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Many [[Super Team]]s are made up of unrelated individuals who chose to answer [[The Call]], others at least share a [[Mass Super-Empowering Event]] or some form of [[You ALL Share My Story]]. Then there's super teams that arise from, or create their own,
It's not uncommon for both versions of this trope to coincide when new supers (or even [[Muggles]]) marry into the family or get "adopted". Sometimes the children are raised without knowing their parent's real day job, and receive their [[Secret Legacy]]. Other times the kids grow up amidst alien invasions and time travel shenanigans. Though most Super Family Teams are comprised of a [[Nuclear Family]] structure (not necessarily with atomic powers, mind), they may substitute an actual mother or father with a [[Promotion to Parent]], [[Mama Bear]] and/or [[A Father to His Men]], or go without and simply have a "big bro/sis" as team leader.
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This trope is morality neutral, it's just as easy to have a family of crime as it is to have a family of crime ''fighters''. The Super Family Team is likely to use a whole lot of the [[Family Tropes]], and range from being a happy family with occasional scrapes to a [[Big Screwed-Up Family]] that is a snide remark away from family-cide. Evil Super Family Teams tend to have a much more dysfunctional dynamic than that presented in good super family teams. It's not surprising to see evil families fall apart or fail at their missions. That said, it's not impossible for an evil family to actually have ''better'' intra-familial relationships than their good counterparts. Still, the general norm is that a good family of supers will have a better chance of success and life expectancy (both as teams and as people) because [[Captain Obvious|happy families get along]] and stick together.
To keep this trope from being a recounting of "these two supers [[Superpowerful Genetics|had a kid with powers]]", at least two relations [[They Fight Crime|have to fight crime]], explore [[Alternate Universe
Usually a [[Badass Family]]/[[Badass Crew]].
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** Brother and Sister Quicksilver and The Scarlet Witch, both frequently on ''[[The Avengers]]''.
** The Inhumans.
** The Scarlet Witch's marriage to the
** The [[Alternate Continuity]] version of Spider-Girl provides a villainous version, with [[Ax Crazy]] villainess [[Fluffy the Terrible|Angel Face]] as the mother of villainous siblings Crazy Eight and Funny-Face.
** ''[[Relative Heroes]]'' in [[The DCU]].
** Another 1970s [[DC Universe]] comic, ''Super-Team Family'', is [[Averted Trope|NOT an example of this trope]].
* [[Marvelman]], Young Marvelman and Kid Marvelman - which were [[Alternate Company Equivalent
* ''The Incredible Hulks'' is about [[The Incredible Hulk]] and all his Hulk-like friends & relations: [[She Hulk]], Red She-Hulk, A-Bomb (Rick Jones), his son Skaar, and another She-Hulk which his daughter from an alternate future. [[Red Hulk]] is off on his own most of the time, so he's not generally involved.
* Team Superman, comprising [[Superman|Clark]], [[Supergirl|his cousin]], [[Superboy|his clone]] and [[Steel]].
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