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Hereditary Curse
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A Hereditary Curse is a particular type of supernatural curse, that is passed from parent to offspring, usually until the entire family line(s) die out (and the curse with it) or unless they find some way to break the curse. Usually, it was specifically placed upon the family by someone else, but sometimes it can be the result of Karma received or Black Magic performed by an originating family member. In some cases, it can even be the price paid for making a particular vow. The existence of a Hereditary Curse usually makes breaking it one of the primary motivators for a character carrying that curse. Sometimes the way to break the curse is already known; other times the character must discover it for themselves. Often the character who appears in a work of fiction with the curse is the last surviving member of their family, and therefore the only one who has any hope of breaking the curse. This need not always be the case, however. Not to be confused with In the Blood, which is when there is a fear that having evil ancestors might make you evil; It Runs in the Family, which describes a family of eccentric and sometimes crazy relatives; and Sins of Our Fathers, which involves any example of a character or group taking revenge on a long dead person's descendants. A Sub-Trope of Curse. If a curse turns one into a monster, then the first ancestor to suffer it is the Monster Progenitor. If the curse causes one to die early, it can be a case of Your Days Are Numbered. |
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The Thorburn family in Pact has inherited a horrific karmic balance due to the last seven generations of the family practicing diabolism, which serves to tilt the odds against them and subtly influences other people to dislike them on sight. | |
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Teen Wolf's werewolfism is passed down from parent to child. It totally freaks him out because he had no idea; his father didn't tell him because sometimes it skips a generation. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Lupin is overcome with guilt when his wife becomes pregnant because he's worried that his lycanthropy might be this. Fortunately, the kid takes after his mother instead. | |
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In Sluggy Freelance, the corrupt God of Justice released the god of destruction in a bid to assassinate Krohnus and become the new Top God. While the plot ultimately failed, it did manage to kill off Krohnus's wife and son. Enraged, Krohnus placed the former God of Justice under a curse of blindness that would afflict him and his descendants for all time. In the modern day, the curse has been diluted to the point that his current descendants can see, their eyes are just overly sensitive, to the point that they wear Sunglasses at Night. | |
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In The Silver Eye, Melete Dolan, a Nedarian, grants a curse to Bhatair Hollingsworth for saving her from a painful imprisonment. He lets his father, Walter, choose the curse instead. Unfortunately, the curse backlashed and brought their family more trouble. Little is known about it, except that it is most definitely hereditary. | |
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A Nameless Witch: The curse on the protagonist's bloodline is that the sixth child of every generation "shall be made a gruesome abomination". | |
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Haven takes a literal approach to the trope. The "Troubles" are the name for the 500-year-old curse upon the town, inflicting families with undesirable, uncontrollable, and often violent supernatural abilities. The Troubles are genetic and are triggered by an emotionally scarring event, making their appearance random and unpredictable. The curse varies by family, but it's almost always deadly—to other people, the Troubled person, or both. And the only person who can stop them is the one person who is immune to them. | |
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The Mermaid's Daughter: Fand, also known as The Little Mermaid, sacrificed her tongue and lived in horrible pain so she could live as a human. She passed on her mermaid nature to her descendants. Any mermaid living in human form will suffer severe chronic pain in her feet and tongue, so eight generations of women lived lives full of suffering. | |
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In Achewood, both Pat and his father magically became homosexual due to the curse of Gladdington castle, wherein an ancestor of theirs was cursed such that all of his sons and their sons thereafter would become homosexual at the age of 26. | |
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Dragonlance: The New Adventures: Nearra and Jirah's ancestor, Anselm, was cursed with the Trinistyr that no member of his family would have magical power until one of them broke the curse...which, of course, required magical power. Fortunately, after her possession by Asvoria, Nearra has some limited magic. | |
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Llewellyn of Ozy and Millie has a curse upon his family, that they'll all lose their hair every year. Llewellyn and his family are dragons. It didn't come up much until he adopted Ozy, a fox. | |
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Maris Stella: Due to an incident with the Miraculous, every Akimoto's first love — the first person who confesses to them, or that they confess to — is doomed to die tragically. Yukari's girlfriend Lita is currently dying of this curse, which is why she stole the Butterfly Miraculous to become Riodinidae. | |
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In Eberron this happened to the entire race of Gyrderi, who were trapped in their wild shapes when they helped their enslaved kin fight for freedom. | |
