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[[File:self made orphan 4045.jpg|link=EC Comics|frame|O...kay... (And did you notice the hint of the [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]?)]]
{{quote|"''We took pity on him because he lost both parents at an early age. I think, on reflection, that we should have wondered a bit more about that.''"
|'''Lord Downey'''|''[[Hogfather]]''}}
What might be considered the inverse of [[Offing the Offspring]], and is equally aberrant behavior is when a villain murders their own parents. Any character behaving this way will probably be [[Ax Crazy]] and/or a [[Psycho for Hire]]. An [[The Evil Prince|Evil Prince]] can also do that if he's impatient enough. It's the ultimate mark of an [[Enfant Terrible]], and a likely origin of an [[Evil Orphan]].
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It can be justified if the parents [[Abusive Parents|happen to be abusive]] or cruel mockeries of humanity from beyond the void—insofar as murder can be, but at least it's then the domain of the [[Anti-Hero|dark and troubled protagonists]]. It's more justifiable if the parent is an outright villain. In addition, there are also instances where the child either unintentionally killed his parents or something [[Fate Worse Than Death|genuinely horrific]] happened to his/her parents that they are forced to kill them.
Contrast with [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]], which is based on the premise that [[Even Evil Has Standards|no one, no matter how bad, would act this way]]. If it happens before the murderer is born, this is the [[Grandfather Paradox]]. If only the father is killed and it's played for drama then it would be [[Patricide]]. See also [[Archnemesis Dad]], where this Trope is often a character's ''goal''.
One subversion is to have this happen by accident and/or for the parents' death be ultimately caused by their own actions involving the child. If said parent's child also happens to be a Mook of the parent, it can also overlap into [[The Dog Bites Back]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'', [[Complete Monster|Johan]] kills several sets of adoptive parents from a very young age onwards.
** {{spoiler|And he kills his sister Anna's adoptive parents, too.}}
* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' manga, Kaiba [[Driven to Suicide|drove his adopted father to suicide]] after taking over his company. No mention of what happened to the biological parents; in the [[Gag Dub]] ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'', Kaiba claims to have fired them.
** His biological parents died in a genuine accident. Seto and Mokuba wound up in an orphanage on account of their living relatives only wanting the family's money. Nephews? Forget it.
** Somewhat understandable in that said adoptive father was an [[Abusive Parents]] [[Knight Templar Parent|fanatic]] who put the boy on a [[Training
** Not to mention what Marik's dark side did to his father.
* Tohru Honda of [[Fruits Basket]] originally believes she is this, believing that her not telling her mother to come home safe somehow caused her accident.<ref>Though this is more of a [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]] sort of thing.</ref> Kyo Sohma, although his father is still alive, also believes himself to be this, because his curse (of being the Cat) caused his mother to commit suicide.
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** In the final episode, {{spoiler|Kirika}} arguably fits this trope, when {{spoiler|she kills Altena, who is the closest thing to a mother figure that she's ever knowingly had}}.
* Implied of the [[Ax Crazy]] Chiri Kitsu in one episode of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]''. Itoshiki-sensei is killed and she "replaces" him with a small doll to cover up the crime. She quickly becomes paranoid about the rest of the class and they are replaced by dolls as well. While everyone is shown to actually be hiding safely under the school, it makes you wonder when the next scene appears to be Chiri happily telling her parents about her day- and then you see she is addressing dolls...
* A pretty convoluted case is shown in ''[[Tantei Gakuen Q]]''. {{spoiler|The rich widow Hanayo Ichinose fakes her death and uses the insurance money to rebuild her business, then gets plastic surgery and tries to get closer to her relatives (who don't know she's still alive) family under a disguise. Her sons Akihiko and Kunihiko, however, mistakenly think that the "stranger" who tries to worm her way in their lives is an accomplice of their [[Evil Uncle|Evil Aunt]] Sachiyo, a greedy [[Smug Snake]] who wants to get the custody of their little sister Kaoru (the rightful heiress to the family fortune)... so they murder Hanayo without knowing who she really is, [[Knight Templar Big Brother|trying to save Kaoru from Sachiyo's machinations]]. What follows is [[Tear Jerker|heartbreaking]].}}
* In ''[[Yami No Matsuei]]'' (Descendants of Darkness), it's revealed that {{spoiler|Muraki's half-brother Saki (who was illegitimate, through Muraki's father) killed his parents and Muraki's mother, and tried to kill Muraki himself before being shot and killed by one of the family's bodyguards}}.
