Tangled Family Tree / Child of the Storm

Carol: I swear, your fucking family…
Harry: Believe me, I'm right there with you.

- the author, using The Reveal that Harry is related to Santa Claus to finally lampshade the absurdity of this trope.

Tangled Family Tree for Child of the Storm. Because when mixing at least two canons with tangled family trees themselves and an author who claims to understand them (yes, even the infamous Grey-Summers family tree) and thrives on complexity, with the de facto Author Avatar, Doctor Strange, arranging for as many connections among the nascent superhuman community as possible, what did you expect?

This page contains spoilers for all books! Read at your own risk.

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• As in Harry Potter canon, the pureblood Wizarding families of England have intermarried to such a degree that they are all related.
  • Agent Coulson is revealed to be "Molly's accountant squib cousin", tying him to their family tree and making him one of Harry and the Weasleys' extended relatives.
  • The Frost Clan - yes, that clan - is descended from a squib of the Malfoy family. Which, by the way, ties into the Summers family, as Alex Summers Senior hooked up with Emma Frost, and Scott and Gambit are their grandsons.
• The Phoenix is one of the Endless, more specifically Destruction. This makes the Phoenix siblings with Death, Destiny, Dream, Despair, Desire and Delirium.
  • After their deaths, Lily Potter became Destruction and Luna Lovegood became Delirium, connecting the Endless to Harry and the pureblood families.
• Harry Potter/Thorson:
  • From his father's "James Potter" side, he is a wizard and heir to the Potter clan, as well as related to all other pureblood families in England, including the Malfoys (this is brought up early on when Thor and Loki are concerned that Narcissa Malfoy will try to claim the Potter fortune).
    • On top of that, Sirius Black is his godfather, tying him in even further. Not to mention Peter Wisdom a.k.a. Regulus Black.
  • From his father's Asgardian side, he is a demigod, nephew to Loki, grandson of Odin and Frigga. Given that all pantheons are descended from Gaia's children with the various Allfathers, Harry's extended family is every pantheon in existence. This includes the incest-happy Olympian Pantheon (Odin and Zeus' mothers are sisters, making Diana a third cousin of Harry's), Huginn and Muninn, and (distantly) Jesus. The absurdity of the latter is lampshaded.
    • Since he is Loki's nephew, he is also related to the Frost Giants, and Hela, his first cousin. Oh, and Sif and Loki are dating.
    • In Chapter 50 of the sequel, Harry also finds out that he also has a half-uncle (from a relationship Odin had prior to his marriage to Frigga) named Vidar, aka Donar Vadderung, aka the current bearer of the mantle of Santa Claus. He also finds out that he has a half-sister named Torunn that Thor sired through a brief relationship a thousand years ago; she's long dead and now serves as a Valkyrie in Helheim, working for her sort-of cousin.
    • From the Olympian side, Word of God confirms that a guy named Lennox is Zeus's son, and therefore Diana's uncle. So Harry is related to an organic rock.
    • One of Harry's Asgardian ancestors, a distant aunt known as Sunniva, married the Elder God Ishvara and produced the Trimurti and the rest of the Hindu pantheon. She was also a Phoenix host.
    • Vishnu, one of Sunniva's children, created Gorakhnath, a tulpa and sometime mentor of Doctor Strange, which sort of makes him a distant relative of Harry's.
    • Thor is also in relationship with Jane Foster, whose mother has divorced her father and then remarried. She mentioned at one point that her foster-brother is a "real daredevil" named Matthew.
  • It is theorized that at some point way back in Asgardian history, Odin's ancestors and the House of El intermingled, making Harry an extremely distant relative of Clark Kent, a relationship he ballparks at "cousin". What this ties him with is explained below.
    • On top of that, one of Clark's ancestors, the first Kal-El, was Odin's foster brother and a Cool Uncle to Thor and Loki.
  • Harry's mother Lily was Jean Grey's first cousin once removed, tying Harry to half of the infamous Grey-Summers family which is not yet quite as complicated. The exact details will be stated below. This is where he gets his psychic and telekinetic powers from, as well as the Phoenix Force, and the family's signature green eyes. This mutant heritage also pops up in Dudley, who becomes the Blob.
