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Fratricide (from the Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 word frater, meaning: "brother" and cide meaning to kill) is the act of a person killing his or her brother.

Related concepts are sororicide
Sororicide

Sororicide is the act of killing one's own sister.There are a number of examples of sororicide and fratricide in adolescents, even pre-adolescents, where sibling rivalry and resulting physical aggression can get out of hand and lead to the death of one of them, particularly if a firearm is available or if one is significantly older than t...
 (the killing of one's sister), child murder
Child murder

The murder of children is considered a particularly abhorrent crime in most societies; they are perceived within their communities and the state at large as being vulnerable, and therefore especially susceptible to abduction and murder....
 (the killing of an unrelated child), infanticide
Infanticide

Infanticide is the practice of someone intentionally causing the death of an infant. Often it is the mother who commits the act, but criminology recognizes various forms of non-maternal child murder....
 (the killing of a child under the age of one year), filicide
Filicide

Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. The word filicide derives from the Latin word filius meaning "son"....
 (the killing of one's child), patricide
Patricide

Patricide is the act of killing one's father, or a person who kills his or her father. The word patricide derives from the Latin word pater and the Latin suffix -cida ....
 (the killing of one's father), matricide
Matricide

Matricide is the act of killing one's mother. As for any type of killing, Motive can vary a great deal....
 (the killing of one's mother), mariticide
Mariticide

Mariticide literally means the murder of one's married partner, but has become most associated with the murder of a husband by his wife, as the reverse is given the name uxoricide....
 (the killing of one's husband) and uxoricide
Uxoricide

Uxoricide is murder of one's wife. It can refer to the act itself or the man who carries it out. Overkill is reported to be common in these slayings, presumably reflecting the emotional state of the killer....
 (the killing of one's wife).






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Fratricide (from the Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 word frater, meaning: "brother" and cide meaning to kill) is the act of a person killing his or her brother.

Related concepts are sororicide
Sororicide

Sororicide is the act of killing one's own sister.There are a number of examples of sororicide and fratricide in adolescents, even pre-adolescents, where sibling rivalry and resulting physical aggression can get out of hand and lead to the death of one of them, particularly if a firearm is available or if one is significantly older than t...
 (the killing of one's sister), child murder
Child murder

The murder of children is considered a particularly abhorrent crime in most societies; they are perceived within their communities and the state at large as being vulnerable, and therefore especially susceptible to abduction and murder....
 (the killing of an unrelated child), infanticide
Infanticide

Infanticide is the practice of someone intentionally causing the death of an infant. Often it is the mother who commits the act, but criminology recognizes various forms of non-maternal child murder....
 (the killing of a child under the age of one year), filicide
Filicide

Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. The word filicide derives from the Latin word filius meaning "son"....
 (the killing of one's child), patricide
Patricide

Patricide is the act of killing one's father, or a person who kills his or her father. The word patricide derives from the Latin word pater and the Latin suffix -cida ....
 (the killing of one's father), matricide
Matricide

Matricide is the act of killing one's mother. As for any type of killing, Motive can vary a great deal....
 (the killing of one's mother), mariticide
Mariticide

Mariticide literally means the murder of one's married partner, but has become most associated with the murder of a husband by his wife, as the reverse is given the name uxoricide....
 (the killing of one's husband) and uxoricide
Uxoricide

Uxoricide is murder of one's wife. It can refer to the act itself or the man who carries it out. Overkill is reported to be common in these slayings, presumably reflecting the emotional state of the killer....
 (the killing of one's wife). See also siblicide
Siblicide

Siblicide , the death of an individual by its close relatives may occur directly between siblings or indirectly across the parent-offspring relationship and is seen to have beneficial indirect results for the Genetics viability of a population or direct results for the recipient individuals....