** Only in the anime, though—the animation contract ran out after the Kyoto arc, and the Kyoto arc is... confusing to say politely, so they made up answers to some obvious questions to ''save'' themselves from a [[Gecko Ending]]. It only sort of works. However, though we don't know exactly what happened to whom, manga Muraki returns us to this trope by claiming to have killed his mother.
*** He seems to have had good cause, too. And of course, abused little Kazutaka looked frighteningly like little Hisoka, and I don't even know if there's a trope for that, though there's sure as hell psychological terminology....
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* [[Madlax]] has {{spoiler|the main character Margaret, who split herself into her and [[Enemy Within|Madlax]] to kill her father Colonel Richard Burton. To be fair, she ''only'' did it when Richard was [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] and about to kill ''her'' in his rampage: Margaret's survival instincts kicked in, Madlax came to the surface, and... well...}}
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* [[Batman|Bruce Wayne]]'s childhood friend {{spoiler|Thomas Elliot tried to kill his parents at a young age in order to inherit their riches and because his father was an abusive monster and his mother a simpering money hungry lunatic. He only succeeded in killing his father, and, to avoid suspicion, didn't try again, only truly being orphaned when he smothered his raving senile mother in a fit of anger. This left him with a bitter hatred of Bruce, who tragically lost his parents soon after Tommy tried to kill his}}. Later on in his life, {{spoiler|he joins the Riddler (who recently discovered that Bruce was Batman}} on a vendetta against him, feeling that, not only did Bruce get the riches {{spoiler|Tommy}} wanted, but that he was wasting those riches as well. Predictably, his vendetta eventually causes him to lose everything and become the full time [[Super Villain]] Hush.
** Not the first of Batman's Rogues' Gallery to do so. Black Mask killed his parents in a fire to inherit their business and fortune. Unfortunately, he was a lousy businessman and when he tried to burn down the factory to cover his tracks, he wound up with the facial injury that gave him his villain name.
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*** Still in Smallville, {{spoiler|Lex eventually kills his father.}}
** Naturally, a young Emil Burbank (the Lex Luthor [[Alternate Company Equivalent]] in [[Marvel Comics|Marvel's]] ''[[Squadron Supreme]]''), was also shown killing his parents for the insurance money (from a policy on which he forged their signatures).
* Symbiotic [[Serial Killer]] and [[Spider-Man]] villain Carnage; he claims his first victim was his own mother, who he killed in response to her killing his father, who was trying to kill him. Or maybe it was the other way around. (He's hopelessly insane.)
** A far darker version of his origins claimed his parents survived his assaults, but it wasn't pleasant. He did kill his grandmother by pushing her down stairs. He later tortured and killed his mother's dog, and when she caught him doing so, tried to kill her ''with a power drill''. This caused her to snap and try to kill him, but his father intervened and beat her half to death; his son said nothing at his trial.
* [[The DCU|DC Comics]]' [[Lobo]] is not only a self-made orphan, but a self-made [[Last of His Kind]]. As he put it in his appearance on ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'':
{{quote|"Hah! That's rich. ''I'm'' the last Czarnian. *Aside* I fragged the rest of the planet for my high school science project. Gave myself an A."}}
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* Another rare heroic example: Before Bruce Banner became [[Incredible Hulk|the Hulk]], he semi-accidentally killed his abusive father, Brian. In their final confrontation, Bruce lashed out as Brian got ready to attack him, sending Brian crashing into the gravestone of Bruce's mother and cracking his skull.
** It was self defense however, since his father was trying to kill him and he had killed Banner's mother.
* The notorious 1954 [[EC Comics]] story "[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/1014814.html The Orphan]"
* In the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comic, it's heavily implied that [[Evil Twin|Scourge]] killed his neglectful father Anti-Jules.