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In Practical Magic, all the witches in the family are cursed in that any man they fall in love with is doomed to die an untimely death. | |
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The Dresden Files Harley MacFinn in Fool Moon. Allegedly, St. Patrick himself cursed the entire family line to become Loup-Garou (super-werewolves) during the full moon. The curse also manipulates fate to make sure the family line never goes extinct (there's always at least one of them who reproduces at least once before their death). In the side story "Curses", King Gwynn (a Welsh Fey) confirmed that this is the type of curse he personally placed on the Chicago Cubs. He was annoyed that they removed him (in his goat form) from the 1945 World Series for smelling bad, but kept the curse going as part of the tradition of the game. See the Cub's entry below for more. |
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Supernatural: In Season 6, Sam and Dean discover that the victims of a series of gruesome freak accidents are all distantly related. Dean questions a member of the family, asking if any of his ancestors were Nazis or pissed off a gypsy. It turns out that the whole episode takes place in an AU in which the Titanic never sank and all the victims are descendants of the survivors who shouldn't have survived. |
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In Oblivion's Knights of the Nine expansion, there is a man named Kellen in the Chapel of Stendarr who was cursed by something stupid his ancestor did. He's bedridden and can hardly stand from the fatigue caused by the curse. Naturally, the Player Character has to lift the curse and cure him. | |
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Techwolf of the Whateley Universe. An amiable gadgeteer genius who, due to a witch's curse on one of his ancestors, looks like a seven foot tall werewolf all the time. | |
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In Inuyasha, Miroku's family was cursed by Naraku with the Wind Tunnel: a black hole in the palm of the right hand that's passed down through each generation. The Wind Tunnel absorbs everything in front of it unless sealed by enchanted prayer beads. While it it can be used as a powerful weapon, the Wind Tunnel's constant expansion makes it a ticking time bomb. Eventually, it will grow too large for the beads to contain it and consume its bearer and all that surrounds him as it collapses in on itself. Miroku's father and grandfather before him both died young when their Wind Tunnels consumed them. While the rate of expansion can be slowed to a point, it is impossible to stop. The time until the expansion reaches critical mass can only be given very rough estimates. The only way for Miroku to free himself and his descendants from this fate is to kill Naraku before his time is up. | |
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In Labyrinths of Echo, the descendants of the Moon Bulls clan are cursed to turn into Extreme Doormats during full moon. | |
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In Tales of the Frog Princess: Once Upon a Curse, Princess Emma goes back in time in a desperate attempt to break the curse that haunts the females in her family: After they turn sixteen, if they come into contact with a flower, they turn into disagreeable, argumentative, unlovable hags. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, Eugene Greenhilt makes a Blood Oath to kill Xykon, who had murdered his master. One of the downsides amounts to this, as neither he nor his descendants can get into the afterlife until the oath is fulfilled. Turns out he misunderstood the conditions — when Roy temporarily dies, he's allowed in in because, unlike Eugene who simply gave up, Roy died trying to fulfill the oath to the best of his ability. | |
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The plot of Holes is driven by a bad luck curse on Stanley Yelnats' family as well as that of Warden Lois Walker: Due to an ancestor cheating a Gypsy by accident. After getting sent to a juvenile detention camp for a crime that he didn't commit, Stanley winds up unintentionally breaking the curse after he pays off the debt to the Gypsy's descendant by doing what his ancestor had promised with them. Late in the story it's revealed that Warden Walker's grandfather, Trout Walker, the de facto ruler of Green Lake, was cursed after he led the lynch mob that murdered Sam after he and Kate Barlow fell in love. As part of the curse, the lush Green Lake became an arid desert, and Kissing Kate Barlow cursed Trout by telling him that he and his descendants will never find her treasure, which included the wealth and worldly possessions of Stanley Yelnats I. The curse is finally broken when Stanley finds the treasure that the Warden was forced by Trout to help him find, and she was arrested for using the camps inmates as slave labor, and for hiding the possibility that Stanley and Zero had died in the desert. |
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The titular house of Hurog is cursed. While the curse mentions something from hell, things haven't been running smoothly for the family for quite some time, and the protagonist suspects the curse is already in effect, while his uncle thinks the horse that killed the protagonist's father will bring the curse about. When Ward talks to the person who wrote the curse on the wall of the main hall, it turns out it is more of a prophecy, and has nothing to do with the horse. (Which is given a cutesy name by Ward, and turns out to be a Cool Horse, which was only so wild because it was mistreated by Ward's father.) | |