The term may also be used to refer to friendly fire
Friendly fire

Friendly fire or non-hostile fire, a term originally adopted by the United States Armed Forces, refers to Shooting from one's own side or allied forces, as opposed to fire coming from enemy forces....
 incidents. In a United States military context, it may also refer to an incident where the catastrophic failure and disintegration of one jet engine
Jet engine

A jet engine is a reaction engine that discharges a fast moving jet of fluid to generate thrust in accordance with Isaac Newton Newton's laws of motion....
 in a twin-engined fighter aircraft
Fighter aircraft

A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat with other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed primarily to attack ground targets by dropping bombs....
 causes the damage or destruction of the second engine, and possibly leads to the loss of the entire aircraft. It also refers to the possible destruction of one MIRV warhead by another.

Fratricide in legend and fiction


Legend and mythology

  • Medea
    Medea

    Medea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of Aeetes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children: Mermeros and Pheres....
     killed her brother Apsyrtus in order to help Jason
    Jason

    Jason was a late ancient Greece Greek mythology figure, famous as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus....
     escape Colchis after obtaining the Golden Fleece
    Golden Fleece

    In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece is the fleece of the winged ram Chrysomallos . It figures in the tale of Jason and his band of Argonauts, who set out on a quest for the fleece in order to place Jason rightfully on the throne of Iolcus in Thessaly....
    . (Greek myth)
  • In Völuspá
    Völuspá

    V?lusp? is the first and best known poem of the Poetic Edda. It tells the story of the creation of the world and its coming end related by a v?lva addressing Odin....
    , the forecast of the world in Nordic mythology, one of the signs of the end of the world is an increase in fratricides.
  • Höðr
    Höðr

    H??r is the brother of Baldr in Norse mythology. Guided by Loki he shot the mistletoe missile which was to slay the otherwise invulnerable Baldr....
     murders his brother, Baldur in Nordic mythology.
  • Romulus
    Romulus

    Romulus may refer to any of these articles:...
     killed Remus
    Remus

    Remus could refer to any of the following:* Remus, twin brother of the mythical founder of Rome, Romulus ? see Romulus and Remus* Remus , the twin of the Romulans' fictional homeworld in Star Trek...
    , his twin brother and co-founder of Rome
    Rome

    Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
    .
  • Osiris
    Osiris

    Osiris was an Egyptian mythology, usually called the god of the Afterlife.Osiris is one of the oldest gods for whom records have been found; one of the oldest known attestations of his name is on the Palermo Stone of around 2500 BC....
    , one of the principal deities of Egyptian mythology
    Egyptian mythology

    Ancient Egyptian religion encompasses the various religious beliefs and rituals practiced in ancient Egypt over at least 3,000 years, from the Predynastic Egypt until the adoption of Coptic Christianity in the early centuries Common Era....
    , was murdered by his evil brother Set
    Set (mythology)

    In Ancient Egyptian religion, Set is an ancient god, who was originally the god of the desert, Storms, Darkness, and Chaos. Because of the developments in the Egyptian language over the 3,000 years that Set was worshipped, by the Greek period, the t in Seth was pronounced so indistinguishably from th that the Greeks spelled it a...
    . His wife and sister Isis
    ISIS

    ISIS is an industry standard interface for technologies, developed by Pixel Translations in 1990 .ISIS is an open standard for scanner control and a complete image-processing framework....
     resurrected him and he became the god of the dead and the underworld.
  • Eteocles
    Eteocles

    In Greek mythology, Eteocles was a king of Thebes , the son of Oedipus and either Jocasta or Euryganeia. The name is from earlier *Etewoklewes , meaning "truly glorious"....
     and Polynices
    Polynices

    In Greek mythology, Polynices or Polyneices was the son of Oedipus and Jocasta. His wife was Argea. His father, Oedipus, was discovered to have killed his father and married his mother, and was expelled from Thebes , leaving his sons Eteocles and Polynices to rule....
     kill each other in ensuing battle over the throne of Thebes, Greece
    Thebes, Greece

    Thebes is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, Greece, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain....
     in Sophocles
    Sophocles

    Sophocles was the second of the three classical Greece tragedy whose work has survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus and earlier than those of Euripides....
    ' Antigone (Sophocles)
    Antigone (Sophocles)

