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{{trope}}
{{quote|"''Incest is ''[[And That's Terrible|wrong!]]"
|'''Uncle Gabby''', ''[[The Drinky Crow Show]]''}}
So you have a character who is a villain. He's [[Kick the Dog|kicked puppies]], [[Cold-Blooded Torture|tortured defenseless kittens]], and done everything he can to make sure he has thoroughly crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]]. What else can you do to show the audience that he is absolutely evil in every way?
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You have him engage in certain [[Depraved Bisexual|taboo]] or [[Good People Have Good Sex|questionable]] activities which are frowned upon by most cultures. Sure, [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]], but some bad men love their mamas a ''little'' too much, and this adds to the audience's view of the villain as a disgusting, depraved individual who commits evil and unnatural acts on a daily basis.
Compare [[Brother-Sister Incest]], [[Twincest]], [[Parental Incest]], [[Good People Have Good Sex]].
Contrast [[Surprise Incest]] for when the people involved may or may not know they are related, although these kinds of villains usually don't care. Can cross over with [[Freudian Excuse]] if they have a weird relationship with their parents.
{{noreallife|First, calling real-life people "villainous" is an extremely bad idea. Second, All The Tropes is not a gossip site.}}
{{examples}}
* Demon sisters Scanty and Kneesocks of ''[[Panty & Stocking with
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Akio ''regularly'' has sex with [[Brother-Sister Incest|his sister Anthy]] in ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]''. It's both an example of this trope, and an allusion to their
**
▲* Demon sisters Scanty and Kneesocks of ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'' apparently enjoy partaking in strange sexual play involving caviar, figs and goat milk when the mayor isn't looking.
▲* Akio ''regularly'' has sex with [[Brother-Sister Incest|his sister Anthy]] in ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]''. It's both an example of this trope, and an allusion to their nature--incest is rather common among many cultures' gods.
▲** {{spoiler|Miki and Kozue}} may do the same during their car ride, and {{spoiler|Touga and Nanami}} very nearly do; at best, it's still a rather blunt metaphor each girl's obsessive or weird relationship with men.
* Alexis and his sister Augusta in ''[[Count Cain]]''.
* Auguste Beau of ''[[Kaze to Ki no Uta]]'' uses sex to control and manipulate
* Sorath and Tiriel from ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'', squicking the hell out of Shana in the process.
* The creepy twins Yui Fan and Yui Lan from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]: The Second Raid''.
* And
* [[Creepy Twins|Hansel and Gretel]] from ''[[Black Lagoon]]''.
* The Black Beauty Sisters in ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' are almost certainly a couple (they're the page image for [[Hide Your Lesbians]]), but it's never made clear whether they're actually sisters or not.
* The Long twins from ''[http://www.animenewsnetwork.
* Played for laughs in the ''[[Black Butler (anime)|Black Butler Hamlet]]'' OVA, when Grell/Ophelia gets the hots for Agni/Polonius. Agni thinks it's disgusting, even if he's not related to Grell.
== Comic Books ==▼
* An obscure [[Marvel Universe]] character from the equally obscure ''[[Comet Man]]'' series knowingly started dating his estranged and unwitting sister as part of a plan to revenge himself on his entire family. While sex was never made explicit, they had moved in together for some weeks before his relationship to her was revealed.
* Andrea and Andreas Strucker, the Fenris twins of [[Marvel Comics]]. And then [[It Got Worse|it got]] [[
** Technically their incest was never confirmed, and Andreas denied it at one point,
* Baron Mordo, archenemy of [[Doctor Strange]], knowingly had a sexual relationship with his his
* While it was implied throughout the franchise that the family ''may'' have been committing incest, the comic ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]: Raising Cain'' outright stated it. After one family member's wife is killed (in part
* Although the two of them are more [[Anti-Hero]]es with [[Anti-Villain]] moments as opposed to out-and-out villains, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are in a long
* In [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[Swamp Thing]]'', Abby is unknowingly seduced by her own uncle, the [[Complete Monster|
▲* In [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[Swamp Thing]]'', Abby is unknowingly seduced by her own uncle, the [[Complete Monster|uberevil villain]] Dr. Anton Arcane.
