daughter Ariel to death with his bare hands when he found out she had given birth to his enemy Odin's children, the aforementioned Velvet, and her brother Inwald.
• In OFF, the penultimate boss fight (if you can call it that, since he's completely incapable of hurting you at all) is with Hugo, who the battle description notes is a "little boy". Due to a French to English mistranslation, The Queen says that Hugo is her and The Batter's son, but he's actually their creator, as well as assumedly having created all of the game's setting, including the Zones and the Nothingness. Despite the fact that most fans know that the familial association was a translation error, Hugo being The Batter's son has persisted in fan works and is casually/loosely taken as canon. Either way, you're forced to help The Batter beat a small, defenseless child to death.
• In the climax of The Park, Lorraine stabs Callum in the chest with an ice pick while under Nathaniel Winter's influence.
• Pokémon:
  • Ghetsis in Pokémon Black and White implies that he was planning to do this to N once the whole Team Plasma goal is realized. He leads with Cofagrigus because he's baiting for disguised Zoroark, and his "partner" Hydreigon resists Reshiram's Fusion Flare while having the mutual type advantage with it and its counterpart Zekrom. His entire team is designed to counter N's. Zig-Zagged as it's revealed in the sequel that they aren't actually related despite the Strong Family Resemblance, although Ghetsis was an adoptive father to him.
  • Pokémon Sun and Moon features another attempt at this in the form of Mother Beast Lusamine attempting to kill Lillie in Ultra Space. Fortunately, Nebby intervenes before she can get close enough to actually hurt her daughter.
• POPGOES has a big reveal concerning the origin of the Blackrabbit, namely that Frtiz is trying to bring his daughter — whom he had chopped into pieces in a PTSD fit — back to life by having her possess it.
• One of the more convoluted and fucked-up examples on this page comes from [PROTOTYPE]. Long story short, the Supreme Hunter was created when Alex Mercer injected fellow Plaguemaster Elizabeth Greene with a combination of sentient cancer he had earlier been infected with and his own DNA. In a metaphorical birthing scene, she immediately spits it out for a boss fight so she can get away. The result is after Alex finally kills Greene later in the game, the Supreme Hunter tries to kill and absorb him. Alex ends up hacking it to death with the Blade.
• The royal family in Radiant Historia already had this happen once before the beginning of the game. The crown prince was executed on false charges because he was making his dad look bad, and Queen Protea has been using this fact to threaten Princess Eruca pretty much ever since. True to the Wicked Stepmother trope, it doesn't take much to tip Protea into actively trying to murder Eruca, either; there's even one bad end where she has her assassinated and blames it on a foreign power.
• Rise of the Third Power: Viktoriya mentions that Emperor Noraskov executed one of his sons for defying him. He plans on doing the same to Gage, who saved the Cirinthian Princess Arielle from being killed by Sparrow. However, he hesitates on doing so because he wants to convince Gage to side with him.
• Silent Hill:
  • Prior to the first game, Dahlia Gillespie attempted to kill her daughter, Alessa, by burning her alive. While Alessa suffered horrific burns, she survived, and her soul was split in half, one of which formed into Cheryl Mason.
  • In Silent Hill: Origins, Travis Grady's mother, Helen, becomes convinced that her son has been replaced by a demon and attempts a murder-suicide.
  • In Silent Hill: Homecoming, the basis of the plot is that the four founding families of Shepherd's Glen had to periodically sacrifice their children, in a set, and a rather painful manner. It's only when the Shepherds fail to make their obligation does all hell break loose.
  • Got the worst ending in Silent Hill: Downpour? Turns out Murphy killed his own son Charlie. Two sidequests also revolve around two parents snapping and killing their children, a father who became an ax murderer and a mother who chose to Mercy Kill her low-functioning autistic daughter.
• Solatorobo: Red the Hunter: Big Bad Baion has no qualms in trying to kill his son Red throughout the course of the game, since he already wrote him off as a failure that couldn't hold a candle to his perfect children Nero and Blanck. It took Red beating him in a straight fight at the end of the game for Baion to show anything resembling pride towards him.
• Soul Series: Algol was forced to kill his son, Arcturus, when he became corrupted by Soul Edge. The grief of the act led him to sacrifice himself to create Soul Calibur from pieces of the cursed sword, which caused him to enter an incorporeal form, waiting for the swords to clash and reawaken him.
• Subverted (but at the very least, invoked) in Spiritual Assassin Taromaru. After escaping a burnt village full of monsters, you come across a mother and son... only for the mother to suddenly decapitate her child. But then the child is revealed to be an Uwabami in disguise, who slithers out the boy's neck-hole while the "mother" is revealed to be the Uwabami's handler, riding on its head. Cue boss battle.
• Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion: The Spooky's Dollhouse DLC reveals that Spooky's father accidentally shot her after she accidentally triggered his PTSD. He then blamed it on a hobo out of guilt for murdering his own child.
