Tropescilloscope: Abusive Parents

Their parents were/are not good to them. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Shown Their Work Ax-Crazy The Alcoholic The Quiet One The Starscream Black Comedy Bound and Gagged Central Theme Fanservice Does Not Like Shoes Male Frontal Nudity Posthumous Character Bond One-Liner Men Are the Expendable Gender Brother–Sister Incest Bittersweet Ending '80s Hair Black Dude Dies First Hypocrite Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Your Cheating Heart Only One Name Badass Grandpa Bad Boss Closed Circle Fatal Family Photo The Ditz German Films Redshirt Army Disney Villain Death Attempted Rape Downer Ending Black Comedy Rape Adapted Out Vacation Films Stalker with a Crush Five-Man Band Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Pyrrhic Victory Double Entendre Recycled IN SPACE! British Films Contrived Coincidence Woman Scorned The Stinger Put on a Bus Evil Laugh Unusually Uninteresting Sight The Remake Ascended Extra Jerk with a Heart of Gold Only in It for the Money Adaptational Attractiveness Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Bare Your Midriff Expository Hairstyle Change All Just a Dream Improbable Weapon User Ripped from the Headlines Bowdlerise Chewing the Scenery Heterosexual Life-Partners Unwitting Instigator of Doom Ghost Fiction Overly Long Gag Developing Doomed Characters Every Car Is a Pinto Dual Wielding Vampire Fiction Red Shirt Leitmotif The Vamp He Knows Too Much Historical-Domain Character Costume Porn Insult Backfire Dumb Blonde Age Lift Light Is Not Good Disproportionate Retribution Eiffel Tower Effect I Need a Freaking Drink Deal with the Devil Aside Glance Bilingual Bonus Parental Abandonment Ship Tease Cruel and Unusual Death Naked People Are Funny Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Adaptational Villainy Paper-Thin Disguise Epic Movie Make It Look Like an Accident Card-Carrying Villain Smug Snake The Chick Be Careful What You Wish For Conspicuous CG Broken Aesop Almost Kiss Rewatch Bonus "The Reason You Suck" Speech Knight Templar Market-Based Title Those Wacky Nazis 20 Minutes into the Future Exact Words Training Montage Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Everyone Has Standards Book-Ends Victoria's Secret Compartment Beta Couple Malevolent Masked Men Camera Abuse Police are Useless Truth in Television The Voiceless Novelization Honor Before Reason Canadian Movies Cool Shades Interrupted Suicide La Résistance Fanservice Extra I Did What I Had to Do Death by Irony Deadpan Snarker Adaptation Name Change Wicked Cultured Daddy's Girl Works Set in World War II "Well Done, Son!" Guy Fake Shemp Spell My Name with an "S" Adaptational Badass Death Seeker Not Even Bothering with the Accent You Have Failed Me Wounded Gazelle Gambit Crazy Jealous Guy Crucified Hero Shot Major Injury Underreaction Storming the Castle The Mafia Bloodier and Gorier Would Hurt a Child Dressing as the Enemy Action Girl Nice Guy Our Zombies Are Different Half the Man He Used to Be Agony of the Feet Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Blood Knight Manipulative Bastard Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Protagonist Title Empathic Environment Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Bring My Brown Pants Expy Ass Shove From Nobody to Nightmare Facial Horror Historical Hero Upgrade Animal Title Index Fish out of Water Mighty Whitey Never Trust a Trailer This Is Gonna Suck Japanese Films Chekhov's Gun Cowboy Cop I'm a Humanitarian Monumental Damage Pragmatic Adaptation Action Genre Military and Warfare Films Public Domain Feature Films Sole Survivor Danny Peary Cult Movies List Henpecked Husband Dramedy What Happened to the Mouse? Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday What You Are in the Dark Man on Fire Anti-Villain Sinister Minister Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Getting Crap Past the Radar Rasputinian Death Mind Screw Belligerent Sexual Tension Time Skip Pre-Mortem One-Liner Suspiciously Similar Substitute Framing Device Epic Fail The Lancer Chiaroscuro Mystery and Detective Films Accidental Murder Anachronic Order Shoot the Shaggy Dog Award-Bait Song Insane Troll Logic Shell-Shocked Veteran Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Heel Realization Dropped a Bridge on Him Suspiciously Specific Denial Gorn The Stoner Comically Missing the Point Stuff Blowing Up Product Placement Meaningful Background Event Stock Footage Insistent Terminology Needs Wiki Magic Love Demonic Possession Spiritual Successor Calling the Old Man Out Rape as Drama The