History Main / SiblingsInCrime

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

* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' has the Toguro Brothers.

* Sakon and Ukon of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''. They're both sadistic, violent psychos, but hey, they have family values. Brothers stick together. In this case, to the point where they share a body...
** Kinkaku and Ginkaku fit as well. Two brothers who used to be respected in Kumogakure as Two Shining Lights. But they fell from grace and committed many horrible acts, and from then on, were seen as the worst criminals in Kumo history. Samui even stating she wants no affiliation with them. Both brothers feel lying and betrayal are great tactics. Both brothers kill Zetsu clones, who are their comrades, in battle when trying to get to an enemy, and neither seems to care that Zetsu are caught in the crossfire. However, they are very close brothers who seem to respect and love one another. Ginkaku's most said word in his life is his brother's name, and when in trouble, he calls for his brother to help him. And Kinkaku flies into a rage if anyone seriously hurts his brother.
* In the backstory of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'', [[spoiler:Hei and his little sister, Pai]]. She was essentially drafted as an assassin by TheSyndicate, and her BadassNormal brother wound up tagging along out of [[BigBrotherInstinct protectiveness]]. Then [[spoiler:she went missing in the Heaven's Gate incident and he somehow ended up with her superpowers]], and things went downhill from there.

* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': In episodes 9 and 10, [[spoiler:Julio and Sylvia planned a trap to execute their sister Ange.]]
* ''Anime/DaphneInTheBrilliantBlue'': Wong, Chang, Lee, and May — the Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains Maia and the other Nereids repeatedly encounter — all have the same mother. After Maia's attempt to impersonate Chang in the second episode, they start using the number of the "husband" who parented them as a Trust Password to identify each other.

* ''Franchise/XMen'':
** The Fenris twins, Andrea and Andreas von Strucker.
** In UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}} [[LegionOfDoom Brotherhood of Mutants]] and the UltimateUniverse version of same, it was the ambivalently villainous siblings ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} and the ComicBook/ScarletWitch.
** In the Acolytes, the successor to the Brotherhood, it was the Kleinstock Brothers.
** ComicBook/XFactor once clashed with the siblings Slab and Thumbelina, who were usually on two entirely different teams of baddies.

* ComicBook/SpiderWoman and ComicBook/IronMan respectively battled two pairs of villains called the Brothers Grimm, though only the second version are actually brothers--and twins, at that.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** Superman's demonic enemies Blaze and Satanus are brother and sister.
** The first Kryptonian criminals Superman ever met were three brothers called Kizo, U-Ban and Mala, introduced in ''Superman'' (vol 1) #65.
* ''ComicBook/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.
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': The Beagle Boys. Not just brothers but cousins as well, a whole extended family of crime.

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

* Minor Franchise/{{Batman}} foes, the Trigger Twins.
* ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} has fought the thrill-seeking villain team Double Dare that is made up two sisters.
* ComicBook/TheFlash supervillains Captain Cold and Golden Glider are brother and sister and frequently team up together.
* Mammoth and Shimmer, ComicBook/TeenTitans foes and members of the Fearsome Five, are brother and sister.

* ComicBook/DangerGirl has the twins Cain and Abel who are part of the Nazi organization Hammer.

* In ''Fanfic/ValesUnderground'', Raven and Qrow Branwen are both mob bosses who mainly deal with Vale's drug trade. Raven takes care of things on the ground and Qrow gains political influence from the inside.
* In ''Fanfic/AForceOfFour'', the three Kryptonian rogues attacking Earth are three brothers called Mala, Kizo and U-Ban.

* Creator/QuentinTarantino's storied universe has an interesting, somewhat unintentional [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] with [[Film/ReservoirDogs Vic]] and [[Film/PulpFiction Vincent]] Vega. Both characters are hardened criminals, WordOfGod makes it clear that they're supposed to be related to each other and have had a history together, but the two characters have never been seen together in movies. For a while, Tarantino was apparently working on putting together a Vega Brothers movie, but he ended up abandoning such a project around 2007 when he concluded that the principal actors, Michael Madsen and John Travolta, would be too old now to reprise their roles.
** The hillbilly killer rapists Zed and Maynard are brothers as well, according to the script, however, this [[AllThereInTheScript wasn't mentioned in the film itself]].
** ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'', however, begins with the audience following the escapades of the Gecko Brothers Seth and Richie.
* Charlie and Mikey Burns in ''Film/TheProposition''

* In the Korean film ''Film/{{Silenced}}'', Headmaster Lee Gang-bok and Admin Head Lee Gang-seok (who are CreepyTwins to boot) inflict horrific sexual abuse on the female students of their BoardingSchoolOfHorrors. Their adoptive sister, Yun Ja-ae, is also complicit in their crimes and deals out plenty of (physical) abuse herself.