** More clearly, Kragok and Lien-Da of the Dark Legion murdered both their father and their stepmother, the former to [[Klingon Promotion|become Grandmasters of the Legion]].
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* In [[Locke and Key]], Ellie Whedon comes really, really close to pushing her horrible mother off a cliff after she [[Moral Event Horizon|puts a cigarette out on her son's neck,]] but can't go through with it. However, {{spoiler|the evil spirit she unwittingly unleashes a few pages later has no such hesistation.}}
* [[The Mighty Thor|Loki]] created a [[Stable Time Loop]] to ensure his biological parents would die in battle so he would be adopted by the Asgardians.
* Ahem, [[Thanos]]. One of his many atrocities was murdering his own parents.
* In [[The New 52]], [[The Flash]]'s enemy Grodd the Gorilla not only murdered his father, [[Brain Food|he ate his brain]] - something he tends to do with a lot of his victims.
* [[Lex Luthor]], in most post-Crisis continuities. He killed his parents by tampering with the brakes of their car.
* By his own account, assassin and [[X-Men]] villain Arcade was the spoiled son of a rich oil tycoon, who killed his father to gain his money. This act made him realize he enjoyed killing and made him believe that murder for profit was his calling, making it the crime that caused his [[Start of Darkness]].
* [[Enfant Terrible|Arestis]] is this in ''[[Arestis' Childhood]]''. Of note is that she did not specifically seek her parent's deaths, but they were a foreseeable consequence of her actions, and not one she seemed to much mind.▼
▲== Fan Fiction ==
▲* [[Enfant Terrible|Arestis]] is this in Arestis' Childhood. Of note is that she did not specifically seek her parent's deaths, but they were a foreseeable consequence of her actions, and not one she seemed to much mind.
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6341291/1/Harveste Harveste], who was living with abusive relatives after his loving parents died protecting him, killed his legal guardians and his cousin, effectively re-orphaning himself at the age of five.
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲== Film ==
* Catherine Trammell from the ''[[Basic Instinct]]'' movies ''may have'' killed her parents after writing a book detailing her plan to do so, then used, "right, I wrote out this plan for killing my parents, published it in a book, then did it-- I'd have to be crazy to do that" as a defense. Whether she actually did murder her parents or not is not actually stated, though several characters express their opinions that she did.
* ''Addams Family Values'' (the second ''[[The Addams Family|Addams Family]]'' theatrical movie) has this in the form of {{spoiler|Debbie Jellinsky, the kids' apparent nanny and professional "black widow" style [[Serial Killer]] who reveals that her first murders were her parents, [[Rant-Inducing Slight|who got her a Malibu Barbie instead of a Ballerina Barbie on her birthday]]: "That's not what I wanted! That's not who I was! I was a ballerina! Graceful! Delicate! They had to go." [[Disproportionate Retribution|So she burned the family house down with them inside]].}}
* Roy Batty in [[Blade Runner]], with the interesting twist that Tyrell, a genetic engineer is both a fatherlike and a godlike figure.
* The Tartutic from [[M. Night Shyamalan
* Edgler Vess in the film ''Intensity'' [[
▲* The Tartutic from [[M. Night Shyamalan|M. Night Shyamalan's]] ''The Lady in the Water'' are described as being SO evil that they kill their parents after they're born. (One wonders how the species survives, if they're that uncooperative.)
▲* Edgler Vess in the film ''Intensity'' [[Lampshades]] the [[Freudian Excuse]] when he tells the protagonist that his parents were most loving, caring people that could have ever wanted... but he killed them anyway.
* The incomparable ''[[Natural Born Killers]]'' has the female lead helping her [[Badass]] [[Anti-Hero]] boyfriend kill both her parents, who are admittedly Very Bad People.
* While he didn't kill them, the titular child character of the movie ''[[Joshua]]'' drove his mother crazy until she was committed and drove his father paranoid until he was arrested, essentially making himself an orphan. All so that he could be adopted by his uncle, who he liked better.
