Tropescilloscope: Abusive Parents

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

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