Tropescilloscope: Parental Abandonment

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

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