Tangled Family Tree / Webcomics

• Buildingverse:
  • In the world of the Massive Multiplayer Crossover Fan Webcomic Roommates and its Spin-Off Girls Next Door every magical being from every fanon ever is related. This is as chaotic and weird as you might guess and some even have time magic to boot. Someone theorized in the comment section once that the magic family tree must be the unholy bastard child of an elaborate Celtic knot and the Timey-Wimey Ball. Lampshaded by this page:
    Sarah: Is there anyone in the magical community you're NOT related to?
    Jareth: My dear, why do you think we marry mortals?
  • The other Spin-Off Down the Street seems to do this with vampires.
  • And yet another, the Ho Yay one about the Valjean/Javert ship titled Superintendent with the characters of Victor Hugo.
• Dragon Ball Multiverse: Thanks to U16 Vegetto, the Son and Briefs families are now one.
• The clan in Far to the North features the main character's mother, her older siblings, their respective spouses, and their many children all living together under the same roof. Keeping track of how everyone is related almost requires a chart.
• Though it is (so far) without time travel, the Val'Sarghress family tree in Drowtales is quickly becoming this with revelations about Kalki Nidraa'chal, who turns out to be the child of Snadhya'rune Vel'Sharen and Mel'arnach Val'Sarghress (who is Ariel's real mother) who are both women, and technically makes Kalki Ariel's half-sister. And that doesn't even touch on the fact that Ariel's father is a dark-elf turned giant spider named Zhor who's been hinted to have some connection to Diva'ratika and the Sharen, possibly making another connection between the two families or how Diva'ratrika is technically Ariel's step-grandmother or the equivalent thereof, since drow do not get married but her daughter Snadhya'rune is the lover of Ariel's mother Mel'arnach.
• El Goonish Shive:
  • Ellen Dunkel is either an Opposite-Sex Clone of Elliot or a magical curse given human form, depending on how you think about it. This leads to confusion◊ as to who can be considered her parents.
    • Ellen has two fathers (one adoptive) and four mothers (three adoptive), and one of her mothers is her brother. That's not including the crazy Immortal and an alternate version of her brother, which would put her at three fathers and five mothers. Beat that.
    • Grace on the subject of Ellen: "Elliot's the mommy, the diamond was the doctor who delivered Ellen, and Tedd's the daddy! Wait a minute... If Tedd's the daddy... Oh my gosh! I'm a mommy!"
  • Grace is a hybrid clone (with 4 sources of DNA), and considers the other hybrid clones from the same lab her siblings though only one of them actually shares a source of DNA with her. Her "grandfather" replaced some of the DNA she was supposed to be cloned from with that of his dead daughter—Grace's "mother" (and namesake). Grace also considers Mr. Verres to be her adoptive father which would make Tedd her brother/boyfriend (or sister/girlfriend depending on Tedd's current gender).
  • Speaking of Tedd, in addition to everything mentioned above he's also the cousin of Ellen's girlfriend Nanase (and her little sister Akiko), has a maternal half-sibling Van he's met even though he doesn't know his mom had another kid, and is the godson of Adrian Raven (Grace and Ellen's history teacher) even though he didn't know it until his fairy god(grand)mother arrived.
  • Raven himself is the son of the centuries-old immortal Pandora, and was until recently unaware that he fathered (a) the lineage that would eventually produce Tedd's friend Susan and (b) much more directly fathered Susan's mysterious doppelganger Diane—who is literally twenty minutes older than Susan and happily adopted with a sister Rhea. That's one tangled knot of relationships there.
• In Grrl Power, Sydney has a crush on Tony, a guy who frequents the comic shop she owns. She's initially disheartened when he comes into the shop with an extremely attractive woman... who turns out to be Olivia, his sister/cousin. Apparently, their father scored with a pair of twins at a college party (or something). Sydney is thus very pleased to find out that Olivia won't be competition.
• Several characters (specifically, most of the human characters introduced) in Homestuck belong to a ridiculously mind-screwy family tree, thanks to a combination of cloning, Stable Time Loops, and more than one Temporal Paradox, all of which in turn contribute one of the most convoluted cases of My Own Grampa ever.
  • It gets even worse. John and Jade are the son and daughter of their (adoptive) Grandma and Grandpa, respectively, who were raised as brother and sister despite not actually being related. Fortunately, incest is averted by the whole cloning thing.
    • Honestly, it's even worse than that. Since John's the one responsible for creating them all, he could technically be said to be his own father (as well as the father of Rose, Dave, and Jade) AND his own great-grandfather, and his adoptive father is really his half-brother. Dave's Bro is also Dave's father, and Jade's Grandfather is really her father as well. Rose's mother is the only one who really IS what she seems to be, though Rose herself could theoretically be said to be the mother of Bec (Jade's demon dog), since she's the one who provided half the DNA code (via her journal) to create him. And the person who actually created Bec from that code was Draconian Dignitary. Has your head exploded yet?
