Tropescilloscope: Parental Abandonment

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

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