Villainous Incest: Difference between revisions

{{quote|"''Incest is ''[[And That's Terrible|wrong!]]"|'''Uncle Gabby''', ''[[The Drinky Crow Show]]''}}

Compare [[Brother-Sister Incest]], [[Twincest]], [[Parental Incest]], [[Good People Have Good Sex]].

* Auguste Beau of ''[[Kaze to Ki no Uta]]'' uses sex to control and manipulate {{spoiler|his son, Gilbert}}.

* The creepy twins Yui Fan and Yui Lan from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]: The Second Raid''.

* And letslet's not forget Dr. Hagen and his sister Nina in ''[[Agent Aika]]''. Interestingly, she was the creepier one in that pairing.

* [[Creepy Twins|Hansel and Gretel]] from ''[[Black Lagoon]]''. (it's with each other...and[[Squick|And they're]] ''[[Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour|kids]]'').

* The Long twins from ''[http://www.animenewsnetwork.comcc//encyclopedia/anime.php?id=89 Twilight Of The Dark Master]''. Taken to a whole new level of creepy (or hilarious) when you find out that their voice actors in the dub are ''husband and wife.''

* 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.

* Andrea and Andreas Strucker, the Fenris twins of [[Marvel Comics]]. And then [[It Got Worse|it got]] [[Squick|squickiersquick]]ier after Andrea died.

** Technically their incest was never confirmed, and Andreas denied it at one point, (Well that's not surprising). Butbut the implications are incredibly strong.

* Baron Mordo, archenemy of [[Doctor Strange]], knowingly had a sexual relationship with his his GypsyRomani half-niece (she was unaware of the relationship) which ultimately resulted in a daughter. Just to make it worse, Mordo seduced her to steal the Book of Cagliostro, a book of spells, and then abandoned her.

* 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, by him), he nonchalantly states he has plenty of other sisters he can marry, also indicating he and the rest of the family [[Crosses the Line Twice|are going to eat the dead one]]. ("Meat should never go to waste!")

* 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 -term relationship with each other in the [[Ultimate Marvel]] universe, possibly based on an earlier [[Memetic Mutation]] originating in the original comic universe. So much so to the point where Pietro actually gets jealous when Wanda hits on a robot.

* In the [[Bad Future]] of [[Wolverine]]'s "[[Old Man Logan]]" arc, [[The Hulk|Bruce Banner]] has made a [[Face -Heel Turn]] and sired the Hulk Gang with his cousin [[She Hulk]].

* 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 himthe man to shoot him. It turns out that the whole thing was a setup. She was sleeping with her father and he apparently [[Nightmare Fetishist|gets off by killing people before sleeping with his own daughter]].}}

* The gods are naturally featured in ''[[Wonder Woman]]''. Mentionedmentions isthe theirGreek gods' habit of boinking their blood relatives.

== Folk TalesFan Works ==

** 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]].

* ''[[Ponies Make War (Fanfic)|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.}}

* Eleanor Prentiss Shaw of the [[The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)|1962]] and [[The Manchurian Candidate (2004 film)|2004]] ''The Manchurian Candidate'']] films (known in [[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)|the novel]] the films were based on as [[Adaptation Name Change|Eleanor Iselin]]). Both film versions show Eleanor coming onto her son Raymond, whose consent is dubious, and the novel on which it was all based includes frank mentions of {{spoiler|consummated incest, both between Eleanor and her father Tyler ''and'' between Eleanor and Raymond}}. Eleanor figures as a villain in both the novel and the original film version. In the remake, she's a likable character who does horrible things with good intentions, and in all three works the incestuous element is definitely used to enhance her creepiness.

* 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]]''.

{{quote| '''Audience line''': "Incest is the best, put your sister to the test!"}}

* Played for laughs in ''[[Blades of Glory]]''. [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] since the actors are actually married.

* 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.

* The second ''[[Hellboy (film)II: The Golden Army|Hellboy]]'' movie had the [[Big Bad]] imply that he was in love with his [[Twincest|twin sister]]. Apparently, this was intentional amongst the actors.

