Evil Uncle - TV Tropes

"How come the kindest parents always have the most dickass relatives?"

• In Another Monster (a follow-up to Monster (1994)), the revelation that Johan and Anna's late father was the brother of Franz Bonaparta means that Bonaparta, the main figure who engineered the twins' birth at the expense of their father's life and arguably helped cultivate Johan into the person he is, was actually their own uncle all along.
• Charlotte (1977): Albert Montburn. He is Charlotte's constant nemesis throughout the series, plotting to steal her father's inheritance and have her removed from the family.
• V.V. of Code Geass is very much an Evil Uncle to Lelouch and some of his siblings like Cornelia, being the Man Behind the Man to Emperor Charles.
• Detective School Q has a case that includes an Evil Aunt. Sachiyo Ichinose is a greedy Smug Snake who wants to place her paws in the hefty inheritance that her teenage niece Kaoru will get after the death of her very rich mother, Hanayo. However, Kaoru's knight templar big brothers Kunihiko and Akihiko are willing to do anything to protect Kaoru from Sachiyo's machinations... up and including murder.
• In D.Gray-Man, Neah is this to Allen. The true motive of his actions are unknown, but he's certainly bad news for his nephew and perhaps all of humanity.
• Honoo no Alpen Rose: Lundi's Aunt and Uncle. When the Earl offered the a great deal of money for selling Jeudi, they took it without a second thought. When they (incorrectly) heard thay Lundi and Jeudi had died, they threw out their possessions and ran away with Franz's will.
• In Hellsing, Richard Hellsing, younger brother of Arthur Hellsing, has had his own plans about what to do after his brother's death - specifically, about who inherited the family title and leadership of the Hellsing Organisation. Oh, Arthur willed it all to his twelve-year-old daughter, but that just means Richard has to get little Integra out of the way. Unfortunately for Richard, he didn't account for a certain family heirloom down in the basement...
• Jujutsu Kaisen has an odd take on this. Sukuna ate his twin brother in the womb, but his brother reincarnated into Jin Itadori, which means Jin's son Yuji is Sukuna's nephew by way of their souls. Sukuna absolutely hates Yuji to the point where he'll never treat him as a Worthy Opponent no matter how impressive of a sorcerer he becomes, despite praising other powerful sorcerers who can give him a good fight.
• In Kemono Jihen, Kabane was left in the care of his aunt after his parents disappeared. Said aunt knew that he's half-Kemono and mistreated him from the start, using him for free labor, never sending him to school, and crushing his self-esteem to the point that basic human decency is a novelty to him. By the end of the first chapter, it's revealed that she hired Inugami to kill Kabane and pin the blame for the devoured animals on him.
• Idol Densetsu Eriko: Eriko's uncle wants to rid his orphaned niece of her fortune and does whatever he can to sabotage her idol career, because he had beef with her father.
• In Innocent, Charles-Nicolas-Gabriel I plays this role in the third volume. Downplayed, since he doesn't actively tries to hurt his eldest nephew (and seems found of him) but is still willing to do some pretty nasty things to take his place as Monsieur de Paris. For example, replacing the strong horses by weak ones to make an already excruciating method of execution even more gruesome as a clumsy scheme to take his brother's place as executioner is pretty evil. Oh, and he's prepared to tie up Marie if it would benefit the family.
• In Little Witch Academia (2017), Daryl is this towards Diana, being a selfish, snobby and greedy Rich Bitch who cares more about herself than the values of the Cavendish family and is causing the household to go into near bankruptcy due to using the family's fortune to fuel her own lifestyle. She also attempts to impede on Diana's ceremony to become family head so she can become the head of the family herself. It is implied however that she had a change of heart after Diana saved her from the family curse.
• Maken-ki!: Chapters 51 - 53 is a flashback mini-arc, which recounts how Takeru Yamato slew his brother Ousuoo and his brother's wife, Yatsuno, in order to obtain her power. The only reason his niece, Himegami, is still alive is because her brother Yabiko slew Yamato in order to protect her. Except he refused to stay dead. Now, over 2,000 years later, Himegami is one of the few remaining people who possess the power to face her uncle.
• MARRIAGE TOXIN has Futae Urashino, who has apparently hired a hitman to kill her niece so that she can inherit her older brother's company. It is the girl's uncle who hired the protagonist to protect the girl.
• Naruto:
  • The Sand siblings' maternal uncle Yashamaru appeared to be the only one who loved Gaara, but then tried to kill him under the order of Gaara's father, the Kazekage. When that failed, a dying Yashamaru told Gaara he always hated him for causing Gaara's mother to die, and said she never loved him either. It eventually turns out he was ordered to pretend to be evil.
  • Neji viewed Hinata's father Hiashi as this for a good portion of his life. He eventually learns he's not as bad as he seems, and he didn't force his twin brother to die in his place.
• Raditz, the first villain that appeared in Dragon Ball Z. When his brother Goku refuses to help him exterminate the natives of other planets, he kidnaps Gohan, intending to use him as leverage over Goku and/or raise him to be a villain himself. When Gohan retaliates with a armour-splitting headbutt, Raditz smacks him away so hard, the kid is knocked unconscious. Raditz is so enraged by Gohan’s sudden burst of power that he decides to outright kill him. Unfortunately for Raditz, Goku holds him back as he offers himself to allow Piccolo to kill him together with his evil brother.

  Raditz: You are the first Saiyan to ever damage me like this, my nephew. You are a true warrior who was worthy of being a Saiyan. And so, I will give you a death that is also worthy of a Saiyan.

• In The Rose of Versailles, the Count of Provence and the Count of Artois, Louis XVI's younger brothers, react to their nephew Louis Joseph' slow death by tuberculosis by hoping he'll just hurry up and die, and spread lies about the legitimacy of Louis XVI's other son in the hope they'll be thus able to succeed to the throne of France. Much annoyingly, they succeed thanks to The French Revolution.
• In the original Shaman King, Ren has an evil father. In the 4Kids version, he's Len's uncle.
• In Tokyo Ghoul, Ken Kaneki's maternal aunt is this combined with a hefty dose of Wicked Stepmother. She constantly went to her widowed, Extreme Doormat sister for money, requiring her to work extra jobs until she died from overwork. Kaneki went to live with his aunt's family, quickly discovering that they had been much better off to begin with and simply wanted more. Kaneki's aunt spent the rest of his years living with her neglecting his basic needs, leaving him out of family meals, berating him if he dared to speak in her presence, throwing out the books he inherited from his father out of spite, and generally doing everything in her power to grind every ounce of happiness out of him for the crime of existing. To top it all off, she also constantly complained about how terrible her sister, the woman that worked herself to death without complaint because her sister wanted a new fridge and a bigger television, had been, and all because she resented her sister for supposedly being smarter/better than her while they were growing up. To be fair to the aunt, it is later revealed that she was not wrong about her sister being a terrible person.
• Rido from Vampire Knight is this to the protagonist Yuuki Kuran, especially when he becomes obsessed with Yuuki herself, to the point of wanting to make her his wife.
• In Vinland Saga it's revealed that Thorkell, considered a lunatic Blood Knight by his fellow Vikings, is actually Thorfinn's great-uncle.
• World's End Harem: Fantasia: After Arc's father falls ill and Arc becomes the acting Count of Nargala, his uncle Lord Tute attempts a palace coup with his aide Tia, who promises to serve "the head of the House of Nargala" (it's clear she means as Tute's mistress). It was a Batman Gambit by Arc himself: he suspected other nobles might try to make a power play with the Count incapacitated, and planted Tia, whom he had saved as a child, as a Honey Trap—as she said, she serves "the head of the House of Nargala". After retaking the castle, Arc summarily beheads Tute for treason.

