Hillbilly Incest

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• The Authority: The monstrous Three-Willy Seth is supposedly the product of a bunch of hillbillies gang-raping their sister.
• Old Man Logan: Bruce Banner has gone insane after the villains took over and fathered an inbred clan of green-skinned cannibal hillbillies on his cousin Jennifer. Green-skinned inbred hillbillies are an allusion to the real-life Fugate family of Kentucky, whose rare genetic mutation caused blue skin.
• Preacher: Jesse Custer's best friend growing up, Billy Bob, is from a family that has "Eldest boy marries eldest girl" as a tradition. He, his sister, and his parents are all cyclopes as a result, although their mental states are surprisingly normal for having a family tree that looks more like bamboo.
• Providence: When Robert Black visits the Wheatley family, he gets an earful from the town barber that patriarch Garland Wheatley is a bizarre hillbilly who fathered children on his daughter. The truth manages to be even more disturbing: Wheatley willingly became possessed by an Elder God who used him to impregnate his daughter with the monstrous (and thankfully invisible) John-Divine.

• A Nodwick strip in Dragon parodying the adventure The Lost Tomb of Martek portrayed the Guilders (the inbred descendents of thieves who'd been trapped in the tomb for centuries) as hillbillies, complete with Southern accents and banjos. Yeagar calls them "the cast of Deliverance & Dragons."

• Arrest Ye Merry Gentlemares: Spitfire denigrates Ponyville as an Earth Pony (i.e. farmer-based) Deep South-esque rural settlement, and references rumors of incest with cousins.
  Spitfire: Typical ground town. Barely mustered enough wingpower to refill the Cloudsdale reservoir. The most exciting thing there is probably the gossip about who got caught cuddling with their cousin this week.

• The Simpsons Movie: When asked to guess how local hillbilly Cletus could do a fake removing-his-finger trick, Russ Cargill sarcastically responds, "Four generations of inbreeding?"

• Blazing Saddles: Implied with the residents of Rockridge, a typical humble, peaceful Old Western-film town where everyone has the last name "Johnson". This — and their moronic, racist behavior — is meant to highlight the stupidity of racism and discrimination overall in the film.
• Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay: Played with in a sequence where Harold and Kumar are in the Deep South, and meet a stereotypical redneck farmer... who turns out to be rich and sophisticated and lives in a very nice home with all modern conveniences and designer clothes... however, it's then revealed that he and his wife are brother and sister, and they keep their deformed, inbred son chained up in the basement.
• Joe Dirt: Discussed, Zigzagged and Subverted. While traveling in the south looking for his missing parents, Joe meets a woman with a Southern accent named Jill and the two hit it off. However, Joe panics when the pair are discussing their backstories of how they both got separated from their parents and both had a sibling that they never saw again and these similarities make Joe realize too late that he accidentally made out with his long-lost sister. Despite his concerns, Joe lets his libido get the better of him and the two end up having sex before he tells Jill that he's breaking off the relationship because they're related. Jill tells Joe that they couldn't be related because her last name is Buckwalter and she's already met her brother named Cletus. With the misunderstanding cleared up, Joe and Jill have sex again, only the second time is a disaster because Joe can't get aroused. Jill then suggests that they could just pretend they're siblings to get aroused again. Joe is taken aback by this suggestion but then the two resume having sex with better results.
• My Cousin Vinny: Stan discusses this on the phone with Bill's mother when explaining why they think they're being framed as murderers by the Alabama police. This gets a negative reaction from the guards nearby.
  Bill: [to his mother] We think they're setting us up as patsies. You know how corrupt it is down here — they all know each other...
  Stan: The Klan's here, they're inbred, they sleep with their sisters... [realizes the guard is glaring at them]... some of them do.
• Wrong Turn (2003): The Mountain Men are an inbred Cannibal Clan of hillbillies lurking in the hills. The first film touches only lightly on the inbreeding itself, showing them as grotesquely deformed and showing articles about inbreeding briefly in the Photo Montage over the opening credits. The sequels get into this more centrally, exploring the exact family dynamics the killers have.

• What did the redneck ask his girlfriend after they broke up? "Can we still be cousins?"
• An Alabaman walks into a bar with his wife, sister, cousin, and mother, and orders a drink for himself and one for her.