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* Alluded to in ''[[Red Eye (film)|Red Eye]]'' when [[Cillian Murphy|Jackson Rippner]] is discussing his [[Meaningful Name|unfortunate name]]. Whether he is joking or not isn't exactly clear, knowing [[Psycho for Hire|this fellow]].
{{quote|"That wasn't very nice of your parents."
"That's what I told them, before I killed them."
** Of course, he also told the female character that he'd never lied to her
* It's implied Ginger and Brigitte did this to their abusive parents in ''[[Ginger Snaps|Ginger Snaps Back]]''. When they come upon an outpost, Ginger says that their parents drowned - which is soon revealed to the audience to be bullshit. However, when talking privately with Brigitte, Ginger still alludes to their parents being dead, so one wonders why she had to lie about it before. Add in the casual references to them having been beaten before, and the fact that for some reason, they're traveling on their own during winter at the start of the movie, and the fact that Ginger, at least, always had some sociopathic tendencies, and... Yeah.
* The killer in ''[[
* {{spoiler|Double subverted}} in ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]'' when
** Wait a minute. Laufey is Loki's ''mother'', not his father. His father's name is Farbauti. He's known as Laufeyson rather than Farbautisen because his father rejected him for being a midget.
***
* Happens more than once in ''Village of the Damned''. Specially
* Diane in ''Angel Face'', though she only intended to murder her stepmother through [[Vehicular Sabotage]], and not her father as well.
==
* One of the first things Luke does in ''[[Duumvirate]]'' is this.
* As the first page quote suggests, there is some mystery as to how [[Psycho for Hire]] assassin and unsympathetic [[Psychopathic Manchild]] Jonathan Teatime came to be an orphan.
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*** (Actually, a lot of it. The [[Murder, Inc.|Assassins Guild]] pride themselves on being gentlemen. Their scholarship students tend to be ''very'' interesting.)
* Several instances in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series:
** In ''[[
** At the end of the same book, we learn that Barty Crouch Jr. did the same thing. Barty makes much of how both he and Voldemort had very disappointing fathers and the pleasure of killing those fathers. He also seems to regard Voldemort as a father substitute.
** Also, in ''[[
* Crake in ''[[Oryx and Crake]]'' by Margaret Atwood is implied to have killed his uncle and possibly his mother, too (his father was killed (executed) while Crake was still a kid, so this leaves him an orphan).
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', {{spoiler|the dwarf Tyrion Lannister murders his father Tywin, who had always hated him for being born deformed after his mother died in childbirth. Tyrion does that to punish Tywin for having destroyed his first marriage, by forcing Jaime to lie about Tyrion's wife being a prostitute.}}
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* Strongly implied with Elizabeth Bathory in ''[[Count and Countess]]''.
* In ''The Bad Place'', by [[Dean Koontz]], {{spoiler|Frank killed his single biological parent, a hermaphrodite who self-impregnated}}. This provides a major conflict, as a sibling of said Self-Made Orphan wishes to avenge that act.
* In his 1968 book ''[[The Joys of Yiddish]]'', author Leo Rosten defined ''chutzpah'' as "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan."
* Teatime from ''[[Hogfather]]'', who this page's quote is about.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
* Several ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' unsubs have done this. The most prominent examples are Frank ({{spoiler|who killed his own mother and never knew his own father}}), The Reaper aka {{spoiler|George Foyet}} and Billy Flynn ({{spoiler|who shot his own mother in what he saw as an act of mercy}}).▼
▲== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]'' character {{spoiler|Valerie Malone}} killed {{spoiler|her father}}.▼
▲* Several [[Criminal Minds]] unsubs have done this. The most prominent examples are Frank ({{spoiler|who killed his own mother and never knew his own father}}), The Reaper aka {{spoiler|George Foyet}} and Billy Flynn ({{spoiler|who shot his own mother in what he saw as an act of mercy}}).
▲* [[Beverly Hills, 90210]] character {{spoiler|Valerie Malone}} killed {{spoiler|her father}}.