==Folk Literature Tales==

** 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.

** Of course the only reason Nero was ever emperor is that his mother married the emperor Claudius., Herher ''uncle.'' Claudius was the first man in Roman history to marry his niece and had to change the law to permit the union.

** 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 [[Squick|squickfestsquick]]fest all around.

* 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.; Hehe simply used it as a pretext.

**** Do note that JRRT vacillated a ''lot'' on the consensual-nonconsensual nature of sexual relationships in the larger canon; the parents of Maeglin above, for instance, go from [[Rape Is Love]], to totally consensual babymakin', to "wifing by force" (which is Tolkienese for "carry her home and put on your rapin' pants"). In that case the change over time might be partly a race thing; that pairing is, IIRC, the first Noldorin/Sindarin cross and Tolkien was [[Values Dissonance|a man of his time]]. Some fans make a similar argument for the Maeglin/Idril relationship.

* Celie's father in ''[[The Color Purple]]'', although {{spoiler|she isn't really his daughter}}.

* {{spoiler|Jaime and Cersei}} from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''--both—both major villains in the Iron Throne plotline. Interestingly, for a long time they were the only genuinely loving couple in the series without a tragic ending in sight. Subverted, in that after {{spoiler|Jaime's}} [[Heel Face Turn]], he's still really only attracted to his sister, and it's not until she {{spoiler|turns into a paranoid wreck and runs herself into the ground}} that the relationship fails.

** 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 style--Aerysstyle—Aerys II's madness was so violently destructive that he pretty much overthrew his own dynasty, committing several unpleasant murders which sparked off Robert's Rebellion.

* [[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,", though, despite the fact that this cuts his potential workforce in half and the canonical fact that the [[Lesbian Vampire|Raiths tend not to care about gender]] when it comes to food. {{spoiler|Maybe he decided making the extra sexual slaves would have been too much of a drain, since he'd been cursed to be unable to feed and thus die a slow death via starvation. In the end, it doesn't matter, since it's one of his 'not a threat' daughters that [[Mind Rape|turns him into a vegetable]].}}

** 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 ana kiss, with tongue., Itsand it's implied that they've gone farther than that.

* ''The Ringmaster'' by David Gurr gets philosophical about this trope--ittrope—it sets up one of these between a Nazi and his sister, and uses it as something of a metaphor for just how screwed up [[Those Wacky Nazis]] were.

* 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, - Sirius and Regulus's parents beingare the most obvious, especially with Walburga screeching about mudbloods and "filth of my flesh." The whole Gaunt family, with the exception of Merope, also fits into this.

** In the Black family tree, the closest couple actually given are second cousins, which is perfectly legal <s>in themost if not UK</s>all ''everywhere''countries - but the close family tree certainly seems designed to highlight the [[Fridge Logic]] of insisting on "blood purity". The [[Ax Crazy|Gaunts]] are another matter entirely...

* 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)]].

* 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.

* In the '''Lymond Chronicles'' by Dorothy Dunnett, the arch-villain {{spoiler|Gabriel has a relationship with his sister Joleta}}.

* Matthew Lewis both plays it straight and subverts it in ''[[The Monk (Literature)|The Monk]]''. Played straight when theThe title character, Ambrosio, driven by his lust for the innocent Antonia {{spoiler|tries and fails to seduce her, [[Moral Event Horizon|then he rapes and kills her]]. Of course, the Devil was after his soul.}} Subverted when he learns {{spoiler|to his horror that Antonia was his ''long lost [[Brother-Sister Incest|younger sister]].'' It's too late by that point because the Devil had convinced Ambrosio to sell his soul to him in order to escape punishment for Antonia's rape and murder.}}

** And ''then'' {{spoiler|it turns out that Sofie, the Crowe's new maid -- after they lost the last three to, er, [[Cosmic Horror|Justin]] -- is actually his long-lost daughter. Which, through a convoluted series of events, only Iris actually realizes, and, despite Justin being all over the girl, hasn't actually told anyone yet.}}

* ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "Home."

