
New Gods: Darkseid, Lord of Apokolips has a family as messed up as you'd expect for a God of Evil.Most of Venom's family want to kill each other.And to top this all off, Harry's mother Emily was eventually retconned as having faked her death to escape Norman. Then there's Normie Osborn, Harry's young son who was kidnapped by his grandfather in the Go Down Swinging storyline and forcibly bonded to the Carnage symbiote, becoming "Goblin Childe". After his dad apparently died, Harry didn't take it too well and ended up becoming the second Green Goblin himself. Harry grew up to be a drug addict, a divorcee, and generally mentally unstable. First we have Norman Osborn, an already unhinged businessman who was severely neglectful and emotionally abusive to his son Harry throughout his childhood before becoming the murderous Green Goblin who killed Gwen Stacy, among other things. Rose, the youngest, and the product of Slade's affair with a brothel keeper/mercenary gouged her own eye out in an attempt to be just like daddy (that, before her Heel≯ace Turn). Middle child Joseph "Jericho" Wilson was the White Sheep a genuinely nice, artistic sort and a Titan in good standing.until he made contact with Raven's demonic side and the corrupted remnants of Azarath and went nuts as a result. Eldest son Grant was a Psycho for Hire who ended up killing himself when going up against the Teen Titans. His wife, Addie, was ostensibly on the side of angels, but her methods weren't.

Slade " Deathstroke" Wilson may actually be the only sane one left. they're all waifs, misfits, and strays that would belong nowhere if not together. Tim volunteered and his family fell apart for it, Cassandra was drugged into becoming the very thing she feared most, Stephanie was tortured half to death, it took Helena years before she gained acceptance and started to trust the others, and Damian's problems start with being raised in a clan of assassins. Barbara was crippled and had to rebuild her life as a paraplegic superheroine. Then Bruce took in Jason, who was ultimately killed (and brought back to become a wayward son). First Dick was raised by Bruce and suffered tension to the point that they seemed ready to break. Almost all of them are orphans brought together by tragedy. If they've been screwed up for a while, they're likely to have a Tangled Family Tree. Decadent Courts typically feature several of them. They also like to wage war with other families. While not frequent, BrotherSister Incest and other kinds of canonical incest are most likely to be featured within this family. They're very likely to feature at least one Magnificent Bastard, Evil Matriarch, Manipulative Bastard, "Well Done, Son!" Guy, Unfavorite or Black Sheep. While they may display affectionate behaviors as well, to them Cain and Abel is a way of life - though if you piss off one of them, the rest will instantly band together to destroy you in order to uphold Family Honor. Abusive behaviors of some kind are almost certain to have occurred. They have secrets, skeletons in their cupboards (sometimes literally) and are overly proud of their long (and bloody) history. It's often very wealthy and powerful, when it's not royalty, and has many traditions.


This is the big family with issues, from which many, many kinds of Freudian Excuse can be taken.
