Following is a list of notable fictional fratricides.
Legend and mythology
Medea killed her brother Apsyrtus in order to help Jason escape Colchis after obtaining the Golden Fleece. (Greek myth) In Völuspá, the forecast of the world in Nordic mythology, one of the signs of the end of the world is an increase in fratricides. Höðr is manipulated into killing his brother Baldur in Nordic mythology. Romulus killed Remus, his twin brother and co-founder of Rome. Osiris, one of the principal deities of Egyptian mythology, was murdered by his evil brother Set. His wife and sister Isis resurrected him and he became the god of the dead and the underworld. Eteocles and Polynices kill each other in ensuing battle over the throne of Thebes, Greece in Sophocles' Antigone (Sophocles). When both change into different armor, Sir Balin and Sir Balan 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. The Biblical story of , where Absalom kills Amnon after King David, their father, fails to punish Amnon for raping Tamar, their sister. The Pandavas killed their brother Karna in the epic Mahabharata but they did not know that Karna was their brother, at the time of his killing. Genghis Khan killed his older brother following a dispute. In Historia regum Britanniae Porrex, the son of the King of Britain Gorboduc, slew his elder brother Ferrex in a dispute over rule of Britain.
Literature and film
Claudius killed King Hamlet, his brother, and married his sister-in-law, Gertrude, in order to become King of Denmark in William Shakespeare's Hamlet. In the Thomas Harris novel Hannibal, Margot Verger kills her brother Mason as revenge for his abuse of her when they were younger, as she was encouraged to do by her former therapist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. In William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Henry Sutpen murders his half-brother Charles Bon. In Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind prehistoric Homo Sapiens kills all the other homo 'brothers and sisters' species. In the ninja anime series Naruto, Sasuke Uchiha kills his brother Itachi Uchiha to avenge the murder of their family. In the manga and anime series Ginga Densetsu Weed, Hougen, the tyrannical Great Dane, and one of the villains of the series, is forced kill his younger brother, Genba, after he has a fight with the protagonists, falls and hits his head on a rock, gaining intellectual disability and memory loss. In the anime, Genba has memory loss and becomes so brain-damaged, that he reacts violently to everything around him and attacks Hougen, to which he kills him out of mercy. In Idylls of the King Balin and Balan kill each other mistakenly In Invincible, the last book in the Star Wars: Legacy of the Force series, Jedi Knight Jaina Solo is forced to kill her twin brother Jacen in a lightsaber duel, after Jacen turns to the dark side of the Force and becomes a Sith Lord. In The Vampire Diaries book series, it is revealed that, in a moment of extreme grief over losing the woman they both loved, brothers Damon and Stefan Salvatore get swords and duel. Damon kills Stefan first, but Stefan manages to plunge his sword into Damon before he himself dies. Later, they both wake to find that they have become vampires. In The Vampire Diaries television series, the brothers are instead murdered by their own father for supporting vampires. As in the books, they transition into vampires afterwards. In anime series Dragon Ball Z, the main character, Son Goku kills his brother Raditz with the help of Piccolo. In One Piece Donquixote Doflamingo kills his younger brother Rocinante after his treason is confirmed. In The Skin I Live In Dr Robert Ledgrad kills his half-brother Zeca, unaware that they are brothers. In A Song of Ice and Fire, Stannis Baratheon kills his vain and ambitious younger brother Renly Baratheon, Euron Greyjoy slays his half-brothers Harlon and Robyn Greyjoy, and is responsible for the death of his brother Balon Greyjoy, and Ramsay Bolton is suspected of poisoning his half-brother Domeric Bolton. In the prequel series The Tales of Dunk and Egg Prince Maekar Targaryen (later Maekar I), accidentally kills his oldest brother Prince Baelor Targaryen. One of their father Daeron II's half-brothers, Brynden Rivers, is mentioned to have killed another half-brother, King Daemon I Blackfyre, in battle. Another prequel The Princess and the Queen mentions the twin knights Ser Arryk Cargyll and Ser Erryk Cargyll, who slew each other.