History TangledFamilyTree / Literature

* The Kashpaw-Nanapush-Lamartine-Morrissey family from Louise Erdrich's ''Love Medicine''. [[ReallyGetsAround Lulu Napapush]] is responsible for at least half of the tangledness. A family tree can be seen on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Medicine wikipedia page]].

** The [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/thumb/e/e0/Familytree2.jpg/700px-Familytree2.jpg Peverell family tree]], which reaches about as far back into wizarding family history as can be reliably traced, includes almost all the main characters in one way or another. Voldemort and Harry are even related as direct descendants of the middle and youngest Peverell brothers, respectively.
*** The Peverell tree includes ''as a sub-set'' The Ancient and Most Noble House of Black. Their [[http://www.harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Black_Family_Tree.png family tree]] makes them ''officially'' blood relatives of most of the other major Death Eater families. Through their disinherited descendants, they're also blood cousins to many muggle-friendly families. Molly and Arthur Weasley were third cousins through the Black family even ''before'' they married.

* At the conclusion of the Colleen [=McCullough=] novel ''The Touch'', ten-year old Dolly is the niece to six month old twins Alexander and Mary-Isabelle. Meanwhile, her aunt Nell is their big sister, despite being 24 years older than them, old enough to be their mother. This is because Nell's mother Elizabeth had her at a very young age (17). What's more, Dolly actually thinks that she herself is the twins' older sister, because she thinks Elizabeth is her mother, but she's not. She's the daughter of Elizabeth's ''other'' daughter Anna, who couldn't care for her as she was mentally retarded, meaning that Elizabeth is actually her ''grandmother''.

* Looking at the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, try working through [[Literature/XWingSeries Soontir Fel's]] family tree. The Fel family is pretty large even before it gets to him, and then it practically explodes; he marries the sister of Wedge Antilles, trying the Antilles family in, and has a ''lot'' of children with her. Presumably several of the ones who don't get killed off end up married. One of his sons ends up in a relationship with Jaina Solo, daughter of Leia and Han, tying in the Skywalker and Solo lines. It's implied by the ''Comicbook/{{Legacy}}'' comics that his son and Jaina got married. Soontir Fel's great-grandson is TheEmperor. Oh, and in the ''Literature/HandOfThrawn'' duology we found that Fel had clones. [[SendInTheClones A lot of clones]]. Many of them in sleeper cells, with families of their own. For some reason, they almost never show up on family tree charts.

* Looking at the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, try working through [[Literature/XWingSeries Soontir Fel's]] family tree. The Fel family is pretty large even before it gets to him, and then it practically explodes; he marries the sister of Wedge Antilles, trying the Antilles family in, and has a ''lot'' of children with her. Presumably several of the ones who don't get killed off end up married. One of his sons ends up in a relationship with Jaina Solo, daughter of Leia and Han, tying in the Skywalker and Solo lines. It's implied by the ''Comicbook/{{Legacy}}'' comics that his son and Jaina got married. Soontir Fel's great-grandson is TheEmperor. Oh, and in the ''Literature/HandOfThrawn'' duology we found that Fel had clones. [[SendInTheClones A lot of clones]]. Many of them in sleeper cells, with families of their own. [[CloningBlues For some reason]], they almost never show up on family tree charts.

** Also, [[Literature/TheVampireChronicles The Great Family.]]

* The Vangers in Stieg Larsson's ''[[Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy Millennium]]'' Trilogy are an incredibly screwed-up family with lots of members.

** Joffrey, Tommen, and Myrcella are brother and sister, first cousins, and third cousins all at once, thanks to their grandparents [[KissingCousins being cousins]] and their parents being [[spoiler: [[BrotherSisterIncest brother and sister.]]]] Added to that is the fact that the Lannisters have not one, but ''two'' extant and recognised family lines: the Lannisters of Casterly Rock, heirs of the Rock Kings and who we all know and sometimes loathe to love -- and the Lannisters of Lannisport -- um... who are also descendants of the Rock Kings, but from a line shunted to one side and basically put in charge of keeping the Westerlands' navy in tip-top shape on behalf of the main, inheriting Casterly Rock line. [[KissingCousins They intermarry quite regularly.]]

* Due to their obsession with blood purity and the resulting intermarriages and incest, [-ALL-] Masters in ''Literature/TheStoneDanceOfTheChameleon'' are somehow related, although tracing the exact kinships can be a nightmare. The author's website helpfully provides some (complicated) [[http://www.ricardopinto.com/work/stone_dance/topics/personae/family_trees/index.php family trees.]] (Beware of a spoiler in the House of Masks.)