Self Made Orphan / Video Games

• Baldur's Gate:
  • In Baldur's Gate II, Valygar, whose family had been long-plagued by necromancy practice, destroyed his parents after his mother raised his father from the dead as a zombie, unwilling to accept his death, and then later joined him in undeath.
  • In Baldur's Gate III, at the end of her storyline, Token Evil Teammate Shadowheart is tasked by the God of Darkness Shar to sacrifice her own parents to her.
• In Batman: Arkham City, Batman can visit Calendar Man in his cell on specific holidays, and he will happily recall one of his past murders committed on that day. Two of these holidays are Mother's Day and Father's Day. You can see where this is going.
  Calendar Man: M was for the murderous look she gave me.
  O meant only she was weak and old.
  T is for her terror as she fought me.
  H is for her heart that I now hold.
  E is for her eyes swiftly dimming.
  R means rot, and soon rotting she will be.
  Put them all together, you spell "Mother".
  A word that means... a corpse... to me.
  [creepy childlike voice] Happy Mother's Day, Mommy.
  
  I wasn't real close to my dad, and after my first internment at Arkham, we never spoke at all. Seems he wrote me off as a wacko. A loser. So, after I was released, I wanted to clear the air between us. Next Father's Day, I dropped by his place and suggested we go fishing. You ever go fishing with your pop? Well, it's some fun, let me tell ya. The two of us out on the water, pulling in one whopper after another... Of course, I was doing the actual pulling. Dad was baiting the hooks. You know, with a finger, a foot, an eye, whatever I had left of him. Even today, whenever I eat a nice piece of fish, I feel closer to my dear old dad.
• In Batman: The Telltale Series, Lady Arkham (a.k.a. Vicki Vale) killed her abusive foster parents, and had a damn good time doing it too from how the crime scene looks.
• The Black Heart: Peketo murdered his alcoholic and physically abusive father. That was before he killed 6 innocent bystanders just for the hell of it.
• Deconstructed in the canon route of Blaze Union, where for practical and symbolic reasons, Gulcasa must kill his Missing Mom, and she's the one who bullies him into doing it. He does not want to but kills her anyway because by that point he has no choice if he actually wants the power to protect his loved ones. She doesn't seem to hold it against him, but this event (among others) leaves him badly messed up for quite some time. Additionally, Route B, starring Aegina. Ordene wouldn't have died if he hadn't refused treatment. Using Aegina for this is actually very practical, gameplay-wise, as Ordene will not use Crusade on her.
• A tragic example appears in Breakers: the Final Boss, Bai-Hu, just so happens to be the demonically possessed father of Dao-Long. Should you be playing as Dao-Long, then the son is forced to kill his father, which coupled with the fact that his mother is predeceased, renders him an orphan. Needless to say, Dao-Long is torn up about it.
• Chzo Mythos:
  • It was said that Chzo has done this to his entire kind.
  • On a lesser event, John DeFoe kills his father and repays his brother, Matthew, by killing him as well.
• Clive Barker's Undying: Ambrose beats his father to death with a pool cue, tired of him meddling in his affairs.
• In Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls The Warriors of Hope (Masaru, Kotoko, Jataro, Nagisa and Monaca) admit to having murdered their Abusive Parents prior to the events of the game.
• In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Makoto states that as Remnants of Despair, some of the cast murdered their own parents and other loved ones. The anime confirms this was the case for Sonia and Fuyuhiko, at least.
• Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening has Lady killing her father to avenge her mother's murder. Which doesn't count the other thing he tried to do...
• Adell in Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories is forced to Mercy Kill his Brainwashed and Crazy blood-parents (by their own request) near the last few levels of the game, without even knowing who they are. What's worse is that it's heavily implied that his adoptive mother was planning to tell him who his birth parents were after the end of the game. Now that's going to be an uncomfortable conversation...
• Dead In Vinland has a surprising example in Brother Angelico, who seems like a gender inversion of the White Magician Girl but actually murdered his abusive father in a dissociative state, then the rest of his family, then continued as an Ax-Crazy Serial Killer who doesn't remember his crimes.
• As if Adria from Diablo III wasn't evil enough for murdering her own daughter to bring about her master's rebirth as the Prime Evil, we learn in Reaper of Souls that long before she pledged herself to Diablo, she murdered her own father. By burning him alive.