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• Whenever rural characters show up in the works of H. P. Lovecraft, this is likely to be at least implied. Cases where it's explicit or close to it include:
  • The Lurking Fear: The Catskills locals in general are described as "gently descending the evolutionary scale," but the Martenses take it a step further. They have bred themselves among themselves until they've turned into a race of tunnel-dwelling goblins.
  • The Dunwich Horror: The story is set in the remote backwoods of Massachusetts, and much is made of the rural nature and the low intellect of the residents. It is heavily implied that Old Man Whateley served as a vessel for Eldritch Abomination Yog-Sothoth to impregnate his daughter, Lavinia. This resulted in the birth of two children.

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• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: Cussy Mary Carter is a Kentucky Blue person who notes that there had been rumors that her family’s skin color was a result of this, but she vehemently denies this^note Though in real life, there has been records of some of the Blues marrying one another, see the article linked in the trope description for more on that. Cussy is also quick to note the hypocrisy of her coworker Harriet calling her inbred when not only does her own family have a history of inbreeding, but Harriet herself is hoping to catch the eye of her cousin at the Pie Bake Dance.
• Discworld:
  • Discussed in Thief of Time when Death looks at three moments in Gytha Ogg's life, and the raven questions how she went from "Miss Ogg" to "Mrs. Ogg", saying "That sounds a bit rural, if you get my meaning". (It's actually because witches are matrilinear.)
  • The Discworld Companion says that in Slice — a backwater area of the already pretty backwater Kingdom of Lancre — marrying your cousin is considered posh.
• Gautrek's Saga — a Norse saga from the late 13th century — has a very early Unbuilt example. Skafnortung is the patriarch of a family of hillbillies living an extremely isolated life in the forests of Götaland. None seem able to imagine a life outside their farm, so Skafnortung pairs his six grown-up children (three sons, three daughters) into three couples — although he ties this up with the advice not to procreate because their little farm cannot support more people. No actual incest takes place. Skafnortung's children don't even know about sex and think women can get pregnant from any touch, which they diligently avoid. We don't know how Skafnortung met his own wife Totra, but the readiness with which he advises his own children to marry each other and the fact that both spouses are noticeably small could imply that their marriage was also incestuous.
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince combines this with Royal Inbreeding in the case of the decrepit Gaunt family, an ancient lineage of pureblooded wizards in Campbell Country who have descended into squalor over the centuries but who stubbornly refuse to marry non-purebloods. This appears to have negatively impacted their physical appearance (note the father's apelike physique and his children's Fish Eyes) and mental health.
• Murder in Advent by David Williams has the reclusive Daras family holed up in their remote farm: an elderly patriarch and three women of varying ages, his daughter and granddaughters. A character who knows the family says she suspects he sleeps with all of them.
• Red Dwarf: In Backwards, the crew are accosted by an enraged hillbilly and later encounter a dead body that looks a lot like that hillbilly. Kryten surmises that the corpse is probably the first hillbilly's brother or cousin, and Rimmer snidely remarks, "Probably both. Probably his father and his uncle, too."
• A Song of Ice and Fire: Craster is the Medieval European Fantasy version of a hillbilly. He's the bastard son of a member of the Night's Watch and a Wildling woman, but he's part of neither Westerosi nor Wildling society. He lives in an isolated, rundown shack in the middle of the forest with his Big, Screwed-Up Family. He has 19 "wives" because for generations he has been marrying his daughters, siring more children on them, and keeping the daughters and leaving his sons to die of exposure or be taken by ice zombies.
  Sam: Dolorous Edd says Craster's a terrible savage. He marries his daughters and obeys no laws but those he makes himself.
• To Kill a Mockingbird: Within their small Alabama town, the Ewells are a desperately poor family who live in the town dump and are looked down upon by their neighbors for their poverty, lack of hygiene, and boorish behavior. The patriarch, Bob Ewell, is heavily implied to sexually abuse his eldest daughter Mayella.
  Tom Robinson: She says she never kissed a grown man before... She says what her papa do to her don't count.
• Phil Rickman's The Wine of Angels features a reclusive farming family whose sons are expected to lose their virginity to their mother before going out to rape and murder innocent victims. It's set in a fictional village in the West Midlands.