• Adventure Comics: The 2009 edition had an arc titled "Superboy: The Boy of Steel", where Lex Luthor holds his own niece Lori hostage to persuade Kon-El to follow his instructions so he'll agree to cure Lori's mother of her paralysis. Luthor is true to his word, but he immediately thereafter undoes his sister's cure and in doing so upsets his niece just to be an asshole.
• Arawn: Fenris tries to usurp his nephew Arawn's throne after he's become an Evil Overlord. Of course, since he's already a virtual deity by this point, Fenris' insurrection is squashed pretty quickly.
• Blue Beetle: Jarvis Kord, uncle to the second Blue Beetle Ted Kord, and one of his more dangerous enemies.
• Danger Mouse: In the U.K. TV book Look-In, the Danger Mouse stories feature Baron Greenback's "white sheep" nephew, Hopalong Casually, who helps DM and Penfold defeat the Baron's schemes.
• Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Scrooge McDuck, of all people (ducks), has occasionally bordered on this trope, especially in Italian comics. While not actively malicious — most of the time — he thinks nothing of exploiting and downright abusing his relatives, using various threats such as removing them from his will, evicting them from their homes or even heaps of physical violence in order to get them to work for him for one-tenth minimum wage. In addition, he uses any trick or excuse to avoid having to pay them at all, and interestingly enough he almost always gets away with it.
• Green Lantern: The "Hard-Traveling Heroes" crossover with the Connor Hawke Green Arrow in volume three had Kyle Rayner being manipulated into assisting a man he thinks is his father Aaron in a plot to commit domestic terrorism. At the end of the storyline, the man confesses on his deathbed that he's really Kyle's Uncle Zachary.
• New Gods: Darkseid's uncle Steppenwolf is pretty evil and he wasn't too thrilled about Darkseid's rise to power (not out of ambition but simply because he didn't like the idea of anyone being able to take anything from him), but Darkseid is worse. Much, much worse. However, he's steadfastly loyal to his nephew, and unlike every other New God on Apokalips, he's not interested in ruling at all (which is one of the reasons he's loyal) — he much prefers hunting and leading the Parademons.
• Shazam!:
  • In a short-lived '80s reboot Shazam!: The New Beginning, Billy "Captain Marvel" Batson's arch-nemesis Doctor Sivana was revealed to be his step-uncle. This was undone a few years later. Note that back in The Golden Age of Comic Books, Billy already had an Evil Uncle, Ebenezer Batson, who kicked him out on the streets after his parents died; Uncle Ebe was restored in the '90s Continuity Reboot that set the current canon.
  • In the New 52 revamp that largely served as back-up material for Geoff Johns' Justice League run, it's established that Black Adam sacrificed his own nephew to hold onto his powers due to being driven by the desire for revenge against the deaths of his other relatives. And this is after his nephew gave him the powers to prevent him from dying, to boot.
• She-Hulk: Jennifer Walters' uncle Brian Banner, who gave her cousin hell as a child and even in death, Brian tries to attack Jennifer on several occasions just for being associated with poor Bruce.
• Superman:
  • Nasthalthia 'Nasty' Luthor was a criminal who tried to make Supergirl's life impossible back in the Silver Age. Her uncle is Lex Luthor, one of the main super-villains of The DCU.
  • Superman: Earth One reinterprets Superman's enemy General Zod as his uncle and makes him responsible for the destruction of Krypton, intending to finish the heinous crime of wiping out the rest of the Kryptonian race by killing his own nephew.
• Swamp Thing: Anton Arcane more than fulfills this role towards his niece Abby, including lusting after her in an entirely non-avuncular manner. Even without considering the Creepy Uncle tendencies, he's consistently shown to be a depraved and vile felon.
• Teen Titans: Gar "Beast Boy" Logan was handed over to his uncle, Nicholas Galtry. Galtry was a vicious jerk who made it no secret that he was just after the money Gar's parents left for his care. The kid ran away and found Doom Patrol, and the Patrol had no problem telling the guy to pick on someone his own size and power level...
• Tom Strong: The comic revealed at one point that Tom's archenemy Paul Saveen is actually his half-brother, which makes him Tesla's uncle and means he had been attacking his own niece all these times he fought the Strong family.
• Ultimate Spider-Man (2000): Miles Morales had his uncle Aaron Davis, the Ultimate Prowler (later rethemed into the second Prowler once Miles' history got brought into Earth-616).
• Wonder Woman:
  • Sensation Comics: Pete and Gertie Allen are abused by and have to be rescued from their villainous uncle Joe Bamko by Wonder Woman.
  • Wonder Woman (1942): The recently crowned King Philippe of Barania is imprisoned and declared to be losing his mind from grief and stress by his uncle Gaston, with Gaston's end goal being to kill Philippe and frame it as a natural death or suicide and take the crown for himself.
  • Wonder Woman: Black and Gold: In "Beyond the Horizon" Thomas Chapman kidnaps his four neiphlings for a ransom and then drinks himself to death, leaving the children to starve to death while trying to figure out how to sail his boat back to land. Only the youngest lives long enough to be rescued.
• X-Men:
  • In X Men The Hidden Years, a series that chronicled early, apocryphal adventures of the original team of X-Men, Angel's uncle is revealed as an anti-mutant bigot who hates himself for not killing Angel when he was a child.
    • Even originally, Angel's uncle Burt was a supervillain responsible for the deaths of both his parents on separate occasions.
  • Poor Empress Xandra, daughter of Charles Xavier and the late Lilandra Neramani has it rough. She's got not one, but two evil aunts in Deathbird and Cassandra Nova. On the plus side her maternal uncle D'ken is long since dead and her step-uncle Cain more of less mellowed out.

• "The Golden Bird (Mouloud Mammeri)": The king has three wives, who are all sisters. One births beautiful twins, making the other two jealous, so they decide to let the water take the babies away.
• "The Sisters Envious Of Their Cadette": The two older sisters become envious of their younger sister marrying the king. So they replace her babies with animals, tricking the king into believing his wife birthed animals instead of humans, and banishes her for it. But the older sisters are executed in the end after the truth is revealed.
• In variants of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther tale type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children", the titular golden children are born to the youngest of three sisters, from whom they are separated by their evil aunts. Years later, the aunts discover the children are alive, they pay them a visit to send them on a dangerous quest for marvellous objects, in hopes they fail. Examples of the tale type include French tale Princess Belle-Etoile, Russian verse fairy tale The Tale of Tsar Saltan, and oral Italian tale The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird.
• "The Three Little Birds": The queen births three babies and her two sisters throw the babies to the river and lie to the king that his wife birthed animals. So the king throws his wife to prison.
• In "The Two Brothers", collected by The Brothers Grimm, the twin brothers' uncle is a wicked and greedy man, though not especially more so to his nephews than to anyone else.

