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. This category can include Pure Evils who did care for others at some point but lose it.

Examples of family cruelty are shown below:

• Familicide: Villains who murder or try to murder members of his/her family, e.g. commit matricide, patricide, filicide, mariticide, uxoricide, and so forth. Examples of characters who commit familicide include: Dio Brando (who killed his father and adoptive father), Donquixote Doflamingo (who killed his father and brother), Jill Roberts (who killed her mother and tried to kill her cousin), Diavolo (who killed his mother and adoptive father), Cesare Borgia (who murdered his brother Giovanni and his father Rodrigo), Henry Evans (who drowned his baby brother), Scar (who infamously killed his brother and framed his nephew for it), Ego (who killed nearly all of his children), Darkseid (who has murdered his mother, son, brother and father), Janos (who kills his father and one of his daughters, Ananzi), Killbus (who tried to kill his brother), Michael Myers (who killed his sister), Lord Voldemort (who killed his father and grandparents), Chara (who killed her adoptive mother), William Afton (who sent his own son, Michael, to get killed by Funtime animatronics), Dahlia Hawthorne (who killed her stepsister Valerie and attempted to frame her twin sister, Iris, for her crimes), Black Mask (who burned his parents to death), Dr. Emilia (who killed her brother), Rip Blazkowicz (who sent his wife to a Nazi death camp and even personally attempts filicide), Charles Eborock (who killed his sister), Ramsay Bolton (who kills his father, stepmother and newborn brother in the TV show), Mo Tae Gu (who brutally murdered his brother-figure/adoptive brother Nam Sang-tae), Graydon Creed (who tries to kill his own mother and two siblings), Emperor Belos (who killed his brother), Gorilla Grodd (who killed his father and ate his brain), Arkham (who sacrificed his wife in a demonic ritual and attempted to do the same with his daughter Mary/Lady), Vitiate (who killed his parents and daughter), the Dark Lord (who tried to kill his two de facto "brothers"), Ultron (who is known to attempt to kill his robotic "children" if they turn against him), Carnage (who wanted to kill his father Venom in order to be the sole symbiote on Earth), Junko Enoshima (who killed her older twin sister, Mukuro Ikusaba, in top of constantly mistreating her), Bacon General (who killed his own wife), Dick Hardly (who committed mass filicide by creating sapient Powerpuff Girls knockoffs to explode and had their body parts fall off), The Recruiter (who shot and killed his own father) and Emperor Palpatine (who killed every member in his family except his granddaughter Rey).
• Abuse: Villains who, through one means or another, are callous towards their family. Examples of abusive characters include: Lacey's Uncle (who physically and sexually abused his niece as well as often kept her in a cage), Ragyo Kiryuin (who sexually abuses her daughter Satsuki), Horde Prime (who treated his clones like nothing but pawns, especially Hordak), King Zenoheld (who abuses his son Hydron for his failures and falsely blames him for the Battle Bralwers winning), Mari (who psychologically abused her brother and raped him dozens of times), Keera L. Greenwood (who enslaved and tried to rape his little sister), Emperor Daibazaal (who abused his own son and mentally broke him), Andrei Sator (who physically and psychologically abused his wife), Excelsius Winner (who constantly abused his son Eustace, both emotionally and verbally, at the point of accidentally kidnapping him with no remorse, leaving him traumatized), King Aldrich (who abused and gaslighted his son into becoming a ruthless tyrant), 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), Baro (who beat his brother Neige when the latter didn't want to hurt children on his command), SCP-4231-A (who emotionally and sexually abuses her own husband as well as gaslit him), 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), Thragg (who called his Viltrumite-Thraxan hybrid children for help, using them as projectiles against Mark, knowing they will splatter upon impact. Disgusted, Mark pushes both himself and Thragg toward the sun to stop him from killing his own children), Shou Tucker (who turned his wife and daughter into chimeras), William Rawlins (who left his wife stranded with the Taliban to get gang-raped), and Immortan Joe (who raped his wives and abused his children).

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. Cooler, Light Yagami and Sal), as well as PEs who only abuse/kill ex-family members of theirs (e.g. Max Cady).

NOTE: It is not sufficient for a PE to simply disregard the well-being of a family member/s (e.g. Princess Shroob, Rose Armitage, Colm O'Driscoll, Lord Cutler Beckett, Zed, Barracuda and Zoom) or to dislike their family (e.g. Hans Gruber, Patrick Bateman and Edwin Epps); they must be actively and severely cruel to said family member/s, be it through domestic abuse, psychological torment, rape, torture, murder, or the attempted act of any such crime.

This is the human counterpart of Animal Cruelty.

They are the evil counterparts of Family Kindness.