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* Morgana, on ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' indirectly. She doesn't actually do the deed, but she enchants the amulet that does the deed and gives it to Agravaine to use.
* Regina, on ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]''. Sadly, she really did love him, which was ''why'' she killed him. She needed the heart of the one she loved most for the curse she wanted in order to fulfill her quest for vengeance.
== Real Life ==▼
* [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] considered patricide to be the ultimate [[Moral Event Horizon]]. From [[The Other Wiki]]: "[[Ancient Rome]] had a unique punishment for patricide. The felon was severely scourged then sewn into a stout leather bag [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|with a dog, a snake, a rooster, and a monkey]], and the bag was thrown into the river Tiber. Plutarch records that the old laws of Romulus had no penalty for patricide because it was considered [[Hilarious in Hindsight|a crime too evil ever to be committed.]]"▼
* According to [[The Histories|Herodotus]], the Persians believed that no man since the beginning of time had ever killed his own father, and that whenever this appeared to happen, it was evidence that the patricidal child was actually an impostor or changeling.▼
== Religion and Mythology ==
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== Western Animation ==
* Averted in ''[[The Lion King]]'': Simba ''thinks'' he (accidentally) killed his father, until it's revealed (to him) that his uncle Scar did it.
▲== Real Life ==
▲* [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] considered patricide to be the ultimate [[Moral Event Horizon]]. From [[The Other Wiki]]: "[[Ancient Rome]] had a unique punishment for patricide. The felon was severely scourged then sewn into a stout leather bag [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|with a dog, a snake, a rooster, and a monkey]], and the bag was thrown into the river Tiber. Plutarch records that the old laws of Romulus had no penalty for patricide because it was considered [[Hilarious in Hindsight|a crime too evil ever to be committed.]]"
▲* According to [[The Histories|Herodotus]], the Persians believed that no man since the beginning of time had ever killed his own father, and that whenever this appeared to happen, it was evidence that the patricidal child was actually an impostor or changeling.
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