• Adventures in the Human Realm: Belos was this to Hunter, denying him recreation opportunities and making Hunter’s work schedules so strict that Hunter treats waking up on time as a life-or-death situation.
• In the second part of Apprentice and Pregnant, Laurelpaw meets her paternal uncle Old Gray for the first time. He's just as awful as her father was, if not worse. Old Gray murdered his mate and young daughter. When Laurelpaw refuses to give him his son back, he threatens to kill her, the friends that tagged along with her, and even her mother. After Laurelpaw's friends escape, he gets even angrier, resulting in him raping and attempting to murder his niece.
• A Hetalia: Axis Powers fic, The Danish Slaughterhouse has Denmark plotting the murders of his family and raping his nephew, Sealand several times.
• Destiny (Afterandalasia): Marie from The Aristocats was actually a little girl who was temporarily left with her angry, alcoholic uncle while her mother was in labor. Her uncle got drunk and took her out riding on his motorcycle. They were hit by a train and Marie died in the crash.
• Downplayed with Mammom in A Divine (Romantic) Comedy. Yes, he's the vilest of the Seven Deadly Sins and is Charlie's Honorary Uncle, but he's uncharacteristically generous with her on a level that he isn't with anyone else and is shown to sincerely care for his niece. He also doesn't oppose or antagonize her like a straightforward example of this trope and is actually somewhat helpful, having given her the seed money needed to help her get started with her hotel.
• In the My Hero Academia fanfiction Fear of You one of the villains turns out to be Takami Keigo's Uncle "Takami Junto" aka. Harima Junto.
• The Jem fanfic Fresh Blood, and other fics set its continuity, depict Roxy's uncle as this. Her aunt was also cruel, but her uncle haunts Roxy more-so. Roxy was raised by her aunt and uncle but they never loved her and always abused her. When she was little, Roxy's uncle would hold her off the balcony of their twelve story apartment and threaten to drop her. Eventually she ran away as a teenager.
• The Dark Man, aka Gordon Freeman to Henry Freeman, in Half-Life: Full Life Consequences.
• Since Rainbow Dash is Celestia's daughter in Little Glimpses, Nightmare Moon is her aunt, and their first encounter kicks off to a bang with Nightmare Moon starting an eternal night and kidnapping Rainbow. Unlike in the show, Rainbow is fully aware that Nightmare Moon is actually Luna, and is not in control of her faculties at the moment.
• A recurring antagonist in Ma Fille is Katrina's maternal aunt Laura, who is hellbent on taking custody away from her father Joe, despite having cut off her sister Heather (Katrina's mother) and not even knowing Katrina was born until she was eight. Her escapades include trying to abduct Katrina from a mall, and later claiming to the police that Joe and her mother Louise (Katrina's grandmother) kidnapped her, which landed them all in court. In the end, Laura is finally defeated for good when she is sent to prison for breaking the restraining order and loses custody of her newborn baby.
• Tabitha's uncle in Points of Familiarity keeps sending Tabitha on impossible missions to get her killed. She insists on not only surviving these missions, but successfully completes them.
• In The Shadow Wars Story Verse of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Fluttershy's Uncle Windvane, a Pegasus supremacist who launches a major armed rebellion against Equestria and routinely murders captive civilians to drain their Life Energy by means of his Pegasus Device, certainly qualifies.
• Throw Away Your Mask plays with this: while the being claiming to be Kurusu Tsuyoshi almost definitely isn't actually related to Akira, he still claims that Akira is his nephew when Akechi asks what he is.
• Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik is this to Natural "N" Harmonia Blair in Tokimeki PokéLive! and TwinBee.

• Barbie:
  • Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses: Duchess Rowena is technically their first cousin once removed, but she acts the part for Genevieve and her sisters by being an evil, scheming relative of their father's who aims to take over their kingdom.
  • In Barbie in A Christmas Carol, the "Jacob Marley" role goes to Eden's aunt Marie, her abusive guardian who raised her to be "a perfectly selfish ninny", in her ghost's words. In flashbacks to Marie in life, she's a vicious Stage Mom who controls every aspect of the girl's life and cuts her off from her friends to make her into London's next great songstress.
  • Merliah's nemesis in Barbie in a Mermaid Tale is her aunt Eris, who usurped the throne of Merliah's mother.
  • Blair Willows of Barbie: Princess Charm School learns that Dame Devin is this for her. It turns out that Devin had her brother, King Reginald, and his wife killed in order to put her own daughter on the throne instead of Blair, who was born as Princess Sophia and the daughter of Reginald.
• Disney:
  • The Lion King: Scar is probably one of the most famous examples, murdering his brother and afterwards attempting to murder his nephew in order to take the throne, all based on Hamlet.
  • Subverted in Encanto with Bruno. He’s built up to be an omen towards his family and the locals because his prophecies depicted bad things happening. Mirabel almost believes it until she met and interacted with him. She finds out that all the things she heard were just rumors and that Bruno is a loving man who tried to use his prophetic gift to help others, including his family. He also turns out to be protective of Mirabel and was ready to get into an argument with his own mother if it meant keeping his niece from being ostracized like him.
  • Hercules (1997): Hades. The movie never mentions it, but Hades is technically Zeus' brother (Hell, most of the Greek gods are related), so he's Hercules' uncle and MAN, he's evil. He tries to usurp his brother Zeus, tries to kill Hercules lots of times, enslaves demons and mortals, and plans to rearrange the cosmos upon taking control of Olympus.
    • The TV series frequently mentions that Zeus, Poseidon and Hades are brothers. For some reason though, the uncle/nephew relationship between Hercules and Hades is glossed over.
    • Though it must be said, Hades was Hercules' uncle as well in the original myths, but it was Hera rather than Hades who was the main antagonist in the story. Granted, Hera is Hercules's aunt (and stepmother).
  • In the Finale Movie of Teacher's Pet (2000), the main villain is a Mad Scientist named Dr. Ivan Krank, who also happens to be the uncle of Leonard and Spot's classmate Ian.
• In Felix the Cat: The Movie, the main antagonist the Duke of Zill is Princess Oriana's uncle.
• Isle of Dogs: Downplayed with Mayor Kobayashi. Even though he's the Big Bad of the movie, he takes in Atari (his nephew) when his parents are killed in an accident, even going so far as to give him a guard dog in spite of his hatred of dogs. He even sends his own army to Trash Island to rescue Atari when he realizes that the boy had flown there. Seeing what Atari had gone through on Trash Island with the dogs and hearing his haiku is enough for him to admit his wrongdoings, cancelling his decree to keep the dogs on the island, and donating a kidney to Atari.
• The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire: Petrie's uncle Pterano complete with eyebags, long fingers, and an English Accent. Except for the killing bit, but he does kidnap Ducky... and then saves her in the end, so he's not evil. He's got his regrets.
• Subverted with Aunt Figg from Tom and Jerry: The Movie. While she's referred to as "aunt," Robyn Starling confirms she's not actually related to the woman. It's implied that Figg was originally Robyn's nanny hired to look after her by Mr. Starling. When Robyn's dad was seemingly killed in an avalanche, Figg and her Amoral Attorney Mr. Lickboot tried to take advantage of the situation to gain access to Robyn's trust fund as her only parental guardian. As such, Figg is completely horrible to the girl to the point she repeatedly runs away from home, but knows how to put on the façade of being a sweet, caring old lady worried for the safety of her charge. It never once dawns on her to keep using the façade while she's in Robyn's presence so she'll have free range to spend the Starling money.