* ''[[Strangers in Paradise]]'' has Darcy and, yes, {{spoiler|David.}}
* ''Many'' of the villains in ''[[Sandman Mystery Theatre]]'' are incestuous in one way or another, to the point where you start to wonder about the writer...
* In the [[Bad Future]] of [[Wolverine]]'s "[[Old Man Logan]]" arc, [[The Hulk|Bruce Banner]] has made a [[Face
* The ''[[Sin City]]'' short story entitled ''Daddy's Little Girl'' has a rather disturbing example of this. {{spoiler|A woman seduces a man, but claims that her father does not approve of the relationship, eventually asking
*
==
* In [http://percyjacksonfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Stand_In_The_Rain Stand In The Rain]{{Dead link}}, a ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' fanfiction, {{spoiler|the main character is raped by her mentally disturbed half-brother}}.▼
** [[It Gets Worse]] - {{spoiler|she gets [[Child by Rape|pregnant]]. With her own brother's baby. Pass the [[Brain Bleach]], please!}}
* A classic fairy tale found throughout Europe concerns, in various variations, a wicked older male relative pursuing a beautiful younger female niece or daughter. Thanks to gender taboos of the period, the fathers never undergo the punishments typical of [[Grimmification]] even though the stories otherwise condemn his actions. An even creepier variant, "The Girl with No Hands," is, well, [[Nightmare Fuel]] of the worst sort.▼
* In the ''[[Oneiroi Series]]'', a ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' series of fanfics, [[Split Personality Takeover|Deirdre]] {{spoiler|[[Moral Event Horizon|rapes and kills her father, gets pregnant by him, and then manipulates her brother into having sex]]. Most of the other villains think that she's going to do the same to her uncle, too.}}▼
* Peter Stumpp of Bedburg (the original werewolf) was described as having sex with his daughter. The authorities made sure to execute her as well.▼
* In some versions of the Arthurian legends Mordred was the son of King Arthur and his half-sister Morgana (swept under the rug in the musical ''[[Camelot (theatre)|Camelot]]'' but dramatized in the movie ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]''). However, in an inversion of the usual applications of this trope ''she'' seduced him (using a disguise spell) as part of her [[Evil Plan]] to avenge his father using a similar to have sex with her mother after murdering her father.▼
** T.H. White's ''[[The Sword in the Stone]]'' discusses that it is committing this sin, however unwittingly, that dooms Arthur to such a tragic life.▼
* In Finnish folktales, the villains, bogeymen and monsters are assumed to have gotten their birth from villainous incest.▼
▲* In [http://percyjacksonfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Stand_In_The_Rain Stand In The Rain], a ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' fanfiction, {{spoiler|the main character is raped by her mentally disturbed half-brother}}.
▲** [[It Gets Worse]] - {{spoiler|she gets [[Child by Rape|pregnant]]. With her own brother's baby}}.
▲* In the ''[[Oneiroi Series]]'', a ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' series of fanfics, [[Split Personality Takeover|Deirdre]] {{spoiler|[[Moral Event Horizon|rapes and kills her father, gets pregnant by him, and then manipulates her brother into having sex]]. Most of the other villains think that she's going to do the same to her uncle, too.}}
* Given the fact that most ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' fics are focusing on [[Brother-Sister Incest|Justin/Alex]], many of them portray their relationship as wicked and harmful, not to mention that few have [[Happy Ending|happy endings]].
** In ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6431324/1/Perfect_Lies Perfect Lies]'', Justin has a calm life, a four years old daughter and a loving wife. Then Alex comes and creeps in, destroying it slowly, by alluring him into having sexual affairs with her. And [[Evil Tastes Good|she enjoys it]].
* There is a ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]'' [[Crack Fic]] in which Saturn and Jupiter have sex regularly even though they're [[Kissing Cousins|cousins]]. Mars also mentions having once had sex with her ''brother,'' which she thinks of as okay because the ancient Egyptians used to do it. Granted, none of them actually do anything all that evil, except under Cyrus's orders.
