filicide theme
A character murders their own child.
Examples
In tz1959e1x13 "The Four of Us Are Dying", a disappointed father took it upon himself to shoot the man he believed to be his own wayward son.
11 total · 1 choice · 4 major · 6 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahh3x12 | choice | Ernest Mullett murdered his brother Farnum Mullett, just as Cain murdered Abel in the Bible. |
| ahh1x25 | major | Ralph "accidentally" strangle murdered his stepson, Robbie. |
| ahp3x32 | major | The grand revelation of the story is that a mother had murdered her estranged and straying daughter. |
| tc1983e02 | major | Cleopatra Thea reluctantly accepted the title of Queen Mother, rather than Queen proper, of Syria when her son Seleucus seized the throne. She resorted to poisoning him at the dinner table to make way for her much preferred younger son, Grypus. She later tried the same tactic on Grypus, but he was wise to the danger and forced her to drink the poison herself. |
| tftc1989e7x01 | major | Lord Mycroft had a clever scheme to do in his two ill-bread sons. He tricked the older into murdering the younger, and then scared the older one to death. |
| apuleius180tgab10inset2 | minor | A woman callously poison murdered her own daughter in an effort to secure her husband's inheritance. |
| gdtcoc2022e08 | minor | Claudette had drown her son and then did herself in. |
| movie: Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | minor | Thanos reluctantly hurled his adoptive daughter Gamora over the side of a cliff to her death, because he needed to sacrifice someone he loved in order to obtain the Soul Stone. |
| movie: Cyborg Soldier (2008) | minor | Lindsey uncovered that Isaac, before being transformed into a robot-like cyborg, had been convicted for the murders of his wife and two young daughters. Isaac was vindicated in the end, however, as it turned out he'd been framed. |
| tc1983e01 | minor | Ptolemy VIII, known also as Potbelly, took revenge on his sister Cleopatra II by murdering their only son Memphites, his sister's only male child and heir, and sending her his dismembered corpse as a birthday present. |