Tropescilloscope: Parental Abandonment

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

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