Dog Bites Back Never Found the Body Reality Ensues Gratuitous English Face–Heel Turn Batman Gambit Meaningful Echo Bullying a Dragon Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Artistic License – Biology Composite Character Plot Hole Karmic Death Dark Is Not Evil Grievous Bottley Harm It's Personal Russian Films Flashback Race Against the Clock Sanity Slippage As You Know Continuity Nod Cool Car Wrong Genre Savvy Curse Cut Short Big-Bad Ensemble Eye Scream Extremely Short Timespan Race Lift A Minor Kidroduction My God, What Have I Done? Undying Loyalty Bond Villain Stupidity Room Full of Crazy Poor Communication Kills Awesome, but Impractical Evil-Detecting Dog Refuge in Audacity Unusual Euphemism Riddle for the Ages Cat Fight Real Life The Hero Adorkable The Smurfette Principle Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Disguised in Drag The Mole Pragmatic Villainy BFG Narrator Armor-Piercing Question Woman in White Toplessness from the Back Dramatic Irony Anachronism Stew Red Right Hand Amoral Attorney Slasher Movie An Aesop The Casanova Married to the Job Adaptational Heroism Foil Adults Are Useless All Men Are Perverts Combat Pragmatist Funny Background Event Made of Iron Brutal Honesty Not So Stoic Thriller Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Random Events Plot The Bully folderlabel Call-Forward Made of Explodium Nice Hat Reasonable Authority Figure Spiteful Spit Villain Protagonist Here We Go Again! After the End Sports Stories Four-Temperament Ensemble Defiant to the End Evil Sounds Deep An Arm and a Leg Tranquil Fury Red Herring Totally Radical Groin Attack Death by Adaptation Arch-Enemy Vomit Discretion Shot French Films Informed Ability Driven to Suicide Crapsack World Zombie Stories Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Video Credits Logo Joke No OSHA Compliance Revenge Never My Fault Large Ham Foreshadowing Retired Badass Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Bury Your Gays Film Noir Index Fate Worse than Death Adaptation Dye-Job Cat Scare Offscreen Moment of Awesome Freeze-Frame Bonus O.O.C. Is Serious Business Villain Song Eagleland Anguished Declaration of Love Villainous Breakdown Implacable Man Artistic License – History Have a Gay Old Time Sexy Discretion Shot Bar Brawl Blackmail Adult Fear Chekhov's Gunman Heel–Face Turn Hollywood Law Bunny-Ears Lawyer Shower Scene Arc Words Hell Is That Noise The Ace Rule of Symbolism Boom, Headshot! A Date with Rosie Palms The Cavalry Asshole Victim Horror Films Bald of Evil Face Death with Dignity Knife Nut Reckless Gun Usage Straight Gay Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Un-Reveal Would Hit a Girl She's Got Legs NO INDOOR VOICE Mooks Artistic License – Geography Serious Business Obfuscating Stupidity Punch-Clock Villain Naïve Newcomer Let's Get Dangerous! Playing Gertrude One-Man Army Evil Is Hammy Karma Houdini Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Sci-Fi Horror Not Quite Dead True Companions Celebrity Paradox Credits Gag Stylistic Suck Male Gaze Plucky Comic Relief Laughing Mad Match Cut Biopic Happily Married The Chessmaster Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Becoming the Mask Kick the Son of a Bitch Whole Plot Reference Determinator aka: The Determinator Enemy Mine Famous Last Words Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Blatant Lies Immune to Bullets Kill It with Fire Not What It Looks Like Break the Cutie The Sociopath The Film of the Book Australian Movies Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Manic Pixie Dream Girl And I Must Scream Actually Pretty Funny Evil Plan The Musical Hero Antagonist Femme Fatale Laser-Guided Karma Slasher Smile Character Development No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Shipper on Deck Word of God Cool Old Guy Dutch Angle Decoy Protagonist Abusive Parents Handicapped Badass Evil Brit Self-Deprecation Star-Crossed Lovers It's All About Me As Himself The Stoic War Is Hell The Dreaded You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Evil Counterpart From Bad to Worse Pretty in Mink Even Evil Has Loved Ones Improbable Aiming Skills Papa Wolf Improvised Weapon Alpha Bitch Once More, with Clarity! Yandere Body Horror Villain Ball Reality Is Unrealistic Hate Sink Suddenly SHOUTING! Defrosting Ice Queen MacGuffin Beard of Evil Meet Cute Author Appeal Fainting Smoking Is Cool Unreliable Narrator Sacrificial Lion Nothing Is Scarier Gainax Ending Index of Film Westerns Accidental Misnaming Betty and Veronica Sequel Hook Moment Killer You Killed My Father Trailers Always Spoil Distracted by the