* ''Film/TheLegendOfFrenchieKing'': The fearsome gang of outlaws led by Frenchie King consists of five half-sisters. Frenchie King [[SheIsTheKing herself]] is the eldest sister. In the end, they add another set of siblings consisting of four brothers and their eldest sister to the gang.
* The main bad guys in ''Film/HannieCaulder'' are the Clemens brothers: Emmett, Frank and Rufus. Bank robbers, murderers and rapists, they spend as much time arguing with each other as fighting the law.

* ''Series/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.
* Day 3 of ''Series/TwentyFour'' has the Salazar brothers Ramon and Hector.
* ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' is based on this trope. It's about the Peaky Blinders street gang, led by brothers Tommy, Arthur, and John Shelby… plus their aunt, TheConsigliere.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_Brothers Piranha Brothers.]]
* Mr. Cain and Mr. Abel in "Meltdown", the ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' homage episode of ''Series/ThePretender''
* A "two brothers, one not all there" type is true of Ryan and Cyril O'Reily in ''Series/{{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.
* Danny and Albert Cho (respectively, Kamen Riders Spear and Imperer) in ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight''.

* Danny and Tony Driscoll in ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' and ''Series/TheGreenGreenGrass''.
* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' had a pair of brothers, in the episode People Who Live in Brass Hearses. Billy and Virgil Deluca. Virgil is handicapped, and usually just goes along with his brother. Billy is a hot-tempered and thuggish guy, who just got out of prison recently, having served two years. He insists that he and his brother are a team. He leans toward being a JerkAss. He has no problem with murder, and is prone to getting violent, even with his brother on occasion. But usually, when he sees he has really scared, or upset his brother, he calms down and apologizes.

* On ''Series/BreakingBad'' The Cousins are two twin brothers who work as hitmen for a Mexican drug cartel. Their cousin Tuco is a major drug dealer in Albuquerque.
* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'':
** In "The Deductionist" [[spoiler: Patricia Ennis was in on her brother Martin's plan to get back at Kathryn Drummond. She poisoned her liver so Martin could escape when donating his, and then tried to kill Drummond with a pair of scissors]].
** In "Dead Man's Switch" [[spoiler:Anthony Pistone killed Charles Augustus Milverton, so he and his brother could take over the blackmail business]].
* ''Series/{{Altered Carbon}}'' gives us secondary villain Dimitri Kadmin, also known as [[http://altered-carbon.wikia.com/wiki/Dimi_2 Dimi the Twin]], who is his own brother. [[spoiler: Not exactly a clone, Dimi uses the series' gimmick of creating a digital copy of his mind and personality to create illegal copies of himself in multiple bodies, known as double-sleeving. Though technically the same person, the copies consider themselves to be brothers.]] Series protagonist Takeshi Kovacs uses the same technique at one point but doesn't consider his double to be a brother.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'':
** In "The Heist", Lee Taylor is a mercenary-for-hire who works on an operation with his brother Calvin and other members of the militia group Lightning Dawn.
** In "Heart's Desire", brothers Jake and Ben Miller are members of a gang of outlaws in TheWildWest.

* The fourth ''Literature/KittyNorville'' book contains a very nasty case of this. The sister is[[spoiler: a skinwalker, a practitioner of one of the evilest 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 murderous and out of control.

* In the second ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' book, the pirate queen Pauha and her chief mage Enahar are sister and brother.

* Martina Cole's duology ''Dangerous Lady'' and ''Maura's Game'' feature a whole family of criminals...[[spoiler: and the leader, and brains of the outfit, is the youngest sibling and only daughter.]]

* The [[CreepyTwins Ashford Twins]] from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'': sister Alexia is the BigBad of the game while brother Alfred is her devoted [[TheDragon Dragon]].
* Eventually subverted by Carlito and Isabela Keyes in ''VideoGame/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]].

* The Mendez Brothers in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories''.

* Packie, Derrick and Gerry [=McReary=] from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' are a non-antagonistic version.
** Knowing that their father used to be the gang leader and that their mother has a criminal record, too, qualifies the [=McRearys=] as TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether. The only person in the family without a criminal record is Kate and Francis(Though he is a corrupt cop).
* The Frye twins Jacob and Evie in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'', the leaders of the Rooks gang and a rare {anti)heroic example of this trope.
* ''VideoGame/{{Wick}}'' features the Weaver children, a family of ghost children who work to murder the player over the course of six hours.

* ''WesternAnimation/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 ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''?
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' has the [[EvilKnockoff Rowdyruff]] [[SpearCounterpart Boys]]: Brick, Boomer and Butch.