* Just about every member of Prince Edmund's [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]], the Black Seal, in the series finale of ''[[Blackadder|The Black Adder]]'', apart from Edmund himself, but including The Hawk. Edmund does plan on exiling and imprisoning his family though were he successful in [[The Evil Prince|taking power]].
{{quote|'''Edmund:''' He murdered his whole family!
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* Morgana on ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''-her mother and the man she looked to as a father and believed for a long time was her father were already dead, but she gave Agravaine the amulet to killt he wounded Uther-her birth father.
== [[Music]] ==
▲== Music ==
* [[Tom Lehrer]]'s song ''The Irish Ballad'' details the life of one of these:
{{quote|''About a maid I'll sing a song who didn't have her family long
* Ira Gershwin's "The Saga of Jenny" starts with the accidental deaths of the protagonist's parents(and siblings);
{{quote|''Jenny made her mind up when she was three
''She herself was going to trim the Christmas tree
''Christmas Eve she lit the candles, tossed the tapers away
''Little Jenny was an orphan on Christmas day }}
* Aerosmith's song "Janie's Got a Gun". She shoots her dad because of the abuse he inflicted on her.
* Jim Morrison fantasized about killing his father (and also knocking off Brother and Sister Morrison for good measure) in the 1967 performance piece "The End" (oh yeah, and then he raped his mother). It was later parodied by Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman in 1993's "Wasted Youth".
* [[Dir En Grey]]'s song "Berry" tells the story of a nine-year-old girl who gets sick of her parents abusing her, takes her father's gun, and shoots them. If that's not disturbing enough, the girl's favorite food is jam on bread, and the blood her parents shed is referred to as raspberry jam.
* In ''[[Descendant of a Demon Lord]]'' Edrilanish (who is a dragon) said that it used to be the case that a dragon wasn't considered an adult until it killed the dragon that raised it.
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]'s [[The Undertaker]] ''may'' be a self-made orphan, or may not be. All we really know is that his parents died in a fire at the funeral home they owned and operated. At various points, we've been told that he set it on accident, he set it on purpose, his half-brother [[
** Nah, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNCRvCc4XY0 Undertaker definitely started the fire.]
** Then again, this ''was'' during Taker's [[Ministry of Darkness]] [[Face Heel Turn|phase]], when he was allied with [[Paul Bearer]] again, so there's definitely a hint of ambiguity/unreliability as to who did what. For we know, ''[[Devil in Plain Sight|Bearer]]'' could've torched the home.
▲== Tabletop RPG ==
* In the ''[[Champions]]'' adventure "The Coriolis Effect," the villainess murdered her own parents by turning them into pools of slime.
* ''[[Paranoia]]'' describes Chutzpah (a major stat in 2nd edition, a skill in XP) as [[Refuge in Audacity|standing before a judge to be sentenced for murdering your parents -- and pleading for clemency because you're an orphan.]]
** Which, as noted above, is also the typical explanation of chutzpah in Jewish lore.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* In the play ''The Revengers' Comedies'', the [[Ax Crazy]] [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] who acts as a [[Poisonous Friend]] to the protagonist is strongly implied to have started the fire that killed her parents when she was eleven because they did something minor to displease her.
* In ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'', {{spoiler|George killed both of his parents by accident}}.
* In ''[[Electra]]'', Orestes enacts vengeance against his mother Chytaimnestra and step-father Aigisthos for their murder of his father Agammemnon. Though Electra doesn't actually wield the blade, she is guilty too.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* Played cruelly in ''[[Ace Attorney]]'', with {{spoiler|Miles Edgeworth thinking he accidentally killed his father for fifteen years}} and had constant nightmares about it.▼
▲== Video Games ==
▲* Played cruelly in ''Ace Attorney'', with {{spoiler|Miles Edgeworth thinking he accidentally killed his father for fifteen years}} and had constant nightmares about it.
** Subverted, in that it was proven that he was wrong.
* The Id of Fei Fong Wong in ''[[Xenogears]]''.