• The Amanda Show has a sketch segment called "Hillbilly Moment" wherein a pair of hillbilly siblings named Lula Mae and Eenis share knock-knock jokes, which always end with Eenis getting hit in the face with an object related to said joke. In a cross sketch called "Stranded", which has characters from different sketches competing with each other in a parody of Survivor, Eenis is a contestant and he compliments Amber from "The Girls Room" by saying she's prettier than his sister. Amber elects to vote herself out of the contest so she won't be alone with him.
• Firefly is a Space Western where "outside civilization" means outlying, poor, minimally settled planets. In a Deleted Scene from "Our Mrs. Reynolds", Simon alludes to "bad planets" where siblings marry.
  Simon: You know [getting married]'s not something brothers and sisters do. [Beat] I mean, on some planets... but only pretty bad ones.
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The McPoyle clan leans heavily into this trope. They are implied to be hillbillies due to their rural accents and the family meeting in a remote cabin in the woods. The whole family is very inbred. Siblings Liam, Ryan, and Margaret McPoyle are all overtly sexual toward one another.
• Justified is set in the Deep South and generally averts this trope. However, Bo Crowder discusses this trope (among other stereotypes) and disparages it.
  Bo Crowder: I may not own a private plane or a fancy car, and when you look at me, you probably see some dumb redneck who likes to eat roadkill for breakfast and have sex with his cousins. I don't eat roadkill and I don't screw my relatives and I didn't just get off of no shortbus.
• Whose Line Is It Anyway?: In one "Scenes From a Hat" game, they are given a prompt for hillbilly renditions of Shakespeare. Greg does a version of Romeo and Juliet where they're cousins.
  Romeo: Juliet, you get down here! I love you and you're my cousin! Get on down here!
• The X-Files: The greatly controversial episode "Home" is about a murderous, inbred clan terrified of losing their home to urbanization. They live in the rural small town of Home, Pennsylvania. The matriarch, Mrs. Peacock, is involved in incestuous relationships with her sons, one of them being the father of the other two.

• MAD: One issue has a Faux Documentary of the hillbilly lifestyle that includes a budding teen romance. A corpulent girl stuffing herself with snack cakes and soda is getting a kiss on the cheek from an unkempt rural boy. The caption below them reads, "After plying her with Ho-Ho's and Dr. Pepper, George finally gets to second base with his sister Emily." Peering from the house's window are their parents presumably, beaming at this development.

• Kurtis Conner's song "Blood Related" is a Country Music parody full of Deep South stereotypes, about how a Southern man is disappointed to fall in love with a girl who isn't related to him. He ends up marrying her brother just so he'll be related to the girl he's in love with.
• The viewpoint character in the Ivor Biggun song "Halfway Up Virginia" is a stereotypical hillbilly bragging about his sexual conquests and he makes three allusions to the stereotype of rural individuals being willing to have sex with their relatives, one where the viewpoint character states that his interests are "incest, bestiality and liquor", another where he refuses to have sex with a woman stated to be a virgin under the reasoning that he doesn't consider her desirable if she hasn't done it with her own relatives and the third allusion being when the viewpoint character states he's willing to have another go at Caroline "if her brother doesn't mind".
  Now, down the creek lives Lulu Belle
  She's a virgin and I believe her
  But if she ain't good enough for her own kinfolk
  She ain't good enough for me neither!
• The song "I'm My Own Grandpa" is a strange zigzagging example, where the incest is subverted and the hillbilly aspect is merely implied. The song is about a man who, through an unlikely (but not incestuous) combination of marriages, becomes stepfather to his own stepmother. Most renditions use humorous "redneck" speech patterns— probably because the original 1948 version of the song was sung by a country duo, Lonzo and Oscar. When it appeared on The Muppet Show, it was performed by a hillbilly jugband.
• "Inbred Local" by Poxy Boggards is from the POV of the titular inbred local who wishes he had more chromosomes. He has a cousin-father-grampa and is married to his niece. The song's Folk Music genre implies a rural background. Artistic License – Biology: Having "more chromosomes" actually causes trisomy disorders like Down's Syndrome. Wanting to be less inbred would mean wanting "more heterozygous genes".
• In "The New Workout Plan" by Kanye West, one of the "customer testimonials" for the titular in-universe exercise program is from an Alabaman woman who happily proclaims that following Kanye's workout routine has gotten her in-shape enough to start dating "outside the family".
• New York (1989): "Beginning of a Great Adventure" is a song about the narrator thinking about having a child or more children, which contains this verse:
  Why stop at one, I might have ten, a regular TV brood
  I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood
  Just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar
  With their tribe of mutant inbred piglets with cloven hooves.
• "Piggy Pie", by Insane Clown Posse:
  The first little piggy, his house is made of wood
  He lives in a chicken, turkey, piggy neighborhood
  He likes to fuck his sister, and drink his moonshine
  A typical redneck filthy fuckin' swine
• Poodle Hat: Discussed in "A Complicated Song". When the narrator learns that his girlfriend is actually his cousin right as he was about to propose, he wonders what he should do from there.
  Believe me, if I knew she was my cousin we never would have dated.
  What to do now? Should I go ahead and propose,
  And get hitched and have kids with 11 toes,
  And move to Alabama where that kind of thing is tolerated?
• Comedy-country artist Wheeler Walker Jr.'s song "Redneck Shit" lists the many things he does that make him proud to be a redneck, and having sex with a number of his family members pops up a few times.
  Fuck my cousin in her asshole 'fore I finish on her tits,
  Then I shoot my neighbor's cat, I love that redneck shit!
• Comedy-country artist Keifer Thompson has the song, "Ain’t No Branches on My Family Tree", sung from the point of view of a guy living in a trailer park in Alabama, who makes out with his grandmother, whose sister is his cousin and stepmom, and whose father is his own uncle twice removed, and whose family tree is more like a stick. As a result, his family is horribly deformed, each of the family members having only one tooth and with the viewpoint character having a brousin born with three eyes, two toes, a Fu Manchu, and no nostrils. Thompson ends live performances of the song with, "Roll tide!"
• "Weird Al" Yankovic: "A Complicated Song" has the narrator, after finding out that his girlfriend is his long-lost cousin, contemplate moving to Alabama "where that kind of thing is tolerated".