* ''[[Ponies Make War]]'': [[Big Bad|Titan]], having taken over Equestria, attempts to force his daughter Luna to marry her brother Empyrean in order to solidify the latter's position as rightful acting ruler. {{spoiler|It's also later revealed that his wife Terra is actually his daughter as well.}}
== Film ==
* Eleanor Prentiss Shaw of the [[The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)|1962]] and [[The Manchurian Candidate (2004 film)|2004]] ''The Manchurian Candidate''
* Commodus from ''[[Gladiator (film)|Gladiator]]'' had a sister complex. The sister in question, Luciana, was appropriately horrified.
* Heavily implied in both versions of ''[[Scarface (1932 film)|Scarface]]''.
* ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'': Magenta and Riffraff have ''a lot'' of [[Memetic Mutation|elbow sex]].
{{quote|'''Audience line''': "Incest is the best, put your sister to the test!"}}
* A major plot point in ''[[Oldboy]]''.
* Played for laughs in ''[[Blades of Glory]]''. [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] since the actors are actually married.
* {{spoiler|Noah Cross}} from ''[[Chinatown]]'' famously crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] into [[Complete Monster
* ''[[Psycho]]'' hints at this, but it's not until the prequel ''[[Psycho IV:
▲* {{spoiler|Noah Cross}} from ''[[Chinatown]]'' famously crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] into [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsterdom]] when it was revealed that {{spoiler|he molested Evelyn Mulwray, his own daughter, which resulted in her having a daughter who was her sister as well. He ends up with custody of the inbred kid, who can expect some serious raping of her own, after Evelyn gets a bullet in the head. [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|Not a pleasant ending at all]].}}
▲* ''[[Psycho]]'' hints at this, but it's not until [[Psycho IV the Beginning|the prequel]] that the subtext becomes a textbook case of [[Freudian Excuse]].
* In ''[[Forrest Gump]]'', Jenny was sexually abused by her father.
* In ''[[Hellraiser]]'', Kristy's [[Evil Uncle|Uncle Frank]] starts tiring of the sex he has with her stepmother. So he decides to turn his attention to Kristy, later noticing how beautiful she's grown up to be, and attempting numerous times to rape her (even culminating in them ''[[Squick|kissing]]''). Considering that Frank is well known for having broken pretty much ''all'' taboos and kinks to have in sex, it's unsurprising that he'd be keen on trying out [[Incest Is Relative|incest]] with a [[Ephebophile|minor]].
* Top Dollar and his half-sister Myca from ''[[The Crow]]''. They were both into it, they just both happened to be evil.
* Mother-and-son team of [[Our Vampires Are Different|shapeshifting energy vampires]] from ''Stephen King's [[Sleepwalkers]]''. Of course, not being human, they may lack this particular taboo. They're also implied [[Last of His Kind|not to have much choice in partners]].
* In ''[[Cruel Intentions]]'', Sarah Michelle Gellar's character promises to sleep with her step-brother if he can deflower an avowed virgin before the summer is over. Somewhat averted in that they're not blood relatives, so it's not 'proper' incest.
** Parodied in [[Not Another Teen Movie]] where the interest is reversed with the sister agreeing to help him win the bet to get the nerdy-girl only if he'll agree to have sex with her after he wins. He objects that they are related and she responds "…only by blood!"
* Implied with the [[Big Screwed-Up Family|Largos]] in ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]''.
* The second ''[[Hellboy
* [[Parker Posey]]'s character in ''[[The House of Yes]]'' has this up the wazoo.
* ''[[La Reine Margot (film)|La Reine Margot]]'' (Queen Margot) has this in spades, with the titular Marguerite de Valois having sex with her brothers and their brother Anjou being in love with their mother, Catherine de' Medici. The whole incestuous lot is pretty villainous with atrocities, backstabbing, and poisonings under their belt, though a couple of them are more ambiguous including Margot herself.