Sexy Motor Mouth Disney Death I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Beware the Nice Ones Frame-Up Greater-Scope Villain Stealth Hi/Bye Mugging the Monster Blood from the Mouth Dirty Old Man Badass Normal Captain Ersatz Killed Mid-Sentence Meaningful Name Humiliation Conga Disappeared Dad The '60s Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Country Matters The '90s Deliberately Monochrome Deus ex Machina Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Vomit Indiscretion Shot Took a Level in Badass Bloody Hilarious Artistic License – Military For the Evulz Amusing Injuries The Alleged Car Bland-Name Product Non-Indicative Name Big Bad Psycho for Hire Noodle Incident Maybe Ever After And the Adventure Continues Outrun the Fireball Badass Boast Foregone Conclusion Bait-and-Switch Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Love Triangle Imagine Spot No Ending Big Brother Instinct You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Sealed Evil in a Can Department of Redundancy Department Dogged Nice Guy Instant Death Bullet Break the Haughty Berserk Button Determinator Our Vampires Are Different It Will Never Catch On Precision F-Strike Chekhov's Skill Early Installment Weirdness Establishing Character Moment Humans Are Bastards Despair Event Horizon Hair-Trigger Temper In Medias Res Mexican Standoff "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue A.I. Is a Crapshoot Villain Opening Scene Historical Villain Upgrade Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Stepford Smiler Captain Obvious Token Minority Parental Substitute Does This Remind You of Anything? Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Freudian Excuse Leave the Camera Running Politically Incorrect Villain Martial Arts Movie Loads and Loads of Characters Left the Background Music On Flipping the Bird Television Movie Index Say My Name All There in the Script Your Head A-Splode Coming-of-Age Story Red Oni, Blue Oni It Can Think Fantasy Films Action Survivor Scenery Porn Very Loosely Based on a True Story Fan Disservice Rule of Cool Adaptation Distillation As Long as It Sounds Foreign Gilligan Cut All Girls Want Bad Boys Beauty Is Never Tarnished Car Fu Reality Has No Subtitles Parental Neglect Guns Akimbo Deliberate Values Dissonance Grey and Gray Morality Catch-Phrase Missing Mom Visual Pun Fantastic Racism Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Punny Name Bad "Bad Acting" Eyepatch of Power Black and Gray Morality Properly Paranoid Off with His Head! Big Applesauce Re-Cut Get Out! Tagline Hypocritical Humor Did Not Get the Girl Even Evil Has Standards Lighter and Softer Scenery Gorn He Who Fights Monsters Hollywood Darkness May–December Romance Alas, Poor Villain Gender Flip Camp Gay Deconstruction Important Haircut Artistic License – Physics Alliterative Name Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Sadistic Choice Badass Longcoat Leaning on the Fourth Wall Off-into-the-Distance Ending Badass in a Nice Suit Diabolus ex Machina Last-Name Basis Hong Kong Films Butt-Monkey Dramatic Gun Cock Jerkass Has a Point The Oner Cloudcuckoolander Mr. Fanservice Babies Ever After Italian Films Corrupt Corporate Executive Actor Allusion The Bad Guy Wins Kids Are Cruel Ambiguously Gay Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Well-Intentioned Extremist Earn Your Happy Ending Dissonant Serenity Mythology Gag Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Mistaken for Gay Jerk Jock Back from the Dead Love at First Sight Based on a True Story Demoted to Extra All for Nothing One Steve Limit Intrepid Reporter Stealth Pun Soft Glass Music Stories Rousing Speech The Cameo Superhero Taking You with Me Abhorrent Admirer Casting Gag Throwing Your Sword Always Works Extreme Doormat Fingore Parental Incest Mr. Exposition Science Fiction Films Auto Erotica Evil vs. Evil Hoist by His Own Petard Better to Die than Be Killed Intergenerational Friendship Cold-Blooded Torture I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Fiery Redhead Rule of Funny Wham Shot Manchild Mad Scientist Covers Always Lie Take a Third Option Title Drop Animal Motifs "Awesome McCool" Name Horror Comedy Breaking the Fourth Wall Madness Mantra No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Spanner in the Works Kick the Dog Psychopathic Manchild Neck Snap Together in Death Ambiguous Ending The End... Or Is It? The Load Pretty Little Headshots Genre Savvy Christmas Movies Index Ironic Echo Jerkass Hope Spot Depraved Bisexual No Celebrities Were Harmed Fat Bastard Jitter Cam Morality Pet Manly