• Uncle Les in BrainDead is a repulsive sleazy Jerkass who tries to blackmail Lionel out of his mother's estate.
• Sir Edgar from Ella Enchanted is one of these to Prince Char. In grand Hamlet fashion, he murdered Char's father in order to become King.
• Michael Myers from the Halloween series tries to kill his niece Jamie in the fourth and fifth films (he succeeds in the sixth), and his nephew John in Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later. This is avoided in the 2018 film, where Michael and Laurie are no longer siblings, so Michael, while he is no less evil to them, has no relation to Laurie's daughter, Karen, or Karen's daughter, Allyson.
• Frank from Hellraiser. First, he has an affair with Kristy's stepmother, making Kristy's father's marriage an unhappy one. Later, he causes the horrible death of Kristy's father. Not to mention that it's shown that the novelty of doing it with the stepmother had worn off for him... and he's shown to take very well to the idea of turning his attentions to Kirsty. Numerous times, he's shown trying to rape her, including a scene where they kiss.
  • This is made even worse in the sequel, where Frank lures Kirsty to his circle of hell so he could keep her as his sex slave.
• Bo Baker's Uncle Bill from High Stakes, an abusive asshole who gave Bo his job at his news station just so he could have someone to kick around when he wasn't popping pills or drinking.
• Kevin's Uncle Frank in Home Alone, while more of a jerk than outright evil, treats him quite poorly, and shows no emotion when his parents leave him behind accidentally beyond an tactless attempt at consolation. In the sequel, he hasn't changed much, although he does mellow slightly by the end. In fact, the original draft for the first movie was going to have Uncle Frank as a straight-up villain, who hired Harry and Marv to knock over the McAllisters' house in exchange for a cut of the loot.
• The Huntsman: Winter's War: The big twist is that Freya's baby son was not killed by his father, but rather Freya's sister, Ravenna, who manipulated the events to bring out Freya's ice powers.
• Jason Voorhees is upgraded into one in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday as he suddenly has more relatives and has to possess one them to return back to life properly. Oddly, when given the chance he ignores his niece and tries to possess his grand-niece instead.
• Killers of the Flower Moon: William Hale is the uncle of Ernest Burkhart, who marries an Osage woman as a part of his uncle’s plan to take her people’s land for oil.
• King Arthur: Legend of the Sword: This movie's Big Bad is King Vortigern who murdered his brother Uher - Arthur's father - in order to become king of the Britains. Of course, it becomes Arthur's duty to fight his uncle and become the rightful king.
• In Legend of the Black Scorpion, due to being an adaptation of Hamlet. Uncle kills father, takes power, tries to kill nephew.
• In The Librarian 2, Flynn's Uncle Jerry is a lovely man who Flynn idolised growing up until The Reveal when he becomes a Smug Snake out for revenge and is revealed to have killed Flynn's father.
• Lost in a Harem: Prince Ramo's Uncle Nimativ, who used a pair of hypnotic rings to steal the throne and keep everyone else in line.
• My Spy: Sophie's uncle Victor Marquez is a ruthless arms trafficker. He has no compunction at threatening or kidnapping her, and even murdered her father, his own brother, for having refused to sell a nuclear weapon.
• In The Northman, the Big Bad is Prince Amleth's uncle Fjölnir, who murdered his father and usurped his throne with the Scandinavian legend the story was based on being what inspired Hamlet.
• Nothing but Trouble: Prince Saul is plotting to murder his 12-year-old nephew, King Christopher, and take the throne of "Ostrovia" himself. He doesn't know about Christopher's best friends, Laurel and Hardy.
• Dastan's uncle in the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie. His ultimate goal is to turn back time so that he can let his brother die as a teenager and reign in his stead.
• Purgatory: Sonny's uncle, a ruthless bandit and rapist. In the end he tries to gun his own nephew down.
• Uncle Charlie from the film Shadow of a Doubt is one of the first major examples of a psychopath in cinema and a very creepy and evil uncle.
• Strings (2004): Hal's uncle Nezo hides the truth about the death of Hal’s father from him (namely, how he bequeaths the throne to Hal) in a bid to seize power. And he has no qualms about killing his own niece.
• In Stardust, The Reveal is that the scheming and fratricidal Seven Princes of Stormhold were actually Tristan's uncles. They're not the primary villains, though. This is more obvious in The Film of the Book.
• The Fallen is this to Opimus Prime in Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen, although there might be a few greats in there, how many generations separate the two isn't made clear.
• Sam Harper of Uncle Sam is a sadistic door gunner who was shot down in Iraq, and to the horror of the rest of the Harper family goes on a psychotic murder spree from the grave.
• Uncle Silas is a 1947 Gothic Melodrama in which the eponymous uncle played by Derrick de Marney seeks to wrest Jean Simmons' inheritance from her. Released in the US in a butchered version called The Inheritance. Silas is this trope although more of the menace is provided by Katina Paxinou as the evil governess.
• Prince John is Philip of Cognac's evil uncle in Princess of Thieves, and plots to keep Philip from ascending the throne.
• Vivah: Rama's husband Krishnakant may be raising her niece Poonam along their own daughter Rajni, but she has always disliked Poonam for her beauty and how she takes away from Rajni. Krishnakant even points out that Poonam is a lovely girl and Rama is the only one who has ever had a problem with her. Poonam risking her life to save Rajni from a fire is what causes Rama to finally realize how badly she's been acting.

• Subverted in Arrested Development. Michael briefly dates a beautiful heiress whose sinister uncle controls her money band refuses to let her see Michael. It's later revealed that she has the mind of a kindergartener and her uncle is her concerned guardian. He controls her money because she's not competent to use it, and keeps her away from Michael because she doesn't have the capacity to consent.
• Belgravia: Charles Pope has two.
  • Oliver Trenchard (the brother of Charles' mother). Admittedly Oliver doesn't know Charles is his nephew and vice versa, but he does know that his father James is providing Charles funding for his company and advice on how to run business. Oliver envies Charles for having everything that he knows he lacks, believing he will be displaced as James' heir, and tries to drum up Malicious Slander against Charles. In the end he winds up subverting the trope when his conscience makes him go back and save Charles and James from drowning.
  • Great uncle Stephen, the younger brother of Charles' paternal grandfather. Similar to Oliver, Stephen doesn't know of Charles' true background, but he knows that his sister-in-law Lady Brockenhurst is also funding Charles' business. Stephen, who has massive gambling debts, seeks to blackmail Lady Brockenhurst to pay off his debts with the help of his son John (who fits under Clashing Cousins).
• Subverted technically, in Blackadder's first season, which is set in an Alternate History where Richard III was a kind and loving uncle who was succeeded by one of the Princes in the Tower, Richard the Fourth, and the Evil Uncle and double murder history recorded was the result of a later king going back and falsifying records. That said his nephew was a homicidal maniac who suggested using his own son as arrow fodder and he was doting and supportive of him so he was not a much better king otherwise.
• Cathedral of the Sea: Grau Puig, a greedy merchant who married into the nobility. He profits from slavery, commits murder, and made his orphaned nephew a servant.
• Criminal Minds: The episode "Seven Seconds" had a Creepy Uncle and an evil aunt, with the latter being the Villain of the Week. As revealed during the investigation, the uncle had been molesting his niece, and the aunt decided to kidnap and attempt to kill her niece out of jealousy.
• Justin Morningway from The Dresden Files. Among dear old Uncle Justin's crimes: arranging for his sister Margaret's murder ("she had dangerous ideas!") and, some years later, killing his brother-in-law with a voodoo doll in order to get custody of his magically gifted eleven-year-old nephew, whom he, with the help of a necromancer's cursed ghost, hoped to turn into a loyal political ally and supporter steeped in Black Magic. Oh, and let's not forget that although this failed spectacularly, Uncle Justin left behind a doppelgänger who resurrected the necromancer and then forced the necromancer to steal the nephew's life force and implant it in Morningway's corpse.
• Friends: Monica mentions her and Ross's Aunt Sylvia who was a "cranky old bitch" who never allowed Monica to play with her dollhouse.
• Game of Thrones:
  • Deconstructed by Stannis and Renly Baratheon, who contest their nephew's claim to the throne. However, Joffrey is The Caligula and neither the rightful king nor their nephew. Besides it takes more than just wanting to depose him to make them "evil." However, though this is downplayed in the show Renly was willing to usurp who he believes was his nephew from the Iron Throne before Ned revealed their illegitimacy. Granted, Joffrey was a monster, but by supporting the rumor of their illegitimacy, Renly and Stannis were also willing to disgrace Myrcella and Tommen. Played straight with Stannis in Season 3, when he contemplates burning his biological nephew, Robert's bastard son Gendry, to gain magical advantage for his campaign.
  • Played totally straight by Euron Greyjoy to Theon and Yara. He shows up to seize the throne of the Iron Islands by killing his brother Balon and usurping Yara's right to it, then planning to kill both of them to eliminate a threat to his power, but they manage to flee successfully. At first.
  • Ellaria Sand is more than willing to have her innocent nephew Trystane assassinated in cold blood under the prospect that "weak men" like him will never rule over Dorne again.
• The Glamorous Imperial Concubine: Fu Ya's uncle usurps the throne and murders most of his family.
• Chuck's uncle Jack on Gossip Girl is definitely evil. He doesn't particularly mind if his seventeen year-old, newly orphaned nephew falls off the rooftop of a building and he delights in ruining said nephew's life a year later.
• Guardian: The Lonely and Great God: Eun-tak's aunt and cousins force her to do their chores, verbally and physically abuse her and try to steal Eun-tak's mother's life insurance.
• In Help! I'm a Teenage Outlaw, Sir John Snakelaw is Lady Devereux's uncle and legal legal guardian. He has commandeered her castle for his own use and keeps her a virtual prisoner within it while he schemes ways to take full possession of her fortune.
• In I, Claudius, Emperor Caligula is technically this before he becomes an Uncle. He impregnates his sister, but thinks he and his sister are Gods, so tries to imitate the birth of Athena by cutting the child out of her womb and eating it. Then there is his Great-Uncle Tiberius, who apparently murdered his nephew Germanicus, Caligula's Father, as he was more popular. It turns out that Caligula assisted with his father's murder and one of his henchmen ends up murdering Tiberius so Caligula can become Emperor.
• In From the Cold: Felipe and Andrés Calero to their nephews Rámon and Diego. They're either treated badly or worse drawn into terrorism.
• Justified: Johnny Crowder definitely has this opinion of his Uncle Bo, who crippled him with a shotgun blast to the gut. Of course, Johnny himself is a criminal who was setting Bo up to take the fall for his, and his cousin Boyd's actions, so while Bo's certainly evil, his attitude towards Johnny is fairly understandable.
• All over the place in Lab Rats. Mad Scientist Douglas Davenport is the true father of Adam, Bree, and Chase, but since the bionic children were raised by his brother Donald, they view him as their father and Douglas as this trope. Played more straight with Leo, who is Douglas's step-nephew. However, all of this is subverted when Douglas has a Heel–Face Turn.
• Legacies has Kai Parker, the Saltzman twins' maternal uncle, who killed their mother (his own twin sister) on her wedding day and was trapped in a prison dimension.
• The Legend of Xiao Chuo: Yelü Jing for Xian and Zhi Mo. He murdered their father and has Zhi Mo castrated