* The 2006 remake of ''[[Black Christmas]]'' reveals that Billy Lenz's mother despises her own son because of his condition while his father shows kindness. Eventually she decided to kill her husband and locked Billy in the attic so she can have a new life with her new boyfriend. But it turns out her boyfriend is actually impotent after trying to have a new baby with him, so in an effort to have a child she goes to the attic and rapes her 12-year-old son Billy. Nine months later she gives birth to Billy's sister/daughter Agnes (which makes her also the grandmother) and lies to her boyfriend that Agnes is his and mockingly whispers to the eavesdropping Billy that she's her family now.
* In the [[backstory]] of ''[[A Cure for Wellness]]'', Baron von Reichmerl desired a pureblood family and decided that his sister was best suited for continuing the bloodline. She initially resisted him, but the Baron raped her; after some time, she came to accept and even enjoy her relations with her brother, and married him. Unfortunately, after several years the baron realized she was infertile, and suspected her body was rejecting the deformed fetus. To cure her infertility, the baron discovered the water of the aquifer, which wass toxic to humans but had unique life-restoring properties to the eels living in the water. He kidnapped several peasants who lived on his land, performing experiments on them by distilling the water and filtering it through their bodies. The process succeeded in "curing" his sister/fiancee’s infertility, and she became pregnant; but on the night of their wedding, the remaining peasants realized what the baron had done to the others, and [[Torches and Pitchforks|stormed the castle]] to capture them and burn them alive. Before his wife/sister was burned, the peasants cut out the baby from her womb and throw it into the aquifer, and the baron was supposedly burned alive himself. Unknown to everyone, he survived and found his child, a girl he named Hannah, and went into hiding. In the film's present time, the baron (now Dr. Heinreich Volmer) immediately marries his daughter Hannah, and brings her to a secret room so he can rape her to get pregnant as a way to continue his "pure bloodline". His plan is thwarted by Lockhart and he dies at the hands of Hannah, his body falling into the ravenous eel-filled aquifer.
==Folk
▲* A classic fairy tale found throughout Europe concerns, in various variations, a wicked older male relative pursuing a beautiful younger female niece or daughter. Thanks to gender taboos of the period, the fathers never undergo the punishments typical of [[Grimmification]], even though the stories otherwise condemn his actions. An even creepier variant, "The Girl with No Hands",
▲* Peter Stumpp of Bedburg (the original werewolf) was described as having sex with his daughter. The authorities made sure to execute her as well.
▲* In some versions of the Arthurian legends, Mordred was the son of King Arthur and his half-sister Morgana; in the original legends his incest was with Morgause, his other half-sister. Modern versions often just [[Composite Character|combine this role]] with Morgan(a) for simplicity. This is swept under the rug in the musical ''[[Camelot (theatre)|Camelot]]'', but dramatized in the movie ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]''
▲** T.H. White's ''[[The Sword in the Stone]]'', which retains the original series of events, discusses that it is committing this sin
▲* In Finnish folktales, the villains, bogeymen and monsters are assumed to have
==Literature==
* [[The Bible]] had Lot's daughters raping him, which allegedly produced the Moabites and Ammonites with whom the Israelites had frequent wars. Many consider this a vilification of these rival tribes. Not everyone is entirely sure what happened between Noah and Ham in a certain tent either.
** Incidentally, Ruth was a Moabite, so the Davidic line also descends from Lot and his daughters.
** According to some scholars, this is the reason for [[Methuselah Syndrome]]; inbreeding and the effects of sin have made us the mayflies we are today.
* Caligula with his sisters and Nero with his mother, both in ''[[I, Claudius]]'' and (allegedly) in [[Real Life]].
** Of course the only reason Nero was ever emperor is that his mother married the emperor Claudius
** Agrippina (the niece Claudius married) was also one of Caligula's sisters, by the way. In Paul L. Maier's historical novel ''The Flames of Rome'', Nero's wife chews him out for his part in the affair, specifically pointing out that incest was apparently an old habit with her: "How old was she when her brother Caligula first seduced her, twelve!?" The Julio-Claudian dynasty in its latter years was a major [[
* Ikurei Xerius in ''[[Second Apocalypse]]''.