* Small-time tech thieves, Evan and Myles of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots''.

* A heroic version of this trope were Hans and Sophie Scholl, members of the anti-Nazi [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose White Rose]] resistance movement in Germany who printed pamphlets denouncing the ongoing Holocaust.

** The Richardson Brothers ran the other half of London and there were frequent turf wars.
* The Dougherty family -- Ryan, Lee and half brother Dylan -- were wanted for an alleged bank robbery in Georgia and the attempted murder of a Florida police officer.

Can overlap with BigBadDuumvirate or ThoseTwoBadGuys, may involve SiblingYinYang or StrongerSibling.

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

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* ''Series/CriminalMinds''

* The [[CreepyTwins Ashford Twins]] from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica''--sister Alexia is the BigBad of the game while brother Alfred is her devoted [[TheDragon Dragon]].

In traditional societies with autocratic governments -- that is to say, most societies since the existence of agriculture -- the consequences for law-breaking have been serious, and no one outside the extended family can really be trusted. Add another common feature of traditional societies -- punishments that are inflicted on entire families regardless of individual guilt or innocence -- and the incentive structure for family participation in crime if crime is what's needed is sturdy and strong.

* The main strength of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomis_Gang Loomis Gang]] was the sons… and some daughters… of the family patriarch and matriarch, who were both reputedly criminals themselves.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The Triple Stars are a villainous group made up of the triplets Joey, Jackie and Johnny Star.

* The Frye twins Jacobe and Evie in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'', the leaders of the Rooks gang and a rare {anti)heroic example of this trope.

* In the Korean film ''Film/TheCrucible'', Headmaster Lee Gang-bok and Admin Head Lee Gang-seok (who are CreepyTwins to boot) inflict horrific sexual abuse on the female students of their BoardingSchoolOfHorrors. Their adoptive sister, Yun Ja-ae, is also complicit in their crimes and deals out plenty of (physical) abuse herself.

* Dave and Banjo Lilywhite in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}''

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** The first Kryptonian criminals Superman ever met were three brothers called Kizo, U-Ban and Mala, introduced in ''Superman'' (vol 1) #65.

* [[Manga/YuYuHakusho The Toguro Brothers]].

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenris_(comics) Fenris]] (Andrea and Andreas von Strucker) in the MarvelUniverse.
** The ComicBook/XMen meet a lot of these: in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}} [[LegionOfDoom Brotherhood of Mutants]] and the UltimateUniverse version of same, it was the ambivalently villainous siblings ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} and the ComicBook/ScarletWitch; in the Acolytes, the successor to the Brotherhood, it was the Kleinstock Brothers; even X-Men SpinOff team ComicBook/XFactor once clashed with the siblings Slab and Thumbelina, who were usually on two entirely different teams of baddies.

* The Blood Brothers, a pair of minor alien villains in Creator/MarvelComics, actually increase in strength the closer they are to one another.

* ComicBook/{{Superman}}'s demonic enemies Blaze and Satanus are brother and sister.

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* The ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' fic “[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8801169/10/Even-though-I-m-broken-will-you-accept-me Even though I’m broken, will you accept me?]]” takes Dexter and Debra’s relationship to the next level when Debra starts taking an active role in Dexter’s kills to see him at his most ‘pure’.

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* [[CreepyTwins Tomax and Xamot]] from ''GIJoe''.

* The Menendez brothers, Lyle and Erik, conspired together to kill their parents so they could inherit their fortune.

The dark side's version of the SiblingTeam--criminals who take brothers or sisters along for the ride. They 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.

** Kinkaku and Ginkaku fit as well. Two brothers who used to be respected in Kumogakure as Two Shining Lights. But they fell from grace and committed many horrible acts, and from then on, were seen as the worst criminals in Kumo history. Samui even stating she wants no affiliation with them. Both brothers feel lying and betrayal are great tactics. Both brothers kill Zetsu clones, who are their comrades, in battle when trying to get to an enemy, and neither seems to care that zetsu are caught in the crossfire. However, they are very close brothers who seem to respect and love one another. Ginkaku's most said word in his life is his brother's name, and when in trouble, he calls for his brother to help him. And Kinkaku flies into rage if anyone seriously hurts his brother.

* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', the twelve Numbers are sisters who are built by [[BigBad Jail Scaglietti]] and did many crimes for him. Most of them aren't actually evil, and eleven of them go to prison in the end while the last one [[spoiler:died]], but seven of them rehabilitate and four of them prefer to stay in prison. Since ''Audioplay/StrikersSoundStageX'', three of them are working for the Saint Church now and the other four are adopted by the Nakajima family. Even though they have now a normal human life, all seven Numbers are still under (not so strict) observation, especially the eldest of them, Cinque, will have to work for the [[TheFederation TSAB]] for the rest of her life.