and partially blinded. After Jing's death his brother Yansage takes over this role and tries to overthrow Xian.

• Lost Love in Times: Yuan An plans to kill his nephew Yuan Ling. Made even more complicated because Yuan Ling grew up thinking Yuan An is his father, and he only discovers the truth as an adult.
• The Nennog of Maddigan's Quest was this to Timon, Eden and Jewel; it's made clear from the start he wants them dead. Well, Eden and Jewel, at least...
• Count Dregon was the main villain of Masked Rider and Prince Dex's uncle.
• As of Season 4, Prince Arthur from Merlin has his uncle Agravaine, who's secretly working with Morgana, partially in revenge for his sister dying birthing Arthur, and Arthur's father Uther killing his brother when they fought Uther over this.
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023): As revealed by Annabeth and Grover, Zeus is this to Percy. Mostly for the two reasons that is he believes Percy is the thief who stole his lightning bolt and is conspiring with Poseidon to overthrow him, and that due to a prophecy Percy wasn't even supposed to be born. When Percy succeeds in his quest to find Zeus's lighting bolt, Zeus was still willing to go to war against Poseidon for nothing more then to have a victory over his brother. And when Percy points out that the real thief only got so far is because of Zeus's reputation his uncle was more then okay with killing him! The only reason he didn't was because Poseidon came in to surrender the war before it starts and allow Zeus to gloat his victory.
• Power Rangers Ninja Storm: Big Bad Lothor is revealed to be this to Cam, son of Big Good Sensei, during a time travel story. This is actually brought up more often than the fact that Lothor killed Hunter and Blake's parents.

  "You can't choose your family, Lothor, and I certainly didn't choose you."

• The Princess Wei Young: Tuoba Yu and Tuoba Han are Tuoba Jun's uncles, and both are plotting against him to get the throne.
• Resurrection: Ertuğrul: Kurdoglu serves as this to Ertugrul, Gundogdu, and Dundar in season 1. However, it only becomes fully obvious to them upon hijacking the Kayi Tribe and ordering the alps in his service to carry the unwilling ones to their execution.
  • Aslihan’s uncle, Bahadir Bey, shows up early in season 4 to claim the Cavdar tribe alongside his wife Karaca, who thereby serves as her evil aunt since Karaca has no opposition to Bahadir’s schemes.
• The Rise of Phoenixes: Helian Lie tries to usurp Helian Zheng's throne by crowning Zheng's two-year-old half-brother.
• Superman & Lois has Morgan Edge, AKA Tal-Rho, Superman's half-brother. In season 1, he's the Big Bad who's trying to bring back Krypton by converting humans into Kryptonians. However, season 2 shows him slowly turning around and revealing that he's simply been trying to have a family he never did. By the end, it's clear that he sees Clark and his family as his own and is willing to risk his own life for them. In season finale, he buys Jordan and Jonathan their own pickup trucks, much to Clark's annoyance.
• The Tales from the Crypt episode "Fitting Punishment" centres around a homeless, orphaned teenager being sent to live with his miserly uncle. The uncle treats him as slave labour, cripples him for life during a beating, and then murders him after deciding that the boy is costing him too much money. Eventually the boy returns as a zombie and beats his uncle to death.
• The primary antagonists of the first season of Teen Wolf and the fourth season as well are Derek's evil uncle Peter, who wants to subdue everybody under his alpha powers, and Allison's evil aunt Kate, who kills innocent people in contrast to the more lawful Hunter's Code. In contrast, the major parents shown in the series (Scott's mom, Stiles's dad, Allison's father) are strictly on the side of good.
• In Trail of Lies, Felix Khoury is to his niece Paulinha at first, considering that he abandoned her in a trash bin when she was just a newborn, just because he didn't want to have to compete with anyone for his inheritance.
• None of the elder Marquezes in Velvet are particularly good people, but Pilar plays this role most directly in her efforts to destroy the Galerias Velvet and prop up her own department store.
• The White Queen: Played with. The show portrays Richard III as being in the right about his nephew being illegitimate and the throne being his, and he is not the one who has his nephews murdered. However, Richard is also portrayed as not only a stranger to young Edward V but also an intimidating and sinister figure who, from the boy's point of view, is a villain who has robbed him of his birthright on a technicality.

• There is a German band known as Boehse Onkelz, which translates as... well, you know.
• The Who's Tommy's Wicked Uncle Ernie. He molested Tommy when Tommy was a teenager, and exploits him after Tommy's cult becomes a religion.
• Uncle Meat by Frank Zappa was the intended soundtrack to "a movie we haven't got enough money for to make yet". In the liner notes of the album we find out that Uncle Meat is a Mad Scientist who wants to rule the world with an army of mutant monsters. He would return in the liner notes of The Grand Wazoo.