* In ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', Maeglin lusts after his cousin Idril. His feelings are unreciprocated, partly due to the Noldorin incest taboo, and partly because she marries someone else. A series of unfortunate events later, Maeglin betrays the location of the formerly hidden city to [[Satan|Morgoth]] in exchange for lordship and possession of Idril.
** In ''The Fall of Numenor'', Pharazon becomes the last king of Numenor by marrying the late king's daughter against her will. She's his first cousin. Pharazon's ego and disregard for traditions or basic morality simply made it that much easier for Sauron to corrupt him into Melkor-worship. It should also be noted that Pharazon had no legal right to the throne, and marrying Miriel did not actually give it to him
*** There are multiple versions of this. In some of JRRT's versions, Tal-Palantir's daughter is infatuated with Pharazon (who by all accounts was likeable in his youth) and marries him consensually, and hands him the ''de facto'' control of the Sceptre. In others, he takes her to himself against her will and seizes the Sceptre with the approval of the general public (who by now were mostly corrupted).
* Celie's father in ''[[The Color Purple]]'', although
* At one point in ''[[Lolita]],'' Humbert Humbert fantasizes about siring a daughter with his adoptive daughter, then a granddaughter with said daughter, and so on. Despite the [[Misaimed Fandom]], [[Vladimir Nabokov|Nabokov]] definitely intended Humbert to cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]].
* Mason Verger in the book but not [[The Movie of the Book]] ''[[Hannibal]]''.
* In his Wold Newton universe, [[Philip Jose Farmer]] suggests that Carl Peterson (archfoe of [[Bulldog Drummond]]) and his lover Irma (who sometimes posed as his daughter) were, in fact, father and daughter.
* {{spoiler|Jaime and Cersei}} from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''
** Played straight with the Targaryen family, who married brother-to-sister for hundreds of years to keep their blood pure, which resulted in a degree of being batshit insane. Not all Targaryens qualify as villains, but the ones who do tend to do so in grand
** Also {{spoiler|Craster and his wives, who are also his daughters.}}
* [[Big Bad|Lord]] [[Horny Devils|Raith]] of the [[Our Vampires Are Different|White Court]] in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' has the habit of ''raping'' his daughters into [[More Than Mind Control|submission]], thus amplifying the evil of this trope by making it non-consensual. He kills his sons for being potential "threats
** Thomas says that his father's tastes "don't run that way", and there are a few other times when it's implied that the Raiths do have gender preferences when it comes to feeding, even if they're capable of going both ways
** Nicodemus and his daughter Deirdre share
* ''And The Ass Saw The Angel'' had an [[Cannibal Clan|incestuous clan]] of [[Serial Killer|serial killers]] living up in the hills. The protagonist's father was a defector from this clan.
* In ''The Crying of Lot 49'', the characters go to see a Jacobean-era revenge play called ''The Courier's Tragedy'', whose villains are an incestuous family of aristocrats vying for the throne.
* Terah Graesin and her brother Luc, from the ''[[The Night Angel Trilogy]]''.
* ''The Ringmaster'' by David Gurr gets philosophical about this
* ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' uses this as part of an extended allegory of Christian beliefs. [[Satan]] has sex with his daughter Sin, who sprang out of his head when he came up with the notion of rebelling against God. Their resulting offspring is [[The Grim Reaper|Death]].
* Non-consensual incestuous relationships figure in the backstories of several [[Dean Koontz]] characters, such as in ''The Bad Place'', ''Whispers'', ''Life Expectancy'', and ''What the Night Knows''.
* In ''[[Chronicles of Blood and Stone|The Fifth Sorceress]]'', the [[Face Heel Turn]] of {{spoiler|Shailiha}} is made explicit when she makes passes at her captive {{spoiler|brother}}, though she doesn't actually get a chance to rape him. [[Unfortunate Implications|And also by her becoming bisexual, apparently.]]
