History Main / MurderInTheFamily

* ADeadlyAffair: When an [[YourCheatingHeart extramarital affair]] results in one of the parties involved (usually an enraged spouse) killing the others.

* CainAndAbel: Sibling rivalry turns into bitter hatred with murderous intent.
** {{Cain}}: The BiblicalBadGuy who murdered his brother.

* SiblingMurder: Siblings killing one another.

* ADeadlyAffair: Killing the spouse and/or the family members of said spouse that is being [[YourCheatingHeart cheated on]].

* GrandfatherParadox: Killing one's ancestor via {{time travel}}, which may end up [[ButterflyOfDoom unmaking the murderer in the process]]...

** PaterFamilicide: The murder of an entire immediate family unit, generally by the father, due to an inability to deal with personal failure.

* InheritanceMurder: Murdering family members for your inheritance, or murdering the proprietor of an estate to gain wealth.
** PrincelingRivalry: Offing competitors to a royal throne.

** {{Patricide}}: Killing your father.

* BlackWidow: A woman who is a serial murderer of her spouses.
* TheBluebeard: SpearCounterpart of a BlackWidow, a husband who is a serial murderer of his spouses.

* GrandfatherParadox: Killing one's ancestor via time travel, which may end up unmaking the murderer in the process...

* InheritanceMurder: Murdering rivals for your inheritance, or murdering the proprietor of an estate to gain wealth.
* {{Matricide}}: The killing of one's mother.
* OedipusComplex: Killing your father and marrying your mother.
* OffingTheOffspring: Murdering one's progeny.
* PaterFamilicide: The murder of an entire immediate family unit, generally by the father, due to an inability to deal with personal failure.
* {{Patricide}}: Killing your father.
* PrincelingRivalry: Offing competitors to the throne.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Killing both of your parents or your sole living parent.

The killing of one's own family members, especially your spouse, progeny, or parents, has always been viewed poorly in most societies, though in some cases there were exceptions. For instance, in Ancient Greece and Rome the practice of leaving a newborn child to die of exposure [[BuryYourDisabled if they were born physically deformed]] was considered [[ValuesDissonance perfectly acceptable]]. It has also served as a method of gaining greater power via getting rid of competition, or for conserving resources in extreme cases during hard times. (If the bodies didn't also end up [[ImAHumanitarian becoming]] the resources.)

A SuperTrope to:

Examples of this trope on other pages should only be ones that don't fit the already existing tropes in the DysfunctionalFamilyIndex.

The killing of one's own family members, especially your spouse, progeny, or parents, has always been viewed poorly in most societies, though in some cases there were exceptions. For instance, in Ancient Greece and Rome the practice of leaving a newborn child to die of exposure [[BuryYourDisabled if they were born physically deformed]] was considered perfectly acceptable. It has also served as a method of gaining greater power via getting rid of competition, or for conserving resources in extreme cases during hard times. (If the bodies didn't also end up [[ImAHumanitarian becoming]] the resources.)

* InheritanceMurder: Murdering rivals for your inheritance, or murdering the proprietor of an estate to gain wealth or acquire a tittle.

* InheritanceMurder: Murdering rivals for your inheritance.

The killing of one's own family members, especially your spouse, progeny, or parents, has always been viewed poorly in most societies, though in some cases there were exceptions. For instance, in Ancient Greece and Rome the practice of leaving a newborn child to die of exposure [[BuryYourDisabled if they were born physically deformed]] was considered perfectly acceptable. It has also served as a method of gaining greater power via getting rid of competition, or for conserving resources in extreme cases during hard times. (If the bodies didn't also end up ''[[ImAHumanitarian becoming]]'' the resources.)

The killing of one's own family members, especially your spouse, progeny, or parents, has always been viewed poorly in most societies, though in some cases there were exceptions. For instance, in Ancient Greece and Rome the practice of leaving a newborn child to die of exposure if they were born physically deformed was considered perfectly acceptable. It has also served as a method of gaining greater power via getting rid of competition, or for conserving resources in extreme cases during hard times. (If the bodies didn't also end up ''[[ImAHumanitarian becoming]]'' the resources.)

* GrandfatherParadox: Killing one's ancestor via time travel, which may end up unmaking the murderer in the process..

The killing of one's own family members, especially your spouse, progeny, or parents, has always been viewed poorly in most societies, though in some cases there were exceptions. For instance, in Ancient Greece and Rome the practice leaving a newborn child to die of exposure if they were born physically deformed was considered perfectly acceptable. It has also served as a method of gaining greater power via getting rid of competition, or for conserving resources in extreme cases during hard times. (If the bodies didn't also end up ''[[ImAHumanitarian becoming]]'' the resources.)

* TheBluebeard: SpearCounterpart of a BlackWidow, a husband who is a serial murderer of his wives.

%%* SiblingMurder: Siblings killing one another.

The killing of one's own family members, especially your spouse, progeny, or parents, has always been viewed poorly in most societies, though in some cases there were exceptions. For instance, in Ancient Rome it was considered perfectly legal. It has also served as a method of gaining greater power via getting rid of competition, or for conserving resources in extreme cases during hard times. (If the bodies didn't also end up ''[[ImAHumanitarian becoming]]'' the resources.)

The killing of one's own family members, especially your spouse, progeny, or parents, has always been viewed poorly in most societies, though in some cases there were exceptions. For instance, in Ancient Rome it was considered perfectly legal It has also served as a method of gaining greater power via getting rid of competition, or for conserving resources in extreme cases during hard times. (If the bodies didn't also end up ''[[ImAHumanitarian becoming]]'' the resources.)

* InheritanceMurder: Murdering for your inheritance.

The killing of one's own family members, especially your spouse, progeny, or parents, has always been viewed poorly in most societies. It has also served as a method of gaining greater power via getting rid of competition, or for conserving resources in extreme cases during hard times. (If the bodies didn't also end up ''[[ImAHumanitarian becoming]]'' the resources.)

* CainAndAbel: Siblings killing one another.

* PaterFamilicide: The murder of an entire immediate family unit by the father (Most of the time) due to an inability to deal with personal failure.

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* SiblingMurder: Siblings killing one another.

(My attempt at solving MissingSupertropeSyndrome for {{Patricide}}, SelfMadeOrphan, and OffingTheOffspring among others.)

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