History Main / EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily

* In ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'', The World Islamic Council [[note]](made up of every Muslim nation from Morocco to Egypt to Saudi to Iran to Pakistan to Bangladesh to Indonesia)[[/note]] all coordinate with the local Black Muslims to take over Boston and crucify every White Christian, with the full support and approval of the UN. However, the WIC secretly kidnap as many Black Christians as they can smuggle out behind their local allies' backs for the Slave Markets.

* ''Film/TheLostBoys'' takes it to a rather literal extreme, with the vampires [[ILoveYouVampireDad acting like a they're an actual family]], complete with [[spoiler:the one who sired them all, Max, acting as a stern but loving father figure.]]

* The Benzene aliens from the ''Series/UltramanZearth'' duology, consisting of Alien Benzene and his wife, Lady Benzene. They're ruthless alien conquerors who wants to destroy or enslave humanity, but also SickeninglySweethearts who repeatedly goes "I wuv you... I wuv you too..." via intercom.

* This was common trope during MerchandiseDriven cartoons of the [[TheEighties 1980s]], such as ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' and ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero''. This was generally because the majority of the villains were all henchmen of a single BigBad or part of an organization. This tended to be less the case as time went on and new characters were introduced to sell more toys:
** ''Franchise/GIJoe'' started with Cobra Commander leading the Cobra organization with agents such as Destro, The Baroness, Tamox and Xamot, and Zartan at his command. Over time, each one of them would get episodes where they would put their own plans into action to wrest control of the organization, eventually leading to the creation of Serpentor, an Even Bigger Bad who would eventually wrest control of Cobra entirely.
** The ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' toyline later created two more evil factions: the Evil Horde from ''She-Ra'', whose whole purpose was to avert the trope (they were even more against Skeletor than He-Man) and the Snake Men, who played it straight in the original toyline yet averted it in the 2002 version. The 2018 ''She-Ra'' show zig-zags this trope, with most high-ranking officers within the Horde having no problem abusing and manipulating their underlings if they believe it will get results, while more AffablyEvil members like Scorpia play this trope straight, being quite friendly and casual with their villainous colleagues.

* Often the case whenever the Disney Villains get together for attractions and live shows at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks. It’s particularly evident in the Walt Disney World version of Theatre/{{Fantasmic}}, where not only [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Wicked Queen,]] [[FairyDevilmother Maleficent,]] [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades,]] [[EvilSorcerer Jafar,]] and other classics get in on the act, but even normally diametrically opposed villains like [[KnightTemplar Frollo]] and [[SatanicArchetype Chernabog]] join them all to rain on Mickey’s imagination parade.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', the vicious werewolf Fenrir Greyback works for Volemort and his Death Eaters, despite the majority of Death Eaters being pureblood supremicists, who despise werewolves.

* This was one of the first tropes to be phased out as part of WWF's more realistic, DarkerAndEdgier reinvention in the late 90s, mainly because it really didn't make sense for, say, a WildSamoan to be allied with an evil tax accountant against cowboys teamed with bikers.

Compare with BlackAndWhiteMorality, VillainousFriendship, VillainTeamUp, EnemyMine. Compare and contrast CriminalFoundFamily.

* The ComicBook/SecretSix (or at least Catman) believe this in Franchise/TheDCU... and it's a family they don't want any part of. They see themselves (or at least Catman does) as occupying a middle ground, rejecting both the Secret Society of Super-Villains ''and'' the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica. Of course, they're hardly the only villains to be on the outs with the Society....\\\
The Society itself began to fall apart shortly after ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis and was effectively dead by the end of ComicBook/FinalCrisis. Having your entire organization get possessed by {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} tends to put a crimp in your membership renewals.
* Franchise/TheFlash has a wide enough range of villains that there are cross purposes in battling, but his most persistent supervillain team The Rogues has this, as despite them having a range of mental illnesses and problems, they end up functioning quite well together, held together by the good leadership of Captain Cold.
* Franchise/{{Batman}}'s rogues will occasionally act cross purpose to each other, such as say ComicBook/ThePenguin and ComicBook/TwoFace getting into a gang war. However, their mutual hatred of Batman has them generally acting civil with each other, [[VillainsOutShopping often stopping by Penguin's place for drinks]] and plotting new plans to take over Gotham and destroy their arch enemy.

