Top 12 Most Toxic Families!

Ray Family. A word describing a group of people who provide love, shelter, and security to each other because of their shared lineage. No matter if you’re born, married, or adopted into a family, you can count on them to provide the care and support you need to enjoy life.

Arkham: These families are not those families. Like I said in one of our previous lists, every rule has an exception.

Ray: While most families share a happy, healthy relationship, there are a few that are so deranged, abusive, and hateful that you’ll wish you were raised in an orphanage.

Arkham: But lemme provide a little context here before we get started. About four years ago, the fall of 2019, I saw the horror-comedy slasher film Ready or Not. The story was about a young woman named Grace (played by Samara Weaving) who marries into a large, rich family. The family in question has a bizarre tradition where the newlywed has to play a game with them, decided by a random set of cards. She draws “Hide and Seek,” and suddenly all her in-laws–and her husband–go apeshit and try to kill her!

Ray: Umm……..YIKES.

Arkham: (Nods) Exactly. We’ll come back to this family of freaks, but as I sat in the theater and watched this hilarious-yet-terrifying story play out, I only held one thought: “Man!….That is one effed-up family!”

Ray: Mm-hmm! And they’re far from alone! Heck, this is kinda my specialty at this point, since I already made three lists covering the worst fathers, mothers AND siblings in manga and anime! (Here’s the links to each if anyone’s interested.)

Arkham: (Glares at Ray) Sellout.

Ray: Hey, you asked for my help on this Countdown! I’m allowed to advertise my content!

Arkham: Yeah, yeah. Anyway, let’s quickly go over the rules. Since this list will focus on each family as a whole, we’ll be discussing each member individually. Whether their actions contribute to the abuse, or if they suffer under it.

Ray: It’s a bit hard to explain here, but it’ll make more sense as we go on. And trust me, there’s a LOT to unpack here.

Arkham: And while Ray’s specialty is in anime (and there are some anime examples here), we’ll also be looking at the worst families in movies, games, TV and what have you. There’s really nothing left to explain here, so let’s get on it!

Hey! I’m Arkham500!

And I’m Sarge Ray, aka Dimension-Dino!

Arkham: And these are our picks for…….

Top 12 Most TOXIC Families!!!

Arkham: Waitwaitwait! Just one more thing! Ray and me started this project four years ago in late 2019. It’s taken an ungodly long time for us to write this, mainly because of our jobs, family obligations, other writing projects, and just plain laziness on both our parts.

Ray: This was originally meant to be one long list, but we found it easier to split it into multiple parts, with only a few entries each. This will hopefully reduce the number of copying and pasting we have to do while keeping our readers interested in the topic. The links to each part of the list will be posted at the bottom of this page. It’ll take time to post them all as editing is a slow, arduous process. But we promise we’ll have each part out to you as soon as possible.

Arkham: So, if any of our picks feel outdated to you, we sincerely apologize. We’ll try to keep it as relevant as we can, but if there’s any families that you think should been on the list, please share them in the comments. We’d be excited to hear your opinions. As always, one last important thing.