Tears Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Small Name, Big Ego Failed a Spot Check Neck Lift Heroic BSoD The Great Depression Worthy Opponent Police Brutality Authority Equals Asskicking Obstructive Bureaucrat Good Is Not Nice Big Eater Creator Cameo Apocalypse How Guile Hero Dying Moment of Awesome The Place Dirty Coward Serial Killer A Father to His Men Air-Vent Passageway Those Two Guys Creative Closing Credits Anti-Hero Film Series Drugs Are Bad Friend to All Children No Name Given Soundtrack Dissonance Destination Defenestration Hooker with a Heart of Gold Gold Digger "Shaggy Dog" Story Drill Sergeant Nasty The Faceless Faux Affably Evil Peek-a-Boo Corpse Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience I Have Your Wife Kill 'em All Author Avatar Real Life Writes the Plot An Axe to Grind Chase Scene The Ghost For Want of a Nail Jump Scare Shout-Out Up to Eleven Canon Foreigner Scary Black Man Those Two Bad Guys Setting Update Drives Like Crazy Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Retirony And Starring The Atoner Only Known by Their Nickname The Power of Love Line-of-Sight Name Idiot Ball All There in the Manual Only a Flesh Wound Faking the Dead Pet the Dog Silence Is Golden She Cleans Up Nicely N-Word Privileges Dark Action Girl No-Sell Rule of Three Mundane Made Awesome Names to Run Away from Really Fast A God Am I Crazy-Prepared Call-Back Mercy Kill Hidden Depths Not Using the "Z" Word Super Strength Wretched Hive Heroic Sacrifice Dark and Troubled Past Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Really Gets Around Darker and Edgier Silent Movie Affably Evil Cassandra Truth Running Gag Mood Whiplash Artistic License – Law Cluster F-Bomb Bloodless Carnage Brick Joke Only Sane Man Genre Throwback Catapult Nightmare Overprotective Dad Artistic License – Gun Safety Big Damn Heroes Slashed Throat Final Girl Big "NO!" The Brute Documentary Adaptation Expansion My Greatest Failure Genre Shift Offscreen Teleportation Tap on the Head Hero of Another Story Villain with Good Publicity The '50s Vitriolic Best Buds Translation Convention Funny Foreigner Due to the Dead My Beloved Smother The X of Y The Big Guy In Name Only Same Language Dub The Lost Lenore timeperiod Pimped-Out Dress Twist Ending Annoying Younger Sibling The '80s Took a Level in Jerkass There Is No Kill Like Overkill Exactly What It Says on the Tin Green-Eyed Monster Show Within a Show Cool Guns Gory Discretion Shot Sassy Black Woman Damsel in Distress Bavarian Fire Drill Curb-Stomp Battle Film Noir As the Good Book Says... Broken Bird Ms. Fanservice Double-Meaning Title Anyone Can Die Roaring Rampage of Revenge Homage Mama Bear In the Back One-Word Title Dull Surprise Death of a Child Red Eyes, Take Warning Antagonist Title Slap-Slap-Kiss Skewed Priorities The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Death by Sex Aluminum Christmas Trees Psychological Thriller Big Fancy House Lampshade Hanging Bi the Way The '70s Historical In-Joke Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Ungrateful Bastard Black Best Friend Not So Different Too Dumb to Live Unspoken Plan Guarantee Affectionate Parody Advertised Extra Not So Above It All Dwindling Party Wham Line Older Than They Look Cool Old Lady Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Cain and Abel Taking the Bullet Brainless Beauty Badass Bookworm Dark Reprise Early-Bird Cameo B-Movie Fatal Flaw Spared by the Adaptation The Smart Guy The Hero Dies Take That! Big Bad Duumvirate Pay Evil unto Evil Sir Swears-a-Lot Eureka Moment Easily Forgiven Didn't Think This Through Eldritch Abomination Redemption Equals Death World of Ham How We Got Here Rich Bitch Lock and Load Montage Sequel Escalation Bottomless Magazines More Dakka Scare Chord Ominous Latin Chanting Fun with Acronyms Animated Credits Opening Shirtless Scene Fourth Date Marriage Obviously Evil Retcon Action Prologue What the Hell, Hero? Bolivian Army Ending Children Are Innocent Shut Up, Hannibal! Domestic Abuse Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Arranged Marriage The Reveal Creepy Child The Dragon Rated M for Manly Heroes Want Redheads Loophole Abuse Dies Wide Open Kubrick Stare Corpsing Romantic False Lead Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Oh, Crap! Ambiguous Disorder Death Glare Drowning My Sorrows Broken Pedestal Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies No Antagonist Gone Horribly Right Tempting Fate Irony Unresolved Sexual Tension Evil Is Petty Daylight Horror Dirty Cop Fire-Forged Friends Romantic Comedy Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Darkest Hour