Tropescilloscope: Parental Abandonment

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

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