Basic Trope: A family in the story are badasses when together.
- Straight: In the RPG Legendary Heroes, the main characters Alice, Bob, Carol, and Dan are all cousins and siblings (Bob and Dan are brothers to Alice and Carol respectively).
- Exaggerated:
- Their Moms and Dads join the party.
- Their Grandparents occasionally join the party as Old Mentors.
- Their pets join the party and become familiars.
- It turns out that their whole bloodline is a Heroic Lineage that, due to inheriting an affinity for animals, leads to a trend of pretty cool pets too.
- Downplayed: David and his son Edgar are martial artists but his brother and wife are not.
- Justified:
- The main characters inherit the power of the five children.
- The main characters are part of a warrior caste trained from childhood in martial arts.
- Everyone Is a Super
- The couple is a Battle Couple with superpowers, and their children either find out through the story or already knew they have inherited their parents superpowers and either use the same powers or a variant that gives the family a lot of battle options.
- Inverted: With more relatives, they become a Power Limiter for each other.
- Subverted: The family members are all fighting each other.
- Double Subverted: The family was fighting each other for only a short time. Then they continue fighting the villains.
- Parodied: A family of badasses who continuously bicker while they fight the villains.
- Zig Zagged: Some families are martial artists (or otherwise skilled in fighting) but other families aren't skilled in fighting.
- Averted: The family have no fighting skills whatsoever.
- Enforced: "We need more badasses, but we can't add more characters! I know, let's make an existing family fighting experts!"
- Lampshaded: "The family that kicks butt together, stays together."
- Invoked:
- Mama Bear and Papa Wolf saving their kids, or the kids saving their parents. By the end of the story, the entire family fights the villain together.
- The family starts training in fighting.
- The Battle Couple knows that their enemies will likely target the kids. Why not make sure the kids can hold their own?
- The family is part of a Proud Warrior Race. To not train your kids in fighting would be as unthinkable as not teaching them to read.
- Exploited: The family's enemies know that if you can get Grandma, then you can lure everyone else into a trap.
- Defied: The family stops fighting.
- Discussed: "Look, honey. You're an action mom, I'm an action dad. The only way our kids are going to survive to adulthood is if we train them to keep up."
- Conversed: "You ever noticed that ass-kicking seems to run in the family as far as these kind of shows are concerned?"
- Implied: Mom and dad's careers are well-known, but when they're out on a mission, some dumb crooks break in. One Gilligan Cut later, the kids have the crooks hogtied and are arguing over whose turn it is to polish the weapons.
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