Tropescilloscope: Abusive Parents

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

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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Took a Level in Jerkass Bitch in Sheep's Clothing B-Movie Extreme Doormat Expository Hairstyle Change Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Dirty Old Man Decoy Protagonist Works Set in World War II Light Is Not Good Call-Back Beware the Nice Ones Bland-Name Product Drill Sergeant Nasty Unusual Euphemism The Brute Badass Boast No Antagonist The Great Depression Our Vampires Are Different Bullying a Dragon Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Off with His Head! Sanity Slippage Self-Deprecation Beauty Is Never Tarnished Department of Redundancy Department Serial Killer You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Thriller Superhero Twist Ending Race Against the Clock Married to the Job Exactly What It Says on the Tin Agony of the Feet Suddenly SHOUTING! Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Anachronism Stew Arranged Marriage Armor-Piercing Question Pet the Dog The Atoner Oh, Crap! Determinator Ripped from the Headlines Madness Mantra In Name Only Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Italian Films Animal Motifs Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Video Credits Dutch Angle She Cleans Up Nicely Men Are the Expendable Gender Tagline Hypocritical Humor Combat Pragmatist Does Not Like Shoes Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Big Fancy House Kill It with Fire Training Montage Butt-Monkey As You Know The Chessmaster Manchild Badass Bookworm Worthy Opponent Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Dog Bites Back Authority Equals Asskicking Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Cool Old Lady What the Hell, Hero? 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Romantic Comedy Enemy Mine Woman Scorned Reality Ensues Blood from the Mouth Russian Films How We Got Here Anti-Villain Dumb Blonde Femme Fatale Apocalypse How Black Comedy Rape Adaptation Distillation Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Calling the Old Man Out Artistic License – Military Groin Attack Science Fiction Films Naked People Are Funny Not Using the "Z" Word Stepford Smiler Laser-Guided Karma Visual Pun Redshirt Army Blackmail Hidden Depths Mooks Shower Scene Only in It for the Money Four-Temperament Ensemble Broken Bird One-Word Title "The Reason You Suck" Speech Unresolved Sexual Tension Cat Fight Catapult Nightmare Cain and Abel Improvised Weapon Fatal Flaw Curb-Stomp Battle Wrong Genre Savvy Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Running Gag Hooker with a Heart of Gold Badass Grandpa Same Language Dub Sassy Black Woman And Starring As Himself Retirony Brother–Sister Incest Betty and Veronica Silent Movie Wretched Hive The Lancer The Mole Artistic License – History Humans Are Bastards Punny Name For the Evulz Amusing Injuries Shoot the Shaggy Dog Plucky Comic Relief Adaptation Expansion Double-Meaning Title Novelization Daylight Horror Bait-and-Switch Evil Counterpart One-Man Army Scenery Porn Hero Antagonist Silence Is Golden Nice Guy Attempted Rape Music Stories Gender Flip Evil vs. Evil Pyrrhic Victory Truth in Television timeperiod Meaningful Background Event Improbable Aiming Skills I Want My Beloved to Be Happy The Smurfette Principle Chase Scene Neck Snap Deus ex Machina No-Sell Shell-Shocked Veteran Only a Flesh Wound Diabolus ex Machina Kubrick Stare Does This Remind You of Anything? Good Is Not Nice No Celebrities Were Harmed Police Brutality Evil Is Petty Dies Wide Open More Dakka Danny Peary Cult Movies List The Voiceless The Place The Remake Kids Are Cruel The Ditz What Happened to the Mouse? Lock and Load Montage Happily Married Riddle for the Ages Broken Pedestal Loads and Loads of Characters Faux Affably Evil Covers Always Lie The Ghost Older Than They Look "Shaggy Dog" Story World of Ham Every Car Is a Pinto Made of Explodium Failed a Spot Check Car Fu Adaptational Attractiveness Villain Song Pragmatic Villainy Abusive Parents Outrun the Fireball Not So Different Double Entendre Bi the Way Artistic License – Biology Darker and Edgier Bottomless Magazines Empathic Environment Artistic License – Gun Safety Karma Houdini Ugly Guy, Hot Wife I Have Your Wife Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Take That! An Axe to Grind The Chick Badass in a Nice Suit Tempting Fate Television Movie Index Immune to Bullets Mugging the Monster Protagonist Title Last-Name Basis Grey and Gray Morality Too Dumb to Live Big Bad Duumvirate Big "NO!" Shout-Out Bilingual Bonus Actually Pretty Funny The Cavalry Together in Death Creepy Child Manly Tears Slasher Movie Cowboy Cop The Power of Love No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Ass Shove Spiteful Spit O.O.C. 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