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Metal Gear: Otacon believes that everyone in the Emmerich family is to suffer misfortune when they get involved with nuclear weapons. His grandfather was part of the Manhattan Project and was filled with guilt, his father, Huey, was born on the day of the Hiroshima bomb, who would then develop the Peace Walker AI, and then betray his allies for his own protection, cumulating in him being ousted and later drowning himself after discovering his second wife was sleeping with his son. Emma Emmerich would be forced onto the development of Arsenal Gear, and she would tragically be murdered before being given a chance to redeem herself. | |
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Turning Red: Meilin Lee's distant ancestor Sun Yee prayed to the gods for a way to protect her family and village from hostile forces during one of the more tumultuous periods of Chinese history and received the ability to become a supernaturally powerful red panda of monstrous size under the influence of intense emotion... along with her daughters... and their daughters... and their daughters... and so forth across centuries and continents until (as Ming Lee (belatedly) explained to her teenage daughter in 2002 Toronto): | |
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In Wynonna Earp, the Earp family is the subject of a demonic curse. Everyone slain by Wyatt Earp is returned from Hell as demonic revenants, and are trapped within the region known as the Black River Triangle. When the heir of the family comes of age they must attempt to end the curse by killing all the revenants with the magical Peacemaker gun. Any revenants the heir manages to slay return to Hell until the heir dies, becoming more unstable and demonic each time. | |
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InCryptid: James Smith's family has been under a curse for hundreds of years, though he doesn't know it at first. It turns out that his ancestor made a deal with the Crossroads to ensure that his sorcerer genes would breed true (sorcery often skips a generation or two), to ensure the safety of New Gravesend. The Crossroads interpreted that to mean there must always be a sorcerer of this family line in New Gravesend. Therefore, they can never leave the town limits. There also only needs to be one sorcerer at a time, so as soon as a child's powers manifest, their sorcerer parent dies. | |
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The premise of Milo Murphy's Law is that the title character, whose ancestor coined "Murphy's Law," was Born Unlucky but cheerfully tries to endure the crazy things that happen to him and those around him. Word of God says that the curse only affects men in his family, which explains why his father has the same condition, but his sister Sara doesn't. | |
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Wolfman: The eldest son of the Glasgow family is cursed to become a werewolf. | |
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Jack Russell a.k.a. Werewolf by Night inherited his werewolf curse from his father, who in turn got it from one of his ancestors who was bitten by a werewolf. However, because said ancestor was bitten after he had already fathered his children the curse remained dormant for a long time: though it was passed along none of his descendants actually became werewolves. This changed when Jack's father read the Darkhold, a Tome of Eldritch Lore, which triggered the curse to become active. | |
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A rather sweet one from I Know Where I'm Going! to any MacNeil who dares enter Moy Castle: This is the curse of Catriona MacLaine of Erraig: My curse on MacNeil of Kiloran and every MacNeil after him, if he shall ever cross the threshold of Moy, he’ll never leave a free man. He shall be chained to a woman to the end of his days and shall die in his chains.� | |
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Moongobble and Me: Book 5 explains that four hundred years ago, a member of the Nork family had been cursed so that he and each of his descendants would be turned into an Oggledy (something like an ogre, but nicer). The curse also causes each generation to produce at least two sons, one of whom must stay at Fortress Nork, while the other becomes an Oggledy in turn. Eventually, it's explained that the first Nork had been a were-toad who fell in love with another were-toad, but when she broke his curse, he abandoned her for the woman he was already betrothed to, leading her to place the Oggledy curse on he and his family. Generations later, when Edward unwittingly breaks Susan's were-toad curse, it also breaks half the curse on the current Oggledy Nork, turning him into a Half-Oggledy, who presents the Old Woman with a letter from his ancestor explaining that the whole thing was a misunderstanding: his ancestor had actually left her in order to visit his betrothed and end their engagement, thus allowing him to marry Susan. Unfortunately, Susan cursed him before she could receive the letter explaining this. | |
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The Enchanted Files: In Diary of a Mad Brownie / Cursed, the Cairns family of brownies have carried one for a few hundred years, ever since Seamus Cairns helped Ewan McGonagall and the Queen's daughter, the Princess of Sunshine, send messages back and forth until they fell in love, causing the Princess to leave the Enchanted Realm to be with him until he died. It affects the human family each brownie is living with, bringing misery on them, but only if a male human is living in the house. | |
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From The Legend of Zelda franchise, a hereditary curse has a name: Ganon. After being defeated by the very first Link and Zelda in Skyward Sword, the Demon King Demise places a Dying Curse on them, such that their descendants will forever be forced to do battle with a living incarnation of his hatred. | |