• In StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, any lingering doubts that Arcturus Mengsk is a bastard die a nasty death when he demonstrates that he's perfectly willing to let his own son Valerian die if it means killing Kerrigan too. Valerian isn't at all surprised by this.
• Stranglehold had Wong ordering Tequila's partner Jerry to kill Tequila and Wong's daughter Billie, whom Tequila loved. He did it both because Damon Zakarov threatened to force Billie to reveal everyone connected to her father's Dragon Claw syndicate in a court of law to keep her daughter Teko alive if Wong wouldn't hand over Hong Kong to him, and because Wong would rather see his daughter dead than with the cop who gunned down his messed-up son Johnny Wong from Hard Boiled. As if intimidating his daughter into breaking up with Tequila on pain of death eighteen years ago while she was still pregnant with Teko wasn't reason enough to hate Wong, this cold-hearted betrayal lays bare Wong's evil in a serious way, and leads not only to a showdown between Tequila and Jerry but also sets the stage for the final showdown with Wong himself.
• It's an odd version, but in System Shock 2, SHODAN calls the annelid horror that she created her "children", which became disobedient and rebelled against her. Eventually, she does succeed through her "avatar".
• Tekken:
  • Heihachi Mishima tries to kill his son Kazuya multiple times. In the second game, he actually succeeds by throwing him into a volcano, until G Corporation recovers his remains and resurrects him. Initially, it is explained that this is because he is a Social Darwinist. Tekken 7 reveals that Heihachi's wife, Kazumi, who introduced the Devil Gene to the Mishima family, actually tried to kill both Heihachi and Kazuya years ago, because she received a prophecy that the world would be engulfed in chaos if the two were let to live. Heihachi was forced to kill her, then tossed Kazuya off of a cliff to see whether he had the Devil Gene or not. Tekken 8 implies that Kazumi's clan, the Hachijo, are worshippers of Azazel, and they sent Kazumi to sow conflict within the Mishima clan in order to summon Azazel to the world.
  • Kazuya later tries to kill his son, Jin Kazama, and take his Devil Gene to empower himself. It Runs in the Family. In the Bad Ending of Tekken 8, Kazuya succeeds in the task by throwing Jin from a cliff.
  • Tekken 5 introduces Jinpachi Mishima, who continues the grand Mishima tradition by attempting to kill his son, Heihachi. Of course he wants to kill him; Heihachi had Jinpachi imprisoned beneath a temple to take over the Mishima Zaibatsu years ago, where he died of starvation.
• Trinity: Souls of Zill O'll begins with the Evil Overlord hearing a prophecy from his trusted oracle that he would be killed by his own grandson. The Evil Overlord responds by immediately having his pregnant daughter killed. Not long afterward though, he finds out that his son fathered two half-elven children in secret, and he leads his troops to attack the village of the elves and kill everyone there just to be sure. When his son, upon hearing his father's plans, rebels and attempts to rescue his wife and children, the Evil Overlord personally kills him and then spends the next decade desperately searching for the two grandsons who got away. Naturally, one of the grandsons swears revenge and endures Training from Hell so that he can one day fulfill that prophecy.
• Twisted Metal:
  • In the reboot, the "one who got away" as described by Sweet Tooth is his daughter, who escaped from the Pater Familicide he just committed on his family, and he wishes to correct that. It does not go well for him.
  • As far back as the first Twisted Metal, this trope is played straight in Yellow Jacket's ending; a father looking for his son, who turns out to be Sweet Tooth, who he just unknowingly killed in the tournament. Ouch.
• Attempted in Undertow (Chair Entertainment). When Jules can no longer stand by and watch as his father, Nemo, tries to commit genocide and directly confronts him, the deranged Nemo calls upon the Nautilus in an attempt to end his child's life.
  Nemo: I lost a son, centuries ago, to the waves of this angry sea. Now it appears I must lose another to save it! Nautilus! To me!!
  Jules: It doesn't have to be this way.
  Nemo: Oh, but it does. The sea is my only family now, I could never entrust her to someone so weak!
• The Witch's House has a particularly evil one. Viola's father runs towards the titular house and sees his daughter leaving it, with the witch right behind her. Wanting to protect her, he shoots the witch twice and runs home with his daughter... only, the True Ending reveals that the bodies have long been switched. Viola's father shot his own daughter, in the witch's body. And he doesn't even know.
• World of Warcraft:
  • High Overlord Saurfang trying to kill his son, who has been raised by the Lich King as a death knight. Deathbringer Saurfang merely laughs at his father's attempt and begins choking him with his death knight powers.
  • Going back further in the Warcraft mythos, Kilrogg Deadeye, chieftain of the Bleeding Hollow orc clan, was known for having killed several of his sons and a couple of grandsons who challenged him for control of his clan. He's still painted as one of the more sympathetic members of the old horde, which says something.

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