Tropescilloscope: Abusive Parents

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

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