Tropescilloscope: Parental Abandonment

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

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