• Gender-Flipped with the Goddess Hera, who often tortured her brother Zeus's children. Since she was also his wife, and the kids she did this to were his children by other women (which pissed her off like you wouldn't believe) she literally doubles as a Wicked Stepmother.
• Older Than Dirt: Set, the Egyptian god of chaos, violence, and the desert, murdered his brother Osiris and usurped his kingdom. Then afterwards, Osiris's sister/wife Isis had to hide their infant son Horus from Set. When Horus gew up, Set refused to return the kingdom to Horus, leading to a long fight between them.
• Hindu Mythology:
  • The Avatar Krishna's uncle Kamsa was a kind fellow who loved his sister until he heard a prophecy stating that his nephew would overthrow him. This made him go berserk, imprisoning his sister and killing her nine children in succession as soon as they were born. Needless to say, the tenth child escaped and kicked his ass after he grew up.
  • Mahabharata has Shakuni, brother of Queen Gandhari and thus the maternal uncle of the Kaurava, who deliberately instigated the Kurukshethra War by pitting his nephews against their cousins the Pandava, because of his deep-seated hatred against the Kuru, who had betrothed Gandhari to a blind man and brutally subjugated their homeland, Gandhara. While the book has numerous characters of varying degrees of grayness in morality, Shakuni is widely considered to be the true villain of the story.
• Loki in the actual Norse Mythology, is not Odin's son as in the Marvel version but his foster-brother (a custom of the Norsemen where very close friends took an oath that made them legally siblings). Although mostly a trickster, in the end he is destined to murder his foster-nephew Baldr and start the process that will lead to Ragnarök!
• The founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, killed their grand-uncle, Amulius. He had usurped the throne of Alba Longa from his brother Numitor and killed his son and daughter (the mother of the twins).

• In the backstory of Mad Daedalus, the Greek inventor Daedalus murders his nephew due to jealousy over the accolades the latter received.

• Magic: The Gathering has Uncle Istvan, from The Dark expansion. Although we only have the card's name to take for the fact that he is an uncle, his flavor text makes it clear that he is quite evil.
• Warhammer:
  • Nagash, who in addition to his many, many, many other crimes murdered his nephew, the legitimate heir to his brother Thutep's throne (who he also murdered) and then tricked the kid's mother into drinking a potion containing her murdered son's remains.
  • Malekith is the distant uncle of Tyrion and Teclis through his half-brother Morelion, and has sent more than his share of assassins after the twins when not plotting to feed them to daemons. He is also uncle to Alarielle through his half-sister Yvraine, and murdered her mother, the last Everqueen, also his niece.

• Antigone: Creon is a subversion, assuming it doesn't count as an Unbuilt Trope. He's certainly against Antigone, but his antagonism comes more from her insistence on burying Polyneices despite Creon's decree to the contrary (he and his brother Eteocles were in a Civil War against each other and Creon viewed Polyneices as a traitor) and his tragic insistence on following the law he made than any personal animosity toward his niece.
• Electra: Aegisthus, being a close cousin who became Electra's step-father after murdering her dad and marrying her mom. He also plans to seal her up in a cave.
• The Lion King: Scar believes that having heirs will make him feel complete as a king. It's in fact his guilty conscience about killing his own brother and exiling his nephew that makes him feel empty, but that doesn't stop him from hitting on Nala.
• Hamlet: Claudius, generally considered the Trope Codifier, having killed his own brother and then married his wife, prompting Hamlet to seek revenge at the behest of his father's ghost.
• The Little Mermaid: Ursula is Ariel's evil aunt. This connection was cut from the movie, but it was restored for the Broadway musical.
• William Shakespeare's Richard III is one of the most famous examples of an uncle out to kill his nephew so he can assume the throne himself.
• Thyestes: Atreus is the definitive Evil Uncle — he feeds his nephews to their father to avenge Thyestes's affair with Mrs. Atreus.

• Inverted in Baldur's Gate III. Tomato in the Mirror Dark Urge was betrayed by his Psycho Knife Nut niece (of similar age) Orin the Red who sought to usurp his position as The Chosen One of his father, the God of Evil Bhaal.
• BattleTech (2018) gives us Santiago Espinosa, who usurps the throne of the Aurigan Reach from his niece Kamea and attempts to kill her.
• In Bravely Default II, the Night's Nexus was once the sister of the ancient Musan king who gave his life to seal her away, and is thus Gloria's evil great-aunt several dozen generations or so removed.
• Unavoidable in Crusader Kings, since all children who don't inherit a title will get a claim to the title. So if your character dies, all your former brothers become this trope. It is rather common that your uncle takes up arms to get the title by force. Unless you take another succession law where your heir isn't your child, but that opens another can of worms.
• Dishonored 2 gives us Delilah Copperspoon, who usurps the throne of The Isles from her niece Emily and attempts to kill her.
• In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Orvas Dren is the leader of the Camonna Tong, the mafia-esque native Dunmeri criminal syndicate which controls Morrowind's smuggling and slaving operations. His niece, Ilmeni, is the leader of the Twin Lamps, a slave freeing organization. Naturally, as Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil, the two are at odds. You can assist Ilmeni as part of a side-quest line, while you'll need to deal with Orvas one way or another during the main quest line.
• Far Cry 4: Pagan Min. He's the self-appointed "King of Kyrat", a dictator of a small drug-manufacturing country who kills citizens for fun and profit. He also has his ex-girlfriend's son kidnapped and transported into the house of a slave torturer to dine on Crab Rangoon together. Ajay's first instinct is to run. He then gives out hints that "Uncle Pagan" is setting up Ajay as his heir... even though neither of them are blood related or royalty. He's not joking.
• In Final Fantasy XV, Ardyn is actually the brother of the ancient Lucian king who betrayed and usurped him, and is thus Noctis' evil great-uncle several dozen generations or so removed.
• Fire Emblem has many examples:
  • In Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, Prince Lewyn has two of these to contend with, Maios and Daccar. ( Though in the Oosawa manga, Daccar is shown to have some Hidden Depths and then goes the Redemption Equals Death way). Later on Bloom is this to Tine and if Tailtiu didn't have kids, to Linda, though he isn't as cruel to her as his wife and Tine's Aunt, Hilda was. Hilda actually tortured Tine or Linda's mother to death and has children gathered up as Human Sacrifices in her free time, lovely woman really. If the player pairs up Lex and Azelle with anyone, Danan and Arvis become Evil Uncles to their children. Of course, even if Azelle isn't paired up with anyone, Arvis is still technically this to Seliph.
  • Lord Lundgren, younger brother of Lyndis's grandfather, Hausen, in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. Lundgren desires his brother's position as Marquess and is angered by the possibility of Hausen reuniting with his long-lost granddaughter. Thus, to secure his inheritance, Lundgren has his brother poisoned, frames his grandniece as an impostor, and tries to have her assassinated.
  • Radiant Dawn manages to subvert this with Queen Elincia's uncle, Lord Renning: he cares deeply for her, and wants her to take the throne. The not so good actions that Renning performed as Bertram, one of the Four Riders of Daein, came from him being Brainwashed and Crazy via a Psycho Serum.
  • It's subverted in Fire Emblem Fates: Azura's mother Queen Arete of Nohr and the Avatar's mother Queen Mikoto of Hoshido are actually good persons... who Came Back Wrong thanks to the Big Bad Anankos. Even more - Arete battles her niece/nephew, her daughter and their troops not knowing who they are since she's got Laser-Guided Amnesia. Once either of them is defeated (and in Arete's case, she recovers her memories), they die in peace and speaking to their relatives kindly.
  • In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Dimitri's paternal uncle Rufus was the unseen regent of the Kingdom of Holy Kingdom of Faerghus who gets killed during the Time Skip. The worst that was mentioned of Rufus was that his leadership was far from competent and that there were unproven rumors that he was involved in the Tragedy of Duscur that got Dimitri's father killed. Three Hopes reveals however that Rufus was in-fact complicit in the Tragedy of Duscur, and sought to kill Dimitri by means of the Uriah Gambit. At the same time, he was paranoid of Dimitri taking revenge.
    • Downplayed and ultimately subverted with Annette's paternal uncle (and Gilbert's brother) Baron Dominic, who is at worst an Anti-Villain forced into opposing the heroes due to the threat of the Empire forcibly annexing his lands if he does not. When Annette and Gilbert go to get House Dominic's Relic, Crusher, he refuses to hand it over and tries to capture them to keep them safe; when he's defeated, he happily hands the Relic over as the thrashing he'd received would at least allow him to keep up appearances.
• In Fishing Vacation it's revealed your friend's uncle murdered his wife and young daughter, seeing them as obstacles to his relationship with Sedna, an Inuit ocean goddess, and he's willing to kill other people as offerings to her too; it's strongly implied he let the two friends come to the cabin in order to sacrifice them and in at least one ending he succeeds.
• In Granblue Fantasy, Loki is this to Orchis, as it's revealed that he's Orchis' father's brother. He loathes her to the core and wishes to never hear her call him that ever. If the Black Knights's information is to be taken to any hint, it may have to do with him not approving of the marriage of Orchis's parents.
• Guenevere: Lancelot saves a princess from her Evil Aunt during one of his Time Skip adventures.
• Wilfred Hermeien from The Last Remnant. He is Marina's brother, making him Irina and Rush's uncle, who's willing to use Irina's power to control the Remnants of the world. Bonus points for seriously threatening to feed her to his pet Harpylia at one point, and pulling a knife on her at another.
• Nioh 2: "The First Samurai" DLC reveals that the main villain, Otakemaru, is the protagonist's uncle. Otakemaru himself is unaware of the relationship up until his defeat in the base game.
• Persona 5: After her mother Wakaba died, Futaba was sent to live with her uncle Youji, whose abuse (he refused to even let her have a bed) led to her present social anxiety issues. After Futaba was Happily Adopted by Wakaba's friend Soujirou (in exchange for the inheritance fund), Youji began threatening him with trumped-up abuse charges and lawsuits out of resentment towards his naturally successful sister.
• Heiss from Radiant Historia winds up hitting almost every point in the description. Jealous, childless younger brother? Check. Royalty? Check. Cain and Abel? Check. Ex-Cool Uncle? Check. Repeatedly tries to kill his niece and sends his nephew out on blatantly impossible missions? Check. However, twisting the trope a bit, he deeply and genuinely loves his nephew and considers himself a Stealth Mentor. As far as he's concerned his niece can go die in a fire, though.
• The Wedding: Uncle Jack, who is the main antagonist of the game. Except that the family didn't know about his insanity or evil deeds, until Anima went into his house and read his diary notes. Said notes indicate that he was taking pills to assume a normal demeanour when in public.
• X-Wing Alliance, Ace's uncle Antan sides with the Empire.

