Tropescilloscope: Abusive Parents

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

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Green-Eyed Monster Our Vampires Are Different Crucified Hero Shot Insistent Terminology The Dragon Meet Cute Brainless Beauty You Killed My Father Gone Horribly Right More Dakka Dark Action Girl Take a Third Option Call-Forward Red Eyes, Take Warning Catapult Nightmare Men Are the Expendable Gender The Starscream All There in the Script Kubrick Stare Big Bad Abusive Parents "Awesome McCool" Name Superhero Sealed Evil in a Can Pyrrhic Victory The Mole Crazy Jealous Guy Leaning on the Fourth Wall Disguised in Drag Adaptational Badass Bowdlerise Villainous Breakdown Japanese Films Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Scenery Porn The Place Taking the Bullet Red Herring Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Exactly What It Says on the Tin What You Are in the Dark In Medias Res Playing Gertrude War Is Hell The Ace Loophole Abuse Get Out! 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Extremely Short Timespan Affectionate Parody Needs Wiki Magic Love Vampire Fiction Enemy Mine The Un-Reveal Facial Horror Humiliation Conga Video Credits A Date with Rosie Palms Pre-Mortem One-Liner Empathic Environment Historical Hero Upgrade The Great Depression You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Film Series Bait-and-Switch Domestic Abuse Artistic License – Gun Safety Accidental Murder Conspicuous CG Fate Worse than Death Reasonable Authority Figure Here We Go Again! Recycled IN SPACE! Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Real Life Writes the Plot Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Happily Married Adults Are Useless A Father to His Men Mugging the Monster Chekhov's Gun Deliberately Monochrome Noodle Incident Politically Incorrect Villain Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Mystery and Detective Films Re-Cut Cassandra Truth Christmas Movies Index Only One Name Super Strength Soft Glass Ass Shove "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Ship Tease Yandere Be Careful What You Wish For Smoking Is Cool Wrong Genre Savvy The Cavalry Sassy Black Woman Outrun the Fireball Aww, Look! 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