* ''[[Samurai Shodown
* Psycho Mantis of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' woke up one morning to find his entire village in flames, all its inhabitants, including his father, dead, victims of his psychic powers (his mother was a victim of [[Death by Childbirth]]). Well, that's how ''he'' tells it. He probably just did it for shits and giggles.
** As his powers began to develop as a child, he 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 like 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 Snake killing his "father" Big Boss, Raiden killing his "father" Solidus, and {{spoiler|Big Boss killing his "mother" The Boss}}.
*** That first one, while not lacking for symbolism, isn't symbolic in the way implied with the quotation marks, what with Big Boss actually unambiguously being Snake's biological father. [[Cloning Blues|Well, a little ambiguously]].
* Calendar Man, in ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]''. Visit his cell on Mother's Day and Father's Day and he relates how both murders occurred.
* In ''[[God of War]]'', Kratos' mother's note in Hades confirms her death, and the ending of the game has him slaying his father, Zeus.
** Well, Kratos didn't actually mean to kill his mother. She was turned into a monster and he had no choice. But is shown later that [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|he was really sad about killing his mother]].
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{{quote|'''King Terenas:''' W-what are you doing?!
'''Prince Arthas:''' ''Succeeding'' you, father. (''stab'') }}
* {{spoiler|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...
* In ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'', {{spoiler|Edge}} is forced to kill his parents after they are turned into chimera by Lugae.
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{{quote|The Wolf's past is shrouded in mystery and what is known of his history is mainly patched together from stories and unreliable rumours alone.
This aside, it is believed that both his parents died from natural causes in close succession shortly after his eighteenth birthday. }}
* ''[[Street Fighter X Tekken]]'' confirms M.Bison [[Ascended Meme|did this to his own father]] in a win quote against Chun Li. He has never explained ''why'', however.
{{quote|'''M. Bison:''' All you women ever do is whine! I killed my father too, and you don't see me crying about it!}}
* Similarly, after {{spoiler|being brainwashed
* In ''[[Mortal Kombat 11]]'', one interaction between Cassie Cage and Erron Black has Erron tell her he killed his own parents. A similar interaction between Frost and Jax has Frost tell him she killed her mother when she was twelve.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Drowtales]]'', {{spoiler|the three Sharen sisters send mommy dearest to her room ''permanently'' so they can rule Chel'el'Sussoloth in a demonic triumvirate.}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20120913014836/http://www.drowtales.com/longestwait.php?order=date&id=23 Their dialog] as they do it is especially cold.▼
▲== Web Comics ==
▲* In ''[[Drowtales]]'', {{spoiler|the three Sharen sisters send mommy dearest to her room ''permanently'' so they can rule Chel'el'Sussoloth in a demonic triumvirate.}} [http://www.drowtales.com/longestwait.php?order=date&id=23 Their dialog] as they do it is especially cold.
* Early in the prequel "[[Start of Darkness]]" (to ''[[Order of the Stick]]''), Xykon decides to leave home and turns his parents into zombies on the way out. He had previously done the same to his grandmother.
** We don't know if Xykon killed his grandma or she just died of natural causes and he zombified her then, but he definitely did kill his parents by siccing zombies on them and then zombified them.
*** Mozenrath from Disney's [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]] did much the same to his mentor/master, who was apparently raising him at the time.
* Used as a threat in the comic that succeeded ''Lowroad75'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090123050015/http://lowroad75.comicgenesis.com/d/20080118.html The Smashing Adventures Of The Bottomleys]'':
{{quote|'''Dad:''' Um... Well, you see... erm... I'm building this new machine in the basement and the TV had some really useful part...
'''Alice:''' Dad, If you finish that sentence I will be forced to make myself an orphan... }}
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** Although half the fanbase seems to think there more to it like, Keith being order (his race's hat is they can't disobey orders) to kill them and think it was self-defense.
*** {{spoiler|Turns out the intelligent general murdered her when he found out she was form the other Bastin nation, the one without the compulsion to follow any order.}}
* Black Mage from ''[[8-Bit Theater]]'' may be this; we know he's killed his (blind) brother and has said he "wouldn't use the present tense for any member of my family" (with a blood splatter in the background, no less).