* In ''[[Harry Potter]]'', you can pretty much pick a random member of the Black family and find someone, if not evil, at least highly unpleasant who is married to an awfully close relative
** In the Black family tree, the closest couple actually given are second cousins, which is perfectly legal
* In ''[[The Elenium]]'', it is fairly common knowledge that the late [[Deadly Decadent Court|King Aldreas had a sexual relationship with his sister Arissa]], though they weren't so much evil as sickeningly depraved [[Damned By Faint Praise|(for what little that's worth)]].
* The "novelization" of the 1980 ''[[Flash Gordon (film)|Flash Gordon]]'' included a small scene of Ming and Aura [[Squick|pleasurably reminiscing about the most recent time they had (BDSM-heavy) sex together.
▲* The "novelization" of the 1980 ''[[Flash Gordon (film)|Flash Gordon]]'' included a small scene of Ming and Aura pleasurably reminiscing about the most recent time they had (BDSM-heavy) sex together. .... eeeeeep.
* In the [[Deryni]] series, this is one of the signs that Imre is a depraved tyrant, though the tyranny is only by medieval standards.
* The Duet, [[Twincest|twin rulers]] of the Seven Kingdoms in Morgan Llywelyn and Michael Scott's ''Arcana'' series.
* Duchess Alicia clearly lusts after her father {{spoiler|[[Not Blood Related|(who, unknown to her is not actually her father]])}} and has relations with {{spoiler|The Old Dark Man (who actually is, although she thinks he might be her grandfather)}} and her half-brother.
* Leo Friend, one of the villains in ''[[Tim Powers|On Stranger Tides]]'', lusts after Beth Hurwood as a surrogate for his own mother. Technically applies to Beth's father, who plans to oust Beth's spirit from her body so her mother's ghost can move in, although he's so out of touch with reality that the incestuous implications may honestly never have crossed his mind.
* In the '''Lymond Chronicles'' by Dorothy Dunnett, the arch-villain
* In ''[[The Vorkosigan Saga]]'', Richars attempts this on a 12-year-old Lady Donna.
* Common in the [[Alex Delaware]] novels by [[Jonathan Kellerman]].
* In [[Mercedes Lackey]] and James Mallory's ''[[The Obsidian Trilogy]]'', Demon Queen Savilla and her son Zyperis frequently engage in sexual activity and express how attractive they find each other.
* Matthew Lewis both plays it straight and subverts it in ''[[The Monk]]''.
* Robin McKinley's ''Deerskin'' is built on this trope. When his wife dies, he promises to only marry someone as beautiful as she. Should have included a "kin excluded" clause. The rest is nothing short of mortifying.
* In ''[[Garrett P.I.|Red Iron Nights]]'', the serial-killer curse was created by a long-ago evil sorcerer who'd been rejected by an equally-evil sorceress, in favor of her own father.
* [[Tales of Kolmar|Marik of Gundar]] never actually has sex with his long-lost (heroic) daughter, but he's not above seducing her into thinking him harmless and attractive with the help of demon-made charms. She doesn't know he's her father at the time, but he definitely thinks it's possible and doesn't even hesitate.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Brother Justin from ''[[Carnivale]]'' and his sister Iris have a very, er, ''close'' relationship with each other. And did we mention he's father of the [[Anti Christ]]?
** And ''then''
* ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "Home."
*
* ''[[The League of Gentlemen (TV series)|The League of Gentlemen]]''. Although it's not revealed until partway through season 2 that [[Corrupt Hick]] [[Serial Killer
* ''[[Wiseguy]]''. Arms dealers Mel and Susan Profitt.
* In ''House of Cards,'' it's subtly hinted that Francis Urquhart secretly wants to do this. After the elderly Urquhart begins an affair with the young Mattie Storin, and she starts calling him "Daddy," he tells the audience, "I always wanted to be a father of daughters."
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* In a recent (2010) episode of ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'', a pedophile maintains the perfect cover by leading an activist group that works to expose and shame known sex offenders. It's revealed at the end of the episode that his [[Start of Darkness]] was raping his nine-year-old sister when he was a teenager.
* Jim Profit, [[Villain Protagonist]] of ''[[Profit]]'' has a sexual relationship with his mother, although she is his stepmother and they are not actually related by blood.
