Siblings in Crime

Joe, William, Jack and Averell Dalton.

The dark side's version of the Sibling Team — criminals who take brothers or sisters along for the ride. They sometimes end up looking like a fraternal version of an Outlaw Couple, also typically a pair. Sometimes they can play off each other as Morality Pets or at least Humanity Pets while other times their partnership can be begrudging underneath or have them tripping over Sibling Rivalry.

Can overlap with Big Bad Duumvirate, may involve Sibling Yin-Yang or Stronger Sibling.

See Also: The Family That Slays Together if parents and other relatives join the siblings on serious crime sprees.

Contrast Criminal Found Family.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Hansel and Gretel of Black Lagoon.
• Cross Ange: In episodes 9 and 10, Julio and Sylvia planned a trap to execute their sister Ange.
• Daphne in the Brilliant Blue: 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.
• In the backstory of Darker than Black, Hei and his little sister, Pai. She was essentially drafted as an assassin by The Syndicate, and her Badass Normal brother wound up tagging along out of protectiveness. Then she went missing in the Heaven's Gate incident and he somehow ended up with her superpowers, and things went downhill from there.
• Fullmetal Alchemist: The Slicer Brothers were a Serial Killer duo turned into a single suit of Animated Armor— one forms the head and the other forms the body.
• Luke and Jan Valentine in Hellsing who are Polar Opposite Twins while still both being psycho villains.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • Stardust Crusaders: The Oingo Boingo Brothers. Oingo has the power to shapeshift, while Boingo has the power to read the future in book form. While they sound deadly on paper, they are so incompetent that the heroes are unaware of their very existence.
  • Golden Wind: Prosciutto and Pesci, both members of the hitman team.
• Lyrical Nanoha:
  • In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, the twelve Numbers are sisters who are built by 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 died, but seven of them rehabilitate and four of them prefer to stay in prison. Since StrikerS Sound Stage X, three of them are working for the Saint Church now and the other four are adopted by the Nakajima family. Even though they now have 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 TSAB for the rest of her life.
  • Earlier, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's has the Wolkenritter who can be considered as siblings since they have the same origin and are members of the Yagami family. They are working for the TSAB to atone their sins and crimes they had done.
  • In Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force, the Hückebein family members consider themselves more like siblings than anything else since none of them fit the father or mother part.
• Moriarty the Patriot focuses on Albert, William, and Louis James Moriarty, the three Moriarty brothers who work as London's infamous Lord of Crime.
• Sakon and Ukon of 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.
• Outlaw Star: Gene Starwind's archrivals, the McDougal Brothers.
• Pokémon: The Series:
  • The Pokémon Poacher Brothers, Braggo, Blurt and Chico, from "The Mother of All Battles".
• Sword Art Online: The serial killer "Death Gun" was actually two brothers and a third accomplice working in concert. The elder brother was an SAO survivor and member of laughing coffin. The younger brother has a Villainous Crush on fellow player Sinon. Both are sons of a doctor, with ample access to the drugs needed to commit the actual murders.
• YuYu Hakusho has the Toguro Brothers.

Comic Books

• Minor Batman foes the Trigger Twins.
• In the Bronze Age, Captain America battled a pair of brothers, the Eel (Leopold Stryke) and the Viper (Jordan Stryke), who were part of the first Serpent Squad. Interestingly enough, when Leopold became a supervillain, Jordan legally changed his last name to Dixon in order to disassociate himself from his brother — however, Jordan then decided to become a supervillain as well and allied with his brother in the process.
• Danger Girl has the twins Cain and Abel who are part of the Nazi organization Hammer.
• Disney Ducks Comic Universe: The Beagle Boys. Not just brothers but cousins as well, a whole extended family of crime.
• The Flash supervillains Captain Cold and Golden Glider are brother and sister and frequently team up together.
• Invincible has recurring minor villains the Mauler Brothers, who are not actual brothers; they're clones.
• Iron Man and Spider-Woman respectively battled two pairs of villains called the Brothers Grimm, though only the second version are actually brothers — and twins, at that.
• The Blood Brothers, a pair of minor alien villains in the Marvel Universe, actually increase in strength the closer they are to one another.
• Judge Dredd: Dredd 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 The Family That Slays Together.
• The Dalton brothers from Lucky Luke. They may not be especially competent, but they're determined to stick to their life of crime. They are the inept cousins of the historical Dalton brothers (another example of the trope), who appeared in a single early episode and were hanged at the end.
• Nightwing has fought the thrill-seeking villain team Double Dare that is made up two sisters.
• Sin City: The Roark brothers, one a Senator and the other a Cardinal, don't seem to like each other much but they are still the heads of the most powerful and evil family in Sin City. There's a third brother mentioned who's an Attorney General, but he has never appeared.
• Strontium Dog had two separate groups of these: The Weerd Brothers; Hiss, Cuss, and Silent, and the Creepy Mutant Twins known only as Stix.
• 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.
• Mammoth and Shimmer, Teen Titans foes and members of the Fearsome Five, are brother and sister.
• Wonder Woman Vol 1: The Triple Stars are a villainous group made up of the triplets Joey, Jackie and Johnny Star.
• X-Men:
  • The Fenris twins, Andrea and Andreas von Strucker.
  • In the Silver Age Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and the Ultimate X Men version of same, it was the ambivalently villainous siblings Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch.
  • In the Acolytes, the successor to the Brotherhood, it was the Kleinstock Brothers.
  • X-Factor once clashed with the siblings Slab and Thumbelina, who were usually on two entirely different teams of baddies.
• In Kayko & Kokosh Wit the warrior faces a team of tough triplets bandit girls Bogna, Czechna and Kachna who specialize in ambushing people in the woods. The sisters want to force Wit into marriage (do to his reputation as a legendary hero), but after he escapes, claiming he is searching for his 'one and true love,' the trio decide to find his "dream woman" first (and presumably kill her) as their revenge for feeling rejected.
  • Zierzchinca and her sister Zaćmica from "Twilight Eclipse" book - a sinister sorceress and her bumbling but charming sister, who commits difrent cons and manipulation as their plot to take over the land.

