Tropescilloscope: Parental Abandonment

The character's parents aren't shown, or they're dead. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Fatal Family Photo Loads and Loads of Characters Gainax Ending An Aesop Only Sane Man Reality Ensues Setting Update Epic Movie Half the Man He Used to Be Psychological Thriller Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Parental Incest Laughing Mad Serious Business Foil Arch-Enemy Crazy-Prepared Smoking Is Cool Let's Get Dangerous! Red Shirt Eagleland Blood Knight Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass The Cameo Protagonist Title Double-Meaning Title Kill 'em All Meaningful Name Manipulative Bastard Bolivian Army Ending Jump Scare Those Two Guys Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Wrong Genre Savvy Girl-on-Girl Is Hot It Will Never Catch On Actually Pretty Funny Brutal Honesty French Films "Where Are They Now?" 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