• In Fatal Fury, Wolfgang Krauser killed his father in a Duel to the Death to become the Earl of Strolheim. He honors his old man once a year by playing the older Krauser's favorite music in his organ.
• Fallout: New Vegas: The Bitter Springs Massacre is an event in the backstory in which the New California Republic army massacred a camp of the Great Khans gang, mostly by accident. Sergeant Bitter-Root is in the NCR army, and is also a child of the Great Khans and a survivor of the massacre. He thought that the Khans in general and his parents in particular had it coming. He doesn't quite say that he took advantage of the chaos to kill his parents, but he strongly implies it.
• A tragic example in Fallout 4 is Cait. As you come to know her, she’ll tell you that her parents abused her severely until she was old enough to be sold into slavery. She would pickpocket the raiders that owned her when they were asleep until she had enough to buy her freedom, then she returned home and killed her parents in revenge, although she admits that it didn't make her feel any better.
• Final Fantasy:
  • Averted in Final Fantasy IV with Edge, who saw the results of Dr. Lugae's horrific experiments on his parents, the King and Queen of Eblan. Edge is forced to fight his parents, who have become monsters, but he is saved from having to kill them by their coming to their senses, saying farewell to him, and killing themselves.
  • Genesis from Crisis Core killed his adoptive parents, though we never find out who his biological parents are.
  • In Final Fantasy X, Seymour kills his own father before the game starts. The reason why is because his father had him and his mother exiled after several Guado, in a case of Fantastic Racism, decried the Unholy Matrimony. Guado's father's statements in the sphere indicated that he accepted his fate fully as atonement for this sin.
• This can be done in many, many cases in Fire Emblem:
  • In the backstory of Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light, Michalis murdered his own father to take the throne of Macedon from him.
  • In Fire Emblem Gaiden and its remake Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, Emperor Rudolf's Zero-Approval Gambit to protect both Rigel and Zofia includes him being slain by La Résistance... which is led by his son Albein Alm Rudolf aka Alm, one of the protagonists. Alm, who had been raised away in a village, has no idea that his biggest enemy is his biological father; he only finds out after the climactic battle against Rudolf, and naturally he does NOT take it well.
  • In Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War:
    • In the first half, King Chagall of Augustria and Duke Andrey of Jungby kill their fathers to ascend to their respective thrones. (The second earns the scorn of his fellow conspirator Duke Lombard for that.) Also, for major Video Game Cruelty Potential, in both halves the player can have some of their own units kill their Archnemesis Dads: Tailtiu (daughter of Duke Reptor) and Lex (son of the aforementioned Duke Lombard) for the first part, either Iuchar or Iucharba (sons of King Danann) in the second.
    • In the second half, there's the Loptous-possessed Prince Julius attacking his mother Deirdre and his younger sister Julia. White Magician Girl Deirdre manages to use her Warp staff to save Julia but isn't lucky enough herself, and she dies at Julius's hands.
  • In the backstory of Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade, after numerous attempts on his own life from his father, King Desmond, Prince Zephiel of Bern decided to turn the tables. He faked his own death, then at his funeral, when Desmond opened the coffin to check on his son, Zephiel stabbed him dead on the spot.
  • The Big Bad of Path of Radiance, King Ashnard, is revealed to have killed not only his parents but his entire family. He was pretty far back in the line of succession, so if he wanted to become king, some pruning of the family tree was required. ^note (In Radiant Dawn an ending sequence only available on a New Game Plus confirms that Soren, a mandatory recruit who was instrumental to Ashnard's defeat and death, was in fact Ashnard's son, though Soren himself never learns of this and cannot personally be the one to strike him down in the final battle.)
  • It's possible to do this in Fire Emblem: Awakening in a couple of instances:
    • In Chapter 23, Robin can kill their father Validar. Given he's The Heavy and the leader of an omnicidal cult, it's hard to blame them.
    • In The Future Past Paralogue, this occurs as long as the Avatar is the mother of Lucina or the father to another second generation character. Although technically the offed person is possessed by the Big Bad and views this as a Mercy Kill. And to be fair, the Big Bad killed the other parent in the first case (while possessed).
  • Fire Emblem Fates:
    • Several characters can kill their parents: The Avatar (killing his/her biological father Anankos, or either his/her mother Mikoto, his/her Parental Substitute Sumeragi (both were forcibly revived by Anankos) [in the Revelation path] or his/her abusive father Garon (better said, his doppelgänger who posed for years as the real Garon)); Azura (killing her also forcibly revived mother Arete), any Hoshidan sibling (Parental Substitute Mikoto or birth father Sumeragi), any Nohrian sibling (the aforementioned fake Garon) and especially Female Kana (but only if she's mothered by Scarlet, who dies and then is revived as a zombie in Revelation — an outcome almost impossible unless the player knows what's coming and deliberately engineers it).