Fan Works

• In the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal, 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 over ladies.
• The Dexter fic "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’.
• In A Force of Four, the three Kryptonian rogues attacking Earth are three brothers called Mala, Kizo and U-Ban.
• In Vale's Underground, 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 The Vow we have as minor villains two leopard martial artists working with Haun's gang. They're revealed to be a brother and sister.

Films — Animation

• The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots: It's not explicitly stated in the first film, but the third movie clarifies that cat assassins are a band of brothers.

Films — Live-Action

• The Gruber brothers, Hans and Simon, from the Die Hard movies. Like the Vegas, they're a bit of a subversion in that they turned up separately and apparently didn't like each other much in real life.
• In Face/Off, Castor and Pollux Troy appear to work together as this, based on a police file at the beginning that states that the two together are suspected of assassinating a Croatian ambassador (it reads "Number of hits suggests that Troy had a second shooter; possibly his younger brother Pollux").
• In Ghost Rock, Pickett's gang of outlaws includes the three Thompson brothers.
• The main bad guys in Hannie Caulder 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.
• The Legend of Frenchie King: The fearsome gang of outlaws led by Frenchie King consists of five half-sisters. Frenchie King 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.
• Lockout: The two inmates who lead the prison riot on the space station are two Scottish brothers, Alex and Hydell. It ends tragically with the Ax-Crazy Hydell murdering his own brother, who tried to take care of him.
• Charlie and Mikey Burns in The Proposition
• The movie Rat Race has Blaine and Duane Cody, who make their money by scamming and stealing. At the beginning of the film, they are playing slots with a stolen donation jar.
• In the Korean film Silenced, Headmaster Lee Gang-bok and Admin Head Lee Gang-seok (who are Creepy Twins to boot) inflict horrific sexual abuse on the female students of their Boarding School of Horrors. Their adoptive sister, Yun Ja-ae, is also complicit in their crimes and deals out plenty of (physical) abuse herself.
• Quentin Tarantino's storied universe has an interesting, somewhat unintentional subversion with Vic and Vincent Vega. Both characters are hardened criminals, Word of God 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 wasn't mentioned in the film itself.
  • From Dusk Till Dawn, however, begins with the audience following the escapades of the Gecko Brothers Seth and Richie.
• War (2007): Chang's Co-Dragons are brothers. When one of them is killed, the other wants revenge on both Chang (for allowing it to happen) and the actual killer.
• At the start of Whispering Smith, Smith is pursuing the Barton brothers, Blake, Leroy, and Gabby; a trio of train robbers. Smith shoots and kills Leroy and Gabby, but Blake escapes,and later returns to take another pop at Smith.
• In You're Next, two of the masked invaders are brothers. The killers were hired by brothers Felix and Crispian to kill the rest of the family so they could receive an inheritance sooner.

