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== Anime ==
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* In ''[[
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== Film ==
* A particularly disturbing variation occurs in the 1999 remake of ''[[
* {{spoiler|Deputy Billy}} in the horror film ''[[
** Something similar happens in the movie ''[[The Mist]]'', but tragically, {{spoiler|the protagonist knows he's one bullet short for their group, but "takes care of" everyone else (including his son), before turning the empty gun on himself and pointlessly pulling the trigger in shock over and over. The real kicker is that the ominous pounding that prompted their giving up draws closer and is revealed to be the [[Big Damn Heroes]] clearing out the mist and killing the monsters, making for a harrowing [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] ending}}.
* The [[Death By Origin Story|backstory]] of in-universe [[Memetic Badass]] Keyser Soze in ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'' involves a unique take on this; they'd been taken hostage, and he killed them simply to show the hostage-takers how not-to-be-fucked-with he was.
* For the title character in ''[[
* This is Billy Bedlam's rap sheet introduction in ''[[Con Air]]'' after finding his wife had cheated on him.
* ''[[
* ''For Colored Girls'' has the alcoholic, PTSD-suffering war vet toss his kids out of the window when he suspected his wife of cheating (which she did, years earlier), and thought her lover pulled up in a limo one afternoon, saying that it's time to return the kids to their rightful father (the limo actually housed her female boss). The wife tries to save her kids by grabbing them before they fell, but her grip couldn't hold for too long, and no one else managed to get into the room in time.
* This is what kick-starts the curse of the ''~Ju-on~'' series of films, as well as the [[Foreign Remake|remake]] series, ''[[The Grudge]]'': In the Japanese series, Takeo Saeki reads his wife Kayako's diary, discovers that she harbours an obsessive crush on her old college friend, Kobayashi, and becomes so [[Green-Eyed Monster|jealous]], paranoid and [[Ax Crazy|outright crazy]] that he starts to believe that a) Kayako is having an affair, and b) that he is not the natural father of their son, Toshio (none of which are true). He then [[Neck Snap|snaps Kayako's neck]], leaving her paralysed but not quite dead until he slashes her with a utility knife, drowns Toshio, and even slaughters Toshio's beloved cat. Takeo himself is later killed when Kayako, now a ''seriously'' angry spirit, takes her revenge. In the American series, the murders and his motives are very similar, except in this continuity, the object of Kayako's desire is instead a university professor named Peter, and there is no suspicion with regards to Toshio's parentage.
* Alec Trevelyan's backstory in ''[[
* In ''[[Downfall (
* In ''[[Falling Down]]'', it's heavily implied that Bill Foster intends to do this to his wife and daughter, even though he refuses to admit it when Prendergast draws this conclusion when they finally meet face to face. Drawing a gun on his family while tearfully saying that he's sorry says it all.
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== Literature ==
* Jack in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Shining]]'' is driven to do this and fails, unlike his predecessor who previously stayed in the cursed hotel.
* In [[Euripides]]'s ''[[
* The short story ''A Family Supper'' has this happening in the background, and one of the central questions is whether it's happening in the main story as well. The story begins with a discussion of fugu, a type of fish that can be lethally poisonous if prepared incorrectly, and the titular meal is described only as "fish".
* Sethe tries to do this in Toni Morrison's ''[[Beloved]]'' to keep her children from being sent back into slavery, although she only succeeds on one count out of four.
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* One of the other psychics in [[Dorothy Gilman]]'s ''The Clairvoyant Countess'' is rescued from one of these.
* One of the patients that Doctor Kreizler sees at the very beginning of [[The Alienist]] has killed his children to protect them from evil.
* It's mentioned that a main character's father in the novel ''[[Final Destination]]: Looks Could Kill'' went insane at a reunion and killed most of his family, and a number of other random people, before committing [[Suicide
* Gerald Tarrant of the [[Coldfire Trilogy]] became the immortal being known as the Hunter by vivisecting his wife and children - except for one who was out of town that night. In later centuries, he would repeat this feat on his descendants whenever any of them dared to declare themselves to be the second Count of Merentha - always leaving behind one survivor to carry on the family name.
