Family Cruelty

Pure Evils who are willing to hurt or kill their own family member/s (be them parents, siblings, spouses, step family members, in-laws, clones, as well as adopted family members, etc.). They are often considered among the cruelest of all Pure Evils given that even their own family members are expendable to them.

Examples of family cruelty are shown below:

• Familicide: Villains who murder members of their family, e.g. commit matricide, patricide, filicide, mariticide, uxoricide, and so forth. Examples of characters who commit familicide include: Rip Blazkowicz (who sold out his own wife), Johan Liebert (who has all of his foster parents disposed of), Dio Brando (who kills his fathers), Jill Roberts (who kills her mom), Henry Evans (who drowns his baby brother over a rubber duck), Scar (who infamously kills his brother), Ego (who killed most of his children), Darkseid (who has murdered his mother, son, brother and father), Jerome Valeska (who killed both of his parents), Esther Coleman (who kills all of her adoptive family members), Michael Myers (who killed his sister), Bill Cipher (who killed both of his parents when destroying his dimension), Chara (who killed her adoptive mother), William Afton (who is indirectly responsible for the deaths of his children), Malty S. Melromarc (who attempted to kill her younger sister), Dabi (who tried to murder his father and brother), Broly (who killed his father), Patrick Hockstetter (who suffocated his infant brother with a pillow), Shredder (who killed his adoptive brother), Lucifer Magne (who had his own brothers, one of the princes of Heaven, killed by manipulating Fergus), Lady Arkham (who killed her adoptive parents), Kai Chisaki (who abused, tortured and killed his adoptive daughter multiple times) and Daruma Ujiko (who turned his grandson into a Nomu).
• Abuse: Villains who, through one means or another, are callous towards their family. Examples of abusive characters include: Rip Blazkowicz (who physically and emotionally abused his wife and son when the latter was young), Johan Liebert (who attempts to corrupt, gaslights, and psychologically torments his sister nearly to the point of suicide), Isaiah Johnson (who repeatedly rapes his father for years), Ragyo Kiryuin (who sexually abuses her daughter Satsuki), Gregor Clegane (who burns off half of his brother's face simply for playing with one of his toys), King Runeard (who abused his wife and son for petty reasons), William Afton (who hits his daughter Elizabeth for trying to show him a drawing), Ozai (who, for petty reasons, physically scars his son Zuko by burning half of his face off before banishing him and molds his daughter Azula into nothing more than his personal weapon, as such being responsible for her antisocial behavior), Green Goblin (who broke his own son's leg to frame him for his crimes), Shou Tucker (Who turned his wife and daughter into chimeras), Dan Tae Joo (who abused his son and daughter with a whip in a secret room, choking his wife and torturing his family), Satō's Aunt (who inflicts mental abuse on her niece), Masamune Dan (who emotionally manipulated and abused his son), Lucifer Magne (who abused his daughter and mocked her for being a "failure", but to go this far into allowing his master to corrupt her), Preston Northwest (who treated his own daughter Pacifica badly and trained her to listen to a bell whenever he tries to get her to obey like a dog), Mr. Hemmensway (who abused, groped, and raped his own son), Kai Chisaki (who put his adoptive father in a coma) and Will Magnus (who once hit his wife in a fit of anger which ended up killing her).

This category also applies to PEs who are at least willing to hurt/kill their family member/s even if they haven't actually done so (e.g. Orson Krennic, Sal and the King), as well as PEs who only abuse/kill ex-family members of theirs (e.g. Max Cady).

NOTE: those who accidentally harm their family and/or care for their family do not qualify (e.g. Rose Armitage, Superman, Gunmar the Black, Tuco Salamanca and his Cousins, Mother Miranda, Kingpin and Hopper) or those who simply hate their own family (e.g. Ethan Roark Jr., Hugo Martinez, Mark Tomaso, Edwin Epps, Colm O'Driscoll, Montgomery de la Cruz, Mary Epps, Alex and Douma), aren't enough for this category.

They are the evil counterparts of Family Kindness.

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