• The Now Show: The Wurzels protested that a book about Somerset was filled with stereotypes and clichés. Amused that this was coming from the band that had done so much to promote this stereotype, Mitch Benn wrote an I Resemble That Remark! song which included the lines:
  Oi, 'ow dare you,
  Say that we're inbred?
  Oi told moi woife and mother,
  An' this is what she said...
• The News Quiz: In the 24th January 2025 episode, Scottish comedian Stuart Mitchell suggested that Donald Trump might try to buy the Isle of Lewis (a Western Isle with many isolated farming settlements) because he has cousins there "or, as they're known on Lewis, Tinder matches".
• I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: In Series 83, Episode 3, a round of Showstoppers, in which the panelists have to complete a song lyric in a manner guaranteed to end it has this:
  Miles Jupp: Love and marriage, love and marriage,
  Go together like a horse and carriage.
  Let me tell you, brother...
  Lucy Porter: ...We could only get married in Norfolk.

• Jeff Dunham's redneck puppet Bubba J subverts this with a Bait-and-Switch. He says he met his wife at a family reunion — then clarifies that she was on the catering staff.
• Jeff Foxworthy's notorious "You Might Be a Redneck If..." routine includes several jokes about incest such as "if your family tree does not fork..." or "if you go to a family reunion to pick up women..."

• Pathfinder: Ogres are based on a particularly monstrous and savage take on the theme of depraved cannibal hillbillies, complete with crude slang from the US South and a taste for banjos. They are also infamous for their incestuous practices, which often result in ogre clans being riddled with deformities, birth defects, and congenital disabilities.

• Conker's Bad Fur Day: Upon meeting the dimwitted Franky the Pitchfork and hearing him try to issue threats in his heavy Southern US accent, Conker asks:
  Conker: [to Frankie the Pitchfork] Were your parents related? Like, before they were married?
• Grand Theft Auto V: One random event has two redneck brothers engaging in sexual activities in a motor home at the wind farm. Upon getting too close to the van, the brothers will attack the character.
• The English localization of Lunar: The Silver Star has the rural village of Meryod being populated entirely by severely inbred hicks. (This is entirely an invention of the localization; the original Japanese version doesn't even remotely hint at anything like this.) Almost every single NPC in the village is some flavor of The Ditz. You're treated to this conversation when you first enter the village:
  Nall: So this is Meryod... This is amazing, Alex. They built a city entirely of wooden planks suspended over the water.
  Nash: No, the amazing part is that these hicks managed to nail anything not related to them.
• Red Dead Redemption 2:
  • The Murfree Brood are a Cannibal Clan living in the caves of Roanoke Ridge (an area inspired by the Ozark Mountains) who terrorize travelers in the area. They're alleged to practice extensive inbreeding—many of them have visible deformities, and in-game dialogue shows family members referring to being incestuous with one another.
  • Bray and Tammy Aberdeen are rural pig farmers. They invite Arthur into their house for a meal with the intent of poisoning and looting him. Midway through the dinner, Arthur realizes they're brother and sister and becomes increasingly disturbed by them flirting with one another. It's also implied that they may have been sexually abused by their parents as children, inspiring them to murder them and take over the farm.
• Streets of Rogue: The backstory of the playable Cannibal mentions inbreeding as one of the reasons for their deranged behavior — the other reasons being toxic waste and the fact that they are morally opposed to eating animal meat, but also think vegan food is disgusting.
• Summertime Saga: Roxxy's family are a bunch of stereotypical hillbillies living in a trailer park and cooking and selling meth, and this trope is included in the package. Clyde straight-up tells his cousin Roxxy he'd like to see her breasts, and it's implied he's a bit too close with his aunt (Roxxy's mother) Crystal as well.