Literature

• In the second Circle of Magic 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... and the leader, and brains of the outfit, is the youngest sibling and only daughter.
• The Han Solo Adventures:
  • Han Solo at Star's End features a sympathetic version, with two brothers who work for Doc Vandergate's outfit of outlaw technicians.
  • Gallandro's employers in Han Solo and the Lost Legacy, are a pair of murderous twins who run a mining camp.
• Dave and Banjo Lilywhite in Hogfather try to rob the Tooth Fairy together.
• Harry Potter:
  • The Carrows, brother and sister, are nasty Death Eaters (Amycus being one of two known female Death Eaters, in fact).
  • The only other known female Death Eater is Bellatrix Lestrange. Her sister, although not actually a Death Eater, is married to one and supports the Death Eaters as long as her husband and son aren't threatened.
  • Bellatrix's husband, Rudolphus, and his brother Rabastan are both Death Eaters.
• The fourth Kitty Norville book contains a very nasty case of this. The sister is 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.
• Louis L'Amour: It would be easier to list the number of L'Amour books and short stories which don't have villainous brothers (and the occasional sister) working together. Normally they only serve as Mooks, but the Big Bad and The Dragon of Passing Through are brothers. Normally they are closely knit and the death of one will provoke attempts at revenge (or, in rarer cases, a Heel Realization or Know When to Fold 'Em desire). One notable exception is embodied by Ike and Purdy Mantle in The Quick and the Dead. They work together but Ike openly acknowledges they have little in common and doesn't protest when their last fellow gang member kills Purdy for trying to quit. He comments that it will feel odd going on without Purdy after all the years they spent riding together, but he shows no real sadness or anger and loyally aids his brother's killer for the rest of the book.
• The two Crane brothers control the black inmates of the prison in The Mental State like mafia. Little Mickey serves as the brains and Big Billy takes on the role of the muscle.
• Serge Storms
  • The McGraw Brothers from Triggerfish Twist are a group of dangerous rednecks with long rap sheets. A carjacking victim killing one of the brothers in self-defense in Triggerfish Twist sets the rest of the family on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge that doesn't go as planned.
  • In The Big Bamboo, Serge joins his newly discovered half-brother Ford in a scheme to con two corrupt movie producers and then engineer their deaths.
  • In Gator-a-Go, The Queenpin known as Madre once ran her cartel along with her two older brothers before the informant she spends the book chasing mucked things up a few years before the story. Specifically, when a Dirty Cop told Madre that one of her brothers passed on information to the authorities but she didn't know which, she cheerfully ordered the murders of both of her brothers to make sure she punished the right one.
  • There are a few sets of brothers in the Small-Town Tyrant clan from Coconut Cowboy. Said clan runs speed traps, illegally pumps more water than allowed by law, engages in voter fraud, moves money around for a drug dealer, and kills a few people.

Live-Action TV

• Altered Carbon gives us secondary villain Dimitri Kadmin, also known as Dimi the Twin, who is his own brother. 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.
• Boardwalk Empire:
  • The first season gives us the D'Alessio brothers, a group of about half a dozen brothers of various ages who were petty criminals that become involved in bootlegging at the start of Prohibition. Arnold Rothstein, a much more powerful and competent gangster, uses them as pawns to try to attack and undermine Villain Protagonist Nucky Thompson. Eventually Rothstein and Thompson call a truce, and as part of their deal Rothstein gives Thompson information on where to find the remaining brothers, Nucky's men and allies promptly wipe them out.^note The group likely takes inspiration from the real life Lanzetta brothers, with whom they share a number of similarities, including their Theme Naming of being named after popes.
  • A few seasons later, Al Capone is seen alongside his brothers Ralph and Frank in his criminal endeavors.
• In Breaking Bad, 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.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Adam views Riley as his brother (since they were both Professor Walsh's "favorites") and wants to be this with him.
• Criminal Minds:
  • The Hunter unsubs of the 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 have a blast chasing and killing them. They basically get discovered due to the elder brother 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.
  • "To Hell..."/"...And Back" has this with a horrible twist. One brother is quadriplegic, 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.
• CSI: NY: "Cavallino Rampante" features a pair of sisters who make their living by stealing Ferraris and selling the parts.
• Elementary:
  • In "The Deductionist" 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" Anthony Pistone killed Charles Augustus Milverton, so he and his brother could take over the blackmail business.

• On Justified crime tends to be a family affair so there are multiple groups of criminal siblings
  • 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.
  • Boyd and Bowman Crowder follow in the footsteps of their arch-criminal father Bo, though their run their own independent criminal enterprises rather than teaming up. Bowman is killed before the start of the series so Boyd later teams up with his cousin Johny.
  • The head of the Miami drug cartel likes to use two siblings — his own niece and nephew — to represent him for important deals.

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The episode "Bombshell" had a pair of con artist twins who were scamming a middle-aged CEO out of his money. They were also in an incestuous relationship.
• Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Piranha Brothers.
• My Name Is Earl: 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.
• The Outer Limits (1995):
  • 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 The Wild West.
• 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.
• Peaky Blinders is based on this trope. It's about the Peaky Blinders street gang, led by brothers Tommy, Arthur, and John Shelby… plus their aunt, The Consigliere.

• Tales from the Crypt 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.

• Lots of Walker, Texas Ranger episodes involve this sort of topic.
• Whiplash: The Denver brothers in "Episode in Bathurst". A trio of gunslingers who found the US was getting to hot for them, they move to Australia and take over the town of Bathurst and start charging a toll for anyone to enter or leave.