• Higurashi: When They Cry: Satoko's uncle Teppei physically abuses her in Tatarigoroshi-hen and Minagoroshi-hen. Her aunt, Tamae, wasn't very nice either.
• Ace Attorney
  • Morgan Fey in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is an evil aunt. First, she tries to get Maya framed for murder, and then when that doesn't work she outright tries to get Maya killed. Note that, since Morgan actually was the older sister and was passed up for the position of Master of Kurain because her spiritual power was weak compared to her younger sister's, this technically isn't for her own benefit, but rather to install her Child Prodigy daughter, Pearl, as the next Master, with her controlling the kid.
  • The Big Bad of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice is Queen Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in, who's Princess Rayfa's aunt and adoptive mother. Like Morgan, she was passed over for her family's hereditary leadership position- Queen of Khura'in- in favor of her younger sister Amara due to lacking spiritual power. As a result, she stages an assassination attempt on Amara while framing Amara's husband Dhurke, fakes Amara's death and forces her sister to impersonate her while channeling spirits under threat of harm coming to Rayfa. Ga'ran rules as a tyrant for 23 years, until Apollo finally manages to expose her as a murderer and a fraud.
• Crow Harbor in the backstory of Sunrider was the bastard son of the Ryuvian Infinite Emperor, and after the Emperor and the crown prince were assassinated by an unknown party (it is never confirmed whether it was Crow, his brother, or someone else entirely), he plunged the galaxy into a devastating civil war in a bid to put himself on the throne. His niece Sola, who happened to be a bastard herself, led the fight against him, and it’s implied that he tried to kill her many times. Then he and his fleet wind up traveling forward in time, creating a rift in time, and he becomes the Greater-Scope Villain, lying in wait to conquer the galaxy.
• Umineko: When They Cry has Kasumi Sumadera, an Evil Aunt who's out for revenge against her niece Ange since her mother Kyrie's marriage to Rudolf Ushiromiya ruined her life.

• ATTACK on MIKA: Ichi's uncle refused to get a job and was always selling his mother's mementos for money and planned to force him to get a job after middle school. Ichi eventually moved into a dorm of a high school and left his uncle high and dry.
• Lilium -Sims 2 has a case of an evil aunt. The protagonist, Isis, is in love with her brother; however, her brother rejects her and marries another. The two have a daughter together. Upon meeting her young niece, Isis is struck by how much she resembles her mother. In her jealousy, she kills her.
• In the story titled, "My mom is controlling," from My Story Animated, it is revealed that the reason why Princess Aurora's parents kept her from leaving their castle for her entire life is because when Aurora was a baby, her evil aunt abducted Aurora in an attempt to become next in line for the throne.
• In Princess Natasha, Natasha's arch-nemesis is her uncle Lubek who seeks to take the throne of Zoravia for himself. Natasha is a teenage princess of a foreign country who is transferred to the United States to be a secret agent as a student of a high school, where her evil uncle is the principal.
• Refreshing Stories: Hiroshi's uncle adopted him and his brother Satoshi after his parents died in a car accident. He treated the brothers poorly and when Hiroshi protested that he couldn't work while in high school, he kicked them out of the house.
• Story Time Animated: Abuela hid Isabella's parents from her, pretending they went missing by forcing them to find an ancient mirror for her.

• The Handbook of Heroes has Wizard's uncle, the appropriately named Wicked Uncle, who kills Wizard's father and usurps the Ivy Throne of the elves.
• Richard III, as depicted in Hark! A Vagrant, of whom urban legend credits with murdering his two nephews. While a historian in the comic interrupts to point out that many other historical figures had reason for killing the boys, Richard's already killed one.

  Richard: Tell you what — I'll go halvsies with Buckingham.

• In Plume, Vesper's narration tries to convince us that Aunt Agatha is an example of this, but she comes across more as strict and demanding rather than evil. Though she does send a bounty hunter after Vesper...
• Avagadro Pompey of Something*Positive sexually and verbally abused his nephew Ollie, who was pathetically grateful as Avagadro had "saved" him from physical abuse at his father's hands.
• In Thistil Mistil Kistil, Coal's back story has some evil uncles in it.
• Zoophobia's Jack has one who's just evil in general, on account of him being Satan.

• "The Head Start," an edition of R.L. Stine's Rainy Night Theater, featured a boy and her female cousin learning about a werewolf committing various attacks in the forest, and they are led to believe the werewolf was the boy's father (the girl's uncle). In actuality, the werewolf was revealed as the girl's aunt (the boy's mother).

• Uncle Lies and Aunt Despair from The Nostalgia Critic, who were created by Critic to cope with his parents and treat both their children and him awfully. It's also canon that Uncle Lies is Ask That Guy with the Glasses back from the dead.

• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • Inverted in Avatar: The Last Airbender, where Zuko's father is the evil, younger brother who stole the throne, while his uncle is a genuinely nice, caring person. Zuko himself said his uncle was more of a father figure to him when he was Calling the Old Man Out. Interestingly, though, Iroh was originally this while the show was still in design. Before he was redesigned into the tea-loving, Pai Sho playing Big Fun that we all know and love, he would have taught Zuko incorrect firebending on Ozai's orders and fought Zuko in season 3. Ozai would've become this to Lu-Ten, Iroh's late son.
  • Played straight in The Legend of Korra with Unalaq, Korra's uncle. Not only does he fix the trial to get his brother Tonraq sent to prison for life, but he also arranged for him to be exiled by paying barbarians to attack the city and hide in the spirit forest, which Tonraq destroyed. When Korra learns this, she turns against him and calls him out on his jealousy. He also trained Korra for his own desires - unlike Iroh, who genuinely cared for his nephew Zuko. Not only that, but he appears to be a neglectful father to the Creepy Twins Eska and Desna as well, such as leaving an injured Desna on the ground just to try and open the Spirit World portal. The contrast between Iroh and Unalaq becomes more evident in the episode "A New Spiritual Age", when both appear in different moments and interact with Korra. Then he fuses with Vaatu, becoming Korra's Evil Counterpart, the Dark Avatar.
• Double Dragon (1993): The Shadow Master. In one episode, Mrs. Lee, the mother of Billy and Jimmy makes an appearance. She reveals that not only is she their mother, but the main villain, the Shadow Master is none other than her brother, making him the twins' uncle.
• Biker Mice from Mars:
  • The original 1993 series revealed the main villain Lawrence Lactavius Limburger to be an uncle in the episode "Modo Hangs it Up", although his nephew Marshall is even worse.
  • The 2006 revival episode "Swimming with Sharks" introduces Vinnie's maternal aunt Mago, who is a space pirate who wants to kill Stoker for becoming leader of the Martian freedom fighters instead of her. She also attempts to make a deal with her nephew, Throttle, and Modo to rehydrate Mars by beaming all of Earth's water to the planet, a deal that the Biker Mice obviously refuse.
• Masters of the Universe: A reference in the tie-in comics indicates that Skeletor is actually King Randor's long-lost brother Keldor, which would make him Prince Adam/He-Man's uncle.
• In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Aquaman's first episode features his brother, who despite having rebelled against him in the past, is accepted back some years later. He immediately tries to usurp Aquaman's crown again.
• The Weird Al Show: In the animated "Fatman" segments, Fatman has an Evil Uncle Frank who was intended to be a recurring villain.
• Codename: Kids Next Door
  • It's revealed in Operation: Z.E.R.O. that Father (AKA the Big Bad in the series and archnemesis to Numbuh 1) is Benedict Uno, and that he and Monty Uno (Numbuh 1's father) are both brothers.
  • An official comic story reveals the Toiletnator, the show's resident Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, is Numbuh 4's long-lost uncle.
• Felix the Cat: The Professor is an enemy of the titular cat, but his nephew Poindexter is friends with Felix.
• Rambo: The Force of Freedom:
  • "Reign of the Boy King": Black Duke Lucan wants to usurp the throne of Morovia from his nephew King Alexander.
  • "Robot Raid": Merick wants to prevent his niece Jennifer from inheriting the family's company.
• Punky Brewster: Punky discovers she has an aunt and an uncle in "Punky the Heiress," and they've offered to reunite her with her missing mother. But (a) they're actually servants for the Chester Henderson estate, and (b) they're using Punky to embezzle the inheritance of Henderson's granddaughter, of whom they have Punky dressed up to look like.
• All Hail King Julien has Julien's uncle, King Julien XII. In the pilot, he passes the crown to his nephew because the king was predicted to be sacrificed to the fossa. He returns in the fifth episode to take back his reign, sending Julien to be unwittingly eaten by the fossa, and removes all the fun things his nephew did for the kingdom.
• The Smurfs (1981): King Gerard has his aunt Imperia and his uncle Sir Leopold, both evil and both desiring to go after their nephew's throne.
• Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders: Lady Kale, Princess Gwenevere's power-hungry aunt (and Queen Anya's twin sister), wishes to control all magic and take over Avalon.
• In Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures, the sequel to the 1960s series, Hadji is revealed to be a prince and back during his childhood, his uncle and cousin wished to kill him so they could usurp his family's kingdom. Fortunately, the assassin they hired, Pasha, couldn't bring himself to kill (the then-four-year-old) Hadji and just took him away to save them both. Hadji's uncle, Deepak, soon took over after his brother (Hadji's father) passed away from an illness, but later in the future, Hadji's cousin, Vikram, eventually kills his father and becomes sultan. When Hadji returns home to find Pasha, Vikram attempts to kill him, but winds up getting his just desserts, allowing Hadji to take his birthright, which he shares with his mother.
• Casper the Friendly Ghost: How evil they are may depend on the writer, but the Ghostly Trio are Casper's uncles (and in some continuities guardians) and always portrayed as much meaner than him. Wendy's witch aunts are the same case with the genders inverted.
• Time Warp Trio has Mad Jack, twin brother of the main character's Uncle Joe who gave him The Book. He wants to steal it for himself in order to Take Over the World and is willing to off anyone who gets in his way, including his ten-year-old nephew.
• In Steven Universe, though both sides were unaware of the relation for the longest time, Yellow Diamond and Blue Diamond are the gem-equivalent of Steven's maternal aunts since Rose Quartz was actually their "sister" Pink Diamond all along.
• In The Crumpets, the titular family were frequently swindled by Uncle Hurry and Aunt Harried, who were Pa Crumpet's brother and sister-in-law.
• Young Justice (2010):
  • Actually downplayed with Ocean Master, mostly because he's Out of Focus. He does try to kill his nephew, along with many other children, in "Home Fires", though more out of revenge than a hope of actually getting the throne.
  • Count Vertigo apparently killed the old king of Vlatava (relation to him unknown) and now wants to do the same to his niece, Queen Perdita. This is a change from the comics, where he's the last member of the Vlatavan royal family and wants to overthrow its republican government.
  • Baron Bedlam is this to the Markovian royal family, killing his sister and brother-in-law and then trying to steal the crown from his nephew, Gregor. Like Vertigo, this is an adaptational change; in the comics he's not related to them at all, his family just replaced them as a puppet government for the Nazis.
• Garfield and Friends: Orson's older brothers Mort, Gort and Wart in the U.S. Acres segments are a bunch of gluttonous brutes who try to steal the gang's harvest and could technically be considered Booker and Sheldon's uncles, since Booker and Sheldon are Orson's adoptive sons.
• The Owl House has Big Bad Emperor Belos, whose nephew Hunter serves as his Dragon, the Golden Guard. Belos is extremely abusive towards Hunter, including giving a 16 year-old the workload of a grown adult, repeatedly threatening to throw him out onto the street, blaming Hunter's failures for his curse worsening, never allowing him to leave the castle unless it's for a mission, and based on the way Hunter flinches at unexpected touch, it's heavily implied Belos is physically abusive towards him as well. Of course learning the truth about himself doesn't improve Hunter's situation in the slightest — Hunter and every Golden Guard before him are magical clones called Grimwalkers, cloned from Belos's brother Caleb, who was murdered by Belos after marrying and having a child with a witch. Whenever a Grimwalker "betrays" him, Belos kills them and replaces them with a new one. Hunter only very narrowly manages to escape with his life, and is forced to go on the run as Belos sends the entire Emperor's Coven after him. Later in "Thanks to Them", Belos somehow manages to top his earlier abuses of Hunter by straight up possessing the kid and using his body to kill Flapjack, Hunter's Palisman.
• 101 Dalmatian Street has a much older Cruella de Vil become an evil great aunt to a boy named Hunter. She manipulates him into helping her capture the descendants of the original Dalmatian family from the 1960s, all while abusing, neglecting, and ultimately abandoning the boy when she no longer deems him useful.