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* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' has the Ikari family, with [[Butt Monkey|Shinji Ikari]], [[Everybody Is Jesus in Purgatory|Yui Ikari]], and [[Abusive Parents|Gendo]] [[Love Makes You Evil|Ika]][[Manipulative Bastard|ri]], [[Driven to Suicide|The Soryu Family]], [[Redemption Equals Death|The Katsuragis]], [[Beta Test Baddie|The]] [[Love Makes You Evil|Akagis]]... and ''all that'' is just the tip of a far more messed-up iceberg. Which has mass added to as the series goes by. [[Dysfunction Junction|One simply does not know where to start.]]
* The Kunos from ''[[Ranma ½]]'', they make the [[Dysfunctional Family|Saotome/Tendo household]] look positively normal.
* The Vongola family in [[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]] is the biggest Mafia family in the story and has its share of [[Cain and Abel]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100731011007/http://www.onemanga.com/Katekyo_Hitman_Reborn/1/32/ killings] and freakish [https://web.archive.org/web/20090123144143/http://www.onemanga.com/Katekyo_Hitman_Reborn/31/07/ traditions]. This is initially played for laughs but following the manga's [[Genre Shift]], it means that the [[Unexpected Successor]] Tsuna receives daily death threats {{spoiler|to the point that he claims he'll destroy the family if he has to carry on its bloody legacy}}.
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]:''
** The Eastern European nations of . The members include [[Psychopathic Manchild]] Russia, the constantly stressed out [[Team Mom]] Ukraine, [[Shrinking Violet]] Latvia, ultra [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere]] Belarus (who wants very much to [[Brother-Sister Incest|marry Russia]]), and Russia's favorite [[Chew Toy]] Lithuania. [[Ambiguously Gay|Poland]] and [[Uncle Pennybags|Estonia]] could very well be the [[Only Sane Man|sanest and most well adjusted members]] of this Big Screwed-Up Family.
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* ''[[No More Heroes]]'' features the Touchdown family, which in the last 10% of the game is revealed to be incredibly expansive. There's Travis Touchdown, otaku assassin; {{spoiler|his mother, murdered; his father, who cheated on Travis's mother with another woman, who committed suicide, resulting in resulting in the murder of himself and his wife at the hands of his mistress's daughter Jeane (who Travis was dating, unaware that she was his half-sister); this is all revealed after Jeane kills Dark Star, the number 1 ranked assassin who also claims to be Travis's father. In an unrelated plot, Travis discovers that his rival, Henry, is actually his twin brother, and is married to Sylvia, the woman Travis was pursuing. And they have a daughter, also named Jeane. You might as well count Travis's cat, Jeane, as part of the family to round out the hat-trick.}}
* [[BioShock (series)|The Ryans....and The Lambs]]
* In [[The Sims]] 2, the Curious/Smith/Singles family sprawls diagonally over Strangetown, dominating the town's drama. Apparently it all started when Glarn Curious was abducted by an alien [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong|pollination technician]], ''twice''. Sick of caring for his alien daughter, wife #1 Glabe took off and he remarried to Kitty, proceeded to have four children with her the old-fashioned way, one of whom proceeded to ''marry the alien who inseminated him'' and have two kids of her own. Then the younger son Pascal, err, followed in his father's footsteps, and is "expecting" at the beginning of the game. If you play your cards right, brother Vidcund can reach the same happy state shortly thereafter, by the same alien daddy—leaving you with two adorable green brats who are both cousins and siblings. Not to mention the special relationship between the Singles sisters and the Smith kids. [http://images.wikia.com/sims/images/6/60/PollyFamTree.png Check out this fancy family tree]{{Dead link}} including the antecedents from [[The Sims 3]].
* [[Metal Gear Solid]] ''loves'' this trope. First off we have Big Boss who is the most gifted soldier of the 20th century and would be recognized by America as their greatest asset, but after many hardships, betrayals, and tragedies were thrown his way by the government he swore his life to, he became disillusioned and drifted the world as a mercenary. Eventually his disillusionment reached such a point that he sought revolution, overthrowing America and the corrupt forces behind it, the Patriots, who controlled everything in secret, thus bringing a new birth of freedom to the country. Meanwhile the Patriots cloned Big Boss so as to have copies of the greatest living soldier in the world to use at their disposal, and the sons of Big Boss would go on to agree with their father's stance (Liquid and Solidus both try making their own Outer Heavens) and have feuds (Snake and Liquid fought their father) with their genetic father, and the protagonist of the series Solid Snake would eventually defeat his father in single combat, being the lapdog of America that Big Boss had once been. Liquid Snake, failing in his feud with Big Boss, took up his cause in order to prove he was better than his father by succeeding in the dream of defeating the Patriots where his father had failed, and Solidus the third son takes up his father's cause as well, but both brothers are stopped in part by their brother Solid Snake just as he had stopped their father. The Snake family only knows how to fight one another, which comes off as sad as all of them have noble causes but they all get manipulated so that they have to fight each other, and even when this is brought to their attention their differences are never settled.
** Don't forget Ocelot, who's The Boss's son, but comes to admire Big Boss as a father figure, too, in his own way. Or the Emmerich family, as elaborated upon in ''Peace Walker''. Hell, it's even suggested that Otacon's mother is [[Depraved Bisexual|Strangelove]]!
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