Tropescilloscope: Abusive Parents

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

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