    • When Beruka's backstory is unveiled, she says that she killed her master and teacher, the closest to a Parental Substitute she had.
    • The Heirs of Fate DLC, taking place in an Alternate Universe, also involves this: the fathers (and mother, in the case of Male Kana) are all killed to protect their children from Anankos' takeover of their worlds, and when the kids reunite and fight back, they find out that their ultimate enemies are their fathers and Male Kana's mother, forcibly revived by Anankos. In a subversion, when this is said and done, the kids manage to make their way back to their homes - which have been restored, plus the parents they had to slay are alive.
  • Fire Emblem: Three Houses:
    • This happened in the backstory of Mercedes and Emile/Jeritza/the Death Knight. The latter went ballistic when he heard his father had found Emile's mother and half-sister who fled their terrible treatment, and intended to drag them back and this time force a marriage on said half-sister since she's younger and more likely to give him more Crest-bearing heirs. Emile slaughtered his father's entire noble house, renounced his name, and developed a homicidal split personality called the Death Knight.
    • It's possible for you to have Ashe kill his adoptive father Lonato in Chapter 3.
    • Likewise, it's possible for Annette to kill her father, Gilbert, if you recruit her to the Black Eagles house and then side with Edelgard during Chapter 11. You end up fighting Gilbert in the final mission of the Crimson Flower route, and can kill him there.
    • Felix can kill his father on the Black Eagles route if you side with Edelgard during chapter 11. If Felix encounters Dimitri later on after killing his father, Dimitri will acknowledge it.
    • Offscreen during the events of Chapter 11, Hubert assassinates his father, the former Marquis Vestra, for betraying the Adrestian crown in the Insurrection of the Seven.
  • Fire Emblem Warriors: Upon realising that any royal blood would complete Velezark's revival, a possessed Darios stabs his father Oskar, sacrificing him rather than the intended target Yelena.
  • Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes:
    • The Scarlet Blaze (Adrestian Empire) route's Fort Merceus mission ends with Ferdinand beheading his father, the former Duke Aegir, for ringleading the Insurrection that Hubert's father was involved in as well as aiding and abetting violent rebellions in Hrym territory. Ferdinand is conflicted about doing so before and after the act because he used to look up to his father when he was younger, but then accepts that the man he once idolized no longer exists.
    • On the Azure Gleam (Holy Kingdom of Faerghus) route, it's possible to convince Bernadetta von Varley to defect to the Kingdom. She can then personally kill her own father in the route's final battle.
• In the final Custom Night (Golden Freddy V. Mode) cutscene of Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, Michael Afton's lines give off a really strong implication of this being his goal. Whether he's doing it to get back at his dad for getting him killed or kill him in his victims' stead is left ambiguous. Either way, he burns him, along with every other remaining animatronic, down in the next game.
• In God of War III, Kratos' mother's note in Hades confirms her death, and the ending of the game has him slaying his father, Zeus. Though Kratos didn't actually mean to kill his mother: she was turned into a monster and he had no choice, and it's shown later that he was really sad about killing her.
• Higurashi: When They Cry:
  • Satoko is a tragic example. In her backstory, she had become insane and extremely paranoid as a result of suffering from Hinamizawa Syndrome, to the point where she perceived her own parents as a threat to her and pushed them both off a cliff to their deaths. It was essentially a twisted kind of self-defense.
  • Natsumi is this in her arcs. She was infected with the same Hate Plague, which caused her to kill both her parents and her grandmother.
  • Hanyuu made her daughter Oka ritually sacrifice her in order to make her the Deity of Human Origin that she's been ever since.
• At the end of Hitman: Codename 47, Agent 47 snaps the neck of his maker.
• Quite tragic case in The King of Fighters: Emotionless Girl Leona did not want to kill her father and the people in her village, but did so under More than Mind Control from Magnificent Bastard Goenitz. He brainwashed this then-under-12-years-old girl into doing so to get back at her father, ex Orochi Head Gaidel, for refusing to re-join his Quirky Miniboss Squad. Poor Leona went into an Heroic BSoD and wandered in the jungle for several days, afflicted with Trauma-Induced Amnesia, until she was adopted by Colonel Badass Heidern (who had lost his daughter and wife a while ago, at the hands of Rugal). Leona then grows up into a powerful Action Girl, but remains amnesiac... until the events of KOF 97; she's almost Driven to Suicide when she remembers, but then Gaidel goes Spirit Advisor on her and tells her to keep living.