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Harley MacFinn in Fool Moon. Allegedly, St. Patrick himself cursed the entire family line to become Loup-Garou (super-werewolves) during the full moon. The curse also manipulates fate to make sure the family line never goes extinct (there's always at least one of them who reproduces at least once before their death). | |
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In Graven Hunter Files novel Death by Demon, Andvari Nagelfar curses Kyrie and all of her ancestors for killing his son. Protagonist Sye receives the curse and has to convince Andvari to drop the curse so that Andvari can pass on to the afterlife. | |
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Scooter Girl: Ashton's grandpa tells him that in Elizabethan times, their ancestor was cursed by a coven of witches, making women of the Sheldon line their Familial Foe. Subverted later when Ashton realizes it was just the ramblings of a senile old man. | |
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In Fourth Edition Champions, this trope was part of Jaguar's backstory. The Villagatos family had been cursed centuries ago by a rival, the eldest member of the family would turn into a ferocious jaguar under stress. As time passed the curse weakened enough that the current curse-bearer had control of the jaguar's actions, if not the transformation itself. When Santiago Villagatos, a New York City private investigator, found himself the eldest member of the family he was able to use the transformation to become the superhero Jaguar. | |
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In Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story, Jack's family suffers from a curse that kills the sons after exactly 40 years, which is ultimately the result of the original Jack's mother killing the giant, and being cursed to forever watch her descendants die young. | |
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In The King of Fighters, thanks to a blood pact with Orochi, the Yagami clan (formerly the Yasakani) gained more powerful flames—but not without a price. Each heir dies young, while the mother dies during childbirth. In addition, since the clan now has Orochi's blood, this makes them all susceptible to the Riot of the Blood. Iori (the current heir) actually has no care in the world for his family's stigma, although there are hints that Iori is the one destined to finally break the curse. | |
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The premise of Ruddigore is based around this trope. One of the baronets of Ruddigore, having persecuted a number of witches, is finally cursed by one. All the heirs of the title are required by the curse to commit one heinous crime per day or die in agony. Apparently, though, the curse doesn't know how to seek out the legitimate heir when he fakes his own death. And before that, the curse is Logic Bombed by one of the heirs refusing to commit a crime. Doing this is attempted suicide, which is a crime. |
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Penelope (2006) has the titular Penelope receive a hundred plus year old curse on her family that their first born daughter would be ugly until she was accepted by "one of her own." This is why her parents went about trying to get her married, but it turns out the curse can be interpreted as "when she accepts herself." As soon as she becomes okay with the idea she's going to be ugly forever, and it's not a cause for angst, the curse lifts. | |
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In the titular short story in The Bone Key, it's revealed that Booth's mother's family, the Murchisons, have a family curse that will cause their spouses to die young. Any relative affected by the curse, like Booth, will develop white hair by the age of 25. The only way around it is to marry another Murchison, and the family is now dying out due to inbreeding. In a later story, "To Die for Moonlight", one of Booth's relatives tries to arrange a marriage for him with a woman whose family is also cursed, in hopes that the curses might somehow cancel each other out. | |
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Paper Dolls: The source of all those supernatural going-ons that plagues both games turns out to be one of these, passed down the once-prestigious Yin Family after the patriarch, General Yin of the Manchurian Court, orders a village massacred. The family starts getting hit by all kinds of misfortunes, from Madam Yin suffering a miscarriage to a string of mysterious deaths... it gets worse from there. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: Ultimately played straight, though in a roundabout way, with one means to cure Lycanthropy in the series' lore. The means is to infect someone who has a dormant, hereditary version of the disease. Passing it on to such a person removes the disease completely from the original Lycanthrope. In Oblivion's Knights of the Nine expansion, there is a man named Kellen in the Chapel of Stendarr who was cursed by something stupid his ancestor did. He's bedridden and can hardly stand from the fatigue caused by the curse. Naturally, the Player Character has to lift the curse and cure him. |
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The curse of the Haddocks in The Adventures of Tintin. Red Rackham curses Sir Francis Haddock with his last breath, vowing to meet him again in another life. The following generations of the Haddock family are plagued with bad luck until Haddock and Rackham's descendants - Captain Haddock and the villain of the movie - fight it out. | |
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Several examples from The Bible, all the way back to the original sin of Adam (in Christian doctrine) or somewhat later (in Judaism). | |
