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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': The Fielding School in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS13E5 The Master Class]]" turns out to be an entire extended family of murderous {{Evilutionary Biologist}}s hell-bent on selectively breeding the perfect pianist. This includes a character who pretends to not be related, only to reveal themselves in the climax.

%%* The family in [[ComicStrip/TheAddamsFamily the original Addams family cartoons]] are this, as opposed to their gentler TV version.
* Pa, Link, Fink, Mean Machine, and Junior Angel (a.k.a. The Angel Gang) from ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''. Pa Angel was apparently so committed to making sure that he raised his kids to be nothing short of monsters that when his son Mean turned out to actually be extremely gentle and nice, he got him surgically modified with cybernetic enhancements to give him a more bloodthirsty disposition. After [[spoiler: the deaths of Pa, Link, and Junior]], Fink and Mean Machine sought vengeance as SiblingsInCrime. The movie adaptation with Creator/SylvesterStallone saw The Angel Gang adapted as a CannibalClan.
* {{Franco Belgian Comic|s}} ''Les Cranibales'' is about a CannibalClan [[DevilInPlainSight living in a modern french city]]. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids It's actually an all-ages series]] where the situation is PlayedForLaughs.
* The Daltons from ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'', with the family matriarch Ma Dalton who occasionally helps her sons escaping the CardboardPrison du jour and planning some of their crimes. Given that they're in a very family-friendly title, nobody's really at risk of getting killed.

* The ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' comic has a borderline case in the Deltas, a BadassFamily of military officers and intelligence agents who sometimes hunt the hero. They're the nicest possible version of the trope, but they do work for a somewhat sinister GovernmentConspiracy, and have a propensity for both [[ManipulativeBastard sneakiness]] and [[ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer overwhelming force]] when it furthers their objectives.

* The Roarks from ''ComicBook/SinCity''. Most of them actually hate each other, but Roark Jr. is a pedophile serial killer, his corrupt Senator father covers for him and facilitates many other forms of corruption in the city, while the Senator's brother in turn is a Cardinal who secretively cannibalizes prostitutes with his disciple Kevin. There's a third Roark brother who's an Attorney General, and although he [[TheGhost never appears]], given his relatives' track record it's hard to believe that he's not probably some sort of AmoralAttorney.

* The Kravinoffs in ''[[ComicBook/SpiderMan Spider-Man: The Gauntlet]]''.
* [[Characters/SpiderManTheInheritors The Inheritors]], of which Morlun is the eldest sibling, is this in ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse''.
* In ''ComicBook/XMen'', when The Brood attack New Orleans, they target the children of the local thief and assassin clans for assimilation, giving this trope as their reasoning: Since they are preparing an invasion they need soldiers, so hosts with the right instincts are very desirable.
* MadScientist Doctor Sivana and his children, Georgia and Thaddeus Jr., from ''[[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]]''.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': The Canmore family, aka the Hunters, who are descended from the medieval Scottish king Canmore, wear masks with a slashed face motif, and obsessively try to hunt down the immortal gargoyle Demona. Which wouldn't be too bad in and of itself, since Demona is evil and wants to destroy mankind, but unfortunately they suffer from FantasticRacism and assume all other gargoyles are evil, too, which almost none of them are. Also, Canmore himself became Demona's enemy for less than noble reasons before she was well and truly evil, simply because she was an ally of his rival Macbeth.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': The Canmore family, aka the Hunters, who are descended from the medieval Scottish king Canmore, wear masks with a slashed face motif, and obsessively try to hunt down the immortal gargoyle Demona. Which wouldn't be too bad in and of itself, since Demona is evil and wants to destroy mankind, but unfortunately they suffer from FantasticRacism and assume all other gargoyles are evil, too, which almost none of them are.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', "Adventures in Squirrelsitting", Fat Cat ponders the possibility of raising Tammy and Binky as his own criminal successors... [[SubvertedTrope but then decides it'd be too much trouble]] and tosses them into his DeathTrap.

* The Beagle Boys in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', a family of criminals, mainly a parody of Ma Barker's gang. Several branches of the family are shown with different characteristics including [[UpperClassTwit Upper-Class Twits]], swamp rednecks, and one made only of women, all of them criminals.

** In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS01E15TheBenders The Benders]]", Sam and Dean are investigating a murder, and they discover that it's a crazy redneck family that has been hunting people for [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the ultimate hunting experience]]. This extends to the little girl, and once the dead wife is mentioned there is a distinct note of 'this is you guys if you were evil cannibal rednecks who didn't know there were real monsters to hunt.'

** The Argents are a large family of werewolf hunters. It's strongly implied that werewolf hunting is often a family trade, so there are probably many other hunter families out there as well.
** At the beginning of Season 4, Sean Walcott is distraught over the grisly deaths of his parents, who seem to have been completely normal people. By the end of the episode, [[OurBansheesAreLouder Lydia]] has found a freezer full of dead bodies in the Walcott's house: [[spoiler: they're all murderous man-eating wendigos.]]

* ''Series/WildCards2024'': Max is a con artist and her father turns out to also be a criminal who's in prison. It's strongly implied that she learned from him, and is planning to bust him out.

* ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' is built on this; they're also a CannibalClan.