• In Left 4 Dead, Zoey killed her Zombie Infectee father on his orders after he was bitten by his zombie ex-wife, because he wanted to die as himself rather than become a zombie. Zoey and the other playable characters are later informed by the military that they are asymptomatic carriers of the zombie infection... and also that the carrier gene is hereditary. Since Zoey's mother obviously didn't have it, that leaves only one other option. Zoey breaks down in tears at the revelation that she killed her father for no reason.
• Maya from Legaia II: Duel Saga accidentally killed both her parents at a young age when she lost control of her magical powers. The event left her mute, but she gets over it later.
• Mass Effect:
  • Wrex is from the Krogan, an entire race of Blood Knights. However, after the Krogan rebellion, the Council more or less sterilized his entire race; their birthrate became so low, they are slowly going extinct^note  The details of this get fudged a bit in Mass Effect 2. The fertility rate is set to 1 in 1,000 to compensate for the Krogan being catapulted into the stars (they were needed for the war against the Rachni). It's not an attempt at extinction so much as an attempt to prevent a Baby Boom of epic proportions, resulting in the Krogan trying to wage war on the universe. But they're Blood Knights, after all, so they still tend to get themselves killed at alarming rates... Wrex's father, the leader of their clan, had wanted to go to war again, while Wrex had the foresight to try and figure out a way to save their race. Wrex had to kill him in self-defense, then decided to abandon his people.
  • Liara provides a rare heroic example if you bring her with you on Noveria - she helps you kill her own mother, Matriarch Benezia, who was an outright villain. Well, not quite.
  • And also in Mass Effect 2 one can convince Jacob Taylor to abandon his father on a planet with the crew that he had driven mad through forcing them to eat toxic food that caused neural decay. One can even Leave Behind a Pistol for him with only half a thermal clip.
  • Another heroic example in Mass Effect 3, if she's still alive, Miranda will kill her father who's holding her sister hostage, the second he's convinced to let her go. Hard to say he didn't deserve it.
• According to Fanon, Zero from Mega Man X.
• Metal Gear:
  • Solid Snake famously offed his dad — or at least the donor of the genes which created Snake — Big Boss.
  • As his powers began to develop as a child, Psycho Mantis of Metal Gear Solid started to hear his father's thoughts. He came to the realization that his father really and truly hated him because he was responsible for his wife's death, though he acted as he loved him. One day, Psycho Mantis burned his entire village to the ground out of pure hatred for humanity, and especially his father.
  • The trope is also used symbolically, and for the protagonists even, with Raiden killing his "father" Solidus and Big Boss killing his "mother" The Boss.
• OFF: This technically happens at the end of the game, with the Batter murdering Hugo, who had created him.
• In Silent Hill 2, Angela Orosco did it to her father, killing him (and possibly her brother too) with the same kitchen knife she gives to James. Not that he didn't deserve it.
• In Persona 5 Strikers, Akira Konoe killed his abusive father and made it seem as though a burglar had done the deed.
• In Pillars of Eternity, a Watcher with the Drifter background can self-describe as this, word-for-word, when explaining their past to Calisca in the prologue. The Watcher says their parents got what they deserved; whether or not this is true is left for the player to decide.
• In Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, the Prince has to kill his own father in a boss fight after the latter is transformed by the Sands.
• Rise of the Third Power: In Natasha's Grandmaster recipe sidequest, the party infiltrates her family's manor in an attempt to convince her mother, Diana Rezkov, to stop supporting Noraskov. However, Diana doesn't recognize Natasha, leading to a boss battle. In the end, Natasha decides to kill Diana because she deemed trying to convince the latter impractical.
• Kibagami Genjuro claims to have killed his parents. His murder of his mother is All There in the Manual, at least.
  • Downplayed with Kuki Tohma, he was born an orphan and was adopted by the Greater Kuki. But because of his jealousy towards Seishiro, Tohma murdered the old man and stole his red katana, which was said to grant its owner greater strength, for himself and became the power-hungry bad guy that sets the events of Warriors Rage in motion.
