Tropescilloscope: Abusive Parents

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

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