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Some of the noble families in the Ravenloft setting are saddled with these, such as the propensity to madness displayed by the Hiregaard clan in Legacies of the Blood. One of the most powerful spells introduced as part of the setting allows the caster to inflict this trope upon an enemy and their descendents. | |
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In ''The Entail", Theodore wonders if the original Baron R brought all the misery of Castle R down upon them in the first place with the things he was rumored to have done in his astronomy tower. | |
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Clock Tower: Thanks to their patriarch's demonic sacrifices, a curse was laid upon the Barrows family that at least one child of every generation would be born as a demon to continue the slaughter. | |
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The Niwa and Hikari families in D.N.Angel each have a hereditary curse created by what essentially amounts to an magical accident. The Hikari seems to have gotten the worst of it, as their curse creates a Superpowered Evil Side who tends to act without much regard to his "host", causing members of the Hikari family to all die young. | |
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Subverted in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, where the fate of Joestar family was to die young to protect the world from evil. Such fates befell both Jonathan Joestar and his father, who died at the hands of Dio Brando, and Joseph's father, who was killed by a vampire. Joseph subverts the curse when he appears to die in an erupting volcano, but managed to survive and recuperated in Italy while everyone thought he was dead. He would go on to live into his 90s. Jotaro Kujo lived to his forties before dying at the hands of Enrico Pucci, along with his nineteen-year-old daughter Jolyne, when Pucci hit the universal Reset Button. | |
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In Baalbuddy, there's a recurring character named Virgina Kissless, a skilled knight who despite being a very physically attractive woman, has had no luck in losing her virginity, despite making it abundantly clear that she has almost no standards. For example: she tried faking getting stuck in a hole in the wall in a town's main square and was asked to pay for the damages when no man took her up on her "offer"; disguised herself as a succubus in a dungeon, only to be rejected by an elf-orc duo who were expecting an experienced succubus not a human virgin; she even tried to force herself on three goblins who asked her out on a date as a prank. Its later revealed that one of her ancestors, a nerd at a magic academy, summoned a wish demon, and wished that he would be more attractive and thus have more luck with women. Despite being told that a descendant will be cursed to be repulsive to anyone she finds attractive, he tells the demon he doesn't care and his wish is granted. However, after a "series of wacky sex adventures", he asked what he could do to reverse the curse, only to be told the curse can't be undone, with the only hope Virginia has is for a man with an extremely high sex drive to find her, and then the curse will be broken. Cue Sir Richard, a powerful paladin, who has detected a woman he hasn't slept with yet. | |
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In Invincible, the Blood Knight nature of Thokk, aka Battle Beast, is revealed to be a hereditary curse in the final issue. When Battle Beast died, his curse was passed on to his daughter. She is seen vowing to fight Viltrumites like her father did, since it was a Viltrumite who killed (and thus freed) him. | |
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"The Lambton Worm" is the story of how the Blue Blood Lambton family acquire a curse which means that none of them will die in their beds, for nine generations. (The Lambtons were a real family, who suffered their share of deaths by accident or in battle — but not nine consecutive generations' worth.) | |
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In Van Helsing the Valerious family is bound by a curse that keeps them from entering into Heaven until Dracula is killed. This is the result of a vow taken by a distant ancestor. | |
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Disenchantment: Through series 3, it turns out there's a curse on Bean's patrilineal line going back a few generations. It apparently ends with her father, meaning she and her half-brother Derek are safe from that, but the secret conspiracy may have been helping speed things along. Exactly why they're cursed is unclear, but it's implied to be because one of Zog's ancestors stole Dreamland from the elves. | |
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In Lost Together, Lotion suggests the Hibiki No Sense of Direction might be that, a possibility that horrifies Ryoga since he might infect Ranko if they stay together long enough. | |
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Misery of Ruby Gloom comes from a family of people who have long been Born Unlucky. In the first episode, she notes that the genetically high content of lead in their blood attracts lightning. When her family members come together, it's enough to cause natural disasters. | |
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The Great Gaias: According to the official Horizon's End website, Grindelwald Maultor actually had a hard time maintaining his popularity as Validus's emperor with his charisma alone and many doubted his propaganda. He got around this by convincing them to sacrifice their current children in a ritual that will supposedly protect their future children from the blight. In reality, this caused all future generations of humans to be cursed to be completely unquestioning of his orders. However, Adramelech secretly spared his own child, Gerum Greyhem, resulting in the Greyhem line becoming immune to Maultor's blood curse. Tantalasia eventually managed to convince Arthur Greyhem to see through Maultor's lies, and he used his untainted blood to free much of humanity from Maultor's influence. | |