* Vincent/Valerie of [[Passions]], the intersexed child of Julian Crane and Eve Russell, rapes his half-sister twice, has an affair with his uncle Chad, and ''seduces his own father and becomes pregnant by him''. This last
* [[Game of Thrones]]: Twins Cersei and Jamie Lannister's sexual relationship is at the heart of much of the plot.
==
* The ''[[Dungeons
** Zaiden, the most powerful cleric to the demon lord Yeenoghu, murdered her mother and took her father as her mate. At least for a little while. When she got bored of him, she killed him too.▼
▲* The ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' supplement the '''Book of Vile Darkness''' introduces the literally [[Horny Devil]] Fierna the Lord of the Fourth Layer of the Nine Hells and her father, the former ruler of the Fourth, Belial. Their relationship has continued into the Fourth Edition.
* In ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'', one of the 13 vampire clans are the Giovanni. In addition to being necrophiliac [[Necromancer
▲** Zaiden, the most powerful cleric to the demon lord Yeenoghu, murdered her mother and took her father as her mate. At least for a little while. When she got bored of him she killed him too.
▲* In ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'', one of the 13 vampire clans are the Giovanni. In addition to being necrophiliac [[Necromancer|Necromancers]] and members of [[The Mafia]], they are also one big extended family...and really, ''really'' dedicated to "keeping it in the family".
** Then there are the spiritual descendants, the Sangiovanni bloodline, in ''[[Vampire: The Requiem|Requiem]]'', who are just as devoted to necromancy, necrophilia, and inbreeding.
* There's an interesting example in ''[[Kara no Shoujo]].'' The overall attitude isn't that the incest is inherently wrong (though you may note that there is basically no sexual tension with the
== Theatre ==▼
* Antiochus and his (unnamed) daughter in ''[[William Shakespeare|Pericles]]''. [[Villain Ball|For some reason]], her [[Engagement Challenge]] is a riddle whose answer is "Antiochus and his daughter are committing incest." They receive a [[Karmic Death]] when Apollo blows them up.
* Shakespeare's ''[[Richard III]]'' plans to secure himself on the throne by marrying his niece (the daughter of Richard's brother, King Edward IV). In the play, he has his wife killed so that he can do so, although in history she seems to have died of natural causes.
* For that matter, Hamlet seems to think his paternal uncle marrying his mother counts as incest. Nevermind that's your ''duty'' in some cultures.
** Worth noting that in Shakespeare's England, a man marrying his widowed sister-in-law would have been seen as full-bore incest, about as shocking and scandalous to audiences of that time as [[Brother-Sister Incest]] would be to
== Web Comics ==▼
* In ''[[Fey Winds]]'', two members of [[Big Bad|Sigurd]]'s Minionz, Hansel and Gretel apply. ▼
{{quote|'''Sidney:''' Are you two married or [[Brother-Sister Incest|brother and sister]]!?<br />▼
'''Hansel and Gretel:''' [[Mathematician's Answer|Yes!]] }}▼
* Yet another rape trope for Drip in ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]''. The [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of lust is being punished for his sins in part having to pleasure his grandmother the way he did "when [he was] little." [[Squick]].▼
** Later, it's revealed that {{spoiler|Drip had sex with his daughter Lita}}. He knew the relation, she didn't.▼
* Thomas, Nicole's dad in ''[[Concession]]'' is a supervillain, he also regularly has sex with his son. Though in a strange case the comic shows this as if it's a ''[[Squick|positive]]'' thing.▼
== Video Games ==▼
* Done by the [[Villain Protagonist]] of ''[[Gibo]]'' during the plot, and even has an ending devoted to this.
* Suggested to have happened between {{spoiler|Lord Irving and his sister}} in ''[[Wild
* Shinji Matou of ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' has repeatedly raped his {{spoiler|adopted}} sister, Sakura. In one of the game's routes, this [[The Dog Bites Back|comes back to haunt him in a big way]].
* The residents of Andale in ''[[Fallout 3]]''.