  • A family tree for the humans can be found here◊, although it does not include everything mentioned so far in the comic, and it leaves out the entire Post-Scratch Universe. Note that John's Dad is the only person in that family tree who is the result of his parents having sex. And the tree doesn't even mention the growing romance between John's Dad and Rose's Mom...)
  • Vriska sums it up best:
    AG: ::::/
  • Not that she has any reason to talk, since the trolls are technically all part of one Tangled Family Tree as a natural result of their Bizarre Alien Biology. Not to mention that the troll players also fall under My Own Grampa.
    • Speaking of trolls, it gets worse. Although it hasn't been outright stated yet, it is very heavily implied that Betty Crocker is actually the Troll Empress, who is Feferi's Ancestor. Although there is still Bizarre Alien Biology and My Own Grampa going around, it's very likely that Feferi can be considered John and Jade's great-aunt by adoption.
    • We can even add Lil' Cal, Doc Scratch, and Lord English into this. Lil' Cal was created in Dave's dreamspace by Gamzee. He later ends up in the Troll's universe and is used to create Doc Scratch (who also had genetic code provided by Gamzee, Vriska, Terezi, Tavros, and Aradia) by the Black Queen/Snowman. Finally, Lord English bursts from Doc Scratch's corpse at the end of the universe because he was already there. Wanna make things worse? Doc Scratch can be considered the adoptive father to Aradia's Ancestor, and acted as a guardian for Kanaya. This tree loops on itself.
  • As of Act 6, we have an Alternate Universe where the human ectobiological parents are now the children, and vice versa. Just to make things more confusing.
  • Then we find out that Gamzee was the adoptive parent of Calliope/Caliborn, the cherub that would become Lord English. Basically, everyone with a name is related.
• The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!:
  • Bob's adopted daughter Molly is a pink furry monster who was spontaneously generated in a lab accident. Molly shares a tiny bit of genetic material with Bob's girlfriend Jean, making Jean her biological mother "just a little bit." Molly lived for a time with Jean's Uncle Cestus Poole, whom Molly addresses as Uncle Cess. Molly built a sentient robot named Roofus, who regards her as his mother, which makes Bob and Jean his grandparents. Roofus now lives on another planet, being raised by Bob's alien friend Voluptua, whom Molly addresses as "Auntie Voluptua." Molly also has a genetically identical cloned "sister" named Galatea, grown by Dean Martin (no, no that Dean Martin), who is her de facto father. She is also Jean's biological daughter "just a little bit" just as Molly is. Galatea addresses Bob as "Uncle." Molly regards Roofus as Galatea's nephew.
  • Molly now also has a second clone sister named Djali ("Jolly"), short for Djaliana, who was grown by Galatea. Jolly looks like her sisters except for being a couple of hundred feet tall. Despite being grown by Galatea, she still considers Jean her mother.
• Kevin & Kell
  • The comic stars a wolf and a rabbit, so if you get to thinking about family trees you'd probably figure on the rabbit being the cause of the giant, twisted family tree. But the growing family tree was explicitly pointed out prior to any major revelation about the rabbit's side of things. At that point there was Kevin (the rabbit) and his wife Kell (the wolf), each of whom had a kid from a previous marriage, plus Kell's brother Ralph who got married to Martha and turned out to be the father of Corrie, not to mention some budding romances and cloning going around, and... maybe you should look for yourself.
  • Note that's out of date, currently we have George Fennec married to Danielle, a human-turned-rabbit (who is an alternate version of Kevin's sister) who has a human son, Lindesfarne married the bat Fenton and now has a half-hedgehog, half-bat daughter, Corrie and Bruno have adopted a chameleon, plus add in Kevin's Mother marrying their world's version of DB Cooper (Yes, really), who's a squirrel.
• Off-White: The wolves Raigho, Hati, and Iki/Sköll relationships with each other are very complicated. Hati, Sköll's brother since the dawn of time, was reincarnated into Raigho's mother's litter, making Raigho Hati's blood brother. When Raigho became an adult, he adopted Iki/Sköll. So Hati is both Iki/Sköll's brother and uncle. It's weird, but no actual incest is involved.
• The Silver Eye: Gudrun's affairs and her husband Bhatair's secrecy have created a mess of a family. Gudrun mothered four children to three different men, two of whom had families of their own. Then Bhatair adopted one of their children's cousins while living under a different name and refusing to acknowledge his biological son Enel who was then adopted into a different family while still having a mentor-like relationship with Bhatair. It also seems that Nathan is in a relationship with his youngest brother's sister.
• In Tales to Behold and Section P, the Jones family tree includes sisters Kim and Kate, Kate's longtime lover Centennia, Kim's on-again-off-again boyfriend Merv the Griffin, Kate and Centennia's future daughter Claire, Centennia's other lover Gary (AKA Mr. Perfect), Gary's other lover Jeannette, and Cery (AKA Ms. Perfect), Centennia and Gary's future daughter, who would technically be Claire's half-sister.