Tropescilloscope: Abusive Parents

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

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