* ''[[
** And then in Ragna's ending, {{spoiler|there's v-13, a clone of his sister, penetrating him with a sword with all sorts of suggestive dialogue.}}
* One of the major villains in ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon|F.E.A.R.]]'', Harlan Wade, plays the [[Evilutionary Biologist]] and donates his own DNA (along with that of others) for use in impregnating his own daughter in hopes of producing children with powerful psychic abilities. Another villain, Aristide, calls this development 'sick', even though she herself is a [[Complete Monster]].
* Heavily implied between the [[Twincest|twins]] Alexia and Alfred Ashford, antagonists of ''[[Resident Evil]] - Code: Veronica'', especially on Alfred's part.
* Heavily implied between the antagonists, the Scissortwins, and the [[Big Bad]] Dick Hamilton to both his daughter Nancy and granddaughter, the protagonist Alyssa (who looks like her mother), in [[Clock Tower (series)|Clock Tower]] 3.
* {{spoiler|Warden Darling}} in ''[[House of the Dead]]: OVERKILL''.
* Ahem, ''[[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Fire Emblem Genealogy of the Holy War]]'', has
** OTOH, other incestuous relationships aren't seen in ''such'' a bad light. Lachesis was in [[Unrequited Love]] with her half-brother Eltoshan, Claud and Sylvia are hinted to be long lost siblings, and they were all good guys. Lester and Lana can marry their cousins Patty and Faval (with the bonus that their moms were ''identical twin sisters''), and they're all on the side of good too.
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'': Tyrant and Dominatrix ([[Evil Counterpart
** It was vaguely hinted at to be happening - largely for [[Squick]] reasons - back when the [[Mirror Universe|Praetorians]] were simply [[Evil Counterpart
* Used in ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'', which repeats its [[Assassin's Creed|predecessor's]] habit of giving each assassination target a [[Kick the Dog]] moment just to reassure you it's okay to kill them. This is one of the black marks against the [[Big Bad]] Rodrigo Borgia, who is implied to have a sexual relationship with his daughter. Confirmed in [[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|the sequel,]] with the villainy extended to his son, Cesare.
* In ''[[Assassin's Creed:
* ''[[No More Heroes]]'': At the end of the game, Travis (a very ''dark'' [[Anti-Hero]], borderline [[Villain Protagonist]] {{spoiler|until [[Character Development]] kicks in towards the end and [[No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle|in the sequel]]}}) discovers that {{spoiler|Jeane (the [[Final Boss]], [[Name's the Same|not his]] [[Morality Pet|pet cat]]), the girl he's been searching for and was once romantically involved with is [[Brother-Sister Incest|his half-sister]]. Travis is as [[
* In the [[Interactive Fiction]] story ''[[Anchorhead]]'', this is the dark secret of
* In ''[[Rival Schools|Project Justice]]'', [[Smug Snake|Kurow Kirishima]] pretty much [[Unrequited Love|onesidedly lusts]] after his beautiful older sister [[Lady of War|Yurika]]. Made even more obvious in the Darkside Student Council path, which is
== Western Animation ==▼
▲* Yet another rape trope for Drip in ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]''. The [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of lust is being punished for his sins in part by [[Squick|having to pleasure his grandmother the way he did "when [he was] little."
▲** Later, it's revealed that
▲* Thomas, Nicole's dad in ''[[Concession]]'' is a supervillain, he also regularly has sex with his son. Though in a strange case, the comic shows this as if it's a ''[[Squick|positive]]'' thing.
* Jackal from ''[[Gargoyles]]'' is a [[Complete Monster]] who, along with his sister Hyena, is one of the most ridiculously [[Ax Crazy]] characters in the Disney canon. However, when Hyena falls in love with [[Humongous Mecha]] Coyote, he seems to find it a little more reprehensible than just a normal big brother would, especially considering it's nothing worse than what he's done, and comes off much more as a jealous [[Stalker with a Crush]]. He later got most of his body replaced with cyborg parts, and they end up in a pretty sick love triangle for most of the series.
* ''[[
* ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' [[Played With|
{{quote|Dude, she's your ''sister!''}}
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