• Shadowverse: According to the flavor text, Harnessed Flame killed her own mother in the belief that it would protect Harnessed Glass, who in turn froze their father to protect Flame.
• In Star Stealing Prince, Snowe's parents are dead. Edgar and Lina weren't dead from the start like you're led to believe, they faked their own deaths and appear later in the Sepulcher, where they try to destroy Snowe and his friends and Snowe and his friends have to kill them in self-defense.
• Happened more than once in Street Fighter:
  • Vega's quite unattractive father murdered his own wife on suspicion of infidelity. Vega returned the favor, and now you understand why he's completely nuts when it comes to beauty.
  • After being brainwashed thoroughly and made into one of the Dolls, Juni's first mission was going back home and killing her parents. Here she goes home, allows her mother to hug her, then pulls a gun as the view pans away...
  • Street Fighter X Tekken confirms M. Bison did this to his own father in a win quote against Chun Li.
  M. Bison: All you women ever do is whine! I killed my father too, and you don't see me crying about it!
• The Wolf from Stronghold is implied to be this.
  Narrator: The Wolf's past is shrouded in mystery, and what is known of his history is mainly patched together from stories and unreliable rumors alone. This aside, it is believed that both his parents died from natural causes in close succession shortly after his eighteenth birthday.
• Suikoden has an odd example. Both Tir and his father, Teo, are honorable people, but they get caught on opposite sides of a civil war. The last thing Teo tells his son after Tir has dealt the fatal blow is that he is proud of him.
• Balxephon in Tactics Ogre killed his father, and later on, his mother died as well. He had his brother blamed for it.
• The Big Bad of Tales of the Abyss is revealed to be this in the midgame. Interestingly enough, despite being the villain of the piece it's actually a) sympathetic and b) unintentional. He was strapped to a machine when he was 11 years old and forced to do a partial hyperresonance to destroy his entire homeland. This is the very moment that set him down the path to becoming the Big Bad, tied with finding out the fact certain people - including the man who adopted him and his baby sister - knew and allowed that destruction and the horrifying experiments that happened before that to happen all for the sake of the Score and the foretold "prosperity".
• The backstory for the Demoman in Team Fortress 2 claims that his fascination with explosives began at age six with an attempt to kill the Loch Ness monster. That first attempt cost him both his original adopted parents. The WAR comic contradicts this by having his mother alive and living with him, leading to a Retcon stating that he blew up his adoptive parents, which led to him reuniting with his birth parents.
  • There's also Gray Mann, who ate the eagle who raised him from infancy.
• Baek Doo San in Tekken killed his father in a training accident. The fact that his mother had abandoned them after his father fell into alcoholism didn't exactly do wonders for Baek's mental stability after the fact. Meanwhile, the Mishima tend to try to achieve this. Constantly. Except for Jinpachi Mishima who was sealed under the Hon-Maru compound by Heihachi who want to seize the Mishima Zaibatsu. Kazuya finally succeeds against Heihachi at the end of Tekken 7's story mode.
• Warcraft:
  • Arthas Menethil. After losing his soul to the runeblade Frostmourne, he returned to Lordaeron and slaughtered everyone, up to and including dear old dad. In fact, the cinematic trailer for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion lays on the irony by juxtaposing his dad's words of wisdom with the now-Lich King commanding his vast undead armies.
    King Terenas: W-what are you doing?!
    Prince Arthas: Succeeding you, father. (stab)
  • Fortunately, karma came back with a vengeance, as Terenas' soul resurrected the heroes who killed him after Frostmourne was broken.
  • Jaina Proudmoore is a rare non-evil example, justified by her father's attempted genocide. While she didn't strike the killing blow herself, the nation of Kul Tiras essentially disowned her for her involvement in Daelin's death.
• Warframe: When a colony ship was lost in the Void after an experimental Void-jump, all the children gained strange Void powers, but all the parents were driven insane (or possibly possessed by something; it's unclear). The children had to kill their parents to survive. These children eventually became the Tenno.
• In Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, B.J. Blazkowicz confronts and kills his father midway through the game. Though said father was an abusive, dog-kicking and -raping, Nazi-sympathizing asshole who shamelessly sold out his own Jewish wife to the aforementioned Nazis, so he had it coming.
  B.J. Blazkowicz: Was a time I was scared of you. Was a time I'd have pissed myself having a gun pointed at my head. You know what I feel right now? Not a goddamn thing.