* Played with in the Creator/MarvelComics event ''ComicBook/ActsOfVengeance''. ComicBook/{{Loki}} gathers together some of the great supervillains of the world ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and the Wizard]]) as part of his plot to destroy ComicBook/TheAvengers. This involves putting the ComicBook/RedSkull (epic Nazi) in the same room as the Mandarin (Chinese), ComicBook/DoctorDoom (Romani), and ComicBook/{{Magneto}} (Jewish ''Holocaust survivor''). They start out insulting each other, and eventually Magneto [[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere seals the Skull in a windowless room (see page image)]] with no particular plans to let him out. Turns out that Loki both expected and intended this.
* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse in general averts this trope, as most of the major villains have mutually exclusive goals or simply don't play well with others, which is why villain teams like the Sinister Six and the Masters of Evil have such high turnover rates. This was best demonstrated during the ''ComicBook/{{Secret Wars|1984}}'' crossover event, when the Beyonder placed several of the villains together in one team and apparently expected them all to get along. What actually happened? ComicBook/{{Ultron}} immediately tried to kill everyone, ComicBook/{{Galactus}} left to do his own thing, and Dr. Doom, despite being elected leader of the group (yes, really), keeps running his own plans to get power only for himself.

** Of course, they kill him anyway to take his power, but that is beside the point.

* Often the case whenever the Disney Villains get together for attractions and live shows at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks. It’s particularly evident in the Walt Disney World version of Fantasmic, where not only [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Wicked Queen,]] [[FairyDevilmother Maleficent,]] [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades,]] [[EvilSorcerer Jafar,]] and other classics get in on the act, but even normally diametrically opposed villains like [[KnightTemplar Frollo]] and [[SatanicArchetype Chernabog]] join them all to rain on Mickey’s imagination parade.

* In ''Webcomic/DraconisWicked'', [[http://www.lepusstudios.com/dw_ch1_p20.html Draconis explains to Snakey that they are not a family.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' is more "Evil Is One Big Loyal Conspiracy with a Common Goal." Nearly every villain in the entire series outside of [[AliensAreBastards the Reach]] is either a member or agent of The Light. Some might be out of the loop, but generally they are all in alliance with one another to some extent. Even some of the villains who don't like each other (Sportsmaster and Cheshire; Icicle, Sr. and the Riddler) often turn out to be allies through their connections to The Light. As this is a series where even the Joker and Lex Luthor are team players, it seems that The Light has managed to convince every supervillain on Earth to work together for their mutual benefit. Particularly notable that every single member is loyal enough that ''nobody'' has confessed any knowledge of The Light to an outside authority or otherwise betrayed The Light to any major degree.

* In ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'', all the main villains are supportive of each other for being evil, regardless of motive. As long as they're in the crime business. Especially Mojo, HIM and Fuzzy, who have somewhat of a VillainousFriendship, but the rest of the main villains count too.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', for the most part, has the rogues gallery all get along quite well and even get together to play poker on occasion, and of course they are more than willing to team up to take down their common foe Batman. Often averted with Two-Face, who has enemies in The Penguin, Rupert Thorne, and of course ComicBook/PoisonIvy: the one person both of his halves can agree they want to take her down for attempting to murder him first:

* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' in one episode when The Joker is dressed up as Batman and foiling crimes ([[ItMakesSenseInContext It's The Joker; just roll with it]]). He shows up to foil The Penguin's robbery and the penguin's outraged reply makes it clear that, at least as far as he's concerned, the villains aren't supposed to mess with each other's schemes:

'''Cedrik:''' And that makes us all one big happy family? [[DefiedTrope Screw that]].

* Often the case whenever the Disney Villains get together for attractions and live shows at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks. It’s particularly evident in the Walt Disney World version of Fantasmic, where not only [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Wicked Queen,]] [[TheFairFolk Maleficent,]] [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades,]] [[EvilSorcerer Jafar,]] and other classics get in on the act, but even normally diametrically opposed Villains like [[KnightTemplar Frollo]] and [[SatanicArchetype Chernabog]] join them all to rain on Mickey’s imagination parade.

* Often the case whenever the Disney Villains get together for attractions and live shows at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks. It’s particularly evident in the Walt Disney World version of Fantasmic. Where not only [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Wicked Queen,]] [[TheFairFolk Maleficent,]] [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades,]] [[EvilSorcerer Jafar,]] and other classics get in on the act, but even normally diametrically opposed Villains like [[KnightTemplar Frollo]] and [[SatanicArchetype Chernabog]] join them all to rain on Mickey’s imagination parade.