    Antigone is a tragedy by Sophocles written before or in 442 BC. Chronologically, it is the third of the three Theban plays but was written first....
    .
  • When both change into different armor, Sir Balin
    Sir Balin

    Sir Balin le Savage, also known as the Knight with Two Swords, is a character in the Arthurian legend. A knight before the Round Table was formed, Sir Balin hails from Northumberland, and is associated with Sir Balan, his brother, who destroy each other in one-on-one battle....
     and Sir Balan
    Sir Balan

    Sir Balan le Savage, brother of Sir Balin from Northumberland, is a minor character mentioned in various Arthurian legends. His story is retold, along with his brother's, in The Ballad of Balin and Balan, Book II in Malory Le Morte d'Arthur and by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson in Idylls of the King....
     kill each other in a duel, with Balin shortly outliving his brother and realizing what had happened, according to Arthurian Legend.
  • The Biblical story of Cain and Abel
    Cain and Abel

    Cain and Abel were the first and second sons of Adam and Eve in the religions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism.Their story is told in and the Qur'an at 5:26-32....
    .


Literature and film

  • Claudius
    King Claudius

    King Claudius is a fictional character from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. He is the brother to King Hamlet, second husband to Gertrude and uncle to Prince Hamlet....
     killed King Hamlet
    King Hamlet

    King Hamlet is a character from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, also known as The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. He should not be confused with his son, Prince Hamlet, who is the central figure of the play....
    , his brother, and married his sister-in-law, Gertrude
    Gertrude (Hamlet)

    In William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Gertrude is Prince Hamlet's mother and Queen of Denmark. Her relationship with Hamlet is somewhat turbulent, since he resents her for marrying her husband's brother King Claudius after he murdered the King ....
    , in order to become King of Denmark in William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
    's Hamlet
    Hamlet

    Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
    .
  • In the Thomas Harris
    Thomas Harris

    Thomas Harris is an United States author and screenwriter, best known for a series of novels about his most famous character, psychopathic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter, who has since become a cultural icon....
     novel Hannibal
    Hannibal (novel)

    Hannibal is a suspense novel by Thomas Harris, the third in his series featuring his iconic character Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the cannibalistic sociopath and psychiatriatry....
    , Margot Verger kills her brother Mason
    Mason Verger

    Mason R. Verger is a fictional character in Thomas Harris' novel Hannibal ....
     as revenge
    Revenge

    Revenge is a harmful action against a person or group as a response to a wrongdoing. Although many aspects of revenge resemble the concept of justice, revenge connotes a more injurious and punishment focus as opposed to a harmonious and restorative one....
     for his abuse
    Abuse

    Abuse refers to the use or treatment of something that is harmful. It can be classed by the target of abuse or the type of abuse....
     of her when they were younger, as she was encouraged to do by her former therapist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter
    Hannibal Lecter

    Hannibal Lecter, Doctor of Medicine is a fictional character in a series of novels by author Thomas Harris. Lecter is introduced in the Thriller Red Dragon as a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalism serial killer....
    .
  • In William Faulkner
    William Faulkner

    William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize in Literature-winning United States author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short story....
    's Absalom, Absalom!
    Absalom, Absalom!

    Absalom, Absalom! is a Southern Gothic novel by the United States author William Faulkner, published in 1937. It is a story about three families of the Southern United States, taking place before, during, and after the American Civil War, with the focus of the story on the life of Thomas Sutpen....
    , Henry Sutpen murders his half-brother Charles Bon.
  • In Kathryn Lasky
    Kathryn Lasky

    Kathryn Lasky is the American author of many critically acclaimed books, including several Dear America books, several The Royal Diaries books, 1984 Newbery Honor winning Sugaring Time, The Night Journey , and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series....
    's series Guardians of Ga'hoole
    Guardians of Ga'hoole

