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The male offspring (or [[Chaste Toons|Nephew]]) of [[Lineage Comes From the Father|the bad guy.]]

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Prince Lotor/Sinclaine, son of the villlain Zarkon/Daibazaal in ''[[Voltron]]''/''[[Go Lion]]'' goes under the greedy scumbag who hates his dad.

* Freeza's son Kuriza in ''Neko Majin Z'' is a parody of this. Also Freeza was one to King Cold.

*** Garlic Jr also counts, even though we never see Garlic Sr except for one flashback.

** And then he turns out to be running a [[Evil Plan]] with assassinations and things to edge his father out and take over. And otherwise to have a mind and ambition.

** And ''then'' he turns out to be adopted. Specifically, {{spoiler|to be one of the Emperor's many clone-children, whom he scattered across the kingdom among peasants and merchants to see if that would produce a worthy heir, since all the ones he raised at court were judged idiots. Ukyou, who was originally seeded into a village and clawed his way up, undergoes a lengthy test of his leadership abilities where he basically proves that he's a [[Magnificent Bastard]]. Emperor is very pleased and declares Ukyou his heir instead of killing him. Ukyou, naturally, murders daddy dearest that night. Thus, Emperor Ukyou becomes the final [[Big Bad]] after having been an early distraction kind of threat.}}

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Flattop Jr in ''[[Dick Tracy]]''.

* Ezekiel Stane is the come out of nowhere variety. He took revenge on ''[[Iron Man]]'' for his father's death 20 years prior (real time).

* Baron Helmut Zemo, the son of Baron Heinrich Zemo.

* In a sort of odd reversal, in the 1990's ''[[New Gods]]'' series, Yuga Khan popped up outta nowhere. "Yuga Khan?" Um, yeah. He's ''[[Darkseid]]'s father''. He's so horrifically [[Badass]], Darkseid basically hid in the basement when Daddy returned, until the latter managed to get himself imprisoned on the Source Wall. ''Again''. It sort of makes Darkseid an Overlord jr. by means of retcon. Never heard from again, of course.

** Of course, Darkseid also has someone who plays the trope straight, his son Kalibak, [[The Unfavourite]] and [["Well Done, Son" Guy]] ''par excellence''.

* ''[[The Awesome Slapstick]]'' had Dr. Denton, Destroyer of Worlds, a five-year-old genius who built a giant robotic teddy bear. It's never shown if his parents were also [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]], but he ''does'' get chided for building robots indoors.

** Trellis [["Well Done, Son" Guy|really wants to please his father]], but his morals are increasingly a problem, until after being informed his father has approved killing him if he keeps giving trouble, he turns traitor to help the main characters do a heroic thing. They do not actually notice that he did this, so the second book ends with Trellis completely alone on a hill, watching the heroes' house walk away.

** Worth noting that these elves are sort of greyish with nasty sharp pointy teeth, and Trellis is about three times as human-looking by the end of his [[Heel Face Turn]] as he was early in the first book.

== [[Film]] ==

* Scott Evil and Mini-me to Dr Evil in ''[[Austin Powers]]''.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* ''[[Dune]]'' has House Harkonnen this way. Headed by Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, human life is of little consequence to the Baron or his nephews, [[The Brute|the brutish Glossu Rabban]] and [[The Dragon|Harkonnen's heir Feyd-Rautha]].

** Ironically, it's the Baron's grandson and granddaughter (whose relation to him was hidden, and who are also the children of his arch-enemy, who he tried to kill) and later great-grandson who actually become [[Evil Overlord|overlords]], although the first is a subversion, the second is possessed, and the third is a [[Necessarily Evil]] [[Dark Messiah]].

* In ''Brilliance of the Moon'', the third ''[[Tales of the Otori]]'' book, one of the main villians is Iida Nariaki, the nephew of Iida Sadamu, the [[Big Bad]] from the first book.

* Klitch of the [[Redwall]] book ''Salamandastron'' has an argumentative but mutually-admiring relationship with his father Ferahgo, the [[Knife Nut]] warlord. When Ferahgo thinks Klitch had plotted to kill him, he reacts with a distinct "better luck next time" vibe.

* Thrax, son of Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd from ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]''. He seeks to avenge his parents' [[Heel Face Turn]] by a [[Deus Ex Machina]].

* [[Smallville]]'s [[Lex Luthor]] was apparently raised to be the "resents his father" variant, complete with multiple references to Alexander and other great conquerors. Although at first he was [[Mad Dictators Handsome Son|too nice]], he later goes [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|totally off the deep end]] and becomes the [[The Dreaded|feared]] character we always knew he could be.

* Howlyn, the [[Big Bad]] of the fifth season of ''[[Earth: Final Conflict]]'', is an [[Our Vampires Are Different|Atavus]] [[Complete Monster]] who ruled prehistoric Earth millions of years ago, when his kind were forced into hybernation by a meter shower. His son Yulyn wants nothing to do with Howlyn and refuses to kill to feed. He wants to return the Atavus to their homeworld, where they don't need to do that.

** {{spoiler|Episode 37 confirms that his Dragon was effectively his babysitter, and that he was aware of this the entire time. He pulls out all the stops against the Gokaiger, but is killed in the following episode. Enter one very annoyed Overlord ''Senior''.}}

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Rico Jr., son of the demon lord Rico Sr., in ''[[Dokapon Kingdom]]''. He has traits of the [[Royal Brat]], [[Enfante Terrible]], and carbon copy of his dad.

* Several Examples in ''[[Fire Emblem]]''... In ''Blazing Sword'' there's the sniveling Erik, son of the greedy Darin. There are a ton in Genealogy of the holy war.

* Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI in ''<nowiki>~Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood~</nowiki>'', though he's for the most part the [[Dragon-in-Chief]].

* In the second [[Robopon]] game, it's revealed Dr. Zero, the first game's [[Big Bad]], is this.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In the animated television series to Disney's ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', there's an episode involving a stingray-merman (who is evil) training his young son to be evil (even singing a whole [[Villain Song]] about it). The little stingray boy is conflicted between pleasing his dad and being himself.

* Lloyd Garmadon from ''[[Ninjago]]''.

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