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]](2004 TV series)|The rebooted ''Battlestar Galactica'']]: After erasing her true memories, {{spoiler|John Cavil}} knowingly fraks the scientist who considers herself his mother and created him in the image of her father for extra [[Squick]].

* ''[[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|Serial Killers]]s Tubbs and Edward are brother and sister, it doesn't really come as much of a surprise.

* 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 sitationsituation prompts the immortal line, "Have your baby so I can get back to drinking," as said by Julian to his child/lover as Vincent delivers their offspring.

== Role Playing Games ==

* 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 protagonistsprotagonist's little sister) but that only the mentally unstable would do such a thing.

* 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.

** 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 usthem (or to them)us.

* Suggested to have happened between {{spoiler|Lord Irving and his sister}} in ''[[Wild ArmsARMs 2]]'', and she wasn't exactly consenting to it, either.

* ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'' resident [[Jerkass]] Jin Kisaragi has so much creepy [[Ho Yay]] subtext with his brother, Ragna The Bloodedge, that it strains the limits of a T-rated game. And if that's not enough, his theme music is titled "Lust Sin."

* 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.

* Ahem, ''[[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Fire Emblem Genealogy of the Holy War]]'', has, well, this. [[Anti-Villain|Alvis]] and his half sister Diadora. In fact, itsit's a major point in the [[Big Bad]]'s plot to have the two marry and breed, so he could create a vessel for a Dark God. {{spoiler|''And it happens''. Though to be fair, by that point not only did neither knewof them kn0w it... but Diadora was [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]. Alvis did find out eventually, but he'd gone through such a [[Trauma Conga Line]] by that point that he was far beyond caring.}}

** 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|Evil Counterparts]]s to Statesman and Ms. Liberty) had [[Parental Incest|Grandparental Incest]] behind the development team's back. It has since been [[Retcon|Ret Conned]] out of the story, after it was pointed out.

** It was vaguely hinted at to be happening - largely for [[Squick]] reasons - back when the [[Mirror Universe|Praetorians]] were simply [[Evil Counterpart|Evil Counterparts]]s to the signature heroes. Now that they're [[Grey and Gray Morality|morally ambiguous]] and important characters in their own right, it would be out of place.

* In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'' Cesare and Lucrezia, the game even opens up with them kissing during the assault on the Assassin's compound. When Cesare is arrested for his crimes, one of them listed is incest.

* ''[[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 [[Squick|squickedsquick]]ed out as the player is. Jeane, on the other hand, doesn't seem to mind that it happened. In the end, [[Death Equals Redemption|the two reconcile right before Travis kills Jeane.]]}}

* In the [[Interactive Fiction]] story ''[[Anchorhead]]'', this is the dark secret of {{spoiler|your husband's family}}.

* 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 fronfrom Kurow's POV , {{spoiler|and in the ending, when Kurow caresses his [[Brainwashed and Crazy|brainwashed-into-subservience-to-him]] sister's hair...}}

* ''[[Re BootReBoot]]'': While Megabyte's attempt to marry Dot may not seem like incest at first glance, it counts if you understand his origin. He was "born" from an explosion triggered by an experiment [[Gone Horribly Wrong|gone wrong]] made by Wellman Matrix (Dot's father), so technically he is Megabyte's father as well. Megabyte even calls the nullified Wellman "father" and Hexadecimal (Megabyte's sister) calls Dot her sister late in the series. So Megabyte marrying Dot falls under this trope.

* ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' [[Played With|Playsplays With]] this trope [[Played for Laughs|for laughs]]--[[Superboy]] and [[Naive Newcomer|Miss Martian]] go undercover as a pair of villainous siblings, though in reality they're [[Love Interest|Love Interests]]s. When they have their [[Big Damn Kiss]] at the end while still in disguise, actual villain [[An Ice Person|Icicle Jr.]] [[Subverted Trope|is horrified]].

{{quote| Dude, she's your ''sister!''}}

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