    Guardians of Ga'Hoole is a children's fiction book series written by Kathryn Lasky and illustrated by Richard Chowder. There is also an upcoming movie of the same name, based on the series....
    , Kludd attempts to kill his brother Soren
    Soren (Guardians of Ga'Hoole)

    Soren is one of the lead characters from the New York Times best-selling Guardians of Ga'Hoole series.Soren lived peacefully in a fir tree in the Forest Kingdom of Tyto....
     by pushing him out of the nest.
  • In the manga version of Naruto
    Naruto

    is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The plot tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become a World of Naruto#Kage, the ninja in his village that is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all....
    , Sasuke Uchiha
    Sasuke Uchiha

    is a Character in the Naruto manga and anime series created by Masashi Kishimoto. He was created as a rival and foil to the series' titular character, Naruto Uzumaki, with his design causing difficulties for Kishimoto during drawing the manga scenes, although he has grown to enjoy drawing Sasuke....
     kills his older brother Itachi in revenge for slaughtering the Uchiha clan.
  • In Ludwig Kakumei
    Ludwig Kakumei

    is a Gothic fiction Horror fiction shojo manga by Kaori Yuki. The story tells about Prince Ludwig who is ordered by his father to find himself a wife more suitable than the women he often brings into the castle....
    , Julius makes several attempts to kill his step brother Ludwig, but fails. Julius thought he succeeded in his most recent attempt on Ludwig's life in the final chapters, but Ludwig was revived thanks to Dorothea's efforts.
  • In Invincible
    Invincible (Star Wars novel)

    Invincible is the ninth and final culminating book in the Legacy of the Force series. It is a novel by Troy Denning and was released on May 13, 2008....
    , the last book in the Star Wars: Legacy of the Force series, Jedi Knight Jaina Solo
    Jaina Solo

    Jaina Solo is a fictional character from the Star Wars Expanded Universe , the eldest child of Han Solo and Princess Leia Organa. She is also the elder twin of Jacen Solo by five minutes and the sister of Anakin Solo....
     is forced to kill her twin brother Jacen in a lightsaber duel, after Jacen turns to the Dark Side and becomes a Sith Lord.


Film and television

  • Michael Corleone
    Michael Corleone

    Don Michael Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novels, The Godfather and The Sicilian. He is also the main character of the film trilogy that was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in which he was portrayed by Al Pacino....
     (in The Godfather, Part II) has his brother Fredo
    Fredo Corleone

    Frederico "Fredo" Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather. In the fictional universe of the novel and its The Godfather, he is the middle brother to Sonny Corleone and Michael Corleone , elder brother to Connie Corleone and son of Vito Corleone , head of a powerful Mafia family....
     shot.
  • Scar
    Scar (The Lion King)

    Scar is a Disney character and the main antagonist in Walt Disney Pictures' popular 1994 animated movie The Lion King. He was voiced by Jeremy Irons in The Lion King and his supervising animator was Andreas Deja....
     murders his older brother Mufasa
    Mufasa

    Mufasa is a lion who first appeared in The Walt Disney Company popular 1994 animated feature film The Lion King. He was voiced by James Earl Jones....
     in order to usurp his throne in The Lion King
    The Lion King

    The Lion King is a American Animation film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, released in theaters on June 15, 1994 by Walt Disney Pictures....
     (it should be noted that the Lion King was based on Hamlet).
  • In the 1979 anime, Mobile Suit Gundam
    Mobile Suit Gundam

    is a televised anime series, created by Sunrise . Written and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network between April 7, 1979 and January 26, 1980, spanning 43 episodes....
    , Kycilia Zabi
    Kycilia Zabi

    In the fictional Mobile Suit Gundam series, is the only daughter of Degwin Sodo Zabi. While Yoshiyuki Tomino's novel version of MSG indicates her as the fourth of his five children and youngest except for Garma Zabi, the ongoing Gundam: The Origin manga by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko identifies her as his third, older than her brother Dozle Z...
     kills her brother, Gihren Zabi
    Gihren Zabi

    is a fictional character, and antagonist from the universe of the Gundam anime series. He was voiced by the veteran seiyu, Banjo Ginga in the original Japanese version....
    , to avenge her father's death.
  • In Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive
    Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive

    Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive is an United States television program, the fifteenth season of the Power Rangers franchise based on the Super Sentai series GoGo Sentai Boukenger, which is also the thirtieth entry and anniversary of that franchise....
    , Flurious destroys his own brother Moltor, by freezing him and shattering him.
  • Dan Scott
    Dan Scott

    Daniel "Dan" Robert Scott is a fictional character on the The CW Television Network television series One Tree Hill played by Paul Johansson....
     killed his older brother Keith Scott
    Keith Scott

    Keith Douglas Scott is a Canada guitar player. He is best known for his long-term collaboration with the singer-songwriter Bryan Adams. He has also worked with Cher, Tina Turner, Bryan Ferry, Tom Cochrane, Craig Northey and other musicians....
     on One Tree Hill
    One Tree Hill (TV series)

    One Tree Hill is a Teen drama which takes place in a small fictional North Carolina town. It was created by Mark Schwahn and premiered on September 23, 2003 on The WB Television Network....
     for what he thought was an attempt on his life. Later it was revealed that he killed his brother for no reason when his ex-wife Deb
    Deb

    Deb or DEB may mean:* deb , a software package format used by the Debian project* A debutante* Deborah, a name* Eugene Debs, a politician...
     confessed to the deed.
  • In Metalocalypse
    Metalocalypse

    Metalocalypse is an United States animated television series on Adult Swim created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha that premiered in August 2006....
    , Pickles attempts to kill his brother whenever he becomes extremely annoyed with his behavior and criminal tactics.
  • In the anime Code Geass, Lelouch Lamperouge
    Lelouch Lamperouge

    is the Byronic hero protagonist of the Sunrise anime series Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Lamperouge is his assumed surname, while his real name is , son of the 98th Britannian Emperor....
     kills his half-brother Clovis la Britannia, in order to stop a massacre ordered to cover up the loss and recovery of an illegal research subject.
  • In the anime Shaman King
    Shaman King

    , also known as "Mankin", is a manga and anime series by Hiroyuki Takei. The manga ended prematurely in Japan with 32 volumes in total. The anime concluded its run with a total of 64 episodes....
    , Yoh Asakura kills his twin brother Hao in order to prevent his genocidal agenda against humanity.
  • In the season 1 finale of Dexter
    Dexter (TV series)

    Dexter is an American television drama series that airs on American pay TV Showtime. It is based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay and adapted for television by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter James Manos, Jr., who wrote the pilot episode....
    , Dexter murders his older brother, the "Ice-Truck Killer". This is the conclusion of a major story arc in the first season.
  • Nino Brown kills his brother G Money in "New Jack City" for disloyalty, and as the only way for Nino to start over. G Money asks "am I my brother's keeper".
  • In Naruto
    Naruto

    is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The plot tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become a World of Naruto#Kage, the ninja in his village that is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all....
    , Sasuke killed his brother, Itachi, for murdering his clan.
  • In From Dusk Till Dawn
    From Dusk Till Dawn

    From Dusk till Dawn is a 1996 in film Action film/horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino. The movie stars George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino, and Juliette Lewis....
    , Seth kills his brother Richie, who has turned into a vampire. Kate is forced to do the same with her brother, Scott.


Video games

  • In Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
    Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly

    Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, known in Japan as and in Europe as Project Zero II: Crimson Butterfly, is the second installment in the Fatal Frame series....
    , when twin girls were not available, twin brothers were used in a ritual in which one brother strangles the other. The one documented occurrence of this is when Itsuki Tachibana killed his brother Mutsuki. It is implied that Ryokan Kurosawa, the father of Yae and Sae Kurosawa, also killed his twin brother.
  • In Final Fantasy XII
    Final Fantasy XII

    is a single-player console role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2. Released in 2006, it is the twelfth installment in the Final Fantasy series....
    , Vayne Solidor, the main antagonist and eventual final boss, kills two of his older brothers at the order of his father, Emperor Gramis Solidor (whom Vayne eventually kills as well).
  • In Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
    Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

    Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, also known simply as Soul Reaver, is a third-person narrative Adventure game video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Eidos Interactive....
    , Raziel
    Raziel (Legacy of Kain)

    Raziel is a fictional character, an anti-hero that appears in the Legacy of Kain series of video games, specifically Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 and Legacy of Kain: Defiance....
     kills his vampire brothers as he seeks out his creator Kain
    Kain (Legacy of Kain)

    Kain is a major fictional character and the titular character that appears in the Legacy of Kain series of video games. Depending on the game and its viewpoint, Kain has been either the central protagonist, or an antagonist, but in all his depictions he is an anti-hero, interested only in his own goals....
    .
  • In the Metal Gear (series)
    Metal Gear (series)

    is a critically acclaimed series of stealth games created by Hideo Kojima and video game developer and video game publisher by Konami. In the series, the player takes control of a Special Forces Operative repeatedly facing off against the latest incarnation of the eponymous superweapon "Metal Gear "; a bipedal mecha with nuclear weapon launchin...
    , Solid Snake commits fratricide and patricide.
  • In Devil May Cry, Dante kills his twin brother Vergil (under the guise of Nelo Angelo), unaware of the fact that Nelo Angelo was actually his twin brother. In the novels, he thought he had killed Vergil after shooting him while he was under the guise of Gilver.
  • In Mortal Kombat: Deception
    Mortal Kombat: Deception

    Mortal Kombat: Deception is a fighting game developed and published by Midway Games as a new installment for the Mortal Kombat series. Deception was developed for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in October 2004, while a Nintendo GameCube version was published in March 2005....
    , Noob Saibot
    Noob Saibot

    Noob Saibot is a video game character from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. He debuted as a hidden character in Mortal Kombat II , although the later game Mortal Kombat: Deception established his true identity as that of the original Sub-Zero from the first Mortal Kombat , who was killed by his nemesis Scorpion prio...
    's ending shows him violently murdering his own brother, Sub-Zero with the help of Smoke by ripping him in half.
  • In Galerians
    Galerians

    is a PlayStation video game developed by Polygon Magic. It was originally published in Japan by Enterbrain, and published by Crave Entertainment for North America....
    , protagonist Rion Steiner kills his "brother" Cain, who strongly resembles him.
  • In Portal, the player earns the "Fratricide" achievement upon destroying the Weighted Companion Cube.
  • In one of the endings of Baroque
    Baroque

    In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
    , the protagonist kills his twin brother.


Other


Ottoman Empire


In the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 a policy of judicial royal fratricide was introduced by Sultan Mehmet II. When a new Sultan ascended to the throne he would imprison all of his surviving brothers and kill them by strangulation with a silk cord as soon as he had produced his first male heir. The largest killing took place on the succession of Mehmed III
Mehmed III

Mehmed III Adli was born at Manisa Palace a son of Murad III, whom he succeeded as sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death....
 when 16 of his brothers were killed and buried with their father. The aim was to prevent civil war as Islamic cultures had no fixed rules for royal succession (such as primogeniture
Primogeniture

Primogeniture is the common law right of the firstborn son to inherit the entire Estate , to the exclusion of younger siblings. It is the tradition brought by the Normans to England in 1066....
) and bloody conflicts would erupt as the old king was approaching the end. The practice was abandoned in the 17th century by Ahmed I
Ahmed I

Ahmed I Bakhti was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 until his death in 1617. His mother was Valide Sultan Handan Sultan, :tr:Handan Sultan, originally named Helena , a Greeks....
, replaced by imprisonment in the Kafes
Kafes

Kafes, literally "the cage", was the part of the Imperial Harem of the Ottoman Empire Palace where possible successors to the throne were kept under a form of house-arrest and constant surveillance by the palace guards....
. This practice is alleged to have sent several future Sultans mad.