  • Also from his mother's side, Harry's grandparents were Agents of SHIELD, which is how Nick Fury knows the family - Fury himself was described as being a Cool Big Bro to Lily, and was in line to be godfather to Lily and James' second child, if they'd had one.
  • And after Lily's death, Harry ended up being the son of Destruction herself, and therefore connected to Death, Delirium etc. With Delirium being Luna Lovegood, he is connected to this family yet again, the first connection being from the pureblood part.
  • His godmother is Wanda Maximoff, tying him to Magneto and his family, which are pretty tangled themselves.
  • And then Harry himself becomes the godfather of Ada Potts-Stark, tying him into that family as well.
  • After the Forever Red arc, Harry is revealed to have multiple clones, and he destroyed all of them.
  • Harry also encounters himself from another reality at one point (said self calls himself "Nate" and "Nathan" for the sake of convenience), and gets to see many more. Nathan, at least, ends up sticking around.
• Clint Barton and his brother Barney (the latter so far unseen) are the grandsons of Bucky Barnes and Minerva McGonagall. They generally avoid talking about this.
  • From his grandmother, Clint is tied to the chaos that are Britain's Pureblood families, and thus, very distantly, Harry. They also do not talk about this.
  • His mother from that union was adopted by the Kents (distant relatives of Minerva's), with her adoptive brother Jonathan becoming the adoptive father of Clark Kent, which ties Clint to the House of El, and probably - very distantly - Harry. Again.
• Kal-El, in addition to being distantly related to Harry and more closely to Clint (through his adoption by the Kents), has a sort of additional godmother in Alison Carter, who was close to his birth father and looked after him from afar.
• Wanda Maximoff:
  • She is the daughter of Magneto and has two half-siblings, each of different mothers. Those are Pietro (based on his X-Men: Evolution incarnation) and Lorna. They're all mutants.
  • Magneto also has a de facto ward in Ruth Aldine a.k.a. Blindfold.
  • Wanda is essentially also the foster-daughter of Doctor Strange, which ties him in as well.
  • As stated above, Wanda is Harry's godmother, tying her into/contributing to the insanity that is his family tree.
  • In the past, she was in a relationship with John Constantine, which resulted in Wanda having Hermione and being forced to give her up for adoption due to a number of circumstances. Hermione for her part, had no idea that she's adopted or that they're even related, and she was not too pleased to find out. Constantine is also said to be the latest in a line of 'Laughing Magicians.' Since Thor states that John is a half-blood, one of his parents would be a pureblood, which (very, very distantly) ties him back to Harry Thorson too.
• Tony Stark, while not quite as complex, gets on with this too.
  • His godfather is Charles Xavier, who, as in X-Men: First Class, had Mystique - mother of Kurt Wagner a.k.a. Nightcrawler - as his adopted sister.
  • It is revealed that Tony's mother was actually Tessa a.k.a. Sage, a mutant, working for Charles Xavier and with Howard to get at the Hellfire Club. Tony himself has no idea about this, and doesn't have any abilities, either.
  • Tony's father, Howard, was the godfather of Alison Carter, who in turn was Tony's godmother.
  • His daughter's godfathers are Harry Thorson, James Rhodes, and Steve Rogers, forming yet another connection with the latter, and tying him to the chaos that is the former. The mother, naturally, is Pepper Potts (who is, along with Wanda, Harry's primary maternal figure given that his birth mother is out of the picture and Jane is closer to a big sister/aunt, given their ages).
  • The godmother is Natasha Romanova.
• The Grey-Summers family, while nowhere close as crazy as in the comics (the Grey and Summers parts aren't connected by blood or marriage, yet, but there are hints that they're heading that way), is definitely in this list.
  • As stated above, the Greys are related to Harry Thorson through Lily, and carry all that baggage that comes with it.
  • The Phoenix Force runs in the family, which also ties them to Death, Delirium etc. Even more so, with Destruction and Lily fusing. And Delirium is Luna Lovegood, forming another connection with the pureblood Britain chaos.