** In ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'', the [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether Hückebein]] family members consider themselves more as siblings than anything else since nobody of them fit the father or mother part.

* ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} has fought the thrill seeking villain team Double Dare that is made up two sisters.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the Krayfish Twins run a mob operation in Ankh-Morpork. Ronnie and Reggie are feared for their ruthless qualities and general nastiness. But they love good floristry, chocolate and well-tailored clothes and accessories; Veronica and Regina Krayfish remain very feminine and stylish crime overladies.

* In ''Fanfic/ValesUnderground'', Raven and Qrow Branwen are both mob bosses who manily deal with Vale's drug trade. Raven takes care of things on the ground and Qrow gains political influence from the inside.

* Creator/QuentinTarantino's storied universe has an interesting, somewhat unintentional [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] with [[Film/ReservoirDogs Vic]] and [[Film/PulpFiction Vincent]] Vega. Both characters are hardened criminals, WordOfGod makes it clear that they're supposed to be related to each other and have had a history together, but the two characters have never been seen together in movies. For a while, Tarantino was apparently working on putting together a Vega Brothers movie, but he ended up abandoning such a project around 2007 when he concluded that the principle actors, Michael Madsen and John Travolta, would be too old now to reprise their roles.
** The hillbilly killer rapists Zed and Maynard are brothers as well, according to the script, however this [[AllThereInTheScript wasn't mentioned in the film itself]].
** ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'', however, begins with the audience following the escapades of the Gecko Brothers, Seth and Richie.

* In the Korean film ''Film/TheCrucible'', Headmaster Lee Gang-bok and Admin Head Lee Gang-seok (who are CreepyTwins to boot) inflict horrific sexual abuse on the female students of their BoardingSchoolOfHorrors. Their adoptive sister, Yun Ja-ae, is also complicit in their crimes, and deals out plenty of (physical) abuse herself.

* ''Film/TheLegendOfFrenchieKing'': The fearsome gang of outlaws led by Frenchie King consists of five half-sisters. Frenchie King [[SheIsTheKing herself]] is the eldest sister. At the end they add another set of siblings consisting of four brothers and their eldest sister to the gang.

** "To Hell..."/"...And Back" had this 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]].

* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' had a pair of brothers, in the episode People Who Live in Brass Hearses. Billy and Virgil Deluca. Virgil is handicapped, and usually just goes along with his brother. Billy is a hot-tempered and thuggish guy, who just got out of prison recently, having served two years. He insists that he and his brother are a team. He leans toward being a JerkAss. He has no problem with murder, and is prone to getting violent, even with his brother on occasion. But usually when he sees he has really scared, or upset his brother, he calms down and apologizes.

** The Bennett brothers Doyle, Dickie and Coover help their mother run her marijuana business and act as her primary mooks in other criminal enterprises. Dickie and Coover occasionally pair up to commit crimes on their own.

** The head of the Miami drug cartel likes to use two siblings, his own niece and nephew, to represent him for important deals.

* ''Series/{{Altered Carbon}}'' gives us secondary villain Dimitri Kadmin, also known as [[http://altered-carbon.wikia.com/wiki/Dimi_2 Dimi the Twin]], who is his own brother. [[spoiler: Not exactly a clone, Dimi uses the series' gimmick of creating a digital copy of his mind and personality to create illegal copies of himself in multiple bodies, known as double-sleeving. Though technically the same person, the copies consider themselves to be brothers.]] Series protagonist Takeshi Kovacs uses the same technique at one point, but doesn't consider his double to be a brother.

* The fourth ''Literature/KittyNorville'' book contains a very nasty case of this. The sister is[[spoiler: a skinwalker, a practitioner 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.

* Ashlynn Harris and her half-brother Jake Myers from Literature/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.

In traditional societies with autocratic governments─that is to say, most societies since the existence of agriculture─the consequences for law-breaking have been serious, and noöne outside the extended family can really be trusted. Add another common feature of traditional societies─punishments that are inflicted on entire families regardless of individual guilt or innocence─and the incentive structure for family participation in crime if crime's what's needed is sturdy and strong.

* A heroic version of this Trope were Hans and Sophie Scholl, members of the anti-Nazi [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose White Rose]] resistance movement in Germany who printed pamphlets denouncing the ongoing Holocaust.
* The Krays, Ron and Reg, [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099951/ subjects of a movie by the name,]] twin London gangsters famous in the 60's, often aided and abetted by their older brother, Charlie.