Tropescilloscope: Abusive Parents

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

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