* In ''[[Brave Story]]'', Mitsuru's father killed his wife and daughter before killing himself. (Mitsuru escaped by not being home at the time, but was left with... a few issues.)
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** Supernatural loves this trope. It appears in an episode in which a house is haunted by the ghost of a farmer who murdered his family so they wouldn't starve, and pops up again with the father in a haunted family portrait who killed his family, and now murders whoever owns the picture. {{spoiler|It's subverted both times. The farmer ghost isn't real (long story), and it was the adopted daughter that killed everyone and then framed the father.}}
* In the series finale of ''[[The Shield]]'', {{spoiler|Shane's last play to keep his pregnant wife out of jail has failed, and they're faced with the prospect of having their children go into the foster care system. Seeing no other way out, he slips fatal doses of painkillers to his wife and son, and then simply waits for the cops. When they break down his door, he puts a bullet in his head}}.
* In the ''[[
* In the ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Normal", the BAU predict that since the killer is murdering women resembling his wife, eventually he will kill his real family. {{spoiler|He does, and then hallucinates that they're still alive. Eventually he gets told that he killed them and [[My God, What Have I Done?|breaks down]]}}.
** Another episode, "The Fox," has a serial killer who stages his crimes to look like this in order to keep the police from looking for a murderer outside the family.
* One of [[Dexter]]'s victims was a cop who murdered her husband and daughter, because she found them to be a burden.
* ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]'' had a case similar to List's (with elements of Romand's), in that the father lied about having a job with the UN -- actually, of having a job at all {{spoiler|fortunately the wife was unharmed and the detectives were able to save the kids.}}
* Averted in a ''[[Law and Order]]'' episode in which the father seemed to fit the profile, but actually it was the daughter's druggie boyfriend.
* ''[[CSI]]'' had a similar aversion in "Blood Drops," where the murder looks like the father killed everyone save for the youngest daughter (who was hiding) and the eldest daughter (who was out with her boyfriend). {{spoiler|It turns out the eldest daughter and her boyfriend killed them all, as her father had been raping her for years, no one would speak out against him, and he was moving on to the youngest girl -- who was actually the eldest's ''daughter''}}.
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== Video Game ==
* The award-winning atmospheric [[
* ''[[God of War]]'''s Kratos killed his wife and child in a fit of battle rage induced by Ares. The subsequent nightmares drive him through the game's story and eventually cause him to [[Driven to Suicide|leap off a tall cliff]].
* In the mediocre game ''Spy Fiction'', the villain, Scarface, married a female terrorist and had a son by her. Then he discovered she was a [[Double Agent]] killed her and shot his son in the head. {{spoiler|[[Start of Darkness|The kid survived to become the other villain]].}}
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* In ''[[Dead Space 2]]'', Nolan Stross killed his wife and child in a fit of madness induced by contact with the Aegis VII Marker.
* ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]'' had a quest in which the main character had to help exorcise a haunted hotel. The ghosts are from a family that was killed by the father in the 1940s when he became convinced a gift his wife received from her mother must have been from someone she was cheating on him with. It's pure [[Nightmare Fuel]].
* Captain Brage in ''[[
* In the first ''[[Fatal Frame]]'' game, the Master of the Himuro Mansion goes insane when the Rope Maiden ritual fails, and he proceeds to kill not only his family, but the priests, the attendants, and everyone in the household not previously killed by the Dark. Then he becomes a ghost that continues to slay anyone who enters the Mansion.
* In the sequel to the flash game Exmortis {{spoiler|You find the bodies of three children, a woman, and their father/husband. A revolver lays next to him with but one bullet remaining, and the blood splatter suggests he took his life. Oh, he also spells it out in a journal you find.}}
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== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[
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