* The Kamelot family from ''Manga/DGrayman'' are an opulent family with good reputation in the upper-class society. However, Sheryl, his adopted daughter, his adopted son and his brother have either caused the death of, killed or driven insane countless people. His wife is not aware of their true nature though.
* ''Anime/DirtyPair'': [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] with the "Lucifer" criminal organization which is an ''army'' of crooks and wanna-be galaxy-conquerors, all of them related by blood. Dropping the "LukeIAmYourFather" card (which is not a lie, either) on some poor unsuspecting fella caught in their very many schemes [[HeritageFaceTurn is a typical recruitment tool]].

** In a dark twist, this and a huge dose of StockholmSyndrome are the true reason for [[spoiler: Koutarou Amon]]'s guilt. [[spoiler: After learning his adoptive father was a ghoul preying on the other children in the orphanage, Amon became an accomplice to his crimes. Eventually, Donato was captured and Amon taken into custody as a "survivor" of the killing spree]].

* The back story of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' involves ComicBook/TheJoker and and Harley Quinn having kidnapped [[spoiler: Tim Drake]] and having had him brainwashed and tortured for the sake of modeling him as their own son, dubbed "[[OverlordJr Joker, Jr.]]", and effectively becoming one of these families. [[spoiler: It didn't work.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' also has the Royal Flush Gang, a family that makes their living on crime; however, they prefer theft to murder, although they don't mind bloodying their hands when they have to. Their daughter, [[WhiteSheep Melanie]] eventually walks away from the life.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode Power Prof, Utonium joins the girls in crime fighting, and the narrator names this trope.
-->'''Narrator:''' [[TropeNamer Looks like the family that slays together, stays together.]]

* This is what happens in WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons with Sideshow Bob in "The Italian Bob", rather than shun him, his wife and toddler son help him try to kill the Simpsons. Exaggerated in "Funeral for a Fiend" when even Bob's brother and parents help him try to kill Bart, too.

%%* Parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', appropriately named "The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together."

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': The Quintas family had a charming family tradition of competing as serial killers. After Mary Quintas spent years thinking she should be her mother's favorite since she was the only one who managed to avoid getting caught she decided the best way to win would be to kill the rest of the family. While her taking out her brothers could be seen as a type of public service her nephew is completely innocent and had no involvement in the family plot.

* An episode of the original Hawaii 5-0 had a killer family coming to Hawaii. They are generally presented as dumb, inbred Southern hillbilly types (Slim Pickens was the patriarch). When they are caught, the old lady of the group calmly explains they weren't thieves because they only took money and valuables from people they already killed, who didn't need it any more. It also wasn't murder because their victims "weren't kin".

* Mother, and her sons Ike and Addley, from ''Mother's Day''. There's also Queenie, Mother's woods dwelling sister who is just as murderously insane as the rest, but hates her relatives. The loose remake drops Queenie, adds a daughter, and upgrades the number of sons to three.

* ''Fanfic/TalesOfTheHungerGames'' has the Dalton family - a family with two Hunger Games Victors (an uncle and a nephew), six tributes who made it to the final eight of their respective Hunger Games, another six tributes who fight in their district's 100th Hunger Games, and a handful of academy trainees who partook in their district's reaping games but were unsuccessful in being named tribute.

** Also true for the Winchesters, and other hunter families, although less with the homicide. SA Henriksen, who spends a season and a half on a quest to catch Dean, thinks they are this, straight-out. A hunter mentions this phrase in episode 3x01, just before kissing his wife.

…stays together.

* The Baker family in VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard, with the exception of their daughter [[WhiteSheep Zoe]], are this mixed with the series trademark ImplacableMan and BodyHorror. [[spoiler:It turns out that the Bakers were once a normal, loving family before [[HiveQueen Eveline]] infected and brainwashed them, twisting Jack and Marguerite into sadistic, murderous cannibals and giving their already psychopathic son [[EvilAllAlong Lucas]] an outlet for his violent fantasies, all operating under Eveline's command.]]

* The Zabi family from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' are a family of militaristic fascist politicians, with father [[FatBastard Degwin]] as Sovereign and BigBad, eldest son [[TheEvilPrince Gihren]] as DragonInChief and CINC of the war effort, daughter [[EvilGenius Kycilia]] and son [[TheBrute Dozle]] as fleet commanders, and youngest child [[DarkChick Garma]] as the leader of the Earth Invasion Force. Since they are also a BigScrewedUpFamily, the situation turns very messy for all of them, especially once [[TheStarscream Gihren]] [[{{Patricide}} makes his play for power]].

Compare ''and'' contrast the BadassFamily, who can sometimes be this as well when villains but are usually more heroic, and all forms of the GenericEthnicCrimeGang, particularly TheMafia and TheIrishMob.

* Kichikujima has the insane family at the large abandoned island using satanic ritutal,ufo items,and nuclear waste they used for their powers. The Members are Kaoru,his father Yoshikazu,His mother Mariko Glaccias,His grandmother Otoki,His older sister mari,his younger twin sisters Anna and Kanna,and finally Satoru his younger brother.

* Kichikujima has the insane family at the large abandoned island using satnic ritutal,ufo items,and nuclear waste they used for their powers. The Members are Kaoru,his father Yoshikazu,His mother Mariko Glaccias,His grandmother Otoki,His older sister mari,his younger twin sisters Anna and Kanna,and finally Satoru his younger brother.