Tropescilloscope: Abusive Parents

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

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