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The dark side's version of the SiblingTeam - antagonists who take brothers or sisters along for the ride, sometimes ending up looking like a fraternal version of an OutlawCouple, also typically a pair. Sometimes they can play off each other as {{Morality Pet}}s or at least [[PetTheDog Humanity Pets]] while other times their partnership can be [[CainAndAbel begrudging underneath]] or have them tripping over SiblingRivalry.

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!!Examples:

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* The Slicer Brothers in ''FullmetalAlchemist''- they were criminals/murderers in life, and were turned into an undead guard- one forms the head and the other forms the body.
* Hansel and Gretel of ''BlackLagoon''.

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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenris_(comics) Fenris]] (Andrea and Andreas von Strucker) in the MarvelUniverse.

* ''StrontiumDog'' had two separate groups of these: The Weerd Brothers; Hiss, Cuss, and Silent, and the [[CreepyTwins Creepy]] [[{{Mutants}} Mutant]] [[CreepyTwins Twins]] known only as Stix.

* JudgeDredd has frequently contended with the surviving sibling members of the Angel Gang, a clan of murderers from the radioactive wastelands beyond Mega-City One. In their first appearances, they were TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether.

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* Charlie and Mikey Burns in ''TheProposition''
* The Gruber brothers, Hans and Simon, from the ''Film/DieHard'' movies. Like the Vegas, they're [[ZigZaggedTrope a bit of a subversion]] in that they turned up separately and apparently didn't like each other much in real life.

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* TheHunter unsubs of the ''CriminalMinds'' episode Open Season turn out to be a pair of brothers who abduct other humans, set them loose in the middle of the woods, and [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame have a blast chasing and killing them]]. They basically get discovered due to the elder brother [[PetTheDog petting the dog]] (the younger is severely wounded when their prey fights back, and he starts a fire to signal for help), and this is actually somewhat made a point.
** ''CriminalMinds'' did this another time besides the [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Most Dangerous Game]] one, but with a horrible twist: [[spoiler: one brother is quadraplegic, the other is physically able but seriously mentally impaired. The former manipulates the latter, who doesn't really know what he's doing, into all the crimes.]]
* [[MyNameIsEarl Earl]] and his brother Randy, until Karma got to Earl. At one point Randy was expecting that after Earl finished doing all the stuff on The List they'd go back to stealing stuff.
* ''[[TwentyFour 24]]''. Ramon Salazar and his brother Hector Salazar in Day 3.
* ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_Brothers Piranha Brothers.]]
* Mr. Cain and Mr. Abel in "Meltdown", the ''ReservoirDogs'' homage episode of ''ThePretender''

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* The fourth ''KittyNorville'' book contains a very nasty case of this. The sister is[[spoiler: a skinwalker, a practicioner of one of the most evil kinds of magic. She killed one of her sisters to get the power. Her twin brother is a werewolf; she became a skinwalker essentially to keep him company when he turned wolf, with none of the drawbacks of lycanthropy.]] Both are muderous and out of control.
* Dave and Banjo Lilywhite in ''{{Discworld/Hogfather}}''

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* The [[CreepyTwins Ashford Twins]] from ''[[ResidentEvil Resident Evil - Code: Veronica]]'' - sister Alexia is the BigBad of the game while brother Alfred is her devoted [[TheDragon Dragon]].
* Eventually subverted by Carlito and Isabela Keyes in ''DeadRising''. The two originally cooperate in a plan mostly Carlito's to turn all of America into zombies in vengeance for their DoomedHometown. [[spoiler: [[OnlySaneMan Isabela]] was actually conflicted about the whole thing and goes through a HeelFaceTurn shortly after meeting Frank. She tries to confront Carlito and tell him to stop the operation only to get a bullet in her shoulder for her trouble, and spends the rest of the game trying to do the next best thing by aiding Frank]].

* Gol and Maia Acheron, the original ''{{Jak And Daxter}}'''s BigBadDuumvirate.
* The Mendez Brothers in ''{{Grand Theft Auto}}: Vice City Stories''.
* The Go-Rock Quads in ''PokemonRanger'', each with signature bent-to-my-will Pokemon and matching musical instruments.

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* [[CreepyTwins Tomax and Xamot]] from ''[[GIJoe G.I. Joe]]''.

* A heroic version of this Trope was Hans and Sophie Scholl.

* ''{{Invincible}}'' has recurring minor villains the Mauler Brothers, who are not actual brothers; they're clones.

* Sakon and Ukon of ''{{Naruto}}'' who are both sadistic, violent psychos, but hey, they have family values. The the point where they share a body.

* The Gruber brothers, Hans and Simon, from the ''DieHard'' movies. Like the Vegas, they're [[ZigZaggedTrope a bit of a subversion]] in that they turned up separately and apparently didn't like each other much in real life.

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* Arestis and Tarsia Darkblade of the Warcraft fanfic The Lust for Power.
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* ''YoungJustice'' has the Tommy and Tuppence, aka the Terror Twins, and another set of twins, Mammoth and Shimmer.
* Who can forget the Beagle Boys from Disney's Duck Tales?

* ''YoungJustice'' has the Tommy and Tuppence, aka the Terror Twins, and another set of twins, Mammoth and Shimmer.

The dark side's version of the SiblingTeam - antagonists who take brothers or sisters along for the ride, sometimes ending up looking like a fraternal version of BonnieAndClyde, also typically a pair. Sometimes they can play off each other as {{Morality Pet}}s or at least [[PetTheDog Humanity Pets]] while other times their partnership can be [[CainAndAbel begrudging underneath]] or have them tripping over SiblingRivalry.

* [[ScroogeMcDuckUniverse The Beagle Boys]]. Not just brothers but cousins as well, a whole extended family of crime.

* ''MontyPython'': the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_Brothers Piranha Brothers.]]

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* Ashlynn Harris and her half-brother Jake Myers from StrangeLittleBand fit this trope more than that of the SiblingTeam inspite of being protagonists. For example one of their escapades is non-consensual experiments on humans with recreated alien technology. Once their parents get over their personal issues the entire family becomes TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether.
* Icee and Flare from WaitingForAMiracle.

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* Hyena and Jackal in the cartoon ''[[{{Gargoyles}} Gargoyles]]''.

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* A "two brothers, one not all there" type is true of Ryan and Cyril O'Reily in ''{{Oz}}''. Before Cyril's accident (which caused severe brain damage, leaving him in that state), they were a more typical example of the trope as described above.

* TheHunter unsubs of the ''CriminalMinds'' episode Open Season turn out to be a pair of brothers who abduct other humans, set them loose in the middle of the woods, and [[TheMostDangerousGame have a blast chasing and killing them]]. They basically get discovered due to the elder brother [[PetTheDog petting the dog]] (the younger is severely wounded when their prey fights back, and he starts a fire to signal for help), and this is actually somewhat made a point.
** ''CriminalMinds'' did this another time besides TheMostDangerousGame one, but with a horrible twist: [[spoiler: one brother is quadraplegic, the other is physically able but seriously mentally impaired. The former manipulates the latter, who doesn't really know what he's doing, into all the crimes.]]