An index page listing Family Tropes content. All the complex ties of blood and marriage. Check that your trope doesn't belong in one of the subcategories … Sibling Tropes · Dysfunctional Family Index · The Parent Trope

Members of a Chosen Family mourn the lack of family in their lives and decide to build one of their own out of people they care for and who care for them in ...

Tropes about family members who just really can't get along with each other too well. Obviously, this is a subcategory of Family Tropes.

The Badass Family tends to be good guys, though maybe more Chaotic than Lawful. The matriarch is likely to be an Action Mom.

The family is generally fairly poor, although not always — Arrested Development is about a large, rich dysfunctional family. And even they won't remain wealthy. Big, Screwed-Up Family · Prematurely Grey-Haired · Malcolm in the Middle

A family full of eccentric, weird, sometimes insane relatives. Preferably all of them, but as long as it's the majority of them then it's okay.

This is the big family with issues, from which many, many kinds of Freudian Excuse can be taken. It's often very wealthy and powerful, when it's not royalty ...

This trope covers examples where multiple family members are bonded together by the love of their family, not just examples where one person is inspired by said ...

The I Have a Family trope as used in popular culture. Someone is caught by the villain. That someone is being (or is about to be) tortured, or killed. For …

This is an extremely common practice in animation where, to establish a familial relationship, a child looks more or less identical to one of their parents, ...