Tropescilloscope: Parental Neglect

Parents who don't seem to care about their kids. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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