Podcasts

• The Adventure Zone: Balance has Lydia and Edward, who run Wonderland together.

Theatre

• In the Cats musical Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer are brother-sister duo of literal cat-burglars (yes, they make this pun) who get an entire musical number about how much they enjoy stealing things and causing playful act of vandalism.

Video Games

• Ace Attorney has Dahlia and Iris, although Iris was only trying to help her sister.
• ANNO: Mutationem: One of the higher-ups of the Factio Pugni calls himself Loki "The Unbeatable" who shares that title with his brother, "The Unbeatable" Tai Long.
• The Frye twins Jacob and Evie in Assassin's Creed Syndicate, the leaders of the Rooks gang and a rare {anti)heroic example of this trope.
• Criminal Case: Mysteries of the Past has the Flanagan siblings, Finley and Fiona, who serve as the leaders of The Irish Mob in Sinner's End and control the entire alcohol and prostitution business in the district.
• Eventually subverted by Carlito and Isabela Keyes in Dead Rising. The two originally cooperate in a plan mostly Carlito's to turn all of America into zombies in vengeance for their Doomed Hometown. Isabela was actually conflicted about the whole thing and goes through a Heel–Face Turn 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.
• A recurring villainous archetype in Fire Emblem, a pair of Bandit Twins will appear in the early levels every so often in certain missions or side-missions, usually for some comic relief. To date, they have appeared in Binding Blade (Maggie and Rose), Blazing Blade (Paul and Jasmine), Radiant Dawn (Pain and Agony), Awakening (Vincent and Victor), Fates (Lloyd and Llewellyn), and Engage (Totchie and Tetchie).
• Packie, Derrick and Gerry McReary from Grand Theft Auto IV 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 The Family That Slays Together. The only person in the family without a criminal record is Kate and Francis(Though he is a corrupt cop).
• The Mendez Brothers in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
• Gol and Maia Acheron, the original Jak and Daxter's Big Bad Duumvirate.
• The Go-Rock Quads in Pokémon Ranger, each with signature bent-to-my-will Pokemon and matching musical instruments.
• The Ashford Twins from Resident Evil – Code: Veronica: sister Alexia is the Big Bad of the game while brother Alfred is her devoted Dragon.
• Undertale has Flowey and the Fallen Human in the Genocide Route, the corrupted versions of adopted siblings and best friends Asriel and Chara Dreemurr.
• Wick features the Weaver children, a family of ghost children who work to murder the player over the course of six hours.

Web Original

• Lifty and Shifty, the thieving raccoon twins from Happy Tree Friends.
• Icee and Flare from Waiting For A Miracle.

Western Animation

• The Beagle Boys from Disney's DuckTales.
• Hyena and Jackal in the cartoon Gargoyles.
• Tomax and Xamot from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.
• The Wu Sisters in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness.
• In OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, Darrell, Shannon, and Raymond are a Terrible Trio of Killer Robots that attack the plaza on a regular basis. Significantly less prominently featured (but still just as evil) are their siblings Ernesto, Mikayla, and Jethro.
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998) has the Rowdyruff Boys: Brick, Boomer and Butch.
• Small-time tech thieves, Evan and Myles of Transformers: Rescue Bots.
• Young Justice (2010) has the Tommy and Tuppence, a.k.a. the Terror Twins, and another set of twins, Mammoth and Shimmer.

Real Life

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 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.
• The James-Younger Gang had several sets of siblings:
  • Frank and Jesse James themselves, of course.
  • Cole, Jim, John, and Bob Younger and their brother-in-law Bill Chadwell AKA Bill Stiles.
  • Robert and Charles Ford (joined the James Gang after the Younger brothers were arrested and Bill Stiles was killed at the Northfield Bank Robbery). Robert would eventually kill Jesse James.
  • William (Bud) and Thomas McDaniels (Thomas did join after Bud was killed).
• Another gang from the American Old West, the Dalton Gang, centered around brothers Grat, Bill, Bob, and Emmett Dalton.
• The Krays, Ron and Reg, subjects of a movie by the name, twin London gangsters famous in the '60s, often aided and abetted by their older brother, Charlie.
  • The Richardson Brothers ran the other half of London and there were frequent turf wars.
• The main strength of the Loomis Gang was the sons... and some daughters... of the family patriarch and matriarch, who were both reputedly criminals themselves.
• A heroic version of this trope were Hans and Sophie Scholl, members of the anti-Nazi White Rose resistance movement in Germany who printed pamphlets denouncing the ongoing Holocaust.
• While Clyde Barrow is more well being a Outlaw Couple with his wife Bonnie Parker, the two of them where the leaders of a larger gang, which included Clyde's brother Buck.

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