** "It would have been cruel to let him live after what I did to his eyes."
* The Uricarn from [[The Wotch]] is a self made [[Last of His Kind]]. It's likely he killed his parents, because in an aside, he regrets killing them all while he was still a kid. He wishes he left a female alive.
* Richard of ''[[Looking for Group]]'' admits having killed his own father. In fact he's proud of it. Actually, he thinks of it as a funny story. But then again, anything involving killing is funny to Richard.
** As he mentioned later, his father {{spoiler|tried to sacrifice him. Which The Archmage admitted setting up, obviously as a part of his plan to make Richard more or less what he became}}.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120829045451/http://jared.smackjeeves.com/ Jared] murdered his own father, the fate of his mother is as of yet unrevealed, though it's likely she met the same fate.
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004172 "Au revoir, Spidermom"]. But to be fair, she would have died soon enough anyway due to the avalanche.
* ''[[Archipelago]]'': Captain Snow. Started off with birds and squirrels. Later, killed his parents and apparently the rest of his family, sparing his nephew but forcing him to work for his crew. Went on to become the most feared and hated pirate captain in the world until he died of a brain tumor. [[Back
* In ''[[Nodwick]]'', Orville is a species of dragon who are driven by instinct to kill their fathers, and this works to the heroes' advantage in one story. The dark priestess Elonan uses a spell that causes the heroes to perceive her zombie minions as their parents or former mentors, intending to fool them into being vulnerable to their attacks, and this ''almost'' works. However, because Orville regards his father as an enemy, he becomes enraged and incinerates them.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Dr. Sloth from ''[[Neopets]]'' did this.
* In ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' version one, Cillian Crowe and Daphne Rudko both murdered their own parents, though Cillian was confined to an insane asylum due to his actions while Daphne got off scot free.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Mr. Burns fills out a health form:
{{quote|'''Mr. Burns:''' Cause of parents' death?..."Got in my way."}}
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* It is very subtly implied in the episode "Easy as One, Two, Three..." of ''[[The Legend of Calamity Jane]]'' that Conrad killed the mother of him and his two brothers. He spends the episode repeating her advice and what her opinion would be of their actions, but when one of his brothers asks why he cannot just leave her in her grave, he responds that he ''did'' leave her in her grave.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* One recent{{when}} case in Medicine Hat, Canada. A young girl, influenced by her much older boyfriend, murdered her entire family.▼
▲== Real Life ==
** Recently{{when}} in Finland a teenaged girl coaxed some older boys to kill her mother over domestic differences; fortunately, the crossbow bolt intended to do the job only grazed her skull, and she managed to escape.▼
▲* One recent case in Medicine Hat, Canada. A young girl, influenced by her much older boyfriend, murdered her entire family.
▲** Recently in Finland a teenaged girl coaxed some older boys to kill her mother over domestic differences; fortunately, the crossbow bolt intended to do the job only grazed her skull, and she managed to escape.
** In 1954, an incident happened in Christchurch, New Zealand where Pauline Parker and her friend Juliet Hulme killed her mother. Their story was made into film by [[Peter Jackson]], [[Kate Winslet]] starred as one of the girls.
* [[Older Than Radio]]: Lizzie Borden (allegedly) in 1892. Note: she was acquitted, and there are a variety of books offering various theories of the case, with a range of possible suspects, including Lizzie's older sister Emma (who if guilty, would qualify as well).
** "''Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks, and when she saw what she had done she gave her father forty-one''"
*** This jingle is factually inaccurate, since her ''step''mother received 18 or 19 blows, her father 11 (her birth mother had died of natural causes almost 30 years prior).
*** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuDBO1rIrb4 "Ooooooh ye cain't chop your mama up in, Maaaaaasechusetts, Maaaaaaaasechusetts, Maaaaaaasechusetts, no ye cain't chop your mama up in Maaaaaaaasechusetts, it's a far cry from New Yooork!"] (My grandmama said that was about Lizzie Borden.<ref>It is. Follow the link.</ref> It is great fun to sing with ironic gory glee.)