• Alluded to in Brawl in the Family, where Kirby eats a duplicate of himself and turns into a malformed version of himself in patchy overalls.
• Nip and Tuck: Rebuffed with the "redneck rebuttals". Jeff Foxworthy jokes about inbreeding, and Tuck responds with a quip about European royalty.
• Schlock Mercenary: Dr. Bunnigus's hillbilly parents were mandated to use eugenics for their child, implied to be on grounds of being inbred.

• Whenever incest of any variety is brought up online, it has become a meme for users to comment "Sweet Home Alabama!" and/or "Roll Tide!" in reference to the stereotype of the Deep South being a hotbed of hillbilly incest.
• SCP Foundation: SCP-7454 talks about rural folks having sex with their cousins:
  SCP-7454: They were there to worship a two-thousand-year-old image of a pretty lady with her fucking tits out, hoping she would help them bang their cousins or whatever it is rural towns in this country do.

• The Seven Deadly Schmucks: Dawn Roar has been reimagined from being a Badass Crew into a Badass Family called the Skeeter Brothers. Each character is given a stereotypical redneck name and accent. Fitting the redneck theme, Token Female Jessie is also a Lust Object for the leader Skeeter whose canon counterpart Slader was a Manly Gay fighter.

• The Fairly OddParents!: In "Whittle Me This!", Timmy mentions that hillbillies are cool due to several reasons, including that they can take their cousins to the prom.
• Family Guy:
  • In "Road to Rhode Island", Brian and Stewie see two hillbillies arguing with each other, leading to the following exchange:
    Old man: You put your seed in my daughter's belly! You're fired!
    Young man: But pa, you can't fire me!
    Old man: You're lucky you're my brother too, or I'd kill you!
  • In "To Love and Die in Dixie", the Griffin family moves to the town of Bumblescum in the Deep South. Meg ends up impressing the locals with her city-life intellect, and one of her new friends hopes that her brother hasn't already claimed dibs on her.
  • In "Airport '07", Peter attempts to adopt a redneck lifestyle. One part is trying to assault his daughter Meg, much to her disgust and horror.
    [Peter puts his arm around Meg as they sit on a couch]
    Meg: Dad? What are you doing?
    Peter: Meg, I'm a redneck, which means I am about to do something to you that you will not remember until you're 40.
    [Meg runs off screaming]
    Peter: Meg, come back here! I meant sex!
• Fugget About It: The episode "Just Stick It In That There Doo-Dad" exaggerates this. Jimmy and Cookie are captured by hillbillies from rural Saskatchewan, solely for the purpose of getting some outsider DNA into their bloodstream via Jimmy. Their constant inbreeding led to their kids being... weird. ^note Cut to 4 albino kids levitating and reading advanced literature. They refer to themselves as "brother-cousin-father-sons", and even mock Cookie when she states she isn't related to her husband. When Jimmy refuses to have sex with their drop-dead gorgeous women, stating that he's only loyal to his wife, they bring out a machine (which seems to be made from moonshining equipment) which painfully clamps onto someone's genitals and extracts their sperm.
  Cookie: [deadpan] ...So it's a Deliverance reunion?
• The Ren & Stimpy Show: Implied in the beginning of the "Chicken in a Drawer" sketch from"Lair of the Lummox" (not included on the DVD), where a redneck refers to his wife as "Sister Momma" and she calls him "Brother Daddy".
• The Simpsons: The Half-Witted Hillbilly couple Cletus and Brandine, as expected from the fact that they're rednecks in an adult comedy cartoon, are frequently subjected to jokes about how they're related. Negative Continuity means their exact relation changes for whatever's funniest. They're either cousins, brother and sister, or mother and son... although the nature of the joke means that the real answer could equally be 'all of the above'.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Implied in "Trenchbillies", as there's a single family in a completely isolated region with deformed offspring.
• Squidbillies: The Cuylers are a Dysfunctional Family of hillbilly squids, and there's a lot of incest within their family tree. Just to name a few examples: Gaga Pee-Pap is both Granny Ruby Jean's brother and ex-husband and he has made out with his grandson Rusty. Early's often implied to have non-consensual sex with his sister Lil. Rusty and his girlfriend Tammi are revealed to be half-siblings through their mutual mother Krystal, but they still stay together and have a son named Randy.