  • It's also revealed that the Grey family is a previously considered defunct branch of a major bloodline of the Mystery Cult Askani, and that it had a number of branches down the centuries, including Lady Jane Grey a.k.a. 'the Nine Days Queen', and a result, the House of Grey.
  • Alex Summers junior existed in this canon (named for his grandfather, who was part of the First Class of X-Men), though he is confirmed to be dead.
  • Jean is revealed to have a Long Lost Sibling, her twin sister Rachel Grey a.k.a. Maddie Pryor, who is initially a Living Weapon under the control of Sinister.
  • Scott Summers has a clone. Said clone is Remy LeBeau a.k.a. Gambit.
    • And Maddie and Gambit are sort of dating.
  • Like canon, Scott has a massive crush on Jean and everybody ships it, in spite of Jean being Oblivious to Love. Now that Maddie has caused Jean to break up with Duncan, the chances of that ship are increasing.
  • Just like Harry, Maddie also has several clones which were destroyed by Harry.
  • It is revealed that Scott and Gambit's grandmother is Emma Frost, tying them distantly to the British Pureblood families and by extension, Harry again - albeit very, very, very distantly.
• Steve Rogers: While his family tree progresses as normal families do, the circumstances put him in this list as well, given that he's a Living Distant Ancestor. Made more complex by the fact they all are alive, which creates huge issues due to the generation gap (among other things).
  • Unbeknown to him, he fathered Alison Carter. Due partially to the stigma of the era, and mostly because of the potential value of his blood, Alison was presented as Peggy Carter's much younger sister. Her godfather was Howard Stark, tying the two families together, then she in turn became Tony Stark's godmother.
  • As mentioned above, Steve also becomes a godfather of Ada Potts-Stark.
  • Alison had two children, who in turn had kids on their own. That makes Steve a great-grandfather while he's biologically and mentally in his 20's, which he takes time to adjust to.
    • One of those children is Jack O'Neill, and he is the father of Sharon Carter.
  • One of those great-grandkids is Carol Danvers, who's dating Harry following chapter 46 of Ghosts, which ties the family back to Harry. Again. Sharon Carter finds out she's related to Steve following the Battle of London, and Stevie more or less puts it together after the Bloody Hell arc.
    • Oh, and Lex Luthor is an honorary big brother to Carol.
• Harry Dresden has a half-brother Thomas, their maternal grandfather Ebenezar McCoy, and Thomas' half-siblings and other relatives in the White Court. Ebenezar, however, doesn't know about Thomas' relationship to Harry, nor do Harry and Thomas know of their relationship to Ebenezar, given that the latter kept his own relation to Margaret Dresden a secret (and given Ebenezar's hatred of vampires, particularly the White Court for what they did to his daughter, Harry's in no hurry to introduce him to Thomas).
  • Following Chaos Reigns, Harry Dresden is now dating Wanda Maximoff, which ties that whole family in to Harry Thorson's madness. Again.
  • In chapter 52 of Ghosts of the Past, it's revealed that Harry has a daughter named Margaret Angelica Rodriguez-Dresden. Her mother is Susan Rodriguez, who is halfway-turned into a Red Court vampire. Or at least she was, before Strange genocided the Red Court and cured her. Margaret is currently being raised by her mother, though her father visits occasionally.
• After the Forever Red arc, Harry reveals that there were clones of every prisoner of the Red Room, though he destroyed all of them.
• Daken shows up towards the climax of Child of the Storm, and based on his powerset Dumbledore immediately speculates that he is somehow related to Logan. The author notes of the next chapter confirm that Daken is Wolverine's son and X23's brother, though the latter has yet to appear or even be mentioned in the story proper.
  • Sabretooth (Wolverine's half-brother) also appears in the second book.
• The Askani are a Mystery Cult of psychics who are "trying to keep their bloodlines pure", which makes their family trees complicated by default (and implies a fair bit of incest, going by their desire for "new blood"), but it complicates even further with the reveal that a) Professor Xavier learned from and left them and b) the Grey family are descended from them.