Tropescilloscope: Abusive Parents

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

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