Tropescilloscope: Abusive Parents

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

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