Tropescilloscope: Parental Neglect

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

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