* Caril Ann Fugate, the teenage girlfriend of 50's spree killer Charles Starkweather, was allegedly involved in the murders of her mother, stepfather, and sister. Like Lizzie Borden however, it will probably never be known for sure the true extent of her guilt (or innocence) in the case.
* Gina Grant was a 19-year-old orphan when Harvard admitted her. What she didn't mention on the form was that the reason she was an orphan was that she bludgeoned her alcoholic mother to death with a candlestick when she was 14. She served six months and went back to school (not a full example as her father had died of cancer a few years earlier).
* Brian Blackwell bludgeoned his parents after he used their expenses to fabricate being a semi-pro tennis player, [[Disproportionate Retribution|and they called him to explain]]. During the murder he was 18 years old, and even left their bodies to decompose for a year in what was once their house until the police found them. He is now serving a life sentence, although his case was notable for being the first example of using [[wikipedia:Narcissistic personality disorder|Narcissistic personality disorder]] as a defense before a court.
* Then, of course, there's the infamous example of [[wikipedia:Lyle and Erik Menendez|the Menendez brothers]] who killed both their parents with shotguns to gain their considerable wealth in August 1989.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130616134839/http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/02/john_caudle_14_killed_his_pare.php 14-years-old John Caudle kills his mom and stepdad to get out of doing his household chores.]▼
▲** Yet another joke is about a little dragon who's crying. When asked where his mom and dad are, he says he ate them. When asked if he knows what it makes him, he says "Yes (sobs). A complete orphan".
▲* [http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/02/john_caudle_14_killed_his_pare.php 14-years-old John Caudle kills his mom and stepdad to get out of doing his household chores.]
** He's insane. So, what happened to him?
** According to the [http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_18227156 Denver Post Website] he was sentenced for 22 years after a plea deal. He'll be out June 8, 2033.
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* Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer aka ''[[wikipedia:La Quintrala|La Quintrala]]'', a legendary female landowner from Colonial Chile, poisoned her father with the help of her mother as revenge for taking her off his testament and leaving all of the family riches to the Catholic Church. Of course, that wasn't the only crime she did or was accused of commiting. Her ''Quintrala'' nickname, coming from her red hair, is a synonym in Chile for "a really, REALLY evil adult woman".
** Of course, both of the [[Soap Opera|telenovelas]] [[Historical Domain Character|based on her life]] keep this "anecdote". In fact, the newest one (''La Doña'') shows [[Villain Protagonist]] Quintrala (played by Claudia Di Girolamo) trying to kill her father (played by José Soza) ''already in the first episode''. [[Magnificent Bitch|Alongside many other things.]]
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20131119012907/http://www.ghostinmysuitcase.com/places/savannah/index.htm Savannah, Georgia], a girl named Lottie was raised by her aunt Louisa and her uncle Aaron and got along well with Anna, her stepmom's sister. [[Your Cheating Heart|She once caught Anna kissing her uncle/dad]]; after an [[Heroic BSOD]], she killed Anna by lacing her tea with poison to "protect" her family. It turned out that Anna was her long-lost mother, [[Teen Pregnancy|who had her as a teen]] [[Give Him a Normal Life|and left her in the care of her sister and brother-in-law]], [[Secret Keeper|asking them to not tell the truth]]. [[Ironic Hell|Whoops.]] (Lotti was acquitted, but [[Go Mad
* A rather infamous one in Amityville, Long Island, New York. Basically, Ronnie DeFeo shot and killed his parents and four siblings in bed November 13, 1974 at 3:15 am. The hauntings the book and movies based off of the book implies aren't real, though, just the crime.
* Kip Kinkel killed his parents after he brought a gun to school and he was worried what they might do to him and after years of in his eyes failing to live up their expectations and apparently loving his older sister more, he then went on a shooting spree at his school killing two students and while he was reloading some students managed to gang up on him and disarm him, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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[[Category:Murder Tropes]]
[[Category:Orphaned Index]]
[[Category:Villains]]
▲[[Category:Self-Made Orphan]]
[[Category:Dysfunctional Family Tropes]]
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