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Hades: Like his father, Zagreus is metaphysically bound to the Underworld, and even a successful escape will end with him being dragged back home by the Styx. | |
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Kagaya's is said to be a curse caused by his family pursuing Muzan, every male is cursed to die young in great pain. | |
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Fruits Basket has the Sohma family, which is under a curse that changes thirteen members of the family into animals of the Eastern Zodiac (plus the Cat, an animal that would have been part of the Zodiac had the Rat not tricked it) when they are either hugged by someone of the opposite sex who isn't cursed themselves, or when their bodies are under a lot of physical stress. The curse has been affecting the family for generations, with the Zodiac spirits being reborn in new family members after whoever they previously possessed dies. It's later revealed that there's another part to the curse: each cursed member finds it impossible to act in any way that isn't subservient to the family member cursed to be the reincarnation of the God of the Zodiac when in their presence. | |
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EXTRAPOWER: Attack of Darkforce: V's ore heart has been carried through his family for generations. While it grants the bearer the ability to transform into a beast god Verzerga, the heart's power is desired by the devils of Malice who constantly target his heart. It feels even more like a curse for V after one such attack cost his sister his life and filled him with anguish. | |
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Invincible: The indirect source of Kate's powers. One of Kate's ancestors, the Warlord Fung Cha, was cursed by the dying breath of the Emperor of China that "The seventh generation after Cha's seventh grandchild would be burdened with a family too large to care for... and it would drive him mad." That grandchild would be Kate's father, Tsing Cha, and the curse was fulfilled by giving Kate and her brother Paul duplication powers. | |
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What Remains of Edith Finch: The Finch family suffer from a curse that causes them to drop like flies, or at least they think they do. The family maintains a Single Line of Descent despite every generation having multiple siblings because only one of those siblings ever survives to breed the next generation. It's never confirmed whether the curse is actually real, or whether the knowledge that they are "cursed" and could be snuffed out at any moment causes the Finches to live Like You Were Dying and thus get themselves killed through their own recklessness and Too Dumb to Live behaviour. Though some of the deaths such as Sam setting his camera timer to take a picture of him and his daughter with the deer they just shot, only for it to turn out to be Not Quite Dead and throw him off a cliff the exact moment the camera went off, immortalizing the moment in a photo; or Walter managing to stay alive until old age by living in an underground bunker doing absolutely nothing for 30 years, until one day the boredom became too much for him and he smashed open the back wall with a sledgehammer so he could leave, only to exit directly onto train tracks just as a train was coming makes things lean more towards the "curse is real and also an asshole" side of things. | |
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The Avatar Trilogy has Kelemvor Lyonsbane, last scion of a family of cursed mercenaries. The curse began when his ancestor betrayed a powerful sorceress and was cursed to never again act purely for profit, or transform into a murderous panther. However, with the birth of his son, the curse reacted to the boy's innocence and reversed itself. From then on, Lyonsbanes could ONLY act on another's behalf out of thoughts of profit. | |
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Mage: The Awakening has the Proximi, magical legacies who have the somewhat limited ability to learn Awakened magic. The downside to this is that each line has its own curse, such as poverty, death at 45, etc. And don't even think about pursuing a Curse Escape Clause - if the curse is broken, then it just rewrites itself into a stricter format. | |
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Coco: Sort of — the reason that the Riveras hate music is because, due to Miguel's great-great-grandfather leaving his family to become a performer and that Riveras have suffered since then, they believe that they've been "cursed" by it. In truth, while Héctor and Ernesto were on their first music tour together, Héctor grew disillusioned and homesick, that he quickly decided that he was ready to return home to them but was murdered by Ernesto before he could. | |
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Clive Barker's The Harrowers: In the "Raiders of the Abyss" series, the Johnsons were a family who was cursed by the cenobites from the Hellraiser franchise. In 1620, the Johnson patriarch tried to save his son by cheating the cenobites and failed. Since then every Johnson descendant is claimed by the cenobites when they turn age 25, where they are tortured with bee stings for eternity. Eventually, one of the harrowers, Vera Wyshak, rescues the Johnson clan from their cenobite hell in a story named "Death where is thy sting". | |
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One of the curses available to Kingdom of Loathing's Ed the Undying, when you're playing as him in a challenge path. Only since Ed has anger-management issues, he doesn't stop at the target's family, but their entire phylum. | |
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